History Main / GoodHairEvilHair

* JohnWaters, hero to [[VulgarHumor some]], villain to [[MoralGuardians others]].

** Indeed, Bill describes him as a RetiredMonster who's massacred hundreds for reasons as petty as not returning to his friendly nod. He just happens to be mentoring the morally grey protagonist for awhile.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' has Gandalf's former peer and friend Saruman after his FaceHeelTurn. [[Film/theLrdOfTherRings The Movie]] even shows how his beard gradually dishevels itself.

* Mad Meg, and a number of other Insane Heroines in the GilbertAndSullivan tradition, are usually portrayed with spectacularly frizzy curly hair.

* As did half the villains from ''[[JourneyToTheWest Monkey]]''.
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "A Witch Shall Be Born", Constantius makes up for not being Asian by twirling his mustache.

* Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta ''{{Ruddigore}}'' is probably the master of this trope: Sir Despard Murgatroyd, the evil Baron of Ruddigore, usually has an evil goatee. Upon his HeelFaceTurn, he shaves it off, whilst his brother Ruthven grows a twirly mustache and does a simultaneous FaceHeelTurn, also donning a monocle and top hat. Upon Ruthven's HeelFaceTurn at the end, he discards these. Also, Ruthven's sidekick Old Adam's beard usually gets much scruffier when he is evil.

This type of hair is [[LongHairIsFeminine a sign of femininity]], both in women and in {{White Haired Pretty Boy}}s. In anime it's a staple of the YamatoNadeshiko. [[HimeCut Add some perfectly level bangs]] and it also suggests an air of courtly, stately grace.

* AxCrazy, SinisterScythe-wielding, WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Hidan from Manga/{{Naruto}} has his hair plastered to his head with industrial strength gel.

* Griffith of ''{{Berserk}}'' has this as part of his WhiteHairedPrettyBoy package. He's more cold and ruthless than AxCrazy though.

* [[BigTroubleInLittleChina David Lo Pan]] had the stereotypical Asian long and wispy beard.

* Gentarou Kisaragi, the hero of ''KamenRiderFourze'', might sport of pompadour and wear clothes more like a delinquent, but the guy's the most nicest person you have ever met.

* Schneider on ''OneDayAtATime''.

* Gordon Freeman of ''{{Half-Life}}'' fame mixes the mentor's full beard with a more compact cut when battling oppression and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Apparently even the G-Man thought it was cool enough to keep, despite being a cold, logical person, and practically ''owning Gordon's soul''.

* According to Tolkien's Appendices to ''TheLordOfTheRings'', almost all {{hobbits}} have curly hair.

* Gandalf's former peer and friend [[TheLordOfTheRings Saruman]] after his FaceHeelTurn. TheMovie even shows how his beard gradually dishevels itself.

By default {{Heroes}} tend towards clean shaves, whether it's because of artistic inertia or simple cultural popularity is up for grabs.[[hottip:*: 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.]] 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 mustaches, 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 (Dwarfs, Santa, mentor characters, etc). TheObiWan often has one. You will never, ever see a good character with a [[YellowPeril Fu Manchu]] mustache, nor one with a pencil thin moustache, unless you are watching an 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 {{Badass}}itude.

Slicked-back hair seems to be a common feature of a number of [[TheBully school bullies]].

This type of moustache is so linked to AdolfHitler that the only peiple that mainstream 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]]. Even Chaplin took advantage of that growing stigma in his lifetime when he made fun of the Führer in ''TheGreatDictator''. Otherwise, if you see a character with such a mustache, outside of older versions of ''Spider-Man'''s J. Jonah Jameson, assume he is one of ThoseWackyNazis:

* In ''FinalFantasyVII'', Rufus Shinra has slicked back hair and starts out as a CorruptCorporateExecutive in the original game. In ''AdventChildren'', he retains the slicked back hair, but turns into a MagnificentBastard working against Kadaj and his crew.
* Seifer of ''FinalFantasyVIII'', a RivalTurnedEvil.

* Ra's al Ghul - One of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s arch-nemeses.

* Barty Crouch has one of these in the ''HarryPotter'' books, for some reason. He's a textbook WellIntentionedExtremist, and he had massive political ambitions in his heyday... it doesn't gel very well, but it does gel just enough to make you wonder if Rowling is just that riled up about government excesses.

* Hermione Granger of the ''HarryPotter'' [[TheVerse book universe]], who is [[InsufferableGenius n]][[{{Tsundere}} o]][[BadassBookworm t]] innocent, but definitely ''is'' LawfulGood. Straight-haired EmmaWatson, however (whose hair has been getting smoother year by year!), plays her in [[Film/HarryPotter the film franchise]].

* Obi-Wan Kenobi of ''StarWars''.

* Belgarath of the ''{{Belgariad}}'' has a neatly trimmed beard. His "brothers" (fellow disciples of the God Aldur) also have beards - long and wispy for the twins Beltira and Belkira, and unkempt birds-nest for Beldin.

* Albus Dumbledore (''HarryPotter'')
* Gandalf (''TheLordOfTheRings'')

These type of characters often have a neat '''full beard''' -- especially if they are [[EccentricMentor a wise old wizard]].

* Commissioner Gordon in most versions of ''{{Batman}}''.

* Ra's al Ghul - One of {{Batman}}'s arch-nemeses.

* Vlad Masters from ''DannyPhantom''. Tied back to a ponytail, but slicked back nonetheless.
* Scar from ''TheLionKing'' has a Slicked-Back mane.

* Oddly, inverted in ''LazyTown'' by the hero Sportacus, who wears a pencil mustache so sharp it looks like it could double as a [[AfraidOfNeedles scalpel]].

* Ironically, the very goatee styled as "Very Evil" in the picture above sat one the only non-evil character in his entire universe: Mirror Spock, who was at worst an anti-hero and more likely a hero with a bad start.