Drowning My Sorrows: Difference between revisions

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* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Izuru Kira and Rangiku Matsumoto are seen drinking after Kira's captain and Rangiku's old friend, Gin Ichimaru, leaves Soul Society with the [[Big Bad]], Aizen. Also, Kira does the same with Shuuhei Hisagi, whose captain Kaname Tousen also left, and in the anime the aftermath of their drinking round is a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

** In the manga, he decides to have tea when Rangiku offers it to him.

* Roy Mustang in [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' frequently goes to get himself drunk at local bars with best friend Maes Hughes. It's seen that he has a tremendous amount of angst over the things he did in Ishval (in this version {{spoiler|he's the one who killed Winry's parents under higher-orders, which back then almost drove him to [[Ate His Gun|eat his gun]] on the spot)}}, and one would assume that he usually gets drunk for that reason.

* Before she became the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade from ''[[Naruto]]'' is seen several times gambling/getting drunk from sake to get her mind off of having lost her brother Nawaki and boyfriend Dan, who both died horribly and (presumably) painfully.

* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[The Ollivander Children|The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.

* 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.

* Sirius Black tries this in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117] of ''The Moment It Began'' after {{spoiler|his brother Regulus dies.}}

 

 

== Literature ==

* Aral Vorkosigan tries this in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Shards of Honor]]'' before his fiancee shows up and invalidates the need. His son Miles does it too, on occasion; evidently, it's hereditary. Though his mother (that's the fiancee we mentioned) does also say it's partially Miles's attempt to uphold tradition.

* As mentioned in the [[Film]] examples, Athos of Dumas' ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' is prone to this. In the novel, it's depicted as habitual and inexplicable until he tells his [[I Have This Friend]] story.

* In ''[[Discworld]]'', Sam Vimes was like this up until his marriage to Sybil Ramkin. In ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay|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|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.

* ''[[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.

'''Jim''': That's what you think. *''Turns, opens a red box, which turns to be filled with bottles of whisky''* Who said nothing good ever came out of Whitehall? }}

* During the Las Vegas season of ''[[The Real World]]'', Frank drinks water ''in anger'' during Steven and Trishelle's first hook-up.

** 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]].

* 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]].

* "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".

* "Whiskey Bottle" and "I Got Drunk" by Uncle Tupelo.

* "Hurricane Drunk" by [[Florence and the Machine]]:

{{quote|I'm going out/I'm going to drink myself to death.}}

 

 

* ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] III'': Halfway into the game, [[Colonel Badass|Col.]] [[Player Character|Blair]] drowns his sorrows {{spoiler|after discovering Angel's fate}}. After the cutscene showing {{spoiler|her fate}}, you're given a choice of talking with [[Wrench Wench|Rachel]] or drinking some more. Unless one is a masochist, talking is probably better than drinking.

** Especially because {{spoiler|of the scramble alert following shortly thereafter. Alcohol and spacecraft do not mix, and flying drunk will [[Interface Screw|make your ship behave erratically.]]}}

* The Japanese version and the DS retranslation of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' implies that Frog did this when he learned King Guardia was wounded in battle, though the act itself is not shown on screen. In the SNES translation, [[Frothy Mugs of Water|such a thing would be unheard of]].

* Similarly happens in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'', where Cid is originally drinking heavily after the death of his wife. In the [[Bowdlerize|American translation]], he merely has trouble keeping a job.

* 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.

 

 

* After everyone ignores his orders to not go off on [[Bottle Fairy|their]] [[Ethical Slut|usual]] [[Professional Gambler|shenanigans]], [[Pointy-Haired Boss|General]] Izor from [[Dubious Company]] does this at the royal ball. Even funnier since {{spoiler|half the people he was ordering around were [[Enemy Mine|his enemies]]}}.

* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'' [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.]

* [http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1356584/001-bulbasaur/ Bulbasaur does this] after dropping a little girl in a [[Big No|failed rescue attempt]] in ''151 Hidden Depths''.

* 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.]