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'''Sheldon''': No it isn't. But I suppose it does take courage to demonstrate that kind of commitment to soup.|'''[[The Big Bang Theory (TV)|The Big Bang Theory]]'''}}
A comedy trope that is definitely [[Truth in Television]] is when a character will have a tattoo (sometimes in an embarrassing location) with various unsavory features, such as being misspelled, the name of a former love interest, written in a language the wearer does not understand and [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|not meaning what he thinks]] (Chinese characters are good for this), etcetera, [[Alcohol
This is slowly becoming a [[Discredited Trope]], due to three main reasons:
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== Literature ==
* In Alfred Bester's novel ''[[The Stars My Destination (Literature)|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 [
* 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.
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