Basic Trope: A female has some sort of visible facial hair.
- Straight: Alice has a thick moustache.
- Exaggerated: Alice has a beard that's as long as her long hair.
- Downplayed: Alice has a pencil thin moustache.
- Justified:
- Alice has grown a beard because of some Applied Phlebotinum or magic.
- Alice has a medical condition such as hirsuitism that causes her to sprout excessive facial hair.
- Alice is a member of a fantasy race (e.g. dwarf) whose females naturally grow beards.
- Alice is a kind of animal (such as a walrus, orangutan, yak, cat, or goat) that has/appears to have facial hair regardless of gender.
- Alice is wearing a false beard as a disguise or as part of a costume.
- Alice is (or at least was) a proto-human from before facial hair became tied to gender.
- Alice is intersex or a trans woman.
- Alice is abusing steroids.
- Inverted: In a situation where men are supposed to have Manly Facial Hair or Carpet of Virility, Bob has no hair at all.
- Subverted:
- Alice is shown with a full beard, but it later is revealed to be a fake...
- A feminine-looking person with a beard is seen, but it turns out that the person is actually a man that was mistaken for a woman.
- Double Subverted: ... but under the fake beard she still got some hair growing.
- Parodied:
- Alice's mustache is very big; she does not even know her gender!
- Alice looks like a perfectly feminine woman... except she has a mustache.
- Zig Zagged: Lucy, a sorceress has made Alice grown a beard but Alice shaves it off. She then wears a fake one to convince Lucy that she hasn't shaved it off but Lucy doesn't buy into it, and makes Alice grow a beard again under her fake one.
- Averted: Alice doesn't have facial hair.
- Enforced: "This show has a circus. We gotta have the bearded lady!"
- Lampshaded: "I didn't know girls could grow beards!"
- Invoked: Alice convinces a wizard to give her a beard.
- Exploited: Alice exploits her facial hair to disguise herself as a man, because who would think women could have mustaches too?
- Defied: Alice shaves off her beard every time it starts to grow.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I wonder why that woman in that show has a beard."
- Implied: At morning, Alice is shown applying shaving cream to her face.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice faces the full brunt of the world's hostility towards those who don't conform to our gender norms.
- Alice is insecure about the fact that she can grow a beard because she fears that it'll make her look unattractive.
- Reconstructed:
- Ha! As if she cares.
- Someone actually falls in love with Alice, and they even see Alice's facial hair as an attractive feature.
- Played For Laughs: Lucy complains that Alice, a tomboy, isn't very ladylike, the next shot then cuts to Alice shown with a full beard saying "What do you mean?".
- Played For Drama: Alice is only seen as "that girl with a beard", and it wears at her sense of personal identity, since all anyone wants to do is marvel at her.
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