Inverted in Aquaman. Big Bad Orm is always clean-shaven, unlike his titular half-brother Arthur who has a beard. Lem Lemoncloak of the Brotherhood Without Banners has a great big beard and leads a massacre of a whole village.

Inheritance Cycle: Galbatorix has a beard in the film adaption. During Brisingr, Eragon seems to assume that Galbatorix has a beard when he mentions him. Lysandre, the leader of Team Flare in Pokémon X and Y, has a full beard that is spiky like his hair. In the Mirror Universe where the PPC is an organization run by Mary Sues, the counterpart of Makes-Things has a beard.In Tom's first two appearances, in Lost, he has a beard and is very scary. Then we see him without the beard, and learn that it's fake, and he becomes much less scary. Elminster is traditionally portrayed this way. It's demonstrated in novels and explicitly confirmed that he's a man of many masks and the Old Mage with the iconic hat and pipe is his "good example for young wizards" role, because lots of folk look up to him. Elminster is not inclined to play by the rules unless it's the whole point, and when he goes out to "meddle", he isn't always recognizable as a living creature, let alone as himself.

Fu Manchu's evil beard was so famous that the mustache style is named after him. In the original novels, however, he is clean-shaven. Dr. Hell from Mazinger Z and Mazinkaiser is the Mad Scientist Big Bad and he has a long, bushy, bristly, white and positively epic Beard Of Evil. In Great Mazinger, The Dragon Great General of Darkness/Ankoku Daishogun had a beard warned he was NOT to be messed with. King Vega, Big Bad from UFO Robo Grendizer was the only on the side of the evil guys had a beard. His was bristle but well-groomed, though.Matal Mogammet, chancellor of the Magnoshutatt Magic Academy in Magi: Labyrinth of Magic, and an expy of Dumbledore and Voldemort. Perhaps you’re one of the many men who have always dreamed of having a big beard. But o f course, this begs the question – what makes a big facial hair, well, big?

Homnibus the good wizard in The Smurfs. Gargamel tried to use magic to grow one in an episode, believing he'd be more respected in the wizard community with a beard, but he didn't read the directions right, and the beard filled his entire house and extended itself all the way to the Smurf Village. Naturally, the Smurfs had to rescue him. Grandpa Smurf, who is technically a wizard from his experiences of traveling through the world, has a very long white beard. Flashman is quite proud of his cavalry whiskers (or "tart catchers", given that women find them quite attractive). Player characters tend not to be wizard classics due to the disadvantages of being old (even if it improves mental stats, the penalties to physical stats get prohibitive) and the fact that the gear most useful to wizards deviates from the trope. Also, a character who is first level while elderly is hard to explain. This seems to be a defining character trait in the God of War series, with all of the main villains (ie. Ares, Zeus, Baldur, Odin, etc.) having massive scruffy beards. Kratos also has a Villainous Goatee, which is pretty damn appropriate. Subverted in God of War (PS4), where Kratos' goatee has grown into a full beard, but he's a more sympathetic figure here. In Prince Caspian the Telmarine aristocrats are bearded and bad, except for the eponymous Caspian, who is clean-shaven and a good guy. Inverted in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where Caspian has grown a beard himself, but is as heroic as ever.

Examples

Mega Man Battle Network: MagicMan.EXE takes this appearance, though with a texturally simplified, angular appearance to fit his role as a computer program. This is contrasted with Magic Man as he originally appeared in Mega Man & Bass, where he resembled a stage illusionist.

Lampshaded in Stargate Atlantis episode "Doppelganger": Sheppard inquires about the other Sheppard, "Did I have a goatee?" In real life, mustaches are considered more professional than beards and they were mandatory in certain services. In the southern parts of India, police officers are encouraged to grow a mustache or have mustaches as part of the uniform because police officers with a mustache were believed to be more effective, more respected by the public, less intimidating, and better at interacting with the community. Mustaches and beards are also considered a sign of innate masculinity and virility in India. The Riftwar Cycle: The Great One (read: really powerful Tsurani magician) Makala has a long white beard, in spite of the books asserting emphatically that Great Ones do not wear beards, because in Tsurani culture, only slaves are anything but clean-shaven.

Borya/Brey from Dragon Quest IV, the wizened old court magician from the kingdom of Zamoksva. Stats-wise, he is modeled after the mage class from III. He also has elements of the absent-minded professor as well, but he cares deeply for his pupil, Alena. In Breath of the Wild, Calamity Ganon, in its Mechanical Abomination form, sports a beard that is one of its few traits hinting at its human origins. That Man" from Excel♡Saga is a Yakuza thug with a beard, the only recurring character with facial hair and the real leader of ACROSS, making him the closest thing the show had to a Big Bad.