Papa Bear

“	Excuse me, my darling, we're looking for the legendary Puss in Boots. Have you perhaps seen him?	”
—Papa Bear politely questioning Mama Luna.

Papa Bear, also called Papa, is a member of the Three Bears Crime Family. He is the husband of Mama Bear, the father of Baby Bear and the adoptive father of Goldilocks. All the Three Bears help Goldilocks in her campaign to grant her the Last Wish, thus coming into competition with Puss in Boots and "Big" Jack Horner.

Appearance[]

Papa Bear is the largest of the Three Bears. He is an old bear with grayish brown fur, wears a yellow knitted scarf around his neck, and has one yellow right eye while his left eye is scarred and blind. When Goldi was a little girl, Papa Bear was just the same as he would be a few years later, except that he didn't wear a scarf.

Personality[]

Papa Bear, despite his massive size and fierce exterior, is surprisingly polite and gentlemanly, though he can certainly be ferocious and perfectly willing to torture victims (such as the "piano treatment"), which appears to stem from a love of music given how well he plays piano and sings passionately while doing so. Papa follows his adopted daughter's lead and he is a family man who cares about his wife and chil dren deeply.

Papa prefers it when his son and daughter get along, admonishing Baby whenever he says Goldi isn't his sister and trusting Goldi's leadership even though she didn't tell them what she wanted to wish for until Baby confronted her on it. Her answer, that she wanted to wish for her real family, broke Papa's heart, that he even expressed some hurt bitterness over how Goldi didn't truly view him as her father, but he still cared enough about her to help her get the wish if that was what she truly wanted.

When the Wishing Star was lost, along with its wish, Papa was happy that Goldi finally saw the Three Bears as her true family, and was even happier to see her and Baby get along as true brother and sister.

Movies[]

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish[]

The Three Bears first appears when they and Goldilocks go into Mama Luna's house for Puss. Goldilocks tells Mama Luna that she and the family got an offer for him, in which Mama Luna declined that Puss is here. Goldilocks then had Papa Bear and Mama Bear interrogate her, which ended up having her fainted. She then orders Baby to search for Puss by using his smell, while she and Mama search for Puss as Papa Bear torments Mama Luna while playing her piano. Baby then informs Goldilocks and his parents that he found Puss, in which he shows them his corpse.

The Three Bears, along with Goldilocks then infiltrate "Big" Jack Horner's collection in which they spot Puss and Kitty as well as Jack Horner. As Goldi and the Bears chase Puss and Kitty, the Bears attempt to come after him in which Puss uses a stick on Baby and Mama, as he attempts to do the same with Papa, only to be knocked out of the air as he breaks out of the window with Kitty as the two them hop on in a carriage with Perrito.

The Bears and Goldi then go on a journey to the Wishing Star, while planning on what they can do when they make a wish for it. "Big" Jack Horner then bumps into them as the Bears and Goldi crash while Mama holds the latter to cushion her fall. As "Big" Jack Horner is taken Perrito hostage, The Bears and Goldi then threaten him by using one of his henchmen. After noticing Puss and Kitty have the map, the Bears and Goldi then go in battle to retrieve the Map while the Baker's Dozen try to kill Puss and his friends.

After getting the map to the Wishing Star, the Bears and Goldi then celebrate as they travel to the Wishing Star in which they notice a cabin in the forest, as they relax in while Goldi looks at a book she used to look at, in which was the day she was adopted. As Puss and Kitty sneak in, the latter accidentally leaves one of the boots, causing Goldilocks and Mama to notice it's gone. As Goldi wakes up Baby and Papa, Puss then gets caught in which Goldi and the Bears then attempt to retrieve the Map. Puss and Kitty then battle the Bears as they each kick the porridge, in which they throw the hot porridge to Mama, cold porridge to Baby, and the warm porridge to Papa.

As Puss and Kitty escape with the map, Goldi and the Bears then kidnap Perrito. Kitty then goes to rescue Perrito while Puss finds a way in the Soul's Cave. Goldi and the Bears then make a booby-trap in order to get the Map back from the cats using Perrito as bait, a couple of minutes later Baby Bear and Goldilocks start a fight, which is amused and mocked by Perrito, Baby Bear tells Perrito to stay out of the fight, which causes Perrito to laugh and insult the Three Bears and Goldilocks with profanity, which makes Mama Bear and Papa Bear laugh and admire Perrito, then Perrito tells Goldilocks that her family is funny and she being an orphan she won the lottery, which makes Goldilocks put sensitive, when Mama Bear says that they should adopt Perrito since he's just like them, Kitty stealthily takes Perrito and replaces he with a fake statue of Perrito, which makes Baby Bear angry and takes the statue, but just as Goldilocks reminds Baby Bear about the trap it's too late as they fell for the trap.

Later, while Puss in Boots arrives at the place where the Last Wish was, the Three Bears and Goldilocks unknowingly (since they were lost) were near the place where the Last Wish was. Which makes Goldilocks insult and scold Baby Bear, fed up with Goldilocks' abuse and insults, Baby Bear gets angry with Goldilocks, yelling at him and asking him how important is that desire that has got him and his parents involved in this, what which makes Goldilocks reveal that he wants to use the wish to get back together with his birth parents, which breaks the hearts of the Three Bears, to which the Bears doubt Goldilocks, to which Goldilocks comments that she's not a bear and does not feel part of the family, to which Mama Bear says that if that wish is very important to her they will get the Last Wish.

Then the Three Bears and Goldilocks join in the final fight. Near the end of the fight, Goldilocks has the map of the Last Wish, when she is about to make the wish, Goldilocks realizes that Baby Bear is about to die, which makes Goldilocks abandon his wish and save Baby Bear, to which Baby Bear gets excited. After the "defeat" of "Big" Jack Horner, Death appears hissing in front of everyone, which attracts the attention of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, after Goldilocks watches the epic battle of Puss in Boots and Death and the defeats of the latter. After this, Goldilocks and the Three Bears team up with Puss in Boots, Kitty and Perrito to defeat "Big" Jack Horner. After Jack Horner's defeat and the destruction of the Wishing Star Puss in Boots, Kitty, Perrito, the Three Bears and Goldilocks enjoy the meteor shower together. After a few minutes, the Bears and Goldilocks leave, saying goodbye to Puss in Boots, Kitty and Perrito, she tells the latter that he was right about how lucky she was, and she says goodbye as a Perrito before winking at him. Later on while they were planning what was going to be of his life, Baby says that they can be the replacement for Jack Horner's pastry organization, to which Goldilocks comments that it is a good idea, upon hearing what the bears were planning, the Ethical Bug told them says it's a good idea and that he can be his business partner, Baby Bear freaks out which makes Goldilocks try to hit the Ethical Bug.

Quotes[]

“	She is your sister! Do as she says.	”
—Papa Bear admonishing his son, Baby, when he argues that Goldi isn't his sister.

“	Well that's that, then. What say we go an' hibernate?	”
—Papa Bear after they find Puss in Boots' "grave".

“	You shouldn't o' done that, mate...	”
—Papa Bear to Puss in Boots after he "stabs" Papa in the nose with a stick

“	What's all this- What's all this bother about?!	”
—Papa Bear waking up after Goldilocks finds the map is missing

“	Well that's it, then. Game over. Them cats stole the stolen map we stole, and we ended up with diddly-squat. Nothing!	”
—Papa Bear as they prepare a trap for Puss and Kitty.

“	Haha! I like th' cut o' his jib!"	”
—Papa Bear amused by Perrito's insults and swearing

“	Some people stay until they run out the porridge, don't they Goldi?	”
—Papa Bear reacts to Goldilocks' declaration that she wants a real family and no more the Three Bears.

“	Goldi, you are a chip off the old block, you are	”
—Papa Bear to Goldilocks, after their adventure and reconciliation as a family.

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Trivia[]

He is based on the character from Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
His line, "Well I guess some people just stick around 'til the porridge is gone," was improvised by his actor Ray Winstone in his audition tape.
In concept art, Papa Bear is seen with a corn cob pipe similar to the original Papa Bear in Shrek.
The song Papa Bear plays and sings while giving Mama Luna the "Piano Treatment" is called the "Beer Barrel Polka" by the Andrews Sisters.
In the Latin Spanish dub, Papa Bear and the rest of his family speaks using an Argentinian accent due to his voice actor (Axel Kuschevatzky) being from Argentina.
His character model was slightly tweaked and reused as Thorn in The Wild Robot.