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With coffee culture changing so frequently around the world, this trope can evolve significantly depending on the setting. For an office environment, the easy availability of coffee makes only the blackest of black truly distinguish a character as a leader figure or go getter. It's also common in any CopShow, DetectiveFiction or FilmNoir, where the HardboiledDetective that isn't knocking back heavy scotch will most assuredly take their coffee black to keep themselves alert. With the Japanese usually preferring tea, coffee consumption in general (no matter the strength) becomes a quick signal of confidence or hyper-masculinity in Japanese media.
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* Captain Janeway's DrinkOrder on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "Coffee. Black." It's good stuff. [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun She beat the Borg with it]].
* Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' is also known for drinking black coffee. It comes with being a former marine. When Tony takes over Gibb's position during Gibbs TenMinuteRetirement, Tony also starts drinking black coffee. [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]] Abbie prefers soft drinks.
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* Captain Janeway's DrinkOrder on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "Coffee. Black." It's good stuff. [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun She beat the Borg with it]].
* Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' is also known for drinking black coffee. It comes with being a former marine. When Tony takes over Gibb's position during Gibbs TenMinuteRetirement, Tony also starts drinking black coffee. [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]] Abbie prefers soft drinks.
* Detective Dale Cooper from ''Series/TwinPeaks'' is a talented, experienced FBI agent who always takes his coffee black.
* Michael Ian Black of ''Series/StellaUS'' provides an example that it's probably best not to overthink:
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* Captain Janeway's DrinkOrder on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "Coffee. Black." It's good stuff. [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun She beat the Borg with it]].
* Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' is also known for drinking black coffee. It comes with being a former marine. When Tony takes over Gibb's position during Gibbs TenMinuteRetirement, Tony also starts drinking black coffee. [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]] Abbie prefers soft drinks.
* Detective Dale Cooper from ''Series/TwinPeaks'' is a talented, experienced FBI agent who always takes his coffee black.
* Michael Ian Black of ''Series/StellaUS'' provides an example that it's probably best not to overthink:
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* Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' is also known for drinking black coffee. It comes with being a former marine. When Tony takes over Gibb's position during Gibbs TenMinuteRetirement, Tony also starts drinking black coffee. [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]] Abbie prefers soft drinks.
* Detective Dale Cooper from ''Series/TwinPeaks'' is a talented, experienced FBI agent who always takes his coffee black.
* Michael Ian Black of ''Series/StellaUS'' provides an example that it's probably best not to overthink:
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* Captain Janeway's DrinkOrder on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "Coffee. Black." It's good stuff. [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun She beat the Borg with it]].
* Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' is also known for drinking black coffee. It comes with being a former marine. When Tony takes over Gibb's position during Gibbs TenMinuteRetirement, Tony also starts drinking black coffee. [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]] Abbie prefers soft drinks.
* Detective Dale Cooper from ''Series/TwinPeaks'' is a talented, experienced FBI agent who always takes his coffee black.
* Michael Ian Black of ''Series/StellaUS'' provides an example that it's probably best not to overthink:
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* Subverted in ''Film/PulpFiction''. Winston Wolf is a badass among badasses in the Marcellus Wallace crime organization, but when Jimmy offers him a cup of coffee, he tells him he likes it with a lot of cream and sugar.
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* Subverted in ''Film/PulpFiction''. Winston Wolf is a badass among badasses in the Marcellus Wallace crime organization, but when Jimmy offers him a cup of coffee, he tells him he likes it with a lot of cream and sugar. No one dares to question his man card.
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* ''VideoGame/AceAttorney''. Mixed in with MustHaveCaffeine, Godot always drinks his coffee pure black, which even provides one of many of his famous quotes "Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than Hell itself... that is coffee."
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* ''VideoGame/AceAttorney''. Mixed in with MustHaveCaffeine, Godot always drinks his coffee pure black, which even provides one of many of his famous quotes "Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than Hell itself... that is coffee."" [[spoiler:Later on you learn that someone had once slipped poison into his coffee and put him in a coma for 5 years. It's understandable that he'd be wary of putting ''anything'' in his coffee after that, especially if the poison was disguised as cream or sugar]].
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Coffee, perhaps with the descriptor of [[PurpleProse "Black as night," or "Black as a witch's heart,"]] is a very bitter drink on its own. Having a character drink it undiluted shows that they are "tough" enough to enjoy it. Milk and sugar weaken the pure coffee flavor too much for this character, and thus the trope only gets downplayed when a character does exactly that.
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Coffee, perhaps with the descriptor of [[PurpleProse "Black "black as night," night" or "Black "black as a witch's heart,"]] heart"]], is a very bitter drink on its own. Having a character drink it undiluted shows that they are "tough" enough to enjoy it. Milk and sugar weaken the pure coffee flavor too much for this character, and thus the trope only gets downplayed when a character does exactly that.
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* Discussed in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Wild World''. A "[[ManChild lazy]]" villager will sometimes say "Is it true that "real men" like bitter coffee? I guess I'm just a regular guy then, 'cause I like my coffee [[SweetTooth light and sweet]]."
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'':
** Discussed in''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Wild ''Wild World''. A "[[ManChild lazy]]" villager will sometimes say "Is it true that "real men" like bitter coffee? I guess I'm just a regular guy then, 'cause I like my coffee [[SweetTooth light and sweet]]." "
** Subverted in ''New Leaf''. You can work part-time at the local cafe. It turns out some of the manliest villagers like their coffee sweet and some of the girliest are fond of black.
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** Subverted in ''New Leaf''. You can work part-time at the local cafe. It turns out some of the manliest villagers like their coffee sweet and some of the girliest are fond of black.
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* Current or former military personnel often take their coffee black. Procurement tends to buy the cheapest, cruddiest coffee possible so the cream and sugar tend to run out fast (alternatively: [[AcceptableProfessionalTargets the officers stole it all]]), which means soldiers, sailors, and airmen tend to get used to black coffee and stay with the habit after mustering out.
** Plus, depending on how busy you are, black coffee is just faster. Besides, it's not like sugar and cream will make bad coffee taste good.
* Current or former military personnel often take their coffee black. Procurement tends to buy the cheapest, cruddiest coffee possible so the cream and sugar tend to run out fast (alternatively: [[AcceptableProfessionalTargets the officers stole it all]]), which means soldiers, sailors, and airmen tend to get used to black coffee and stay with the habit after mustering out.
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-->'''Michael:''' "I like my coffee the way I like my women: Strong, black, [[{{Metaphorgotten}} and proud.]]"
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* In ''Literature/SagaOfSoul'', the multiversal SerialKiller "Murder" makes his order to a surviving barista after killing everyone else in line at a Starbucks, saying he likes "coffee as black as my soul".
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* Dr. Algernop Krieger of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' once ordered his coffee the same way he likes his women: "black, bitter, and preferably fair trade."
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-->'''Surprise me:''' (Throws it at your face).
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* ''VideoGame/AceAttorney''. Mixed in with MustHaveCaffeine, Godot always drinks his coffee pure black, which even provides one of many of his famous quotes "Blacker than a moonless night, darker and bitter than Hell itself... that is coffee."
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* ''VideoGame/AceAttorney''. Mixed in with MustHaveCaffeine, Godot always drinks his coffee pure black, which even provides one of many of his famous quotes "Blacker than a moonless night, darker hotter and more bitter than Hell itself... that is coffee."
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* In the Franchise/JamesBond books Bond, unlike almost [[SpotOfTea every other British person in the universe]], ''hates'' tea, preferring black coffee.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' : Ken Amada says even he drinks coffee black in a random optional conversation you can have with him (which you can even joke you like it with hot sauce)
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A SubTrope of DrinkOrder with an extra shot of manliness.
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* Mr. Hanekoma in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. It may not be black possibly, but Mr. H sure does love his coffee too and even runs a shop selling it. There also happens to be a lot more to this guy than you think, but at the very least he seems to be a pretty cool guy.
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* Averted in ''Film/PulpFiction''. Winston Wolf is a badass among badasses in the Marcellus Wallace crime organization, but when Jimmy offers him a cup of coffee, he tells him he likes it with a lot of cream and sugar.
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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': "I like my coffee black. Like my men." A badass line, but I'm not sure if it counts because it's spoken by six-year-old (for laughs, obviously.)
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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': "I like my coffee black. Like my men." A badass line, but I'm not sure if it counts because it's spoken [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes Spoken by a six-year-old girl]] to the boy who sits next to her (for laughs, obviously.)
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* Captain Janeway's DrinkOrder on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''? "Coffee. Black." It's good stuff. [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun She beat the Borg with it]].
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-->"''There's no such thing as strong coffee, just weak people''."
A SubTrope of DrinkOrder with an extra shot of manliness.
Coffee, perhaps with the descriptor of [[PurpleProse "Black as night," or "Black as a witch's heart,"]] is a very bitter drink on its own. Having a character drink it undiluted shows that they are "tough" enough to enjoy it. Milk and sugar weaken the pure coffee flavor too much for this character, and thus the trope only gets downplayed when a character does exactly that.
With coffee culture changing so frequently around the world, this trope can evolve significantly depending on the setting. For an office environment, the easy availability of coffee makes only the blackest of black truly distinguish a character as a leader figure or go getter. It's also common in any CopShow, DetectiveFiction or FilmNoir, where the HardboiledDetective that isn't knocking back heavy scotch will most assuredly take their coffee black to keep themselves alert. With the Japanese usually preferring tea, coffee consumption in general (no matter the strength) becomes a quick signal of confidence or hyper-masculinity in Japanese media.
Also see KlatchianCoffee, which explores the extremity of the coffee itself and its uses (e.g. a G-rated MushroomSamba or a hangover cure).
Compare RealMenHateSugar, the direct alternative to this. See also RealMenEatMeat, its culinary cousin.
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* Parodied in an {{omake}} of ''Manga/YowamushiPedal'', where Naruko tells Onoda how real men drink their coffee black. Only to subvert it by asking for milk as soon as Onoda went to the bathroom.
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* In the epilogue to the collected edition of ''Comicbook/KingdomCome'', [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark]], [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana]] and [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Bruce]] meet up at Planet Krypton restaurant. While Clark has milk and Diana gets some water, Bruce's drink order is "Coffee. Black. And keep it coming."
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* Used as a plot point in ''Film/SuddenImpact''. For years CowboyCop "Dirty" Harry Callahan has been ordering his coffee black and is tipped off of a robbery by his server pouring a bunch of sugar into it.
-->''"Every day for the past ten years, Loretta there's been giving me a large black coffee, today she gives me a large black coffee only it has sugar in it, a lotta sugar. I just came back to complain. Now, you boys put those guns down."''
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': "I like my coffee black. Like my men." A badass line, but I'm not sure if it counts because it's spoken by six-year-old (for laughs, obviously.)
* Averted in ''Film/PulpFiction''. Winston Wolf is a badass among badasses in the Marcellus Wallace crime organization, but when Jimmy offers him a cup of coffee, he tells him he likes it with a lot of cream and sugar.
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* Captain Janeway's DrinkOrder on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''? "Coffee. Black." It's good stuff. [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun She beat the Borg with it]].
* Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' is also known for drinking black coffee. It comes with being a former marine. When Tony takes over Gibb's position during Gibbs TenMinuteRetirement, Tony also starts drinking black coffee. [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]] Abbie prefers soft drinks.
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* In ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'', Vimes takes his coffee black. He tries to order it "black as a moonless night", but the owner picks apart the metaphor until Vimes finally settles for "a moonless night as black as that coffee."
* In the Franchise/JamesBond books Bond, unlike almost [[SpotOfTea every other British person in the universe]], ''hates'' tea, preferring black coffee.
* Nick Andros, a young and skinny but tough and resourceful deaf-mute drifter in ''Literature/TheStand'', takes his coffee black. {{Lampshade}}d by Sheriff Baker: "Take it like a man, do you?"
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/AceAttorney''. Mixed in with MustHaveCaffeine, Godot always drinks his coffee pure black, which even provides one of many of his famous quotes "Blacker than a moonless night, darker and bitter than Hell itself... that is coffee."
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'':
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' : Ken Amada says even he drinks coffee black in a random optional conversation you can have with him (which you can even joke you like it with hot sauce)
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': There is a scene where Ryotaro Dojima asks the player how he wants his coffee:
--->'''Black:''' Just like me. The easiest kind to make.
--->'''With cream:''' Huh...? Oh, uh, well... It's just I haven't heard anyone ask for that in a while.
--->'''Cream and sugar:''' Hah, you have the same tastes as Nanako.
--->'''Surprise me:''' Alright, I'll pour you a good one.
* Kyle Hyde in ''Hotel Dusk 2 (Last Window)''. Another cop example, Kyle likes to drink his coffee black, at least shown in Last Window at the cafe.
* Mr. Hanekoma in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. It may not be black possibly, but Mr. H sure does love his coffee too and even runs a shop selling it. There also happens to be a lot more to this guy than you think, but at the very least he seems to be a pretty cool guy.
* Ringabel along with his starting world counterpart Alternis Dim like coffee. Both being Dark Knights, it's only natural that they'd like it black.
* According to his profile, Hawke in [[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars]] likes his coffee black.
* Discussed in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Wild World''. A "[[ManChild lazy]]" villager will sometimes say "Is it true that "real men" like bitter coffee? I guess I'm just a regular guy then, 'cause I like my coffee [[SweetTooth light and sweet]]."
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[[folder:WebComics]]
* ''WebComic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' {{web comic}} parodies the coffee scene in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'':
-->'''Black:''' Don't try to sound tough you sissy.
-->'''With cream:''' Oh, coming right up, '''madam'''.
-->'''Cream and sugar:''' What are you, '''Nanoka'''
-->'''Surprise me:''' (Throws it at your face).
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', Nathan Explosion has this to say about Dethklok's new song, the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle:
-->"We're here to make coffee metal. We're here to make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black... times infinity."
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[[folder:RealLife]]
* Marines are known for their love of black coffee, and kicking ass in combat.
* This tropes get invoked by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Coffee Boss Coffee]] to the Japanese public.
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-->"''There's no such thing as strong coffee, just weak people''."
A SubTrope of DrinkOrder with an extra shot of manliness.
Coffee, perhaps with the descriptor of [[PurpleProse "Black as night," or "Black as a witch's heart,"]] is a very bitter drink on its own. Having a character drink it undiluted shows that they are "tough" enough to enjoy it. Milk and sugar weaken the pure coffee flavor too much for this character, and thus the trope only gets downplayed when a character does exactly that.
With coffee culture changing so frequently around the world, this trope can evolve significantly depending on the setting. For an office environment, the easy availability of coffee makes only the blackest of black truly distinguish a character as a leader figure or go getter. It's also common in any CopShow, DetectiveFiction or FilmNoir, where the HardboiledDetective that isn't knocking back heavy scotch will most assuredly take their coffee black to keep themselves alert. With the Japanese usually preferring tea, coffee consumption in general (no matter the strength) becomes a quick signal of confidence or hyper-masculinity in Japanese media.
Also see KlatchianCoffee, which explores the extremity of the coffee itself and its uses (e.g. a G-rated MushroomSamba or a hangover cure).
Compare RealMenHateSugar, the direct alternative to this. See also RealMenEatMeat, its culinary cousin.
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[[folder:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* Parodied in an {{omake}} of ''Manga/YowamushiPedal'', where Naruko tells Onoda how real men drink their coffee black. Only to subvert it by asking for milk as soon as Onoda went to the bathroom.
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[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* In the epilogue to the collected edition of ''Comicbook/KingdomCome'', [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark]], [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana]] and [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Bruce]] meet up at Planet Krypton restaurant. While Clark has milk and Diana gets some water, Bruce's drink order is "Coffee. Black. And keep it coming."
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[[folder:Film]]
* Used as a plot point in ''Film/SuddenImpact''. For years CowboyCop "Dirty" Harry Callahan has been ordering his coffee black and is tipped off of a robbery by his server pouring a bunch of sugar into it.
-->''"Every day for the past ten years, Loretta there's been giving me a large black coffee, today she gives me a large black coffee only it has sugar in it, a lotta sugar. I just came back to complain. Now, you boys put those guns down."''
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': "I like my coffee black. Like my men." A badass line, but I'm not sure if it counts because it's spoken by six-year-old (for laughs, obviously.)
* Averted in ''Film/PulpFiction''. Winston Wolf is a badass among badasses in the Marcellus Wallace crime organization, but when Jimmy offers him a cup of coffee, he tells him he likes it with a lot of cream and sugar.
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[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
* Captain Janeway's DrinkOrder on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''? "Coffee. Black." It's good stuff. [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun She beat the Borg with it]].
* Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' is also known for drinking black coffee. It comes with being a former marine. When Tony takes over Gibb's position during Gibbs TenMinuteRetirement, Tony also starts drinking black coffee. [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]] Abbie prefers soft drinks.
* Detective Dale Cooper from ''Series/TwinPeaks'' is a talented, experienced FBI agent who always takes his coffee black.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'', Vimes takes his coffee black. He tries to order it "black as a moonless night", but the owner picks apart the metaphor until Vimes finally settles for "a moonless night as black as that coffee."
* In the Franchise/JamesBond books Bond, unlike almost [[SpotOfTea every other British person in the universe]], ''hates'' tea, preferring black coffee.
* Nick Andros, a young and skinny but tough and resourceful deaf-mute drifter in ''Literature/TheStand'', takes his coffee black. {{Lampshade}}d by Sheriff Baker: "Take it like a man, do you?"
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/AceAttorney''. Mixed in with MustHaveCaffeine, Godot always drinks his coffee pure black, which even provides one of many of his famous quotes "Blacker than a moonless night, darker and bitter than Hell itself... that is coffee."
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'':
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' : Ken Amada says even he drinks coffee black in a random optional conversation you can have with him (which you can even joke you like it with hot sauce)
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': There is a scene where Ryotaro Dojima asks the player how he wants his coffee:
--->'''Black:''' Just like me. The easiest kind to make.
--->'''With cream:''' Huh...? Oh, uh, well... It's just I haven't heard anyone ask for that in a while.
--->'''Cream and sugar:''' Hah, you have the same tastes as Nanako.
--->'''Surprise me:''' Alright, I'll pour you a good one.
* Kyle Hyde in ''Hotel Dusk 2 (Last Window)''. Another cop example, Kyle likes to drink his coffee black, at least shown in Last Window at the cafe.
* Mr. Hanekoma in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. It may not be black possibly, but Mr. H sure does love his coffee too and even runs a shop selling it. There also happens to be a lot more to this guy than you think, but at the very least he seems to be a pretty cool guy.
* Ringabel along with his starting world counterpart Alternis Dim like coffee. Both being Dark Knights, it's only natural that they'd like it black.
* According to his profile, Hawke in [[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars]] likes his coffee black.
* Discussed in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Wild World''. A "[[ManChild lazy]]" villager will sometimes say "Is it true that "real men" like bitter coffee? I guess I'm just a regular guy then, 'cause I like my coffee [[SweetTooth light and sweet]]."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:WebComics]]
* ''WebComic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' {{web comic}} parodies the coffee scene in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'':
-->'''Black:''' Don't try to sound tough you sissy.
-->'''With cream:''' Oh, coming right up, '''madam'''.
-->'''Cream and sugar:''' What are you, '''Nanoka'''
-->'''Surprise me:''' (Throws it at your face).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', Nathan Explosion has this to say about Dethklok's new song, the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle:
-->"We're here to make coffee metal. We're here to make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black... times infinity."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:RealLife]]
* Marines are known for their love of black coffee, and kicking ass in combat.
* This tropes get invoked by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Coffee Boss Coffee]] to the Japanese public.
[[/folder]]
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