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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', everyone from Kiba Inuzuka's clan has similar [[Facial Markings]].
== Comic Books ==
* Minor [[
== Film -- Animated ==
* The Atlanteans in ''[[Atlantis:
** However, Kida for some reason actually lost all but her first tattoo in [[Sequelitis|the sequel]].
* ''[[Pocahontas]]'': The Native Americans do this. Also, a doll based on John Smith apparantly has an eagle tattoo under his shirt.
* In Disney's ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'', the Indian chief and a couple of his warriors wear it, as does the boy Michael while he's their guest.
* Lord Macintosh from ''[[
== Film -- Live-Action ==
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: Dead Man's Chest'', when the group finds Jack he has a pattern on that makes his eyes look like they're open when they aren't. [[Dilbert|Perhaps he used it to sleep in meetings?]]
* In ''[[Avatar (
* At the beginning of ''[[
* In ''[[Major League]]'', when the Indians are close to winning the division we see a sportscaster dressed in full (sterotypical) Indian gear including a Chief-sized feather headdress and warpaint.
* The characters in ''Kruppendorf's Tribe'' use it.
* In ''[[King Arthur (
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' features this with Jack and the hunters. One of the chapters ''is'', after all, named "Painted Faces and Long Hair".
* The Cetagandans in ''[[The Vorkosigan Saga]]'' wear elaborate facepaint, with different variations for caste and rank.
* The Nac Mac Feegle in ''[[
* ''[[Sten]]'': As part of her pre-mission preparation ritual, [[Ace Pilot|ace tacship pilot]] La Ciotat "painted her face in the ancestral battle pattern of her house."
* Martin Crevald in ''The Culture of War'' claims that camouflage cream serves as the equiv for technologically complex societies as well as it's utilitarian reasons.
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* The tribe that Cole is an adoptive member of at the beginning of ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'' has this.
* In ''[[Survivor]]'', at least once a season the tribes are given paint to wear to the challenge.
* The kids in ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
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* To an extent, one could say [[Kiss]] has this, in that they all have the same visual motif and the band could be considered a "tribe". Maybe.
** In general metallers who paint their faces desire to invoke some variety of this trope, provided they don't want to invoke [[Obviously Evil|another one]].
* [[Tech
== [[Pro Wrestling]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* This is used in ''[[Mass Effect]]'', where the Turians all have facial markings defining the wearer as a member from one of the colonies where they were born. Which all stems from some sort of civil war.
** [[
* The [[Amazon Brigade|Zaulia tribe]] in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' have facial paints based on ''[[Kiss]]'''s masks.
* Unique facial markings are worn by the Tribesmen in ''[[Tribes: Vengeance]]'' and, ironically, by the anti-Tribal extremist Julia, {{spoiler|who is unknowingly a half-Tribal by blood herself}}.
* Trolls in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' have an option for different face paints, ranging from a few lines on their cheeks and note to covering the entire face.
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'': In the Honest Hearts DLC, one of the two tribes of Zion Canyon, known as the Dead Horses has a custom where members earn a facial or body tattoo for every major achievement they accomplish.
* Kotal Kahn in ''[[Mortal Kombat X]]'' and ''[[Mortal Kombat 11]]''; [[Word of God]] confirms that the designs on his body are not tattoos, but war-paint.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* The Stalker from ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' paints his entire body with tribal markings before going on the prowl.
* On Disney's ''[[Recess]]'', the pre-schoolers were depicted as a native tribe, complete with fingerpaint facepaint; in the episode "The Legend of Big Kid" when T.J. is captured by the preschoolers, he atavistically adopts the facepaint fashion as well.
* The title opponents in the ''[[
* In the ''[[
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Queen La from ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The native people of New Zealand, the Maori, traditionally decorate their face and body with [
* Martin Van Crevald in ''The Culture of War'' said effectively that he almost thought camouflage cream was more for this purpose then for practical reasons. But then one of the themes of his book was that [[Humans Are Warriors]] and we are [[Not So Different]].
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