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[[File:ganondorf.jpg|link=Super Smash Bros.|thumb|400px|"An impressive-looking [[Perma-Stubble|stubble]]...But nothing more. Would you hear my desire? To take ''this'' foul chin curtain...and use it to blot out the light forever!"]]
{{quote|''[[Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]}}
Some [[badass]]es are not satisfied with ''just'' a [[Badass Mustache]] or [[Perma-Stubble]] to show off their awesomeness. No, they choose to take it ''further''. As opposed to facial hair growing above their upper lip, they won't be content until they have a full blown beard to show off. Many times, it works for them where a simple mustache would just look [[Narm|foolish]] or out of place. And when it does work, the gentleman in question is a bona fide tough guy, a man's man, a veritable buffet of manliness.
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Distinct from [[Growing the Beard]], but the two can most definitely overlap. Same thing goes for [[Beard of Evil]] and [[Beard of Barbarism]]. Also see [[Stroke the Beard]]. Contrast with [[Beard of Sorrow]], although they ''could'' overlap. Sometimes goes hand in hand with [[Wild Hair]]. Sometimes part of a [[Bald Black Leader Guy]] look.
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== Media in General ==
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarves]], usually. In some sources, even females have them.
* Some Half-Elves, who are like Elves. . . with a beard!
* Every [[Horny Vikings|Viking]] ever ([[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|Hiccup]] gets a pass, though).
* [[Pirates]] often have them in fiction, much like a lot of real ones.
== Advertising ==
* Used in a sidebar advertisement for a "Free Online MMO Trading Card Game" called ''[[Urban Rivals]]'' that
* This is exaggerated with the Vikings in the Capitol One commercials - even one of their ten-year-old sons has a full beard.
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▲* Used in a sidebar advertisement for a "Free Online MMO Trading Card Game" called ''[[Urban Rivals]]'' that appears on [[TV Tropes]] at the time of this writing. An initially wimpy-looking soldier character is shown [[Took a Level In Badass|growing increasingly more powerful]] through a series of stages, and his beard grows gradually at the same time.
* Jet Black from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''
* Thorkell the Tall in ''[[Vinland Saga]]''. It was dubbed the Beard of Awesome by fans.
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** How about freaking Black Beard? {{spoiler|Took out Ace, killed White Beard with the help of his crew, and is set on the destruction of the world.}}
*** A particularly notable example, since each time he shows up again he's become more powerful and his beard is darker and fuller
** Also Brownbeard, whose beard [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617152141/http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110821115228/onepiece/images/thumb/1/1a/Brownbeard_2.JPG/200px-Brownbeard_2.JPG defies explanation].
* Lord Nightray from ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' has a Rasputin-style beard. Uncle Oscar's beard also looks pretty badass.
* Jigen from ''[[Lupin III]]''.
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* [[Aquaman]], in nearly every incarnation in which he's an elderly King of Atlantis. Not only does he had a white beard to rival Poseidon's, but it makes him sufficiently [[Darker and Edgier]] to make the reader know that no one fucks with him. Ever. Even [[Superman]] in ''[[Kingdom Come]]'' treats him with kid gloves.
* Leonidas, king of the Spartans, in ''[[300]]''
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** Fellow [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avenger]] [[The Incredible Hercules|Hercules]] normally has a beard as well, and of course [[Boisterous Bruiser|he never passes up a fight]]. The one notable time Herc ''didn't'' have a beard came during [[The Nineties]], when he decided [[Dork Age|he'd rather look more like]] [[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys|Kevin Sorbo]].
* Lucas Orion of the ''[[Atari Force]]'' first series, though his character was mostly a pacifist that won't fight.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131016105542/http://www.asterion.se/haddock.jpeg Captain Haddock] in ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]''. Because: Hey, what is a sailorman without his badass beard?
** His beard is pretty impressive in [[Tintin (film)|the recent motion-captured film, as well]]. [http://www.screened.com/captain-haddock/15-15371/all-images/132-2513116/the_adventures_of_tintin_movie_image_9/131-585799/ Behold!]{{Dead link}} Both him and the [[Beard of Evil|antagonist]] sport beards- between this and [[The Lord of the Rings]], you get the impression [[Peter Jackson]] has a thing for them.
* Destruction from ''[[The Sandman]]''; his usual form is a tall, rugged, muscular man with a full but neatly trimmed beard.
* The dwarven noble in ''[[Dragon Age: The
▲== Fan Fiction ==
▲* The dwarven noble in ''[[Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns|Dragon Age the Crown of Thorns]]'' has a very elaborate style, reaching as low as the sternum. It has three intertwined braids in front, plus an extra one on each side. His mustache is also long, arranged neatly in two long strands that reach the level of his collarbone. His long-dead [[Action Girl|action girlfriend]] invented it, and the same style was since shamelessly copied by Lord Harrowmont, the Assembly Steward, etc. To compound it all, due to an event that gave the prince his {{spoiler|[[Magic Knight]]}} status, all his hair is snow/silver white (that includes the spiked short cut on the head). Badass much?
== Film ==
* ''[[Ivan the Terrible]]'': [http://pixhost.info/avaxhome/04/91/000a9104_medium.jpeg Ivan's beard defies gravity. And boyars.]{{Dead link}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120521025222/http://costumes.narniaweb.com/caspianbaddies/mirazcoronation2.jpg Miraz] in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: [[Prince Caspian]]'' is surrounded by bearded badguys, but his beard is the baddest one.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128201619/http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2002_The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers/two_towers_009.jpg Rohirrim] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'': look particularly at Éomer and Théoden (interestingly, local [[Evil Chancellor|Wormtongue]] is clean-shaven).
** That's because in Middle Earth, shavin's fer SISSIES!
*** [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|Did you just insult the entire Elven race?]]
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* Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister of [[Motorhead]].
* Shavo Odadjian of [[System of a Down]] is famous for his braided beard.
* [http://www.pyromusic.net/images/interviews/31_1.jpg Johan Hegg]{{Dead link}} of [[Amon Amarth]] is about as well known for his long, Viking-inspired beard as for his vocals.
* Beards are all over the place in [[Country Music]], but some particularly badass ones include:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140827103828/http://www.hometowninvasion.com/photos/470/IMG_4673.jpg William Lee Golden] of [[The Oak Ridge Boys]].
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120513052045/http://www.gallery.savingcountrymusic.com/artists/jameyjohnson/jamey-johnson-cp-6188513.jpg Jamey Johnson].
** [http://www.cmt.com/sitewide/assets/img/artists/daniels_charlie/charliedaniels15-430x250.jpg Charlie Daniels].
** [http://www.nndb.com/people/995/000024923/hank-williams-jr-3-sized.jpg And of course], [[Hank Williams, Jr.|Hank Williams Jr]] , who gets extra Badass points for having grown it to cover up facial scars that resulted from him falling off a mountain.
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* Mike Love of [[The Beach Boys]] grew a beard in the late '60s, although this arguably counts more as a [[Beard of Evil]] (since we are, after all, talking about [[The Scrappy|Mike Love]]).
** Brian Wilson also sported a beard at one point, though admittedly not one as Badass as his baseball namesake's (see [[Real Life]], below).
* [
* Producer Rick Rubin, whose beard has practically taken over his body:[https://web.archive.org/web/20131218235111/http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/143088/rick-rubin-profile.png
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* [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]].
* Bill [[Goldberg]].
* Travis "Tyson" Tomko, whose beard, tattoos, bald head, and black ring attire make him look like a total badass. [
* [[The Undertaker]]
* [[Randy Savage]] [
* [http://www.legendschampionshipwrestling.com/uploaded_images/02-756687.jpg Hillbilly Jim] really went the extra mile to fit the look.
* [[Daniel Bryan]] has an official "Respect The Beard" t-shirt. His beard is so long it sometimes covers the "respect", so the shirt just reads "The Beard"
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* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Fantasy Battle'' has ''weaponized'' beards on the part of the Dwarves, who sometimes braid blades into their facial hair and use it as a weapon.
* [http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p186/EarthScorpion/Random%20stuff/Kejak_profile.png Chejop Kejak] of ''[[Exalted]]'', the oldest and most powerful Exalt in existence, possesses one of these. As well as [[Badass Long Hair]].
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'':
** It is always emphasized how fond dwarves are of beards. In some editions, but not all of them, even female dwarves have them.
** Elminister of Shadowdale has a pretty decent-sized beard, and he's the biggest badass in the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' setting, arguably the biggest in ''any'' setting of the game.
** [[Greyhawk|Mordenkainen]], on the other hand, has a short, close-trimmed goatee.
== Toys ==
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* [[Player Character|Gordon]] [[Badass Bookworm|Freeman]] from the ''[[Half-Life]]'' series.
* The Vanguard bloodline and Engineer within ''[[Bloodline Champions]]''. The officer outfit for the Igniter has this as well.
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* In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', [[Player Character|Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] has such a beard in the final Memory Block, at the age of forty. [[Downloadable Content]] added two Memory Blocks before the final one, and Ezio can be seen growing the beard in them.
** Returns in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'', starting just after AC II ended.
** Taken up a notch in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''. Ezio is now is his [[Badass Grandpa|early fifties]]<ref>Keep in mind, in the Renaissance this was '''old'''.</ref> and sports an even fuller beard.
** And in the newest trailer for Desmond in [[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]] there is a short shot of Desmond sporting one of these.
* {{spoiler|Captain Price}} in ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2''. Gaz in the first ''Modern Warfare'' game also had one. Soap, meanwhile, favors [[Perma-Stubble]].
* Slayer from ''[[Guilty Gear]]''.
* Kratos from ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]''. In the 2018 installment, the older Kratos has a longer, fuller one. Most other Norse human characters in this game have one too.
** In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', when Kratos is the victim of a Babality (turned into a baby), ''he keeps the goatee.'' It's just ''that'' badass.
* Basch from ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]''
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* The Point Man of [[First Encounter Assault Recon|FEAR]], formerly [[The Faceless]], has one in the third game.
* The Monk of ''[[Diablo|Diablo III]]'' counterpoints his [[Bald of Awesome]] with his mighty beard.
*
** Gouken
** And Gen. ''Definitely'' Gen.
** Zangief also has a Badass Beard.
** Dhalsim has one in ''V''. Also in that game, G, the [[Final Boss]].
* Isaac in ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'' sports one 30 years later after saving the world in the previous game. A NPC comments that [[Hot Dad|Isaac is quite the looker for his age]] and many women are attracted to him. He's only 47! [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101018184943/goldensun/images/f/fe/DDIsaac.png see for yourself.]
** [[Older Than They Look|Forty-seven apparently going on twenty-seven]], [[A Wizard Did It|due to Alchemy]].
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** Among non-player characters, we have the bald, bearded Khelgar Ironfist, and mustache/goateed Ammon Jerro. ''Storm of Zehir'' adds Septimund and Ribsmasher.
* Jinpachi Mishima from ''[[Tekken]]''. Just...WOW. The Mishima Family is pretty much known for their outlandish, pointy hairstyles (a bonus from having electric attacks or the Devil Gene, maybe?), but the original progenitor definitely takes the cake for his beard alone.
== Webcomics ==
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** King Radical, on the other hand, wins the award for most ridiculous beard that still manages to look badass. He also [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p79 gave a bunch of orphans beards] just because he loves all things awesome.
** The Ultimate Diplomat is a [[Badass Pacifist]] example.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080726045541/http://pics.livejournal.com/beatonna/pic/0004eh1s/ Sandford Fleming in this Hark! A Vagrant strip.]
* Callous, a minor villain from ''[[Wright As Rayne]]'', [http://wrightasrayne.thecomicseries.com/comics/10 sports one of these.]
* Ryan and Jason of ''[[Remus]]'' each sport one. The badassery of Jason's is debatable, but Ryan's... [http://www.remuscomic.com/2012/03/05/020/ not so much.]{{Dead link}}
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* Yamauchi-sensei in [[Greek Ninja]] has one.
* The [[Angry Video Game Nerd]] has grown one recently.
* Inverted. [[Mr. Brilliant's Reviews|Mr. Brilliant]]'s beard only made him more of a loser. According to a worker named Peter Dinklage, his beard hair looked like pubes.
== Western Animation ==
* The Monarch from ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''.
* Action Hank, one of Dexter's idols in ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''. In "Beard to Be Feared", Dexter comes to the conclusion that Hank's beard is what makes him "rugged", and in an attempt to become tougher, uses an invention to give himself a fairly impressive beard. After Hank helps Dexter defeat a band of villains who use their own bad-ass facial hair as [[Improbable Weapon User|weapons]], Dexter learns [[Spoof Aesop|"It doesn't matter if you have the beard on the outside, as long as you have the beard on the inside."]]
** In ''Ego Trip'', Dexter takes a few [[Took a Level
* While not a true character, [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Sokka's]] alter-ego [[Growing the Beard|Wang Fire]] is generally held to be [[Memetic Badass|incredibly badass]].
** Also [[Beard of Evil|Ozai, Sozin and Azulon]].
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** In Season 2, Iroh grows out his goatee and [[Hotblooded Sideburns]] into an amazing beard, and keeps it that way.
** Special Mention goes to the Order of The White Lotus, an organization ''full'' of them.
* Yukon Cornelius was likely the most badass character in ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'' (he wrestled the Abominable into submission and tamed it, for crying out loud) and his beard was just as full as Santa's.
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has grown a full one in Season 5, crossing over with [[Beard of Sorrow]]. Aku thinks it looks stupid.
* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'': Tenzin.
** In a similar vein, flashback adult Aang and Sokka (though not to Wang Fire degrees).
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* Count Dooku In the Clone Wars Television series has a particularly badass beard.
** Also Obi-Wan
* The ''[[Teen Titans]]'' episode "Betrothed" introduces Galfore, Starfire's ''k'norfka'' (guardian), a serious badass with a very impressive beard.
* This is subverted in the ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' episode "Feudin', Fightin', and Fussin'" where Woody's [[Foil]] is a mountain man with a long beard that reaches down to his toes. Through most of the short, Woody uses the poor guy's beard to trip him up and play numerous other jokes. Eventually, he decides his "dang whiskers always gettin' me in trouble" and decides to shave them off.
* In ''[[The Smurfs]]'', one thing that makes Papa Smurf stand out among the other Smurfs (the other being his red hat) is his full beard; [[Flashback]]s show he had it as a young Smurf, but it wasn't grey then. Grandpa Smurf has an even longer one.
** In one episode, Gargamel tries to use magic to grow one so he'd be more respected as a wizard, but he fails to read the directions and ends up with a beard that fills his entire house and makes him unable to move from its weight. As usual, the Smurfs have to intervene so he doesn't end up starving as a result.
== Real Life ==
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** In fact, there is not a chin under Chuck Norris's beard. There is only another fist.
*** [[Chuck Norris]] doesn't has a beard. It just his overgrown moustache growing all over his body.
* [[Wolf Blitzer]] of [[
* [[Alan Moore]]. Bloody 'ell, that's a beard!
* [[Abraham Lincoln]], because a little girl sent him a letter asking him to grow a beard, then he did.
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* [[Henrik Ibsen]]
* [[George Bernard Shaw]]
* [[Charles Darwin]]'s image is made instantly recognizable by his epic beard. This is even more impressive because he didn't grow the iconic beard until well after he published ''Origin''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150907235903/http://www.jacksofscience.com/lol/great-beards-of-science-or-standing-on-the-beards-of-giants/ Beard of science, indeed.]
* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Karl_Marx_001.jpg Karl Marx.] And we can't forget his less-famous co-author for the ''Manifesto of the Communist Party'', [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Engels.jpg Friedrich Engels]
** Che Guevara also had a badass beard, best shown off in his classic and much replicated portrait. You are not a real communist until you have awesome beardage.
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* [[wikipedia:Ivan the Terrible|Ivan the Terrible]].
* [[wikipedia:Crown Prince Haakon|Crown Prince Haakon of Norway]] married the love of his life, [[wikipedia:Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway|Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby]], despite her less than regal background, and afterwards grew a beard to show that he was a real badass who'd done the right thing.
* Aversions: [https://web.archive.org/web/20091005175740/http://www.cameronmcewan.com/projects/magazine/culture_blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/neckbeard.jpg The Neckbeard].
** It [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost12037-motivator6105244fd4%2Ejpg protects the neck] from ninjas.
*** Either way, it's downright disturbing.
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* [[wikipedia:Robert Bakker|Dr. Robert T.Bakker]] - The [[Deadpan Snarker]] of paleontologists with the face of Santa Claus. His research propelled the theory of dinosaurs as warm-blooded animals into mainstream paleontology.
* [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201101/arush_superbowlpressconf_00.3_500.jpg Brett Keisel] of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
* Egyptian Pharaohs, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131010132850/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Tuthankhamun_Egyptian_Museum.jpg full stop].
** A subversion: for a long time the fashion was to be clean-shaven, and then wear a '''fake''' beard (one about as realistic as the one in the linked image).
* [[wikipedia:Bashir II|Bashir Shahib II]] "The Great", Emir of Lebanon. He ruled Lebanon in the name of the Ottoman Empire, and played a minor role in thwarting Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. However, this will be forever overshadowed by his truly epic [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/BashirChehab.jpg beard/moustache] combo. So epic, that you'd be forgiven for believing that the lining of his robe is part of it.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]▼
[[Category:Always Male]]
[[Category:The Wild West]]
[[Category:Hair Tropes]]
[[Category:Badass]]
▲[[Category:Badass Beard]]
▲[[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]
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