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Mark of Shame
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Bob's been discredited and disgraced, perhaps so badly that he can never go home again. In order to permanently label him as a failure, he's given an easily noticed marking of some sort, often on the face, chest, back or hands. Popular methods include tattooing, branding, and scarring, although for a less painful method of application, Bob may just be forced to wear something on his clothing to identify him as an Arsonist, Murderer, Jaywalker or what have you. It's also entirely possible that a coincidental, accidental marking he had prior to or received during the disgrace he suffered will serve as a Mark Of Shame. Often overlaps with A Scar to Remember, though that trope focuses on the express purpose of sadistic commemoration, instead of possible sociological effects. If Bob receives the mark after making a Deal with the Devil, but it's still treated as a shameful, disgraceful thing, this can overlap with Mark of the Beast. See also Medal of Dishonor for the "forced to wear" version. In keeping with Godwin's Law, the character inflicting this punishment may be A Nazi by Any Other Name, as the Nazis infamously forced Jews to identify themselves with yellow badges shaped like the Star of David, and eventually took to identifying prisoners in concentration camps with similar badgesnote the aforementioned yellow stars for Jewish prisoners, color-coded upside-down triangles for other prisoners, and color-coded triangles placed on top of upward-pointing yellow triangles (forming a Star of David) for Jewish prisoners who also fell into other "undesirable" categories and tattooed numbers. |
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Gamzee in Hivefled had obscenities carved all over his body to mark him as a personal slave. Equius makes their kismesissitude official by cutting through the words to cross them out. | |
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The film adaptation of Jonah Hex has the title character being branded with the initials of his former commanding officer in the Confederate army, after being accused of treason. Hex then obliterates the brand by burning it with a red-hot tomahawk blade as per the comic, at the cost of his current Facial Horror. | |
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In Star Wars: The Sith, Zero, Louise is branded with the word 'Zero' down her upper left arm. 'Zero' is an insult used by her peers in her previous world to describe both her magic and physical features. Made worse when it becomes synonymous with 'Slave' to her. | |
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In Lollipop Chainsaw, the "I Swear I Did it By Mistake!" achievement is gained by looking up Juliet's skirt. (Clearly, she doesn't believe that. You get 10 Gs, but is the shame worth it?) | |
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In the dwarven society in the Dragon Age series, the Casteless, those not born into a caste or who had their caste stripped from them, are marked with a face brand and shunned by many of higher castes, who consider their doing any work reserved for other castes to be an insult to the caste and the Stone. | |
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In Living The Dream, bronies are forcefully branded with a capital B on their flanks in the Bad Future. Even ponies with one drop of brony blood are branded. | |
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In The Scarlet Letter, the red letter "A" the main character is required to wear on her clothes labels her an adulterer in the Puritan community where she lives. Of course, she shocks the townspeople by making it big and elaborate with gold trim. | |
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In Vigilante Diaries, Andreas' Torture Technician Raven uses a blowtorch to burn a 'V' into the Vigilante's chest. | |
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Bangkok Police used to issue colored armbands to police officers with disciplinary infractions to be worn as a mark of shame. However, this move backfired as those armbands looked cool and it gave policemen an even more fearsome reputation which they happily cultivated. More policemen intentionally committed discipline violations to be awarded these armbands. To finally clamp down on this, upper management instead started issuing Hello Kitty badges to bad cops. This worked, as street policemen perceived these badges to be emasculating. | |
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Anazapta. The cross-shaped scar on Jacques' chest is from the brand he received as a baby, born as a bastard after his mother was gang-raped by the villagers. The villagers who see the scar instantly realise the answer to Who Are You? | |
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Branded: Main protagonist Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is (unjustly) dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army for cowardice; his mark of shame is a broken saber. | |
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In The Simpsons, people banished from the Stonecutters have to walk home naked, dragging the Stone of Shame behind them. Then parodied when Homer is revealed to be The Chosen One, which causes the Stonecutters to remove the Stone of Shame, and attach the Stone of Triumph, which is completely identical to the first stone except that it's bigger. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the Snake Beater achievement is a 10G achievement for Snake getting caught, uhm, stimulating himself, and let's leave it at that. | |
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When Justice League adapted part of Superman: Exile for "War World", it also adapted the character of Draaga and his self-inflicted case of this — only instead of merely wearing a Superman shirt, he self-inflicted a burn of an "S" on his chest. | |
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James McCullen in G.I. Joe: Renegades receives this at the end of the episode "Enemy of My Enemy" in the form of the name "Destro", a title given to those of his clan who shame themselves and the clan through failure. And although it was sealed onto him as symbol of Cobra Commander owning him, his trademark metal mask could also be seen as a visual representation of his new name. | |
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In Six Reasons Why, The Sherpa was branded with a spiral mark on his chest when he was exiled from the Utopian settlement beyond The Badlands for killing a man. | |
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Similar to the Zorro example below, when the people of Bengalla see a skull mark on someone's chin, they know that this is someone who has earned The Phantom's wrath. | |
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In the books, Zorro cuts his Zorro Mark into the cheeks of evil men he feels are beneath him to kill. Since everyone in Old California knows what that means, most of them vacate the territory post-haste. | |
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In Harry Potter, after Marietta betrays Dumbledore's Army, she gets affected by a curse that Hermione had cast. It scars the word "Sneak" onto her forehead. In pimples. There's also "I must not tell lies," put on Harry by Umbridge. | |
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Attack on Titan borrows directly from a particularly dark period of human history. Eldians living in the nation of Marley are required to wear an armband with a star on it, donating their "cursed" lineage. The sentence for failing to wear it outside their home is being arrested and turned into a mindless Titan. | |
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In The Scorpion, the bishop of Armando's hometown had all of the prostitutes branded with a 'P' so that respectable citizens will know what they are. | |
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Interesting variation in Django Unchained when slaves Django and Broomhilda run away and are marked with an "R" on their faces upon their return. This is more of a Mark Of Shame for Broomhilda as it makes her unfit to be a "house slave" anymore. | |
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In BioShock Infinite, the "AD" scar on the back of Booker DeWitt's hand is one of these. They're the initials of his daughter, Anna. He gave himself the scar after selling her to pay off his gambling debts. | |
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In Asura's Wrath, the "View of the Valley" achievement is gained by staring too long at a girl's bust. (Note that a lot of the female characters here have a lot of cleavage. This one is worth 20 Gs.) | |
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Raven's tattoo, "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL", was supposed to be this in Snow Crash. It didn't end up working out that way. | |
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Kurei in Flame of Recca has a self inflicted one of these. | |
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The Three Musketeers. In her youth, Milady de Winter was branded on the shoulder for thievery. In the tale she spins for Felton, she claims that Buckingham raped her then branded her so as to discredit any attempt at reporting his crime. | |
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Mugen from Samurai Champloo has two blue rings tattooed around each wrist and a single blue ring tattooed around and just above each ankle. This shows that he has served time in prison. | |
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Harmony (2016): When Tilly and Iris seriously misbehave, they have to wear signs around their necks describing their offense. Every time a guest camper walks by, they have to read the signs out loud. | |
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In The Order of the Stick when Redcloak loses an eye to a Paladin during a struggle that leads to the loss of Xykon's Phylactery, Xykon forbids him from using his cleric powers to regenerate said eye as a reminder of said failure, thus leaving him with an eyepatch. | |
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Light skin is considered this en masse in Roots, as it's obvious to others that a black person possessing this is the result of their mother having been raped by a white man. | |
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This is how Lisa regards the Slave Brand Charlie puts on her butt cheek in Reform School Girls. | |
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The Epic Battle Fantasy series features a medal (titled "Pervert" in EBF3, EBF4 and the Epic Battle Fantasy Collection rerelease of EBF1, and "Squishy" in EBF5) earned by clicking on Natalie's breasts repeatedly. EBF5's version downplays this somewhat — several other in-game objects will give you the medal when clicked, and turning off the "Cleavage" filter changes the medal's icon from a closeup of Natalie's breasts to a blue elephant (a Shout-Out to jmtb02). | |
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In Inglourious Basterds, the protagonists carve swastikas into the foreheads of the Nazis they don't kill. | |
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In The Mountie, following her debasement on the voyage to Canada, Amethyst deliberately scarred her face so that no man would ever find her attractive again. | |
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The Last Date: This early 1950s driver's education film ends with the main protagonist, a teenager named Jeanne, left with a disfigured, scarred-up face, the result of a tragic car accident. This was after, by her own admission, she made the wrong decision to ride with a bad boy classmate named Nick, a hot-rodding, reckless driver who flagrantly disobeys traffic laws and, while driving well over 125 mph on a narrow, winding, poorly-lit road and attempting to pass a slow-moving truck on a curve, crashes head-on into an oncoming vehicle, killing him and the passengers of the other vehicle. In writing to her cousin about the accident, she says that she's "had her chance" and because of her bad decisions she'll never date again. | |
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Fade's brand of cowardice in Codex Alera. It's the Legions' mark for soldiers who run from battle, and he has it because nobody would go looking for Araris Valerian behind the face of a brain-damaged, cowardly slave. And because Araris thinks he did just that... | |
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In Deewaar, some miners who have a grudge with Vijay's father Anand tattoo the phrase "my father is a thief" on Vijay's arm when he's just a child, and he never gets over the humiliation. He goes so far as to say that it is not only on his skin, but on his heart and soul as well. | |
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In Fallout 2, the player character has the option to join the Slaver faction, but doing requires to be branded with a very distinctive tattoo on their forehead to easily identify them as a Slaver, meaning that pretty much everyone who isn't a Slaver treats them with scorn. | |
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In the Knight and Rogue Series by Hilari Bell, Michael is declared "unredeemed", which basically means that he's committed a crime and hasn't atoned for it in the eyes of the law. Unredeemed people have broken circles tattooed on their wrists, which any local official knows to check for. Michael's actual offense isn't very terrible—he's a Lawful Good hero who got himself in trouble via Honor Before Reason—but the tattoos make for instant Hero with Bad Publicity. | |
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In Yakuza 0, the name of the achievement you get for looking at a sexy gravure videos is "I Did It for the Achievement...". Did you really? | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko's facial burn serves as one of these, given to him by his father for speaking out of turn, right before banishing him. | |
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In Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, Chaos lost a wing-like protrusion of his body during his last battle with Torin during the era of the dinosaurs. Though he could regenerate the wound, he refuses to do so until he can pay Torin back in kind. About halfway through the series Chaos has one of Torin's wings hacked off, but he still never heals his wound, possibly because Torin also gets better. | |
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Bishop from X-Men: Days of Future Past, has an "M" for Mutant above his eyebrow. Magneto, as a Holocaust survivor, has a katzetnik on his forearm. |
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In Zero no Tsukaima: Saito the Onmyoji, Karin slashes Wardes across the face after defeating him in a duel, saying the resulting scar will serve as a "mark of [his] betrayal". | |
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Steven Universe: In "Change Your Mind", when White Diamond blushes pink, Blue and Yellow Diamond are visibly disturbed by it, Yellow commenting that she is "off-color." Whether or not White is just blushing and is embarrassed by it or if the pink in her cheeks is an actual flaw in her gem, literally making her an off-color Gem (something she implies earlier) and that she simply has been hiding it all this time is up for debate. | |
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In Dante's Inferno, the cross Dante sews onto his own chest details all his sins. | |
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Mass Effect: Garrus Vakarian earned a scar when he took a gunship's rocket to his face. It's not enough to kill him, but he refuses to have the scars removed as a reminder to never grow complacent; the gunship and all those mercs went after him and his team (whom were killed) because somebody sold them out. | |
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Space Glass: Reeva Savaltenhein has the Mark of the Killer painted on her face, which signifies that she's killed at least ten innocent people. | |
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After one of the eponymous rings was destroyed in the first game, the Arbiter has a rune denoting "Shamed" branded onto his chest after being made a Scapegoat for the ordeal. | |
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Yzak's scar from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. He recieved it after a failed battle against the protagonist, Kira Yamato. He kept the scar to remind him of the humiliation, until he settled the score. He got it removed in the sequel, after making peace with Kira. | |
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If you steal from the shopkeeper in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Link's name is permanently changed to THIEF. | |
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Casino Royale - while James Bond is tied down to a chair, a SMERSH agent kills his captor Le Chiffre, and with a knife cuts the Russian letter 'S' for 'spy' into the back of Bond's hand. The incriminating scar is later mostly fixed with skin grafts. | |
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Terry Funk, during his 1980s "evil cowboy" gimmick in the then-WWF, "branded" his opponents (almost always, these were jobbers) with a "hot" branding iron following their losses. (In reality, the brand was chalk affixed to a cold iron, although the jobber's role was to sell that he was being "branded" with a hot iron.) | |
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Mello from Death Note views his burn scar as this, because Kira had gotten a hold of his real name, and he was cornered by the Japanese police (in L.A.), which he viewed as failures...and then he actually survived his act of blowing up the building to get away. | |
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On Orange Is the New Black, Piper gets branded with a Swastika on her arm. Red and other white inmates turn it into a window. | |
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In the Animorphs series, warriors in the Andalite (centaur-like alien) military who commit an infraction may be punished by having the fur along their flanks trimmed in a specific manner to declare their shame. Unlike most examples, this isn't permanent and it isn't meant to be; when the warrior's fur grows back in, he is considered to have served his sentence. Although fur grows back through morphing, it's explained that the Andalites rarely use morphs in battle the way the main cast do, being mostly used for infiltration or escape. More serious crimes (or losing a formal challenge) can be punished by cutting off the offender's tail blade. It's unknown if they also deactivate their morphing power as well, or if Andalite society places Honor Before Reason so much that they don't have to. |
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BattleTech: Clan Hell's Horses has the Branding ritual, where a group of warriors are sent out to capture a live Hell's Horse (a genetically modified, carnivorous horse) and brand it, then release it unharmed. There's no penalty for failure because it's so difficult, but if a warrior injures the horse because he was arrogant or didn't cooperate with his teammates he's branded with the Mark of Hell, a tattoo on his forearm that indicates his dishonor to all his fellows. Among the Clans in general, any individual or unit declared dezgra* Clan-speak for disgraced is required to replace any and all Clan markings and insignia with the crest of House Amaris. Stefan Amaris, the last head of House Amaris and the man most personally responsible for the collapse of the original Star League, is the most universally hated and reviled person in the entire Battletech universe. |
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The non-lethal option in Dishonored for removing the High Overseer involves branding him with a heretic's mark on his face. This pretty much dooms him; by his own decree, it is literally a crime to give food or shelter to a marked heretic. | |
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In The Dragon Prince, Lord Viren is given control over the kingdom of Katolis under the condition that any soldiers who do not wish to take part in the coming war with the elven/dragon land of Xadia be allowed to do so freely. He ends up standing by his word, but shames those who do set their weapons down as "cowards" in front of the other soldiers and forces them to bear the symbol of a weak link in a chain. This comes back to bite him at the end of season 3 when the deserters show up as part of a human-Xadian alliance fighting against Viren's invading force. When they do, they fight under the banner of the symbol that he forced on them, but instead of representing the weak links of a chain, it symbolizes breaking the chains of tyranny. | |
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On Adam Ruins Everything, Adam shows that herpes sores (or even just the knowledge that one has herpes) has become this, even though herpes itself is not serious and 90% of the human population has it, because of hyper-awareness of STIs during the AIDS epidemic. Prior to then, herpes wasn't considered that big a deal. The only sexually-transmitted disease people are more ashamed of having than herpes is HIV. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Jack Sparrow is positively identified as a buccaneer when Norrington uncovers a 'P' brand on his right wrist. "Had a brush with the East India Trading Company, did we, pirate?" In the second movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, it was revealed that this was the handiwork of Cutler Beckett, and the "piracy" Jack was punished for was freeing slaves. Jack may have retaliated in kind. Beckett told Will "We've both left our marks on each other", but made no reply when Will asked "What mark did he leave on you?" The movies never answer this question either. | |
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One Piece: When Nami reluctantly joined Arlong's crew in order to protect her island, she received his crew's tattoo on her shoulder; she usually wore shirts with sleeves long enough to hide it. Much like Fisher Tiger in the past, she has another tattoo placed over it after Arlong's defeat. There is the "Hoof of the Celestial Dragon", a claw-shaped Slave Brand given by the World Nobles (whose are also known as the "Celestial Dragons.") to their slaves. The branding is a mark of shame, hidden by those who do escape, like Boa Hancock and her sisters. The fishman pirate Fisher Tiger fixed this for slaves that became his pirate crew members by branding over the mark with the symbol of his "Sun Pirates". This erased the shame, because he gave the sun mark to everyone on his crew. It went a long way to remove the distinction of who was a slave and who wasn't. |
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Ariciaa in Thorgal gets one when it is discovered that her (brainwashed and amnesiac) husband is an infamous pirate. It's later removed by Jolan. | |
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In the LaRaGa setting, full-blooded feathries' wings darken if they ever kill. "Blackwings," unless they're soldiers, are generally shunned. | |
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Ultimate X-Men: Weapon X adds a tattoo with a number to all the mutants they capture. Even Wraith found it disgusting. | |
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The Mark of Cain, the First Murderer, from The Bible, is often misunderstood as this. In reality, God gave Cain the mark after he was sent away from God's people "so that no one who found him would kill him." (Genesis 4). It was a mitigation of the punishment. | |
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In Lucifer Cain is a walking, undying man still bearing his mark on his right arm. It is a full circle. He cannot die and has been trying a variety of means since the Bronze Age. In modern times, he hides it behind a Marine Corp tattoo. It is effective as Lucifer, who was working with Cain's current identity for months, didn't recognize it at first. The mark, and the immortality, is lifted when Cain genuinely falls in love with a woman who he thinks could help him die but stops at consummating the relationship because it would be wrong to manipulate and hurt her. | |
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Jonah Hex. When his weapon broke during a sacred tomahawk battle due to sabotage by his opponent, Jonah drew a knife to continue the fight. This violated the laws of the tribe and, had Jonah not had an honorary relationship to the chief, he would have been killed. Instead he was branded with the Mark of the Demon by having a red-hot tomahawk pressed against his face. | |
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NieR: Automata has "What Are You Doing?" for attempting to look up 2B's skirt ten times and "Not That I Mind..." for destroying 9S' shorts, then making him run around in his underwear for an hour. | |
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Kratos's characteristic pale white skin in God of War is a reminder of his lowest point and most heinous act. His natural skin tone is rather tan, but after he killed his wife and daughter in a blind rage, an oracle cursed their ashes to be forever grafted to his skin to remind him of the deed. The mark remains after he ascends to godhood, and several centuries and a new cosmology later, his skin still remains ghostly white. | |
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In The Rose of Versailles Jeanne Valois is firebranded with the letter "V" (for "voleur", thief) on both shoulders after being convicted for her crimes. Truth in Television: Until 1832 French criminals convicted for some crimes were firebranded with a symbol or letter signifying their crime or conviction, the most well-known fictional example being Milady de Winter's fleur-de-lys... that was actually applied illegally, as, while guilty, she had not been convicted of her crimes yet. | |
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The Abomination from Darkest Dungeon has the ability to transform into a powerful, aggressive Beast, and is marked with a series of scars in the shape of the letter "A" on his forehead. | |
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In the fourth book of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, appropriately titles "Outcast" features this trope. Torak is thrown out of the Raven Clan, and given traitor marks so everyone knows it. | |
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Dead or Alive 4 has an achievement that doesn't have to do anything with sex, but you get it if you lose 20 matches in a row. This one isn't worth any Gs, and it doesn't even have a cool title, it's just called "20 Consecutive Losses in DOA4" to show how much you suck. | |
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Among the Tiste Edur in the Malazan Book of the Fallen those that are cast out are marked with a scar shaped like a slashed-in-half circle on the forehead and the outcast's hair is removed permanently. Trull Sengar is marked thus in House of Chains. | |
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Antebellum: After her latest attempt to run away fails, the General brands his slave mark on Eden's back to identify her as his property. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition has a few spells, mostly divine magic, putting a magical mark on a subject: Mark of judgement (Player's Handbook II) marks opponents of a Character Alignment opposed to the caster as favored target for allies during a fight. Mark of the outcast (Underdark) is a minor curse putting a mark visible to all on the subject's head, giving penalties to bluff and diplomacy checks. Mark of sin (Complete Champion) is a mid-level spell leaving a mystical mark that is invisible but felt by all, making all newly encountered creatures more hostile, and harder to win over by diplomacy. Mark of the unfaithful (Champions of Ruin) is a high-level spell marking a creature as an enemy of the caster's faith, and all beings sharing that faith will feel hostility toward the subject. Note this is one of the rare spells with an "unlimited" range, meaning it can be cast at any distance as long as the victim is clearly identified. |
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Toxxin allowed Jessie Neal and Shannon Moore to give Anarquia a tattoo of their choosing after Anarquia had grabbed her while she was trying to stop a fight between Ink Inc and Mexican America that broke out in her shop. | |
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Kovu from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride gets one from his Abusive Mother, making him resemble Scar from the first film. | |
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Invoked and inverted in Easy A. As the main character starts to develop a reputation for promiscuity, a Holier Than Thou girl sarcastically suggests she has a red "A" sewn into her wardrobe, referencing The Scarlet Letter. The main character obliges, and starts coming to school in corsets with a red "A" sewn on... and she looks awesome. Basically, she takes what was intended to be a mark of shame and makes it into a mark of no shame. | |
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In The Bobo, Peter Sellers is a wandering musician who accepts a wager where he gets a theater engagement if he can seduce a discriminating courtesan (Britt Ekland). He wins her over but she finds out about the wager, and as retribution forces him at gunpoint into a bath heavily laced with blue dye. | |
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In Flawed, anyone considered Flawed gets at least one brand, in a spot that symbolizes their specific flaw. With the exception of brands on the feet or tongue, all brands must be publicly visible at all times. | |
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Unsounded: Inak pariahs are marked with a series of scars to warn off other Inak when their clan disowns them. The most striking scar is across their muzzle to the bone, taking a chunk of their lips and ensuring their teeth are always visible. | |
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In The Girl of the Golden West, when Sid is caught cheating at cards, Sheriff Jack Rance decides to punish him by pinning the two of spades to his coat, justifying this penalty as harsher than a mere death sentence. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy: Dwarves who have suffered an unbearable shame or personal tragedy may take the Slayer's Oath to seek out an honorable death in battle. Slayers are distinguished by their dyed orange mohawks, though they're usually ashamed enough by the fact that they're still breathing. | |
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman brands incredibly nasty criminals he catches, like a rapist and a human trafficker, with a bat symbol. This gets them murdered in prison, to which this more cynical Batman seems indifferent. He's on the verge of doing it to Lex Luthor, but changes his mind, showing he's getting some of his morals back. | |
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Kimahri's broken horn in Final Fantasy X serves as one of these. | |
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The classic Doctor Who serial "The Visitation" features aliens called Tereleptils. The only one the TARDIS crew, and thus the audience, meets has a disfiguring facial scar that - apparently - marks him as a prisoner and a failure. It was never specified if this was intentionally done by the authorities, or merely the result of being sent to the uniquely dangerous prison/mine. Other criminal Tereleptils in the story without speaking roles did not have similar scars. The Third Doctor's tattoo is explained in expanded universe materials as mark of his exile. It's revealed in his final episode that Turlough has one of these on his arm marking him as a political prisoner on Trion. His brother has the same mark, but grew up believing it made him The Chosen One since that was how the locals of the planet he landed on regarded him. |
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Tip a virtual stripper who takes her top off in Duke Nukem, and you'll get the 10G achievement "Shake it Baby". | |
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In Circle of Magic, Briar has two X-shaped tattoos on his hands, identifying him as a a thief. He later managed to cover them up with homemade tattoos. | |
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In Survivor Dogs, traitorous dogs are given noticeable scars so that they'll forever be recognized for their misdeeds. | |
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Superman villain Draaga, introduced in Superman: Exile, wore a Superman shirt as a self-inflicted mark to remind himself of his lost to Superman. | |
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In the film Dead End (2003), one of the boys tries to give another the "mark of the squealer" for snitching on him. | |
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Halo 2: After one of the eponymous rings was destroyed in the first game, the Arbiter has a rune denoting "Shamed" branded onto his chest after being made a Scapegoat for the ordeal. Becomes an Insult Backfire when the Prophets betray the Elites. After rallying behind the Arbiter, Elite soldiers wear the same symbol on their armor as a mark of respect. |
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Deeplight: Serious criminals in the Myriad have slits cut in their ears. Once someone has three slits, getting caught law-breaking again will earn them an automatic trip to the gallows. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, present in one of the series’ most powerful demons’ backstory: Akaza the Upper Rank-3 of the Twelve Kizuki, he lived a tragic life, but he still brought a extensive criminal record on himself even if his intentions were good, centuries ago criminals on Edo, Japan, were branded with stripe marks over their arms to show everyone a criminal was a among them, as a human his marks were small and few, however, Akaza's demonic transformation became a direct symbol of his further moral descent, his demon body then formed stripes all over his body, as to signify he became a bigger branded criminal than he ever could as a human. | |
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Reconstruction Series's Isaac Benjamin has a facial scar that is this. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, there were criminal marks, special tattoos applied to a criminal's face after conviction that would not only identify them as criminals, but let the police track an escaped convict or one who had violated probation or parole. Supposedly. The only time the viewers saw them try to track someone using these marks, the quarry eluded them by jamming the signal or having someone else do it; indeed, it seemed even someone with rudimentary skills in hacking was able override it and render these marks worthless, making one wonder who was in charge of their computers. (Of course, in this setting, most police were worse than useless.) Criminals who weren't from Satellite and got these marks originally are forced to hang out there since they're no longer welcome in the city. | |
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In Wolf's Rain Tsume's Cool Scar is eventually revealed to be a mark of cowardice given by his former packmates. | |
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In the remake of Nier, during the Ending E path attempting to look up Kaine's skirt will cause her to kick the camera away. Doing it 10 times will cause her to outright kill the player. | |
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From the point of view of Dellyn Goblinslayer of Goblins, the slurs he carves on his victims' foreheads are this. Everyone who actually cares about him accepts Fumbles without mentioning it, though. | |
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In The Baroque Cycle, Jack is branded with a V for vagabond. It works out to his advantage later, though. | |
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Millennium Series: In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander tattoos her own personal mark of shame all across Nils Bjurman's stomach and makes it perfectly clear that she will ruin him if he tries to have it removed. | |
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In the Gor novels, slaves are branded so other people will know what they are. | |
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The Fool's Bangle in Octopath Traveler is a shackle designed to humiliate thieves for a failed heist, which Therion is forced to wear by Heathcote and will only unlock it once Therion retrieves the stolen Dragonstones for Cordelia Ravus. | |
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In Gravity Falls, Grunkle Stan's back tattoo is the result of an accidental branding when he was fighting with his brother and got pushed against the edge of a hot machine bearing the same symbol. The fact that he tries to hide it from Dipper and Mabel in the one animated short, Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained: Stan's Tattoo, and insists it's not a tattoo suggests he is sensitive about it, and perhaps sees it as a personal Mark of Shame, reminding him of how he accidentally shoved his brother into the portal all those years ago. | |
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