History Main / BeardedBaby

[[folder:Films — Animated]]

* ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'': Pubert is born with the same moustache as his father Gomez.

Usually in infancy, except for their hair on their head, a baby is too young to have anything resembling a beard or a moustache. Yet, somehow, some of them have one despite the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology lack of hormones and other substances within their body needed to grow one]], and most of the time it [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight goes]] [[WeirdnessCensor ignored]] by the other characters.

A VisualGag usually PlayedForLaughs. May overlap with {{Gonk}} if it is used to make a baby intentionally not cute and GirlsWithMoustaches if the baby is a girl. May also result from StrongFamilyResemblance if it runs in the family or BeardOfEvil if its used to mark the infant as [[EnfantTerrible evil]], usually in the form of a DastardlyWhiplash.

[[AluminumChristmasTrees Surprisingly]] this ''can'' happen in real life. A medical condition known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precocious_puberty precocious puberty]] can result in a child starting puberty much sooner then usual. In extremely rare cases this can go so far as a boy entering puberty, including growing facial hair, before they're one year old.

* Vegeta from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' once mentioned that Saiyans are born with the same hair they'll have have as adults which made fans wonder if his father, King Vegeta was born with his moustache.

* ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem'': ''Super Mario Bros. No. 3'' has a one page comic called "Family Album: The Early Years", which shows photos of what Mario and Luigi looked like as children. In a few photos, the infant versions of Mario and Luigi are shown with stubble (with the caption for the first photo even saying that Mario was born with a full head of hair and a full face), and the toddler version of Mario is shown with a full mustache.[[note]]Like the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' example, this comic predates the first appearances of Baby Mario and Luigi's canon video game counterparts in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'', neither of whom have mustaches. Mario and Luigi are also not depicted as twins in this comic, a development that Nintendo [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] following the release of ''Yoshi's Island''.[[/note]]

* In ''Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros'', at their show trial the Thompsons are accused of having deliberately grown out their mustache to better blend in in San Theodoros as part of their conspiracy against General Tapioca. They retort, "We were born with our moustaches!".

* In the prologue of ''Film/MeetTheSpartans'', it is shown that Leonidas represents the ideal Spartan as a baby (and thus will not be thrown into the pile where rejected babies are discarded) because he had abs, facial hair and the voice of an adult man.

* In ''[[Creator/DaveBarry Dave Barry's]] Babies and Other Hazards of Sex'', Dave Barry does the folowing joke:
-->''A common fear among new parents is that, as a result of a mix-up in the nursery, some kind of terrible mistake will be made, such as that they'll wind up taking home Yasser Arafat's baby [Note: written in 1984, you can substitute whatever controversial Middle Eastern leader you want here]. This fear is groundless. When a baby is born, a hospital person immediately puts a little plastic tag around it's wrist with the words "NOT YASSER ARAFAT'S BABY" printed on it. So whichever baby you wind up with, you can be sure it isn't his. (the illustration shows a row of babies with "NOT YASSER ARAFAT'S BABY" wrist-tags along with a baby with a turban, beard stubble, machine gun, pistol, and grenade, no wrist-tag.)''

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Helga's Locket", Grandpa Lou reads in the newspaper that a 2 foot baby was born with a 3 foot beard.
* Male historical characters who are popularly known by their facial hair, such as Abraham Lincoln, are routinely depicted with their signature beards and/or mustaches on ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'', even through they'd encountered as small boys.

* Vegeta from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' once mentioned that Saiyans are born with the same hair they'll have have as adults which made fans wonder if his fathe, King Vegeta was born with his moustache.

* Jose Chung's opening narration in the ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' episode "Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense'" mentions that author and cult founder Juggernaut Onan Gupta was born with a full beard.