History ComicStrip / RupertBear

* SpoiledSweet: Podgey Pig is fairly greedy at times, but he is mostly good-natured and one of Rupert's closest friends.
** Pong Ping, Tiger Lily and Ottoline Otter are from wealthy families, and have ties to royalty, and you'd be hard pressed to find anything rotten about any of them.

* PettingZooPeople: Rupert and his friends have animal heads (and sometimes tails) on human-shaped bodies.

Rupert has had several TV series, the most popular being a [[TheNineties 1990s]] animated cartoon series produced by {{Nelvana}}. Rupert also appeared in Music/PaulMcCartney's 1984 music video "We All Stand Together"; [=McCartney=] also made an animated video starring Rupert called ''Rupert and the Frog Song''.

The story's setting is the village of Nutwood, which resembles an idealized version of an English village in the early [[TheThirties 1930s]]. Rupert's adventures are very diverse, appealing to many aspects of fantasy. Unlike most modern comic strips, ''Rupert'' has always been produced in the form of illustrations accompanying text, as opposed to text being incorporated into the art through the use of SpeechBubbles. Rupert is notable for having survived the years of WorldWarII. Annuals have been released every year since 1936.

Rupert has had several TV series, the most popular being a [[TheNineties 1990s]] animated cartoon series produced by {{Nelvana}}. Rupert also appeared in {{Paul McCartney}}'s 1984 music video "We All Stand Together"; [=McCartney=] also made an animated video starring Rupert called ''Rupert and the Frog Song''.

* DefeatMeansFriendship

* AnIcePerson: Jack Frost and [[EvilCounterpart Billy Blizzard]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* SpeciesSurname

* MrImagination: Rupert's parents ''assume'' their son is this... WordOfGod says they're wrong.

* NarrativePoem: A distinctive feature of the strip and annuals is that there are two parallel text narrations. One is detailed prose, while the other, for younger children, consists of a single rhyming couplet for every four panels.

* NarrativePoem: A distinctive feature of the strip and annuals is that there are two parallel text narrations. One is detailed prose, while the other, for younger children, consists of a single rhyming couple for every four panels.

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** In fact he's such a good guy, he borders into [[TheMessiah Messiah]] territory.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Despite what you may have heard, the character's official name is Rupert Bear, not Rupert '''the''' Bear. The latter came from the title song to the original 70's TV adaptation.

* FatherChristmas: Rupert's met him a few times; he also takes care of Version I {{snowlems}}.

* AnIcePerson: Jack Frost ([[NamesTheSame No, not]] [[JackFrost that one]]) and [[EvilCounterpart Billy Blizzard]].

Rupert Bear is a children's comic strip character featured in a series of books based around his adventures. The character was created by the English artist Mary Tourtel and first appeared in the London Daily Express on 8 November 1920. Rupert's initial purpose was to grab sales from the rival Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. Since then he has become significant to children's culture in the United Kingdom. Alfred Bestall took over from 1935 until 1965, various people have written and illustrated Rupert to this day.

* TricksterArchetype: The Fox Twins

* BeamMeUpScotty: Despite what you may have heard, the character's official name is Rupert Bear, not Rupert '''the''' Bear. The latter came from the title song to the original 70's TV adaptation, and the misnomer was spread further by the fact that the song was reused for the 80's series and the Nelvana series.

The story's setting is the village of Nutwood, which resembles an idealized version of an English village in the early 1930s. Rupert's adventures are very diverse, appealing to many aspects of fantasy. Unlike most modern comic strips, ''Rupert'' has always been produced in the form of illustrations accompanying text, as opposed to text being incorporated into the art through the use of SpeechBubbles. Rupert is notable for having survived the years of WorldWarII. Annuals have been released every year since 1936.

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'''Tropes exclusively in the {{Nelvana}} cartoon series'''
* ArtShift: The intro (the original one, not the Nick Jr. version) starts with Rupert leaving his house, where the art style mimics the original comic's style having Rupert being fairly small; after a few seconds, it transitions into the art style used by the show with a taller, older looking Rupert.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Bill will immediately get worked up whenever Toby appears to be in danger.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In the 1990's cartoon, Rupert will occasionally make aside comments directed towards the audience.
* CatchPhrase: The Professor's "Think of the possibilities!"
* ChessMotifs: ''Rupert and Bill in Gameland''
* CrossDressingVoices: Rupert was voiced in the 90s cartoon by Julie Lemieux. Averted for the first season, where he was voiced by Ben Sandford.
* CycleOfRevenge: ''Rupert and the Leprechauns'': "First they stole the amulet, then we stole it, then they stole it, then we stole it, then they stole it, [[OverlyLongGag then we stole it, then they stole it, then we stole it, then they stole it...]]''
* DawsonCasting
* DiggingToChina: Rupert's Chinese friend Pong Ping had a lift that took the occupants straight down to China. It turned over halfway so they wouldn't arrive standing on their heads.
* FracturedFairyTale: Happens to Storyland in ''Rupert and the Fiddle''.
* FurryConfusion: Due to the nature of Rupert's universe, it's bound to happen. Especially in ''Rupert and the Little Bear''.
* HarmlessFreezing: Tends to happen whenever Billy Blizzard is around.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter via TimeTravel
** ''Rupert's Roman Adventure'': GaiusJuliusCaesar
** ''Rupert and Queen Bess'': WilliamShakespeare and [[TheVirginQueen Queen Bess]]
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Bill is terrible at singing. Ironically, it always succeeds in putting babies to sleep.
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The reason that Rupert and Podgy were not affected when time was frozen is because they were sitting in a tent, eating peppered pickles, and they sneezed at the exact same time.
* MessageInABottle: Rupert receives an invitation this way from a pirate friend, courtesy of Seven Seas Postal Service. Complete with an eel postman!
** Another time, Rupert is captured and folds a paper boat message and sends it downriver.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Both straight and played with in ''Rupert in Timeland''
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: ''Rupert and the Tiger's Eye'': Rupert is on holiday at Sandy Cove, where nothing ever happens... except for the jewel thief has crash landed his plane.
* [[OhCrap Oh]] [[GoshDangItToHeck Dear]]: In ''Rupert Bear and Billy Blizzard'', Billy's being a [[{{jerkass}} jerk]] in the North Pole, as per usual, but once they tell FatherChristmas, he'll sort everything out! Except he's frozen too...
-->'''Billy Blizzard:''' [[WhamLine Merry Christmas!]] [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]
* ReluctantMonster: Kledwin the Dragon in ''Rupert and the Knight''.
* RuthlessModernPirates: One of the cartoons featured river pirates, who show up in a later episode as members of a pirate retirement home, which had previously been inhabited solely by [[APirate400YearsTooLate more traditional pirates]].
* ShapedLikeItself: "Edward's as strong as an [[FunnyAnimal elephant]]."
* ShortCutsMakeLongDelays: A recurring plot element and running joke in the cartoon series is that all of Bill's "short cuts" invariably lead to some sort of strange adventure, but never where they wanted to go in the first place. In one episode, the two decided to split up and make a race out of it. Naturally, this time it's Rupert taking the proper route who finds himself in a land of adventure, which implies that it's not the shortcuts that lead to adventure, [[WeirdnessMagnet it's Rupert]].
* SmallNameBigEgo: Algy brags about being better at things than he really is; most everyone just ignores it, but once when Rupert and Bill played a prank to make him look as good as he says he is, he is mistaken for a great hero and drafted to fight a monster.
* TimeSkip: Due to an accident in Timeland, Rupert and Podgey skip through various stages of their future selves from teenagers to seniors; luckily, Father Time was able to [[ResetButton restore their proper ages when he sent them back home]].
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'''The recent CGI cartoon:'''
* {{Disneyfication}}: BIG TIME. It completely skewed the characters toward little kiddies.
* FlyingCar
* GenderFlip: The cartoon flipped Pong Ping and Ferdy Fox into females. Pong Ping's name was flipped to Ping Pong and Ferdy was renamed "Frieda".

*** This often happens in the AnimatedAdaptations

* PoliceAreUseless: Constable Growler, a literal TerrierOfJustice, tends to be TheLestrade to Rupert's AmateurSleuth. He doesn't seem to mind, as long as justice is done in the end.