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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==▼
* A recent{{when}} Yellow Book commercial has a bride trying on her dress and to her horror, it reveals the name "Mike". She goes to a tattoo removal (that she found in the advertised phone book). The doctor comments that she must be really excited to be getting married to Mike, when the reveal comes that the groom is "Tom."▼
▲== Advertising ==
▲* A recent Yellow Book commercial has a bride trying on her dress and to her horror, it reveals the name "Mike". She goes to a tattoo removal (that she found in the advertised phone book). The doctor comments that she must be really excited to be getting married to Mike, when the reveal comes that the groom is "Tom."
* There was a debit card commercial featuring a couple at a tattoo parlor with "Oh Donna" playing in the background. He is in the middle of getting a tattoo featuring the name of his girlfriend in a heart, but discovers he lacks enough cash to pay for it. Next we see her storming off, followed by him begging her to come back, while prominently sporting a tattoo reading "Don".
* A Snickers commercial from the '90s showed a football player proudly displaying a huge tattoo that he just had done of his team's logo on his back. His coach's reaction: "Nice. You've been traded."
* An Australian ad for '1800 Reverse' (a service that lets you make reverse charge calls from your mobile) had a teenage girl showing off a tattoo on her lower back to her friends. She explains that her mother helped her choose the design and her jealous friends wish that they had a 'cool' mother like that. However, when she looks at the tattoo in the mirror, she realises that what appeared to be an abstract design actually read '1800 Reverse' when reflected.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* A major part of the (side?)plot in ''[[Photon The Idiot Menace]]'' is that the titular character and the female lead both have ''Baka'' (Idiot in Japanese) [[Face Doodling|written on their foreheads]] with apparently ''magic'' magic marker. (Not QUITE a tattoo, but it never wears off and is apparently permanent—it's also used to shore up lay lines in the ships.) Because having the same symbol on one's forehead as another is [[Accidental Marriage|supposedly a marriage proposal...]]
* The [[Humongous Mecha|Vox]] pilots in ''[[Rinne no Lagrange]]'' have their Memoria (marks that allow them to interact with said mecha) in...questionable places, to say the least (Muginami's in particular). Especially since it's implied that those are created where they're touched by the Vox.
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** As does the tattoo on Riza Hawkeye's back, which may have been put there against her will.
* The Gonzales brothers, players for an American team in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', wanted tattoos based off of their nicknames, the elder being "Big and Useful" and the younger being "Little and Useful", rendered directly into kanji as ''daiben'' (大便) and ''shouben'' (小便). Unfortunately for them, those phrases mean "poop" and "pee" respectively.
* ''[[Baccano!]]
* Happens indirectly in ''This is Otakudom'', a [[Parody Dub]] of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' that turns the cast into [[Otaku]] headed for an anime con. Tasuki, here portrayed as an overdramatic Goth, shows off his tattoo, which he claims means something long and pretentious about immortality in the shadows; subtitles then appear saying "Actual Translation: Stupid fanboy wasted his money".▼
== [[Art]] ==▼
▲== Art ==
* [[Norman Rockwell]]'s painting ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120508144404/http://www.nrm.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Tattoo-Artist.jpg The Tattoo Artist]'' has a sailor with the names of several former lovers crossed out, and one more name being added on.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* In ''Uncanny [[X-Men]]'', following Kitty Pryde's [[Heroic Sacrifice]], Colossus, mourning the woman he loved, got a tattoo of a heart with the name "Katya" (in the [[The Backwards R|Cyrillic alphabet]]) on his chest. Recently{{when}}, she got better (but is still out of the action due to uncontrollable powers), so there has been some speculation regarding Kitty's inevitable reaction when she sees Colossus' ink.▼
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* In ''Uncanny [[X-Men]]'', following Kitty Pryde's [[Heroic Sacrifice]], Colossus, mourning the woman he loved, got a tattoo of a heart with the name "Katya" (in the [[The Backwards R|Cyrillic alphabet]]) on his chest. Recently, she got better (but is still out of the action due to uncontrollable powers), so there has been some speculation regarding Kitty's inevitable reaction when she sees Colossus' ink.
** More recent shots of Piotr shirtless and unarmored don't show his tattoo. We never saw it removed; indeed after the arc where he got the tattoo, it was never shown again indicating that it might have been a henna or otherwise temporary tattoo.
* In one story in ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'', Max gets "[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|a tattoo of a snake eating a rat, with the caption 'Born to watch my snake eat a rat']]". He passes out mid-tattoo due to screaming about the needle and complains later that it 'doesn't even look like a snake. It looks like a candy cane', prompting Sam to deliver [[An Aesop]] about freedom of the individual and their inalienable right to get questionable body modifications, as long as it's their 'boneheaded choice'.
* Subverted in a recent{{when}} ''Spider-Man'' story, in which Peter Parker's current girlfriend Carlie Cooper got drunk and considered getting a Green Goblin tattoo. She ended up getting a Spider-Man tattoo instead. {{spoiler|Although that may now be an embarrassing tattoo, seeing as how Carlie just dumped Peter (as of the end of [[Spider Island]]) for lying to her about his being Spider-Man!}}
== Fan Fiction ==▼
* ''[[My Immortal]]'': a tattoo on Draco's arm reveals that he is [[Bi the Way]].▼
▲* ''[[My Immortal]]'': a tattoo on Draco's arm reveals that he is [[Bi the Way|bi]].
▲* Happens indirectly in ''This is Otakudom'', a [[Parody Dub]] of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' that turns the cast into [[Otaku]] headed for an anime con. Tasuki, here portrayed as an overdramatic Goth, shows off his tattoo, which he claims means something long and pretentious about immortality in the shadows; subtitles then appear saying "Actual Translation: Stupid fanboy wasted his money".
==
* In ''[[American History X]]'', Derek Vinyard ([[Edward Norton]]) has a large swastika tattoo on his chest, which becomes shameful to him after he renounces his racist ideology. In a
* The con-artist protagonist of the western/comedy film ''[[Support Your Local Gunfighter]]'' has an enormous and embarrassing tattoo on his chest which honors his ditched
* In the 1997 movie version of ''[[
* Deputy Clementine Johnson in
* Sally in [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]]'s ''[[Cars]]'' gets embarrassed when McQueen notices the marking on her rear end. It should be noted at this point, if you didn't know, that Sally (and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|every other character in the film]]) is a car.
** So, in other words, she's got a [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=california+license+plate California license plate]? *drum roll*
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* In the recent film version of ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'', Gwendolyn has the name Ernest tattooed on her buttocks , which adds to her horror when "Ernest" tells her his real name is Jack.
* In ''[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]'', [[James Bond]] forces Jack Wade to show a rose tattoo with the name "Muffy" ("Third wife.") on his hip as part of the [[Trust Password]].
* ''[[Paul Blart:
* One enthusiastic ''[[Star Wars]]'' fan in ''[[Fanboys]]'' shows the main characters his new tattoo based on the upcoming ''[[The Phantom Menace]]''. Of Jar-Jar Binks.
* Talia in ''[[Larry Crowne]]'' gets a free tattoo when she starts shop next to a parlor. It supposedly means "strong mind" but apparently actually reads "soy sauce"
* Kevin has gotten a huge tattoo of Pam while drunk in Eastern Europe in ''[[Little Fockers]]''.
* The
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In Alfred Bester's novel ''[[The Stars My Destination]]'', the hero is given a horrific tattoo on his face by a [[Cargo Cult]] [[In Space]] which, while never completely described, seems to look like a tiger's face (the novel's original title was ''Tiger Tiger''). Interestingly, he does get it removed, but it ends up serving as a [[Marked Change]], as the lines still appear on his face when he is angry.
** The description and some illustrations make it out to look like a [[wikipedia:File:MaoriChief1784.jpg|Maori face tattoo]]—with "N♂MAD" written across his forehead as well.
* A semi-humorous example is the forehead tattoo of the [[Badass]] mercenary Raven in ''[[Snow Crash]]'' reading "Poor Impulse Control". What makes this one less amusing is that it was given as a judicial punishment rather than a personal choice.
* Corporal Nobbs' tattoo in ''[[Discworld]]'' says "WUM". The tattooist didn't notice Nobby was upside-down because he was drunk as well. It's not a proper tattoo if ''anyone'' can remember how it got there.
* The Dark Mark seems to be this in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' for some former Death Eaters such as Severus Snape and Igor Karkaroff, given some of the exchanges between the two of them in Goblet Of Fire.
* In ''[[Papillon]]'', the Masked Breton's cockroach tattoo, which is on his ''face''. As he tells Papillon and the other escapees, he foolishly got it in prison to look tough, but after escaping realized that it made him very easy to identify and would make a normal life almost impossible for him.
* In ''[[The Children of Captain Grant]]'' by [[Jules Verne]], {{spoiler|Dr. Paganel survives a stay with a friendly Maori chieftain who tattoos him top to bottom, and thenceforth becomes very protective of his modesty}}.
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* In ''[[Special Topics in Calamity Physics]]'', one of the high school "blue bloods" has a mysterious tattoo on his upper arm that he never lets anyone see. There are suggestions that there is a particularly dramatic story behind it, {{spoiler|but it turns out to be quite banal, and the boy is not nearly as deep or interesting as was once thought.}}
* In ''[[The Millennium Trilogy]]'' {{spoiler|Lisbeth Salander tattoos her guardian very badly, and painfully, with "I am a sexist pig, a pervert and a rapist" on his stomach as revenge after he brutally rapes her. She prevents him from getting it removed, and he still has it when he dies.}}
* ''[[The Dresden Files
* Glen Cook's [[Garrett P.I.|Garrett]] knew a guy from his Marine unit who'd gotten his penis tattooed like a serpent, and probably regretted it for the rest of his life. At the time, the guy just figured he'd rather be addressed as "Snakeman" than by his previous nickname of "Donkey Dick".
* At one point [[Sherlock Holmes]] did his trademark [[Sherlock Scan]] on a man and said that he was once in a close relationship he was later eager to forget. How did he know this? Because of a tattoo that the man had since attempted to remove with acid.
* One of the stories of ''[[Wayside School]]'' has Calvin's dad getting him a tattoo for his birthday. [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Mrs. Jewels]] [[Discussed Trope|advises him not to get something he thinks is cool now but will regret later, but rather something he will appreciate for the rest of his life]]. {{spoiler|He gets a potato on his ankle. Everybody mocks him for it, but he likes it.}}
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
* ''[[Bones]]'' has undoubtedly one of the most embarrassing tattoos - after breaking up with his
▲== Live-Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Bones]]'' has undoubtedly one of the most embarrassing tattoos - after breaking up with his fiance Angela, Hodgins is horrified to find [[Papa Wolf|her father]]<ref>It should also be noted that her father is Billy Gibbons from [[ZZ Top]]. Not played by Billy Gibbons. He IS Billy Gibbons.</ref> in town. Angela convinces her father to call it off - and then Hodgins wakes up in the middle of the desert, drugged, with Angela's face tattooed on his arm in scary perfection, with "Angela Forever" written at the bottom. Naturally, Angela is horrified ("You're ''sweating'' on me!")
** Apparently Billy Gibbons really likes to kidnap and drug Hodgins and tattoo him. Now Hodgins has a tattoo of Billy Gibbons on his
▲** {{spoiler|Should be a bit less embarrassing since Hodgins and Angela made up and got married.}}
▲** Apparently Billy Gibbons really likes to kidnap and drug Hodgins and tattoo him. Now Hodgins has a tattoo of Billy Gibbons on his OTHER bicep. Wow, that oughta be great for their sex life...
* In an episode of ''[[Green Wing]]'', Guy Secretan tries to prove his love by getting a tattoo of a Friesian cow on his rib cage, thinking it was Caroline Todd's favourite thing. She, however, meant freesia, the flower.
* In one episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', Lister worries his crew-mates may have seen his tattoo: "I don't really love Petersen, he just got me so drunk that I didn't know what I was doing."
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* The trope forms the basis of the ''[[Three's Company]]'' episode "Jack's Tattoo," in which Jack finds out that, while he was in a drunken stupor, his old navy buddies gave him a heart-shaped tattoo on his derrière, with the inscription "The Love Butt." Multiple misunderstandings arise when Jack goes to the hospital to have it removed, with Janet thinking that's he's having a vasectomy and Mr. Furley thinking that he's having an operation to become "Jacqueline."
* In ''[[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]]'', Neville, who is the nicest of the characters and happily married to Brenda, wakes up after a night of drinking to find "Neville Loves Lottie" tattooed on his arm. He doesn't even ''know'' anyone called Lottie.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Giles has a tattoo on his arm of a strange symbol. It's revealed that
{{quote|'''Faith:''' When did ''you'' get ink?
'''Giles:''' Faith, do you honestly think you're the first person to have stumbled upon the notion of rebellion? Do you think you were the first who ever let an innocent person get hurt because of your own stupidity? [[Not So Different|You and I aren't so unalike.]] But those of us who refused to pay the piper during our adolescence have a responsibility to shoulder the most unpleasant costs of adulthood. }}
** That line from Giles is even more meaningful if you know the (non-canon) origins of Faith's tattoo. Like Giles, it's actually the mark of a demon, in this case the Mark of Kakistos, given to her while being possessed by a dead Greek Slayer.
* The coach from ''[[Saved by the Bell
{{quote|"Coach has [[Sesame Street|Big Bird]] on his butt!" }}
* An episode of ''[[ER]]'' has a patient with a Ku Klux Klan tattoo: when he regains consciousness, he tells them he's renounced the KKK and keeps the tattoo to remind him of his past.
* ''[[Grey's
** What [[Fridge Logic|makes it weird]] is that he never outright demands a white doctor, he just keeps asking for someone else when he keeps getting minority doctors. He's rather polite, if terse, about wanting someone different. And when his gigantic-ass tattoo (which he claims was a drunken mistake, [[Did Not Do the Research|even though it clearly would've taken several separate sessions to complete]]) is revealed, he says he didn't want Dr. Bailey, who is black, to see it because she "might take offense." Uh...isn't that kind of
** When the neo-Nazi/white supremacist needs surgery, Dr. Bailey, the spunky female black doctor has to operate on him. After she finishes, she decides that the skin around the cut is "jagged" and so she stitches the swastika back together as an S shape instead of the original swastika.
* Dr. Kelso in ''[[Scrubs]]'' has "Johnny" tattooed on his buttock (
* Roxie from ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' is revealed to have an "I Love Hanson" tattoo, that she got on a whim and wants removed.
* From ''[[Living With Fran]]'', Josh's girlfriend has a tattoo with Ryley's name. Subverted as she had several tattoos and considered her body a panel to tattoo other names (including Josh's).
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* Al considers getting a tattoo on ''[[Step by Step]]'', but changes her mind after Carol admits to having an old boyfriend's name tattooed on her butt.
* Mocked by ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in a fake commercial for Lower Back Tattoo remover. It's just a bottle of acid that leaves a horrid scar where the tattoo was.
* It was a plot in an episode of ''[[Married... with
* In the ''[[That '70s Show]]'' episode "Eric's Drunken Tattoo", Eric wants to tattoo of Donna's name on his butt, but since he has [[Erudite Stoner|Leo]] to do it, he ends up with a picture of Woodstock from ''[[Peanuts]]''.
* In the ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' episode "The Adhesive Duck Deficiency", it's revealed that Penny has a Chinese character tattooed on her butt, which is supposed to mean "courage", but according to Sheldon, it actually means "soup".
* In ''[[iCarly]]'', one of the characters had to get a tattoo of Sam's face after losing a bet. {{spoiler|It was fake, but he didn't know it until it was too late...}}
* In ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' Russell Huxtable was revealed to once had a tattoo done on his chest for Anna. Unfortunately, he had a cold at the time and so it was spelled 'Adda' who was Anna's chief rival. He had that removed but left a scar on his chest.
* In ''[[Grounded for Life]]'' Lily has a tattoo of a golden sprite on her lower back, with a banner reading "Dean", only discovered by his new boyfriend, Brad until months into their relationship. He gets over it, as Lily says that the tattoo means less than what she does, and it serves as a reminder that in the end, she
* In ''[[Beetleborgs|Big Bad
* The end result is never seen, but one ''[[Whitest Kids U Know]]'' sketch shows an inebriated character in the process of coming up with one of these. The end result is: [[Super Mario Brothers|Bowser]] wearing shades, wailing on a double-necked guitar, on a surfboard, in front of a huge pot leaf, in front of a cross, with "Happy Birthday Rick" written above it.
** Someone took the bullet for the rest of us [http://www.geekologie.com/2008/03/24/questionable-bowser-tattoo.jpg and there are no words to explain how much this guy is going to hate himself in twenty years.] Make no mistake it looks awesome but...
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* ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]'': Chas attempts to make one side of his body look like Daniel Craig ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) and gets a tattoo of a 'Japanese character' on his upper arm. He ends up with a tattoo of [[Hello Kitty]].
== [[Music]] ==▼
* In a ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' short, Grif and Church debate the merits and drawbacks of tattoos, one of Church's points being that whatever you get a tattoo of, you will be ashamed of in ten years time.▼
▲== Music ==
* The Sammy Kershaw song "Your Tattoo": ''You turned out to be a bad heartache / And I found someone to take your place / What am I gonna do with your tattoo?''
* The ''[[Tripod]]'' song "If I Had A Tattoo" parodies this: "If I had a tattoo/I would get one of you/Or at least of a generic woman's body/Draw your head on with a texta"
* [[The Who]]'s "Tattoo" both invokes and averts this trope.
{{quote|''Welcome to my life, tattoo''
''We've a long time together, me and you''
''I expect I'll regret you''
''But the skin-graft man won't get you''
''You'll be there when I die, tattoo'' }}
* [[Offspring]]'s "Pretty Fly For A White Guy":
{{quote|
''He asked for a thirteen but they drew a thirty-one.'' }}
* Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight Tonight":
{{quote|''I woke up with a strange tattoo''
''Not sure how I got it, not a dollar in my pocket''
''And it kinda looks just like you ... mixed with Zach Galifianakis!'' }}
* The narrator of Wally Wingert's "Cheapest Tattoo" (a parody of [[Sade]]'s "Sweetest Taboo" frequently heard on the [[Dr. Demento]] show in the 1980s) may think that it doesn't matter what he gets (because just getting a tattoo is cool), but he'll probably change his mind in a few years...
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==▼
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
* In ''[[Zits]]'', to dissuade Jeremy from getting a tattoo Walt reveals that he got one on his butt during his days in the Peace Corps. He remarks on how tattoos grow along with you and Connie agrees, commenting that "That peace symbol is now the size of a stop sign".
* Cookie in ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' has a large tattoo with the name of a long-past love inside a heart-shape. Because it's so conspicuous, he once declared he won't even consider a date with a girl ''not'' named Rita. In another strip, however, he figured a woman with a slightly different name won't notice anything when he made an addition to the tattoo to make it read "MargaRita." (This was never mentioned again and the change was lost in [[Negative Continuity]].)
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Nancy Drew (video game)|Danger By Design]]'', a fashion-designer who wears a mask throughout the game turns out to have been hiding a stupid-looking tattoo of an alien's face on her cheek.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick
▲* [[The Order of the Stick|Roy]]'s father one-ups this by not only getting a drunk tattoo but also a ''Blood Oath of Vengeance'' to go with it.
** If you decode the Haley-speak in strip [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0309.html 309], she says she has a tattoo Elan doesn't know about. We get to see it in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0468.html 468] (warning: spoilers ahoy).
* When Zoe from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is given a tattoo on her chest thanks to a mistake with magic, her main concern is that it turns her into a camel whenever someone says "shupid," but does have to go through great pains to hide it from her puritanical mother.
* Cornelius from ''[[Achewood]]'', after getting drunk with Ray, Téodor and Roast Beef, awakens to find [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12192007 a Star Wars tattoo on his chest], and becomes distraught... but then discovers that it was a fake all along. And then it's revealed that the other three guys ''all'' got drunken tattoos on their chests.
* In ''[[SSDD]]'' Kerrie was really embarrassed about the tattoo she got from "one of those seedy, coin-operated robots you find in servicemen's bars", but apparently it's actually [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20080916.html pretty awesome].
* [http://myapokalips.com/show/23#comic The May 15,2009 cartoon] from ''[[Apokalips]]'': "Aw, that's a sick tattoo!" "
* Joel in ''[[Concession]]'' was unwittingly subjected to a [http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20100727 series of body modifications that increased with blood alcohol level]: Ear clip, eyebrow stud, and lip ring at .05; a tattoo of a butterfly on his arm at .10; and his (recently very dominant) boyfriend's name ''branded on his ass'' at .15.
* ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]'': According to one strip, Lewis has a map to the Safe House bar in Milwaukee tattooed on his butt.
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* Graham in ''[[Wizard School]]'' gets a series of stars tattooed on his face in a drunken haze in an attempt to impress an (evil) woman. When he wakes up (after being abducted to the titular school) he seems more annoyed about the tattoo than about his forced confinement.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Tales of MU]]'': Mackenzie lets Amaranth write "Nymph's Toy" on her forehead in magical marker (like permanent marker, apparently, except that you ''can't wash it off'' or get rid of it by anything but magic (or, presumably, self-mutilation). Naturally, this happens ''right'' before they head out to the college town for the first time; Mackenzie very quickly goes from acting naturally about it (because she forgot it was there) to being mortified once she realizes ''why'' everyone is staring at her.▼
*
▲* In a ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' short, Grif and Church debate the merits and drawbacks of tattoos, one of Church's points being that whatever you get a tattoo of, you will be ashamed of in ten years time.
==
* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer changes his name to Max Power. Marge comments that she has a tattoo with his name (Homer) on her..."you know". Homer's cheerful response: "Oh Marge, they have harsh acids that can burn that off!"▼
▲* Mackenzie lets Amaranth write "Nymph's Toy" on her forehead in magical marker (like permanent marker, apparently, except that you ''can't wash it off'' or get rid of it by anything but magic (or, presumably, self-mutilation). Naturally, this happens ''right'' before they head out to the college town for the first time; Mackenzie very quickly goes from acting naturally about it (because she forgot it was there) to being mortified once she realizes ''why'' everyone is staring at her.
▲* While [[Loading Ready Run|Paul]] is shaving off his beard in [[Desert Bus for Hope|Desert Bus For Hope 2: Bus Harder]], someone remarks that he could have one of these under his beard. [[Averted Trope|They are soon proven wrong.]]
▲* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer changes his name to Max Power. Marge comments that she has a tattoo with his name (Homer) on her..."you know". Homer's cheerful response: "Oh Marge, they have harsh acids that can burn that off!"
** In another episode, Homer claims that getting a tattoo "preserves the things you love." He then rolls up his sleeve and is dismayed by what is there: "Starland Vocal Band? They suck!"
** In yet another episode, Bart somehow managed to tattoo "Wide Load" on Homer's rear end.
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* In an episode of ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', Timmy [[What Did I Do Last Night?|wakes up after a party]] to find he has the name of some girl he doesn't remember tattooed on his stomach. Later in the episode he finds the girl, who also had tattooed ''his'' name on ''her'' arm.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* Besides the above mentioned tattoo-removing procedures, this is rare in real-life because most responsible artists refuse to ink in anyone who seems to be under the influence, partially because drunks tend to bleed more.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120708233536/http://www.pollsb.com/polls/p3258-dude_gets_dumbledore_tattoo_dude_finds_dumbledore This guy]. He was even on television
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* A simple [http://images.google.com/images?q=bad+tattoos&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=rkowSsC6AZGgMp-ltf8J&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title google search for "bad tattoos"] unearths all kinds of hilarity.
* Upon his death, Bernadotte, the Napoleonic soldier who became the absolute monarch of Sweden, was supposedly found with a tattoo he received in his youth, ironically reading "death to all kings".
* [[Johnny Depp]] had his tattoo bearing the words "Winona Forever" altered after his breakup with Winona Rider to instead read "Wino Forever." Then he went into rehab.
* Tian reviews many unfortunate tattoos with kanji/hanzi/Vaguely Asian Symbols at [http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ Hanzi Smatter].
* Finnish football player Eremenko Junior had "Only god judge me"
** Late Finnish pro-wrestler and nationalist politician Tony Halme had "exit only" tattooed over his anus.
* David Beckham has his wife Victoria's name tattooed on his left arm in Hindi - only it is (apparently)
* The UK men's magazine ''Nuts'' has a feature called "Naff Tats", in which readers send in pictures of their embarrassing tattoos - usually done when they were drunk.
* Ugliesttattoos.com. Enjoy the horror.
* [[Hayden Panettiere]] has "To live without regrets" tattooed on her left side in Italian, and much fun was had at her expense when it was pointed out it was misspelled.
* You know those cute abstract-pattern tattoos some girls like to have just above their buttocks? They'
** These are actually called a "tramp stamp". Most girls who do these usually do it either for a provocative message or to label themselves as a possession of a single man. So yeah, pretty risque and not something you show off often.
* In 2009 a Belgian girl
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