Drowning My Sorrows: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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 hyerher, he puts on a [[Jerkass Facade]] and pretends that Unazuki is his new girl)}} and she tries to [[Comfort Food|drown her sorrows in dumplings]]; when Luna tries to reprimand her, she cries and says she's too depressed to care about getting fat. The second is far more [[Played for Laughs]] and happens in the Super S''SuperS'' season, when Naru is manipulated into dating Tiger's Eye for three months after he claimed he was going to die, her boyfriend Umino goes on a drinking binge ''with fifteen milkshakes''; Chibiusa is grossed out and [[Lampshade Hanging|comments on this]], even pointing out that sake is the traditional beverage for such behavior.

* Sayoko from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' does this everytimeevery time she loses to Belldandy at something. So she must be tanked 24/7.

* In ''[[Discworld]]'', Sam Vimes was like this up until his marriage to Sybil Ramkin. In ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'', Nobby Nobbs is told he's heir to the title of the Earl of Ankh, and Nobby's fear of responsibility briefly drives him to drink. In ''[[Discworld/Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]'', one of the methods [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] tries to forget his troubles is drinking, but all it does is make him even more depressed. He does manage to make an awesome drunken speech (and drunken collapse) though.

** The Luggage, an animated chest whose sentience is debatable, [[Discworld/Sourcery|once]] got itself drunk on orakh ([[Gargle Blaster|liquor made from cactus sap and scorpion venom]], used to mitigate the effects of [[Klatchian Coffee]]) after being rejected by Conina.

** Detritus, Gaspode and Thomas Silverfish all do this about halfway through ''[[Discworld/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]''; [[Dumb Muscle|Detritus]] is drinking because his girlfriend Ruby wants to be courted like the humans do and he keeps getting it wrong, [[Talking Animal|Gaspode]] is drinking because Victor is ignoring his warnings about Ginger being in the thrall of [[Eldritch Abomination]]s, and [[Kicked Upstairs|Silverfish]] is drinking because he hates the way [[Honest John's Dealership|C.M.O.T. Dibbler]] is running his movie studio, relying on spectacle instead of [[True Art]].

* Hagrid in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' (implied). Sybil Trelawney as well, in the same book, more blatantly - how many times does one ''need'' to read "the strong smell of cooking sherry" before getting the hint?

** 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.

* 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.