List of notable moustaches in art and fiction
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- See the main article - Moustache.
Moustaches have been used by artists to make characters distinctive as with Dick Dastardly or the video game character Mario. They have also been or to make a social or political point as with Marcel Duchamp's parody of the Mona Lisa which adds a goatee and moustache or the moustachioed self portraits of Frida Kahlo. At least one fictional moustache has been so notable that a whole style has been named after it, the Fu Manchu moustache.
[edit] List of moustaches in art and fiction
- Gomez Addams of The Addams Family
- Asterix, Obelix and most of the other Gauls in the comic strip Asterix
- The Bad, actor Lee Van Cleef in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- The Beatles as Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Blake from the comic strip Blake and Mortimer
- Borat
- Captain Hook
- Clo-Clo from the Belgian comic strip Nero
- The Daltons, the bandits from the comic strip Lucky Luke
- Dick Dastardly
- Duncan from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
- Basil Fawlty in the tv-series Fawlty Towers
- Self portraits of Frida Kahlo
- Fu Manchu and the Fu Manchu moustache
- Ned Flanders in The Simpsons
- Gobelijn from the Belgian comic strip Jommeke
- Earl J. Hickey, from My Name is Earl
- Harcourt Fenton Mudd in the Star Trek: TOS episodes "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd"
- Earl Hickey, the character from My Name is Earl, his moustache is often a source of comedy on the show
- Kiekeboe, Belgian comic character
- Jason King, the hedonistic, womanizing, trash novel writing dandy portrayed by actor Peter Wyngarde
- The Laughing Cavalier, (1624) , a famous painting by the Dutch Baroque artist Frans Hals
- Manuel in the tv-series Fawlty Towers
- Mario, a famous video game fictional character owned by Nintendo. Also, his brother Luigi and their arch-enemies Wario and Waluigi
- Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon
- Mirror Spock from Star Trek - Mirror, Mirror
- Meneer Pheip from the Belgian comic strip Nero
- Rich Uncle Pennybags the Monopoly guy
- L.H.O.O.Q. copy of the Mona Lisa by Marcel Duchamp which shows her with a moustache.
- Pelinore in Walt Disney's The Sword in the Stone
- Hercule Poirot, a character in books written by Agatha Christie
- Ignatius J. Reilly, slovenly protagonist in John Kennedy Toole's New Orleans set novel, A Confederacy of Dunces.
- Mike Stivic on All in the Family
- Thomson and Thompson in the comic strip The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé (see also Borduria, a fictional country with a moustache as national emblem, from the same series)
- Wimpey character in the Popeye cartoon series, famous for his sparse bristly moustache
- Yosemite Sam from Looney Tunes
- The Mustache Commander of StreetWars
- V from V for Vendetta
