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'''Basic Trope''': Male character grows a beard to signify he's depressed. |
'''Basic Trope''': Male character grows a beard to signify he's depressed. |
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* '''Straight''': He lost someone close to him, and his [[Perma |
* '''Straight''': He lost someone close to him, and his [[Perma-Stubble]] grows out fully. |
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* '''Exaggerated''': After a particularly bad night, he has a beard the size of the rest of his face. |
* '''Exaggerated''': After a particularly bad night, he has a beard the size of the rest of his face. |
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* '''Downplayed''': His [[Perma |
* '''Downplayed''': His [[Perma-Stubble]] only grows out slightly more. |
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* '''Justified''': "I'm just too depressed to shave in the morning. Are you happy?" |
* '''Justified''': "I'm just too depressed to shave in the morning. Are you happy?" |
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* '''Inverted''': |
* '''Inverted''': |
Latest revision as of 14:34, 7 June 2014
Basic Trope: Male character grows a beard to signify he's depressed.
- Straight: He lost someone close to him, and his Perma-Stubble grows out fully.
- Exaggerated: After a particularly bad night, he has a beard the size of the rest of his face.
- Downplayed: His Perma-Stubble only grows out slightly more.
- Justified: "I'm just too depressed to shave in the morning. Are you happy?"
- Inverted:
- He shaves off his beard to make a break with his past.
- Alternatively, Badass Beard and Growing the Beard.
- Subverted: "I'm not depressed. I just realized that my scar would be less distracting if I grew a beard over it."
- Double Subverted: "I'm not depressed, I just thought I'd see what I look like with a beard." He's lying.
- Parodied:
- People in the series can tell any male's current emotional state just by examining the length of their beard.
- Alternatively: a female character feels depressed one day and puts on a fake beard to show it.
- Deconstructed: Growing a beard is part of the hero's collapse into outright catatonic stupor, leading to an extended narrative of the miserable life and eventual suicide of an undiagnosed sufferer of bipolar disorder.
- Reconstructed: Growing out a beard is a deliberate reaction, a change of appearance that the hero chooses to signify his new mental state. He plans to shave it off if he's ready to feel good again.
- Zig Zagged: The character grows out a beard because his Half-Identical Psychic-Linked Twin lost her boyfriend.
- Averted: The character is female. Or, the character is male, but continues shaving as normal after the trauma.
- Enforced: "The actor wanted to grow a beard and have more serious plotlines. We decided to mix the two."
- Lampshaded: "Depressed, huh?" "How could you tell?" "You haven't shaved."
- Invoked: He's stopped shaving because his Girlfriend in Canada "dumped him," "leaving" him single.
- Defied: The character makes a conscious decision to keep up personal appearances despite his depression.
- Discussed: "What did you expect, to find me sprawled on the couch in despair, not having shaved or washed for weeks? We only went on two dates."
- Conversed: "Is this the episode where he starts growing the beard?" "Nope, that was the one where he lost his parents."
Grow a Beard of Sorrow.