Line #8 Main/AnimalFacialHair


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2	[[caption-width-right:230:What a [[LastSecondWordSwap manl--er...''dog''ly]]--mustache.]]
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4	This is when an animal, often an anthropomorphic animal, has facial hair, whether in the form of a mustache or beard. Sometimes, the facial hair is in the form of whiskers slicked into a moustache. Sometimes, the facial hair, moustache or goatee is a marking, smudge, or localized area of individual hairs that look like a moustache or goatee.
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6	Fictional examples can apply to pretty much any animal as long as it's not a natural feature of their species; or in the case of dogs, a default characteristic of the breed.
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8	Often used as a form of masculine TertiarySexualCharacteristics. Compare FurryBaldness, FurryFemaleMane, WeirdBeard, and NonmammalianHair. See also ClothingAppendage.
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10	!!Examples:
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13	[[folder:Advertising]]
14	* From ''Advertising/OtterPops'', Sir Isaac Lime, Louie-Bloo Raspberry, and retired character Rip Van Lemon all have facial hair. The former two have a mustache, while the latter has a beard. The other male otters have standard animal whiskers, something the girls lack. Poncho Punch was briefly given a mustache and goatee in 2003, though later switched back to having whiskers.
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17	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
18	* Tracey's Scyther in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' has raggedy-looking whiskers on the sides of its head, showing its age.
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21	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
22	* In later seasons of ''Animation/GGBond'', Dr. Mihoo, the leader of the pig heroes and a pig himself, has a beard.
23	* Uncle Crab from ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Adventures in the Sea'' has a bushy mustache. Overlaps with NonMammalianHair since he's, you know, a crab.
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26	[[folder:Comics]]
27	* Dogmatix in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' has a mustache, like all the Gaulish men.
28	* ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse:
29	** The FunnyAnimal duck Flintheart Glomgold, a major antagonist to Scrooge [=McDuck=], has a big bushy beard.
30	** And of course Scrooge himself has his sideburns.
31	* In ''Muppets King Arthur'', Rowlf plays Merlin with a WizardBeard, as on ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'', below.
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34	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
35	* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': Justified, but also Exaggerated, with the Walrus' yellow moustache, which is longer than that of a real walrus.
36	* Ratty from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' has a mustache and Angus [=MacBadger=] has a white beard.
37	* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' Papa Mousekewitz has a beard, and several background characters have beards or mustaches.
38	* Non-animal example: Some of the cars in ''{{Franchise/Cars}}'', such as [[BigBad Chick]] [[GreenandMean Hicks]], sport grilles resembling mustaches.
39	* ''In WesternAnimation/GayPurree'', BigBad Meowrice has his whiskers slicked into a mustache.
40	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Dr. Dawson and Hiram Flaversham both have mustaches.
41	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', the part of lions' manes under their chin looks beardlike; Scar in particular has a leonine BeardOfEvil.
42	* ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'': Master Shifu the red panda has a bushy white mustache.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'': Roger, the skinny cat in the two sequels, looks like he has an off-center variant of a toothbrush moustache.
44	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': Rufus the cat has a mustache, as do some of the mice in the Rescue Aid Society.
45	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'': Mr. Ages has both eyebrows and a mustache, while Nicodemus and the Great Owl have especially long ones. Jenner has BigOlEyebrows and an [[BeardOfEvil evil goatee]].
46	* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'':
47	** Harold keeps his goatee even when he turns into a frog.
48	** Puss in Boots and Donkey have goatees, and Puss has his whiskers slicked into a moustache.
49	* Merlin in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' usually keeps his facial hair when morphing into various animals (justified in walrus and goat form, not so much in squirrel, rabbit, mouse, crab or caterpillar forms...)
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52	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
53	* Played with in ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' films:
54	** In ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''; one scene shows Kermit shaving, but then he comments "I wish I had whiskers. Of course, then I'd have to use a blade."
55	** In ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'' he claims to be growing a moustache, which Jenny "helps along" with makeup.
56	* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Roger Rabbit wears an orange Hitler-style toothbrush moustache on a WartimeCartoon poster featuring Baby Herman.
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59	[[folder:Literature]]
60	* In the ''Literature/ChanurNovels'' the lion-like Hani have beards and moustaches, along with manes. Both genders.
61	* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Older mice in the animated adaptations have beards made of whiskers. Younger mice look more "clean-shaven", and a few officer hares have mustaches.
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64	[[folder:PuppetShows]]
65	* In ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'', Rowlf plays Merlin in a sketch, and has a WizardBeard.
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68	[[folder:Theater]]
69	* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has Professor Dillamond, a goat-man professor with a goatee.
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72	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
73	* Ride/DisneyThemeParks: The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5347938491_a3bd08fc54_z_1_9088.png kitten pictured on the picture of Horace Horsecollar]] helping with Disney California Adventure's expansion has a nose that looks like a toothbrush moustache. [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110210033456/disney/images/e/e6/5347938491_a3bd08fc54_z.jpg Here is a bigger picture]].
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76	[[folder:Video Games]]
77	* ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'': One of the pigs has a brushlike orange moustache.
78	* Plenty of older ''VideoGame/LittleTailBronx'' characters have had this since the start; [[VideoGame/TailConcerto Russell Ryebread]], [[VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter Bruno Dondurma]] and [[VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel Colonel Pretzel]] are only ''some'' examples of this, with all heaving a mustache and beard of some kind despite being anthropomorphic dogs. A bonus goes out to ''Fuga''[='s=] Shvein Hax, [[spoiler:who manages to have ''chest hair'' on top of his fur. Must be all that testosterone]].
79	* Some {{Franchise/Pokemon}} like Golem (in its Alolan form), Alakazam, Kricketune, [[BigFriendlyDog Stoutland]], Jellicent, [[TRexpy Tyrantrum]], and Drampa sport facial hair.
80	* From the ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' series:
81	** ''VideoGame/SkylandersSpyrosAdventure'': Ramses the dragon has a white beard and bushy eyebrows because he is very old.
82	** ''VideoGame/SkylandersGiants'': Jet-Vac has a WeirdBeard in that it's made up of feathers.
83	** ''VideoGame/SkylandersSwapForce'': The gorilla Grilla Drilla has a white colored beard.
84	* ''Franchise/StarFox'':
85	** Peppy starts sporting a mustache in later games.
86	** Fox himself grows a goatee after becoming a father in one of the ([[CanonDiscontinuity non-canonical]]) ''Videogame/StarFoxCommand'' endings.
87	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Genjii from the PC-98 games had a beard. Note that Genjii was a non-anthropomorphic turtle.
88	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' the little boy Pandaren will sometimes say when clicked on that he's growing a beard. Pandaren are, of course, anthropomorphic pandas and some do indeed have beards, putting them into this trope.
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91	[[folder:Webcomics]]
92	* ''Webcomic/AngelDown'': Bernard, Samuel, and Ward have all sported a bit of extra chin fluff to indicate beards.
93	* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'': Many of the male characters have patterns in their fur that look like facial hair (Victor's snout/face is brighter and looks like a goatee + mustache, for instance.)
94	* ''Webcomic/{{Twokinds}}'': Many of the [[FunnyAnimal Keidran and Bastitins]] (particularly the older males) have various kinds of facial hair. Keith also eventually grows a small goatee.
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98	* The website [[http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl?6687 Cats That Look Like Hitler]], features cats and kittens that look like UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, or at least have toothbrush moustaches.
99	* ''WebVideo/ExplodingTNT'': Pink Sheep has a mustache, his son Purple Shep has a unibrow, and Crystal Sheep has eyelashes.
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102	[[folder:Western Animation]]
103	* ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'': In a vegetable example, Professor Plum has a moustache and a beard.
104	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Heimerdinger's pet Poro has the exact [[UncattyResemblance same]] white mustache he does.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/BlitzWolf'': Adolf Wolf has a black ribbon-shaped moustache that is similar to Adolf Hitler's infamous toothbrush moustache.
106	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': Monterey Jack had a very thick moustache as well as whiskers. It would twirl itself when he smells cheese.
107	* In ''WesternAnimation/DogCity'', Mayor Kickbark and Rusty [=MacCracken=] in the animated sections have moustaches, as does [=McCracken=]'s puppet inspiration Mr [=MacTaggart=].
108	%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gawayn}}'': Rex the cockroach.
109	* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'': Some pets have this, including Digby ("Trading Places") and Sam U.L. ("Terriers and Tiaras"), who have mustaches/beards. They are portrayed as somewhat masculine (Zoe has an unspoken crush on Digby, while Sam U.L. is a hard training Bruxellois).
110	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
111	** In "The Old Gray Hare", after a FlashForward to the year 2000, a 70-or-so-year-old WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is shown with white chin whiskers.
112	** The UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler caricature duck from the WartimeCartoon "Ducktators" has a toothbrush moustache on his bill tip.
113	** El Supremo the Mexican cat from "Daffy's Diner" has whiskers that curve upward reminiscent of a [[MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico classic Mexican moustache]].
114	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'':
115	** One skit parodying ''Series/DuckDynasty'', "[=McDuck=] Dynasty", features Scrooge, Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Donald and Scrooge have beards made of feathers.
116	** In another skit, there is a light grey dog dressed up as his owner Rick who has a slightly lighter grey moustache of this type.
117	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', beards and mustaches show up sometimes on stallions and vary between being the same colour(s) as their mane and tail or being a generic black.
118	* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': Uncle Chuck sports a large, bushy mustache.
119	* ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'': The Warner’s father, King William the Good has a moustache that looks like catfish whiskers, but more curved.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'': Commander Feral has what appear to be waxed whiskers styled ''like'' a mustache, Professor Hackle has the "muzzle beard" kind, wrapping around to encompass his jawline and cheek fur, and is colored white like his hair (his actual fur is kind of grayish tan) and several other characters either have face fur suggestive of a beard or mustache (and, in Tiger Conklin's case, stripes), or actual, separate beards and mustaches.
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123	[[folder:Real Life]]
124	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_Vulture The bearded vulture or lammergeier]] has [[WeirdBeard facial feathers that look like a beard]].
125	* The mustache of the walrus makes it quite easy to anthropomorphize this animal, so much so that a mustache style is named after them.
126	* Goats are so well-known for their beards they even named a kind of beard after them.
127	* Some tabby cats and white spotted cats appear to have moustaches.
128	* The schnauzer (a breed of terrier) is named after a German term for mustache, because it looks like it's wearing one. For that matter, many other terrier breeds have a similar appearance.
129	* Many dogs have a dark skin pigment marking on their upper lip right under their nose that can look like a toothbrush moustache due to said dark upper pigment showing under the light, lighter, or white fur.
130	* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patas_monkey patas monkey]] has a white, twirly mustache. This and its red fur, resembling a Hungarian Hussar's uniform, gave the animal its alternative name "Hussar monkey".
131	* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_tamarin emperor tamarin]] has a large, white mustache, resembling that of German emperor Wilhelm II.
132	* The male moustached kingfisher has orange and blue feathers and blue feathers trailing from the outer corners of his beak that look like a moustache.
133	* Horses can sometimes grow something very much like a moustache as part of their winter coats.
134	* [[DescriptivelyNamedSpecies Bearded Dragons]] have a collection of spines underneath their chins which resemble a large [[WeirdBeard reptilian beard]], when they feel threatened they puff up and darken it to look more dangerous.
135	* A certain domestic rabbit pattern is called a Charlie (an extreme high grade type of white or broken pattern) after Chaplin, because they sometimes have an abbreviated toothbrush moustache that resembles his.
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