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Teddy bears taken to the next level of cute, with pastel colors and symbols on their chest (known as "tummy symbols" or more recently "belly badges"). They live up in the cloud-city of Care-A-Lot and frequently visit Earth to help out kids who are feeling down. The Bears have names relating to their specialty - Good Luck Bear, Friend Bear, and so forth. Later, "Care Bear Cousins" representing other animals were introduced (Brave Heart Lion, Cozy Heart Penguin, etc.); they live in the Forest of Feelings about halfway between Earth and Care-A-Lot.

Originating on greeting cards in [[The Eighties|1981]], these little guys and gals were a hit right out of the gate when Kenner launched a toy line two years later. They had a lot of animated screentime for the rest of the decade: two specials, a TV series, and three theatrical films over 1985-87: ''The Care Bears Movie'', ''Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation'', and ''The Care Bears Adventure In Wonderland''. A fourth film, ''Care Bears Nutcracker Suite'' (1988), was aired as a TV special when the third flopped. The franchise died back through the 90's after a very brief and [[They Changed It Now It Sucks|unsuccessful redesign]] -- Compare [[My Little Pony]]. Now they're back with a handful of new direct-to-DVD movies.

Originating on greeting cards in [[The Eighties|1981]], these little guys and gals were a hit right out of the gate when Kenner launched a toy line two years later. They had a lot of animated screentime for the rest of the decade: two specials, a TV series, and three theatrical films over 1985-87: ''The Care Bears Movie'', ''Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation'', and ''The Care Bears Adventure In Wonderland''. A fourth film, ''Care Bears Nutcracker Suite'' (1988), was aired as a TV special when the third flopped. The franchise died back through the 90's after a very brief and [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|unsuccessful redesign]] -- Compare [[My Little Pony]]. Now they're back with a handful of new direct-to-DVD movies.

In most of the films and cartoons, they are pitted against various [[The Heartless|"heartless"]] villains who want to make the world safe for evil, often by removing people's ability to care for others... or to feel emotions at all. The baddies ranged from the [[Mad Scientist]] Professor Coldheart in the specials and the DIC TV episodes to the Evil Spirit of the first movie to the [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] crew of the later Nelvana TV episodes (evil wizard No Heart, his niece Shreeky, and [[Minion With an F In Evil|henchman Beastly]]). When the chips are down, that's when the [[Care Bear Stare]] comes into play.

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* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]

* [[Ambiguously Human]]: Shreeky looks human, but is directly related to [[Humanoid Abomination|No Heart]].

* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: In one episode, No Heart banishes Beastly, and Shreeky finds that she misses him. Awww...

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: In one episode, No Heart banishes Beastly, and Shreeky finds that she misses him. Awww...

** Then again, the episode gave no reason to believe it was just because Shreeky didn't like doing Beastly's chores.

* [[Barefoot Cartoon Animals]]

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* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: A major theme of the CGI ''Big Wish Movie''. Wish Bear, upset that nobody likes her wishes, wishes for some bears to come to Care-a-Lot who like wishing just as much as she does. She gets her wish, but the new neighbors turn out to like wishing so much that they take away Twinkers, her wishing star, from her.

* [[Blooper]]: As with [[My Little Pony]], this is a series that stars a number of characters who look essentially the same, so [[Off Model|animation mistakes]] run rampant.

* [[Blooper]]: As with [[My Little Pony]], this is a series that stars a number of characters who look essentially the same, so [[Off-Model|animation mistakes]] run rampant.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Grumpy Bear -- surprised?

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The Rat King in the Nutcracker special shares Beastly's voice and general characterization.

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* [[Circle of Friendship]]: Care Bares love this move.

* [[Crying Wolf]]: Crying swamp monster, actually. Then there was a "real" swamp monster who happened to be Beastly in disguise, and the ''real'' real monster wasn't bad.

* [[~~Daddys~~ Little Villain]]: Shreeky, No Heart's niece.

* [[Daddy's Little Villain]]: Shreeky, No Heart's niece.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Grumpy's fate during the '00s revival. He pretty much VANISHED from all merchandising from the show (despite being the most iconic of the group) in favor of Bedtime Bear, another blue colored Care Bear.

** Eventually, the decision was eventually reversed in Adventures in Care-a-Lot.

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** And No-Heart in the Nelvana series.

* [[Drunk On Milk]]

* [[Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion]]

* [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]]

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Rainbows]]: Rainbows are everywhere. They're not just for decoration, they're used as traveling devices, energy and hell, even weapons. Especially with Cheer Bear.

* [[Everything's Better With Rainbows]]: Rainbows are everywhere. They're not just for decoration, they're used as traveling devices, energy and hell, even weapons. Especially with Cheer Bear.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Sparkles]]: The princess of Wonderland uses sparkles to [[Green Thumb|revive withered plants]].

* [[Everything's Better With Sparkles]]: The princess of Wonderland uses sparkles to [[Green Thumb|revive withered plants]].

* [[~~Everythings~~ Worse With Bears]]: Well, at least from the villains' point of view.

* [[Everything's Worse With Bears]]: Well, at least from the villains' point of view.

* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]: Professor Coldheart.

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Most of the villains. Probably the most notable example is the Vizier from the Nutcracker special, who is fond of SHOUTING OUT EVERY LINE! Which are then commonly followed up with a "MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

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* [[For the Evulz]]: Pretty much the only reason almost any villain does anything. Except for ''Adventures in Care-a-Lot'''s Grizzle, who simply hates the Care Bears and wishes to take over, or at least be rid of, Care-a-Lot.

** Another exception is the Wizard of Wonderland from the third movie ''Care Bears Adventure In Wonderland''. His motive is political power (he wants to become the new king of Wonderland).

* [[Forced Meme]]: Trying to capitalize on the success of [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], somebody in PR came up with...[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/the-hub-hopes-men-will-start-calling-themselves-belly-bros-and-care-dudes.html this.] Fortunately, the Hub [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/the-hub-no-longer-encourages-

* [[Forced Meme]]: Trying to capitalize on the success of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], somebody in PR came up with...[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/the-hub-hopes-men-will-start-calling-themselves-belly-bros-and-care-dudes.html this.] Fortunately, the Hub [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/the-hub-no-longer-encourages-

* [[Four Fingered Hands]]: Shreeky. Oddly, other human characters, including her uncle No Heart, have all five fingers. [[Wild Mass Guessing|Maybe there's a story there.]]

* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: Shreeky. Oddly, other human characters, including her uncle No Heart, have all five fingers. [[Wild Mass Guessing|Maybe there's a story there.]]

** ...Shreeky and No-Heart are humans?

** Just watch Nutcracker Suite. Count how many fingers Alan Prince/Nutcracker, his wife and their students have.

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*** Also [[Averted Trope]]. He uses his first wish to make a bully "go away." On a show farther along the cynicism side of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|scale]], the bully might have been [[Ret Gone|wished out of existence]].

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: In the TV series, Shreeky's, well, shrieks, can be heard from a mile away and injure people. In one instance, a Care Bear attempts to record her scream, ''and the tape recorder'' '''''explodes'''''.

* [[Merchandise Driven]]: The first two films introduced new or revamped characters in conjunction with their toy line debuts: the Cousins in the first, and the whole gang's baby selves in the second.

* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: The first two films introduced new or revamped characters in conjunction with their toy line debuts: the Cousins in the first, and the whole gang's baby selves in the second.

** There are plush toys for bears from ''Adventures in Care-a-Lot'' that had maybe two lines on the show at most, if they even got to speak at all.

* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]: Beastly from the series; the similar Tweedles from the third movie.

* [[Nightmare Fuel ~~Stationattendant~~]]: Songfellow Strum, at least for the viewer.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: Songfellow Strum, at least for the viewer.

* [[Nobody Poops]]: Well, of '''course''', but ''Adventure in Wonderland'' actually goes so far as to show us the inside of Grumpy Bear's bathroom, which has everything you would expect ''except'' for a toilet. No ''wonder'' he's so cranky.

** Even in the second movie's "I Care For You" song, all the diapers they changed seemed perfectly clean.

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*** Except there doesn't seem to be any woods nearby, either. Does he have to sail all the way to the Forest of Feelings to relieve himself?

* [[The One Who Wears Shoes]]: Brightheart Raccoon, in the Nelvana series.

* [[One Winged Angel]]: In [[Sequel|Care Bears 2: The Next Generation]], Dark Heart turns into a big ol' heap of [[Super Smoke]].

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: In [[Sequel|Care Bears 2: The Next Generation]], Dark Heart turns into a big ol' heap of [[Super Smoke]].

* [[Padding]]: The first [[Sequel]] had a musical number at the end that was pretty much just there to make sure it fulfilled the bare minimum for screentime. The song itself was over six minutes long and over half of it consisted of [[Ending Fatigue|endlessly-repeated chorus]] (obstensibly to cover the end credits).

* [[Paper Thin Disguise]]: When Mr. Beastly wanted to flimflam the Care Bears, he would resort to this. It worked every time, even when it was only a pair of Groucho Glasses.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: When Mr. Beastly wanted to flimflam the Care Bears, he would resort to this. It worked every time, even when it was only a pair of Groucho Glasses.

* [[Portrait Painting Peephole]]: Frostbite does this to spy on the Care Bears in the "Freeze Machine" special.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Yup.

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* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Girls are usually pink or purple.

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: Somewhat justified because the Care Bears are all about getting people to "share their feelings." It's heavily [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] in ''Adventures In Care-A-Lot,'' though, where the Bears (particularly Share) constantly inform each other just what emotion they're feeling at the time.

* [[Theme Music Power Up]]: ''The Giving Festival Movie'' - "Care Power On"

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: ''The Giving Festival Movie'' - "Care Power On"

* [[Thing O Meter]]: The Caring Meter, as if it could be anything else.

* [[Thing-O-Meter]]: The Caring Meter, as if it could be anything else.

* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: In the first movie, and it was alive.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: In the Nelvana series, Champ Bear calls everyone "sports fan" no matter what the context.

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