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{{quote|''"Under the nightmare of Communism, moustaches were, of course, compulsory."''|''[[Tomorrow Stories]]'', written by [[Alan Moore]]}}
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{{quote|''"Moral of the story: The thinner the mustache, the bigger the douchebag."''|''[[YouTube]] comment concerning Clayton from [[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]''}}
It used to be that things were simple: [[The Hero
By default [[Heroes]] tend towards clean shaves, whether it's because of artistic inertia or simple cultural popularity is up for grabs.<ref>
Speaking of which, any moustache resembling [[Adolf Hitler]]'s is off-limits (see the example below), even to villains, and can only be used to mock a character by photoshopping said moustache onto them (unless it's [[Charlie Chaplin]], because it was his look ''first'').
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For [[Evil Minions]] and foot soldiers one of the few perks they enjoy is complete freedom to go overboard with their beards: long braids, intricate patterns, pencil thin flame designs and more are common. The punk/grunge/barbarian image their intricate styles boast is an excellent cue that they'll soon be wishing they'd spent less time grooming and more practicing to dodge an [[Offhand Backhand]].
Slicked-back hair seems to be a common feature of a number of [[The Bully|school bullies]].
Whether a woman's hairstyle is good or evil depends on when the show was filmed. The good hairstyle of
See also [[Expository Hairstyle Change]], [[Expressive Hair]], [[Funny Afro]], [[Hair Colors]], [[Hair Reboot]], [[Important Haircut]], [[Beard of Evil]] and [[Bald of Evil]]. Compare [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]].
{{examples|Examples of Characters who Exemplify or Just Have Particular Facial and Head Hairstyles:}}▼
▲{{examples|Examples of Characters who Exemplify or Just Have Particular Facial and Head Hairstyles:}}
== Heroes ==
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* Albus Dumbledore (''[[Harry Potter]]'')
* Gandalf (''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'')
* Belgarath of the ''[[Belgariad]]'' has a neatly trimmed beard. His "brothers" (fellow disciples of the God Aldur) also have
==== [[Live
* Another professor, Maximilian Arturo in ''[[Sliders]]''.
* A famous example in Commander William Riker's beard in ''[[Star Trek: The
* [[Invisibility|Claude]]'s beard on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', though this may have something to with being a [[Homeless Hero]] and a [[Homeless Pigeon Person]]. It was also to make him less obviously The Doctor.
* [[Cool Old Guy|Bobby]] [[Only Sane Man|Singer]] on ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
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==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar Roku and Uncle Iroh]]
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==== [[Live
* ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'' had Magnum
* Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown from ''[[Sliders]]'', a musician with more soul than any mere soulpatch could carry.
* ''The'' [[The Brigadier|Brigadier]], in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* ''[[Monk]]'''s Captain Stottlemeyer sports this distinctive mustache.
* Lampshaded on ''[[That '70s Show]]'' when Kelso joins the police academy and grows a mustache purely because of his new career choice.
* In keeping with some of the more "mildly trustworthy" points on the scale illustrated, Ray Carling from ''[[Life
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==== [[Video Games]] ====
* [[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Mario and Luigi]] are two of the more iconic mustachioed heroes, as a simple mouth on the primitive game sprites wouldn't show as well.
** In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'', "Stache" is the statistic with the functions normally associated with Luck.
* Kai Kitamura from ''[[Super Robot Wars]] Original Generation''. The [[Super Robot]] Soulgain also sports a metal moustache, though its pilot Axel Almer doesn't sport one. And yes, he's still a military man.
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==== [[Live
* On ''[[Smallville]]'' every single one of Clark's love interests have long hair, Lana in particular; contrast with his [[Childhood Friend Romance|Unlucky Childhood Friend]] Chloe, whose hair never goes past her shoulders.
* Morgana and Guinevere from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. In Guinevere's [[Rags to Riches]] story-arc she goes from practical buns to long, flowing hair, whilst Morgana's [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] arc takes her from shiny, flowing tresses to a bird's nest of messy hair that seems to include dreadlocks.
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==== [[Video Games]] ====
* In [[Role
* Midna from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' wears her hair in a very long ponytail (so that it can [[Prehensile Hair|act as a hand]]); she is, however, a [[Tsundere]] instead. {{spoiler|In her true form, she has an odd form of [[Princess Curls]], which are joined at her neck like bonnet strings.}}
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* As stated, almost every Disney princess ever, though averted by [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]] and [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]] who have shorter 30's and 50's hairstyles, and Tiana from ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' who lives in [[The Roaring Twenties]].
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==== [[Live
* Worf of ''[[Star Trek: The
** Likewise, Captain Sisko looked pretty [[Badass]] with his facial hair in ''[[Star Trek:
* Telemachus Rhade from ''[[Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda]]'' is another [[Warrior Poet]] who carried a goatee.
* Ronon Dex of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' is another goateed [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]].
* Ironically, the very goatee styled as "Very Evil" in the picture above sat one the only non-evil character in his entire universe: Mirror Spock, who was at worst an anti-hero and more likely a hero with a bad start.
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==== [[Video Games]] ====
* Gordon Freeman of ''[[Half-Life]]'' fame mixes the mentor's full beard with a more compact cut when battling oppression and [[Eldritch Abomination
* The Prince in the ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' series sports a goatee, but is a fairly classic hero much of the time.
* Paul Denton, brother of the hero of ''[[Deus Ex]]''.
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==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* Mandarin, a [[Yellow Peril]] supervillain from the [[Marvel Universe]], has a very prominent Fu Manchu.
* Ra's al
* In ''[[The Authority]]'', Asian dictator/terrorist Kaizen Gamorra is depicted with one.
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==== [[Live
* Many Klingons sported one, especially in ''[[Star Trek: The
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==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* Yoki, a former [[Corrupt Bureaucrat]] and [[Dirty Coward]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has one, although he later becomes more likable; Buccaneer also wears one, but he's an incredibly badass good-guy.
==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* In the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass]]'' series, the mirror universe Rodimus Prime has a goatee. [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rodimus_goatee.jpg It looks about as silly as it sounds.]
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==== [[Live
* The evil goatee originated with one of the most memorable episodes from ''[[Star Trek: The
** About 13 minutes into ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|DS9]]'' episode "Defiant", we see William Riker (a good guy; see way, way, above) {{spoiler|pull off the sides to reveal himself to actually be... William "Tom" Riker, his transporter-produced twin, who now wears an ("evil") goatee instead of a ("good") full beard! Oh no!}}
* Another "Mirror, Mirror" homage comes from ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', in which Crow gets transported into an alternate dimension version of Deep 13 run by an Evil Mike. Evil Mike has a goatee.
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==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' played this one straight: Elan's evil twin Nale sports a
* Dave Davenport of ''[[Narbonic]]'' had one, blurring the line due the the main characters being [[Villain Protagonist|villain protagonists]].
* In [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0039.html this] ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' webcomic, Governor Sio Bibble, Queen Amidala's trusted advisor, is described as having a goatee, although it actually seems to be just a beard. Based the description, the players immediately decide he can't be trusted. Bonus points for linking to both this page and [[Evil Chancellor]].
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These type of characters will often have a Lenin '''open goatee''', Stalin '''full mustache''', or a full-on '''Marx beard'''.
==== [[
* "By the Whiskers of [[Captain Ersatz|Kürvi]] [[Josef Stalin|Tasch]]!" was the stock required greeting in [[Ruritania|Borduria]], the ''[[Tintin]]'' series's expy for [[Cold War|Eastern Europe]]. The Josef Stalin full handlebar moustache ([[Law of Chromatic Superiority|black and red]]?) was also the symbol of the state party.
==== [[Film]] ====
* Many [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] supporting characters fall into this, although no [[Big Bad]] in any Bond film was bearded until Hugo Drax in ''[[Moonraker (film)|Moonraker]]''.
* In Hitchcock's ''Topaz'', most Cubans had Fidel Castro's beard, and even uniform, maybe suggesting a personality cult or anything. They were sometimes hard to differentiate: the main villain, fortunately [[
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* Yuri in the video game ''[[Command
** And then we have ''[[Red Alert]] 3'', which has [[Tim Curry]].
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==== [[Live
* Not quite the same role, but the same do: [[Alias (TV series)|Sydney Bristow]] has such a wig when she pretends to be a Russian soldier.
* Every Romulan, female or male, in the entire Star Trek universe
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==== [[Web Original]] ====
* Because it fits best here... there's an [[
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==== Other ====
* The [[media:
* The website, [http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl?6687 Cats That Look Like Hitler], features cats and kittens that look like [[Adolf Hitler]], or at least have toothbrush moustaches.
* In China, a trimmer version of this moustache is viewed as a stereotype of Japanese people, especially of Japanese soldiers from [[World War II]].
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* The teacher from ''[[The Oblongs]]''.
* Sam Waldron, the mobile shop owner from ''[[Postman Pat]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150512032246/http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/50254_40232688710_441162_n.jpg Roger], the skinny cat in the two ''[[Open Season]]'' sequels, looks like he has an off-center variant of this kind of moustache.
==== [[Real Life]] ====
* [[Real Life]] warlord Robert Mugabe seems to take this style to its not-so-logical extension: a ''philtrum 'tache''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131021100606/http://abigailedge.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/mugabe.jpg Looks as weird as it sounds.]
* For some reason, [[Michael Jordan]] chose to rock this look in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7VY2nDGm6w Hanes commercial].
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==== [[Live
* Oddly, inverted in ''[[LazyTown]]'' by the hero Sportacus, who wears a pencil mustache so sharp it looks like it could double as a [[Afraid of Needles|scalpel]].
** This is further inverted by [[Harmless Villain]] Robbie Rotten, who is clean shaven to the point you wonder if the actor isn't wearing a rubber mask (actually, he kind of '''is'''). His otherwise meticulous good grooming is also a bit off on the [[Evil Makeover|evil-dress-o-meter]], but being in a [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|dark purple color scheme]] helps.
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==== [[Music]] ====
* "Pencil Thin Mustache" by Jimmy Buffett is a paen to the heroic pencil mustache wearers of 1940s cinema, particularly detective Boston Blackie and anybody played by [[Errol Flynn]].
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* Andrew Ryan from ''[[
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==== [[Live
* The oily and arrogant Cardassians of ''[[Star Trek]]''.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' you can usually tell how villainous or sympathetic Spike is meant to be in a given episode by where his hair is on the spectrum between tousled ([[Anti-Hero]]) and slick ([[Complete Monster]]).
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==== [[Newspaper Comics]] ====
* ''[[Mark Trail]]'' villains are easily recognized by their hair: sideburns, long hair, mullets, anything but short and trim and they'll get a [[Violence Really Is the Answer|face full of fist]] sooner or later. [[
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==== [[Web Original]] ====
* Made fun of in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100316101145/http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nations_slicked_back_hair_men this] Onion article.
* [[Rick Point Blank]]: Don has slicked back hair AND a goatee. He must be bad news.
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==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* [[Morbius
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==== [[Live
* Future Hiro from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has one of these. Unlike the energetic past Hiro, though, he fights in a dystopian future, and has stained his hands with enough blood to count as an [[Anti-Hero]].
* Tommy Oliver, the most renowned [[Sixth Ranger]] from ''[[Power Rangers]]'' history, who through the early seasons went back and forth between good and evil, also sports an anti-heroic soul patch.
* [[24|Tony Almeida of CTU]] had one during his entire run on the show, from good guy to antihero to {{spoiler|[[Almost-Dead Guy]] to [[Back
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** As a matter of fact, his hairstyle ''is'' a function of his regenerating ability, according to some sources. Notice how his hair returns to normal after he's ''reduced to a skeleton''.
** In the ''Weapon X'' limited series by Barry Windsor-Smith, the crew at Weapon X remove all of Logan's hair before the procedure. However, just a few minutes in they notice it's growing back at a highly accelerated rate.
* The mercenary drow elf Downer, titular [[Anti-Hero]] of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121117062509/http://paizo.com/store/comics/downer comic] by Kyle Hunter, sports tousled hair and shaggy side-burns despite the fact that D elves usually have no facial or body hair. But then, Downer is a tough-as-nails loveable rogue and proven loser who only survives by wit, reflexes, dark gallows-humour and a lot of fast-talking his way out of situations (except when he actually dies, which happens a couple of times, and is brought back from the dead by magic, usually to punish him further).
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==== [[Live
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] Luke Danes of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' has a stubble that is scientifically proven to always be 5.5 millimeters long.
* The titular character from ''[[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]]'' always had a five o'clock shadow. In fact, it was once included in his description on a wanted poster.
* Gregory House of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' usually has this. In fact, being shaved in a 5th season episode was an indication that he is a bit [[Out of Character]].
* Dr. Cox of ''[[Scrubs]]'' sometimes falls into this one. Usually head first.
* Wesley Wyndham-Pryce of ''[[Angel]]'' gained a permanent stubble when he [[Took a Level
* Jack Shepherd, from ''[[Lost]]'', not only has five o'clock shadow, it DOESN'T GROW FOR [[108|108 DAYS]]. After he leaves the island, though, he is shown with a [[Beard of Sorrow]] after three years. Think of all the money he saves on razors.
** They did actually show him shaving with scavenged razors at least once while on the Island. Most of the men of the show had surprisingly permanent shadows for a long time, although some did advance into full on beards.
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** Any Given Friday Night at 10pm, 9pm Central.
*** Shawn: Lassie, your haircut is worse than Joyce Hyser's in Just One of the Guys.
* Dean Winchester and Castiel have this on ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
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==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* There is, in fact, one of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' Halloween specials wherein Snake, the notorious white trash criminal, gives his hair to be donated after he has been executed. It is given to Homer, and the [[Evil Hand|Evil Hair (theatre)]] makes him kill Apu, Moe, threaten Bart, and otherwise epitomize Bad.
* [[Beavis and
* Billy's father Harold in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
{{quote|'''Harold:''' ''(to a Viking, believing him to be Billy misbehaving)'' Young man, you can be rude, break furniture, run up phone bills, shave the cat, and even harass your mother! But when you mess with the pomp, [[Berserk Button|it's GO TIME!]]}}
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==== [[Live
* Or [[MacGyver]]
* Or [[Red Dwarf|Ace Rimmer]]
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* Or [[
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* Nyssa in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
** OK, the Fourth Doctor doesn't quite count as innocent, but definitely on the side of the good guys.
*** He's definitely one of the more light-hearted incarnations, however. And probably the most iconic.
** The Eighth Doctor has rather long curly locks, and starts out quite innocent and childlike due to an unfortunate spot of amnesia. Even when he starts getting his memory back, he's still very [[Actual Pacifist|pacifistic]] and [[The Messiah|forgiving]]. Another aspect of his appearance which emphasizes his innocence: he walks around barefoot for quite a few scenes (even though he apparently ''does'' [[Does Not Like Shoes|like shoes]]).
* Blake and Gan from ''[[Blake's
* Chuck Bartowski from the NBC series ''[[Chuck]]'' sports curly hair, and either an ear to ear smile, or a sad kicked puppy face.
* Fran Drescher of ''[[The Nanny]]'' belongs firmly in this category.
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===== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] =====
* Rue in ''[[Princess Tutu (anime)|Princess Tutu]]'' has wild, curly hair, which makes sense as she's the [[Dark Magical Girl]]. {{spoiler|However, she later goes through a [[Heel Face Turn]] and keeps the curls.}}
* [[Count Cain]]'s Jezebel, who is an [[Ax Crazy]] antagonist ''and'' possesses a childlike innocence.
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===== [[Literature]] =====
* ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda
* Johnathan Teatime from ''[[
* Claggart in ''[[Billy Budd (novel)|Billy Buddy]]'' is described as having "silken jet curls". You can tell he's [[Chaotic Evil]].
===== [[Live
* Lynda Day of ''[[Press Gang]]''.
* Drusilla, from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
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