History Main / MustacheVandalism

* The WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder episode “The Little Guy” shows the [[{{Mooks}} Watchdogs]] being briefed on capturing Wander and Sylvia. Complete with their [[Wanted!Poster Wanted Posters]] being defaced with spikes, sharp teeth, devil horns, and a mustache/goatee.

* ''ComicBook/Rocky'': During a Swedish election season in the mid-2000's, Rocky and Rippo are walking through a park and comment on the various candidate posters, with Rocky pointing out the cliche of drawing a gap tooth on posters like the one they're looking at, only for Rippo to point out that this particular politician actually ''has'' a gap tooth in real life, and it's not a case of vandalism. Rocky decides that this is genius, and that said politician should grow a Hitler moustache and have devil horns attached to his forehead just to be one step ahead on any future would-be poster vandals.

Others are [[{{Pun}} just plain nuts]]\\

Generally a comedy trope, it can show the vandal to have carefree humor. Can also be used more seriously, to show mild dislike for someone. Compare FaceDoodling, where this is done to a live person while they're asleep/unconscious. A milder sister trope to DartboardOfHate.

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* A card in the ''On the Edge'' collectible card game only worked if you permanently defaced it in this fashion... ruining its resale value.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1759907/43/Death-is-a-Blessing Death is a Blessing]]'' Harry gets so fed up with Mrs. Black's portrait that he draws a padlocked zipper over her mouth and then uses wandless magic to make it a permanent part of the portrait.

* In one of his monologues on ''My Word!'', Frank Muir speculates on whether various artworks only achieved greatness by accident. One of his suggestions is that "The Laughing Cavalier" would have been exhibited as clean-shaven if Hals hadn't left it against the wall of a [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground tube]] station while he bought his ticket.

* One of the first ''Football Follies'' clip shows/specials featured this in the bumpers, done to stills of a player. One has a pre-defaced image, followed by it being 'shaved' off quickly!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'':

* This is the 'crime' committed in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' episode "Masterstroke of Malevolence". Fillmore and Third must discover the identity of the vandal before the ink dries so the restorer can identify the brand of marker used and save the portrait. [[spoiler:It wasn't actually vandalism, [[RedHerring despite one student doing this kind of thing regularly]], it was the original artist adding a detail his patron demanded he left out.]]

* In the title sequence of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the title characters draw a mustache on what looks like a painting of Candace, until [[StandInPortrait she pops her head out of the picture frame to yell at Phineas]]. The use of this trope is the result of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, though. Phineas was intended to be a lot brattier than the NiceGuy everyman he eventually became, leaving this part of the opening rather odd in hindsight.
** The trope is later taken to its extreme in "Perry the Actorpus", where Dr. Doofenshmirtz invents a Mustache-inator, a device that grows a real, thick mustache on any person (or object) it hits.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' and Shaggy have done this many times, usually with the "painting/statue coming to life" variation.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In "One Bad Apple," Babs Seed does this to the Cutie Mark Crusaders during the musical portion of the episode.
** In "A Bird in the Hoof", Philomena sneaks around drawing mustaches on a WantedPoster that Celestia's guards put up.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
** In episode "Fanning the Flames", Sam draws things on a giant cardboard cut out of Ember [=McClain=].
** The first thing Technus does as soon as he's freed from Danny's old game of Doomed is to open a paint program with a picture of Danny's crush Paulina and draw a mustache and massive glasses on her. When he gets transferred to Tucker's PDA, he does the exact same thing to Tucker's copy of Paulina's picture.
** Later, once Technus beams himself into the mainframe of the Fenton RV, he does the exact same to a picture of [[BumblingDad Jack Fenton]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'':
** The cartoon "WesternAnimation/TouchePussyCat" shows Nibbles using an artist brush to paint a caricature of Tom on a wall. When Nibbles realizes that Tom is glaring at him, Nibbles paints spectacles and a mustache on Tom's face.
** In "The Lonesome Mouse", Jerry draws a Hitler mustache on a picture of Tom before spitting at it. Unsurprisingly, this scene often gets cut from reruns.
** In the 1975 short "The Supercape Caper", one of the villains, who is called the Mustache, gleefully draws mustaches on posters everywhere, but is caught after he marks up the face of a live policeman.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''. [[spoiler: ''Clowns'' are the ''new'' mustaches.]]

* "Better Off Undead" of ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'' shows Leonard defacing a WantedPoster of him. Having, of all, ''Mark'' wanting him drawn and quartered is quite an achievement...even for Leonard.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'':
** The short "WesternAnimation/SenorDroopy", the main character's BerserkButton is activated when the bull he is fighting defaces the picture of a beautiful Spanish woman he is holding (Mexican actress Lina Romay) with a moustache.
** The gag appears in "One Droopy Knight", where a dragon defaces a picture of the princess Droopy wants to marry.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** When Springfield Elementary is snowed in and the kids take over, Milhouse draws mustaches on a bunch of portraits of former presidents, but is clueless about what to do when he reaches UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft, who [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/William_Howard_Taft_1909.jpg already had one]].
** Happens in the episode "American History X-cellent".
* A very rare example of an ''unintentional'' version of this trope: "Trude und ihr Tier" (in Series/DieSendungMitDerMaus). Selfsame animal (think a two-meter {{Series/Alf}}) simulates being busy and scribbles around in a fashion calendar or such without realizing what he does.
* Two wanted posters of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in ''Fresh Hare'' are defaced with graffiti, most likely by Bugs himself. One poster has a fake mustache and tongue sticking out, while the other has Bugs looking like UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'':
** "The Music Awards, Part 2" has Pizzazz hang-gliding and using a laser gun to vandalize a billboard of Jem by burning a mustache onto Jem's face.
** In the second part of the two-part episode "The Jem Jam", Techrat can be seen drawing a mustache on a computer monitor depicting Pizzazz's face during the musical number "Gimme a Gimmick".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Painting", Gumball and Darwin draw a mustache on Miss Simian's portrait in Principal Brown's office as he's lecturing their parents on how to be a better influence on their sister, Anaïs.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': "Man Up 3: The Good, The Bad and the Manly" has the villain Man Boy planting mustaches on everything and everyone with a special cannon. When Bubbles gets hit, her mustache drives her power-crazy, even rendering Man Boy into a simpering wuss.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids'' episode "The Great Brain Robbery", a flashback shows Melvin doing this to the Harvey Girls' Horn-A-Corn dolls, then the girls themselves.
* ''Animation/MrKrbecAndHisAnimals'': Two unruly boys who are visiting Castle Kulikov with their father attempt to draw a pair of glasses on Duke Ruprecht's painting. Ghost Ruprecht is not amused and starts to haunt them with gusto. They totally had it coming.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode "Ready, Aim...Duck!", Donald taunts the Claw while he's in his cell by drawing glasses and facial hair on the Claw's wanted poster.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'', after breaking out of prison, Kitty's EvilTwin Katty swears revenge on her and attempts to vandalize a photo of the two of them, but ends up drawing a mustache, goatee, and glasses on herself instead of Kitty.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E8HotOven Hot Oven]]", after reading Bitsy's letter in the newspaper, Paige draws one on the small, cartoon Bitsy. She and Owen then proceed to further vandalize the small figure.

** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheObstaKillCourse The Obsta-Kill Course]]", one camper, which can only be Alejandro, votes for Mal by handing in a photo of him marked in red with devil horns, a goatee, a mustache, and an extra set of eyebrows to make him look angry.

** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheObstaKillKourse The Obsta-Kill Course]]", one camper, which can only be Alejandro, votes for Mal by handing in a photo of him marked in red with devil horns, a goatee, a mustache, and an extra set of eyebrows to make him look angry.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1759907/43/Death-is-a-Blessing Death is a Blessing]]'' Harry gets so fed up with the portrait of Sirius' mother that he draws a padlocked zipper over her mouth and then uses wandless magic to make it a permanent part of the portrait.

* Dada artist Marcel Duchamp's 1919 artwork "L.H.O.O.Q" is a postcard reproduction of da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" with a hastily drawn mustache and goatee on her face.

* In ''Literature/AdrianMole'', the whole school is summoned before the headmaster, when it is discovered that somebody drew a moustache on the portrait of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher above the headmaster's desk, and wrote "three million unemployed" on her cleavage.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2lGMcNDBY this Froot Loops commercial,]] Toucan Sam paints a picture of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Yoshi]] for Mario, who in turn, paints a mustache on it.

* In the second part of the two-part ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' episode "The Jem Jam", Techrat can be seen drawing a mustache on a computer monitor depicting Pizzazz's face during the musical number "Gimme a Gimmick".