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|Skulldugger's version of ''Bully in the Alley''}}
He likes his liquor, and in large amounts. He may realize he has a problem, and get on and [[Off the Wagon]], or he may be a [[Drunken Master]], and this is merely a part of his 'training,' or a result of his -- 'skills.'
Sometimes, this character is merely [[Drowning My Sorrows|Drowning His Sorrows]], and will bounce back later in the series. Other times, he's been this way from the beginning and has no plans to stop anytime soon. Worried friends may try to help by [[Nailed to the Wagon|Nailing Him To The Wagon]], though this attempt at forcing him to go [[Going Cold Turkey|Cold Turkey]] isn't guaranteed to succeed.
In fiction (especially of a comedic nature) [[Pink Elephants]] is a common side effect of alcoholism.
[[Real Life]] alcoholics are not always lying in the gutter - sometimes they are just people who drink alone, or for the sake of drinking, but never appearing to drink to excess (due to tolerance). Hollywood, however, prefers the 'gutter' form as it is more obvious and pathetic than the man who wanders around the house with a glass in his hand, constantly in a mild stupor.
There is no known cure for alcoholism. Someone who has managed to quit the habit is considered a recovering alcoholic, and if committed to it, remains in whatever therapy he or she used to become sober. That said, there are people who quit without therapy, or who stay sober without therapy, as well as some (very) rare people who don't become sober but do become moderate and responsible drinkers; their mere existence is controversial to the point of [[Flame War]]s over whether they are "in denial" or if it really is possible to drink responsibly once having become addicted. Needless to say, this is ''not'' recommended.
The [[Always Female]] versions are [[Bottle Fairy]] and [[Lady Drunk]], but alcoholism is only one of her character traits.▼
▲The [[Always Female]] versions are [[
Compare [[Drunken Master]], [[Bottle Fairy]], [[Off the Wagon]], [[Beergasm]], [[Quick Nip]], [[I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!]]. Oddly, there are "alcoholics" [[Drunk on Milk|who can get drunk off of milk]]. [[The Teetotaler]] is his direct opposite.▼
▲Compare [[Drunken Master]], [[
'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]'''. It is quite enough to note that there are plenty of them.▼
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== Advertising ==▼
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▲== [[Advertising]] ==
* Berman, of the Magic Bullet infomercials, is quite obviously hungover when he stumbles into the kitchen. He's the drunk of the whole shebang.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Sumeragi Lee Noriega from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''.
* Quent Yaiden from ''[[Wolf's Rain]]''. I'm sure he's been mentioned in a similar context before.
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* Sylia Stingray from ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]] 2040'' is definitely abusing ''something.'' She's seen drinking pretty often, but might have a drug habit on the side.
* Arguably Kitsune in ''[[Love Hina]]'' - most of the time she's depicted either drinking or obviously drunk.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'':
** Latvia. Despite being too young to drink - [[Older Than They Look|in human age]]
** Denmark also definitely qualifies as this.
** As well as Russia.
* There are two notable examples is ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', both of whom are [[Drowning My Sorrows|drowning their sorrows]].
* While Happosai, one of the most consistently villainous characters in ''[[Ranma ½]]
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': Cana drinks thirty percent of the liquor from a giant barrel.
* Hiroshi's neglective father in ''[[Domu: A Child's Dream]]: A Child's Dream''. He does nothing but lie around his apartment intoxicated and that's why his wife and son left him.
* In ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'' Tadashi is nearly always seen drunk, drinking, or asking for more sake. It's shown to have seriously damaged his family.
* Mr Fujisawa from ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]''. He is even sad that he can only {{spoiler|have his fantastic strength
* {{spoiler|Mr Legend}} from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]''.
* [[Four-Star Badass|Cross Marian]] from ''[[D.Gray-man]]''.
* Jonouchi's father in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' was this ''and'' a gambling addict, leading to a divorce and likely why Jonouchi himself ended up hanging out with gangs.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has its share of bawdy, rowdy, beer-swilling types (it's an anime about pirates, after all) but few are as blatant about it as Vasco "Heavy Drinker" Shot, one of [[Big Bad|Blackbeard's]] crew. As if his ''nom de plume'' wasn't enough, this guy is literally ''never'' sober, always carrying a huge jug of sake on his back that he regularly drinks from. As rotten as any member of the crew, he once suggested invading a town simply to get more booze.
== Comic Books ==▼
▲== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Daniel Cross in ''[[Assassin's Creed:
* Howard Nissen from ''[[Give Me Liberty]]'', after having to deal with more than fifty separatist movements in the US and his mostly right-wing secretaries actively opposing him. Moretti may also be blamed.
* [[Spider-Man]] never touches liquor, but it's something that has had an effect on his supporting cast:
** Mary Jane's father was one, who abused his wife and possibly his daughters. Mary Jane's extroverted "party girl" personality was her way of coping.
** Flash Thompson's father was worse, and there was no question that he was an abusive husband and father. Flash himself had a bout with this, but managed to clean up his act.
** Electro had a father who was one, as did Dr. Octopus. Ock himself went through it after a nervous breakdown that left him destitute, and while no longer drinks heavily, is still often seen with cocktails while plotting evil schemes.
* This was the case with [[The Incredible Hulk| Bruce Banner's]] horribly abusive father, Brian. It contributed to his questionable mental state, rotten and violent temper, and giving his son a great deal of pent-up aggression that was the biggest factor in the birth of the Hulk.
* ''[[Iron Man]]''
** Tony Stark went through a serious alcohol problem in the comics, which was treated realistically and respectfully. But thanks to [[Never Live It Down]], this is the default portrayal of him in other media. In [[The Movie]], nearly every scene that's not a fight scene has him drinking an alcoholic beverage of some sort. As the sequel was partially an adaptation of the storyline ''dealing'' with the drinking problem, it was [[Foreshadowing]].
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{{quote|"Listen... but do you really think it is wise to knock back so many vodkas before you fly that thing?"
"Oh, absolutely, darling. In fact, it's really quite essential... I mean, who in their right mind's going to climb into it sober?". }}
* Katchoo in ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]''.
* Captain Haddock in ''[[Tintin]]''. The portrayal is horrifying in his first appearance - ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', where he's arguably more dangerous to Tintin than the baddies they're fighting. Although often the subject of jokes, readers are left in no doubt that it's an addiction and has terrible side effects not only on Haddock himself but everyone around him. It's also a running gag that he is so addicted to alcohol, he's incapable of drinking non-alcoholic drinks, especially water. Fortunately, his addiction slowly weakens during the course of the series thanks to a combination of [[Character Development]], horrible repercussions, and Tintin's efforts to keep him away from alcohol.
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* Heinz the punk from German comic ''[[Rudi]]''.
* Jack Point carries a hipflask of whiskey everywhere and drinks it at every available opportunity.
* As ''[[Gotham Central]]'' progresses Renee Montoya descends further and further into depression as she experiences the violence and corruption of the Gotham City Police Department. After being involuntarily [[Stalker with a Crush|outed by Two-Face]], forced to beat up a [[Corrupt Cop]] in order to get evidence to exonerate her falsely-implicated partner and experiencing [[Crapsack World|the general events of Gotham City]] she begins to drink heavily and grows increasingly violent. This is noticed by her girlfriend, Daria Hernandez, and her partner, Crispus Allen, and it looks like she might actually decide to get some counseling to deal with this issue...[[It Got Worse|when Crispus is murdered by Jim Corrigan who then]] ''[[It Got Worse|walks on the crime]]''. When her character returns in ''[[
* Often in combination with [[An Aesop]] in the stories of [[Wilhelm Busch]].
* In ''[[Asterix]] and Caesar's Gift'', Tremensdelirius, like other legionaries, is awarded a plot of land by Julius Caesar for twenty years of service. But since he spent all twenty of them drunk, Caesar decides to award him the title deed to a certain little Gaulish village. Tremensdelirius sells it to an innkeeper for more wine when he's broke.
* Inspector Gill of ''[[Fish Police (comics)|Fish Police]]''. This is even mentioned in one letters section, where a reader points out that Gill went a whole issue without drinking. Moncuse counters that by saying that the violence and sex in that issue make up for it.
== Fanfic ==▼
* Edward Elric (of all people) in ''[[Fullmetal Lol]]''
* ''[[
* In ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', Jim, aka the Waco Kid, ever since his Literal Ass Kicking. He gets better.
* ''[[Arthur (film)|Arthur]]'': Arthur Bach is one of the best-known [[Played for Laughs]] examples.
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* Daniel Plainview of ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''.
* Eddie (Walter Brennan) in ''[[To Have And Have Not]]''. He may be a rummy but he's a loyal, (fairly) brave rummy.
* In ''[[Khalnayak]]'', Ballu's [[Mommy Issues]] have led to him becoming this.
* [[The Sheriff]] in ''[[Bad Day
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* ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' gives us Haymitch, who is perpetually shown drunk or at least midly intoxicated, largely an effect of the horrors the Hunger Games he competed in. He is an alcoholic to the point where the main characters worry about him after police shut down the local liquor brewers.▼
▲* [[The Hunger Games]] gives us Haymitch, who is perpetually shown drunk or at least midly intoxicated, largely an effect of the horrors the Hunger Games he competed in. He is an alcoholic to the point where the main characters worry about him after police shut down the local liquor brewers.
* Sam Houston in ''[[Trail of Glory]]'' is shown as a high-functioning alcoholic, which he also was in real life.
* Harry Driscoll in Adam Davies' ''[[The Frog King]]''.
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* Commander Sam Vimes from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' is a recovering alcoholic, though he objects to the term (he was a drunk, he wasn't rich enough to be an alcoholic).
** In fact Vimes actually has a negative blood alcohol level, which means he has to drink to avoid being knurd. Colon estimated that he was two drinks under par and needed a stiff double just to be sober. Of course, he didn't always get the dose right.
** Also kind of a case of [[Never Live It Down]], since his history of drunkenness has been used
* ''[[Harry Potter]]''
** Winky the house elf, who being an elf gets drunk on butterbeer.
** And Professor Trelawney with her cooking sherry.
** [[Emotional Bruiser|Hagrid]] is heavily implied to be one. He swears at least once that he'll never drink again (it doesn't take), and the trio end up [[Man Child|taking care of him]] more than vice versa.
** It is implied that Sirius has a drinking problem in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Order of the Phoenix]]''.
* In the ''[[Night Watch]]''{{context|reason=That's a disambiguation page. Which one?}} series, there is a '''vast''' amount of booze consumed by all and sundry - in fact, in ''Night Watch'', there's an entire chapter devoted to all the Light characters having a massive drinking party. Then again, these ''are'' Russian books...
* Johnny Nolan in ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]''.
* Charles Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski. Most of Bukowski's novels are autobiographical, so it's pretty obvious that he really enjoyed beer by the bucketful.
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* Margo's father in [[Time Scout]]. He's the sort who's drinking away his troubles due to the death of an infant child.
* Huckleberry Finn's dad in both ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''.
* ''[[Harry Hole]]'', the protagonist in a series of crime thrillers by Norwegian Jo Nesbø. A detective in the Oslo Police Department, Harry is usually tolerated by his superiors and colleagues despite his habitual alcoholism and unorthodox methods because he is a brilliant detective.
* Bridget in ''[[Bridget Jones]]'s Diary'' seems to be heading for alcoholism (in the books
* In ''[[Devdas]]'', the titular character relies too much on [[Drowning My Sorrows]] after his childhood friend Paro gets married to someone else (because of [[Parental Marriage Veto]] concerning their [[Type Caste|social classes]]), and becomes this. {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|It leads to his demise, right at Paro's doorstep, and she's not even allowed to go see him.]]}}
* David and Simon from ''[[Haunted (1995 film)|Haunted 1988]]''. The former had cleaned up in the film version.
* Bertie's Uncle George in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' "discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought." Occasionally "his liver lodges a formal protest" and he goes to a healing center to get cleaned up, only to go back to drinking as soon as he returns to London.
* Kopalny, one of the mascots of the ''[[Top Secret (magazine)|Top Secret]]'' magazine, is a lovable bum who loves beer and has frequent hangovers, and spends most of the time complaining about having to work menial jobs around the office.▼
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* Garibaldi from ''[[Babylon 5]]''
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
▲* Garibaldi from ''[[Babylon 5]]'' - For most of the series, he avoids alcohol, except for a couple of occasions where he is either [[Drowning My Sorrows|drowning his sorrows]] or falling [[Off the Wagon]] due to intense job stress. Overall, through the course of five years, we only see it happen twice (albeit one occasion had it happen for half of season five, but some say that season [[Fanon Discontinuity|never happened anyways]].
▲* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'': Both Saul Tigh and his wife Ellen, especially in proximity to one another {{spoiler|though his biggest bout of drinking was on ''Galactica'' after he was forced to kill her on New Caprica}}. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is also referred to as a {very high-functioning) alcoholic both by other characters (there are repeated references to "not needing another Tigh onboard") and by the actress portraying her (Katee Sackhoff is quoted saying that Starbuck "drinks most of her calories").
* Dylan McKay in the original ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]''.
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' [[Girl Next Door|Penny]] is pretty well stated as having a difficult relationship with alcohol, binge drinking whenever sad or upset. When [[Nice Guy|Leonard]]'s mom, a cold psychiatrist, first came to visit she quickly psychoanalyzed Penny's insecurities and all the childhood issues Leonard had came to the forefront. Needless to say when Leonard was considering "turning to alcoholism as a career path" he visited Penny, who was all ready for downing shots. In the first half of season five it's implied Penny was depressed over her... [[All Love Is Unrequited|complicated]]... relationship [[UST|with Leonard]] and thus showed her to be drinking more often.
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* ''[[Mad Men]]'':
** Herman "Duck" Philips from is a recovering alcoholic. {{spoiler|Until, that is, Season 2's "Maidenform," when he falls [[Off the Wagon]] in the middle of his nasty divorce. While somewhat sympathetic and under control at first, the liquor gets the best of him, and by Season 4's "The Suitcase," he is a ''raging'' alcoholic and a ''massive'' dick, too.}}
** Freddy Rumsen, who once gets so drunk at work that he passes out and pees himself during a pitch to Samsonite. Naturally, he's fired (which doesn't do anything for his sobriety) and Peggy inherits his office (much to her chagrin, as Rumsen had been the first to notice her talent for copywriting) and his legendary office stash of booze.
** While Don Draper has been drinking like a fish since the beginning, he was never shown as really ''drunk'' (lubricated perhaps, but never ''hammered'') until Season 4 (in the wake of his divorce from Betty). After that, he's depicted as being sloshed at least every other episode, even to the point of puking in "The Suitcase." (Hm. That episode was about a Samsonite ad campaign. [[Wild Mass Guessing|Perhaps Samsonite=alcoholism to the writers]]?) At this point, it's fairly clear that we are witnessing Don Draper's [[The New Pornographers|Slow Descent Into Alcoholism]].
* Sam Malone on ''[[Cheers]]'' is a recovering one. By his own account, this is why his career as a pro baseball player was a failure, and he bought the bar before he stopped. At least one episode focused on something stupid he did in the past while drunk.
* Kitty Forman on ''[[That '70s Show]]'' is a borderline case; she drinks a lot, but never gets completely wasted.
* Abby Lockhart on ''[[ER]]''
* Walter Findlay on ''[[Maude]]''
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* Calamity Jane on ''[[Deadwood]]''. Al also drinks a whole damn lot.
* Karen Walker of ''Will and Grace.''
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': A significant portion of Xander's family are either directly stated or implied to be alcoholic. Of course, being the [[Butt Monkey]], he's sort of contractually obligated to have a [[Family Disunion|family]] of
* ''[[Angel]]'': The term is never overtly used but while all the characters have a reason to [[Drowning My Sorrows|drown their sorrows]] mid-series, Wesley is the one who doesn't stop. The latter half of series 5 has the gang mentioning with increasing frequency just how heavily Wesley is drinking. It's also implied that Wesley's fully aware it's becoming a problem.
* Woody from ''[[Mad Dogs]]''.
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* Adam on ''[[Girls (TV series)|Girls]]'' is a recovering alcoholic who has been attending AA meetings since age 17.
* While never explicitly stated, [[Star Trek]] has two likely examples:
** Scotty's solution to distracting an alien that takes over the ship in the episode ''By Any Other Name'' is to have a drinking contest with him, during which it's shone that he hides booze in his quarters. Upon finding himself in the 24th century, one of the first things he does is find Ten Forward (''Enterprise's' bar) and berate the bartender for serving poor quality scotch.
** Dr. McCoy often prescribes alcohol to his patents, seems to store booze in sickbay, and prepares beans with bourbon.
▲== Magazines ==
▲* Kopalny, one of the mascots of the ''[[Top Secret (magazine)|Top Secret]]'' magazine, is a lovable bum who loves beer and has frequent hangovers, and spends most of the time complaining about having to work menial jobs around the office.
== Music ==▼
* [[Alice Cooper]] was a massive alcoholic at the height of his career. He said on ''[[Top Gear]]'' that after he vomited up blood, he'd decided it was time to stop.
* [[Elvis Costello]]'s "Beyond Belief" is very clearly being narrated by someone on the verge of a drunken stupor: "So in this almost empty gin palace / In a two-way looking glass, you see your Alice." The singer himself once got into serious trouble because of remarks he made while inebriated. The lyrics to "Man out of Time" are also noticeably booze-sodden: "You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning.
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* [[Kid Rock]] has shown up drunk to recording sessions.
* Shane MacGowan, founder, songwriter, and lead singer of [[The Pogues]], is ''legendary'' for his drunken performances, self-destructive behaviour, dental problems, and almost-miraculous ability to stay alive despite doing things that would have killed any normal man. Basically, he has been drinking heavily pretty much nonstop since about 1970 or so. His alcoholism got so bad that The Pogues ''threw him out of the band'' in 1991, not wanting to put up with his crap anymore. They didn't acquiesce to working with him again for another ''ten years''. A lot of his songs make heavy reference to alcoholism, in all its various forms.
* [[X Japan]]. Almost everyone out of the band (aside from vocalist [[Toshimitsu Deyama|Toshi]], who by almost all accounts [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]) is legendary for their alcohol problems: late guitarist [[Hideto Matsumoto|hide]] died in part from his alcoholism in a drunken accidental suicide, bandleader/drummer/pianist [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki]] is well known for being
* Gary Stead, from the Saint Etienne [[Concept Album]] ''Tales From Turnpike House''. He spends most of the album as a comedy alcoholic in the Barney Gumble mould (in "Milk Bottle Symphony" he "staggers downstairs with a heavy head", i.e. a hangover), but eventually "Last Orders For Gary Stead" reveals him to be [[Drowning His Sorrows]] over an awkward divorce.
* The unnamed subject of Richard Thompson's [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|bitter]], [[Tear Jerker|brilliant]] "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-noSz2XsIY God Loves A Drunk]." Notable for the balance of the
* The narrator in [[Bob Dylan]]'s "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" may or may not be, as might the narrator in "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again." The narrator in "Moonshiner" definitely is.
* [[Metallica]] used to be called "Alcoholica". James Hetfield even had to enter a rehab facility, but he has been sober ever since. As insane as it is, [[Megadeth|Dave Mustaine]], who used to be in Metallica, was kicked out of the band because of his drinking problem. '''James Hetfield''' fired him for drinking too much. Part of the problem though, was simply Mustaine's behavior when drunk, as he was apparently a quite violent drunk, while the other members would be more withdrawn under the influence.
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* Swedish rocker [[Eddie Meduza]]. He was known for his "party hard" lifestyle, which spiraled into full-blown alcoholism in the '80s. Eventually he cleaned up his act in the '90s after doctors told him he would die if he had another drink. Unfortunately he couldn't keep it up and relapsed, which led to his death in 2002. Many of his later songs sarcastically "praise" the "joys" of being drunk all the time.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
== Professional Wrestling ==▼
* One arc in ''[[Bloom County]]'' from the 80s has Budweiser mascot Spuds MacKenzie as a Presidential candidate until a DUI incident reveals a drinking problem "of previously unspecified seriousness", reported as he drinks an entire keg; to make it worse, witnesses confirmed he was drinking Heineken beer (rather than Budweiser, the brand he advertises). Eventually he checks himself into the Betty Ford Clinic (sharing a room with [[Mr. Ed]]), only to be kicked out for smuggling beer in.
* Scott Hall in [[WCW]] and later [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]. That his real-life drinking problem was played for laughs left a bad taste in many viewers' mouths.
* [[Andre the Giant]] was notorious for his ability to drink somewhere in the region of 7,000 calories of booze each day. Thing is, being a giant, it took INSANE amounts of booze to get him
* [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]].
* [[Jake Roberts]]: During his original run in the World Wrestling Federation, substance abuse problems began to mount for "The Snake," and came to a head ''after'' he left the organization. By 1996, he returned, having cleaned up and was now depicting himself as a born-again Christian who had left the bottle behind. A feud was created around his newfound sobriety, with [[Jerry Lawler]] playing the shameless antagonist. Lawler – then a mean-spirited, arrogant heel – constantly mocked Roberts and alleged that he had shown up at events under the influence. Roberts eventually had enough and [[Playing Drunk|eventually came to the arena "drunk"]] to lower Lawler's guard.
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* Jackie "The Jokeman" Martling, Artie Lange, and especially Jeff the Drunk of ''[[Howard Stern|The Howard Stern Show]]''.
* Comedy pair [[Hudson and Landry]] featured a few skits involving drunks making phone calls. Their best known skit is about a already hammered drunk ordering ''more'' liquor.
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{{quote|'''Jack:''' One of the judges for this year's Beer Festival was our very own Barry Cryer. Barry sampled several dozens of different lagers, a variety of beers, and one or two champagnes, and as such, never made it to the festival.}}
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* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': Ligniere. He dislikes orange juice and milk, only stays at the theater to drink four glasses of wine, he happily retires to betake again his pet vice in a tavern, and when Christian tries to save him for a trap, he’s advised to left notice to Ligniere at five different taverns.
* Doc Delaney, in William Inge's ''[[Come Back Little Sheba]]''.
* The title character of [[PDQ Bach]]'s ''The Stoned Guest'', whose voice type is described as "basso blotto."
* Eric in ''[[An Inspector Calls]]'' is frequently "squiffy". It's obvious to most of his family, but his mother's in total denial about it.
* Sir Toby Belch in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', a comic relief character who is almost always drunk. He is known to retain a snarky, witty attitude even when intoxicated.
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* In ''[[Max Payne 2]]'' it is revealed that former deputy police chief Bravura is a recovering alcoholic, and he offers to take the protagonist to meetings with him. It isn't made clear if he is merely misreading Payne's survivor's guilt or if Max actually has a problem. The upcoming third installment seems to portray Max as being a full blown substance abuser.
* Mr. Galloway of ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' who is also arguably the coolest teacher in the game.
* Part of the first quest in ''[[Fable|Fable 2]]'' is returning a drunk's lost bottle. The 'good choice' is to give it to his wife, who's trying to make him quit, while the 'evil' one is giving it back to him.
* Granin in [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]. To the point that he divulges Sokolov's location to Snake while intoxicated.
* Gen of ''[[
* Players of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' could speculate that the jug of sake hanging from [[Badass|Auron's]] belt was well used.
** Jecht is a better example: Tidus mentions having trouble remembering a time when he ''wasn't'' drunk. This apparently ended when he stabbed a shoopuf in a drunken panic (he thought it was a fiend); after Braska was forced to give the animal's handler all their money, Jecht never drank again. (You can find a recording of the aftermath of the incident around the same area where it happened.)
* In the first ''[[Diablo]]'' game, there was Farnham the Drunk, a comedic character who actually had a tragic side to him; he had to watch most of his friends get slaughtered during a raid in the dungeons. In the sequel, there's Geglash in Act II. While he is played for comedy, he is also an experienced fighter, and Atma notes that he has been drinking more than usual since the 'troubles' began.
* Kenshin Uesugi in ''[[Samurai Warriors]]''. Depending on who you ask, [[Truth in Television|real life as well!]]
* The [[Boisterous Bruiser|mouthy]] Demoman of [[Team Fortress 2]] seems to be [[Drunken Master|perpetually drunk on the battlefield]]. His default melee weapon is even a [[Grievous Bottley Harm|scrumpy bottle!]] Interestingly, the comics imply that he's a perfectly reasonable guy while sober... [[Hilarious in Hindsight|which means that he's]] ''[[Hilarious in Hindsight|always]]'' [[Hilarious in Hindsight|drunk off his ass in-game.]]
{{quote|'''Demoman''': (on sudden death) ''Thankfully, I already don't remember this.''}}
* Sleip of ''[[Blaze Union]]''. She doesn't fit into the [[Always Female]] versions at
* Oghren in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'' and the expansion, Awakening. His alcoholism seems to have started as a way of [[Drowning My Sorrows]]. Oghren used to be a renowned warrior and his wife was named a Paragon, the greatest honour a dwarf can ever achieve. When she left him and set off into the Deep Roads, however, things went downhill.
** Depending on the choices you make in the game, {{spoiler|Alistair}} may become one as well.
* ''[[Touhou]]'': Gensokyo's resident drunkards, [[Bottle Fairy|Suika]] [[Pettanko|Ibuki]] and [[Boisterous Bruiser|Yuugi Hoshiguma]].
** And, to an extent, the series's creator ZUN as well. Pictures of him are hard to find. Pictures of him ''without'' some form of alcohol are nonexistent.
* Jim Raynor in ''[[
* The eponymous character of ''[[
* Grayson Hunt of ''[[Bulletstorm]]'' is a revenge-obsessed drunkard. The player can decide to take Ishi's threat to kill him if he starts again to heart, by shooting the bottles of alcohol you see.. or taking a drink, and getting point bonuses for killing enemies while drunk.
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'': The one thing that all of the dwarfs have in common is that they 'need alcohol to get through the working day'. Almost everything else will vary between them (including what they like, what they hate, their personality traits, etc.), but alcohol is their default drink of choice (though, that said, the ''type'' of alcohol that they like best also varies).
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'''Baofu:''' The best wines are those that are treated well, but ultimately become spoiled or bad if misused over time. It's the same with humans. }}
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* In the [[Shared Universe]] of ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]'' and ''[[Helluva Boss]]'', it comes as no surprise that substance abuse is common, [[Hell|given the setting.]]
** In ''Hazbin Hotel'', Husk, a cat-demon recruited by Alaster; he is easily bribed into Charlie's employ with cheap booze.
** Stolas, most likely due to the stress of his loveless marriage to Stella. The ''Helluva Boss'' episode "The Circus" shows him drinking absinthe right out of the bottle. To make it worse, he is also taking antidepressants.
** Blitzo (the [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''Helluva Boss'') shows this when he is depressed in "Queen Bee", drinking far too much at the night club which prompts the host (who claims to be Satan's protege) to actually tell Loona to take him home. Blitzo is incredibly sick afterwards.
** Verosika was in treatment for a drinking problem after breaking up with Blitzo; seeing as she is still drinking when she appears in "Spring Broken", it seems the treatment was a failure.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Hazel from ''[[Girls with Slingshots]]'' is often drinking or drunk. She writes all of her articles smashed. Occasionally [[Lampshaded]] when she gets so drunk she forgets what happened, or realizes how common intoxication is for her. Such as when she "levels up" her faux sober threshold to ''nine'' beers.
* Kyotoshi Lypha from ''[[Inhuman]]'', starting after his parents were killed in a planet-wide massacre. His fridge contains only vodka and a clean, folded towel.
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* Decoy Octopus in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]''.
* Nitrous Blight of [[Zokusho Comics]] could head this way if he's not careful. He is a powerful telepath and alcohol is one of the few ways to dull the volume of the thoughts of others.
* Graham in ''[[Wizard School]]'' is abducted to the Academy after a drunken bender - and is immediately [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105012528/http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1307 asking small children to summon alcohol for him.]
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Danielbeast in ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' became an alcoholic at one point, as a result of trying to drown his sorrows.
* Glitch, of the [[Whateley Universe]], who's obviously alcoholic, and a sophomore in high school. He blames his parents for all his problems.
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* ''[[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]]'' has a bar for setting. The host has replaced his book with [[A Glass of Chianti]].
* In the "Ask Jack" video from the ''[[The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon]]'' series, Jack reveals that the reason he is still fat despite running from the Ginosaji for years is because he's developed eating and drinking problems to cope with the insanity. During the segment he's trying to eat a plate of spaghetti and drink a glass of wine while the Ginosaji is still slowly beating him to death with a spoon.
* In ''[[RWBY]]'' {{spoiler|Ruby and Yang's Uncle Qrow}} constantly drinks on-screen and has been described as ''always'' drunk. {{spoiler|(However, it appears that the events of late Volume 6 might have changed this.)}}
** Willow Schnee, Weiss's mother, is an alcoholic -- more than one snide or disapproving comment is made about it. When she finally appears on screen in Volume 7, she seems to be something between this and a [[Functional Alcoholic]].
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* The titular character of ''[[Archer]]'' claims that if he were to stop drinking, the cumulative hangover would kill him. His mother, Malory, is just as bad, frequently seen drinking cocktails herself.
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', robots are alcoholics by default, as alcohol works as their fuel. However, they stumble around as if they were drunk when they're sober... and at other times (particularly in earlier episodes) they are portrayed binge-drinking human style. Bender himself speaks with a mild slur at all times.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|"You've been drinking too much! Or not enough. I forget how it works with you."]]
** "I don't ''need'' to drink, I can quit any time I want."
** "Bender, you're blind stinking ''sober''!"
** Played straight and for laughs [[Black Comedy]], of course) on one of [[Kent Brockman News|Morbo and Linda's newscasts]]:
* Miriam Pataki from ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' is a textbook example, though mainly off screen. On screen all she wants is a "smoothie".▼
{{quote|'''Morbo:''' Our top story, all alcohol on Earth has mysteriously disappeared. Consequences are minimal, except among the most hardened alcoholics. Linda?
''(Camera zooms out, showing that Linda is obviously going through horrible withdrawal symptoms.)''
'''Linda:''' I CAN NO LONGER FACE MY CHILDREN! ''(Sobs as Morbo tries to comfort her.)''}}
▲* Miriam Pataki from ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' is a textbook example, though mainly off screen. On screen all she wants is a "smoothie".
* The title character of ''[[BoJack Horseman]]'' is a jerk, he hates himself, and is almost always drunk. Despite the fact that, being a 1,200 pound [[Funny Animal]] horse, he has a far higher tolerance level than a human, something he himself has stated. [[At Least I Admit It| But at least he never denies it.]]
* Clay Puppington in ''[[Moral Orel]]''. And how!
* The entire band Dethklok in ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', but particularly Pickles the drummer. Alcoholism and drug use is such a heavy part of Pickles's past and personality that when his former bandmates headlined a [[Straight Edge]]-esque concert with a new singer, he was mortally offended and vowed to crash the concert.
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'':
** Brian Griffin is rarely seen without a glass of something in his hand. In comparison he is probably worse than Peter - Peter usually goes out drinking for fun with friends, but Brian often drinks alone, or to 'drown sorrows', or for the sake of drinking.
** Peter Griffin of occasionally.
* Rick, from ''[[Rick and Morty]]''. It's a rare occasion for him ''not'' to be drunk, but the times when he's ''truly'' plastered are when he stops being a jerk and starts being a truly ''evil'' jerk; his very small level of sobriety the likely reason he has yet to become a full-fledged super-villain. In fact, the very first scene in ''the pilot episode'' consists of a so-drunk-he-can-barely-stand Rick trying to wipe out humanity with a "neutrino bomb", nearly succeeding until Morty beats some sense into him. And ''then'' the opening credits start...
** Beth has it too, clearly having learned it from Rick, but she's not as bad.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]''
** Homer Simpson. He can consume more beer (leading into excessive intoxication obviously) more than [[Family Guy|Peter]] can.
** Barney Gumble appears worse than Homer, but is often seen trying to overcome his
** Lionel Hutz is shown to have a pretty severe drinking problem on occasion.
{{quote|"Mrs. Simpson claims she forgot she had this bottle of sweet, Kentucky Bourbon... brownest of the brown liquors... What's that? You want me to drink you? But I'm in the middle of a trial! ...Excuse me! (runs out of courtroom)}}
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* Pickles of ''[[The Oblongs]]''
* Uncle Waldo from ''[[The Aristocats]]''. He is first seen being chased out of a restaurant as an attempt to avoid being killed and eaten as part of a dish called "Prime Country Goose a la Provencale" that apparantly involved him being "stuffed with chestnuts and basted in white wine." And because of the latter, Uncle Waldo actually became ''extremely'' drunk as a result of this.
* Captain K'Nuckles of ''[[The
* ''[[My Little Pony:
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