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Ursine Aliens
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Bears are wonderful creatures. If you want to create an Intelligent Gerbil alien from one, you don't have to alter its appearance much, since they can already take bipedal form and are effectively Humanoid Aliens already (to note the most obvious similarities besides the partial bipedalism, they are plantigradenote Walk with the soles of their feet to the ground, unlike most other large mammals, which walk on their toes omnivores). Indeed, any furry humanoid creature that doesn't explicitly appear to be some other kind of creature will appear more or less ursine. Beary Funny, Beary Friendly and Bears Are Bad News are all possible. Another possible reason for the presence of this trope is the apparent association between bears and stars, based on the famous Ursa Major/Ursa Minor (Greater Bear/Smaller Bear respectively) constellations. Also consider there is a concept in astrobiology about the distances at which planets could feasibly support life called the '''Goldilocks''' Zone. A special group of them are not just any old bear, but explicitly teddy bears. These are either an extremely good natured race, or for ironic effect, extremely nasty. See also Beast Man. Examples |
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In the Neighborhood Of Make Believe segments of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood there is a Purple Panda from the Planet Purple. | |
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The Bulrathi in the Master of Orion series. Their homeworld is Ursa. | |
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Parodied in Earth (The Book), where images show some of the human ideas of what aliens might look like. Among them were Chewbacca (with the "Like a bear" subtitle) and ALF (with the "Like a gay bear" subtitle). | |
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The Care Bears are definitely not from Earth, having come from some sort of alternate dimension according to the first two movies the series had. They also prefer to live all the way up in the sky, right down to being able to walk on clouds. | |
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The Humanx Commonwealth features the Ulru-Ujurrians, who look like large bears. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: While they are strange colors, mostly green and yellow, the Ytirflirk aliens are giant fur covered lumbering aliens with definite ursine elements to their snarls. This is highlighted when one of their ships appears in Siberia just after a Polar Bear is shown. | |
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In Guile and Abel's ending in Street Fighter X Tekken, Pandora's box summons a race of aliens that look like small blue bears. Abel thinks they're adorable; Guile, patience run out, leaves. | |
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Sacred Pie has the Bambolos (although they're known to the main characters primarily as "those stupid froo-froo bears"), parodies of the Ewoks from Star Wars that look rather more koala-ish than the originals. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: The Ob'enn who look like four-foot bipedal koalas. Technologically advanced, religiously xenocidal and frequently referred to as the Psycho-bears. And our "heroes" second starship, and first Sapient Ship, was built by them. Since then he's subjugated the most aggressive races of the galaxy, including the Ob'enn, declared war on a species composed of dark matter from another galaxy, and pretty much named himself God. There's also the Ursumari, though they're not actually aliens. Instead, they're uplifted Ursus maritimus, and their appearance is practically unchanged. |
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The Tediz from Conker's Bad Fur Day are full-on teddy bear fascists. | |
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Venom: Space Knight: Pik Rollo resembles a massive panda bear with a lemur-like tail, but is actually a vicious criminal. | |
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The preschool show Caillou features an episode where the children disagree on what game to play: one wants to pretend they are bears, while the others want to play astronauts. They compromise that they will be astronauts and visit a planet inhabited by alien bears. | |
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Treasure Planet: Long John Silver is depicted as a bear-like, humanoid Cyborg. | |
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BattleBlock Theater has a gigantic bear wearing star pasties living in space who is shot down at the end of the game by a huge laser coming from an infernal top hat. Naturally, nothing of this makes any sense at all, despite what the narrator says. | |
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The Brutes from Halo combine various traits of gorillas and bears (perhaps with a bit of rhino thrown in). | |
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In The Host (2008) one of the alien planets that Wanda has previously been on is one nicknamed "bear." They have four hearts and long claws for weapons and to carve ice sculptures. | |
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The Ro-Bear Berbils of ThunderCats look like a race of Cyborg teddy bears (Return of the Jedi and its Ewoks had come out fairly recently when the show premiered). According to the British ThunderCats comic book, they were a race of huge and savage bearlike warriors in the distant past, before civilizing themselves into benign cuteness. | |
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Suggested in one sketch of The Whitest Kids U' Know where a press conference about a bear infestation of the US secret moonbase accidentally indicates the existence of Saturn bears while assuring people the bears on the moon are believed to be Earth bears. Though the end of the sketch reveals the entire thing was a fake meant to distract people from an invasion of Iran. | |
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One Piece features robot ursine aliens on the moon, who were left there by an ancient civilization who decided to move themselves to the main planet. | |
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Bulldogs!: The Urseminites are adorable little roly-poly teddy-bear-things that are generally presumed to have been genetically engineered as children's playmates. They are an entire species of psychopaths with odious personal habits. | |
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Starfinder: Subverted. The first playable ursines in the game are ordinary bears uplifted to sapience with advanced technology. | |
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Legends of the Dead Earth': In The Power of Shazam! Annual #1, many of the Omuta resemble bears. The rest resemble horses. | |
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The title character of Muzzy in Gondoland is an alien who looks somewhat like a bipedal green bear. | |
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Two of those were featured in Courage the Cowardly Dog, trying to capture a runaway alien worm. The bears and the worm were apparently the pets of a gigantic rubber-forehead alien little girl called "Tulip". | |
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The Helmsman Saga features a civilization of walking bears (expies of Russia). | |
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In Robotech II: The Sentinels, the Karbarrans are described as "bearmen". How closely they resemble bears depends on the artist. | |
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The Chronicles of Aeres: The Bjornvir are a race of Wilderkind noted for their bear-like features. Alongside the Ulvir, they were the front line in defending the Gruncrist Forest from the invasion of orcs and goblins, tearing great swathes through the ranks of the invaders with their fangs and claws. | |
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In Legion of Super-Heroes story "The Unknown Legionnaire", the Protean aliens turned into animals resembling pointy-snouted furry polar bears to survive their world's ice age. | |
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Sands of Destruction has the Ursa Major species, which look like regular bears, and the Ursa Minor species, which look like teddy bears. | |
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Mighty Orbots features an episode with a planet of Ewok expies. | |
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Jet Force Gemini: The appearance of the Tribals is inspired by that of the Ewoks, and they also inhabit multiple planets in the solar system that has been ravaged by Mizar's army. There's also Ivana Bear, a more realistic-looking female bear who lives in the planet Water Ruin, and will give the main characters a Ship Part in exchange for a pair of earplugs she needs to sleep. | |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series has the Ursinoids, furry humanoids with bear-like snouts and fangs. A male and a female, both of whom work as miners on the planet Motherlode, appear in the episode "Mudd's Passion". | |
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The Shandi from Strata are part bear, part walrus and generally extremely polite and civilized, aside from their habit of fighting tooth-and-claw duels for things like government research grants...where the loser gets eaten. | |
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The Pila in David Brin's Uplift universe are Heavy Worlders who look like gray four-foot teddy bears with short snouts and funny hairs around their eyes, and their voices are so high-pitched that they need special equipment for many species (including humans) to even hear them. They are famously fanatical and conservative: they hate humans and won their independence as a species by declaring a holy war on the species that had uplifted them to sentience (with the approval of the patrons' patrons). They also treat their indentured species, the Pring, very harshly. | |
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In Nana Moon, the residents of Moon Haven take on a wide variety of body shapes, with some resembling Earth animals; the king of Moon Haven in particular is an anthropomorphic bear. | |
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The Bulrathi in the Line of Delirium series were more-or-less directly lifted from the Master of Orion series. Lukyanenko did expand on their culture, considering the version he used from the first Master of Orion, which didn't provide much background. In the books, the Bulrathi are a Proud Warrior Race Guy culture, who value hand-to-hand (or paw, if you want to be technical) combat over standard warfare. They also have falsetto voices, making them good tenors (when they're not ripping your head off). In fact, their obsession with direct combat leads to them developing a method to defeat the Silicoids' natural Deflector Shields (most races just shoot at them) using their high-pitched voices in a manner similar to how a singer can shatter a crystal glass with her voice. They are also stated to be scavengers, preferring to eat something that has been dead for days. In terms of clothing, they generally wear skirts (sometimes metal skirts), since their tough hides can handle almost anything an unarmed human can do to them. A human gift shop on their homeworld has a display of "authentic" Bulrathi armor, except the experienced protagonist immediately assumes it's fake, since it covers far too much body for the Honor Before Reason Bulrathi. |
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Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon: Long John Silver is depicted as a bear-like, humanoid Cyborg. | |
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The Lindauzi in The Wild Boy-although there were mentions of panther or dog-like features, bear-like is the most common description, the cover illustration clearly shows it. | |
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