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Panda Bear is one of the 3 main protagonists of We Bare Bears.
Panda seems to have more knowledge about things regarding technology and things from Asian culture. He is the middle brother and, as stated by Grizz, is "the link that holds them all together". He is Charlie’s best friend, but he doesn’t want to admit it. Although, he did admit it in "Panda's Art". He is to be the most delicate of the trio, being both quite anxious and, as Grizzly also described, "cute". Even so, he does care about his brothers and will try to pitch in whenever and however he can.
In "Panda 2", it is revealed that he was originally raised in captivity in a Chinese Panda Zoo until he escaped and met Grizzly and Ice Bear on the way.
Appearance
Panda is an anthropomorphic bear. Being a panda, his body is covered with black fur, with white fur on his head (excluding the eyes and ears) and a white stripe across his belly. He is shorter than his brothers, with a wider frame than both. He is shown to have small black eyes surrounded by black fur, which he likens to a “birthmark”.
Personality
Panda is characterized as neurotic, artistic, and something of a drama queen.
He's gentle, yet somewhat jumpy and insecure. He is probably the frailest of the three bears, as in "Our Stuff" he was shown being hit by a basketball that knocks him over and he calls for a time-out. He is also severely allergic to nuts and gets embarrassed easily.
His hobbies consist of dating sites, social networking, anime, video games, and art. He is shown to be talented in drawing and painting in general, most notably Manga. He falls in love easily and tries desperately to get a girlfriend.
He is sensitive and easy to upset. Despite being mostly compliant, Panda can become assertive if the need arises, especially when it comes to his brothers in trouble.
In Three Bare Bears
Panda's, as well as his brothers' personality, does experience some change between the comic and the cartoon. In The Three Bare Bears, Panda is markedly more negative, being quick to anxiety and fear. His brothers tend to dote on him, particularly Grizzly.
Abilities
Agility
Despite not having much athletic prowess, Panda has shown to be surprisingly agile. As seen in "Video Date", he is shown to outrun both of his brothers for moderate periods of time and is able to evade them whilst holding their laptop.
Memory
Panda has quite the photographic memory as, in "Our Stuff", he is able to remember nearly 14 people in near precise detail and is able to draw accurate facial composites. His art style does a terrible job of expressing this, however.
TelekInesis and ElectrokInesis
Panda gains a temporary superpower in "Braces", when he received a brace to adjust his teeth. His power comes from the fact that there are too many metals in his body. However, it slowly drives Panda insane as it let his emotions to drive out of control.
The brace gives him the ability to telepathically manipulate electronics and float them in the air. He also can create a massive meteorite formed by thousands of smartphones with the Bear Cave as the core to create great devastation. He also can telepathically fly and fire electrical blasts.
He lost his power after Grizz and Ice Bear remove his brace.
Primal Form
Panda Bear in his primal form
Under the influence of extreme hunger, Panda Bear can turn primal, in which he will become extremely aggressive and willing to attack anyone on sight.
In his primal form, Panda Bear is very hairy with bleak white eyes as well as sharp teeth. His strength is also augmented greatly in this stage.
This stage can be reversed if he is granted access to food sources.
History
The episode "Panda 2" shows that, as a cub, Panda lived in an animal sanctuary near Shanghai, China. He was extremely cheerful and polite, even greeting the food chute that fed him as a friend. Unlike his adult form, bamboo was his favorite thing to eat. One day, a staff member in the observation room for Panda's enclosure noticed he looked lonely and gave him a panda doll as a companion. Panda and the doll were inseparable until one day he used the doll to help him climb up and see through the room's window, from which he had seen light shine from time to time.
Upon looking through the window, he saw a television and was absolutely enraptured. The very next day, he (along with his stuffed companion) escaped so that he could watch 'the magic box' (as he called the television) show him its wonders, but it was turned off, so he went to find another. He found the security camera room, but the televisions showing the camera feeds quickly bored him. After wandering for a while, he saw some trees outside a window set in a door and thought this window was another magic box. Unfortunately, the sanctuary staff had realized he had escaped and chased him until Panda found an open window. He jumped out to his freedom but was forced to leave his stuffed companion behind. He escaped in a truck filled with bamboo as the sanctuary staff continued their search. It is unclear if he remembers any of this.
After some period of time, he met Grizzly and Ice Bear and they become sworn brothers after that.
Relationships
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly comforting Panda distraught.
Grizzly and Panda are brothers. Grizzly is a leader figure to both Panda and Ice Bear. In "Our Stuff", Grizzly helps Panda find his backpack, which contained his phone and can also bear stack as a way of traveling faster. The two have been shown to be very close to each other, especially in episodes such as "Jean Jacket", "Nom Nom", "Brother Up", "Occupy Bears", "The Road", and "Pet Shop", to name a few. In "Cupcake Job", while trying to protect themselves from being attacked by an angry mob of customers, the two admit what they had done to the laptop when they hatched the idea of making a giant cupcake. They end up scooping up all the cupcake batter that covered the room and used it to create a giant, and disgusting, cupcake. In "Hibernation", when Grizzly's brothers checked upon him, they woke him up because of a dream he was having. They then said they would head back to the cave to let him rest. Grizzly didn't want them to leave which led to Panda offering if he would join them outside, to which Grizzly accepts. The three end up sitting out under the stars together. On making on Grizz's own movie 'Crowbar Jones' he makes Panda become his sidekick and he makes Panda as the funny character of the movie.
Ice Bear
Panda and Ice Bear exchanging information about each others' species. Bro's forever!
Ice Bear and Panda are brothers. They are able to bear stack as a way of traveling faster. They have been shown to be very close, such as in "Jean Jacket", when Ice Bear and Grizzly were extremely upset after Panda got smacked and when he consoled him after Grizzly's sacrifice. He also voluntarily stepped in to assist Panda in "Brother Up" and has shown great emotion after being separated from both of his brothers in the cub episodes. Ice Bear is shown to be very protective of Panda, as shown in "Nom Nom". They are shown working together to stop Grizzly's obsession with the burrito in "Burrito", and in the short, "Bear Cleaning", when they posed and took several selfies with Grizzly's clump of fur before putting it back. In "Hibernation" and "Panda's Sneeze" alike, they were shown bonding with each other. In the former, they were shown reading facts to each other about their respective species, and in the latter, Ice Bear had blushed when Panda asked if he thought his sneeze was cute, and later, at the cute-off, Ice Bear gave him a rose and called him precious. Panda has actually never mentioned Ice Bear by name.
Nom Nom
Nom Nom assisting Panda in creating storyboards for the "movie".
The two do not really know each other that well, however, Panda knows of the incident between him and Grizzly that occurred in "Viral Video", and even refers to the koala as "a butt" in "Nom Nom". In the same episode, when Nom Nom is able to manipulate Panda and Grizzly and get them to do his bidding, he ends up luring them into a potentially deadly trap in order to regain his own fame while also trying to keep Ice Bear out of the picture as he had discovered his plan. Ice Bear managed to save Panda and Grizzly while Nom Nom ended up getting what he wanted in the end, though it was not done according to his original plan. In "Panda's Sneeze" Nom Nom wants to be the cutest more than Panda, he deals with Panda making Panda looks cooler and not cute in The Cute Off. But in the end, Nom Nom is jealous and he attacks Panda that he suppose to lose and Nom Nom should be the cutest attack him using a pillow making panda more sneeze with the feathers. No one won that contest.
Chloe Park
Chloe and Panda holding hands.
Much like his brothers, Panda's relationship with Chloe is explicitly passive, with no particular empathy towards either party. In "Chloe", Panda was submissive during Chloe's research and was often shown getting along with her. Evidently, Panda did confess to sabotaging Chloe's report alongside his brothers and took part in answering student questions to assure she acquired a perfect grade. Alongside Grizzly and Ice Bear, Panda tried to help Chloe become more confident in "My Clique", taking inspiration for his lesson from romance movies. When Chloe put what she learned to the test, she found herself coming across as odd to some of her classmates and left campus grounds, embarrassed. She ends up explaining to Amy how she felt after the Bears throw a "mature" party for her at their house. When the party is over, she helps the Bears clean up and begins to play charades with Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear joining in.
Lucy
Panda trying to hurry into Lucy's group photo.
Panda began crushing on Lucy in the episode "Panda's Date", in which she saves him from having a potentially fatal allergy attack with her spare EpiPen. In the episode, through Grizzly, Lucy hangs out with Panda. He wants to impress her but Lucy bonds more with his brothers than with him; this makes him quickly jealous, to the point he attempted to lock them in a closet to have dinner with her. When Panda ate out with her at the restaurant, Lucy seemed annoyed by Panda's strange behavior. She still remained friends with him and his brothers as she makes a few more appearances throughout the series.
Charlie
Charlie placing Panda on top of the Bear Stack.
Panda has mixed feelings for Charlie, not enjoying his company too much whenever he comes around, though Charlie tries his best to make him and his brothers happy. In "Charlie", his behavior quickly gets on Panda's nerves, as he not only smacks his phone into a bowl of soup but also forced Panda to sleep on a soggy pillow and was generally being inconsiderate, however, they did reconcile before Charlie had to leave. In "Brother Up", Charlie helped inspire Panda to start acting like the big brother; the leader, after he accidentally scared away a pack of wolves. Charlie also threw the Bears a party in the wilderness in "Charlie and the Snake" to help show them how much he appreciates their friendship.
In "Chicken and Waffles", the two seem to grow closer after Panda has to ask him for help getting to the restaurant after he accidentally broke his contacts. Charlie does everything he can to try and get to Chicken and Waffles. After a dispute, the two attempt to go their separate ways when Panda gets into trouble. Charlie goes to save him, but the tables turn quickly. Panda reaches out to save Charlie. In the end, Panda, and his brothers decide to eat with Charlie rather than at the restaurant.
Clifford
At first, Panda was only interested in impressing Lucy and when Clifford found out, he wasn't very happy with this. However, when they both saved each other from an allergic reaction to peanut butter, they became friends, realizing that they each have something in common.
Episode Appearances
Designs
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Trivia
- Panda is a vegetarian as revealed in the Pilot and in the episode "Tote Life" in the main series.
- Panda doesn't eat eggs as revealed in the episode "Christmas Parties". Although it is unknown if Panda drinks milk, he is at least an ovo vegetarian.
- It is revealed in "Panda's Date" that Panda has a deadly peanut allergy and has suffered three near-fatal attacks, two in Panda's Date and again in "Lucy's Brother".
Panda wearing his lens.
- It is revealed in "Everyday Bears" that Panda wears contact lenses and has very bad vision without them, which is a trait he shares with real panda bears.
- In "Everyday Bears", an image from his mass image upload could be seen of his eye. It appears Panda has green eyes, though it may be from his contacts.
- Panda is the shortest of the three siblings but is the middle child according to the crew.
- Currently, Panda is the only of the three siblings that are known to have ever been in a romantic relationship.
- Panda is the only bear that has more than one color of fur.
- In his case, black and white.
- Panda has an online dating profile it is seen and said in "Viral Video" and "Chloe".
- Panda is the first character to sing a song in the show, the song being Girl Be Sellin' Sunshine.
- Panda seems to value his phone, by stating that "It is his life and soul in a rectangular form", in "Our Stuff".
- Panda can create and release over 50 snapchats in 1 hour.[3]
- In the comics, it is revealed that Panda enjoys old black-and-white films.
- Panda has Musophobia, which is a fear of mice, as revealed in "Everyday Bears".
- In "Everyday Bears", Panda lost 212 internet friends when the mouse posted "I hate babies" and embarrassing pictures on his profile. He now has 44 friends on the internet. It is unknown if he has regained any.
- Panda has a pink strawberry wallet.
- In "Primal", it is revealed Panda really likes dumplings.
- In "Chloe", when the Bears go to a Chinese Food Restaurant, Panda goes straight for the dumplings inside the food cart.
- In "Primal", it is revealed that both Panda and Ice Bear can turn "primal" out of hunger.
- In the early signs of their primal transformations, Panda seemed to be more aggressive than Ice Bear.
- When the Bears first moved into the city, Panda had a small, gray flip phone.
- In the Pilot, Panda, as a cub, was voiced by Sam Lavagnino.
- In "Pet Shop", Panda had a pet collar labeled as Mr. Sprinkles.
- Panda appears to be an "otaku", having a large interest in anime and manga alike, as first shown in "Our Stuff", where it is revealed he likes to draw in a pseudo-anime style. His interests are also seen in later episodes, such as a manga being seen on the Bears' table at the beginning of "Chloe", when a folder titled "Manga" can be seen on the laptop in "Everyday Bears", and when he is seen reading manga in both "Shush Ninjas" and "Hibernation". In the latter episode of the two, he is shown to possess a dakimakura, or body pillow, that he refers to as Miki-chan. It is also revealed in "Cupcake Job" that Panda knows how to say the word "cute" in Japanese and sees it as a personal talent to be put on his resume, a known stereotype among Western otaku culture in which fans know only select Japanese words, one such being "kawaii", or "cute". As well as, in "Panda's Dream", during Panda's third and final daydream, a K-POP song, Yummy Yummy, plays during the dance sequence.
- As seen in "Rooms", Panda may have claustrophobia, a fear of small and compact spaces.
- Panda does not seem to like it when people touch him, as seen in the Pilot and on multiple other occasions.
- Panda is the most romantic, shyest and most delicate bear among the three brothers.
- Panda's favorite color is red, as mentioned in the episode "Panda's Friend".
- As seen in "Panda's Art", Panda attends a community college where he takes art classes.
- Panda appears to have asthma, as he required an inhaler after his excitement at being kissed by Lucy at the end of "Lucy's Brother.
- In ''The Kitty'', Panda is shown to be allergic to cats, but not cougars.
- He is the only bear that was raised in captivity before he met Grizzly and Ice Bear.
- Despite originating from China, he cannot speak Chinese.
- The episodes Panda doesn't appear in are "Yuri and the Bear", "Anger Management", "The Demon", "Poppy Rangers", "Kyle", "Ranger Games", "Vacation", "Family Troubles", "El Oso", "Lord of the Poppies", and "Band of Outsiders".
- Panda is revealed to have a "Catsona" in the episode "Mom App"
- He is the only Bear so far to receive a superpower.
- Panda sleeps with a humidifier near his bed.
- Baby Panda as a kid has always been voiced by Duncan Joiner, but it appears that his final time is the last episode Lil' Squid because he's outgrown his role and is now voiced by Max Mitchell from now on and the same as Baby Ice Bear.
Zoology
- The nominate subspecies of the giant panda is the Ailuropoda melanoleuca; Panda's species.
- Panda is the only of the three Bears whose species is exclusive to Asia.
- Panda is the only one of his siblings that do not belong to the genus Ursus.
- The precise taxonomic classification of the giant panda was unknown as it shares characteristics with both raccoons and bears[4], however, molecular studies have confirmed they are true bears, though due to early history, they still remain outside of the Ursidae classification. Because of these studies, it is now known that pandas and raccoons shared their last common ancestor around 40 million years ago.
- The giant panda is classified by the IUCN as Vulnerable alongside the Ursus maritimus; the Ursus arctos is not under this classification.
- According to the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, there are only around 1,000 to 2,000 giant pandas left in the world, the population still decreasing.[5]
- Pandas are primarily herbivorous and their diet almost completely consists of bamboo.[6] Several instances in the show state how Panda is vegetarian.
- Giant pandas are about as large as an American black bear, adults being about 1.2 to 1.9 m─or 4 to 6 ft─long[8], while an adult black bear is about 1.2 to 2 m─or 4 to 7 ft─long[9].
- Giant pandas are known to have "thumbs", a modified Sesamoid bone, that assists pandas in holding bamboo.[10] Panda is shown to have "thumbs" in "Chloe".
- The sneeze Panda makes, as heard in "Panda's Sneeze", is based on the sound a baby panda makes whenever it sneezes.
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