Bugbears in popular culture

Bugbears have appeared many times in popular culture. In the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, bugbears are the largest of the various goblinoid races (the others being goblins, hobgoblins, and other, more obscure ones such as forest-kith goblins and varags). They are vaguely bearish in appearance, being hairy and strong, but primarily just larger versions of the smaller, moderately more civilized compatriots. In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI, bugbears are a creation of the through eugenics. Significantly larger and stronger than goblins, they also have enhanced senses that includes multiple eyes. They are implied to be second-class citizens that are relegated the jobs that require brute strength. They also appear in other Final Fantasy games as normal enemies. In the Super Famicom game, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance and PlayStation Portable remakes of Tales of Phantasia, bugbears are a staple of enemies, resembling hairy bearish goblins with clubs. A Bugbear is also a hobgoblin like creature (taller and generally fatter) in Lineage I and Lineage II.
*There is a monster called a "Bug Bear" in the MMORPG Mabinogi
*In the role-playing game Kingdom of Loathing, bugbears are bipedal creatures that resemble small bears with a "w" for a mouth. Confusingly, actual bears are known as 'bars' (mimicking the speech of some dialects of American English).
*Bugbear appears as an enemy monster in the PlayStation game Dragon Warrior VII, designed by Akira Toriyama.
*Bugbear is also the name of a monster in the Nintendo DS game Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. In the game it is portrayed as a levitating eyeball with a long tail and a pair of spikes coming out of either end of the eyeball. The spikes and the tail both generate electricity. In actuality, the creature's name was mistransliterated from backbeard, a different entity which it much more closely resembles. It is a palette swap of the Peeping Eye.
*In the Harry Potter world, bugbears are blood-sucking bears.
*In the online game DragonFable, bugbears are large greenish bears with 4 spines in their backs. They are guards in Cysero's tower.
*The Bugbear computer worm (also known as Tanatos.A) caused widespread infections on the Internet during the first half of 2002.
*A Bugbear is a minor boss in '.
*A Bugbear is a mob in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. As well as a slightly larger and significantly more powerful mini-boss, the Bugbear Chieftain.
*In Raymond Briggs' graphic novel Fungus the Bogeyman a bugbear is the bogeyman equivalent of the humans' teddy bear. It has foul, rancid fur and is infested by insects.
*A Bugbear is another term for "pet peeve"
*Bugbear is also another term for scarecrow.

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