In the Land Down Under, you should watch out for drop bears, though those are supposedly carnivorous koalas rather than actual bears - but even real koalas can be plenty dangerous in their own right, being Australian Wildlife and all. Contrast with to Panda-ing to the Audience, Beary Funny and Beary Friendly, which are about more positive depictions of bears.ĭo not confuse this with The Bad News Bears (the Trope Namer, though not an example), with the Bearer of Bad News, with The Bear, which is about a big hairy Manly Gay guy, or with Exit, Pursued by a Bear, though that trope's name is an example of this trope. except maybe a robot bear or zombie bear, or a bear made of fire or ice. Especially as a mount, because there's nothing cooler than riding a bear.
Incidentally, this same fear has also inspired great respect, as such, a great way to raise the credentials of any badass, villain, or Anti-Hero if you give them a bear. The English word 'bear' originally meant "brown one", and the Slavic word medved originally meant "honey eater." Even the original Proto-Indo-European word was related to the word for "destruction", proving just how ancient this particular Primal Fear is.
This adds to their unpredictability as to how a bear reacts to a certain situation will entirely depend on both the bear itself and the mood it's in at the time.īears have such a long history of scaring the Pooh out of human beings that most of the names we've ever given them are derived from conciliatory euphemisms, as part of an old taboo against naming something so dangerous. Another issue is that bears are very intelligent (often regarded as being very close to chimpanzees) and they actually have individual personalities.
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