History Main / GoodHairEvilHair

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

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.

'''[+Curly Hair+]'''. Curly hair, particularly if black/dark brown, often suggests evil and/or AxCrazy tendencies in adults. On the flip side, it can convey extreme innocence, particularly if seen on {{children| are innocent}}.

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Curly hair, particularly if black/dark brown, often suggests evil and/or AxCrazy tendencies in adults. On the flip side, it can convey extreme innocence, particularly if seen on {{children| are innocent}}.

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* Almost every Franchise/DisneyPrincess ever, though averted by WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} and WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} who have shorter 30s and late 40s inspired hairstyles, and Tiana from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' who lives in TheRoaringTwenties.

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

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* The pencil mustache was an iconic trait of Creator/VincentPrice. Who famously played many villains.

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This hairstyle is long associated with greasers in America, and with {{delinquents}} in Japan.

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!Examples of Characters who Exemplify or Just Have Particular Facial and Head Hairstyles:

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* Literature/FuManchu, obviously, has the Fu Manchu moustache (but only since the [[Film/TheMaskOfFuManchu film]] [[Film/TheFiendishPlotOfDrFuManchu adaptations]], not in the original books).

* BigBad Shan Yu in ''WesternAnimation/{{Milan}}'' has the Fu Manchu moustache.

'''The Mullet'''. In media made from about 1984-1995, good guys with the mullet are rock stars, sensitive heartthrobs or ass-kicking {{Hollywood Action Hero}}es, and bad guys with the mullet are the action hero's EvilCounterpart or [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous sexy, androgynous beings]]. In media made ''after'' the mullet became a punchline, good guys with the mullet are {{parody}}/{{pastiche}} 80s GenreThrowback archetypes or tacky but loveable hicks, and bad guys with the mullet are psychopathic 80s action hero deconstructions or bigoted rednecks. See also: EightiesHair.

But eventually, the mullet fell, and once it did, [[DeaderThanDisco it fell hard]]. The cut is tricky to pull off, with most of the men who managed to look amazingly cool and sexy with one - and there ''were'' some - being the kind of men who would look amazingly cool and sexy with any hair. On mortal men, it looks at best like an unfinished short haircut, and, at worst, unhygienic and repulsive. As the {{Camp}} conspicuousness of the 80s faded and was replaced with the disaffection, understatement and [[DeadpanSnarker irony]] of the 90s, the hairstyle became an automatic punchline. Characters wearing a mullet ''after'' 1995 are either styleless middle-aged dads in the Midwest who didn't get the memo to cut their mullet, the DiscoDan, [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim looking stupid in a flashback or period piece]], or {{Pastiche}}y Eighties {{Genre Throwback}} heroes. Only this last group may maintain some of the style, manliness and [[TotallyRadical radness]] the Mullet was once believed to epitomise, but distanced with a layer of referentiality and irony. It should be noted that even in this era, the Mullet is rarely outright ''villainous'' - its humour value is too great for it to be used on serious villains, although you may see it on the odd reactionary old fart or [[SociopathicSoldier sociopathic]] 80s ActionHero [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype deconstruction]].\\

* Most versions of J. Jonah Jameson from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' have this kind of moustache.

* There is, in fact, one of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Halloween specials wherein Snake, the notorious white trash criminal, gives his hair to be donated after he has been executed. It is given to Homer, and the [[EvilHand Evil Hair]] makes him kill Apu, Moe, threaten Bart, and otherwise epitomize Bad.

* The father of Suneo, one of the main characters in ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' has a toothbrush mustache which is edited out of the Disney XD localization.

* Averted with [[NationsAsPeople Germany]] from ''WebComic/AxisPowersHetalia'', who is a decent person, if [[DrillSergeantNasty very]] [[{{Tsundere}} grumpy]].

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Curly hair, particularly if black/dark brown, often suggests evil and/or AxCrazy tendencies in adults. However, it can also convey extreme innocence, particularly if seen on {{children| are innocent}} or {{hobbits}}.

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* Darla Dimple from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', who's a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed thinly-veiled]] evil version of Shirley Temple. She has an... interesting (if painful-looking) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCEDD3cBJA#t=1m46s way of curling it]], too.

** Averted for Soon the paladin, who sports a Fu Manchu.

* Jack Shepherd, from ''Series/{{Lost}}'', not only has five o'clock shadow, it DOESN'T GROW FOR [[OneHundredAndEight 108 DAYS]]. After he leaves the island, though, he is shown with a BeardOfSorrow after three years. Think of all the money he saves on razors.

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

* Almost every Franchise/DisneyPrincess ever, though averted by WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} and WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} who have shorter 30's and late 40's inspired hairstyles, and Tiana from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' who lives in TheRoaringTwenties.

* Loki from ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''. Played with, because he is the BigBad in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', 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.

->''"Under the nightmare of Communism, moustaches were, of course, compulsory."''