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{{quote|''"Under the nightmare of Communism, moustaches were, of course, compulsory."''|''[[Tomorrow Stories]]'', written by [[Alan Moore]]}}
 
{{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|The Heroes]]es had faces smoother than a baby's bottom and [[Villains]] had long, thin, oily moustaches to twirl after tying the [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]] to a [[Chained to Aa Railway|set of train tracks]]. Then along came the grizzled [[The Drifter|Drifter]] with his five o'clock shadow, [[The Gunslinger]] with his proud beard, and other [[Anti-Hero|Antiheroes]] who broke out of old archetypes. Thanks to these brave pioneers in the fight for facial follicle freedom it's been okay for heroes to have beards, villains to be clean-shaven, and [[Anti-Hero|Antiheroes]] to blur the lines. However, much like superhero costumes there are still guidelines for who can get away with what.
 
By default [[Heroes]] tend towards clean shaves, whether it's because of artistic inertia or simple cultural popularity is up for grabs.<ref> It is worth noting that the last United States President with any facial hair whatsoever is William Howard Taft, meaning our last century of Presidents has been clean-shaven.</ref> Sometimes movies made in countries or/of eras that are friendlier to facial hair have a higher number of heroes and extras with beards and mustaches, though it is still very common to find anachronistically clean shaven male main characters. A full, thick, and above all '''well trimmed''' beard is almost always a sign of the good guys (Dwarfs, Santa, mentor characters, etc). [[The Obi-Wan]] often has one. You will never, ever see a good character with a [[Yellow Peril|Fu Manchu]] mustache, nor one with a pencil thin moustache, unless you are watching an Errol Flynn movie, or in fact any movie from the 1930s or 40s. [[Perma -Stubble|Stubbles]] are an exception, as they're usually a sign of [[Anti-Hero|Antiheroism]] and [[Badass|Badassitude]]itude.
 
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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[[Villains]] with beards tend to either have long wispy ones, short fancy ones, or wild and unkempt ones. This depends entirely on [[Evil Makeover|what flavor their villainy has]]. Sophisticated villains tend towards clean shaves and devil goatees and will almost always be very fastidious about their appearance. [[Beard of Barbarism|Savage villains are likelier to have a full on uncontrolled beard, possibly with braids or dreadlocks]]. Back alley thugs or unsavory types are likely to keep thin and scraggly beards, in line with their ratty appearance.
 
An [[Anti-Hero]], of course, can go either way, although they rarely have the wispy beards. [[Perma -Stubble]] is popular for antiheroic characters (as well as the generally [[Badass]]) as a contrast to clean-shaven heroes. One pop culture extreme is to get incredibly elaborate patterns in a full beard. Again, this depends on if the Anti-Hero is the grungy unkempt kind or is going for a Blade like extravagance.
 
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 2009 -- long2009—long, sexy, but not too smooth -- wouldsmooth—would have been seen only on a [[Complete Monster]] (like Cruella Deville) fifty years earlier. In contrast, the bad hairstyle of 2009 -- big2009—big, teased, with floofy bangs -- wasbangs—was the good hairstyle of 1985. The implication is that heroines are slaves of fashion while villains are dowdy and out of date.
 
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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==== [[Film]] ====
* Obi-Wan Kenobi of ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* [[TheIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Film)|Professor Henry Jones]], father of [[Indiana Jones]].
 
 
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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 beards -- longbeards—long and wispy for the twins Beltira and Belkira, and unkempt birds-nest for Beldin.
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* Another professor, Maximilian Arturo in ''[[Sliders]]''.
* A famous example in Commander William Riker's beard in ''[[Star Trek: the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek theThe 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.
* [[Cool Old Guy|Bobby]] [[Only Sane Man|Singer]] on ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
 
 
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* The entire [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|stock fantasy race]] of Dwarves, usually ''priding themselves'' on the fullness and thickness of their beards and sometimes styling them elaborately.
* [[Older Than Print]]: The first example is Merlin, King Arthur's famous advisor, who is always drawn/filmed/described as having a long beard, which was copied by Gandalf and Dumbledore.
** Subverted by the [[Merlin (TV series)|BBC series]], which depicts Merlin as a clean-shaven teenager.
* Popular depictions of [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] typically portray him with a thick beard and [[Wild Hair|long hair]].
 
 
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* [[World of Warcraft|Velen]] and [[War CraftWarcraft|Antonidas]]
** And [[War CraftWarcraft|Medivh]]
* Both [[The Obi-Wan|Gorion]] and Elminster from ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]]'' have the wizard beard variety.
* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' recruiting Warden, Duncan.
* [[Half Life|Gordon Freeman]] rocks a goatee so badass that the [[Eldritch Abomination|G-Man]] thought it was cool enough to keep, despite being a cold, logical person, and practically ''owning Gordon's soul''.
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==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar Roku and Uncle Iroh]]
 
 
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==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* Soichiro Yagami in ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' (with the exception of the live-action movies) - subject to a [[Lampshade Hanging]] about he is "obviously a cop".
* [[Private Defective|Kogoro Mouri]], [[The Lestrade|Juzo Megure]] and [[Da Chief|Heizo Hattori]] in [[Detective Conan]]. Also Yusaku Kudo, [[Subverted Trope|despite not being a policeman and only VERY rarely acting as a detective]].
 
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* Detective Walsh from ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]''.
* Commissioner Gordon in most versions of ''[[Batman]]''.
* Thomson & Thompson (a k a Dupont & Dupond) from ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]''. One has a slight curl to his mustache, which seems to be the only way to tell them apart.
 
 
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* Captain Bosch from ''C.H.U.D.'' had a moustache.
* Captain Gordon from ''[[Godzilla]]: Final Wars'' sported a badass moustache, which suited a character so awesome he only spoke English in a Japanese movie (that and he was willing to take on Godzilla in a ''fistfight'').
* In the live-action ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' film, Barricade's holographic driver was a police officer simply called "mustache man" by the filmmakers.
* In the ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' movies, Charlie Swan has an awesome 'stache.
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* ''[[Magnum, PIP.I.]]'' had Magnum himself -- Tomhimself—Tom Selleck's mustache is legendary.
* 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 Seventies'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 Onon Mars]]'' and ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' has a droopy moustache which could either be full or the "RS Jake" horseshoe, and he is often rather more on the [[Cowboy Cop]] end of things for Sam Tyler or Alex Drake's comfort.
 
 
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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 and Luigi Superstar Saga (Video Game)|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.
* Colonel Stephon Ely, from the ''[[Crusader: (VideoNo Game)Remorse|Crusader]]'' series of games, has a thick moustache and chomps a cigar (which he never actually smokes, probably because the actor didn't).
 
 
==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* Every cop in ''[[Axe Cop (Webcomic)|Axe Cop]]'', along with ever-present aviator shades.
 
 
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==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* 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.
 
 
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* In [[Role -Playing Game|RPGs]], it's usually the [[White Magician Girl]] who has the longest tresses.
* Midna from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|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 Thethe Frog]]'' who lives in [[The Roaring Twenties]].
 
 
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==== Multiple ====
* Tarzan is usually portrayed as having long hair due to living in the wild, though curiously he rarely has a beard.
** The [[Tarzan (Disney film)|Disney one]] has long dreadlocks.
 
 
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==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* Both [[Iron Man|Comicverse]] and [[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Movieverse]] versions of Tony Stark have been known to rock the goatee.
* [[Doctor Strange]] occasionally sports a goatee. All his incarnations (except for a [[Dork Age]] version best forgotten) have had some variety of 'stache.
* [[DC Comics]] hero [[Green Arrow]] has a big bushy goatee (but he was clean-shaven on ''[[Smallville]]'', where only Lionel Luthor may have facial hair).
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* Can we count [[Discworld|Lord Vetinari]] as on the Hero team?
** No, but you can count the heroes on the [[Magnificent Bastard|Vetinari Team]]...
* It's debatable whether he's a good character, an [[Anti-Hero]] or just a [[Magnificent Bastard]], but Willy Wonka sports a goatee. At least, in the [[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory|book]] he does: [[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory (Filmfilm)|both films]] have him appear clean-shaven.
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* Worf of ''[[Star Trek: the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek theThe 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 (TV)|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.
* 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|Eldritch Abominations]]s.
* 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 (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]''.
 
 
==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* Hinjo from ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'' sports a goatee. He's also a ''paladin'' and is consistently portrayed to be a reasonable, sensible and above all noble person.
 
 
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==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* Since it was based on ''[[Journey to Thethe West]]'', so do quite a few villains from the original ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]''.
 
 
==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* Mandarin, a [[Yellow Peril]] supervillain from the [[Marvel Universe]], has a very prominent Fu Manchu.
* Ra's al Ghul -- OneGhul—One of [[Batman]]'s arch-nemeses.
* In ''[[The Authority]]'', Asian dictator/terrorist Kaizen Gamorra is depicted with one.
 
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* [[Fu Manchu]], obviously, has the Fu Manchu moustache (but only since the film adaptations, not in the original books)
* [[Big Trouble in Little China|David Lo Pan]] had the stereotypical Asian long and wispy beard.
* [[Flash Gordon (Filmfilm)|Ming the Merciless]] - the name says it all.
* Pai Mei in ''[[Kill Bill]]'' is one of the few Asian heroes with one. Granted, he ''was'' a dick.
** And in his original appearances in 60s kung fu flicks, he was an outright villain.
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==== [[Literature]] ====
* As did half the villains from ''[[Journey to Thethe West|Monkey]]''.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "A Witch Shall Be Born", Constantius makes up for not being Asian by being the [[Complete Monster]] and even twirling his mustache.
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* Many Klingons sported one, especially in ''[[Star Trek: the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek theThe Original Series]]''.
 
 
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==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* Averted in the web comic ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', where Soon the paladin sports a Fu Manchu.
** Played straight, however, with [[The Evil Prince|scheming noble]] Daimyo Kubota.
*** Even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Vaarsuvius in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0596.html this comic].
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==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* [[Transformers: theThe Movie|Unicron]] has a [[Fu Manchu]], which is appropriate for a [[Planet Eater]].
** Scourge from the original [[Transformers Generation 1]] has a metal Fu Manchu, as do his clones (made by Unicron).
** Averted as well with Wreck-Gar, however.
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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 -Action TV]] ====
* The evil goatee originated with one of the most memorable episodes from ''[[Star Trek: the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek theThe 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 (TV)|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 ''[[MST3KMystery 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.
* The Master from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' sports a goatee in the incarnations played by both Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley.
* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Point of View", Apophis in the [[Alternate Universe]] had a goatee, as did Teal'c (who, in this universe, was still his First Prime). In the fourth season, "our" Teal'c himself sported a goatee (actually it was more like a chin caterpillar) for a short while.
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==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'' played this one straight: Elan's evil twin Nale sports a goatee -- andgoatee—and Haley, being [[Genre Savvy]], suspected he was evil well before it was actually revealed for exactly this reason. Nale later takes advantage of this by {{spoiler|cutting off his own goatee and sticking it to Elan's chin with Sovereign Glue}}. Nale also later admits he sports a goatee in honour of this trope, saying it is not just for show, it is a part of the Linear Guild's whole evil opposites theme.
* 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]].
* In the evil mirror universe of ''[[Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic)|Dinosaur Comics]]'', the protagonists all have goatees. Even being big reptiles. The arc begins [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=34 here].
 
 
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==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' contains the same [[Homage]] in the [[Mirror Universe]] episode, giving the 10-year-old evil leader negative Number 4 a goatee: "It makes me look ''[[Card-Carrying Villain|e-e-e-eviler]]''!"
* This was subverted in ''[[Futurama]]'', when Bender's goateed twin Flexo turned out to be the good Bender, while Bender was the evil Bender.
* Likewise, everyone from the evil parallel dimension in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Spookyfish" has a goatee, including the alternate version of Cartman, who is much nicer than the normal Cartman.
* In ''[[Megas XLR]]'''s yet-another-parody-of the-Star-Trek-episode episode "Rearview Mirror Mirror", the evil alternate Coop has, you guessed it, a goatee.
** Then again, so does regular Coop. Evil Coop's primary difference was that he was ''skinny''.
* The Fire Lords of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' all have goatees. Ozai ''really'' should have read the [[Evil Overlord List]] Item # 35...
* In one episode of ''[[Sushi Pack]]'', the Pack was sent to a mirror universe where all the males had goatees and all the females had heavy eyeshadow, regardless of whether they were good or evil.
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'': Buzz's evil twin.
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These type of characters will often have a Lenin '''open goatee''', Stalin '''full mustache''', or a full-on '''Marx beard'''.
 
==== [[ComicsComic Books]] ====
* "By the Whiskers of [[Captain Ersatz|Kürvi]] [[Josef Stalin|Tasch]]!" was the stock required greeting in [[Ruritania|Borduria]], the ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' 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 (Filmfilm)|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 [[ColourColor-Coded for Your Convenience|was red-bearded]]. Fortunately, female Cubans did not sport beards.
 
 
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* Yuri in the video game ''[[Command and& Conquer]]: Red Alert 2'' can almost be mistaken for Lenin. That is, if you ignore the tattoo and the psychic amplifier bolted to his head.
** And then we have ''[[Red Alert]] 3'', which has [[Tim Curry]].
 
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==== [[Film]] ====
* For example, the Soviet agent in ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Thethe Crystal Skull]]''.
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* 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
** With the [[Bald of Evil|notable exception]] of [[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|Nero]] and his crew.
 
 
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==== [[Web Original]] ====
* Because it fits best here... there's an [[MS TingMSTing]] of an Internet post based around ''the link between facial hair, evolution, and aliens''. Read it [http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.tv.mst3k/msg/4a1fc5459a36e1d1 here].
 
 
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==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* Many characters in the [[Anthology Comic]] [[The Beano]] have toothbrush moustaches including the Teacher from Bash Street Kids, [[Dennis the Menace UK|Dennis the Menace's]] Dad and Minnie the Minx's Dad. All of these characters originated from the 1950s and nothing is often said about these moustaches they are just there.
* Older versions of J. Jonah Jameson from [[Spider -Man]] has this kind of moustache.
 
 
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* Zorg in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' takes the Hitler 'stache and puts it on his chin.
* [[Laurel and Hardy|Oliver Hardy]] had a mustache like this.
* [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Roger Rabbit]] wears a moustache like this on one of his cartoon posters.
 
 
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==== Other ====
* The [[media:5347938491_a3bd08fc54_z_1_90885347938491 a3bd08fc54 z 1 9088.png|kitten pictured on the picture of Horace Horsecollar]] helping with [[Disney Theme Parks|Disney California Adventure's expansion]] has a nose that looks like this kind of moustache. [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110210033456/disney/images/e/e6/5347938491_a3bd08fc54_z.jpg Here is a bigger picture].
* 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]].
** This style is depicted in the ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' comic-strip album "The Blue Lotus."
 
 
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* Captain Zog from ''[[Sidekick]]''.
* The [[Adolf Hitler]] caricature duck from the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' [[Wartime Cartoon]] "Ducktators".
* The teacher from ''[[The Oblongs (Animation)|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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==== [[Film]] ====
* Parodied by Sheriff Buford T. Justice in the ''[[Smokey and Thethe Bandit]]'' movies.
* [[Gone Withwith the Wind|Rhett Butler]]
* Subversion in [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[Bram StokersStoker's Dracula (Film)|Bram Stokers Dracula]]'': one of the good guys sports one.
* Two of the villains played by Harvey Korman in [[Mel Brooks]]' movies have thin mustaches: Hedley Lamarr in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' and Dr. Montague in ''[[High Anxiety]]''.
 
 
==== [[Literature]] ====
* [[BertieJeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Bertie Wooster]] once grew one of these, hoping it would give his appearance more ''diablerie''. [[The Jeeves|Jeeves]] told him it looked like a stain of tomato soup.
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* Oddly, inverted in ''[[Lazy TownLazyTown]]'' 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.
* Schneider on ''[[One Day At a Time]]''.
 
 
==== [[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 ''[[BioBioShock Shock(series)]]''.
 
 
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* One [[Show Within a Show|short]] for ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' had Dexter artificially grow a super beard and pair up with Action Hank to fight a [[Milkman Conspiracy|cartel of evil bearded men]], all of whom use [[Martial Arts and Crafts|"beard fu"]]. After beating the rasta and long bearded henchmen, Hank and Dexter face off against the [[Big Bad]] french chef, who along with his pencil mustache had a ''sheathed'' sword-sharp goatee!
* Captain Hook is usually portrayed with a wax-tipped pencil mustache, with or without the curls. See Disney's ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'' and the live-action ''[[Hook (Film)|Hook]]''.
** Also the Hook from the [[World Masterpiece Theater]]'s [[Peter Pan]]. Oddly, the Hook from ''[[Peter Pan and The Pirates]]'' was clean-shaven.
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Dr. Scientist]] from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' has a pencil-mustache.
* In the ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'' episode "Universe of Evil", a pencil-mustache is worn by, of all people, [http://superfriends.wikia.com/wiki/Robin_%28Evil%29 the evil counterpart of Robin, the Boy Wonder].
 
 
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* [[John Waters]], hero to [[Refuge in Vulgarity|some]], villain to [[Moral Guardians|others]].
* The pencil mustache was an iconic trait of [[Vincent Price]].
* Syrian president Bashar al-Assad [[wikipedia:File:Bashar al-Assad chr(28)croppedchr(29cropped).jpg|has one]]. Though he didn't really become a full-blown villain until he had his army attack groups of protesters against his regime.
 
 
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==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* The [[Avatar: theThe Abridged Series|much mocked]] beard of choice for Captain Zhao in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', [[Satan]] himself has blood red skin, the face of an old traffic accident, long white hair, and menacing white mutton chops!
 
 
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* Averted to a degree by Cleric Preston from ''[[Equilibrium]]'': he starts out as a bad guy with slicked hair, {{spoiler|does a [[Heel Face Turn]], and keeps his [[Badass]] hair.}}
* Hannibal Lecter in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''. In the books his hair is even described as "otter-like."
* The "halfbreed" demon Balthazar in the film adaptation of ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'' (''Constantine'') wears his hair slicked back very precisely.
* Draco Malfoy in the first two ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter]]'' movies.
* Matt Dillon in ''My Bodyguard''
* James Spader's drug dealer character in ''Less Than Zero''.
* Michael Corleone, after he becomes head of the family in ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' Part I and II.
* The psychopathic killer Leo Rook in ''[[Lighthouse (Filmfilm)|Lighthouse]]'' has this, despite having been captured by the police for over two months.
 
 
==== [[Literature]] ====
* [[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]], because he's a [[Villain Protagonist]] ([[Heel Face Turn|sort of]]).
* In Louise Marley's ''The Maquisarde'', the dictator of the Northern Hemisphere, a Card Carrying Villain, has hair that is described as "plastered to his skull."
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* The oily and arrogant Cardassians of ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|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]]).
** Not to mention Angel/Angelus. Angelus has...More menacing hair.
 
 
==== [[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. [[MS TingMSTing|Frequently called on]] by ''[[The Comics Curmudgeon]]''.
 
 
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* As does {{spoiler|Matt Engarde}} from ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Justice For All''. To go with his [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|evil scar]] and his [[A Glass of Chianti|glass of something that looks like chocolate milk but probably isn't]].
** On the topic of ''[[Ace Attorney]]'', Manfred von Karma's Beethoven-ish hairstyle probably counts.
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', Vergil, Dante's evil twin and main villain of the third game, has slicked-back hair. The game even includes two dramatic cutscenes of him slicking it back after it gets out of place, and [[Super Move Portrait Attack|seeing him do this]] in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game)|UMvC3]]'' heralds [[Limit Break|incoming pain]].
* Seifer of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', a [[Rival Turned Evil]].
* Inverted in ''[[Fire Emblem]] 7'', where Hector sports slicked-back hair but he's [[Hot-Blooded]] and one of [[Two Guys and Aa Girl|the]] [[Power Trio|three]] [[The Hero|heroes]] of the game.
 
 
==== [[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|Morbius, the Living Vampire]] from ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' (who started out as a [[Tragic Hero]] antagonist, but became a [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]) is occasionally shown with one, most notably in ''[[Spider -Man: theThe Animated Series]]''.
 
 
==== [[Film]] ====
* [[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Private William Hudson]] had one.
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* 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.
* [[Twenty Four24|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 Fromfrom the Dead]] Guy}}. In fact, "Soul Patch" was his nickname in all the [[Television Without Pity]] recaps.
 
 
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==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* Jason Spades in the webcomic ''[[Last ResortRes0rt]]'' has one, though he straddles the line between "dystopian hero" and [[Jerkass]].
** White Noise sports an impressive tuft himself, but it just seems to highlight his [[Badass Grandpa]] qualities.
 
 
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* [[Delinquent|Duncan]] of ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'' has one and qualifies as a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]]. [[False Friend|Alejandro]] has one, but he's a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] (not to mention [[Younger Than They Look|younger than he looks]] even without more facial hair).
 
 
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=== A Five O'Clock Shadow or [[Perma -Stubble]] ===
This kind of facial hair is a classic way of saying "gritty".
 
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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).
 
 
==== [[Film]] ====
* [[Indiana Jones]] apparently shaves when lecturing students but gets instant perma-stubble when adventuring.
* Max Carrigan of ''[[Across the Universe (Filmfilm)|Across the Universe]]'' isn't precisely in the antihero category (more like the leftovers in the [[Two Guys and Aa Girl]] setup) but features something resembling perma-stubble in his earlier scenes and something closer to a scruffy hippie beard in the later.
* In the films of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', Aragorn (though definitely a hero) sports perma-stubble for the first two movies, before growing a full beard in time to be [[Rightful King Returns|crowned King of Gondor]]. [[Fridge Logic|Though one wonders how he managed to remain stubbly without growing a beard whilst wandering the Wild, presumably without a razor]].
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* [[Jerk Withwith 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 (TV)|Angel]]'' gained a permanent stubble when he [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] and started [[Dating Catwoman]]. Lampshaded in that he had a reason to suddenly stop shaving: his throat had been cut, and the wound rather got in the way.
* 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]]''.
 
 
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* The legendary Solid Snake, from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' is known for his excellent five o'clock shadow.
** As with many other things, he most likely got it from [[Escape Fromfrom New York|Snake Plissken]].
* Averted with Henry of ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'', whose perma stubble just makes him look sloppy, and Walter's unshaven mug adds to the [[Ax Crazy]].
* [[Parental Abandonment|Jecht]] from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' and ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' bears heavy facial stubble throughout both games.
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==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* Yusuke and Kuwabara in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''
* Parodied in the ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'' episode "Butt Out, Youth!", where all the delinquents have ridiculous pompadours. The toughest of them all, Binbou, has a pompadour that extends about ''fifteen feet''.
* Ditto Amamiya Ryu aka Bokuto no Ryu from ''[[Shaman King]]'', who not only has a six-foot pompadour, but also a six-foot-long pompadour-shaped ''motorcycle helmet''. He's also [[Unstoppable Rage|VERY pissed off]] when one of his rivals cuts his pompadour in half.
* Hanamichi Sakuragi from ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' has one of these in the first part of the series. {{spoiler|He [[Important Haircut|shaves it later]] as self-punishment for the loss against Kainan.}}
* Inverted by Franky from ''[[One Piece]]''. It also functions as [[Expressive Hair]].
* Himegawa Tatsuya of ''[[Beelzebub (Manga)|Beelzebub]]'' has an impressive example although some believe it has to be a wig. He denies this.
** Aizawa also sports a smaller version.
* [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|Yazan Gable]] has a blonde pompadour, which earned him the [[Fan Nickname]] of "Space [[Beavis and Butthead]]".
 
 
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==== [[Film]] ====
* In at least one case, ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]] 3'', the eponymous hero fixes his hair to match the evilness imparted by his badass new black suit. Taken from a thread discussing the movie: ''"Evil hair. Because that's what people do when they give in to the forces of evil and hatred. They mess up their hair."''
 
 
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* [[Katamari Damacy|The King of All Cosmos]] had a pompadour as a teenager, as do most of the teenage boys you roll up in the game.
* Crimson Viper from ''[[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]'' boasts a pompadour. Not surprisingly, she possesses a very duplicitous nature, working as a ruthless [[Double Agent]] for both S.I.N. and the CIA.
* Winston Payne, of all people, has a pompadour in the flashback chapter of ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' (but loses it in spectacular fashion).
* Some of the Date soldiers from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' have pompadours. It should be noted that this is [[Anachronism Stew|feudal Japan]] we're talking about.
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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 ButtheadButt-Head|Beavis]] has one.
* Billy's father Harold in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' has a pompadour that actually houses his brain.
{{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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[[Power Hair]] is the usual symbol of a female politician.
 
'''Crew Cuts''' are associated with male [[Useful Notes/Yanks With Tanks|Yanks With Tanks]] and other militaries.
 
=== The Mullet ===
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==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* Unless you're [[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight|Kotomine Kirei]].
* Or [[Ronin Warriors|Ryo or Shin/Cye]]. If you are the latter, you can actually make it look cute.
 
 
==== [[Film]] ====
* Or [[Escape Fromfrom New York|Snake Plissken]]
* Or [[Ghost (Filmfilm)|Patrick Swayze]]
* Or [[Labyrinth (Film)|Jareth the Goblin King]]
 
 
==== [[Live -Action TV]] ====
* Or [[MacGyver]]
* Or [[Red Dwarf (TV)|Ace Rimmer]]
 
 
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==== [[Professional Wrestling]] ====
* Or [[ECWExtreme Championship Wrestling|Mike Awesome]]
 
 
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==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* Or [[Captain Planet and Thethe Planeteers]].
* Or [[X-Men: Evolution|Lance "Avalanche" Alvers]]
* Or [[Regular Show|Mordecai and Rigby]].
* Or [[The Venture Bros|Brock Samsom]].
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=== None at all ===
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
** [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Aang]]
** Rather iconic of two characters played by [[Patrick Stewart]], [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Captain Picard]] and [[X -Men|Professor X]].
** [[Max Payne (Video Gameseries)|Max Payne]]
 
* [[Bald of Evil]]
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===== [[Literature]] =====
* According to Tolkien's Appendices to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', almost all [[Hobbits]] have curly hair.
* Athos, from the [[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|Musketeer trilogy]]. He's about as [[Lawful Good]] as you can get.
* Hermione Granger of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[The Verse|book universe]], who is [[Insufferable Genius|n]][[Tsundere|o]][[Badass Bookworm|t]] innocent, but definitely ''is'' [[Lawful Good]]. Straight-haired [[Emma Watson]], however (whose hair has been getting smoother year by year!), plays her in [[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|the film franchise]].
 
 
===== [[Live -Action TV]] =====
* 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 Seven7|Blakes Seven]]'' both have curly hair and are both (initially) the most innocent characters - Gan is literally incapable of killing anyone in a [[Life Is Cheap]] universe and Blake remains a comparatively innocent idealist in a crew comprised of convicted criminals - he is the only one innocent of the charges against him.
* 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.
 
 
===== [[Film]] =====
* Bellatrix Lestrange, as played by [[Helena Bonham Carter]] in the ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter]]'' films.
** Pretty much ''every'' character ever played by [[Helena Bonham Carter]] in a [[Tim Burton]] film, with the exception of Emily (whom she voiced) in ''[[Corpse Bride (Animation)|Corpse Bride]]''.
* Male example: Sweeney Todd in ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Filmfilm)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''.
* Magenta, ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', is a spectacular example.
** Likewise, [[Tim Curry|Dr. Frank N Furter]] himself has curly hair. In one scene, we even see his hair in curlers.
* The vampires Lestat and Claudia of ''[[Interview Withwith the Vampire]]'' both have long blond/e curly hair. This is a stark contrast to Louis, the [[Byronic Hero|closest thing to a "good guy"]] in the film, who has flowing dark hair.
** In the film, becoming a vampire actually causes Claudia's hair to curl itself.
 
 
===== [[Literature]] =====
* ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda|]]'': Rupert of Hentzau]]
* Johnathan Teatime from ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' has boyish blond curls... and is also [[CareerProfessional KillersKiller|an assassin]] [[Psycho for Hire|so depraved]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|he scares the other assassins]].
* Claggart in ''[[Billy Budd (novel)|Billy Buddy]]'' is described as having "silken jet curls". You can tell he's [[Chaotic Evil]].
 
 
===== [[Live -Action TV]] =====
* Lynda Day of ''[[Press Gang]]''.
* Drusilla, from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
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===== [[Web Comics]] =====
* Sabine from ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'' is one of the very few curly-haired characters in the comic, although it's her red leather outfit that actually tips off the [[Genre Savvy]] Haley to the fact that she's evil...
 
 
===== [[Western Animation]] =====
* Darla Dimple from ''[[Cats Don't Dance (Animation)|Cats Don't Dance]]'', who's a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|thinly-veiled]] evil version of Shirley Temple. She has an... interesting (if painful-looking) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCEDD3cBJA#t=1m46s way of curling it], too.
 
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