History Main / GoodHairEvilHair

* The legendary Solid Snake, from ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', sports stubble in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' (and in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'', not that you can tell). As with many other things, he most likely got it from [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plissken]].

** Solid Snake has the 'throwback' mullet, although he started out roughly contemporary with the style. He's shown with one in a flashback in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' (1998), but cuts it off before the start of the game, as a nod to the change in fashion since his previous appearance in 1990. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', it's supposed to be a reference to Snake Plissken's hair, mentioned above.

** The three main heroic male characters in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'' all have mullets. Venom Snake has the established "Snake" mullet haircut, Kazuhira Miller has a pompadour mullet, and Revolver Ocelot has a sort of undercut mullet. JustifiedTrope as the game is set in 1984.

* OlderThanPrint: The first example is Merlin, Myth/KingArthur's famous advisor, who is always drawn/filmed/described as having a long beard, which was copied by Gandalf and Dumbledore.
** Subverted by the [[Series/Merlin2008 BBC series]], which depicts Merlin as a clean-shaven teenager.

* ''Film/{{Ghost}}'': Patrick Swayze, a clear case of the cool-but-sensitive mullet.

* ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'': Bill "the Butcher" has an extravagant handlebar moustache, villainous Bowery Boys [[NiceHat stovepipe hat]] about 16 inches long, and sideburns. [[MemeticMutation Fear the 'stache]]!

%%* Inverted by Franky from ''Anime/OnePiece''. It also functions as ExpressiveHair.

* Jiraiya from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has [[RapunzelHair hair down to his waist]], which gets even longer when he enters Sage Mode.

** Oliver Queen started out clean-shaven in the comic-books as well. When Denny O'Neil started writing him and he became a hippie (Queen, that is, not O'Neil), he grew his goatee in part to signify that he was 'hip' and 'sticking it to TheMan'. That, and it would offer a nice contrast with his clean-shaved temporary partner Hal "ComicBook/GreenLantern" Jordan.

* Shaggy on ’'Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' has always had a goatee, even as a pre-pubescent.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', Vergil, Dante's evil twin and main villain of the third game, has slicked-back hair. The game even includes two dramatic cutscenes of him slicking it back after it gets out of place, and [[SuperMovePortraitAttack seeing him do this]] in ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 UMvC3]]'' heralds [[LimitBreak incoming pain]].

* In ''ComicBook/TraggAndTheSkyGods'', Zorek, the commander of the AlienInvasion, sports a green Fu Manchu moustache (all Yargonians have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]]). Not helped by the fact that Yargonians look vaguely Asiatic; having golden skin and slanted eyes.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'': Yazan Gable has a blonde pompadour, which earned him the FanNickname of "Space WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead".
* Inverted by Franky from ''Anime/OnePiece''. It also functions as ExpressiveHair.
* JP from ''{{Anime/REDLINE}}'' has a pompadour that, in reality, would collapse under its own weight.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', John "Franchise/GreenLantern" Stewart both [[ImportantHaircut shaved his head]] {{bald| of awesome}} ''and'' grew a goatee.

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** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Aang.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Captain Picard.
** ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': Professor X.
** ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'': Max Payne.

* BaldOfEvil
** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': Lex Luthor.
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* Claggart in ''Literature/BillyBudd'' is described as having "silken jet curls". You can tell he's ChaoticEvil.

* Telemain the magician from [[Literature/TheEnchantedForestChronicles The Enchanted Forest Chronicles]] sports a goatee. While he is unquestionably on the side of good, his [[SolitarySorceress line of work]] puts him on the mysterious side for most people.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'': Unicron has a Fu Manchu, which is appropriate for a PlanetEater. Scourge from the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Transformers| Generation 1}}'' has a metal Fu Manchu, as do his clones (made by Unicron).

* Subverted in ''Anime/CodeGeass'', where several female characters have hair like this (Nunnally, Marianne, Shirley, Euphy), but the one with the longest and wavier hair is... a ''cute little boy'' named V.V.

* Max Carrigan of ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' isn't precisely in the antihero category (more like the leftovers in the TwoGuysAndAGirl setup) but features something resembling perma-stubble in his earlier scenes and something closer to a scruffy hippie beard in the later.

* BumblingDad Richard Moore/Mouri Kogoro of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' has such a mustache (in his younger days, he looked a bit like [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]).

* [[PrivateDefective Kogoro Mouri]], [[TheLestrade Juzo Megure]] and [[DaChief Heizo Hattori]] in ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. Also Yusaku Kudo, [[SubvertedTrope despite not being a policeman and only VERY rarely acting as a detective]].

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

* Stand-up comedian Creator/RichardHerring explored the negative connotations of the toothbrush moustache in his show [[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/14/richard-herring-behind-the-joke-hitler-moustache ''HitlerMoustache'']]. As part of the act he grew an actual toothbrush moustache and, in a particularly risky case of DyingForYourArt, kept it for a year.

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

Whether a woman's hairstyle is good or evil depends on when the show was filmed. The good hairstyle of 2009--long, sexy, but not too smooth--would have been seen only on a villain (like Cruella Deville) fifty years earlier. In contrast, the bad hairstyle of 2009--big, teased, with floofy bangs--was the good hairstyle of 1985. The implication is that heroines are slaves of fashion while villains are dowdy and out of date.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Velen.

* Both Gorion and Elminster from ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' have the wizard beard variety.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' recruiting Warden, Duncan.

* Soichiro Yagami in ''Manga/DeathNote'' (with the exception of the live-action movies)--subject to a LampshadeHanging about he is "obviously a cop".

* Captain Gordon from ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' sported a badass moustache, which suited a character so awesome he only spoke English in a Japanese movie (that and he was willing to take on Godzilla in a ''fistfight'').

* In ''{{Film/RoadGames}}'', the trucker Pat Quid has a typical blue collar 80s moustache. He is stalked by a {{serial killer}} with an unkempt beard and mullet.

* Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'''s Captain Stottlemeyer sports this distinctive mustache.

* In keeping with some of the more "mildly trustworthy" points on the scale illustrated, Ray Carling from ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'' and ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' has a droopy moustache which could either be full or the "RS Jake" horseshoe, and he is often rather more on the CowboyCop end of things for Sam Tyler or Alex Drake's comfort.

* Colonel Stephon Ely, from the ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}'' series of games, has a thick moustache and chomps a cigar (which he never actually smokes, probably because the actor didn't).
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' has over-the-top 70s muttonchops in the same style as the 'Friendly chops/Irish cop' diagram on the page image, signifying his DiscoDan LifeOfTheParty version of being a cop.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', where Dothraki men wear their hair long. It's considered the height of masculinity, as a warrior must cut his hair if he loses a fight. The longer his hair, the longer he's been winning. Khal Drogo died with his hair never cut--not many men can say that.

* Both [[ComicBook/IronMan Comicverse]] and [[Film/IronMan Movieverse]] versions of Tony Stark have been known to rock the goatee.

* Doctor Strange in ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' has a goatee just like his comic book counterpart.

** No, but you can count the heroes on the [[MagnificentBastard Vetinari Team]]…
* It's debatable whether he's a good character, an AntiHero, or just a MagnificentBastard, but Willy Wonka sports a black goatee. At least in the [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory original book]] he does: [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory both films]] and virtually all of the parodies have him appear clean-shaven. Creator/DouglasHodge went with a (makeup-assisted) chin tuft '''and''' thin, neatly-shaped mustache as Wonka in [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the 2013 stage adaptation]], a combination that suggests this particular Wonka is, indeed, antiheroic. His successor in the role, Alex Jennings, returned to the clean-shaven approach (though when he first publicly performed as the character at the 2014 Olivier Awards, he ''did'' have the hair, and understudies follow Hodge's example).
* Atticus O'Sullivan from ''Literature/IronDruidChronicles'' typically wears a red goatee.

* Telemachus Rhade from ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' is another WarriorPoet who carried a goatee.
* Ronon Dex of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' is another goateed ProudWarriorRaceGuy.

* Marcus Cole of ''Series/BabylonFive'' has very villain-typical black hair and facial hair, despite being heroic, self-sacrificing, and occasionally outright silly.
* Entirely {{lampshaded}} by Abed in ''Series/{{Community}}'' when he cuts out construction paper black goatees and gives them to the newly christened Evil Study Group, an ''alternate universe'' evil version of the Greendale gang.

* Ezio Auditore da Firenze from the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series. Since we meet Ezio when he is seventeen and see the rest of his life, we also see the development of the beard.
* The Prince in the ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia'' series sports a goatee, but is a fairly classic hero much of the time.

* ComicBook/RasAlGhul--one of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s arch-nemeses.
* In ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', Asian dictator/terrorist Kaizen Gamorra is depicted with one.

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

* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'': Ming the Merciless--the name says it all.

* Averted with Mysto from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}''. He is the heroic leader of the Nindjas, and sports a Fu Manchu to highlight his OldMaster personality.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' the villainous Lord Shen had a pair of feathers on the sides of his beak that resembles a Fu Manchu. He's noticeably one of the few characters in the franchise to have facial structures akin to human hairstyles.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' played this one straight: Elan's evil twin Nale sports a goatee--and Haley, being GenreSavvy, suspected he was evil well before it was actually revealed for exactly this reason. Nale later takes advantage of this by [[spoiler:cutting off his own goatee and sticking it to Elan's chin with Sovereign Glue]]. Nale also later admits he sports a goatee in honour of this trope, saying it is not just for show, it is a part of the Linear Guild's whole evil opposites theme.

* Dr. Reinhardt in the Disney movie ''Film/TheBlackHole''--he gave the crew of his science vessel a [[TheVirus fate worse than death]] when they wanted to go home.
* Daniel Curry's character Shepherd in the movie ''Film/{{CHUD}}'' had a scraggly beard and wild hair, and yet was one of the film's heroes. He ran a homeless shelter.

* Because it fits best here… there's an MSTing of an Internet post based around ''the link between facial hair, evolution, and aliens''. Read it [[http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.tv.mst3k/msg/4a1fc5459a36e1d1 here]].

* Shen/Hero from ''Manga/DragonBall'' has this kind of mustache.
* The [[DirtyOldMan perverted]] Chou-shan from ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan'' has a toothbrush mustache likely to show him as a silly character as befitting of the InEffectualSympatheticVillain leader of a TerribleTrio.
* The father of Suneo, one of the main characters in ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' has a toothbrush mustache which is edited out of the Disney XD localization.

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

* Snoops the BumblingSidekick to the BigBad from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' has a thinly haired version of this kind of moustache.

* One of Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/BlackWidowers'' mysteries averts this when a distinctly admirable high-school principal is described as having "a brief moustache of the kind Adolf Hitler had put out of fashion for at least a generation."

* 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.

* It was also included as a wearable item in the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS version of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''.

* Some of the random background character men in Creator/HannaBarbera have moustaches of this type.
* In one skit of one episode of the Creator/CartoonNetwork show, ''WesternAnimation/{{Mad}}'', there is a light grey dog dressed up as his owner Rick who has a slightly lighter grey moustache of this type.

* Parodied by Sheriff Buford T. Justice in the ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' movies.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'': Rhett Butler.

* The con artist and male GoldDigger that is the villain of ''Film/TilliesPuncturedRomance'' has an ObviouslyEvil pencil mustache. Interestingly, he is played by Creator/CharlieChaplin in an early career PlayingAgainstType moment.

* Snidely Whiplash of ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight''.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': ISB Agent Kallus' spectacular sideburns/muttonchops head ''straight'' into MemeticHair territory. [[spoiler:After his HeelFaceTurn between seasons 2 and 3, he no longer fits in the "evil" category, though he still has them.]]

* Shinobu Sensui, ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''.

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

* Gordon Gekko, greedy businessman, ''Film/WallStreet''.

* Agent Smith, ''Film/TheMatrix''.

* Hannibal Lecter in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''. In the books his hair is even described as "otter-like."
* The "halfbreed" demon Balthazar in ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' wears his hair slicked back very precisely.

* Matt Dillon in ''My Bodyguard''

* Michael Corleone, after he becomes head of the family in ''Film/TheGodfather'' Part I and II.

* Kevin of ''Film/AdoptingTerror''

* General Hux from ''Franchise/StarWars''.

* Orm from ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'' has silvery-white slicked-back hair and is the BigBad in ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}''.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/FireEmblem 7'', where Hector sports slicked-back hair but he's HotBlooded and one of [[TwoGuysAndAGirl the]] [[PowerTrio three]] [[TheHero heroes]] of the game.

* Stewie Griffin from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' as a ShoutOut to Franchise/HannibalLecter.

* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Tony Almeida of CTU had one during his entire run on the show, from good guy to antihero to [[spoiler:AlmostDeadGuy to BackFromTheDead Guy]]. In fact, "Soul Patch" was his nickname in all the Website/TelevisionWithoutPity recaps.

* Jack from ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' sports one before [[spoiler:getting his face sorta [[BodyHorror disfigured]] at the end of the base game]].

* The mercenary drow elf Downer, titular AntiHero of the [[http://paizo.com/store/comics/downer comic]] by Kyle Hunter, sports tousled hair and shaggy side-burns despite the fact that D elves usually have no facial or body hair. But then, Downer is a tough-as-nails loveable rogue and proven loser who only survives by wit, reflexes, dark gallows-humour and a lot of fast-talking his way out of situations (except when he actually dies, which happens a couple of times, and is brought back from the dead by magic, usually to punish him further).

* Max Carrigan of ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' isn't precisely in the antihero category (more like the leftovers in the TwoGuysAndAGirl setup) but features something resembling perma-stubble in his earlier scenes and something closer to a scruffy hippie beard in the later.

* Gregory House of ''Series/{{House}}'' usually has this. In fact, being shaved in a 5th season episode was an indication that he is a bit OutOfCharacter.

* [[ParentalAbandonment Jecht]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' and ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' bears heavy facial stubble throughout both games.

* Yusuke and Kuwabara in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''

* Inverted by Franky from ''Anime/OnePiece''. It also functions as ExpressiveHair.
* Himegawa Tatsuya of ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' has an impressive example although some believe it has to be a wig. He denies this.
** Aizawa also sports a smaller version.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'': Yazan Gable has a blonde pompadour, which earned him the FanNickname of "Space WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead".
* JP from ''{{Anime/REDLINE}}'' has a pompadour that, in reality, would collapse under its own weight.

* In ''Film/CaptainThunderbolt'', TheGunslinger protagonist has a Teddy Boy quiff. The villainous RabidCop has a bushy beard.

* Similarly, Fonzie of ''Series/HappyDays'' has "juvenile delinquent" hair and rides a motorcycle, but is really a nice guy.

* Winston Payne, of all people, has a pompadour in the flashback chapter of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' (but loses it in spectacular fashion).
* Some of the Date soldiers from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' have pompadours. It should be noted that this is [[AnachronismStew feudal Japan]] we're talking about.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' series has this type of haircut available for any character though it's popularized by womanizer pre-created character Don Lothario in trailers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Snake the valley-boy criminal has a high pompadour which curls up in the back. In one Halloween special, Snake donates his hair after being executed. Homer gets it, and his [[EvilHand new evil hairstyle]] possesses him to go on a killing spree.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Yamcha or Jeice.

* ''Film/HardTarget'': Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's greaseball Jheri curl mullet is a very late variant of the Action Mullet, appearing around the time both of these trends were on the verge of inglorious death.
* ''Film/TheTerminator'' gives Sarah Connor an absolutely enormous femullet.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' gives Gladio an interesting undercut mullet that's a cross between the action mullet, and the cool-modern-Japanese-boy mullet.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'': Lance "Avalanche" Alvers.

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

* Blake and Gan from ''Series/BlakesSeven'' both have curly hair and are both (initially) the most innocent characters - Gan is literally incapable of killing anyone in a LifeIsCheap universe and Blake remains a comparatively innocent idealist in a crew comprised of convicted criminals - he is the only one innocent of the charges against him.

* Manga/CountCain's Jezebel, who is an AxCrazy antagonist ''and'' possesses a childlike innocence.
* Griffith of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' has this as part of his WhiteHairBlackHeart package. He's more cold and ruthless than AxCrazy though.

* Johnathan Teatime from ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' has boyish blond curls... and is also [[ProfessionalKiller an assassin]] [[PsychoForHire so depraved]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards he scares the other assassins]].
* Claggart in ''Literature/BillyBudd'' is described as having "silken jet curls". You can tell he's ChaoticEvil.

%%* Lynda Day of ''Series/PressGang''.

* The Makara family in ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' all have curly hair of an impressive size. [[spoiler:They worship the [[BigBad main villain]] and his [[TheDragon dragon]].]] There's also )(er Imperious Condescension, who has spectacularly large and curly hair, to the point where one wonders how she can handle it underwater.

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* Jiraiya from ''Manga/Naruto'' has [[RapunzelHair hair down to his waist]], which gets even longer when he enters Sage Mode.