List of fictional bears

This is a list of fictional bears that appear in video games, film, television, animation, comics and literature. This also includes pandas, but not the unrelated red panda species. The list is limited to notable, named characters. This list is a subsidiary to the List of fictional animals article.

Animation

Character	Origin	Notes
Akakabuto	Ginga Nagareboshi Gin	A power-hungry bear from the fictional Japanese Mountains of Ohu. His name means "red-helmet", after the unusual red patch of fur lining his backbone. Bloodthirsty and full of wrath, he terrorizes the people in nearby villages and forms alliances with other powerful bears to build his own fortress in the mountains. He is the main villain in Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, and has a brief cameo in Ginga Legend WEED via narrated flashback.
Andy Panda	Walter Lantz	He has a girlfriend called Miranda Panda, and a father called Andrew Senior. They have appeared in many cartoons and comic books. One of his comic book adventures was drawn by Carl Barks. John Stanley also did Andy Panda comic book work.^[1]
Baloo	The Jungle Book (Disney)	Pilot of the transport plane "Sea Duck" from TaleSpin. (Character adaption of Baloo from 1967 animated film.) He is also a friend of Mowgli and Bagheera in The Jungle Book. Voiced by Phil Harris in the first film, John Goodman in the second film and Bill Murray in the CGI remake.
Barnacles	The Octonauts	The Captain of the Octonauts ship.
Barney Bear	Barney Bear	A grumpy brown bear, who finds it hard to cope with the annoyances around him.
Barry Bear	The Angry Beavers	Voiced by John Garry. Barry Bear is a laid back grizzly bear who commonly enjoys funk music and has a very deep voice. He is also a disco artist and has made multiple songs. He is a parody of Barry White.
Bear	Masha and the Bear	A brown bear which is the little girl, Masha's, best friend.
Bear	WordWorld	A bear that is made up of the words B, E, A and R.
Bears	Sing	They are the main antagonists of Illumination's animated film which became Mike the Mouse's enemies.
Benjamin "Ben" Bear	The Secret World of Benjamin Bear	One of the best-kept secret in the world: teddy bears are in fact alive. Cartoon for children.
Bernard	Bernard	He is a funny polar bear; Also known as Backkom.
Bert	Willa's Wild Life
Bi-Polar Bear	Queer Duck	One of Queer Duck's friends. He often makes bad jokes that he alone finds funny.
Big Mikey	Bunsen Is a Beast	A Black Bear that was given to and named after Mikey in the episode, Bearly Acceptable Behavior.
Blossom	Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets	Mulan's panda cub and member of the Palace Pets.
Bladvic	Legends of Chima	The Prince of the Bear tribe.
Blubber Bear	Wacky Races	Luke's racing partner.
Bobo	The Simpsons	Mr. Burns' treasured childhood teddy bear.
Bojan	Bojan the Bear	A painter who paints his own world with three colours.
Bongo	Fun and Fancy Free	A circus bear.
Boo-Boo	The Yogi Bear Show The Huckleberry Hound Show	Boo-Boo Bear resides in Jellystone Park and would often question Yogi Bear about why they are trying to steal picnic baskets while evading Ranger Smith.
Boog	Open Season	Elliot's best friend and the protagonist of the film and its sequels. Voiced by Martin Lawrence and Mike Epps.
Boris	Miffy and Friends
Brandon	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	Brandon is a minor character shown all throughout the series. He is simply a bear who works at IFrame Outlet in the plaza alongside A Real Magic Skeleton.
Bossy	Bossy Bear
Breezly	Breezly and Sneezly	A comical, resourceful, polar bear, who sticks with his friend Sneezly.
Brother Bear	Coonskin	A satirical subversion of Joel Chandler Harris and Disney's similar character from Song of the South, reimagined as an African-American.^[2]
The Buddy Bears	Garfield and Friends	Singing annoying bears that 'always get along'.
Burble	Danger Rangers	A polar bear who's good at skateboarding and teaching kids about safety.
Burple Bear	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Charlie Beary	The Beary Family	An incompetent family man bear who has to deal with his naggy wife Bessie, his dim-witted teenage son Junior and younger daughter Suzy.
Cindy Bear	The Yogi Bear Show	Yogi Bear's girlfriend. First appears as a blue bear in yellow garments, but is redesigned in Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!.
Corporal	Penguins of Madagascar	A polar bear who is the member of the North Wind.
Cub	Happy Tree Friends	Causes trouble, usually through dangerous activities while his father does not pay attention.
Disco Bear	Happy Tree Friends	A light orange-colored bear with an orange afro and sideburns who likes to dance to disco music. He wears 1970s style clothing, including a yellow leisure jacket, yellow bell-bottom pants, and orange and white dancing platform shoes.
Ernest	Ernest & Celestine	An initially destitute bear who rejected his family's plan for him to go into law, due to his desire to become an entertainer.
Farmer Bear	Elinor Wonders Why	A presumably female grizzly bear who is a recurring character in the show. She is, as her title implies, a working farmer in Animal Town. She is voiced by the Canadian actress, Ellen Dubin.
Flippy	Happy Tree Friends	Flippy is a green male bear. He wears dog tags around his neck, a military uniform and a green beret with checkered crest on his head. He is a retired veteran soldier in the Army. He fought in the Weaponized Animal Regiment (The W.A.R), and has an obsession with making booby traps inspired by the Viet Cong, as well as a flashback of his experience of being held captive by them (as seen in Easy For You to Sleigh). But he sometimes "flips out" every time he sees or hears something related to war and kills anyone in sight; hence the name.
Fluffy	Duckman	One of Duckman's two Care Bear-esque teddy-bear office assistants. Fluffy is pink. Fluffy and his co worker Uranus try to get Duckman to act kindly and more politically correct.
Fozzie Bear	The Muppets
George and Junior	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons	Two bears inspired by George and Lennie from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
Ginko Yurishiro	Yuri Kuma Arashi
Gordon	Camp Lazlo	A bear bean scout.
Grizzly	Shirokuma Cafe
Grizzly Bear	Happy Tree Friends	A male grizzly bear in the episode "Take a Hike".
Grizzly Bear	We Bare Bears	One of the three brothers trying to fit in with human society.
Grizzy	Grizzy and the Lemmings	A bear who constantly battles a clan of lemmings, with results that always end with both Grizzy and the lemmings losing in some bizarre, comical way.
Grizz Kodiak	The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog	Local carpenter of Gnarly Woods.
Gummibär	The Gummy Bear Song and Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show	An obese blue-eyed green gummy bear with a orangish yellow Y-front underwear, He loves singing and dancing.
Hei Bai	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Spirit of the forests that takes the animal form of a panda bear.
Humphrey the Bear	Walt Disney shorts	A bear who usually harasses Donald Duck and park ranger J. Audubon Woodlore.
Ice Bear	We Bare Bears	One of the three brothers trying to fit in with human society.
Jack Bear	Goldie & Bear	Mama & Papa Bear's son who met Goldie, after she accidentally broke his favourite chair.
Karadi	"Karadi Tales"	A Himalayan brown bear who tells stories from the Panchatantra, Jatakas and Indian mythology. He appears only in the first season of the show.
Kenai	Brother Bear	An Alaskan Inupiat Inuit teenager who is transformed into an Alaskan grizzly bear, as described by the film information,^[3] or as a brown bear, as determined by historical facts,^[4] by Sitka's spirit in the Aurora after killing Koda's mother. Voiced by Joaquin Phoenix in the first film and Patrick Dempsey in the second film. Despite Kenai for his Native American appearance as an Eskimo his name means "Flatland" in Athabascan language and is also named after Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Borough.
Kevin	Zootopia	Mr. Big's most trusted henchman, and a member of the Tundratown mafia
Kissyfur	Kissyfur	A male cub lives with his father in the swamps.
Kit Cloudkicker	TaleSpin	Formerly an air pirate, then after escaping became a navigator for Baloo.
Koda	Brother Bear	An orphaned Alaskan grizzly bear cub, as described by the film information,^[3] or as a brown bear cub, as determined by historical facts,^[4] who becomes a great friend to Kenai. Voiced by Jeremy Suarez. Koda means "Friend" in Sioux language.
Kumajiro	Hetalia: Axis Powers	A pet polar bear owned by the personification of Canada. He is often shown to not recognize Canada as a joke that no one knows Canada, even his pet.
Leonard	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Life Beauty	Yuri Kuma Arashi
Life Cool	Yuri Kuma Arashi
Life Sexy	Yuri Kuma Arashi
Little John	Walt Disney's Robin Hood	John Little (Robin Hood changed his name into Little John) is a legendary fellow outlaw of Robin Hood.
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear	Toy Story 3	Stuffed bear that is the main antagonist in Toy Story 3.
Luk	Balto
Lulu Yurigasaki	Yuri Kuma Arashi
Lumpjaw	Fun and Fancy Free	Main antagonist to Bongo.
Malloy	Brickleberry	A very crude, racist, sexist grizzly bear cub that plays video games.
Marezou	Girl Friend BETA
Master Yo	Yin Yang Yo!	Father and teacher of Yin and Yang.
Maxie	Chilly Willy	Maxie the polar bear is one of Chilly Willy's best friends. He is first seen in Polar Fright when he must take care not to wake up a dog. Maxie meets Chilly Willy in Chilly Chums when he saves Maxie from a hunter.
Mimmo	Charley and Mimmo	Charley's subanthromorphic teddy bear toy who is one of the main characters in the show. He can't talk, but to communicate, he squeaks and squeals like a squeaky toy.
Mishka	Masha and the Bear	A retired circus bear acts as a fatherly figure to a young girl named Masha.
Molly Cunningham	TaleSpin	She is Rebecca Cunningham's yellow-furred, 6-year-old daughter.
Mor'du	Brave, The Legend of Mor'du	A violent, massive bear with the strength of ten men. Formerly a human Scottish prince, who was transformed by a spell he acquired in an attempt to defeat his brothers for total control of an ancient kingdom.
Mouk	Mouk	A globe-trotting bear.
Muk	Balto
Natsu	Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear
Norm	Norm of the North	The titular character, who has to prevent Greene Homes condos from arriving in the Arctic.
Norvyn	Kingdom Force	A polar bear who protects the Ice Kingdom and is part of Kingdom Force. He's the biggest, oldest, and strongest member of the team. At times, he's serious and doesn't like silliness. His vehicle Rider 5 is the strongest of the all the vehicles, has a grappling hook, and can turn into a submarine. He also has a nephew, named Artie. Norvyn has a big appetite at times, as noted in Stink'em Up when he says he's so hungry he can 'eat an iceberg'. He also has a keen interest in fishing, as he makes various fishing references during rescues. He wears blue fingerless gloves.
Oso	Special Agent Oso	The 21-year-old colorful special agent teddy bear who predominantly works on helping children perform tasks such as blowing bubbles, making a card or cleaning their rooms; he is the main character of the series.
Pancada	The Little Panda Fighter	A panda bear working as the janitor at the Bear Bar Box who dreams of becoming a dancer, a boxing ring and bar that bears go to, to have a good time. Or they would, but few customers go to Bear Bar Box because the same bear Teddy Thunders has been champion for two years. The ring's owner Mr. Polaris, a polar bear, plans to fight Teddy Thunders in the ring, but has to fight in disguise, but when Pancada does his laundry his black suit shrinks making Mr. Polaris look like a panda. Mr. Polaris wins the match, but everyone thinks that was Pancada, so Pancada now has to deal with the guilt of his unearned fame.
Panda Bear	Shirokuma Cafe
Panda	Jujutsu Kaisen	A mutated Cursed Corpse resembling a Giant Panda.
Panda Bear	We Bare Bears	One of three brothers trying to fit in with human society.
Pants Bear	Pants Bear^[5]	The story of Pants Bear and his family started in 2018, but the true start of Pants Bear, the teddy bear, stretches back to the early 1990s in Finland. Where a special teddy bear with bright green pants found his way into the young hands of Dr. Taavi Kuisma, the now author of Pants Bear.
Panny	Panda! Go, Panda!
Papa Panda	Panda! Go, Panda!
Party Pat	Adventure Time	A slender bear who is the leader of the Party Bears.
Pat	Adventure Time	A female bear who is Kim Kil Whan‘s wife.
Paw Paw Chuck	Paws & Tales	Grizzly bear and folksy mentor of C.J. Brown and his friends.
Peetie the Sexual Harassment Panda	South Park	A man known normally as Tom Morris, he is a misfit educational mascot dressed as a panda who teaches children about sexual harassment. He eventually becomes "Peetie the Don't Sue People Panda" to end the crisis of South Park citizens suing various people constantly.
Penny Ling	Littlest Pet Shop
Pepper	Summer Camp Island	A panda normally seen with his security blanket. He has a somewhat neurotic personality at times.
Peter the Panda	Phineas and Ferb	A secret agent panda from Seattle.
"Master" Po Ping	Kung Fu Panda	An energetic and overweight giant panda who becomes the Dragon Warrior.
Polar Bear	Shirokuma Cafe	The proprietor of the café, which serves organic foods and drinks and is popular with both humans and animals. He has a habit of making bad puns with his customers and friends, just for the amusement of hearing their retorts.
Pop	Happy Tree Friends	Cub's father, who usually causes misfortune for his son casually or through negligence.
Professor Paljas	Alfred J. Kwak
Punch	Hustle Punch	The main character: a street child bear.
Queen Elinor	Brave	Mérida's mother who is transformed into a bear for two days by her daughter's purchased spell with unforeseen consequences.
Rebecca Cunningham	TaleSpin
Rilakkuma	Rilakkuma	"Relax Bear" and his friend Korilakkuma, are a highly popular bear characters in Japan from the San-X Company.
Roro	Shirobako	Rupert, a comic strip character from Great Britain's Daily Express.
Sebastian Star Bear	Sebastian Star Bear: First Mission	An extraterrestrial Star Bear from the Ursa Major constellation who flies to Earth in his CRYOG after hearing Griselda's plea for help.
Shao May	Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Sonny	Rimba Racer
Sonya the Bear	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	King Julien's love interest.
The Squishy Bearz	Eek! The Cat	Parodic versions of the Care Bears, consisting of Kozy, Puffy, Wuz Wuz and Pierre.
SuperTed	SuperTed	A teddy bear, found to be defective in the toy factory he was made in, was discarded. A Spotty man found him there and Mother Nature brought him to life with her "cosmic dust".
Taotao	Taotao
Ted E. Bear	The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas	Theodore Edward (Ted E.) Bear goes exploring while the other bears are hibernating.
Ted the Polar Bear	The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper	Starts off with a lonely Christmas until Private decides to get him a present.
Teddy Ruxpin	The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin	Better known as "The World's First Animated Talking Toy".
Teri	The Amazing World of Gumball	A paper cutout bear and student at Elmore Junior High.
The Gummi Bears	Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears	Fictional group of anthropomorphic bears who have a long and rich history, and are relatively unknown to the humans of the world who believe that they are legends and fairy tales.
The Hair Bear Bunch!	Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!	Three fun-loving bears – the fast-talking Hair Bear (voiced by Daws Butler), bafflegab-talking Bubi Bear (voiced by Paul Winchell), and laid-back Square Bear (voiced by William Callaway) – who are always trying to find a way to escape from the Wonderland Zoo on some sort of get-rich-quick scheme, or a wild night of fun.
The Hillbilly Bears	The Hillbilly Bears	The Hillbilly Bears, a Hanna-Barbera Productions animated television series, featuring Paw Rugg, Maw Rugg, Floral Rugg, and Shag Rugg.
The Three Bears	Looney Tunes	The Three Bears are a family that consists of Papa Bear (sometimes called Henry), Mama Bear, and Junior Bear (sometimes spelled Junyer or Joonyer).
Tim the Bear	The Cleveland Show	One of Cleveland and Donna's neighbors in Stoolbend. He is thirty-five years old and lives with his wife, Arianna, and his son, Raymond. He has deep religious convictions (often attending Stoolbend Community Church and having his honeymoon in Israel). He works as a telemarketer at Waterman Cable.
Umka	Umka	A polar bear cub, who befriended a boy from Nenets tribe. However, people left this territory, and Umka decides to find the boy.
Uranus	Duckman	One of Duckman's two Care Bear-esque teddy-bear office assistants. Uranus is blue. Uranus and his co worker Fluffy try to get Duckman to act kindly and more politically correct.
Various bears	Adventure Time
Victor	Victor & Maria
Vincent	Over The Hedge	An American black bear who is the antagonist from the film.
Vladimir Goudenov Grizzlikof	Darkwing Duck	A grizzly bear and S.H.U.S.H.'s top agent
Yogi Bear	The Yogi Bear Show The Huckleberry Hound Show	Yogi Bear resides in Jellystone Park and would often try to steal picnic baskets while evading Ranger Smith.
Wilbur	The Son of Bigfoot	A good and friendly grizzly bear in the animated movie.
Zozi	Bartok the Magnificent

Comics

Character	Origin	Creator	Notes
Ambrose	Rupert the Chick	Arthur White	Best friend of Rupert the Chick.^[6]
Anne Marie Doddel	Tom Poes	Marten Toonder	Love interest and later wife of Olivier B. Bommel.^[7]
Bamse	Bamse	Rune Andréasson	The strongest bear in the whole world.
Barnstable Bear	Pogo	Walt Kelly	A simple-minded bear.
Bear	Bear (comic)	Jamie Smart
Biffo the Bear	The Beano	Dudley D. Watkins
Birre Beer [nl]	Birre Beer [nl]	Phiny Dick, Ton Beek, Andries Brandt, Eiso Toonder	A naïve little bear who lives in a forest with his friends Socratov the mouse and Mirre, the daughter of a woodsman.^[8]
Bobby Bear	The Annuals	Kitsie Bridges, Dora McLaren, Wilfred Haughton, Meg
Bobo	Bobo	Lars Mortimer
Brommy & Tommy	Brommy & Tommy	Jan Dirk van Exter	Two cute little bears who are good friends.^[9]
Mrs. Bruin	Tiger Tim (aka The Bruin Boys)	Julius Stafford Baker,^[10] Herbert Sydney Foxwell^[11]	A female bear who works as a teacher. The character was originally a hippopotamus named Mrs. Hippo.^[10]
Brummel	Brummel und Knickebein	Rolf Kauka	A bear whose sidekick is Knickebein the raven.^[12]
Bussi Bär	Bussi Bär [de]	Rolf Kauka	A little bear whose comic strip ran from 1973 until 2013.^[12]
Cornelius Bear	Achewood	Chris Onstad
Demon Bear	New Mutants	Chris Claremont, Bob McLeod
Fuzz	Fuzz & Pluck [fr]	Ted Stearn [nl]	A naïve, gullible teddy bear with self-doubt.^[13]
Genma Saotome	Ranma ½	Rumiko Takahashi
Giorgione	Pinky	Massimo Mattioli	Best friend of Pinky the rabbit.^[14]
Gohin	Beastars	Paru Itagaki	One of the main characters. A giant panda who acts as a doctor and therapist for carnivores in the Black Market
Io	The War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas Vol 1 #1	Greg Pak, Gang Hyuk Lim	A "half-moon" bear spirit sealed inside a magic mask. Companion to Crescent. From Earth-616
Jasper the Bear	Jasper the Bear	James Simpkins	Debuted in a gag comic and later became mascot of Jasper National Park^[15]
Kozlov Leifonovich Grebnev	Biomega	Tsutomu Nihei
Lala Hiyama	Knights of Sidonia	Tsutomu Nihei	A talking bear who serves as "dorm mother."
Lord Noriyuki	Usagi Yojimbo	Stan Sakai
Nanook The Bipolarbear	Nanook the Bipolarbear (Book)	James Osborn	A bear on a journey of discovery
Nestor	Moky et Poupy [fr]	Roger Bussemy [fr]	Pet bear of two Native American children, Moky and Poupy.^[16]
Olivier B. Bommel (Oliver B. Bumble)	Tom Poes	Marten Toonder	A bear who lives like a nobleman. Best friend of Tom Poes.^[7]
Panda	Panda	Marten Toonder	A little intelligent panda bear.^[7]
Peter	Snowdrop's Zoo	Arnold Warden	A sidekick of Chic the clown.^[17]
Ping	Jungle Jinks	Mabel F. Taylor	A panda friend of the main cast.^[18]
Placid	Placid et Muzo ^[19]	José Cabrero Arnal
Pooky	Garfield	Jim Davis	Garfield's Teddy Bears
Popol et Virginie	Popol Out West	Hergé	Two bears who visit the United States where they encounter Native American rabbits.^[20]
P.T. Bridgeport	Pogo	Walt Kelly	A flamboyant impresario and traveling circus operator named after P.T. Barnum, with a theatrical speech pattern and carnival barker's sales spiel satirizing the circus-like, media frenzy atmosphere of American political campaigns.^[21]
Rasmus Klump	Rasmus Klump	Carla and Vilhelm Hansen	A little bear who owns a boat with which he travels the world.^[22]
Rupert Bear	Rupert Bear	Mary Tourtel	A little polar bear who wears a red shirt and yellow scarf.^[23]
Téodor Orezcu	Achewood	Chris Onstad
The Three Bears	The Three Bears	Leo Baxendale	A bear family modelled after the famous fairytale and consisting of Pa Bear, Ma Bear and young son Ted.^[24]
Tobby	Tim und Tobby	Becker-Kasch	A bear who is best friends with a little fox.^[25]
Trinket	Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins	Matthew Mercer	The loyal pet companion of the Half-Elf Ranger, Vex'ahlia de Rolo.
Uncle Bruno	Rupert Bear	Alfred Bestall	Rupert's uncle.^[26]
Ursinho Bilu	Monica's Gang	Mauricio de Sousa	A metafictional cartoon character.

Film and television

Character	Origin	Notes
Amy	Bananas in Pyjamas	One of three teddies of Cuddles Avenue.
Archie	Dr. Dolittle 2	A wise-cracking circus-performing bear.
Baby Bear	Sesame Street	Son of Papa and Mama Bear and eventually brother of his new baby sister Curly and a good friend of Telly Monster.
Basil the Bear	Sesame Park
Bear	Bear in the Big Blue House	Bear is a bear that lives in a big blue house with his friends Tutter the mouse, Pip and Pop the otters, Ojo the bear cub, Treelo the lemur, and Shadow the shadow.
Bear	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	The Bear is a sailor and fisherman on the Isle of Naboombu who pulls the bed, with Miss Price's group on it, out of the lagoon with his fishing pole, and takes them to see the King after warning them of his temper.
Beary Barrington	The Country Bears
Ben	The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams	Played by a live bear named Bozo
Bobo the Bear	Muppets Tonight	He is easily amused yet often dry, sarcastic, and slightly befuddled.
Br'er Bear	Song of the South	Dimwitted bear who works together with Br'er Fox.
Bungle	Rainbow	An inquisitive bear but also clumsy and complains a lot about the other characters.
Buttons the Bear	Puppets Who Kill
Cocaine Bear	Cocaine Bear	Inspired by the true story of a bear that got high on cocaine.
Colargol	Les Aventures de Colargol	The series was produced from 1967 to 1974, comprising 53 thirteen-minute episodes which were broadcast in many European countries. Les Aventures de Colargol was renamed Barnaby when it was dubbed into English and broadcast in the UK by the BBC. The series underwent another name change when a second dubbed version of the series was shown in Canada (and also in the UK and Ireland), this time as Jeremy the Bear.
Eddy and the Bear	Collingwood & Co.
Fozzie Bear	The Muppets	An orange-brown, fozzie bear who often wears a brown pork pie hat and a pink-and-white polka-dot necktie. Serves as the show's stand-up comic.
Gentle Ben	Gentle Ben	About a boy and his tame bear.
Humphrey B. Bear	Here's Humphrey	A tall, shaggy brown bear with a large, glossy nose, straw boater, tartan waist-coat and oversized yellow bow-tie.
Jake The Polar Bear	Jim Henson's Animal Show	One of 2 hosts of Jim Henson's Animal Show
Jelly	Xuxa
Jerry Bear	Jim Henson's Pajanimals	A bear who loves to give hugs to the ones around his Friendly Forest
Katahdin	Prophecy 1979	Mutated Killer Bear
Lulu	Bananas in Pyjamas	One of three teddies of Cuddles Avenue.
Morgan	Bananas in Pyjamas	One of three teddies of Cuddles Avenue.
Nassur	Tomorrow's Pioneers	An aggressively anti-Semitic teddy bear
Nev the Bear	Bear Behaving Badly	A small, blue puppet bear.
Ojo	Bear in the Big Blue House	A small bear who is one of Bear's friends and helps Bear do all kinds of stuff.
Oxsana	Borat	Borat and Azamatt's American black bear which they used for protection when traveling across the United States. She is named after Borat's late wife who ironically was attacked and killed by a bear.
Radar	Sesame Street	Big Bird’s stuffed teddy bear
Ringbear	How I Met Your Mother	The ring bearer at Barney and Robin's wedding.
Sooty	The Sooty Show	A glove puppet bear, created by Harry Corbett in 1948, that appears on British television.
Ted	Ted	A Talking teddy bear.
Teddy	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	The robotic toy bear belonging to David, a robot himself.
Ursa	Bear in the Big Blue House	Bear's girlfriend who is Hispanic
Waldo	"The Waldo Moment" episode of Black Mirror	A computer generated, human animated foul-mouthed television celebrity.

Literature

Character	Origin	Author	Notes
Aloysius	Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh	Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear.
Baloo	The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	A sloth bear who is Mowgli's mentor and friend.
Bear	Franklin	Paulette Bourgeois	A brown bear who is Franklin's best friend.
Bear	The Honey and Bear Stories	Ursula Dubosarsky	Bear lives with the little bird Honey, a silvereye, native to Australia.
Bear	Bear	Marian Engel	The titular unnamed bear whose relationship with a librarian is the subject of the novel.
Bear Family	Berenstain Bears	Stan and Jan Berenstain	The Family consists of Father Bear, Mother Bear, Brother Bear, Sister Bear and eventually Honey Bear.
Ben	The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams	Charles Sellier
Big Double	Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear	Ken Kesey Barry Moser	An obese grizzly bear, who is the main antagonist. He terrorizes the animals of Topple's Bottom just by eating them all up in one single solitary operation, until he gets outmatched by Little Tricker the Squirrel.^[27]
Bluebear	The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear	Walter Moers	A Chromabear living in Zamonia who has many adventures. He is intelligent and amiable.
Br'er Bear	"Uncle Remus" stories	Joel Chandler Harris	A slow witted bear working with Br'er Fox to capture and eat Br'er Rabbit.
Corduroy	Corduroy	Don Freeman	A teddy bear who hopes to be owned by a girl named Lisa.
Gentle Ben	Gentle Ben	Walt Morey	A grizzly bear in the book, though the TV series and movies make him a black bear.
Harvey	A Father's Day Thank You	Janet Nolan	A bear cub who gives a thankyou card to his dad.
Iorek Byrnison	His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman	A male armored polar bear. An honorable friend to Lyra and the rightful king of Svalbard.
Issi Noho	Issi Noho	Keith Chatfield
Lars	The Little Polar Bear	Hans de Beer [de]	Adapted into a TV Series for BBC in 1990s and five films by Warner Bros.
Little Bear	Little Bear	Else Holmelund Minarik	Illustrated by Maurice Sendak and adapted into a TV Series by Nelvana and Nickelodeon.
Mary Plain	Mary Plain	Gwynedd Rae
Misha	The Foundation Pit	Andrei Platonov
Mister Bultitude	That Hideous Strength	C. S. Lewis	The Great Bear of Logres, resident at St. Anne's.
Mord	Borne	Jeff Vandermeer
Old Bear	Old Bear and Friends	Jane Hissey	An elderly dusty teddy bear, whom the other toys look up as a fearless, yet wise leader.
Old Ben	The Bear	William Faulkner
Old Majesty	Irish Red	Jim Kjelgaard	A large bear that terrorizes the wilderness.
Paddington Bear	Paddington Bear	Michael Bond	A bear who emigrated from Peru to the station he was named after. First illustrated by Peggy Fortnum.
Padistan Bear	Padistan Bear	John Warner	A young bear forced to leave home alone and make his way in the world. Illustrated by Angela Winstanley.
Rupert Bear	Rupert Bear	Mary Tourtel	Also known as Rupert the Bear.
Shardik	Shardik	Richard Adams
State O' Maine	The Hotel New Hampshire	John Irving	An oddly intelligent performing bear who works with Freud, a Viennese Jew.
Snuffles	Snuffles	R.A. Lafferty	The sole inhabitant of the bizarre planet Bellota, discovered by a scientific expedition of five. Whom he kills. He also turns out to be the Demiurge (Appears in: Galaxy Magazine, 1960-12.)
Teddy	The Night After Christmas	James Stevenson
Teddy Robinson	The Teddy Robinson Storybook	Joan G. Robinson	Cuddly but accident-prone, Teddy Robinson belongs to a little girl named Deborah.
The Three Bears	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Robert Southey	Story of a little girl who enters into a house owned by three bears and causes a ruckus.
Tottles	Tottles the Bear	Humphry Bowen
Winkie	Winkie	Clifford Chase
Winnie-the-Pooh	Winnie-the-Pooh	A. A. Milne	Described as a bear of very little brain, yet has good ideas when helping with his friends.

Video games

Character	Origin	Developer	Notes
Bamboo Pandamonium^[Note 1]	Mega Man X8	Capcom	Robotic panda encountered as a boss in a bamboo forest. Works with the main villain, Sigma, to bring about his vision of the world.^[28]
Banjo	Diddy Kong Racing	Rare	Laid back and easygoing. Titular hero alongside the loudmouthed bird Kazooie.^[29]
Bearbara	Rhythm Heaven Megamix	Nintendo SPD	Beary's girlfriend
Beary	Rhythm Heaven Megamix	Nintendo SPD	A blue bear who loves to eat donuts and cakes
Bentley Bear	Crystal Castles	Atari, Inc.	Most bears spend their days hanging out in the woods and eating honey, but Bentley Bear bides his time by collecting gems, navigating through mazes, and… well, eating honey. Crystal Castles might seem cliche by today’s standards, but the fairy tale setting was exciting in 1983 and it was a lot of fun to battle evil trees and dancing skeletons. Bentley’s adventures were surprisingly varied, and Crystal Castles was notable for being one of the first arcade games with an actual ending. The game was released just before the home console market crashed, so Bentley never reached his full mascot potential. After hibernating for over a decade, Bentley was featured as a racer in Atari Karts on the Jaguar. More recently, he was referenced in a Lupe Fiasco song and he had a cameo in Wreck-It Ralph.
Bruno Bear	Toon Blast	Peak Games	A bear from toon blast and friend of wally wolf and cooper cat.
Chen Stormstout	Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne	Blizzard Entertainment	Warrior and Brewmaster of the Pandaren people.^[30] Playable character in the Heroes of the Storm.^[31]
Choko	Animal Boxing	Gammick Entertainment [es]	Male brown bear boxer.
Freddy Fazbear	Five Nights at Freddy's	Scott Cawthon	He is an animatronic bear that was built for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. He has five counterparts: Golden Freddy/Fredbear, Toy Freddy, Withered/Old Freddy, Purple/Shadow Freddy, Phantom Freddy, and Nightmare. the most of any animatronic in the series. Golden Freddy appears in Five Nights at Freddy's and Five Nights at Freddy's 2. Toy Freddy appears only in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 along with Withered/Old Freddy and Purple/Shadow Freddy. Phantom Freddy only appears in Five Nights at Freddy's 3. Golden Freddy appears as "Fredbear" in Five Nights at Freddy's 4. Nightmare only appears in Five Nights at Freddy's 4. Nightmare is the same model as "Fredbear".
Grizzly Slash^[Note 2]	Mega Man X5	Capcom	Robotic grizzly bear encountered as a boss on a large truck after he becomes berserk from the "Sigma Virus".^[32]
Hank	Bear and Breakfast	Gummy Cat	Hank the Bear and his friends convert a small, rundown shack into the best hospitality service this side of the Mississippi.^[33]
Herbert Percival Bear, Esquire	Club Penguin	Disney Interactive Studios	The main antagonist of Club Penguin.
Ivan the Bear	Brutal: Paws of Fury	GameTek	Russian brown bear who fights using Soviet military style.^[34]
Kuma	Tekken	Namco	Bodyguard and pet of Heihachi Mishima.
Kumazo	Animal Boxing	Gammick Entertainment	Male polar bear boxer.
Li Li Stormstout	World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria	Blizzard Entertainment	Niece and traveling companion of Chen Stormstout.^[35] Playable character in the Heroes of the Storm.^[36]
Lola	Lola Panda	BeiZ Ltd.	An anthropomorphic panda who typically wears a pink short-sleeved shirt, knee length jeans, and sneakers.
Misha	Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne	Blizzard Entertainment	Brown bear companion of the beastmaster Rexxar.^[37] Misha appears in the Heroes of the Storm as well, as a part of Rexxar's ability kit.^[38]
Moneybags	Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!	Insomniac Games	A greedy bear who has an obsession and love for money.
Monokuma	Danganronpa	Spike	A robotic black & white teddy bear that takes over Hope's Peak Academy and finds joy in spreading despair.
Mr. Grizz	Splatoon	Nintendo	Appearing as a wooden bear statue in the Salmon Run mode, he is the main antagonist of Splatoon 3. A gigantic bear with a small head, he plans to cover the Earth in Fuzzy Ooze in order to change all marine life back into mammals. He is the Founder & CEO of Grizzco Industries, a shady company that lures in Inklings and Octolings to collect Golden Eggs, a vital ingredient in creating the Fuzzy Ooze.
Naughty Bear	Naughty Bear	Artificial Mind and Movement	A revenge-driven bear and protagonist of the eponymous game.
Panda	Tekken 3	Namco	Companion of Ling Xiaoyu.
Panda King	Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus	Sucker Punch Productions	Pyrotechnics expert of the Fiendish Five and in the third game recruited to be part of the Cooper Gang.
PJ Berri	PaRappa The Rapper	NanaOn-Sha	Parappa's best friend and the DJ at ClubFun
Polar	Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back	Naughty Dog	Polar bear cub and pet of Crash Bandicoot.^[39]
Poler Kamrous	Mega Man Zero 2	Capcom	Robotic polar bear encountered as a boss in Antarctica, where she guards a defense system computer.^[40]
Sana	Armello	League of Geeks	Chosen hero of the Bear Clan attuned with nature.^[41]
Storvacker	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Bioware	Stone-Bear Hold's Hold-Beast in the Jaws of Hakkon DLC.
Teddy	Animal Crossing	Nintendo EAD	A jock villager who appears in every game in the Animal Crossing series
The Grizz	Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time	Sucker Punch Productions	Graffiti artist turned bad and now under the command of Cyrille Le Paradox.
Ulfsaar the Ursa Warrior	Defense of the Ancients	Kyle Sommer	Ulfsaar the Warrior is the fiercest member of an Ursine Tribe.^[42]
Volibear	League of Legends	Riot Games	A demi-god of the Freljord.^[43]
Wallop	Skylanders: Trap Team	Activision	The hardest-working hero this side of Mount Scorch. His inventive mind is always looking for new ways to create.
Wally Bear	Wally Bear and the NO! Gang	American Game Cartridges	Title character and anti-drug advocate.^[44]
Yaya Panda	Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D	Polarbit	A girl Panda who loves to race and a good friend to Crash and Coco Bandicoot.
Yumil	Lollipop Chainsaw	Grasshopper Manufacture	The undead companion of Viking metal zombie Vikke.

Mascots

• Avalanche the Golden Bear, the official mascot of the Golden Bears of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
• Baerenmarken (Nestle Bear Brand) (de), the mascot for Bärenmarke [de], a German milk and dairy products company.
• Bananas T. Bear, the official mascot of the University of Maine
• Bandabi, the mascot of the 2018 Winter Paralympic games
• Bely Mishka, one of 3 mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics
• Berlino, the mascot of the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
• Berni, the mascot of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich
• Billy Bob Brockali, was the mascot of ShowBiz Pizza Place and was the bass & vocals of the band for the show The Rock-afire Explosion before it re-branded to Chuck E. Cheese's.^[45]
• Bing Dwen Dwen, the mascot of the 2022 Winter Olympics
• Blue, the official mascot of Labatt Brewing Company
• Boomer, the official mascot of Lake Forest College
• Boomer, the official mascot of Missouri State University
• Broxi Bear, official mascot of Rangers Football Club
• Bruiser, the official mascot of Baylor University
• Bruiser, the official mascot of Belmont University
• Bruno, the official mascot of Brown University
• Brutus the Bruin Bear, the official mascot Salt Lake Community College
• Bundy R. Bear, official mascot of Bundaberg Rum
• The Care Bears, greeting card mascots
• Carlton the Bear, the official mascot of the Toronto Maple Leafs
• The Charmin Bears, the mascot family of bears for Charmin
• Clark, official team mascot of the Chicago Cubs
• Clutch, the official mascot for the Houston Rockets
• Coca-Cola polar bears, mascots of the Coca-Cola Company
• Coal, one of 3 mascots of the 2002 Winter Olympics
• Comet, the official mascot of Concordia University
• Cooper, the official mascot for the West Virginia Black Bears
• Cresta, the official mascot for Cresta
• General, the official mascot of Georgia Gwinnett College
• George, the bear in the British Hofmeister Beer commercials of the 1980s. "For great lager, follow the bear"
• Golbear, the official mascot of Haribo
• Golden Bear, the official mascot for Miles College
• Golden Bear, the official mascot for Western New England University
• The Gomdoori, 2 Asian black bear mascots of the 1988 Summer Paralympic games
• Griz, the official mascot for Franklin College
• Grizz Also Super Grizz, from the Memphis (Vancouver) Grizzlies
• Grizz, official mascot of Oakland University
• Grizzlies, official mascot of Adams State University
• Grizzly, official mascot of Butler Community College
• The Grupo Bimbo mascot
• Hamm's Beer bear and its wife, Harley bear
• Hidy, one of 2 mascots of the 1988 Winter Olympics
• Howdy, one of 2 mascots of the 1988 Winter Olympics
• The Icee Company Bear
• Jazz Bear, the official mascot of the Utah Jazz
• John Lewis bear, mascot for the 2013 Christmas Advert by the John Lewis chain of department stores in Great Britain.
• Jingjing, one of 5 mascots of the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Klawz Da Bear, the official mascot of the University of Northern Colorado
• Kumamon, mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
• Max C Bear, the official mascot of the State University of New York at Potsdam
• Miga, one of 3 mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics
• Misha, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics
• Monte, the official mascot of the University of Montana
• Nanook, one of two mascots for the Edmonton Eskimos
• NYIT Bear, the official mascot of the New York Institute of Technology
• Objee, the official mascot of the United States Coast Guard Academy
• Oski the Bear, the official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley
• Parker T. Bear, the mascot for the Fresno Grizzlies
• Phineas T. Brizzly, the mascot for Brizzly
• Polar Bear, the official mascot of Fox's Glacier Mints
• Polar Bear, the official mascot of the Bowdoin College
• Polar Bear, the official mascot of the Ohio Northern University
• Polar Bear, the official mascot of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. AKA Nanook
• Pom-Bear, the teddy shaped potato snack mascot
• Populoso, the official mascot of the Puerto Rico Islanders
• Pudsey Bear, the official mascot of Children in Need
• Ranger D. Bear, the official mascot of the University of Wisconsin–Parkside
• Scotty the Bear, the official mascot of the University of California, Riverside
• Smokey Bear, mascot of the U.S. Forest Service, based on a real orphaned bear cub also named Smokey
• Snuggle, the fabric softener bear (known as Coccolino in other regions)
• Staley Da Bear, the official mascot of the Chicago Bears
• Sugar Bear, mascot for General Foods Corporation's Post Sugar Crisp cereal
• T. C., the official mascot for the Minnesota Twins
• The Great Root Bear and its wife, Rosie Bear - Corporate mascots for A&W Root Beer and A&W Restaurants
• Toby, the official mascot of Mercer University
• Touchdown, the official mascot of Cornell University. AKA Cornell Big Red
• United Buddy Bears initiated by Klaus and Eva Herlitz
• Victor E. Bear, the official mascot of the University of Central Arkansas

Myth and folklore

• Callisto
• Drop bear
• Golden Bear
• Jambavan
• Jean de l'Ours
• Nandi bear
• Otso
• Ungnyeo
• Ursa Major
• Ursa Minor
• Field Bear

Other

• The animatronic cast of the Country Bear Jamboree attraction, found at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland
• Beach Bear, was the guitar and vocals of the band for the show The Rock-afire Explosion before it re-branded to Chuck E. Cheese's.^[46]
• Boof, a teddy bear belly heart in Suzy's Zoo
• Choo-choo, a baby black bear that was part of the Rock-afire Explosion. He doesn't speak and would just pop out of his tree stump and bounce up and down to the music.^[47]
• Cleo deCap, a character from sci-fi comedy Narrative Play podcast Backwater Bastards. Cleo was originally a human whose consciousness was later transferred into an ursine alien species^[48]

• Duffy, originally created for and briefly sold at the Disney World Once Upon a Toy shop in Orlando in 2002 but now can be found at the Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park in California, Walt Disney World in Florida, Hong Kong Disneyland and Disneyland Paris, is Mickey's huggable bear
• Fuzzy Wuzzy, subject of a well-known rhyme of the same name
• Gloomy Bear, character from Japanese graphic designer Mori Chack. Gloomy, an abandoned little bear, is rescued by Pitty, a little boy. At first, he is cute and cuddly, but becomes more wild as he grows up. Since bears do not become attached to people like dogs by nature, Gloomy attacks Pitty even though he is the owner.
• Gund Snuffles is a plush bear developed and produced by the GUND toy company and was the recipient of 1996 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award.
• Pedobear is an Internet meme that became popular through the imageboard 4chan. As the name suggests ("pedo" being short for "pedophile"), it is portrayed as a pedophilic bear. It is a concept used to mock pedophiles or people who have any sexual interest in children or jailbait. The bear image has been likened to bait, used to lure children or as a mascot for pedophiles

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Notes

1. "Bamboo Pandemonium" (バンブー・パンデモニウム Banbū Pandemoniumu) in the original Japanese version.
2. "Crescent Grizzly" (クレッセTント・グリズリー Kuressento Gurizurī) in the original Japanese version.