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{{trope}}
[[File:Simpsons Shot 2 2997.jpg|link=The Simpsons (animation)|frame|When one "[[I Need a Freaking Drink|Freaking Drink]]" isn't enough.]]
{{quote|''"When you drink like that, it isn't for pleasure. It's because your thoughts have become diseases. You do it because it's the only easy cure you can find."''|'''Ginn Hale''', ''Wicked Gentlemen''}}
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If the depressed character recovers, it will probably lead to a [[He's Back]] moment.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* On ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'', Godai and Mitaka have decided to duke it out once and for all for the hand of the fair Kyoko. Too bad this is Tokyo, where it seems like every street corner has a cop waiting to book you for causing a public disturbance. The guys end up at a beer vending machine drowning their sorrows.
* David from ''[[Blood
* {{spoiler|Lisa Kujoh aka}} Sumeragi Lee Noriega in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' personally implies that her constant drinking is for this single purpose.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' one of Negi's fellow teachers [[Unsuspectingly Soused|accidentally gave him some sake]] while eating in Satsuki's restaurant. The scene quickly degenerated into this trope as a drunken Negi [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v09/c073/14.html cried out his troubles].
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* Lampe and Kim san Kaku go out and get plastered at the end of the intro comic of ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]'' volume 5 after they learn they were both designed after [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s dorky elementary school classmates.
* A realistic occurrence takes place in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', after Tenma is demoted and then dumped by his [[Rich Bitch|cold bitch of a fiancee.]] And said fiancee, Eva, does it as well... [[Lady Drunk|for years.]]
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' features two examples. The first one is played straight, and it comes from in the ''R'' season,: Usagi notices that Mamoru has a "new" girlfriend {{spoiler|(he doesn't, but since he believes he cannot be with
* Sayoko from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' does this
** Subverted by Urd, who ''needs'' to drink to {{spoiler|restore her powers.}}
* Jeanne takes to drinking vodka by the bottle in ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' after the Affair of the Necklace. Oscar is also occasionally seen surrounded by empty wine bottles.
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* In ''[[Skip Beat!]]'', Tsuruga Ren does this when {{spoiler|he is unable to fully understand his character, Katsuki.}}
* In ''[[Oniisama e...]]'', {{spoiler|Prof. Misonoo}} does this in his [[Backstory]] when {{spoiler|his first wife left him and she took kid!Takehiko along with her.}}
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Iron Man]]'', already established as a recovering alcoholic, fell off the proverbial wagon hard when his company got taken over during
** Later, when Carol Danvers ([[Ms. Marvel]]) loses her power ''the second time'' (as Binary), she fell onto this and caused her to get expelled from [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]. She manages to get out of this thanks to the counseling from Iron Man himself, as fellow alcoholic.
** He just did it again. In Fear Itself he started screaming at Odin and the other gods, yelling that if they wanted a sacrifce he'd give them the "only thing he could give worth anything": his sobriety, by taking a huge swig of alcohol. Even though it was a [[Narm]] scene, it was a total tearjerker to see him so broken.
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* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', Portia resorts to this after the loss of her powers, as do several superhero wannabes after being disarmed by the Ghoul.
* Shift of the ''[[Batman and the Outsiders|TheOutsiders]]'' indulges in this after being forced to kill Indigo. Despite claiming that alcohol doesn't effect his physiology, he manages to get pretty damn hammered.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[I Just Want to Be Special|He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell, because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a [[Beard of Sorrow]], though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a [[He's Back]] moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
* Happens in the [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' because it's a [[Crossover]] and from a main cast of four characters two are romantic [[Villain]]s and one was [[The Rival]]. [[I Need a Freaking Drink|So sometimes they just need a drink]]... or more. Also happens to the boys in the [[Spin-Off]] ''[[Girls Next Door]]''.
* Sirius Black tries this in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503134047/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117] of ''The Moment It Began'' after {{spoiler|his brother Regulus dies.}}
== Film ==
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{{quote|-- "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."}}
* In ''[[A Few Good Men]]'', Daniel Kaffee gets roaring drunk after an important witness for his case commits suicide.
* In the [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] vehicle ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'', George goes out drinking and orders something pink with a little umbrella in it. The drink clashes horribly with his somber mood.
** It's a blueberry daquiri. The commentary reveals that it was supposed to be much more flamboyant, but someone in the prop department missed the memo.
{{quote|'''Bob:''' You don't drink.
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* The reason Ron is the town drunk in ''[[The Warrior's Way]]''.
* The protagonist of British [[World War Two]] movie ''[[Ice Cold in Alex]]'' starts out the film drinking heavily as a result of the stress he's been put under during the campaign in Africa, and the plot is driven by his yearning for a cold beer 300 miles away.
* ''[[The Untouchables]]'' has two ironic examples, seeing as it centers around Prohibition:
** During the whiskey raid at the Canadian border, Oscar Wallace sneaks a mouthful from a shot-up barrel once the gunfire has stopped.
** In the final scene, with Al Capone finally behind bars, Eliot Ness is understandably exhausted as he packs up his office and thinks about Malone. When a reporter mentions that Prohibition is due to be repealed and asks Ness what he might do then. Ness responds, "I think I’ll have a drink."
== Literature ==
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* [[Genghis Khan]] in Conn Iggulden's ''[[Conqueror|Bones of the Hills]]'' takes to the airag after Temulun is killed during a raid ({{spoiler|after being [[Moral Event Horizon|raped]] by Kokchu}}).
* [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Ultramarines (novel)|Ultramarines]]'' novel ''The Killing Grounds'' opens with a former soldier trying to drown his sorrows. He ends up [[Driven to Suicide|blowing his brains out]] as more effective.
* In ''[[Discworld]]'', Sam Vimes was like this up until his marriage to Sybil Ramkin. In ''[[
** The Luggage, an animated chest whose sentience is debatable, [[
** Detritus, Gaspode and Thomas Silverfish all do this about halfway through ''[[
* ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'' has a fair amount of this going on. Louis in ''Interview with the Vampire'' not only drinks away his sorrows but picks fights and sleeps with prostitutes, hoping to get himself killed. Later in ''Blackwood Farm'' Quinn also drinks away his sorrows and his fears. In ''Queen of the Damned,'' this is slightly subverted, as Daniel Molloy tries to drink away his madness (from the knowledge that vampires are real).
* Averted and played straight in ''[[Star Wars|Starfighters]] [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|of]] [[X Wing Series|Adumar]]'' - Wedge heads to a bar mostly for privacy while he thinks through some questions of honor vs. the chain of command (he doesn't get very drunk, either). However, at the bar, he runs across {{spoiler|Admiral Rogriss}}, who decided the answer to his problem ([[Not So Different|basically the same as Wedge's]]) was to get stone drunk.
** Played straight in an earlier book of the series, when Ton Phanan, the [[Combat Medic]] of the squadron who is allergic to bacta and thus gradually becoming [[Emergency Transformation|more and more cybernetic]], drinks and tells his wingmate that he needs less and less to get drunk, because every year, less meat, more machine. He feels that his extensive cybernetics are an outward sign that his future [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|has been destroyed]], and he has no one.
* Hagrid in ''[[Harry Potter and
** In ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', Winky the house-elf drinks several bottles of Butterbeer a day after being fired by Mr. Crouch. Butterbeer is a very mild drink for humans (children can drink it without any problem) but it's pretty strong for house-elves.
* When ''[[The Little Prince]]'' visits a planet with no one but a tippler on it, he inquires why the man is drinking constantly:
{{quote|'''Tippler:''' So that I may forget.
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* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|The January Dancer]]'', a common reason to be in the Bar on Jehovah.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Almost every (major) character has done this at least once on ''[[Scrubs]]''. Probably most notable is the occasion when Dr Cox spends around a solid week doing this after {{spoiler|killing three patients by causing them to have rabies-infected organs transplanted}} and needs babysitting by all the other characters.
* The Irish Drinking Song game in ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' is based off this, and is sometimes played after the 'winner' is decided so the host can join in.
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* In the third episode of ''[[Black Mirror (TV series)|Black Mirror]]'' Liam ends up getting drunk after suspecting his wife was flirting with another man. Decides to get the babysitter involved before driving over and attacking the guy.
* On ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'' Foster gets totally smashed (on a bottle of Lightman's very, very expensive Scotch, no less, which she stole from his office). When he confronts her, she is both hilarious in her chattiness and heartbreakingly honest, as she displays her vulnerability and her love and loyalty for Lightman, while finally taking a stand against his aggressive personality.
== Music ==
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* Brazil has "Garçom" ("waiter", the guy who the binge drinking protagonist speaks about his broken heart) and "Pinga Ni Mim" ([[Double Entendre]]: as it can be both "drops on me" - as the chorus mentions a leak - and "[[wikipedia:Cachaça|cachaça]] on me"; but many don't know it's about drowning romantic sorrows as [[Chorus-Only Song|they only learned the chorus]]).
== New Media ==
* In ''[[Descendant of a Demon Lord]]'' Zappy got pretty drunk after her employer won a siege, and not out of celebration.
== Theater ==
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** Note that this also depends on the production. Some will portray him as just having gotten angry...and some imply that he somehow managed to get a hold of actual alcohol.
* The song "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please" from ''[[Panama Hattie]]''.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', Demetheus accidentally killed a friend during a fight, and then proceeded to go on such an ''epic'' sorrow-drowning bender that the Goddess of Intoxicants herself, Burning Feather, came down from Yu-Shan to sober him up.
== Video Games ==
* Gorman in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' does this with milk, and somehow [[Drunk
** Played straight by an NPC in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]''. After you complete his quest, and leave his house, you can come back and find him missing. He's gone to the local tavern, and is seated at the bar, crying his eyes out because his girlfriend is seeing someone else.
* ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]'' has Carla drinking at the microbrewery on Jambalaya Island to forget her time on Monkey Island. Unfortunately, Guybrush inadvertently reminds her of what she was drinking to forget, and she complains "Thanksh a load, Threepwood. Now I gotta shtart all over again."
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* One of the [[Game Over]]s in ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'' has [[Game Over Man|Dunning]] offering to cheer Kyle up by getting drunk with him. It's a [[Game Over]] because Kyle is too drunk to do anything else for the rest of the night.
▲== Webcomics ==
* Largo of ''[[Megatokyo]]'', thanks to Erika. [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Nine words]]: [[Wham! Episode|"If I sleep with you, will you go away?"]]
* Kevyn in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. It's not so much depression as a [[Brain Bleach|scramble to get a very disgusting image out of his head]] before it gets saved to long-term memory, though.
* Ash tried this in ''[[Misfile]]'' [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=255 at one point]; it [[Kissing Under the Influence|didn't work out so good]].
* Sabine in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' does this once when she's enraged at Nale.
* Riff from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' gets into this after he [https://web.archive.org/web/20170617173636/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070828 destroys humanity]. Geez, talk about [[Wangst|emo]].
** Aylee gets in on this too after taking on a [https://web.archive.org/web/20170617170852/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071120 human-ish form].
* Raphael in ''[[Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden]]'' tended to do this regularly before the start of the storyline. Considering what happened, could you blame him?
* In ''[[General Protection Fault]]'', Dexter does this with donuts after the girl he hooked up with at a speed dating event goes out with someone else. He plans on doing it again at a restaurant when the two dates that his friends arranged for him both leave, until the woman he met at the first speed dating event shows up.
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* [[Immortal Immaturity|China]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' was {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|attacked by his brother Japan]]}} and went to a bar to cry about it... only to have the [[Mood Killer|mood killed]] by [[Stepford Smiler|Russia]].
* [[Pointy-Haired Boss|General]] Izor from [[Dubious Company]] does this at the royal ball, after everyone ignores his orders to not go off on [[Bottle Fairy|their]] [[Ethical Slut|usual]] [[Professional Gambler|shenanigans]]. Even funnier since {{spoiler|half the people he was ordering around were [[Enemy Mine|his enemies]]}}.
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150920183706/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1310311/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-30/ a father who drinks himself into oblivion every night is a good motive to help someone else who lost his family.]
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-81/ Captain Victory is slipping away a hip flask when he and Max first meet]—and he's suffering from [[Survivor Guilt]].
* In ''151 Hidden Depths'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130219014343/http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1356584/001-bulbasaur/ Bulbasaur does this] after dropping a little girl in a [[Big No|failed rescue attempt]].
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-11.html the Boy observes that back in his village a man, like November, was going mad for lack of sleep -- he resorted to drinking himself under the table.]
* ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'' presents: [http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/folk-remedies Woodworth Heart Spackle]. {{spoiler|{{
* ''[https://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/art/Tie-one-on-5-706794017 Tie one on 5]'' by Mr-Culexus (side art of ''Ragged Edges'') - Krieg Brandy as an anesthetic. In ''[https://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/art/Tie-one-on-3-704389301 Tie one on 3]'', sort of inverted:
{{quote|'''Minhelm''': Some drink to forget. I drink to remember.}}
== Web Original ==
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* [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]] drowns his sorrows when he finds out that his friend The Cheat is dating Marzipan.
* In ''[[Theatrica]]'', drowning one's sorrows is just what the doctor ordered.
== Western Animation ==
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* In the first season finale of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', "The Best Night Ever", Spike is disappointed when the girls leave to do their own thing at the Grand Galloping Gala instead of enjoying the night together like he suggested. At the end of the episode, we find Spike's spent the night stuffing his face with donuts and hot cocoa at Pony Joe's donut shop. He even [[Drunk on Milk|briefly acts like a sullen drunk]].
* [[The Legend of Korra]] features Bolin doing this with [[Drunk on Milk|noodles]] after he sees {{spoiler|his crush Korra kiss his brother}}. He becomes uncoordinated, sullen and the next day is clearly hungover.
== Real Life ==
* Sir John A. Macdonald, the first [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister of Canada]]. Even in the 1860s and 1870s, Macdonald's drinking binges were legendary, but in truth the poor guy had good reason to want to get loaded, not least of which were the serious financial problems he faced, and the even more serious problems stemming from the poor health of his wife and daughter. On top of all that, Canada has been described by many of its prime ministers as extremely difficult to govern. It's not hard to see why Macdonald would need a good stiff drink now and again.
* It seems that John Kerr, former governor-general of Australia, did this after the public backlash resulting from him dismissal of the Prime Minister in 1975 started to get to him. When presenting the 1977 Melbourne Cup, he was visibly drunk.
* Let's face it: Many, many people do this, and [[The Alcoholic|sometimes they don't stop]].
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