Basic Trope: A male character always manages to stay clean-shaven.
- Straight: Bob forgets to use his razor for a week, but doesn't grow any facial hair.
- Exaggerated: Bob has been out in the wilderness for years without any toiletries; the hair on his head grows long, but his face remains clean-shaven.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is a teenager who hasn't started growing.
- He CAN grow face-hair; it just takes a lot longer than usual.
- Justified:
- Bob mentions that he shaves every morning.
- Bob is transgender and hasn't taken hormones that allow him to grow facial hair.
- Bob isn't a fan of facial hair and is meticulous about it, making him shave his face a lot to make sure that none grows.
- Bob says that he cannot grow facial hair. He cannot wait to.
- Bob is an elf, and his kind simply can't grow facial hair.
- Bob is a young boy who is Not Allowed to Grow Up.
- Even when several years have passed, an adult, clean-shaven Bob is Not Allowed to Grow Old.
- Inverted: Bob looks in the mirror and notices a few hairs on his chin. When he strokes them, they come off his face. They were just a few stray hairs that were from the pillow he was resting his head on.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: Bob does grow facial hair, but it's too short to be considered stubble.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Bob occasionally grows facial hair, but is mostly seen without.
- Averted: Every one of Bob's male friends are also clean-shaven, although some of them occasionally grow facial hair.
- Enforced:
- Bob works in a job that doesn't allow their male employees to grow facial hair.
- Bob is a teenager, who is threatened with a detention if he doesn't shave.
- Lampshaded: Alice points out that she's never seen Bob with facial hair, and asks whether he can grow it.
- Invoked:
- Bob takes some medication that doesn't allow him to grow facial hair.
- There's a Morning Routine montage that features Bob shaving.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob isn't attractive to his crush Alice, who is turned on by facial hair.
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