Tattoos

Tattoos
First appearance:	Collision

Some characters have tattoos.

Characters with Tattoos

Character	Tattoo	Description	Location	Source
Bartell		A star	Neck	Hard Knox, Part 3
"Biker Woman"		A flower	Left side of chest	Brave New World
Carlos		A capital C	Right forearm	The Recruit, Part 3
Convenience store robber		Cursive "Legendary One"	Neck	Hiros
Edgar		Tribal design	Left bicep	Let It Bleed
Eli		Design	Inside right wrist	Brave New World
Erica's chef		Stars and other designs	Both arms	Sundae, Bloody Sundae
Michael Fitzgerald		Swirling patterns that glow	Arms and neck	Viewpoints
Four-armed carny		A green bird	Chest	Smoke & Mirrors
Carlos Gutierrez		Cursive script	Left forearm	June 13th, Part Two
Interferant		Omega	Unknown	Evs Dropper's blog post
Keppler		Dragon	Left side of neck	Ink
Los Angeles trafficker		Chain-link patterns Star design	Right shoulder and arm Right elbow	Vengeance, Part 2
Lydia		Various flowers designs and people's faces For the full article, see Lydia's tattoos	Most of her body	Orientation
Ruth Meisner		Identification number from Auschwitz	Right wrist	Wireless, Part 1
Jesse Murphy		Various designs	Arm, chest, and neck	The Second Coming
Pelon		Swirling patterns	Underneath both arms	Vengeance, Part 1
Nathan Petrelli1		"Endeavour"	Right bicep	Shadowboxing
Peter Petrelli		A temporary2 Celtic knot	Forearm	Kindred
		Compass, given by Samuel terrakinetically	Arm	Ink
Sparrow Redhouse		A circular Zuni Indian pattern Two birds kissing	Right shoulder blade Right wrist/forearm3	Rebellion, Part 2
Ricky		Celtic knot	Arm	Kindred
Jessica Sanders		The helix symbol (see Jessica's tattoo)	Right shoulder blade	Better Halves
Ted Sprague		Swirl	Left bicep	Nothing to Hide
Samuel Sullivan		Compass, which spins freely	Arm	Jump, Push, Fall
Sylar		Image of Claire Bennet, formed with Samuel's power	Right forearm	Let It Bleed
Tattooed thug		A tear, Swirling patterns, Face of Jesus Christ, Tribal wing design	Face, Right arm, Left side of chest, Back	Vengeance, Part 1
Taylor		Swipe patterns	Arms	Stolen Time
Traveler		Swirls	Arms, shoulders, and ribs	The Last Shangri-La

1. Nathan's tattoo seen in Shadowboxing was actually seen on Sylar. However, at the time, Sylar had shape shifted into Nathan's body.
2. Peter's tattoo disappeared after being made, because of rapid cell regeneration.
3. In Rebellion, Part 2, Sparrow's bird tattoo can be seen both near the wrist and in the forearm, near the elbow.

Notes

• Peter received a tattoo while in Cork, but his power of regeneration did not let it stay. (Kindred)
• Sparrow tells Micah that she got one of her tattoos from her mother, who was part Zuni Indian, after she died.
• Samuel gave Edgar a tattoo of a hand that began to choke him, but then caused it to go away. (Orientation)
• In an unaired scene from Season Three, a weapons dealer had a large tattoo on his neck.
• Andrew Meek's grandfather "Papa" had a Nazi concentration camp number tattooed on his wrist. After Papa died, Andrew got the same tattoo. (A Long Way from Home, Chapter 3)

Trivia

• According to artist Jason Badower, the "root" Julien Dumont was originally supposed to have a tree tattoo on his body. However, Jason forgot to add the tattoo when initially drawing the character, and the character detail was never added since.
• Carlos's tattoo on his forearm was designed to look like the C in the logo for Cutthroat Studio, the studio founded by Drew Pierce which did the special effects makeup for The Recruit.

See Also

• For characters with tattoos, see characters with tattoos.