Care Bears

The Care Bears are a set of characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. The original artwork for the cards was painted by artist Elena Kucharik. In 1983, Kenner took the characters and made the first in a line of very succesful teddy bears based of the Care Bears. Over 40 million units were sold between 1983 and

Villains

Throughout movies and series, there were bad guys who often tried to stop the Bears and Cousins on their missions:

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• First movie - Nicholas and the Evil Spirit
• movie - Dark Heart
• Third movie - The Wizard and Dim & Dumb
• DiC-produced episodes - Professor Coldheart, Frostbite
• Nelvana episodes - No Heart, Beastly and Shrieky (see TV series article)

The villains' profiles will be dealt with in the individual articles for the animated franchise.

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