Bark the Polar Bear

* Modern
* Classic

## History

**Bark the Polar Bear** is an anthropomorphic yellow polar bear who joined Fang & Bean to stop Sonic when he met the blue blur. He is a very strong foe who specializes in throwing.

## Past

### *Sonic Adventures Series S4*

In season 4 Robotnik hires The Hooligans Bean, Fang, and himself to get the chaos emeralds and distract sonic & Tails. At first, they were successful but then they lost and after that adventure they took a break for a long while.

### *Sonic the Fighters Comic*

In *Sonic the Fighters*, Bark was amongst the group of Sonic's friends who had been entrusted to safeguard the Chaos Emeralds to keep Dr. Robotnik from abusing it. Eventually though, Robotnik constructed the Death Egg II, which he used to deploy hordes of robots to lay the world to waste with. Soon after, Bark joined the fighting tournament held to decide which one among the Chaos Emerald guardians who was the strongest. If Bark could defeat all the contestants, he would earn the right to use all the Chaos Emeralds for Tails' single-seat Lunar Fox and travel to the Death Egg II and destroy it.

### *Sonic Future*

Robotnik hired the Hooligans again to be an obstacle for Sonic & friends from getting the Future stones. Later on, they end up helping sonic save the future.

### *Classic Sonic Adventures Comics*

Sometime, after helping Sonic & friends save the future the Hooligans would go back to their thuggish ways and try to destroy sonic & friends but only this time without the authority of Eggman on some situations.

## Personality

Completely mute, Bark is an enigma. In his debut, Bark is shown to be serious during his matches. Bark is blunt and quiet due of being a shy guy, and although he hangs out with the wrong crowd in the form of Fang and Bean, he is known to (secretly) have a gentle and loving heart.

Bark is shown to not get needlessly physical unless he is forced or provoked into, preferring instead to restrain and/or immobilize his opponents using his brute strength. When pushed over the edge, however, he becomes a wild and aggressive opponent.

## Powers & Abilities

Bark's main asset is his immense brute strength, which easily allows him to match the likes of Sonic and Knuckles and allows him to flatten opponents and deal maximum damage with little effort. Bark also has the ability to harness Chaos Emerald energy from the Chaos Emeralds to bolster his innate abilities, allowing him to enter Hyper Mode.

Bark is a good close-range fighter in hand-to-hand combat, matching the likes of renowned fighters like Sonic and Knuckles. His fighting style specializes in brute strength with grappling throws and powerful punches, though he does utilize a few combo attacks. He is similarly very durable, being unaffected by the blows from Amy's Piko Piko Hammer and remaining conscious after taking a blow to the head from Knuckles. He is also an incredible hand-to-hand combatant, being capable of matching a fighting expert like Knuckles blow for blow.

## Relationships

### Friends

Team Hooligan

* Bean
* Fang

### Neutral

* Dr. Eggman
* Metal Sonic
* Metal Knuckles
* Tails Doll
* Blaze the Cat
* Mimic
* Rough the Skunk
* Tumble the Skunk

### Enemies

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles “Tails” Prower
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Amy Rose
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel

Team Chaotix

* Espio the Chameleon
* Charmy Bee
* Vector the Crocodile

* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Rouge the Bat
* Marine the Racoon
* Captain Whisker
* Johnny
* Gardon
* Gemral
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese
* Big the Cat
* Zooey the Mouse
* Richard Echidna Simmons
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Dr. Starline
* G.U.N
* Honey the Cat

## Trivia

* One of the concepts for Bark's species was an orangutan.
* In issue #174 of *Computer and Video Games*, the section on *Sonic the Fighters* refers to a character known as "Bug" in place of Bark. Whether "Bug" was a early name for Bark, an entirely different scrapped character or a mistranslation is unknown.
* Bark is North Island's #1 snowboarder.
* Bark's blood type is unknown.

* Bark made a cameo on the front cover of *Sonic X* #15 in the form of a stuffed toy, along with Storm the Albatross and Amigo.
* His home stage theme, "Fairy of A.I.F", was remixed and can be heard as unlockable song in *Sonic Gems Collection*.
* According to an interview on Sonic Central from 2004, Sonic did not know the whereabouts of Bark, Ray, Bean, Fang, Chaos or Tikal.
* Like Bean and Honey, Bark was most likely designed by Masahiro Sugiyama, the character designer of *Sonic the Fighters*.
* In *Sonic Mania*, Bark lacks some hair on his head.