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Scannable Man
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Simply put, the use of barcode tattoos in futuristic settings, particularly of the dystopian flavor. Maybe it's to mark them as being property of some Mega-Corp or a Nebulous Evil Organization. Maybe they're clones, slaves, or prisoners. Maybe it just looks cool. Whatever it is, barcode tattoos are appearing more and more often in fiction. Most often these tattoos are on the nape of the neck, but they can be in other places, as the picture shows us. This can be a Truth in Television: A lot of these people actually think that these tattoos look cool or badass. Anyone who's ever used an actual UPC scanner knows they sure aren't feasible; even minor printing errors render barcodes printed on paper, plastic or metal unscannable, and tattoos tend to dissipate with age. Even fresh ones would be distorted whenever skin is stretched by movement. Although this practice has seen a slight revival, now replacing barcodes with QR codes instead. Mainly thanks to the fact that phones scanning QR codes being widespread.note And it's not uncommon for some of these QR code tattoos to have some sort of punchline behind them. A related trope in futures that are more Zeerust than dystopian is the barcode license plate, often an accompaniment to flying cars but seldom accompanied by the owner-applied markings on nearly every vehicle that would be necessary for owners of popular cars to find them in crowded parking lots without special equipment. No one explains why law enforcement doesn't object to license plates which human eyewitnesses to crimes can't possibly read. Real Life Automatic License Plate Readers have made barcode license plates unnecessary. See Slave Brand for a more primitive version and Android Identifier if a barcode is used to mark Artificial Humans. |
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Plush and Blood: During the "Unstuffed" arc, Katt has two barcode tattoos. One on the back of her neck, the other on her right rear cheek. By the start of "Memories Threads", she has obliterated them. | |
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All citizens of Derse and Prospit have barcode tattoos in Homestuck, for reasons currently unknown, but it brought back "painful memories" for the Wayward Vagabond and Spades Slick used it to open Lord English's safe. | |
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The transgenics in Dark Angel. Bonus points for it being genetically engineered into them, so if it's lasered off, it comes back. | |
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A Certain Magical Index: Stiyl Magnus, under the eye. | |
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A realistic version in Arrow with barcodes on the Institutional Apparel of the prisoners held by ARGUS for their Task Force X. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise. In "Stratagem" Captain Archer does a Faked Rip Van Winkle on an alien scientist, trying to convince him that they've spent the past few years in prison — the "evidence" include tattooing both their arms with prison barcodes. | |
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Barcodes appear on just about everything in the world of Fforde's Shades of Grey. Which oddly enough overlaps with Author Appeal |
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Raiden of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is revealed to be covered in bar code tattoos during the naked sneaking section of the game. Continued in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance; Raiden's upgraded body has a barcode on his forehead, as does Sundowner. | |
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Parodied in Hitman Miami. In one of the missions, 47's barcode will set off an alarm as he leaves a supermarket, subjecting him to a traumatizing cavity search; to avoid this, he must rub his head across a cashier's barcode scanner, which then displays "GNTCLY ENGNRD CLONE: $12.32". | |
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Star Trek: Picard. F8's designation is printed on the front and back of his head. As he's a synthetic presumably his artificial skin averts the problems with this trope. | |
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Guilty Gear: Potemkin has one on his (massive) left bicep. Unfortunately... | |
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Paranoia has tongue tattoos. | |
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Sort-of subverted in Seven Days, where chrononauts for Project Backstep have a serial number tattoo to confirm their identity upon arrival. | |
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Gleefully turned into a gag in Idiocracy, where the protagonist triggers alarms every time his wrist comes anywhere near a laser scanner after he's arrested, tattooed, and escapes. | |
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In What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?, Dan, the co-host's husband, talked about how he had cat growing up that used to be a Purina test cat. He tested the new food blends, don't worry. But because of this he had a ID number tattoo'd in his ear. And for some reason the other ear said Cat. | |
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In This Perfect Day, they don't have tattoos, but they do have steel bracelets with unbreakable chains that everyone is forced to wear. The bracelet has your nameber, and must be touched to a scanner whenever going through a door, so that the supercomputer that rules the world can keep track of you. | |
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These are standard on one specific moon in Cowboy Bebop; in "My Funny Valentine", Faye identifies an old "friend" by recognizing his. | |
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Suburban Senshi: Every child born from the "400 Project" has a tattoo somewhere on their body that, when scanned, will read their number and genetic donors. | |
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MADtv (1995) did a parody of Wal-Mart where the employees had barcodes on their arms. | |
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The Island (2005). The clones have a bar code on their wrists, which is one way of identifying them from the real ones. | |
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Robin (1993): One of Tim's classmates at Brentwood Academy has a barcode tattooed on his foot. It's one of the first hints that there's more to his backstory than he's saying since he's connected to Kobra. | |
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In X-Statix, the villainous cult leader Mr. Code has a blank mask with a barcode printed on it. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Missing in Action" establishes that all clone troopers have barcodes on their forearms that are invisible unless scanned by an astromech droid. D-Squad does this to identify amnesiac clone Gregor. | |
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In the early books of the Dumarest of Terra series, Earl Dumarest's credit account is tattooed into his forearm, to be read — and altered as necessary — by magnetic scanner. | |
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The Philadelphia Experiment II: The Nazis tattoo barcodes on Americans as identification, and use scanning devices to determine whether or not a barcode is fake. | |
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In Saints Row: The Third you can buy a barcode tattoo for the forehead or bicep. | |
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In Cube Zero, the Cube prisoners have bar codes tattooed onto their arms. | |
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The HUmar in Phantasy Star Online has a hairstyle which consists of a Mohawk and a barcode. | |
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An episode of Seinfeld that was scripted but never filmed (does that count?) had Kramer change his name to a bar code tattooed to his butt. | |
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Alien³: The convicts all have barcodes in the neck, and Ripley identifies the doctor as being one of them, rather than someone employed there, by the fact that he's got a barcode, too. He later tells her that he is actually a previous convict. | |
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The Big O. It gets kinda hard to tell. | |
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Late in Final Fantasy XV Prompto Argentum is revealed to have one on his wrist, a leftover from his origin as an escaped Magitek Trooper | |
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Hitman's hero, Agent 47, has a barcode on the back of his skull, in both video game and movie versions. Its significance is most important in the final level of the first game: the only access to Dr. Ortmeyer's lab is through a airlock chamber with a barcode scanner out of which the 47 clones are unleashed to go after 47 and kill him (they get scanned before being unleashed). If 47's head tattoo is scanned, access is denied and he gets gassed to death. If 47 uses a dead clone of himself on the scanner, access is granted and the gate of Ortmeyer's lab opens. The barcode is a fully functional one, and scanning it reveals it's for a "Drawstring Double Dong Dildo Holder in Midnight Blue". Considering that the numbers in the barcode actually held meaning for Agent 47 ("64-05-09" is the date of creation, "04" marks he is part of Series IV, "01" marks that he is the first, and "47" is to represent that he is the 47th clone) it was a complete coincidence that the barcode belonged to an unfortunate item. He tries to scalp the tattoo off his head in Absolution with a razor blade in an attempt to conceal himself from the Agency. He spends the rest of the game with a band-aid stuck over where the tattoo was. In Hitman 3, the Chongqing level partly takes place in an ICA facility where Hush is experimenting on human test subjects, one of whom has a QR code on the back of his head. The QR Code is also legitimate, and scanning prior to 2023 gave you a lovely photo of a few of the game's developers waving◊. |
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The Terminator had Kyle Reese's robot-run concentration camp barcode which had been burnt into his arm via laser. From his description of the place, fading with age was pretty much a non-issue. | |
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In an episode of ReBoot, Dot spends time in sent a Megabyte-controlled Bad Future where everyone has a barcode on their person for identification. | |
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Bridget from Latchkey Kingdom has barcode-like stripes that remain visible even through her shapeshifting. She appears to be unaware of them. | |
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The eponymous heroine of the novel Jennifer Government has a barcode tattoo beneath her eye (as depicted on the cover), but it is purely a cosmetic thing she had done herself, not for identification. The tattoo is revealed late in the novel as the UPC for Malibu Barbie, a reference to her previous job at Mattel. On the book cover itself, however, it is the barcode for the book itself so that it could be scanned by the cashier. | |
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Our World: Jill has one on her neck, ever since she was found as an amnesiac child. | |
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In Spider-Man, Madame Monstrosity imprinted a barcode on the back of Bailey's neck that proves he was one of her experiments. However, the barcode is useless in the present, as Bailey has been Ret-Gone from all memories and records. | |
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Pandorum. The crew and colonists on board the spaceship have their department (Agriculture, Flight Team, etc) tattooed on their arm. To access areas the computer scans both the tattoo and their palmprint. The tattoo is branded rather deep as peeling off layers of skin has no effect. | |
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Zygote. Barklay has a barcode because she is a Canary, a synthetic human used as expendable labor. However she's later told that she's actually human — real synthetics are too expensive to waste, so the Mega-Corp buys orphaned children and raises them to believe they are synthetics, tattooing them to fool the government inspectors. | |
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In Elysium, citizens of the titular space station (and people from Earth trying to get in) have these burned into their skin, which allow them to use their Med Bay units to heal any disease. They only work if someone has a bar code. | |
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The eponymous Nora has one - inside an inverted pentagram, no less - to indicate that he's a member of the Dark Liege's Army. Interestingly, the DLA is actually the good less-bad of the two demon factions. | |
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He tries to scalp the tattoo off his head in Absolution with a razor blade in an attempt to conceal himself from the Agency. He spends the rest of the game with a band-aid stuck over where the tattoo was. | |
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In X-Men: The Last Stand, Magneto's katzetnik, used to show off his history of being mistreated. | |
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Resistance Fighters sent back in time from the post-apocalyptic future of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles often sport bar-code tattoos due to time spent in Skynet work camps. See Terminator under film examples above. | |
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In one Shadowrun supplement, call girls had bar codes tattooed on them, presumably to make it easier to scan them and total up the client's bill. | |
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British drama series The Last Enemy gives us a modern spin on this trope at the climax: implanted RFID chips. | |
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The album art for Epica's Requiem For The Indifferent includes a bar code tattoo on Simone's upper right arm. The entire cover◊ gives off a distinctly dystopian vibe. | |
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The Girl From Monday: Every citizen in the US now uses a barcode tattoo on their wrists for economic transactions. It also lets them be tracked whenever they use it by the government. | |
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In the Blade Trilogy, humans who serve the Vampires as "Familiars" are tattooed with their master's clan glyph. It's not laser-scannable, but it does serve to identify them to other Vampires. Like slaves in ancient times, killing them will mean that the offending vampire will have to answer to the human's master. | |
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In Tonogai Yoshiki's horror manga, Doubt, the kidnapped teenagers find themselves being tattooed with a barcode that they can use to unlock doors in the buildings they are trapped in. However, there are only five of them, and each barcode can only be used on one lock, so they must be careful in how they use their tattoo to escape the place. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Criminals in Neo Domino City — including The Hero, natch — are marked with barcode tattoos so they can be tracked after they're released from prison. Marked criminals become societal outcasts, with no choice but to live in the Satellite (if they weren't originally from there already, which is highly likely). | |
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In Gaia Online, you can get these all over, in a rainbow of colours, as modeled here. | |
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The future convicts in 12 Monkeys are marked with barcodes on the neck. Cole's tattoo is scanned when he is brought in front of the scientists. | |
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"Barcode Kougaiji" in Saiyuki after he's reprogrammed by Goukumen and Nii. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. In "Scientific Method", Voyager crewmembers start falling ill or undergoing physical changes. The Doctor is surprised to find their DNA marked with microscopic barcodes, a sign that aliens have been doing secret medical experiments. | |
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In Hitman 3, the Chongqing level partly takes place in an ICA facility where Hush is experimenting on human test subjects, one of whom has a QR code on the back of his head. The QR Code is also legitimate, and scanning prior to 2023 gave you a lovely photo of a few of the game's developers waving◊. | |
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Fortress (1992): People in this future have their ID in the form of a tattoo barcode on their forearm, as shown in the opening scene. | |
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The stage persona for Utaite/singer-songwriter Mafumafu includes a barcode on his cheek. He was asked repeatedly if the code could actually be scanned, and he confirmed it does!...but only registers an item worth 3 yen. | |
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