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* ''Literature/{{Stitches}}'': In "Face", the priest at a local temple has the main character remove his wife's clothes, then writes the Buddhist prayer "Namu Amida Butsu" across her entire body from head to toe in order to contain the spirit that is possessing her.
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* ''Website/NobodyHere'': "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/remember.here Remember]]" shows the various things that Jogchem wrote in the palm of his hand so that he doesn't forget, such as "check mail", "babies are cute" and "she could exist".
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* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. In "Peculiarities", Mizu is in a brothel where the madame shows her a client doing the erotic version with a courtesan. In "Nothing Broken", Mizu has to purify her soul before [[ReforgedBlade forging a new sword]], so strips naked and paints the Heart Sutra all over her body. She has her apprentice Ringo (the only person who knows [[SweetPollyOliver Mizu is a woman]]) paint the words on her back. As Ringo had been estranged from his master, it's a gesture of reconciliation between the two.
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* ''Series/WeirdScience'': "Slow Times at Farber High" takes this to quite the extreme with Gary. Ahead of a test, Principal Scampi pats him down to look for any cheating implements, only to find Gary has written all over himself. He even wrote complete sentences backwards on his back, intending to check that stuff in the mirror while faking a bathroom break. Scampi is genuinely astounded, saying Gary has outdone every cheater ever seen in the school and that he could genuinely be the school's greatest mind if he simply put this kind of effort into his schoolwork.
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* ''Film/RushHour3'' is driven by the search for "Shy Shen", an important figure to [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs the Triads]] that is alternatively [[LivingMacGuffin an important individual]] or a list of the names of Triad leaders being held by the individual. When Lee and Carter find the Shy Shen -- a French stage performer named Geneviève -- we learn that it's ''both'': the list of names is tattooed on the back of her head as part of a Triad tradition, which would also involve her carrying the list to all 35 provinces of China before she would be beheaded and buried forever.
-->'''Carter''': What type of tradition is that?! Have these guys ever heard of a damn fax machine?
-->'''Carter''': What type of tradition is that?! Have these guys ever heard of a damn fax machine?
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* ''Film/HouseOf9'': During his SanitySlippage, Francis starts writing on his body with Cynthia's lipstick.
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* ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'': Two races of rune-wielding demigods exists: The Sartans, who inscribe InstantRunes by moving their hands and feet - essentially 'dancing' the magic out; and the Patryns who follow this trope. They tattoo magical runes across their entire body (except the head, where it would disturb the process of free thought) and can thus call out their power at will.
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', males of the Nac Mac Feegle clan of pictsies tattoo themselves all over. It's implied that their natural skin color may be nut-brown - at least, that's what their un-tattooed females look like - but appear blue from their all-body clan markings.
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', males of the Nac Mac Feegle clan of pictsies tattoo themselves all over. It's implied that their natural skin color may be nut-brown - at least, that's what their un-tattooed females look like - but appear blue from their all-body clan markings.
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* ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'': Two races of rune-wielding demigods exists: The Sartans, who inscribe InstantRunes by moving their hands and feet - -- essentially 'dancing' the magic out; and the Patryns who follow this trope. They tattoo magical runes across their entire body (except the head, where it would disturb the process of free thought) and can thus call out their power at will.
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', males of the Nac Mac Feegle clan of pictsies tattoo themselves all over. It's implied that their natural skin color may be nut-brown- -- at least, that's what their un-tattooed females look like - -- but appear blue from their all-body clan markings.
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', males of the Nac Mac Feegle clan of pictsies tattoo themselves all over. It's implied that their natural skin color may be nut-brown
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* In Chapter 102 ("A Bower in the Arsacides") of ''Literature/MobyDick'', Ishmael mentions recording the dimensions of a whale skeleton on his arm, "as in my wild wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving such valuable statistics." (He omits the inches, as he was saving room for a poem.)
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* ''Literature/MobyDick'':
** Queequeg's tattoos are said to be the work of a deceased prophet from his island and consist of "a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth," but written in symbols that no one, not even Queequeg, can actually read.
** In Chapter 102 ("A Bower in theArsacides") of ''Literature/MobyDick'', Arsacides"), Ishmael mentions recording the dimensions of a whale skeleton on his arm, "as in my wild wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving such valuable statistics." (He omits the inches, as he was saving room for a poem.))
** Ahab uses a flattened section of his whalebone peg leg to work out navigational sightings.
** Queequeg's tattoos are said to be the work of a deceased prophet from his island and consist of "a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth," but written in symbols that no one, not even Queequeg, can actually read.
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* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer attempts to cheat his way through an exam by covering his entire body (save his hands and face - and buttocks) with written notes. On trying to look at the ones on his forearm, he finds his sweat has smudged them into complete illegibility. This doesn't stop him from wrapping his hand around his forearm and slapping it down on the exam paper, in an insane hope that the words would somehow form themselves. (He then stands up, salutes his examining officer and faints in the middle of the classroom.) Even prior to that, he had a crisis just before the exam when he realised he didn't know what any of it ''meant''.
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* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer attempts to cheat his way through an exam by covering his entire body (save his hands and face - -- and buttocks) with written notes. On trying to look at the ones on his forearm, he finds his sweat has smudged them into complete illegibility. This doesn't stop him from wrapping his hand around his forearm and slapping it down on the exam paper, in an insane hope that the words would somehow form re-form themselves. (He then stands up, salutes his examining officer and faints in the middle of the classroom.) Even prior to that, he had a crisis just before the exam when he realised he didn't know what any of it ''meant''.
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* Nick Mullen on an episode of Cum Town had a bit where a comedian he didn't like got turned into a human notepad while in prison. The gag went that the other inmates would scrawl completely mundane notes to each other, such as asking for extra things from the cafeteria or reminding them of an upcoming basketball game.
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Generally a subset of PowerTattoo, which sometimes overlaps with MarkOfTheBeast and ScannableMan. The Human Notepad is when a character is covered with writing. Perhaps he was the victim of a prank (expect frat boys to pull this one), or perhaps he is making notes on himself [[NoteToSelf as an aid to memory]] (in which case this is mostly seen on the back of his hand). In SpeculativeFiction, it may indicate possession by some powerful foreign entity. In supernatural cases, the text usually covers the whole body, although sometimes just the face or another prominent part is covered, and it appears only when the possessing entity is actively attempting to control or providing power to the marked character.
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Generally a subset of PowerTattoo, which sometimes overlaps with MarkOfTheBeast and ScannableMan. The Human Notepad is when a character is covered with writing. Perhaps he was the victim of [[FaceDoodling a prank prank]] (expect frat boys to pull this one), or perhaps he is making notes on himself [[NoteToSelf as an aid to memory]] (in which case this is mostly seen on the back of his hand). In SpeculativeFiction, it may indicate possession by some powerful foreign entity. In supernatural cases, the text usually covers the whole body, although sometimes just the face or another prominent part is covered, and it appears only when the possessing entity is actively attempting to control or providing power to the marked character.
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* Indirect example: Brian had Dave and Bob tattoo his spellbook on their characters in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':
** In one strip, Paige accuses Jason of telling her to look up during a walk in order to give her some EyeScream in the form of a falling leaf. Jason gives himself away when he throws up his hands in mock self-defense and reveals he wrote drag coefficients down on them.
** Another strip involved Jason invoking this trope a la ''Series/PrisonBreak'' when he feared going to jail for hacking the CIA's computers.
** In one strip, Paige accuses Jason of telling her to look up during a walk in order to give her some EyeScream in the form of a falling leaf. Jason gives himself away when he throws up his hands in mock self-defense and reveals he wrote drag coefficients down on them.
** Another strip involved Jason invoking this trope a la ''Series/PrisonBreak'' when he feared going to jail for hacking the CIA's computers.
* ''Literature/RedDwarf'': At one point in the first book when the crew seemed to have returned to Earth, Lister discovered his arms were suddenly in pain and the injuries formed a pair of messages. They turned out to be from Kryten invoking this trope by carving the message into Lister's arms in the real world to try and warn him that he and the others were trapped in the game Better Than Life.
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* Michael Scofield of ''Series/PrisonBreak'', had the details of his escape plan and blueprints of the entire prison tattooed on his body, albeit hidden within geometric shapes and images of angels and demons.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheStrangerhood'': Griggs attempted to do this when he was jailed under suspicion of murdering Nikki. What he got was a cat riding a surfboard.
