Tear Jerker / We Bare Bears

"It's okay, little guy. Grab on. You're safe now."

Weren't expecting a cute and funny show about cuddly bears to make you cry? Too bad, feels time.

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Pilot

• There's a brief flashback to the bears as cubs, living on the street in a cardboard box while Grizzly panhandles for food. Cute, and a little funny, sure. But it's still sad to think that this is how the bears grew up.

Season 1

Our Stuff

• When the bears are apprehended by the police, the bears are distressed but poor Panda had it the worst. The thought alone of going to jail makes him cry. When Grizzly says that they must face the consequences, Panda lets out a heartbroken "No!".

Viral Video

• When Panda's video gets a dislike, Grizzly laments, "Aww, why must people hate?". Considering Grizzly's past and how friendly and optimistic he is towards humans makes this line much more poignant.
• Wanting so badly to become Internet famous, Grizzly gets his chance to meet with the memetic Internet celebrity Nom Nom. At first, Nom Nom appears to be cool with Grizz and even seems to compliment the bears' video. However, once Grizz asks about Nom Nom's friends online, Nom Nom shows his true colors and talks dismissively about all of them, making Grizz feel terrible (as he wanted to become Internet famous to gain friends). Even worse, Nom Nom has him kicked out of the limo and chucks the phone he watched the bears' video on, leaving poor Grizz dejected on the sidewalk.

Chloe

• The look on poor Chloe's face when her teacher reprimands her for her presentation (actually re-written by the bears). She looks absolutely mortified, and you can tell she's trying really hard not to burst into tears. This causes the bears to realize they screwed up and, thankfully, make it all better.
• When the bears see how disappointed Chloe's teacher is, they are at first confused about what's wrong. Grizzly turns to the student next to him and asks if he liked the presentation. The student's response? He and another student start snickering to each other. Ouch.

Panda's Date

• Really, the whole episode is a sad one for Panda. He falls for Lucy, the produce girl, and tries to impress her while she hangs out with the bears. His efforts only lead to humiliation-such as wiping out during an attempt to roll down a hill after them. Eventually, Panda just stops trying, and sits out, refusing Lucy's offer to join her, Grizz, and Ice Bear in their remaining activities out of embarrassment. Granted, he doesn't exactly do himself favors when he traps Grizzly and Ice Bear in a closet, and then rushes Lucy around at their dinner, but there is definitely a sad scene to seeing Panda try and fail to win her affections.

Burrito

• The flashback at the end of the episode. Grizzly, as a very young cub, somehow got stuck in a tall tree during a bad thunderstorm, crying loudly. A couple apparently spotted him and alerted the authorities. The firefighters who arrive raise a ladder up and one of them extends his arm for Grizz to grab. Grizzly does, and immediately grabs as tight as he can, hence his obsession with the burrito which subconsciously reminds him of the firefighter's turnout coat. The music that plays during the rescue really drives the whole thing home.
• The Fridge Logic in this scene only adds to it. This is clearly before he met Panda and Ice Bear, since they're nowhere to be seen (or this might have taken place before they were born). More conspicuous is his absent family, which means he was likely crying for his mother. Imagine how poor Grizzly must feel, having somehow stranded himself up there. He's too scared to come back down or even look down, so all he can do is cry for help while clinging to the tree, hoping someone rescues him.
  • Furthermore, right before the flashback, Grizzly admits that he has no idea why he got so attached to the burrito. Either he doesn't like talking about it, or the trauma of whatever left him in that tree made him block out the memory altogether.
    • Grizz's cries aren't even what you would expect of an anthropomorphic bear you have been watching act like a regular person. It's the cries of normal bear cub. It makes it worse because the scene plays out like something from one of those animal rescue shows on Animal Planet.

Jean Jacket

• Panda getting smacked in the cheek during the bears' scuffle over the jacket and his ensuing teary-eyed expression. Grizz and Ice Bear are so horrified that they immediately agree the jacket has to go.
• Panda's tearful reaction to Grizzly's Disney Death.

Nom Nom

• It's hard to not feel bad for Ice Bear when Grizzly and Panda start to ignore him while working on Nom Nom's movie.
• When Ice Bear finds out about Nom Nom's plan to get Grizzly and Panda attacked by sharks, he gets tricked into getting trapped down a pit.
  Ice Bear: (weakly) Ice Bear...(cough)...Ice Bear is down here.

Shush Ninjas

• After their failed attempt to quiet the other movie theater patrons, the dejected bears begin walking through the city, realizing that there's hardly anywhere where there isn't some kind of noise going on.

My Clique

• When Ice Bear said, "All Ice Bear's friends are future enemies." which means that he doesn't seem to trust anyone, save for Grizz, Panda and Chloe. What happened in his past besides the drifter stealing the bears' box from "The Road"?
• Watching Chloe struggle trying to make new friends with older people at her college.
• The Bears thinking that Chloe abandoned them in favor for her new friends.

Charlie

• Poor Charlie is constantly chased around by bigfoot enthusiasts, which obviously makes him uncomfortable. Even worse, he has to repeatedly move around because of it.
  Charlie: I know I stayed here too long, but I was having so much fun. I finally made some friends...but I messed it up again.
• When the bears find Charlie hiding from the paparazzi under Panda's bed, listen carefully. Charlie's crying.

Brother Up

• When Panda tells Charlie that he feels like Grizzly has been being bossy lately, Charlie replies that Panda's lucky to have a big brother who looks out for him. Charlie then says he wishes he had a brother like that; it's a reminder that Charlie's been alone for most of his life.
• While it was both funny and awesome to see Panda becoming more assertive and getting back at Grizzly for bossing him around, you can't help but feel bad for Grizz when he holes himself up in his room and starts looking at pictures of happier times with his brothers.
  Dear Panda, go away. -Grizz.
• When Charlie tells Panda that the wolves are coming back and bringing their alpha, Panda gets so freaked out that he starts crying, not knowing how to deal with a dangerous situation.

Occupy Bears

• The city orders a cellphone tower be built where the bears live. We see how the bears came to live in the cave. After not being successful in finding a home in the city, they find the cave on a rainy night and choose to stay there the following morning after seeing how beautiful it is.
  • The fact the bears almost lost their home.
  • Not to mention that before they found the cave, the bears were essentially homeless and have been since they were cubs.
  • There's also the fact there seems to be no regard for the fact that three animals are being kicked out of their habitat, and that the Bears are being treated as second-class citizens with no Constitutional rights.

The Road

• The song Panda and Grizzly sing together (and also to Ice Bear) in the factory.

Charlie and the Snake

• Charlie showing how lonely he is by faking a party to get the Bears to keep him company.
• Watching Charlie tear up when Bigfoot enthusiasts are about to take his picture.

Pet Shop

• The way the pet shop owner treated the bears. He clearly doesn't want them in his shop and when they were unable to get adopted he puts them all in a box and throws them in the trash.
  Panda: He threw us out! He thinks we're trash! He thinks we're garbage!
  Grizzly: That I ensure you, we are not.
  Panda: Grizz. Why won't people want us?
  Grizzly: I don't know, man. Guess people can't see how great something is, even when it's right in front of them.
• When the bears finally get adopted by their dream owners, they were happy at first but they had to leave their respective owners because they don't want to leave each other.

Chloe and Ice Bear

• Chloe having some trouble bonding with Ice Bear after promising him she'll show him a good time. She's doing everything she can to make Ice Bear have fun, but without his brothers he isn't that interested in anything that Chloe shows him and it's making her disappointed that she can't fulfill her promise.

Charlie Ball

• When Charlie accidentally loses his disguise after beating the bears, the other players immediately start crowding around him with their phones, commenting on how hairy and gross-looking he is. All Charlie can do is curl into a ball and start crying.

Season 2

Bear Cleanse

• While Grizzly and Panda have their own problems with the cleanse, Ice Bear arguably has the hardest time. He's immediately uncomfortable with the idea of eating a cute little seal, and when he bonds with the one that he was supposed to turn into dinner, becomes frantic and teary eyed when it starts to seem unwell, and finally bids it a tearful goodbye when he releases it into the bay.

Nom Nom's Entourage

• When the bears suggest that Nom Nom treat them more like friends instead of employees, Nom Nom admits that he's never actually had a real friend, and he doesn't know how to make them.

Ranger Tabes

• The police mocking Ranger Tabes for how seriously she takes her job. She honestly didn't realize that she was inconveniencing the bears and when she does, she feels terrible about it.

Rooms

• Ice Bear is genuinely hurt when he finds out Grizzly and Panda went to a baseball game without him.
• This is the first time all three bears have had a full-blown argument and are visibly angry for keeping secrets from each other.
• The end of the episode has Grizzly quietly asking his brothers "We cool?" after their argument. And even though Panda and Ice Bear say yes, all three bears simply retreat to their respective rooms without another word. Considering how the bears usually are, the whole scene feels a lot more somber than usual.

Losing Ice

• It takes Darryl chewing Grizzly and Panda out for pushing him to emulate Ice Bear, followed by him leaving in a huff, to make the both of them realize how badly they've treated their little brother. Once they do, they're horrified.
  Grizzly: Wh-what have we done?!
  Panda: (tearing up) We took an innocent, if slightly lame, person and we crushed his spirit. And now... now we have no brothers at all.
  [Grizzly starts to tear up too]

Cellie

• Panda shedding a tear and calling himself a bad person when he feels guilty about breaking Grizzly and Ice Bear's new phones.

The Island

• Dave. Yes, he tried to keep Karla on the island to make her love him, and tried to kill the bears when they found out, but remember that he was stranded before Karla was. He may have been stuck there for so long that he was desperate enough to stoop to such extreme lows just for any kind of human interaction. And since he threw the other supplies in the quicksand and Karla and the bears took the raft, odds are that Dave will be stuck on the island for the rest of his life.
• Think about the ending. A crew of rescue workers find Karla sleeping on the raft and haul her on board their ship, not seeing the three bear cubs who were concealed under a blanket. Imagine Karla's thoughts upon waking up; sure, she'll see her family again, but as far as she knows, the helpless bears are still lost at sea.
• Karla's Lullaby can and will reduce you to tears.
  Lay down your head/In this warm and cozy bed/And if I leave before you wake/Don't go thinking that/I have fled.

Captain Craboo

• The bears being forced to go into hiding from the police who are after their beloved pet Craboo, leaving them homeless once again. They camp out for the night, and Panda sings a melancholy song as they gaze at the stars.
• The bears saying goodbye to Craboo before releasing him into the ocean, especially Ice Bear, who had bonded with Craboo after conquering his fear of him, crying and playing peekaboo one last time, only to see Craboo is not there anymore after he uncovers his eyes.
  • It gets more heartbreaking when compared to the ending of "Yuri and the Bear" as pictured above, showing Yuri having to do the same for baby Ice Bear to save him, possibly reminding him of his Parental Substitute who is initially cold towards him but warmed up to him overtime. The only difference is while Ice Bear and Craboo part on good terms, Yuri and Ice Bear never got to mend their broken relationship before they were separated.

Yuri and the Bear

• Oh boy, where do we start?
  • The episode opens with Baby Ice Bear alone and starving.
  • The episode heavily implies that Ice Bear's mother was skinned by poachers after hiding her cub in the snow. The lead poacher wears a polar bear hide that may or may not be hers.
    • Also implies that Yuri's family is dead, possibly killed by bears or some other causes.
  • Ice Bear crying after Yuri furiously chases him out of his tent for looking into his tragic possessions then partially breaking his family photo by accident, and especially the part where Yuri rejects the gift Ice Bear made for him, like a child believing that his only parent doesn't love him anymore because he's done something very bad. Ouch.
    • And again after Yuri decides to go back and save him from the poachers but has to send him away into the ocean on a piece of floating ice to keep him safe from their wrath. Both of them have become greatly saddened by this, as Yuri goes back to living all alone again while Ice Bear becomes an orphan once more.
    • And the worst part? It's that Yuri and Ice Bear never had the chance to properly reconcile in the middle of running from the hunters. Time will tell if Ice Bear believes that Yuri still hates him for looking into his Tragic Keepsake since he thinks Yuri can never forgive him for what he'd done, which is probably why he never even contemplated in trying to find and reunite with him. As far as he knows, Yuri solemnly feels remorseful for his outburst against the poor cub, knowing he shouldn't have taken it out at him and can only have memories of him now after sending him away without letting him know he's sorry or that he forgives him.

Icy Nights

• After everything Ice Bear went through to rescue and reclaim his invention, Barry smashes it to pieces in front of him out of nothing but pure spite, so neither of them can have it. This deeply, visibly hurts Ice Bear, and for the first in time in the entire series, he flies into a silent, blind rage out of grief, dishing out retribution (though fruitless it may be now) and leveling everything in his path by fighting like a feral mother bear who witnessed her cub die by the hands of humans, rather than an anthropomorphic one. To add insult to injury, the techies get away with stealing the vacuum and destroying it, and the leader mocks Ice Bear for his failure to protect it through a hologram, preventing him from getting his revenge.
  • The placement of this episode helps contribute to the tearjerker. "Icy Nights" is the very next episode after "Yuri and the Bear", and seeing Ice Bear being bullied and genuinely hurt like this by thieves, right after he lost everything he cared about (his mother, his home, and especially his owner) in a flashback, cuts pretty deep. Ice Bear had a rough pair of episodes focusing on him.

Creature Mysteries

• A brief scene of Ice Bear being fixated at Tabes's photo of herself with her mother, possibly reminding him of the good times he had with Yuri.
  • It gets sadder when the audience realizes that Yuri and Ice Bear never had the chance to get a proper family photo of themselves together, and never will.

Christmas Parties

• While Ranger Tabes and Charlie's disappointed reactions to the bears abandoning their respective parties all of a sudden are just as sad, Chloe's reaction to the bears accidentally knocking over the feast she spent so hard on preparing for them and having to leave takes the cake.
• Nom Nom yelling at the bears for coming to his party, claiming he didn't invite them. Grizzly, in particular, looks genuinely disgusted with Nom Nom's behavior, especially when he tries to save face in front of the cameras. Keep in mind, Grizz has always been the most forgiving of Nom Nom.
  • It gets worse when the bears realize they've just abandoned three of their closest friends for a person who doesn't even like them.

Season 3

Grizzly: The Movie

• Grizzly's horrified reaction when he realizes the true nature of the movie he was cast in, the fact that it portrays his species as violent savages just disgusts him to the point where he refuses to have anything to do with the genre.

Anger Management

• The fact that the thing that gets Nom Nom to calm down is a hug (and his reaction to the last one given to him in the episode) implies that he may have never had one before.
  • Also, after the first time Grizz hugs him (which again, is possibly the first hug he's ever gotten in his life), Nom Nom mentions that he's never felt so peaceful before. The uncomfortable implication being that he's probably lived a very stressful, affection-deprived life.

$100

• Hundy, the titular hundred dollar bill, flying away in the wind. Who knew you could feel sorry for money?
• Cory, upon learning about Hundy, robs them and makes off with the money, leading to a chase between the bear cubs and their former friend, with them feeling betrayed when they find out and have him arrested as payback.
• Grizzly telling Panda to save Hundy instead of his brothers; saying that the money is worth more than them and that he could just buy new brothers. Wow...
• The baby bears are completely used to starving to the point where Grizzly can casually mention not eating for days with a smile on his face. At least they're lucky not to turn primal and savagely attack each other.

Ralph

• Ralph is the only person that Charlie has ever met who's a member of the same species. He turned out to be completely different from him in terms of their view of humans, especially in a moral sense.
• Charlie pleading for Ralph to help him with supporting the rope bridge the tourists are on. Instead, Ralph refuses and leaves him to die with them.
  • And before that, there's the line with Ralph trying to convince Charlie that humans deserve to die just because they outnumber their species, and Charlie disagrees, in spite of his own distrustful behavior towards them.

Coffee Cave

• In a way, Ice Bear's Sanity Slippage is due to his overexposure to caffeine on his brothers' insistence, wanting to keep the café running. Basically, Grizzly and Panda once again take their younger brother for granted (not unlike "Losing Ice" - especially considering in that same episode, they both promised things would be different), but this time, it bites them back big time when Ice Bear suddenly attacks them both with his axe when they try to deprive him of caffeine, making them realize what a horrible mistake it was having him drink too much coffee and try in vain to apologize to Ice Bear while running for their lives.

The Demon

• While it seems to be mainly Played for Laughs, Ice Bear mentioning that he's fought inner demons with years of therapy does hit the audience that his brutal cub days really has took a toll on him. It's almost as though that he wants to forget the painful trauma of his past and move on, but can't leave behind the more heartwarming memories there.

Panda's Art

• The area where Charlie sleeps is pretty depressing in hindsight; since it appears to be the abandoned sight of a car accident.
• Panda's hallucination of the painting softly reproaching him as it's being carried away by the critic who bought the painting.
  Panda... you promised.

Poppy Rangers

• It's hard not to feel bad for Tabes when her girl scout troop start looking up to Grizzly instead of her, especially when she screws up badly trying to prove herself by having the girls cross an exit path in a dangerous area of the cave.
  Tabes: (depressed) This adventure was supposed to be for you girls and instead... I made it all about me. And I put you all in danger. I failed you all, I'm a terrible leader.

Lucy's Brother

• Clifford seems to not be able to do much due to his asthma and allergies. Also that he doesn't really have friends, with Lucy really being the only person who spends time with him AND that people have used him to get closer to her before.

The Fair

• The line is said very quickly, but Grizzly yelling at Lewis "You're not our dad! Nobody is!" is pretty upsetting because as much as the baby bears don't mind being orphans, they also take it hard deep down inside and still prefer to get adopted because they're desperate for parental guidance.

Private Lake

• Charlie implies that there's been many instances where he's had his own private and peaceful sanctuary, only for it to be discovered by humans, forcing him to run away under the belief they might harass him again.

Summer Love

• The mad scientist's backstory.
• Amanda is the first person that Panda's had a crush on who actually returns his feelings. Unfortunately, she is moving out of the area.

Crowbar Jones

• Grizzly realizing that the focus group hates his movie, in spite of the hard work he's put into it.

Kyle

• The episode confirms that Nom Nom is indeed an extremely lonely person deep down inside. Also that he truly misses his family but has no clue of their whereabouts.
  • The moment Nom Nom finds out that Kyle is actually a fraud trying to get his fortune. He's so heartbroken by the revelation that he actually cries.
  • And before that, he fires his bodyguard, accusing him of trying to get rid of his "brother". The bodyguard takes it hard and runs away crying.

Citizen Tabes

• Tabes's reaction to the buck getting his antler broken and the way she lives afterwards, believing she failed in her duty to protect nature.

Dance Lessons

• Lucy hearing Panda say that she's a horrible dancer, right before giving him a picture of them together as thanks.

Pigeons

• A horrified Grizzly realizing that he has been used by his new pigeon friends to free the pigeon cartel from state prison, along with his heartbroken reaction to Brenda turning out to have been one of them all this time, leaving him to take the blame then trying to kill him when he threatens to report them.
• Brenda being arrested and sent to prison for life, especially after she had a change of heart and saves Grizzly from falling to his death.

Panda 2

• The sheer loneliness that Baby Panda experiences being by himself for what has been probably his entire life at the time. It's a blink-and-you-miss-it-moment, but there's a picture of a mother panda cuddling a cub in the viewing room of the sanctuary, which may very well have been Panda's mother.
• Panda 2 being left behind. Panda envisions him turning pink and anime-esque to wave goodbye, and tearfully does the same.

Bro Brawl

• Tom crying in private after he screws up with the fashion challenge, confessing to Panda that if he loses the game show, he and his friends will have to separate due to not being able to afford their apartment anymore.

Hurricane Hal

• Ice Bear throwing himself between Chloe and the subway train. Not because it means she'll be safe from horrendous injury — it almost certainly doesn't — and not even because it guarantees her life will be saved at the cost of his own. He simply can't not.

Vacation

• Just the fact that Nom Nom is so overwhelmed by stress from all the fame that he's in danger of dying from it is pretty upsetting. Jerkass or not, the poor koala really deserves a break.

I Am Ice Bear

• The scene with Panda about to hit Ice Bear with a crowbar to "get his brother back" is pretty intense and dramatic for the show. It's one of the most extreme and emotional scenes in the series. He ultimately can't bring himself to do it.
• This episode can make one think: Is there more of the real Ice Bear in this persona than it may seem? If he were more assertive, would he speak up more about things like not wanting to always be at the bottom of the stack, but can't say it with the way he is now?
• In retrospect, this may be what would have happened if Ice Bear had been like his brothers wanted him to be. It turns out to be worse than what they thought if he'd never had a sense of responsibility, never felt love for anyone deep down, and never been raised as a badass. He'd turn out to become more like his Sitcom Archnemesis, Nom Nom.

Season 4

Teacher's Pet

• While it is mostly funny like usual, Baby Grizzly once again casually bringing up their near-death experiences serves as another reminder of how horrible their life conditions were as cubs.
• At first, the kids are friendly to the bears, but once the bears start acting like "teacher's pets", they all shun them.

Googs

• Panda's Disney Death, sacrificing himself to save his brothers from space. Even when it's all revealed to be fake, the Bears are still reeling from the horrifying experience and angrily call out Ari Curd for putting them into this situation.
  Panda: (traumatized) I- I thought I died...
  Grizzly: (angry) He sacrificed his life!
  Panda: Why did you do that to us?

I, Butler

• Even though he went completely insane, Butler Bear's climatic death scene is surprisingly sad, and while the episode portrays it as the defusing of a threat, it's framed as far more of a tragedy than a victory. It's already been implied that Ice Bear views his inventions as his pseudo-children, and Butler Bear explicitly saw Ice Bear as his father. He went insane partly because he couldn't fulfill his sole function, and partly because he figured the bears were rejecting him and he wanted to spite them out of anger. When Ice Bear flies him above the forest to be blown up, the mad invention reflects on where they are now, with a single lonely tear dripping out of his eye ("This is sure some mess, isn't it, father? I just wanted to make you proud"), before he dies. Ice Bear did what he had to to protect his brothers, but he's clearly saddened by how things turned out as well, showing respect to Butler Bear's remains. Eventually, he decides to rebuild Butler Bear, and give him a second chance somewhere where he's better needed.

Family Troubles

• Baby Grizzly's heartbroken reaction to realizing that Lorenzo isn't just stealing his thunder, but replacing him, when all this time he felt like his co-workers were really his family.
  • Even after he wins them back, he soon becomes disillusioned when Lorenzo is fine with being fired because it's just showbiz, finally realizing that his "family" never actually cared about him from the start, only ratings. To that end, he quits the show on a quest to find a real family.

Best Bears

• Darrell trying to run away from his own wedding after realizing he feels completely inferior compared to Sophia, believing she is too good for him and doesn't deserve someone pathetic like himself.

Mom App

• The bears feeling like they need a mom is pretty sad considering their past as three orphans who grew up on the streets, looking for a home.

El Oso

• El Oso and Charlie having to separate in the end of the episode, with it being implied they never see each other again.
• There's some Fridge Horror when we see how Charlie interacts with El Oso in the past compared to the way he interacts with Ranger Tabes in the present. While Charlie was still wary of humans in the 1910's, he wasn't completely terrified of them like he is in the 2010's. With El Oso, he was very open to the idea of being his friend and very conversational, while with Tabes, Charlie is still nervous and very slow to trust being around her because of her species. It's been implied a few times that the rise of modern technology has made humanity increasingly dangerous to the cryptid, so what happened to Charlie during those hundred years to make him even more afraid?
• While it was hinted at before, this episode confirms Charlie has an abnormally long lifespan compared to other living creatures, and has already been around for centuries. Which means he will probably easily outlive the bears, just as he's done with other friends he might have made throughout history.

Braces

• The unnecessary cruelty of people causes Panda to lose it to the point where he wants to destroy people.

Christmas Movies

• As the thief proceeds to leave the store with a bag of stolen videos, the Baby Bears tell him Christmas is about giving and that even he must have had a nice Christmas once. Upon stepping on a candy cane, the thief reminisces about his childhood, enjoying the holidays with his family. It leaves you wondering what exactly happened to him to bring him down this path.

Band of Outsiders

• As expected from the episode being an Immediate Sequel to "Yuri and the Bear", it shows how poor baby Ice Bear is struggling to survive on his own, with only Yuri's axe at his side.
  • When he is kicked out of a bakery after mistaking the owner as Yuri, Ice Bear tears up and cries silently while holding his former owner's axe close, showing how lost he is without Yuri by his side.
  • Ice Bear falls prey to Toxic Friend Influence from Ashley, Jo, and Badger, as they mold him into one of them and turn him for the worst when they insist he get revenge on the baker who ostracized him earlier. Ice Bear was about to follow through with ransacking the baker's shop, until he sees that the baker is a Family Man... just like Yuri used to be.
    • What makes this moment sadder is that Ice Bear remembers from a flashback that Yuri had him promise to always be a good person in the face of the harsh and cruel reality. Ice Bear had realized that he was about to break his promise to his Parental Substitute yet again (the first time being when he opened his treasure chest containing mementos of Yuri's tragic past, resulting in both of them to have lost each other), and becomes ashamed of himself for letting the gang influence him into someone Yuri doesn't want him to be.
• Badger, the toughest of the three kids Ice Bear meets, starts crying and goes into a Troubled Fetal Position when he hears the police outside. Despite his tough façade, he's still just a scared little kid.

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