The Bear: Difference between revisions

* Referenced in ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' Artie (hairy, rotund, and middle aged) was about to admit that he loved someone (a girl) when he figured out which artifact was causing this week's trouble. He uses the Jewish name, which sounds like a man's name. The (older) man with him responds. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"I didn't know you were homosexual. Are you what they call a Bear?"]]

* On [[Glee]], this trope is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] and discussed by {{spoiler|Kurt and David Karofsky, who we find out in season three has taken to hanging out at a local gay bar and been dubbed a bear cub because of his youth and rather burly stature. Kurt, apparently not knowing anything about the term, jokingly asks if he's a cub because he "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|looks like Yogi."]]}}

* In one episode of ''30Rock'', Jack decides to seduce his wife's gay interior designer so he can get his way on their home's wallpaper. He explains to Liz:

{{quote|"Do you know what a prize I am in the gay community? There's a term for it. I'm a bear. And I'm a daddy. I'm a [[Goldilocks|daddy bear]]."}}

* Considering the [[One-Gender Race|all-male]] nature of the [[Final Fantasy XI|Galka]] and the strong implications that they are [[Everyone Is Gay|predominantly gay]] (or at least were during their time alone without females for centuries), the fact that ''every'' Galka has at least a [[Badass Beard|chinstrap beard]] immediately makes the whole race ''very'' bearish, with shades of [[Big Beautiful Man]] as well.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', Sabin refers to himself as a bear during the cut scene on Mount Kolts -- this is [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], [[Fridge Brilliance|even if intentional]]. Depending on the artist, Sabin certainly has more of the body type for it, with Amano tending towards the hairier with [[Badass Beard]] and CG art tending towards the smoother and beardless. None of this necessarily means Sabin is actually ''gay'' (it's still entirely possible he's not), but that he's a "bear" with a fittingly bearish body type. This, along with the fact that he's one of the only adult male main cast (along with Stragos) who is never shown expressing any kind of interest in women, has brought him more [[Fan Yay]] by far than any other male character in the game.