Polar bear

Polar bears are large, white, predatory mammals native to the planet Earth. They are especially common near Churchill in Canada.

Fiction

Earthforce

A polar bear wandered past the Earthforce's shuttle as its crew played an April Fools' prank on Grimlock. Snow Fun! Some time later, during the construction of the Earthbase, Wheeljack had an altercation with a polar bear, leading Skydive to believe he'd been attacked by a Predacon. Mystery! A bemused polar bear watched an angry Grimlock burst from the Earthbase, chasing Tracks with his flaming energo-sword, Makin' Tracks! and there was yet another polar bear mooching around outside the base when Wheeljack discovered that the only cure for Snarl's Corrodia Gravis was a systems boost from Starscream. Assassins

The tabloid newspaper Front Line! ran a story concerning Elvis and a polar bear. Shortly afterwards, there was a polar bear outside Earthbase as Grimlock gave the human Irwin Spoon a tour of the facilities. Front Line!

Rescue Bots cartoon

A polar bear observed Griffin Rock as it teleported over the Arctic. Now and Then

2005 IDW continuity

Polar Claw, disguised as a polar bear, Sins of the Wreckers #2 attempted to kill Verity Carlo in Alaska, but was driven off by the Autobot Stakeout. Sins of the Wreckers #1 Polar Claw would maintain the disguise until he was attacked by the Wreckers. Sins of the Wreckers #2

Notes

• Polar Claw, naturally, transforms into a polar bear.
• As does Icebird.
• Polarclaw, conversely, has a robot mode based on a polar bear.
• Missionary Kuma Kinkin, who transforms into a giant polar bear, is the leader of the Byakurēn, a religious cult of Transformers with bear altmodes.
• The Beastformer Polar Battle Bear is an anthropomorphic polar bear.
• On the cover of Marvel UK issue #267, an unnamed Canadian hunter observed that Grimlock was not a polar bear.
• According to the notes included in the Titan Books trade paperback Transformers: Prey, Simon Furman set the Earthforce stories near Churchill because he really likes polar bears. In real life, Churchill is nicknamed "Polar Bear Capital of the World".

External links

• Polar bear at Wikipedia