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Heroes have hectic lives, often taking them to strange places for days or weeks on end as they go on their adventures. However, they rarely get the opportunity to shave or clean up between car chases and explosions... and they still somehow manage to keep a baby smooth face!

Of course it's just as commonly [[Justified Trope]] as the character being both [[Crazy Prepared]] ''and'' so dedicated to maintaining his personal appearance he ''always'' shaves (often before everyone else woke up). If he ever ''should'' stop shaving, it means he is suffering [[Beard of Sorrow|some kind of emotional breakdown]].

 

 

 

== Literature ==

* In ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', [[Sherlock Holmes]] has been secretly living in a stone hut on the moor for several weeks, and yet "he had contrived, with that catlike love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street."

* ''[[Glee]]'': Kurt Hummel is, naturally, [[Bishonen|incapable of growing facial hair.]]

* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] has mentioned shaving a few times, and grew an epic beard while being held in Area 51, so he shaves at some point, no one just knows ''when.''

* An interesting female example that shows you should take the term "reality" show with a grain of salt, the women of ''[[Survivor]].'' The men will develop a full Jesus beard while on the island, but most of the women tend to stay fairly smooth-legged throughout.

* In one time-travel storyline of ''Dark Shadows'', now-human Barnabas Collins is chained up for at least a few days. Every time the story shifts to him, not so much as a whisker is visible.

== Web Originals ==

* Referenced by [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] in his review of ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''.

* Hartley on ''[[I Am Not Infected]]''. After a month without razors or other means to shave, he is completely clean-shaven whereas Paul and Charlie sport pretty good beards. Of course, they make fun of him for it, doubly so when he puts on a fake beard.

 

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