Teddie

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Teddie
Other Name(s)	Kumada (Alias while working at Junes)
Affiliation(s)	Investigation Team
Race(s)	Shadow
Arcana	Star
Persona(s)	Kintoki-Douji Kamui Kamui-MoshiriPersona 4 Golden (Ultimate Persona)
Voice Actor(s)	Kappei Yamaguchi (JA) Sam Riegel (EN)
Live-Action Actor(s)	Kappei YamaguchiVisualive Persona 4 Visualive Persona 4: The Evolution Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold (Voice Over)

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

Profile

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, and he uses 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. 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 a part-time job at Junes with Yosuke, goes by the alias Kumada at Junes and around Yasogami High, and gets hooked on vanilla ice cream bars. 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 from Junes. 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.

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 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.

Anime Appearances

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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

	For more information on this subject in BlazBlue, see Teddie on BlazBlue Wiki.

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)

• Active Skill: Marakukaja

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.

Etrian Odyssey II HD

Teddie, along with the Demi-fiend of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, are featured as selectable portraits for characters via DLC.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Teddie appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a DLC Mii hat.

Trivia

• 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.
• The developer Q&A about Teddie reveals some background information and "explanations" regarding his character:
  • Atlus has no explanation as to how Teddie can make glasses, how his bear costume works, or how he his human body fits inside the bear costume. They write it off as "Teddie Power".
  • Yosuke bought Teddie a basic cell phone which Kanji decorated. In addition to buying the phone, Yosuke pays for all of Teddie's other expenses such as his cell phone bill, his food, and his snacks.
  • Teddie mentions that he has ways of making himself feel at home in the TV World. Atlus suggests he has some sort of dwelling there which he calls home. Once gaining a human body and living in the real world, he instead takes up residence in Yosuke's closet.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	クマ Kuma	Bear
	熊田 Kumada	Teddie's human alias. Play on his name being "Kuma", the Japanese informal copula "da", and the Japanese surname "Kumada".

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