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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
[[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.
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The [[Always Female]] versions are [[Bottle Fairy]] and [[Lady Drunk]], but alcoholism is only one of her character traits.
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
'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]'''. It is quite enough to note that there are plenty of them.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Sumeragi Lee Noriega from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''.
* Quent Yaiden from ''[[
* Yoshiyuki's father from ''[[Deep Love]]''.
* To some extent, Major Katsuragi in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. In the second episode, Shinji observes her fridge contains fifty gallons of beer.
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** Denmark also definitely qualifies as this.
** As well as Russia.
* There are two notable examples is ''[[Monster (
* While Happosai, one of the most consistently villainous characters in ''[[Ranma ½]] 1/2'', is better known for his [[Dirty Old Man|other appetites]], he's also quite a boozehound when the opportunity arises. When your students' first plan to finally kill you is to feed you several barrels of sake, then seal you up inside one and throw it and some dynamite into a cave that they then block with a [[Zig Zag Tassle]] boulder... and it ''works''... you've got a drinking problem.
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': Cana drinks thirty percent of the liquor from a giant barrel.
* Hiroshi's neglective father in ''[[Domu]]: 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
* {{spoiler|Mr Legend}} from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]''.
* [[Four-Star Badass|Cross Marian]] from [[D
== Comic Books ==
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** Of course, there's a secondary reason for Ultimate!Stark's alcoholism: he has an inoperable brain tumor that will kill him in under five years, which means he must be dealing with some massive migraines.
* Katchoo in ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]''.
* Captain Haddock in ''[[Tintin
* In ''[[Watchmen]]'', the Mothman's alcoholism gets so bad that he is eventually committed to a sanitarium. This would not have been unusual for the time period, though.
* In ''[[PVT Murphy's Law]]'', a brigade of troops coming back from a long deployment overseas find themselves craving alcohol so badly that back in the US, a beer company executive [[Catapult Nightmare|bolts upright in bed]] because he can feel a [[Star Wars|great disturbance in the force.]] This has actually happened ''[[Running Gag|twice]]'' in the comic so far.
* Heinz the punk from German comic ''[[
* 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
* 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 (
== Fanfic ==
* Edward Elric (of all people) in ''[[
* ''[[Ponies Make War (Fanfic)|Ponies Make War]]'' has [[Only Known
== Film ==
* In ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', Jim, aka the Waco Kid, ever since his Literal Ass Kicking. He gets better.
* ''[[Arthur (
* Tom Reagan from ''[[
* Dexter in ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]''.
* Uncle Tadpole in ''[[
* Jack Torrance from ''[[The Shining]]''. Tried to stay on the wagon but the haunted hotel kept throwing him parties with ghost booze that worked like the real stuff.
* The king of this trope is Withnail from ''[[Withnail and I]]''
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* Don Birnam in ''[[The Lost Weekend]]''.
* Deckard in ''[[Blade Runner]]''.
* ''[[Iron Man
* The lead couple in ''[[Film/Days Of Wine And Roses|Days Of Wine And Roses]]''. When they meet, she won't touch the stuff, but then he finds an alcoholic drink she likes (he already has a bit of a problem). By the end of the movie, they've both hit bottom. He dries out, but she doesn't.
* Ben Sanderson in ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]'' is purposefully drinking himself to death.
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* ''[[In the Bleak Midwinter]]'' featured Carnforth Greville, an actor frequently seen leaving rehearsal under various suspicious pretexts.
{{quote| "Chaps, I'm just dipping down to the... post office for a quick... [[Unusual Euphemism|stamp.]]"}}
* Laurie Strode in ''[[Halloween (
* Implied with Frank in ''[[Mystery Team]]''.
* In ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'', Doctor Parnassus has kept himself perpetually blotto ever since the death of his wife.
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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.
* Sam Houston in ''[[
* Harry Driscoll in Adam Davies' ''[[The Frog King]]''.
* The protagonist of Russian novel ''[[Moscow Petushki]]'' by Venedikt Erofeev.
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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 {{spoiler|[[Discworld
* ''[[Harry Potter]]''
** Winky the house elf, who being an elf gets drunk on butterbeer.
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* Cat from the ''[[Night Huntress]]'' books has [[Never Gets Drunk|high alcohol tolerance]], and drinks gin like water. She also [[I Need a Freaking Drink|needs a freaking drink]] more often than is really healthy; Bones comments that her gin bottle is like a security blanket for her.
* Several characters from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. Cersei becomes one over the course of the series, which is part of the reason Jaime finds her increasingly repulsive. Sandor Clegane has long been one, and even in the second book is rarely seen sober; in the third book, he basically wanders around getting drunk when and wherever possible (with a ten-year-old in tow, no less). {{spoiler|It's his [[Fatal Flaw|downfall]]. Turns out it's kind of hard to fight when you're that drunk.}}
* Athos of ''[[The Three Musketeers (
* In ''[[The League of Peoples Verse|Expendable]]'', former Explorer Phylar Tobit is an alcoholic. Festina is disgusted by him, but also secretly feels somewhat envious. All Explorers receive psychological conditioning to make them fastidiously clean and tidy; in becoming a stinking drunkard, Phylar has managed to overcome that programming and in a way beat the system.
* Haymitch Abernathy in ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', who started drinking pretty much after he won The Hunger Games because he lost his friend and ally in it. Oh, and his family soon after.
* Marmeladov in ''[[
* Played for cynical effect in ''The Black Cat''. An alcoholic protagonist kills his black cat in an insane manner, and later kills his wife when he's hunting for another black cat with little to no remorse.
* Stag Preston in ''[[
* Sydney Carton in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'', which, despite being one of his many [[Butt Monkey|fall-backs]], a drink or two <s> or twenty</s> causes him to [[Drunken Master|work more efficiently.]]
* Renzo Leoni in ''[[A Thread of Grace]]'' occasionally gets so drunk that he'll pass out in the bed of a strange woman and has to check the fabric of his clothes and the class of woman to remind himself which fake identity he had adopted the night before. He's still a charismatic and effective resistance leader.
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* ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'': Thomas Jerome Newton is an [[Alien Among Us]] who becomes one over the course of the work.
* Richard Lopez of ''[[Ship Breaker]]'' is an extreme alcoholic, who is almost constantly drunk. Of course he's also a [[Drugs Are Bad|drug-addicted]] [[Archnemesis Dad]] and an [[Axe Crazy]] [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] so this is honestly the least of his problems.
* Margo's father in [[
* 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 anyway -- it's less clear in the movies). One of her New Year's resolutions is to drink no more than 14 "units" of alcohol a ''week''.
* 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
* Bertie's Uncle George in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (
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* 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.
** Raj didn't drink before the series began but mid season one learned that he was able to overcome his "can't talk to women" issues with a bit of a buzz. For the most part he manages okay, but being introduced to alcohol gave way to occasional problems with it.
* Victor from German crime comedy ''[[Dr. Psycho]]''. It is the main thing he and psychiatrist Max clash about, but after {{spoiler|someone gets shot}} while Victor is drunk on duty, his police colleagues chime in with Max as well.
* Dr. Noah Drake from ''[[General Hospital]]'', who was [[Put
** Luke Spencer has been drinking non stop for years and years. It only recently became a full-blown problem when he {{spoiler|ran over his grandson.}}
* Jinx in ''[[In Plain Sight]]''
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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.<br /><br />After this incident, Rumsen was [[Put
** 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.
* Kitty Forman on ''[[That
* Abby Lockhart on ''[[ER]]''
* Walter Findlay on ''[[Maude]]''
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* Bernard Black from ''[[Black Books]]''.
* Damn near everyone on ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]''.
* Everyone from ''[[
** So much so that when one of the characters thinks to put boxed wine in soda cans for public consumption, everyone thinks it's a ''[[Played for Laughs|great idea]]''.
* Eddie of ''[[Bottom]]'', who cheerfully drinks Old Spice, cooking oil, and bleach. Note to reader: Only one of these things actually contains alcohol, and only one of these things is supposed to be edible. They are not the same thing.
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* Ned The Wino on ''[[Good Times]]'' and Woodrow Anderson on ''[[Sanford and Son]]'': they were played by the same person.
* Jim Lahey's character trait in ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]'', albeit not the only example. At one point, Ray was desperate enough to pull the copper pipes from his walls to sell for booze money, and he always has prodigious stacks of empties lying around. Julian is rarely seen without a rum and Coke in his hand. Ricky never misses an occasion to get drunk, either.
* Patsy and Edina on ''[[Absolutely Fabulous
* This is one of Ted Altman's many personality flaws on ''[[Intelligence]]''. Rarely does an episode go by that he is not seen drinking, even once.
* Every one of the Riggins men in ''[[Friday Night Lights]]'' . Dad Walt Riggins and his sons Billy and Tim are all frequently shown drunk, drinking or hungover.
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* ''[[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 [[The Alcoholic|drunken]] [[Jerkass|assholes.]] Who are implied to be even [[Parental Neglect|more]] [[Parental Abandonment|unpleasant.]]
* ''[[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 ''[[
* Example from ''[[Community]]'', Shirley's backstory before she came to Greendale is shown to be partly this trope.
* Dave Attell in ''[[Insomniac
* Clive in ''[[
* 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.
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== Magazines ==
* Kopalny, one of the mascots of the ''[[Top Secret (
== Music ==
* [[
* [[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.
* [[
* [[
* 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 [[The Alcoholic]] (and a rather destructive one), ex-bassist [[Taiji Sawada|Taiji]] has had to be hospitalized for alcoholism-related problems, and rhythm/second guitarist [[Tomoaki Ishizuka|Pata]] is sadly well known for being an alcoholic.
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* 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 portrayal--while drunkenness itself is portrayed very harshly, the titular drunk is treated quite sympathetically and gets to do his own lashing out against the banal nature of the life he's escaping.
* 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
* [[Tom Waits]] professed to alcoholism earlier in his career: songs like "[[Drunken Song|The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)]]" and "[[Drowning My Sorrows|Bad Liver & A Broken Heart]]" are semi-biographical.
{{quote| "I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk. I ended up telling myself to cut that shit out."}}
* From [[Savatage]]'s ''[[Streets:
* [[Billy Joel]]'s "Piano Man" is steeped in alcohol. Every other line is about someone drinking. Most evocative songs about alcoholism are written from the point of view of alcoholics. Not this one; it marries insight with acerbic detachment: the piano player is the outsider just making a living in a den of drunks.
* 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.
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* Phil Harris portrayed himself this way on ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]''; once even claiming that he only drank so Jack would have something to joke about.
** Beyond Harris, the entire band was portrayed as being a bunch of drunken reprobates, particularly guitarist Frank Remly.
* Barry Cryer is seen as this by everyone else on ''[[
{{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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* 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 (
* 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 [[
{{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 all--she's young, she's cutesy, she's [[Ms. Fanservice]], and she's ''very'' resistant to the idea of sobering up.
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** 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 ''[[Starcraft II]]'', in reaction to what he feels is his role in Kerrigan being turned into the Queen of Blades. Matt Horner apparently has to clean up after him a lot.
* The eponymous character of ''[[
* Grayson Hunt of ''[[
* ''[[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).
* Baofu from ''[[Persona 2]]: Eternal Punishment'' always enjoyed tipping a few back. With him, alcohol is integrated as a philosophy and as a way to know a real person as "the truth can be seen in a shot glass". An example below:
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== Web Comics ==
* Hazel from ''[[Girls
* 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.
* Faye Whittaker in ''[[Questionable Content]]''. Almost everyone in ''[[Questionable Content]]'' drinks frequently (like a lot of 20-somethings) but Faye is the only one whose pointed out to take it to excess.
* ''[[Out There]]'': One of the most common settings is Sherry's bar, but only Clayton fits the trope. Miriam is more accurately described as a [[Bottle Fairy]], and none of the other characters seem particularly dedicated to the task.
* ''[[
* ''[[String Theory (
* ''[[No Need for Bushido]]'' has Ken, who, after running out of sake in the middle of a battle, decides to go maul an enemy camp and take their supply. He then proceeds to do this several more times until he get so drunk he falls unconscious, and when he regains consciousness, he finds he's run out yet again and goes out for some more.
* ''[[Elf Blood]]'' has Shanna, who was constantly depicted drinking alcohol in the earlier sections of the comic. She doesn't appear to suffer any deleterious effects from her condition though, or at least none that have been shown yet.
* Lyle Gabriel from ''[[Achewood]]'' is nearly always drunk and usually blitzed well beyond the point of coherence. It gets less comedic as time goes on; later strips depict him as being unable to function if he doesn't drink constantly.
* Taisei from ''[[
* 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 ''[[
== Web Original ==
* Danielbeast in ''[[
* Glitch, of the [[Whateley Universe]], who's obviously alcoholic, and a sophomore in high school. He blames his parents for all his problems.
* Arthur's mother in ''[[Theatrica]]'' who {{spoiler|falls of a roof, pissed, and dies}}.
* During her review of ''[[
* Harley Morenstein of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Ask That Guy With
* 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.
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** 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)}}
* Roger of ''[[
* Pickles of ''[[The Oblongs]]''
* Uncle Waldo from ''[[
* Captain K'Nuckles of ''[[The Mis Adventures of Flapjack]]'' comes off as this, always needing a pick me up or becoming wasted at the Candy Barrel.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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