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7->'''Dave:''' How can you have a goatee without shaving? Does it just materialize? \
8'''[[GenderBender Male Helen]]:''' Well, yes. I'm evil.
9-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}''
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11[[RhymesOnADime 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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13Conversely, a man with facial hair is less pure, at the very least a DarkerAndEdgier AntiHero -- more often, he's an outright villain, and his chin is deliberately contrasted with the depilated chin of the hero.
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15Note that this generally applies to small, well-groomed beards, especially goatees. Having a [[BeardOfBarbarism huge bushy beard]] turns one into a NatureHero, [[SeadogBeard sailor]], grizzled old {{prospector}} or BoisterousBruiser. Except, of course, for the beards recommended by certain religions that are in the public focus at the moment.
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17The characters who sport a Beard of Evil are usually either the BigBad or a [[TheDragon 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.
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19The Beard of Evil has a long history of being associated most closely with the EvilTwin or EvilCounterpart, and you [[MirrorUniverse probably already]] [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries know why]]. It also scores extra evil points if [[BaldOfEvil combined with a shaven head]]. (Anybody with a bald head and a beard is pretty much guaranteed to be a card-carrying villain. Blame [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon Alex Raymond]] and Anton [=LaVey=].)
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21{{Satan}} is also frequently depicted with a goatee (which probably came from depictions of [[Myth/{{Faust}} Goethe's Mephistopheles]] as a 16th-century gallant).
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23A subset of GoodHairEvilHair. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith GrowingTheBeard or ManlyFacialHair. See also DastardlyWhiplash.
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32* In a Priceline ad Creator/WilliamShatner plays both his normal helpful negotiator self and his EvilTwin who's trying to trick people into paying too much for hotel rooms. Guess which one has a beard.
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36* In ''Anime/ArabianNightsAdventuresOfSinbad'', beards are a staple of evil wizards.
37* Emperor Ganishka from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has a massive but immaculately-groomed beard that fits with his general 'Eastern tyrant' aesthetic. It also serves to conceal the RedRightHand (a disturbingly wide mouth with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily) that marks him as an [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Apostle of the Godhand]], and creates a suitably impressive visual effect when he activates his SuperSmoke powers.
38* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The most distinctive feature of [[GodEmperor Yhwach]] is his sideburns, which extend all the way to his mustache. He's explicitly described to be even more wicked than [[PredecessorVillain Aizen]], who in that same sentence is described to be evil incarnate.
39* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'': Mephisto Pheles has one impressively sharp, blue, goatee. Interesting, considering [[Myth/{{Faust}} what]] his [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast name]] is an obvious pun off of. Whether or not he is evil however, has [[WildMassGuessing yet to be fully revealed.]]
40* ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': In this series, if you have facial hair, then you would be considered an irredeemable bad guy. Olban's nice, thick beard and Miwa's pointy mustache are good example for this, whereas cleanly shaved faces signify either good guys or morally grey. There are exactly one inversion for each types in this though, Prof. Izumi also has a beard, but he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, whereas Georiya is cleanly shaved, but he's Olban's #1 lackey and equally evil.
41* In episode 12 of ''Anime/DenNohCoil'' 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.
42* "That Man" from ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' 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 BigBad]].
43* In ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' 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.
44* The Count of Monte Cristo in ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' sports a sharp, blue goatee to complete his Byronic character. He isn't exactly pure evil, but definitely counts as a ManipulativeBastard willing to get innocents mixed to his pursuit of vengeance.
45* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
46** General Regius of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers''. [[FatBastard Fat frame]], [[GoodEyesEvilEyes beady little eyes]], [[GeneralRipper nasty demeanor]], and neatly maintained beard give him all the markings of an obvious villain. [[spoiler:So naturally, he turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist who just found himself too entangled in [[GovernmentConspiracy the TSAB's darker secrets]], with his [[BeingEvilSucks final scenes showing him filled with guilt when he realized how far he had fallen]]]].
47** Before him there was [[spoiler:Gil Graham, the TreacherousAdvisor of ''A's'']].
48* 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 beard 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.
49* Gendo Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. That particular style seems to be a favorite of {{Magnificent Bastard}}s. In the spoof fan video ''WebVideo/EvangelionReDeath'', he proudly announces he spent millions in research on [[KavorkaMan the ultimate pimp beard]].
50* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Eventually, Blackbeard finally grows one of these. Brownbeard, has '''three''' of them, even. Funnily enough, the original, Whitebeard, only had a mustache (though this is a case of LostInTranslation: the Japanese for beard means any kind of facial hair).
51* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': BigBad Marder has a very prominent goatee.
52* That first enemy that appears in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' wanting to take over the Kamiya dojo and claiming to be the Battousai.
53* Lordgenome is about the only human on ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' 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''.)
54** 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).
55* In the Virtual Nightmare arc in ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Lecter has a typical fiendish goatee.
56* Jose, in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' definitely counts, his long Father Time style beard dropping down past his waist.
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60* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'''s main antagonist, John the Don, has a noticeable goatee.
61* ''Animation/YamuchasKungFuAcademy'' features a gang of squid thieves whose leader has a beard resembling a five-o'-clock shadow.
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65* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfAeroGirl'': The Bearded Lady of the Three Ring Gang is a RareFemaleExample.
66* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfPeterWheat'': One of the main villains from the Hornet Kingdom is the Grand Wizard, who has a black beard. He spends his time trying to help his daughter to destroy the Wheat Kingdom.
67* Chapman has a full beard in the ''ComicBook/{{Animorphs}}'' graphic novels, something that was never mentioned in the books (and was absent in the [[Series/{{Animorphs}} TV series]]). While Chapman himself isn't evil, he's controlled by a StarterVillain Yeerk.
68* Old-time ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' villains Count Nefaria and Graviton.
69* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
70** Ra's al Ghul fame often sports a beard of some kind. Exactly what form it takes is very DependingOnTheWriter, but at several points he has been portrayed with what can only be described as ''a Fu Manchu'' beard, or two straight tufts on either side of his chin.
71** Professor Hugo Strange combines this with BaldOfEvil.
72** Captain Stingeree wears a beard to complete his pirate look.
73** In the ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'' story "The Black and White Bandit", the villain has a distinctive forked goatee with a white streak.
74* Referenced in a universe-hopping arc of ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool''. "How do I know you're not the anti-Siryn? Then again, you're not sporting the alternate-universe mandated evil goatee..."
75* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': Willy Pete, as a fire elemental, has a beard made of flame. "Evil" is rather understating it.
76* ''ComicBook/TheGiganticBeardThatWasEvil'' is an inversion, as it's ''the beard itself'' that is the antagonist instead of the man it's attached to.
77* [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] in ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' has a Beard of Evil and BaldOfEvil, as contrasted with Hellboy himself, who combines Topknot and baldness with a Soul-Patch-and-Muttonchops Combination of Moral Ambiguity.
78* ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'': The title character is the only one of the three primary characters to have a beard (Wa'at Alahf has a moustache and stubble, the Caliph is clean-shaven), and is by far the most evil of the three.
79* Serial killer/rapist Mr. Gone from ''ComicBook/TheMaxx'' combines BaldOfEvil with a wild Beard of Evil. After a TimeSkip during which he does a HeelFaceTurn, he no longer has any facial hair.
80* ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory2005'' features the nefarious Subway Pirates, rival factions of which are led by the barbaric Allbeard (whose incredibly thick, long beard covers up his face) and the slick Nobeard (who has a BaldOfEvil 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. For added hilarity, it's commonly accepted that Allbeard and Nobeard represent Creator/AlanMoore and ''Seven Soldiers'' writer Creator/GrantMorrison, famously fur-faced and bald, respectively.
81* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
82** ''ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'': Minor villain Ferlin Nyxly has a goatee. It is not a big surprise that he becomes a criminal.
83** Minor villain Amalak the SpacePirate 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 [[GrowingTheBeard grow out]] all scraggly, and it made him ten times scarier-looking than he had ever been before. Sadly, he got KilledOffForReal at the end of that story, and took his cool creepy beard with him. A ComicBook/PostCrisis version of Amalak was introduced in 2007 storyline ''ComicBook/TheThirdKryptonian''. With the cool beard, naturally.
84** Inverted by the pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|OnInfiniteEarths}} version of Earth-3, home of the ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}'s {{Evil Twin}}s -- there, Lex Luthor's Good Twin Alexander Luthor sports a goatee.
85** General Zod, after the comics finally adopted the Creator/TerenceStamp [[Film/SupermanII look]].
86** One version of Brainiac sported a goatee.
87* Similar to the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' example, in the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' MirrorUniverse ''[[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass 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 [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 regular Alpha Trion]] has similar facial hair]].
88* In ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', while the goateed Tony Stark is heroic, he has an evil brother, Gregory Stark, who also has a goatee -- blonde, naturally.
89* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
90** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The villain Hypnota invokes this by wearing a goatee and mustache, which started out as part of her act as a cross-dressing stage magician before she got shot in the head by accident and lead to believe her own sister tried to murder her. Even when wearing clothes that do nothing to hide that they're physically a woman Hypnota still wears the goatee.
91** The Earth-One version of Angle-Man has such distinctive cliche villain facial hair that his mask does nothing to disguise his identity.
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95* Ming The Merciless in ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'', perhaps unsurprisingly, sports what is known as a Fu Manchu.
96* In the comic strip ''ComicStrip/MarkTrail'', this is played straight but ''BaldOfEvil'' is subverted: Story-arc-specific male characters have a full-on [[GoodHairEvilHair 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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100* ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'': Lung, apprentice of Daolon Wong, has a Fu Manchu mustache which he fiddles with at one point, and is responsible for inflicting ColdBloodedTorture on Jade.
101* In the ''Anton Zarnak'' fanfic, [[http://pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/The_Serpent_Rises.pdf "The Serpent Rises,"]] Zarnak faces a coven of sinister occultists from [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover different sources]], and is rather sardonic about the fact almost all of them have [[BaldOfEvil shaven heads]] and goatees, as if it were a uniform.
102* The tabletop game ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has a home brew version called "Brighthammer 40k," where the endless ''GRIMDARK'' of the Warhammer universe is flipped on its head into NOBLEBRIGHT, and everyone is a generally pleasant, good group of people to be around. The Emperor of this NOBLEBRIGHT (yes, spelled like that every time) universe inverts the idea of a Beard of Evil -- he wears a Goatee of Good, and [[AdaptationalHeroism is something like a million times more upstanding and noble than his Warhammer counterpart]]. He's also not dead and stuck in a chair, which counts for something, certainly.
103* During the ChristmasSpecial of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Goku realizes that Turles is his EvilCounterpart in all but one way.
104-->'''Goku:''' He's like... an evil me! Only he doesn't have a goatee... I'm gonna imagine one! ''[does so]'' ''So evil!''
105* ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' has two examples.
106** One of the first warlocks Ami hires is described as a "generic evil warlock". Upon closer inspection, he sports a fake beard. He was too young to have a proper one and was going for the look, thus being an InvokedTrope.
107** Ami herself, thanks to losing hair to a misadventure and using a modified beard growing spell. SubvertedTrope, as she isn't evil, everyone only thinks she is.
108--> '''Torian, did you by any chance, only expand the target region?'''
109* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': Gendo is asked by a reporter whether he knows what the EvilOverlordList says about this trope (the question being submitted by either Rei or Ritsuko); he retorts that since he's actually old enough to ''be'' a 'disaffected member of Generation X' the rule doesn't apply to him.
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113* [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Grigori Rasputin]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' has his historical long black beard. It is depicted as greasy and matted, fitting this Rasputin's generally corpse-like appearance.
114* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBadBlood'': Firefly has a beard and has no problem mind probing Bruce.
115* A staple of Franchise/{{Disney|AnimatedCanon}} villains:
116** Scar, Simba's evil uncle from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' has a tuft of scraggly black fur on his chin reminiscent of a goatee.
117** Jafar in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' deserves a mention. Agrabah's men (besides Aladdin) are all drawn with beards, but Jafar's is not only a goatee, but ''twisted''. He was even based on [[WesternAnimation/TheThiefandtheCobbler Zigzag]].
118** Governor Radcliffe in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' has a beard. In the second film, King James, a not-evil man also has a beard but Governor Radcliffe's is a goatee.
119* Captain Corso of ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' had a goatee, and true to form turned out to be TheMole.
120* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' has one of those [[spoiler: not being a particularly malicious person and turning good in the end.]] And it is one "nice" goatee.
121** In contrast, Metro Man has no facial hair at all. [[spoiler: Until he [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] to give up the hero gig and grew a massive beard (either as a disguise or out of sheer laziness).]]
122** 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.
123* Xibalba has a snazzy beard and is the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''. [[spoiler:Until his HeelFaceTurn]].
124* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] by ''WesternAnimation/TheKingsBeard''. In the flashback, out of the two twin brothers, Jasper, the [[EvilTwin evil one]], is originally clean-shaven, while Cuthbert, the good one, sports a black goatee and mustache which, combined with his [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red wardrobe]], makes him look rather like a ClassicVillain. However, as the title implies, Cuthbert's beard is soon cursed by Jasper to grow to an incredible length, becoming a wizardly-looking long white beard in the process and lessening the evil look. Moreover, in the climax, the magic beard is shrunken down to a white goatee which Jasper [[ItMakesSenseInContext transfers to himself]], so that by the extreme end of the story, evil Jasper is the one with a villainous-looking pointed goatee (''sans'' mustache) while good Cuthbert now bears a smooth chin.
125* Foreman Spike in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' is maybe more rude than evil, but he has a bushy beard to complete his boorish image; he insults the Mario Brothers like a schoolyard bully despite being a grown man.
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129* ''Film/EightBallClown'': 8-Ball has a beard, and is a mentally unhinged murderer with a heroin addiction.
130* Christo and Shabal from ''Film/ActOfValor''. Averted with Senior Chief, who is bearded but good.
131* ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'' has Neo-Nazi Derek Vinyard played by Creator/EdwardNorton sporting the Van Dyke of Evil, along with a shaven head, and a Swastika, in a "Can you tell he's the villain, yet?" kind of way.
132* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Film/Aquaman2018''. BigBad Orm is [[PermaShave always clean-shaven]], unlike his titular half-brother Arthur who has a beard.
133* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', Ra's al Ghul's and Henri Ducard's fu manchus are our first clue that the League of Shadows is [[KnightTemplar evil]]. (Well, the first clue for those who hadn't read the comic books.) Bruce Wayne also sports a rather scraggly beard at the beginning of the film, but it's gone by the time he [[ThouShaltNotKill disavows killing]] and severs ties with the League.
134* ''Film/BeautifulPeople2014'' has Testemento, a bearded thug who enjoys torture and murder.
135* In ''Film/BigGame'', psychopathic man-hunter Hazar has a beard astoundingly similar to Gruber's.
136* The title character of ''Film/{{Blacula}}'' grows some seriously wild sideburns every time he decides to drink someone's blood.
137* ''Film/CainHill'': Chester Lockhart, the killer of the movie, has a pretty big beard.
138* ''Film/ComingHomeInTheDark'': Mandrake, the murderous SoftSpokenSadist who kidnaps Hoaggie and Jill after shooting their kids, has a scraggly looking beard.
139* ''Film/TheCreeps'': {{Dracula}} has a beard, and is every bit the villain in the real world as he is in the book.
140* ''Film/Desolation2017'': The killer that stalks Abby, Jen, and Sam has a large beard.
141* In ''Film/DieHard'', Creator/AlanRickman as Hans Gruber sports one, contrasting a clean-shaven Creator/BruceWillis as John [=McClane=].
142* ''Film/DinosaurHotel'': [[BigBad The Games Master]], who sets up games for people to out-survive each other against predatory dinosaurs, has a white beard.
143* Fouché sports one in ''Film/TheDuellists''. He was clean-shaven in RealLife.
144* The members of the CannibalClan in ''Film/DyingBreed'' have dirty, unkempt beards.
145* Kruger from ''Film/{{Elysium}}''.
146* In ''Film/TheEroticRitesOfFrankenstein'', the immortal EvilSorcerer Cagliostro sports an especially ridiculous looking goatee.
147* ''Film/{{Exam}}'': White has a significant amount of stubble when compared to Black. Brown also has a full grown beard, although he's less villainous than White.
148* Literature/FuManchu's evil beard was so famous that the mustache style is named after him. In the original novels, however, he is clean-shaven.
149* ''Film/GentlemenExplorers'': As befits an [[AristocratsAreEvil evil aristocrat]], the Prussian agent known as the Count sports a goatee.
150* Firefly from ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''.
151* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': Walter Simmons has a neat-trimmed goatee, and he's a rich, egotistical SmugSnake and the movie's BigBadWannabe.
152* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': Pius Thicknesse has a distinct amount of facial air in addition to his consensual fascism. What's more, the films imply that Pius is a willing Death Eater, whereas in the books, he was explicitly [[BrainwashedAndCrazy under the Imperius Curse]].
153* ''Film/Holocaust2000'': The religious fanatic who attempts to kill Robert twice has a sinister beard.
154* M. Merde in ''Film/HolyMotors''.
155* Who could forget Seneca Crane's impeccably trimmed, ornately detailed Beard of Evil from ''Film/TheHungerGames''?
156* While the titular hero himself might sport a trim goatee, ''Film/IronMan1'' also plays this straight with Stane, who has a full beard and a [[BaldOfEvil bald head]].
157* Although technically not a beard, Creator/EdwardNorton's character in ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' sports a rather evil-looking moustache.
158* Suprisingly few ''Film/JamesBond'' villains:
159** Hugo Drax of ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' plans to [[UtopiaJustifiesTHeMeans remake the world to make it a better place to have an evil beard in]].
160** From ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', [[spoiler:Kristatos]].
161** Other than that, there are actually very few major Bond villains with a beard, only henchmen.
162* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
163** ''Film/JurassicWorld'': Hoskins is not exactly evil but as the most prominent human villain, he sports a nice example of the stereotypical "villainous goatee", just in case it wasn't already obvious enough that [[HateSink we're not supposed to like him]]. One of the mercenaries brought in by Hoskins also has one of these to boot.
164** ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'': The film features a pretty thuggish merc type with a beard.
165* [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]] Smith in ''Film/LostInSpace'' gives away his role as villain this way.
166* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', the evil Zod has grown a ''Film/SupermanII''-esque beard by the time Clark is an adult. Inverted in the intro, in which bearded Jor-El faces off with clean-shaven Zod.
167* ''Film/TheMatrix'' has Cypher's goatee to couple with his {{bald|OfEvil}}.
168* ''Film/TheMcKenzieBreak'': Schluter, the BigBad, has a small, sinister-looking beard. This is emphasized by how Schluter is the only bearded character in the entire film, besides a few {{Spear Carrier}}s.
169* ''Film/NoOneGetsOutAlive'': Becker is a bearded man who's been sacrificing the female tenants of his boarding house to an EldritchAbomination residing within a stone box to stay healthy.
170* Averted in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest''. Creator/HenryFonda planned to grow a beard as well as wear brown contact lenses to play the film's villain, but director Creator/SergioLeone 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.
171* All major villains in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' have various beards (scraggly, tentacled, smouldering) except for Lord Cutler Beckett, who's just a bit stubbly.
172* In ''Film/PrinceCaspian'', the Telmarine aristocrats are bearded and bad, except for the eponymous Caspian, who is clean-shaven and a good guy. (Inverted later in ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', by which time Caspian has grown a beard himself, but is as heroic as ever.)
173* The SerialKiller in ''Film/RoadGames'' has an unkempt beard and mullet that give him a feral appearance.
174* Creator/ChristopherLee as Count Dooku possesses such a beard in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels.
175* Zod did much to increase the fame of this style in ''Film/SupermanII''.
176* ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'': Cyrus wears a pretty classy one, and he's an EvilUncle who wanted to open the literal Eye of Hell and become the most powerful man on Earth.
177* The BigBad [=McComb=] sports an evil beard in ''Film/{{Timecop}}''.
178* In ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'', TheMole Siletsky has one. Even noted by one of the characters.
179* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
180** Among the three trolls in ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'', Tom has a short chinstrap beard. The Master of Lake-town is a FatBastard who sports a greasy goatee.
181** In both ''Film/TheHobbit'' and ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', Creator/ChristopherLee (again) 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/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' did.
182* [[spoiler:Sentinel Prime]] from ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
183* Pearce, the VillainProtagonist of ''Film/VanDiemensLand'' has an unkempt scraggly beard.
184* A must-have for villains in ''Film/WarCraft2016'', it would seem.
185** SorcerousOverlord Gul'dan has an unkempt WizardBeard.
186** BloodKnight Orc chieftain Blackhand, though he's more of a NobleDemon than Gul'dan.
187** [[spoiler:Medivh's Jesus-like beard turns out to be the case.]]
188* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
189** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': William Stryker. Also, Mitchell Laurio may be more on the 'asshole' side rather than the 'genocidal' side, but there's no denying he's an unshaven sadist.
190** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': Donald Pierce's moustache and chinstrap combo is the facial hair negative of Logan's mutton chops at the end of the movie. Also, many of the Reavers sport fairly thick beards.
191** ''Film/Deadpool2'': Firefist is seen with a beard during Cable's flashback (flash-forward?), and by that time, he's already an irredeemable {{Pyromaniac}}.
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195* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
196** Death Eater Antonin Dolohov has one, as does ex-Death Eater (and head of the Durmstrang Institute) Igor Karkaroff, and Death Eater supporter Albert Runcorn (unlike the film version).
197** 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 (and was played by clean-shaven Creator/AlanRickman in the movies), in order to emphasize his sinister characteristics.
198** The long-dead [[GreaterScopeVillain Salazar Slytherin]] had no hair on his head, but an impressive WizardBeard.
199* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': Galbatorix has a beard in the film adaption. During ''Brisingr'', Eragon seems to assume that Galbatorix has a beard when he mentions him.
200* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' universe:
201** 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 ''[[MagnificentBastard awesome]]''.
202** Parodied in ''Literature/MakingMoney'', 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.
203** 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.
204* In ''Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy'' the chief feature distinguishing Han Solo from his evil cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo is the latter's beard.
205* OlderThanSteam: The eponymous character of ''Literature/{{Bluebeard}}''.
206* The ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'' book from the original Bond series by Ian Fleming. All of the Nazis working on the Moonraker missile have mustaches or beards, as a way of 'disguising their identity'.
207* Simon's beard in ''Literature/ICaptureTheCastle'' makes Cassandra compare him to a gargoyle. And Rose makes him shave it off before [[spoiler:she agrees to marry him.]]
208* Chernomor, BigBad from the ''Literature/RuslanAndLudmila'' has a ''very'' long beard. He also has a BaldOfEvil.
209* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Famine]] is described as having "a trim black beard."
210* In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' books, the viciously evil Pavel Young cultivates a goatee, partly to hide his [[FatBastard double chin]].
211* ''Literature/InDeath'': Isaac [=McQueen=] ends up putting on a goatee at the end of ''New York To Dallas''.
212* In-universe discussion in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': during [[spoiler: her 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.
213** And in the film version, [[AscendedExtra Seneca Crane]] sports a particularly stunning example.
214* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' has [[NoNameGiven the man with a beard but no hair]], who's apparently so evil that Lemony Snicket won't even tell us his name.
215** Count Olaf also is depicted with a goatee in Brett Helquist's illustrations and Creator/JimCarrey's portrayal of the character, though he is never described with one in Snicket's text itself.
216* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Harry has met a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind representation of his subconscious mind a few times]], and while not strictly evil, he is much more ruthless and selfish than Harry's conscious self, and he sports a goatee, which is of course lampshaded by Harry.
217* In SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/VelveteenVs The Junior Super Patriots'', the first villain, The Claw, almost manages to look not ridiculous, despite the lobster suit.
218* In ''{{Literature/Horns}}'', Ig turns into the classical BigRedDevil to avenge his girlfriend's murder. Part of the package is a goatee.
219* A man in ''Literature/{{Citadel}}'' had the ability to involuntarily generate evil, incompetent duplicates of the world's greatest heroes. They all had goatees, even the women.
220* In ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'', Roger Chillingworth has a beard and is a seeker of vengeance who uses his work as a doctor to achieve it (he was cheated because his wife, Hester, thought he was dead and slept with a man). He abuses Dimmesdale, one of his patients, because he was the one who slept with Hester.
221* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'', John Dee, an evil {{Necromancer}}, has a goatee. Of course, he's a [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy real historical figure]] who does have a beard in a drawing of him.
222* ''Literature/TheTwits'' starts with a long description of how foul Mr. Twit's beard is, and then goes on to explain that the man himself is just as despicable as his facial hair.
223* This trope is OlderThanFeudalism. In Literature/TheTalmud Sanhedrin 100, it's written: "[The book of Ben Sira says...] he whose beard is parted will be defeated by none.{because he is constantly scheming, running his fingers through his beard}"
224* Of all the human attributes to apply to a dog, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' describes the monstrous {{Hellhound}} Cerberus with a beard as he eats those damned for gluttony, cementing its infernal nature.
225* In ''Literature/ACollegeOfMagics'', Faris's wicked uncle has a neatly-pointed black beard. Her friend Jane speculates that he's covering for a deficiency of chin.
226* While it can be argued that calling Lan Qiren of ''Literature/MaoDaoZuShi'' evil can be a bit of a stretch, he is very petty, vindictive, rude, obnoxious, small minded and participated in the massacre of the Wen Remnants without showing any remorse. Lan Qiren's most distinctive feature is his beard, which he is inordinately proud of.
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230* ''Series/TwentyFour'', Season 8:
231-->'''Arlo:''' Dana's been visited twice today by this guy with really questionable facial hair.
232* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
233** [[spoiler: Grant Ward]] is clean-shaven for most of season 1, but once it's revealed he's an agent of HYDRA and TheMole, he suddenly starts sporting PermaStubble and becomes a lot scruffier. It turns into a full-length BeardOfSorrow when he's imprisoned in season 2, but he goes back to the stubble-look after escaping.
234** Later, the BeardOfSorrow [[spoiler:Glenn Talbot]] sports for most of the present-day episodes of Season 5 is trimmed into a goatee shortly before he forces his way into the Confederacy and becomes the BigBad.
235* ''Series/{{Barry}}'': Barry's handler Fuches sports a beard and he's a much more openly malicious character than Barry is. Barry's more brutish accomplice Taylor also sports a beard, and Barry grows one himself in the later seasons has he becomes increasingly villainous.
236* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': Gaius Baltar was known for abusing this trope relentlessly. Made even more notable by his being perennially trapped in the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. It got to the point where you could tell ''how evil he was at the moment'' by the ''style'' of his facial hair.
237* Played straight by the title character in ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II''. Invoked in ''Blackadder Goes Forth''.
238-->'''General Melchett:''' Now then, soldier, do you love your country?\
239'''Baldrick:''' Certainly do, sir.\
240'''General Melchett:''' And do you love your king?\
241'''Baldrick:''' Certainly don't, sir.\
242'''General Melchett:''' And why not?\
243'''Baldrick:''' My mother told me never to trust men with beards, sir.
244* One of the themes in ''Series/BreakingBad'' is Walter's physical and mental transformation from nerdy teacher to badass drug dealer. First he 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.]]
245* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Kakistos' goatee.
246* In the ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' episode "It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World", the MirrorUniverse version of Leo has a goatee.
247%%** How could you tell that Gideon was evil? He has a goatee.
248%%*** In any appearance of Future Wyatt where he is Good he is clean-shaven, but if he is evil he sports a Van Dyke of Evil... even to the point when a demon affecting baby Wyatt added the seeds of evil to him, the future version transformed from short haired, clean-shaven, and white clothing wearing to long haired, goateed/Van Dyked, and black clothes to show he was now EVIL!!!!
249* ''Series/TheCollector'': While meeting the younger Morgan in flashbacks, the Devil [[TheNthDoctor takes the form]] of a goateed Colin Cunningham, his most consistent avatar in the series by far.
250* On ''Series/{{Community}}'', Alternate Universe [[MetaGuy Abed]], [[MediumAwareness 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,'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext it makes more sense in context]].)
251* Alton Brown, normally clean-shaven, wears a short, stubbly beard for ''Series/CutthroatKitchen''. Considering that he's the creator of the Troperrific ''Series/GoodEats'', this is almost certainly intentional, and it does make him look much more sinister, befitting his role as the instigator of all sorts of backstabby shenanigans on the ''Cutthroat Kitchen'' set.
252* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
253** The Master's most iconic appearance, as portrayed by Roger Delgado, is bearded, as is that of Anthony Ainley. Ainley was intentionally trying to look like Delgado. There was substantial disappointment that Eric Roberts did not "sport the goat" as the Master in the 1996 telefilm, although Gordon Tipple - whose short-lived Master at the start of the film [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not]] have been Ainley's - did have one. The Master also had a beard as portrayed by Jonathan Pryce in the UsefulNotes/ComicRelief spoof "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath The Curse of Fatal Death]]", and as voiced by Creator/DerekJacobi for the animated "Scream of the Shalka", though fans were sufficiently used to the idea that no one was seriously bothered when Sir Derek Jacobi and John Simm played beardless Masters in 2007 [[spoiler:(although the Simm incarnation would eventually grow his own beard in the 2017 season and Sir Jacobi's incarnation prominently sports it on the covers of his ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' stories)]]. [[spoiler:Simm's eventual beard was even an ActorInspiredElement where he showed up with it for filming; since his return was about contrasting his traditionally evil Master to Missy's attempted HeelFaceTurn, it was permitted to stand.]]
254** Inverted in that the Brigadier has a mustache, while his evil-universe counterpart is clean-shaven. He sports an [[GoodScarsEvilScars Evil Scar]]-and-{{Eyepatch|OfPower}}-combo instead.
255*** Later additions in the ''Doctor Who'' ExpandedUniverse, has seen too that there is also a straight example, namely in that there also turns out to be an evil version of the Doctor in in the same universe that the evil Brigadier comes from. Said version of the Doctor sports a moustache ([[spoiler: because he's the Leader seen in Fascist Britain's propaganda posters]]), in contrast to his clean-shaven Prime Universe counterpart.
256** And for maximum cross-trope linkage, in the 2007 Children In Need mini-episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]", when the Tenth Doctor mentions the Master to the Fifth Doctor, this exchange ensues:
257--->'''Fifth Doctor:''' Does he still have that rubbish beard?\
258'''Tenth Doctor:''' No, no beard this time... Well, [[TheBeard a wife]]...
259** Season 12 features "O", a James Bondesque pastiche codename, who at first is clean shaven [[spoiler:and when TheReveal is that he's the Master in disguise, he's still clean shaven. ''Until'' he returns for TheFinale and he's sporting a quasi-stubble beard.]]
260** Subverted with the War Doctor, played by a bearded Creator/JohnHurt. While Ten and Eleven certainly ''act'' like he's an unforgivable monster, at least at first, they eventually come to regret trying to forget him and accept him as "truly" the Doctor, although [[TheNthDoctor he still doesn't count for official numbering]]. Ironically enough, the ''actual'' evil Doctor pseudo-incarnation, the Valeyard from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe "The Ultimate Foe"]], is clean-shaven.
261* Inverted on ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''; [[spoiler:Alpha]] grows a beard post-HeelFaceTurn.
262* Though he [[HeelFaceTurn later redeems himself]], Captain Bialar Crais of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' keeps his beard.
263* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
264** Gregor Clegane is an enormous knight and one of the more repugnant characters in Westeros, with a sinister beard to boot. [[TheOtherDarrin All three actors]] have one.
265** There's also Ser Amory Lorch, another thuggish knight loyal to the Lannisters who has a full beard, Ser Meryn Trant who has a scrubby goatee, and and Janos Slynt with his thick white beard.
266** Rorge, a convicted criminal and later PsychoForHire, has a stubbly beard.
267** Weasel is bearded, and considering he is a sadistic TortureTechnician assisting The Tickler, he's evil.
268** Ramsay Bolton has one very briefly in Season 4. He orders Reek to shave him, to demonstrate to his father Roose Bolton that Reek is loyal.
269** Locke has a long, pointed beard very similar to Vargo Hoat's.
270** Harald Karstark sports a trimmed beard and is described as ruthless and calculating. Oh, and he sides with [[TheSociopath Ramsay Bolton]].
271** A lot of antagonistic wildlings naturally have this, including Orell, [[ParentalIncest Craster]], Stiv and Wallen.
272** Petyr Baelish is bearded, even though it's not quite the goatee he's described to have in the books. While he's also viewed as a MagnificentBastard by some, his actions definitely cause suffering for which he shows no remorse at all.
273** By the time Stannis Baratheon burns Shireen Baratheon at the stake his PermaStubble has become a thick bushy beard.
274** Balon Greyjoy has a mild PermaStubble case of this. He's an abusive, hypocritical, self-serving asshole who's badly in need of a shave.
275** Balon's brother Euron Greyjoy is an insane, sinister pirate with a faintly muttonstache-style beard to match.
276** The Ironborn Black Lorren has a white beard, and he's a FatBastard who boasts about the rapes he's committed
277** Lem Lemoncloak of the Brotherhood Without Banners has a great big beard and leads a massacre of a whole village.
278** Shagga of the Stone Crows might be Tyrion's ally, but he's still a murderous savage with a bushy beard to boot.
279** Half-brothers Black Walder and Lothar Frey have beards and live up to their family's scummy reputation.
280** Kraznys mo Nakloz has a classical van dyke beard and is a pretty nasty slaver.
281** Mero the Titan's Bastard has the usual unshaven rogue look, although he's less a rogue and more an opportunistic psychopath.
282* Jack Bass is evil enough when he first appears in ''Series/GossipGirl'''s second season. When he returns in season three he's even more evil, and is now sporting a goatee.
283* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Otto Hightower sports a bushy short beard in contrast to Viserys ho has the more heroic PermaStubble. He is an EvilChancellor and the main cause of the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
284* ''Series/HenryDanger'': The episode "Opposite Universe" has Henry and Charlotte travel to an alternate universe where the personalities of people they know are now flipped. The heroic Captain Man and Schwoz are now evil and sporting beards.
285* Ares has a Beard of Evil in ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''. Notably, his MirrorUniverse counterpart, Ares, God of Love, is clean-shaven. The evil mirror Hercules, on the other hand, does have a beard.
286* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' had the evil warlord known only as White Beard.
287* Inverted in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' with Barney's 'origin story' in the episode "The Re-Return". At the start of the flash back he's a wide-eyed, innocent, NewAgeRetroHippie, complete with long hair and a soul-patch. When he becomes the Barney we know from, presented as the 'evil' version, he shaves it off.
288* 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.
289* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': Gentoku Himuro has a well groomed, Tony Stark-esque beard to go with his role of a smarmy goverment official. Not only he is very much an outlier as the [[Franchise/KamenRider franchise]] favors all characters to be cleanly shaven regardless of their alignment, he [[spoiler: keeps it after his HeelFaceTurn]] and gets nicknamed "[[AffectionateNickname Beardo]]".
290* On ''Series/KnightRider'', Michael Knight's EvilTwin, Garthe Knight, sports a particularly evil facial hair.
291* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Pharazôn is an EvilChancellor with a bushy beard, making him to stand out among the main male characters who sport a PermaStubble.
292* In Tom's first two appearances, in ''Series/{{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.
293* In ''Series/TheMiddleman'''s MirrorUniverse, every single male character is bearded; most but not all are more evil than their clean-shaven counterparts.
294* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': A wicked goatee, combined with BaldOfEvil and his ''name'', [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bully-Boy McPherson]], are all that's needed to establish Mr. Potato Head's new supervisor as bad news the moment he's introduced.
295* [[EvilChancellor Cardinal Richelieu]]'s mustache and goatee from ''Series/TheMusketeers''.
296* Not common on ''Series/OnceUponATime''; the biggest male villains are Rumplestiltskin and Hades, both without beards, but when Jekyll and Hyde are introduced, Hyde is the one with facial hair, though ironically [[NotHisSled not the only one who's bad]]. And of course they couldn't carry over [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]] and [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Dr. Facilier]] without their beards of evil.
297* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' downplays this with Ryan Howard, who doesn't become 'evil' as much as a 'DrunkWithPower smug asshole' upon being promoted to Corporate. However, his spike in arrogant jerkassery is reflected in a corresponding growth of increasingly douchey goatees. Then, as his arc continues, his brilliant ideas start to fall apart and he starts to fall victim to his vices, his facial hair becomes increasingly unkempt to reflect this.
298* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Demons and Angels", the most obvious physical difference that Low Lister has with his High and regular counterparts is his filthy, unkempt beard. That and his EyepatchOfPower.
299* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
300** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d:
301--->'''Mitchell:''' Well, you don't have beards, so I'm guessing you're not from the EvilTwin [[MirrorUniverse universe]].
302** 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 to ensure their own survival at their expense.
303** In the first AlternateUniverse episode, Teal'c has a [[GoodHairEvilHair Topknot of Evil]]
304** 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'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.
305** In a non-alternate-universe example, recurring villain Ba'al sported a tidy diabolical goatee.
306* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode "Doppelganger": Sheppard inquires about the other Sheppard, "Did I have a goatee?"
307* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
308** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The MirrorUniverse was the TropeCodifier for using a goatee to signify an EvilTwin, as evil Mr. Spock has a goatee. [[SubvertedTrope Ironically]], Evil Mr. Spock is far and away the ''[[AntiVillain least]]'' [[AntiVillain evil person]] in the mirror universe. This is given a ShoutOut in a Priceline commercial. You guessed it, Evil Shatner with a goatee.
309** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': An episode where the ''[[CoolStarship Defiant]]'' was stolen featured [[spoiler:who we thought was William Riker before being revealed as ''Thomas'' Riker]] pulling off his heist before ''[[InvokedTrope removing his sideburns]]'' to reveal that he had a goatee, not a beard. However, he wasn't really evil.
310** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
311*** In the episode "Author, Author", the Doctor wrote a holonovel with barely-disguised copies of his fellow crew members as the villains of the story. As a homage to the Mirror Universe, Tuvok's actor Tim Russ grew out a goatee for the occasion. And in contrast, the Doctor has given Tom Paris' counterpart just [[PornStache a silly looking mustache]].
312*** Dr. Chaotica in the ShowWithinAShow ''The Adventures of Captain Proton!'' is a homage to Ming the Merciless, and naturally sports a goatee.
313** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'':
314*** The franchise did a ShoutOut to ''itself'' by giving Mirror Soval a Spock-beard. ([[WildMassGuessing Common fashion amongst Mirror Vulcans?]]) Either way, Mirror!Soval is, like Mirror!Spock, one of the least evil characters when he makes an appearance, and [[DefiantToTheEnd goes down fighting]] against the evil counterparts of more established characters.
315*** 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.
316*** 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. [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Mirror Tuvok from the Terran Rebellion]] was also clean-shaven.
317** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': Mirror!Sarek, like his son from the Original Series, also has a goatee in the Mirror Universe [[spoiler: although he is quite heroic, being a member of the Resistance, along with Voq, who sadly did not have a Klingon goatee.]]
318** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Because there are two major Romulan male characters in this series, Narek has a beard to convey visually to viewers that he's the sinister one.
319* ''Series/{{Succession}}'':
320** The show's BigBad / VillainProtagonist Logan has a goatee, as does his eldest son whenever he's not clean-shaven.
321** Kendall's friend Stewy is an unrepentant douchebag with a neatly trimmed beard.
322* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
323** [[MagnificentBastard Crowley]], the longest running villain on the show by far, started sporting a beard in Season 7. Although after Season 8, he transitions from being a true villain back towards being a more long-term AntiHero.
324** Metatron's beard appears to be badass at first, before his true colors are shown and he only proves to be more and more of a slimy, underhanded prick from there.
325** John Winchester's natural beard effectively becomes one for Azazel when the latter briefly possesses him. Notably, while Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan only got to briefly play Azazel this one time, this was the first true glimpse into Azazel's personality on the show.
326** The werewolf in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E17Heart Heart]]" turns out to be Glen, who has a curly beard which he retains both in his human form and when wolfing out (werewolves in ''Supernatural'' only gain animalistic eyes, fangs and teeth with few other physical changes). Bear in mind though, Glen was actually a pretty nice guy in his human state who apparently had no idea what he was or what was happening to him, and the closest thing he had to an unpleasant characteristic was an implicit disapproval of prostitutes based on religiousness.
327** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E19HammerOfTheGods Hammer of the Gods]]", Odin has a beard; and he's fine with helping to drag the dinner screaming and begging for mercy onto the chopping block, to say nothing of what a later episode reveals about what an AbusiveParent he was.
328** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS08E19TaxiDriver Taxi Driver]]" features both a crossroads demon and a dead vampire in Purgatory who have this look.
329** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS09E02DevilMayCare "Devil May Care" (S09, Ep02)]], the vampire has a goatee. In the same episode, Jason (the demon who repairs Abaddon's old vessel) could use a shave in the mechanic meatsuit.
330** Malachi, a particularly-savage and barbaric "anarchist" angel, possesses a vessel with a goatee.
331** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS15E02RaisingHell Raising Hell]]", Francis Tumblety, a.k.a. Jack the Ripper, sports a full Van Dyke.
332* Nottingham in ''Series/{{Witchblade}}'' has a scruffy full beard. At the end of Season 1, a clone of Nottingham is introduced who looks exactly the same as him only with a sinister-looking goatee. Sure enough, while Nottingham is [[AntiVillain morally grey]], the clone turns out to be all-out evil.
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336* Kunt and the Gang's song ''Men With Beards (What Are They Hiding)'' has the singer theorizing all beards are Beards of Evil.
337* Hooray for Gooba! has a song titled ''My Evil Twin Has a Mustache'' wherein the narrator/singer bemoans the fact that his friends cannot distinguish between himself and his EvilTwin when he blatantly has a mustache. There is also the matter of the [[KickTheDog puppy-kicking]]...
338* Music/DoctorSteel sports a rather impressive cross between a [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo]] and a fearsome pointed goatee.
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342* The Hindu goddess Kali wears a necklace of severed heads. Think of her fashion sense what you may, but the guys who [[InnocentInnuendo gave head]] are seen as evil... and sport a goatee. [[note]]One interpretation is that their leader represents the Ego, which is seen as a bad thing and obstacle to enlightment in Hinduism.[[/note]]
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346* Worn by the Klingons in Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/StarTrekDataEast Star Trek]]'' table.
347** Also seen on the Klingons on the "Qapla'" table of ''VideoGame/StarTrekPinball''.
348* The evil genie in ''Pinball/TalesOfTheArabianNights'' has one.
349* In ''Pinball/FullThrottle'', the player's rival, Francisco Valentino, has both a thin pencil mustache and a narrow beard.
350* Ming the Merciless from ''Pinball/FlashGordon''
351* [[Wrestling/BrianAdams Crush]] has one in ''Pinball/WWFRoyalRumble'', as he's playing a {{Heel}}.
352* The two green ''jinn'' from ''Pinball/MagicGirl'' have this to add to their air of menace.
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356* Following his FaceHeelTurn, the cleanshaven space around Wrestling/HulkHogan's iconic blonde fu manchu was filled in by a black five-o'clock shadow.
357* Wrestling/PrinceNana was known for his meticulously maintained beard, which was often imitated by members of his Embassay. It was lost when he and Wrestling/JoeyRyan put their facial hair on the line against the much wilder beards of baby {{face}}s Grizzly Redwood and Wrestling/NecroButcher in Wrestling/RingOfHonor.
358* Wrestling/{{Chikara}} has had several "[[WrestlingMonster monsters]]" but Wrestling/{{Tursas}} was the first to have a beard requiring [[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=9196&gimmick=Tursas physical restraints.]]
359* During his run as the leader of the Straight Edge Society, Wrestling/CMPunk put on a mighty beard, evocative of a messiah-like figure.
360* [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] [[http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/images/photos/001/578/400/whc_daniel_bryan_by_windows8osx-d4jmgpp_original.jpg?1329708118 has to be seen to be believed, following his]] FaceHeelTurn.
361* A calling card of Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, Wrestling/ErickRowan has the longest example.
362* [[Wrestling/AdrianNeville Neville]] sported this in late 2016 and claimed that the fans cheered for him because he was "weak" and that he is now the King of the Cruiserweights.
363* [[SpellMyNameWithaThe "The"]] [[Wrestling/LondonandKendrick Brian Kendrick]] also sported this upon his FaceHeelTurn after the Cruiserweight Classic.
364* Wrestling/SethRollins after betraying Wrestling/RomanReigns and Wrestling/DeanAmbrose later rejoined Wrestling/TheAuthority.
365* Wrestling/DeanAmbrose betrayed Wrestling/SethRollins after winning Raw Tag Team Champions for the second time.
366* Roman Reigns after establishing the Bloodline and cementing himself the Tribal Chief and Head of the Table.
367* Inverted with Wrestling/BrockLesnar, who returned at Wrestling/SummerSlam 2021. While he does sport a farmer's beard, he has mostly been a face until his second feud with Wrestling/BobbyLashley made him a tweener. This would later be played straight on the Raw following Wrestling/WrestleMania 39, where he turned heel after attacking and brutalizing Cody Rhodes before their tag team match with the Bloodline.
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371* ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'': Koschei and Pronin have beards and are very much evil.
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375* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': The favored physical form of Fleurity, the Demon Prince of Drugs, sports a neat, sharply trimmed goatee.[[/folder]]
376
377[[folder:Toys]]
378* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': The Dr. Claw action figure has a twisted beard.
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382* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'': The Prowler "La Lupo" has a soul patch and close-cropped goatee, contrasting with Ezio's full beard-and-'stache. Cesare, Rodrigo, and the Engineer also have beards.
383* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'':
384** Kane in the first game complements his evil beard with his [[BaldOfEvil complete lack of other hair on his head]].
385** That crazy adviser of Romanov in Red Alert 2 also has a evil beard. And, like Kane, [[BaldOfEvil Yuri lacks hair on the head]]
386** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Red Alert 3'' tops even that; it doesn't have a Beard of Evil, it has [[Creator/TimCurry THE Beard of Evil!]]
387* 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.)
388* The ObviouslyEvil Ser Alrik in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' sports one.
389* At least two of the three ([[spoiler:actually four]]) main villains in ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' have beards: Vaas Montenegro, a [[RuthlessModernPirates Latino pirate]] who is the living "[[AxCrazy definition of insanity]]", and Bambi "Buck" Hughes, a [[TheBogan crass, loutish Australian]] mercenary who also [[DepravedHomosexual rapes tough men]].
390* The German chess edutainment game "Fritz und Fertig" has [[http://www.scrkuppenheim.de/test/bilder/schwarz.jpg King Black]]. Sometimes, DarkIsEvil.
391* This seems to be a defining character trait in the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series, with all of the main villains (ie. Ares, Zeus, [[spoiler:Baldur]], Odin, etc.) having massive scruffy beards. Kratos also has a Villainous Goatee, which is [[VillainProtagonist pretty damn appropriate]]. Subverted in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', where Kratos' goatee has grown into a full beard, but he's a more sympathetic figure here.
392** His ''eyebrows'' can tell him where his enemies are.
393* Played straight and inverted in ''VideoGame/HalfLife''. Dr. Breen, when you finally see him, has a full beard and is allied with the [[BigBad Combine]]. Gordon Freeman, the hero, has what is best described as a Goatee of Asskicking.
394* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'': RabidCop Carter Blake has a small beard which contrasts with ByTheBookCop Norman Jayden's clean-shaven face.
395* Referenced in ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' if you set up a MirrorMatch with two Green Arrows.
396-->"Can't tell which one of us is evil."\
397"I know! We've both got beards."
398* Played straight in ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'' with Graham Jarvis as Elliot Sinclair, the father of time travel.
399** During the recasting for its remake, Pegasus Prime and the 3rd game, Legacy of Time, apparently he shaved it to a mustache.
400* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
401** Luxord and that baby-blond goatee of his.
402** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Master Xehanort]], which is HilariousInHindsight considering that Creator/LeonardNimoy played him in the English version.
403* ''Characters/TheLegendOfZelda'': The OlderAndWiser ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' version of Ganondorf sported an orange beard on charcoal-colored skin, and made it work.
404** He retains the beard in his ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' incarnation.
405** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'', [[spoiler:Calamity Ganon, in its MechanicalAbomination form, sports a beard that is one of its few traits hinting at its [[WasOnceAMan human origins]].]]
406** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', Ganondorf has a jawline beard similar to the one he had in ''The Wind Waker'' and ''Twilight Princess''. [[spoiler:He even retains it in his [[OneWingedAngel Demon Dragon form]] despite turning into a more reptilian creature.]]
407* 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.
408* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
409** Team Rocket Executive Petrel in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' sports a purple goatee.
410** Archie, the Team Aqua leader in ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'' has a diabolical goatee.
411** Lysandre, the leader of Team Flare in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', has a full beard that is spiky like his hair.
412* Bitores Mendez, one of the villains of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', was both bearded and BaldOfEvil. In fact, he looked a lot like [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]].
413* During Asha's loyalty mission in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', you encounter an evil version of your character who, of course, sports an evil goatee. ''Even if [[GirlsWithMoustaches your character is female]].''
414* In ''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'', [[spoiler:Clank's EvilKnockoff Klunk]] is now sporting a goatee.
415* Rasputin (yes, again) in ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' makes sure to retain the beard even after transforming into a horrible demonic sin against nature.
416* ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'':
417** Don Octavio, a vicious [[TheDon mob boss]] with an [[WickedCultured opera motif]], sports a thick goatee.
418** General Tsao has a Fu Manchu beard, and is a [[{{Jerkass}} rude]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain sexist]] warlord who forcibly wants to marry Panda King's daughter.
419** Captain [=LeFwee=], being a ruthless and scheming pirate [[BadBoss who executes his own crewmembers for petty reasons]], has a SeadogBeard made of feathers.
420* 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.
421* ''Franchise/TombRaider'' has the amoral archaeologist Pierre [=DuPont=], who sports a goatee. The first ContinuityReboot gives him a BaldOfEvil in addition to this.
422* The Wizard in ''VideoGame/{{Tsioque}}'' sports a long beard, with a similarly pointed mustache.
423* 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]]''.
424* {{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]].
425* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': While beards aren't usually indicative of moral alignment, villainous characters that are not humanoid tend to sport some sort of appendices that greatly resemble beards -- one clear example is the Sha of Doubt, the physical manifestation of a negative emotion who has white beard-like growths hanging from its face.
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429* In the first episode of ''WebAnimation/SpaceGoose'', the title character discovers that he has an evil doppelganger with a goatee.
430* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Most of the male villains are clean-shaven with the exception of Hazel, who sports a goatee-style chinstrap. Hazel is quiet and calm; he hates fighting and loathes unnecessary killing. However, he relentlessly carries out Salem's will to ensure the destruction of the Huntsmen Academies and the theft of the four Relics the academies guard, no matter how many people might die in the process. He also believes Ozpin is an evil monster who sacrifices the lives of children, and will stop at nothing to ensure Ozpin is killed, whom he blames for the death of his sister. Hazel therefore stands out among the villains for his personal connection to Ozpin, his conflict between his gentle nature and loyalty to Salem's murderous goals when not triggered, and the absolute insanity of his physically destructive rage when triggered.
431* Mars, a [[OneSceneWonder minor but memorable]] villain from ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'' features a little goatee, but otherwise sports a BaldOfEvil.
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435* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=22&issue=14 Victor]] the obvious spy has one.
436** What? He's not a spy, he's a plumber! Clearly!
437* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'':
438** Jim, Qui-Gon's player, suspects Sio Bibble (or "Bubble", as he calls him) of being evil due to his beard and position as Amidala's [[EvilChancellor 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. 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 [[BlatantLies Qui-Gon is clean-shaven.]]
439** This is also mentioned in a later comic with Bail Organa.
440** Flat out lampshaded in the GM's notes for the campaign that took place in between the first and second movie (based on ''Film/ThePrincessBride''). In his notes on Count Rugen, he notes "Has a goatee! Should be fun when others don't believe Jim that he's evil."
441** Jim couldn't tell if Darth Vader is a bad guy, [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0676.html because]] he can't see his facial hair.
442* In ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'', everyone has a beard in the mirror universe. And the strip is [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=35 backwards]].
443* In ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'', strip [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2470.html #2470]] is a repeat of [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2461.html #2461]] in the MirrorUniverse, complete with backwards layout and goatees. Unfortunately, the Nazis are the same. ([[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2477.html Maybe not]].) And the comic links here.
444* Invoked, discussed, and PlayedForLaughs in ''Webcomic/JetDream'': 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!
445-->'''Phil:''' I learned enough not to trust men like Trotsky, Castro, and Blackbeard! Men with ''beards!''\
446'''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!
447* In ''Webcomic/MacHall'' 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]]
448* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
449** Elan's EvilTwin brother Nale has a blond beard to serve as his distinguishing villainous mark. Exaggerated by the fact that he's had it since he was a ''baby''.
450** 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.
451** Bozzok has one as well, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0942.html he's even seen maintaing it]].
452** Lampshaded, but not invoked, in the 2019 calendar. The art is based on magic items, with the "Mirror of Opposition" for February, depicting Roy against an evil doppelganger coming out of the mirror. The double looks exactly like Roy, and Vaarsuvius muses it would be easier to SpotTheImposter if there were some way to distinguish between the good and evil versions, such as a distinctive physical marker in the chin area. Blackwing then [[ComicallyMissingThePoint suggests a really big zit]].
453* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', the characters are joking about a series of events leading to the creation of Martin's "EvilTwin." He mentioned the frustration said twin would encounter, given that he's "incapable of growing a decent goatee."
454* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'': Chase Brenton is a vile, creepy jerkass and has a goatee to go with it.
455* Edvard de Santigo from ''Webcomic/SupernormalStep'' has a [[http://supernormalstep.com/62/ very malicious-looking goatee]].
456* {{Invoked|Trope}} by ''Webcomic/VanVonHunter'' when Van ''drew'' a goatee on his EvilTwin so that they could be told apart.
457* [[VideoGame/JimmyNeutronVsJimmyNegatron Jimmy Negatron]] has a goatee to distinguish himself as [[EvilTwin the bad guy]], which is a blatant reference to [[MirrorUniverse Mirror!]]Spock's goatee in the classic [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]] episode [[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]].
458* ''Webcomic/{{Runewriters}}'' has Jonan of Rusanne, who is somewhere between TokenEvilTeammate and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
459* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' whenever Helen is turned into a man she sprouts a goatee. [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=9915 Apparently it materializes from sheer evil]].
460* ''Webcomic/NeverSatisfied'': The biggest visual difference between Sylas Dubois and [[AbusiveParents his abusive dad]]? The latter's beard.
461* A NoodleIncident in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191204 apparently]] featured evil extradimensional doppelgangers of Da Boyz who all wore goatees:
462-->'''Dimo''': Oh ya -- hyu din' look goot vit a ''goatee'', brodder.\
463'''Maxim''': Yah? Vell, ''hyu'' din' look goot wit ''[[PermaStubble two]]'' ov dem!\
464'''Dimo''': Yah, dot vos ''schtupid''.
465* In ''{{Webcomic/Nimona}}'', AntiVillain Ballister Blackheart has a very classic evil goatee. He was clean shaven as a young knight, and grew it after leaving the Institution, seemingly as a ThenLetMeBeEvil affectation. By the end of the comic, it’s been mostly taken over by [[BeardOfSorrow angst stubble]], and by the epilogue it’s become a more heroic looking full beard. Played with in that he was never particularly evil, but was presenting himself as such.
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469* ''Website/GaiaOnline'' has both mocked this and played this straight. (But mostly mocks it)
470** On the serious side: Vladmir Von Helson, the arguably most evil character in the story line, had a particularly sinister goatee before he was ashed.
471** On the other hand, recent micro updates starring MrWizard parodies Dr. Singh and Timmy have featured several characters with beards of evil (which is either TheVirus, or a case of {{Body Snatcher}}s). However, one of them is a 10 year old boy, the other is a Labtech who grew his beard ''on the outside of his face mask''. And they both seem to be more concerned with getting into Singh's pants than actually doing anything evil.
472* ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'':
473** The Mysterious Somebody is a clone of [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Dark Jedi Joruus C'baoth]] who engineered an epidemic of insanity to take over the PPC and spent most of the 90s in charge of the organization. While in control, he started a department that acted as a SecretPolice force, funded most of the PPC's activites via a factory that produced Mary Sues, and used his mind control abilities to keep people from suspecting him of any wrongdoing. The image of C'baoth used to represent the Mysterious Somebody on the wiki sports a long white beard.
474** In the MirrorUniverse where the PPC is an organization run by Mary Sues, the counterpart of Makes-Things has a beard.
475* Treated as DeadHorseTrope in EvilOverlordList:
476-->35. I will not grow a goatee. In the old days they made you look diabolic. Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of Generation X.
477* A man in ''Literature/{{Citadel}}'' had the ability to involuntarily generate evil, incompetent duplicates of the world's greatest heroes. They all had goatees, even the women.
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480[[folder:Web Videos]]
481* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15S0g8pG6HU Pedophile Beards]]
482* Spoofed in the trailer for ''[[http://www.captainbucky.com/buckdownloads.htm The Adventures of Captain Bucky and his Space Marshals in Outer Space!]]'' where the President of Earth and the "evil Communist Czar" are [[EconomyCast both played by the same actor]], with the latter wearing a thick moustache.
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486* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
487** Vilgax, the series BigBad, has an iconic tentacle beard and is considered the galaxy's "worst of the worst".
488** Clancy has one, shaped like mendibles no less.
489** Joseph Chadwick of the Forever Knights gains one in ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse Omniverse]]''.
490** When Phil joins the Rooters, he cuts his BeardOfSorrow shorter, and the Rooters aren't exactly moral paragons.
491** PlayedWith by the Tetrax of Dimension 23 in ''Omniverse'', who has a fairly awesome-looking beard made of the same crystal the rest of his body is. However, he's more of a HeroAntagonist than a true villain, as he and his allies are ultimately merely trying to retrieve Ben 23's Omnitrix and return it to Azmuth, with Ben 23's less-than-altruistic use of his Omnitrix up to this point and the seemingly-widespread and indiscriminate distrust of aliens on this dimension's Earth seemingly leaving little room for argument.
492* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Both Dai Gui and Hsi Wu respectively have a goatee-like appendange on their chin. Daolon Wong has a white goatee, as does Tarakudo has a real goatee to complement his classical samurai mask appearance.
493* Pastiched on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': 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."
494* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'':
495** [[spoiler:Qilby]]'s [[spoiler:long, goatee-like]] beard turns black and grow longer when he reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and transforms into his OneWingedAngel form.
496** Black Bump of the Brotherhood of the Forgotten has rather thick one under his CoolHelmet.
497* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'':
498** David Xanatos, the AntiVillain [[TropeNamer well known for his trademark "plan that benefits even when they fail"]] sports such a beard. He bore more than a passing resemblance to his actor, who played [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Commander Will Riker]] and whose beard was notable for [[GrowingTheBeard another reason]]. In one [[spoiler: dream]] episode set 40 years in the future, Xanatos has gone all ShadowDictator on Manhattan. He's still using his Steel Clan robot minions, but they now inexplicably have Riker's beard.
499** Macbeth fits the Trope too, [[AntiVillain if you consider him evil.]]
500* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
501** Unicron the [[PlanetEater giant, planet-eating, robotic, chaos god]] had a mustache and goatee. He also gives one to his minion Scourge, along with a lovely set of pink fingernails.
502** The evil Junkion Detritus has a beard. Although facial hair is a common feature among Junkions, this sets him apart from his good-natured PaletteSwap, the Autobot Hound, who lacks one.
503* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{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 EvilTwin. He isn't, [[InvertedTrope Bender is the evil one.]]
504-->'''Bender:''' Oh like you didn't see ''that'' one coming.
505* Vlad Masters from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. Also Skulker and Danny's EvilCounterpart Dark Danny sport one.
506* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'':
507** This is played with through 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.
508** Lampshaded when Hank puts on a fake goatee and 21 comments that he looks like the "[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Mirror Mirror]] version of Hank" in "Showdown at Cremation Creek Part 1".
509* Several ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967'' 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.
510* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' 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:
511-->'''Jim Rage:''' You don't understand, man... The Russians were already working on a beard... [[Film/DrStrangelove ''We had a facial hair gap!'']]
512* Parodied with Chad Ghostal, Space Ghost's EvilTwin brother on ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast''. His facial hair is different every time he's on screen.
513* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
514** An episode features this trope with MirrorUniverse; the kids are sent into an AlternateUniverse 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.
515** Another bearded villain on the show (who appears more frequently) is the candy pirate Stickybeard; as [[MeaningfulName his name implies]] candy is embedded all over his full beard.
516* Fire Lord Ozai in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', along with several other villains, including Long Feng and Combustion Man.
517* The Villain on ''WesternAnimation/TheJimmyTimmyPowerHour 3''. Discussed:
518-->'''Timmy:''' I think he should have a mustache. Mustaches are evil.\
519'''Cosmo:''' Not everybody who has a mustache is evil?!\
520'''Wanda:''' [[YourMom Your momma has a mustache!]]\
521'''Cosmo:''' You should give him a mustache.
522* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'':
523** Warp Darkmatter, who is more or less Buzz's [[EvilCounterpart evil equivalent]], sports a typically roguish goatee.
524** Evil Buzz Lightyear from the AlternateUniverse.
525* The AffablyEvil Hank Scorpio from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Invoked in another episode when Mr Burns' girlfriend leaves him for her ex, Snake. Burns protests that he's already [[CardCarryingVillain positively evil]] - what does he have to do, grow a devil beard?
526* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'':
527** Gargamel in 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.
528** 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 attaches 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?!?"
529** Gargamel's godfather Lord Balthazar has the Chin Spike of Evil.
530** And there's Matthew [=McCreep=] from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute''.
531* Dr. XXX of ''WesternAnimation/TheMadDoctor'' cartoon short.
532* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' 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.
533* Lampshaded [[spoiler:and played straight]] with [[spoiler:Cesar Salazar]] in ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' after a six month TimeSkip. [[spoiler:Then zigzagged when he shaves it off and stops acting antagonistic but is still on the bad guy's side, and then it's revealed that he was on their side all along.]]
534* DoubleSubverted by Grune of ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' first appearing as a heroic prodigal FourStarBadass of {{Catfolk}} ProudWarriorRace the Thunderians, only to rapidly reveal himself as a {{Turncoat}} and [[LesCollaborateurs Collaborateur]] with BigBad Mumm-Ra and his allies the [[LizardFolk Lizards]].
535* Abraham Kane, the BigBad in ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'', as well as BaldOfEvil.
536* [[Characters/SamuraiJackAku Aku]] the [[LargeHam SHAPESHIFTING MASTER OF DARKNESS]] from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' has a goatee, made of fire.
537* The Duke from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gawayn}}'' sports one of these.
538* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In episode "The Really Bad Day" Cosmo turns evil for a day. Watch his fearsome change when... [[AntiClimax he sprouts a single curly strand from his chin.]]
539* ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight'' features Prince John with such as beard as well as the titular dowry hunter and regent loyalist in "The Bearded One."
540* Keldor from the ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002''. While he still had a face, he sported a sleek black goatee.
541* HIM from ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has a goatee and is considered the most evil of the RoguesGallery.
542* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Jax-Ur, being based on General Zod.
543* {{Parodied|Trope}} on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', where Kaeloo gives Quack Quack (who is playing the antagonist) a fake beard to make himself look evil.
544* Duke Igthorn in ''WesternAnimation/GummiBears'' has one. Curiously his good twin brother Sir Victor has none.
545* ''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. Subverted in that it is just drawn on and Lance wipes it off with his thumb.
546* The Devil sports one when he is tempting Jesus in the wilderness with the three temptations in a ''Caleb and Sophia'' episode.
547* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[TheWitchHunter Philip Wittebane]] was clean shaven when he arrived on the Boiling Isles but over time grew a big bushy beard. [[spoiler: He permanently shaved the beard off when he adopted his [[BigBad Belos]] persona, which makes this an interesting example where the beard of evil is actually plot-relevant, as it prevents Luz and Lilith from recognizing that Philip is a young Belos when they meet him in the past.]]
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