Why Drax Has All Those Tattoos In Guardians Of The Galaxy

Like its other main characters, Guardians of the Galaxy gave a fair amount of insight into the team's heavy hitter, Drax the Destroyer, from the death of his wife and daughter driving him to seek vengeance to being unable to understand metaphors. However, there was one thing that went unexplained during the movie: why he has those tattoos over his body. Visually they may have looked cool, but no one just makes their body a tapestry on a whim. Fortunately, we now know the reason he has them tha...