The Grizzly Bear is a minor antagonist of Balto. He is a giant dreadful brown and black furred bear with yellow eyeballs. He does news tolerate intruders and trespassers who enter his territory, and will kill them if they do so.
Biography[]
Balto[]
He first appears during the wolf-dog's journey to find the missing team when Balto, Boris, Muk, and Luk are on their mission to find Steele and the gang, but accidentally stagger into the bear's territory when the huge vicious black and brown bear appears to be stalking the group consisting of the heroes for several moments before Balto finally has caught scent of the danger.
A fierce confrontation erupts between the crazed giant and Balto. He swipes at Boris, causing him to log in a log, forcing it to land on Muk and Luk to trap them all. Balto bravely tries to protect his friends and runs to attack the bear. Although smaller and more agile, the wolf-dog is unable to match the bear in combat and is trapped and nearly crushed beneath the bear's huge paw as he swats the wolf dog until Jenna comes to his aid in order to save him, but is swatted by the bear to the ground.
If it hadn't been for the arrival of Jenna, Balto would have easily been killed. In the fight, the giant bear nearly stomps on the trapped baby polar bears and Boris trapped under a tree as the bear stomps his foot toward them, hoping to kill them. Still relentless, the grizzly bear injures Jenna and manages to engage Balto once more.
In attempt to escape from the grizzly bear, Balto falls onto a nearby lake of thin ice, the grizzly bear follows him and drowns in the icy depths of the lake.
Trivia[]
- In the series, this rampaged for the Bears to have brown fur, but yes in the movie, he is dark brownish
- The Bear is shown to be unrealistically tall, also Grizzly Bears aren't as native to Alaska. A real life bear, that can almost match the size, which are Kodiak Bears, but despite that their fur aren't brown, have different colors.
- He is the only character that dies in the movie, although Steele died by hanging himself with his collar in the deleted scene.
- The bear is also shown to have something of a one-track mind, as when Balto falls onto the lake, even when the bear begins breaking the ice with all his stomping, he continues advancing towards Balto.
- The bear in the sequel is thought to be the same bear. However, this isn't true as he is just a spirit that tested Balto and one of Aniu's forms.
- Oddly, Frank Welker helped with the bear's sound effects and isn't credited on the end credits.
- According to the script, the large grizzly bear survives after confrontation with Balto on the frozen river. Wounded and sitting near antitoxine box, the big grizzly bear confronts Balto again after the white wolf scene, but this is unknown for now, how Balto defeats the bear once and for all.
- Unlike the movie, the novel shows slightly different events. Balto successfully fights the grizzly bear, biting the bear in neck and throat. Being in pain, the furious bear falls onto the ice of the lake, the ice crashes, so the bear drowns in the lake, dragging Balto under the ice, hence Muk and Luk rescue Balto.