History Main / GenericGraffiti

** A sight-gag from when Homer and Abe sneak into Canada for medical reasons shows teens spraying a wall with "Obey the rules".

** A sight-gag from when Homer and Abe sneak into {{Canada| eh}} for medical reasons shows teens spraying a wall with "Obey the rules".

* The UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} version of ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Nitro'' lets players design custom tags. Walls and buildings along the race are bombed with the leader's tag.

* Fireball 4 in the original UsefulNotes/{{Mac}} version of ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'' had "Alaric Was Here", "Huns Rule" and "Vandals Sack". The [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]] version idiotically replaced these with "Gamers Rule" and "Saddam Was Here".

* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'', alongside realistic and real graffiti (including a Banksy piece, which is an anachronism, as someone painted over it sometime after the movie's release), there is a lot of Arc Graffiti, such as "Last one alive please turn out the light"

-->'''Linkara''': "Paul was here"? ''Who the hell is Paul''? [[VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria2}} Paul Warner]]?
-->'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]''': [[RunningGag I]] ''[[RunningGag heard that]]'', [[RunningGag Linkara]]!

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* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts From the New World'' has some generic graffiti on the walls in the "secret" town of Harlem. Mind you, this graffiti is appearing about [[AnachronismStew fifty years before it would become a common sight in New York, and the game's setting predates spray paint by about 20 years.]]

* In the earlier episodes of ''Series/RepublicOfDoyle, Des is usually seen tagging areas all over St. John's.

* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "Rome Antics" when the Vandals invade Ancient Rome they start smashing the place up and paint VANDALS RULE on the walls, just like modern vandals.

* What is Will actually spraying in the intro to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''?
** His armpits?

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' lets you tag over rival gangs. Tag all 100, and a nice arsenal of weapons will spawn at your home in Grove Street.

* In ''VideoGame/RememberMe'' several are spread all over the place in the [[WretchedHive Slum 404]] where the [[AddledAddict Sensen addicted]] Leapers live in UrbanSegregation.

* The character of Jonah in the Australian comedy ''Series/SummerHeightsHigh'' has his personal tag throughout the series: "Dictation", which consists of a crude penis, followed by the letters "TATION", is seen all over the school in many scenes.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' series lets ''players'' draw graffiti that will appear around Inkopolis and in the games' multiplayer stages. The original ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' allowed players to post drawings to Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s own social media website, Website/{{Miiverse}}, that would appear as graffiti throughout the game[[note]]Since the Miiverse service was discontinued in late 2017, this function is no longer available[[/note]], while ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' has a similar function that makes use of Facebook or Twitter.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode, the Gangreen Gang starts spreading graffiti saying stuff like "The City Of Townsville Sucks" and "The Mayor is Dumb". Then they get to a subway tunnel where they start doing more "personalized" work: Snake writes "Sssssssssss" and Big Billy writes "Graffiti: By Big Billy"

* "El Barto" is scrawled on one of the playfield plastics of Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/TheSimpsonsDataEast The Simpsons]]''

* The [[ArmiesAreEvil Marines]] in ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' leave some graffiti behind to express their feelings about [[OneManArmy Gordon]]. Specifically "SURRENDER FREEMEN", "DIE FREEMAN!!!", and [[http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg410/Mr_Someguy/c2a2d0000.jpg "YORE DEAD FREEMAN"]].

* After Soviet victory in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Reichstag in Berlin was covered in [[https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/reichstag-covered-graffiti-1945/ Soviet soldier's graffiti, still readable to this day]]. Most of them are just “From [Russian City] to Berlin” with a name or “Kilroyski was here” (or just this last one), or the occasional "Hitler kaputt".

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* In 1977, the United Nations Postal Administration issued stamps for its [[BigApplesauce New York]] headquarters with the words "Combat Racism" written as a graffito.

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* "El Barto" is scrawled on one of the playfield plastics of Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/TheSimpsonsDataEast The Simpsons]]''
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* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerGiantFist EXTRAPOWER Giant Fist]]'': Has fun with this in the Milles City stages, with various tags on the walls referencing the {{Franchise/Extrapower}} series. There are even a couple of larger pieces: a Happy Pizza from Happy Challenger Yamada with a requisite EasterEgg if struck on top, and a large mural to the Galaxy's team behind the stage boss.

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* In Step 4 of ''WebAnimation/ThereSheIs'', the spread of hateful graffiti mirrors the growing social intolerance toward Doki and Nabi's forbidden cat/rabbit relationship, covering even the vending machines where they first met. In the Final Step, we see them cleaning it off as a sign that things are going to get better (as well as offering a nice BookEnds finale).
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Since the 1970s, UsefulNotes/{{graffiti}} have become an increasingly common occurrence in urban areas, and you probably won't find a back alley or an underpass that doesn't have a handful of tags sprayed on, unless it's been recently buffed. Therefore, when works of fiction deal with modern urban settings, graffiti cannot be exactly ignored. In live-action movies and TV series, one can just film the real things, but with comics, animation and video games, the artists must stretch their own imagination. One solution, which [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail doesn't involve creating more detail than necessary]], is to make the graffiti too illegible to mean anything at all, just random marks that may or may not look like they were intended as writing.