WMG / Paddington Bear

Paddington isn't actually speaking English

The books present an example of Fridge Logic, if he's from Peru, shouldn't he speak Spanish? The explanation is this, Paddington doesn't know Spanish because he speaks a different language from the rest of Peru (let's call it Darkest Peruvian) which by sheer coincidence is exactly like English, explaining how Paddington and Aunt Lucy are able to converse in English.

• According to The Other Wiki Quechua and Aymara are official languages in the areas that they are spoken in. Do either of these languages sound exactly like English? More research needs to be done!
  • But... if a language sounds exactly like English, then isn't it, per definition, English? Of course it does, unless it's Rigellian or something.
  • “Aunt Lucy always said she wanted me to emigrate when I was old enough. That’s why she taught me to speak English.”

Paddington is supposed to be a hero to evacuees who went unclaimed after the war.

He arrives back from somewhere far away and unfamiliar after living with a relative he had never met before who wanted shot of him ("Aunt Lucy always wanted me to emigrate when I was old enough"). He wears a tag that asks a stranger to take care of him. He returns to the train station where he must have set off from, and there's no one there. About 40,000 of the WWII children came back to find that their parents had gone.

• That's unspeakably sad.
• The first movie certainly picks up on the parallel, having Mr. Gruber describe his experience of being s child of the kindertransport, and comparing it to Paddington's as a young immigrant.

Paddington is a golden spectacled bear.

He is from the right geographic region, and has a similar goldish-brown fur color (opposed to the dark brown fur of common spectacled bears).