History Main / SeaDogBeard

* Kunkka from ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'', not a pirate, but an Admiral, but otherwise fits as he also has minor pirate-based talks (mostly seaman talk without the "Arr!" or the likes).

Any character sporting this is guaranteed to TalkLikeAPirate. [[TechnoBabble Something about the way the densely packed follicles baffle the sound waves...]] Combine with BeardOfBarbarism for {{Pirate}}s and HornyVikings.

* Invoked in ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', where Reacher Gilt affects an ostentatious pirate "look" including a beard. Mostly so that he can [[BeardnessProtectionProgram lose it]] when it's time to disappear

* [[spoiler: Capt. Price]] in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2''. When you first see him he looks like a crusty old sea captain.

* Captain Ed Shivers from ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters: Future Perfect''.

* The page quote and image are of Redbeard Rum from ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''.

*** Kawamori reportedly [[WordOfGod outright stated]] that Max stopped aging due to his sheer awesomeness.[[note]]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.[[/note]]

Men of the maritime or naval business, especially the [[BadassGrandpa 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 FatherNeptune.

* Edward Teach had such an [[BeardOfEvil ominous beard]] that he's better known as Blackbeard.

For {{Pirate}} [[TheCaptain Captains]], a prominent beard is such an obligatory part of the [[DressedToPlunder dress code]] that you have a high probability of [[CaptainColorbeard being named after it]]. RealLife [[TropeMaker gave us]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard Blackbeard]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oru%C3%A7_Reis Redbeard]], and fiction has responded with [[Series/{{Blackadder}} Redbeard Rum]] (see right), [[OnePiece Whitebeard]], Film/{{Yellowbeard}}, [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} Purplebeard]]... everything but Literature/{{Bluebeard}}, which was already taken by a non-pirate.

* Yellowtail from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has one, befitting his job as a fisherman.

* Most of the male pirates from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.

* In ''TheFinalCountdown'', several of the crew of the USS Nimitz wear a beard. Granted, this was 1980, so regulations have changed since then.

* ComicStrip/{{Jommeke}}: Captain Jan Haring.
* Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} had one for a while.

* [[Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner 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).

* 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}}s to wear the traditional bushy beards. [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Bruno Global]] and [[MacrossFrontier Jeffrey Wilder]] being the most prominent examples.
** [[{{Macross 7}} Max]] [[TheAce Jenius]], though, is an aversion -- he's clean-shaven and [[BlingOfWar impeccably]] [[ManInWhite clad in white]], and wears a CoolShades just to show off what [[TheAce an Ace]] he is. He even looks like a total {{Bishonen}} at 52.

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* Captain Smudge from ''SerendipityThePinkDragon'' has a big grey beard like this, and [[TalkLikeAPirate talks like a pirate]] too.

* Captain McCallister of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' fits this to an extent given his nautical work, VerbalTic of "yar", and roughed up beard.

For {{Pirate}} [[TheCaptain Captains]], a prominent beard is such an obligatory part of the [[DressedToPlunder dress code]] that you have a high probability of [[CaptainColorbeard being named after it]]. RealLife [[TropeMaker gave us]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard Blackbeard]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oru%C3%A7_Reis Redbeard]], and fiction has responded with [[Series/{{Blackadder}} Redbeard Rum]] (see right), [[OnePiece Whitebeard]], Film/{{Yellowbeard}}, [[{{Futurama}} Purplebeard]]... everything but Literature/{{Bluebeard}}, which was already taken by a non-pirate.

* 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}}s to wear the traditional bushy beards. [[SuperDimensionFortressMacross Bruno Global]] and [[MacrossFrontier Jeffrey Wilder]] being the most prominent examples.

* The Sea Captain of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' fits this to an extent given his nautical work, VerbalTic of "yar", and roughed up beard.

->''"I know I'm only a bluff old cove with no legs and a beard you could lose a badger in."''