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[[File:Fozzie Bear 1473.jpg|link=The Muppet Show|frame|Wokka Wokka!]]
The only time ''this'' sort of bear is [[Bears are Bad News| bad news]] is when his jokes
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
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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* Zozi from ''[[Bartok the Magnificent]]''.
* The second half of the upcoming film ''[[Brave]]'' apparantly had the entire royal family save Merida (whether King Fergus is affected by this or not is debatable) being turned into bears.
* [[Disney]]'s 1975 ''[[Escape to Witch Mountain
* The bears in the movie based on the Country Bear Jamboree attraction in the [[Disney Theme Parks]], ''[[The Country Bears]]''.
* In ''[[Sadko]]'', [[The Big Guy]] proves his strength by wrestling a bear. When the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' crew riffed on the film, they turned this scene into the bear staging an intervention and giving the guy a hug.
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* ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'', being based upon a teddy bear, is [[The Ditz|lovably dim]] and goodhearted, and is often thinking about honey.
* ''[[wikipedia:Gentle Ben|Gentle Ben]]''
* ''[[The Berenstain Bears]]''.
* ''[[Paddington Bear (novel)|Paddington Bear]]''.
* ''[[Little Bear]]''.
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* [[Rupert Bear]]
* ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' has [[Cute Machines]] the Ro-Bear Berbils, helpful, rainbow-hued robotic teddy bears who love to build and repair things.
* ''[[The Hair Bear Bunch]]''.
* Breezly Bruin, a Hanna-Barbera character from 1964 who always tried to get into an arctic army base.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [[Trope Codifier]] is the actual teddy bear, invented in 1902 in reference to an incident where Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a bear cub that had been captured and tied up for him to "hunt".
* Trained bears are common performers at circuses, enough so [[Dancing Bear|that they named a trope
* And, of course, [[Pandaing to the Audience|pandas]] have always been immune to [[Everything's Worse with Bears|the usual depiction of bears]], even though they're really just as dangerous as other bears are.
* [http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4922473&categoryid=2378529 Behold: Bears racing monkeys on bicycles.] [[Rule of Cool|Is it not awesome?]]
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