This index lists kinds of portrayals of tattoos in media.
Compare Scar Tropes, Cosmetics Tropes.
- Animated Tattoo: A tattoo that can move.
- Body Paint
- Claimed by the Supernatural
- Embarrassing Tattoo: A character has a tattoo that's undignified, often because they got it while intoxicated or because it reflects views they no longer have.
- Facial Markings
- Human Notepad
- Intimate Marks: A character has a tattoo located somewhere risque, such as on their buttocks or near their genitals.
- Knuckle Tattoos
- Marked Change
- Mark of Shame
- Mark of the Beast
- Mark of the Supernatural
- Power Tattoo
- Scannable Man
- Storyboard Body
- Tattoo as Character Type
- Tattooed Crook: A criminal with tattoos.
- Tattoo Sharpie
- Tribal Facepaint
