Have you ever thought to yourself, “I really want to go out and punch the crap out of a bear?”* We know we have and it’s a thought that has crossed the minds of many a superhero throughout comic book history. Yes, we really are going to get into who has gone mano-e-bearo in the DC, Image and Marvel universes, because it’s important to know who would win in a fight between a bear and your favorite spandex-clad hero. It actually happens a lot more than you might think and some of these characters have beaten up bears on more than one occasion — we’re looking at you, Batman! We aren’t sure why the Dark Knight likes engaging with the largest land carnivore, but if anyone could beat up Yogi, it’s him. Granted, we aren’t just talking about encounters with bears here. If you recall from the second live-action Fantastic Four film that sort of had Galactus in it, Old Blue Eyes himself, Ben Grim, a.k.a., the Thing kind of yelled at a bear. That wouldn’t cut the mustard for a list like this, so we dove a little deeper and scoured the pages of our favorite books just so we could find the most outrageous and incredible times a superhero punched or fought a bear.
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