Line #52 YMMV/CareBears


1	[[index]]
2	!!Incarnations
3	* ''YMMV/CareBearsInTheLandWithoutFeelings''
4	* ''YMMV/CareBears1980s''
5	* ''YMMV/TheCareBearsMovie''
6	* ''YMMV/CareBearsMovieIIANewGeneration''
7	* ''YMMV/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland''
8	* ''YMMV/CareBearsJourneytoJokeALot''
9	* ''YMMV/CareBearsBigWishMovie''
10	* ''YMMV/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot''
11	* ''YMMV/CareBearsWelcomeToCareALot''
12	* ''YMMV/CareBearsAndCousins''
13	* ''YMMV/CareBearsUnlockTheMagic''
14	[[/index]]
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16	!!Other
17	* AccidentalInnuendo: "That's it, Playful Heart! We'll make them laugh so hard their grum''PINESS'' will disappear!"
18	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Many fans have noticed that the CareBearStare is much more disturbing when viewed from the opposite side, as it essentially ''[[HeelFaceBrainwashing forces]]'' [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul you to be]] [[StepfordSmiler happy and nice]]. And they don't just do it to villains either - at one point, they forced it on [[TheWoobie Grumpy Bear]], ''[[NightmareFuel even as he was begging them not to]]''. In that light, it almost seems like MindRape. Cracked.com [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20380_5-horrifying-details-hidden-in-classic-childrens-cartoons.html?wa_user1=1&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=feature_module picked up on this as well]].
19	* {{Anvilicious}}: Due to being a kid's show, it has a good chunk of these.
20	* CommonKnowledge: Because they're a bunch of cute and colorful bears, it's easy to make the assumption that the Care Bears are primarily aimed towards girls and many tend to view them as such (leading to them getting hit by the GirlShowGhetto mentality). However, this is not and has almost never been the case, as the Care Bears actually lack a specific target demographic, being mostly aimed towards both young boys and girls as far back as the 1980s. The fact that there are a [[GenderEqualEnsemble roughly equal number between the male characters and female characters]] should be a giveaway towards this.
21	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
22	** For the bears, Grumpy Bear, who is the most popular bear of the cast, even amongst people who otherwise dislike the franchise.
23	** Despite not being as prominent as the main Care Bears and having been DemotedToExtra since the eighties (until ''Care Bears & Cousins'' briefly brought them back to the limelight), the Care Bear Cousins are extremely popular amongst fans, with some preferring them over the actual Care Bears, in part because the Cousins all had distinct designs and personalities, compared to the bears who have the same body types and less distinct personalities at a glance.
24	*** For specific cousins, Brave Heart Lion due to him being a more proactive leader than Tenderheart Bear and for providing comic relief.
25	*** Bright Heart Raccoon also qualifies. He was actually upgraded to being a part of the main CastHerd in the Nelvana series' final seasons.
26	*** Gentle Heart Lamb also has her own set of fans, due to being a female sheep and the friendliest of the Care Bear Cousins. While she alongside Loyal Heart Dog get the least-amount of focus in animated media (especially in the ''Nelvana'' incarnation) compared to Brave Heart Lion, Bright Heart Raccoon, and Lotsa Heart Elephant. Older fans wished she gained more focus or her own dedicated episode, especially since Gentle Heart was more prominent in the books focused on the Cousins.
27	* FirstInstallmentWins: The original '80s incarnation of the Care-Bears is by far the most widely known and popular depiction of them amongst general audiences. Likewise, the original ten Care-Bears[[note]]Tenderheart Bear, Cheer Bear, Friend Bear, Grumpy Bear, Bedtime Bear, Birthday Bear, Good Luck Bear, Sunshine Bear, Wish Bear and Lots-o-Love Bear[[/note]] are the most iconic members of the group and tend to get the most focus in adaptations and merchandise, with the other Care Bears being far less known outside of fans and collectors.
28	* HilariousInHindsight:
29	** After the film ''{{Film/Braveheart}}'' came out, jokes between that movie and Brave Heart Lion were inevitable.
30	** In the early book ''The Witch Down the Street'', when the girl who's the main character of the book, Melissa, meets Funshine Bear, who tells her that "Share the fun and you get twice as much; that's what I always say." Melissa quips "You must be a share bear." It wouldn't be long before a character named Share Bear would be added to the series.
31	* HollywoodPudgy: Lotsa Heart Elephant: Even though her body type is identical to all the other Care Bears characters, she still causes earthquakes when she runs.
32	* PopularWithFurries: It's a popular series with bear fans. It's not hard to make {{Sailor Earth}}s as well, which also helps its popularity.
33	* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: The 2004 ''Meet the Care Bears'' CD. It's loaded with songs that are all of a very cheerful nature, especially the last song, "With a Great Big Care Bear Hug."
34	* SweetnessAversion: The franchise is infamous for its light-hearted tone and bright colors, but as a series that spans so long and with so many different incarnations, this is highly variable based on which incarnation you're watching. Part of the reason [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Grumpy Bear]] is considered an EnsembleDarkHorse is ''because'' he's the only one amongst the good guys who avoids the saccharine characterization the other bears have.
35	* ViewerGenderConfusion:
36	** As described at the trope entry, it's often been unclear which bears belong to which gender over the years. The 2007 line is the first to specifically delineate gender.
37	** Seriously! When the Creator/StarComics comic adaptation was translated to Norwegian, Cheer was consistently referred to as male in the translation. ''Nobody noticed.''
38	** And Love-A-Lot was male in one of the books.
39	** And Friend Bear is referred to as male in ''The Trouble With Timothy'', despite being consistently female elsewhere in the franchise.
40	** Good Luck Bear has gone all over the place with voice style changes.
41	** Lotsa Heart Elephant apparently gets hit with this trope. In the 80s, he's a male, but in the 2000s is referred to as a female.
42	** Swift Heart Rabbit's gender seems to vary. She's called the White Rabbit's niece at one point, but her tomboyish behavior suggests otherwise. In another episode, she is referred to as male.
43	** Cozy Heart Penguin also has a varying gender. Thankfully, ''Care Bears And Cousins'' explicitly refers to her as female, but [[CrossDressingVoices she's voiced by a male in that series]], definitely not helping her case.
44	** The ''Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot'' series seems to be trying to specifically prevent this by giving the male characters distinctly deep male voices and the female characters ones that definitely sound feminine.
45	** This is raised up to eleven in the Mexican Spanish dubs of the films, when ''all the Bears and Cousins'' are addressed as males, despite most of them were voiced by [[CrossDressingVoices females]]. This is especially egregious in the first dub of the second film, when True Heart Bear and Noble Heart Horse are addressed as males, causing the accidental side effect of turning them into a [[HoYay gay couple]]. The second dubbed version fixes this oversight though, and the South American dubs of the rest of the franchise outright avoids this trope.
46	** Some of the earliest books of the franchise seem to go out of the way to avoid referring to any of the bears by gender, instead using their names whenever possible and using "its" when a pronoun must be used. ''The Witch Down the Street'' is an odd example - it features Love-a-Lot Bear, Birthday Bear and Funshine Bear, yet Birthday Bear is the only one referred to using gender pronouns.
47	* TheWoobie: Grumpy Bear, who is charged with helping grumpy kids with their problems and has done it so much that he's become grumpy himself.

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