Embarrassing Tattoo: Difference between revisions

{{trope}}

'''Sheldon''': No it isn't. But I suppose it does take courage to demonstrate that kind of commitment to soup.|'''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'''}}

 

* 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 its the mark of a demon called Eyghon which he and some friends summoned in their youth which will eventually [[Demonic Possession|inhabit their bodies]] and then kill them. Even after the demon is defeated he keeps the tattoo; it even shows up in the (canonical) Season 8 comic books where Faith spots it.

'''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]] : The college years has got [[Looney Tunes|Tweety Bird]] on his butt. But he was a bit younger and thinner when he first got it, leading to this remark;

* 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 Anatomy|Greys Anatomy]]'' had a [[Patient of the Week]] who repeatedly asked to be treated by an another doctor. Eventually, he was forced to show his tattoo, which revealed that he's a neo-Nazi and did not want to be treated by the Asian, Jewish and/or black protagonists.

* 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.

You'll be there when I die, tattoo'' }}

* [[Offspring]]'s "Pretty Fly For A White Guy":

He asked for a thirteen but they drew a thirty-one. }}

* Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight Tonight":

And it kinda looks just like you ... mixed with Zach Galifianakis!'' }}