Bristol Novelty BW660 Wizard Wig and Long Beard, White, One Size

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Wizardly Habits: Wizards are very often solitary folk who live alone in far off, difficult to reach places, studying in seclusion. They also tend to live in tall towers, the better to be closer to the stars, and to work in studies filled with arcane tomes and strange instruments. They have been known to enjoy Walking the Earth, however, and people seem to stumble upon them at random... or is it fate? Since wizardry is a studied art rather than a spontaneous talent, wizards tend to have The Apprentice hanging around, or sometimes even congregate in a Wizarding School. A Wizard can be a Court Mage but even then they tend to have their own areas and act aloof. While " familiars" are more often associated with witches or demonologists, wizards do tend to keep a pet — the most frequent choice is a bird associated with cleverness or wisdom, such as a crow or owl. A degree of eccentricity is quite common, be it real or feigned, which masks the wizard's considerable power. The Affably Evil Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons. Invoked in another episode when Mr Burns' girlfriend leaves him for her ex, Snake. Burns protests that he's already positively evil - what does he have to do, grow a devil beard? El Goonish Shive: Abraham has a relatively small grey beard for a wizard. But then he's not a very good wizard. In Amish and Mennonite cultures, shaving off one's mustache is actually seen as a rejection of militarism and a non-verbal declaration of pacificism. They also believed that men were created by God to grow beards, and that shaving them off would be a sin, especially after marriage.

It could be because a lot of great men and ancient scholars sported beards. It is the reason why your beard somehow signifies your intellige Iznogoud: The title character is the only one of the three primary characters to have a beard (Wa'at Alahf has a moustache and stubble, the Caliph is clean-shaven), and is by far the most evil of the three.Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: An episode where the Defiant was stolen featured who we thought was William Riker before being revealed as Thomas Riker pulling off his heist before removing his sideburns to reveal that he had a goatee, not a beard. However, he wasn't really evil. During his run as the leader of the Straight Edge Society, CM Punk put on a mighty beard, evocative of a messiah-like figure. The Lord of the Rings: Gandalf and Saruman are both robed, bearded old men who are long-lived and nigh immortal, carry staffs and give advice. Gandalf walks the earth but Saruman lives in a tower. However, whereas normal wizards are educated humans, Tolkien's "wizards" are actually Maiar in corporeal form — something that is discussed vaguely in The Lord of the Rings but made more explicit in other Tolkien works. Played with in The Belgariad, where this is, like the Robe and Wizard Hat, is a point of minor contention. All the sorcerers in the series have short beards or none at all, save Ctuchik, whose ragged whiskers fit his general "decrepit corpse" look. The idea of them all having long beards is met with scorn.

Shagga of the Stone Crows might be Tyrion's ally, but he's still a murderous savage with a bushy beard to boot. House of the Dragon: Otto Hightower sports a bushy short beard in contrast to Viserys ho has the more heroic Perma-Stubble. He is an Evil Chancellor and the main cause of the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.In Batman Begins, Ra's al Ghul's and Henri Ducard's fu manchus are our first clue that the League of Shadows is evil. (Well, the first clue for those who hadn't read the comic books.) Bruce Wayne also sports a rather scraggly beard at the beginning of the film, but it's gone by the time he disavows killing and severs ties with the League. Theodore Roosevelt's epic manliness was complimented by an impressive mustache. Noteworthy as the majority of American presidents so far, have been clean-shaven, there's even a whole article about that on The Other Wiki.

The most powerful wizard in the Empire, Balthasar Gelt, probably does not have a beard, and even if he does it is sufficiently small to conceal entirely behind the golden facemask he wears at all times. Merlin's beard! " is a common exclamation among British wizards (replaced, on one occasion, by "Merlin's pants!"). Spellsinger: Clothahump, while not looking the part (he's an anthropomorphic turtle), fits the rest of the trope completely: he's old, wise and knowledgeable, lives in seclusion in a hollowed-out tree, keeps apprentices and meddles in the affairs of the world he lives in to save it from great dangers. Jon-Tom even imagines him as a classic Gandalf-like wizard when he first hears the description of what Clothahump is. Balon's brother Euron Greyjoy is an insane, sinister pirate with a faintly muttonstache-style beard to match. That first enemy that appears in Rurouni Kenshin wanting to take over the Kamiya dojo and claiming to be the Battousai.Inverted by the pre- Crisis version of Earth-3, home of the Justice League's Evil Twins - there, Lex Luthor's Good Twin Alexander Luthor sports a goatee. Harald Karstark sports a trimmed beard and is described as ruthless and calculating. Oh, and he sides with Ramsay Bolton. Exile: The generic sprites and portraits for magi tend towards either classic wizards, or younger "scholar" types that will become them in a few decades. However, the important, named wizards such as Solberg, "X", or Erica tend to be different. Danny Trejo tops off his intimidating look with a mustache of warning. As do Sam Elliott and the late Charles Bronson.

His beard also gets significantly larger and begins to curl at the ends as he gets angrier (most notably when his head bursts into flames). In Street Fighter V, Ryu was given an alt costume that makes him shirtless and gives him a rugged beard. Fans decided to call this look "Hot Ryu". It grew popular enough to become the basis of Ryu's design in Street Fighter 6. Shing!: It's no coincidence that Wilhelm, the manliest member of the player characters, who walks around bare-chested and slaughters Yokai by the hundreds with an axe, is also the only one with a beard.

Rasputin (yes, again) in Shadow Hearts: Covenant makes sure to retain the beard even after transforming into a horrible demonic sin against nature. In the Mirror Universe where the PPC is an organization run by Mary Sues, the counterpart of Makes-Things has a beard. Chapman has a full beard in the Animorphs graphic novels, something that was never mentioned in the books (and was absent in the TV series). While Chapman himself isn't evil, he's controlled by a Starter Villain Yeerk. Subverted with the War Doctor, played by a bearded John Hurt. While Ten and Eleven certainly act like he's an unforgivable monster, at least at first, they eventually come to regret trying to forget him and accept him as "truly" the Doctor, although he still doesn't count for official numbering. Ironically enough, the actual evil Doctor pseudo-incarnation, the Valeyard from "The Ultimate Foe", is clean-shaven.