History: (Doom Patrol II #45) - Ernest Franklin grew up resentful of beards because he could never grow one of his own due to a male hormone deficiency. He dubbed himself the Beard Hunter and started a lonely war against facial hair; killing bearded men and keeping their beards as trophies. At the age of thirty-six, Ernest still lived with his mother and spent all his free time working out and reading body-building magazines. He dreamed of a movie or comic book being made one day about his exploits as the Beard Hunter. Beard Hunter hit the big-time when he was contacted by ‘The Bearded Gentlemen’s Club of Metropolis’ to murder the Chief; leader of Doom Patrol. The Bearded Gentlemen made an offer to buy the Chief’s legendary beard, but he responded by calling them lunatics. They decided Chief was no longer fit to have a beard, and made the desperate ploy of hiring the Beard Hunter. The Hunter caught up with Chief at a supermarket, and proceeded to shoot everything in sight. Chief may have been old and paralyzed, but he was still easily able to evade the Hunter and lure him into a trap. The end result of this skirmish was the death of the Beard Hunter, who, as he lay dying, regretted that he would never get around to dating.