He and the mascot Duo are the only main characters to be non-human.It was because of this challenge that the bear's name was revealed. The challenge was titled Falstaff's Big Sleep, which was referencing the beginning of winter and the start of hibernation for bears. In the history of Challenges, Falstaff was featured once in December 2021.Since the lessons often include sentences about a bear doing rather anthropomorphic things, this has fans assuming all those sentences are about this particular bear, Falstaff, so that he is probably the one drinking beer in the German course etcetera. All this has fans speculating about Falstaff's relationship to Duo as more of an antagonist. He is never really included in Duolingo's statements about characters, so that his name long remained unknown, which makes him different from other characters like Duo, Bea, Lucy, Lin, Oscar, Vikram, Lily, Eddy and Junior. Falstaff is an anthropomorphic bear almost always seen wearing a cyan or a red scarf and he is often seen with a grumpy look on his face.īesides Duo, he is the only other frequent character who is not human, but rather an animal. His wings are just half circles hiding behind the body. So this Duo is designed to be more easily animated. He/Him Falstaff (sometimes referred to as Grumpy Bear, Hungry Bear or just The Bear) is a character frequently appearing in Duolingo lessons and stories, without having a lot of real lore. Duo was closer to the Twitter bird, where you only see him in one version, posture, and expression.

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