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Allow me to formally introduce myself: I am Herbert P. Bear Esquire, formerly of the Arctic Circle, and now a prisoner of the frozen snow-ridden landscape you call home.
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~ Herbert introducing himself.
Herbert P. Bear, Esquire (also known as Herbert P. Bear or simply Herbert) is the main antagonist of the Club Penguin franchise, and one of the few main characters of Club Penguin who is not a penguin.
He is an ill-tempered and hegemonic polar bear who hates his own natural habitat as well as Club Penguin Island for how cold they are, with his main goal being to make the latter a warm, tropical paradise for himself. The measures that he takes to achieve such is almost always foiled by the Penguin Secret Agency (PSA), later the Elite Penguin Force (EPF), without any issues, primarily with the protagonist being the key investigator and he's also the archenemy of the Penguin people.
Herbert appears as a large polar bear with thick eyebrows, a low-saturated blue nose, and an emphasis on fur in the most noticeable spots. His eyes are almost always in an angry expression.
In Club Penguin Island, he wore a sweatshirt, a scarf, and a watch-like gadget on his right arm.
During the Star Wars Takeover event, Herbert wore gear in obvious parody to Darth Vader.
Personality[]
Unlike real-life polar bears, Herbert hates cold weather, he cannot swim, and is a vegetarian, and since his first appearance, he has been trying to take over Club Penguin Island and turn it into a warm paradise.
Herbert is overall somewhat incompetent in his goals. His own enragement and arrogance is the key reason as to why some of his goals have failed. Otherwise however, it is due to simple human error. This does not affect his intellect however, as Herbert posed a genuine trouble to the PSA, and was able to trick and manipulate others very well.
Herbert has had many significant personality changes. His personality was first explored in Mission 6 of the PSA missions, where he expressed his previously mentioned disapproval for the cold weather of his original home in the Arctic Circle, and was willing to take extreme measures by casting away on an iceberg seeking warmer lands. He got heavily disappointed and attempted to turn back, but nearly drowned himself, only to be saved by Klutzy the Crab, who would turn to be his henchman and close companion.
Since this series of events however, he grew more and more sinister by each incident. He did evolve from being a basic criminal with unsuccessful attempts at getting what he wants, to full-on tyranny. In the events that unfolded during Operation: Blackout, Herbert usurped all of the Club Penguin Island and ruled it under his image, renaming it "Club Herbert". He took highly destructive and oppressive measures to ensure warmth for himself only. After this plan was put to a stop, he attempted another endangering event, coined "Operation: Hot Sauce" to make Club Penguin into a warm island.
Herbert harbors a hatred for all life on Club Penguin. He finds the penguin population very annoying, given their loud music, as well as their established civilization on the island. Herbert also hates puffles, and even wanted to effectively get rid of all puffles so he could live peacefully in his own image.
Despite all villainous deeds however, Herbert does have a fair share of redeeming qualities. He helped the EPF in preventing the entire island of Club Penguin from sinking, and genuinely cares about Klutzy, his own goon. Herbert also is very comical at times.
Trivia[]
Herbert is the first and only known polar bear, as well as the first non-penguin sentient character in Club Penguin.
As a mascot, Herbert looks the way he does, because of the item, Herbert's Eyebrows. Without them, he is actually a plain, Aqua penguin, as it is revealed in some people's videos of them meeting Herbert. This is due to the technical framework of the game.
However, for the Star Wars Takeover, his base was an Arctic White penguin.
Herbert's title having "esquire" in it suggests some kind of royal honor or professional degree; possibly a Juris Doctor.
He named himself as "Illustrious Leader Supreme of Club Herbert" when he conquered the island in Operation: Blackout.
In Mission 11, he claims he is "smarter than the average polar bear", a reference to Yogi Bear.
The part in Mission 10 where he was attempting to swap the golden Puffle with the can of bait worm was an obvious parody of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones attempted to swap the Fertility Idol with a bag of sand.
Herbert is one of the only known characters in the Club Penguin Universe that understands crabs along with Rookie.
Herbert (oddly for a polar bear) is a vegetarian, he also doesn't like frozen food.
Originally, Club Penguin was planning on 3 polar bear villains, but instead they came up with only one, that being Herbert.
During the Star Wars Takeover, Herbert was temporarily renamed to "Darth Herbert".
During the Star Wars Takeover Herbert did not seem to have any knowledge of the EPF, or even Klutzy for that matter. It's possible that he was just pretending or there was something wrong with him, or Herbert during the Star Wars Takeover is from a different universe.
He created the song "Herbert Style" during his takeover for Operation Blackout similar to how Dr. Strangeglove created "The Doctor Will See You Now". Herbert Style itself is also a parody of the song Gangnam Style by Psy (which was at the height of its popularity at the time of the party Operation Blackout).
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