History PlayingWith / BeardofSorrow

* '''Gender Inverted''': Alice, a [[GirlsWithMoustaches woman that grows facial hair]] stops depilating it after she loses someone close to her.

* '''Exaggerated''': After a particularly bad night,Bob has a beard the size of the rest of his face.

* '''Gender Inverted''': Alice, a [[GirlsWithMustaches woman that grows facial hair]] stops depilating it after she loses someone close to her.

* '''Gender Inverted''': Alice, a [[GirlsWithMustaches that grows facial hair]] stops depilating it after she loses someone close to her.

* '''Justified''': "I'm just too depressed to shave in the morning. Are you happy?"

** Bob only goes from clean-shaven to stubble.

* '''Straight''':Bob lost someone close to him, and his PermaStubble grows out fully.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob only goes from clean-shaven to stubble.

** People in the series can tell any male's current emotional state just by examining the length of their beard.
** A female character feels depressed one day and puts on a fake beard to show it.

* '''Averted''': Bob continues shaving as normal after the trauma.

* '''Conversed''': "Is this the episode where Bob starts growing the beard?" "Nope, that was the one whereBoblost his parents."

* '''Reconstructed''': Growing out a beard is a deliberate reaction, a change of appearance that the hero chooses to signify his new mental state.Bob plans to shave it off if he's ready to feel good again.

** Bob grows a beard to signify thatBobTookALevelInCheerfulness.

** A female character feels depressed one day and puts on a fake beard to show it.

* '''Averted''': Bob continues shaving as normal after the trauma.

* '''Straight''': He lost someone close to him, and his PermaStubble grows out fully.
* '''Exaggerated''': After a particularly bad night, he has a beard the size of the rest of his face.
* '''Downplayed''': He only goes from clean-shaven to stubble.

* '''Inverted''': He shaves off his beard to make a break with his past. Or he grows a beard to signify that he TookALevelInCheerfulness.

** Alternatively: A female character feels depressed one day and puts on a fake beard to show it.

* '''Averted''': The character is female. ''Or'', the character is male, but continues shaving as normal after the trauma.

* '''Invoked''': He's stopped shaving because his GirlfriendInCanada "dumped him," "leaving" him single.

* '''Conversed''': "Is this the episode where he starts growing the beard?" "Nope, that was the one where he lost his parents."

* '''Reconstructed''': Growing out a beard is a deliberate reaction, a change of appearance that the hero chooses to signify his new mental state. He plans to shave it off if he's ready to feel good again.

* '''Inverted''': He shaves off his beard to make a break with his past.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** Beards suddenly grow on Bob, even when not actually depressed, whenever he is sad.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Inverted''':
** He shaves off his beard to make a break with his past.
** Alternatively, BadassBeard and GrowingTheBeard.

* '''Downplayed''': His PermaStubble only grows out slightly more.

** Alternatively: a female character feels depressed one day and puts on a fake beard to show it.
* '''Deconstructed''': Growing a beard is part of the hero's collapse into outright catatonic stupor, leading to an extended narrative of the miserable life and eventual suicide of an undiagnosed sufferer of bipolar disorder.
* '''Reconstructed''': Growing out a beard is a deliberate reaction, a change of appearance that the hero chooses to signify his new mental state. He plans to shave it off if he's ready to feel good again.

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* '''Inverted''': He shaves off his beard to make a break with his past.

* '''Parodied''': People in the series can tell any male's current emotional state just by examining the length of their beard.

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