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DZ-94: Talismans (Part 2)

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Tattoos Are Talismanic, Right?

In Longshot, Seth Rogen's character gets a short stick of tattooed on him when he's undercover and he ends up turning it into a running man. I think they are talisman because you can use them to tell backstory, right? You can just imply history, or then you create, you see some tattoos and have characters explain the history. We've got Gina Carano's character in The Mandalorian who's got a tattoo for all the Imperials that she's killed. So there's often tattoos really do connect to history, right? It's a lot harder to show a transformation with a tattoo, I think.

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