Bamse -- the world's strongest and kindest bear

From Wikipedia:
Bamse – Världens starkaste och snällaste björn ("The world's strongest and kindest bear") is a Swedish fictional cartoon character created by Rune Andréasson. The highly popular children's cartoon first emerged as a series of television short films as well as a weekly half page "Sunday strip" in 1966, before being published periodically in its own comic magazine since 1973. The name "Bamse" comes from a Scandinavian word meaning "bear" or "teddybear" or, at least in Danish, just generally stuffed animal. He is the world's strongest bear, as he gained super strength by eating a batch of honey called dunderhonung (lit. "thunder honey" or "rumble honey"), specially prepared for him by his grandmother. Most other people, with only a couple of exceptions, will only get a three-day stomach-ache from eating it. Nalle-Maja, one of Bamse's daughters will get both the strength and the stomach-ache. His other daughter, Brumma, will get none. He is also the world's kindest bear, and frequently repeats his motto, "nobody is the better for being beaten". Catchy, no?

Bamse's best friends are Lille Skutt ("Little Hop"), a very fast but notoriously frightened white rabbit, and Skalman ("Shell-man"), an ingenious tortoise who invents all sorts of machines, including spacecraft and time machines, and stores just about anything in his carapace (except for a locomotive and an atlantic steamboat, according to own claims). He also looks stoned. Skalman seems to be a polyphasic sleeper, and according to himself, his best invention is the food-and-sleep clock, whose calls he follows slavishly, even at times when sleep seems highly inappropriate. To this date, he has only ignored the alarm call a few times, including the discovery of a dinosaur's egg, the birth of Bamse's children, and a state of deep depression (due to the (false) belief that his carelessness had caused the death of Bamse's children). A bit dark for a children's comic strip, I think...

Bamse and his friends are very clear about their values. They are strongly opposed to racism, bullying and violence. Also, pro-communism... keep reading. The only villain that is depicted as unredeemable is Krösus Sork ("Croesus Vole"), a crude capitalist who will do practically anything for money. This, together with the overall focus on sharing and some of the "school" pages making pro-Chinese and Vietnam statements, has led some people to accuse the series of promoting communism. The series somewhat changed direction when Bamse had children, specifically triplets, in 1982. In 1986, he had a fourth child, Lille Skutt having one at the same time. (Skalman remains single, though.) Family life is now in focus, and here also the basic values shine through, like that of gender equality. In 1989 Skalman noticed that Bamse's fourth child ("Brumma") was intellectually handicapped, which again brought up the subject of equality. More heavy themes... awesome.

Etc, etc. Conclusion: Scandinavians are super weird. As a side note, I'm considering naming my future kitten Bamse, not after the bear but after the Danish word for stuffed animal, and because I think it's cute. It strikes me as more of a puppy name, but I'm not sure I'll ever get a puppy, so... hmm. Something to keep in mind.