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[[File:scannablemanpicture.jpg|link=Hitman|frame|Attention K-Mart shoppers, we have a blue light special on [[Badass]]...]]
Simply put, the use of barcode tattoos in futuristic settings, particularly of the [[
Most often these tattoos are on the nape of the neck, but they can be in other places, as the picture shows us.
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* "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
== [[Fanfic]] ==
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* Barcodes appear on just about everything in the world of Fforde's ''[[Shades of Grey]]''.
** Which oddly enough overlaps with [[Author Appeal]]
* In the early books of the ''Dumarest of Terra'' series, Earl Dumarest's credit account is tattooed into his forearm, to be
* The protagonist in Richard Morgans ''[[Altered Carbon]]'' muses that "anyone who bar-codes their employees isn't likely to be the forgiving type".
* The slaves genetically engineered by [[Evilutionary Biologist|Mesa]] in the ''[[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]]'' have barcodes on their tongues. They're not tattooed there; they're a combination of natural pigment and patterns of taste buds. Even if you cut the tongue off and regenerated it, the barcode would grow right back; it is ''possible'' to eliminate the mark, but it takes way more medical resources than most former slaves could ever get their hands on.
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