Drink Based Characterization / Soft Drinks

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Anime & Manga

• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • England: Tea.
  • Macau: Tea, according to another chibi
  • Taiwan: Bubble tea, according to her Image Song.
• Dr Pepper for Okarin in Steins;Gate. He drinks it all the time.
• Ouran High School Host Club: The entire club is fascinated by Instant Coffee, which they think is an absolutely brilliant invention if one doesn't have time to grind actual beans (like commoners). They've more or less made it the "official drink of the Host Club".
• In Eyeshield 21, Marco loves cola.
• In Hand Maid May, Cyberdoll Sara loves milk.
• Shinichi Kudo of Case Closed is notably fond of iced coffee^note Though fandom will often Flanderize him into a rough-and-tumble steaming-black drinker. To the point where he (and fellow adult-shrinkee Haibara) will order it at movie theaters even when the actual kids they're trying to blend in with order cokes.
• Sailor Moon:
  • Pluto/Setsuna: Green Tea.
  • Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask: Never really got one, but the anime frequently showed him drinking coffee. It was even used in a joke where in a romantic moment alone with Usagi he suddenly abandoned her to go to the kitchen and drink more coffee.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Following in his predecessors' footsteps, Yusei Fudo can't shake his connection with milk after that one episode.
  • Jack Atlas has Blue-Eyes Mountain Coffee.
• Gintoki from Gintama loves to drink strawberry milk.
• Shizuo Heiwajima from Durarara!! likes milk (and dairy products in general, according to his profile) probably far more than is healthy. Not only is he known to down around six bottles of it during a meal, but it's one of the few things that's managed to avert one of his trademark Unstoppable Rages entirely. Understandably, he needs it for his Required Secondary Powers, that is, bones that are Made of Iron that can handle his Hair-Trigger Temper-induced Super-Strength.
• Kekkaishi's Yoshimori loves his coffee-flavored milk, in part because of his Triple Shifter lifestyle.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Mami's tea. She summons a cup of it from... somewhere after defeating a witch. This takes a horrifying turn when she dies in battle, and the witch's grief seed smashes her teacup, spilling tea and/or blood everywhere.
• Future GPX Cyber Formula:
  • Karl Lichter von Randoll absolutely loves black tea, to the point he would drink tea in pit lanes, during pit stops and even in the middle of the races.
• Metal Fight Beyblade: Doji and orange juice.
• Penguindrum has the Creepy Twins Shirase and Souya like drinking carrot juice. Even in their bunny forms.
• Anita King of R.O.D the TV loves milk, and has been known to power chug it by the quart.
• Yang Wen-li in Legend of the Galactic Heroes enjoys black tea very much, and likes to drink it with brandy as well.
• Saki: Kouko Fukuyo, a mahjong commentator, has a fridge full of apple juice or mixes with apple juice.
• There's something of a Running Gag in Wandering Son where Takatsuki is shown several times drinking orange juice while Saori drinks green tea.
• The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.'s titular character loves coffee jelly above most everything else, with plots regarding him spending a month's allowance on a particularly fancy one only to end up having to exchange it for a kid's lost autographed baseball of equal value, desperately trying to shake off his friends during a class trip so he can eat a legendary dish of it in peace, and blowing all of his new years' money on a jelly maker instead of a new TV so he can make it himself.
• Parodied in Yo-kai Watch when two fifth-graders Eddie and Bear become inspirited by a youkai that makes kids put on airs. The two start drinking milk in wine glasses and talking about the milk like it's wine.
• In S1E29 of Bakuten Shoot Beyblade, Kyōju needs some time alone to make sense of his life since the day he met Takao. To this end, he goes to a bar where he orders milk on the rocks, much to the disbelief of the other patrons. Him ordering milk is both a gag because it contrasts with the trenchcoat-and-hat badass way he enters the bar, but it also is a gag because the whole atmosphere doesn't fit Kyōju to begin with. He's a nerd, somewhat prone to stress, and shy and polite. Of course he'd order milk!
• The Saga of Tanya the Evil: Tanya is very fond of coffee, as you'd expect from an overachieving former salaryman/current military strategist.

Comic Books

• Batman orders black coffee ("and keep it coming") in the epilogue of Kingdom Come. Superman has milk, and Wonder Woman just water. It's not clear if this is her usual order, as she's revealed to be pregnant.
  • Robin (Tim Drake) loves Zesti, a brand of soda. It's also become a meme within the Batman fandom that he is dependent on coffee (as the comics frequently show that he is sleep-deprived) but in canon he hardly ever drinks it.
  • In Batman: No Man's Land the crimelord Scarface also has a strong craving for Zesti, and will reward anyone who brings him a bottle, which are not easy to come by in the famine-stricken streets of the No Man's Land. Scarface, for the record, is a ventriloquist dummy and seeing him get soda poured down his throat while half the city starves is presented as very Black Comedy.
• Asterix: Obelix favours goats' milk. If he orders several cups, he's in a bad mood.
• G.I. Joe: All of the Dreadnoks are inordinately fond of grape soda. Sometime after the fall of Cobra, Torch eventually went into the business of making the stuff himself with the wildly successful "Uncle Winkin's Hard Grape Soda Company". He probably did this solely to get it for free and just the way he likes it.
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Uncle Scrooge's favorite drink is nutmeg tea.
• In The Backstagers, Beckett is constantly drinking Diet Coke. Inspired by series artist Rian Sygh.

Comic Strips

• Peanuts: Snoopy's World War I Flying Ace's drink of choice is root beer.

Fan Works

• In the Kim Possible fic I'm Scared Too, the goofy Nice Guy Ron isn't fond of coffee. When he does drink it, he likes his coffee very sweet. More specifically, a light roast coffee with a splash of cream and seven sugars.
• In The Legend of Royal Blue and La Sylphide, Nooroo drinks grape juice boxes to recharge his powers.
• In the Pretty Cure: Magic of the Rainbow chapter "Dinner Party", Zelda and Francesca's personalities are reflected by their choice of drink; Zelda has citrus-cherry punch as a play on Citrus Cherry Mountain Dew, since she's a gamer, and Francesca has orange juice with pulp (which contains extra vitamins and antioxidants), since she's an athlete.
• From Harry Potter fanfic, A Time for Changeling Bathilda Bagshot tended to become pretty upset if she didn't get her pumpkin juice.
• Inverted in The Wrong Reflection. Eleya mentions in passing to Kai Kira Nerys that she can't stand Earl Grey, Captain Picard's drink of choice. Fitting, because as a starship CO she's got Sisko's pragmatism and Kirk's attitude.
• Deconstructed in Princess Celestia Hates Tea. Everyone in Equestria and beyond adamantly believes tea is Celestia's favorite beverage. When she tries to come clean and admits that she actually hates the stuff, her subjects refuse to believe it and accuse her of being the Changeling Queen or Discorded.
• In Sugar Plums, Suigetsu who in canon prefers soft or drinkable meals is introduced to smoothies, which becomes something from that point on he either is drinking in a scene, or requesting immediately after.
• In Fake (Vega62a), the Ojou, Sachiko dislikes coffee and rarely drinks it. It's too bitter and stains teeth too easily. According to her, ladies prefer tea.
• In an untitled fanfiction of The X-Files, a villain strips Scully of her ID and puts her in a childish outfit that conceals her breasts. A woman at her workplace thinks she actually is a child (although that's rather odd because Scully hadn't shrunk, although it might be an Actor Allusion; this is after all the Trope Namer for the Scully Box) and offers her a juice box.
• Doing It Right This Time: Mari Makinami naturally enjoys tea, and the opening part of Chapter 6 uses it as a low-key Establishing Character Moment: The way she prepares and serves it for her fellow Pilots when they pay a social call (plain stoneware mugs rather than fancy china cups, teabags rather than loose-leaf and brewed quite strong) reinforces her status as a down-to-earth, unpretentious sort of girl from a modest background.

Films — Live-Action

• Bob Hope in Road to Utopia. Hope's character tries to fit in at tough-guy frontier bar, but then orders a lemonade. Realizing his mistake, he quickly turns to the bartender and growls, "...in a dirty glass!"
• Lovable Rogue Brodie Bruce of Mallrats spends much of the movie sipping from a dixie cup full of soda that he brought from home. At one point he successfully orders a fast-food cashier to "Fill this up with Coke. No Ice."
• In the epic comedy The Blues Brothers, John Candy in the role of a police detective attends the film's pivotal fund-raising concert in order to arrest the performing band, but decides he wants to see them perform first and orders three Orange Whips for himself and the much more "serious" uniformed state troopers he is with. The line was ad-libbed as an informal promotion of a non-alcoholic orange creame beverage sold by the family of the film's costumer. Since the film the beverage has morphed into a sweet alcoholic cocktail.
• Back to the Future:
  • When times get rough in 1885 in Back to the Future Part III, genius Emmett "Doc" Brown heads to the bar. The Hill Valley saloon is so macho that when Marty tries to order a nonalcoholic drink, the barflies laugh while the bartender pours him a free shot of whiskey — that BURNS the bar top where it spills. However, Doc is apparently so bad at being drunk that the bartender keeps some sarsaparilla ^note an old West-era soft drink; root beer is descended from it in stock just for him. Doc ends up drinking one single shot of whiskey, which knocks him out entirely.
  • Used for humor in the first film, when Marty gets George to man up and try asking Loraine to the dance, he goes up to the counter of the diner and orders milk. slaps bar "Chocolate!" The glass slides in from off-screen, George takes a big sip, and heads off to talk to Loraine as Marty looks on, dubious.
  • Marty himself apparently prefers diet sodas. His attempt to order a Tab ("I can't give you a tab unless you order something") or a Pepsi Free ("You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it!") before those products exist results in comical misunderstanding. He eventually settles for "something without sugar" and is served a black coffee.
• In Shane, a line is quickly drawn between the titular character and the drunken members of the Ryker gang when he walks into their bar and orders a soda-pop. In a twist, though, the "sodey pop" isn't for him, but for a kid he's befriended. Shane could have saved himself a lot of trouble by explaining this, but that's not the point.
• Rustlers' Rhapsody. When Rex O'Herlihan walks into a Western bar he first orders a glass of warm milk. When everyone in the bar in the bar stares at him he changes his order to a sarsaparilla, and finally to a "gin with a human hair in it" upon deciding it's one of those "tough-guy bars."
• Xander Cage in xXx orders club soda and cranberry juice. This could just be to contrast him against the James Bond-types who he's intended to be an inversion of, or because he's an extreme-sports fanatic and doesn't want his reflexes dulled while he's undercover. Some people theorize that Xander is in fact Straight Edge.
• Harley Stone in Split Second (1992) survives on nothing but heavily-sweetened coffee and chocolate since his partner was killed by a monster no one else believes in.
  CONSTABLE: Would you like some coffee with your sugar, guvner?
• Catwoman (2004) has Catwoman showing up at a bar after her transformation with a very specific order..
  Catwoman: White Russian, no ice, no vodka... hold the Kahlua.
  Bartender: Cream, straight up.
• The Assignment (1997). At the officer's club Annibal orders a white wine and a club soda. A CIA agent played by Donald Sutherland deduces that the soda is for Annibal because he's afraid of In Vino Veritas while ass-kissing his superiors. Annibal informs him that the soda is actually for his wife.
• In Joe Versus the Volcano, the islanders are known for their love of orange soda—to the point where its cans become part of the national costume.
• In The Professional, Leon drinks nothing but milk, and is often shown going to the local store to buy more. It's part of his portrayal as a curiously innocent and childlike assassin. Part of Mathilda's training involves drinking lots of milk, which she does not care for.
• The Amazing Spider-Man: This incarnation of Spider-Man seems to have a fondness for chocolate milk.
• Forrest Gump was a big fan of the soft drink Dr. Pepper. (Unfortunately, drinking too many caused him to need to make a run to the bathroom right when he met President John F. Kennedy.)
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Like with the video game Pikachu really enjoys coffee, so much so that he's pretty much addicted to it. He also knows several brands of coffee and even asks a Ludicolo barista to whip up one of his favorite brews. On the downside, it gives him gas.
• Dalton in Road House (1989), at the eponymous Wretched Hive gets black coffee, "leaded."
• Turkey Hollow: city slicker Ned prefers espresso in the morning, but Aunt Cly doesn't have an espresso machine.
• Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) drinks lattes with steamed Austrian goat milk, which are prepared by his lackey Agent Stone, to showcase his ludicrous standards and overbearingness.
• Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. While being hosted for dinner by Captain Seas, the Fabulous Five order lemonade, root beer and a glass of milk, and Doc himself asks for a Coke, to Seas bemusement. Given that the movie is set in the 1930's during Prohibition, it's probably meant to show our heroes are clean-living, law-abiding citizens. Though as Seas tries to murder them after dinner, it's just as well they remain sober.
• Dinner In America: Patty is frequently shown drinking from juice boxes despite the fact that she's 20 years old, emphasizing that she's stuck in adolescence.

Literature

• In the Doctor Who novel The Infinity Casket, Rose orders water at a tough Space Pirates tavern, and the Doctor hastily adds the dirty glass.
• Starting from the first major Star Wars Expanded Universe trilogy, Luke Skywalker's favorite drink is an exotic but very safe, comforting beverage called "hot chocolate". As his wife muses, it fits his farmboy personality perfectly.
  • Wookieepedia says that toppings for hot chocolate include "orchid bean extract" (vanilla), "tang bark" (cinnamon) and "mallow paste" (marshmallows).
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur Dent tries very patiently to get a simple cup of tea from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer which, while it claims to produce the widest possible range of drinks personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cares to use it, invariably produces a liquid which is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea" (possibly a Take That! at coffee). Arthur's determination leads him to explain the process of making tea, from geography to the social aspects to preparation. In the end, it almost gets him and everyone else on the Heart of Gold killed by Vogons, but he does indeed get a cup of good tea out of it.
  • The radio series had a sentient-machine that dispensed drinks apparently tailored to every customer's exact tastes and nutritional needs, provoking Arthur to exclaim "Wonderful, apparently I'm a masochist on a diet" before beginning another rant about tea, and the fall of a civilisation and the creation of a race of bird-men.
• Dragaera's Vlad Taltos is a wine connoisseur and also favors "klava," a coffee derivative probably based on Hungarian egg coffee.
• Ubiquitous in Tamora Pierce books. Because her books take place in medieval settings, where beer at breakfast was common (they hadn't really figured out sanitation yet), but have child-to-teenage protagonists, she explains why they're going with the soft option:
  • In the Circleverse books, mages are usually teetotalers for good reason—when the four protagonists tried some alcohol, they destroyed a barn.
  • In the Tortall Universe, Keladry prefers cider and Beka Cooper drinks twilsey^note barley water at taverns because they dislike the uncontrolled feeling that alcohol brings. Lord Raoul is also a teetotaler after being The Alcoholic in his youth.
• Horatio Hornblower: Hornblower tries to drink very lightly when he's at functions with alcohol since he likes to be in control of himself at all times. (He does get drunk in The Commodore after having to prevent his aide from assassinating the Czar and winds up sleeping with a Countess... also, half the fleas in the Russian palace.) Usually he drinks coffee or whatever pitiful substitute is left on the ship, like burnt toast.
• In The Disaster Artist (making this a Real Life example as well,) Tommy Wiseau's beverage of choice whenever he goes out to eat is hot water. What does this say about his personality? Well, it's one of many things he does in the first chapter alone that's so peculiar that no one knows how to react; Sestero mentions he's never seen a waiter who didn't balk at that order.
  • He's also noted to chug Red Bull around the clock.
• Charlie Wilson's War: Gust Avrakotos is disgusted when the two supposed tough guys from the CIA active services division order diet coke and chocolate milk. Meanwhile the Swiss Arms Dealer they're negotiating with is drinking cognac.
• Sweet Valley High: The protagonist twins (and most of their friends) always drink root beer.
• In Fifteen, the protagonist is 15 years old and doesn't like coffee, but wants to drink it to seem mature, however, she associates it with people older than her.
• Discworld:
  • In Equal Rites, Esk attempts to order milk at a tavern in Ohulun Cutash. She explains you get it out of goats, but the tavern only sells beer (which the customers claim it gets out of cats).
  • When the Watch are Drowning Their Sorrows in Men at Arms, Carrot also sticks to milk. He tried a shandy (beer mixed with an equal amount of a fizzy drink like ginger beer or British lemonade) in Guards! Guards! and didn't like it.
• Mexican Gothic: One of many details that sets Noemi at odds with the Doyle creepy family when she visits is that she's a coffee drinker, whereas they consider it a vice and serve an unpleasant tea instead. The tea turns out to be laced with the symbiotic fungus that infests the family.

Live-Action TV

• Ryuu Tendou from Choujin Sentai Jetman, being straight-laced, super-serious hero, usually orders milk in bars. Hot or cold.

• Call the Midwife: Horlicks for everyone—nuns, nurses, doctors, patients—especially when on duty or under stress.
• Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie puts five lumps of sugar into a small cup of tea.
• Batman (1966): Batman enters a '60s disco (that barred Robin since he was under 21) and orders orange juice, trying to "blend in."
• Shoestring: Eddie Shoestring goes into a punk club and orders orange juice.
• The A-Team: B.A.'s favorite beverage is milk, which demonstrates his Gentle Giant nature when he's not in rage mode. It was the team's favorite way to slip in a sleeping pill to carry the bruiser onto an airplane (whenever a mission required them to travel long distances quickly).
• The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon seems to be very fond of strawberry Quik.
• In Boardwalk Empire, crime boss Arnold Rothstein loves milk, which emphasizes his Straight Edge Evil nature.
• Breaking Bad: Lydia Rodarte-Quayle drinks chamomile tea with stevia and soy milk. This is, however, not used to establish her as a calm and mellow person, but rather as petty, high-strung and borderline obsessive-compulsive; the tea must be chamomile, the sweetener must be stevia and the additive must be soy milk, and substitutions are not acceptable. Note that this is in 2008-10, when these things had become widely available relatively recently. (Stevia in particular hadn’t hit the mainstream by that point—it only got FDA approval for general use as a sweetener in 2008, and was banned completely in the EU—home to Lydia's employers Madrigal Electromotive GmbH—until 2011.)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Buffy and Willow both like mochas for the caffeine and sugar.
  • Giles and his tea.
• CSI Greg loves Blue Hawaiian coffee, and you should not try to get into his stash.
• Family Ties: While the Keatons may disagree strongly on politics, they all really love their orange juice. They can be seen drinking it in just about every episode.
• The Flash (2014)'s H.R. from season 3 turns out to be a big coffee drinker. It's not available on Earth-19, where he hails from.
• Frasier and Niles both make ridiculously complex and nitpicky coffee orders at their favorite coffee shop, which is often played for laughs. In one instance Frasier sends back his drinks multiple times with different requests and changes.
• In the Friends episode "The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends" Chandler takes out a bottle of Hershey Syrup to make chocolate milk. He offers to make one for Ross, but Ross demurs, "No thanks, I'm 29."
• Spinelli of General Hospital, like any good hacker, can't function without his orange soda.
• JJ from Good Times loved unsweetened Kool-Aid (referred to as "Kool-Aid Sour")
• Happy Days: Richie's breakfast meal includes blueberry pancakes and freshly squeezed orange juice.
• House of Anubis: When Alfie is cursed to turn into a child, he becomes even more immature than he already is. One scene has him drinking chocolate milk, and blowing bubbles in his drink until Nina gets angry.
• JAG: AJ likes strong coffee ("Cup of Joe".)
• From the Kamen Rider franchise:
  • Kamen Rider Blade: Kotaro buys milk by the crate and keeps his refrigerator constantly stocked.
  • Kamen Rider Build: Soichi Isurugi runs a coffee shop that the heroes operate from (despite being absolutely horrible at making it), and continues to show a fondness for coffee even after he leaves the shop when he turns out to be Evil All Along due to being possessed by Evolto. The first post-season V-Cinema has a Freeze-Frame Bonus with lines of text written in English revealing that Evolto’s affinity for coffee stems from tasting it being one of his first experiences with human senses after possessing Soichi.
• How I Met Your Mother: Marshall and Ted share a passion for Tantrum soda, a parody of Surge soda.
• In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the McPoyle family is obsessed with drinking milk, among other creepy habits.
• Kenan & Kel: Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda! Unless he goes on a game show dressed up as a girl.
• On Laverne & Shirley, Laverne loves milk and Pepsi. Mixed together. Yes.
• On Leverage Hardison fills his fridge full of orange soda.
  • His Evil Counterpart (played by Wil Wheaton) prefers cherry soda.
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Whenever his family is at Steiner Resorts in the Catskills, Abe Weissman always drinks copious amounts of the resort's signature tomato juice. To the point that when he turns down tomato juice one day (after inadvertently learning that Midge is now a stand-up comedian), Joel and his parents know something's up with him.
• In Season 5 of Mad Men there's a scene where Sally is at lunch in a restaurant with Megan and one of Megan's friends. Sally orders coffee and puts lots of sugar in it (the scene cuts to an overhead shot of the sugar landing into the coffee and fades out before she stops), illustrating how Sally's growing up but is still somewhat of a kid.
• M*A*S*H:
  • Radar O'Reilly: Grape Nehi, befitting his boyishness when others go for harder drinks.
  • In a couple early episodes, we learn General Clayton's "usual" is sherry and ginger ale.
  • In the episode where they get the Officer's Club, it's shown Frank Burns' usual drink is a Shirley Temple.

• Patrick Jane of The Mentalist loves tea.
• NCIS:
  • Gibbs also likes to drink coffee.
  • Abby and her Kaf-Pow! soda.

• Schitt's Creek:
  • Camp Gay (well, camp pansexual) David Rose orders a caramel macchiato with two sweeteners and a sprinkle of cocoa powder, which his boyfriend Patrick remembers.
  • Straight Gay Patrick often drinks tea, the simplicity of which reflects his personality.
• Star Trek: The Original Series: Kirk isn't as dogmatic as later captains, but he does seem to enjoy his coffee. During a ship-wide power outage, his yeoman curries his favour by using a hand phaser to brew coffee, and he finally snaps when the tribbles get in the food replicators and prevent him from ordering his chicken sandwich and coffee.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation:
  • Picard is known for his order of "Tea. Earl grey. Hot." He does not specify how he takes his tea beyond that (i.e. with milk or lemon, with or without sweetener, etc.)
  • Worf develops a taste for, of all things, prune juice, which is introduced to him by Guinon. Upon his first sip, he declares it "a warrior's drink."
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
  • Everyone on the ship is partial to raktajino, which is described as "Klingon coffee". Ironically one of the few who doesn't drink it regularly is Worf, who sticks with the prune juice upon transferring from the Enterprise.
  • Quark reveals he's developed a taste for a human drink, root beer, despite describing it as "bubbly and cloying and happy", because "if you drink enough of it, you begin to like it". He's talking about root beer, you understand, not the Federation.
• Star Trek: Voyager: Janeway is much more sanguine about her love for coffee than Kirk. When Voyager is faced with a power shortage but a nearby nebula might possibly be mined for additional energy, she orders the ship into it with the memorable order "There's coffee in that nebula!"
• Star Trek: Enterprise: T'Pol favors chamomile and mint tea, as befits her intellectual nature and interest in humans.
• Star Trek: Picard: Dr. Agnes Jurati loves Earl Grey tea, just like Jean-Luc Picard does. Although their personalities and interests are different, they're both intellectuals.
• On Three's Company, each of the landlords had his own drink obsession. Roper always wanted cocoa, and Furley's favorite poison was root beer.
• Monica from Touched by an Angel loves coffee so much she tried to put it in everything, much to Tess' horror (she once made coffee-flavored biscuits). Her 100th-case party had the following edibles: coffee ice cream, coffee cake, coffee cookies, chocolate-covered coffee beans, and mocha latte with whipped cream and cinnamon sprinkles.
• Twin Peaks
  • Agent Cooper is completely enamoured of coffee at the local diner, and in general, to the point where coffee became a major trademark of the series. When asked, in one episode, how he takes it, he gives this response:
  Coop: Blacker than midnight on a moonless night.
  Pete: Pretty black.
  • Judge Clinton Sternwood, a character who appeared in a few episodes of the second season, is a fan of a peculiar cocktail called a Black Yukon Sucker Punch. We're never told what it is, though fan recipes aren't hard to find.
• UFO (1970): Commander Ed Straker drinks Coke. Although he was never an alcoholic, he was once drunk, off-duty, when a crisis came up, and he handled it badly. He gives up alcohol because he doesn't want that to happen again.
• What's Happening!!: Dee Thomas uses part of her $1 weekly allowance to buy strawberry milkshakes.
• Yellowjackets In "Edible Complex" the adult Lottie (now a cult leader) orders a smoothie with ashwaghanda, an ingredient with calming properties such as stress relief. Instead, her acolyte Lisa brings her one with maca root, an ingredient that increases libido. Lottie makes a note of the mix-up but drinks it anyway even though Lisa offers to get her another one.

Music

• Jonathan Coulton, on geek preferences: "Code Monkey like Fritos, Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew..."
• Vocaloid:
  • Hiyama Kiyoteru: Iced coffee, both playing on his maturity and the Hi (Ice) in his name.
  • Kagamine Rin: Orange juice, as an extension of oranges being her Trademark Favorite Food.
• Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the Coffee Cantata, which tells the story of a young woman who really likes her coffee.
• All of the members of They Might Be Giants love coffee enough that it gets mentioned at least once per album, and an entire segment of their Rockumentary was about how much coffee they drank.
• Rush drummer Neil Peart has a thing for milkshakes in general, it seems: he claims to make the world's best milkshake himself, and in his book Roadshow, he writes about riding through an extremely hot area of the Western U.S. and eventually desperately craving a chocolate milkshake. (Neil, while motorcycling, travels in what amounts to a suit of black leather armor- gloves, pants, boots, heavy jacket, and full-face helmet. Hot weather + full-body armor means overheating, which means sweating more, which means dehydration.) He desperately searches for a Dairy Queen (claiming their milkshakes are at least consistently passable) but, failing to find one, stops at a roadside ice cream shack. He then complains about the "frozen glop of chocolate-flavored goo in a styrofoam cup claiming to be a milkshake" he was served in his journal for the day later on.
• Insane Clown Posse has a running theme of Faygo, a regional brand of soda pop, which they work into lyrics: "Send yo mama straight out to the sto'/Tell that bitch to bring home a Faygo". Members of the audience often douse themselves and the band in the stuff. As a family-friendly company, however, the makers of Faygo have, on multiple occasions, clarified that they are in no way affiliated with the hyper-violent Insane Clowns.^note Faygo actually stopped giving tours of their production facilities because Juggalos would regularly show up and create nuisances.
• Morning Musume's Sayashi Riho has a special liking for Cider. Which is a soft drink in Japan, which is good, considering that Sayashi is 13.
• The Thin White Duke, David Bowie's 1970s persona, allegedly subsisted exclusively on red bell peppers, milk and cocaine.

Puppet Shows

• In The Great Muppet Caper, Fozzie is messing with some champagne served in a coupe (no, not his '50 Studebaker). He takes a sip, then turns around and informs the people behind him, "Hey, if you add enough sugar to this stuff it tastes just like ginger ale!" He gives the distinct impression that he finds this to be an improvement (possibly the fact that he was adding sugar to it was a pretty solid hint).

Theatre

• From In the Heights, part of Benny's morning routine is to get his "boss' second coffee, one cream, five sugars."
• In The Golden Apple, the second verse of "Scylla and Charybdis" mentions that Scylla has:
  Bought a vineyard up in Maine
  That makes passable champagne
  Though his ulcers keep him down
  To sarsparilla
• In Holy Musical B@man! Alfred asks Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson—who have just met—if he can get them a drink. They respond in unison:
  A juice box. And make it a Mott's, goddamnit!

Video Games

• Hawke from Advance Wars apparently like black coffee. Just look at his profile on the game.
• Detective Pikachu absolutely loves coffee. He knows a great deal about coffee, has a favorite café, and will tell Tim what he enjoys about different blends.
• Gunther Hermann of the original Deus Ex like orange soda. He gets very irritable when a soda machine gives him lemon-lime soda instead of orange, causing him to suspect that the maintenance man is fucking with him. The sequel shows that his tiny conspiracy theory was right.
• Link in The Legend of Zelda seems to be very fond of milk, as it's become a recurring healing item since at least The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. If you're doing a Three-Heart Challenge, milk can be even more useful than potions because it comes in two doses.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has a milk bar. One character is visibly drunk on the final day if you do his part right. Drunk on Milk.
• Fire Emblem: Awakening: Maribelle's favorite thing to drink is tea.
• Team Fortress 2: Scout is pretty obsessed with Bonk, Crit-a-Cola, and their merchandise.
• Jasper Gein of Silent Hill 4 acts as a Broken Bridge, mumbling about how thirsty he is and how he could use some chocolate milk, refusing to move until you give him some.
• In The World Ends with You, Neku likes coffee.
• Punch-Out!!: Soda Popinski loves soda, as is obvious from his name: punching it out of his hand has similar but less severe repercussions, although considering how often he drinks it, you basically have to do it and one of the in-game challenges involves beating him without interrupting him when he's taking a drink.
• Deadly Premonition: Agent York cannot get by without coffee. It isn't just that he Must Have Caffeine—he relies on his coffee to tell the future for him. (He's just that kind of person.) He also has a thing for biscuits, but mostly just the ones Thomas makes.
• Best Fiends: Edward the Mosquito's favorite food is coconut water, as a replacement for blood. This is despite the fact he's a male mosquito that shouldn't have been drinking blood in the first place.
• Professor Layton, being the Quintessential British Gentleman, enjoys a good spot of tea.

Visual Novels

• A scene in Lucien's first season of Sweet Enchantments helps to establish the cast's personalities via the coffee Zain serves them: Lucien's is "dark as midnight," Roman's is loaded with whipped cream and syrup, and Runa's is spiked with liqueur.

• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Celestia "Celeste" Ludenberg likes milk tea (and she'll get pissed if it's not properly done).
• Ace Attorney:
  • Godot: Coffee. One of the rare cases where he appreciates the taste more than the caffeine (although he still despises decaf). Truth in Television, as people who appreciate coffee for the taste usually do prefer the regular kind. The decaffeinating process adversely affects the quality of the bean (long story short, the caffeine gets brewed out), so, all other factors being equal, a cup of decaf will always be inferior.
  • Edgeworth: Tea.
  • Phoenix: As of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, grape juice.
• Missing Stars: Beatrice is very fond of coffee and drinks a lot of it.

Webcomics

• Coffee of Doom in Questionable Content does do the fancy-schmancy drinks, but in "small", "medium", "large", "WTF" and occasionally "Fuck You, Bladder" sizes. When someone uses a certain chain's faux-Italian size names, the offender is told "No habla Starbucks".
  • Is it French or is it Italian? Perhaps Fretalian....
• Kreyul from Nightmare Factory loves his boba tea, and it's rare to see him without it.
• The Order of the Stick: Human Xykon is shown in Start Of Darkness to enjoy coffee — specifically godawful coffee, which forces his brain to relive every great cup of coffee he's ever had. Discovering he can no longer drink it after becoming a lich makes him a little bit upset.
• Doc of The Whiteboard enjoys Mountain Dew so much, he brews his own extra-potent blend. He also uses Dew to brew coffee.
• Zebra Girl Sandra really likes coffee.◊ She's not addicted, but she doesn't need to eat and she can't taste anything else.
• Homestuck: Dave and apple juice.
• Sheldon: Gramp really likes his coffee.
• Polandball: Great Britain with tea.
• Tower of God: The Chessmaster Yu Hansung loves instant coffee.
• Arthur, King of Time and Space: Guenevere gets through a lot of milk.
• Narbonic: Dave likes Mountain Dew.

Web Original

• On this list of thoughts by someone who dislikes coffee, one of them is that they feel like a child ordering hot chocolate instead, especially because they like it with marshmallows and cream.

Web Video

• Critical Role: (Campaign 2):
  • When Jester comes into a bar, she always orders milk. This shows her childishness compared to her companions.
  • Caduceus is very fond of tea, especially tea he grew himself on his family's cemetery. Among his comrades (who mostly prefer alkohol) this marks him as the serene and gentle, if slighly morbid cleric who will listen to and console everyone else.

Western Animation

• The Simpsons:
  • The Australians' affinity for beer is parodied when Marge fruitlessly tries to order coffee.
    Marge: I'll just have a coffee.
    Australian Bartender: Beer it is.
    Marge: No, Cof-fee.
    Bartender: Be-er?
    Marge: Coffee. C-O-
    Bartender: B...E...
  • During the show's beginnings as animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, the family would often celebrate good times by going out for Frosty Chocolate Milkshakes. This didn't carry over to the full-length episodes, however. (Except for the occasional Mythology Gag.)
  • In the episode "Viva Ned Flanders", Ned is having trouble deciding what drink to order as he very seldom drinks. One of the drinks he considers is called a Children's something-or-other.
• Kim Possible: Dr. Drakken takes chocolate milk. Even worse, he insists on calling it "Cocoa Moo," acting as though he had just had all of his evil sucked out. "Cocoa Moo", mentioned in a couple of other episodes, might be a brand name in the KP-verse.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Mellow Fellow Uncle Iroh has a passion for calming tea.
• The "ginger ale... in a dirty glass" bit was also used in the Galaxy Rangers episode "Don Quixote Cody." We are talking about a cartoon from the middle eighties...and the two Rangers were on duty, after all. Fanon will usually depict Niko as a tea-drinker, and Goose taking his coffee strong enough to melt the spoon.
• In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Showdown", the muscular and scarred bounty hunter Jonah Hex walks into an Old West saloon and orders milk -in a clean glass.
• In Episode 88 of Kaeloo, Stumpy orders a soda at an Old West Saloon.
• In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Astronaut Ellen Ochoa", Ellen Ochoa drinks some lemonade from the kids' lemonade stand. This gives us some insight into her character by telling us that even though she's a major scientist, she's really just a normal person and is also One of the Kids.
• The Looney Tunes Show: Bugs Bunny and coffee, to the point one of the episodes centered on him trying to beat his addiction to coffee by replacing it with an energetic drink. After finding out that the drink was worse and more addictive, Bugs decided to refrain to one cup per day... The doctor never specified the size of the cup.
• The titular characters of Biker Mice from Mars love root beer.
• Johnny Test: Dukey "likes a cup of joe".
• The three shows following the original Ben 10, the title character was shown to love smoothies, which is also a case of irony as between the original series and Alien Force he refused to drink them. Ben says it was an acquired taste.
• G.I. Joe: The Dreadnoks sure do love their grape soda.
• Tino, Lor, Carver, and Tish from The Weekenders really like junk food, especially Chug-A-Freezes.
• Arthur: Mr. Ratburn's stern sister Patty likes her green tea steeped for exactly 3 1/2 minutes. She's able to tell when her tea is steeped for only 2 3/4 minutes.
• Samurai Jack: Jack himself frequently orders green tea or water when he's at a Bad Guy Bar, emphasizing him as an out-of-place goody-two-sandals.
• Futurama: Fry can frequently be seen downing a can of Slurm.
• Steven Universe: Guacola (a guacamole-flavored soda) is the only thing Onion is actually willing to eat or drink. Ironically, everyone else hates the stuff.

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