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While the Cultured Badass and Wicked Cultured kill to Tchaikowski and Wagner, and read Nietzsche on their spare time, the Pop Cultured Badass rocks out to the latest hits on their iPod and discusses their interpretation of recent movie.

Contrast Cultured Badass and Wicked Cultured. Sometimes the titular bunny ears of a Bunny Ears Lawyer.

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Examples:

• Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs
• Bill from Kill Bill
• Chris Partlow from The Wire, assassin and fan of Baltimore Club.
• Revy from Black Lagoon kills a dozen people while listening to White Zombie on her walkman.
• Doctor Who likes this. For example, the Master is a fan of the Scissor Sisters, and Crane broadcasts The Lion Sleeps Tonight while converting the masses into Cybermen.
  • For a man who has the whole of time and space to explore, the Doctor seems awfully fond of early 21st century Earth pop culture. For example, he seems to be a Harry Potter fan.
• Spike from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
• Teal'c from Stargate SG-1
  • When not wasting hordes of Jaffa or otherwise saving the world, Colonel Jack O'Neill never misses an episode of The Simpsons. He's also a bit of a Star Trek fan, getting upset when the USAF wouldn't name the first Earth built starship "Enterprise". Also, when he travelled back in time, he said his name was James T. Kirk.
• Nicholas Cage's Ghost Rider really enjoyed the music of the Carpenters. And jelly beans.
• John Crichton, Farscape.
• Canaan has a taxi driver that drives like a professional stuntman while listening to girly pop idol songs.
• Belial, the player character in Painkiller Overdose, who constantly references films and movies in his neverending series of one-liners repeated ad nauseam.
• Dean Winchester from Supernatural is a fan of classic rock and b-grade horror movies. In "Hollywood Babylon", his movie knowledge paid off.
• Metal Gear: Solid Snake loves Action Movies.
• Abigail Whistler from Blade: Trinity, who was listening to trip hop while kicking ass.
• The Pool-hall fight scene in Rush Hour, though that's a borderline case of Sorry I Left The BGM On. James Carter of the same movie may be a better example.
• Deadpool: Olsen Twins, Bea Arthur, Fat Albert, Lord of the Flies, Lethal Weapon, The Warriors, Golden Age, Steve Ditko...
  "You're right. That's why I'm rollin' with my posse" (he was fighting Tombstone, so, gangster affectations are... excusable...)
• No More Heroes: Travis Touchdown, Occidental Otaku, Assassin.
• The Venture Bros: 21 was already pop culture savvy by the first three seasons, but by Season 4, he became a pumped up pop culture badass.
• Heroes: While the amount of Badass is debatable, Hiro Nakamura is a shining example.

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