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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!]]!'' plays with this in respect towards [[Shrinking Violet|Jacuzzi]]'s massive facial tattoo. While nothing is wrong with the tattoo itself, it clashes strongly with the boy's timid, unassuming nature so much that he treats it more like an embarrassing disfigurement than anything else. Some [[Fridge Brilliance]] stems from its origins as {{spoiler|the perceived disfiguring nature of it is ''exactly'' why he got it in the first place -- he got the tattoo immediately upon hearing that his best friend Nice [[Eye Scream|blew out her eye]] in a backyard explosives accident so that she wouldn't have to deal with the stares alone}}.
* 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".
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* Ted from ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' went to a tattoo parlor on a drunken dare while trying to get over a break-up and ended up with a butterfly on his lower back (or as Barney puts it, "a tramp stamp, a ho tag..."). It turns out the tattoo artist was recently dumped by the girl Ted was making out with (the one who dragged him there to get a tattoo).
* 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 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.
{{quote|'''Faith:''' When did ''you'' get ink?
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