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Naughty Bear is a 2010 action game developed by Artificial Mind & Movement (later known as Behaviour Interactive) and published by 505 Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game tells a story about Naughty Bear, a teddy bear who is very naughty. There's a birthday party on the Island of Perfection, and Naughty is not invited. Upset by this, he decides to exact revenge on everyone on the island by scaring the fluff out of them and/or killing them.

This game features many ways to dispatch your fellow teddy brethren. To earn "Naughty points," you perform various naughty actions, such as sabotaging powerboxes, destroying the environment, and scaring the locals. The objective of the game is to cause as much chaos as possible, increasing the score multiplier.

The game was later given a sequel in 2012 titled Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise, taking place on an island resort but still having the same basic premise.

In October 31, 2023, Behavior Interactive would reference their roots by adding Naughty Bear to Dead by Daylight as a Visceral Legendary outfit for the Trapper (even featuring the Narrator). Watch the trailer for the cosmetic here.


Naughty Bear provides examples of the following tropes:

  • Aesop Amnesia: You'd think that the rest of the bears would learn to never bully Naughty because of how often he kills them, but it never sticks.
  • Alien Blood: Parodied with the alien bears, who leak different fluff particles, leaking a weird, yellowish foamy substance instead of the classic fluffy cotton bits.
  • Alien Invasion: Happens in Episode 7 — Stardust makes the mistake of contacting them and trying to befriend them, only for the Alien Bears to start using mind-controlling tinfoil hats and radio transmitters on the regular bears.
  • Aliens Are Bastards: The Alien Bears, who enslave the island and its inhabitants.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Naughty is treated as an outcast by everyone, even though he wants to be friends.
  • Alpha Bastard: Daddles is the most popular bear on the island, and is one hell of a bastard.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: The bears come in a variety of different colors.
  • And Your Reward Is Clothes: Reaching certain scores in the Challenge Run levels unlocks special costumes for Naughty which modify his stats, let him walk among other bears unnoticed, and give him weapons at the start of a level.
  • Anti-Hero: Naughty is a ruthless, somewhat Ax-Crazy outcast who frequently responds to provocations with extreme violence; he also stops a zombie outbreak, an alien invasion, and prevents Fluffy from inadvertently destroying the universe with his experiments.
  • Asshole Victim:
  • Ax-Crazy: Naughty Bear is very much gone past the point of no return and is murderously unstable. The Narrator also shows shades of this, given the sheer glee with which he narrates Naughty's rampages.
  • Arc Villain: Each Episode has one or two bears responsible for Perfection Isle's latest mess, who Naughty Bear must hunt down and kill.
  • Bad with the Bone: Un-Ted levels are full of this, as it's the default weapon for any Un-Ted spawned. Naughty can also use this as part of his Zombie Naughty skin.
  • Bait-and-Switch:
    • A two-fold example during the ending. The bears seem to be throwing a party to celebrate Naughty beating back the Alien invasion and have seemingly accepted him for once, but then they smash the cake into his face and run him off, laughing at him all the way. Following this Kick the Dog moment, Naughty is shown from the back, seemingly crying to himself in the woods as the Narrator gently asks if he's alright; Naughty promptly turns around, revealing that he's been loading a RPG-7 and is aiming it at the cabin where the bears are.
    • Episode 8 opens with one - Naughty is seemingly invited to a party, only for it to turn out the bears are luring him into a trap with the X-Bears waiting to take him down.
    • The intro to the Friendly Challenge features a bear blowing a raspberry in Naughty's face, with Naughty visibly becoming more and more angry (complete with a kettle whistling) until he hits the Rage Breaking Point and draws back a fist to punch the bear. Instead of doing so, however, he simply grabs the bear and drags them over to the toilet to drown them.
  • Batter Up!: Both Baseball and Cricket bats are available for use as weapons. The former can be used to beat a bear's head until it's flat as a pancake, while the latter is used to break their back and then crack their skull open on the second swing.
  • Bears Are Bad News:
    • Naughty Bear kills, assaults, and does other bad stuff to the rest of the teddies.
    • The bears themselves would be straighter examples, as they are constantly belittling and making fun of Naughty even if he's done something nice for them.
  • Bear Trap: One of Naughty's tools of insanity, which can be placed to trap other bears. Any bear stepping on one will be instantly immobilized and left open to be killed or scared at Naughty's leisure... assuming you don't step into them by accident.
  • BFG: Naughty Bear gets his hands on an RPG-7. And he uses it in the ending cinematic as revenge.
  • BFS: The Behemothic Sword from Panic in Paradise is the biggest sword the in the game, with speed and damage to match. It's also a pretty obvious expy of the Buster Sword.
  • Big Brother Is Watching: One level starts with Naughty discovering the Arc Villain is strapping cameras to the heads of birds in order to spy on him. Even the name of the level, Big Ted Is Watching, sort of tips one off.
  • Bloodless Carnage: Justified as none of the bears bleed (as they don't have blood) but they leak fluff instead.
  • Boom, Headshot!: The pistol executions involve this:
    • With the standard revolver, Naughty simply kicks the target to the ground then shoots them in the face with one bullet from the revolver as they rise onto their knees.
    • With the silenced pistol, Naughty kneecaps his victim to prevent them from fleeing, then walks forward and places the muzzle to their jaw before firing one bullet into the bear's head.
  • Bullying a Dragon: The other teddies tend to provoke Naughty at the start of each episode, even if they were killed in the previous one. Special mention goes to Fluffy, who goes to Naughty's hut and throws stones at it and breaks one of his windows in the tutorial just for fun.
  • Captain Colorbeard: Episode 9 has Captain Bearbeard, a friendly pirate bear who's more of a sea sailing treasure hunter than an actual pirate... Friendly to everyone except violent murderers like Naughty. The treasure he's looking for is buried under Naughty's hut, so he and his crew plan to tear it down so they can dig up the treasure.
  • Car Fu: The lethal method of preventing an escape by car involves dragging the bear out, then slamming their head in the car door. (Technically, more like Car Door Fu, but no arguments here.)
  • Carry a Big Stick: Very literally - one of the easiest-to-find weapon is a simple stick that's nearly as long as a bear's arm.
  • Catchphrase: Naughty's distinct loud "BOOOOOOOOO!", which tends to be his main vocalization throughout the series. Most other times, he's an Anti-Heroic Mime.
  • Challenge Run: Beating the main "story" level unlocks four "challenge" versions of it, which you can then beat to unlock new costumes and reach 100% Completion.
    • Killer Challenge: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Every bear on the level has to die, not just the episode villain, and no-one can be allowed to escape. If the bears manage to call for help, the poor schmucks answering their call have to die as well.
    • Friendly Challenge: Don't fight them! You're not allowed to strike, shoot, or Set a Mook to Kill a Mook — doing so means an instant loss. However, traps, super-scaring an insane bear into suicide, or ultra-killing a bear wounded by a trap are all fine.
    • Insanity Challenge: Drive them all mad! Killing a bear who hasn't gone insane is an instant failure, as is letting non-insane bears kill each other, but once they're insane it's open season on the poor, deranged sods.
    • Untouchable Challenge: Naughty's health is limited to the absolute minimum, turning all attacks into One Hit Kills. Other than that, the level plays as normal. Better be good at dodging!
    • Invisible Challenge: Don't be seen doing naughty deeds. If you get spotted five times, it's an instant Game Over, so pack your best costume and sabotage everything you can get your hands on.
    • Speed Run Challenge: Complete the main level's objectives while on a time limit. Fast costumes and frozen multiplier bars are your greatest friends here, as they'll let you hit the score needed to open the next area quicker.
    • Top Hat Challenge: All the bears have beefed-up health and wield powerful guns rather than their usual weapons, as well as sporting rather stylish top hats. Your goal is to find the story mode antagonist (identified by a snazzier, unique top hat) and kill them.
    • The aptly-named "Challenge Challenges" achievements require you to complete the above challenge levels in specific ways, like never being seen once in an Invisible Challenge or completing an Untouchable Challenge with no weapon.
  • The Chew Toy: The other teddies get killed by Naughty frequently, but they had it coming from the way they treat him.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Naughty in spades. He'll happily kick other bears between the legs, kill a trapped bear while they're defenseless, sabotage phones, grills, cars, boats and wait for some poor schmuck to repair it before attacking...
  • Crapsaccharine World: It looks cute in the beginning but don't think for a minute that this game doesn't have a dark underbelly. Naughty himself is hardly responsible for some of the shenanigans that take place, which include the rising of the 'un-ted', an alien invasion, and the Vampiricorn's arrival. Even before the monsters start showing up, the other bears are absolute dicks to anyone who doesn't meet their standards.
  • Crowbar Combatant: One of the many weapons you can use.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Examples of offing the bears include stuffing them in a fridge, tossing them into a cake mixer, and slamming their face into a power box.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: In the event that you turn the bear factions against each other, the normal bears will generally get wrecked by the "special" bears unless they have a numbers advantage or are aided by a third party faction.
  • Deal with the Devil: In Episode 10, Stardust summons the Vampiricorn and his clan to the island to strike a deal with them - in exchange for tasting Unibear fluff with its attendant power boost, they'll hunt down and take out Naughty Bear.
  • Death by Irony:
    • The Ironic Kill achievements require this, featuring deaths such as Fluffy getting his head shredded on a conveyor belt's gears, or Cozy getting his face rammed into a television to fatally electrocute him.
    • Thanks to costume shenanigans, it's possible to cause Fluffy's robo-bears to kill him. Doing so bags you an achievement.
  • Death Trap: The bear traps and mines can become this if you choose to deliver an Ultra Kill, with Naughty either snapping the victim's neck or kicking them in the family jewels, causing the mine to blow them up.
  • Diminishing Returns for Balance: The points awarded for a naughty deed decrease each time it's done, until you eventually receive zero points for it. This prevents Naughty from gaining excessive points through simply vandalising items or breaking windows, and resets with each area.
  • Disconnected by Death: Wait until a bear tries to call for help, then end both the call and the bear using said phone.
  • Disproportionate Retribution:
    • Naughty goes on a killing spree because he wasn't invited to a birthday party and two other bears laughed at the gift he had made.
    • According to the website, Naughty's history of rejection goes back farther than that. He acted selfishly even before the events of the game, which explains why the other bears don't really like Naughty.
    • The Wiki implies that Naughty was simply a naughty, prank-pulling bear who was nonetheless harmless. And then the other bears started treating him like crap.
  • Driven to Suicide: Bears that are driven insane enough will kill themselves on the spot. You get A LOT of points for this, especially if you drive them to suicide in front of witnesses.
  • Ear Notch: Naughty has a notch on his left ear, presumably to play up his menacing appearance.
  • Edible Bludgeon: The Leg of Lamb is exactly what it sounds like. Its also one of the few weapons the bears can produce, pulling it out of a fridge whenever Naughty comes knocking.
  • Elite Mooks: Each Episode has its own unique threat comprised of bears stronger and more skilled than the norm, such as the B.E.A.R Unit, the Ninja-Bears, or the regular Army Bears.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Both the Narrator and Naughty show shades of this.
    • Fluffy's decision to use Zero-Point Quantum Grid Resonators to power the Robo-Bears' Superbrain in episode 6 (which would likely create a universe-ending quantum rift) is enough to horrify even the Narrator, though it's implied this is more out of pragmatic self-preservation than moral concerns.
    • The bears' Kick the Dog moment at the end after Naughty went out of his way to save them all from the invading alien-bears audibly disgusts the Narrator, and he seems legitimately concerned for Naughty's emotional state after they cruelly reject him yet again.
    • The Vampiricorn feeding on the fluff of a Unibear is condemned by the otherwise gleefully murderous narrator as "monstrous", who sounds legitimately disgusted or horrified at the sight. Naughty reacts similarly, covering his eyes at the sight and reacting with visible horror to the Narrator's description of it.
  • "Everybody Dies" Ending: After the bears publicly humiliate Naughty one final time - despite him saving them from an Alien Invasion Sunbeam caused - he waits for them to gather in their cabin before launching a RPG into it, blowing all of the bears up at a stroke.
  • Evil Brit: Lampshaded in the loading texts where it says "Naughty doesn't have any voices in his head, except for that one English guy that pushes him to kill."
  • False Flag Operation: The player can pull this off by wearing the costume of any of the "special" bears and attacking the other bears, sparking fighting between the different factions.
  • Finishing Move: Ultra Kills allow you to finish off a mortally injured bear with a theatrical flourish, unique to each weapon.
  • Fragile Speedster: The Ninja Bears are among the fastest bears, but also among the most fragile.
  • Glass Cannon: The Ninja Bears are arguably the most deadly bear faction in close-quarter combat, but they also have relatively poor health and tend to flee when they take too much damage.
  • Golf Clubbing: A golf club is among the weapons seen. Killing with it has Naughty use some bear's head as the golf ball. There's even an invisible audience applauding your kill!
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: Naughty can beat The Undead, trained soldiers, and even straight-up superheroes to death with his bare hands, though it takes much longer than using a weapon.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: The box art depicts Naughty with a long, stitched-together one down half his face. In-game, he's also sporting an Ear Notch and a smaller scar on his side.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: Sometimes accidentally done by the game when the camera switches to a different angle during an Ultra Kill and hides the violence behind a wall or a tree.
  • Groin Attack: The landmine's Ultra-Kill sequence features Naughty kicking the trapped bear in the crotch, causing them to fall over, trigger the landmine and explode. Strangely, this even works with the Robo-Bears. The axe's kill animation also features him driving the axe's blade into their stomach/crotch region, then kicking their dead body over.
  • Hard-Coded Hostility: The Zombears are automatically hostile to all other factions, potentially excepting the vampires and their ghouls.
  • Harder Than Hard: The Top Hat Challenge is intentionally designed as this - all bears have guns (from standard revolvers to Ray Guns) and higher health, while the point thresholds for each cup are increased.
  • Hat of Authority: The Arc Villain of each Episode sports a distinctive hat, representing their leadership over the other bears and their status as Naughty's target. Examples include Oil Baron Trembles' ten-gallon hat, Mayor Chubby's black top hat, and Colonel Ketchup's officer hat.
  • Harmless Electrocution: Subverted; all the bears can be electrocuted to death by tampering with an item [Arcade machine, Conveyor belt computer, DJ booth, Power supply, TV] and shoving them into the exposed wires while they attempt to repair it.
  • Harmless Freezing: Also subverted. Live bear goes in, dead bear inside an ice cube comes out. And the ice slowly melts, leaving only the corpse...
  • Hearing Voices: It's implied the narrator is only in Naughty's head.
    Text on the Loading Screen: Naughty doesn't have any voices in his head, except for that one English guy that pushes him to kill.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: You can step on your own bear traps and land mine if you're not careful. While it's not a One-Hit Kill (aside from the Invincible Challenges), it deals damage and leaves Naughty trapped in place for several seconds, during which he's vulnerable to attack.
  • Hollywood Silencer: Silenced pistols make nothing louder than a "thwip".
  • Improbable Weapon User: Among the many, many weapons you can use are legs of meat, old bones, and random sticks. This is before you get into the environmental kills, which allow you to kill bears with fridges, toilets and campfires, among other things.
  • Improvised Weapon: The frozen leg of lamb, sticks from a campfire, and bones carried by Zombears are all pretty weak, but they can work out in a pinch. The bears think so too, as they'll scramble to get these in the absence of other weapons.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When Naughty saves everyone from aliens, the other teddy bears hold a party for him, looking as if they respect him now... and then they proceed to embarrass him again by giving him a cake in the face and laugh at him.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: The teddy bears tend to be terrorized and even killed by Naughty (though they always come back), but he does this as revenge for them ostracizing and making fun of him even if he does something good. It doesn't help that they can never remember that he has a breaking point.
  • Kick the Dog: Many of the bears' actions towards Naughty fall into this category, ranging from Chubby and Giggles mocking Naughty after he tried to be friendly for once to inviting him to a party after he saved them all only to smash a cake into his face and run him out of the gathering, all while laughing at him. This almost invariably results in a case of The Dog Bites Back, as Naughty swiftly replies to their abuse of him with violence.
  • Killer Teddy Bear: Naughty Bear is a teddy bear who goes on a murderous rampage.
  • Kill It with Fire: Bonfire, BBQ, Stove. They all have a nice 'sizzle' sound when you shove your victim's head onto it, or just plain throw them into the fire.
  • Land Mine Goes "Click!": Naughty combines this with a Groin Attack by kicking the hapless victim in the crotch, causing them to fall down in pain... right onto the mine's firing mechanism. Boom, no more bear.
  • Leave No Survivors: The Killer Challenge's gimmick - Naughty has to kill every other bear in the level, including anyone who shows up due to a phone call. A bear escaping means an instant Game Over.
  • Lemony Narrator: The narrator is a parody of those Saturday morning cartoons. He's also the one that encourages Naughty Bear to go on a rampage.
  • Machete Mayhem: One of the more common weapons is a large machete. Zombear Oodoo, the Arc Villain of Episode 4 also wields this as his signature weapon.
  • Magic Staff: The Rod of Justice, wielded by the DLC-only X-Bears. Killing someone with it has Naughty firing lasers out of his eyes and into the opponent's, burning their head.
  • Mighty Glacier: The Zombears are the slowest of the bear factions, but also the most durable in combat.
  • Mind-Control Device: The aliens use these to place Sunbeam and other bears under their control.
  • Mook Lieutenant: Each "special" bear faction has a leader that is visually distinct from the rest and has slightly higher health than the others.
  • More Dakka:
    • The Oozy's Ultra Kill. Naughty just plain riddles the bear with bullets, complete with fluff flying in all directions, until the bear's corpse just topples over of its own accord.
    • Taken to the extreme by the multiplayer-exclusive Golden Oozy from the match mode of the same name. Not only does it have infinite ammo and the usual high fire rate of the Oozy, killing people with it is the only way to earn points!
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ironically, most of the Island's troubles are caused by the bears deciding to provoke Naughty. This is most pronounced in the second and fifth episodes, where the bears bring in outside forces such as ninjas and a SWAT-like private security force specifically for the purpose of killing Naughty, which prompts him to start his rampage for the episode.
  • Nightmare Sequence:
    • The Ring trailer features Naughty recreating the iconic "crawling out of the television" scene, scaring a sleeping Giggles into waking up. The Jaws trailer features a massive Naughty attacking a boat with Daddles and Trembles on it, with Naughty brutally biting Daddles to death before dragging him into the water as he retreats; cut to Daddles jerking awake, then breathing a sigh of relief as he realises it was All Just a Dream. And then cue the real Naughty exploding out of the water behind him and dragging Daddles to an unknown, but presumably grisly fate.
    • Reaching 100% Completion unlocks a sequence in which Naughty seemingly suffers from one, dreaming that he's a Unibear having his horn cut off by Daddles. Dream-Naughty abruptly awakes and begins to advance on a suddenly-fearful Daddles, only for him to trip and awake in the real world as regular Naughty. Confused, Naughty looks down to the floor, revealing he was Sleepwalking and tripped over a saw on the floor before he slowly raises a hand to his head.
  • Not Enough to Bury: If Naughty uses the landmine or stick's ultra-kills, the victim's body will be completely destroyed due to being blown apart or burned to ash. A couple of static objects like the campfire and mixer can also create this effect, making it particularly useful for the Challenge levels, as it prevents the bears from reaching a higher state of alertness and more easily spotting Naughty.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: One of the ways to defluff your victims involves Naughty simply beating them to death with his bare hands. It doesn't give as much points, however, as using a weapon or driving them insane first.
  • Non-Standard Character Design:
    • Naughty is the only one of the bears with a scar and brown fur; the others all have various colours of fur and no scars at all.
    • The Alien-Bears all lack fur of any kind, instead having a smooth, greenish-yellow 'skin' and much larger, pitch-black eyes. They also leak a yellowish foamy substance rather than regular fluff. This is presumably to play up their alien appearance next to the regular bears.
  • Neck Lift: The Vampiricorn's signature kill in both story and multiplayer modes involves lifting a bear up by the neck, then biting their throat and draining their body of fluff.
  • Neck Snap:
    • The Bear Trap's ultra-kill involves Naughty seizing the trapped bear in a headlock from behind, then snapping their neck with his bare hands. Alternatively, if killing a bear helping another out of the trap, Naughty places a foot on the bear's back to keep them in place then wrenches their head back, breaking the victim's neck.
    • Closet Elimination also features this, with Naughty dragging his victim out of the closet and then pressing down on their neck with his foot until it breaks.
  • Only Friend: The Narrator plays this role to Naughty Bear, as the only one speaking to him without taunting or insulting him; he also seems to be the most overtly concerned about Naughty's emotional state next to the rest of the cast.
  • Our Vampires Are Different: The Vampiricorn. It looks like a cross between a zombie and a vampire, and seems to be wearing a Ludwig-inspired... wig. He and his minions serve as the threat of episode 10.
  • Our Zombies Are Different: The Un-Ted are undead of the "animated by dark magic" kind. Unlike most zombies, they can be driven insane (with great difficulty) and are smart enough to chase Naughty into the woods, repair damaged objects, and even wield guns in the Top Hat Challenge; they also appear to have a leader in the form of Zombear Oodoo.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: Most of Naughty's 'disguising' skins are this. Sheriff Naughty is a particularly obvious example — it's just Naughty wearing a cheesy fake moustache, a cardboard vest with the word "POLICE" scrawled on it in permanent marker, and a lamp strapped to his head.
  • Parasol of Pain: You can stab the unfortunate victim with an umbrella and wait until they go limp, then remove the umbrella and open it a few times to shake the fluff off.
  • Pirates vs. Ninjas: The Ninja and Pirate Bears will automatically attack one another if they're in the same location.
  • Police Are Useless: Averted. Police/Army bears are a threat to Naughty, although he can still kill them like the other bears; especially handy if you want the bonus points or to use their powerful guns. There's a trophy/achievement for having as many police as possible show up in one level, as well.
  • "Pop!" Goes the Human: Unarmed bears that are Driven to Suicide will make their bodies inflate and burst into a shower of fluff.
  • Power Fist: A late-game weapon wielded by the Robo-Bears, Aliens, and the DLC X-Bears in episode 8. Appropriately enough, it hits impressively hard but is a good bit slower than other weapons.
  • Pun: Nearly every single kill phrase, eg. "Incredi-belly knifeage", "Car-Nage", etc.
  • Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything: Episode 6's Super-Brain using the Zero-Point Quantum Grid Resonator MacGuffins apparently risks creating a "quantum rift" that will end the universe.
  • Ray Gun: One of the aliens' weapons, and a pretty powerful one despite its limited ammo. Its special kill involves shrinking the enemy's head.
  • Red Right Hand: Naughty is missing a huge chunk of his left ear, serving as a sign of his violent, somewhat evil nature.
  • Reformed, but Rejected: Naughty was always a troublemaker, but when he tries to do something nice, the other bears simply laugh at him. Which leads to his (sometimes literal) Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • RevengeSVP: The entire premise of the first episode — Naughty wasn't invited to Daddles' party, but showed up with a gift anyway only to be mocked and thrown out. Cue a vengeful Roaring Rampage of Revenge on Naughty's part.
  • Rewarding Vandalism: One of the easiest point sources in the game is simply just smashing up everything in sight. However, this deprives you of potential distractions and ambush opportunities, as well as causing the points awarded to fall for every repeated act of vandalism.
  • Riddle for the Ages: The meaning of the Nightmare Sequence Naughty experiences upon reaching 100% Completion is never clearly explained, leaving it ambiguous as to whether it's just a simple nightmare or a hint at the reasons behind Naughty's violent enmity with Daddles.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Pretty much every episode runs along these lines: Naughty gets wronged somehow by the bears. Naughty seeks revenge and hunts down those who wronged him. The bears somehow revive afterwards. Rinse and repeat, changing the main antagonistic bear/faction each episode.
  • Seppuku: A bear Driven to Suicide while holding a bladed weapon will kill themselves by slashing their belly in the manner of this trope.
  • Serial Killer: Naughty's M.O. is essentially to act like a horror film villain.
  • Set a Mook to Kill a Mook: You can disguise yourself as any of the "special" bears and attack the other bears, resulting in the different bear factions attacking and killing one another.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Shrink Ray: The Ray Gun's Finishing Move ("Cranial Shrinkage") involves shrinking the victim's head down to a ridiculous degree.
  • Sugar Apocalypse: Perfection Island is a pretty Sugar Bowl full of cute bears, happy wildlife, and sweet confectionaries. It's also home to a psychotic Serial Killer who regularly goes on rampages, the bears are all arseholes who love Bullying a Dragon, and at least three apocalypses note  have to be averted during the game's events.
  • Super Drowning Skills: By shoving the victim's head into a broken sink or toilet, they will almost immediately drown after only being submerged for a few seconds.
  • Super Hero: The X-Bears in episode 8 are a team of superhero bears, described as some of the best crime-fighters in the world.
  • Taking Over the Town: A one-teddy version; by sinking the boat, disabling the car and phones and setting up traps at the dock that the police use, Naughty can effectively prevent anyone from escaping and immediately lock down any reinforcements at the dock.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: The bears killed in an episode simply come back to life in the next episode.
  • Too Dumb to Live:
    • OK, Daddles. You go out of your way to humiliate, embarrass, and do other nasty and vicious things to Naughty Bear despite the painfully obvious fact that he has a breaking point. He gets what he deserves when he finally snaps.
    • Same goes to the other bears, who are complete dicks to him for little reason. Makes what happens next slightly understandable.
    • "Oh no! Naughty's gone berserk and is murdering everyone on the island! Let me fix this broken telephone right out here in the open!"
    • In the ending, the other bears invite Naughty to a celebration. As soon as he gets there, they smash a cake into his face and laugh at him, without trying to kill him or anything. No surprises as to what happens next.
  • Unexpected Kindness: At the end of the game after Naughty has saved the island from the aliens, the bears who usually mistreat him hold a ceremony for him, and the narrator notes that this is quite a surprise. Naughty appears to be surprised and touched by this. It's soon subverted when one of them throws a cake right in Naughty's face and the others laugh at him, meaning that they only brought him here to set him up for humiliation and they are not the least bit grateful for what he's done.
  • Unexplained Recovery: It's never elaborated how the bears come back to life between episodes.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: After Naughty Bear saves the island from the aliens, they decide to deceive him by throwing a party for him, then throw a cake in his face and laugh at him. He promptly gets his own back by firing an RPG into the cabin as the bears party, before retiring to his hut in peace with a smile on his face.
  • Unicorn: The Unibear serves as this, being a grey-white bear with a long horn that's described as being "mythical" and one of the purest creatures of the Island.
  • Unicorns Are Sacred: If Naughty kills a Unibear when it appears in the game, it bags him a hefty points increase. The Vampiricorn drinking the fluff of one is also condemned as "monstrous" by the Narrator, with even Naughty reacting to the sight with horror.
  • The Unintelligible: All of the bears speak and are apparently capable of communicating with each other, but their words are either completely incomprehensible or just Voice Grunting sounds.
  • Vampire Monarch: The Vampiricorn, leader of the vampire bears.
  • Vehicular Sabotage: Can be done to prevent escape, either by sabotaging the vehicle or outright wrecking it.
  • Video Game Cruelty Potential:
    • The game actively encourages doing horrible things to the bears so you can wring the most points out of them, with an entire section of the in-game guide dedicated to this strategy (referred to as "stressing the meat"). While it's not necessarily required for most levels, you will need to do this if you want to get the higher scores.
    • This is practically enforced by the Insanity Challenge — the only way to proceed is to torment every bear on the level until they go insane, as killing any of them before they go mad is an immediate failure.
    • Push bears past insanity, and they kill themselves - which gives you a massive point bonus, particularly if they kill themselves in front of other bears. One of the easiest ways to get a platinum ranking in a level is to drive literally every bear in the area to suicide.
  • Villain Protagonist: Naughty Bear's an Ax-Crazy, murderously unstable killer with a long history of misbehaviour. Unusually, this is somewhat justified by the way he other bears are usually trying to kill Naughty, spy on him, humiliate him, or destroy his hut in the glades.
  • Voice Grunting: The bears never speak intelligibly, communicating through shouts, gibberish, and the occasional semi-intelligible clip of English.
  • Zombie Apocalypse: In "Night of the Living Ted", Nibbles accidentally summons the Un-Ted by reading a cursed book. The episode revolves around Naughty slaughtering his way through the Zombear hordes while destroying the book's pages to undo the summoning.

Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise contains examples of the following tropes:

  • Darker and Edgier: Subverted somewhat. While it's still just as violent as the first game, it doesn't even try to mask itself as a happy, stuffed animal quest at the beginning of the game. Unless a title screen with creepy music, a green bear with a hole in his chest and a missing arm, and an interactive double-barrel shotgun with the phrase "A good bear is a dead bear" is a happy game in your eyes.
  • Death by Irony: The target will usually be killed like this.
    • Chubby is on Paradise Island for a "fluffosuctomy" procedure to reduce his weight; Naughty kills him by draining all the fluff from his body through the weight-reducing machine, leaving him a weightless, shrunken shell.
    • Fluffy has slipped back into his Mad Scientist phase and is trying to find a way to teleport; Naughty kills him by throwing Fluffy into a portal opened by the teleporter.
    • Nibbles, the cook of the island, gets thrown into a cookie-making machine that turns him into a cookie (which Naughty promptly crumbles).
    • Trembles, the oil baron, gets force-fed a can of his own signature crude oil then set alight by Naughty.
  • Grievous Bottley Harm: With 'intact wine bottle' and 'broken wine bottle' versions.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Level 13 has you impale Silky on his own Unibear statue.
  • Improvised Weapon: New ones: a lawn mower, a hotel bell, a saguaro, a dumpster, a bass amplifier, etc.
  • Man-Eating Plant: Level two. You get to feed the Victim of the Week to said plant, and it isn't pretty.
  • Mugged for Disguise: Fatally so. Naughty drags his victim into the woods, squeezes their neck so hard their head pops off, and dons their outfit as a disguise. He can even wear the faces of some bears, Hannibal Lecter-style.
  • Nice Guy: Dr. Juggles, a kind psychiatrist bear who wants to help Naughty with his issues so he and the other bears can live in harmony. Unfortunately, the narrator convinces Naughty to kill him.
  • Rewarding Vandalism: You can break furniture, boxes, trash bins, barrels, amplifiers, Fluff-frogs, etc. And you get a LOT of coins for it.
  • Serial Killer: Aside from Naughty, there is Jacques le Tickler, a "serial tickler" bear who uses his sharp claws to "tickle" other bears in a sick game.
  • Threatening Shark: Called "Sand Dolphins"; they will eat your victims if they're thrown in the water.
  • Underside Ride: How Naughty gets to the Island, taped to the bottom of the bus. He throws the camera quite the Psychotic Smirk, too.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Naughty Bear himself. He wouldn't have gone through with his rampage had the other bears been nicer to him and invited him on their vacation.

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