The Man Who Was Killed By His Own Beard

A 16th-century Dutch mayor named Hans Staininger had the most magnificent face full of whiskers the world had ever seen — a hirsute magnificence that ultimately proved to be his undoing

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Day-To-Day B.S. That Fictional Characters Probably Have To Endure

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Day-To-Day B.S. That Fictional Characters Probably Have To Endure

Being a movie character looks like all fun and games. You have a nice, predictable story arc, all your dialog is written for you, and no matter where you land on the morality spectrum, you'll have a ton of people rooting for you. But there have got to be downsides, right?

We asked our readers to show us all the unexpected (yet somehow unsurprising) downsides to being our favorite fictional characters. Here's what they came up with:

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