Goatee
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In the traditional taxonomy of facial hair, a goatee is a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin.
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Goatee styles
- French Fork – a double pointed goatee
In India, the goatee is sometimes referred to as a Bulganin, after Nikolai Bulganin who sported one.
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Similar facial hair styles
- The royale (or impériale) – a tuft of hair under the lower lip without a goatee, perhaps worn with a moustache, as worn by the younger Napoleon III of France. While the royale was historically worn by French officers as a badge or adornment of military rank or status, it is not technically a goatee. It is sometimes referred to as a soul patch.
- Tiered goatee – a goatee that has variable lengths of hair to create a multi-leveled beard.
- Genial (or moutee) – a goatee and mustache which are connected by hair on each side of the mouth to form a complete circle.
- Rico – a very fine arrow-pointed goatee. It can also be worn with a soul patch. The soul patch does not connect with the goatee. It is worn by master cigar maker George Rico.
- Vandyke – mustache and goatee, not necessarily connected. Also known as a French Beard.
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Goatees in fiction
- In Doctor Who, the Doctor's arch enemy the Master wears a circle beard (goatee with connected mustache) in his two most prominent incarnations played by different actors. Many science fiction genre fans have compared him with Ming the Merciless.
- Several fictional protagonists sport a goatee, such as Half-Life's Gordon Freeman, and comic book characters Green Arrow and Tony Stark. Animated character Frylock is another example.
- Marvel Comics' 1989 movie for NBC The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, had its anti-hero, Dr. David Banner (played by Bill Bixby) don a goatee. When he transforms into the Hulk, his beard does not carry over, though when back to "normal", the facial hair returns. In the 2003 Hulk film, Banner (played by Eric Bana) has a full-grown beard during the last scene. In the latest film adaptation, Banner (Edward Norton) sports the more familiar goatee, similar to the 80s incarnation.
- In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Alternative Factor", a mad scientist named Lazarus warns the Enterprise crew of an invasion by an even more deranged counterpart of himself-from an anti-matter universe. Both Lazarus "B" (paranoid and psychotic; from the matter universe) and Lazarus "A" (calm and rational; from the anti-matter universe) sport the same facial hair. Actor Robert Brown apparently wore fake goatees, glued on by make-up artists. In Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the character Thomas Riker (a duplicate of William T. Riker created by a transporter accident) wears a goatee, giving him a distinct appearance from his counterpart, who wears a full beard. The latter series also had its main protagonist, Captain Benjamin Sisko, grow a goatee for the 22nd episode of its 3rd season. Cardassians, one of the major alien races featured on the show, featured a character, Macet, with a thin goatee in their first appearance, on TNG, but never after this (Marc Alaimo, who played Macet, would later appear as Gul Dukat, the chief villain of DS9: non-canon works have suggested the two are related, and the goatee a conscious effort to lessen the resemblabce). For the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Twilight", an alternate universe version of Lt. Malcolm Reed (now promoted to the rank of Captain) has a full beard. In the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror", the crew encountered evil counterparts of themselves. The evil version of Spock was distinguished by a goatee. This practice of identifying otherwise identical evil doubles by having a goatee has since been used many times in popular culture, including:
- Codename: Kids Next Door (episode Operation P.O.O.L., where the evil version of Numbah 4 has a goatee)
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 (episode "Last of the Wild Horses")
- South Park (episode "Spookyfish" in which Cartman's twin is actually good)
- Futurama (episode "Lesser of Two Evils" which introduced Flexo, the "good" version of Bender)
- Family Guy (episode 5x02, "Mother Tucker")
- Knight Rider (Garthe Knight)
- Megas XLR (episodes "Rearview Mirror, Mirror Part 1 & 2", which featured a skinny and evil version of the hero)
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (evil Buzz)
- Dinosaur Comics (strip #35)
- Star Trek: Enterprise (episode "In a Mirror, Darkly: Part 2", Crewman Soval, of the Imperial Starship (I.S.S.) Avenger is a Vulcan who "predates" Spock by also wearing a goatee)
- "Jimmy Negatron", Jimmy Neutron's evil twin is defined by a goatee in "Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron"
- "Shaggy" Norville Rogers, is Scooby Doo's best friend. Shaggy has a small goatee
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Chad Ghoastal, Space Ghosts previously unseen evil twin appears in the episode "switcheroo" with a goatee that changes style and shape in nearly every scene.
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