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* [[''WesternAnimation/Ninjago'']], The Time Twins, Krux and Acronix, have green and black tattoos around their eyes. WordOfGod confirmed their markings are purely a designer's choice with no real reason for having them.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ninjago'', The Time Twins, Krux and Acronix, have green and black tattoos around their eyes. WordOfGod confirmed their markings are purely a designer's choice with no real reason for having them.

** ComicBook/RachelSummers, from another alternate future, was also given facial tattoos , which vary from thin dark spider-web like lines, to six larger red marks. Generally she uses her telepathy to mask them from others... that or writers simply forgot she had them, as she's a lot prettier without them/with fewer tats. She tends to let them become visible she gets really mad. More recently the typical "Rachel's pissed, run away" signal has become her [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Phoenix-Effect Left Eye of Doom]].

* ''Film/TheExpendables''. General Garza uses them to instill patriotism and pride in his soldiers. (They're also meant to disguise the fact they're re-using the same stunt doubles and extras over and over.]]

* Shirahime in ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'' had circuit-like marks on her face. It's clearly a design choice, as none of the other Angels look like that, even Blanche and Athena, who are from the same shipment.

* Chao Lingshen of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has two cute little blush marks on her cheeks. [[spoiler:Which are actually the only visible part of the extensive MarkedChange that cover her body while she's using her DeadlyUpgrade.]]

* Uni from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' has a rather interesting symbol on her cheek.

* [[FieryRedhead Ladonia]] of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' has a thin streak of paint across his nose and right cheek that many mistook for a [[GoodScarsEvilScars scar]] at first. It may have something to do with the fact that he considers himself artistic, and his claim that his king is a talented artist.

* Bangladesh [=DuPree=] has a little stylized skull centered on her forehead, which makes her very easy to quickly identify even in crowd shots.
* Squinaldo has rounded triangles tattooed on each of his cheeks, which helps make him stand out as one of the prisoners who can be identified and named.

* A generic form of this is the forehead dot (or dots) signifying that this person is part of the Buddhist hierarchy. See Krillin from ''Manga/DragonBall''.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', there are a few notable examples of Facial Markings. Frieza is an obvious one, but it's subverted in that his markings are neither the result of magic, demon heritage (though he can act like it), or tattooing. They're his natural patterning.

* Gally in ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'' has these, and even their origin is shown along the plot: she made them out of sewer tar in her final battle against Makaku -- as a matter of fact, her first victory (against a major villain, anyway). For the {{OAV}}, replace "Makaku" with "Guryushika", and "tar" with "dog blood". Also note that this isn't their ''origin'', per se, but an early example of her original personality, Yohko, seeping through the amnesia. The purpose of the markings (beyond cool factor) is unclear, but they could possibly act as glare-reduction. She has them permanently added to her face during the Rollerball arc.

** Gally's Facial Markings are explained in the ''Last Order'' as a Panzer Kunst practitioner's insignia. She was pretty high in the order's hierarchy, and still considers them important despite ([[TheAtoner or, maybe,]] ''[[TheAtoner because]]'') they remind her of her past mistakes.

** The darkened skin and triangular black cheek markings seem to be part of the Juraian battle suits that Ayeka and Tenchi possess. Marks on the forehead, on the other hand, are indicators of divine power. Both of Emperor Azusa's wives have circular forehead marks (one for Funaho, two for Misaki), but theirs are just makeup. Jurai's patron goddess Tsunami, as seen above, has two circular forehead marks that are entirely natural. Her older sister [[spoiler:Washu]] has three ([[spoiler:but not in her normal "human" guise]]). Sasami's two triangular forhead marks are likewise not makeup, and instead signify [[ItWasHisSled her connection to Tsunami]]. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tenchi_light_hawk_wings_726.jpg Tenchi's]] three triangles appear (and [[PowerGlows glow]]) when he's manifesting the Light Hawk Wings, and signify [[spoiler:his status as a divine being on a level even higher than Tsunami]].

* Every [[OurElvesAreBetter Guado]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has some kinda weird network of colored ridges/facial markings over their foreheads and going down their cheeks. Lots of gamers mistake them for veins, but they're not -- it's just that the color of the markings matches the color of the Guado's hair, and the Guado (or, more accurately, [[HalfHumanHybrid half]]) the game gives the most screentime to happen to have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]].

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* The title character of ''Comicbook/TrakkMonsterHunter has blue lines under his eyes going down the sides of his face.

* The StringyHairedGhostGirl in ''VideoGame/{{Pacify}}'' has a black X over her mouth, and black covering one of her eyes.

* Kamala and Zodiac were joined by The Taskmaster, Wrestling/{{Meng}}(who usually went without them) Wrestling/TheBarbarian (presumably Tongan war paint) and [[Creator/RobertSwenson The Ultimate Solution]] in the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom. They were led by Wrestling/KevinSullivan after all.