Good Hair, Evil Hair: Difference between revisions

 

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]].

 

== Heroes ==

 

 

 

* Another professor, Maximilian Arturo in ''[[Sliders]]''.

* A famous example in Commander William Riker's beard in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' which not only signaled the moment when he was a Kirk clone no more but also created the trope [[Growing the Beard]] marking when the series started improving to become the television classic it would be.

* [[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.

 

 

 

 

* ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'' had Magnum himself—Tom Selleck's mustache is legendary.

* Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown from ''[[Sliders]]'', a musician with more soul than any mere soulpatch could carry.

* ''[[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.

 

 

 

==== [[Video Games]] ====

** 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.

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* Worf of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' brought honor to the goatee and little else.

** Likewise, Captain Sisko looked pretty [[Badass]] with his facial hair in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.

* 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.

 

 

* Many Klingons sported one, especially in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''.

 

 

==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====

 

 

 

 

* The evil goatee originated with one of the most memorable episodes from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', ''Mirror Mirror'', with a trip to a [[Mirror Universe]] of evil duplicates. Spock's duplicate had the goatee; ironically, he was the only one who wasn't really evil.

** 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!}}

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]] ====

* 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 [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience|was red-bearded]]. Fortunately, female Cubans did not sport beards.

 

 

 

* 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

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* "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]].

 

 

 

* 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]]).

 

==== [[Newspaper Comics]] ====

 

 

 

==== [[Comic Books]] ====

 

 

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* [[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.

** Any Given Friday Night at 10pm, 9pm Central.

*** Shawn: Lassie, your haircut is worse than Joyce Hyser's in Just One of the Guys.

 

 

 

==== [[Western Animation]] ====

* [[Beavis and Butt-Head|Beavis]] has one.

* Billy's father Harold in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'' has a pompadour that actually houses his brain.

 

 

* Or [[MacGyver]]

* Or [[Red Dwarf|Ace Rimmer]]

 

==== [[Professional Wrestling]] ====

 

 

 

 

* Nyssa in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

** OK, the Fourth Doctor doesn't quite count as innocent, but definitely on the side of the good guys.

 

===== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] =====

* [[Count Cain]]'s Jezebel, who is an [[Ax Crazy]] antagonist ''and'' possesses a childlike innocence.

 

 

===== [[Literature]] =====

 

 

* Lynda Day of ''[[Press Gang]]''.

* Drusilla, from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.