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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 [[Dystopia|dystopian]] flavor. Maybe it's to mark them as being property of some [[Mega Corp]] or a [[Nebulous Evil Organization]]. Maybe they're [[Cloning Blues|clones]], [[We Will Use Manual Labor in
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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== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[
* 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.
* [[To Aru Majutsu no Index
* "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!
== [[Fanfic]] ==
* Parodied in the [[Affectionate Parody]] fanfic of ''[[Hitman]] 2'', ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Philadelphia Experiment II]]'': The Nazis tattoo barcodes on Americans as identification, and use scanning devices to determine whether or not a barcode is fake.
* ''[[Alien (
* ''[[The Terminator]]'' had Kyle Reese's robot-run concentration camp tattoo (on the arm).
* Gleefully turned into a gag in ''[[Idiocracy]]''.
* The future convicts in ''[[
* ''[[Pandorum]]''. The crew and colonists on board the spaceship have their department (Agriculture, Flight Team, etc) tattooed on their arm. The tattoo is somehow printed so that, even though a colonist waking up from hypersleep has to [[Squick|peel off their dead skin]], a fresh tattoo exists underneath. To access areas the computer scans both the tattoo and their palmprint.
* ''[[The Island]]''. The clones have a bar code on their wrists, which is one way of identifying them from the real ones.
* In the ''[[Blade (
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In the early books of the ''Dumarest of Terra'' series, Earl Dumarest's credit account is tattooed into his forearm, to be read -- and altered as necessary -- by magnetic scanner.
* 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 ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* An episode of Seinfeld that was scripted but never filmed (does that count?) had Kramer change his name to a bar code tattooed to his butt.
* ''[[Mad TV]]'' did a parody of Wal-Mart where the employees had barcodes on their arms.
* British drama series ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* 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]] ==
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