1 | '''Basic Trope''': Male character grows a beard to signify he's depressed. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob lost someone close to him, and his PermaStubble grows out fully. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': After a particularly bad night, Bob has a beard the size of the rest of his face. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** Bob only goes from clean-shaven to having PermaStubble. |
6 | ** Bob stops taking care of his beard, causing it to go from neatly cropped to shaggy. |
7 | ** Bob is usually bald or has a crewcut, but lets his hair grow out while in mourning. |
8 | * '''Justified''': |
9 | ** "I'm just too depressed to shave in the morning. Are you happy?" |
10 | ** The incident that made Bob depressed also caused him a severe injury that made him unable to shave his beard somehow. For instance, he had to have his arms amputated. |
11 | ** Bob thinks the beard makes him look cooler and makes him feel slightly less awful. |
12 | * '''Inverted''': |
13 | ** Bob shaves off his beard to make a break with his past. |
14 | ** Bob grows a beard to signify that Bob TookALevelInCheerfulness. |
15 | * '''Gender Inverted''': |
16 | ** Alice, a [[GirlsWithMoustaches woman that grows facial hair]] stops depilating it after she loses someone close to her. |
17 | ** Alice, a tomboy who usually keeps her hair short, lets it grow to mid-length while grieving. |
18 | * '''Subverted''': "I'm not depressed. I just realized that my scar would be less distracting if I grew a beard over it." |
19 | * '''Double Subverted''': "I'm not depressed, I just thought I'd see what I look like with a beard." He's lying. |
20 | * '''Parodied''': |
21 | ** People in the series can tell any man's current emotional state just by examining the length of their beard. |
22 | ** Alice feels depressed one day and puts on a fake beard to show it. |
23 | ** A bushy beard suddenly grows on Bob whenever he feels slightly sad, let alone depressed. |
24 | * '''Zig Zagged''': The character grows out a beard because his [[HalfIdenticalTwins Half-Identical]] [[TwinTelepathy Psychic-Linked Twin]] lost her boyfriend. |
25 | * '''Averted''': Bob continues shaving as normal after the trauma. |
26 | * '''Enforced''': "The actor wanted to grow a beard and have more serious plotlines. We decided to mix the two." |
27 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Depressed, huh?" "How could you tell?" "You haven't shaved." |
28 | * '''Invoked''': Bob stopped shaving because his GirlfriendInCanada "dumped him," "leaving" him single. |
29 | * '''Exploited''': Charlie opens a combination psychiatric counseling facility and barber shop. |
30 | * '''Defied''': The character makes a conscious decision to keep up personal appearances despite his depression. |
31 | * '''Discussed''': "What did you expect, to find me sprawled on the couch in despair, not having shaved or washed for weeks? We only went on two dates." |
32 | * '''Conversed''': "Is this the episode where Bob starts growing the beard?" "Nope, that was the one where Bob lost his parents." |
33 | * '''Deconstructed''': Growing a beard is part of the hero's collapse into outright catatonic stupor, leading to an extended narrative of the miserable life and eventual suicide of an undiagnosed sufferer of bipolar disorder. |
34 | * '''Reconstructed''': Growing out a beard is a deliberate reaction, a change of appearance that the hero chooses to signify his new mental state. Bob plans to shave it off if he's ready to feel good again. |
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36 | Grow a BeardOfSorrow. |
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38 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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40 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
41 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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