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[[File:evilspockk.jpg|link=Star Trek: The Original Series|frame|<s>Boldly</s> Evilly going where no razor has gone before.]]

 

'''[[Gender Bender|Male Helen]]''': Well, yes. I'm evil.|''[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=31475#121222 Narbonic]''}}

 

** Inverted in that the Brigadier has a mustache, while his evil-universe counterpart is clean-shaven. He sports an [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|Evil Scar]]-and-[[Eyepatch of Power]]-combo instead.

** And for maximum cross-trope linkage, in the 2007 Children In Need mini-episode "Time Crash," when the Tenth Doctor mentions the Master to the Fifth Doctor, this exchange ensues:

'''Tenth Doctor:''' No, no beard this time...Well, [[The Beard|a wife]]... }}

** And now, {{spoiler|the 2009 Christmas specials feature John Simm's Master with a Stubble of Evil.}}

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'':

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]:

** Note that they were in fact evil, or at the very least quite self-centered. Prime universe SG-1 may have cared more about their universe than others, but they at least didn't go looting the others.

** In one [[Alternate Universe]] episode that had to be a reference to ''[[Star Trek]]'''s [[Mirror Universe]], both evil Teal'c and evil Apophis do in fact have goatees. Though Apophis's beard is rather redundant 'cause he's already evil, and oddly enough, Teal'c ends up with similar facial hair a few seasons later.

** What? He's not a spy, he's a plumber! Clearly!

* Invoked, discussed, and [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Jet Dream (webcomic)|Jet Dream]]'': This trope features heavily in Cookie Jarr's [http://tgcaps.com/caps/modcomics/suedenim/jetdream/mjdr01/mjdr1_02.jpg.php ''My Jet Dream Romance'' solo story], as a philosophical debate between J.E.T. T.E.E.N. Boy Booster Phil Philpott and "El Teen Gringo del Sur" over the good or evil of facial hair becomes violent!

'''El Teen Gringo:''' "But what of Lincoln? Moses? Zeus? You're blinded by your dangerous obsession! Bah! You'll never understand. Taste some ''Teen Gringo Justice'' -- Fist Style!" }}

 

* In the first episode of ''[[Space Goose]]'', the title character discovers that he has an evil doppelganger with a goatee.

* During the [[Christmas Special]] of ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'', Goku realizes that Turles is his [[Evil Counterpart]] in all but one way.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15S0g8pG6HU Pedophile Beards]

* [[Mirror Universe|Enforcers]] [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum|of the Plot Continuum]] Makes-Things had a beard, probably inspired by Emperor Spock's (see page image). In the prime multiverse, the Mysterious Somebody had a beard, as an [[Expy]]-cum-clone of [[The Thrawn Trilogy|Joruus C'baoth]].

** As does the evil Junkion Detritus.

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Lesser of Two Evils," Fry assumes that Flexo, a bending unit who looks identical to Bender except for a pointed beard, must be Bender's [[Evil Twin]]. He isn't of course, [[Inverted Trope|Bender is the evil one.]]

* Vlad Masters from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. Also Skulker and even Danny's [[Evil Counterpart]] Dark Danny sports one.

* This is played with in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', with the character of Dr. Orpheus, a good guy who looks evil (the eponymous brothers describe him as looking like "a Dracula"). The Monarch and Dr. Venture, on the other hand, are both rather unsavory characters with beards.

* Several ''[[Birdman]]'' villains have this kind of beard, most notably Number One, the leader of F.E.A.R.. This is useful, since apart from this and a small skull insignia, he looks exactly like all of his henchmen.

* An episode of ''[[The Tick]]'' involves the mystery of a mobile mustache super-weapon. When asked by Arthur why the government brought such a horror into the world, the only response he got was:

* Parodied with Chad Ghostal, Space Ghost's [[Evil Twin]] brother on ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''. His facial hair is different every time he's on screen.

* An episode of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' featured this trope with [[Mirror Universe]]; the kids are sent into an [[Alternate Universe]] via a neighborhood swimming pool, where the KND is feared, evil, and lead by an evil version of Number 4, who wears a goatee. The original Number 4 calls him out on this, claiming that since he--the original--is brave, then the evil one must be a coward.