It seemed as though everyone was concerned about Mike Trout and his 0-for-11 slump that we’d seen over his last four games. The former MVP (back in 2014 and 2016) hasn’t seemed to have been on the best form over the last few weeks, but he was determined to prove his critics wrong on August 15.

Mike Trout

There’s no denying that Trout has turned some heads since he entered the world of MLB. He was selected by the Angels in the first round of the 2009 draft, before becoming a regular player for them in 2012 – and winning the AL Rookie of the Year Award that same year. Both fans and the media have praised Trout throughout his career, and he is often regarded as one of the greatest current MLB players. This year he signed a $426 million contract for 12 years with Angels; the richest contract in the history of North American sports. However, when you’re in the limelight like that, any slip ups don’t go unnoticed.

Trout’s Drought

It seemed as though Trout was experiencing a bit of a slump during his 0-for-11 run over four games, and people started to question whether he was losing his touch. However, he decided to prove all of his critics wrong during a game against the White Sox at Angel Stadium. Not only did he end the drought, he went 4-for-4 with a walk and four runs, becoming the fastest Angels player to reach the 40-homer mark in one season. Well, he did have quite a lot of catching up to do!

Trout has since had to sit out of a game with a sore foot, but we have a feeling he’s quietly working on another All-Time Great season. Watch this space!

For some people, their body is a canvas, and they’d like to fill that canvas with art — primarily in the form of tattoos. Considering that tattoos are quasi-permanent in relation to the hassle of removing them, one would think such people would only go to a professional, trustworthy tattoo artist to cover their skin in art. But, like all professions, there are both good and bad practitioners in the field. These horrible pop culture tattoos reveal just how many amateurs are really out there.

Believe it or not — this is actually one of the better tattoos that we will be showcasing on this list. That just goes to show how poor the quality can really get, something you’ll all see for yourselves soon enough. Frankly, Scooby here isn’t nearly as bad as he could be.

That said, we would still want art of a much higher quality on our bodies if it’s going to be permanent. It’s not like this is a piece of paper that you can just throw away.

Is it better or worse to have a tattoo that’s just shy of being good? After all, if there’s only one glaring mistake, perhaps you can hide it behind the rest of the passable tattoo? Just take a look at Dr. Evil’s hands in this tattoo.

Yeah, something is definitely not lining up anatomically right there. That’s a real shame, considering that the rest of the tattoo is pretty decent — at least as far as our amateur perception of good tattoos is concerned.

We’re not sure why anyone would want a tattoo of this particular moment from Bobby, but hey — we don’t judge, at least not in that regard. We do, however, judge the quality of the tattoo itself. It doesn’t take Picasso to see some serious problems with Bobby’s face.

Honestly, the rest of it doesn’t look terrible, but that’s not saying much when the main focus of the tattoo looks bad. Everything else is pretty irrelevant in a situation such as that.

Everyone who loves basketball misses Kobe Bryant — and plenty of people wanted to or did make some sort of homage to him. Some even decided to do this in the form of a tattoo. Unfortunately, this particular attempt didn’t go over quite so well.

We appreciate the thought he was going for, but maybe he should have found a more skilled tattoo artist to do this. We suppose it’s the thought that counts, but we don’t know how he could show this tattoo to anyone and brag about it.

Goku has ascended to a place where even people who know nothing about anime at all can still identify him, nine times out of ten. That being the case, to see his visage mangled in such a manner is a little disrespectful. At least we can tell it’s him, but that’s about all we can say that’s mildly good about it.

We can’t help but wonder how many people actually vet the tattoo artists they’re going to work with. Sometimes, they probably rely on people that literally aren’t even licensed, which is definitely ill-advised.

Here’s another example of that thing we mentioned before — tattoos that are actually close to being good, but there’s just one flaw that sets the whole thing back. In this case, The Hulk actually looks fine in most regards, except for his face.

In our experience, it’s always either the hands or the face that people mess up. We don’t know what it is about those things that are so hard for artists to get into since we ourselves aren’t artists. Either way, it seems to be a rampant problem.

Frankly, we have to wonder how often artists pretend that poor quality is actually just their personal style of drawing. We feel that you could actually get away with that sometimes, even if it doesn’t change how bad the end result looked.

Either way, we feel that this tattoo probably could have been done a little better — and although it’s far from the best thing we’ve seen, we’ll definitely be seeing a lot worse on this list.

If you’ve ever seen the drawing made by a caricature artist, you could argue that this tattoo isn’t bad, it’s just stylized in a very cartoony way. But, even operating under that logic, something looks a little wrong in this tattoo depicting the main characters of The X-Files.

Maybe that’s just us. Is this a bad tattoo? Or are we just unappreciative of art styles that aren’t traditionally attractive? Maybe we’re just uncultured.

Even in the case of bad tattoos, we can often tell which person the tattoo is trying to depict. However, we’re 100% certain that no one would identify this tattoo as Elvis Presley if there wasn’t any text involved in it.

Placing this tattoo over an actual picture of Elvis just drives the point home — this tattoo looks nothing like him, and whoever made this “masterpiece” should probably look into a new career path.

We’re not going to pretend like this tattoo of Dory is actually good. It’s obviously got some very obvious flaws involved in it. However, compared to some of the pieces you will see on this list, this looks like the work of a pro.

Really, it’s the eyes that throw this image off the most. With both of them being so large and noticeable, it’s hard to miss the fact that they look pretty rough around the edges. You always have to nail the major pieces!

There’s really not much to say about this other than the fact that the Woody depicted in this tattoo is quite creepy. It’s a hard fact that looking at his face is unsettling. We can’t help but wonder why his is the worst of all the faces in this piece.

Not that the other faces are good, mind you. However, we think everyone can agree that Woody is the worst part of this tattoo by far. It’s a toss-up between the other two as to which one is more unnerving.

Most of us have seen Harry Potter, and even if we don’t care much for the series, we can recognize the titular character. Most everyone knows that he has a scar on his forehead that bears a great deal of significance. This tattoo has failed to capture that.

All of that said, this isn’t exactly a terrible rendition of Daniel Radcliffe’s character — but, it’s definitely far from as good as it could have been. Maybe this was after a close call with Voldemort?

We’re not sure exactly how iconic of a character Tinkerbell is, but we’re willing to bet that almost anyone could identify her even if they’ve never seen the movie. That said, it’s pretty bad to have her identity butchered in such a way with this tattoo.

From the weird feet to the strange arms and the absolutely unsettling face, the name “Tonkerbell” does indeed fit this fairy much better than the delicate-sounding moniker of Tinkerbell. Imagine having this permanently on your skin.

Marilyn Monroe is absolutely one of the most iconic figures in pop culture. However, not every rendition of her most well-known pose is done particularly well. This tattoo right here might very well be one of the worst we’ve ever seen. In fact, it looks more like Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Her face is absolutely terrifying. It would have been better if she had some sort of mask on, with an expression as monstrous as that one. If we were Marilyn Monroe, we might honestly be offended that someone depicted us in such a manner.

Once again, we come full circle to our argument regarding stylization. Is this tattoo actually bad, or is it just the artist’s style that we don’t particularly admire?

We’re not tattoo experts by any means, but it does seem to have some objective flaws. These three witches are pretty popular in culture, but this tattoo didn’t quite do them justice.

We… don’t really know what the end goal here was. There seems to be some sort of joke here about combining Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson. Why? It’s unclear why this would be anyone’s goal or idea for a tattoo. Was it punny? Perhaps it’s because the two icons shared the same initials?

One way or another, it doesn’t look quite that bad. It just seems like a bad idea for a tattoo overall. But hey, everyone is allowed to let their own creativity flow when it comes to art, even if it’s not their brightest idea.

We don’t have any particularly strong feelings about Ryan Gosling. That being the case, we’re not entirely sure what the message of this tattoo is. Is Ryan Gosling a spider? Is that an insult or some sort or of weird praise?

We don’t have the foresight to actually know what the meaning here was. Objectively, the face of Ryan Gosling isn’t all that bad. Could have been better, of course, but that’s kind of the point of this list. Does anyone understand this inside joke about Ryan Gosling?

Pretty much everyone knows about the mascot of the world-famous game Monopoly. He’s universal, and a pretty popular symbol representing wealth and money. So, we’re not actually all that surprised that someone would get a tattoo of him.

Too bad this tattoo has a few problems going on. What we notice the most is the fingers, which are definitely a little off. But, this piece was pretty close to being good, if only it weren’t for a few mistakes.

We all know how it goes — onions have layers, ogres have layers. So does cake. Unfortunately, this tattoo doesn’t really have much in the way of layers. There’s just one layer, and it’s not the greatest. Definitely not the worst visage of Shrek ever depicted, but that’s not saying much.

In fact, it’s hovering between the realms of good and bad, which might actually make the whole thing worse overall. At least if it were one or the other, we’d know how to feel about this tattoo.

Snape was always a man that looked a little worse for wear — like he was always exhausted by everything around him. And to be fair, this tattoo actually captures that feeling pretty well. However, like so many tattoos that came close to greatness, there’s one big flaw on display here.

Yeah, it’s his hand. We know a lot of artists have trouble drawing hands, and it’s probably even harder to do it with a needle and ink. That said, you’d think the artist would convince their client to let them omit that part of the tattoo.

Admittedly, characters from the world-renowned Naruto anime don’t have quite the same clout as say, Goku or Vegeta, but we’d still argue that Sasuke probably counts as enough of a pop culture icon to include in this list of not-great tattoos.

All the issues here lie in the face. At the end of the day, he’s a little too… chiseled? Robust? It just doesn’t really look like him. Still, it’s kind of funny to look at.

While many today would argue that it’s poor taste, most of us can still recognize Betty Boop as a character whose main purpose is for physical appeal — or at least symbolizing it. Needless to say, this tattoo doesn’t really do a good job of capturing that idea.

About anything that could be wrong is wrong in this case. The eyes are doing something strange, there’s no mouth to be seen, the body’s anatomy is unforgivable even if we make allowances for a cartoon style… really, it’s just terrible all around.

We’d like to preface this by saying that there’s nothing objectively wrong with a simplistic art style. Some people like that kind of thing. But, we get the feeling this tattoo of Disney’s Pocahontas was trying to actually be somewhat detailed.

That’s why it’s so weird that her face is lacking in so much of it. It’s really just a handful of lines. We suppose we can’t call the tattoo ugly, but the disparity between detail and lack of it is a little odd.

Geralt may be a bit of a new face to the public eye, even though the Witcher games were so highly lauded, but we feel that he has enough of a presence in popular media to count for our purposes. If you were expecting Henry Cavill, though, we don’t think they were going for that rendition of him.

Not that it really makes much of a difference. Whether the customer was going for the TV-show Geralt or video-game Geralt, either way, he just doesn’t look right in this tattoo — for a myriad array of reasons that are pretty obvious to see.

As a kid, Eeyore is just a funny character. When you got older, though, you realize just how much you actually relate to the animated donkey. At least, we hope you’d relate to him to an extent that warrants a much better tattoo than this one.

Seriously, this looks more like a scribble drawn by a child than actual art from someone who supposedly knows what they’re doing. It’s hard to imagine that any client sat through this and believed it was going well the whole time.

We’ve already had a mention of Goku here, but who says we can’t have two if there are two bad tattoos to talk about? Now to be fair, this one isn’t quite as bad as the earlier tattoo of Goku, but being better than bad doesn’t make something good.

We’d say it’s a little below average, mostly. There’s actually some decent detail work in this tattoo — it just didn’t all come together in quite the quality manner the client was probably hoping for.

Getting a band logo or symbol for a tattoo is actually a pretty cool idea, but that idea needs to be executed well or it just looks like a cheap knockoff. We don’t think this tattoo is absolutely terrible, but it certainly doesn’t look fantastic.

Honestly, it’s just a few of the details that are off. It could probably be touched up and ultimately look pretty decent, provided the client could be convinced to actually do that.

It’s come to our attention that one of the hardest things to get right when it comes to tattoos is faces. We don’t know if it’s just hard to draw faces in general — or if tattooing, in particular, is just not a great medium for it. The end result seems to be the same either way.

Honestly, just look at this face. So creepy, so unsettling… it’s hard to imagine that anyone would be happy walking around with this on their body in a semi-permanent state. Smiling appears to be extremely hard to relay in a tattoo without it looking weird.

Dobby the House Elf is not necessarily everyone’s favorite character from Harry Potter, but he’s one of those characters that’s hard to hate, just because he hasn’t really done anything to deserve being disliked. That said, we wish he had gotten some better representation in this tattoo.

Of course, there’s a bunch of other aspects of this tattoo to look at as well, but we just can’t get over how they massacred our boy. Is the rest of the tattoo even relevant when Dobby gets so little respect?

See what we mean? Faces in tattoos are just creepy most of the time. It’s so hard to get it right! We’re convinced that the medium in and of itself is just not particularly great for making human beings look… you know, normal.

These are the faces the legendary basketball players were making in real-time, but you know, maybe it’s better to avoid attempts at exact replications when it comes to real life? That way, you can avoid the uncanny valley.

Speaking of tattoos and faces, we definitely feel that it’s easier to make the face of an animated character look normal across the board. However, that doesn’t mean that any such face is going to look good if the artist just can’t make it happen.

A prime example is on display right here — this tattooed version of Belle doesn’t look uncanny or creepy, she just looks poorly drawn. She’s not bad guys, she’s just drawn that way!

Speaking of not being the same as other princesses, that description cannot possibly be more accurate for Princess Leia. Unfortunately, she’s like some others in the sense that there’s a horrible tattoo of her out there — possibly one of the worst ever, honestly.

At some point, we have to wonder if people are actually going to professionals or if they’re just trying to tattoo themselves. Or are they letting other people practice on them? Either option seems like a bad idea.

Some cartoon characters are beloved, but that doesn’t mean they can’t become a nightmare depending on how they’re depicted. Frankly, we feel that this holds especially true for Thomas the Tank Engine, who’s already inherently a little creepy — being a train with a face and all.

Naturally, this tattoo makes that a whole lot worse. Why is he making such a troubling expression? It looks like he’s plotting something dastardly there, which isn’t exactly reassuring.

Nearly anyone can recognize this iconic angel, who’s often depicted because of the funny expression he makes. Unfortunately, this tattoo gave him a different expression altogether.

Needless to say, this one isn’t as endearing. It’s still amusing in its own way, but more because you’re laughing at it, as opposed to getting charmed by it. Definitely not what an artist should be going for.

Here we have another Harry Potter tattoo — apparently, the franchise is a very popular subject for tattoos, but unfortunately, it seems like many of them are bad. This one of Voldemort falls under a weird category. It’s not awful, but it doesn’t really do him justice.

He kind of just looks like a strange lizardman of some sort? Once again, it seems that it’s very difficult to really capture a human face with a tattoo without making it look particularly weird.

The problem with tattoos that have text is that a spelling error will always be extremely obvious. At least when there’s a flaw in a drawing, it can be glossed over if it’s minor enough. But, most everyone is capable of easily identifying a spelling error.

On the bright side, however, it’s generally not as hard to fix typos, depending on what letter was messed up in the first place. Either way, this Alice in Wonderland tattoo could certainly have been done a little better.

This might be one of the few tattoos on this list that, upon first glance, does actually look good. If you just took a brief look at it, you may not see anything wrong. Like most bad tattoos, though, it gets worse the longer you look at it.

The eyes, the lopsided bat ears, the misshapen legs, the seemingly dislocated shoulder blades, the claw-like hand — this rendition of Batman may look good at a glance, but there’s no denying that it actually has a lot of problems.

You can’t get too much more iconic than the face of Benjamin Franklin. Unfortunately, the more recognizable a face is, the more obvious it is when someone messes it up. You really can’t miss how bad this is right here.

This man should do his best to hide this terrible tattoo for the rest of his life. Even Benjamin Franklin appears to be disgruntled by it. Well, it looks like this dude will have to wear turtlenecks for the rest of his life.

For a while, Crash Bandicoot took a huge dip in popularity, but when his series got a reboot of sorts, that changed for him. Now, people are running around getting tattoos of this classic character once again. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be very good tattoos.

Unless they were actually trying to capture his look from the graphics of the original PlayStation era? If that were the case, then we would be able to admit that it’s actually pretty accurate. That’s probably giving them too much credit, though.

See this tattoo of Pennywise? This tattoo is proof that, no matter how terrifying a character may be, it can be made much less frightening with a poor artistic rendition. Not that the clown doesn’t look a little unsettling here, but it’s not really scary so much as it’s… offputting?

Really, the image just makes you raise an eyebrow, rather than scream or cry. As we’ve said previously, faces are possibly one of the hardest things for tattoo artists to get right. It’s a toss-up between those and hands.

Personally, we don’t think any tattoo artists are intentionally trying to disrespect pop culture icons, because who could possibly hate Freddie Mercury? But, at the same time, you’d think they would realize something was going to be bad before it was finished.

We suppose this is their living, and they need to make money, so they’ll accept doing a bad tattoo if they still get paid. Most artists can’t afford to stick to some sort of code of quality, after all.

Well, it’s Charizard, of course. Even people with next to no knowledge about Pokémon could probably still identify this iconic flying lizard that breathes fire yet is not a dragon type. As far as this tattoo is concerned, we’ll admit it’s not really all that bad.

But, considering that this is Charizard, the OG coolest fire-type Pokémon to exist, a decent tattoo is just not good enough. Whoever did this should be ashamed of themselves! It was probably a Blastoise main…

There’s something to be said about bad tattoos that have a lot going on. Like that saying about being unable to look away from a car wreck, there’s so much to look at that you almost can’t stop yourself — even though it offends your eyes.

Every single character in this tattoo looks bad. It kind of makes you wonder if Neverland is really all it’s cracked up to be. Maybe Captain Hook really is the good guy?

By far one of the worst tattoos on this list, there’s very little we can say about this one that’s actually good. Both Simba and Mustafa have horribly mangled faces, although Mustafa looks like he has some other issues that need to be addressed as well.

He doesn’t really appear to be… all there — if you catch our drift. Maybe that’s just us seeing the worst in things, but that’s kind of the point of this whole list, isn’t it?

Some people like to put their own twist on established art or characters, and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, it should be said that your average person isn’t actually very good at that kind of thing, leading to… haphazard results.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of art, but from the idea of this tattoo itself to the way it was executed, we feel that this one of Bart Simpson just didn’t come out very well.