Happy Movember - Video Game's Best Moustaches

It’s finally November, the month that puts three senses into hyperdrive: smell, sound and sight. The smell of bonfires, the sound of premature Christmas songs and the sorrowful sight of footballers, tv presenters and most 20-something-year-olds growing a nice little tash.

Of course, this is all in aid of raising awareness for Men’s Health in a campaign affectionately known as Movember. Well, here at GameGrin, we want to offer our very own tribute in appreciation of the upper lip slug, so, we have compiled a list of some of the best moustaches in video games.

Mario

Top of the list is arguably the pinnacle of gaming facial hair. Mario, your stereotypical Italian plumber, sums up everything about Italian life; a passion for mushrooms, a persistent lust for a woman who keeps being kidnapped and of course a well groomed bit of facial hair. What’s worse for Mario is that his pesky younger twin, Luigi, has stolen his style and it has now become a bet as to who can keep theirs the longest.

 

Chop Chop Master Onion

The result of an experiment which crossed the DNA of Mister Miyagi and a overly-sized French onion, Chop Chop Master Onion is best known for training 2D rapping dogs. With his clichéd oriental sensei pencil moustache, stink lines and hordes of onion minions, it’s difficult to believe how bizarre Sony’s first party games were. Kick, Kick, Punch!

 

 

Sully

While on the topic of Sony’s first party characters, Sully couldn't be further from the anthropomorphised onion. The quintessential old school treasure hunter, Victor Sullivan, is of course rarely seen without his trademark cigar and ‘been there done that’ attitude. But what makes him a likeable character? That would be the matching silver hair and moustache. Oh, and he can fly a plane, but he’s got a moustache so… obviously he can!

 

 

Captain Price

‘How’d a muppet like you pass selection?’ The first words of a genre redefining game spoken by possibly the manliest man to ever be made of pixels. The grizzled SAS veteran takes no nonsense, and neither would you if you had seen the stuff him and his face fungus have seen. It’s facial hair that says ‘yes I’ve killed people, but I also offer a soft and warming edition to the face’.

 

 

Doctor Eggman

If your body was the shape of an egg, your legs were extremely thin and you had freakishly large feet how would you draw attention away from yourself? You’d probably terrorise a trainer-wearing blue hedgehog or you’d grow an oversized comical moustache. Or in the case of morbidly obese Doctor Eggman you’d do both. The mad scientist, who boasts an IQ of 300, is probably best known for his end-of-level inventions and the idiotic need to display his weak spot. This month however, we offer him a round of applause and some appreciation for the bushy moustache that goes wider than his overly-sized egg-shaped body.

 

Moustaches, we salute you!