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* TheFilmOfTheBook: The film is based on a book from 1916.



* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: the cougar is not scared of the cub but of the adult bear behind him.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: The film is based on a book from 1916.

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* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: the The cougar is not scared of the cub but of the adult bear behind him.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: The film VeryLooselyBasedOffATrueStory: While the friendship between the bear cub and adult bear is fictional (that the makers know of), the part where the hunter is confronted by the adult bear only for the bear to eventually turn and walk away is apparently based on a book from 1916.real experience of the original novel's author, James Curwood. Curwood had been a bear hunter until he dropped his rifle one day and was confronted by a bear, but for reasons he never understood, the bear let him live. The event caused Curwood to stop being a hunter and become a supporter of wildlife conservation instead.
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* {{Badass}}: Kaar. It comes with being an adult bear.
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Not to be confused with ''Bear'', which is a direct-to-video horror film that also features bears.

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Not to be confused with ''Bear'', which is a direct-to-video horror film that also features bears.bears, or with TheBear, a well-known gay archetype.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Kaar shows up at the end to save Youk from the cougar.
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* ScaredOfWhat'sBehindYou: the cougar is not scared of the cub but of the adult bear behind him.

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* ScaredOfWhat'sBehindYou: ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: the cougar is not scared of the cub but of the adult bear behind him.
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* ScaredOfWhat'sBehindYou: the cougar is not scared of the cub but of the adult bear behind him.
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Not to be confused with Bear, which is a direct-to-video horror film that also features bears.

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Not to be confused with Bear, ''Bear'', which is a direct-to-video horror film that also features bears.
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''The Bear'', (also known as ''L'Ours'') is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do TwoBrothers). It is adapted from the novel ''The Grizzly King''.

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''The Bear'', (also known as ''L'Ours'') is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do TwoBrothers).''Film/TwoBrothers''). It is adapted from the novel ''The Grizzly King''.
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* BadAss: Kaar.

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* BadAss: Kaar.{{Badass}}: Kaar. It comes with being an adult bear.
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* [[MamaBear Papa Bear]]

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* [[MamaBear Papa Bear]]Bear]]: Take a wild guess.
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* {{MamaBear Papa Bear}}

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* {{MamaBear [[MamaBear Papa Bear}}Bear]]
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* {{MamaBear Papa Bear}}
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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: While a majority of the violence is offscreen, the film tends to get quite gruesome despite its PG rating.

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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: While a majority of the violence is offscreen, the film tends to get quite gruesome despite its PG rating.rating, showing off mangled horses and a particularly violent battle between Kaar and the hunter's dogs.
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* {{Expy}}: BrotherBear and the Disneynature documentary film Chimpanzee share similarities.

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The Bear, (also known as L'Ours) is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do TwoBrothers). It is adapted from the novel The Grizzly King.

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The Bear, ''The Bear'', (also known as L'Ours) ''L'Ours'') is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do TwoBrothers). It is adapted from the novel The ''The Grizzly King.
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* BadAss: The Kodiak

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\n* AllThereInTheManual: The adult bear is called Kaar and the cub is Youk.
* BadAss: The KodiakKaar.



* {{Expy}} - Coincidentally, BrotherBear and the Disneynature documentary film Chimpanzee share similarities.

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* {{Expy}} - Coincidentally, {{Expy}}: BrotherBear and the Disneynature documentary film Chimpanzee share similarities.



* GentleGiant: The Kodiak towards the cub. The hunters however. . .
* MercyKill: One of the hunters has to put down their horse.

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* GentleGiant: The Kodiak towards the cub. The hunters however. . .however...
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Kaar mates with a female bear and the scene is obscured by the trees.
* GreenAesop: The ending gives one.
* HumansAreFlawed
* MercyKill: One of the hunters has to put down their horse.horse, as well as their dog.


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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted with the cub, but played straight with the hunters.

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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: BearsAreBadNews: Averted with the cub, but played straight with the hunters.
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* NightmareSequence: The poor cub gets one when he has nightmares of frogs.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The death of the cubs mother as well as several other animals throughout.

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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The death of the cubs cub's mother as well as several other animals throughout.
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* MushroomSamba: When the young cub eats some mushrooms, we are given a trippy sequence.
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Not to be confused with Bear, which is a direct-to-video horror film that also features bears.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: While a majority of the violence is offscreen, the film tends to get quite gruesome despite its PG rating.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The death of the cubs mother as well as several other animals throughout.
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* GentleGiant: The Kodiak towards the cub. The hunters however. . .

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* {{Expy}} - Coincidentally, BrotherBear and the Disneynature documentary film Chimpanzee follows a plot similar to this film.
* MamaBear: Or Papa Bear in this case.

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* {{Expy}} - Coincidentally, BrotherBear and the Disneynature documentary film Chimpanzee follows a plot similar to this film.
* MamaBear: Or Papa Bear in this case.
share similarities.
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* {{Expy}} - Coincidentally, BrotherBear and the Disneynature documentary film Chimpanzee follows a plot similar to this film.
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* BadAss: The Kodiak
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: The film is based on a book from 1916.
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In the film, an orphan bear cub hooks up with a wounded adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

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In the film, After his mother is killed in a freak accident, an orphan bear cub hooks up with a wounded adult male Kodiak bear as they try to dodge human hunters.




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* MamaBear: Or Papa Bear in this case.
* MercyKill: One of the hunters has to put down their horse.
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In the film, an orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

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In the film, an orphan bear cub hooks up with an a wounded adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
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The Bear, (also known as L'Ours) is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do TwoBrothers). It is adapted from the novel The Grizzly King.

In the film, an orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

! The film uses the following tropes:

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted with the cub, but played straight with the hunters.

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