History Main / BeardnessProtectionProgram

* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', the "Gnome" you met at the start of the game is quickly revealed to have been a Dwarf, who shaved his beard ([[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame inconceivable to their culture]]) to flee from something [[spoiler:he was forced to work on the machine that would bring the BigBad back to Arcanum and managed to use it prior to full completion due to his small size and technological aptitude]].

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': [[spoiler:In the Epilogue, John Marston's default look consists of a level 4 beard and short hair, and the whole family uses fake names. They're not in an official witness protection program but the idea is the same.]]

** Jaime Lannister keeps the beard he acquired in captivity, then shaves his head for good measure. It doesn't seem to fool the Brotherhood Without Banners, given his famous gold hair and handsome looks.

* In ''Three Miles Down'' by Creator/HarryTurtledove, protagonist Jerry Stieglitz, a 1970s grad student with hippy hair and beard, gets a hair cut and shave when he goes on the run from the CIA and successfully eludes capture until he can resolve the dilemma he is in.

* In the ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series, Moishe shaves for the first time in two decades as part of his escape from a ghetto.

* Inverted in the ''Series/MasterpieceTheatre'' series of ''Franchise/LesMiserables'', where Javert fails to recognize Valjean because he's shaved the thick beard that he had in prison and conversely let the hair on his head grow out.

* In Mike Grell's run on ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'', Ollie shaves his beard and hair while on the run.

* In ''ComicBook/SherwoodTexas'', Rob Hood grows a beard as part of his disguise when he adopts the identity of Loxley.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'''s Harry Osborn grows a handlebar moustache and shaves his head to get away from his [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn father]].
* Shows up briefly in the ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'' album "Machine qui rêve". The comic opens with a bearded man pursued by the authorities, who shaves his beard off in a bar's bathroom because his image is being broadcast on the news channels. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a movie the main characters are watching.]]
* An unusual version in an old ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'' story; Jimmy has been trying to invent something and he comes up with a mixture that causes fast hair growth while trying to make some kind of fuel. Later in the story, he sees that a couple of men are coming to get him and uses the mixture to grow a beard for a fast disguise.

* [[https://triviahappy.com/images/articles/03282014lenin.jpg Vladimir Lenin]], plus a wig.
* [[UsefulNotes/CheGuevara Che]] [[https://triviahappy.com/images/articles/03282014che.jpg Guevara]]

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In the prologue of "Mixed Doubles" a terrorist sneaks into the country with this trope, and a maid who enters his hotel room while he's shaving it off [[YouKnowTooMuch gets her throat cut with the razor he's using]].

** Jaime keeps the beard he acquired in captivity, then shaves his head for good measure. It doesn't seem to fool the Brotherhood Without Banners.

* ''Masked Dog'' by Raymond Obstfeld. A CIA agent relates how a colleague always wore a beard while undercover. "He must have seen ''Film/{{Serpico}} a dozen times." This caused a problem when the house he was sleeping in was firebombed and his beard caught fire. He had to get a skin graft from his behind transplanted to his chin, causing his new beard hairs to be somewhat curly.