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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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