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Cheer Bear is a very happy Care Bear who helps others see the bright side of life.  She will sometimes even do a cheer to help make someone happier! Wherever she goes, Cheer Bear wears a belly badge of hope and happiness — a colorful rainbow.
―Cheer Bear's bio


Cheer Bear is one of the ten original Care Bears who first debuted as a character on American Greetings cards in 1982. Ever since, she has been a main character in nearly every incarnation of the franchise.

Profile[]

Appearance[]

Cheer Bear has carnation pink fur and her Belly badge depicts the easily identifiable arch of a rainbow.

Personality[]

Cheer Bear Leo

Art taken from the official Care Bears Instagram.

A very happy and perky bear who lives up to her name, Cheer Bear has made it her goal to help everyone to be joyous as she is (sometimes whether they like it or not). Known to break into cheers and chants at the drop of a hat, this exuberant, bouncy, and just plain happy ball of pink fluff is only sad when she can't lift someone's spirits, but that just means she has to try even harder. Her personality is fitting to her horoscope, which is Leo.

Abilities[]

Her belly badge gives her the power to create tangible rainbows, which can be used to help her solve any problems she may be facing, although this method is generally only used as a last resort.

Appearances[]

1980s[]

The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings[]

Cheer Bear makes her animated debut in the very first Care Bears 1983 television special. After a boy named Kevin runs away from home, he ends up in the gloomy Land Without Feelings ruled by Professor Coldheart, who turns him into a Green Creature Slave. It's up to Cheer and the rest of the crew to defeat the mad professor and return the boy to normal.

The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine[]

In the follow-up to the original TV special, Cheer is among the bears who must once again stop Coldheart and his new sidekick Frostbite from tricking a boy named Paul into helping him complete his "Careless Ray Contraption" that will freeze everyone's feelings.

The Care Bears Movie[]

Cheer Bear appears in the first Care Bears theatrical film as one of the bears who welcomes the children Kim and Jason to Care-a-Lot during the "Nobody Cares Like a Bear" song sequence. She is later part of the crew of the ship The Cloud Clipper as they travel through the Forest of Feelings looking for their lost friends. After re-uniting with their wayward comrades, and joining forces with the Care Bear Cousins, the group travels to Earth to combat the evil Spirit.

DIC series[]

Cheer makes frequent appearances in DIC Entertainment's Care Bears series.

  • She appears in the very first episode of the series - The Birthday, where she attends the birthday party of Birthday Bear himself, and later travels to Earth to help a boy named Matthew overcome his jealously over the arrival of his new baby sister.
  • In Braces, She is later among the bears who helps a boy named Joey get over his self-consciousness due to his new braces.
  • In Split Decision, she joins a soccer game with a timid boy named Carl against a group of bullies.
  • In Soap Box Derby, she helps two girls named Kathy and Tricia build a soap box derby racer.
  • In The Last Laugh, The gleeful girl loses her cheer and becomes depressed when she realizes that despite her best efforts, she can't cheer up Grumpy Bear. Her friends decide to throw both of them a comedy show to lift both their spirits, but even that isn't enough to bring Cheer Bear back to her old self. When Swift Heart Rabbit continually tries to perk her up, Cheer realizes that in order to show that you truly care about someone, you can't give up on them. When she tells this to Grumpy, he smiles for the first time, gratified that someone would care that much for him.
  • In Mayor for a Day, Professor Coldheart rigs a children's contest to become mayor of a town called Abbotsville for a day, Cheer Bear, along with other Care Bears and some local children team up to stop his reign of terror.
  • In The Night the Stars Went Out, she is seen among the many Care Bears who team up against a new villain, Strato Nefarious when he begins to steal the stars from the sky so he can use their light to read his sheet music, and helps take him down with a Care Bear Stare.
  • In The Magic Shop, Coldheart once again tries to corrupt the residents of a small town by tricking two children into using his new un-feeling ray to remove the caring from everyone it hits, with Cheer Bear among the bears who uses their Care Bear Stare to change everyone back.
  • In Concrete Rain, when the mad professor tries to cover an entire park in concrete with his plane, Cheer Bear chases him down in her Cloudmobile and teams up with a girl named Susie to stop him.

Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation[]

The second Care Bears theatrical film tells the story of how the Care Bears, including Cheer Bear, first came to Care-a-Lot after escaping the evil Dark Heart. When the villain propositions a girl named Christy into helping him capture the Care Bears once and for all, he succeeds in imprisoning just about all of them except for Cheer Bear and a few others. Together with two children named John and Dawn, the remaining bears rescue their friends from Dark Heart's lair.

The Care Bears Family[]

As in the DIC series, Cheer appears quite frequently in Nelvana's Care Bears Family television series. Her design for the series is identical to how she appeared in the movies; in Season 2, she now wears a yellow jacket and has her hair in a ponytail.

  • Cheer's first major occurs in the third episode: The Great Race, where she is one of the contestants who takes part in the annual Care Bear Family Obstacle Race. However, when Mr. Beastly rigs the ballot to make himself a participant, the bears must put up with his constant cheating on their way to the finish line, with Cheer herself falling into a pit of cement.
  • In Home Sweet Homeless, Beastly's tricks cause the Forest of Feelings to become flooded and the Care Cousins move into Care-a-Lot. This however, begins to wear on everybody's nerves, even Cheer's, after they overstay their welcome.
  • in The Bravest of the Brave, She is later seen investigating a strange carnival run by Dr. Fright, who ends up capturing her and her friends in his haunted house until they are rescued by Brave Heart Lion and a boy named Adam.
  • When No Heart's niece Shreeky makes her first appearance after moving in with her evil uncle, Cheer Bear is among the first victims of her plan to wipe out the Care Bears using a quick-growing serum on some local plant life.

Care Bears Care About the Environment[]

Around 1991, Cheer Bear and several other Care Bears received temporary redesigns in both artwork and plush form in order to bring about environmental awareness. Despite appearing in several books and even stickers, this new line was relatively short-lived due to a lack of popularity and low sales.

Cheer Bear's appearance for this series featured her with peach-orange fur with a much more complex rainbow tummy symbol that depicted two oceans and two fish.

2002[]

In this era, Cheer's tummy symbol is redesigned slightly with the addition of an orange stripe. She was one of the "Core 10"

Journey to Joke-a-lot[]

Cheer Bear is a character in the first computer-animated Care Bears film, Journey to Joke-a-lot. After Funshine Bear runs away to the titular town so his practical jokes can be better appreciated, he is crowned king as part of a secret plot by a rat named Sir Funnybone to steal the royal treasure, and Cheer is among the bears who come to Joke-a-lot to stop him.

Care Quest[]

Cheer Bear is one of the playable characters in the 2005 Game Boy Advance video game Care Bears: Care Quest during the minigame "A Helping Hand", where she must float above starbuddies and drop rainbow arches to help them walk over obstacles.

The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie[]

In the second CG Care Bears video, Cheer's role is relatively minor when compared to Journey to Joke-a-Lot. She is still among the residents of Care-a-Lot who welcome their new neighbors, Me Bear, Messy Bear, and Too Loud Bear to the community.

Later in the film, when the new bears abuse the power of Wish Bear's wishing star Twinkers, their greed eventually becomes too severe and Care-a-Lot begins to fall apart at the seems. Its up to the Care Bears, including Cheer, to rebuild it in the aftermath.

2007[]

In this incarnation, Cheer is the leader of the Care Bears instead of Tenderheart. The amount of bears was also reduced to five main characters, with Cheer being one of them. In addition to the bears being heavily redesigned to appear youthful and animesque, Cheer's personal touch is a rainbow-colored bow tied up into a ponytail, and the rainbow in her belly badge is slightly smaller and does not touch the edges.

Oopsy Does It![]

Cheer Bear appears in the Care Bears: Oopsy Does It! film as one of the citizens of Care-a-Lot whose Belly Badge is stolen by Grizzle after he tricks Oopsy Bear into helping him. She serves as the deuteragonist of the film after Oopsy, and along with him, are the only main bears to be seen outside of Woo-Hoo World. Cheer also gives Oopsy a whistle should he wish for her help; said whistle is then used to summon Cheer to Grizzle's lair and use one of her rainbows which Grizzle uses as the last ingredient for the Caretaker.

Adventures in Care-a-Lot[]

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Cheer Bear is one of the main five characters of the 2007-2008 Adventures in Care-a-Lot series. Characterizing as her same cheery self, she sometimes takes on a nurturing, motherly role on top of it. She is the bassist of Care Bear Honeys.

  • Her first major appearance is in the episode Growing Pains, when she and Share Bear form a rivalry to see who can make the best garden, which threatens their friendship.
  • In Case of the Grumpies, she attempts to cheer up Grumpy after he begins to act more grumpier than usual.
  • In Cheer, There and Everywhere, she shirks her duties to help others prepare for an annual parade.
  • In Bubbles, she tries to nurse Funshine back to health after he comes down with a case of the "the bubbles".
  • In Oopsy the Hero, she and Harmony Bear are accidentally saved by Oopsy from almost being crushed under a falling sign from the Smart Heart Library. Afterwards, the town treats Oopsy like a hero until his conscious can no longer allow him to keep up the charade.
  • In Gobblebugs, Cheer and Oopsy would later work together to save their home from a swarm of destructive insects called Gobblebugs when they descend upon Care-a-Lot.
  • In Stand Up and Cheer, Cheer hosts a talent show after noticing how everyone in Care-a-Lot seems to have some kind of talent, and even includes Grizzle, who plans to use the contest as part of yet another scheme to take over Care-a-Lot.
  • In Present and Accounted For, she and Love-a-Lot Bear have a temporary falling out when Cheer's gift basket that she made for Love-a-Lot's birthday gets stolen. While Love-a-Lot believes Cheer forgot about her party, Cheer instead thinks her friend took the basket without saying thanks. The two patch things up after learning not to jump to conclusions.
  • In the DVD-exclusive episode Cheer Up, she attempts to try and hold a surprise party for Surprise Bear as nobody has ever surprised her before, but she becomes frustrated after waiting for so long and ends up losing her cheer in the process.

Share Bear Shines[]

When Share Bear travels to the fabled home of Princess Starglo, said to be the one who turns baby twinklets into full-grown wishing stars, she finds it less hospitable than the stories suggest. As Starglo denies her request to help her young star friend grow, she reveals that she is dismantling her entire operation since no one believes in her anymore. While Share tries to get her to change her mind, a group of bears, including Cheer travel to Starglo's home to look for her, and end up using a Care Bear Stare to change her outlook on the situation and make stars again.

The Giving Festival[]

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Cheer Bear from The Giving Festival

Cheer Bear appears in the final Adventures in Care-a-Lot spin-off film as one of the organizers of the annual Giving Festival celebration. After a failed attempt to tow Care-a-Lot away leaves his own island floating in deep space, Cheer is among the bears who takes him home. However, his gratitude proves to be short-lived as he tries to capture them while inside his fortress, but they are able to outwit him in the end. Later, She must help rescue Princess Starglo from a cloud spirit named Windle who hates the festival and wants to stop her attending, and is able to change his attitude with a Care Bear Stare.

2012[]

In this incarnation, Cheer is redesigned to resemble her 2002 self, and her belly badge reverts to its 2002 look with the addition of appearing slightly fatter.

Welcome to Care-a-Lot[]

Cheer Bear is once again a main character in the 2012 Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot television series. She is characterized much the same as in previous shows, but now considers herself a full-fledged cheerleader who breaks into cheers and encouraging chants all the time. When not tending her garden, she is involved in most activities and special events around Care-a-Lot, including a pumpkin-carving sleepover, setting up the annual group picture, or playing a game of Honeyball.

  • She sometimes gets a little too wrapped up in being friendly, such as in Cheeri No, when she neglected her own duties around Care-a-Lot to help others with their own.
  • In Feeling Flu, When Funshine comes down with a case of the "Feeling Flu", a disease that causes infected individuals to switch personalities, Cheer temporarily inherits Grumpy Bear's grumpiness, while he gets her cheer.
  • In Welcome to Grump-a-Lot, Cheer would have another bout with unhappiness when Grumpy became so mad one day he started a "grump storm" that enveloped all of Care-a-Lot and made everyone as irritable as he is. He was able to change Cheer back in the end by performing a cheer of his own, reminding her of who she was.

Care Bears & Cousins[]

Cheer is one of the main characters in this continuation of the Welcome to Care-A-Lot series.

Care Karts[]

Cheer makes an appearance in the 2016 mobile game.

2019[]

In this incarnation, Cheer becomes more animesque, her fur is more vibrant, has blush stickers, and the colors in her belly badge are reduced to red, yellow, and blue.

Unlock the Magic[]

Cheer Bear is a main character in Care Bears: Unlock the Magic, once again the leader of the bears instead of Tenderheart. Like her previous incarnations, Cheer is positive and eager to make others happy. She is the team leader, and very good at video games. Cheer is always ready for a challenge.

  • The first episode where she is the main focus is the episode Nobody's Perfect, where after losing in a video game, she loses faith in herself and is unable to drive the Cloudseeker.
  • In The Big Whifflesnooze, when she gets highly caught up on work, she accidently tends to a problem that causes every Whiffle to fall asleep.
  • In Mixed Signals, Cheer is the only Bear who isn't fooled by what everybody else thinks is Tenderheart Bear wanting everyone to return home.
  • In Three Cheers for Cheer!, she overworks herself to the point of accidently being duplicated by Share Bear without her realising.
  • In The Light in the Forest, she befriends a creature named a Sparklewing.
  • In Road Trip, Cheer is uncertain where she is driving in the Silver Lining when Bedtime Bear accidently sticks his book together.
  • In Out of the Cheer Zone, when the other Care Bears are on a mission to sort out a beacon, Cheer gets really distracted on setting up an antenna when Dibble's two friends Fin and Gibbie join her, and she has to try and babysit those Whiffles and do her job at the same time. It gets too much for her when she accidently makes the young Whiffles cry after not allowing them to play.

Descriptions[]

2002-2006: Cheer Bear is a very happy Care Bear who helps others see the bright side of life. She will sometimes even do a cheer to help make someone happier. Wherever she goes, Cheer Bear wears a symbol of hope and happiness - a rainbow.

2002 Website Profile:

Caring Mission: Cheers people up.
Symbol: Her rainbow symbol represents hope.
Personality: Happy and upbeat.
Character Quirk: Sometimes communicates through rhyming cheers.
Color: Carnation Pink.
Best Friend: Wish Bear
Relationship Challenge: Grumpy Bear - she's always trying to cheer him up!
Motto: When in doubt, SMILE!

20th Anniversary: Cheer Bear is generally the first Care Bear to appear when someone is not feeling well or whenever things go wrong for whatever reason. Always an optimist, Cheer Bear approaches each day with a smile and a good word. Cheer Bear's rainbow tummy symbol is a symbol of hope and a reminder that even bad times can bring something beautiful.

2007-2011: Bubbly and happy Cheer is the unofficial leader of the Care Bears. She's quick with a nice remark, helpful and always willing to go out on a limb to protect her friends. Her name and rainbow belly badge say it best; she's full of good, colorful cheer and knows just how to use it.

2012-2018: Cheer Bear is a very happy Care Bear who helps others see the joyful side of life. She will sometimes even do a cheer to help brighten someone's day. Wherever she goes, Cheer Bear wears a belly badge of hope and happiness - a rainbow!

2020-present: Cheer Bear is a very happy Care Bear who helps others see the bright side of life.  She will sometimes even do a cheer to help make someone happier! Wherever she goes, Cheer Bear wears a belly badge of hope and happiness — a colorful rainbow.

The Bears Are Back in Town - The Ultimate Guidebook: Caring is magic! Positive, happy and kind, Cheer Bear's can-do attitude can get and her friends through any situation. A top scorer in video games, Cheer's natural talent and superfast reflexes help her pilot the Cloudseeker over the difficult and sometimes surprising Silver Lining terrain. Thanks to Cheer's excellent judgment, her friends trust her to make quick decisions in sticky situations. This team leader rises to every challenge and is thankful to have all of her friends by her side.

HeadStart UTM products: Cheer Bear is the Care Bears Team leader! The Care Bears team trusts her judgement in sticky situations, rising to the challenge even if she doesn't alweays feel confident that she will get there.

Trivia[]

  • While rainbows normally have seven colors, the number of colors on Cheer Bear's Belly Badge varies between each series. In the original DIC Care Bears and Nelvana Care Bears Family series and films, it is shown with only four (red, yellow, green, and blue), while it has five in every appearance since Journey to Joke-a-lot (adding orange) up until Unlock the Magic where it has three (red, yellow, and blue).
  • Cheer Bear and Tenderheart Bear were the first two Care Bears to be made into stuffed animals at Build-a-Bear Workshop.
  • According to issue 15 of the Care Bears comic book series, Cheer Bear's care schedule for that particular day was to cheer up 2,474 people. Since this is a humourous comic, it is not meant to be taken literally, but assuming this was her normal workload, and she met with each person individually, she would only have about 35 seconds to spend with each person in a 24 hour period.
  • Cheer Bear appears (pictured) in the 38th episode of Cartoon Network's Mad TV series, "Monkey Ball Z/The Green Care Bear", during a segment that parodies the 2011 film Green Lantern. She is seen training their new recruit, Hal Jordan, to help to take down Funshine Bear, who has apparently been corrupted by Parallax.
  • In some episodes of the original series, she is shown to have feelings for Champ Bear.
  • In the Adventures in Care-a-Lot and Unlock the Magic incarnations, Cheer is the leader of the Care Bears instead of Tenderheart.
  • Cheer was incorrectly referred to using male pronouns in some Kenner advertisements.

In Various Languages[]

Croatian: Veseo (Happy one)

Dutch: Lachbeertje (Laughing bear)

French: Grosfarceur/Toucâlin

French (Canadian): Gailourson

German: Hurrabärchi (Hooray bear)

Hebrew: חייכנית (Smiling one)

Hungarian: Vidám medve (Happy bear)

Italian: Allegrorsa (Cheerful bear)

Japanese: チアベア (Cheer bear)

Mandarin (Taiwan): 快樂熊/Kuàilè xióng (Happy bear)

Norwegian: Morobamse (Fun teddy)

Polish: Niedźwiedź pocieszenia (Consolation bear)

Portugese: Animadinha

Portugese (Brazilian): Animada

Spanish: Alegrosita (Happy Small Bear)

Spanish (Spain): Allegrorsa (Rainbow)

Swedish (Cartoons): Skojnalle (Fun Bear)

Swedish (Comic): Gladnalle (Happy Bear)

Russian: Радуга (Rainbow Bear)

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Evolution[]

Care Bears Family
Care Bears
Original Bears
Bedtime Bear (1982) - Birthday Bear (1982) - Cheer Bear (1982) - Friend Bear (1982) - Funshine Bear (1982) - Good Luck Bear (1982) - Grumpy Bear (1982) - Love-a-Lot Bear (1982) - Tenderheart Bear (1982) - Wish Bear (1982)
Introduced in 1980s/1990s
Forest Friend Bear (1980s) - Sea Friend Bear (1980s) - I Love You Bear (1980s) - Baby Hugs Bear (1983) - Baby Tugs Bear (1983) - Grams Bear (1983) - Secret Bear (1984) - Share Bear (1984) - Champ Bear (1984) - Harmony Bear (1985) - Surprise Bear (1985) - Daydream Bear (1985) - Prize Bear (1985) - True Heart Bear (1986) - Perfect Panda (1986) - Polite Panda (1986) - Gramps Bear (1986) - Take Care Bear (1987) - America Cares Bear (1991)
Introduced in 2000s
Laugh-a-Lot Bear (2003) - Bashful Heart Bear (2004) - Best Friend Bear (2004) - Thanks-a-Lot Bear (2004) - Do-Your-Best Bear (2004) - True North Bear (2005) - Sweet Dreams Bear (2005) - Hopeful Heart Bear (2005) - Smart Heart Bear (2005) - Me Bear (2005) - Messy Bear (2005) - Too Loud Bear (2005) - Amigo Bear (2006) - Always There Bear (2006) - Heartsong Bear (2006) - Play-a-Lot Bear (2006) - Shine Bright Bear (2006) - Superstar Bear (2006) - Work of Heart Bear (2006) - All My Heart Bear (2006) - Oopsy Bear (2007) - Pink Power Bear (2008) - Heart of Gold Bear (2008) - Sweet Sakura Bear (2009)
Introduced in 2010s
Wonderheart Bear (2012) - Shiver Me Timbear (2012) - Great Giving Bear (2012) - Trick-or-Sweet Bear (2013) - Christmas Wishes Bear (2014) - Rainbow Heart Bear (2017) - Piece of Heart Bear (2018) - Sparkle Heart Bear (2019) - Watchful Bear (2019)
Introduced in 2020s
Unity Bear (2020) - Togetherness Bear (2021) - Dream Bright Bear (2022) - I Care Bear (2022) - Care-a-Lot Bear (2022) - Sweet Message Bear (2022) - Sweet Celebrations Bear (2022) - Dare to Care Bear (2023) - Calming Heart Bear (2023) - Spooky Sparkle Bear (2023) - Destiny Bear (2023) - Be Me Bear (2023) - Always Here Bear (2023) - Good Vibes Bear (2023) - Flower Power Bear (2023) - Friends Forever Bear (2024) - True Friend Bear (2024) - Love Song Bear (2024) - Blissful Heart Bear (2024) - Peaceful Heart Bear (2024) - Kind to All Bear (2024) - Good Wishes Bear (2024) - Love to Care Bear (2024)
Peel & Reveal Bears
Best Secret Bear (2023) - Wishful Heart Bear (2023) - Lucky Star Bear (2023) - Dreamtime Bear (2023) - Always Heart Bear (2023) - Champ-Shine Bear (2023) - Love Song Bear (2023) - Charm Bear (2023) - Friend Share Bear (2023) - Grump-a-Lot Bear (2023)
Metaverse/NFT Bears
Hello Fren Bear (2022) - Self Care Bear (2022) - Warm Fuzzies Bear (2022) - ILY Bear (2022) - I Can Bear (2022) - Investor Bear (2022) - Enjoyer Bear (2022) - Collector Bear (2022) - Bad Crowd Bear (2022) - Cyborg Bear (2022) - Glitch Bear (2022) - Magic Sparkles Bear (2022) - Metaverse Bear (2022) - Zombie Bear (2022) - Pixie Bear (2022) - True Light Bear (2022) - Fun Dream Bear (2023) - Care Heart Bear (2023) - Always Grumpy Bear (2023) - Harmony Song Bear (2023) - Birthday Sparkle Bear (2023) - True Dreams Bear (2023) - Cheerheart Bear (2023) - Lucky Wish Bear (2023) - Super Love Bear (2023) - Best Heart Bear (2023) - Ocean Breeze Bear (2023)
Other Bears
Question Mark Bear (1980s) - Unnamed Pink Panda (1980s) - Unnamed Blue Panda (1980s) - Precious Heart Bear (1991) - Recycling Bear (1991) - Bo the Take Care Bear (2013) - International Day of the Girl Bears (2019) - Black Lives Matter Bear (2020)
Trademarked Bears
Dandy Bear (1990) - Fun Play Bear (1990) - Giving Bear (1990) - Munchie Bear (1991) - Melody Bear (1991) - Princess Heart Bear (1994) - Hollyheart Bear (1995) - Happyheart Bear (1995) - Peppermint Bear (1995) - Heart Shine Bear (2021) - Believe Bear (2021) - Caring Heart Bear (2022) - Warm Hug Bear (2023) - Lots-a-Pride Bear (2023) - Share Your Care Bear (2023)
Care Bear Cousins
Brave Heart Lion (1985) - Bright Heart Raccoon (1985) - Cozy Heart Penguin (1985) - Gentle Heart Lamb (1985) - Lotsa Heart Elephant (1985) - Loyal Heart Dog (1985) - Playful Heart Monkey (1985) - Proud Heart Cat (1985) - Swift Heart Rabbit (1985) - Treat Heart Pig (1985) - The Koala (1980s) - Noble Heart Horse (1986)
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