Line #39 Main/BeardedBaby


1	[[quoteright:332:[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aosmb3_babymarioandbabyluigi_9.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:332:Or rather, ''mustachioed" baby.]]
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4	->''"Some babies are born bald... but Mario was born with a full head of hair, and a full face, too!"''
5	-->-- ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem, "Family Album: The Early Years"''
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7	A baby is born, shows up on screen, or someone becomes one through a FountainOfYouth. But wait, what is that on their face? Facial hair? How is that possible?
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9	Usually in infancy, except for the hair on their head, a baby is too young to have anything resembling a beard or a moustache. Yet, somehow, some of them have one despite the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology lack of hormones and other substances within their body needed to grow one]], and most of the time it [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight goes]] [[WeirdnessCensor ignored]] by the other characters.
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11	A VisualGag usually PlayedForLaughs. May overlap with {{Gonk}} if it is used to make a baby intentionally not cute and GirlsWithMoustaches if the baby is a girl. May also result from StrongFamilyResemblance if it runs in the family or BeardOfEvil if it's used to mark the infant as [[EnfantTerrible evil]], usually in the form of a DastardlyWhiplash.
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13	[[AluminumChristmasTrees Surprisingly]] this ''can'' happen in real life. A medical condition known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precocious_puberty precocious puberty]] can result in a child starting puberty much sooner than usual. In extremely rare cases this can go so far as a boy entering puberty, including growing facial hair before they're one year old.
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15	See also HairstyleInertia.
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17	!!Examples:
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20	[[folder:Advertising]]
21	* The barbarians in Capital One's credit card commercials include a kid with a beard.
22	* The Ultimate Wingman commercial for Club Orange depicts the Wingman as mustached when he is seen as a baby.
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25	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
26	* In two of the three ''Anime/AmadaAnimeSeriesSuperMarioBros'' videos, Mario is born with his full moustache.
27	* Subverted in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Ed and Al are shown an old childhood photo of Olivier with a cute baby in her lap. The brothers immediately freak out when they learn the ''extremely normal'' baby in the photo was actually Alex when he was younger. They proceed to have an ImagineSpot of how they thought Alex would've looked, ergo an extremely muscular baby with a giant moustache.
28	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Capone Bege's infant son Capone Pez is born with the same upper lip PermaStubble as his father.
29	* The protagonist of ''Manga/SeikimatsuLeaderDenTakeshi'' was born with a full beard the same as his father's.
30	* Vegeta from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' once mentioned that Saiyans are born with the same hair they'll have as adults which made fans wonder if his father, King Vegeta was born with his moustache.
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33	[[folder:Comic Books]]
34	* ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem'': ''Super Mario Bros. No. 3'' has a one-page comic called "Family Album: The Early Years", which shows photos of what Mario and Luigi looked like as children. In a few photos, the infant versions of Mario and Luigi are shown with stubble (with the caption for the first photo even saying that Mario was born with a full head of hair and a full face), and the toddler version of Mario is shown with a full mustache.[[note]]Like the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' example, this comic predates the first appearances of Baby Mario and Luigi's canon video game counterparts in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'', neither of whom have mustaches. Mario and Luigi are also not depicted as twins in this comic, a development that Nintendo [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] following the release of ''Yoshi's Island''.[[/note]]
35	* The Solicitine Nuns of ''ComicBook/CastleWaiting'' are a religious sect comprised of bearded and mustachioed women who are the custodians of the relics of St. Wilgeforte. One of their charges is a little girl called "Skeeter" (short for "Solicitious Kummernis Eutropia Dignifortis Uncumber Hulfe Reginfledes Liberata"), who was left on the abbey's doorstep as an infant with a full mustache already grown in. There's a good image of the nuns [[DiscussedTrope Discussing]] this trope while they're talking about Skeeter as a baby, but unfortunately no images of the baby Skeeter herself.
36	* In ''Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros'', at their show trial, the Thompsons are accused of having deliberately grown out their mustache to better blend in in San Theodoros as part of their conspiracy against General Tapioca. They retort, "We were born with our moustaches!".
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39	[[folder:Films — Animation]]
40	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGONinjagoMovie'': Master Wu had a goatee as a baby, as seen in an old family picture.
41	* Leaked animatics for Creator/GenndyTartakovsky's cancelled ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} film show Bluto was this.
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44	[[folder:Films — Live Action]]
45	* In ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'', Pubert is born with the same moustache as his father Gomez.
46	* In the prologue of ''Film/MeetTheSpartans'', it is shown that Leonidas represents the ideal Spartan as a baby (and thus will not be thrown into the pile where rejected babies are discarded) because he had abs, facial hair, and the voice of an adult man.
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49	[[folder:Literature]]
50	* In ''[[Creator/DaveBarry Dave Barry's]] Babies and Other Hazards of Sex'', Dave Barry does the following joke:
51	-->''A common fear among new parents is that, as a result of a mix-up in the nursery, some kind of terrible mistake will be made, such as that they'll wind up taking home Yasser Arafat's baby [Note: written in 1984, you can substitute whatever controversial Middle Eastern leader you want here]. This fear is groundless. When a baby is born, a hospital person immediately puts a little plastic tag around its wrist with the words "NOT YASSER ARAFAT'S BABY" printed on it. So whichever baby you wind up with, you can be sure it isn't his. (the illustration shows a row of babies with "NOT YASSER ARAFAT'S BABY" wrist-tags along with a baby with a turban, beard stubble, machine gun, pistol, and grenade, no wrist-tag.)''
52	* In canonical artwork for the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', all [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwarfs]] are depicted as having beards - even babies in arms. Dwarfs on the Discworld, like their mothers and fathers, are born with beards. [[https://i.imgur.com/TY3voGX.png See here.]]
53	* Bumblemore, the [[Franchise/HarryPotter Dumbledore]] from the ''Literature/BarryTrotter'' trilogy was said to have been born with his beard which is thought to be a sign of a powerful wizard.
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56	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
57	* In the ''Series/FatherTed'' episode "Speed 3", lecherous milkman Pat Mustard's affairs with Craggy Island's women has resulted in a series of new hairy babies, some of whom have his mustache and/or sideburns.
58	* Jose Chung's opening narration in the ''Series/Millennium1996'' episode "Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense'" mentions that author and cult founder Juggernaut Onan Gupta was born with a full beard.
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61	[[folder:Music]]
62	* [[Music/StephenLynch Stephen Lynch's]] song "Baby" is about his wife giving birth to a comedically ugly baby. One line states that "her hair color doesn't match her beard."
63	* ''Music/KuntAndTheGang'' have a song called "Jesus (Baby With A Beard)".
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66	[[folder:Mythology and Folklore]]
67	* Some Myth/PaulBunyan tales proclaim he had facial hair as a baby.
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70	[[folder:Video Games]]
71	* Baby New Year in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''. Actually, he doesn't resemble a baby at all, aside from being tiny.
72	* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'': In the GoldenEnding, Cortex and N. Tropy get absorbed into the malfunctioning Time Twister's vortex and turned into babies, but keep their facial hair.
73	* Baby Mario and Luigi in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'' have Stache stats, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation despite a visible absence of actual mustache]].
74	* The Babalities for Kratos and Kano in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' have them sporting a little beard even as a baby.
75	* In the ''Manniversary Update'' of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', one of the promo images for the update is Mr. TestosteronePoisoning himself, Saxton Hale, [[ChestBurster bursting out the chest of a grizzly bear]] as a very muscly ''[[EnfantTerrible one-year-old baby]]'', complete with his iconic [[ManlyFacialHair mustache]] to boot.
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78	[[folder:Web Animation]]
79	* In ''[[WebAnimation/AOKRuinsYourChildhood SUPER MARIO - AFTER THE GAME]]'', Mario and Peach's daughter is born with a mustache.
80	* Hector from ''[[WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons Smosh Babies]]'' is a Mexican gangster baby who is shown to have a moustache.
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83	[[folder:Webcomics]]
84	* ''Webcomic/AxeCop'' and his brother Flute Cop are both shown with moustaches as babies.
85	* ''Webcomic/{{Maximumble}}'': In "[[http://maximumble.thebookofbiff.com/comic/2022-long-ago/ Long Ago]]", a wizard explains to another character how he was created, and a week later, his WizardBeard filled in.
86	* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
87	** All male dwarves are shown to have beards from a young age, as shown in flashbacks to Durkon's childhood. [[spoiler:Even his infant son Kudzu has a beard.]]
88	** Elan's EvilTwin Nale is shown in flashback to have already had his BeardOfEvil when they were infants.
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91	[[folder:Web Original]]
92	* In the ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' episode, "Mr. Goodman's Baby!", Mr. Goodman's infant son, Benjamin Franklin Goodman has a mustache, much like his father.
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95	[[folder:Western Animation]]
96	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': In "[[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E28MustaBeenABeautifulBaby Musta Been A Beautiful Baby]]", Scratch and Grounder's attempt to age Sonic and Tails into seniors with Dr. Robotnik's decrepitizer instead turns them, and later Robotnik, into babies. The infant version of Robotnik is shown to have a mustache, much like his adult counterpart.
97	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': Current page image. In "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel", Ludwig Von Koopa's animated counterpart Kooky Von Koopa's Time Travel Tube turns him, King Koopa, Toad, Mario, and Luigi into babies. The infant versions of Mario and Luigi are shown to have mustaches, much like their adult counterparts. [[note]]This episode predates the first appearances of Baby Mario and Baby Luigi's canon video game counterparts in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'', neither of whom have moustaches.[[/note]]
98	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bordertown}}'': Ernesto's flashback in "Viva Coyote" shows he was born with his signature moustache.
99	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Foop is born with a goatee as part of his existence as an EvilCounterpart to Poof.
100	* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015'': In one episode, the Chief decides to take a dip in the FountainOfYouth. When he is pulled out, he becomes a baby but retains his moustache.
101	* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': In one episode, Miseryville goes through a moustache craze with everyone except Jimmy being able to grow one, even babies!
102	-->'''Beezy/Heloise:''' Its all about muscle control.
103	* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Hank Gets Dusted", Dusty Hill from ZZ Top puts a fake ZZ Top-esque beard on newborn Bobby Hill in a flashback sequence.
104	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': The ''Merrie Melodies'' music video, "Moostache" from the episode, "Itsy Bitsy Gopher" reveals that WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam was born with his moustache.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Dad Behaviour", Jasper's child is still an unborn fetus, but somehow has the same long, white beard as his father.
106	* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' (including the first ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOfChristmas Spirit of Christmas]]'' short), any depiction of baby Jesus is just adult Jesus' bearded, [[HolyHalo haloed]] face on a baby's body.
107	* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': In the episode "You're Kidding Me!", Cassandra, Lance, and Shorty are made younger by a magic spinning top. The former two become toddlers and Shorty becomes an infant, yet retains his long, white beard.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'': The "Uncle Grandpa Babies" segments show baby Uncle Grandpa possessing a moustache.
109	* In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', male Alteans have facial hair by the time they're toddlers.
110	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Helga's Locket", Grandpa Lou reads in the newspaper that a 2-foot baby was born with a 3-foot beard.
111	* Male historical characters who are popularly known by their facial hair, such as Abraham Lincoln, are routinely depicted with their signature beards and/or mustaches on ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'', even though they'd encountered as small boys.
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