What about this guy:

He is called Bamse, which means something like "big guy" (for undisclosed reasons).

He is very politically correct (according to Swedish standards), always emphasizing that "no one ever becomes a better person through corporal punishment".

He doesn't like violence, but sometimes he has to deal with crooks of various sorts and then he eats "thunder-honey" which makes him super-strong. (His grandmother cooks it up in her drug lab.)

He is a loving father and husband.

His best friends include a rabbit who has a nervous disposition and who always neds to overcome his fear in order to help Bamse save the day (for instance, by fetching thunderhoney), as well as a tortoise inventor who rigidly follows his "sleep-and-eat" watch, which has an alarm that sounds at the most inappropriate occasions.