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Probably as a result of infamous sailors like Blackbeard and Barbarossa, it's popular to give pirate or nautical characters names that reference their [[Seadog Beard|facial hair]]—and not just sailors, either.
Despite the title, the beard name isn't restricted to names based around colors, or even necessarily beards (you'll see names like "Captain Blackheart" or "Captain Deadeye" about as often, and of course there's [[Peter Pan|Captain Hook]]).
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** Well, Blackbeard has now grown a small one nowadays.
** The name "Whitestache" is still pretty awesome.
** Spain's dub actually [[retcon]]ed Whitebeard's name to "Albino Mustache" so it worked better. The manga keeps on calling him "Whitebeard" despite him, obviously, lacking a beard.
** We also have [[Redheaded Hero|"Red-Haired" Shanks]] and his Red Haired Pirates.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Firebeard (an Expy of Blackbeard) is one of the pirate kings in ''[[The Pyrates]]''.
* ''Marauders of [[Gor]]'' has Ivar Forkbeard, who is a Viking outlaw pirate.
* In the [[Hoka]] story "Yo Ho Hoka!", the main character dons a false green beard as a disguise and ends up as the Pirate Captain Greenbeard.
* In one of the later ''[[Literature/Angelique|Angelique]]'' historical novels by Anne Golon, a former lover of the title character turns up as a pirate now using the name Goldbeard. Too bad Angelique has been reunited with her husband....
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* ''[[Conan (TV series)|Conan]]'': The episode where Will Ferrel shaved Conan O'Brien was titled "The Last Stand of Redbeard."
* ''[[Captain Bluebear]]''. That's Captain Bluebear in English.
* In the ''[[
* Yellowbeard, recurring ''[[Monty Python]]'' character, who finally managed to get his own movie. Sort of.
* One early [[Barney and Friends]] episode had a character named Rainbow Beard the Pirate, who sends Barney and the kids on a color and shape themed treasure hunt.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series has Yellow Beard (who had a drink named after him in ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'') and Blonde Beard (who runs a fried chicken restaurant on Plunder Island in ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'').
* Admiral Razorbeard from ''[[Rayman]] 2''.
* The Bonus Boss Deadbeard in ''[[Golden Sun]]''.
* No-Beard from ''[[Reality On The Norm]]''.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* William Shakespeare as seen in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' daydreams of being a pirate called "Shakesbeard"
* ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]'' [http://rustyandco.com/comic/level2/level-2-6/ has] ''[[Unmoving
* '' Pitch Black'' has Captain Hempbeard "The High Pirate". How he remains the Captain, you ask? Well, he got a very efficient way of dealing with the mutinies... [http://pitchblack.thecomicseries.com/comics/57/] [http://pitchblack.thecomicseries.com/comics/83/] [http://pitchblack.thecomicseries.com/comics/100/][http://pitchblack.thecomicseries.com/comics/114/] [http://pitchblack.thecomicseries.com/comics/145] [http://pitchblack.thecomicseries.com/comics/174] [http://pitchblack200.thecomicseries.com/comics/5]
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The aforementioned Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach.
* The Turkish privateer Oruc Reis, who went by the nickname Barbarossa or Redbeard.
* Many notable Vikings had colourful nicknames, among them [[wikipedia:Sweyn Forkbeard|Sweyn Forkbeard]].
* The emperor Nero's family name was [[wikipedia:Ahenobarbus|Ahenobarbus]] (Bronzebeard).
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063888/ Cookiebeard!]
* The Holy Roman Emperor named Friedrich Barbarossa, who worked hard to live up to his reputation (until he died of a heart attack in Turkey by falling in an ice-cold river at the beginning of the Third Crusade...) [[Those Wacky Nazis]] named their invasion of Russia after him.
* The Barbarossa brothers, one an admiral and the other a privateer.
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