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* In ''{{Discworld/Thud}}'', Vimes becomes host to the Summoning Dark while investigating a murder, a primordial spirit of vengeance and wrath. Its tailed-eyeball symbol doesn't appear on his body [[spoiler:until after he expels it from his mind]], but random objects around him start 'coincidentally' forming it when jostled (such as a turnip falling onto a partly-uncoiled garden hose, or game pieces rolling around on a board). The mark is so widely known and feared by dwarvenkind that even the Low King fears it. [[spoiler:Vimes' own inner sense of justice, the Guarding Dark, is all that forces it to relent from making him murder the dwarves responsible rather than bring them to justice.]]

* In ''{{Discworld/Thud}}'', Vimes is marked by [[spoiler:the Summoning Dark]] while investigating a murder. The mark is so widely known and feared by dwarvenkind that even the Low King fears it. [[spoiler:Vimes' own inner sense of justice, the Guarding Dark, is all that forces it to relent from making him kill dwarves rather than bring them to justice.]]

* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', when the Eclipse goes down, the Band of the Hawk are all marked with the "Brand of Sacrifice" when Griffith's ascension ritual begins. All of them but Guts and Casca are eaten by demons. The Brand bleeds when demons come near, and it attracts them as well. Guts is hounded every night by the monsters, which attack him in all kinds of ways, forcing him to fight or die. However, the Brand is also known to afford some advantages to Guts: he has some warning before demons appear, so they can't sneak up on him, and being branded shifts him slightly into the spirit realm, which allows him to do harm to non-physical beings, at least to some extent, a situation that Guts takes [[DemonSlaying full advantage of]].

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the process of Tempering claims the soul of members of the spoken (read: sentient) races for a Primal, whether or not the Primal has yet been summoned. Once Tempered, the process is irreversible, and that soul cannot be bound to another[[note]][[spoiler: Which makes it all the more surprising when Midgarsormr ''breaks'' Hydaelyn's Tempering of the Warrior of Light and Tempers him/her instead at the end of ''A Realm Reborn'']][[/note]]. It is hypothesized that the PlayerCharacter’s ability to use the Echo is a form of Tempering employed by the Mother-Crystal Hydaelyn, spirit of the planet.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the process of Tempering claims the soul of members of the spoken (read: sentient) races for a Primal, whether or not the Primal has yet been summoned. Once Tempered, the process is irreversible, and that soul cannot be bound to another. It is hypothesized that the PlayerCharacter’s ability to use the Echo is a form of Tempering employed by the Mother-Crystal Hydaelyn, spirit of the planet.

The one wearing the new mark may not be aware of its presence at all, or if they are, may not realize its significance. If they do, don't expect them to be able to do anything about it (or, eventually, [[StockholmSyndrome to want anything to be done]]). Whether the marked one knows about it or not is usually immaterial to the marker; its purpose is plain and simple, and that's to tell everyone "hands off -- this one belongs to ''me''".

* In ''Film/DoctorStrange'', Kaecilius and his zealots have the symbol of the Dark Dimension branded on their foreheads which marks them as users of its power, and an odd decayed purple pattern around their eyes that marks them as servants of Dormammu. [[spoiler:The Ancient One [[BadPowersGoodPeople also has a certain symbol on her forehead...]]]]

* MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover ''Fanfic/BloodAndRevolution'' has a couple examples:

** Bakura (an incubus / demon) puts a magic tattoo-like mark on Seto to claim him.

* In the ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'' fic, {{Fanfic/Kamikakushi}},Tobirama has a dragon tattoo on his leg marking him as this.

-->The priests called other guards, who yanked her upward, head still lolling -- now all could see that Liart's black brand no longer centered her forehead. Instead a silver circle gleamed there, as if inset in the bone itself. At that, the priests of Liart shrank away, their masked faces averted from the High Lord's holy symbol.

* One of the darkest possible spins on this is ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', starring people who were abducted by TheFairFolk and reshaped to said Fair Folk's whims. This is, explicitly, an experience traumatic enough that they don't so much have a KarmaMeter or SanityMeter as a ''PTSD'' Meter..

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', Dagda resurrects [[TheHero Nanashi]] as a walking corpse with ResurrectiveImmortality as a part of a DealWithTheDevil, and marks his left arm and right cheek with a green tattoo. If Nanashi refuses to unseal a certain demon, Dagda will [[PeoplePuppets force him to do so]] with his marked left hand, despite Nanashi being right handed. [[spoiler: On both Neutral Ending routes, Nanashi loses the markings after fulfilling his end of the contract. On Bonds, Dagda restores Nanashi to a normal human state. On Massacre, Nanashi attains godhood and no longer requires Dagda's power to live.]]

* A werewolf or PettingZooPerson could alter the adopted one's scent or pheromones to claim them as part of their pack...

This mark often comes with unwanted side effects, good or bad; these commonly include heightened emotions or sex drive, unwanted physical changes such as a new eye color, enhanced sensitivity to the supernatural, or altered mental state (particularly if their opinion of or behavior toward the one who marked them is changed). Might be used to invoke {{Synchronization}}, MindlinkMates, or MoreThanMindControl to [[QuestionableConsent encourage a reluctant partner]]. At times it might even backfire -- what was intended to be a protection becomes [[SoBeautifulItsACurse bait that draws in other strong supernaturals]] who want to steal them from their marker.

* ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'' story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7722015/1/Demon-Drive Demon Drive]]'' has demons and half-demons going into a yearly heat which causes demons to pursue them and can only be stopped by such a mark.

** Peter Pettigrew gets a special replacement for his missing hand, a magical hand that Voldemort gave him both because he was more useful to him in one piece, as a show of rewarding the services to him for his other minions and [[spoiler: to keep him in check because that hand was more Voldemort's than Wormtail's extension and would turn against its yielder if he ever did something that the Dark Lord would disapprove of. That's why it ends up claiming his life.]]

** [[HornyDevils 'Cubi]] clan signs appear when a 'cubi first taps into their Clan founder's power, and can't be concealed by shapeshifting.
** When a [[TheFairFolk Fae]] decides to curse a mortal for offending them they mark them with glowing sigils wrapped around the wrists, until they think of an actual curse to put on them. In the meantime any Creature who kills the marked Being invokes the wrath of the cursing Fae.

* ''Webcomics/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''

** In the book of Ezekiel, God has an angel mark those in Jerusalem that would be spared from slaughter.
** In the book of Revelation, God has an angel mark 144,000 of the twelve tribes of Israel with the seal of God on their foreheads.
** In the book of Ephesians, Paul the apostle says that God seals believers in Christ with the Holy Spirit, that, according to Calvinist theology, means that they forever belong to God and could never be lost. This seems to go hand in hand with what Jesus said in the gospel of John: "I give them eternal life. They shall never perish, nor shall anyone snatch them from My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them from My Father’s hand."

** Intra-species bound servant example: Voldemort marks his inner circle of proven-loyal Death Eaters with the Dark Mark, an indelible magic tattoo which he is able to use to summon them and which becomes more or less distinct with his power.

* In the ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'' fic, {{Fanfic/Kamikakushi}},Tobirama has a dragon tattoo on his leg marking him as this.