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[[File:img_2964img 2964-500x500.jpg|link=Saturday Night Live|rightthumb|350px|''Turd Ferguson's Greatest Hits'' is a prime example of this trope.]]
 
{{quote|''"...like the SAS commander, who has the sort of absurd facial hair that indeed would have given him a proud military bearing circa 1915, but nowadays just makes him look like a German porn star."''|'''[[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]]''', on ''[[Call of Duty]] 4's'' Captain Price.}}
|'''[[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]]''', on ''[[Call of Duty]] 4's'' Captain Price.}}
 
A style of facial hair that resembles the classic "handlebar mustache", but is thicker and bushier on top, with no other facial hair underneath. Often used to (at least in the wearer's intentions) indicate a guy's "rugged" or "manly" nature.
 
This trope has a [[Fashion Dissonance]] problem. For most of the 70s and early 80s, it was considered authoritarian and [[Rated Mfor"M" for Manly|MANLY]], and associated with cops, military men,<ref>It still has these associations in some countries, particularly where fashion is still somewhat stuck in the '70s. One of these in the Arab world--indeed, chances are that someone sporting one of these--in fiction and in real life--in an Arab country is a cop.</ref>, and sex symbols like [[Burt Reynolds]]. But an increasing association with porn stars, along with a general decline in popularity, makes it [[Discredited Trope|difficult for modern viewers to take such characters seriously]].
 
Not to be confused with a [[Porn Stash]]. If you try hiding your stash in your 'stache, it will hurt like the dickens, unless your 'stache is truly [[Badass Mustache|badass]].
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== Anime &and Manga ==
* Master Asia from ''[[G Gundam]]''.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]''
** Lt. Jg. Bernard Monsha.
** Jamaicain Daninghan, also in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]''.
* ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]''
** Nappa of [[Dragonball Z]].
** Vegeta sported one for a short time in the anime-only ''GT''. He shaved it off after his daughter told him she hated it, however.
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== Advertising ==
* The original [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/3087443_d9cc9336ad_m.jpg Brawny paper towel] logo guy.
* [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Advertising)|The Man Your Man Could Smell Like]] in the Old Spice commercials. It peels off, but the bare skin underneath it can also peel off to reveal another mustache. It is not shown, but presumably that one can also peel off; its not clear how many layers he's got.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWF-hH1nloo This] commercial for a Datsun 10th Anniversary 280XZ "Black Gold Edition" circa 1980.
* The guy from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=332SioWpxUg 21st Century Insurance] commercials
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* The Comedian from ''[[Watchmen]]''.
* Deadshot from ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' and ''[[Secret Six]]''.
* The [[Planet of Hats|Planet of Pornstaches]] - Viltrum from ''[[Invincible (Comic Book)|Invincible]]''.
* The new ''[[Power Girl]]'' comic features the ultimate [[Large Ham|ham]] Vartox, an out of date hero from the 70s who rules his planet through a combination of super powers, unbelievable manliness, and a porn stache of truly epic proportions. Played entirely serious in the character's first appearances, back when he was introduced to cash in on the popularity of... [[Sean Connery]] in [[Zardoz]].
 
 
== Film ==
* [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|Q]] wears one in ''[[Licence to Kill (Film)|Licence to Kill]]'' when he's sneaking around Sanchez's estate with a radio-transmitting broom.
* Ron Burgundy, ''[[Anchorman]]''. Along with several supporting characters. It ''is'' the '70s.
* Bollywood veteran and [[Slumdog Millionaire]] star [[Anil Kapoor]] is (in)famous for his thick moustache. That and his pompadour hair style.
* ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]''
** Barricade's police-officer hologram. And with a blank stare to boot.
** Shared with [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moustache_Man all the Decepticon holograms].
* The Master from ''[[Manos: theThe Hands of Fate|"Manos" The Hands of Fate]]''.
* ''[[A New Hope (Film)|A New Hope]]'' has Luke's friend [http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4452/blz05.jpg Biggs Darklighter]. Few humans in that 'verse aren't clean-shaven.
* Almost all the male characters in ''[[Super Troopers]]''.
* [[Borat]].
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* Whenever [[Ben Stiller]] plays a villain in a movie, he has one.
* ''[[The Mechanic]]'' has Charles Bronson's, just another thing that makes it so evident that it's from [[The Seventies]].
* ''[[Smokey and Thethe Bandit]]'' has Burt Reynolds'.
* ''In The Cut'' has Mark Ruffalo's ridiculous 'stache.
* [[Sean Connery]] in ''[[Zardoz]]''.
* ''[[Sneakers]]''. In a 1970s flashback Martin Brice has one while he's attending college, and NSA agent Dick Gordon has one in the present.
* Dum-Dum Dugan has an epically large porn stache in ''[[Captain America: theThe First Avenger]]''. It's pretty [[Badass Mustache|badass]].
* ''[[Faster (Film)|Faster]]''. Detective Cicero finds her co-worker was a former member of LAPD's CRASH unit, and jokingly refers to them as gung-ho cops in porn staches.
* Both [[Pierce Brosnan]] and Greg Kinnear in ''The Matador''.
* Charlie in ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' movie. Makes the reasons his wife left him even more baffling.
 
 
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** Commander Bill Adama had one during the first couple of episodes of season three.
** Edward James Olmos shaved off his trademark moustache when he took the role of "Bill Adama". He regrew it for the "New Caprica" arc, {{spoiler|to symbolize the character's complacency during this period where humanity wasn't being killed off by Cylons, but ultimately shaved it off once humanity was successfully evacuated from the planet when the Cylons took over.}}
* BJ Hunnicutt grew one for the last few seasons of ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' to stick to the Army. In the '70s it probably worked, but today it's a little hard to take the devoted family man and compassionate doctor seriously when he looks like a '70s porn star.
* Nick Stokes, briefly, on the original ''[[CSI]]''. He mercifully got rid of it.
* Wash from ''[[Firefly]]'' has one in a flashback. Zoe comments that there's "something" she doesn't like about him. Since they eventually get married and he's cleanshaven in the rest of the series, presumably the lady just doesn't like porn staches. Of course, then there's the blooper version of that scene where both Zoe and Mal are also wearing porn staches....
* DS Ray Carling in ''[[Life On Mars]]'' and [http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f282/carla_scribbles/ashestoashess01e020101.jpg especially] ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''.
* Tom Selleck, of ''[[Magnum, PIP.I.]]'' fame.
* Tom Selleck also sports one when he plays Monica's boyfriend Richard on ''[[Friends]]''... it's pretty conspicuous.
** In fact, Selleck looks quite off in [[In and Out|his one role without the stache.]]
* Earl from ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''.
* Captain Stottlemeyer from ''[[Monk]]''.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Matthew]] grows one in an episode of ''[[News Radio]]'', much to the other characters' horror, and Jimmy James is revealed--torevealed—to his eternal embarrassment--toembarrassment—to have grown one once. See the quote page.
* Detective Ronnie Gardocki, during the first two seasons of ''The Shield'', had a porn 'stache before trading up for a full beard for the rest of the series (minus the second half of season six, where he was clean shaven). Actor David Rees Snell has over the years acknowledged the pros and cons of his choice of facial hair, noting that in spite of the various jokes people made about his 'stache, that it helped him stand out on a show filled with clean-shaven men and develop a fan following amongst viewers of the show.
* Most of the male cops in ''[[Reno 911!]]''.
* [[Almighty Janitor|The Janitor]] from ''[[Scrubs]]'' had one when he was a hurdle runner, before sleeping with the President's daughter (or so he claimed).
* Inevitably, one of the male leads in ''[[Swingtown]]''.
* Kelso from ''[[That '70s Show]]'' grew one of these when he became a cop because he thought it would make him look like an authority figure. Hyde said it made him look like a porn star. Kelso was happy either way. His friends later shaved it into a Hitler mustache while he was sleeping.
* Deputy Sacks from ''[[Veronica Mars]]''. Notably, the mustache is fake and without it, he is [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3402406400/nm1724291 quite attractive].
* ''[[The X -Files]]''. [[The Nameless]] corporate hitman in the two-parter "Tempus Fugit" & "Max" has one. Unfortunately his demise at the hands of alien abductors prevented fans from adding "[[Fan Nickname|Porn Stache Man]]" to X Files' list of nameless bad guys.
* Robbie Ray Stewart of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' dons one of these to [[Paper -Thin Disguise|transform]] into his country-singer-turned-manager [[Secret Identity|persona]] of Robbie Ray.
* Spencer Shay of ''[[I CarlyiCarly]]'' generally includes one of these in any diguise. For example, infiltrating his sisters school as a janitor to catch her making out with [[Bad Boy]] Griffin.
* Mike from ''[[All in The Family]]'' had one. Once or twice in the series he would shave it off, only for the characters to point out that he looked better with the creepy mustache than without it.
* In the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "The Butter Shave", Jerry and George grew mustaches. George says he feels like "an out-of-work porn star".
* In the ''[[White Collar]]'' episode "Need to Know," it's revealed that during Neal's imprisonment, Peter had a mustache for about a month. After seeing [http://twitpic.com/277kdh a photograph], Neal comments that he was expecting something more ''[[Magnum, PIP.I.]]'' and less [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]].
* In ''[[Supernatural]]'' Gabriel dons a fake porntache on a porn DVD he gives to the Winchesters.
* [[Brendan Brady]] in [[Holly OaksHollyoaks]]
* ''[[Jason King (TV)|Jason King]]''. Just ... Jason King.
* In ''[[Drake and Josh]]'', Josh attempts to grow one of these (being a kids show, they didn't actually say that it was a "porn stache" but it was implied), but everyone hates it, including his girlfriend, who even refuses to kiss him with the mustache.
* Both Mike Stoker and Marco Lopez sported impressive models in the TV show [[Emergency]].
* Leroy Jethro Gibbs of ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' fame. He has one (briefly) after recovering from amnesia that wigged Tony out.
{{quote| '''Gibbs:''' I need you to look at something before you leave.<br />
'''Fornell:''' You've got that mustache in a box, don't you? }}
* The ''[[Top Gear]]'' presenters all sport these during ''The Interceptors'' segment, a parody of [[The Seventies|1970s]] detective series in general.
* A picture in ''[[Torchwood Miracle Day (TV)|Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'' showed the immortal Jack Harkness as having one in the 1970s.
* Hutch has a mustache for the entire fourth and final season of ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]''.
 
 
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* Har Mar Superstar has a very thin one, but it's clearly a porn 'stache.
* [[Frank Zappa]].
* Tony Iommi of [[Black Sabbath (Music)|Black Sabbath]].
* Brad Delp, former lead singer of the band [[Boston (Musicband)|Boston]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYtqAWDF2U Gunther]. "Ooooh, you touch my tralala.../Ooooh, my dingdingdong..."
* Referenced in "Mustache" by the country music band Heartland, in which the narrator expresses his astonishment at the guy his girlfriend has dumped him for:
{{quote| He's got a mustache<br />
Has she lost her mind?<br />
He's got a mustache<br />
Straight out of 1979<br />
It looks like a porn star... }}
* With that in mind, several exist among [[Country Music]] singers: [[http://www.nordestfm.ro/images/Image/Kix<!-- 20Brooks281%20Brooks%281%29.jpg Kix Brooks]]{{Dead link}} (of BrooksAndDunn[[Brooks and Dunn]]), AlanJackson[[Alan Jackson]], [[http://image.lyricspond.com/image/a/artist-aaron-tippin/album-aaron-tippin-greatest-hits-and-then-some/cd-cover.jpg Aaron Tippin]], [[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20040415213521/http://stickwraps.com/jdppic1.jpg John Dittrich]] (of Restless Heart), and [[http://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Joe-Diffie.jpg Joe Diffie]] (replete with mullet). -->
* John Oates of Hall & Oates.
* Paul Simon, during the [[Simon and Garfunkel]] days.
* The late choreographer [http://themusicsover.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/michael-peters.jpg Michael Peters], famous for playing a gang leader in [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Beat It" (on which a Brazilian comedian likened him to soccer player [http://www.projetovip.net/cerezo1.jpg Toninho Cerezo]).
* [[Rush|Neil Peart]] back in the ''2112'' days.
* Akiva and Jorm of [[The Lonely Island]] don very fake-looking [[Porn Staches]] to play [[Intercourse Withwith You|the Bing Bong Brothers]].
* {{spoiler|Till Lindemann}} sports one in the [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]] video ''Haifisch'' as he {{spoiler|mails a postcard to the rest of the band, letting them know he's alive}}.
* [[Carlos Santana]]
* Yanni, before he shaved it off.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Anthony in ''[[For Better or For Worse]]''. It earned him one of his [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknames]]s.
 
 
== Professional Wrestling ==
* Wrestler Scott Hall had one during his AWA days, when he was "Magnum" Scott Hall. He later shaved it before going to the [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] and becoming Razor Ramon.
** And the man he was emulating, "Magnum" TA - who looked a little like Tom Selleck from ''Magnum PI''.
* Announcer Tony Schiavone, early in his career.
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* <s> Solid</s> Old Snake acquires one in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4''.
* Captain Price from the ''[[Call of Duty]]'' series ([[Identical Grandson|both of them]]).
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''
** Mario and Luigi, to the point where "Stache" is a stat you can increase in ''[[Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'', which boosts your critical hit rate and makes shopkeepers offer you discounts.
** Toadworth's younger self from ''[[Mario and& Luigi: Partners In Time (Video Game)|Partners in Time]]'' has one of these.
** Broque Monsieur from ''[[Mario and& Luigi: BowsersBowser's Inside Story (Video Game)|Bowser's Inside Story]]'' also has one, which becomes a pair of [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]] when he flips his head to battle you.
* [[Final Fight|Mike Haggar]] has a brilliant bristly one.
* Odessa Cubbage, of ''[[Half-Life]] 2'' fame. It's a bit thin, however.
* Garet gains one of these in ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]''.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[Ocarina of Time]]''
** The Great Deku Tree has one. Unusual, in that it's...well...a tree.
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* Valant Gramarye in ''Apollo Justice: [[Ace Attorney]]'' grows one when he gets older. It's supposed to make him look more mature than his younger self, but since he spends his time hanging around his old friend's fifteen-year-old daughter, it has some, ah, [[Ephebophile|unfortunate implications]].
* Griffin from ''[[Harvest Moon]]''.
* <s>Saxton Hale</s> '''[[Testosterone Poisoning|SAXTON HAAAAALE]]''' from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''.
* Rad Spencer was a clean cut red haired [[Duke Nukem|Duke]] clone in ''[[Bionic Commando (Video Game)|Bionic Commando]] Rearmed'', but as of ''Rearmed 2'' has grown a rather impressive (if out of place) bright red manstache.
* Chester, Hobo Lord of Sleaze (complete with van and bag of candy) has one of these in [[Kingdom of Loathing]]. You can even [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Chester%27s_moustache acquire it for yourself.]
* Yuri from the ''[[Command and& Conquer: Red Alert]]'' series, together with a goatie and [[Bald of Evil]]. Considering he's played by Udo Kier, his [[The Starscream|level of evilness]] is [http://www.wallpapersbay.com/wallpapers/command_and_conquer_red_alert_2_yuri_revenge_55_4-1152x864.jpg quite obvious].
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* Indie Pete in ''[[Diesel Sweeties]]'' [http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/1995 gets a job as a sex ed teacher] because he has one of these, and [http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2006 loses it after he shaves] - apparently the moustache makes him look like "a man who knows his way around a set of organs".
* ''[[Shortpacked (Webcomic)|Shortpacked]]'' features [http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20080808.html a debate] on the thin line between a [[Porn Stache]] and a just plain creepy stache.
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'':
** Dan McNinja even has a special ninja mask which covers everything but his eyes and the 'stache. It is even revealed to be an almost mystical source of authority.
** The Doc's kid side-kick, 13 year-old Gordito, a gunslinging Mexican native, had an impressive 'stache he grew through sheer will power (in a matter of seconds) after his father died.
* [http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20090530 This] strip of ''[[Unshelved]].''
* Warlord Damaske from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', who is referred to as "[[Fan Nickname|Warlord Mustache]]" by [[Snark Bait|snarkers]].
* Calamities of Nature makes a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130523042257/http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=302 reference to the porn stache.]
 
 
== Web Originals ==
* ''[[Italian Spiderman]]''. At one point, he throws it like a [[Precision -Guided Boomerang|boomerang]].
* [http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9629/mariopeople.gif This ad] for ''Mario Kart DS'' shows three Japanese pop-rock-types sporting these and winking/grinning at the camera. You can play with people across the world via Wi-Fi, and this is represented by the various stereotyped versions of the guy with the Mario-like mustache and hat. The picture has become rather popular as an avatar icon.
* ''[[Gaia Online]]'s'' Timmy experienced [[Plot -Relevant Age -Up|"Megapuberty"]] and had the choice of either growing to adulthood immediately or remaining a child forever, and out of indecision decided to poll the fandom. Most of the fans who voted started talking about what a [[Bishounen]] Timmy would grow up to be. Instead, Timmy grew up [[Hollywood Homely]] (think [[Nicolas Cage]]'s character in ''Raising Arizona''), and has since then been accosted by police officers purely because they could not believe someone with a mustache like that was an honest citizen.
* ''[[Binder of Shame]]'s'' appropriately-named Deviant Boy is described as having an "abnormally thick moustache".
* Parodied in Episode 4 of [[Manwhores]] when Kevin gets a fake one in order to imitate Randy. Five minutes later, he's in an 8-way. Yes, an 8-way.
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== Western Animation ==
* Carl from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' [[Discussed Trope|explores]] literally every stereotype associated with the Porn Stashe.
{{quote| ''He's got the kind of facial hair that says "Yeah, I've been naked on camera before, what of it?"''}}
* Tony Stark in the '90s animated version of ''[[Iron Man (Animationanimation)|Iron Man]]''. The mullet doesn't help.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''
** Brock Samson has one of these whenever he appears in college flashbacks.
** Him and Rusty both have them for a brief spell. "What were we thinking?"
* William Murderface of ''[[Metalocalypse]]''. Mainly because he's based off of Geezer Butler, who, as stated above, had one.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'': stupid sexy Flanders!
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Spell #25]] sprouts a luxurious porn 'stache on the lip of either sex.
 
 
== Other ==
* Uh, [http://www.80stees.com/products/Mustache-Sesame-Street-T-Shirt.asp this] ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' shirt.
 
 
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*** Porn star Ron Jeremy, perhaps the most iconic example and probably responsible for the association with porn.
*** John Holmes, the inspiration for Dirk Diggler in ''[[Boogie Nights]]''.
*** And the original [[Porn Stache]], Harry Reems.
** Ric Romero, consumer reporter for Los Angeles-based KABC-TV and [[Memetic Mutation|Internet meme]] extraordinaire.
** John Stossel, former ABC newsman and host of ''20/20''.
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** Film critic/conservative commentator/self-styled "cultural crusader" who's supposedly led a "controversial life", Michael Medved.
** Burt Reynolds.
** [http://pics.livejournal.com/snowgrouse/pic/0004peqf Seventies Porn Colin], a 1970s publicity shot of [[Colin Baker]] shirtless and sporting one of these, has attained memetic status in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' fandom.
* Athletes and sports figures:
** NASCAR has plenty of famous drivers with porn 'staches. Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Tim Richmond, Neil Bonnett, Terry Labonte, Dale Jarrett, Mike Skinner...
** In [[Formula One]] the most notorious [[Porn Stache]] is Nigel Mansell's.
** Mark Spitz, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|who won seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games]].
** Baseball player Jeff Kent's famous facial hair has led to baseball announcers to jokingly refer to impressive or important home runs by Jeff Kent as "money shots".
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** Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt has sported one since his playing days.
** Two-time Vezina/Conn Smythe/Stanley Cup winning Hall of Fame NHL goaltender Bernie Parent of the Philadelphia Flyers had one of the most [http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/640/560/1974-75_bernie_parent_flyers_with_trophies_display_image.jpg awe-inspiring examples of the trope] in the history of North American professional sports during the 1970s.
** Broad Street Bullies-era [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20160815105309/http://goaliecards.com/70/taylor70.jpg backup goalie Bobby Taylor] was a fairly decent backup for Parent in this area as well. Hockey seemed to raise a bumper crop in those days, with even Taylor cheerfully quipping in the HBO documentary on the team, [http://www.hbo.com/sports/broad-street-bullies/index.html The Broad Street Bullies], that "we looked like a bunch of porn stars."
** In fact, the Flyers in particular are no slouches in the porn stache department, with another Vezina and Conn Smythe coming from netminder [http://cdn.nhl.com/flyers/images/upload/2008/02/hexy_portrait.jpg Ron Hextall] in the 80s.
** Sportscaster and entertainment reporter Pat O'Brien.
** Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator [http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5012430098_2bcf9083ea_z.jpg Brian Van Gorder].
** [[Keith Olbermann]] alternated between this and clean-shaven from his days as a sports anchor in [[Los Angeles]] until midway through his [[Sports Center]] tenure, after which he apparently hacked it off for good. Apparently he figured out that the look may work for some people ([[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]), but it unambiguously does ''not'' work for him.
** Similarly, [[ESPN]]'s Chris Berman sported one early in his tenure on ESPN [https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061803/http://network.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/chris_berman_rocking_the_mustache/3195134 and recently decided to give it another try].
** MLB Pitcher Carl Pavano - ''especially'' when it's not fully grown in.
** Possibly-former Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas.
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* Historial and political figures:
** John R. Bolton.
** Not uncommon among European royalty of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Umbertoofitaly.jpg |King Umberto I of Italy]] having one of the most epic Porn Staches of all time.
** Some of his (numerous) detractors argue that the moustache [[Peter Mandelson]] used to have looked like one of these. [http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/q-peter-mandelson-moustache.jpg Judge for yourself]{{Dead link}}.
** And of course, [[Josef Stalin]]. He even was nicknamed "Baffone" ("Big Moustache") in Italy.
*** And some of his comrades too, like Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich and Andrei Zhdanov.
** [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein:Saddam Hussein|Saddam Hussein]].
* Miscellaneous:
** [[Nikola Tesla]]. Ironically, he was celibate.
** [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Günther_:Günther (singer) |Günther]], the stage persona of Swedish singer Mats Söderlund. His entire act is indeed modeled on bad German porn stars.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130603152639/http://www.mmalinker.com/wiki/images/1/17/Frye.jpg Don Frye], MMA fighter and the [[Badass]] Captain Gordon in [[Godzilla]]: Final Wars.
** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] had an uber-[[Porn Stache]].
** British Army lore has it that these are standard issue for the SAS, so the page quote may well be justified. However, considering the skills of a [[Super Soldier|standard SAS soldier]], it is a bad idea to mock them for this.
** ''Meet The Talking Car'', an old children's safety PSA, gives one of these to one of the cars. The car in question seems peculiarly affable towards children, claims to have known quite a few boys in girls "in my day", and adds that they are good.
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