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Note that not everyone falls into type 1, 2 or 3. Also, types 1 & 2 are for people who have no explanation given for why they don't get drunk, other than 'unusually high tolerance'. If an explanation is given, then he is automatically type 3a or 3b. Some people are perfectly normal, and not on either end of the [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]], and have no "logical" reason for their strange sobriety.
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Contrast [[Drunk on Milk]]. For someone who Never Gets Drunk simply because they don't drink at all, see [[The Teetotaler]].
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* Zoro from ''[[One Piece]]'' drinks a lot, but never gets inebriated. He has to ''fake'' being drunk at Whiskey Peak in order to fool their foes.
** Nami is similar, but does actually get drunk (as shown by her blush, slightly blurred talking and that she's laughing at Luffy when he eats too much while she would usually hit him), however she outdrinks 14 people first. The trope is almost played straight later because she just had to sleep for an hour at most, then she wake up sober and without a hangover, which might be just as awesome as not getting drunk at all.
* ''[[Saiyuki
{{quote|"I've never seen Cho get drunk before"
"And you never will" }}
* Cana drinks 30 percent of ''[[Fairy Tail]]''{{'}}s liquor and has only been shown drunk once.
** {{spoiler|Until a recent{{when}} chapter where Quatro Cerberus member Bacchus [[Defeating the Undefeatable|defeats her in a drinking contest]] much to the surprise of her friends.}}
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
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* The American team in ''[[Beerfest]]'' spends a year training for an international drinking games competition. As a result they all develop such high alcohol tolerances that it's nearly impossible for them to get drunk on beer alone (one team member who is trying to get drunk ends up chugging a bottle of schnapps because beer just isn't potent enough).
* In the recent animated ''[[Wonder Woman (animation)|Wonder Woman]]'' film, Diana is shown to have a much higher tolerance for alcohol than her human companion, and scoffs at the idea of him trying to keep pace with her while drinking.
* In ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'', Mick offers to treat a cabbie; despite the guy's boast that, "I'm Irish! I can drink you under the table!" Mick's tolerance turns out to be much higher.
* In ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' Marian Ravenwood actually made money by hustling the rowdy Tibetians at her bar in drinking contests. She's still sober enough to hold a perfectly normal conversation with Indy immediately afterwards. This turns into a subverted [[Chekhov's Skill]] when she tries to out-drink Belloq to escape her imprisonment, only to find that Belloq is such a lush that he's at least a match for her.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* [[Discworld]]:
** Lord Vetinari in ''[[
** In ''[[
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'': Athos is described as having the capacity of four men, but hardly shows it. It takes a two week binge of ten bottles a day for us to see him unsteady on his feet. Even then, he can tell an [[I Have This Friend]] story almost perfectly.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* [[Star Trek
** Spock himself is a mix of types 1 and 3 of this. Some novels and other supplemental material have suggested that chocolate has an intoxicating effect on Vulcans.
** Romulans (an offshoot species from the Vulcans) appear to have very high alcohol tolerance. They can frequently consume their signature kali-fal (Romulan Ale) with little physical effect. Humans and Klingons have been known to be greatly impaired by the same beverage.
** Also, Scotty came awfully close to this in "By Any Other Name", when he outwitted the Kelvan agent Tomar by drinking him under the table. (Never mess with a Scotsman and his whiskey.) Unfortunately, Scotty himself passed out a few minutes later.
** From ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Lwaxana Troi's manservant Mr. Homn probably falls into this category. In one episode, he drank an entire bottle of wine in less than a minute as if it were no more than fruit punch.
* [[MythBusters|Jamie Hyneman]] is apparently a types 1 & 3 as well:
{{quote|'''Adam:''' So we've had 13 drinks over 3 hours. I know I'm drunk, but I can't even remotely tell that you're drunk. It's kind of annoying. I want to see you [[Lampshade-Wearing|put a lampshade on your head]] or something.
'''Jamie:''' Sorry, bub! }}
* ''[[Cheers]]'' was a show about characters who spent all their time drinking in a bar, but we rarely saw anyone get drunk. The implication is that the regulars go to the bar to relax in each others' company rather than to get hammered. Norm Peterson would have been an obvious alcoholic if he'd ever been shown intoxicated.
* Al Swearengen in ''[[Deadwood]]'' is frequently shown drinking shots of hard alchohol, sometimes straight from the bottle, yet he never acts inebriated, much less drunk. In a filmmaker's commentary, some of the cast point out what incredible volumes of alchohol some characters in the show drink.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'', Nora Fries is this. Her tolerance is greater than that of Harley, Poison Ivy, and ''even [[Hellblazer| John Constantine!]]'' Even after drinking them all under the table, she is wide awake, alert, and with no sign of any hangover.
=== Real Life ===
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* Bernice Cliffton of ''[[Designing Women]]'' has an "arterial flow problem" that normally interferes with her grasp on logic and reality, but alcohol makes her more lucid. She usually doesn't drink for specifically that reason, but she does get drunk for her competency hearing just in case.
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* [[Genki Girl|Jin]] from ''[[Footloose (webcomic)|Footloose]]'' becomes a [[Deadpan Snarker]] when drunk.
* In ''[[Harley Quinn]]'', Nora is able to drink [[Constantine|John Constantine]] under the table! Possibly her metabolism changed after many years of [[Human Popsicle|cryogenic stasis]] as her husband (Mr. Freeze, of course) was trying to cure her, but that is just conjecture.
== Type 3 ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* 3b: Belldandy from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''. Alcohol might as well be water for all the effect it has on her. She will, however, get plastered... on ''soda.'' She's a Viking goddess - booze ''was'' basically water to them (safer than straight water), but they didn't have carbonation on longships. (It's not specified whether cola makes her drunk or acts as a catalyst so that the alcohol she had previously downed finally had an effect. Fanon leans toward the former explanation.)
** Urd, meanwhile, seems able to get wasted on sake. Then again, she's only half-goddess.
* Apparently, [[Claymore]]s don't get drunk unless they want to, which results in Deneve and Clare being completely sober (despite Deneve drinking quite a bit more than should be possible), while Helen descends right into Happy Drunk land.
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* [[Superman]] usually falls into type 3b, such as in ''[[Smallville]]''.
* Hercules from [[Marvel Comics]] once tried to get Galactus drunk by giving him the most potent alcoholic drink in all the universe. It didn't work.
* [[The Gods of Arr-Kelaan]] have been type 3a's ever since their deification, to Ronson's (god of [[Irony|Alcohol]] and Apathy) [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|endless]] [[Drowning My Sorrows|dismay]]. Consuming the most [http://www.rmcomics.com/Mirror/Consequences/?viewDate=20090717 alcoholic drink on the planet]{{Dead link}} quickly enough will get him "slightly numb" for a few moments.
* The original [[Marvel Comics|Spider-Woman's]] powers gave her immunity to all poisons and toxins, which had the side effect of her never getting drunk.
* [[The Incredible Hulk]] is immune to alchohol.
* In the [[X-Men]], one of the Blob's vulnerabilities is toxins such as alcohol. The problem is his body can take massive amounts before it starts to take.
=== [[Fan Works]] ===
* The ''[[Star Wars
* Douglas Sangnoir of ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' has noted that his mutant metabolism processes alcohol so quickly that it's difficult (though not impossible) for him to get drunk.
* In the ''[[Worm]]'' fic ''[[Mauling Snarks]]'' by "CmptrWz", as a result of a tinker fugue, Taylor Hebert {{spoiler|and later Amy "Panacea" Dallon as well}} have an enhanced metabolism that makes it almost impossible to get drunk. In one incident, Taylor wins a drinking contest with Lung. Later, they go to Palanquin and [[Won't Work On Me|no-sell]] the bar's trademark [[Gargle Blaster|"Parahuman Gargle Blaster"]], which is not only highly alcoholic, it has a hallucinogenic component. A video of the pair of teenaged girls knocking back this drink and then complaining it didn't have the "kick" they were expecting ends up briefly popular on the online forum PHO.
=== [[Film]] ===
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* Akiha from ''[[Tsukihime]]'' is a type 3a.
=== [[Web
* Ten Winds from ''[[Keychain of Creation]]''. When questioned about shrugging off a powerful sedative, he answers that "[he's] drunk stronger stuff with [his] afternoon snack".
* Durkon from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' loves his beer, but has never been drunk in the comic. In a New Year's Eve story, he and Belkar count down to midnight with ''10 straight pints.'' Belkar [[Foe Yay|kisses Vaarsuvius]] and passes out, but Durkon doesn't appear affected at all. Of course, Dwarves in this universe have two livers.
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* In ''[[Futurama]]'', alcohol has the opposite effect on Bender. He becomes inebriated when sober.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* 3a: The professional wrestler Andre the Giant had to drink an entire case of beer just to get a little buzz, this is probably because of his enormous body mass.
** Also possibly due to his having drunk massive amounts of alcohol for pretty much his entire life.
** One anecdote concerned the worry of the
*** Though the one time he got drunk enough to pass out, no one was able to move him until he woke the next day. It apparently took ''119 bottles of beer'' to hit that level.
* 3a: Neil Fingleton, the UK's tallest man at
* Protestant reformer Martin Luther was a huge fan of his ale, and boasted that he could drain an entire mug in the time most men took to get a third of the way through. He was never recorded to have gotten drunk. Given that he was a big fella for much of his life, he'd probably count as a 3a.
* A lot of Chinese people are known to be genetically restricted to 3b rules. They metabolize alcohol in such a way that [[Blessed with Suck|they skip "drunk" and just go straight to "hung over."]] (Depending on how these genes came about, this may also explain the stereotypical Native American intolerance to alcohol as well, as Amerindians are currently{{when}} believed to be Mongolians who crossed the Bering Strait land bridge.{{verify}})
* Generally,
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