Beardness Protection Program: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] -- Live Action ==

** Inverted in an early draft of the script, where Kimble ''grows'' a beard in order to disguise himself.

** It helps that everyone thinks he's dead (or close enough to it).

* ''[[Following]]'': When "Bill" fears that a witness would be able to connect him to a robbery, he then gets a haircut and shaves his beard.

* In ''Don't look now... We're being shot at!'', Sir Reginald shaves his iconic "Big Mustache" because it looks too British and would make him stand out.

** Jaime keeps the beard he acquired in captivity, then shaves his head for good measure. It doesn't seem to fool anyone.

** There's also Ser Barristan Selmy, who grows a beard sometime between {{spoiler|being fired from the Kingsguard and joining up with Daenerys.}}

* Garion suggests this to Zakath when he joins them in the ''[[Belgariad|Malloreon]]''. Zakath has no trouble complying, because he doesn't know how to shave. Garion's a little incredulous that a man at his level of power/paranoia would let other people near him with a straight razor.

* Attempted by Buck Williams in the first ''[[Left Behind]]'' novel, and is lampshaded by his boss Steve Plank, who comments how unnecessary he believes it to be.

* ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' records Cao Cao's rout by Ma Chao's forces, where they first target "the one dressed in red" - so he loses his red robe. Then they target "the one with the beard", and so he shaves his beard. [[Rule of Three|And then they start looking for "that guy with the shaved beard"...]]

* Early in ''[[Deryni|High Deryni]]'', Morgan and Duncan are depicted sporting beards and wearing the colours of the rebel leader Warin deGrey while gathering intelligence, partly among Morgan's own subjects. When they report to Kelson, the king comments on the fact he's never seen them with beards before, and Duncan notes how effective their disguise has been.

* In the Dutch childrens book ''Het geheim van Mories Besjoer'' (The secret or Maurice Bonjour) a French resistance fighter grows a big mustache and uses Monsieur Moustache as his alias, planning to shave himself clean if he ever had to flee from the Germans.

* Duncan grows a beard like this near the end of the first season of ''[[Veronica Mars]]''. Unless it's a [[Beard of Sorrow]]; at the time that he grows it, he's both depressed and running away from home.

* In the pilot of ''[[White Collar]]'', Neal grows a beard in prison, and then shaves it off the day he escapes so he won't be recognized. He doesn't look all that different, but he ''does'' look just different enough to fool the facial recognition on the prison security cameras.

* In ''[[Breakout Kings]]'' the team figures that a big prison break was supposed to have another participant who missed the escape because he was sent to the prison infirmary. He stands out since he recently shaved his head so he would look different from his mugshot pictures.

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Arcanum]]'', the "Gnome" you met at the start of the game is quickly revealed to have been a Dwarf, who shaved his beard ([[Our Dwarfs Are The Same|inconceivable to their culture]]) to flee from something {{spoiler|he was forced to work on the machine that would bring the [[Big Bad]] back to Arcanum and managed to use it prior to full completion due to his small size}}.

== Webcomics ==

== [[Western Animation]] ==