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[[File:evilspockk.jpg|link=Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|frame|<s>Boldly</s> Evilly going where no razor has gone before.]]
 
{{quote|'''Dave''': How can you have a goatee without shaving? Does it just materialize? <br />
'''[[Gender Bender|Male Helen]]''': Well, yes. I'm evil.|''[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=31475#121222 Narbonic]''}}
 
[[Rhymes Onon a Dime|A man with a beard is a man to be feared.]]
 
What is it about bad guys and facial hair? For some reason, we often take being clean-shaven as an indicator of being strait-laced and, under more traditional morality, a good person, pure of spirit. In older, simpler days, a traditional hero would not even have five o'clock shadow, even if he's been on the run and well away from his shaving mirror for a week.
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The characters who sport a Beard of Evil are usually either the [[Big Bad]] or a second-in-command. This may play into the fact that in both western and eastern culture, goatees are traditionally worn by members of the aristocracy, and [[Aristocrats Are Evil]].
 
The Beard of Evil has a long history of being associated most closely with the [[Evil Twin]] or [[Evil Counterpart]], and you [[Mirror Universe|probably already]] [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|know why]]. It also scores extra evil points if [[Bald of Evil|combined with a shaven head]]. (Anybody with a bald head and a beard is pretty much guaranteed to be a card-carrying villain unless they are [[Bald Black Leader Guy|black]] or East Asian. Blame [[Flash Gordon (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Alex Raymond]] and Anton LaVey.)
 
[[Satan]] is also frequently depicted with a goatee (which probably came from depictions of [[Faust|Goethe's Mephistopheles]] as a 16th-century gallant).
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Dr. Hell from ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'' and ''[[Mazinkaiser (Anime)|Mazinkaiser]]'' is the [[Mad Scientist]] [[Big Bad]] and he has a long, bushy, bristly, white and positively epic [[Beard of Evil]]. In ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'', [[The Dragon]] Great General of Darkness/Ankoku Daishogun had a [[Badass Beard]] warned he was NOT to be messed with. King Vega, [[Big Bad]] from ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' was the only on the side of the evil guys had a beard. His was bristle but well-groomed, though.
* Gendo Ikari from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has a beard in pretty much the same configuration as [[Gargoyles (Animation)|Xanatos]] and [[Doctor Who|The Master]]. That particular style seems to be a favorite of [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastards]]. In the spoof [[Fan Video]] ''Evangelion: [[Re Death]]'', he proudly announces he spent millions in research on [[Kavorka Man|the ultimate pimp beard]].
* "That Man" from ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'' is a [[Yakuza]] thug with a beard, the only recurring character with facial hair {{spoiler|and the real leader of ACROSS, making him the closest thing the show had to a [[Big Bad]]}}.
* In episode 12 of ''[[Dennou Coil]]'' beards start appearing on the (pre-adolescent) main characters. These beards are actually Illegals, virus programs that occasionally cross over into reality and are generally antagonistic. These particular Illegals are sentient, forming their own mini-civilizations on each person's face and revere the person they exist on as gods. They then go on to launch missiles and wage civil war on each other and, once that's stopped, "interplanetary" war. After realizing the futility of war, the Illegal beards leave their hosts to find their Promised Land.
* General Regius of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]''. [[Fat Bastard|Fat frame]], [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes|beady little eyes]], [[General Ripper|nasty demeanor]], and [[Beard of Evil|neatly maintained beard]] give him all the markings of an obvious villain. {{spoiler|So naturally, he turns out to be a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who just found himself too entangled in [[Government Conspiracy|the TSAB's darker secrets]], with his [[Being Evil Sucks|final scenes showing him filled with guilt when he realized how far he had fallen]]}}.<br /><br />Before him there was {{spoiler|Gil Graham, the [[Treacherous Advisor]] of ''A's''}}.
* Lordgenome is about the only human on ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' with any significant amount of facial hair. He's the main villain of the first half. (And it seems to be fireproof, given that it isn't too badly damaged when he gets serious and his head ''bursts into flames''.)
** His beard also gets significantly larger and begins to curl at the ends as he gets angrier (most notably when his head bursts into flames).
* That first enemy that appears in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin (Anime)|Rurouni Kenshin]]'' wanting to take over the Kamiya dojo and claiming to be the Battousai.
* Eventually, [[One Piece (Manga)|Blackbeard]] finally grows one of these. New character Brownbeard, has '''three''' of them, even. Funnily enough, the original, Whitebeard, only had a mustache.
* Jose, in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds (Anime)5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'' definitely counts.
* The Count of Monte Cristo in ''[[Gankutsuou (Anime)|Gankutsuou]]'' sports a sharp, blue goatee to complete his Byronic character. He isn't exactly pure evil, but definitely counts as a [[Manipulative Bastard]] willing to get innocents mixed to his pursuit of vengeance.
* In ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|The Familiar of Zero]]'' when he arrives, Ward is shown a few times in flashbacks where he acts kind to the main character, and has no beard. However, in the present, he has a beard, and is, well, evil.
* Emperor Ganishka from ''[[Berserk (Manga)|Berserk]]''.
* [[Blue Exorcist (Manga)|Mephisto Pheles]] has one impressively sharp, blue, goatee. Interesting, considering [[Faust|what]] his [[Names to Run Away From Very Fast|name]] is an obvious pun off of. Whether or not he is evil however, has [[Wild Mass Guessing|yet to be fully revealed.]]
 
 
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** It's debatable whether this was deliberate on the part of the writers and artists, but Tony finally grew a goatee (after decades of having just a mustache) around the same time that he became much more morally ambiguous than he'd ever been before--first by becoming Marvel's poster child for [[No Transhumanism Allowed|transhumanism]] and incorporating elaborate upgrades into his body which may have [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|distanced him from his humanity,]] and then by becoming a virtual fascist in the ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]''.
* Serial killer/rapist Mr. Gone from ''[[The Maxx]]'' combines [[Bald of Evil]] with a wild [[Beard of Evil]]. After a [[Time Skip]] during which he does a [[Heel Face Turn]], he no longer has any facial hair.
* Rasputin in ''[[Hellboy (Comic Bookcomics)|Hellboy]]'' has a [[Beard of Evil]] and [[Bald of Evil]], as contrasted with Hellboy himself, who combines Topknot-but-[[Bald of Awesome]] with a Soul-Patch-and-Muttonchops Combination of Moral Ambiguity.
* ''[[Seven Soldiers]]'' features the nefarious Subway Pirates, rival factions of which are led by the barbaric Allbeard (whose incredibly thick, long beard covers up pretty much his entire face) and the slick Nobeard (who has a [[Bald of Evil]] and is incapable of growing hair anywhere on his body). Mentions of other pirates from bygone eras of subway privateering are also made, including luminaries like Falsebeard and the like.<br /><br />For added hilarity, it's commonly accepted that Allbeard and Nobeard represent [[Alan Moore]] and ''[[Seven Soldiers]]'' writer [[Grant Morrison]], famously fur-faced and bald, respectively.
* Marvel's [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] old time villains Count Nefaria and Graviton.
* [[Empowered (Comic Book)|Willy Pete]], as a fire elemental, has a beard made of flame. [[Complete Monster|"Evil" is rather understating it.]]
* Inverted by the [[Pre Crisis]] version of Earth-3, home of the [[Justice League of America]]'s [[Evil Twin|Evil Twins]] - there, [[Lex Luthor]]'s Good Twin Alexander Luthor sports a goatee.
* Similar to the ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' example, in the ''[[Transformers]]'' [[Mirror Universe]] ''[[Transformers Shattered Glass|Shattered Glass]]'', Rodimus has a goatee. [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rodimus_goatee.jpg See.] Said universe also provides an example with {{spoiler|the evil Alpha Trion, although the [[Transformers Generation 1|regular Alpha Trion]] has similar facial hair}}
* Referenced in a universe-hopping arc of ''[[Cable (Comic Book)|Cable]] & [[Deadpool]]''. "How do I know you're not the anti-Siryn? Then again, you're not sporting the alternate-universe mandated evil goatee.."
* Minor [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] villain Amalak the [[Space Pirate]] was originally a rather forgettable-looking clean shaven guy with a red haired crew cut. In his final appearance, though, he had let his hair and beard [[Growing the Beard|grow out]] all scraggly, and it made him ten times scarier-looking than he had ever been before. Sadly, he got [[Killed Off for Real]] at the end of that story, and took his cool creepy beard with him.
** A [[Post-Crisis]] version of Amalak was introduced a couple of years ago. With the cool beard, naturally.
 
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* A staple of [[Disney Animated Canon]] villains:
** Scar, Simba's evil uncle from ''[[The Lion King]]'' has a tuft of scraggly black fur on his chin reminiscent of a goatee.
** Jafar in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' deserves a mention. Not-evil men like the sultan and captain of the guard also have beards in the movie, but Jafar's is not only a goatee, but ''twisted''.
* Suprisingly few ''[[James Bond]]'' villains:
** Hugo Drax of ''[[Moonraker (Film)|Moonraker]]'' plans to [[Utopia Justifies the Means|remake the world to make it a better place to have an evil beard in]].
** From ''[[For Your Eyes Only (Filmfilm)|For Your Eyes Only]]'', {{spoiler|Kristatos}}.
:: Other than that, there are actually very few major Bond villains with a beard, only henchmen.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', naturally. Jack Sparrow, Hector Barbossa, and Davy Jones (who has a beard made of ''tentacles'') are all rather shifty, but the real [[Big Bad]] is clean-shaven, as is his second-in-command. "Good guy" Will Turner also has a goatee, to complement his pirate lineage.
* Captain Corso of ''[[Titan AEA.E.]]'' had a goatee, and true to form turned out to be [[The Mole]].
* In nearly 80% of all kung fu movies made in China in the 60's and 70's from Run Run Shaw or Golden Harvest, the villain was always the old guy with the white beard.
** Parodied in ''[[Kill Bill]] Vol 2'', with Pai Mei.
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: [[Prince Caspian]]'' the Telmarine aristocrats are bearded and bad, except for the eponymous Caspian, who is clean-shaven and a good guy.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' has Cipher's beard to couple with his [[Bald of Evil]], as noted in that article.
* In ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'', [[Alan Rickman]] as Hans Gruber sported one, contrasting a beardless [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]].
* Averted in ''[[Once Upon a Time Inin Thethe West]]''. Henry Fonda planned to grow a beard as well as wear brown contact lenses to play the film's [[Complete Monster]] villain, but director [[Sergio Leone]] talked him out of it, since Fonda having his usual appearance in a role so different from his usual humble and noble characters would make it all the more shocking.
* Count Dooku possesses such a beard in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels.
* The title character of ''[[Blacula (Film)|Blacula]]'' grows some seriously wild sideburns every time he decides to drink someone's blood.
* Fouché sports one in ''[[The Duellists]]''. He was clean-shaven in real life.
* The [[Big Bad]] McComb sports an evil beard in ''[[Time Cop]]''.
* {{spoiler|Sentinel Prime}} from ''[[Transformers Dark of the Moon (Film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''.
** {{spoiler|Doubly appropriate as he's voiced by [[Leonard Nimoy|the page image]] - though his appearance is based on [[Sean Connery]].}}
* Jeff Bridges as [[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Obadiah Stane.]]
* Although technically not a beard, [[Edward Norton]]'s character in [[The Italian Job (2003 film)]] sports a rather evil-looking moustache.
* Christo and Shabal from ''[[Act of Valor (Film)|Act of Valor]]''. Averted with Senior Chief who is bearded but good.
 
 
== Literature ==
* ''[[Inheritance Cycle (Literature)|Inheritance Cycle]]'': Galbatorix has a beard in the film adaption. During ''Brisingr'', Eragon seems to assume that Galbatorix has a beard when he mentions him.
* In the ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' universe:
** Lord Vetinari is commonly depicted with a tidy goatee.
*** He's not that evil, though. He does, however, have a 'menacing elegance'. Oh, yes, and he's ''[[Magnificent Bastard|awesome]]''.
** Parodied in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Making Money|Making Money]]'', where the Head of Post-Mortem Communications is described as having tried to grow a beard like this, but not being evil, ended up just looking sheepish.<br /><br />From the same book, we have the delusional Cosmo Lavish. He tried to copy the Vetinari beard of evil, but on him, it just ended up looking like a pubic chin.
* In ''[[The Corellian Trilogy (Literature)|The Corellian Trilogy]]'' the chief feature distinguishing Han Solo from his evil cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo is the latter's beard.
* The eponymous character of ''[[Bluebeard (Literature)|Bluebeard]]''.
* The ''[[Moonraker (Literaturenovel)|Moonraker]]'' book from the original Bond series by Ian Fleming. Pretty much all of the Nazis working on the Moonraker missile have mustaches or beards, as a way of 'disguising their identity'.
* Simon's beard in ''[[I Capture the Castle]]'' makes Cassandra compare him to a gargoyle. And Rose makes him shave it off before {{spoiler|she agrees to marry him.}}
* ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' illustrator Mary Grandpre always draws Severus Snape with a beard, despite the fact that he is never described as having facial hair in the books, in order to emphasize his sinister characteristics.
* [[Older Than Radio]] example: Chernomor, [[Big Bad]] from the ''Ruslan and Ludmila'' (1820) by Alexander Pushkin, has a ''very'' long beard. He also has a [[Bald of Evil]].
* In ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'', [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Famine]] is described as having "a trim black beard."
* In the ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' books, the viciously evil Pavel Young cultivates a goatee, partly to hide his [[Fat Bastard|double chin]].
* ''[[In Death]]'': [[Complete Monster]] Isaac McQueen ends up putting on a goatee at the end of ''New York To Dallas''.
* In-universe discussion in [[The Hunger Games]] : during her {{spoiler|first}} Games, Katniss notices that although many of the boys in the arena are old enough to grow beards, and have been away from razors for a good two or three weeks, not a single one has done so. She suspects that their Capitol stylists have done some sort of procedure on their faces to prevent this, presumably to keep them looking young and innocent.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The mirror universe of ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' more or less gave us the cliché of the [[Evil Twin]] with a Beard of Evil, as evil Mr. Spock has a goatee. Ironically, Evil Mr. Spock is far and away the ''least'' evil person in the mirror universe.
** Recently given a [[Shout-Out]] in a Priceline commercial. You guessed it, Evil Shatner with a goatee.
** And in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)|Enterprise]]'', Star Trek does a [[Shout-Out]] to ''itself'' by giving Mirror Soval a Spock-beard. ([[Wild Mass Guessing|Common fashion amongst Mirror Vulcans?]])
*** While, for obvious reasons, Mirror T'Pol couldn't have a beard, she did have long flowing locks of hair to distinguish her from her closely-cropped regular counterpart.
*** This seems to have been the fashion among ''commanding'' Vulcans. Mirror Spock's personal guard didn't have a beard, and neither did either of the Vulcans Mirror T'Pol enlisted to help her retake the ISS Enterprise from Archer. [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Mirror Tuvok from the Terran Rebellion]] was also clean-shaven.
** An episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Deep Space Nine]]'' where the ''[[Cool Starship|Defiant]]'' was stolen featured {{spoiler|who we thought was William Riker before being revealed as ''Thomas'' Riker}} pulling off his heist before ''[[Invoked Trope|removing his sideburns]]'' to reveal that he had a goatee, not a beard.
*** However, he wasn't really evil.
* On ''[[Knight Rider]]'', Michael Knight's [[Evil Twin]], Garthe Knight, sports a Beard of Evil.
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'''Tenth Doctor:''' No, no beard this time...Well, [[The Beard|a wife]]... }}
** And now, {{spoiler|the 2009 Christmas specials feature John Simm's Master with a Stubble of Evil.}}
* Though he [[Heel Face Turn|later redeems himself]], Captain Bialar Crais of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' keeps his beard.
* Ares has a [[Beard of Evil]] in ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' and ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''. Notably, his [[Mirror Universe]] counterpart, Ares, God of Love, is clean-shaven.
* In Tom's first two appearances, in ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', he has a beard and is very scary. Then we see him without the beard, and learn that it's fake, and he becomes much less scary.
* Played straight in an episode of ''The Jamie Foxx Show'' in which Foxx's character is accidentally forced to switch places with a criminal look-alike who is physically identical in all ways except for a scrawny beard.
* In the ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' episode "It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World," the [[Mirror Universe]] version of Leo has a goatee.
** How could you tell that Gideon was evil? He has a goatee.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' had the evil warlord known only as White Beard.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'':
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]:
{{quote| '''Mitchell''': Well, you don't have beards, so I'm guessing you're not from the [[Evil Twin]] universe.}}
** Note that they were in fact evil, or at the very least quite self-centered. Prime universe SG-1 may have cared more about their universe than others, but they at least didn't go looting the others.
** In one [[Alternate Universe]] episode that had to be a reference to ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'''s [[Mirror Universe]], both evil Teal'c and evil Apophis do in fact have goatees. Though Apophis's beard is rather redundant 'cause he's already evil, and oddly enough, Teal'c ends up with similar facial hair a few seasons later.
** In a non-alternate-universe example, recurring villain Ba'al sported a tidy diabolical goatee.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Doppelganger": Sheppard inquires about the other Sheppard, "Did I have a goatee?"
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* In ''[[The Middleman]]'''s [[Mirror Universe]], every single male character is bearded; most but not all are more evil than their clean-shaven counterparts.
* [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Gaius Baltar]] was known for abusing this trope relentlessly. Made even more notable by his being perennially trapped in the [[Face Heel Revolving Door]]. It got to the point where you could tell ''how evil he was at the moment'' by the ''style'' of his facial hair.
* ''[[The Collector (TV series)|The Collector]]'': While meeting the younger Morgan in flashbacks, the Devil [[The Nth Doctor|takes the form]] of a goateed Colin Cunningham, his most consistent avatar in the series by far.
* On ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'', Alternate Universe [[Meta Guy|Abed]], [[Medium Awareness|deducing that he and his remaining friends inhabited the darkest of the alternate timelines]], decided that they should embrace the darkness and become evil. He therefore prepared false goatees for everyone until the men could grow theirs in properly. (Like so many things with ''Community,'' [[It Makes Sense in Context|it makes more sense in context]].)
 
 
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Ming The Merciless in ''[[Flash Gordon (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Flash Gordon]]'', perhaps unsurprisingly, sports what is known as a Fu Manchu.
** And Dr Chaotica in ''[[Voyager]]'''s [[Show Within a Show]] homage ''The Adventures of Captain Proton!''
* In the comic strip ''[[Mark Trail]]'', ''[[Beard of Evil]]'' is played straight but ''[[Bald of Evil]]'' is subverted: Story-arc-specific male characters have a full-on [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|inverse relationship between levels of evil, and levels of hair on head and face.]] One arc featured an immoral bearded man (and another, with mutton chops), a very moral completely bald man (so moral, he was keeping his construction company from leveling a field because of a family of ducks he found), and a morally conflicted balding man.
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== Video Games ==
* Inverted in the ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'' universe: male facial hair is directly proportional to goodness. Although the fairly unpleasant Blood Elves do tend towards goatees of the classic villain variety. It goes with their [[Evil Laugh|laugh]].
* ''[[Command and Conquer]]'':
** Kane in the first game complements his evil beard with his [[Bald of Evil|complete lack of other hair on his head]].
** That crazy adviser of Romanov in Red Alert 2 also has a evil beard. And, like Kane, [[Bald of Evil|Yuri lacks hair on the head]]
** ''[[Command and Conquer]] Red Alert 3'' tops even that; it doesn't have a Beard of Evil, it has [[Tim Curry|THE Beard of Evil!]]
* This seems to be a defining character trait in the ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]'' series, with all of the main villains (ie. Ares, Zeus, etc.) having massive scruffy beards. Kratos also has a [[Beard of Evil]], which is [[Villain Protagonist|pretty damn appropriate]].
* Lampshaded in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', where a skit involves Anise spinning a tale to [[The Ojou|Natalia]] how the [[Big Bad]]'s beard is a source of his evil powers. Just ''one'' source, mind you: You ''don't'' want to know what his ponytail does.
** Not to mention his ''eyebrows'' having the ability to tell him where his enemies are.
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* Rasputin (yes, again) in ''[[Shadow Hearts]] Covenant'' makes sure to retain the beard even after transforming into a horrible demonic sin against nature.
* Played straight and inverted in ''[[Half-Life]]''. Dr. Breen, when you finally see him, has a full beard and is allied with the [[Big Bad|Combine]]. Gordon Freeman, the hero, has what is best described as a Goatee of Asskicking.
* The [[Older and Wiser]] ''[[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Wind Waker (Video Game)|Wind Waker]]'' version of [[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)/Characters|Ganondorf]] sported an orange beard on charcoal-colored skin, and made it work. He retains the beard in his ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' incarnation.
* Team Rocket Executive Petrel in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' sports a purple goatee.
* Master Xehanort from ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]'', which is [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] now that [[Leonard Nimoy]] is playing him in the English version.
** Luxord and that baby-blond beard of his.
* The Prowler "La Lupo" from ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' has a soul patch and close-cropped goatee, contrasting with Ezio's full beard-and-'stache. Cesare, Rodrigo, and the Engineer also have beards.
* The [[Obviously Evil]] Ser Alrik in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' sports one.
* [[Rabid Cop]] [[Heavy Rain|Carter Blake]] has a small beard which contrasts with [[By-The-Book Cop]] Norman Jayden's clean-shaven face.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Edvard de Santigo from ''[[Supernormal Step]]'' has a [http://supernormalstep.com/62/ very malicious-looking goatee].
* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'':
** Elan's [[Evil Twin]] brother Nale has a blond beard to serve as his distinguishing villainous mark.
** As Vaarsuvius pointed out [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0596.html after dealing with Kubota], "that mustache did not do him any favors" when trying to determine whether Kubota was to be considered an enemy of the Order.
* ''[[Darths and Droids (Webcomic)|Darths and Droids]]'':
** Jim, Qui-Gon's player, suspects Sio Bibble (or [[My Name Is Not Durwood|"Bubble"]], as he calls him) of being evil due to his beard and position as Amidala's [[Evil Chancellor|trusted adviser]]. It's not true, but despite his bit-part in it, Bibble is one of the few campaign details Jim never needs to be reminded of.<br /><br />Having established his firm belief in the [[Beard of Evil]] as a guaranteed indicator of a character's untrustworthiness, Jim refuses to let anyone see his character sheet, claiming [[Blatant Lies|Qui-Gon is clean-shaven.]]
** This is also mentioned in a later comic with Bail Organa.
*** Flat out lampshaded in the GM's notes for the campaign that took place in between the first and second movie (based on ''[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|The Princess Bride]]''). In his notes on Count Rugen, he notes "Has a goatee! Should be fun when others don't believe Jim that he's evil."
* In ''[[Questionable Content (Webcomic)|Questionable Content]]'', the characters are joking about a series of events leading to the creation of Martin's "[[Evil Twin]]." He mentioned the frustration said twin would encounter, given that he's "incapable of growing a decent goatee."
* [[Invoked Trope]] by ''[[Van Von Hunter]]'' when Van ''drew'' a goatee on his [[Evil Twin]] so that they could be told apart.
* In ''[[Mac Hall]]'' this was inverted [http://machall.com/view.php?date=2001-03-07 here] and then played straight [http://machall.com/view.php?date=2001-03-12 here]
* In ''[[Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic)|Dinosaur Comics]]'', everyone has a beard in the mirror universe. And the strip is [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=35 backwards].
* In ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', strip [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2470.html #2470] is a repeat of [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2461.html #2461] in the [[Mirror Universe]], complete with backwards layout and goatees. Unfortunately, the Nazis are the same. ([http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2477.html Maybe not].) And ''of course'' the comic links here.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=22&issue=14 Victor] the obvious spy has one.
** What? He's not a spy, he's a plumber! Clearly!
* Invoked, discussed, and [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Jet Dream (Webcomicwebcomic)|Jet Dream]]'': This trope features heavily in Cookie Jarr's [http://tgcaps.com/caps/modcomics/suedenim/jetdream/mjdr01/mjdr1_02.jpg.php ''My Jet Dream Romance'' solo story], as a philosophical debate between J.E.T. T.E.E.N. Boy Booster Phil Philpott and "El Teen Gringo del Sur" over the good or evil of facial hair becomes violent!
{{quote| '''Phil:''' "I learned enough not to trust men like Trotsky, Castro, and Blackbeard! Men with ''beards!''"<br />
'''El Teen Gringo:''' "But what of Lincoln? Moses? Zeus? You're blinded by your dangerous obsession! Bah! You'll never understand. Taste some ''Teen Gringo Justice'' -- Fist Style!" }}
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance (Roleplay)|The Gamers Alliance]]'', Koschei and Pronin have beards and are very much evil.
* Mars, a [[One-Scene Wonder|minor but memorable]] villain from ''[[Broken Saints]]'' features a little goatee, but otherwise sports a [[Bald of Evil]].
* In the first episode of ''[[Space Goose (Web Animation)|Space Goose]]'', the title character discovers that he has an evil doppelganger with a goatee.
* During the [[Christmas Special]] of ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'', Goku realizes that Turles is his [[Evil Counterpart]] in all but one way.
{{quote| "He's like... an evil me! Only he doesn't have a goatee...I'm gonna imagine one!" (does so) "''So evil!''"}}
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== Western Animation ==
* Pastiched on ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'': in their mirror universe, ''everyone'' has a goatee, including the "Evil" Cartman, who, as the opposite of the "real world" Cartman, is polite, helpful, and a genuinely good person. The unbearded Cartman rips off his beard (as a unit...) after he finds out that Stan and Kyle want to send him to the alternative universe and keep the "evil Cartman."
* David Xanatos, the [[Anti-Villain]] of ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' fame [[Xanatos Gambit|well known for his convoluted plans]] sported such a beard. He bore more than a passing resemblance to his actor, who played [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Commander Will Riker]] and whose beard was notable for [[Growing the Beard|another reason]].<br /><br />In one {{spoiler|dream}} episode set 40 years in the future, Xanatos has gone all [[Big Brother]] on Manhattan. He's still using his Steel Clan robot minions, but they now inexplicably have Riker beards.
* ''[[Transformers]]'':
** Unicron the [[Planet Eater|giant, planet-eating, robotic, chaos god]] had a mustache and goatee. He also gave one to his minion Scourge, along with a lovely set of pink fingernails.
** As does the evil Junkion Detritus.
* In the ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' episode "Lesser of Two Evils," Fry assumes that Flexo, a bending unit who looks identical to Bender except for a pointed beard, must be Bender's [[Evil Twin]]. He isn't of course, [[Inverted Trope|Bender is the evil one.]]
{{quote| '''Bender''': Oh like you didn't see ''that'' one coming.}}
* Vlad Masters from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. Also Skulker and even Danny's [[Evil Counterpart]] Dark Danny sports one.
* This is played with in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', with the character of Dr. Orpheus, a good guy who looks evil (the eponymous brothers describe him as looking like "a Dracula"). The Monarch and Dr. Venture, on the other hand, are both rather unsavory characters with beards.
** Lampshaded when Hank puts on a fake goatee and 21 comments that he looks like the "[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Mirror Mirror]] version of Hank" in ''Showdown at Cremation Creek Part 1''.
* Several ''[[Birdman]]'' villains have this kind of beard, most notably Number One, the leader of F.E.A.R.. This is useful, since apart from this and a small skull insignia, he looks exactly like all of his henchmen.
* An episode of ''[[The Tick]]'' involves the mystery of a mobile mustache super-weapon. When asked by Arthur why the government brought such a horror into the world, the only response he got was:
{{quote| '''Jim Rage:''' "You don't understand, man... The Russians were already working on a beard... ''[[Doctor Strangelove|We had a facial hair gap!]]''"}}
* Parodied with Chad Ghostal, Space Ghost's [[Evil Twin]] brother on ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''. His facial hair is different every time he's on screen.
* An episode of ''[[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)|Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' featured this trope with [[Mirror Universe]]; the kids are sent into an [[Alternate Universe]] via a neighborhood swimming pool, where the KND is feared, evil, and lead by an evil version of Number 4, who wears a goatee. The original Number 4 calls him out on this, claiming that since he--the original--is brave, then the evil one must be a coward.
* Fire Lord Ozai in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', along with several other villains, including Long Feng and Combustion Man.
* The Villain on the ''[[Jimmy Timmy Power Hour]] 3''.
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'':
** Warp Darkmatter, who is more or less Buzz's [[Evil Counterpart|evil equivalent]], sports a typically roguish goatee.
** Evil Buzz Lightyear from the [[Alternate Universe]].
* The [[Affably Evil]] Hank Scorpio from ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]''.
* Gargamel in ''[[The Smurfs]]'' attempts to grow his own [[Beard of Evil]] in his admiration of evil wizards with beards by using magical hair growth tonic, but his beard ends up growing up so long that it reaches to the Smurf Village.
** Gargamel did sport a fake Beard Of Evil when he was masquerading as the dream date wizard Harlequin in order to get his hands on Hogatha's "magic whistle," which was really her bird call. However, during a kiss, the fake beard attached itself to Hogatha's face, revealing her dream date to be Gargamel, yet Hogatha doesn't notice it until after Gargamel is gone when she looks at herself in the mirror and says, "I have charm, I have beauty, I have a beard...A BEARD?!?"
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** Also, {{spoiler|Tighten/Titan/Hal}} has no beard to speak of, and is actually the main antagonist of the film. Then again, the movie makes a point of subverting the superhero tropes pretty thoroughly.
* Dr. XXX of [[The Mad Doctor]] cartoon short
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across Thethe 2nd Dimension]]'' has Alternate Doofenshmirtz who sports an eviler than thou goatee. Hilariously commented upon between Jeff Swampy Marsh and Dan Povenmire (the voice of Heinz Doofenshmirtz) during the comic-con 2011 Phineas and Ferb panel, pointing out this particular trope... and the fact that Dan sports a goatee as well.
* Lampshaded {{spoiler|and played straight}} with {{spoiler|Cesar Salazar}} in ''[[Generator Rex]]'' after a six month [[Time Skip]].
* [[Double Subverted]] by Grune of ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' first appearing as a heroic prodigal [[Four-Star Badass]] of [[Catfolk]] [[Proud Warrior Race]] the Thunderians, only to rapidly reveal himself as a [[Turncoat]] and [[Les Collaborateurs]] with [[Big Bad]] Mumm-Ra and his allies the [[Lizard Folk|Lizards]].
 
 
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