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Men of the maritime or naval business, especially [[Father Neptune|the more experienced ones]], will usually grow beards. It's more an issue of practicality- shaving requires fresh water, and you have to conserve this on a ship. But in any case it is one way to tell that a character is a real [[Father Neptune]].
For [[Pirate]] [[The Captain|Captains]], a prominent beard is so obligatory that you have a high probability of [[Captain Color Beard|being named after it]]. [[Real Life]] [[Trope Maker|gave us]] [[wikipedia:Blackbeard|Blackbeard]] and [[wikipedia:
Any character sporting this is guaranteed to [[Talk Like a Pirate]]. [[Techno Babble|Something about the way the densely packed follicles baffle the sound waves...]] Combine with [[Beard of Barbarism]] for pirates.
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* Captain Smudge from ''[[Serendipity the Pink Dragon]]'' has a big grey beard like this, and [[Talk Like a Pirate|talks like a pirate]] too.
* Despite mostly serving in space, Captain Okita of the ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' wears the traditional bushy captain beard.
* Due to the franchise's roots as an intended parody of the SF anime cliches of the 70s, most [[Macross]] series traditionally have the captains of their respective [[Cool Ship
** [[Macross 7|Max]] [[The Ace|Jenius]], though, is an
*** Kawamori reportedly [[Word of God|outright stated]] that Max stopped aging due to his sheer awesomeness.<ref>This statement, however, is better to be taken with a grain of salt, as it's turned out recently that a lot of similar trivia Words Of God were fabricated by an influential fan.</ref>
* [[One Piece]] ''runs'' on this trope.
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* [[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner|The Ancient Mariner]] is usually depicted like this (which makes sense, he spent an unclear period of time stuck in the middle of the sea long after the fresh water supplies had run out).
* [[Space Is an Ocean|Surprisingly]] ''[[Space Is an Ocean|not]]'' [[Space Is an Ocean|prominent]] in ''[[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]]'', Aivars Terekhov is one of those few who have it.
* A minor character in Frank Yerby's ''The Golden Hawk'' had a very thick and unruly beard (lots of unkempt hair ''atop'' his head, too). When he was forcibly trimmed with the intent of disguising the crew's appearance, everyone, including him, was astonished to discover he was rather handsome ("I'm right pretty!") under all that hair.
* Dudley Pope's ''Decoy'' involves British sailors in [[World War II]] capturing a U-boat. Naturally, with the limited fresh-water supply, even the ones who normally went clean-shaven had serious facial hair by the time they were able to get the sub into a British harbor without their own side depth-charging them. The main character arrived at his home a bit earlier than expected, and his astonished fiancee exclaimed, "That beard!" before they hugged. (His boss had also said, "I can just about recognise you behind that beard.")
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Bluto/Brutus in ''[[Popeye]]'' has this overlapping with [[Beard of Evil]]. Popeye himself is eerily hairless, while his father, Poopdeck Pappy, has thick [[Perma
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