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A well-known [[Truth in Television]]. It is often played for sympathetic laughs, but it can also be dramatic, pathetic, embarrassing or angsty, especially if it goes with [[Off the Wagon]]. Characters who do this may also suffer from [[Bad Dreams]] and are prone to [[Forgets to Eat|not eating enough]], and it might lead to [[Sex for Solace|spending the night with somebody]] as the next step in "healing."
Men who undergo this for a period often grow a [[Beard of Sorrow]] during the time.
If a friend shows up, the [[Power of Friendship]] can convert this to [[To Absent Friends]]. Sometimes. If not? [[Nailed to the Wagon|A nail gun and a wagon]] can [[Going Cold Turkey|work wonders.]]
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** 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.
* [[Time Skip|Between the two seasons]] of ''[[Darker
** There's also Huang, who would love to do this [[Never Gets Drunk|if he could ever get drunk]].
* Tsuzuki in ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]'' during an especially angsty moment in the Kyoto arc when he starts questioning his own humanity.
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* ''[[Iron Man]]'', already established as a recovering alcoholic, fell off the proverbial wagon hard when his company got taken over during the [[The Eighties|'80s]].
** 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.
* [[Spider-Man]] also did this in one issue. (Although, given [[Retcon|everything]], we should probably cut him some slack...)
* John Constantine does this at least twice in ''[[Hellblazer]]'', most notably in the ''Tainted Love'' arc where, after a painful breakup, he not only drinks constantly but lives on the street for months, refusing to "magic" his way out of it.
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* Tecate beer is common for this trope, as it is one of the few beer brands that will pay for product placement even when characters use it in this way:
** ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]] II''
** ''[[The Hammer]]''
* ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', starring Tom Cruise, has retired U.S. Army Captain Nathan Algren drunk for a good third of the movie, drowning his sorrows and being haunted by nightmares due to his role in the American Indian genocide around the time of General Custer.
* In ''[[Bat*21]]'', after a rescue mission has gone disasterously wrong, Captain Clarke walks in on Colonel Walker hunched over a chair holding a mostly empty bottle of whiskey. After the colonel finally notices the intrusion he says, "We lost six people today, Clarke. Kids, all of 'em. Just kids."
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* 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 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 ''[[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:
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* Probably the best way to explain Meredith's relationship with tequila, on ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'', is through this delightful quote, by, of all people, Alex Karev, who wasn't exactly her BFF:
{{quote|'''Alex:''' When your life is sucky you get drunk and sleep with inappropriate men. It's your thing.}}
* Just about every ''[[M*A*S*H (television)]]'' character was prone to this at some point or another.
{{quote|'''Hawkeye:''' Drowning your sorrows, Margaret?
'''Margaret:''' No... just taking them out for a little swim. }}
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** Also, Olivia does this so often it's pretty much her nightly ritual now.
*** At this point, most of the cast has gotten in on this at one point or another.
* On ''[[Good Times]]'', Keith does this after feeling frustrated about not being able to play football, working part-time as a cab driver, and the lack of full-time work. The drinking escalates when his old college roommate (now a pro football player) comes to visit. Keith then starts insulting everyone around him and he slaps Thelma. Thelma packs his bags and tells him that he can either quit drinking for good and stop feeling sorry for himself or he can leave her for good. Keith chooses Thelma.
* Colleen McMurphy, on ''[[China Beach]]''.
* In ''[[Farscape]]'', Aeryn spends all of "The Choice" drunk while she mourns {{spoiler|Crichton's death.}}
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* During the Las Vegas season of ''[[The Real World]]'', Frank drinks water ''in anger'' during Steven and Trishelle's first hook-up.
* Many [[Korean Drama|Korean Dramas]] use this trope, both as drama and as comedy.
** In ''[[Best Love]]'', Ae Jeong drinks an entire bottle of wine in one gulp to make a point, Jae Suk gives a drunken confession of love to his boss, and Aw Hwan mumbles a request to Jenny not to drink red wine with anyone but him. And so on...
** Woo Ri and Min Sook get sloshed while male-bashing in ''[[Can You Hear My Heart]]''. Joon Ha does it one night which leads to his confession that he's the [[Long Lost Sibling]].
** The fusion historical drama ''[[Sungkyunkwan Scandal]]'' has [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Kim Yoon Shik]] giving a drunken Lee Seon Jung a [[Piggyback Cute|ride]] back to the school one night.
** ''[[Twinkle Twinkle]]'': Mostly serious sorrowful drinking, especially by the female leads.
** ''[[You Are Beautiful]]'': Go Mi Nam gets drunk on champaigne his first night and ends up throwing up on the lead singer of the band he just joined. This is after throwing up in a flower pot, {{spoiler|and before anyone knows he's a girl}}.
* In the ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S2
* [[Inspector Lynley]], after {{spoiler|his wife's death in the series five finale}}, which he believes is his fault, takes to this. His partner, [[Sarcastic Devotee|DS Barbara Havers]], is not amused, but even though she's his [[Most Important Person]], even ''she'' can't reach him. It takes an [[It's Personal]] case, [[It Makes Sense in Context|a near brush with arrest for murder]], and Barbara nearly being killed to [[He's Back|make him something remotely like himself]] again. The first thing he does after he comes to his senses is apologise to Barbara, after which she remarks, "You know, I probably shouldn't say this, but [[I Need a Freaking Drink|d'you fancy a drink]]?" Clearly, this time she trusts him not to go off the deep end.
* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Cory does this once after his break up with Topanga in season five. In a later episode, Shawn does this after {{spoiler|he is unable to find his real mother.}}
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* "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley, oddly by both the cheated-on soldier or his cheating girlfriend. It...doesn't help.
* Yowane Haku, the fan-made [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of clumsy new users to the [[Vocaloid]] software, does this ''constantly'' because she feels she'll never be as good as [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|Hatsune Miku]], the character on whom she was based. Because of this and her [[The Woobie|woobie]] tendencies, she's become just as [[Ascended Meme|popular]] as Miku herself.
** As of late, [[Ascended Fanon|she and Akita Neru]] eventually became official vocaloids and Haku's popularity led to a rise of instances she was shown to be much more capable of singing than she used to. If it isn't for the previous reason of her dreams of singing as beautifully as Miku being shattered that makes her drink herself into stupor, she does so for the fun or sake of it and usually is portrayed as sluggish, lazy and clumsy, [[Pet the Dog|but a little more happy than originally portrayed]].
*** Of course, this has in turn been met with mixed receptions, since Haku, as mentioned above, is supposed to be the Anthropomorphic Personification of people who fail to use the Vocaloid software effectively/correctly, and doing a bad Miku song/Haku song on purpose defeats, in itself, Haku's raison d'etre. <ref>After all, you're not a failure if you've successfully, and with intent, failed.</ref> It's all kinda complicated and rather [[Fan Dumb]]-y.
* "Slo Gin" by Tim Curry is a text book example with lyrics like "slo gin, gotta wash away the pain inside" and the somewhat infamous refrain, "I'm so fucking lonely and I ain't even high".
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* Cass, one of your possible companions in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' is found doing this in a crappy military bar after her caravans have (suspiciously) been vaporized. She's still [[The Alcoholic]] after she joins your party but at least she isn't depressed.
* Taro Namatame from Persona 4.
* One of the [[Game Over|Game Overs]] 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.
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* In ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC]]'', Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** [[Iron Man]] went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
*** [[Iron Man]] getting drunk? Perish the thought!
* ''[[A World of Laughter, A World of Tears]]'' sees President [[Walt Disney]] drowning his despair in whiskey once it's clear how much damage his reaction to the [[Civil Rights Movement]] has done/is going to do.
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* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Ass Burgers", this is effectively what the cynics do, all [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|ridiculousness]] aside. By the end of the episode, this is {{spoiler|what Stan turns to, [[Negative Continuity|possibly]] on a long-term basis, just to get through a normal day.}}
* 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.
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* Sir John A. Macdonald, the first 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]].
* There's often a joke about this. Basically, if you're drinking to forget, remember to pay in advance.
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