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* Subverted in ''Manga/IGotMyWishAndReincarnatedAsTheVillainessLastBoss''. While a bear is causing problems for the locals, Elizabeth quickly kills it because she wants to eat meat for her birthday and to make things easier for everyone else. The scene is strictly used to demonstrate [[WorldsStrongestWoman how strong Elizabeth is]].
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** The original Seven Warlords of the Sea all have an animal theme. Bartholomew Kuma's is, [[MeaningfulName naturally]], a bear. Both times he's appeared to antagonize the Straw Hats, things went south ''fast'' for the heroes. However, Kuma can also be a subversion, [[spoiler:the first time Kuma appeared Zoro was able to appeal to Kuma's honor to be allowed to sacrifice himself in place of Luffy. In the Sabaody Islands, Kuma's arrival was what saved the Straw Hats, despite initial appearances]].
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** The original Seven Warlords of the Sea all have an animal theme. Bartholomew Kuma's is, [[MeaningfulName naturally]], a bear. Both times he's appeared to antagonize the Straw Hats, things went south ''fast'' for the heroes. However, Kuma can also be a subversion, [[spoiler:the first time Kuma appeared Zoro was able to appeal to Kuma's honor to be allowed to sacrifice himself in place of Luffy. In the Sabaody Islands, Kuma's arrival was what saved the Straw Hats, despite initial appearances]]. Towards the end of the manga, we find out that [[spoiler: Kuma is actually BearyFriendly by default. He's only bad news when [[HealthcareMotivation the lives of his loved ones are on the line]] or when [[BewareTheNiceOnes someone has well and truly earned his retaliation]]]].
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*''Anime/KatriGirlOfTheMeadows'': Katri's experiences with bears have always been bad, from killing her cows to scaring her when she stumbled upon them by accident. TruthInTelevision as in rural Finland, rabid bears were a common problem for farmers.
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* ''Manga/TheRideOnKing'': The previous mountain lord is a demonic bear, who Purchinov throws down judo-style and makes him obey.
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* General Olivier Armstrong's BadassArmy in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is nicknamed the "Briggs Bears". And although she's PandaingToTheAudience and adorable, Shao May has one bite for such a tiny thing.
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* General Olivier Armstrong's BadassArmy in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is nicknamed the "Briggs Bears". And although she's PandaingToTheAudience and adorable, she is an adorable baby panda, Shao May has one bite for such a tiny thing.
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** Later on in the series, while working on the Mikage farm, Hachiken gets lost in the woods, causing the Mikages to panic because of the bears in the area. However, when a bear does turn up, it proves no match for Grandpa Mikage's CarFu and appetite for yakiniku.
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** The original Seven Warlords of the Sea all have an animal theme. Bartholomew Kuma's is, [[MeaningfulName naturally]], a bear. Both times he's appeared to antagonize the Straw Hats, things went south ''fast'' for the heroes. However, Kuma can also be a subversion, [[spoiler:the first time Kuma appeared Zoro was able to appeal to Kuma's honor to be allowed to sacrifice himself in place of Luffy. In the Sabaody Islands, Kuma's arrival was what saved the Straw Hats, despite initial appearances]].
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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', a flashback shows a young Karin being threatened by an almost comically-oversized bear while her teammates are nowhere to be found. Sasuke then comes by and drop-kicks it. There's more of them on the island Killer Bee trained on including one with [[EyepatchOfPower an eyepatch]]. Bee apparently spends some of his "vacation" time ''sumo-wrestling them''.
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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', a flashback shows a young Karin being threatened by an almost comically-oversized bear while her teammates are nowhere to be found. Sasuke then comes by and drop-kicks it. There's more of them on the island Killer Bee B trained on including one with [[EyepatchOfPower an eyepatch]]. Bee B apparently spends some of his "vacation" time ''sumo-wrestling them''.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasThreeVisionarySwordsmen'' have the heroes (their AlternateSelf in the DreamWorld, anyway) Nobitania, Giantosu and Sunemisu attacked by a ''huge'' bear the size of a horse-carriage in the forest. Subverted when it turns out the bear is the father of a cub Nobitania rescued a day earlier, who quickly comes out and stops the bear from attacking. The bear quickly becomes the heroes' companion afterwards, escorting them long enough until they reach the Dragon's Cavern.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasThreeVisionarySwordsmen'' have has the heroes (their AlternateSelf in the DreamWorld, [[DreamLand dream world]], anyway) Nobitania, Giantosu and Sunemisu attacked by a ''huge'' bear the size of a horse-carriage in the forest. Subverted when it turns out the bear is the father of a cub Nobitania rescued a day earlier, who quickly comes out and stops the bear from attacking. The bear quickly becomes the heroes' companion afterwards, escorting them long enough until they reach the Dragon's Cavern.
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* ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' ''starts'' with the main character fighting a bear twice his size -- and several moments later it shows that his sister has beaten ''[[AlwaysSomeoneBetter an even larger one]]''.
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* ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' ''Literature/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' ''starts'' with the main character fighting a bear twice his size -- and several moments later it shows that his sister has beaten ''[[AlwaysSomeoneBetter an even larger one]]''.
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** One of Trafalgar Law's crew members is a bear in a jumpsuit. [[IKnowKarate It knows kung fu]].
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** One of Trafalgar Law's crew members is a polar bear in a jumpsuit. jumpsuit named Bepo. [[IKnowKarate It knows kung fu]].fu]] and serves as Law's [[TheNavigator navigator]], but tends to be rather [[ApologisesALot apologetic]]. He's later revealed to be part of a race of [[BeastMan animal humanoids]] called the Mink Tribe. [[spoiler:Bepo's [[SuperMode Sulong form]] is strong enough that he can briefly fend off the likes of Blackbeard.]]
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* In ''Manga/TalesOfWeddingRings'', the party runs into an enormous bear while making their way to Romca. It's a normal animal rather than an [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Abyss beast]], so Satou assumes it's safe to approach. The bear quickly disabuses him of that notion. Cue the party chewing Satou out for his stupidity as they all run for their lives.
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* Teddy Bomber from the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Cowboy Funk".
* [[http://myanimelist.net/character/13649/Death_Panda Death Panda]], by Waita Uziga ([[Music/{{Megadeth}} yes]], ''him'').
* [[http://myanimelist.net/character/13649/Death_Panda Death Panda]], by Waita Uziga ([[Music/{{Megadeth}} yes]], ''him'').
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* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': A [[MonsterOfTheWeek Zakenna]] in Episode 6 possesses a large friendly bear that Nagisa and Honoka encountered earlier.
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* In ''Manga/InuYasha'' it is played down. Early in the plot, a common bear gets a splinter from the Shikon no Tama, and turns into a giant bear monster. However, [[BigBad Naraku]] easily defeats him, and finally steals the jewel splinter.
** In a later episode, Sango fights a bear youkai all by herself. Granted, she is a [[BadassNormal powerful fighter]], but it is still a world in which {{youkai}} are usually much more powerful than humans.
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* In ''Manga/InuYasha'' ''Manga/InuYasha'', it is played down. Early in the plot, a common bear gets a splinter from the Shikon no Tama, and turns into a giant bear monster. However, [[BigBad Naraku]] easily defeats him, and finally steals the jewel splinter.
**splinter. In a later episode, Sango fights a bear youkai all by herself. Granted, she is a [[BadassNormal powerful fighter]], but it is still a world in which {{youkai}} are usually much more powerful than humans.humans.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': In Hot Pants' past, she and her brother got trapped in a cave when a bear attacked them. In a desperate bid to protect herself, Hot Pants accidentally pushed her brother towards the bear and got him killed.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': Daiya's outfits have a [[AnimalMotifs bear motif]]. However, underneath her cuteness is an analytic and possessive Stand User who can [[LaserGuidedAmnesia remove and destroy memories]] on a whim.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': In Hot Pants' past, she and her brother got trapped in a cave when a bear attacked them. In a desperate bid to protect herself, Hot Pants accidentally pushed her brother towards the bear and got him killed.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': Daiya's outfits have a [[AnimalMotifs bear motif]]. However, underneath her cuteness is an analytic and possessive Stand User who can [[LaserGuidedAmnesia remove and destroy memories]] on a whim.
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** We later see more of them on the island Killer Bee and A trained on including one with [[EyepatchOfPower an eyepatch]]. Bee apparently spends some of his "vacation" time ''sumo-wrestling them''.
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** We also get Kumacy, Perona's giant zombie teddy bear. He shows up in the middle of Usopp's fight with Perona -- that's already going pretty badly -- and delivers a nasty NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that forces the sniper to [[TookALevelInBadAss take a level in bad ass]] just to survive it.
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* ''LightNovel/KumaKumaKumaBear'' features light-hearted examples with the protagonist Yuna wearing what is effectively superpowered, bear-themed onesie pajamas that come with two fluffy, adorable bear familiars, named Kumakyuu and Kumayuru. All three of them are still ''extremely'' dangerous with physical ''or'' magical attacks, they hand out {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s to anyone they face, and almost drive the predators around a city to extinction. Apex predators indeed.
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* ''LightNovel/KumaKumaKumaBear'' ''Literature/KumaKumaKumaBear'' features light-hearted examples with the protagonist Yuna wearing what is effectively superpowered, bear-themed onesie pajamas that come with two fluffy, adorable bear familiars, named Kumakyuu and Kumayuru. All three of them are still ''extremely'' dangerous with physical ''or'' magical attacks, they hand out {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s to anyone they face, and almost drive the predators around a city to extinction. Apex predators indeed.
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* The enormous Asian black bear in ''LightNovel/UnlockCity'' that escapes from the zoo and gets trapped inside the local high school. It ends up slaughtering some of the characters, including one girl that was straight up ''torn to bits''.
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* The enormous Asian black bear in ''LightNovel/UnlockCity'' ''Literature/UnlockCity'' that escapes from the zoo and gets trapped inside the local high school. It ends up slaughtering some of the characters, including one girl that was straight up ''torn to bits''.
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* Holo of ''Manga/SpiceAndWolf'' finds out that her hometown was destroyed by a gigantic bear spirit.
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* ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'' starts with a young boy getting mauled by a bear while picking mushrooms in the forest. And then the [[{{gendercide}} Redface Pox]] hits his family and spreads throughout Japan, greatly reducing the male population. Generations later, researchers learn that bears are carriers for the Redface Pox and that hunters protect themselves with age-old traditions.
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* ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'' ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'' starts with a young boy getting mauled by a bear while picking mushrooms in the forest. And then the [[{{gendercide}} Redface Pox]] hits his family and spreads throughout Japan, greatly reducing the male population. Generations later, researchers learn that bears are carriers for the Redface Pox and that hunters protect themselves with age-old traditions.
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* Early on, the eponymous ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'' has to wrestle a monster bear as TrainingFromHell.
* ''Manga/{{Biomega}}'' gives us Kozlov, a Russian scientist who had his mind uploaded into a bear. He's also a sniper.
* A case in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' features Conan, Dr. Agasa, the Detective Kids and three hunters dealing with a bear that is on the loose ''and'' on a rampage. [[spoiler: It turns out they're faced with a literal MamaBear, who lost one of her cubs to the case's AssholeVictim. When her other cubbie is returned to her, she subverts the trope by immediately calming down and peacefully leaving with her remaining cub.]]
* Teddy Bomber from the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Cowboy Funk".
* [[http://myanimelist.net/character/13649/Death_Panda Death Panda]], by Waita Uziga ([[Music/{{Megadeth}} yes]], ''him'').
* At the start of ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Tanjiro gets home to find that almost all of his family has been killed in his absence. He initially assumes that a bear too hungry to hibernate was responsible, but then it turns out that his younger sister Nezuko had been turned into a demon, which means that the BigBad Muzan Kibutsuji was the culprit. A late series flashback also shows Tanjiro watching his father Tanjuro decapitate a bear with a hatchet despite being terminally ill, realizing the bear was hungry but saying [[PapaWolf he had no choice but to protect his family]].
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** The franchise has Grizzmon, an Adult-level grizzly bear. He's appeared twice in different anime series: first in the ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' movie as the commander of the Beast Digimon army, and many appear late in ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' as a staple {{Mook|s}} species in Apollomon's army. [[AllThereInTheManual Expanded universe material]] bills the species as ferocious warriors with honourable spirits. Related is Bearmon, Grizzmon's lesser Child-level incarnation who takes the form of a bear cub, also appearing in the ''Frontier'' movie and ''Xros Wars''.
** ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'': A WakeUpCallBoss from halfway through the manga's run was Callismon, said to be the product of exposing an aforementioned Grizzmon to [[LEGOGenetics a sample of]] [[OlympusMons Arcadimon's]] data. The result was an enormous bear of immense power with a HandCannon, providing the first real challenge to Taichi and Zero in a very long time.
* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasThreeVisionarySwordsmen'' have the heroes (their AlternateSelf in the DreamWorld, anyway) Nobitania, Giantosu and Sunemisu attacked by a ''huge'' bear the size of a horse-carriage in the forest. Subverted when it turns out the bear is the father of a cub Nobitania rescued a day earlier, who quickly comes out and stops the bear from attacking. The bear quickly becomes the heroes' companion afterwards, escorting them long enough until they reach the Dragon's Cavern.
* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': When [[SquishyWizard Pop]] and [[BareFistedMonk Maam]] are washed ashore following a HopelessBossFight against [[BigBad Vearn]], with Maam passing out from exhaustion after swimming ashore while carrying Pop, whose magic power is entirely spent, Pop wakes up to find a ferocious-looking grizzly bear. Pop is prepared to fight the bear to the death, and the bear raises its claw... only to roar while waving its arm around without attacking, with [[FunnyAnimal Chu]] showing up soon thereafter. [[SubvertedTrope It turns out Chu had defeated the bear off-screen earlier, and then sent out the bear to help search for the heroes.]] Pop is immensely relieved upon discovering this fact.
-->'''Pop''': Crazy mouse... you scared me...
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': While visiting a lake house, Shigure playfully claims its the kind of place where [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]] would show up. When Kyo asks who "Jason" is, Shigure messes with him by telling him it's a new species of bear, which Kyo and Tohru are both gullible enough to believe right away. Later, when Tohru, Yuki and Kyo see bear tracks while out on a walk, they all assume the worst, though no bears ever actually show up and Yuki points out that "Jason" isn't actually a kind of bear.
-->'''Yuki:''' Just so you know, Jason isn't a bear, he's a character from a horror movie.\\
'''Kyo:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint So there's a bear in a horror movie! What do I care!?]]
* General Olivier Armstrong's BadassArmy in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is nicknamed the "Briggs Bears". And although she's PandaingToTheAudience and adorable, Shao May has one bite for such a tiny thing.
* In ''Anime/FutakoiAlternative'' a loan shark walks around with a polar bear for some extra muscle.
* The most infamous straight example in anime or manga would be ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin''. The primary nemeses are bears. The leader bear, Akakabuto, is an ungodly huge, strong and malicious bear with one eye.
** The manga of its successor ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' does this too... though later in the series. The main bear they fight is an Akakabuto {{Expy}} hybrid bear who [[spoiler:kills GB]].
** ''Ginga: The Last Wars'' (the final Ginga arc) has a bear become the BigBad once more: Monsoon, a son of Akakabuto hell-bent on dominating Ohu just as his father tried to do nearly fifteen years ago. Not only is he using his fellow bears as soldiers, but he also starts recruiting dogs too.
* Bears have been among the deadliest things in ''Manga/GoldenKamuy''. Of course, they [[PlotArmor can't]] take out [[MadeOfIron Sugimoto the Immortal]].
* ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' ''starts'' with the main character fighting a bear twice his size -- and several moments later it shows that his sister has beaten ''[[AlwaysSomeoneBetter an even larger one]]''.
* One of the most famous scenes in ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'' has Takamura ''fighting'' against an angry bear to save his own life, after Ippo and the other Kamogawa boxers ran away from it when all of them were training in the mountains. Takamura actually ''wins'' against the bear in a hilarious and awesome moment. Despite that, Takamura spares the bear's life after he sees it's actually a MamaBear with two cubs crying for it. The whole incident leaves Takamura with three giant scars on his chest and gaining him the title "Bear Slayer" after the thing hits the news. It also doubles with the RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun trope, as Takamura never shies away from reminding others that ''he beat a goddamn bear''.
* Bizarrely drawn (and bizarrely voiced...seriously, they emit some kind of ''screech'' instead of growling) bears shows up several times in ''Anime/HareGuu''. [[spoiler:Actually, this is counted as normal for this anime.]]
* Inverted in ''Manga/HaruhiChan''. In one episode, Tsuruya claims that she once defeated a bear.
* Almost played straight in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', during a school hiking trip, one of the groups is terrorized by a huge bear. Which is then turned into a pet by Isumi.
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'' it is played down. Early in the plot, a common bear gets a splinter from the Shikon no Tama, and turns into a giant bear monster. However, [[BigBad Naraku]] easily defeats him, and finally steals the jewel splinter.
** In a later episode, Sango fights a bear youkai all by herself. Granted, she is a [[BadassNormal powerful fighter]], but it is still a world in which {{youkai}} are usually much more powerful than humans.
* In ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'', after training in the mountains, Naeka feels as though she could take on a bear. She finds herself staring down a growling grizzly moments later, courtesy of Kogarashi. Turns out she's not as ready as she thought.
* A similar incident occurs in ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''. Kenichi, annoyed by his training in the mountains, throws a rock at what he ''thinks'' is his eldest master secretly watching him. It turns out to be, you guessed it, a bear. Despite being a fan of How-To books, Kenichi does ''exactly'' the wrong things in trying to escape this particular bear.
* While ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' is training for his match with Warsman, Mari-chan is attacked by a bear and he has to save her. It puts him in the Palo Special, which he counters with a Kinniku Buster.
* In ''Anime/KoihimeMusou'''s HotSpringsEpisode, Rinrin comes across a bear that she thinks is a [[PetBabyWildAnimal little cub she raised when she was a kid]]. It isn't. Cue fleeing from an angry bear.
* ''LightNovel/KumaKumaKumaBear'' features light-hearted examples with the protagonist Yuna wearing what is effectively superpowered, bear-themed onesie pajamas that come with two fluffy, adorable bear familiars, named Kumakyuu and Kumayuru. All three of them are still ''extremely'' dangerous with physical ''or'' magical attacks, they hand out {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s to anyone they face, and almost drive the predators around a city to extinction. Apex predators indeed.
* In ''Manga/MyHeavenlyHockeyClub'', the hockey club runs afoul of a bear during a trip in the woods... and it makes a strong connection with Hana. Eventually, they try to teach it to play field hockey so they can use it as a goalie in an upcoming game... but contrary to what they'd hoped, it's immediately noticed to be a bear and carted off, perpetuating the RunningGag of the team never getting to actually play a single game.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', a flashback shows a young Karin being threatened by an almost comically-oversized bear while her teammates are nowhere to be found. Sasuke then comes by and drop-kicks it.
** We later see more of them on the island Killer Bee and A trained on including one with [[EyepatchOfPower an eyepatch]]. Bee apparently spends some of his "vacation" time ''sumo-wrestling them''.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** The magical world arc takes the MamaBear to literal levels, having a bear named Mama serve as the ApronMatron in charge of Ako, Akira, and Natsumi. She beats up anyone who dares abuse the girls serving under her.
** Earlier in the series, Negi along with {{Ninja}} Kaede (only he was scared) are chased through the woods by a bear while carrying a giant cookable mushroom.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'', being as fond of AnimalMotifs as it is, of course, has some:
** The original Seven Warlords of the Sea all have an animal theme. Bartholomew Kuma's is, [[MeaningfulName naturally]], a bear. Both times he's appeared to antagonize the Straw Hats, things went south ''fast'' for the heroes. However, Kuma can also be a subversion, [[spoiler:the first time appeared Zoro was able to appeal to Kuma's honor to be allowed to sacrifice himself in place of Luffy. In the Sabaody Islands, Kuma's arrival was what saved the Straw Hats, despite initial appearances]].
** We also get Kumacy, Perona's giant zombie teddy bear. He shows up in the middle of Usopp's fight with Perona -- that's already going pretty badly -- and delivers a nasty NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that forces the sniper to [[TookALevelInBadAss take a level in bad ass]] just to survive it.
** One of Trafalgar Law's crew members is a bear in a jumpsuit. [[IKnowKarate It knows kung fu]].
** In the flashback to their childhood, Ace has begun caring for Luffy after the later got mauled almost to death by a bear.
** A Bear Zoan-type Devil Fruit, however, is notably absent. ''Yet''.
* ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'' starts with a young boy getting mauled by a bear while picking mushrooms in the forest. And then the [[{{gendercide}} Redface Pox]] hits his family and spreads throughout Japan, greatly reducing the male population. Generations later, researchers learn that bears are carriers for the Redface Pox and that hunters protect themselves with age-old traditions.
* The [[FinalBoss last villain]] encountered in ''Manga/OumagadokiDoubutsuen'', Shikuma, was cursed by a Bear Spirit like Isana and Shiina. As a result, he's a grotesque half-man half-bear hybrid with huge, clawed paws and a bear muzzle on an otherwise human face. Most notably, he was the toughest enemy ever fought by Shiina, and that includes Isana, a ''whale man''.
* Senri in ''Manga/PlusAnima''. Especially when [[spoiler:his eyepatch comes off on a large mountain and he starts attacking everyone]]. The only way it stopped was [[spoiler:by both ThePowerOfFriendship and Cooro putting his EyepatchOfPower back on]].
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** Ursaring seem to show up whenever the anime needs a menacing wild Pokémon to put the heroes in danger. Oh yeah, did we mention that [[FromBadToWorse Ursarings can fire lasers (Hyper Beam) from their mouths?]]
** Subverted -- sort of -- in an episode of the ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Gold and Silver'' series. In this case, the bad news came from a Teddiursa, a cute-looking bear cub that stole food and blamed it on other Pokemon. At the end of the episode, it evolved into an Ursaring at which point it could no longer use its cuteness to steal food.
*** Played painfully (and we do mean ''painful'') in one episode where the gang had to pass through a forest with a dozen or so Ursaring in the middle of ''mating season'', with '''no''' tolerance for intruders.
** [[StopHavingFunGuys Paul's]] Ursaring exemplifies this more than any other specimen on the show. Almost [[TheJuggernaut NOTHING]] can even slow it down, and anything that DOES seemingly work on it invariably ends up making it angry, and consequently stronger. On top of all that it has the ability [[CriticalStatusBuff Guts]]. When it comes out, there's little Ash can do but gawk in horror as it annihilates his Pokemon.
** In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'', Team Rocket manages to befriend a wild Bewear. A huge bear that resembles a costumed mascot. Well, "Befriend" isn't the correct term as it seems to be [[MamaBear overprotective of them]], [[AndCallHimGeorge to the point of being too overprotective]]. It can tear down entire forests by ''accident'' when overexcited, and when actually pissed off it took out an Ultra Beast with zero trouble.
* Sherwood the Monster Princess (not Hime, her sister) from ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'' has blood-immortal empowered Panda bears as her Servants. They have, for example, ripped to shreds an army of lesser vampires.
* Even ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' includes an unbearable example. While in the original manga, Ranma fought Cologne on the beach while she ''summoned a shark to assist her'', in the anime, the fight instead takes place in a mountain resort, where in an even more outlandish fashion, she creates an ice sculpture of a bear that she can levitate and use to attack on a whim.
** When Ranma, Genma, and Soun need to retrieve the scroll of a DangerousForbiddenTechnique from a women's {{Onsen| Episode}} before [[TricksterMentor Happosai]] does, they have the bright idea of painting Genma's cursed form (a 7-foot-tall panda bear) to resemble a huge, voracious bear and scare off the women. Unfortunately, the only paint they had on hand was ''white''...
--->"[[MisplacedWildlife Who ever heard of polar bears in Japan]]?"\\
Cue the beatings.
** In the manga, Ryū Kumon is introduced by soundly beating up an escaped bear that was attacking Nodoka (before Ranma could even intervene).
** Genma himself turns into a giant panda when wet and was quite the member of the AbusiveParents "club", even from before he was cursed...
* One of the prominent background members of the Dead Moon Circus in the 90s ''Anime/SailorMoon'' series is a blue-skinned ballerina who happens to have a giant, smiling bear head with mismatched eyes that never blink. Her expression ''never'' changes.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': Some of the training scenes feature fighting bears with their bare hands as a means of showing how dangerous it is.
* ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'':
** The animal avatar that represents Musubi is a bear. Musubi herself is the {{Determinator}} type, and the Bear-Fist is one of her attacks.
** For Minato, [[{{Pun}} Everything's Worse With Bares]].
* TheBeastmaster Maeda Matsu in the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' anime, in a fit of temper, ultimately calls up a bear to attack her brother-in-law Keiji. Keiji is already making a hasty retreat and the bear attacks Matsu's husband Toshiie instead (though Toshiie comes out of it more or less fine since the whole thing is played for laughs).
* Subverted with ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe''. Shirokuma is the friendly polar bear owner of the titular cafe, Panda is a regular customer who prefers the lazy lifestyle, and even the BadassBiker Grizzly, is a genuinely nice grizzly bear who just has a low tolerance for foolishness.
* Speaking of Arakawa's manga, this trope is played for laughs in ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', when a Beware Of Bears sign in the woods makes our hero so nervous that he mistakes an approaching horse for a bear.
* In ''Manga/{{Softenni}}'', the girls run into a bear about three times the size of an average human in the mountains. Kurusu not only fights it to a draw (while naked), she [[FluffyTamer lets the bear give the team a ride up the mountain]].
* Holo of ''Manga/SpiceAndWolf'' finds out that her hometown was destroyed by a gigantic bear spirit.
* In ''Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes'', while searching for a lost girl, Sherlock comes across a bear. She tries to play nice with it, but this is a bear that can ''uppercut''. That the bear knocks her into the sky and off the cliff is a major catalyst for the episode. When Sherlock, Kokoro, and Airi come across that same bear later, it's still almost invincible.
* ''Manga/TonoToIssho'': Azai Nagamasa fears that UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga will send a bear in place of his sister Oichi as a wife. He then imagines Oichi as a dominatrix in charge of a bear army.
* The enormous Asian black bear in ''LightNovel/UnlockCity'' that escapes from the zoo and gets trapped inside the local high school. It ends up slaughtering some of the characters, including one girl that was straight up ''torn to bits''.
* ''Manga/TheWorldIsMine'' has an overall bear motif: A giant bear-like creature called Hakumadon is attacking Japan, rampaging through whole towns and turning anyone who encounters it into slurry ("My daughter followed my mother into the woods and they both came back ''in a bucket!''"). One of the two MadBomber {{Serial Killer}}s, [[ChaoticEvil Mon]], always carries a stuffed teddy bear which is implied to be the only friend he had as a child. When Mon encounters Hakumadon, his partner Toshi dies and he gets shredded... but both miraculously survive, the only evidence being Mon's slashed teddy bear. When Mon and Hakumadon meet ''again'', another character thinks he sees Mon once more getting killed, but again he survives. A few characters wonder if Hakumadon is a god sent to [[GaiasVengeance reclaim the earth]] or that it and Toshi+Mon are in a "killing contest". [[spoiler:In reality, Hakumadon is an American shock-and-awe weapon/robot that went out of control -- imagine the Big Dog rig but three stories tall, covered in shaggy fur with yard-long teeth and claws.]] Appears to have been inspired by the "Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident" (see Real Life).
* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'': When the revenant warrior Goemon Ishikawa TurnsRed he transforms into a huge, armored Bear-Man armed with dual sais and FuumaShuriken.
* The central premise of ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' is that bears can take human form and infiltrate society, and they often devour other characters violently despite their adorable designs. They're used as an allegory for Japan's views on homosexuality and contrasting that view with the country's large quantity of YuriGenre series. Director Creator/KunihikoIkuhara has stated that bears tend to be seen in real life as predatory dangers but are often portrayed as cutesy innocents in pop culture, which is a clear parallel to Japan's view of lesbians versus how they're depicted in anime and manga.
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* ''Manga/{{Biomega}}'' gives us Kozlov, a Russian scientist who had his mind uploaded into a bear. He's also a sniper.
* A case in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' features Conan, Dr. Agasa, the Detective Kids and three hunters dealing with a bear that is on the loose ''and'' on a rampage. [[spoiler: It turns out they're faced with a literal MamaBear, who lost one of her cubs to the case's AssholeVictim. When her other cubbie is returned to her, she subverts the trope by immediately calming down and peacefully leaving with her remaining cub.]]
* Teddy Bomber from the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Cowboy Funk".
* [[http://myanimelist.net/character/13649/Death_Panda Death Panda]], by Waita Uziga ([[Music/{{Megadeth}} yes]], ''him'').
* At the start of ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Tanjiro gets home to find that almost all of his family has been killed in his absence. He initially assumes that a bear too hungry to hibernate was responsible, but then it turns out that his younger sister Nezuko had been turned into a demon, which means that the BigBad Muzan Kibutsuji was the culprit. A late series flashback also shows Tanjiro watching his father Tanjuro decapitate a bear with a hatchet despite being terminally ill, realizing the bear was hungry but saying [[PapaWolf he had no choice but to protect his family]].
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** The franchise has Grizzmon, an Adult-level grizzly bear. He's appeared twice in different anime series: first in the ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' movie as the commander of the Beast Digimon army, and many appear late in ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' as a staple {{Mook|s}} species in Apollomon's army. [[AllThereInTheManual Expanded universe material]] bills the species as ferocious warriors with honourable spirits. Related is Bearmon, Grizzmon's lesser Child-level incarnation who takes the form of a bear cub, also appearing in the ''Frontier'' movie and ''Xros Wars''.
** ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'': A WakeUpCallBoss from halfway through the manga's run was Callismon, said to be the product of exposing an aforementioned Grizzmon to [[LEGOGenetics a sample of]] [[OlympusMons Arcadimon's]] data. The result was an enormous bear of immense power with a HandCannon, providing the first real challenge to Taichi and Zero in a very long time.
* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasThreeVisionarySwordsmen'' have the heroes (their AlternateSelf in the DreamWorld, anyway) Nobitania, Giantosu and Sunemisu attacked by a ''huge'' bear the size of a horse-carriage in the forest. Subverted when it turns out the bear is the father of a cub Nobitania rescued a day earlier, who quickly comes out and stops the bear from attacking. The bear quickly becomes the heroes' companion afterwards, escorting them long enough until they reach the Dragon's Cavern.
* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': When [[SquishyWizard Pop]] and [[BareFistedMonk Maam]] are washed ashore following a HopelessBossFight against [[BigBad Vearn]], with Maam passing out from exhaustion after swimming ashore while carrying Pop, whose magic power is entirely spent, Pop wakes up to find a ferocious-looking grizzly bear. Pop is prepared to fight the bear to the death, and the bear raises its claw... only to roar while waving its arm around without attacking, with [[FunnyAnimal Chu]] showing up soon thereafter. [[SubvertedTrope It turns out Chu had defeated the bear off-screen earlier, and then sent out the bear to help search for the heroes.]] Pop is immensely relieved upon discovering this fact.
-->'''Pop''': Crazy mouse... you scared me...
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': While visiting a lake house, Shigure playfully claims its the kind of place where [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]] would show up. When Kyo asks who "Jason" is, Shigure messes with him by telling him it's a new species of bear, which Kyo and Tohru are both gullible enough to believe right away. Later, when Tohru, Yuki and Kyo see bear tracks while out on a walk, they all assume the worst, though no bears ever actually show up and Yuki points out that "Jason" isn't actually a kind of bear.
-->'''Yuki:''' Just so you know, Jason isn't a bear, he's a character from a horror movie.\\
'''Kyo:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint So there's a bear in a horror movie! What do I care!?]]
* General Olivier Armstrong's BadassArmy in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is nicknamed the "Briggs Bears". And although she's PandaingToTheAudience and adorable, Shao May has one bite for such a tiny thing.
* In ''Anime/FutakoiAlternative'' a loan shark walks around with a polar bear for some extra muscle.
* The most infamous straight example in anime or manga would be ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin''. The primary nemeses are bears. The leader bear, Akakabuto, is an ungodly huge, strong and malicious bear with one eye.
** The manga of its successor ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' does this too... though later in the series. The main bear they fight is an Akakabuto {{Expy}} hybrid bear who [[spoiler:kills GB]].
** ''Ginga: The Last Wars'' (the final Ginga arc) has a bear become the BigBad once more: Monsoon, a son of Akakabuto hell-bent on dominating Ohu just as his father tried to do nearly fifteen years ago. Not only is he using his fellow bears as soldiers, but he also starts recruiting dogs too.
* Bears have been among the deadliest things in ''Manga/GoldenKamuy''. Of course, they [[PlotArmor can't]] take out [[MadeOfIron Sugimoto the Immortal]].
* ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' ''starts'' with the main character fighting a bear twice his size -- and several moments later it shows that his sister has beaten ''[[AlwaysSomeoneBetter an even larger one]]''.
* One of the most famous scenes in ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'' has Takamura ''fighting'' against an angry bear to save his own life, after Ippo and the other Kamogawa boxers ran away from it when all of them were training in the mountains. Takamura actually ''wins'' against the bear in a hilarious and awesome moment. Despite that, Takamura spares the bear's life after he sees it's actually a MamaBear with two cubs crying for it. The whole incident leaves Takamura with three giant scars on his chest and gaining him the title "Bear Slayer" after the thing hits the news. It also doubles with the RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun trope, as Takamura never shies away from reminding others that ''he beat a goddamn bear''.
* Bizarrely drawn (and bizarrely voiced...seriously, they emit some kind of ''screech'' instead of growling) bears shows up several times in ''Anime/HareGuu''. [[spoiler:Actually, this is counted as normal for this anime.]]
* Inverted in ''Manga/HaruhiChan''. In one episode, Tsuruya claims that she once defeated a bear.
* Almost played straight in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', during a school hiking trip, one of the groups is terrorized by a huge bear. Which is then turned into a pet by Isumi.
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'' it is played down. Early in the plot, a common bear gets a splinter from the Shikon no Tama, and turns into a giant bear monster. However, [[BigBad Naraku]] easily defeats him, and finally steals the jewel splinter.
** In a later episode, Sango fights a bear youkai all by herself. Granted, she is a [[BadassNormal powerful fighter]], but it is still a world in which {{youkai}} are usually much more powerful than humans.
* In ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'', after training in the mountains, Naeka feels as though she could take on a bear. She finds herself staring down a growling grizzly moments later, courtesy of Kogarashi. Turns out she's not as ready as she thought.
* A similar incident occurs in ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''. Kenichi, annoyed by his training in the mountains, throws a rock at what he ''thinks'' is his eldest master secretly watching him. It turns out to be, you guessed it, a bear. Despite being a fan of How-To books, Kenichi does ''exactly'' the wrong things in trying to escape this particular bear.
* While ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' is training for his match with Warsman, Mari-chan is attacked by a bear and he has to save her. It puts him in the Palo Special, which he counters with a Kinniku Buster.
* In ''Anime/KoihimeMusou'''s HotSpringsEpisode, Rinrin comes across a bear that she thinks is a [[PetBabyWildAnimal little cub she raised when she was a kid]]. It isn't. Cue fleeing from an angry bear.
* ''LightNovel/KumaKumaKumaBear'' features light-hearted examples with the protagonist Yuna wearing what is effectively superpowered, bear-themed onesie pajamas that come with two fluffy, adorable bear familiars, named Kumakyuu and Kumayuru. All three of them are still ''extremely'' dangerous with physical ''or'' magical attacks, they hand out {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s to anyone they face, and almost drive the predators around a city to extinction. Apex predators indeed.
* In ''Manga/MyHeavenlyHockeyClub'', the hockey club runs afoul of a bear during a trip in the woods... and it makes a strong connection with Hana. Eventually, they try to teach it to play field hockey so they can use it as a goalie in an upcoming game... but contrary to what they'd hoped, it's immediately noticed to be a bear and carted off, perpetuating the RunningGag of the team never getting to actually play a single game.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', a flashback shows a young Karin being threatened by an almost comically-oversized bear while her teammates are nowhere to be found. Sasuke then comes by and drop-kicks it.
** We later see more of them on the island Killer Bee and A trained on including one with [[EyepatchOfPower an eyepatch]]. Bee apparently spends some of his "vacation" time ''sumo-wrestling them''.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** The magical world arc takes the MamaBear to literal levels, having a bear named Mama serve as the ApronMatron in charge of Ako, Akira, and Natsumi. She beats up anyone who dares abuse the girls serving under her.
** Earlier in the series, Negi along with {{Ninja}} Kaede (only he was scared) are chased through the woods by a bear while carrying a giant cookable mushroom.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'', being as fond of AnimalMotifs as it is, of course, has some:
** The original Seven Warlords of the Sea all have an animal theme. Bartholomew Kuma's is, [[MeaningfulName naturally]], a bear. Both times he's appeared to antagonize the Straw Hats, things went south ''fast'' for the heroes. However, Kuma can also be a subversion, [[spoiler:the first time appeared Zoro was able to appeal to Kuma's honor to be allowed to sacrifice himself in place of Luffy. In the Sabaody Islands, Kuma's arrival was what saved the Straw Hats, despite initial appearances]].
** We also get Kumacy, Perona's giant zombie teddy bear. He shows up in the middle of Usopp's fight with Perona -- that's already going pretty badly -- and delivers a nasty NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that forces the sniper to [[TookALevelInBadAss take a level in bad ass]] just to survive it.
** One of Trafalgar Law's crew members is a bear in a jumpsuit. [[IKnowKarate It knows kung fu]].
** In the flashback to their childhood, Ace has begun caring for Luffy after the later got mauled almost to death by a bear.
** A Bear Zoan-type Devil Fruit, however, is notably absent. ''Yet''.
* ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'' starts with a young boy getting mauled by a bear while picking mushrooms in the forest. And then the [[{{gendercide}} Redface Pox]] hits his family and spreads throughout Japan, greatly reducing the male population. Generations later, researchers learn that bears are carriers for the Redface Pox and that hunters protect themselves with age-old traditions.
* The [[FinalBoss last villain]] encountered in ''Manga/OumagadokiDoubutsuen'', Shikuma, was cursed by a Bear Spirit like Isana and Shiina. As a result, he's a grotesque half-man half-bear hybrid with huge, clawed paws and a bear muzzle on an otherwise human face. Most notably, he was the toughest enemy ever fought by Shiina, and that includes Isana, a ''whale man''.
* Senri in ''Manga/PlusAnima''. Especially when [[spoiler:his eyepatch comes off on a large mountain and he starts attacking everyone]]. The only way it stopped was [[spoiler:by both ThePowerOfFriendship and Cooro putting his EyepatchOfPower back on]].
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** Ursaring seem to show up whenever the anime needs a menacing wild Pokémon to put the heroes in danger. Oh yeah, did we mention that [[FromBadToWorse Ursarings can fire lasers (Hyper Beam) from their mouths?]]
** Subverted -- sort of -- in an episode of the ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Gold and Silver'' series. In this case, the bad news came from a Teddiursa, a cute-looking bear cub that stole food and blamed it on other Pokemon. At the end of the episode, it evolved into an Ursaring at which point it could no longer use its cuteness to steal food.
*** Played painfully (and we do mean ''painful'') in one episode where the gang had to pass through a forest with a dozen or so Ursaring in the middle of ''mating season'', with '''no''' tolerance for intruders.
** [[StopHavingFunGuys Paul's]] Ursaring exemplifies this more than any other specimen on the show. Almost [[TheJuggernaut NOTHING]] can even slow it down, and anything that DOES seemingly work on it invariably ends up making it angry, and consequently stronger. On top of all that it has the ability [[CriticalStatusBuff Guts]]. When it comes out, there's little Ash can do but gawk in horror as it annihilates his Pokemon.
** In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'', Team Rocket manages to befriend a wild Bewear. A huge bear that resembles a costumed mascot. Well, "Befriend" isn't the correct term as it seems to be [[MamaBear overprotective of them]], [[AndCallHimGeorge to the point of being too overprotective]]. It can tear down entire forests by ''accident'' when overexcited, and when actually pissed off it took out an Ultra Beast with zero trouble.
* Sherwood the Monster Princess (not Hime, her sister) from ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'' has blood-immortal empowered Panda bears as her Servants. They have, for example, ripped to shreds an army of lesser vampires.
* Even ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' includes an unbearable example. While in the original manga, Ranma fought Cologne on the beach while she ''summoned a shark to assist her'', in the anime, the fight instead takes place in a mountain resort, where in an even more outlandish fashion, she creates an ice sculpture of a bear that she can levitate and use to attack on a whim.
** When Ranma, Genma, and Soun need to retrieve the scroll of a DangerousForbiddenTechnique from a women's {{Onsen| Episode}} before [[TricksterMentor Happosai]] does, they have the bright idea of painting Genma's cursed form (a 7-foot-tall panda bear) to resemble a huge, voracious bear and scare off the women. Unfortunately, the only paint they had on hand was ''white''...
--->"[[MisplacedWildlife Who ever heard of polar bears in Japan]]?"\\
Cue the beatings.
** In the manga, Ryū Kumon is introduced by soundly beating up an escaped bear that was attacking Nodoka (before Ranma could even intervene).
** Genma himself turns into a giant panda when wet and was quite the member of the AbusiveParents "club", even from before he was cursed...
* One of the prominent background members of the Dead Moon Circus in the 90s ''Anime/SailorMoon'' series is a blue-skinned ballerina who happens to have a giant, smiling bear head with mismatched eyes that never blink. Her expression ''never'' changes.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': Some of the training scenes feature fighting bears with their bare hands as a means of showing how dangerous it is.
* ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'':
** The animal avatar that represents Musubi is a bear. Musubi herself is the {{Determinator}} type, and the Bear-Fist is one of her attacks.
** For Minato, [[{{Pun}} Everything's Worse With Bares]].
* TheBeastmaster Maeda Matsu in the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' anime, in a fit of temper, ultimately calls up a bear to attack her brother-in-law Keiji. Keiji is already making a hasty retreat and the bear attacks Matsu's husband Toshiie instead (though Toshiie comes out of it more or less fine since the whole thing is played for laughs).
* Subverted with ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe''. Shirokuma is the friendly polar bear owner of the titular cafe, Panda is a regular customer who prefers the lazy lifestyle, and even the BadassBiker Grizzly, is a genuinely nice grizzly bear who just has a low tolerance for foolishness.
* Speaking of Arakawa's manga, this trope is played for laughs in ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', when a Beware Of Bears sign in the woods makes our hero so nervous that he mistakes an approaching horse for a bear.
* In ''Manga/{{Softenni}}'', the girls run into a bear about three times the size of an average human in the mountains. Kurusu not only fights it to a draw (while naked), she [[FluffyTamer lets the bear give the team a ride up the mountain]].
* Holo of ''Manga/SpiceAndWolf'' finds out that her hometown was destroyed by a gigantic bear spirit.
* In ''Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes'', while searching for a lost girl, Sherlock comes across a bear. She tries to play nice with it, but this is a bear that can ''uppercut''. That the bear knocks her into the sky and off the cliff is a major catalyst for the episode. When Sherlock, Kokoro, and Airi come across that same bear later, it's still almost invincible.
* ''Manga/TonoToIssho'': Azai Nagamasa fears that UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga will send a bear in place of his sister Oichi as a wife. He then imagines Oichi as a dominatrix in charge of a bear army.
* The enormous Asian black bear in ''LightNovel/UnlockCity'' that escapes from the zoo and gets trapped inside the local high school. It ends up slaughtering some of the characters, including one girl that was straight up ''torn to bits''.
* ''Manga/TheWorldIsMine'' has an overall bear motif: A giant bear-like creature called Hakumadon is attacking Japan, rampaging through whole towns and turning anyone who encounters it into slurry ("My daughter followed my mother into the woods and they both came back ''in a bucket!''"). One of the two MadBomber {{Serial Killer}}s, [[ChaoticEvil Mon]], always carries a stuffed teddy bear which is implied to be the only friend he had as a child. When Mon encounters Hakumadon, his partner Toshi dies and he gets shredded... but both miraculously survive, the only evidence being Mon's slashed teddy bear. When Mon and Hakumadon meet ''again'', another character thinks he sees Mon once more getting killed, but again he survives. A few characters wonder if Hakumadon is a god sent to [[GaiasVengeance reclaim the earth]] or that it and Toshi+Mon are in a "killing contest". [[spoiler:In reality, Hakumadon is an American shock-and-awe weapon/robot that went out of control -- imagine the Big Dog rig but three stories tall, covered in shaggy fur with yard-long teeth and claws.]] Appears to have been inspired by the "Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident" (see Real Life).
* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'': When the revenant warrior Goemon Ishikawa TurnsRed he transforms into a huge, armored Bear-Man armed with dual sais and FuumaShuriken.
* The central premise of ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' is that bears can take human form and infiltrate society, and they often devour other characters violently despite their adorable designs. They're used as an allegory for Japan's views on homosexuality and contrasting that view with the country's large quantity of YuriGenre series. Director Creator/KunihikoIkuhara has stated that bears tend to be seen in real life as predatory dangers but are often portrayed as cutesy innocents in pop culture, which is a clear parallel to Japan's view of lesbians versus how they're depicted in anime and manga.
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