| “ | Karla can't know there's a way off this island. It's the only way I can win her heart. And soon, she'll see. She'll be as madly in love with me as I am with her. And if that means staying on this island forever, then so be it. | „ |
| ~ Dave reveals his true despicable nature to the baby Bears. |
Dave is a minor antagonist of the Cartoon Network series, We Bare Bears, being the main antagonist of the episode, The Island.
Although Dave got stranded on an island, alongside his fellow castaway, Karla, Dave is revealed to be the narcissistic and psychopathic boyfriend-wannabe of Karla and the attempted killer of the three bears. Upon first meeting Karla, Dave fell in mad love with her in private, and was willing to perform his best efforts to make Karla his "wife and muse," even if it meant permanently stranding the both of them on the island. He stole and concealed emergency supplies from a crashed helicopter, hiding them in a thicket as a means of sabotaging one of, if not their only, their means of escaping the island. However, Dave's plans to win Karla's heart are ultimately foiled by the three bears.
Dave was voiced by Jake Johnson.
Appearance[]
Dave is a young American man with tan skin and shaggy brown hair. In his appearance, he wore a light grey, stained shirt and teal shorts, both of which are tattered. He wore a yellow backpack in which he retained a journal to plot the sabotaging of him and Karla's escape and draw pictures of her, and wore brown sandals.
Personality[]
Dave is introduced as a friendly, intelligent, yet sarcastic and blunt man who shows affability towards the three bears and more especially Karla. However, in truth, Dave is revealed to be a psychopathic, selfish and delusional pervert who prevents Karla and even himself from escaping by sabotaging all plans and concealing emergency supplies, all of which in order to make Karla fall in love with him to the same extent as he is with her, even if it means by both of them remaining in the island and costing both of their lives upon eventually running out of resources. Dave is heavily despiteful towards those who attempt to foil his plans, such as the three bears (even going as far as tossing them and the emergency supplies into the quicksand, drastically endangering the lives of the three bears even in their childhood), and tries to reason with them to forget the supplies were ever seen in an attempt to mask his heinous sabotages.
While it is assumed that Dave carries a backpack with a journal to plot the plans on how to travel and escape the island, his journal is revealed to be drawings of Dave and Karla "together" and "in love," which further encourages Dave's true nature as a psychopathic love rival.
Biography[]
Background[]
Prior to the events of The Island, Dave got stranded on an uninhabited island, alongside his fellow stranded castaway, Karla. The first interaction between each other is unknown, but when the two did first meet with each other, Dave fell heavily in love with Karla, though he retained it as a secret from her, and was willing to perform his highest effort to make Karla his "wife and muse," even if it meant potentially costing both of their lives. He stole some emergency supplies from a crashed helicopter (which contained and instant inflatable raft to escape the island). He hid the supplies in a thicket of leaves and spent an unknown amount of time with Karla on the island.
The Island[]
The three cubs, Grizz, Panda and Ice Bear, first meet Dave and Karla when the two of them rescued the bears from drowning in quicksand, by throwing a vine to them in order for the three cubs to pull themselves out of the quicksand. While he writes in his journal, Grizzly peeks at it and marvels his drawing of a makeshift boat. Dave then immediately conceals it into his backpack and claims that he was a "travel blogger" before he was stranded on the island. He later goes to sleep in his and Karla's huthouse on the island. Later, he and Ice Bear were getting coconuts. Dave has obvious trouble with collecting coconuts and falls down from the tree. Ice Bear climbs up the tree effortlessly and gets a batch of coconuts down (some of which hit Dave).
Ice Bear later drags Dave back to the house while attempting to communicate to his brothers in body-language. Dave just thinks that Ice Bear is just freaking out about something. Dave accompanies the three bears as Ice Bear leads them to the crashed helicopter he spotted earlier. Dave suggests that it is not safe to search the helicopter and that it will potentially explode, which is an excuse considering that the helicopter is lacks functionality from the crash in the first place. The lack of emergency supplies on the ship leads to Karla having a small breakdown. Dave attempts to reassure her, to no avail, as Karla heads elsewhere for alone time.
Much to his dismay, Dave later finds the three cubs' discovery of the emergency supplies and, irritated that his plans are foiled, steals the supplies from the three clubs. When the cubs corner him, he demands that the trio should forget the supplies being seen. The three bears and Dave have a brief and heated tug-of-war over the supplies, which eventually leads to the cubs being tossed back by Dave into the same quicksand the three club were rescued from earlier. Dave throws the supplies into the quicksand, and he reveals his true love-sick colors to the cubs: Dave reveals that being stranded on the island would eventually allow him to win Karla's heart; and that he is madly in love with her, also revealing that he stole the supplies from the helicopter before hand and hid it to ensure that Karla would never find a method to escape the island. He is willing to perform his highest effort to win Karla's heart; even if it means stranding her on the island for the rest of their lives (potentially leading to both of their deaths from the lack of resources), much to the three bears' surprise and hatred against him. Dave then gratefully abandons the cubs to die in the quicksand and steals the fruit the cubs prepared for Karla, not realizing that Grizz is sentient of the safety raft he threw in the quicksand out of arrogance and spite against the cubs, and saved himself, Panda and Ice Bear using the raft inside the quicksand before the final confrontation against Dave. Later in the woods, he comforts Karla with water and he attempts to cuddle with her in an disturbing manner until the cubs (who escaped the quicksand earlier with the inflatable raft) confront him, with Grizzly revealing Dave's true nature and throwing coconuts, alongside Ice Bear, at him out of spite before Dave can perform further perverted actions towards Karla. He tries to explain how much of an "assistance" he was been for Karla, only for Panda to suddenly show up with Dave's journal to reveal its true contents and expose Dave out of karma (including pictures of them kissing and her getting married to a muscular drawing of Dave). As Karla witnesses this, she finally realizes Dave's true nature and, despite Dave's attempted reasoning, gives him a deserved cold shoulder. Enraged, Dave breaks down and attempts attack the bears, going as far as capturing Panda Bear out of spite for the latter exposing Dave, but the three cubs flee with Karla, causing Dave to beg for Karla not to leave him, only for Ice Bear to toss a final coconut at him out of spite, prompting Dave to angrily pursue the quadrio.
Dave peruses the four and while Grizz, Panda and Karla manage to board the raft, Dave swiftly grasps Ice Bear to prevent his escape. Karla orders Dave to let Ice Bear go, only for the latter to decline and break down his demand for Karla to remain with him for the rest of life, to be his "queen" and "muse," but to his shock, Ice Bear successfully escapes Dave's grasp by throwing a starfish at his right eye, stunning him briefly and allowing Karla and the three cubs to escape the island on the raft, leaving Dave behind on the island. It is unclear if he died of starvation or was later rescued before ending up being imprisoned for the rest of his life due to his heinous actions.
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Trivia[]
- Dave is considered one of the more dangerous villains in the We Bare Bears series, due to being one of the villains who were the closest to killing the three bears, and even heavily endangered their lives in their childhood, and sabotaged all of the plans for himself and Karla to escape the unhabitated island just to win the latter's heart, all of which are even surprising considering that Dave is a one-shot antagonist that made his sole appearance in The Island.
- Him and Norm from the episode Ranger Norm are probably the cruelest one-shot antagonists from We Bare Bears, with Norm's crimes amounting to attempting to illegally demolish the entire forest and then threatening to self destruct his bulldozer which would kill the Bears and rangers and also destroy the forest. However, Dave is proven to be worse than Norm as a person, due to his creepy psychopathic nature and being willing to do anything to get rid of those who try to foil his plans to win Karla's heart, most notably trying to murder the Baby Bears.
- Dave's fate is left unknown, but it is implied that he likely died of starvation after eventually running out of resources.
External Links[]
- Dave at the Villains Wiki
- Dave at the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
- Dave at the Hate Sink Wiki
- Dave at the We Bare Bears Wiki
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