A Glass of Chianti: Difference between revisions

[[File:yourvampiresucks.jpg|link=Hellsing|frame|So you ''do'' [[Dracula|drink... vine!]] [[That Liar Lies|Liar!]] ]]

 

 

Many [[Big Bad]]s, being more [[Aristocrats Are Evil|high-class]] than most heroes, like to sip some wine, usually red, while [[Slouch of Villainy|lounging on their throne]]. This makes them seem [[Wicked Cultured|refined]] and [[Evil Is Cool|worldly]], even when [[Villains Out Shopping|relaxing]]. Heroes and more petty villains go for the more boorish beer, usually because they either can't afford wine or they have [[Evil Tastes Good|no taste for the stuff]].

Note that red is seen as a lot more sinister than white wine, due to its [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|Color Coding]] and general connotations with blood. When a vampire (usually richer and more refined, not one of the [[Our Vampires Are Different|biker vamps)]] drinks red blood from a wine-glass, it invokes much the same imagery, and one can argue that villains drink red wine specifically to invoke the vampiric example.

 

 

Another common variant is the Snifter of Brandy, preferably poured from a snazzy, cut-glass decanter.

Subtrope of [[Wine Is Classy]]. Wine, especially rare and expensive wine (and the ability to identify vintages of it by sight, smell, and taste), has become a cliche commonly associated with the Grey Poupon set. This can be used to indicate someone is [[Appeal to Vanity|a snob]], or simply as a part of the background culture of the story. Further, red wine is more often an acquired taste, possibly hinting that one had the funds to develop it.

 

 

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** For the love of all that is good, please rephrase that.

** [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Yeah, stroke the stem of that wine glass...]]

** Rex Godwin of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' would drink wine on occasion, although the dub never said just what it was.

* [[Big Bad|Father]] does this in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. It's not wine, though, nor even blood, but ''souls'' {{spoiler|- from Greed's Philosopher's Stone}}.

* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' there's a wineglass in the vicinity of Jafar, but before he can drink it Jasmine throws it in his face.

* In ''[[Daybreakers]]'', this is done with actual blood by the high-level vampire Bromley by draining a human victim's blood into a wine glass.

 

== Literature ==

* Funny enough, in the original novel of ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' it was a "big Amarone" and not Chianti. Still a red wine from Italy, though. The change in the film was probably a case of [[Small Reference Pools]].

* The titular Count in ''[[Dracula]]'', [[I Do Not Drink... Wine|does not eat or drink]]. He does however know enough about fine wines to provide Johnathan Harker with "a bottle of excellent Old Tokay" to have with supper.

 

* Lex Luthor from ''[[Smallville]]''. In fact, most of the time you can clearly see the crystal decanter in his living room.

* Adelei Niska sips on an unidentified drink in the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "War Stories" while watching Mal being [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortured]].

* In one episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', [[It Makes Sense in Context|the imperial descendant of Rimmer's clone]] decreed the execution and immolation of the ''Red Dwarf'' crew, and ordered their ashes brought to him on a silver plate with a glass of chilled sancerre. The Cat is horrified.

{{quote|'''Cat''': This guy's an animal. Doesn't he know it's ''red'' wine with cold ashes?}}

 

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== [[Video Games]] ==

*** Johnny will comment on his drink if you inspect it after the boss fight. It's apparently 100% currant juice. [[Frothy Mugs of Water|Really.]]

* Mr X does this in the bad ending of ''[[Streets of Rage]] 3''.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Miho's character in the [[Megatokyo]] online game/backstory manages to play this as A Goblet Of Chianti. The line ("Ah, but there is still the wine...") and [[Manipulative Bastard|the]] [[Technically a Smile|expression]] clinch it.

 

== Web Original ==

* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] had a glass of dark-looking eggnog held in her hand during her second part of "Dreamworks Vs. Disney". While she's not [[Anti-Hero|technically]] a villain, but she [[Kick the Dog|kicked Nella]] rather badly during that episode.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* An episode of ''[[South Park]]'' parodies this. Cartman fakes having Tourette's, and is going to be on TV, and plans to say things on live television, and get away with it. When explaining this to Kyle, Cartman is sipping what appears to be wine, Kyle takes a sip from a glass and claims "This is apple juice!"

* In ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'', Horned King [[A Glass in the Hand|broke his glass]] just like in Saint Seiya.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode ''Monty Can't Buy Me Love'' , Kent Brockman reads: "This new breed of fun-loving billionaire is a welcome change from the classic joyless miser, brooding in his cavernous mansion, grasping a glass of brandy with his thin, clawlike fingers and a superior smirk on his greedy, soulless face" . Cut to Montgomery Burns sitting in his mansion, in that exact pose, glass in hand and uttering a reverberating "bah"

* Several scenes in the 2019 ''[[Harley Quinn]]'' cartoon show Poison Ivy relaxing with a glass of red wine and a book; usually for Harley and her "crew" to return from a heist in the loudest and most annoying means possible.

 

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