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Teddie is a character in Persona 4. He is also the mascot who is used to represent the game.

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Teddie is a mysterious figure resembling a bear costume suit that the protagonist, Yosuke Hanamura, and Chie Satonaka encounter in the TV World. Teddie is unaware of who he is but knows the TV World as his home and remembers when it was a beautiful place. Lately, it has become more hostile, and someone has been dumping bodies in there, which Teddie wrongfully assumes is the protagonist and his friends. Teddie joins the group to assist them in the murder investigation, creates special glasses that allow them to see through the fog, and uses his nose to sniff out where the kidnapping victims are.

Teddie comes off as being young and impressionable, akin to a toddler. He speaks using his name as his pronoun, similar to many young children. He repeats words and learns things from what he experiences during his time with the Investigation Team, the most noticeable being how he picks up the Japanese phrase for girls hitting on guys from Shadow Yukiko.[a] Teddie takes an interest in girls after being pet on the head by Yukiko Amagi and begins trying to hit on her, Chie, and later Rise Kujikawa using the new—incorrect—phrase he learns from Yukiko's Shadow.

Teddie eventually gains a human body and comes to the real world. He begins living with Yosuke's family and participating in everyday life outside the TV. He works part-time job at Junes with Yosuke, goes by the alias Kumada, and gets hooked on vanilla ice cream bars. "Topsicles" in the English localization. As Teddie gets to know the group, he wonders about his purpose and identity. These topics become the core of the bond between him and the protagonist, whom he confides in and starts calling sensei.

Teddie appears as a white, blue, and red colored bear mascot with a large zipper around his head. In July, he gains a human body and starts walking around the real world as a blonde haired blue-eyed boy dressed in clothes that Chie and Yukiko pick for him at Junes.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Teddie.

Teddie is the Star Social Link. He becomes a playable party member in July with the Persona Kintoki-Douji.

Manual

Manual Descriptions
Persona 4 An odd being who dwells in the world within the television. What exactly is he...?
Persona 4 Golden An odd being who dwells in the world within the television. He appears to be wearing a costume, but inside...
Persona 4 Arena A being that came from inside the TV. He is the girl-chasing clown of the group. He used to be empty inside, but now...? With his claws and Persona, Kintoki-Douji, he'll upstage everyone with his crazy antics.
Persona 4:
Dancing All Night
A mysterious, happy-go-lucky, living mascot who came from the TV world. He has a tendency to sneak bear puns into any conversation. He now lives with the friends who helped him reach the truth.

Game Appearances

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Persona 4

Persona 4 Golden

Persona 4 Arena

Teddie's Story Mode

Teddie's story mode is unlocked after completing one of the first four story modes.

Other Characters

Teddie appears in the story modes for some of the other characters.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Episode P4

Episode P3

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

Persona 4: Dancing All Night

Anime Appearances

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Persona 4 The Animation

Persona 4 The Animation: The Factor of Hope

Persona 4 The Golden Animation

Manga Appearances

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Persona 4

Persona 4: The Magician

Persona 4: Yasoinaba Case File

Persona 4 Arena

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Roundabout

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Side:P3

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Side:P4

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth: Roundabout SP

Audio Drama Appearances

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Persona 4 Drama CD Vol. 1

Persona 4 Drama CD Vol. 2

Persona 4 Drama CD Vol. 3

Persona 4 Golden Drama CD Vol. 1

Persona 4 Golden Drama CD Vol. 2

Persona 4 The Animation Drama CD #1

Persona 4 The Animation Drama CD #2

A Day of the May Fool

Perfect Delivery

A Sense of Gratitude

Boo: I Bear a Grudge On You

Novel Appearances

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Persona 4: Kiri no Amnesia

Persona 4: Your Affection

Stage Play Appearances

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Visualive Persona 4

Visualive Persona 4: The Evolution

Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena

Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold

Other Appearances

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Weiß Schwarz

Persona 4 The Slot

CR Persona 4 The Pachinko

Teddie is one of the selectable avatars for the pachinko machine. His human avatar can also be unlocked. When selected, his mini-portrait will appears on the player's stat screen and he does the voice over for the machine's functions. He is the subject of some probability events, such as the crossdressing pageant, and an event where Yosuke tries to remove a One More from Teddie's bear costume.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

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Puzzle & Dragons

Teddie is a 5★ water and wind unit who can be obtained in the gacha during the Persona collaboration. His base card and skill up card were part of the first collab in 2018.

[4385] Teddie (Base)

  • Active Skill: Marakukaja
  • Leader Skill: I'm Teddie!

[4407] Persona 4: The Star Arcana (Skill Card)

Kotodaman

Teddie appears as a unit in the Persona collab for the mobile game Kotodaman. He was in the collab's original run in 2020, and once again during the rerun in 2024. He is a non-gacha character who can primarily be obtained by defeating him in his descent boss stage. The player can also obtain copies of Teddie by exchanging Blank Skill Cards at the event shop. As a game character, Teddie is a 5★ water-attribute unit who can be used to form words using the first syllable of his Japanese name, Kuma: く・ぐ. He can evolve into a 6★ unit. His 3+ syllable and 4+ syllable skills are named Bufula and Bufudyne, two skills that he has during his boss fight in Persona 4.[1]

Astro Bot

Trivia

  • For Teddie's design, Hashino requested he be cute and loveable. Based on Hashino's thought that "cute" would be big, fluffy, and accepting, Soejima went with a bear that resembles vintage toys such as Kewpie dolls. Soejima intentionally made Teddie look like he is already outdated with the color palette and the buttons that get smaller. Teddie's head was inspired by the look of an astronaut helmet as a type of retrofuturism and throwback to the Showa era when people were more hopeful. Originally, Atlus thought it would be surprising if Teddie were a beautiful woman inside of the bear suit. But after switching Naoto Shirogane from a boy to a girl, they decided to make Teddie a guy instead, and he ended up with his pretty blonde hair and blue-eyed look.[2]
  • In his Yasogami High social media profile in the 2009 setting book, Persona Club P4, Teddie fills out his profile with joking responses and emoji. His gender is "A bear who lives for a woman's love". His favorite food is sweets, but even more than sweets, he loves sweet, cute girls. His special skill is using his nose to detect people, he dislikes people who disturb his hibernation, and he does not have patience in his vocabulary. The social clubs he has joined are the "Risette Fan Club", "Gothic Lolita Fashion", "Yakitori", and "[Polar] Bear Lovers [Sun Bear]". His inbox has a message from Nori-P (Noriko Kashiwagi) asking him out on a date.[3]

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages
Language Name Meaning
  Japanese クマ Kuma
熊田 Kumada
Kuma (lit. "Bear")
Kumada (Play on his name being "Kuma", the Japanese informal copula "da", and the Japanese surname "Kumada") In the English game, the line was changed to a customer in Junes mistaking him as saying his name was Terry or Eddie.

Gallery

 

Notes

  1. Yukiko's Shadow uses the Japanese phrase specifically for "girls hitting on guys", 逆ナン (gyakunan). Chie repeats this word when quoting what the shadow says, and Teddie in turn picks it up from Chie repeating Yukiko's Shadow. In the English version, this was localized as "scoring a stud" early in the game, but only as "scoring" whenever Teddie begins repeating it later on, thus obfuscating that he is repeating Yukiko's Shadow and using the wrong gendered phrase.

References

  1. Kotodaman - Teddie Evaluation and Status. Published November 5, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2024. GameWith. Article.
  2. "Chapter: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Famitsu (2008). Japanese. p. 80. ISBN-13: 978-4757745087.
  3. "Chapter 1: Characters", Persona Club P4, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Staff. Published by Famitsu (2009). Japanese. p. 51. ISBN-13: 475774630X.