History Main / GoodHairEvilHair

See also ExpositoryHairstyleChange, ExpressiveHair, EvilBrunetteTwin, FunnyAfro, DelinquentHair, HairColors, HairReboot, ImportantHaircut, BeardOfEvil and BaldOfEvil. Compare GoodScarsEvilScars.

This type of moustache is so linked to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler currently that the only people that US media will dare show wearing that style positively nowadays are Creator/CharlieChaplin and [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Oliver Hardy]], [[GrandfatherClause because they already wore it when Hitler rose to power]]. In fact, as those examples demonstrate, it was a comic, silly mustache before Hitler ruined it. Even Chaplin took advantage of that growing stigma in his lifetime when he made fun of the Führer in ''Film/TheGreatDictator''. Otherwise, if you see a character with such a mustache, outside of ''Spider-Man'''s J. Jonah Jameson, assume he is one of ThoseWackyNazis. Or [[http://gawker.com/5546552/michael-jordan-will-wear-a-hitler-mustache-if-he-so-chooses Michael Jordan]].

* The Music/BeastieBoys all wear fake mustaches in their video for "Sabotage", which parodies cop shows of the 70s/80s.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Brock Sampson has the psychopathic-hero-deconstruction mullet.

These characters all have platinum blonde, [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white, or silver]] bobs.

* Albert Wesker of ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil Resident Evil]]'' series, full stop.

* The [[WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries much mocked]] beard of choice for Captain Zhao in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', {{Satan}} himself has blood red skin, the face of an old traffic accident, long white hair, and menacing white mutton chops!

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* In the live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film, Barricade's holographic driver was a police officer simply called "mustache man" by the filmmakers.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'': Mario and Luigi are mustachioed heroes, as a simple mouth on the primitive game sprites wouldn't show as well. In ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'', "Stache" is the statistic with the functions normally associated with Luck.

* Dr. Eggman from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series has a moustache, and so does some of his robots.

* Hanamichi Sakuragi from ''Anime/SlamDunk'' has one of these in the first part of the series. [[spoiler:He [[ImportantHaircut shaves it later]] as self-punishment for the loss against Kainan.]]
* ''[[{{Anime/SpaceDandy}} Space Dandy]]'': The titular Dandy's pompadour is, well, dandy. And it's [[{{RecycledInSpace}} in space]], too!

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By default {{Heroes}} tend towards clean shaves, whether it's because of artistic inertia or simple cultural popularity is up for grabs.[[note]]It is worth noting that the last United States President with any facial hair whatsoever is William Howard Taft, meaning our last century of Presidents has been clean-shaven.[[/note]] Sometimes movies made in countries or/of eras that are friendlier to facial hair have a higher number of heroes and extras with beards and moustaches, though it is still very common to find anachronistically clean shaven male main characters. A full, thick, and above all '''well trimmed''' beard is almost always a sign of the good guys (Dwarves, TheMentor, Santa, etc). You will never, ever see a good character with a [[YellowPeril Fu Manchu]] moustache, nor one with a pencil thin moustache, unless you are watching an Creator/ErrolFlynn movie, or in fact any movie from the 1930s or 40s. [[PermaStubble Stubbles]] are an exception, as they're usually a sign of {{Antihero}}ism and badassitude.

* Mr Bumpo, the ComicRelief roommate of the ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' has a mustache, making him look like a more obese version of Hardy.

* The "halfbreed" demon Balthazar in ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' wears his hair slicked back very precisely.
* Orm from ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'' has silvery-white slicked-back hair and is the BigBad in ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}''.

* BigBad Scar from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' has a Slicked-Back mane.
* Loki from ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''. Played with, because he is the BigBad in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', but becomes an AntiHero in the next three films, and still keeps wearing his black hair this way. However, in ''The Avengers'' where he is at his worst it is very styled and oily, while later it gets looser and notably more curly.

It used to be that things were simple: {{The Hero}}es had faces smoother than a baby's bottom and {{Villains}} had long, thin, oily [[DastardlyWhiplash moustaches to twirl]] after tying the DistressedDamsel to a [[ChainedToARailway set of train tracks]]. Then along came the grizzled [[TheDrifter Drifter]] with his five o'clock shadow, TheGunslinger with his proud beard, and other {{Antihero}}es who broke out of old archetypes. Thanks to these brave pioneers in the fight for facial follicle freedom it's been okay for heroes to have beards, villains to be clean-shaven, and {{Antihero}}es to blur the lines. However, much like superhero costumes there are still guidelines for who can get away with what.

* Comicbook/DoctorStrange occasionally sports a goatee. All his incarnations (except for a DorkAge version best forgotten) have had some variety of 'stache.

* This was subverted in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', when Bender's goateed twin Flexo turned out to be good, whereas Bender himself was basically the "evil" Bender.