The tattoo thing is both gross and not when you consider some of the cultural reasons why people get tattoos, namely the "if I put it on my body, I will gain its powers" reasons. It's clear in the movie that Newt is coming at it from a fanboy perspective, but maybe he's gotten so much shit for it already that "they're just so cool" is his go-to explanation, because it's what people expect from him. From Herman's tone of disdain when he calls Newt a "kaiju groupie" it sounds like that's an actual thing in this universe. People think kaiju are cool despite the destruction and death they leave in their wake in the same way that the History Channel is obsessed with Nazis. Maybe the tattoos are a way to commemorate kaiju victims, which are far too many to get tattooed onto your body, so you get the monsters instead. Like, he puts the monsters on his skin as a reminder of how much he doesn't know about them, or how much people depend on him to figure them out before more attack and he runs out of places to tattoo
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