History Main / CarpetOfVirility

* ''{{KISS}}'': Hairy chests very much on display in their stage costumes, notably Paul Stanley with the jumpsuit split to the waist and a truly verdant carpet.

* Gaston's VillainSong in ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has the line "And every last inch of me's covered with hair!" sung as he rips open his shirt.

* IronMaiden's Bruce Dickinson.

* IronMaiden's [[Bruce Dickinson http://bp0.blogger.com/_LXqBXJEfW0A/SITWIndcGjI/AAAAAAAAGuA/eXIQaOueTkA/s1600-h/bruce-dickinson.png]]

* How has no one mentioned [[MadMen Don Draper]]?

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* The one and only [[http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/Tom_Jones_in_speedo.jpg Tom Jones]], of course.

In essence it describes men with a hairy upper body. Generally shown during a ShirtlessScene or when a guy walks around in a tank-top or an opened shirt. Often indicates evil or an AntiHero.

No matter the type, in fiction, a CarpetOfVirility almost always goes hand in hand with a very sexual, if not utterly lecherous, personality, be the bearer [[HandsomeLech attractive]] or [[TheLeisureSuitLarry not]].

Hair chests can be seen as FetishFuel, especially in the Seventies, when it was quite common for men to show off their chest hair with open shirts and plunging necklines. The gay "bear" community also finds hairy, hyper-masculine men to be extremely desirable. It is also common in the {{Bara}} genre.

* Lord Genome from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has a ''sprial shaped'' carpet.

* In an episode of the DirtyPair TV Series, Yuri and Kei spend an episode debating whether their male co-agent has chest hair or not, and how 'disgusting' chest hair is. At the end of the episode, he reveals [[spoiler:he has no chest hair]].

* The titular character of ''TheSavageDragon''... and Barbaric, Mace, the Devil, Hellrazor, and various other male characters drawn by Erik Larsen.
* The Neal Adams {{Batman}} of the 70s gained the sobriquet of "Hairy-Chested Love God" for strictly adhering to Type 1 of this trope in his depiction.

* Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall rocked a hairy chest back in the day, as he was, of course "oozing machismo, mang" Also, HBK had one in the mid-late 90's, and Albert, who might as well be a real life Wolverine in the hairy chest department. Albert would often get chants of "Shave your back!" from the crowd.

* Who'd think someone like [[StarFox Wolf O'Donnell]] would get one in his ''[[SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' appearance? He's the Type 1 variety too, when judged by his whole costume!
* [[DepravedBisexual Vamp]] in MetalGearSolid has [[EstrogenBrigadeBait type one]] of these, distinguishing from and adding to the subtext between him and his {{Bishonen}} opponent, Raiden.

* Wolf from the ''SoulCalibur'' series is a Type 1, and part of his customizable outfit in Soul Calibur IV allows any other male to have chest hair, as well.

* ''{{KISS}}'': hairy chests very much on display in their stage costumes, notably Paul Stanley with the jumpsuit split to the waist and a truly verdant carpet.

* One webcomic (whose name is lost to the depths of time) featured a KavorkaMan, who chalked up his luck with women to having chest hair that grew in the shape of the ''Superman shield.''
* Order of Stick has an elderly gentleman showing off his after a night of conquest [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0749.html here.]]

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* Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall rocked a hairy chest back in the day, as he was, of course "oozing machismo, mang" Also, HBK had one in the mid-late 90's, and Albert, who might as well be a real life Wolverine in the hairy chest department.

* EliRoth, particularly as the [[http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp60u7eFMH1qa0z8lo1_400.jpg Bear]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xIIZH3vQ75I/SvBYgILdnLI/AAAAAAAAA7k/LpojhOoQ498/s400/bear+ jew.jpg Jew]].

* RobinWilliams, although he doesn't really fit into either type. Instead he's pretty much a category all his own.

* The Neal Adams Batman of the 70s gained the sobriquet of "Hairy-Chested Love God" for strictly adhering to Type 1 of this trope in his depiction.

** As did Steve Carell in an earlier episode and of course, as seen in the 40-Year Old Virgin.

* David Lee Roth. Chest Hair and neon Singlets.