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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[The Big O]]''. [[Mind Screw|It gets kinda hard to tell]].
* They're standard on one specific moon in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.
* The eponymous [[Nora]] has one - inside an inverted pentagram, no less - to indicate that he's a member of the Dark Liege's Army. Interestingly, the DLA is actually the <s> good</s> less-bad of the two demon factions.
* ''[[
* "Barcode Kougaiji" in ''[[Saiyuki]]'' after he's reprogrammed by Goukumen and Nii.
* [[Wild ARMs]] : Twilight Venom - Sheyenne Rainstorm has one on the sole of his right foot. (It's not, strictly speaking, ''his'' right foot, though....)
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'': Criminals in Neo Domino City—including [[The Hero]], natch—are marked with barcode tattoos so they can be tracked after they're released from prison. Marked criminals become societal outcasts, with no choice but to live in the Satellite (if they weren't originally from there already, which is highly likely).
== [[
* Parodied in the [[Affectionate Parody]] fanfic of ''[[Hitman]] 2'', ''[[Hitman: Miami]]''. In one of the missions, 47's barcode will set off an alarm as he leaves a supermarket, subjecting him to a [[Nonstandard Game Over|traumatizing cavity search]]; to avoid this, he can rub his head across a cashier's barcode scanner, which then displays "GNTCLY ENGNRD CLONE: $12.32".
== [[Film]] ==
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* The album art to ''Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too'' by New Radicals features a series of photographs of [[I Am the Band|Gregg Alexander]] with bar codes stamped on different parts of his body. The only exception is a photo where he's basically just a [[Energy Being|glowing white silhouette]].
* The video for Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam features new born babies on a conveyor belt getting bar codes stamped on to their foreheads.
* The album art for [[Epica
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In one ''[[Shadowrun]]'' supplement, call girls had bar codes tattooed on them, presumably to make it easier to scan them and total up the client's bill.
* ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' has tongue tattoos.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* As seen above, ''[[Hitman]]'''s hero, Agent 47, has one on the back of his skull.▼
* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'': Potemkin has one on his ([[Mighty Glacier|massive]]) left bicep. [[Sprite Mirroring|Unfortunately...]]▼
* Raiden of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'' is revealed to be covered in bar code tattoos during the naked sneaking section of the game. Bonus: Jackie boy is [[Heroic Albino|pasty enough]] to presumably make said bar codes legible to laser scanners twenty paces away.▼
* The HUmar in ''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'' has a hairstyle which consists of a Mohawk and a barcode.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used in an episode of ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* All citizens of Derse and Prospit have barcode tattoos in ''[[Homestuck]]'', for reasons currently unknown, but it brought back "painful memories" for the Wayward Vagabond and {{spoiler|Spades Slick used it to open Lord English's safe}}.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In [[Gaia Online]], you can get these [http://www.tektek.org/gaia/item_search.php?s=barcode all over, in a rainbow of colours], as modeled [http://www.tektek.org/avatar/37067366 here].
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* As seen above, ''[[Hitman]]'''s hero, Agent 47, has one on the back of his skull.
▲* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'': Potemkin has one on his ([[Mighty Glacier|massive]]) left bicep. [[Sprite Mirroring|Unfortunately...]]
▲* Raiden of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'' is revealed to be covered in bar code tattoos during the naked sneaking section of the game. Bonus: Jackie boy is [[Heroic Albino|pasty enough]] to presumably make said bar codes legible to laser scanners twenty paces away.
▲* The HUmar in ''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'' has a hairstyle which consists of a Mohawk and a barcode.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* The original katzetnik. True, they weren't barcodes, but they were unique serial numbers tattooed as identification on the arms of people interned in Auschwitz. Katzetnik tattoos are often shown as a visual shorthand for Holocaust survivors, as with the [[The Movie|film version]] of [[X-Men|Magneto]].
* Cliff's Amusement Park in Albuquerque, NM uses bar codes to mark patrons that have bought an unlimited ride pass. Stationary scanners on some rides and handheld scanners on others check the bar code. It's a bracelet, though, tattooing not required.
** Similarly, Blackberry phones running BlackBerry Messenger
* Entertainer, visionary, and [[Crazy Awesome|completely bonkers musician]] [[Doctor Steel]] sports a 47-style barcode tattoo on the back of his neck.
* ID-number tattoos are a common means of identifying racehorses and other valuable livestock. Technology has improved to the point that high-end research laboratories can actually buy an automated machine capable of tattooing ID-numbers on a mouse's tail, to take the place of old-fashioned ear tags.
* [[Henry Rollins]] used to have a bar code tattooed on his neck, but later changed it to the [[Black Flag]] 4-flag symbol.
* [http://mashable.com/2011/07/08/qr-code-tattoo/ This fellow steps it up to a QR tattoo.]
* Marina Cherkunova of the Russian band Total sports a barcode on the back of her skull like Agent 47, except the number in it is {{spoiler|her birth date}}.
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