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"There are rumors of a large bear on Rook Island that cannot be killed. Some say it is covered with scars from those who have tried to kill it... and failed. Others claim that the scars come from eczema. You be the judge."
— Agent Willis' Survival Guide, Far Cry 3
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    Action-Adventure 
  • Assassin's Creed III: Liberation: One of the Lady persona missions has the main character trapped in a confined space with an angry bear. Only her wits and her hidden blades can save her (meaning that you have to partake in a quick-time event).
  • Disaster: Day of Crisis had a bear as part of the many pre-release screenshot collections. And that bear means business. It's not your ordinary bear. It's a bear that's Made of Iron.
  • Frogger's Journey: The Forgotten Relic: The first boss is a bear that lives in the Cave and causes earthquakes by smashing the ground with a giant club.
  • Ghost of Tsushima: Bears aren't particularly aggressive, but will utterly waste you if you're not careful. They'll also attack Mongols, and can usually take out three or four before they go down.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Bears are the strongest animals that aren't explicitly part of Calamity Ganon's monsters. Alongside wolves, they're also some of the few animals that will actively try to kill you if they spot you (as opposed to at most charging you down if you're in front of them and then running for it, as most large animals do). They hit hard and take lots of hits to kill, and the Hyrule Compendium states that the stronger of the two bear variants is considered to be the most dangerous wild animal in Hyrule. You can also ride them around, although stables will unsurprisingly refuse to let you register them.
  • Paper Mario: The Origami King: The Ice Vellumental resembles an immense polar bear, and is the most technically complex and challenging of the Vellumentals to beat.
  • Psychonauts: Whispering Rocks Summer Camp has a slight bear problem. Specifically, telekinetic bears.
  • Red Dead Redemption:
    • The Tall Trees area in the northeast is populated by large grizzly bears. While not invulnerable (as with every animal, you can kill and skin them), they can fuck your shit up quite easily. Whether or not they're more dangerous than cougars is up for debate, but they're certainly scary. And if you kill one bear, watch your back — most likely, there's more to come.
    • It turns From Bad to Worse in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, as they are now zombie bears.
    • Brumas. This golden bear is much bigger than any other bear, and can take two headshots from the most powerful gun in the game before going down.
    • To make this harder, to actually get the most powerful weapon in the game you need to kill a bear with a knife. Thankfully, you only need to kill a bear with the knife. You can use any weapon you want to bring it down to "can be killed by a single stab with a knife" health. And you can also use your knife on horseback by repeatedly riding past the bear and stabbing it until it falls.
    • Red Dead Redemption II: Bears return and they're worse for several reasons, chief among them being that they'll cause your horse to panic and buck you as it flees, leaving you helpless and on the ground as a bear charges you. And those are normal bears. There's also the Legendary Bharati Grizzly Bear, which is a huge, scarred, and very, very angry grizzly you can track and kill. It will not go down the first time you shoot it. It will almost certainly not go down the second time you shoot it. Most likely, it will get close enough to start mauling you and you'll need to defend yourself with a knife in order to survive long enough to shoot it again. But once you kill it, you can have its hide made into the Bear Hunter outfit. Averted with black bears, which will flee when they see you and are sometimes prey to cougars. It's played straight, however, for the player's horse, which will shy away from the black bear just as it would from a snake.
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider has Lara fighting ravenous bears looking to eat her, in a Mythology Gag to earlier titles in the series.
  • ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal: Ice fairies mostly appear as winged polar bears. If you run into one, you better hope you are prepared because ice is one of the strongest elements in the game, and their offensive spells come with nasty side effects.

    Adventure 
  • Brain Dead 13: In one death scene in the Trophy Room, a bear rug comes to life and mauls Lance down to the ground, and there is a Discretion Shot in which his body parts (green ooze, bones, eyeballs, baseball cap) fly over the place.
  • Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern: One puzzle is about helping drawing of a caveman get rid of a drawing of a bear by throwing drawings of rocks. Making a mistake causes the bear to attack the person. Solving this puzzle allows Arok to get rid of a real-live bear napping in his path.
  • Fallen London: The Neath apparently seems to have exactly one bear, imported from the surface by the local circus... a bear with an apparent taste for honey that managed to get into the Prisoner's Honey stocks. Which means the bear is entirely and constantly blitzed out on a drug that makes it fade in and out of the Dream Land of Parabola, altering its surroundings wherever it goes and chasing people in their nightmares. You only encounter the Honey-Mazed Bear in the very late game, and hunting it down is one of the more difficult Dangerous tasks the game lets you undertake; to the point the first time you do it raises the stat's cap.
  • King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!: A bear found attacking a beehive can kill you (and so can the bees). What is amusing is to see the bear kill Graham with one swipe of its paw. Since the bear's paw is closed, it looks like it kills you with a punch to the face.
  • The Perils of Akumos: The whole space station is trying to kill you. What next? Oh. A bear attacks you.
  • Syberia: Kate encounters a brown bear while in the hunting cabin, trapping her in there. Apparently, giving it its favorite fish satisfies its hunger.

    Arcade Games 

    Edutainment Games 
  • The Oregon Trail: Bears are always eating party members, especially if you try to hunt them.
  • Spelling Jungle: The sequel Spelling Blizzard features Polar Bears, expys of the lions of Spelling Jungle, who guard their den fiercely and charge Wali if he gets too close, but retreat when he gets far enough away. Unlike the lions, they can be bribed.

    Fighting Games 
  • Battle K-Road has a bear as a tough Final Boss.
  • Samurai Shodown: Nakoruru is almost killed by a bear in Rera's storyline intro if not for Rera taking over Nako's body. Nakoruru is hesitant to defend herself for two reasons; one is that in Real Life the bear is one of the Ainu's most holy animal (Nakoruru being Ainu) and the other is that Nakoruru is a friend to all living things and doesn't like to use violence. Rera apparently pulls a Hollow Ichigo and kills the bear after taking over Nako's body because she doesn't feel like dying. Rera is not a bad person, just a part of Nako that doesn't like how Nako normally behaves.
  • Sonic the Fighters: While Bark the Polar Bear is visually cuter than many examples on this page, he's still a heavyweight fighter whose slow punches are as powerful as others' combos.
  • Them's Fightin' Herds:
    • One of the Predators is a giant bear called Huggles. It's the final opponent in every character's arcade mode and, out of all the mook Predators, is the toughest of them to fight.
    • If playing with multiple players at the end of the Salt Mine run, one of the fighters can turn into one. The fights against the player-controlled Huggles is nearly impossible to beat with a single person, and it would normally take multiple players to bring it down. But it would honestly be easier to just keep running away until time runs out.

    First-Person Shooter 
  • Eternal Evil has a zombie bear boss Marcus fought when leaving the forest. Said bear was already a notorious killer animal even before it's zombification, and prior to the attack Marcus can come across an Apocalyptic Log in the form of a video camera depicting two hunters getting mauled by the animal.

    Hack & Slash 
  • Gauntlet: Dark Legacy: The player regularly fights against golems, stronger-than-normal enemies that take the form of humanoids built from various substances. Then you get to the Ice Domain, where the golems are replaced by giant, undead polar bears.
  • Knights of Valour have bears as a recurring enemy. There's only one of them in the first game, but they appear in larger numbers later on in the series.
  • The Wind Road has a gigantic Gobi Bear fought in a desert as a boss. Prior to said battle, you're in a tavern where the owner tells you to stay for the night because the bear hunts at dusk; you insist on leaving only to inevitably encounter said bear and kill it after a difficult boss fight.

    Interactive Fiction 
  • Dunnet: The bear on the forked road will kill you if you try to walk toward it.

    Metroidvanias 
  • Mystik Belle: The forest east of the school grounds is where you'll have to go to get one of the three items needed to repair the Walpurgisnacht brew. Just before the forest's entrance is a sign that reads '"West — Hagmore School of Witchcraft, Village of Lur. East — Death and Dismemberment."' Naturally, the forest is already host to several dangerous obstacles and fauna, such as raccoons and bees. But you'll eventually come across a bear. A Russian bear wearing a living ushanka while performing the Cossack squat dance, no less!
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps averts this with Baur, the ursine guardian of the eponymous Baur's Reach, whose only hindrance to Ori is obstructing the path to the Reach in his Endless Winter-induced hibernation. He later rescues Ori from an avalanche triggered by Shriek after the awakening of the Memory of the Forest, and thanks the former for restoring spring to the area.
  • Singular Stone has Wild Bear enemies, found at the East Forest. They're dangerous even in the late game because they move very fast, deal a lot of damage, and have high HP. Fortunately, they're gone to hibernate if you use Miku to turn the map into its snowing version.
  • The Sun at Night has giant Cyborg bears that serve as enemies.

    MMORPGs 
  • Achaea: In the Southern Vashnar mountains, there is a point where the traveller must decide between going south or southwest. Southwest is a safe path leading to the city of Cyrene. There is a small and easy to miss sign at the fork in the path, which reads "CAUTION: bears south". They're not friendly.
  • Guild Wars:
    • Bears are capturable as pets in the tutorial area of prophecies, although it's difficult and having one is considered a status symbol. They're also capturable in the main game but then are considered worse than common pets, because they have a special attack that does nothing but slow their attack speed. In the "Presearing" (tutorial) area of Prophecies, the capturable bear is the black bear (and they have an on-command skill to just interrupt said capture.) Brown bears and polar bears are available as common pets in Prophecies and Eye of the North, and there is a special variant of the polar bear known as a Jingle Bear available as a reward for a holiday quest in Eye of the North.
    • The Norn in Eye of the North can shapeshift into anthropomorphic bears as well. Whenever you talk to a hunter for the first time, they'll turn into one and attack. Additionally, there's the Nornbear, a corrupted version you have to kill, and whose brief existence inspires a Religion of Evil. Norn characters in Guild Wars 2 are able to replicate the shapeshifting. It also includes the Kodan, a race of permanently anthropomorphic bears who consider themselves the most enlightened race.
  • Kingdom of Loathing has bars in the Spooky Woods, but they're fairly weak monsters that are only a threat to absolute newbies. There are some straight examples, like the "clan of cave bars" players can encounter in the Hidden Temple (whose power and defense scale with yours up to a certain cap), or the heavily-armed Warbears that showed up for Crimbo 2013.
  • Mabinogi has bears in several flavors, and they're almost as tough as Ogres. Also, Tarlach is human only at night, becoming a bear by day. While he's not particularly violent, he constantly holds up the plot by Wangsting when you need info, sending you on Fetch Quests, and just not telling you the truth about what's going on. In part because he doesn't know the full story either.
  • R.O.H.A.N. Online: The first enemies you come across in Akhma Cave are Ursas, Warrior Ursas, Elder Ursas, and Ursa Mages. The weakest of them, the Ursas, start at level 20, but the most advanced Ursa types can easily go up to level 30. You will NEED a party in order to take these things (and Akhma Cave in general) on, because unless you're really high level, you WILL get eaten alive, particularly because the tougher ones like to mob you.
  • Vindictus throws a giant, pissed off polar bear at you in the "Dethrone the White Tyrant" mission of Hoarfrost Hollow, who is easily the toughest boss of that particular part of the game. And just for an encore, there's a Red Tyrant Optional Boss sometime after you get through with Hoarfrost Hollow which is even worse than the white one.
  • World of Warcraft:
    • Druids can take the form of a bear to become more effective tanks. As it can deal decent damage while tanking, this is arguably their strongest form. What really speaks to their intimidating capability is their ability to scare things into attacking them over the much more dangerous people nearby. A human might be forgiven for focusing on the bear trying to claw their face off over the mage prepping a fireball, but when you can make a 60 foot dragon see you as the most dangerous thing around, you are one scary bear.
    • Bears can also be tamed by hunters although, like the druid form, they are more suited for tanking than for causing damage.
    • "Special" mounts (i.e. mounts that are not available through normal faction vendors) tend to be bear-heavy, presumably the prestige of owning one:
      • The most (in)famous bear mount is the Amani War Bear. It could only be gotten as part of a level 70 raid instance, Zul'Aman, by killing four bosses and rescuing their hostages before time runs out and they are murdered. When Wrath of the Lich King was released and the level cap raised to 80, the Amani Bear was removed from the game so it would be a status symbol for the players dedicated enough to have gotten it at level 70.
      • A purple (rather than red) Palette Swap of the Amani War Bear called the Amani Battle Bear has since been introduced to allow players who missed out on the War Bear to get something similar after Zul'Aman was retooled as a Level 85 Heroic instance, and is still fairly difficult to get in the time limit (it requires downing the enemies and bosses as efficiently as possible without wiping). One of the four bosses happens to be a troll infused with the power of a bear spirit who can charge distant players (one-shotting anyone who has the debuff from his charge), and who can turn into a bear, increasing his damage done to the tank and giving him the ability to roar and silence players.
      • As the racial mount of the forest trolls, bears feature in associated raids and dungeons. Typically decorated with tiki masks, the tusks of something big and strong and even Shrunken Heads, the presence of green, muscular trolls riding bears is a sign that the enemy rider is an elite. The presence of these bears is usually a sign that things are about to get real. One boss in Zul'Aman is Nalorakk, a troll with the power of the bear loa, is a fearsome warrior and implied to be a Bad Boss, since he asks his minions who they're more scared of- the intruders or him.
      • Wrath of the Lich King also introduced an Armored Brown Bear mount available from the Dalaran mount vendor. It costs considerably more than the usual mount.
      • The reward for being part of the kills of every leader of the opposite faction, a feat that can require nearly a hundred organized players? A black war bear mount. Even better? Those bears were implemented in the closing days of Burning Crusade, during that brief period when mob levels (including faction leaders) were upped but players could not level yet. Despite (or because) of this, many top guilds actually got up at 4am to kill the faction leaders before WotLK came out. Despite the fact that killing one faction leader easily took 30 minutes because of the vast level gap. Bears are Serious Business.
      • The Hyldnir, a group of giant blue warrior women, ride polar bear mounts in battle, one of which you can receive as a rare reward from a daily quest, which itself can involve riding a fighting bear.
    • There is also a race of humanoid bears called Furbolgs in both World of Warcraft and Warcraft III. They are usually peaceful, shamanistic beings, but Demonic Corruption has been bad for many of them, turning them beastly and mindlessly violent. The presence of corrupted Furbolgs is usually lampshaded as a sign things are going badly for a region at large. When sane they admire the night elves' respect for nature and forest life and are thus old friends, and also hold the tauren in esteem due to their similar cultures. Any other race who wants their respect has to earn it.
      • One tribe of those fiercely guards a tunnel that connects between three zones, one of which can only be reached through that tunnel (and if you aren't a druid, you don't have easy access to another one). While it is possible to befriend them to the degree of them letting you pass with moderate effort, people who decide to skip that are in for one rough treatment when they try to run through the tunnel. Incidentally, two of the mentioned zones are crawling with other furbolgs and regular bears, as well.
    • Similarly, the Moonkin are a race created by the goddess Elune to protect her sacred shrines — they are half owl and half bear, to represent the wisest and strongest animals respectively. Druids can also assume their form in order to perform a caster DPS role.
    • Welcome Bears, a Beef Gate monster in the Western Plaguelands. Tirisfal Glades, a starting area, is directly adjacent to the Plaguelands, so unwitting low level characters were often mauled on wandering across the border. While the zone level has been significantly nerfed, they're still likely to kill the unwary.
    • Even that was one-upped by the Bear Reaver. Imagine a creature, wandering about the wilderness, that has the abilities of a Humongous Mecha demon that requires multiple characters at the level cap to kill, but with the graphic of a wild bear. According to the article, this was more dangerous than the demon itself. Making the humongous robot demon into a normal-sized bear made it more dangerous (mostly because it was harder to see coming).
    • Mists of Pandaria introduces the playable Pandaren. For those who don't know, Pandaren are humanoid panda martial artists that can kick your ass and may be the only race that can out-drink a Dwarf. They are surprisingly a peaceful and jovial race as a whole, but like the aforementioned Furblogs, Pandarens are not to be trifiled with. And seeing as they choose which faction they join, they're likely to make things worse (or better, or both) for both the Alliance and the Horde. And if that weren't convincing enough, they have a legit bear's roar when using the /roar command.
    • There is even a ghost bear named Arcturis. Hunters specialized in Beast Mastery can tame it.
    • Ursoc is a Wild God with the form of a bear, and the patron deity of the furbolg. He's normally benevolent, but in Legion he ends up being corrupted by the Emerald Nightmare, and becomes a raid boss.
  • Inverted in Toontown Online and its private servers. Bears are one of the playable species you can select for your Toon. They are bad news for the Cogs, however.

    MOBAs 
  • Defense of the Ancients has Ursa, who is infamous for his instagibbing abilities in casual games, and Syllabear, who can summon a bear and turn into a bear as well. Given the right items and some levels, the latter can tank, dish out insane dps, permanently immobilize enemies and destroy towers in five seconds flat. They return in Dota 2 and then zig-zags the trope. Ursa is actually a friendly and protective bear unless you trespass his territory and then he reacts like a bear protecting his domain. Sylla, on the other hand... is insane and trying to usher The End of the World as We Know It even if he's in the Radiant side. Furthermore, Legion Commander is still racist, but she expresses the biggest disdain towards bears, like adhering the trope. Against other species, she just says "Never trust an X" in normal speed, but against bears like those two she says "Never trust a... BEAR!"
  • League of Legends:
    • Annie summoned and a sealed a demon in her teddy bear. When she uses her Ultimate, she summon Tibbers, a raging demon bear. That's on fire.
    • Volibear is the envoy of a Proud Warrior Race of sentient, humanoid bears. He also harnesses lightning to further empower his already strong attacks, and after his rework, he's re-characterization as some sort of worshipped abomination with weird sense of morality but looks down on humans and would be more glad to maul them if he feels insulted and is materializing to the actual world. Volibear is based on the legendary 'armored bear' from League beta. It has the 'Chronokeeper Hater' buff, a reference to Zilean the Chronokeeper and the Riot developer Zileas who was supposedly against armored bears. Volibear is usually seen in the top lane, but he is capable of jungling. Now you have no idea where or when the giant angry bear is going to appear.
    • Sejuani has her Bear Cavalry skin, so even if you're laning Volibear you can still have a bear tear out of the jungle at you.
    • While not really a bear, Pre-VGU Udyr wears a bear coat over himself and in regards to his Stance System, he generally defaults to his Bear Stance. Post-VGU, while he no longer wears the bear pelt, the Bear Stance has now become the Wilding Stance, his main DPS stance that is affiliated with Volibear.
  • Every bear in The Legendary Axe are hostile and wants to rip you to shreds on sight, with the first stage having two bears as a Dual Boss. You fight regular bears as degraded versions of the original later on.
  • Smite has a rather obscure bear goddess from Celtic Mythology, Artio. She's a supportive Druid lady who acts as a Guardian to her teammates using nature magic that turns into a massive bear that charges forward, roars to disrupt her enemies, or swipe the enemy with her claws twice that hurts. One of her magic is a circular entangling vines that surround her and prevent movement-based skills for a good amount of time, and it'll stay active even as she turns to bear. Basically, this bear does not let you go away and wants you to stay awhile as she mauls you to death.

    Mobile Games 

    Party Games 
  • BearZerkers is about avoiding being killed by bears.
  • Detarou's escape-the-room games all have two trademarks. The first trademark is being as weird as possible. The second trademark is having a panda who, contrary to the "cute and cuddly" perception of some, will try to lure you into a trap and laugh at your stupidity on a Bad End screen if you fall for its tricks.

    Platformers 
  • Conker's Bad Fur Day has a level called "It's War", in which the game's reluctant, accidental antihero fights against an army of evil, fascist bears known as the Tediz. (Pun of "Nazis") These bears are more human than animal, but they are still creepy, and more horrifying is the boss of the level, a huge cybernetic bear with spider legs, embedded weapons, and a hand puppet of a girl, which he uses to lure Conker in.
  • Crash Bandicoot:
    • Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back has a level late in the game in which the titular marsupial must run away from a couple of fierce polar bears.
    • Crash Bash: One of the bosses, the Bearminator, is a polar bear who pilots a submarine that fires bullets that destroy the stage and can also summon robot bears to push the player into the water.
  • Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze features Bashmaster, the Unbreakable, the penultimate boss of the Snowmads. Aside from being an enormous and angry polar bear, he's also armed with a huge hammer covered with spikes on one end and commands the powers of ice to pummel the Kongs with blocks, shockwaves, and spiky balls of ice. And his theme song is amazing.
  • Freedom Planet has Neera Li, a royal priestess who can fire off icy wind blades from her scepter and rain down icicles on her opponents; Spade, an assassin who uses playing cards as a weapon; and Prince Dail, who fights the player with robotic weapons such as a mechanized peacock. And they're all panda bears.
  • Ice Age 2: The Meltdown: Hostile bears are encountered in the first two sets of levels, firstly as polar, then as regular brown grizzlies. They’re much tougher than other enemies, but are slow and can still be stunned easily at range.
  • Ice Climber: Polar bears wearing sunglasses and swim trunks would show up and cause earthquakes. They could easily kill the player.
  • Jables's Adventure: You encounter bears on the trip to The Lost Woods and they're one of the toughest enemies in the game. Then, Under the Sea, you encounter the SCUBA bear, who's invincible. Finally, in a volcano, you encounter a bear with a flamethrower, who's not only invincible but impossible to dodge (you have to find something fire-retardant to block him).
  • Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2: One stage involves running from a giant bear while avoiding falling into pits. "Exit, pursued by a bear" indeed.
  • The Lucky Dime Caper: A bear who resembles Baloo serves as the boss of the Northern Woods. He is surrounded by bees and attacks Donald by tossing beehives at him.
  • Mega Man:
    • Mega Man 7: There is a polar bear enemy, and it can take a lot of hits before it goes down.
    • Mega Man X8: Bamboo Pandamonium is a panda that spams explosives and whose berserk attack is a hard-to-avoid Megaton Punch, and every boss can't be hurt while berserk.
    • Mega Man Zero 2 had Polar Kamrous, and she's just as deadly as her predecessor.
  • Minty Fresh Adventure!: There is an Ursa Minor, a giant space bear. You have to fight but it and its presumed parent, the Ursa Major.
  • Oniken: The Mini-Boss of the third level is a polar bear, which turns out to be a robot.
  • Wario Land 3: The Brrr Bears have ice powers that they can use to freeze Wario and send him sliding back across the level.

    Roguelikes 
  • In Dicey Dungeons, one of the potions the Alchemist can use in battle transforms her into a bear. The Super Alchemist notably foregoes all the other potions in favor of immediately turning into the bear.

    Role-Playing Games 
  • Baldur's Gate: Random wilderness-dwelling brown and cave bears, while far from the toughest enemies of the game, start off showing as neutral to you, become aggressive if you get at all close, and can serve up a good mauling if you stop to fight. And usually come in pairs or groups. Oh, and you can encounter them right after the tutorial, at level 1.
  • The Banner Saga 2: The kragmen use war bears, which are powerful enemies.
  • Dragon Quest:
    • Dragon Quest III onwards introduces the Ursa family, composed of Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, and Ursa Mega initially, before adding in GrayBear in the game's Game Boy Color remake's Ice Cave Bonus Dungeon. They have high HP, and can inflict some nasty Desperate Attacks before they go down. Eventually, they would disappear from the series before reappearing in spinoffs such as Dragon Quest Monsters for the Ursa Major and Monster Parade for all the Ursas that debuted in III, before making their main series return in both Dragon Quest X and Dragon Quest XI, which also introduces a rarefied variant in the form of Ursa Panda, which were Ursa Minors that became them after being obsessed with pandas.
  • Dragon Age:
    • Dragon Age: Origins has you fight bears from time to time, but also has bereskarns, bears with spikes that have been corrupted by the darkspawn taint. A high-level shapeshifter can actually transform into one. A Rogue with the Ranger Specialization can summon a bear. Mastering the specialization allows a Rogue to summon an even bigger bear. Anywhere. It's a pretty good meatshield/damage dealer too.
    • Dragon Age: Inquisition has bears as rather tough enemies, but even worse is the rare, huge, and extremely dangerous Orlesian great bear. The Codex notes that out of all the big, vicious creatures that inhabit Thedas, great bears are the ones that even the most daring of hunters won't touch. If you're feeling extra masochistic you can toggle a trial which makes ALL bears meaner and tougher. The Inquisitor even lampshades this in the Jaws of Hakkon DLC by stating "Bears and I traditionally do not get along."
  • Elden Ring has bears, which are bad enough. Then there are runebears, the much larger and tougher versions that are surprisingly fast.
  • The Elder Scrolls:
    • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind:
      • Several varieties of bear appear in the wilds of Solstheim, added by the Bloodmoon expansion. They are considerably more dangerous than any animal on Vvardenfell, and are on par with some lesser Daedra and Dagoth Ur's Ash Creatures in terms of strength.
      • Bloodmoon's main quest has a part which involves you hunting down and killing a Spirit Bear. However, before you can do that, you have to kill either a group of Skaal hunters or a group of werewolves. Unfortunately, the Spirit Bear has the annoying habit of entering the fray against the hunters/werewolves, often getting killed in the process.
    • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Bears are among the most hated and feared enemies in the game for their high attack power, high health, and ability to stagger the player character. They are oftentimes more dangerous than most of the quasi-demonic hordes of Daedra currently invading Tamriel.
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim:
      • Bears are once again some of the most hated and feared enemies in the game, possibly even more so than dragons. At least the dragons give you the courtesy of announcing their attack with a bellowing roar and circling you a few times beforehand. By the time you hear a bear roar, you have only seconds to prepare before the creature gets back on all fours, rushes in, and mauls you. In addition, it is possible to contract all kinds of nasty diseases from their attacks. With the exception of the bear in the tutorial level (which is much weaker), most bears can maim lower level characters very easily, so it is best to avoid confrontations with them until a decent level is reached. Worse still, bears come in two even more powerful varieties: the significantly stronger Cave Bear, and the even stronger Snow Bear, which also has a resistance to frost, but luckily is weak to fire.
      • The Stormcloak Rebels have a prominent bear motif. Their generals even wear bearskin cloaks, complete with a hood made out of the bear's head.
      • The Dragonborn DLC throws in werebears, which are essentially werewolves that turn into bears rather than wolves, combining two extremely dangerous foes. See those three naked men running at you? That's your cue to get the heck out of dodge before they transform.
  • Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan: In the first Land, there are bear-beast FOEs and bosses that will destroy a party with on-par levels if they don't prepare accordingly. Several of these bears are part of dungeon puzzles in which the player has to lure them towards wooden barricades covered with honey so that they can destroy those barricades and allow the player to progress.
  • Fallout:
    • Zig-zagged by the New Californian Republic in Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas, which has a two-headed bear as its symbol. While most people see them as a return of the ungodly old bureaucracy with an army of conscripts barely able to hold a gun, the Republic has essentially restored the civilization around itself close to pre-War levels, and good luck pissing off the Rangers and getting away with it. Colonel Royez in Lonesome Road DLC wears power armor with a freaking bear's head in it, pissed off as a ghoul after you dropped a nuke over his head.
    • Fallout 3 has the yao guai, giant, vicious, mutated bears that roam the Capital Wasteland disemboweling anyone they come across. In terms of dangerousness, they're second only to the deathclaws. And then they start appearing in packs. They return in Fallout: New Vegas in the Honest Hearts DLC, which includes a giant flaming one called the Ghost of She. They're bigger as well, with the cubs being as big as their Capital counterparts — and unlike their cousins in the Capital Wasteland, they are still hostile to you even if you have the Animal Friend perk.
    • In Fallout 4, the yao guai look every bit like the giant pissed-off mutant bears they are. Don't get near them without Power Armor, grenades, a good build, or all three.
    • In Fallout 4's Wasteland Workshop DLC, you have the option arranging cage matches between captured enemies from the Commonwealth Wasteland. If you manage to tame them through the use of the Beat Wave Emitter, you'll find that most captured enemies grant a bonus to your settlement's defense rating. Yao guai and deathclaws grant the highest bonuses at 7 and 10, respectively. However, it's not unheard of players pitting yao guai and deathclaws against one another, only to have the yao smack the heads of the deathclaws so hard they turn to bloody chunks.
  • Far Cry:
  • Final Fantasy:
    • Final Fantasy VI:
      • Vargas, a boss from the beginning of the game, has two bears for no apparent reason other than making the fight slightly more challenging.
      • There is a type of bear-like enemy in the mountains of Zozo that enjoys ambushing the party, stealing a LOT of money, and fleeing in its next turn. It made an annoying dungeon so much worse...
    • Final Fantasy VIII's iteration of the recurring Death Claw enemy resembles a bear, but with four scythe-like appendages replacing its forelegs.
    • Final Fantasy XIV first throws bears at you in the hard mode version of Halatali, when they're released from cages as part of the dungeon's grueling training regimen.
      • You start encountering bears (and bear-like enemies called Miacids) in the open-world zones of the Heavensward expansion. Amusingly, despite living in a world with dragons, primals, and other fantastical creatures, Alphinaud practically craps himself when he first encounters a bear.
      • The Warrior class has the PvP-only Bearliege armor, bear-themed achievements specific to the class, an accompanying warbear mount, and animalistic growls and noises associated with several of its attack and stance abilities.
  • Golden Sun: The Mauler enemy line in Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age tends to be a group of Demonic Spiders, with the Mauler in particular usually able to One-Hit Kill Ivan with its Bear Claw attack. The next one is called the Ravager, and it has an Optional Boss in Crossbone Isle cave called a grisly.
  • Horizon:
  • Infinite Undiscovery: Gustav the bear joins your party and proves to be a powerful tank (as you'd expect)... but counts as two characters toward the Arbitrary Headcount Limit. Also played straight with enemy bears and their daunting HP totals.
  • Monster Hunter:
  • Mother:
  • Neverwinter Nights: One of the Druid's animal companion options is a bear. Try to guess what every player picks. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer interrupts your not quite pleasant stay at the town of Mulsantir by having a bear show up at the gates. Not just any bear either, but a bear god. With an army. An army which includes ghost bears. To make matters worse, it's a bear god specifically out to kill you, meaning the residents of the town are keen to throw your woefully unprepared ass out against it like some sort of sacrificial lamb. If it weren't for Gann and his magical bear god weak-point detecting skills, you'd be fucked. Inverted if you decide to spare and recruit said bear god. You have a freaking bear god on your side!
  • Persona 4: Teddie is not this, being a likeable, cute, pun-spewing living mascot costume. But his Shadow is a creepy-faced, deep-voiced nihilist that turns into a giant Frankenstein-like version of Teddie and tries to kill the Investigation Team. It's implied that Teddie's Shadow was somehow hijacked by the Big Bad.
  • Pokémon:
    • Snorlax is based on the idea of hibernating bears, in which it will mercilessly attack you when you woke it up. Its pre-evolution, Munchlax, despite being a Baby Pokémon, is much more aggressive than Teddiursa and Cubchoo when it comes to getting food, particularly honey.
    • Teddiursa is a small teddy bear. However, when it evolves at Level 30, it becomes the dangerous Ursaring. Ursaring is a Mighty Glacier that hits and moves like a truck. Weighing in at a base attack stat of 130, it is a beast to be reckoned with and its decent physical movepool is enough to back it up. It also has two abilities which raises its stats if it has a status condition: Guts raises its attack while Quick Feet raises its speed.
    • Cubchoo is just a polar bear cub with a giant Snot Bubble. Its evolution, Beartic, however, resembles a huge polar bear with icicles over its mouth, and can have Snow Cloak or Slush Rush as abilities — meaning that it benefits from Hail condition, which are debilitating to most Pokémon. It can even learn Sheer Cold, which will deal a One-Turn Kill to anything it strikes.
    • Pokémon X and Y introduce Pancham and its evolution Pangoro. Pancham tries to be intimidating, but its too cute to pull it off (even when compared to Munchlax). It evolves into Pangoro if it levels up with a Dark-Type in the party. Pangoro is not that bad of a Mon however, because underneath its gruff and mean exterior lies a noble heart that hates bullying. Still, it's stupid to piss one off (namely, bullying the weak).
    • Pokémon Sun and Moon have Stufful and Bewear. Stuffle looks like a red panda plushie and Bewear looks like a cuddly bear costume mascot. Both pokemon have extremely powerful limbs that can send boxers flying (in the case of Stufful), or in the case of Bewear, effortlessly crush spines like dry twigs even when all they want to do is give a friendly hug. They have the reputation as being one of the most dangerous Pokémon in Alola. Just to top it off, it's also Lusamine's trump card in every battle with her.
    • Pokémon Sword and Shield: Kubfu and Urshifu are basically what results when a bear learns and masters martial arts. As a testament to their power, Mustard's Signature Mon is Urshifu, and he's the one who trained Leon, Galar's unbeatable champion.
    • Pokémon Legends: Arceus: Ursaluna, the third/final evolution of the Teddiursa line, makes its debut and any player that has one on their team knows that it's a powerful force of nature. This mountain bear becomes a Ground/Normal type and also boasts extremely high base Attack and HP stats, as well as a fairly powerful physical Defense. On a related note, one Ursaluna is worshipped in Hisui as one of the ten noble Pokemon blessed by Arceus (let that sink in).
    • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Teal Mask DLC features a new kind of Ursaluna, having made its way from Hisui to Kitakami many years ago. It's the Bloodmoon Ursaluna, more bipedal than regular Ursaluna and having half of its face coated with dried mud; on its forehead is its signature red moon-like patch. It's a special attacker compared to the main Teddiursa line, and it has an ability that not only lets it hit Ghost-types with Normal or Fighting moves (like Scrappy), but its accuracy can't be lowered. Its signature attack - Blood Moon - is a very powerful Normal-type move, but it can't be used twice in a row.
  • Quest for Infamy features a black bear that gets used as an enforcer by the local group of Brigands.
  • Return to Krondor does not have any actual bears, but it has Big Bad Bear. He is taller than everyone else. He has muscles to match his height. He is a mercenary and a pirate leader. He will kill men, women, and children who get in his way. In the game, one small-time pirate name Knute left him and was thrown in jail. Bear broke into the jail with an army of mercenaries, killing everyone they encountered. He personally went down to the cells where Knute was held in and ripped Knute's cell door right off its hinges and told Knute to follow him. Then he grabbed Knute by the throat and demanded to know "Where is it?" and "What had Knute done with it?" Knute just kept screaming that he did not do anything. Bear called Knute a liar and sliced him to pieces. When you finally fight Bear yourself, you will find that he wears the best armour and uses the best swords. Oh, and you will find that he is completely immune to your attacks. He wears an amulet that makes him immune to your attacks.
  • Sands of Destruction: Taupy is Beary Friendly to the World Annihilation Front but a Lightning Bruiser to their enemies.
  • Tales Series: Bears are a common enemy type.
    • Tales of Eternia: An eggbear (a bear that lays eggs) serves as an early boss. Later, as a Secret Test of Character, Reid gets to be the same bear and relive its experiences that occurred just prior to his fight with it, ultimately fighting himself and Keele, though not before unleashing its wrath upon one of the traders who killed its family and random monsters who get in the way.
    • Tales of Vesperia: An eggbear serves as an early boss and is the cause for Karol's memorable quote of "Prepare to die, eggbear!".
    • Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World: The two most deadly physical attacking monsters in the game are the Galf Beast and the Wolf Heddin. And which of these is the final evolved form of the bear? Actually, the bear has a divergent evolution and thus has two final evolved forms: the Galf Beast and the Wolf Heddin. Apparently, someone at Namco really likes bears.
    • The first monster that Emil is attacked by is a bear. In New Game Plus playthroughs, any monsters you inherited from your previous game can't defeat the bear until Marta arrives on the scene.
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt features bears as hostile animals you can encounter out in the wilderness as is typical in most RPGs, but Exaggerates this when you have to fight one barehanded one as the final quest in the Fist Fighting questline.
  • Yakuza 5: Saejima has to fight a giant, maneating bear using only his fists, having just crashed his snowmobile in the middle of a blizzard while escaping from prison (again).

    Shooters 
  • Battle Bears: Most of the enemies are bear-based, including a brief fight with the Colbear and a Bearbershop Quartet.
  • Fur Fighters had some of the Mooks as bears, with polar bears being the strongest and brown bears making up the majority.
  • Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime: The first boss, Ursa Major, is a gigantic space bear powered by "anti-love" that tries to destroy your spaceship.
  • Splatoon 2 features Mr. Grizz, the owner of Grizzco Industries. He's only seen speaking through a bear statue, and his business is also the Hold the Line mode against mutant salmon, even the game describes his business as incredibly shady. In Splatoon 3, you discover he is not only "shady", he's outright villainous, trying to forcibly turn sea creatures into mammals for no clear reason and acting as the final boss of the main campaign. Also, when you meet him in person for the first time, you discover he's an actual bear.
  • Team Fortress 2:

    Simulation Games 
  • In Potion Permit, Honeypaws and Blackpaws are aggressive bearlike monsters that swipe their paws at you to attack.
  • Rimworld: Bears can easily become the downfall of an early colony, especially tribal or "naked brutality" starts. They can easily survive a number of shots from most early weaponry. Thankfully, randomly generated wild bears are only aggressive against humans in self-defense or if there are no more prey animals on the map. However, later in the game your colony might be hit by a pack of already aggressive manhunting bears.
  • The Sims 3: Exploring the crypt can end in a special status effect, and you learn that what's at the bottom of the crypt is bears — and occasionally gigantic rampaging zombie bears.
  • Tomodachi Life: If two of your Miis get into a fight and fail to resolve it, you can view a daydream of them battling the other Mii, with the most common of the three types of daydreams being a tug-of-war over a stretchy teddy bear with a third Mii's face that has a permanent "Sad" expression.

    Stealth-Based Games 
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has bears all over the area. One mention goes to the side quest for hunting the legendary brown bear, which can kill Snake with one hit and take a lengthy amount of tranquilizers shots.
  • Shinobido has bears in some missions. They're insanely powerful and very suspicious, move erratically, and can take a lot of damage before dying. However, you can kill them instantly if they're distracted (usually a salmon will do the trick).
  • Thief: You can eavesdrop on a conversation between two guards about bear fighting as a blood sport. One of the guards laments that bears were ferocious when he was a kid, and the pit owners have to strap hooks and razor collars onto the bears to keep the fights interesting.

    Strategy Games 
  • Age of Empires:
    • Age of Mythology: Players can hunt bears for food (the villagers sent to the process will get quite injured, though)... and use a cheat code to unlock a "lazer bear", which wears the flag of Canada and fires beams.
    • Age of Empires III: The bears are treasure guardians but they're neutral. They'll only attack when you attack or when one of your cannons manage to get a AOE attack on them. There's 3 different types of bears, the strongest one being the Polar Bear (found in snow maps). There's also tamed bears.
  • Aztec Wars has war bears as one of the Russian units. They're fast and utterly devastating against infantry, but useless against buildings and vehicles.
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3:
    • One of the Allied Spy's unit responses is "I don't like bears...", which is justified by the Soviet War Bear's ability to sniff out and maul spies. On the DVD extras the actors cannot believe it. Watch as George Takei tries to get his head around it ("Battle Bears? B E A R S?") or Autumn Reeser laughing as she asks for an explanation.
    • In the challenge mode of the Uprising expansion, the mission where you unlock the War Bear's is called the Number One Threat to America, and features giant bears that can smash tanks.
  • Heroes of Might and Magic V: In the Hammers of Fate add-on, dwarves have heavily armored bear cavalry.
  • Inverted in Impossible Creatures, which features both brown and polar bears; but gives them worse stats than the likes of wolverines, every large cat except mountain lions, and gorillas and no special abilities beyond the polar bear's slow swim speed.
  • Majesty: The Hellbear monster, although resembling an ordinary grizzly or brown bear without any fantastic trappings, can tear through low-level heroes like tissue paper. Cultists can invoke this once they learn how to shapeshift, upon which they will routinely become a Hellbear that can also throw knives.
  • Master of Orion: The Bulrathi, from the first two games, landing on your planet generally made for having a bad day, unless you had a significant numerical and/or technological advantage over them.
  • Pit People: The Narrator is a giant space bear who has decided to make Horatio and his allies' lives a living hell because he thinks that Horatio is too boring to live.
  • Warcraft III:
    • Druids of the Claw can turn into bears, boost allies' damage by roaring and regenerate their health, although not while in bear form.
    • Polar bears are tough, amphibious neutral monsters with saberteeth.

    Survival Horror 
  • Condemned 2: Bloodshot: One scene involves being chased through an abandoned mountain cabin by a rabid Jaws-sized monster bear.
  • Curse The Eye Of Isis: An early boss battle consists of fighting two possessed, reanimated bears with a ton of health.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's:
    • Five Nights at Freddy's: The titular character is an animatronic bear who entertains children by day and tries to gruesomely murder the security guard at night, with the help of three other robotic animals. Even worse is the mysterious "Golden Freddy", a discolored Freddy suit that sometimes shows up, which outright terminates the game if it gets you.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's 2 doubles the fun. Not only is there the old (aka Withered) Freddy who gets repaired to become the FNAF1 Freddy there's Toy Freddy, who may look cute but is just as malicious as his older counterpart. As for Golden Freddy, he moves on from crashing the game to outright killing you. The mysterious Purple Freddy is now the one that crashes the game.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's 3 has Phantom Freddy. While he doesn't outright kill you, he can certainly scare you and give Springtrap enough time to catch you. There's also Shadow Freddy in the mini-games, who leads the original animatronics to their deaths.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's 4: Nightmare Freddy lives up to its moniker. A horrific bear with razor sharp teeth and claws. To make matters worse, he can spawn Mini Freddies to scare you before going in the kill. Nightmare Freddy, it turns out, is also a Meaningful Name. Then there's Nightmare Fredbear, the Disc-One Final Boss of the game. Fredbear turns out to be none other than Golden Freddy, and he's the biter in the Bite of '83. Granted, that last part was accidental, but still. There's also a hidden animatronic simply known as Nightmare that looks like a black Freddy. He's the True Final Boss. All he does, though, is cause a Non-Standard Game Over by resetting the game.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's World: While the game is meant to be Lighter and Softer, that doesn't mean bears aren't bad news anymore: the first boss is Bubba, a giant stitched together bear that looks like a cross between Freddy and Frankenstein's Monster. All the above mentioned Freddys are also in this game and are able to fight, but they're the good guys this time.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location has Funtime Freddy, who has a bit of a Monster Clown motif going for him, on top of speaking in a creepy, high-pitched, stuttering voice on Night 2 ("I-I know you're over there so-omewhere!"). There is also Yenndo, an endoskeleton of Freddy who sometimes appears to just leer at the player, implying a connection to Golden Freddy. He becomes a straighter example in the Custom Night DLC where Yenndo can kill you outright.
    • Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator has Molten Freddy, the result of a merging of all the Sister Location animatronics sans Baby, who got rejected. Funtime Freddy seems to be the one in primary control though. Rockstar Freddy, Nedd Bear, and Helpy are the first aversions of the series, as the first two are only there to be purchased to improve the player's pizzeria, and Helpy is there to assist the player in creating their pizzeria. Then there's Lefty, a black version of Rockstar Freddy with his left eye missing, who's a very risky purchase and more deadly than Molten Freddy. However, it turns out that Lefty is the 'can' in Sealed Evil in a Can, and that Lefty's true identity is The Puppet...who's the Big Good of the series all along anyway.
    • Ultimate Custom Night brings back most of the bears listed above (Withered Freddy and Funtime Freddy don't make the cut), and finally make Rockstar Freddy, Nedd Bear, and Helpy straight examples of this trope (or at least a downplayed version in Helpy's case, as he won't kill you outright, but attract animatronics that will into your office). There's also the Monster Progenitor of the series, Fredbear, only seen if one only has Golden Freddy set to LVL 1 on their custom night, then uses a Death Coin to get rid of him. Getting certain scores also show scenes from Bear of Vengeance, in which Freddy is another aversion, a samurai trying to get vengeance on the 'villainous' Foxy.
    • Five Nights At Freddys VR Help Wanted: While there are no new examples in the game proper due to the premise being recreating some of the 'urban legends' of the past (with many of the above and Palette Swaps of the same coming back), the 'Curse of Dreadbear' DLC introduces the titular Dreadbear, which basically crosses Freddy with Frankenstein's Monster. The player's introducton to Dreadbear features him looming over the player.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery also brings back some of the previous examples and Palette Swaps of the same, and introduces Freddy Frostbear (and his variant Black Ice Frostbear), An Ice Person variant of Freddy that can ice over the screen rather than just cause static and prevent the player from using their controlled shock button.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach has Glamrock Freddy, who technically zigzags this trope: while he’s a heroic figure for the most part, thanks to breaking his programming and protecting the trapped Gregory from Vanny, there are times when he can glitch out, particularly if he runs out of power, Gregory presses the wrong button when trying to repair him, or Burntrap possesses him in the true ending, making him a danger to Gregory anyway. The true ending might contain another zigzagged example in... whatever is keeping Springtrap trapped in the ruins of the pizzeria as while,he does that, he also still tries to attack Gregory, and the reason it's a "might" is that, while Molten Freddy is implied to be the one in control, it's hard to say if it’s a "bear" or not (having been called both the Blob and the Fazbear Amalgamation).
    • Security Breach's Ruin DLC introduces Prototype Glamrock Freddy, a body of Freddy that's missing its head, has a gaping hole in its chest, and chases Cassie through Fazer Blast. Given the implication that the DLC follows the Princess Quest ending, in which Gregory and a no-longer-brainwashed Vanessa escape with Freddy's head, it's very possible this might be the main game Freddy's left behind body. Zigzagged with Helpi, an AI version of Helpy that serves as a way to teach Cassie how to use her V.A.N.N.I. mask. He's typically benevolent, but sometimes his eyes will turn yellow and he'll be a lot more opinionated and contradictory. His eyes turning yellow are a sign that he's been hijacked by the Mimic, who's tricking Cassie into freeing him.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 brings back Yenndo, Funtime Freddy, and Lefty (still played straight), Helpy (back to being downplayed, as if you hurt him in the First Aid minigames, his screams will attract either Pigpatch, Lefty, or Scrap Baby), Glamrock Freddy (still zigzagged, as he's friendly to you and will only attack if his circuits get too hot and make him go haywire), and introduces Carnie, a variant of Freddy who hosts Fazerblaster, and who is also downplayed as he is mostly benevolent (if a bit of a Jerkass and will only jumpscare you if your score gets too low.
  • Skinwalker Hunt: There are bears in the game that will attack you if they see you. You can kill them with your guns and cut meat out of them though.

    Survival Sandbox 
  • The Flame in the Flood: Bears are one of the most dangerous enemies in the game, able to both deal and take a lot of damage. Fortunately, they'll leave Scout alone if you stay away from their caves. Unfortunately, there's one bear you have to either kill or flee from to progress in campaign mode.
  • The Long Dark: Bears take a fair few rounds from the .303 hunting rifle to kill, and they can give you a vicious mauling, which, of course, happens entirely in first-person.
  • UnReal World, being a pure iron-age Finland survival simulator, has bears that are exceptionally dangerous. Even if you survive an encounter with one, it's highly likely you'll be left heavily wounded. In the Finnish folklore-based lore, they're also considered sacred and thus their skulls have to be subject to a special ritual lest their spirit seek vengeance, although in-game not performing this ritual has no actual effect.

    Visual Novels 
  • Danganronpa: The recurring antagonist, Monokuma, is a robotic bear running the series of Deadly Games that the students are forced to participate in. He is controlled by a human, though.
  • The Price of Flesh: Whatever you do, do not go to sleep outdoors with a fish on you. Seriously. Your life will thank you for it.

    Web Games 
  • Board Game Online: Bears are quite a nuisance when they show up. They can chase you back several spaces or kill you. However, you can sic a bear on an opponent if you have cocaine.
  • Club Penguin: Herbert P. Bear, the main antagonist. In "Operation: Blackout", he takes over the island and freezes the other EPF agents.
  • Lorwolf: Moorbears serve as the mini-boss enemies of all of the packs' early campaign areas.

    Other/Unsorted 
  • Cyril Cyberpunk: The invading aliens take cute teddy bear shapes. Enemies include fluffy brown balls that roll on the ground and bump into you to cause damage, teddy bear robots that include bipedal robots that shoot lasers from their snouts and hovering teddy bear heads that shoot darts out of their expanding jaws, teddy-men who operate fork lifts, lime green ships with laser cannons, jet-pack spacesuits that shoots swarms of pellets, and even cute teddy babies sitting in high chairs and wearing bibs that throw toxic porridge at you.
  • Enviro Bear 2000 and its iTunes retouch, Enviro Bear 2010, prove this from the bear's perspective. You play a bear attempting to be more efficient at getting food for hibernation by driving around in a car. Given the controls, that translates loosely into "smash up the forest in a car".
  • Girl's Garden: Bears will try to chase down Papri if she comes within sight of them. They can be distracted by leaving pots of honey on the ground.
  • Katamari Damacy:
    • The first game features a bear-themed level called Ursa Major in which the object is to gather the largest bear possible into your katamari. The problem? Picking up any sized bear, no matter how tiny, automatically ends the level and bears are everywhere! Even gathering a single bear-themed item like a "beware of bears!" sign or a "tiny teddybear" will end the level.
    • We ♥ Katamari ups the ante with a "Cowbear" level in which you must gather the largest cow and/or bear item to win. Now only must you dodge bear-themed items, you must be wary of cow and milk-themed items as well or the round will end prematurely.
  • Little Red Hood: A bear appears as an enemy. It is an instant kill and is invincible.
  • Mishap 2: An Intentional Haunting: Zigzagged with a minor ghost called Honeybub. According to her bio she was perfectly docile during her stint on a popular children's show, but was a method actor and got a little too into the role when her agent landed her a part as the villain in a horror movie in an attempt to prevent typecasting.
  • Richman 11 has a character that is exactly called "Bear", and he wears a bear hoodie. Despite looking cute, he is an arrogant bully that has increasingly aggressive abilities as a boss that should not be taken easily.
  • Sheltered: The enemies you face in the wastelands include bears.

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