History Main / UrsineAliens

* From ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' the Ob'enn who look like four-foot bipedal koalas. Technologically advanced, religiously xenocidal and frequently referred to as the Psycho-bears.

* ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon'': Long John Siver is depicted as a bear-like, humanoid {{cyborg}}.

* The preschool show ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' features an episode where the children disagree on what game to play: one wants to pretend they are bears, while the others want to play astronauts. They compromise that they will be astronauts and visit a planet inhabited by alien bears.

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* ''Manga/OnePiece'' features robot ursine aliens on the moon, who were left there by an ancient civilization who decided to move themselves to the main planet.

* ''ComicBook/VenomSpaceKnight'': Pik Rollo resembles a massive panda bear with a lemur-like tail, but is actually a vicious criminal.

* ''Literature/TheHelmsmanSaga'' features a civilization of walking bears (expies of Russia).
* The Literature/HumanxCommonwealth features the Ulru-Ujurrians, who look like large bears.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's story "No Connection" features a civilization of bears which [[AnimalIsTheNewMan evolved on a post-apocalyptic Earth]].
* The Bulrathi in the ''Literature/LineOfDelirium'' series were more-or-less directly lifted from the ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion'' series.
** [[Creator/SergeyLukyanenko Lukyanenko]] did expand on their culture, considering the version he used from the first ''Master of Orion'', which didn't provide much background. In the books, the Bulrathi are a ProudWarriorRaceGuy culture, who value hand-to-hand (or paw, if you want to be technical) combat over standard warfare. They also have [[VocalDissonance falsetto voices]], making them good tenors (when they're not ripping your head off). In fact, their obsession with direct combat leads to them developing a method to defeat the [[SiliconBasedLife Silicoids]]' natural DeflectorShields (most races just shoot at them) using their high-pitched voices in a manner similar to how a singer can shatter a crystal glass with her voice. They are also stated to be scavengers, preferring to eat something that has been dead for days. In terms of clothing, they generally wear skirts (sometimes metal skirts), since their tough hides can handle almost anything an unarmed human can do to them. A human gift shop on their homeworld has a display of "authentic" Bulrathi armor, except the experienced protagonist immediately assumes it's fake, since it covers far too much body for the HonorBeforeReason Bulrathi.
* In ''Literature/TheHost2008'' one of the alien planets that Wanda has previously been on is one nicknamed "bear." They have four hearts and long claws for weapons and to carve ice sculptures.
* In Creator/CJCherryh's ''Literature/TheFadedSun'' trilogy, the companion animals of the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mri]] were the dusei (singular "dus"), bearlike creatures who were similar to one-owner dogs and somewhat empathic to their masters through touch.
* The Pila in David Brin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' universe are {{Heavy Worlder}}s who look like gray four-foot teddy bears with short snouts and funny hairs around their eyes, and their voices are so high-pitched that they need special equipment for many species (including humans) to even hear them. They are famously fanatical and conservative: they hate humans and won their independence as a species by declaring a holy war on the species that had uplifted them to sentience (with the approval of the patrons' patrons). They also treat their indentured species, the Pring, very harshly.
* the Shandi from ''Literature/{{Strata}}'' are part bear, part walrus and generally extremely polite and civilized, aside from their habit of fighting tooth-and-claw duels for things like government research grants...where the loser gets eaten.
* Creator/HarryTurtledove's "The Road Not Taken" features an invasion of Earth by the Roxolani, a a space-faring race of teddy bear-like conquerors.
* The Llyano in Creator/MikhailAkhmanov's ''Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark'' are a race of primitive furry hunters (despite their [[CanonDiscontinuity early references painting them as a hostile interstellar empire]]), whose only contact with the outside universe comes in the form of trade posts. They normally walk upright, but, when hunting in the woods, it's much easier for them to move on all fours. Being at the hunter-gatherer stage, they're not likely to become a space-faring race anytime soon. They don't really fight among themselves, and their main enemies are a number of predatory species.
* Parodied in ''Literature/EarthTheBook'', where images show some of the human ideas of what aliens might look like. Among them were [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]] (with the "Like a bear" subtitle) and Series/{{Alf}} (with the "Like a gay bear" subtitle).

* The Brutes from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' combine various traits of gorillas and bears (perhaps with a bit of rhino thrown in).
* In Guile and Abel's ending in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'', Pandora's box summons a race of aliens that look like small blue bears. Abel thinks they're adorable; Guile, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere patience run out, leaves.]]
* The [[ShoutOut Kulrathi]] from ''VideoGame/StarDrive''.

* ''VideoGame/BattleBlockTheater'' has a gigantic bear wearing star pasties living in space [[spoiler: who is shot down at the end of the game by a huge laser coming from an infernal top hat]]. Naturally, nothing of this makes any sense at all, despite what the narrator says.
* The Tediz from ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' are full-on teddy bear [[ThoseWackyNazis fascists]].

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/MuzzyInGondoland'' is an alien who looks somewhat like a bipedal green bear.
* In the parody of ''Franchise/StarWars'' done on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', the Ewoks, who in the source material are only vaguely ursine, appear as literal little bears. This is because they're being played by Tim the Bear from ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', along with other anthropomorphic bears.
* Two of those were featured in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', trying to capture a runaway alien worm. The bears and the worm were apparently the pets of a gigantic [[RubberForeheadAlien rubber-forehead alien]] little girl called "Tulip".

* Likewise, ''WesternAnimation/MightyOrbots'' also features an episode with a planet of Ewok [[{{Expy}} expies]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' has the Ursinoids, furry humanoids with bear-like snouts and fangs. A male and a female, both of whom work as miners on the planet Motherlode, appear in the episode "Mudd's Passion".

* ''ComicBook/VenomSpaceKnight'': Pik Rollo resembles a massive [[PandaingToTheAudience panda bear]] with a lemur-like tail, but is actually a vicious criminal.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' features ''robot'' ursine aliens on the moon, who were left there by an ancient civilization who decided to move themselves to the main planet.

* Pik Rollo from ''ComicBook/VenomSpaceKnight'' resembles a massive [[PandaingToTheAudience panda bear]] with a lemur-like tail, but is actually a vicious criminal.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: While they are strange colors, mostly green and yellow, the Ytirflirk aliens are giant fur covered lumbering aliens with definite ursine elements to their snarls. This is highlighted when one of their ships appears in Siberia just after a Polar Bear is shown.

* Long John Silver in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' is depicted as a bear-like, humanoid {{cyborg}}.

* In Creator/JohnHemry's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' book ''Invincible'', they reconstruct the aliens that attacked them on sight and to Geary's surprise they were attacked by "teddy bears." They discover the creatures are herbivores and decide that the "teddy" is inapproriate, so they dub them "bear-cows".

* The Llyano in Creator/MikhailAkhmanov's ''Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark'' are a race of primitive furry hunters (despite their [[DisContinuity early references painting them as a hostile interstellar empire]]), whose only contact with the outside universe comes in the form of trade posts. They normally walk upright, but, when hunting in the woods, it's much easier for them to move on all fours. Being at the hunter-gatherer stage, they're not likely to become a space-faring race anytime soon. They don't really fight among themselves, and their main enemies are a number of predatory species.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's story "No Connection" features a civilization of bears which evolved on a postapocaliptic Earth.

* The [[ShoutOut Kulrathi]] from VideoGame/StarDrive

Another possible reason for the presence of this trope is the apparent association between bears and stars, based on the famous Ursa Major/Ursa Minor (Greater Bear/Smaller Bear respectively) constellations. Also consider there is a concept in astrobiology about the ditances at which planets could feasibly support life called the [[Literature/{{Goldilocks}} '''Goldilocks''' Zone]], which indirectly references bears, too.

Another possible reason for the presence of this trope is the apparent association between bears and stars, based on the famous Ursa Major/Ursa Minor (Greater Bear/Smaller Bear respectively) constellations.

* Technically the Ursas of the ''Terracide'' setting (6th edition Hero System) aren't aliens, but genetically-engineered humans. But since they have bear DNA spliced into their genomes, they're close enough to count.
* The Urseminites from ''TabletopGame/{{Bulldogs}}'' are adorable little roly-poly teddy-bear-things that are generally presumed to have been genetically engineered as children's playmates. [[GoneHorriblyWrong They are an entire species of psychopaths]] with odious personal habits.
* The Kleibor from the old Pacesetter [=RPG=] ''Star Ace'' are usually good-natured ''psychic'' bears hailing from a mostly-icy planet under the thumb of the setting's EvilEmpire. They can be player characters, which can be handy because of their racial gift for picking up new languages from native speakers in a matter of minutes (in addition to whatever individual other powers they may have) even if their mitt-like hands limit their manual dexterity.
* Subverted in ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'', where the first playable ursines in the game are ordinary bears [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted to sapience with advanced technology]].
* The Bjornvir from ''TabletopGame/TheChroniclesOfAeres'' are a race of [[BeastMan Wilderkind]] noted for their bear-like features. Alongside the [[WolfMan Ulvir]], they were the front line in defending the [[TheLostWoods Gruncrist Forest]] from the invasion of orcs and goblins, tearing great swathes through the ranks of the invaders with their fangs and claws.

* In ''Literature/TheHost'' one of the alien planets that Wanda has previously been on is one nicknamed "bear." They have four hearts and long claws for weapons and to carve ice sculptures.