History Literature / PaddingtonBear

* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy

* CoolOldGuy: Mr. Gruber

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In early editions, some of the small illustrations occasionally showed Paddington smoking a cigar a la UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill. This obviously is now considered completely inappropriate for a childrens book and later editions removed or replaced these.

* GrumpyOldMan: Mr. Curry

* MathematiciansAnswer: In one book, Paddington appears on a television quiz show and befuddles the quizmaster by giving answers that are correct, but don't match the ones on his cards. For example when asked how long each piece would be if you cut an eight foot long board into four equal pieces, Paddington says eight feet. The quizmaster tells him he's wrong, it's two feet, but Paddington says that bears cut planks lengthwise for safety so you'd end up with four planks eight feet long. Under pressure from the studio audience to allow the answer, the rattled quizmaster concedes the point.
* MisplacedWildlife: Paddington is a bear [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_Bear from Peru,]] but looks like a brown bear from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear Northern Hemisphere.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Marmalade.

* NiceHat: Paddingon's distinctive hat is called a bush hat given to him by his Uncle Pastuzo
** ... with stains passed down by his forebears, no less.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In early editions, some of the small illustrations occasionally showed Paddington smoking a cigar. This obviously is now considered completely inappropriate for a childrens book and later editions removed or replaced these.

* MathematiciansAnswer: In one book, Paddington appears on a television quiz show and befuddles the quiz master by giving answers that are correct, but don't match the ones on his cards. For example when asked how long each piece would be if you cut an eight foot long board into four equal pieces, Paddington says eight feet. The quizmaster tells him he's wrong, it's two feet, but Paddington says that bears cut planks lengthwise for safety so you'd end up with four planks eight feet long. Under pressure from the studio audience to allow the answer, the rattled quizmaster concedes the point.

* TruthInTelevision: Paying close attention to the text reveals Paddington to be a spectacled bear, based on his description. Spectacled bears ''are'' a very rare sort of bear, being the closest living relative to the short-faced bear of the Pleistocene, and mostly eat fruit and honey -- two traditional ingredients in marmalade.

Paddington books continued to be written throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and spawned [[{{WesternAnimation/Paddington}} a TV series of 5 minute shorts]] that ran from 1975 to 1986. The unique visual style (Paddington himself is a stop-motion figure, the backgrounds are black-and-white line drawings and the other characters are 2D paper cutouts) and catchy theme tune led to it becoming a well-loved childhood favourite.

* MisplacedWildlife: Paddington is a bear [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_Bear from Peru]], but looks like a brown bear from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear Northern Hemisphere]].

* Limited Wardrobe: Justified, as Paddington had only his heirloom hat for clothing when he arrived. That said, it's amazing how the illustrators never remember that he also has a red knit hat with pompoms, as well as a green beret, both presents from the Browns.

[[caption-width-right:350:A reprint of ''A Bear Called Paddngon'', the first book in the series.]]

* DeathGlare: Paddington's "hard stare"

* FishOutOfWater: One of the main sources of humor and plot. Paddington emigrated from Darkest Peru and thus is very unfamiliar with British life.
** How unfamiliar? In the first chapter, Mister Brown takes him to a buffet and buys him a cream-filled bun -- which he proceeds to eat while sitting on the table. (To be fair, he had to stand on the chair to ''reach'' the table.)

** In contrast, when Paddington competes in a popular TV game show, the host briefly experiences SanitySlippage.
*** Though it's hard to say whether that's because he was a bear (and thus the source of some truly horrible puns by the host) or because his answers were... [[CloudCuckooLander unusual]]. Or both.

* NiceGuy: Paddington is the most charming and polite people you could meet.

* MisplacedWildlife: Paddington is a bear [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_Bear from Peru]], but looks like a a brown bear from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear Northern Hemisphere]].

[[Film/{{Paddington}} A live-action movie]] was released in December of 2014, with Creator/NicoleKidman, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Creator/PeterCapaldi, and Creator/BenWhishaw as the voice of Paddington. A [[Film/Paddington2 sequel]] was released late 2017 with Creator/HughGrant and Creator/BrendanGleeson joining the cast.

[[Film/{{Paddington}} A live-action movie]] was released in December of 2014, with Creator/NicoleKidman, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Creator/PeterCapaldi, and Creator/BenWhishaw as the voice of Paddington. A [[Film/Paddington2 sequel]] was released late 2017 with original cast With new cast members Creator/HughGrant and Creator/BrendanGleeson.

[[Film/{{Paddington}} A live-action movie]] was released in December of 2014, with Creator/NicoleKidman, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Creator/PeterCapaldi, and Creator/BenWhishaw as the voice of Paddington. Paddington's creator Michael Bond passed away in June 2017 to universal sorrow from the British public.

* ComicBookTime: Although London changes, Paddington and the Browns don't.

[[Film/{{Paddington}} A live-action movie]] was released in December of 2014, with Creator/NicoleKidman, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Creator/PeterCapaldi, and Creator/BenWhishaw as the voice of Paddington.

->Please Look After This Bear. Thank You.