The Keenest Of Them All
Why was Spock replaced? He's the perfect example since his "good" counterpart is clean shaven and he's exceptionally well-known.
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Being well-known and an example doesn't mean he's universally known and the evilness is evident in the image.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
But the current picture is universally known? More so than the trope codifier?
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No. However, the current picture does demonstrate the trope better than the old image of Spock. Popularity doesn't matter* — it's more illustrative, so it got on the page.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
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Some examples that need attention:
Comic books
- Although Aquaman has never been truly evil, he was at his most unsavory throughout the 1990s, where he, with his ZZ Top style beard, was exemplary of the '90s Anti-Hero craze and bordered on a Darker and Edgier parody of himself at times.
- Doctor Steel. Though not so much evil as mad...
- Inverted in Fiddler on the Roof.
- Alatriste: While beards and mustaches were fashionable for 17th-century Spaniards, badass good guys (like Alatriste) tended to choose the Badass Mustache differentiating themselves from mere sidekicks (Squire ?igo or Alatriste's shaved friend Cop? while more evil characters (Count-Duke of Olivares; conspirator Alqu?r; professional assassin Malatesta; corrupt cop Salda?and goateed-but-unmustachioed Inquisitor Bocanegra) hid their chins. Certain friendly characters (Quevedo, Guadalmedina) used mustache plus goatee but not beard.
This sounds good, but I don't know how to fix the botched formatting (the question marks eating the character names).
Support stupid freshness, yo.
Megamind is bald AND has an evil goatee. Plus, he's a space alien. Card-carrying villain, indeed. :)
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Split off "Evil Twins Have Goatees"?
, started by nrjxll on Sep 13th 2011 at 1:34:35 AM
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