Drowning My Sorrows: Difference between revisions

* Although we only see Yukiji's [[Bottle Fairy]] tendencies in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', it's made very clear that she was doing this in regards to the debt her parents left with her and her sister, and her subsequent dealing with the issue, that led her down the path to the humorous path we see in the story.

* Kazehana, resident [[Bottle Fairy]] of ''[[Sekirei]]'' does this during a season two episode after {{spoiler|the death of Uzume}}. Much to her annoyance, she can't get drunk.

* 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.}}

 

* ''[[The First Wives Club]]'': Goldie Hawn's character bawls about how she would have been cast as the sexy lead character of Monique in a movie not five years ago, but now she's Monique's mother. She babbles about how other actors would be better suited to the role, ending in [[Sean Connery]], but counters the last, noting that Sean Connery would be Monique's boyfriend, as he's 500 years old but "still a stud..."

* Eddie Valiant in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', who still grieves over the death of his brother years earlier.

* ''[[The Punisher]]'' film has the titular character resort to drinking Wild Turkey Bourbon (TM) straight in his depression after the murder of his entire family. The way the bottle was clearly labeled and placed on the table facing the audience smacks of [[Product Placement]].

* Similarly, Harry Osborne in ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] 2'' takes up drinking as he grieves over the death of his father in the prior movie. Harry's drink of choice is [[Product Placement|Makers Mark Whiskey]].

** Silk does this in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' after speaking with his mother for the first time in years. To elaborate, his mother used to be a beautiful woman, but caught a blindness inducing [[The Plague|illness]] that left her face horribly scarred, and nobody could ever bring themselves to let her know. The scene is powerful precisely because of the contrast with Silk's [[Jerkass Facade]] and the overall humorous tone of the series.

* [[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}}).

* 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.

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