List of bear villains in media, and this isn't even scratching the surface💀

My favorite bit of bear lore is the etymology of the word "bear"

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The English word "bear" comes from Old English bera and belongs to a family of names for the bear in Germanic languages, such as Swedish björn, also used as a first name. This form is conventionally said to be related to a Proto-Indo-European word for "brown", so that "bear" would mean "the brown one".[1][2] However, Ringe notes that while this etymology is semantically plausible, a word meaning "brown" of this form cannot be found in Proto-Indo-European. He suggests instead that "bear" is from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵʰwḗr- ~ *ǵʰwér "wild animal".[3] This terminology for the animal originated as a taboo avoidance term: proto-Germanic tribes replaced their original word for bear—arkto—with this euphemistic expression out of fear that speaking the animal's true name might cause it to appear.[4][5] According to author Ralph Keyes, this is the oldest known euphemis

Same thing in Slavic languages, but they replaced arkto with ~~"the one who knows where the honey is", medved (med = honey, ved = knowledge)~~ "honey eater", thank you for correcting comrades!
- Huh, I thought it was more akin to "honey eater"
- Erm, ackshually Wiktionary says that's a false etymology.
This terminology for the animal originated as a taboo avoidance term: proto-Germanic tribes replaced their original word for bear—arkto—with this euphemistic expression out of fear that speaking the animal’s true name might cause it to appear

Omg seabear
What Arctotherium and Cave Bear encounters can do to mfs💀

Bears (Three Bears)

bro those weren't villains, those were victims of a home invasion

Missing Hexbear smdh

Can't believe they forgot literally 2 most famous and obvious ones💀

hexbear-shining

Death to America

Now do man villains

Man as in Man: Arkham Aslume?

That would be Jonkler, Bone, Two Face and Killer Croc.

The West has some sort of trauma with bears

And they'll fear them again in due time, just you wait comrades.
Arctotherium delayed migration to North America, as for modern times, it should be obvious lmao.