Never Gets Drunk: Difference between revisions

=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===

* [[Star Trek|Spock]] himself is a mix of types 1 and 3 of this.

'''Jamie:''' Sorry, bub! }}

** Jamie ''is'' drunk, medically speaking. His mannerisms just don't change...much. They do change a bit, though; in the Driving Blind myth, after having a few drinks, his first suggestion to the blind driver is "floor it!", and he doesn't guide the blind driver as well as he did when sober. To clarify: when Jamie was sober, the blind driver did okay; when Jamie (but ''not'' the driver) was drunk, the blind driver drove ''as if'' he was drunk.

* Two episodes of ''[[Darker than Black]]'' revolve around how [[Blessed with Suck]] type 3 can be if you [[I Need a Freaking Drink|really, really need to get drunk]]—Huang has an extremely high tolerance for alcohol and it takes a ''lot'' of alcohol to get him drunk, which is a problem when he's had a life so crappy that being able to [[Drowning My Sorrows|Drown Your Sorrows]] would be a blessing.

* 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.

* In [[Suzumiya Haruhi]], Nagato seems resistant or immune to alcohol. Not shown in the anime, due to rules against drinking, but shown in the light novels (Kyon noted that she drank champagne "like a whale") and made very obvious in the manga, where Koizumi asks her if she can really handle that amount. The justification is that she's not really human, so the likelihood is she's 3b rather than 3a.

* 3a: [[Trigun|Vash the Stampede]] only appears to get a hangover after downing "a few dallons" (let's just say a lot of bottles) the previous night, and what happens while he's drunk? His shooting ''gets better'' because his stupor actually ''interferes'' with his [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. That said, he seems just fine a little later, and in another scene in an earlier episode, after an apparent big bash, he appears to snap to sobriety quite quickly once they put him to bed, so it's hard to say just how much of his drunkenness is an act.

* ''[[Supernatural]]'': Castiel downs a half dozen shots in a row and calmly says "I think I'm starting to feel something." It's later discovered that he ''can'' get drunk, but it's when his angel-fu is largely drained away, and he needs to drink an entire liquor store to accomplish it.

{{quote|'''Dean:''' Where the hell have you been?

'''Cas''': And I DRANK IT. }}

* Being a vampire, Nikola Tesla of ''[[Sanctuary]]'' is immune to the effects of alcohol. Ironically, he drinks MORE once he gets {{spoiler|devamped}}.

=== Tabletop Games ===

* 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.

** For example of how these things usually go, one short story had a group of [[Space Wolf|Space Wolves]]<ref>Space Vikings, essentially</ref> skulling ''prodigous'' amounts of alcohol, non-stop, only for one to suddenly pause, hiccup and finally collapse to the floor, where he began snoring loudly. The lord's response?

{{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]].

** In 3rd Edition, druids got the same immunity. Dwarves resist alcohol pretty well in all versions of the game to date.

 

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