Never Gets Drunk: Difference between revisions

* 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 carbination on longships.

** Urd, meanwhile, seems able to get wasted on sake. Then again, she's only half-goddess.

* 3a: Noa Izumi from ''[[Patlabor]]''. Her family owns a liquor store in Hokkaido and she started drinking earlier to keep company to them and their clients and friends, so she's used to even the hardest stuff. The discovery brings the ''other'' [[Bottle Fairy]] of the group, Kanuka Clancy, to tears.

* 3b: Major Kusanagi from ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]''. Her artificial body is immune to poisons, including alcohol.

** Batou is the same way because he's heavily cyborged.

*** The same applies to both of them. They ''can'' get drunk if they like, but they can decide to ''stop'' being drunk in the matter of seconds.

* 3a: Rock and Revy from ''[[Black Lagoon]]''. No one expected Rock to be able to hold his own in a drinking match with Revy right from the start. Rock's tolerance is due to heavy exposure to alcohol both at college and at his previous employer. As for Revy, she simply seems to be a heavy drinker.

* [[Sora no Woto]]'s Kureha is given this trait during the team's training exercise where they all drink (accidentally?). She isn't the least bit pleased about it. She also fits as a type 1, since (besides Rio), she's the most conventional trooper in the platoon.

 

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* In the ''[[Mercy Thompson]]'' books, werewolves' high healing factor means that they have to drink a lot to get drunk. One character's backstory is that after becoming a werewolf, he had just started to notice that he wasn't getting drunk until the second or third full bottle of whiskey when another werewolf told him what he was.

* Cat from the ''[[Night Huntress]]'' series is a [[Dhampyr]], with inhumanly high alcohol tolerance. While she often [[I Need a Freaking Drink|needs a freaking drink]] to cope with trauma, the calming effect is psychological rather than physical. The only she's ever seen actually drunk is after drinking an entire bottle of [[Gargle Blaster|Bones's moonshine]], and even then she's walking upright when she should be dead several times over.

* Dr Gideon Fell, from John Dickson Carr's novels, can put away enough booze to land any two normal men in the ER with alcohol poisoning without showing any sign. Probably a 3A from pure body mass (if there's an Obese Detective trope, he's one of the poster children).

* One [[Star Wars]] novel places Zeltrons as a 3A by reason of having fast metabolisms and two livers. Getting a Zeltron woman in it drunk requires something so [[Gargle Blaster|strong]] that it's said the mere smell has enough alcohol to knock out members of much larger, 'tougher' species.

* Novas (superpowered people) from the ''[[Aberrant]]'' RPG setting are extremely resistant to poisons and drugs (a starting character gets Resistance 4 (on a 0 to 5 scale) for free). Regular alcohol and drugs just don't cut it. This being ''[[Aberrant]]'', there are of course people who find alternate solutions, but a drink that gets a Nova pleasantly buzzed is likely to kill a mere human in three seconds.

* [[Space Marines]] from [[Warhammer 40000]] have genetically enhanced biology, which, among other things, allows them to metabolise alcohol and other narcotics ''really'' fast. [[Word of God]] says that an astartes drinking competition is about who can drink enough fast enough to actually get drunk (generally around a barrel a minute, for reference).

{{quote|'''Ragnar''': We have a winner! ''[cheers]''}}

* Werewolves in ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'' have to drink ''a lot'' to feel it, due to their hyperactive metabolism and [[Healing Factor]].

 

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** One anecdote concerned the worry of the anaesthesiologist when he had to have back surgery. Unsure of just how much to give him, the closest she could come up with would be to equate it to his alcohol tolerance. His response? "Two or three vodkas usually give me a buzz." "Shots?" "No, bottles."

*** 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.

* 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 believed to be Mongolians who crossed the Bering Strait land bridge.)