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== Anime & Manga ==

* Dr. Hell from ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'' and ''[[Mazinkaiser (Anime)|Mazinkaiser]]'' is the [[Mad Scientist]] [[Big Bad]] and he has a long, bushy, bristly, white and positively epic [[Beard of Evil]]. In ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'', [[The Dragon]] Great General of Darkness/Ankoku Daishogun had a [[Badass Beard]] warned he was NOT to be messed with. King Vega, [[Big Bad]] from ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' was the only on the side of the evil guys had a beard. His was bristle but well-groomed, though.

* "That Man" from ''[[Excel Saga (Anime)|Excel Saga]]'' is a [[Yakuza]] thug with a beard, the only recurring character with facial hair {{spoiler|and the real leader of ACROSS, making him the closest thing the show had to a [[Big Bad]]}}.

* In episode 12 of ''[[Dennou Coil]]'' beards start appearing on the (pre-adolescent) main characters. These beards are actually Illegals, virus programs that occasionally cross over into reality and are generally antagonistic. These particular Illegals are sentient, forming their own mini-civilizations on each person's face and revere the person they exist on as gods. They then go on to launch missiles and wage civil war on each other and, once that's stopped, "interplanetary" war. After realizing the futility of war, the Illegal beards leave their hosts to find their Promised Land.

== Live Action TV ==

* The mirror universe of ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' more or less gave us the cliché of the [[Evil Twin]] with a Beard of Evil, as evil Mr. Spock has a goatee. Ironically, Evil Mr. Spock is far and away the ''least'' evil person in the mirror universe.

*** While, for obvious reasons, Mirror T'Pol couldn't have a beard, she did have long flowing locks of hair to distinguish her from her closely-cropped regular counterpart.

*** This seems to have been the fashion among ''commanding'' Vulcans. Mirror Spock's personal guard didn't have a beard, and neither did either of the Vulcans Mirror T'Pol enlisted to help her retake the ISS Enterprise from Archer. [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|Mirror Tuvok from the Terran Rebellion]] was also clean-shaven.

*** However, he wasn't really evil.

* On ''[[Knight Rider]]'', Michael Knight's [[Evil Twin]], Garthe Knight, sports a Beard of Evil.

** 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.

* 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.

* In ''[[The Middleman]]'''s [[Mirror Universe]], every single male character is bearded; most but not all are more evil than their clean-shaven counterparts.

* ''[[The Collector (TV)|The Collector]]'': While meeting the younger Morgan in flashbacks, the Devil [[The Nth Doctor|takes the form]] of a goateed Colin Cunningham, his most consistent avatar in the series by far.

* On ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'', Alternate Universe [[Meta Guy|Abed]], [[Medium Awareness|deducing that he and his remaining friends inhabited the darkest of the alternate timelines]], decided that they should embrace the darkness and become evil. He therefore prepared false goatees for everyone until the men could grow theirs in properly. (Like so many things with ''Community,'' [[It Makes Sense in Context|it makes more sense in context]].)

* 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 [[Obviously Evil]] Ser Alrik in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' sports one.

* [[Rabid Cop]] [[Heavy Rain|Carter Blake]] has a small beard which contrasts with [[By-The-Book Cop]] Norman Jayden's clean-shaven face.

* ''[[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]].

 

 

* 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]]?

* 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!

* [[Osama Bin Laden]], Al Qaeda, and the Taliban have all sported large, bushy beards as part of their interpretation of Islam. However, the idea that it is preferable for a Muslim man to have a beard is actually rather uncontroversial, and there are plenty of Muslim men who aren't terrorists and prefer the large, bushy beard. Shortly after 9/11, this was satirized in a Capitol Steps song in which they warned Bin Laden & Company that the USA has "a new beard-seeking missile!"

* Averted by many, many, many real-life, movie, and comic book stage magicians, only some of whom are evil.

* [[Adolf Hitler]], the size of his mustache being inversely proportional to his evilness! It also greatly reduced the number of [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|toothbrush mustaches]] among the world's population after WWII.

* [[Rasputin the Mad Monk]], though it was more a Beard of Crazy.

 

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