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Note that this generally applies to small, well-groomed beards, especially goatees. Having a [[Beard of Barbarism|huge bushy beard]] turns one into a [[Nature Hero]], [[Seadog Beard|sailor]], grizzled old prospector or [[Boisterous Bruiser]]. Except, of course, for the beards recommended by certain religions that are in the public focus at the moment.
The characters who sport a Beard of Evil are usually either the [[Big Bad]] or a second-in-command. This may play into the fact that in both western and eastern culture, goatees are traditionally worn by members of the aristocracy, and [[Aristocrats Are Evil]].
The Beard of Evil has a long history of being associated most closely with the [[Evil Twin]] or [[Evil Counterpart]], and you [[Mirror Universe|probably already]] [[Star Trek: The Original Series|know why]]. It also scores extra evil points if [[Bald of Evil|combined with a shaven head]]. (Anybody with a bald head and a beard is pretty much guaranteed to be a card-carrying villain unless they are [[Bald Black Leader Guy|black]] or East Asian. Blame [[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Alex Raymond]] and Anton LaVey.)
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** His beard also gets significantly larger and begins to curl at the ends as he gets angrier (most notably when his head bursts into flames).
* That first enemy that appears in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' wanting to take over the Kamiya dojo and claiming to be the Battousai.
* Eventually, [[One Piece|Blackbeard]] finally grows one of these. New character Brownbeard, has '''three''' of them, even. Funnily enough, the original, Whitebeard, only had a mustache.
* Jose, in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'' definitely counts.
* The Count of Monte Cristo in ''[[Gankutsuou]]'' sports a sharp, blue goatee to complete his Byronic character. He isn't exactly pure evil, but definitely counts as a [[Manipulative Bastard]] willing to get innocents mixed to his pursuit of vengeance.
* In ''[[Zero no Tsukaima|The Familiar of Zero]]'' when he arrives, Ward is shown a few times in flashbacks where he acts kind to the main character, and has no beard. However, in the present, he has a beard, and is, well, evil.
* Emperor Ganishka from ''[[Berserk]]''.
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* Marvel's [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] old time villains Count Nefaria and Graviton.
* [[Empowered|Willy Pete]], as a fire elemental, has a beard made of flame. [[Complete Monster|"Evil" is rather understating it.]]
* Inverted by the [[Pre Crisis]] version of Earth-3, home of the [[Justice League of America]]'s [[Evil Twin|Evil Twins]] - there, [[Lex Luthor]]'s Good Twin Alexander Luthor sports a goatee.
* Similar to the ''[[Star Trek]]'' example, in the ''[[Transformers]]'' [[Mirror Universe]] ''[[Transformers Shattered Glass|Shattered Glass]]'', Rodimus has a goatee. [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rodimus_goatee.jpg See.] Said universe also provides an example with {{spoiler|the evil Alpha Trion, although the [[Transformers Generation 1|regular Alpha Trion]] has similar facial hair}}
* Referenced in a universe-hopping arc of ''[[Cable]] & [[Deadpool]]''. "How do I know you're not the anti-Siryn? Then again, you're not sporting the alternate-universe mandated evil goatee.."
* Minor [[Superman]] villain Amalak the [[Space Pirate]] was originally a rather forgettable-looking clean shaven guy with a red haired crew cut. In his final appearance, though, he had let his hair and beard [[Growing the Beard|grow out]] all scraggly, and it made him ten times scarier-looking than he had ever been before. Sadly, he got [[Killed Off for Real]] at the end of that story, and took his cool creepy beard with him.
** A [[Post-Crisis]] version of Amalak was introduced a couple of years ago. With the cool beard, naturally.
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* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', naturally. Jack Sparrow, Hector Barbossa, and Davy Jones (who has a beard made of ''tentacles'') are all rather shifty, but the real [[Big Bad]] is clean-shaven, as is his second-in-command. "Good guy" Will Turner also has a goatee, to complement his pirate lineage.
* Captain Corso of ''[[Titan A.E.]]'' had a goatee, and true to form turned out to be [[The Mole]].
* In nearly 80% of all kung fu movies made in China in the 60's and 70's from Run Run Shaw or Golden Harvest, the villain was always the old guy with the white beard.
** Parodied in ''[[Kill Bill]] Vol 2'', with Pai Mei.
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: [[Prince Caspian]]'' the Telmarine aristocrats are bearded and bad, except for the eponymous Caspian, who is clean-shaven and a good guy.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' has Cipher's beard to couple with his [[Bald of Evil]], as noted in that article.
* In ''[[Die Hard]]'', [[Alan Rickman]] as Hans Gruber sported one, contrasting a beardless [[Bruce Willis]].
* Averted in ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]''. Henry Fonda planned to grow a beard as well as wear brown contact lenses to play the film's [[Complete Monster]] villain, but director [[Sergio Leone]] talked him out of it, since Fonda having his usual appearance in a role so different from his usual humble and noble characters would make it all the more shocking.
* Count Dooku possesses such a beard in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels.
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* In-universe discussion in [[The Hunger Games]] : during her {{spoiler|first}} Games, Katniss notices that although many of the boys in the arena are old enough to grow beards, and have been away from razors for a good two or three weeks, not a single one has done so. She suspects that their Capitol stylists have done some sort of procedure on their faces to prevent this, presumably to keep them looking young and innocent.
** And in the film version, [[Ascended Extra|Seneca Crane]] sports a particularly stunning example.
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' has [[No Name Given|the man with a beard but no hair]], who's apparently so evil that Lemony Snicket won't even tell us his name.
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*** However, he wasn't really evil.
* On ''[[Knight Rider]]'', Michael Knight's [[Evil Twin]], Garthe Knight, sports a Beard of Evil.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** The Master's most iconic appearance, as portrayed by Roger Delgado, is bearded, as is that of Anthony Ainley. Ainley was intentionally trying to look like Delgado. There was substantial disappointment that Eric Roberts did not "sport the goat" as the Master in the 1996 telefilm. The Master also had a beard as portrayed by Jonathan Pryce in the [[Comic Relief]] spoof "The Curse of Fatal Death," and as voiced by [[Derek Jacobi]] for the animated "Scream of the Shalka," though fans were sufficiently used to the idea that no one was seriously bothered {{spoiler|when Sir Derek Jacobi and John Simm played beardless Masters in 2007}}.
** 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.
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** In a non-alternate-universe example, recurring villain Ba'al sported a tidy diabolical goatee.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Doppelganger": Sheppard inquires about the other Sheppard, "Did I have a goatee?"
* Inverted in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' with Barney's 'origin story' in the episode "The Re-Return." At the start of the flash back he's a wide-eyed, innocent, [[New Age Retro Hippie]], complete with long hair and a soul-patch. When he becomes the Barney we know from, presented as the 'evil' version, he shaves it off.
* Jack Bass is evil enough when he first appears in ''[[Gossip Girl]]''s second season. When he returns in season three he's even more evil, and is now sporting a goatee.
* One of the themes in ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' is Walter's physical and mental transformation from nerdy teacher to [[Badass]] drug dealer. First he [[Bald of Awesome|went bald]], ostensibly due to chemotherapy, then he grew a rather sinister goatee.
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== Video Games ==
* Inverted in the ''[[Warcraft]]'' universe: male facial hair is directly proportional to goodness. Although the fairly unpleasant Blood Elves do tend towards goatees of the classic villain variety. It goes with their [[Evil Laugh|laugh]].
* ''[[Command
** Kane in the first game complements his evil beard with his [[Bald of Evil|complete lack of other hair on his head]].
** That crazy adviser of Romanov in Red Alert 2 also has a evil beard. And, like Kane, [[Bald of Evil|Yuri lacks hair on the head]]
** ''[[Command
* This seems to be a defining character trait in the ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' series, with all of the main villains (ie. Ares, Zeus, etc.) having massive scruffy beards. Kratos also has a [[Beard of Evil]], which is [[Villain Protagonist|pretty damn appropriate]].
* Lampshaded in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', where a skit involves Anise spinning a tale to [[The Ojou|Natalia]] how the [[Big Bad]]'s beard is a source of his evil powers. Just ''one'' source, mind you: You ''don't'' want to know what his ponytail does.
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* The [[Older and Wiser]] ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]'' version of [[The Legend of Zelda/Characters|Ganondorf]] sported an orange beard on charcoal-colored skin, and made it work. He retains the beard in his ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' incarnation.
* Team Rocket Executive Petrel in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' sports a purple goatee.
* Master Xehanort from ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'', which is [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] now that [[Leonard Nimoy]] is playing him in the English version.
** Luxord and that baby-blond beard of his.
* The Prowler "La Lupo" from ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' has a soul patch and close-cropped goatee, contrasting with Ezio's full beard-and-'stache. Cesare, Rodrigo, and the Engineer also have beards.
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* Mars, a [[One-Scene Wonder|minor but memorable]] villain from ''[[Broken Saints]]'' features a little goatee, but otherwise sports a [[Bald of Evil]].
* 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.
{{quote|"He's like... an evil me! Only he doesn't have a goatee...I'm gonna imagine one!" (does so) "''So evil!''"}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15S0g8pG6HU Pedophile Beards]
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** Lampshaded when Hank puts on a fake goatee and 21 comments that he looks like the "[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Mirror Mirror]] version of Hank" in ''Showdown at Cremation Creek Part 1''.
* 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 (animation)]]'' 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:
{{quote|'''Jim Rage:''' "You don't understand, man... The Russians were already working on a beard... ''[[Doctor Strangelove|We had a facial hair gap!]]''"}}
* 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.
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* ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension]]'' has Alternate Doofenshmirtz who sports an eviler than thou goatee. Hilariously commented upon between Jeff Swampy Marsh and Dan Povenmire (the voice of Heinz Doofenshmirtz) during the comic-con 2011 Phineas and Ferb panel, pointing out this particular trope... and the fact that Dan sports a goatee as well.
* Lampshaded {{spoiler|and played straight}} with {{spoiler|Cesar Salazar}} in ''[[Generator Rex]]'' after a six month [[Time Skip]].
* [[Double Subverted]] by Grune of ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' first appearing as a heroic prodigal [[Four-Star Badass]] of [[Catfolk]] [[Proud Warrior Race]] the Thunderians, only to rapidly reveal himself as a [[Turncoat]] and [[Les Collaborateurs]] with [[Big Bad]] Mumm-Ra and his allies the [[Lizard Folk|Lizards]].
== Real Life ==
* Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, grew a diabolical goatee to go along with his [[Bald of Evil]] and to fit in the part.
* Attila the Hun, the notoriously cruel barbarian warrior known (in Western history) as the "Scourge of God," reportedly wore a beard.
* The Mongolian ruler [[Genghis Khan]], who declared himself the "''Wrath'' of God," and is remembered throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East as a brutal, genocidal warlord (but considered a hero by his own people).
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The Romans had a fear of uncivilized peoples (for good reason, as it turns out). They marked civilized men as shaved, and unshaved ones as [[Beard of Barbarism|barbarians]].
** The Emperor Hadrian grew a beard. During his reign he was often considered to be something of a tyrant. (His modern image as a placid old man with a passion for architecture and pretty boys wouldn't be shared by the Jews he persecuted and drove out of Jerusalem, or the senators he executed without a trial...)
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* Gaal of the black metal band Gorgoroth is infamously known as the most evil man in Norway. That he has [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IxOXtjKDR8w/SRVxT7JmE4I/AAAAAAAAAUg/6ntH96R6YBI/s320/Gaahl_-13086.jpg a very impressive beard of evil] certainly helps.
* Blackbeard. How could you make your beard any more evil than stuffing it with [[Incendiary Exponent|burning firecrackers]]?
* [[wikipedia:Italo Balbo|Italo Balbo]], a Fascist militant and an Italian air marshal in the Mussolini era, sported a well-groomed goatee.
* After being exposed for multiple affairs behind his wife's back and generally having his good guy reputation destroyed, Tiger Woods returned to the golf scene after a hiatus, and at his very first press conference... sported a Goatee!
* [[wikipedia:Saddam Hussein|Saddam Hussein]] wore a bushy mustache throughout his adult life. After being captured by American military forces, he also sported a graying beard (which he wore until his execution).
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