OSRS vs IRL: Old School RuneScape crossover tattoos

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Crossover tattoos are those that take inspiration from two or more universes and bring them together by putting seemingly unrelated elements into the same piece of art to create something truly unique. These Old School RuneScape crossover tattoos take pieces from the game we all love and play and mix them up with portions of a completely different universe, like anime or other games.

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Pokemon X – OSRS: Melee Machop tattoo

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This colourful tattoo combines elements from Old School RuneScape and Pokemon X. The unique design displays Machop from Pokemon X wearing some of the most iconic melee gear from OSRS: dragon boots, abyssal whip, Bandos chestplate and tassets and the dragonfire shield.

OSRS – Pokemon: Dragonfire Shield Machop

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This tattoo combines OSRS gear and Machop from Pokemon. The design uses bold black outlines and shading to create depth and form, with the shading focusing on the figure’s armor, shield, and sword. The style is illustrative, with minimal use of color, relying on black and gray ink to define the different components.

OSRS – Pokemon: Scythe Gengar

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This crossover tattoo features a pokemon, Gengar, wielding a Scythe and a yellow party hat. The tattoo features bold colours an heavily relies on smooth shading to create dimensions and texture.

Pokémon – OSRS: Gengar with a Scythe of Vitur

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This tattoo combines elements of Old School RuneScape with a popular character in a dynamic illustrative style: Gengar from Pokemon and a Scythe of Vitur. The design uses bold outlines to frame the character and detailed shading with smooth gradients to create depth, especially in the purple tones and weapon highlights. The colors are vibrant, with strong contrasts between the red accents and the darker hues. The placement on the forearm provides a flat canvas that complements the elongated design. The use of clean linework and color blending emphasizes the character’s expression and the sharp details of the scythe.

Pokemon – OSRS: Ranger Mew tattoo

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This Mew is wearing an Elysian Spirit shield, a bow, and the Ranger’s hat and Tunic as well as the necklace of anguish from Old School RuneScape. The tattoo is create in a simple cartoonish style that does not lack on the details.

OSRS – Pokemon: Dragon Dagger Mew

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This tattoo features Mew from Pokemon wielding OSRS’ dragon dagger. The bold, thick black outlines and solid color filling give it a traditional tattoo look, often seen in old-school or neo-traditional styles. The shading is minimal, with solid fills of red, green, and blue, adding a simple but effective depth. It is placed on the calf, where there is enough space to showcase the character’s full body, and its small accessories are detailed clearly.

OSRS – Pokemon: Ancient Staff Mew

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This tattoo features a crossover between Old School RuneScape and Pokemon resembling Mew wearing OSRS’ rangers boots, Ancient staff, and Ancestral hat. The design uses a combination of bold and fine lines to define the character, with soft pastel colors like pink, green, and blue to bring it to life. There is minimal shading, giving the design a flat, illustrative style.

Pokemon-OSRS: Mage Mew tattoo

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This Mew is wearing Magic gear including an elysian spirit shield and an ancient scepter. The artist used advanced shading as well as tons of details to create this colourful and meaningful piece.

Rat – Ancient Staff

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This tattoo is a crossover design blending elements from Old School RuneScape such as the Amulet of Glory, Ancient Staff or the spirit shield with a rat or cat. The tattoo features bold outlines with a traditional tattoo approach, and uses strong black shading and a limited color palette. The use of purple and blue highlights adds contrast and depth to the design, focusing attention on key elements like the staff and details of the character.

Pokémon – OSRS: Pidgey with a party hat tattoo

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This scaper got a Pidgey pokemon that’s wearing a blue party hat on their leg. The tattoo is simple yet striking, and both elements are very easy to recognize as well as nostalgic.

Pokeballs and Saradomin Godsword tattoo

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This sleeve is created using various elements from Pokemon and OSRS, as well as other elemets like flowers. The tattoo displays different types and colours of pokeballs and a Saradomin godsword. Simple, colourful and quite outstanding!

OSRS – Pokemon: Magic Gengar

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This tattoo depicts a crossover between Old School RuneScape and a popular character from Pokemon: Gengar. The design uses bold outlines and vibrant colors, including shades of purple, yellow, and pink. The character is wearing an Ancestral hat and holding a Kodai wand. The shading is smooth, with light gradients that add depth without overwhelming the bright colors.

Pokémon – OSRS: Mage Gengar tattoo

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This tattoo features Gengar from Pokemon wearing an Ancestral hat, Kodai wand, and an Arcane spirit shield from OSRS. Created with full blocks of colours and black for outlines and details, this tattoo is of a medium to large size and it’s placed on the leg.

Pokémon – OSRS: Mage Gengar tattoo

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A very similar design is this one also featuring Gengar wearing an Ancestral hat, Kodai wand, and an Arcane spirit shield. The tattoo uses bold outlines and vibrant color fills, with smooth shading in purple, yellow, and brown tones to create dimension. The design incorporates clean linework and solid, saturated colors for a polished finish. The shading transitions are soft, emphasizing a cartoonish, new school aesthetic.

Futurama – OSRS: Zarosian Fry tattoo

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This tattoo shows multiple characters, but most importantly Fry from Futurama that appears to be holding a Zaros symbol. The tattoo has a twist since the normally purple Zaros symbol is instead created with the complementary yellow since Fry is already wearing a Zaros coloured robe.

OSRS – Avatar the Last Airbender: Turtle Duck – Dragon scimitar tattoo

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This shoulder tattoo makes Avatar the Last Airbender meet OSRS. It displays turtle duck holding a Dragon Scimitar and ready to train some combat!

Nintendo – OSRS: Melee Kirby tattoo

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This is a melee Kirby tattoo. The Nintendo character is wearing an iron shield and a Dragon scimitar and is surrounded by runes.

Bunny – OSRS

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This tattoo is done in an illustrative traditional style, featuring bold outlines and solid colors. The design incorporates clean black lines for structure and fills the space with earthy tones and vibrant red accents. The shading is minimal, focusing on flat color fills with slight gradients to add depth. The tattoo represents a bunny wearing OSRS gear such as the dragon scimitar.

Hello Kitty – OSRS tattoo

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This tattoo is a playful crossover design rendered in a neo-traditional style, combining bold outlines with soft shading. The artist used fine lines for facial details and thicker outlines to define the character’s shape. The color palette features muted blues and browns with smooth gradients, giving it a soft and illustrative appearance. The tattoo depicts a hello kitty wearing OSRS items such as the rune scimitar and a party hat.

OSRS Party hat tattoo, maenmiu logo

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When Legend of Zelda and RuneScape meet we get Link almost wearing a purple party hat. The tattoo is part of an unfinished sleeve that also displays a character from Fairy Tail (Lucy). The tattoo is created using simple, colourful and clean designs.

OSRS – Pokémon: Ancestral Charizard tattoo

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This Charizard is wearing an Ancestral hat and is ready to cast those fire spells! The tattoo is created using vivid colours and advanced shading and details to reveal this beautiful pokemon sitting in between the series it originates from and OSRS!

OSRS, Futurama, South Park, Family Guy, and Bobs Burgers tattoo

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This is a more complex tattoo that features characters and elements both from Old School RuneScape and Futurama, South Park, Family Guy, and Bobs Burgers. The sleeve has Bender, the Professor, and Fry from Futurama, Mordecai and Rigby from regular show, BMO, Finn and Jake from Adventure Time, Chris, Stewey, Peter, and Evil Chicken from Family Guy, Cartman and Kenny from South Park, Gene and Bob from Bobs burgers, and Elvarg (or a Wilderness green dragon, since the scenery seems to be inspired by the OSRS Wilderness.

OSRS – World of Warcraft: Horde and Fire rune symbol

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This simple red and black tattoo combines the Old School RuneScape fire rune symbol with the horde symbol from World of Warcraft. The tattoo uses a black precise outline and a solid red filling.

Fullmetal alchemist – OSRS: transmutation circle and dragon dagger tattoo

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This traditional tattoo combines Fullmetal Alchemist with OSRS. The tattoo displays the dragon dagger from Old School RuneScape intersected with the transmutation circle from the anime.

Pokémon – OSRS: Pidgey with a party hat tattoo

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This tattoo features a crossover design combining Hello Kitty with Old School RuneScape. The design uses bold outlines and soft pastel colors, primarily pinks, yellows, and browns. The shading is smooth and minimal, giving it a clean, cartoon-like appearance. The linework is consistent and precise, with a focus on simplicity and clarity. It includes small details, such as a Shadow and wizard hat, which are well-defined.

Dragonballs – OSRS: Master Roshi and Wise Old Man tattoo

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This tattoo combines the Wise Old Man from Old School RuneScape with Master Roshi from Dragonballs, by mixing features of both. The shading is minimal, focusing on flat, uniform tones to enhance the cartoonish aesthetic. The lines are clean and consistent, showcasing precise technique suitable for detailed work.

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