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* [[World of Warcraft|Velen]] and [[War Craft|Antonidas]]
** And [[War Craft|Medivh]]
* Both [[The Obi -Wan|Gorion]] and Elminster from ''[[Baldurs 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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* 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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=== Very Long, Flowing Hair ===
This type of hair is a sign of femininity, both in women and in [[White -Haired Pretty Boy|White Haired Pretty Boys]]. In anime it's a staple of the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]. [[Hime Cut|Add some perfectly level bangs]] and it also suggests an air of courtly, stately grace.
 
==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
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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 The Chocolate Factory|book]] he does: [[Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Film)|both films]] have him appear clean-shaven.
 
 
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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.
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==== [[Comics]] ====
* "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]] 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 [[Colour -Coded for Your Convenience|was red-bearded]]. Fortunately, female Cubans did not sport beards.
 
 
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==== [[Literature]] ====
* Barty Crouch has one of these in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, for some reason. He's a textbook [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]], and he had massive political ambitions in his heyday... it doesn't gel very well, but it does gel just enough to make you wonder if Rowling is just that riled up about government excesses.
* One of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short mysteries averts this when a distinctly admirable high-school principal is described as having "a brief moustache of the kind Adolf Hitler had put out of fashion for at least a generation."
 
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* 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 Hook is usually portrayed with a wax-tipped pencil mustache, with or without the curls. See Disney's ''[[Peter Pan (Disney)|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 Friends]]'' episode "Universe of Evil", a pencil-mustache is worn by, of all people, [[http://superfriends.wikia.com/wiki/Robin_<!-- 28Evil29 the evil counterpart of Robin, the Boy Wonder]]. -->
 
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* {{spoiler|Sousuke Aizen}} of ''[[Bleach]]'' slicks his hair back after [[The Reveal]].
* Brian J. Mason {{spoiler|and later Largo}} in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''.
* [[Ax Crazy]], [[Sinister Scythe]]-wielding, [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]] Hidan from [[Naruto]] has his hair plastered to his head with industrial strength gel.
 
 
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==== [[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.
 
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==== [[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]].
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=== Soulpatch ===
[[Anti -Hero|Antiheroes]] tend to have a soulpatch, which is a tuft right under the lower lip, as do normal heroes in [[Dystopia|dystopian futures]].
 
==== [[Comic Books]] ====
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==== [[Live Action TV]] ====
* Future Hiro from ''[[Heroes (TV)|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 Four|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 From the Dead]] Guy}}. In fact, "Soul Patch" was his nickname in all the [[Television Without Pity]] recaps.
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==== [[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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** 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 [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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* 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 In 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 [[One Hundred and Eight108|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.
* Shawn Spencer from ''[[Psych]]'' nearly always has stubble as well as an amazing head of hair in which he takes great pride. He and Gus also judge other people by their hairstyles.
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*** 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 ''[[BlakesBlake's Seven (TV)|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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