“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.
Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.
There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.
If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.


Cars have become an engineered necessity in North America. Tattoos, at least for the time being, are not.
The clearest example I can think of for what I’m trying to explain is that folks these days get tattoos in lieu of developing an actual personality. Everyone I have met (featuring more than, say, one or two tattoos of regular size), is utterly obsessed with their tattoos. They talk about them constantly, peacock at every opportunity, and plan for more. Their opinions are all exactly the same, depending on political polarity.
If we dug into the psychology of it, I would hypothesize people get tattoos for the same reason people develop eating disorders, or compulsively clean: to gain a sense of control over their lives which feel out of control. You know who does that? People who can’t handle uncomfortable ideas. You know what we call those people? Conformists.