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* ''Fanfic/AsYouWish'': Aizawa turns to drinking after finding out the bulk of students he expelled were either villains, imprisoned, drugged out bums or dead. Midnight and Present Mic find him with several strewn, empty bottles of booze covered in filth.
* ''Fanfic/AsYouWish'': Aizawa turns to drinking after finding out the bulk of students he expelled were either villains, imprisoned, drugged out bums or dead. Midnight and Present Mic find him with several strewn, empty bottles of booze covered in filth.
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* [[spoiler:Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
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** [[spoiler:Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
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** [[spoiler:Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
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* ''Fanfic/TheAccidentalWarlordAndHisPack'': Zofia, who never before spent any of her coin on alcohol, turns to trying to drink away the image of her sister's corpse and stops socializing with anyone on or off the job after her sister is murdered.
* ''Fanfic/TheAccidentalWarlordAndHisPack'': Zofia, who never before spent any of her coin on alcohol, turns to trying to drink away the image of her sister's corpse and stops socializing with anyone on or off the job after her sister is murdered.
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* ''Fanfic/AMothToAFlame'':
** Chapter 11 reveals that Anne's mother took to drinking to help cope with her disappearance, until one day she had a total breakdown and her husband convinced her to see a therapist, which helped her get past it.
** Chapter 15 shows that Marcy's mom has similarly turned to alcohol to handle things.
* ''Fanfic/AMothToAFlame'':
** Chapter 11 reveals that Anne's mother took to drinking to help cope with her disappearance, until one day she had a total breakdown and her husband convinced her to see a therapist, which helped her get past it.
** Chapter 15 shows that Marcy's mom has similarly turned to alcohol to handle things.
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* Kiryu Fudo Nagare of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14213158/1/Mobile-Suit-Gundam-SEED-Paradox Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Paradox]]'' is a high-functioning alcoholic that his drinking had become his coping mechanism for his [[ShellShockedVeteran post-traumatic stress disorder]] from his harrowing ordeals in the BadFuture, he has no problem drinking too much until he dies. Chapter 11 takes it a more extreme levels to the point he nearly suffered from alcohol poisoning.
* Kiryu Fudo Nagare of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14213158/1/Mobile-Suit-Gundam-SEED-Paradox Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Paradox]]'' is a high-functioning alcoholic that his drinking had become his coping mechanism for his [[ShellShockedVeteran post-traumatic stress disorder]] from his harrowing ordeals in the BadFuture, he has no problem drinking too much until he dies. Chapter 11 takes it a more extreme levels to the point he nearly suffered from alcohol poisoning.
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* In ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'', we are shown an Eldar priest drunk out of his wits after the Fall.
* In ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'', we are shown an Eldar priest drunk out of his wits after the Fall.
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** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
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** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, Maia in the original version, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During herHeroicBSOD, HeroicBSOD in the original version, Olga is seen drinking as drinking, sorrowful about her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is being in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
** During her
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* ''Fanfic/SodaAt70Proof'' starts with Rachel at a bar getting [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]] because she misses Nigel. After three drinks in less than thirty minutes, Fanny decides she's had enough and takes her back home.
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* ''Fanfic/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDenial'': PlayedForDrama during the second arc, as this becomes a crucial detail in the second murder trial. Specifically, the fact that [[spoiler:only the culprit is aware that their victim was getting plastered]].
* ''Fanfic/SodaAt70Proof'' starts with Rachel at a bar getting [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]] because she misses Nigel. After three drinks in less than thirty minutes, Fanny decides she's had enough and takes her back home.
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* ''Fanfic/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDenial'': PlayedForDrama during the second arc, as this becomes a crucial detail in the second murder trial. Specifically, the fact that [[spoiler:only the culprit is aware that their victim was getting plastered]].
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* In the Belle/Aurora ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' one-shot ''Fanfic/ToAMerryChristmas'', Belle invites the princesses to a Christmas Eve party. Late at night, she goes down to the library when she spots Aurora drinking and reading by the fireplace. It turns out Aurora was drinking eggnog with brandy, though it wasn't her eggnog and she hadn't expected it to be quite as strong. Aurora has been troubled since her life changed. She misses living in the woods and [[DoNotCallMePaul doesn't like being called "Aurora"]]. She makes herself [[StepfordSmiler keep up a facade]] of being a perfect PrincessClassic but it's not something she's used to. Belle ends up drinking with Aurora as they talk. Afterwards, Belle escorts Aurora to her room; however this leads to them sleeping together due to Aurora's fears of sleeping alone.
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* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'', Roy tries to drown his PTSD flashbacks in booze. It turns him from a wreck to a drunk wreck.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'', Roy tries to drown his PTSD flashbacks in booze. It turns him from a wreck to a drunk wreck.
* ''Fanfic/BackwardWithPurpose'':
** In Book I, Harry, Ron and Ginny were doing this in the BadFuture before they decided to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong go back in time]]. Harry later does it again after [[spoiler:getting kicked out of the Burrow]].
** In Book II, [[spoiler:Al Potter]] fails their first mission in the past and goes to get drunk. This makes things significantly worse when he starts [[LooseLips blabbing secrets]] in the middle of a crowded pub. Afterwards, the whole experience inspires a new guideline on time travel:
--->''Don't get drunk. Just don't do it. It may not cause 'Pain Unto Death' (even a hangover is not that bad compared to the spanking the universe gives you if you're naughty), but it's just not a smart idea.''
** In Book I, Harry, Ron and Ginny were doing this in the BadFuture before they decided to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong go back in time]]. Harry later does it again after [[spoiler:getting kicked out of the Burrow]].
** In Book II, [[spoiler:Al Potter]] fails their first mission in the past and goes to get drunk. This makes things significantly worse when he starts [[LooseLips blabbing secrets]] in the middle of a crowded pub. Afterwards, the whole experience inspires a new guideline on time travel:
--->''Don't get drunk. Just don't do it. It may not cause 'Pain Unto Death' (even a hangover is not that bad compared to the spanking the universe gives you if you're naughty), but it's just not a smart idea.''
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* ''Fanfic/TheVow'':
** Lord Chang succumbs to drinking wine after his wife passes away.
** While [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] is wallowing in the shame of being crippled during the epilogue, he considers doing this. However, he ultimately defies this trope when he remembers the above mentioned Chang and decides he doesn't want to become like the swan noble he despises.
* ''Fanfic/TheVow'':
** Lord Chang succumbs to drinking wine after his wife passes away.
** While [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] is wallowing in the shame of being crippled during the epilogue, he considers doing this. However, he ultimately defies this trope when he remembers the above mentioned Chang and decides he doesn't want to become like the swan noble he despises.
* ''Fanfic/AftermathOfAFallenStar'': The day before Twilight was assassinated, Rainbow Dash confronted her over how she'd spoken ''against'' Dash being immediately assigned to the Wonderbolts due to her [[HairTriggerTemper short fuse]]. The [[PartingWordsRegret last thing Dash said to her]] was how much she hated her. The guilt of this drives her to drink afterwards.
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* ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying'':
** Filthy Rich became an alcoholic wreck after the tragic death of his wife Crystal Eyes and their unborn son, and again when his daughter Diamond Tiara was hit by a carriage and died.
** Big Macintosh apparently does this whenever someone brings up his deceased parents, as it is mentioned that he left the farmhouse for hours and returned with cider on his breath whenever his little sister Apple Bloom asked him how they died.
** Filthy Rich became an alcoholic wreck after the tragic death of his wife Crystal Eyes and their unborn son, and again when his daughter Diamond Tiara was hit by a carriage and died.
** Big Macintosh apparently does this whenever someone brings up his deceased parents, as it is mentioned that he left the farmhouse for hours and returned with cider on his breath whenever his little sister Apple Bloom asked him how they died.
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* ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'': [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] uses to do this when [[BrokenAce she is depressed]] -- which happens a lot. Usually, she drinks heavily and then she latches onto [[TheHero Shinji]] for comfort and reassurance.
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* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a BeardOfSorrow, though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a HesBack moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a BeardOfSorrow, though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a HesBack moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
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* ''Fanfic/WearingRobertsCrown'': Having spent years of restraining himself to well-watered wine, Drakebert drinks himself into a stupor after [[spoiler:executing Quentyn Martell]].
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* ''Fanfic/SodaAt70Proof'' starts with Rachel at a bar getting [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]] because she misses Nigel. After three drinks in less than thirty minutes, Fanny decides she's had enough and takes her back home.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'' Roy tries to drown his PTSD flashbacks in booze. It turns him from a wreck to a drunk wreck.
* In the Belle/Aurora ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' one-shot ''Fanfic/ToAMerryChristmas'', Belle invites the princesses to a Christmas Eve party. Late at night, she goes down to the library when she spots Aurora drinking and reading by the fireplace. It turns out Aurora was drinking eggnog with brandy, though it wasn't her eggnog and she hadn't expected it to be quite as strong. Aurora has been troubled since her life changed. She misses living in the woods and [[DoNotCallMePaul doesn't like being called "Aurora"]]. She makes herself [[StepfordSmiler keep up a facade]] of being a perfect PrincessClassic but it's not something she's used to. Belle ends up drinking with Aurora as they talk. Afterwards, Belle escorts Aurora to her room however this leads to them sleeping together due to Aurora's fears of sleeping alone.
* ''Fanfic/TheVow'':
** Lord Chang succumbs to drinking wine after his wife passes away.
** While [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] is wallowing in the shame of being crippled during the epilogue, he considers doing this. However, he ultimately defies this trope when he remembers the above mentioned Chang and decides he doesn't want to become like the swan noble he despises.
* ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'': [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] uses to do this when [[BrokenAce she is depressed]] -- which happens a lot. Usually, she drinks heavily and then she latches onto [[TheHero Shinji]] for comfort and reassurance.
* ''Fanfic/WearingRobertsCrown'': Having spent years of restraining himself to well-watered wine, Drakebert drinks himself into a stupor after [[spoiler: executing Quentyn Martell]].
* ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying'':
** Filthy Rich became an alcoholic wreck after the tragic death of his wife Crystal Eyes and their unborn son, and again when his daughter Diamond Tiara was hit by a carriage and died.
** Big Macintosh apparently does this whenever someone brings up his deceased parents, as it is mentioned that he left the farmhouse for hours and returned with cider on his breath whenever his little sister Apple Bloom asked him how they died.
* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a BeardOfSorrow, though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a HesBack moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
* In ''Fanfic/WorldwarWarOfEquals'', alien pilots in occupied Mexico stage a protest against their superiors demanding safer missions out of fear from both [[CoolPlane stealth fighters]] and [[EnergyWeapon rumored airborne laser weapons]]. Despite reassurance of safety, many pilots still handle their stress with [[AlienCatnip ginger]].
* ''Fanfic/SodaAt70Proof'' starts with Rachel at a bar getting [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]] because she misses Nigel. After three drinks in less than thirty minutes, Fanny decides she's had enough and takes her back home.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'' Roy tries to drown his PTSD flashbacks in booze. It turns him from a wreck to a drunk wreck.
* In the Belle/Aurora ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' one-shot ''Fanfic/ToAMerryChristmas'', Belle invites the princesses to a Christmas Eve party. Late at night, she goes down to the library when she spots Aurora drinking and reading by the fireplace. It turns out Aurora was drinking eggnog with brandy, though it wasn't her eggnog and she hadn't expected it to be quite as strong. Aurora has been troubled since her life changed. She misses living in the woods and [[DoNotCallMePaul doesn't like being called "Aurora"]]. She makes herself [[StepfordSmiler keep up a facade]] of being a perfect PrincessClassic but it's not something she's used to. Belle ends up drinking with Aurora as they talk. Afterwards, Belle escorts Aurora to her room however this leads to them sleeping together due to Aurora's fears of sleeping alone.
* ''Fanfic/TheVow'':
** Lord Chang succumbs to drinking wine after his wife passes away.
** While [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] is wallowing in the shame of being crippled during the epilogue, he considers doing this. However, he ultimately defies this trope when he remembers the above mentioned Chang and decides he doesn't want to become like the swan noble he despises.
* ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'': [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] uses to do this when [[BrokenAce she is depressed]] -- which happens a lot. Usually, she drinks heavily and then she latches onto [[TheHero Shinji]] for comfort and reassurance.
* ''Fanfic/WearingRobertsCrown'': Having spent years of restraining himself to well-watered wine, Drakebert drinks himself into a stupor after [[spoiler: executing Quentyn Martell]].
* ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying'':
** Filthy Rich became an alcoholic wreck after the tragic death of his wife Crystal Eyes and their unborn son, and again when his daughter Diamond Tiara was hit by a carriage and died.
** Big Macintosh apparently does this whenever someone brings up his deceased parents, as it is mentioned that he left the farmhouse for hours and returned with cider on his breath whenever his little sister Apple Bloom asked him how they died.
* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a BeardOfSorrow, though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a HesBack moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
* In ''Fanfic/WorldwarWarOfEquals'', alien pilots in occupied Mexico stage a protest against their superiors demanding safer missions out of fear from both [[CoolPlane stealth fighters]] and [[EnergyWeapon rumored airborne laser weapons]]. Despite reassurance of safety, many pilots still handle their stress with [[AlienCatnip ginger]].
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* ''Fanfic/SodaAt70Proof'' starts with Rachel at a bar getting [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]] because she misses Nigel. After three drinks in less than thirty minutes, Fanny decides she's had enough and takes her back home.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'' Roy tries to drown his PTSD flashbacks in booze. It turns him from a wreck to a drunk wreck.
* In the Belle/Aurora ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' one-shot ''Fanfic/ToAMerryChristmas'', Belle invites the princesses to a Christmas Eve party. Late at night, she goes down to the library when she spots Aurora drinking and reading by the fireplace. It turns out Aurora was drinking eggnog with brandy, though it wasn't her eggnog and she hadn't expected it to be quite as strong. Aurora has been troubled since her life changed. She misses living in the woods and [[DoNotCallMePaul doesn't like being called "Aurora"]]. She makes herself [[StepfordSmiler keep up a facade]] of being a perfect PrincessClassic but it's not something she's used to. Belle ends up drinking with Aurora as they talk. Afterwards, Belle escorts Aurora to her room however this leads to them sleeping together due to Aurora's fears of sleeping alone.
* ''Fanfic/TheVow'':
** Lord Chang succumbs to drinking wine after his wife passes away.
** While [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] is wallowing in the shame of being crippled during the epilogue, he considers doing this. However, he ultimately defies this trope when he remembers the above mentioned Chang and decides he doesn't want to become like the swan noble he despises.
* ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'': [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] uses to do this when [[BrokenAce she is depressed]] -- which happens a lot. Usually, she drinks heavily and then she latches onto [[TheHero Shinji]] for comfort and reassurance.
* ''Fanfic/WearingRobertsCrown'': Having spent years of restraining himself to well-watered wine, Drakebert drinks himself into a stupor after [[spoiler: executing Quentyn Martell]].
* ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying'':
** Filthy Rich became an alcoholic wreck after the tragic death of his wife Crystal Eyes and their unborn son, and again when his daughter Diamond Tiara was hit by a carriage and died.
** Big Macintosh apparently does this whenever someone brings up his deceased parents, as it is mentioned that he left the farmhouse for hours and returned with cider on his breath whenever his little sister Apple Bloom asked him how they died.
* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a BeardOfSorrow, though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a HesBack moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
* In ''Fanfic/WorldwarWarOfEquals'', alien pilots in occupied Mexico stage a protest against their superiors demanding safer missions out of fear from both [[CoolPlane stealth fighters]] and [[EnergyWeapon rumored airborne laser weapons]]. Despite reassurance of safety, many pilots still handle their stress with [[AlienCatnip
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* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Colgate does this when [[AntiHero L's]] methods get to be too much for her. Meanwhile, ''Celestia'' is strongly implied to have developed an outright drinking problem because of Kira's actions.
* This is the last thing we see Atreus do in ''Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons'', since [[spoiler:his starship was destroyed by Dooku using it to ram a drug cooker's]].
* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
** Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** Film/IronMan went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
* In the ''Series/OnceUponATime''[=/=]''Film/MrRight'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LoveAtFirstSightOnceUponATime'', after breaking up with Robin and being attacked by a cat on the same day, Regina decides to drink a whole bottle of wine and is continuing to do so when Kathryn finds her.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': Mitsuzane, through his backstories, started turning to the bottle [[spoiler:two months after Kouta and Kaito's climactic battle, despite him underage at that time]]. This is the reason why Micchy openly revealed his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]] to Gou and Samus.
-->'''[[SwitchingPOV Samus's Point of view]]:''' Mitsuzane had [[TheAlcoholic a very serious problem with alcohol]]. [[BittersweetEnding It all started two months after the Helheim Invasion]], Mitsuzane had [[DescentIntoAddiction began to abuse alcohol when he was still]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone unable to cope up over his depression]]. He had frequented in bars to drink, [[StickyFingers spending his family's money]] just to satisfy his greed for liquor to forget his troubles. Takatora also mentioned that while he was in comatose at that time, that his brother's isolated state and his alcoholism usually got him into trouble.
* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
--->'''Kyril:''' It's good wine. But it's not exactly something that will dull the pain.
* ''Fanfic/TheNutdealerExpandedUniverse'': "Red Nut Ale" consists of Nathan drinking the eponymous spirit while he broods about Tommy's betrayal.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''/''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13324935/1/RWBY-Aqua-s-Mission RWBY: Aqua's Mission]], it is revealed that Taiyang Xiao Long has taken to alcohol in an attempt to cope with Summer Rose's death. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in chapter 8, when the group was going to visit Summer's grave on her second birthday after her death, only for Taiyang to have a nervous breakdown and drink a lethal amount of alcohol. It was only due to Aqua restarting his heart with a Thundaga spell that he didn't die.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' [=/=] ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SwappingGenres'': After finding out that Neal is Rumplestiltskin's son, Emma gets drunk to get over being lied to. Coincidentally, this leads to Emma getting a CurbStompBattle from Black Widow.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', when [[spoiler:Shinji went missing for one whole month and was in a coma for another month]], his guardian Misato resorted to drink copiously to try to overcome the pain.
* This is the last thing we see Atreus do in ''Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons'', since [[spoiler:his starship was destroyed by Dooku using it to ram a drug cooker's]].
* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
** Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** Film/IronMan went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
* In the ''Series/OnceUponATime''[=/=]''Film/MrRight'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LoveAtFirstSightOnceUponATime'', after breaking up with Robin and being attacked by a cat on the same day, Regina decides to drink a whole bottle of wine and is continuing to do so when Kathryn finds her.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': Mitsuzane, through his backstories, started turning to the bottle [[spoiler:two months after Kouta and Kaito's climactic battle, despite him underage at that time]]. This is the reason why Micchy openly revealed his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]] to Gou and Samus.
-->'''[[SwitchingPOV Samus's Point of view]]:''' Mitsuzane had [[TheAlcoholic a very serious problem with alcohol]]. [[BittersweetEnding It all started two months after the Helheim Invasion]], Mitsuzane had [[DescentIntoAddiction began to abuse alcohol when he was still]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone unable to cope up over his depression]]. He had frequented in bars to drink, [[StickyFingers spending his family's money]] just to satisfy his greed for liquor to forget his troubles. Takatora also mentioned that while he was in comatose at that time, that his brother's isolated state and his alcoholism usually got him into trouble.
* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
--->'''Kyril:''' It's good wine. But it's not exactly something that will dull the pain.
* ''Fanfic/TheNutdealerExpandedUniverse'': "Red Nut Ale" consists of Nathan drinking the eponymous spirit while he broods about Tommy's betrayal.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''/''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13324935/1/RWBY-Aqua-s-Mission RWBY: Aqua's Mission]], it is revealed that Taiyang Xiao Long has taken to alcohol in an attempt to cope with Summer Rose's death. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in chapter 8, when the group was going to visit Summer's grave on her second birthday after her death, only for Taiyang to have a nervous breakdown and drink a lethal amount of alcohol. It was only due to Aqua restarting his heart with a Thundaga spell that he didn't die.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' [=/=] ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SwappingGenres'': After finding out that Neal is Rumplestiltskin's son, Emma gets drunk to get over being lied to. Coincidentally, this leads to Emma getting a CurbStompBattle from Black Widow.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', when [[spoiler:Shinji went missing for one whole month and was in a coma for another month]], his guardian Misato resorted to drink copiously to try to overcome the pain.
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* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': After her parents died, Elsa would often drink wine, sometimes even whole bottles.
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* In ''Fanfic/{{Epiphany}}'', Aerith gets plastered in her room after meeting Sephiroth. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that tens of thousands of people in Midgar will die in a matter of days, Sephiroth's own evil plans, and the Arbiters blocking her attempts to stop all of it, she copes with it all by downing Elmyra's cooking sherry and baking brandy that night.
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* Sirius Black tries this in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117]] of ''The Moment It Began'' after [[spoiler:his brother Regulus dies]].
* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[Fanfic/TheOllivanderChildren The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
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* In ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'', Archie Kennedy drinks ale at the Inn after his panic attack fades away and he's anxious having confessed his love to his fellow officer and friend inadvertently. He's not sure how his friend will react, and kind of hopes he didn't realize because he recited Shakespeare's sonnet to him but checked himself before he would finish the most revealing final line.
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* Parodied at one point in ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', where Tenn goes to a diner to mope over her being demoted to Tak's assistant, drowning her sorrows in soda and doughnuts. Her interactions with the bartender are played as if she's in a bar.
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* ''Fanfic/FarewellToLifeTheWayWeKnewIt'': It's mentioned that, due to the high unemployment rate, many people hang around bars, even in the morning.
* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': After her parents died, Elsa would often drink wine, sometimes even whole bottles.
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* In ''Fanfic/{{Epiphany}}'', Aerith gets plastered in her room after meeting Sephiroth. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that tens of thousands of people in Midgar will die in a matter of days, Sephiroth's own evil plans, and the Arbiters blocking her attempts to stop all of it, she copes with it all by downing Elmyra's cooking sherry and baking brandy that night.
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* Sirius Black tries this in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117]] of ''The Moment It Began'' after [[spoiler:his brother Regulus dies]].
* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[Fanfic/TheOllivanderChildren The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
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* In ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'', Archie Kennedy drinks ale at the Inn after his panic attack fades away and he's anxious having confessed his love to his fellow officer and friend inadvertently. He's not sure how his friend will react, and kind of hopes he didn't realize because he recited Shakespeare's sonnet to him but checked himself before he would finish the most revealing final line.
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* Parodied at one point in ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', where Tenn goes to a diner to mope over her being demoted to Tak's assistant, drowning her sorrows in soda and doughnuts. Her interactions with the bartender are played as if she's in a bar.
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* ''Fanfic/FarewellToLifeTheWayWeKnewIt'': It's mentioned that, due to the high unemployment rate, many people hang around bars, even in the morning.
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* 'Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'':
* [[spoiler:Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
** At first, it looked like [[spoiler:Nui]] was doing this, however, it was subverted, when it was she stated [[spoiler: that she was combining the alcohols from the collection to commit suicide with]].
** After his [[spoiler:saddening 'breakup' with Satsuki, Junketsu, of all living organisms, resorts to the very substances that his brother's wearer always indulged in on a daily basis]].
* 'Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'':
* [[spoiler:Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
** At first, it looked like [[spoiler:Nui]] was doing this, however, it was subverted, when it was she stated [[spoiler: that she was combining the alcohols from the collection to commit suicide with]].
** After his [[spoiler:saddening 'breakup' with Satsuki, Junketsu, of all living organisms, resorts to the very substances that his brother's wearer always indulged in on a daily basis]].
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* Rodney Skinner in the fourth installment of ''Fanfic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain''. The second version of the volume, told from his point of view, revealed his reaction to Elizabeth (who he's hopelessly in love with) announcing her engagement to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ben Everett]]. Unaware that she did so under duress, he spends the day drinking himself stupid until Tom comes along to drag him out of the bar.
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* Inverted in ''Fanfic/FinalToll''. The happy and oblivious Romani gets drunk, but Cremia doesn't touch a bottle.
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* While on their forced European vacation in ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'', Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson get smashed at a seedy bar in Croatia ([[NeverGetsDrunk Steve]] has to take a sip of some kind of [[GargleBlaster mysterious liquor]] every minute to remain drunk) and commiserate about their respective fallen friends, and those friends' sexual practices. This eventually leads to Steve brokenly confessing to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America, and the two crying into each others' shirts.
* Rodney Skinner in the fourth installment of ''Fanfic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain''. The second version of the volume, told from his point of view, revealed his reaction to Elizabeth (who he's hopelessly in love with) announcing her engagement to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ben Everett]]. Unaware that she did so under duress, he spends the day drinking himself stupid until Tom comes along to drag him out of the bar.
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* Inverted in ''Fanfic/FinalToll''. The happy and oblivious Romani gets drunk, but Cremia doesn't touch a bottle.
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* While on their forced European vacation in ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'', Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson get smashed at a seedy bar in Croatia ([[NeverGetsDrunk Steve]] has to take a sip of some kind of [[GargleBlaster mysterious liquor]] every minute to remain drunk) and commiserate about their respective fallen friends, and those friends' sexual practices. This eventually leads to Steve brokenly confessing to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America, and the two crying into each others' shirts.
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* This occurred to Celestia in the backstory of ''Fanfic/DropOfMoonshine''. After banishing her sister Celestia began [[TheAlcoholic drinking copious amounts of alcohol]]. This caused her council to force her to [[GoingColdTurkey go cold turkey]] by throwing away all the alcohol in Equestria. Celestia eventually banned alcohol period, though after Luna came back, her sister convinced her to legalize it again. As a result, ponies no longer understand what alcohol is.
* In ''Fanfic/IAgainstIMeAgainstYou'', Spike goes to Berry Punch's bar when he can't take any more of having Grif and Simmons as roommates... and drinks [[DrunkOnMilk apple juice]].
* This is implied in the animation for the fan-song "Music/LullabyForAPrincess". Luna is briefly shown crying with a large number of bottles nearby.
* ''Webcomic/TheMLPProject'': Pinkie Pie gets absolutely ''wasted'' after [[spoiler:attending Twilight Sparkle's funeral]].
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After the ruling council fails to convict Dimmed Star who continues walking free, Business Savvy retreats to drink in a tavern while keeping on a chair next to him a photograph of [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his son Dream Gavel whom Dimmed Star killed]].
* Done very frequently in ''Fanfic/RacerAndTheGeek''. Given what [[ShellShockedVeteran the protagonist]] has seen and done, it's understandable that he drinks himself into a stupor [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn practically every night.]]
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': After banishing her sister into the sun, Luna spent most of the next twelve years getting thoroughly sloshed, usually showing up in a random town and demanding booze, until a mob of rampaging dragons shook her out of her funk, and made her realize the harm her absence was inflicting on Equestria. She is now NailedToTheWagon. [[spoiler:She also leaves out a salient detail that it wasn't just losing Celestia that caused this, but having to give up Cadenza.]]
* In ''Fanfic/IAgainstIMeAgainstYou'', Spike goes to Berry Punch's bar when he can't take any more of having Grif and Simmons as roommates... and drinks [[DrunkOnMilk apple juice]].
* This is implied in the animation for the fan-song "Music/LullabyForAPrincess". Luna is briefly shown crying with a large number of bottles nearby.
* ''Webcomic/TheMLPProject'': Pinkie Pie gets absolutely ''wasted'' after [[spoiler:attending Twilight Sparkle's funeral]].
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After the ruling council fails to convict Dimmed Star who continues walking free, Business Savvy retreats to drink in a tavern while keeping on a chair next to him a photograph of [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his son Dream Gavel whom Dimmed Star killed]].
* Done very frequently in ''Fanfic/RacerAndTheGeek''. Given what [[ShellShockedVeteran the protagonist]] has seen and done, it's understandable that he drinks himself into a stupor [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn practically every night.]]
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': After banishing her sister into the sun, Luna spent most of the next twelve years getting thoroughly sloshed, usually showing up in a random town and demanding booze, until a mob of rampaging dragons shook her out of her funk, and made her realize the harm her absence was inflicting on Equestria. She is now NailedToTheWagon. [[spoiler:She also leaves out a salient detail that it wasn't just losing Celestia that caused this, but having to give up Cadenza.]]
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* Happens to Kurenai in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' in the aftermath of Konoha's raid to Root's headquarters. Shizune finds her at the local bar looking miserable, since she's depressed over learning that [[spoiler:her former student Yakumo Kurama, whom she presumed dead years ago, was actually taken by Danzo and turned into one of his puppet agents]].
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* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': In the first story draft Rei decided to get hammered when she thought she had missed her second chance and Asuka had beaten her to the punch again because she was under house arrest (long story) for long enough for Asuka getting there and get her claws into Shinji before she did.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': In chapter 10 Shinji has spent several months keeping watch over [[spoiler:his comatose girlfriend]] Asuka, not knowing [[spoiler:whether she will ever wake up or not]] and his father -- whom he has not seen in years -- shows up to lecture him about ''supposedly'' neglecting his duties because he is infatuated with a pretty face. Feeling more angry and depressed, Shinji goes to a bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
* In ''Fanfic/FuturesFreakMeOut'', Shinji and Asuka fly to Germany to visit Asuka's family, and they verify her father continues to show zero concern for his red-haired daughter; so Asuka decides to drag Shinji to the nearest bar and get very, very drunk.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': During one scene, Misato recalls she got hammered because she didn't have the guts to confess to Kaji.
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* Subverted in ''Fanfic/OldWest''. The relationship between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy becomes strained after Jake [[spoiler:kills Grace's estranged husband for bruising her]]. Rango finds Jake in the saloon holding a glass of untouched whiskey. Eventually Jake smashes the glass in his foul mood, saying that [[IAmNotMyFather he won't allow himself to be destroyed by booze]] like [[AlcoholicParent his father]] was.
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* ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'': Yang's HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude is in part a way of coping with her abandonment issues over her biological mother Raven [[MissingMom running off]] when she was an infant.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': In chapter 10 Shinji has spent several months keeping watch over [[spoiler:his comatose girlfriend]] Asuka, not knowing [[spoiler:whether she will ever wake up or not]] and his father -- whom he has not seen in years -- shows up to lecture him about ''supposedly'' neglecting his duties because he is infatuated with a pretty face. Feeling more angry and depressed, Shinji goes to a bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
* In ''Fanfic/FuturesFreakMeOut'', Shinji and Asuka fly to Germany to visit Asuka's family, and they verify her father continues to show zero concern for his red-haired daughter; so Asuka decides to drag Shinji to the nearest bar and get very, very drunk.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': During one scene, Misato recalls she got hammered because she didn't have the guts to confess to Kaji.
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* Subverted in ''Fanfic/OldWest''. The relationship between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy becomes strained after Jake [[spoiler:kills Grace's estranged husband for bruising her]]. Rango finds Jake in the saloon holding a glass of untouched whiskey. Eventually Jake smashes the glass in his foul mood, saying that [[IAmNotMyFather he won't allow himself to be destroyed by booze]] like [[AlcoholicParent his father]] was.
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* ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'': Yang's HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude is in part a way of coping with her abandonment issues over her biological mother Raven [[MissingMom running off]] when she was an infant.
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* Empath from ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' becomes an alcoholic from drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater sarsaparilla ale]] in the alternate timeline where Smurfette marries Papa Smurf. Hefty in the main timeline story "Empath's Wedding" sits alone in Tapper's Tavern with a single glass of sarsaparilla ale on the night before the wedding, wondering why Smurfette won't marry him and realizing that he just couldn't compete against Empath. By morning, it is clear that Hefty is hung over just from that single glass.
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* In ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A RoseAnd A Thorn 5: Resurrection]]'', Midnight makes for an absolutely ''pathetic'' drunk at Club Rouge. He drinks to forget, but all he forgets is how many drinks he's had. Mirage pulls him into a dressing room, where he continues to cry in front of her, barely comprehensible, before walking out, throwing up, and passing out on the sidewalk.
* Empath from ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' becomes an alcoholic from drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater sarsaparilla ale]] in the alternate timeline where Smurfette marries Papa Smurf. Hefty in the main timeline story "Empath's Wedding" sits alone in Tapper's Tavern with a single glass of sarsaparilla ale on the night before the wedding, wondering why Smurfette won't marry him and realizing that he just couldn't compete against Empath. By morning, it is clear that Hefty is hung over just from that single glass.
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* In ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A RoseAnd A Thorn 5: Resurrection]]'', Midnight makes for an absolutely ''pathetic'' drunk at Club Rouge. He drinks to forget, but all he forgets is how many drinks he's had. Mirage pulls him into a dressing room, where he continues to cry in front of her, barely comprehensible, before walking out, throwing up, and passing out on the sidewalk.
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* ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'': After realizing that the Remembering really is a case of having been sent back in time and not just a nightmare, Stannis resorts heavily to drinking in order to cope with the guilt of everything he did in the original timeline.
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* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'': At the start of the story, Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as having become TheAlcoholic to cope with his grief in the four years following Order 66.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28352337 Finding The Way]]'', Din Djarin raids Moff Gideon's stash of Corellian Whiskey after showing his face to Grogu and giving him to Luke Skywalker.
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* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'': At the start of the story, Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as having become TheAlcoholic to cope with his grief in the four years following Order 66.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28352337 Finding The Way]]'', Din Djarin raids Moff Gideon's stash of Corellian Whiskey after showing his face to Grogu and giving him to Luke Skywalker.
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* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Colgate does this when [[AntiHero L's]] methods get to be too much for her. Meanwhile, ''Celestia'' is strongly implied to have developed an outright drinking problem because of Kira's actions.
* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'': At the start of the story, Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as having become TheAlcoholic to cope with his grief in the four years following Order 66.
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': In the first story draft Rei decided to get hammered when she thought she had missed her second chance and Asuka had beaten her to the punch again because she was under house arrest (long story) for long enough for Asuka getting there and get her claws into Shinji before she did.
* This occurred to Celestia in the backstory of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/DropOfMoonshine''. After banishing her sister Celestia began [[TheAlcoholic drinking copious amounts of alcohol]]. This caused her council to force her to [[GoingColdTurkey go cold turkey]] by throwing away all the alcohol in Equestria. Celestia eventually banned alcohol period, though after Luna came back her sister convinced her to legalize it again. As a result, ponies no longer understand what alcohol is.
* Empath from ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' becomes an alcoholic from drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater sarsaparilla ale]] in the alternate timeline where Smurfette marries Papa Smurf. Hefty in the main timeline story "Empath's Wedding" sits alone in Tapper's Tavern with a single glass of sarsaparilla ale on the night before the wedding, wondering why Smurfette won't marry him and realizing that he just couldn't compete against Empath. By morning, it is clear that Hefty is hung over just from that single glass.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Epiphany}}'', Aerith gets plastered in her room after meeting Sephiroth. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that tens of thousands of people in Midgar will die in a matter of days, Sephiroth's own evil plans, and the Arbiters blocking her attempts to stop all of it, she copes with it all by downing Elmyra's cooking sherry and baking brandy that night.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': In chapter 10 Shinji has spent several months keeping watch over [[spoiler:his comatose girlfriend]] Asuka, not knowing [[spoiler:whether she will ever wake up or not]] and his father -- whom he has not seen in years -- shows up to lecture him about ''supposedly'' neglecting his duties because he is infatuated with a pretty face. Feeling more angry and depressed, Shinji goes to a bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
* ''Fanfic/FarewellToLifeTheWayWeKnewIt'': It's mentioned that, due to the high unemployment rate, many people hang around bars, even in the morning.
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/FinalToll''. The happy and oblivious Romani gets drunk, but Cremia doesn't touch a bottle.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28352337 Finding The Way]]'', Din Djarin raids Moff Gideon's stash of Corellian Whiskey after showing his face to Grogu and giving him to Luke Skywalker.
* ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'': Yang's HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude is in part a way of coping with her abandonment issues over her biological mother Raven [[MissingMom running off]] when she was an infant.
* In ''Fanfic/FuturesFreakMeOut'', Shinji and Asuka fly to Germany to visit Asuka's family, and they verify her father continues to show zero concern for his red-haired daughter; so Asuka decides to drag Shinji to the nearest bar and get very, very drunk.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': During a scene, Misato recalls she got hammered because she didn't have the guts to confess to Kaji.
* This is the last thing we see Atreus do in ''Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons'', since [[spoiler:his starship was destroyed by Dooku using it to ram a drug cooker's]].
* In ''Fanfic/IAgainstIMeAgainstYou'', Spike goes to Berry Punch's bar when he can't take any more of having Grif and Simmons as roommates... and drinks [[DrunkOnMilk apple juice]].
* While on their forced European vacation in ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'', Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson get smashed at a seedy bar in Croatia ([[NeverGetsDrunk Steve]] has to take a sip of some kind of [[GargleBlaster mysterious liquor]] every minute to remain drunk) and commiserate about their respective fallen friends, and those friends' sexual practices. This eventually leads to Steve brokenly confessing to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America, and the two crying into each others' shirts.
* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
** Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** Film/IronMan went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
* In the ''Series/OnceUponATime''[=/=]''Film/MrRight'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LoveAtFirstSightOnceUponATime'', after breaking up with Robin and being attacked by a cat on the same day, Regina decides to drink a whole bottle of wine and is continuing to do so when Kathryn finds her.
* This is implied in the animation for the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-song "Music/LullabyForAPrincess". Luna is briefly shown crying with a large number of bottles nearby.
* From ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', we have [[spoiler: Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
** At first, it looked like [[spoiler: Nui]] was doing this, however, it was subverted, when it was she stated [[spoiler: that she was combining the alcohols from the collection to commit suicide with]].
** After his [[spoiler:saddening 'breakup' with Satsuki, Junketsu, of all living organisms, resorts to the very substances that his brother's wearer always indulged in on a daily basis.]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': Mitsuzane, through his backstories, started turning to the bottle [[spoiler:two months after Kouta and Kaito's climactic battle, despite him underage at that time]]. This is the reason why Micchy openly revealed his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]] to Gou and Samus.
-->'''[[SwitchingPOV Samus's Point of view]]:''' Mitsuzane had [[TheAlcoholic a very serious problem with alcohol]]. [[BittersweetEnding It all started two months after the Helheim Invasion]], Mitsuzane had [[DescentIntoAddiction began to abuse alcohol when he was still]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone unable to cope up over his depression]]. He had frequented in bars to drink, [[StickyFingers spending his family's money]] just to satisfy his greed for liquor to forget his troubles. Takatora also mentioned that while he was in comatose at that time, that his brother's isolated state and his alcoholism usually got him into trouble.
* ''Webcomic/TheMLPProject'': Pinkie Pie gets absolutely ''wasted'' after [[spoiler: attending Twilight Sparkle's funeral.]]
* Sirius Black tries this in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117]] of ''The Moment It Began'' after [[spoiler: his brother Regulus dies.]]
* In ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'', Archie Kennedy drinks ale at the Inn after his panic attack fades away and he's anxious having confessed his love to his fellow officer and friend inadvertently. He's not sure how his friend will react, and kind of hopes he didn't realize because he recited Shakespeare's sonnet to him but checked himself before he would finish the most revealing final line.
* Parodied at one point in ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', where Tenn goes to a diner to mope over her being demoted to Tak's assistant, drowning her sorrows in soda and doughnuts. Her interactions with the bartender are played as if she's in a bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
--->'''Kyril:''' It's good wine. But it's not exactly something that will dull the pain.
* ''Fanfic/TheNutdealerExpandedUniverse'': "Red Nut Ale" consists of Nathan drinking the eponymous spirit while he broods about Tommy's betrayal.
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/OldWest''. The relationship between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy becomes strained after Jake [[spoiler:kills Grace's estranged husband for bruising her]]. Rango finds Jake in the saloon holding a glass of untouched whiskey. Eventually Jake smashes the glass in his foul mood, saying that [[IAmNotMyFather he won't allow himself to be destroyed by booze]] like [[AlcoholicParent his father]] was.
* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[Fanfic/TheOllivanderChildren The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After the ruling council fails to convict Dimmed Star who continues walking free, Business Savvy retreats to drink in a tavern while keeping on a chair next to him a photograph of [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his son Dream Gavel whom Dimmed Star killed]].
* Rodney Skinner in the fourth installment of ''Fanfic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain''. The second version of the volume, told from his point of view, revealed his reaction to Elizabeth (who he's hopelessly in love with) announcing her engagement to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ben Everett]]. Unaware that she did so under duress, he spends the day drinking himself stupid until Tom comes along to drag him out of the bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': After her parents died, Elsa would often drink wine, sometimes even whole bottles.
* Done very frequently in ''Fanfic/RacerAndTheGeek''. Given what [[ShellShockedVeteran the protagonist]] has seen and done, it's understandable that he drinks himself into a stupor [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn practically every night.]]
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': After banishing her sister into the sun, Luna spent most of the next twelve years getting thoroughly sloshed, usually showing up in a random town and demanding booze, until a mob of rampaging dragons shook her out of her funk, and made her realize the harm her absence was inflicting on Equestria. She is now NailedToTheWagon. [[spoiler:She also leaves out a salient detail that it wasn't just losing Celestia that caused this, but having to give up Cadenza.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'': After realizing that the Remembering really is a case of having been sent back in time and not just a nightmare, Stannis resorts heavily to drinking in order to cope with the guilt of everything he did in the original timeline.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A RoseAnd A Thorn 5: Resurrection]],'' Midnight makes for an absolutely ''pathetic'' drunk at Club Rouge. He drinks to forget, but all he forgets is how many drinks he's had. Mirage pulls him into a dressing room, where he continues to cry in front of her, barely comprehensible, before walking out, throwing up, and passing out on the sidewalk.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''/''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13324935/1/RWBY-Aqua-s-Mission RWBY: Aqua's Mission]], it is revealed that Taiyang Xiao Long has taken to alcohol in an attempt to cope with Summer Rose's death. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in chapter 8, when the group was going to visit Summer's grave on her second birthday after her death, only for Taiyang to have a nervous breakdown and drink a lethal amount of alcohol. It was only due to Aqua restarting his heart with a Thundaga spell that he didn't die.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'': At the start of the story, Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as having become TheAlcoholic to cope with his grief in the four years following Order 66.
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': In the first story draft Rei decided to get hammered when she thought she had missed her second chance and Asuka had beaten her to the punch again because she was under house arrest (long story) for long enough for Asuka getting there and get her claws into Shinji before she did.
* This occurred to Celestia in the backstory of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/DropOfMoonshine''. After banishing her sister Celestia began [[TheAlcoholic drinking copious amounts of alcohol]]. This caused her council to force her to [[GoingColdTurkey go cold turkey]] by throwing away all the alcohol in Equestria. Celestia eventually banned alcohol period, though after Luna came back her sister convinced her to legalize it again. As a result, ponies no longer understand what alcohol is.
* Empath from ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' becomes an alcoholic from drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater sarsaparilla ale]] in the alternate timeline where Smurfette marries Papa Smurf. Hefty in the main timeline story "Empath's Wedding" sits alone in Tapper's Tavern with a single glass of sarsaparilla ale on the night before the wedding, wondering why Smurfette won't marry him and realizing that he just couldn't compete against Empath. By morning, it is clear that Hefty is hung over just from that single glass.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Epiphany}}'', Aerith gets plastered in her room after meeting Sephiroth. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that tens of thousands of people in Midgar will die in a matter of days, Sephiroth's own evil plans, and the Arbiters blocking her attempts to stop all of it, she copes with it all by downing Elmyra's cooking sherry and baking brandy that night.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': In chapter 10 Shinji has spent several months keeping watch over [[spoiler:his comatose girlfriend]] Asuka, not knowing [[spoiler:whether she will ever wake up or not]] and his father -- whom he has not seen in years -- shows up to lecture him about ''supposedly'' neglecting his duties because he is infatuated with a pretty face. Feeling more angry and depressed, Shinji goes to a bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
* ''Fanfic/FarewellToLifeTheWayWeKnewIt'': It's mentioned that, due to the high unemployment rate, many people hang around bars, even in the morning.
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/FinalToll''. The happy and oblivious Romani gets drunk, but Cremia doesn't touch a bottle.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28352337 Finding The Way]]'', Din Djarin raids Moff Gideon's stash of Corellian Whiskey after showing his face to Grogu and giving him to Luke Skywalker.
* ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'': Yang's HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude is in part a way of coping with her abandonment issues over her biological mother Raven [[MissingMom running off]] when she was an infant.
* In ''Fanfic/FuturesFreakMeOut'', Shinji and Asuka fly to Germany to visit Asuka's family, and they verify her father continues to show zero concern for his red-haired daughter; so Asuka decides to drag Shinji to the nearest bar and get very, very drunk.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': During a scene, Misato recalls she got hammered because she didn't have the guts to confess to Kaji.
* This is the last thing we see Atreus do in ''Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons'', since [[spoiler:his starship was destroyed by Dooku using it to ram a drug cooker's]].
* In ''Fanfic/IAgainstIMeAgainstYou'', Spike goes to Berry Punch's bar when he can't take any more of having Grif and Simmons as roommates... and drinks [[DrunkOnMilk apple juice]].
* While on their forced European vacation in ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'', Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson get smashed at a seedy bar in Croatia ([[NeverGetsDrunk Steve]] has to take a sip of some kind of [[GargleBlaster mysterious liquor]] every minute to remain drunk) and commiserate about their respective fallen friends, and those friends' sexual practices. This eventually leads to Steve brokenly confessing to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America, and the two crying into each others' shirts.
* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
** Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** Film/IronMan went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
* In the ''Series/OnceUponATime''[=/=]''Film/MrRight'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LoveAtFirstSightOnceUponATime'', after breaking up with Robin and being attacked by a cat on the same day, Regina decides to drink a whole bottle of wine and is continuing to do so when Kathryn finds her.
* This is implied in the animation for the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-song "Music/LullabyForAPrincess". Luna is briefly shown crying with a large number of bottles nearby.
* From ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', we have [[spoiler: Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
** At first, it looked like [[spoiler: Nui]] was doing this, however, it was subverted, when it was she stated [[spoiler: that she was combining the alcohols from the collection to commit suicide with]].
** After his [[spoiler:saddening 'breakup' with Satsuki, Junketsu, of all living organisms, resorts to the very substances that his brother's wearer always indulged in on a daily basis.]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': Mitsuzane, through his backstories, started turning to the bottle [[spoiler:two months after Kouta and Kaito's climactic battle, despite him underage at that time]]. This is the reason why Micchy openly revealed his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]] to Gou and Samus.
-->'''[[SwitchingPOV Samus's Point of view]]:''' Mitsuzane had [[TheAlcoholic a very serious problem with alcohol]]. [[BittersweetEnding It all started two months after the Helheim Invasion]], Mitsuzane had [[DescentIntoAddiction began to abuse alcohol when he was still]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone unable to cope up over his depression]]. He had frequented in bars to drink, [[StickyFingers spending his family's money]] just to satisfy his greed for liquor to forget his troubles. Takatora also mentioned that while he was in comatose at that time, that his brother's isolated state and his alcoholism usually got him into trouble.
* ''Webcomic/TheMLPProject'': Pinkie Pie gets absolutely ''wasted'' after [[spoiler: attending Twilight Sparkle's funeral.]]
* Sirius Black tries this in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117]] of ''The Moment It Began'' after [[spoiler: his brother Regulus dies.]]
* In ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'', Archie Kennedy drinks ale at the Inn after his panic attack fades away and he's anxious having confessed his love to his fellow officer and friend inadvertently. He's not sure how his friend will react, and kind of hopes he didn't realize because he recited Shakespeare's sonnet to him but checked himself before he would finish the most revealing final line.
* Parodied at one point in ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', where Tenn goes to a diner to mope over her being demoted to Tak's assistant, drowning her sorrows in soda and doughnuts. Her interactions with the bartender are played as if she's in a bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
--->'''Kyril:''' It's good wine. But it's not exactly something that will dull the pain.
* ''Fanfic/TheNutdealerExpandedUniverse'': "Red Nut Ale" consists of Nathan drinking the eponymous spirit while he broods about Tommy's betrayal.
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/OldWest''. The relationship between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy becomes strained after Jake [[spoiler:kills Grace's estranged husband for bruising her]]. Rango finds Jake in the saloon holding a glass of untouched whiskey. Eventually Jake smashes the glass in his foul mood, saying that [[IAmNotMyFather he won't allow himself to be destroyed by booze]] like [[AlcoholicParent his father]] was.
* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[Fanfic/TheOllivanderChildren The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After the ruling council fails to convict Dimmed Star who continues walking free, Business Savvy retreats to drink in a tavern while keeping on a chair next to him a photograph of [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his son Dream Gavel whom Dimmed Star killed]].
* Rodney Skinner in the fourth installment of ''Fanfic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain''. The second version of the volume, told from his point of view, revealed his reaction to Elizabeth (who he's hopelessly in love with) announcing her engagement to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ben Everett]]. Unaware that she did so under duress, he spends the day drinking himself stupid until Tom comes along to drag him out of the bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': After her parents died, Elsa would often drink wine, sometimes even whole bottles.
* Done very frequently in ''Fanfic/RacerAndTheGeek''. Given what [[ShellShockedVeteran the protagonist]] has seen and done, it's understandable that he drinks himself into a stupor [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn practically every night.]]
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': After banishing her sister into the sun, Luna spent most of the next twelve years getting thoroughly sloshed, usually showing up in a random town and demanding booze, until a mob of rampaging dragons shook her out of her funk, and made her realize the harm her absence was inflicting on Equestria. She is now NailedToTheWagon. [[spoiler:She also leaves out a salient detail that it wasn't just losing Celestia that caused this, but having to give up Cadenza.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'': After realizing that the Remembering really is a case of having been sent back in time and not just a nightmare, Stannis resorts heavily to drinking in order to cope with the guilt of everything he did in the original timeline.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A RoseAnd A Thorn 5: Resurrection]],'' Midnight makes for an absolutely ''pathetic'' drunk at Club Rouge. He drinks to forget, but all he forgets is how many drinks he's had. Mirage pulls him into a dressing room, where he continues to cry in front of her, barely comprehensible, before walking out, throwing up, and passing out on the sidewalk.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''/''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13324935/1/RWBY-Aqua-s-Mission RWBY: Aqua's Mission]], it is revealed that Taiyang Xiao Long has taken to alcohol in an attempt to cope with Summer Rose's death. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in chapter 8, when the group was going to visit Summer's grave on her second birthday after her death, only for Taiyang to have a nervous breakdown and drink a lethal amount of alcohol. It was only due to Aqua restarting his heart with a Thundaga spell that he didn't die.]]
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* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'': At the start of the story, Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as having become TheAlcoholic to cope with his grief in the four years following Order 66.
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': In the first story draft Rei decided to get hammered when she thought she had missed her second chance and Asuka had beaten her to the punch again because she was under house arrest (long story) for long enough for Asuka getting there and get her claws into Shinji before she did.
* This occurred to Celestia in the backstory of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/DropOfMoonshine''. After banishing her sister Celestia began [[TheAlcoholic drinking copious amounts of alcohol]]. This caused her council to force her to [[GoingColdTurkey go cold turkey]] by throwing away all the alcohol in Equestria. Celestia eventually banned alcohol period, though after Luna came back her sister convinced her to legalize it again. As a result, ponies no longer understand what alcohol is.
* Empath from ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' becomes an alcoholic from drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater sarsaparilla ale]] in the alternate timeline where Smurfette marries Papa Smurf. Hefty in the main timeline story "Empath's Wedding" sits alone in Tapper's Tavern with a single glass of sarsaparilla ale on the night before the wedding, wondering why Smurfette won't marry him and realizing that he just couldn't compete against Empath. By morning, it is clear that Hefty is hung over just from that single glass.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Epiphany}}'', Aerith gets plastered in her room after meeting Sephiroth. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that tens of thousands of people in Midgar will die in a matter of days, Sephiroth's own evil plans, and the Arbiters blocking her attempts to stop all of it, she copes with it all by downing Elmyra's cooking sherry and baking brandy that night.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': In chapter 10 Shinji has spent several months keeping watch over [[spoiler:his comatose girlfriend]] Asuka, not knowing [[spoiler:whether she will ever wake up or not]] and his father -- whom he has not seen in years -- shows up to lecture him about ''supposedly'' neglecting his duties because he is infatuated with a pretty face. Feeling more angry and depressed, Shinji goes to a bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
* ''Fanfic/FarewellToLifeTheWayWeKnewIt'': It's mentioned that, due to the high unemployment rate, many people hang around bars, even in the morning.
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/FinalToll''. The happy and oblivious Romani gets drunk, but Cremia doesn't touch a bottle.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28352337 Finding The Way]]'', Din Djarin raids Moff Gideon's stash of Corellian Whiskey after showing his face to Grogu and giving him to Luke Skywalker.
* ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'': Yang's HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude is in part a way of coping with her abandonment issues over her biological mother Raven [[MissingMom running off]] when she was an infant.
* In ''Fanfic/FuturesFreakMeOut'', Shinji and Asuka fly to Germany to visit Asuka's family, and they verify her father continues to show zero concern for his red-haired daughter; so Asuka decides to drag Shinji to the nearest bar and get very, very drunk.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': During a scene, Misato recalls she got hammered because she didn't have the guts to confess to Kaji.
* This is the last thing we see Atreus do in ''Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons'', since [[spoiler:his starship was destroyed by Dooku using it to ram a drug cooker's]].
* In ''Fanfic/IAgainstIMeAgainstYou'', Spike goes to Berry Punch's bar when he can't take any more of having Grif and Simmons as roommates... and drinks [[DrunkOnMilk apple juice]].
* While on their forced European vacation in ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'', Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson get smashed at a seedy bar in Croatia ([[NeverGetsDrunk Steve]] has to take a sip of some kind of [[GargleBlaster mysterious liquor]] every minute to remain drunk) and commiserate about their respective fallen friends, and those friends' sexual practices. This eventually leads to Steve brokenly confessing to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America, and the two crying into each others' shirts.
* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
** Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** Film/IronMan went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
* In the ''Series/OnceUponATime''[=/=]''Film/MrRight'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LoveAtFirstSightOnceUponATime'', after breaking up with Robin and being attacked by a cat on the same day, Regina decides to drink a whole bottle of wine and is continuing to do so when Kathryn finds her.
* This is implied in the animation for the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-song "Music/LullabyForAPrincess". Luna is briefly shown crying with a large number of bottles nearby.
* From ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', we have [[spoiler: Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
** At first, it looked like [[spoiler: Nui]] was doing this, however, it was subverted, when it was she stated [[spoiler: that she was combining the alcohols from the collection to commit suicide with]].
** After his [[spoiler:saddening 'breakup' with Satsuki, Junketsu, of all living organisms, resorts to the very substances that his brother's wearer always indulged in on a daily basis.]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': Mitsuzane, through his backstories, started turning to the bottle [[spoiler:two months after Kouta and Kaito's climactic battle, despite him underage at that time]]. This is the reason why Micchy openly revealed his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]] to Gou and Samus.
-->'''[[SwitchingPOV Samus's Point of view]]:''' Mitsuzane had [[TheAlcoholic a very serious problem with alcohol]]. [[BittersweetEnding It all started two months after the Helheim Invasion]], Mitsuzane had [[DescentIntoAddiction began to abuse alcohol when he was still]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone unable to cope up over his depression]]. He had frequented in bars to drink, [[StickyFingers spending his family's money]] just to satisfy his greed for liquor to forget his troubles. Takatora also mentioned that while he was in comatose at that time, that his brother's isolated state and his alcoholism usually got him into trouble.
* ''Webcomic/TheMLPProject'': Pinkie Pie gets absolutely ''wasted'' after [[spoiler: attending Twilight Sparkle's funeral.]]
* Sirius Black tries this in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117]] of ''The Moment It Began'' after [[spoiler: his brother Regulus dies.]]
* In ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'', Archie Kennedy drinks ale at the Inn after his panic attack fades away and he's anxious having confessed his love to his fellow officer and friend inadvertently. He's not sure how his friend will react, and kind of hopes he didn't realize because he recited Shakespeare's sonnet to him but checked himself before he would finish the most revealing final line.
* Parodied at one point in ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', where Tenn goes to a diner to mope over her being demoted to Tak's assistant, drowning her sorrows in soda and doughnuts. Her interactions with the bartender are played as if she's in a bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
--->'''Kyril:''' It's good wine. But it's not exactly something that will dull the pain.
* ''Fanfic/TheNutdealerExpandedUniverse'': "Red Nut Ale" consists of Nathan drinking the eponymous spirit while he broods about Tommy's betrayal.
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/OldWest''. The relationship between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy becomes strained after Jake [[spoiler:kills Grace's estranged husband for bruising her]]. Rango finds Jake in the saloon holding a glass of untouched whiskey. Eventually Jake smashes the glass in his foul mood, saying that [[IAmNotMyFather he won't allow himself to be destroyed by booze]] like [[AlcoholicParent his father]] was.
* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[Fanfic/TheOllivanderChildren The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After the ruling council fails to convict Dimmed Star who continues walking free, Business Savvy retreats to drink in a tavern while keeping on a chair next to him a photograph of [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his son Dream Gavel whom Dimmed Star killed]].
* Rodney Skinner in the fourth installment of ''Fanfic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain''. The second version of the volume, told from his point of view, revealed his reaction to Elizabeth (who he's hopelessly in love with) announcing her engagement to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ben Everett]]. Unaware that she did so under duress, he spends the day drinking himself stupid until Tom comes along to drag him out of the bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': After her parents died, Elsa would often drink wine, sometimes even whole bottles.
* Done very frequently in ''Fanfic/RacerAndTheGeek''. Given what [[ShellShockedVeteran the protagonist]] has seen and done, it's understandable that he drinks himself into a stupor [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn practically every night.]]
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': After banishing her sister into the sun, Luna spent most of the next twelve years getting thoroughly sloshed, usually showing up in a random town and demanding booze, until a mob of rampaging dragons shook her out of her funk, and made her realize the harm her absence was inflicting on Equestria. She is now NailedToTheWagon. [[spoiler:She also leaves out a salient detail that it wasn't just losing Celestia that caused this, but having to give up Cadenza.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'': After realizing that the Remembering really is a case of having been sent back in time and not just a nightmare, Stannis resorts heavily to drinking in order to cope with the guilt of everything he did in the original timeline.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A RoseAnd A Thorn 5: Resurrection]],'' Midnight makes for an absolutely ''pathetic'' drunk at Club Rouge. He drinks to forget, but all he forgets is how many drinks he's had. Mirage pulls him into a dressing room, where he continues to cry in front of her, barely comprehensible, before walking out, throwing up, and passing out on the sidewalk.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''/''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13324935/1/RWBY-Aqua-s-Mission RWBY: Aqua's Mission]], it is revealed that Taiyang Xiao Long has taken to alcohol in an attempt to cope with Summer Rose's death. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in chapter 8, when the group was going to visit Summer's grave on her second birthday after her death, only for Taiyang to have a nervous breakdown and drink a lethal amount of alcohol. It was only due to Aqua restarting his heart with a Thundaga spell that he didn't die.]]
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* Happens to Kurenai in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' in the aftermath of Konoha's raid to Root's headquarters. Shizune finds her at the local bar looking miserable, since she's depressed over learning that [[spoiler:her former student Yakumo Kurama, whom she presumed dead years ago, was actually taken by Danzo and turned into one of his puppet agents.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' [=/=] ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SwappingGenres'': After finding out that Neal is Rumplestiltskin's son, Emma gets drunk to get over being lied to. Coincidentally, this leads to Emma getting a CurbStompBattle from Black Widow.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', when [[spoiler:Shinji went missing for one whole month and was in a coma for another month]], his guardian Misato resorted to drink copiously to try to overcome the pain.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' [=/=] ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SwappingGenres'': After finding out that Neal is Rumplestiltskin's son, Emma gets drunk to get over being lied to. Coincidentally, this leads to Emma getting a CurbStompBattle from Black Widow.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', when [[spoiler:Shinji went missing for one whole month and was in a coma for another month]], his guardian Misato resorted to drink copiously to try to overcome the pain.
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* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' [=/=] ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SwappingGenres'': After finding out that Neal is Rumplestiltskin's son, Emma gets drunk to get over being lied to. Coincidentally, this leads to Emma getting a CurbStompBattle from Black Widow.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', when [[spoiler:Shinji went missing for one whole month and was in a coma for another month]], his guardian Misato resorted to drink copiously to try to overcome the pain.
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* In ''Fanfic/BetweenMyBrotherAndMeMorsOmnibus'', Yvonne is slurping down two bowls of ''oh no kaung swe'' -- a Burmese noodle soup dish made with chicken and coconut milk -- the chapter after she [[spoiler:has to kill Yusho Sakaki]]. She even asks Mallow (who runs a Burmese restaurant in this story) if she has noodles for said sorrows.
* ''Fanfic/CyclesUponCycles'': After the Battle of the Citadel [[spoiler:and Shepard being spirited away by the Dominion]], Kasumi retreats to Dead Man's Port to drink herself into a stupor [[spoiler:after all her attempts to locate him fail]].
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* After ''Calvin'' gets invited to a fancy New Year's party instead of his parents in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', Dad notes this:
-->"Come on, dear. You can drown your sorrows in the cider."
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* An elderly Johannes "Jojo" Betzler drinks heavily in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13484770/1/Butterflies Butterflies]]''.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBlackPrince'': Harry gets drunk after Eggsy leaves him.
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* ''Fanfic/TheDearSweetieBelleContinuity'':
** Trixie and Cheerilee reference word for word having done this in ''Morning Glory'', Trixie apparently simply due to feeling uncomfortable being with the other ponies at [[spoiler:Fluttershy and Big Macintosh's]] wedding reception (despite having been hired to entertain the foals), and Cheerilee due to [[spoiler:losing Big Mac to Fluttershy]].
** In ''The Changelings Have a King'', Dash and Caramel [[spoiler:on the anniversary of Pinkie's death]].
** Also in ''Changelings'', Cheerilee and Crescendo after the former [[spoiler:is chewed out by Big Mac for suggesting that they and Fluttershy [[{{Polyamory}} form a herd]] since Fluttershy cannot have any more foals (which Mac had not even known)]] and the latter [[spoiler:learns Spike is planning to propose to Rarity, whom Crescendo has realized he is still in love with]].
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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38185219 Silhouettes]]'' takes a scene from the anime of Shikaku getting so hammered that he isn't aware of his son's progress in the Chuunin Exams and turns it into this. His own father, Shikahiko, was a distant and dour figure whose approval [[WellDoneSonGuy Shikaku desperately desired]], and he drinks in an effort to suppress the bad memories of his own first attempt at the Chuunin Exams.
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* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': After having a tense talk with Rei, Ritsuko spent the whole night drinking wine and crying.
* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': Subverted in chapter 8. Misato is sitting at the kitchen table, head buried in her hands because she is grief-stricken and hopeless to [[spoiler:save Asuka’s life.]] A beer can is sitting on the table in front of Misato, suggesting she has been drinking to try to forget...until the narration states that she has not touched her beer yet.
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* ''Fanfic/BartSimpsonAttorneyAtLaw'': Bart ends up doing this. In college, he ended up drinking himself into a stupor after Gina cheated on him. [[spoiler:It was so bad, he even contemplated suicide.]] [[ManipulativeBitch Jessica]] [[TheVamp Lovejoy]] worming her way into Bart's life and [[spoiler:Gina returning to Springfield]] drive him back to the bottle, forcing an intervention by Milhouse and Alex.
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* ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'':
** The Watch commander of Gulltown is doing this when Ser Harry Flash arrives to investigate the [[TheFundamentalist Old Faith]] situation in the Vale, due to Denys and Gerold Arryn's [[PoliceBrutality heavy-handed attempts]] to stomp out the movement only leading to widespread unrest and a burgeoning potential CivilWar.
** Jaime spends some time on the Summer Islands doing this in light of how his life has spiraled ever since [[spoiler:renouncing his inheritance]]. It lasts until a local priest literally smacks some sense into him and offers to help him redeem himself.
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* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Colgate does this when [[AntiHero L's]] methods get to be too much for her. Meanwhile, ''Celestia'' is strongly implied to have developed an outright drinking problem because of Kira's actions.
* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'': At the start of the story, Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as having become TheAlcoholic to cope with his grief in the four years following Order 66.
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': In the first story draft Rei decided to get hammered when she thought she had missed her second chance and Asuka had beaten her to the punch again because she was under house arrest (long story) for long enough for Asuka getting there and get her claws into Shinji before she did.
* This occurred to Celestia in the backstory of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/DropOfMoonshine''. After banishing her sister Celestia began [[TheAlcoholic drinking copious amounts of alcohol]]. This caused her council to force her to [[GoingColdTurkey go cold turkey]] by throwing away all the alcohol in Equestria. Celestia eventually banned alcohol period, though after Luna came back her sister convinced her to legalize it again. As a result, ponies no longer understand what alcohol is.
* Empath from ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' becomes an alcoholic from drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater sarsaparilla ale]] in the alternate timeline where Smurfette marries Papa Smurf. Hefty in the main timeline story "Empath's Wedding" sits alone in Tapper's Tavern with a single glass of sarsaparilla ale on the night before the wedding, wondering why Smurfette won't marry him and realizing that he just couldn't compete against Empath. By morning, it is clear that Hefty is hung over just from that single glass.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Epiphany}}'', Aerith gets plastered in her room after meeting Sephiroth. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that tens of thousands of people in Midgar will die in a matter of days, Sephiroth's own evil plans, and the Arbiters blocking her attempts to stop all of it, she copes with it all by downing Elmyra's cooking sherry and baking brandy that night.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': In chapter 10 Shinji has spent several months keeping watch over [[spoiler:his comatose girlfriend]] Asuka, not knowing [[spoiler:whether she will ever wake up or not]] and his father -- whom he has not seen in years -- shows up to lecture him about ''supposedly'' neglecting his duties because he is infatuated with a pretty face. Feeling more angry and depressed, Shinji goes to a bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
* ''Fanfic/FarewellToLifeTheWayWeKnewIt'': It's mentioned that, due to the high unemployment rate, many people hang around bars, even in the morning.
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/FinalToll''. The happy and oblivious Romani gets drunk, but Cremia doesn't touch a bottle.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28352337 Finding The Way]]'', Din Djarin raids Moff Gideon's stash of Corellian Whiskey after showing his face to Grogu and giving him to Luke Skywalker.
* ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'': Yang's HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude is in part a way of coping with her abandonment issues over her biological mother Raven [[MissingMom running off]] when she was an infant.
* In ''Fanfic/FuturesFreakMeOut'', Shinji and Asuka fly to Germany to visit Asuka's family, and they verify her father continues to show zero concern for his red-haired daughter; so Asuka decides to drag Shinji to the nearest bar and get very, very drunk.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': During a scene, Misato recalls she got hammered because she didn't have the guts to confess to Kaji.
* This is the last thing we see Atreus do in ''Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons'', since [[spoiler:his starship was destroyed by Dooku using it to ram a drug cooker's]].
* In ''Fanfic/IAgainstIMeAgainstYou'', Spike goes to Berry Punch's bar when he can't take any more of having Grif and Simmons as roommates... and drinks [[DrunkOnMilk apple juice]].
* While on their forced European vacation in ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'', Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson get smashed at a seedy bar in Croatia ([[NeverGetsDrunk Steve]] has to take a sip of some kind of [[GargleBlaster mysterious liquor]] every minute to remain drunk) and commiserate about their respective fallen friends, and those friends' sexual practices. This eventually leads to Steve brokenly confessing to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America, and the two crying into each others' shirts.
* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
** Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** Film/IronMan went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
* In the ''Series/OnceUponATime''[=/=]''Film/MrRight'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LoveAtFirstSightOnceUponATime'', after breaking up with Robin and being attacked by a cat on the same day, Regina decides to drink a whole bottle of wine and is continuing to do so when Kathryn finds her.
* This is implied in the animation for the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-song "Music/LullabyForAPrincess". Luna is briefly shown crying with a large number of bottles nearby.
* From ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', we have [[spoiler: Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
** At first, it looked like [[spoiler: Nui]] was doing this, however, it was subverted, when it was she stated [[spoiler: that she was combining the alcohols from the collection to commit suicide with]].
** After his [[spoiler:saddening 'breakup' with Satsuki, Junketsu, of all living organisms, resorts to the very substances that his brother's wearer always indulged in on a daily basis.]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': Mitsuzane, through his backstories, started turning to the bottle [[spoiler:two months after Kouta and Kaito's climactic battle, despite him underage at that time]]. This is the reason why Micchy openly revealed his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]] to Gou and Samus.
-->'''[[SwitchingPOV Samus's Point of view]]:''' Mitsuzane had [[TheAlcoholic a very serious problem with alcohol]]. [[BittersweetEnding It all started two months after the Helheim Invasion]], Mitsuzane had [[DescentIntoAddiction began to abuse alcohol when he was still]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone unable to cope up over his depression]]. He had frequented in bars to drink, [[StickyFingers spending his family's money]] just to satisfy his greed for liquor to forget his troubles. Takatora also mentioned that while he was in comatose at that time, that his brother's isolated state and his alcoholism usually got him into trouble.
* ''Webcomic/TheMLPProject'': Pinkie Pie gets absolutely ''wasted'' after [[spoiler: attending Twilight Sparkle's funeral.]]
* Sirius Black tries this in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117]] of ''The Moment It Began'' after [[spoiler: his brother Regulus dies.]]
* In ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'', Archie Kennedy drinks ale at the Inn after his panic attack fades away and he's anxious having confessed his love to his fellow officer and friend inadvertently. He's not sure how his friend will react, and kind of hopes he didn't realize because he recited Shakespeare's sonnet to him but checked himself before he would finish the most revealing final line.
* Parodied at one point in ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', where Tenn goes to a diner to mope over her being demoted to Tak's assistant, drowning her sorrows in soda and doughnuts. Her interactions with the bartender are played as if she's in a bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
--->'''Kyril:''' It's good wine. But it's not exactly something that will dull the pain.
* ''Fanfic/TheNutdealerExpandedUniverse'': "Red Nut Ale" consists of Nathan drinking the eponymous spirit while he broods about Tommy's betrayal.
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/OldWest''. The relationship between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy becomes strained after Jake [[spoiler:kills Grace's estranged husband for bruising her]]. Rango finds Jake in the saloon holding a glass of untouched whiskey. Eventually Jake smashes the glass in his foul mood, saying that [[IAmNotMyFather he won't allow himself to be destroyed by booze]] like [[AlcoholicParent his father]] was.
* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[Fanfic/TheOllivanderChildren The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After the ruling council fails to convict Dimmed Star who continues walking free, Business Savvy retreats to drink in a tavern while keeping on a chair next to him a photograph of [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his son Dream Gavel whom Dimmed Star killed]].
* Rodney Skinner in the fourth installment of ''Fanfic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain''. The second version of the volume, told from his point of view, revealed his reaction to Elizabeth (who he's hopelessly in love with) announcing her engagement to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ben Everett]]. Unaware that she did so under duress, he spends the day drinking himself stupid until Tom comes along to drag him out of the bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': After her parents died, Elsa would often drink wine, sometimes even whole bottles.
* Done very frequently in ''Fanfic/RacerAndTheGeek''. Given what [[ShellShockedVeteran the protagonist]] has seen and done, it's understandable that he drinks himself into a stupor [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn practically every night.]]
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': After banishing her sister into the sun, Luna spent most of the next twelve years getting thoroughly sloshed, usually showing up in a random town and demanding booze, until a mob of rampaging dragons shook her out of her funk, and made her realize the harm her absence was inflicting on Equestria. She is now NailedToTheWagon. [[spoiler:She also leaves out a salient detail that it wasn't just losing Celestia that caused this, but having to give up Cadenza.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'': After realizing that the Remembering really is a case of having been sent back in time and not just a nightmare, Stannis resorts heavily to drinking in order to cope with the guilt of everything he did in the original timeline.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A RoseAnd A Thorn 5: Resurrection]],'' Midnight makes for an absolutely ''pathetic'' drunk at Club Rouge. He drinks to forget, but all he forgets is how many drinks he's had. Mirage pulls him into a dressing room, where he continues to cry in front of her, barely comprehensible, before walking out, throwing up, and passing out on the sidewalk.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''/''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13324935/1/RWBY-Aqua-s-Mission RWBY: Aqua's Mission]], it is revealed that Taiyang Xiao Long has taken to alcohol in an attempt to cope with Summer Rose's death. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in chapter 8, when the group was going to visit Summer's grave on her second birthday after her death, only for Taiyang to have a nervous breakdown and drink a lethal amount of alcohol. It was only due to Aqua restarting his heart with a Thundaga spell that he didn't die.]]
* ''Fanfic/SodaAt70Proof'' starts with Rachel at a bar getting [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]] because she misses Nigel. After three drinks in less than thirty minutes, Fanny decides she's had enough and takes her back home.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'' Roy tries to drown his PTSD flashbacks in booze. It turns him from a wreck to a drunk wreck.
* Happens to Kurenai in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' in the aftermath of Konoha's raid to Root's headquarters. Shizune finds her at the local bar looking miserable, since she's depressed over learning that [[spoiler:her former student Yakumo Kurama, whom she presumed dead years ago, was actually taken by Danzo and turned into one of his puppet agents.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' [=/=] ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SwappingGenres'': After finding out that Neal is Rumplestiltskin's son, Emma gets drunk to get over being lied to. Coincidentally, this leads to Emma getting a CurbStompBattle from Black Widow.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', when [[spoiler:Shinji went missing for one whole month and was in a coma for another month]], his guardian Misato resorted to drink copiously to try to overcome the pain.
* In the Belle/Aurora ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' one-shot ''Fanfic/ToAMerryChristmas'', Belle invites the princesses to a Christmas Eve party. Late at night, she goes down to the library when she spots Aurora drinking and reading by the fireplace. It turns out Aurora was drinking eggnog with brandy, though it wasn't her eggnog and she hadn't expected it to be quite as strong. Aurora has been troubled since her life changed. She misses living in the woods and [[DoNotCallMePaul doesn't like being called "Aurora"]]. She makes herself [[StepfordSmiler keep up a facade]] of being a perfect PrincessClassic but it's not something she's used to. Belle ends up drinking with Aurora as they talk. Afterwards, Belle escorts Aurora to her room however this leads to them sleeping together due to Aurora's fears of sleeping alone.
* ''Fanfic/TheVow'':
** Lord Chang succumbs to drinking wine after his wife passes away.
** While [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] is wallowing in the shame of being crippled during the epilogue, he considers doing this. However, he ultimately defies this trope when he remembers the above mentioned Chang and decides he doesn't want to become like the swan noble he despises.
* ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'': [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] uses to do this when [[BrokenAce she is depressed]] -- which happens a lot. Usually, she drinks heavily and then she latches onto [[TheHero Shinji]] for comfort and reassurance.
* ''Fanfic/WearingRobertsCrown'': Having spent years of restraining himself to well-watered wine, Drakebert drinks himself into a stupor after [[spoiler: executing Quentyn Martell]].
* ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying'':
** Filthy Rich became an alcoholic wreck after the tragic death of his wife Crystal Eyes and their unborn son, and again when his daughter Diamond Tiara was hit by a carriage and died.
** Big Macintosh apparently does this whenever someone brings up his deceased parents, as it is mentioned that he left the farmhouse for hours and returned with cider on his breath whenever his little sister Apple Bloom asked him how they died.
* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a BeardOfSorrow, though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a HesBack moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
* In ''Fanfic/WorldwarWarOfEquals'', alien pilots in occupied Mexico stage a protest against their superiors demanding safer missions out of fear from both [[CoolPlane stealth fighters]] and [[EnergyWeapon rumored airborne laser weapons]]. Despite reassurance of safety, many pilots still handle their stress with [[AlienCatnip ginger]].
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People attempting to deal with depression by [[DrowningMySorrows getting drunk]] in FanWorks.
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* In ''Fanfic/BetweenMyBrotherAndMeMorsOmnibus'', Yvonne is slurping down two bowls of ''oh no kaung swe'' -- a Burmese noodle soup dish made with chicken and coconut milk -- the chapter after she [[spoiler:has to kill Yusho Sakaki]]. She even asks Mallow (who runs a Burmese restaurant in this story) if she has noodles for said sorrows.
* ''Fanfic/CyclesUponCycles'': After the Battle of the Citadel [[spoiler:and Shepard being spirited away by the Dominion]], Kasumi retreats to Dead Man's Port to drink herself into a stupor [[spoiler:after all her attempts to locate him fail]].
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* After ''Calvin'' gets invited to a fancy New Year's party instead of his parents in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', Dad notes this:
-->"Come on, dear. You can drown your sorrows in the cider."
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* An elderly Johannes "Jojo" Betzler drinks heavily in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13484770/1/Butterflies Butterflies]]''.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBlackPrince'': Harry gets drunk after Eggsy leaves him.
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* ''Fanfic/TheDearSweetieBelleContinuity'':
** Trixie and Cheerilee reference word for word having done this in ''Morning Glory'', Trixie apparently simply due to feeling uncomfortable being with the other ponies at [[spoiler:Fluttershy and Big Macintosh's]] wedding reception (despite having been hired to entertain the foals), and Cheerilee due to [[spoiler:losing Big Mac to Fluttershy]].
** In ''The Changelings Have a King'', Dash and Caramel [[spoiler:on the anniversary of Pinkie's death]].
** Also in ''Changelings'', Cheerilee and Crescendo after the former [[spoiler:is chewed out by Big Mac for suggesting that they and Fluttershy [[{{Polyamory}} form a herd]] since Fluttershy cannot have any more foals (which Mac had not even known)]] and the latter [[spoiler:learns Spike is planning to propose to Rarity, whom Crescendo has realized he is still in love with]].
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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38185219 Silhouettes]]'' takes a scene from the anime of Shikaku getting so hammered that he isn't aware of his son's progress in the Chuunin Exams and turns it into this. His own father, Shikahiko, was a distant and dour figure whose approval [[WellDoneSonGuy Shikaku desperately desired]], and he drinks in an effort to suppress the bad memories of his own first attempt at the Chuunin Exams.
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* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': After having a tense talk with Rei, Ritsuko spent the whole night drinking wine and crying.
* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': Subverted in chapter 8. Misato is sitting at the kitchen table, head buried in her hands because she is grief-stricken and hopeless to [[spoiler:save Asuka’s life.]] A beer can is sitting on the table in front of Misato, suggesting she has been drinking to try to forget...until the narration states that she has not touched her beer yet.
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* ''Fanfic/BartSimpsonAttorneyAtLaw'': Bart ends up doing this. In college, he ended up drinking himself into a stupor after Gina cheated on him. [[spoiler:It was so bad, he even contemplated suicide.]] [[ManipulativeBitch Jessica]] [[TheVamp Lovejoy]] worming her way into Bart's life and [[spoiler:Gina returning to Springfield]] drive him back to the bottle, forcing an intervention by Milhouse and Alex.
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* ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'':
** The Watch commander of Gulltown is doing this when Ser Harry Flash arrives to investigate the [[TheFundamentalist Old Faith]] situation in the Vale, due to Denys and Gerold Arryn's [[PoliceBrutality heavy-handed attempts]] to stomp out the movement only leading to widespread unrest and a burgeoning potential CivilWar.
** Jaime spends some time on the Summer Islands doing this in light of how his life has spiraled ever since [[spoiler:renouncing his inheritance]]. It lasts until a local priest literally smacks some sense into him and offers to help him redeem himself.
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* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Colgate does this when [[AntiHero L's]] methods get to be too much for her. Meanwhile, ''Celestia'' is strongly implied to have developed an outright drinking problem because of Kira's actions.
* ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'': At the start of the story, Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as having become TheAlcoholic to cope with his grief in the four years following Order 66.
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': In the first story draft Rei decided to get hammered when she thought she had missed her second chance and Asuka had beaten her to the punch again because she was under house arrest (long story) for long enough for Asuka getting there and get her claws into Shinji before she did.
* This occurred to Celestia in the backstory of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/DropOfMoonshine''. After banishing her sister Celestia began [[TheAlcoholic drinking copious amounts of alcohol]]. This caused her council to force her to [[GoingColdTurkey go cold turkey]] by throwing away all the alcohol in Equestria. Celestia eventually banned alcohol period, though after Luna came back her sister convinced her to legalize it again. As a result, ponies no longer understand what alcohol is.
* Empath from ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' becomes an alcoholic from drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater sarsaparilla ale]] in the alternate timeline where Smurfette marries Papa Smurf. Hefty in the main timeline story "Empath's Wedding" sits alone in Tapper's Tavern with a single glass of sarsaparilla ale on the night before the wedding, wondering why Smurfette won't marry him and realizing that he just couldn't compete against Empath. By morning, it is clear that Hefty is hung over just from that single glass.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Epiphany}}'', Aerith gets plastered in her room after meeting Sephiroth. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that tens of thousands of people in Midgar will die in a matter of days, Sephiroth's own evil plans, and the Arbiters blocking her attempts to stop all of it, she copes with it all by downing Elmyra's cooking sherry and baking brandy that night.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': In chapter 10 Shinji has spent several months keeping watch over [[spoiler:his comatose girlfriend]] Asuka, not knowing [[spoiler:whether she will ever wake up or not]] and his father -- whom he has not seen in years -- shows up to lecture him about ''supposedly'' neglecting his duties because he is infatuated with a pretty face. Feeling more angry and depressed, Shinji goes to a bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
* ''Fanfic/FarewellToLifeTheWayWeKnewIt'': It's mentioned that, due to the high unemployment rate, many people hang around bars, even in the morning.
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/FinalToll''. The happy and oblivious Romani gets drunk, but Cremia doesn't touch a bottle.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28352337 Finding The Way]]'', Din Djarin raids Moff Gideon's stash of Corellian Whiskey after showing his face to Grogu and giving him to Luke Skywalker.
* ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'': Yang's HardDrinkingPartyGirl attitude is in part a way of coping with her abandonment issues over her biological mother Raven [[MissingMom running off]] when she was an infant.
* In ''Fanfic/FuturesFreakMeOut'', Shinji and Asuka fly to Germany to visit Asuka's family, and they verify her father continues to show zero concern for his red-haired daughter; so Asuka decides to drag Shinji to the nearest bar and get very, very drunk.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': During a scene, Misato recalls she got hammered because she didn't have the guts to confess to Kaji.
* This is the last thing we see Atreus do in ''Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons'', since [[spoiler:his starship was destroyed by Dooku using it to ram a drug cooker's]].
* In ''Fanfic/IAgainstIMeAgainstYou'', Spike goes to Berry Punch's bar when he can't take any more of having Grif and Simmons as roommates... and drinks [[DrunkOnMilk apple juice]].
* While on their forced European vacation in ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'', Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson get smashed at a seedy bar in Croatia ([[NeverGetsDrunk Steve]] has to take a sip of some kind of [[GargleBlaster mysterious liquor]] every minute to remain drunk) and commiserate about their respective fallen friends, and those friends' sexual practices. This eventually leads to Steve brokenly confessing to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America, and the two crying into each others' shirts.
* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
** Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** Film/IronMan went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
* In the ''Series/OnceUponATime''[=/=]''Film/MrRight'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LoveAtFirstSightOnceUponATime'', after breaking up with Robin and being attacked by a cat on the same day, Regina decides to drink a whole bottle of wine and is continuing to do so when Kathryn finds her.
* This is implied in the animation for the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-song "Music/LullabyForAPrincess". Luna is briefly shown crying with a large number of bottles nearby.
* From ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', we have [[spoiler: Ryuuko]] in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
** At first, it looked like [[spoiler: Nui]] was doing this, however, it was subverted, when it was she stated [[spoiler: that she was combining the alcohols from the collection to commit suicide with]].
** After his [[spoiler:saddening 'breakup' with Satsuki, Junketsu, of all living organisms, resorts to the very substances that his brother's wearer always indulged in on a daily basis.]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': Mitsuzane, through his backstories, started turning to the bottle [[spoiler:two months after Kouta and Kaito's climactic battle, despite him underage at that time]]. This is the reason why Micchy openly revealed his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]] to Gou and Samus.
-->'''[[SwitchingPOV Samus's Point of view]]:''' Mitsuzane had [[TheAlcoholic a very serious problem with alcohol]]. [[BittersweetEnding It all started two months after the Helheim Invasion]], Mitsuzane had [[DescentIntoAddiction began to abuse alcohol when he was still]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone unable to cope up over his depression]]. He had frequented in bars to drink, [[StickyFingers spending his family's money]] just to satisfy his greed for liquor to forget his troubles. Takatora also mentioned that while he was in comatose at that time, that his brother's isolated state and his alcoholism usually got him into trouble.
* ''Webcomic/TheMLPProject'': Pinkie Pie gets absolutely ''wasted'' after [[spoiler: attending Twilight Sparkle's funeral.]]
* Sirius Black tries this in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117]] of ''The Moment It Began'' after [[spoiler: his brother Regulus dies.]]
* In ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'', Archie Kennedy drinks ale at the Inn after his panic attack fades away and he's anxious having confessed his love to his fellow officer and friend inadvertently. He's not sure how his friend will react, and kind of hopes he didn't realize because he recited Shakespeare's sonnet to him but checked himself before he would finish the most revealing final line.
* Parodied at one point in ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', where Tenn goes to a diner to mope over her being demoted to Tak's assistant, drowning her sorrows in soda and doughnuts. Her interactions with the bartender are played as if she's in a bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Maia, who tries to dull her [[PastExperienceNightmare Past Experience Nightmares]] from her [[RapeAsDrama traumatic rape]] with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
** During her HeroicBSOD, Olga is seen drinking as her servant, surrogate daughter, and LivingEmotionalCrutch Chloe is in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and [[NeverGetsDrunk down it entirely]]. He also has something to say about this.
--->'''Kyril:''' It's good wine. But it's not exactly something that will dull the pain.
* ''Fanfic/TheNutdealerExpandedUniverse'': "Red Nut Ale" consists of Nathan drinking the eponymous spirit while he broods about Tommy's betrayal.
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/OldWest''. The relationship between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy becomes strained after Jake [[spoiler:kills Grace's estranged husband for bruising her]]. Rango finds Jake in the saloon holding a glass of untouched whiskey. Eventually Jake smashes the glass in his foul mood, saying that [[IAmNotMyFather he won't allow himself to be destroyed by booze]] like [[AlcoholicParent his father]] was.
* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[Fanfic/TheOllivanderChildren The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After the ruling council fails to convict Dimmed Star who continues walking free, Business Savvy retreats to drink in a tavern while keeping on a chair next to him a photograph of [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his son Dream Gavel whom Dimmed Star killed]].
* Rodney Skinner in the fourth installment of ''Fanfic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain''. The second version of the volume, told from his point of view, revealed his reaction to Elizabeth (who he's hopelessly in love with) announcing her engagement to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ben Everett]]. Unaware that she did so under duress, he spends the day drinking himself stupid until Tom comes along to drag him out of the bar.
* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': After her parents died, Elsa would often drink wine, sometimes even whole bottles.
* Done very frequently in ''Fanfic/RacerAndTheGeek''. Given what [[ShellShockedVeteran the protagonist]] has seen and done, it's understandable that he drinks himself into a stupor [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn practically every night.]]
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': After banishing her sister into the sun, Luna spent most of the next twelve years getting thoroughly sloshed, usually showing up in a random town and demanding booze, until a mob of rampaging dragons shook her out of her funk, and made her realize the harm her absence was inflicting on Equestria. She is now NailedToTheWagon. [[spoiler:She also leaves out a salient detail that it wasn't just losing Celestia that caused this, but having to give up Cadenza.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'': After realizing that the Remembering really is a case of having been sent back in time and not just a nightmare, Stannis resorts heavily to drinking in order to cope with the guilt of everything he did in the original timeline.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A RoseAnd A Thorn 5: Resurrection]],'' Midnight makes for an absolutely ''pathetic'' drunk at Club Rouge. He drinks to forget, but all he forgets is how many drinks he's had. Mirage pulls him into a dressing room, where he continues to cry in front of her, barely comprehensible, before walking out, throwing up, and passing out on the sidewalk.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''/''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13324935/1/RWBY-Aqua-s-Mission RWBY: Aqua's Mission]], it is revealed that Taiyang Xiao Long has taken to alcohol in an attempt to cope with Summer Rose's death. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in chapter 8, when the group was going to visit Summer's grave on her second birthday after her death, only for Taiyang to have a nervous breakdown and drink a lethal amount of alcohol. It was only due to Aqua restarting his heart with a Thundaga spell that he didn't die.]]
* ''Fanfic/SodaAt70Proof'' starts with Rachel at a bar getting [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on soda]] because she misses Nigel. After three drinks in less than thirty minutes, Fanny decides she's had enough and takes her back home.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'' Roy tries to drown his PTSD flashbacks in booze. It turns him from a wreck to a drunk wreck.
* Happens to Kurenai in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' in the aftermath of Konoha's raid to Root's headquarters. Shizune finds her at the local bar looking miserable, since she's depressed over learning that [[spoiler:her former student Yakumo Kurama, whom she presumed dead years ago, was actually taken by Danzo and turned into one of his puppet agents.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' [=/=] ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SwappingGenres'': After finding out that Neal is Rumplestiltskin's son, Emma gets drunk to get over being lied to. Coincidentally, this leads to Emma getting a CurbStompBattle from Black Widow.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', when [[spoiler:Shinji went missing for one whole month and was in a coma for another month]], his guardian Misato resorted to drink copiously to try to overcome the pain.
* In the Belle/Aurora ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' one-shot ''Fanfic/ToAMerryChristmas'', Belle invites the princesses to a Christmas Eve party. Late at night, she goes down to the library when she spots Aurora drinking and reading by the fireplace. It turns out Aurora was drinking eggnog with brandy, though it wasn't her eggnog and she hadn't expected it to be quite as strong. Aurora has been troubled since her life changed. She misses living in the woods and [[DoNotCallMePaul doesn't like being called "Aurora"]]. She makes herself [[StepfordSmiler keep up a facade]] of being a perfect PrincessClassic but it's not something she's used to. Belle ends up drinking with Aurora as they talk. Afterwards, Belle escorts Aurora to her room however this leads to them sleeping together due to Aurora's fears of sleeping alone.
* ''Fanfic/TheVow'':
** Lord Chang succumbs to drinking wine after his wife passes away.
** While [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] is wallowing in the shame of being crippled during the epilogue, he considers doing this. However, he ultimately defies this trope when he remembers the above mentioned Chang and decides he doesn't want to become like the swan noble he despises.
* ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'': [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] uses to do this when [[BrokenAce she is depressed]] -- which happens a lot. Usually, she drinks heavily and then she latches onto [[TheHero Shinji]] for comfort and reassurance.
* ''Fanfic/WearingRobertsCrown'': Having spent years of restraining himself to well-watered wine, Drakebert drinks himself into a stupor after [[spoiler: executing Quentyn Martell]].
* ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying'':
** Filthy Rich became an alcoholic wreck after the tragic death of his wife Crystal Eyes and their unborn son, and again when his daughter Diamond Tiara was hit by a carriage and died.
** Big Macintosh apparently does this whenever someone brings up his deceased parents, as it is mentioned that he left the farmhouse for hours and returned with cider on his breath whenever his little sister Apple Bloom asked him how they died.
* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a BeardOfSorrow, though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a HesBack moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
* In ''Fanfic/WorldwarWarOfEquals'', alien pilots in occupied Mexico stage a protest against their superiors demanding safer missions out of fear from both [[CoolPlane stealth fighters]] and [[EnergyWeapon rumored airborne laser weapons]]. Despite reassurance of safety, many pilots still handle their stress with [[AlienCatnip ginger]].
