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[[Everything's Worse with Bears]]...except when it isn't. Perhaps it's because of the proliferation of the teddy bear as a child's toy, but bears are often portrayed as [[Boisterous Bruiser |
[[Everything's Worse with Bears]]...except when it isn't. Perhaps it's because of the proliferation of the teddy bear as a child's toy, but bears are often portrayed as [[Boisterous Bruiser]]s or sometimes just [[Big Fun]], and aren't really looking to eat ''people'' so much as [[Big Eater|just looking to eat.]] ([[Truth in Television]]; most bears are omnivorous and will gladly eat nuts and berries; also, while grizzlies ''are'' aggressive, their favorite food is salmon.) Seems most common in [[Western Animation]], although circus bears are common in [[Real Life]]. |
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Note that while the majority of these have bears being used for comedic purposes, non-comedic examples of bears being lovable should work for the trope as well. |
Note that while the majority of these have bears being used for comedic purposes, non-comedic examples of bears being lovable should work for the trope as well. |
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* The [[Care Bears]], although these probably fall squarely into the "actual teddy bears" category. |
* The [[Care Bears]], although these probably fall squarely into the "actual teddy bears" category. |
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** Likewise, the [[Bland-Name Product|Dummi Bears]] from ''[[Rugrats]]'', who are an obvious spoof of this, though their ''name'' is an [[Homage]] to... |
** Likewise, the [[Bland-Name Product|Dummi Bears]] from ''[[Rugrats]]'', who are an obvious spoof of this, though their ''name'' is an [[Homage]] to... |
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* The [[Gummi Bears]], who also might |
* The [[Gummi Bears]], who also might qualify—although, as they had a wide variety of personalities and ''everyone'' was a bear, maybe not as much so. |
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* In the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "Bunny Raven, or How to Make a Titanimal Disappear", Cyborg gets turned into a dancing bear, in a ''tutu''. Due to the magical properties of the realm they were trapped in, every time he removed the tutu, a new one winked into existence to replace it, resulting in a giant pile of discarded tutus. |
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "Bunny Raven, or How to Make a Titanimal Disappear", Cyborg gets turned into a dancing bear, in a ''tutu''. Due to the magical properties of the realm they were trapped in, every time he removed the tutu, a new one winked into existence to replace it, resulting in a giant pile of discarded tutus. |
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* The unnamed bear that appears very often in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]''. |
* The unnamed bear that appears very often in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]''. |
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