History Main / BeardOFEvil

* A NoodleIncident in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191204 apparently]] featured evil extradimensional doppelgangers of Da Boyz:

'''Maxim''': Yah? Vell, ''hyu'' din' look goot wit ''two'' ov dem!\\

** 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 AlternateUniverse episode that had to be a reference to ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s MirrorUniverse, both evil Teal'c and evil Apophis do in fact have goatees. Though Apophis' beard is rather redundant 'cause he's already evil, and oddly enough, Teal'c ends up with similar facial hair a few seasons later.

** Ramsay has one very briefly in Season 4. He orders Reek to shave him, to demonstrate to Roose that Reek is loyal.

** A lot of antagonistic Wildlings naturally have this, including Orell, [[ParentalIncest Craster]], Stiv and Wallen.

** By the time Stannis burns Shireen at the stake his PermaStubble has become a thick bushy beard.

** Euron is an insane, sinister pirate with a faintly muttonstache-style beard to match.

** Black Walder and Lothar Frey have beards and live up to their family's scummy reputation.

* Inverted on ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', [[spoiler:Alpha]] grows a beard post-HeelFaceTurn.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "The Black and White Bandit", the villain has a distinctive forked goatee with a SkunkStripe.

* Several ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] in ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' has a Beard Of Evil and BaldOfEvil, as contrasted with Hellboy himself, who combines Topknot-but-BaldOfAwesome with a Soul-Patch-and-Muttonchops Combination of Moral Ambiguity.

* One of the themes in ''Series/BreakingBad'' is Walter's physical and mental transformation from nerdy teacher to badass drug dealer. First he [[BaldOfAwesome went bald]], ostensibly due to chemotherapy, then he grew a rather sinister goatee which grew darker through the course of Season 3 [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain as Walter grew darker and darker as well.]] [[spoiler:In the last two episodes, where he becomes TheAtoner, he grows a full BeardOfSorrow.]]

* Dr. Hell from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'' is the MadScientist BigBad and he has a long, bushy, bristly, white and positively epic Beard Of Evil. In ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', TheDragon Great General of Darkness/Ankoku Daishogun had a BadassBeard warned he was NOT to be messed with. King Vega, BigBad from ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' was the only on the side of the evil guys had a beard. His was bristle but well-groomed, though.

** ''Film/Deadpool2'': Firefist is seen with a BadassBeard during Cable's flashback (flash forward?), and by that time he's already an irredeemable {{Pyromaniac}}.

* Possibly inverted in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies, at least with humans. Almost every human man has a BadassBeard (as does the dwarf, but [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame that goes without saying]]). Grima the EvilChancellor is in fact the one ''without'' a beard, though he manages to be ObviouslyEvil anyway. And of course, Grima's boss, the [[EvilSorcerer evil wizard]] Saruman.

** Metatron's beard appears to be a BadassBeard at first, before his true colors are shown and he only proves to be more and more of a slimy, underhanded prick from there.

A subset of GoodHairEvilHair. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith GrowingTheBeard or ManlyFacialHair. No real reason why a beard can't be evil ''and'' {{badass|Beard}}. See also DastardlyWhiplash.

A subset of GoodHairEvilHair. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith GrowingTheBeard or the BadassMustache. No real reason why a beard can't be evil ''and'' {{badass|Beard}}. See also DastardlyWhiplash.

* ''Film/TheMcKenzieBreak'': Schluter, the BigBad, has a small, sinister-looking beard.

* Inverted in the ''{{VideoGame/Warcraft}}'' 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 [[EvilLaugh laugh]].

* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', where a skit involves Anise spinning a tale to [[TheOjou Natalia]] how the BigBad's beard is a source of his evil powers. Just ''one'' source: You ''don't'' want to know what his ponytail does.

* The Evil Zombie Pirate [=LeChuck=] from the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series has a rather impressive beard for being, well, dead, and therefore technically not having hair growth. And this one ''is'' actually a source of his evil powers,[[note]]As well as a separate living being[[/note]] as Guybrush discovers in the second game. In case it wasn't clear for anyone that this was an evil beard, in the third game, his beard is composed of fire.
* Bitores Mendez, one of the villains of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', was both bearded and BaldOfEvil. In fact, he looked a lot like [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]].
* Rasputin (yes, again) in ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts Covenant'' makes sure to retain the beard even after transforming into a horrible demonic sin against nature.

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Luxord and that baby-blond goatee of his.
** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Master Xehanort]], which is HilariousInHindsight considering that Creator/LeonardNimoy played him in the English version.
* The Prowler "La Lupo" from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' 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 ObviouslyEvil Ser Alrik in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' sports one.
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'': RabidCop Carter Blake has a small beard which contrasts with ByTheBookCop Norman Jayden's clean-shaven face.
* Played straight in ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'' with Graham Jarvis as Elliot Sinclair, the father of time travel.
** During the recasting for its remake, Pegasus Prime and the 3rd game, Legacy of Time, apparently he shaved it to a mustache.
* ''Franchise/TombRaider'' has the amoral archaeologist Pierre [=DuPont=], who sports a goatee. The first ContinuityReboot gives him a BaldOfEvil in addition to this.

* Quite a few antagonists in the ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' series have beards: [[TheStarscream Atoq Navarro]] in ''[[VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune Drake's Fortune]]'', [[RuthlessModernPirates Rameses]] in ''[[VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception Drake's Deception]]'', [[TheCartel Hector Alcázar]] in ''[[VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd A Thief's End]]'', [[spoiler:though we later find out that he was DeadAllAlong]], and [[SouthAsianTerrorists Asav]] and [[spoiler:[[AmoralAfrikaner Orca]]]] in ''[[VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy The Lost Legacy]]''.
* The German chess edutainment game "Fritz und Fertig" has [[http://www.scrkuppenheim.de/test/bilder/schwarz.jpg King Black]]. Sometimes, DarkIsEvil.
* The Wizard in ''VideoGame/{{Tsioque}}'' sports a long beard, with a similarly pointed mustache.
* Referenced in ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' if you set up a MirrorMatch with two Green Arrows.
-->"Can't tell which one of us is evil."\\
"I know! We've both got beards."
* In ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', the protagonist inevitably has a counterpart in the DarkWorld, who inevitably looks just like him except for a goatee beard. (And, for some reason, a receding hairline.) He doesn't appear to be all that evil, though; he stands around making sinister pronouncements, but doesn't actually ''do'' very much. (Maybe that's why he only has a receding hairline instead of a full-on BaldOfEvil.)

* [[http://i41.tinypic.com/24vmlqe.jpg This]] motivational poster, created during Mirrorverse Week on [[http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_startrek/ ONTD_STARTREK]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'':

* Emperor Ganishka from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''.

The characters who sport a Beard of Evil are usually either the BigBad 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 [[BlueBlood aristocracy]], and AristocratsAreEvil.

* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': Played with in the season 3 premiere. When [[spoiler:Varian]] first appears in the episode and reveals he has helped the Saporians take over Corona, he has a goatee. He loses it as soon as he is redeemed. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Subverted in that it is just drawn on and Lance wipes it off with his thumb]].

* ''Fim/GentlemenExplorers'': As befits an [[AristocratsAreEvil evil aristocrat]], the Prussian agent known as the Count sports a goatee.

* Suprisingly few ''Film/JamesBond'' villains:
** Hugo Drax of ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' plans to [[UtopiaJustifiesTHeMeans remake the world to make it a better place to have an evil beard in]].
* ''Literature/Tolkienverse'':
** ''Film/TheHobbit'': Among the three trolls, Tom has a short chinstrap beard. The Master of Lake-town is a FatBastard who sports a greasy goatee.
** In both the ''Hobbit'' trilogy and ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Creator/ChristopherLee as [[EvilSorcerer Saruman]] has a distinctive WizardBeard. There's also the spectral form of the Witch-king of Angmar, which has a long beard just as his human form in the prologue of ''Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'' did.
** From ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', [[spoiler:Kristatos]].
** Other than that, there are actually very few major Bond villains with a beard, only henchmen.

* ''Film/X2XMenUnited'':
** William Stryker.
** Mitchell Laurio may be more on the 'asshole' side rather than the 'genocidal' side, but there's no denying he's an unshaven sadist.

* Creator/ChristopherLee as [[EvilSorcerer Saruman]] in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' has a distinctive WizardBeard.

** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS09E02DevilMayCare "Devil May Care" (S09, Ep02)]], the vampire has a goatee.
** [[MagnificentBastard Crowley]], the longest running villain on the show by far, started sporting a beard in Season 7.

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Both Dai Gui and Hsi Wu respectively have a goatee-like appendange on their chin.
* W ong has a white goatee, as does Tarakudo has a real goatee to complement his classical samurai mask appearance.