History Main / BigHeartedBigfoot

* ''Literature/MrMen'': Near the end of ''Adventure With Monsters'', Mr. Jelly comes across a Bigfoot who ends up getting scared by Mr. Jelly being inside his boot. [[spoiler:This is what clues Mr. Jelly onto the fact that the monster were actually friendly and wanted to have tea with the Mr. Men and Little Misses.]]

* One of Spyro's allies introduced in ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' is a Yeti named Bentley, who is a charming and eloquent GentleGiant. Just don't tick him off, or else he will make good use of his giant ice club, as Moneybags found out the hard way.

Note that this depiction less commonly extends to the Yeti/Abominable Snowman, who is still often portrayed as a fierce, dangerous creature of the frozen wastes; exceptions are still quite common though, especially in recent years.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': The Abominable Snowman is portrayed as a monster who got exiled from Monstropolis and thrown into the human world, hiding in the Himalayas. He's very friendly with his fellow monsters Sulley and Mike, bringing them to his cave to avoid a snowstorm and offering them some snow cones. He also makes mention of Bigfoot, who is his best friend.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': The Abominable Snowman is portrayed as a monster who got exiled from Monstropolis and thrown into the human world, hiding in the Himalayas. He's very friendly with his fellow monsters Sulley and Mike, bringing them to his cave to avoid a snowstorm and offering them some snow cones.

Depending on how supernatural their preexisting lore is, most portrayals of cryptids or other creatures of folklore usually portray them as wild animals at best, malevolent beings at worst. [[StockNessMonster Lake monsters]] are generally imagined as crocodilian ambush hunters, dragging unwary victims into murky, black depths. The {{Chupacabras}} are vampyric apex predators, laying waste to livestock and any human farmers that get between them and viable prey. Other cryptids have equally monstrous portrayals, both in their traditional lore and in fiction.

Depending on how supernatural their preexisting lore is, most portrayals of cryptids or other creatures of folklore usually portray them as wild animals at best, malevolent beings at worst. [[StockNessMonster Lake monsters]] are generally imagined as crocodilian ambush hunters, dragging unwary victims into murky, black depths. The {{Chupacabra}} are vampyric apex predators, laying waste to livestock and any human farmers that get between them and viable prey. Other cryptids have equally monstrous portrayals, both in their traditional lore and in fiction.

Depending on how supernatural their preexisting lore is, most portrayals of cryptids or other creatures of folklore usually portray them as wild animals at best, malevolent beings at worst. [[StockNessMonster Lake monsters]] are seen as terrifying denizens of the depths, surfacing only to attack unwary victims. The {{Chupacabra}} is a blood-sucking vampire beast. Other cryptids have equally monstrous portrayals, both in their traditional lore and in fiction.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': SCP-1000 is none another than Bigfoot, whose civilization ruled the world during the Pleistocene and reached an extremely advanced state using OrganicTechnology, up until humanity, allegedly with the help of a trickster god, genocided almost all of them, turned the mental capacities of the survivors to mere animals, and wiped out their own memories of Bigfoot's existence. Increasingly, the few surviving modern-day Bigfoots, being kept by the foundation, are starting to regain their mental faculties and are attempting to communicate, with translations indicating that they [[EasilyForgiven forgive humanity for their crimes]] and just want to be let back into the world, although they indicate that their forgiveness is only temporary, and is primarily based on the alternate choice, which is being captive forever with their new mental faculties.

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* ''Series/DispatchesFromElsewhere'': Averted with "Elegant Squatch," a Sasquatch who gives out clues in the Elsewhere game. He's kind of a putz once you get to know him and is warm for Simone's form.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': PlayedWith with the Wildermann, large hairy hominid-like [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Wesen]] who are the inverse inspiration for the legends of Bigfoot (as well as all other similar creatures in world mythology and folklore including the yeti and the Woodwose from European folklore). Despite their incredible physical prowess (being stronger than even [[WolfMen Blutbaden]]) overall the majority of them are friendly, peaceful, artistic individuals who deeply enjoy nature (many of the supporters of transcendentalism where secretly Wildermann, famous examples including several poets such as [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Walt Whitman]]). However, they're animalistic nature also comes with a terrifying temper and impulse control issues. This leads to many Wildermann who can't find a balance to struggle with their dual nature (more so than most wesen) and attempt to supress it. In "Big Feet" therapist Konstantin Binkerhoff believed he had created a serum that would successfully do so which he took and shared with several members of the Portland Wildermann community only for him to discover to late that once it wore off it had the immediate opposite effect, bringing all the beast to forefront.
* ''Series/LostTapes'': Bigfoot is one of the few cryptids in the show to be actively helpful, killing the EvilPoacher who has been poaching bears and terrorizing a park ranger.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MissingLink'': The film is all about a friendly Sasquatch, the LastOfHisKind, who befriends an intrepid explorer in order to visit his distant cousins, the Yetis, in Shangri-la. [[spoiler: As it turns out, his cousins aren't so friendly.]] By contrast, Nessie - who appears in the ActionPrologue - is portrayed as a ferocious PrehistoricMonster.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth'' episode "Keep Beef-lievin' Adventure" is about Moon starting to doubt the existence of Bigfoot. Moon has a dream about Bigfoot being his best friend who even comes to school rather than seeing him as a monster.

* ''Dawn of the Beast'' (2021) has a very menacing looking Sasquatch attack a man in the opening before dragging him off, later doing to the same to one of the main cast. TheReveal shows it was just incapacitating them to get them out of their, as the {{Wendigo}} it was protecting them from was close. The same Sasquatch is implied to be a GuardianEntity trying to keep the wendigo contained.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The Wookiees are essentially this RecycledInSpace. A species of arboreal humanoids averaging over two meters tall and covered in shaggy fur, they're normally {{Gentle Giant}}s with the demeanor of a BigFriendlyDog... [[BewareTheNiceOnes unless you piss them off]], at which juncture their ProudWarriorRace tendencies come to light: they have a reputation for [[AnArmAndALeg tearing people's arms out of their sockets]].

* ''Literiture/{{Incryptid}}'': Bigfoots and Sasquatches are a pair of closely-related cryptid species. With extra-large shoes and enough hair-removal products they can both pass themselves off as humans and find it funny to trick bigfoot hunters into chasing the other group.

* ''Film/BoggyCreek2TheLegendContinues'' goes the MonsterIsAMommy route, with the sasquatch-like Fouke Monster only a threat to people because a man has captured her child. Once the two monsters are reunited, the man sees the error of his ways and accepts that the creature is a part of nature and should be left alone.

-> '''Moon''': Everyone doubted me, but I stuck to my goal,
->And now I've got Bigfoot trapped in a hole,
->Take my hand, hairy friend, and I'll pull you out,
->Then we'll go show the haters and erase all the doubt,
->'''Bigfoot''': I can't talk, but I love to sing,
->When it comes to Bigfoot traps, Moon is the king,
->'''Moon''': At the risk of sounding boastful,
->I must admit he's right,
->I've been perfecting traps,
->In my dreams every night,

->'''Moon''': All those nonbelievers now think I'm really cool,

* [[''Fanfic/TheBridge'' The Amalgam'verse]] has a version of King Kong very heavily based on the ''{{Franchise/Monsterverse}}'' version. Effectively a kaiju sized Sasquatch, he's the protector of the Iwi people and later becomes the MentorArchetype to [[KidHeroAllGrownUp Godzilla Junior]].

* Likewise, in ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' the leader of the heroic Virtuous Beasts is the yeti-like ape Blizzard.

* ''Monstrous'' (2020) also manages this trope within a horror film. A cabin owned by main heroine Silva's lover, Alex, is besieged by a very menacing looking Sasquatch that's only kept at bay by a sonic barrier. It even kidnaps Silva's friend while he was in-route to the cabin, and yanks Silva through a window. TheReveal however is that Alex is a serial killer. The Sasquatch was aware of this and was trying to protect Silva and her friends. And as soon as the sonic barrier keeping it away was down, it [[BigDamnHeroes it comes rushing in]] to kill Alex to save Silva, whom he carries to her friends, before peacefully departing into the woods.

* ''Dawn of the Beast'' has a very menacing looking Sasquatch attack a man in the opening before dragging him off, later doing to the same to one of the main cast. TheReveal shows it was just incapacitating them to get them out of their, as the {{Wendigo}} it was protecting them from was close. The same Sasquatch is implied to be a GuardianEntity trying to keep the wendigo contained.
* ''Monstrous'' also manages this trope within a horror film. A cabin owned by main heroine Silva's lover, Alex, besieged by a very menacing looking Sasquatch. It even kidnaps Silva's friend while he was in-route to the cabin, and yanks Silva through a window. TheReveal however is that Alex is a serial killer. The Sasquatch was aware of this and was trying to protect Silva and her friends. And as soon as the sonic barrier keeping it away was down, it [[BigDamnHeroes it comes rushing in]], kills Alex and carries Silva to safety before peacefully departing into the woods.

* ''Film/LettersFromTheBigMan'': The titular "Big Man" is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane either]] an entirely peaceful animal or a benevolent spirit of the forest, who befriends an artist. The filmmakers specifically made the movie to reflect the many reports of peaceful bigfoots in contary to the overabundance of horror films.

* ''Dawn of the Beast'' has a very menacing looking Sasquatch attack a man in the opening before dragging him off, later doing to the same to one of the main cast. TheReveal shows it was just incapacitating them to get them out of their, as the Wendigo it was protecting them from was close. The same Sasquatch is implied to be a GuardianEntity trying to keep the wendigo contained.