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Good thing she has her fur skirt to keep it hidden.

Deral: I was admiring... your markings. Are they decorative?
Jadzia: No. Are yours?
Deral: No. If you don't mind me asking... how far down do they go?
Jadzia: All the way.

This trope is about characters with some sort of writing, markings, symbols or pictures on their naughtier bits, whether written on their clothes or displayed on their bare skin. This is often used as a Sex Sells tactic to deliberately draw attention to the said area, especially if paired with Male Gaze, Female Gaze, or clothing such as bikinis or thongs. Some clothes designers intentionally put their logo here, or sell clothes with attention-grabbing marks as an advertising gimmick. ("Snorg Tees" is particularly egregious about this.)

For the purposes of this trope, the qualifying areas are the chest (on women), the crotch and inner thigh, and the buttocks. Marks found on other areas, such as shapely legs, bared midriffs or a bare back do not count. Marks just shy of these areas (just above the breast, buttocks, or crotch) are passable, though.

Some examples may overlap with Embarrassing Tattoo. Can also overlap with Brought to You by the Letter "S" and Chest Insignia, if the insignia is somewhere that you shouldn't be looking for more than a second. See also Tattoo as Character Type.

This page is not for how awesome, sexy, or cute said character's breasts, butt or other body part is. This is merely a catalog of said characters or examples of the trope in media.


Examples:

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    Advertising 
  • The bar and grill chain Hooters makes sure the "O"s of the HOOTERS logo on their waitresses' shirts are placed in their chests, to draw people's eyes there.
  • Snorg Tees abuses this in all of its online advertisements, combined with Girl Gamer to really drive the boys crazy.
  • One late 1990s-early 2000s print ad for Winston cigarettes shows a picture of a woman with the caption "Yeah, I got a tattoo. And no, you can't see it."

    Anime & Manga 
  • In Asuka Hybrid, while Asuka is gathering clues to track down the mysterious mage that turned him into a girl, he makes note of the rune-like symbols that were just above her crotch. While the main reason he remembers it is because said mage landed on top of him and gave him an awkward view of the area, Yayoi assumes the wrong idea for why he'd be paying enough attention to remember it so clearly.
  • Berserk: Casca's Brand of Sacrifice is just above her left breast. The nature of the series means she appears naked with some regularity, so it's often seen (especially since its starting to bleed means demons are approaching). Notably, Guts has his Brand on the back of his neck, not requiring any excess exposure to view it.
  • Bleach:
    • Rangiku Matsumoto puts her Power Limiter marking right on the inside of her breasts, which is visible due to how low-cut her robe is.
    • Tier Harribel's "3" tattoo is on her right breast and is only visible when she removes her jacket. Szayelaporro's "8" tattoo is apparently in his groin.
  • Invoked and subverted in Cat's Eye, when the police officers investigating the titular female thieves receive information that one of them has a birthmark on her inner thigh, allowing them to identify her by checking all women near the painting they know Cat's Eye is targeting... Or it would be, as the informant was a disguised member of Cat's Eye, who tricked the detectives into looking under women's skirts and get arrested for sexual harassment by the local precinct while the thieves can waltz through the surveillance in the confusion.
  • City Hunter: One case involves a young woman being repeatedly harassed by men trying to see down her cleavage. Turns out they're not perverts (entirely), the woman they're looking for has a birthmark on one of her breasts.
  • In Dragon Hunter, Seur-Chong threatens to spread around that a priestess has a mole on her breast if she refuses him payment (her own fault really, she's in the bath while negotiating with him).
  • Ayaka from the OVA of Fate/Prototype is seen to have her Command Seals right in between her boobs.
  • El-Hazard: The Magnificent World: Both Ifurita and Kalia's activation modules are located directly above the cleft of their buttocks. Each must be inserted with a keystaff to turn them on, and it's every bit as suggestive as it sounds.
  • In Fullmetal Alchemist, Lust has her ouroboros mark just above her cleavage. This proves frustrating for her when she's trying to seduce information out of Havoc. Since he knows what the mark means, she has to keep her chest covered at all times, which sharply limits her options.
  • Haruhi Suzumiya: Mikuru Asahina has a star-shaped mole on her right breast. This even becomes a means for Mikuru to prove her identity to Kyon when he first meets her future self.
  • In one of the Hetalia: Axis Powers Christmas events, it's briefly mentioned that Monaco has a mole on her chest when all the nations are frantically hunting for an important mark on one of their bodies (the mole isn't it, and she asks France not to shout about it to the entire world).
  • Kodocha: Sana has three moles in a line on her butt, much to her embarrassment. (Though knowledge of this is how her birth mother proves her identity.)
  • The Vox pilots in Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne use marks called Memoria to interact with their mecha. Some of them though are in questionable places, to say the least: Madoka's is on her butt, Lan's is somewhere on her breasts, and Muginami's is just above her crotch. It's further implied that these are created based on where the Vox touches them.
  • Bratty Half-Pint Sarah in Love Hina has a birthmark on her rear end she's extremely embarrassed about. Once Keitaro finds out, he's able to blackmail her into behaving a little better.
  • Tales of Wedding Rings: Krystal receives a magical tattoo around her belly button that is supposed to prevent pregnancy. It's only after she almost had sex that her sister tells her that the seal is only about seventy percent effective; if there was a perfect contraceptive spell out there, everyone would use it. She didn't warn them before because she thought it would be funny.
  • Subverted for comedic purposes in Those Who Hunt Elves; despite the main characters' enthusiasm in stripping elves naked, it's a Running Gag that every single one of the marks they're looking for appears on a spot that wouldn't be covered by clothes anyway.
  • Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle: Early in the story, Liseharte Atismata reveals she was captured by Imperial loyalists and branded with the Arcadia symbol near her groin.

    Comedy 
  • French comedians Pierre Dac and Francis Blanche had a skit where the latter plays a seer. At some point the seer mentions some man in the audience has a tattoo "in a place honesty and decency prevent me from further specifying", before elaborating on what the tattoo depicts "when in appropriate mood".

    Comic Books 
  • Comic book superheroines have some notable examples of their insignias being on fanservicey areas):
    • Wonder Woman is one of the Trope Codifiers within the Superhero genre. Her "WW" is in the shape of an eagle which, Depending on the Artist, is usually underneath her cleavage.
    • Supergirl tends to invite this trope, since her "S" insignia is right on her chest (although, she is a Distaff Counterpart of Superman), but her '70s costume was the worst offender, since the S was small, located on her left breast, and situated next to an extremely low neckline.
    • Played straight and averted with Power Girl, whose breasts (and costume drawing attention to them) are her most famous feature, in-universe and out. Averted by one telling of the "boob window" and its origin, that she couldn't think of a symbol to match Superman's.
    • The Teen Titans villain Cheshire was originally drawn with a pink lotus tattoo above her breast.
  • Sydney Savage of Danger Girl has a birthmark on her breast which is often visible thanks to her Spy Catsuit having a Navel-Deep Neckline.
  • The Dark Knight Strikes Again features a woman with the Superman logo stamped across her ass.
  • Ninjette in Empowered wears short shorts with her name across the rear.
  • Harley Quinn: After being abducted and knocked out by Red Tool, Harley wakes up with a red hammer and Red Tool's phone number tattooed on her ass. Harley, needless to say, is pissed at this turn of events.
  • John Constantine has a tree tattooed on his ass, but it's not entirely clear he's aware of it — Swamp Thing put it there when he possessed Constantine in order to father a child with his girlfriend Abby.
  • In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), according to Espio, Sally Acorn has a royal birthmark somewhere. He never said where but the [reluctant] mere mention of it existing has Sally blush in embarrassment, leading her to drop the subject.
  • Vampirella
    • These two alternate covers featured in The Art of Vampirella depict the eponymous heroine with a bat tattoo on her left breast. She has no such tattoo in the series proper.
    • On the other hand, her signature costume has a V/Bat emblem on the crotch.

    Comic Strips 
  • An old Bloom County strip has Opus exchanging personal scandals with his fiancé Lola. She tells him she has two, and that the first one is a tattoo of Dan Fogelberg. He flips out over this, then calms down enough to ask where it is. "That's the other scandal," she replies.
  • An old Playboy cartoon has an attractive young lady , just married to a wealthy older man, saying "now that we're married I have something about my past to tell you". Visible on her buttock is a tattoo saying "Property of Hell's Angels" (used by the gang on young girls at the time).

    Films — Animation 
  • Although vehicles obviously don't have naughty bits, Sally from Cars has a "pinstriping tattoo" over her bumper, and she's very embarrassed when Lightning notices. It's clearly an automotive version of a "tramp stamp".
    • Ramone also has a similar tattoo in his undercarriage, which he shows to a horrified couple.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • The Archer: Rebecca is revealed to have tattoos just over her breasts when she gets in the shower with Lauren.
  • In the Italian movie Brancaleone at the Crusades, the King Raimondo has a huge birthmark on his butt, typical of his clan. His infant son had one too, but the group's witch Tiburzia accidentally washed the mark away with her sorcery.
  • Blue Jean: Jean's girlfriend Viv has multiple tattoos on her breasts, including a large one around her left nipple, as seen while they're having sex.
  • In Carry On Dick, the Bow Street Runners learn that the notorious highwayman "Big Dick" Turpin has a distinguishing birthmark on his penis, so Sergeant Jock Strapp starts following men into the lavatory with a magnifying glass to see if he can spot it.
  • In The Court Jester, the Rightful Heir (still an infant) has a Birthmark of Destiny on his butt. In the ending, the titular Jester, with the infant in his arms, lowers the swaddling clothes just far enough to reveal the birthmark, to a long line of nobles.
  • Captain Tom Dodge in Down Periscope has a tattoo of a the words "Welcome Aboard!" on his junk.
  • In Goldeneye, Bond is told he'll know the American agent he'll be working with on a mission, Jack Wade, from a distinctive tattoo he bears. The tattoo turns out to be the word "Muffy" (the name of Jack's ex-wife) tattooed onto one of Jack's buttocks.
  • In an Imagine Spot in High Fidelity Rob imagines his ex-girlfriend Laura with a tattoo of the name of one of his romantic rivals on her ass at the panty line.
  • In the 2002 film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest, Gwendolen gets Ernest's name tattooed on her buttocks adding to her anger when she finds out "Ernest" is actually called "Jack". During the end credits Jack is seen at the same tattoo parlor getting a matching "Gwendolen" tattoo as she holds his hand in support.
  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is about 2 firefighters who pretend to be gay and get married to get insurance benefits. The movie has a closeted homosexual who comes out to one of the protagonists. Later, when all the firefighters are in the shower, all the firefighters are scared of the 2 main characters. The closeted homosexual walks in and drops his soap. He bends over to reveal that "BAD ASS" is tattooed on his butt cheeks.
  • In the Fade: Katja gets an extensive tattoo done underneath her breasts, on the right side of her torso. It was begun before her family were killed, and she gets this finished after.
  • Johnny English: Played for Laughs when the villain plots to Capture and Replicate the Archbishop of Canterbury — the impersonator has a tattoo on his bottom reading "Jesus Is Coming - Look Busy". When Johnny goes to publicly expose him, in every sense of the word, he turns out to have the real Archbishop.
  • The third (or fourth, depending on which versions you're talking about) Lone Wolf and Cub movie has a woman who has a tattoo of a demon on most of the left side of her torso, specifically drawn so it looks like it's biting one of her nipples. She uses this as part of her Full-Frontal Assault strategy.
  • Lycan: Isabella has a rather large tattoo right over her buttocks, as seen when she's on her way into the shower.
  • In Moms' Night Out, Sondra, the pastor's wife, has a tattoo of Donny Osmond in a place where he has to lower her skirt to show it to her daughter.
  • In the second The Naked Gun movie, a famous scientist is identified by a birthmark on his butt cheek. When a criminal disguises himself as the scientist, the main character yanks down the man's pants to expose him... only he grabbed the scientist and not the criminal.
  • In the movie Overboard with Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, he is able to convince the doctors caring for her that he's her husband because he could describe a buttock tattoo he saw when she was wearing a thong bikini.
  • Porky's: Mrs. Ballbreaker sees one of the boys' penises when he sticks it through a peephole in the girls' shower room. She says that she can identify the penis by a mole on it, and insists that the principal let her examine all the boys in order to find the culprit. The principal refuses.
  • The Rapture: Angie, one of the swingers, has a tattoo which goes down her whole back and buttocks, which is seen when she's having sex with a man at an orgy. She apparently got it all in one night, and Angie is quite touchy at being asked questions about this.
  • Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Both Jabbles and Rage Kage have Birthmarks of Destiny on their hind quarters that spell out "Tenac" and "ious D" respectively. They take this as a sign to name their band Tenacious D.
  • In Up the Front, Captain Nigel has the German's master plan tattooed on Lurk's bottom so he can get it to General Burke without suspicion.
  • In Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise notices a mole between Penélope Cruz's breasts. It becomes a somewhat important plot point during the Mind Screw climax.
  • In Young Lady Chatterley II, Jenny the maid has a tattoo of a rose on her butt cheek that Thomas the gardener is very keen to see.

    Fairy Tales 
  • One of the ATU 850 "The Birthmarks of the Princess", fairy tales has a princess show a farm boy a trio of birthmarks, one on her ankle (a sun), knee (a cluster of stars), and upper thigh (a moon, of course) in exchange for a trio of simple favours. The king decrees that whoever knows the princess' secret will have her hand in marriage. The farm boy reveals these birthmarks, and weds the princess.

    Folklore 
  • One version of the legend of Sire de Crequy has him prove, after miraculously returning from the years of captivity, that he is really who he says he is by correcty naming the mark on his wife's body that "only the husband would know". Yeah...

    Literature 
  • In the Claws and Starships short story "Rosettes and Ribbons", Peli has white fur except for one black rosette just below her left collar-bone. When one of the Aera tries to provoke his wife into challenging her to a duel by claiming a sexual relationship with her, she takes advantage of the Aera obsession with detail and shows off the rosette, knowing that he would have mentioned it if he had really seen her in the nude.
  • In the Conan the Barbarian novella A Witch Shall Be Born, crescent birthmarks are considered signs of witchcraft, and one of these is the major feature distinguishing Queen Taramis from her evil twin Salome. Said birthmark is right on her chest.
  • In Stephen King's Cujo, Donna Trenton has a mole "just above her pubic hair". When she breaks up with her lover, Steve Kemp, Kemp vengefully writes a crude message to her husband, Vic, about how he enjoyed "fucking the shit out of her." He also mentions the mole so Vic would know that the message is true.
  • In the Discworld spinoff Nanny Oggs Cookbook, one illustration has Nanny Ogg and Casanunda looking as chastened as a couple of horny teenagers caught making out under the glare of Granny Weatherwax... while Nanny sports a pair of floury hand prints over her breasts.
  • Captain Asier in the Dreamscape Voyager Trilogy has a cross-shaped scar over her breasts.
  • In Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I. series, Garrett knew a guy from his Marine unit who'd gotten his penis tattooed like a serpent, and probably regretted it for the rest of his life. At the time, the guy just figured he'd rather be addressed as "Snakeman" than by his previous nickname, "Donkey Dick".
  • Jokingly implied (but probably not true) with Ron in Harry Potter, when Ginny talks about how she told a girl that Harry has a Hungarian Horntail dragon tattooed on his chest. Harry asks Ginny if she said something about any tattoos on Ron, and she replies, "a Pygmy Puff, but I didn't say where."
  • In Proven Guilty, Harry comments ambiguously that Molly's neck tattoo "went all the way down" to her navel. He doesn't actually say whether it covers her cleavage, but Fanon claims that it does nonetheless.
  • In the Sabina Kane series, mages all have a birthmark of an eight-pointed star, a symbol of the goddess Hekate, somewhere on their bodies. At one point in Red-Headed Stepchild Sabina accidentally walks in on the mage Adam Lazarus as he's getting out of the shower and discovers that his is between his belly button and his groin. For her part, Sabina's is on her right shoulder blade.
  • Spellster: Tracker is heavily tattooed, which includes over both his thighs and hips near his penis, as Dylan can't help but note when he's naked near him.
  • Ciri from The Witcher has a rose on her upper thigh. Her lover Mistle got the tattoo first, and Ciri at one point leans in real close to examine it.

    Live-Action TV 
  • In one episode of Bad Judge the defendant is being sued for mooning someone and as evidence his lawyer presents a picture of his buttock covered with a massive tattoo that the plaintiff didn't remember seeing. Rebecca requests that he drop his pants and show it, and he finds it painful just to stand up, which she takes to mean he just got his butt inked to tamper with the "evidence."
  • In The Big Bang Theory Penny apparently has a Chinese character tattooed on her right buttock. It is either for "Courage" or "soup" depending on whether you believe her or Sheldon.
  • Birds of a Feather: "Tattoo You" reveals that Sharon has, unbeknownst to her, had a tattoo of Norman Parker inside her butt for about 40 years. Once this is pointed out to her, she lies about her age so that she can get free hearing aids and uses the money meant for the hearing aids to remove the tattoo instead.
  • Cordelia from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel has a tattoo on her back, right above her rear. It's the actress's real tattoo, but we've seen it onscreen on the shows a few times.
  • During a Lock-and-Load Montage in the Burn Notice episode "Hot Spot" we get a shot of Fiona pulling her pants on. Turns out she has the letters "IRA" tattooed above her butt (she was in the Irish Republican Army when she and Michael first met).
  • Conversations with Friends: Bobbi, it turns out, has a tattoo on her waist underneath her right breast.
  • Deadly Class: Saya's Yakuza tattoos cover her torso, including the tops of her breasts, as seen while she's in her underwear.
  • Frasier: Roz once claimed to have the name of one of her ex-boyfriends tattooed on her butt. Frasier later mentions that there's a rumor among their colleagues that she has Tweety Bird tattooed on one of her thighs, although Roz doesn't confirm if this one's true.
  • Played with in The Good Wife, a woman who claims to have had an affair with Peter Florrick while he's running for governor says that he has a birthmark shaped like Brazil on his penis. Protagonist Alicia Florrick, his estranged wife who separated from him over a previous affair, busts out laughing when she's asked about the nonexistent birthmark.
  • Hightown: Jackie has tattoos on her right breast and left side, as Season 2 shows when she wears a tanktop that reveals them.
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021): Margot has small black tattoos by her breasts, as seen when she's having sex with Lennon in the video.
  • Industry: Harper has tattoos on both her breasts, right under them and on her stomach just over her vagina.
  • In the Colombian Soap Opera Las Juanas, all the titular girls have a fish-shaped birthmark in their buttocks as a proof that they are the biological albeit illegitimate daughters of Calixto Salguero, who also had a similar mark in the same place. This was so important that the biggest secret of the plot is that the legitimate son of Calixto, Rubén, doesn't that mark because he isn't his biological son and his mother faked it when he was a kid. The remake La marca del deseo changed it for a heart-shaped birthmark in the lower back.
  • The L Word:
    • Shane's got a tattoo at the base of her spine, as shown when she's topless a couple times.
    • Carmen has tattoos around her waist just over her buttocks and groin, as shown in many intimate scenes.
  • Motherland: Fort Salem: Abigail, Raelle, and Tally exposit on the fact that witches' marks go from black to glittery after a witch loses her virginity. Abigail's and Tally's are in easy-to-show places, but Raelle (who is confirmed later to be a lesbian) comments they'd have to get a lot friendlier for her to show them hers, as it's right next to her vagina.
  • NCIS:
    • In the first season, to impress Abby, McGee gets a tattoo on his butt. It is never shown, but he reveals that it's "Mom."
    • Apparently, Abby talked Kate into getting a tattoo as well.
  • NOS4A2: Maggie has had a large rose tattooed onto her left breast in the second season.
  • Scrubs:
    • Elliot has a mole on her butt, leading to the nickname "mole butt". It is first mentioned as part of an embarrassing story about using the restroom with roller skates on.
    • Kelso repeatedly and off-handedly mentions he has the name "Johnny" tattooed on his ass, and insists that it Makes Sense In Contextwithout explaining the context once. Johnny meanwhile apparently has "Bobby" tattooed on his ass.
  • Shadowhunters: Clary and Izzy have Shadowhunter rune tattoos near or on their breasts (in fact, one is shared on both of Izzy's, plus between them), as displayed when they wear low-cut tops (which is often) and occasionally less. Maia has a butterfly tattoo that is... well-hidden (heavily implied to be somewhere one won't see with all of her clothes on).
  • Smallville Chloe Sullivan apparently has a distinctive birthmark on one of her buttocks, assuming you believe the character with x-ray vision.
  • In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and later works in the Star Trek franchise, Trills have markings on their bodies that run from their neck down to their feet. A Running Gag in the series is that non-Trills would like to know "just how far the markings go." This was enforced over the Rubber-Forehead Aliens look used in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Host" because the DS9 TV crew decided the TNG makeup made Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax) look ugly.
  • In one episode of That '70s Show, Eric's cousin comes to stay with them and constantly wears tight t-shirts with large logos over her breasts. She catches Eric looking at her breasts, and "innocently" mistakes it for him reading her t-shirt logo. This becomes a running gag throughout the episode. At the end of the episode, it turns out all the flirty behavior and sexy clothing was calculated to attract Eric as payback for a prank he'd played on her years ago.
  • 2 Broke Girls: Caroline's father's former mistress is writing a book about him, in which she claims among other things that he has a small penis. Caroline goes on Piers Morgan to defend her father (for the "among other things" part, not the small penis part — she refuses to discuss that). She also happens to have a photo of her father on her phone in which he is accidentally flashing the camera. Through a convoluted course of events, Morgan sees the photo and immediately dismisses the mistress's story because Caroline's father's penis is quite healthy; if she's lying about that, she's most likely lying about the rest of it too.
  • In an episode of Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, Berg tried to prevent Pete from discovering that Pete's new girlfriend had his [Berg's] name tattooed on her body in a very intimate place.
  • Vida: Alex, one of the nonbinary people who Emma gets a threeway with, has many tattoos on their torso just beside or above (though not on) their breasts, plus over their ass, as the audience gets shown in great detail afterward.
  • The Walking Dead (2010): Magna has a large tattoo on her chest which extends down over and between her breasts.
  • The Wheel of Time (2021): Siuan has intricate tattoos on her arms and chest just over her breasts, as seen when she's having her tryst with Moiraine.

    Music Videos 
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show: Cat Hairballs ends with Stimpy falling on a conveyor belt and Ren stamping Stimpy on the ass. This results in the words "Grade A" being written across Stimpy's butt cheeks.
  • In the video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Tacky", Kirsten Schaal lives up to the title by wearing a top with hot pink handprints over the breasts.

    Theatre 
  • In Cymbeline, Imogen, the heroine, has a mole under one of her breasts. Iachmo is able to falsely win a bet that he could seduce her, by spying on her while sleeping, and noting this distinguishing mark.
  • The Broadway musical Red Hot And Blue was about a lawyer's search for his long-lost childhood sweetheart. The only identifying feature he can remember about her is a posterior scarred from sitting on a waffle iron.

    Toys 

    Video Games 
  • Miriam, of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has rose-pattered areas of her skin crystallizing. The most noticeable is just above her left breast, due to the corruption starting with her heart, but she has more over her body including a couple on her thighs. Each is surrounded by a ring of Enochian characters, to inhibit their spread. Johannes is implied to have scribed these on her, though the relationship appears purely professional.
  • In The Caligula Effect, when the mysterious Wicked finally reveals themselves to the Go Home Club, they turn out to have a pink heart tattoo on the right side of their chest that only becomes visible because their attire includes an open shirt.
  • Isaac from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness has a complex series of tattoos that disappear into very low-cutting pants.
    • In the comic booklet that comes with a promo CD upon pre-ordering the game, Isaac is shown fully unclothed, and his tattoos go all the way down to his ankles.
  • Cyberpunk 2077: You can't see it in the game, but if you rip Judy Alvarez's nude model used in her sex scene from the files, you can see that she has a cat tattoo on her groin.
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Toko Fukawa wears a long skirt as part of her old-fashioned school uniform; this is because she has Kill Tally marks on her left thigh, left by her murderous Split Personality Genocide Jack.
  • Jinana from Digital Devil Saga has a Power Tattoo on her right buttock.
  • Zevran from Dragon Age: Origins insinuates that he has tattoos on parts of his body that he can't show in polite company that "accentuate the lines of the body". These tattoos are never actually seen and he only refers to them.
  • Though it can't be seen by the naked eye in-game and can only be looked at through a viewscreen, the dead alien Osiris from Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages has four rod-shaped tattoos on his body, one of which is on his penis. If it's any consolation to know, the tattoos were done post-mortem, as they depict the events and aftermath of his death.
  • Final Fantasy XIII:
  • In Jurassic Park: Trespasser, Anne has a heart-shaped tattoo on her breast that indicates her current health status. Since there is no HUD, the player has to actually look down to check the tattoo.
  • In Legend of Legaia 2, characters known as "Mystics" have a Power Tattoo due to the presence of an elemental spirit (an "Origin") within them. At least one character refuses to identify the location of her mark; apparently it is somewhere embarrassing.
  • Paya of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a papaya-shaped birthmark, which is how she got her name. If Link asks where it is, she gets flustered and won't tell him. Impa eventually reveals it's on her left butt cheek.
  • Mass Effect:
  • Shadow Hearts: From The New World: The deuteragonist Shania can form pacts with nature spirits that allow her to fuse with them to turn into various Cute Monster Girls. Each spirit grants her a Power Tattoo, that she has to bare in order to transform. Her starting spirit gave her a tattoo in a decent place, namely wings on her back, but the rest... Earth spirit's tattoo goes into her lower abdomen and inner thighs, Water spirit gives her marks on buttocks, and the Sun spirit's sign is located on her chest, with its lower portion going inbetween her breasts.
  • Star Trek Online confirms what Star Trek: Deep Space Nine said about Trills' spots: they really do go all the way down, which you can see if you put a Trill Player Character in a swimsuit from the summer event.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3 features special glowing marks that roughly signify how many time from their 10-years lifespan the person has left. They are put on random places on the characters' bodies, and some of the girls, like Eunie or Ethel, have theirs stamped on their breasts.

    Web Comics 

    Web Original 

    Western Animation 
  • The title card of the rejected Cartoon Network pilot Bottom's Butte depicts Beverly Bottom bending over with the title written on the seat of her panties.
  • The Clone High episode "Cloney Island: Twist!" shows that Scudworth and his long-lost lover Sandra Sandria have matching tattoos of pi on their asses.
  • Futurama:
    • In "Three Hundred Big Boys", Amy's new Animated Tattoo mentions that she has several other tattoos on her butt already.
    • In the first movie, Fry is shown to have a tattoo of Bender's face on his butt, which also contains the binary code for time travel.
    • And in Attack of the Killer App, Leela is shown with a singing boil named Susan on her butt.
  • In the Pinky and the Brain, episode "Brain's Bogie", as the duo are watching an infomercial involving Cher selling a home tattoo kit and showing off her tattoos of her loved one's names, Cher says "Take a look where I put Ed Kotch" which is followed an off-screen sound of a zipper and Pinky and Brain both ooh-ing in unison.
  • In The Simpsons, episode "Homer to the Max", after Homer legally changes his name to Max Power, Marge disapproves because she has Homer's name tattooed... somewhere. Homer's response? "They have acids that can burn that off."

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