History Main / TimePassageBeard

* {{Parodied|Trope}} in a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fancomic, which takes place several years post-canon [[https://www.tumblr.com/diadraws/716316397427474432/me-and-my-girlfriend-were-talking-abt-the-funniest because it is postulating that]] the funniest possible time for the InternalReveal of the TwoPersonLoveTriangle between the show's leads would be their wedding day. The first panel has an artist's note explaining that they [[LazyArtist didn't feel like designing Ladybug's future appearance]], so they [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS05E04Jubilation just gave her a moustache]].

* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'': The epilogue reveals that Gavin grew his PermaStubble into a mustacheless chinstrap beard.

** Tom Paris grows one in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E5Alice Alice]]" as he spends most of his time fixated on fixing up the titular shuttlecraft and eventually becoming its slave]].

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* ''WebVideo/ThePerfectCastlevaniaTimeline'' depicts both [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon Nathan Graves]] and [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin Jonathan Morris]] with such beards when they are PassingTheTorch to [[VideoGame/Castlevania64 Reinhardt Schneider]] and [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Julius Belmont]], respectively.
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** The artificially aged Fourth Doctor in "The Leisure Hive" grows an incredibly long beard as the result of the process.
** In the sixth series, the opening two-parter has the Doctor (who had always been beardless previously) imprisoned for several months and growing a beard. It happens again in the season finale.
** Also from the revived ''Series/DoctorWho''; in "The Doctor's Wife", Amy stumbles across Rory's dead body in a RoomFullOfCrazy, having grown a beard, aged, and eventually starved to death. [[spoiler: Don't worry, he gets better.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. At the start of the episode "Hard Time", we see a traumatized Chief O'Brien with one at the end of his twenty-year sentence on an alien world. He then wakes up freshly shaven, as the entire experience was an implanted memory forced on him after a trumped-up accusation of espionage.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
** Tom Paris grows one in the episode "Alice" as he spends most of his time fixated on fixing up the titular shuttlecraft and eventually becoming its slave.
** Averted with Chakotay in "Resolutions", which according to WordOfGod they later regretted, as Chakotay spent months on the planet but as this takes place within a single episode it isn't obvious to the audience. But played straight with the same character (to the point of at least growing a Time-Passage Mustache) in "Year Of Hell Pt. 2" when Chakotay and Tom Paris were held prisoner on board Annorax's time ship.

* Sherlock at the start of the "[[Recap/SherlockS03E01TheEmptyHearse The Empty Hearse]]" episode of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', during which he'd been kept a prisoner in Eastern Europe. He has it all shaved off by a barber upon his rescue. (This is used [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange as symbolic contrast]] to the moustache that John grows.)
* ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}''. Used to show how Vinnie has let himself go after his TenMinuteRetirement from the OCB. He reluctantly comes shambling down from his bedroom to the dinner table, slumps in his seat, then [[RevealShot lifts his head]] to show a beard that would make Film/{{Serpico}} proud.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Blake disappears at the end of season 2, but Avon encounters him as a bearded patient in a hospital a year later (this is also a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as actor Gareth Thomas had grown his beard for a theater role). However this bearded Blake [[LotusEaterMachine turns out to be an illusion]]. When the real Blake turns up at the end of the series, the passage of time is indicated by a nasty facial scar and PermaStubble.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Worlds Apart", the astronaut Christopher Lindy is stranded on an alien planet. At the end of the episode, he has grown a beard.

** In "Psirens", Dave Lister emerges from [[HumanPopsicle two centuries in stasis]] with not only long hair and a huge beard, but excessively long fingernails as well.
** In the Series X episode, "Lemons", the crew find themselves in first-century Albion (England) and discover that, to travel back to Red Dwarf, they'll need Lemons, which haven't been introduced yet, and are only found in India. After the 6-month trek to India, Lister and the Cat are sporting gigantic beards.
** In the Promised Land special, the boys from the dwarf have been kicked out by Holly and are heading off towards a distress signal which has been sent nearby. Lister insists that they will find the ship in no time. Cut to three months later and the two biological members of the cast (The Cat and Lister) have gained long hair and notable beards.

* In the ''/Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel]] "The Big Game" after an extended period of duty during a crisis Commander Sisko is on his way to having a beard which he looked forward to shaving off after the crisis was over.

* A literal version in ''A Study in Murder'' by Robert Ryan. [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Dr. Watson]] gets thrown into solitary confinement while a POW in Germany and tries to judge the passage of time by the length of his beard hair.

->''"Know your beard," Holmes had once taught him. "It is a reliable measure for the passage of time, when ''in extremis''."''

->''"Know your beard," Holmes had once taught him. "It is a reliable measure for the passage of time, when ''in extremis''."

* Spoofed in the ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo!'' episode "Finding Hershel", Master Yo instructs Yin and Yang to watch a seemingly-harmless rock named Hershel for their training. After an unspecified amount of time, the twins started to grow beards. Growing impatient, Yang rips off his beard in frustration while Yin shaves hers off while complaining.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish]]'', Puss goes into retirement after losing his [[CatsHaveNineLives first eight lives]]. After a short montage, he's shown with a beard for a decent portion of the movie.

* {{Parodied|Trope}} in an episode of ''Series/ModernFamily''. In the episode, Phil has bought a crosstrainer. After a while, he loses interest in it and throws a towel over a camera attached to it. When he removes the towel months later, he's suddenly sporting a huge, grey beard - which turns out to be part of the Halloween costume he's wearing.

* ''WebVideo/ThePerfectCastlevaniaTimeline'' depicts both [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon Nathan Graves]] and [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin Jonathan Morris]] with such beards when they are PassingTheTorch to [[VideoGame/Castlevania64 Reinhardt Schneider]] and [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Julius Belmont]], respectively.

* In the ''Videogame/GodOfWar'', Kratos' facial hair grows from a short goatee during his time in Greece to a full-on beard in Nordic Europe.

* In one scene in the "Blood Gulch Chronicles" of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Church spends a thousand years standing in a hallway waiting for a computer to fabricate a teleporter ([[CerebusRetcon ...maybe]]). By the end of it, Church has a massive beard drawn on his sprite. Played for laughs, given he's in a robotic body at this point. Developer commentary revealed that at they wanted the computer involved in the scene to have one too, for RuleOfFunny. They ultimately decided against it, citing it as ''too'' ridiculous for the storyline at hand.

* Subverted in ''Machinima/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'' when the party is stranded after the Tiny Bronco is shot down. Cloud is shown to have a full beard, but it's then revealed only fifteen minutes have passed and Cloud merely glued hair from his head onto his face.

** In episode 4 of ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'', Lupin deliberately turns himself in to Inspector Zenigata and refuses to allow the others to help him escape from prison, instead he comes up with his own method that involves waiting for two years. After the year-long time skip, Lupin has a long scraggly beard.

* Female version in ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' after Snow White is [[spoiler: shot in the head by Goldilocks]] at the end of the Animal Farm storyline, she spends the next year recovering, which is shown by her [[spoiler: post-surgery]] clean-shaven head growing out to her usual past-the-shoulder-length locks in the end-of-book montage. This montage also shows the time that was spent in cleaning up the mess from the [[spoiler: failed revolution]], allowing a reset without trivializing the scenario.

* Creator/TomHanks's character in ''Film/CastAway'' after living for four years on an island.

* In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'', Max's iconic BeardOfSorrow happens to be an example of this. He's clean-shaven in the first chapter and sports a full beard by Chapter 7, roughly a week and a half later.

** In episode 4 of ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'', Lupin deliberately turns himself in to Inspector Zenigata and refuses to allow the other to help him escape from prison, instead he comes up with his own method that involves waiting for two years. After the two-year time skip, Lupin has a long scraggly beard.

* In ''ComicBook/RevengeOfTheGreenGoblin'', Peter's facial hair gradually increases in "Trick of the Light" to show the amount of time that's passed as he remains Norman's prisoner. By the end of it he has a full beard.

* At the end of ''Series/TwentyFour'''s fifth season, Jack is taken prisoner by the Chinese government and held there for nearly two years. When he's released in the following season he how has a long, unkempt beard as well as shaggy hair, similar to the James Bond example.

** In the Series X episode, "Lemons", the crew find themselves in first-century Albion (England), and discover that, to travel back to Red Dwarf, they'll need Lemons, which haven't been introduced yet, and are only found in India. After the 6-month trek to India, Lister and the Cat are sporting gigantic beards.

* ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'' parodies it with the Necronomicon ending -- all of the other character FakedRipVanWinkle the player and wears long white fake beards -- including Claptrap, a robot.

** In one episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'', Lupin deliberately turns himself in to Inspector Zenigata and refuses to allow the other to help him escape from prison, instead he comes up with his own method that involves waiting for two years. After the two-year time skip, Lupin has a long scraggly beard.
** An episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' had Lupin holing himself up in a cabin for four months trying to figure a way around a safe's complex security system. His short hair has become shaggy and he's grown a beard in the interim. (Jigen also notes [[GeniusSlob Lupin's in dire need of a bath]].)