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AM/FM Characterization

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AM/FM Characterization	comment	Sometimes you can figure out everything you need to know about someone as soon as you get into their car. Their taste in music, especially when it's out of the ordinary, can tell you more about a character than a monologue or flashback ever could. A little well-placed Mozart or Chopin lends an outwardly simple-minded individual a bit of mystery and depth. Someone listening to The Beatles, even though it's 2237, and they're on Mars? Safe to say they're a bit old-fashioned. And if they listen to '80s rock, they may become a victim of AC/DC Characterization... Music can convey a lot more than just what's in the lyrics, so matching this song with that character, while a bit of a cheat, is a fantastic way to convey a lot about a character in not a lot of time. This also does wonders to convey a deeper side to a character that can easily be considered one-dimensional. A mousy librarian suddenly takes on a wilder angle when their iPod is blaring Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. This trope does not refer to a character's theme song, if they have one, but only to diegetic music, often called Source Music, where the other characters can hear it. Compare Leitmotif, where a specific tune is used to signify a character, and Music/Age Dissonance, when a character enjoys a song that is clearly outside their demographic group. Compare and contrast Mocking Music, when the song on the radio is a little too relevant to the character's troubles. See also Establishing Character Music.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_12fd5db0	comment	Megamind: Fitting with how much he loves being a villain, Megamind plays stereotypically Bad to the Bone songs during his fights, including George Thorogood and Guns N' Roses.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_1305c32	comment	In Kamen Rider Fourze, Gentaro likes enka, a kind of sentimental ballad music. He's a teenager but a bit old fashioned, as he was raised by his grandfather.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_13197c51	comment	The family in Funny Games listens to opera music in their car which establishes them as being cultured and upper class as they drive to their lakeside vacation home. The villain duo listens to Naked City.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_153f674f	comment	In the Miami Vice pilot, Tubbs looks through Crockett's music collection and finds George Jones, Jimmy Buffett, Dickey Betts, and Waylon Jennings.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_18562e34	comment	In Everybody Wants Some!!, Wiloughby brings the rest of the team into the living room to listen to "Fearless" by Pink Floyd with him - not only do the music and lyrics suit his Erudite Stoner personality, but the song itself was released almost 10 years before the movie's 1980 setting, foreshadowing that the character is older than he looks.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_1cdeeaa	comment	Maggie Crenshaw, who is briefly neighbors with Serge in Mermaid Confidential, fondly listens to jazz music by the Tijuana Brass and has a mellow, easygoing attitude that is reminiscent of their music.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_1d417633	comment	Monsters University: While Mike takes the guys to Monsters Inc., Squish's mom — a sweet and cheery person — stays in the car to "listen to my tunes", after which the first couple of split seconds of Mastodon's "Island" can be heard.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_22559f3f	comment	Strategic Cyborg Evangelion: Rei listens to metal.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_22dfb2a	comment	All Dogs Go to Heaven: When Charlie meets up with Carface after escaping from the pound, Charlie turns on the radio so he can listen to some jazz while they talk, while Carface turns it off so they can just talk business. They go back and forth until Carface has enough and pulls out the knob to turn off the radio for good.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers Carla is a fan of Elvis Presley, enough to visit Graceland a decade anniversary after his death.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_249b3519	comment	Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle has "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips playing on a tape in a truck belonging to a group of supposed "extreme" sports enthusiasts, signifying that they're all talk.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Homer primarily listens to classic rock from the 1960s and '70s. This actually provides the premise of "Homerpalooza", as Homer's disappointed that he's out of touch with 90s youth. Of course, as the years have gone by and Homer hasn't aged, that would now logically be the music of his own youth, and indeed the more modern episode "Do Pizza Bots Dream of Electric Guitars" shows a teenage Homer into the then current music of the 90s. Lisa is generally depicted as being a fan of Jazz and Blues (her saxophone playing is also one of the most memorable things about her character), with an exception in the episode "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" where she got really into a parody of Morrissey.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_27831967	comment	Parks and Recreation: Harris, a recurring character who works for Pawnee's animal control department, is a huge fan of the jam band Phish, and boasts about seeing 300 of their concerts. He's also a huge stoner, which is stereotypical of Phish's fanbase. Harris' love of Phish was based on that of his actor, Harris Wittels, who was a devoted fan who had really seen that many concerts.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_29069d62	comment	Lovely Little Losers: In the interviews for the cereal challenge, Ben asks Balth and Peter each what their favorite song of the moment is. Balth mentions (or, rather, Ben mentions for him) "Lay and Love" by Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Peter singles out "Glare" by Sheep, Dog & Wolf. At a time when Balthazar is being uncommunicative about his feelings, and Peter is outright lying, the songs give an idea of what's actually going on in their heads. (Peter's headspace is, apparently, terrifying.)
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AM/FM Characterization / int_2aab556e	comment	Trueman Bradley listens to Symphony #41 in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart while he works because the consistent pattern of musical notes helps him concentrate.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_2ae05fdb	comment	Delta Farce has a shout out to Three Kings, where just before charging into a town beset by "terrorists", Everett suggests they have some fight music and puts on "Ride Of The Valkyries". Larry immediately disapproves, replacing it with Jerry Reed's "East Bound and Down"
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AM/FM Characterization / int_2f1b5710	comment	Jekyll establishes Hyde's personality through his fondness for Disney songs.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men: Don Draper does not like The Beatles. He takes his daughter Sally to their concert at Shea Stadium to score points with her but wears earplugs. Later in the series, as well as later in the '60s, his second wife Megan recommends he listen to their groundbreaking album Revolver, specifically the track "Tomorrow Never Knows", and he turns it off before it ends, signifying his unchanging nature despite the turbulent decade.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Many of the characters in Aqua Teen Hunger Force are shown to be huge fans of '70s and '80s classic rock. Carl, in particular, is an especially notable case of this, seeing as how he has a liking for bands such as Foreigner (Band), Judas Priest, and Led Zeppelin.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_36b1cefd	comment	10 Things I Hate About You. Kat Stratford is introduced blasting Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" in her car.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_36d1798b	comment	A Goofy Movie: Early on, Max and Goofy have a "Dueling Banjos" moment over the radio between Goofy's 'High Hopes' and Max's acid rock. Not only does this show a lot about each character, it highlights the generation gap between them, all without saying an actual word.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_3873ab30	comment	In The Speed of Dark, Lou loves classical music. He plays it while he works and listens to different composers to bring out different kinds of patterns in the data.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_38edabf0	comment	Subverted in the opening of Office Space, where a character listens to bad-ass rap music on his way to work, but then is shown to get nervous about a harmless (black) street vendor approaching his car.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: This show is a bit of a running example. Given that Sam and Dean drive state to state and coast to coast with nothing but a stack of classic rock tapes (Tapes!) to listen to, it provides both a soundtrack for the show and an insight into the characters. In an episode where Dean is dead, we get insight into Sam's choice of music when Dean isn't around to exercise his veto power. In "Lazarus Rising", Dean discovers that the tapes have been replaced by an iPod and the classic rock by Jason Manns. When Dean comes back, he's not pleased.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: In the episode "Heavy Metal Queen", Spike gets into the ship belonging to space trucker VT. He is quickly assaulted by the heavy metal on the radio, specifically "LIVE in Baghdad". In the film Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, while in her ship, Faye cycles through several radio stations, eventually settling on the one playing the pop song "(Cosmic Dare) Pretty With A Pistol."
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AM/FM Characterization / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: Jon's grandmother doesn't appear very often, but one strip has Jon calling her and, yelling to be heard, says that he'll call her back.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: John Redcorn loves '80s rock and metal music, early seasons would often show him picking up Nancy in his Jeep with the radio loudly blaring a rock song, usually something about love or sex. Kahn Souphanousinphone is a huge fan of 70s and 80s pop music. One episode, "Pour Some Sugar On Kahn", is all about this as he gets involved in karaoke, and he'll occasionally burst out into awful song when drunk, bored, or tuning out of whatever conversation he's part of.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_485e29d8	comment	In the Alice Isn't Dead episode "Alice", the long haul trucker narrator briefly sings along with Weezer's "Say it Ain't So," a story of Parental Abandonment and following in their footsteps by replicating their addictive behaviors. The narrator proceeds to explain, via audio diaries, how she struggled to admit that her wife Alice had suddenly left her, and upon discovering that Alice was secretly caught up in some sort of cross-country spanning Conspiracy, abruptly quit her job and started investigating, by travelling cross-country as an employee of one of the companies involved.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_4b40ff6e	comment	Metal Gear Solid V's Quiet is unable to speak, but hums an eerie little tune, and spends her downtime listening to various pieces of 1980s pop music which often seem very appropriate to her personality, like "Maneater", "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "Too Shy". Paz is also themed around music, constantly humming her song from the previous game.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_4b790c79	comment	Iron Man: Tony's Establishing Character Moment involves rolling in a Humvee as part of a military convoy, listening to "Back in Black" by AC/DC.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_4b790c7a	comment	Iron Man 2: After Tony Stark's birthday party is ruined by an Iron Man suit-wearing James Rhodes, Tony requests for the DJ to play Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" as a way to show he doesn't take Rhodes' threat even remotely seriously. By way of contrast, Justin Hammer opens his presentation at the Stark Expo doing a shuffle to "Pick Up the Pieces" by Average White Band. Earlier in the film he dives into the Stark Expo playing "Shoot to Thrill" by AC/DC, which will be repeated in...
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AM/FM Characterization / int_502cbd09	comment	Luke Cage is a huge fan of Wu-Tang Clan and squees when he meets Method Man.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek (2009). In the J. J. Abrams reboot, our first encounter with a young James T. Kirk is him hanging up on his step-father in favor of blasting Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (a song that In-Universe is a hundred-plus years old) over the radio, establishing his disregard for authority (and a certain degree of love for Good Old Ways, even if they clash with Federation standards) even before the character says a single word. The detail about "Sabotage" being so old it's considered "classic" (and Kirk loving it) gets a Call-Back gag on Star Trek Beyond.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_54178e1e	comment	Dead to Me: Especially when she's feeling frustrated, angry, or particularly emotional, Jen Harding listens to heavy metal as her self-described "meditation technique," which reflects her cantankerous and short-tempered nature.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto games sometimes use this by having cars preset to a particular music station (i.e., the Mafia have the station that plays a lot of Italian operas).
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AM/FM Characterization / int_56cb92c3	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): At the beginning of the movie, Peter Quill's on a dead world and enters a ruin that wouldn't seem out of place for an Adventurer Archaeologist... and then he turns on an old Walkman and starts dancing through the place to "Come and Get Your Love" without a care in the world, even kicking away some of the local vermin. Peter's Walkman and mixtape of classic pop songs are reminders of Earth, and specifically his mother, who had died from cancer the night he was abducted. The sequence is also used to demonstrate Peter's (and by proxy, the movie's) irreverence, and the movie's trailer used Blue Swede's version of "Hooked on a Feeling" to set the same tone.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_56dce3c1	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues it, turning "Brandy" by Looking Glass into an Expository Theme Tune for Meredith Quill's affair with Ego the Living Planet. Ego, of course, misses the point that the song's about Brandy, not the sailor. Rocket has also mellowed out a bit since the first film, represented by how he's developed a taste for Peter's music; he's shown listening to it occasionally and when he, Yondu, and Groot decide to ruin some mutineers, Rocket arranges to do it to the tune of "Come a Little Bit Closer" by Jay and the Americans.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_56dce3c2	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is, unsurprisingly, full of this: Over the opening credits, Rocket puts on a stripped-down acoustic version of Radiohead's "Creep" and sings along to part of it, emphasizing his self-loathing (and the film's Darker and Edgier tone). The High Evolutionary enjoys classical operas, emphasizing his interest in the technical aspects of composition and cultured persona in contrast to the Guardians, who are by this point thoroughly associated with rock and pop from the 60s through the 80s. In the mid-credits scene, the new Guardians discuss their favorite Earth music before going on a mission. Phyla name-drops pop diva Britney Spears and Nu Metal group Korn - while the former is someone that a girl her age would be expected to enjoy, the latter shows that she has an edge to her. Kraglin favors Garth Brooks, which gels perfectly with his typical rough-hewn masculinity. Cosmo shows off her sentimental side by revealing that she is a huge Carpenters fan. Adam Warlock reveals that he's an admirer of Adrian Belew, specifically noting his work with prog-rock innovators King Crimson, showing that he is cultured with somewhat alternative tastes but not a snob. Finally, Rocket, who replaces Quill as the captain of the new lineup, emphasizes the passing of the torch by putting on "Come and Get Your Love", which was used in the first film's iconic opening scene.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_57965cef	comment	Captain Marvel shows in a flashback Carol Danvers wearing a Guns N' Roses T-shirt, making it clear she was always a maverick (and not always an Emotionless Girl). Nick Fury singing The Marvelettes also indicates slightly old-fashioned manners.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_58af2679	comment	The Silence of the Lambs. While in the prison cell in Tennessee, Hannibal Lecter listens to classical music just before his prison break. This tells the audience that even though he's a psychopathic cannibal, he's still Wicked Cultured.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_5a3533fe	comment	My Name Is Earl: Most of the music that Earl enjoys (and most of the music on its soundtrack) is classic rock from the '70s and '80s. It fits in with Camden being something of a Retro Universe, and Earl himself being more than a little bit behind the times.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: In Goldfinger, Bond (Sean Connery) is not a fan of The Beatles, saying he can't listen to them without earmuffs. In The Living Daylights, Moneypenny (Caroline Bliss) shows off a nerdy side when she tries to have Bond (Timothy Dalton) come to her home by telling him she loves Barry Manilow's music and has a whole collection of it.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_5cec267a	comment	Defiance. Our first encounter with Nolan and Irisa, the two main characters of the show, has an awkward silence broken with Nolan turning on the radio, only to hear Johnny Cash and June Carter singing 'Jackson', which, in the year 2046, is more than a bit country and old-fashioned.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_61c6b600	comment	Star Trek: First Contact used Roy Orbison's "Ooby Dooby" on the jukebox and Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" during the first flight to convey Zefram Cochrane's old-fashioned personality.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_68781099	comment	Alex in A Clockwork Orange and his love of classical music, especially Beethoven...there are even hints this mystifies people who would expect someone intelligent enough to appreciate such music would be less anti-social. Also, some other teens in a record shop mock him for buying classical music instead of a new pop album, illustrating his tastes in music are uncommon among his peers.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: During Jessica Jones' teenage years, she was a fan of rock bands such as Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction, and, judging by some of her shirts, is also a fan of The Rolling Stones and Interpol. Luke Cage is a huge fan of Wu-Tang Clan and squees when he meets Method Man. Danny Rand is a fan of hip hop music, including Dr. Dre (as per Danny, 2001 was the last album he bought before boarding his ill-fated flight), Outkast, Camp Lo, Killah Priest, The Cool Kids and Anderson Paak. Frank Castle is a fan of Earth, Wind & Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Wu-Tang Clan and Shooter Jennings. In Ms. Marvel, Kamala's mom Muneeba is primarily portrayed as loving but overprotective and stifling. She's also unapologetically a massive fan of Bon Jovi, showing that she's Not So Above It All.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_6a7e6314	comment	Glimpsed in Thor: Ragnarok, when Bruce Banner temporarily borrows a T-shirt belonging to Tony Stark that has the cover of Duran Duran's Rio printed on it.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_6c711d2c	comment	Color Me Perfect: Mitch and Linda, who are rich and somewhat snobby, always have classical music playing during dinner.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_73549409	comment	Storm Hawks: Finn is a fan of rock, reflecting his unserious attitude, while the responsible Piper, in contrast to him, enjoys much lighter fare. It is a point of conflict between them in "Absolute Power" when Finn keeps changing Piper's music.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_73dd3d5	comment	In X2: X-Men United, when Wolverine turns on the radio of Cyclops' car, NSYNC starts playing, and he's less than pleased.*
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AM/FM Characterization / int_761a48d7	comment	Danny Rand is a fan of hip hop music, including Dr. Dre (as per Danny, 2001 was the last album he bought before boarding his ill-fated flight), Outkast, Camp Lo, Killah Priest, The Cool Kids and Anderson Paak.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_7a2e12e5	comment	In Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter Parker builds a suit to AC/DC's "Back in Black" (picked by Happy) signifying how he's taking on Tony Stark's mantle. Of course, Peter incorrectly identifies it as belonging to Led Zeppelin.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_7bff7264	comment	Halo: Combat Evolved: The Apocalyptic Log that Master Chief finds indicates that Sergeant Johnson has a love of classic rock (in-universe known as "flip music") not shared by most of his troops.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_7d1c83da	comment	In Prequel series Better Call Saul, Chuck McGill loves classical and jazz music, showing his intellectual, snobbish personality.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_7f8d7a50	comment	Played with in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) when Mr. Smith, a badass up to this point, sings along with Air Supply in the car, much to Mrs. Smith's chagrin.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek Star Trek (2009). In the J. J. Abrams reboot, our first encounter with a young James T. Kirk is him hanging up on his step-father in favor of blasting Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (a song that In-Universe is a hundred-plus years old) over the radio, establishing his disregard for authority (and a certain degree of love for Good Old Ways, even if they clash with Federation standards) even before the character says a single word. The detail about "Sabotage" being so old it's considered "classic" (and Kirk loving it) gets a Call-Back gag on Star Trek Beyond. Star Trek: First Contact used Roy Orbison's "Ooby Dooby" on the jukebox and Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" during the first flight to convey Zefram Cochrane's old-fashioned personality.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Double: Shotaro fashions himself a Hardboiled Detective, but he's often too much of a dork to pull it off (or as other characters put it, he's not hardboiled but "half-boiled"). In one episode, this is demonstrated when he and Philip are shown listening to an Idol Singer on the radio, and they're not just singing along but doing the hand motions as well. In Kamen Rider Fourze, Gentaro likes enka, a kind of sentimental ballad music. He's a teenager but a bit old fashioned, as he was raised by his grandfather.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_82439e64	comment	The Office (US) has Dwight's classic rock fixation, especially the way he hypes himself up before a challenging situation. "Kickstart My Heart" seems to be a favourite.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_86b52b7b	comment	The movie I, Robot starts with Stevie Wonder singing "Superstition" to wake up Detective Spooner. This certifies Spooner as retro, showing at least one reason for him to dislike robots. The song also foreshadows his journey through the movie. In the same vein, the song that plays when the scientist gets incredibly flustered by the retro cd-player: 'Somebody Save Me'...
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AM/FM Characterization / int_8840bed3	comment	DC Super Hero Girls 2019 demonstrates aspects of a majority of its main characters by establishing their music listening preferences, particularly in the short "#TheSlowAndTheFurious": Diana Prince prefers to listen to classical music, befitting her intellectual and disciplined nature. Kara Danvers listens to heavy metal, which is perfectly in line with her rebellious personality. Karen Beecher regularly listens to boy bands, which showcases her Girly Girl nature and her romantic personality. Zee Zatara has a preference for jazz music, which suits her sophisticated and theatrical sensibilities.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_892bbfb8	comment	Three Kings. One of the soldiers wants to listen to heavy metal music while going into battle. Another soldier criticizes his musical choice and suggest they go into battle with something soothing to calm their nerves and plays an easy-listening song, showing a definite personality clash.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_89465e75	comment	In Percy Jackson and the Olympians — specifically, The Titan's Curse — Thalia criticizes Grover's choice of music for the dance at the beginning. She prefers Green Day, a band that Grover has never even heard of. It contrasts their personalities pretty well.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_8a95e28c	comment	Reservoir Dogs. The pairing of Mr. Blonde's Torture Porn with "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel helps to showcase how seriously he doesn't take the situation.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_8cea2648	comment	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduces us to our main character Miles by showing him jamming (and flubbing the lyrics) to "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee, a breezy hip hop/pop tune, while working on some art. Later on in the film Miles tries singing a few bars of the song when Peter B. is teaching him how to use his powers, and it's the accompaniment to the last shot of the movie as well.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_8e402581	comment	In the film Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, while in her ship, Faye cycles through several radio stations, eventually settling on the one playing the pop song "(Cosmic Dare) Pretty With A Pistol."
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AM/FM Characterization / int_8e8086c3	comment	In Goldfinger, Bond (Sean Connery) is not a fan of The Beatles, saying he can't listen to them without earmuffs.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_8fa77cb6	comment	Doing It Right This Time: After a bit of a stressful morning involving a trip to the bookstore and a non-verbal Bilingual Backfire, Asuka has the apartment to herself for the first time in a while and decides to unwind with some music. Misato comes back from work earlier than expected to find Asuka dancing around the living room singing along to "Boomerang" by BlÃ¼mchen, a cheery German eurobeat song. The point of this is to prove that despite all the crap she's gone through, Asuka is still a pretty typical teenage girl underneath. It's also an example on a meta level, being a sign that she is not going to be a Rammstein fan, which happens in countless other Evangelion fanfics because they're the only German band their authors have ever heard of.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_914ba844	comment	Played straight in an early draft of The Wizard of Oz. MGM planned to highlight Dorothy's Fish out of Water status by contrasting her jazzy vocals with an Oz princess who sings operatically. The whole gimmick, including the Oz princess, was scrapped long before filming. Even so, there's still a vestige of it at the beginning of the movie. Notice how "Over the Rainbow," sung by Dorothy in Kansas, is a great example of a straightforward 1930s jazz standard... and then we get to Oz and the whole Munchkinland sequence is a big, intricate, free-flowing Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number in old-fashioned Gilbert and Sullivan style.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_9fcc7efd	comment	Whip It. Razor drives up playing "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips in his Dune Buggy, wearing clothes that mark him as a refugee from The '80s.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_a29b0bea	comment	In Ms. Marvel, Kamala's mom Muneeba is primarily portrayed as loving but overprotective and stifling. She's also unapologetically a massive fan of Bon Jovi, showing that she's Not So Above It All.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live lampshaded the contrast with Dan Ayckroyd as a The '70s radio deejay doing an AM and an FM show simultaneously, switching back and forth between mics and changing his voice from an excited high-pitched jabber on AM to a laid-back low-pitched murmur on FM.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_b31b332f	comment	Transformers Film Series: Transformers where Bumblebee, the first Transformer our protagonist meets, actually has no real voice capabilities and instead does all of his vocalizations through playing songs on his stereo. Bumblebee explores how Bumblebee came to love earth music and make use of this trope so much. The human protagonist, Charlie Watson, is introduced waking up and playing The Smiths' "Bigmouth Strikes Again" and rocking out to it, which immediately establishes her as both an angsty rocker chick. Bumblebee learns earth music from her, and while he uses a variety of songs to communicate, he seems to favour upbeat songs personally.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_b34be90f	comment	Armada: Zack Lightman's go-to music to listen to while playing the titular game is "Raid the Arcade", a playlist his late father used to listen to while gaming. If anything sums up Zack's obsession with the father he never had a chance to know, it's that. His father, not as dead as Zack believed, later blasts Run DMC over loudspeakers to piss off and distract the straight-laced Admiral Vance, nicely summing up Xavier Lightman's disrespect for authority.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_b61e3f03	comment	In Wicked Good, troubled teen Rory Falcon listens to head-banger music that his mom thinks sounds like a truck grinding its gears in reverse.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: Jonathan Byers is a fan of The Clash, Joy Division, and The Smiths: all bands that are far from Top 40 and not common for Hawkins; showcasing how he stands out. Billy Hargrove is a fan of early Heavy Metal: his room has posters of Metallica and MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼eâ€™s early works and he listens to music videos while he works out. Eddie Munson is a full blown metal head, having tapes of Iron Maiden and Metallica. His greatest moment involves him playing "Master of Puppets" - which, having released shortly before Season Four started (March 3, 1986; the season takes place between March 16 and March 29) means he is playing it by ear. Even Benny Hammond, a middle aged diner owner and minor character who only appears in season 1, episode 1, gets some musical characterization: While the series is set in the 80s and most characters listen to contemporary music of the era, Benny is apparently still big on Jefferson Airplane - he has Surrealistic Pillow playing in the diner when he first meets Eleven.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	Disco Elysium: The protagonist's love of disco seems at first to be there to signal that he's pathetic and behind the times, and his narcissistic self-loathing is displayed by how he's so into "sadstyle" (sad, slow postrock music) that he knows the number for the sadstyle radio station, Sad FM, by heart and sings it at karaoke. But his taste in music is more eclectic than it first appears, with him getting so into the new emerging genre of rave music that the kids are into that he ends up codifying their genre and inventing in the in-universe version of rave dancing — emphasising his youthful spirit and interest in the future. Also, if you pass the karaoke check, his performance of the song is considered moving, even by Garte, who hates him. Kim seems like a straight-laced binoclard, but he listens to aggressive punk rock music on "Speedfreak FM", hinting at his repressed rebellious and thrillseeking streak - made funnier by how he denies it whenever asked as part of his projection of extreme professionalism. Your Relationship Values with him will go down if you tell other people about his taste. The Final Cut adds a sidequest in which you can call in to the show and get the DJ to give Kim a shoutout on the air, and they will even send Kim some "Speedfreak donks" (which Kim clearly wants, but which his self image will not allow him to accept). Klaasje is also into disco, and views herself as being a disco burnout, despite only being 28. (Disco, in universe, reached its peak about twenty years ago.) In combination with her having won a beauty pageant when she was 14, it adds up to the image of a woman who was forced to grow up very young and already sees herself as old. A significant part of Roy's characterisation is that he hates music, and instead only listens to found sounds, field recordings and musique concrete. It shows off how personally odd he is, but also the sincere delight he finds in the esoteric and mundane. An interesting meta version takes place with the Deserter, who righteously denounces 'reactionary rock & roll music' while himself Waxing Lyrical using lyrics from an in-universe revolutionary anthem that happen to coincide with those from Manic Street Preachers's "If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next", helping characterise as analogous to a moaning old rocker disgusted by the modern world.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_bb478d5e	comment	Bait and Switch (STO): Kanril Eleya enjoys alba ra, the same music that Captain Picard forbade Jono to play in "Suddenly Human". This is an early clue that despite commanding a Galaxy-class starship, she's nothing like him.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_c2b149a1	comment	In American Psycho, Patrick Bateman tends to listen to what was regarded as generic and cheesy 1980's pop music while dismissing anything more experimental (some of the artists he likes have since become popular or well-regarded again, though). He additionally praises the artists he likes for selling well and appealing to Top 40 radio and says little about their songwriting or artistic intentions. This is used to show what a Wicked Pretentious person he is; he just goes along with whatever he thinks is popular in order to fit in, rather than developing his own unique tastes. This also carries over to the film adaptation, where he sings praises of Huey Lewis and the News, Whitney Houston, and Phil Collins while dismissing Peter Gabriel's "lame" solo career and Genesis' pre-Duke output. He even plays Collins' "Sussudio", which he describes as "one of my personal favorites," while having sex with two prostitutes.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: John Simm's incarnation of The Master is fond of blasting pop music, showing both how much fun he finds his evil deeds and how, despite his vocal hatred of humans, he does like some parts of their culture, which is reinforced by his interest in The Teletubbies. The lyrics of the songs he chooses also reflect his state as a villain, with Rogue Traders' "Voodoo Child" repeating the Arc Words "Here come the drums!" and Scissor Sisters' "I Can't Decide" having lyrics very pertinent to the Master and the Doctor's relationship.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: Doctor Strange was once a legendary bard, Taliesin, and perhaps the greatest musician of all time - and that was as a hobby. He is also an immensely powerful wizard and an absolute Troll. This means that he will absolutely give a battle an appropriate soundtrack. Sometimes it's by proxy, such as getting Tony to hack the Valiant and blast AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" just as Harry (who's dad is, well, Thor) is about to strike from above. And sometimes it's directly, in Unfinished Business, when he effectively turns New Orleans into a giant amp and plays Queen's "We Will Rock You" as the heroes prepare for their counter-strike following Nimue's ascension and unleashing of Project Pegasus. After that, when all seems to have gone a bit wibbly, and the song's faded away, there's a silence, and then... Then, he actually weaponises it, with the aid of a Magitek structure that functions as "an amp the size of the Empire State." It's sufficiently powerful that, properly used, a litany of songs chosen almost exclusively to annoy the shit out of the Arc Villain can stabilise the planet. Featured music includes "Duel of the Fates", the Ghostbusters theme, "You Give Love A Bad Name", "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", "Another One Bites The Dust", and at the end, a touch of The Black Eyed Peas.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_c680d8f3	comment	Both Can Be True: At first Ash, who is genderfluid, listens to classical music only when they're a girl and hard rock only when they're a boy. Eventually they realize that their dad has made them feel like everything they do has to be gendered, and there's no reason they can't listen to "girl music" as a boy or vice versa.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_cb6abef3	comment	In The Avengers (2012), Tony hacks the Quinjet's PA System before flying in to confront Loki in Germany. No matter where he goes, he has to create a spectacle. In a more subtle example, he wears a Black Sabbath shirt for the rest of the film.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_cef468cd	comment	Too Old to Die Young: In the middle of a Car Chase, Little Billy and Rob wordlessly squabble over the radio station. Rob wants a fast beat to psyche himself up, while Little Billy prefers ballads to calm his nerves. They settle on "Mandy" by Barry Manilow.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_cfb3439a	comment	BrÃ¼tal Legend: The proagonist, Eddie Riggs, is a huge fan of classic hard rock and heavy metal music, and expresses disdain for the modern state of music (specifically Nu Metal).
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AM/FM Characterization / int_d0dce607	comment	Bumblebee explores how Bumblebee came to love earth music and make use of this trope so much. The human protagonist, Charlie Watson, is introduced waking up and playing The Smiths' "Bigmouth Strikes Again" and rocking out to it, which immediately establishes her as both an angsty rocker chick. Bumblebee learns earth music from her, and while he uses a variety of songs to communicate, he seems to favour upbeat songs personally.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_d14bb14a	comment	Picard's and Riker's tastes in music receive a Call-Back in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard, courtesy of Captain Liam Shaw. He listens to similar classical music to what Picard likes while expressing disdain for Riker's be-bop, as it speaks to his "freewheeling, loosey-goosey, Kentucky mash kind of style".
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AM/FM Characterization / int_d28f8264	comment	After Tony Stark's birthday party is ruined by an Iron Man suit-wearing James Rhodes, Tony requests for the DJ to play Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" as a way to show he doesn't take Rhodes' threat even remotely seriously.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_d6fa84c7	comment	Silicon Valley: Whenever Russ Hanneman drives up in a brightly colored supercar, he's always blasting a Nu Metal track from the late 90s, establishing him as a Manchild with more money than taste. When protagonist Richard needs to get some serious coding done, he puts on some bulky headphones that play house music, full of heavily synthetic and computer-generated sounds. A recurring theme is how Richard works best when surrounded by computers, but he can only control his creations when surrounded by people.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_d7626bdd	comment	Deadpool's quirky and less-than-serious nature is indicated by his soundtrack, at times brought on-screen by request: he listens to Salt-N-Pepa waiting to ambush a convoy, asks for Dolly Parton during a fight montage... but still knows to request something more badass, such as DMX for a Team Power Walk and AC/DC for a parachuting deployment.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_da72f901	comment	Jackie Brown: Played for Drama - When Ordell Robbie gets into Max Cherry's car, he's greeted by the sound of the Delfonics on the stereo - Jackie's favorite band. Fortunately for Max, he doesn't put two and two together. Speaking of Jackie, she has a collection of '70s funk and soul on tape, 8-track and vinyl and doesn't listen to any music after those times.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_da73059	comment	In The Living Daylights, Moneypenny (Caroline Bliss) shows off a nerdy side when she tries to have Bond (Timothy Dalton) come to her home by telling him she loves Barry Manilow's music and has a whole collection of it.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_dbcb27dc	comment	The Martian and its film version provide a third-person version of this Trope: after being stranded on Mars, the only music and TV Mark Watney has available is that which is on a portable drive that tough-nut Commander Lewis left behind during the evac. The drive is full of nothing but Disco music (like ABBA and Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" - which Watney sarcastically calls the least Disco song Lewis had on the drive) and episodes of Seventies shows like The Dukes of Hazzard and Happy Days. The moment he manages to contact Earth, one of his first messages is a request for NASA to figure out a way to beam him music — something, anything, but Disco.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_dee6ab5b	comment	Serge Storms: Serge's taste in music runs toward classical rock musicians like Jim Morrison, The Animals, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, as befitting his sense of nonstop nostalgia. In Hammerhead Ranch Motel, City and Country happily dance to "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by The Hollies, a rock and pop band from the same era as many of Sergeâ€™s favorite artists, but one that doesn't have an overlapping fanbase with many of them. This may reference how they can mingle with Serge without the same kind of hostility he had with his previous girlfriend, Sharon, but still have personality conflicts with him. In The Stingray Shuffle, outgoing, assertive, and (generally) rational and logical Jamaican criminal Zigzag finds reggae artists like Jimmy Cliff relaxing while his more high-strung Russian associate can't quite get into it. In Atomic Lobster, Serge is quite peeved when his companion Rachael, who lives for the hedonism of the moment, turns out to prefer the modern Pop Punk band Good Charlotte and turns off "House of the Rising Sun" to listen to one of their hits. Although he forgets his annoyance after she starts doing an erotic dance to the music. As part of Bunny-Ears Lawyer stoner Ziggy Blades' Establishing Character Moment in Shark Skin Suite, his radio is blaring "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," a loud, angry song about living on the edge. Kyle Lovitt from Naked Came the Florida Man is a Type I Eagleland kind of guy who proudly plays "This Land is Your Land" in the face of a Politically Incorrect Villain. Maggie Crenshaw, who is briefly neighbors with Serge in Mermaid Confidential, fondly listens to jazz music by the Tijuana Brass and has a mellow, easygoing attitude that is reminiscent of their music.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_df49d104	comment	The second season of Millennium (1996) saw Frank Black's character being fleshed out through details like his love of Bobby Darin.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_e25322af	comment	Strong Sad's love of alt-rock, emo, and that particular subgenre of '80s New Wave that Strong Bad calls "Brit-pout" (i.e. The Cure, Depeche Mode, etc.) is one of the most significant facets of his personality. And the other is being exactly the kind of person you'd expect to be into that sort of music. It clashes (sometimes to the point of being a source of conflict in itself) with his brother's love of metal, in both hair- and death- varieties.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_e3316f33	comment	The Big Short: Michael Burry is a tightly wound man with some anti-social tendencies, exemplified by his tendency to play loud heavy metal in his office to help him concentrate while working.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_e5170c7d	comment	When Zachary Beaver Came To Town: Kate, the first person to befriend Zachary and accept him as more than just a fat sideshow kid, annoys her brothers with how much she listens to "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."
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AM/FM Characterization / int_e601279b	comment	Guys Being Dudes: Arlo's taste in music leaning towards the more emo end of Post-Hardcore and being described by Sierra as an "amalgam of angsty boys with squeaky voices whinily describing their exes, distorted guitar riffs that used a maximum of 3 chords, and screaming" demonstrates his Emo Teen personality and that both his evil status and obsession with Candela may be as much performative as anything. Spark listens to Nightcore and girly dance-pop, demonstrating that he's In Touch with His Feminine Side, unabashedly enjoys "uncool" things, and in the case of the Nightcore, tried his best to find common ground with his dark and edgy ex despite their opposing tastes. In Blanche's car, they play inoffensive, lyric-free synth music at a reasonable enough volume that everyone can hear each other and the road, demonstrating their focus on safety and no-nonsense nature.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_e8acde25	comment	The Getting of Wisdom: Laura would rather play pieces like Beethoven's "Sonata no. 21 in C Major" on the piano than the kind of music that the boarding school staff expect of her. At the final school assembly, she plays that same piece by her own volition, giving an emotional, involved performance that genuinely impresses the staff despite their previous reservations.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_ec52a5b9	comment	Transformers where Bumblebee, the first Transformer our protagonist meets, actually has no real voice capabilities and instead does all of his vocalizations through playing songs on his stereo.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_efa49b17	comment	In an episode of The Mentalist Jane inducts that the victim did not drive himself out into the woods and commit suicide but rather someone killed him and drove him out to dump the body because the radio in the vic's pickup truck was tuned to a Hard Rock station and the victim was only interested in the classics.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad does this a lot. Oftentimes doubles as foreshadowing, as the lyrics or titles of the songs tend to somehow be relevant to events later in the episode. A few examples: Pretty Fly for a White Guy Jesse Pinkman likes club-banger Hip-Hop. Psychopathic Manchild Todd has a fondness for cheesy yacht rock, underscoring how eerily calm and chipper he is while committing heinous acts. Smart-but-eccentric Gale Boetticher can be spotted singing along to Italian jazz and show tunes (memorably, he also has a karaoke video of himself singing "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling). And Walt enjoys Classic Rock such as America and Boz Scaggs, demonstrating that for all his attempts to remake himself into a hardened criminal, he's still a conventional, suburban middle-aged man at heart. In Prequel series Better Call Saul, Chuck McGill loves classical and jazz music, showing his intellectual, snobbish personality.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_f3368832	comment	Buffyverse: Giles is a fan of classic rock like Cream, The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground and The Bay City Rollers. Angel is a huge Barry Manilow fan and has been known to sing "Mandy". Spike loves punk rock, in particular Sid Vicious and The Ramones. He also gave Billy Idol his look. Oz is an in an indie band and while driving to Los Angeles, he listens to a alternative rock radio station. He also shares Giles' interest in classic rock. Being a Texas native, Fred is a fan of the Dixie Chicks. She has a poster in her lab and invites Harmony to catch a show. Dawn is a fan of pop music. She likes Britney Spears' early work ("before she sold out") and once forced Giles to endure people hired more for their dancing than their singing ability.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_fc6e6f70	comment	The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Rex Dangervest has several hard rock songs playing during his introduction, including MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e's "Kickstart My Heart", Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild", and ZZ Top's "Tush", to establish him as a hardcore tough guy.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_fce0dd60	comment	Eleanor & Park: Park is a fan of New Wave Music and Punk Rock bands such as The Smiths, Joy Division and XTC, showing his alternative side and his disconnect from his peers in suburban Omaha. Along with getting interested in The Smiths and Joy Division, Eleanor loves The Beatles and U2; showcasing her artistic and fairly old school personality. In childhood memories, Eleanor remembers her parents having different music tastes with her mother enjoying Judee Sill, Crosby, Stills and Nash and Judy Collins (showing her kind but passive personality) and her father a fan of Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix and Jethro Till (showing his friendly but immature personality). This shows how incompatible they were together.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_fdc66d32	comment	Kamen Rider Double: Shotaro fashions himself a Hardboiled Detective, but he's often too much of a dork to pull it off (or as other characters put it, he's not hardboiled but "half-boiled"). In one episode, this is demonstrated when he and Philip are shown listening to an Idol Singer on the radio, and they're not just singing along but doing the hand motions as well.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_fe24dd6f	comment	Medal of Honor: An early scene in the 2010 game start with the POV character riding shotgun in a truck through an Afghan village, the driver a tanned bearded fellow in local attire... who immediately reveals himself as an American soldier by complaining about your character's preference for local music as he shuts off the stereo.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_ff60590c	comment	The Portal: Alex/Static has his iPod which he turns to when he needs to listen to music. He mostly listens to The Black Eyed Peas and Owl City.
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AM/FM Characterization / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Commander Will Riker's love of jazz shows a softer, easier-going side than his military bearing suggests. At one point in "Suddenly Human", Picard walks past the guest quarters where the Talarian-raised human teenager Jono is staying, and hears this blasting in the room. Jono's enjoyment of "alba ra" seems to signify he's a typical teenager; Picard hating it and ordering Jono to turn it off shows that Picard is not good with children. Picard's own musical tastes mainly run to classical, in keeping with his characterization and background as an old-school, well-educated man. Picard's and Riker's tastes in music receive a Call-Back in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard, courtesy of Captain Liam Shaw. He listens to similar classical music to what Picard likes while expressing disdain for Riker's be-bop, as it speaks to his "freewheeling, loosey-goosey, Kentucky mash kind of style".
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