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** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/25/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path]]'', Victor Krum wants either alcohol or an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "Obliviate" spell]] after seeing a morbidly obese version of himself covered in dirt and smears of food and condiments.
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** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/25/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path]]'', Path]]'':
*** Tonks name-checks the trope when contemplating how attached she seems to be getting to Harry, and their respective ages (at this point, she's 20, he's 14).
*** Victor Krum wants either alcohol or an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "Obliviate" spell]] after seeing a morbidly obese version of himself covered in dirt and smears of food and condiments.
*** Tonks name-checks the trope when contemplating how attached she seems to be getting to Harry, and their respective ages (at this point, she's 20, he's 14).
*** Victor Krum wants either alcohol or an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "Obliviate" spell]] after seeing a morbidly obese version of himself covered in dirt and smears of food and condiments.
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* ''Fanfic/ChaldeaEvilIncorporated'': [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Olga Marie]] takes out a bottle of old expensive wine after realizing that [[VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight Touko "The Red" Aozaki]] is "lovey-dovey" with [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Dr. Heinz Doofensmirtz]], a recent engineer who managed to become one of Olga's many headaches. The narration adds that that glass she pours won't be the only one she's drinking that night.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9068598/1/The-Morning-After The Morning After]]'': Odin asks for more wine after waking up from a coma when he finds out Loki has been in charge and has made several changes to Asgard, including instituting a parliamentary democracy, writing a constitution, setting up an electrical grid, and establishing banks (and bank holidays to go with them).* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Jor-El asks K.E.L.E.X. for a drink to dull his frustration over the Kryptonian Science Council's inability to accept evidence that Krypton is going to be destroyed.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9068598/1/The-Morning-After The Morning After]]'': Odin asks for more wine after waking up from a coma when he finds out Loki has been in charge and has made several changes to Asgard, including instituting a parliamentary democracy, writing a constitution, setting up an electrical grid, and establishing banks (and bank holidays to go with them).them).
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Jor-El asks K.E.L.E.X. for a drink to dull his frustration over the Kryptonian Science Council's inability to accept evidence that Krypton is going to be destroyed.
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Jor-El asks K.E.L.E.X. for a drink to dull his frustration over the Kryptonian Science Council's inability to accept evidence that Krypton is going to be destroyed.
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* ''Fanfic/HoursVerse'': Anna's reaction after [[spoiler:narrowly preventing the end of the world at Nyx's hands]] in ''Stars Shine Brighter without Sunlight''.
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** ''Fanfic/SunsetsIsekai'': This is largely what the Isekai is all about- if you need a good drink, someone to lend an ear, and/or maybe even some sage advice, the Isekai might just show up in front of you.
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''"Hey, Misato! We saved the world yesterday! Can we have a raise in our allowance?" Asuka called after her.''\\
'' 'A lot of beer...' ''
''"Hey, Misato! We saved the world yesterday! Can we have a raise in our allowance?" Asuka called after her.''\\
'' 'A lot of beer...' ''
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"Hey, Misato! We saved the world yesterday! Can we have a raise in our allowance?" Asuka called after her.
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** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8233288/39/Faery-Heroes Faery Heroes]]'': Miranda (Hermione's mother) is thinking along these lines while Xeno (Luna's father) is telling her about their future grandchildren in a few years.
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*** In Chapter 3, McGonagall responds this way to a letter from Hermione, especially after she realizes how comments she'd made in the previous chapter had come across to Harry, who doesn't know her at all. Her sense of guilt over Harry winding up with the horrifically abusive Vernon doesn't help her at all. Later on in the same chapter, she considers a system for rating Hermione's letters by how many drinks she needs while reading same.
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*** In Chapter 3, McGonagall 3,[=McGonagall=] responds this way to a letter from Hermione, especially after she realizes how comments she'd made in the previous chapter had come across to Harry, who doesn't know her at all. Her sense of guilt over Harry winding up with the horrifically abusive Vernon doesn't help her at all. Later on in the same chapter, she considers a system for rating Hermione's letters by how many drinks she needs while reading same.
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* ''Fanfic/TheChaoticMasters'': This is Constantine's reaction after the fighting at [[AuctionOfEvil Roulette's auction]], as well as finding out that [[TheDreaded the Chaotic Masters]] are returning.
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*** In Chapter 3, McGonagall responds this way to a letter from Hermione, especially after she realizes how comments she'd made in the previous chapter had come across to Harry, who doesn't know her at all. Her sense of guilt over Harry winding up with the horrifically abusive Vernon doesn't help her at all.
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*** In Chapter 3, McGonagall responds this way to a letter from Hermione, especially after she realizes how comments she'd made in the previous chapter had come across to Harry, who doesn't know her at all. Her sense of guilt over Harry winding up with the horrifically abusive Vernon doesn't help her at all. Later on in the same chapter, she considers a system for rating Hermione's letters by how many drinks she needs while reading same.
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** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7093738/4/ Brutal Harry]]'', '''Dumbledore''', of all people, does this, pouring himself a shot of whiskey and chugging it down in an instant after [[spoiler:he's informed exactly how badly Harry was abused at the Dursley's, which has resulted in a borderline sociopathic, justifiably pissed off and magically powerful child (reminiscent of Voldemort in fact), with all that rage directed at him and nearly every other authority figure]]. He also is considering how he's essentially allowed all of his students to suffer under Snape and other bullies at his school due to his inattentiveness.
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** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7093738/4/ net/s/7093738/ Brutal Harry]]'', Harry]]'',
*** In Chapter 3, McGonagall responds this way to a letter from Hermione, especially after she realizes how comments she'd made in the previous chapter had come across to Harry, who doesn't know her at all. Her sense of guilt over Harry winding up with the horrifically abusive Vernon doesn't help her at all.
*** In Chapter 4, '''Dumbledore''', of all people, does this, pouring himself a shot of whiskey and chugging it down in an instant after [[spoiler:he's informed exactly how badly Harry was abused at the Dursley's, which has resulted in a borderline sociopathic, justifiably pissed off and magically powerful child (reminiscent of Voldemort in fact), with all that rage directed at him and nearly every other authority figure]]. He also is considering how he's essentially allowed all of his students to suffer under Snape and other bullies at his school due to his inattentiveness.
*** In Chapter 3, McGonagall responds this way to a letter from Hermione, especially after she realizes how comments she'd made in the previous chapter had come across to Harry, who doesn't know her at all. Her sense of guilt over Harry winding up with the horrifically abusive Vernon doesn't help her at all.
*** In Chapter 4, '''Dumbledore''', of all people, does this, pouring himself a shot of whiskey and chugging it down in an instant after [[spoiler:he's informed exactly how badly Harry was abused at the Dursley's, which has resulted in a borderline sociopathic, justifiably pissed off and magically powerful child (reminiscent of Voldemort in fact), with all that rage directed at him and nearly every other authority figure]]. He also is considering how he's essentially allowed all of his students to suffer under Snape and other bullies at his school due to his inattentiveness.
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*** Hermione also does this in Chapter 4, when she and Ginny barge into a meeting in Dumbledore's office to tell him and the house heads that Harry's doing things that defy the known laws of magic. Surprisingly, Snape's the one indulges her by giving her the requested alcohol. The five adults then follow her lead after she explains what Harry did.
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*** Hermione also does this in Chapter 4, when she and Ginny barge into a meeting in Dumbledore's office to tell him and the house heads that Harry's doing things that defy the known laws of magic. Surprisingly, Snape's the one who indulges her by giving her the requested alcohol. The five adults then follow her lead after she explains what Harry did.
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** ''[[https://jeconais/fanficauthors.net/This_Means_War]]'':
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** In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/25/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path]]'', Victor Krum wants either alcohol or an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "Obliviate" spell]] after seeing a morbidly obese version of himself covered in dirt and smears of food and condiments.
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** In [[https://www.''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/25/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path]]'', Victor Krum wants either alcohol or an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "Obliviate" spell]] after seeing a morbidly obese version of himself covered in dirt and smears of food and condiments.
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* Harry offers Amelia Bones some scotch in ''Fanfic/TheAwakeningOfAMagus'', after she sees Remus in human form during the full moon (Harry worked out a procedure to change the werewolf curse into wolf Animagus ability).
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** Harry offers Amelia Bones some scotch in ''Fanfic/TheAwakeningOfAMagus'', after she sees Remus in human form during the full moon (Harry worked out a procedure to change the werewolf curse into wolf Animagus ability).
** In[[https://www.''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7093738/4/ Chapter 4]] of ''Fanfic/BrutalHarry'', Brutal Harry]]'', '''Dumbledore''', of all people, does this, pouring himself a shot of whiskey and chugging it down in an instant after [[spoiler:he's informed exactly how badly Harry was abused at the Dursley's, which has resulted in a borderline sociopathic, justifiably pissed off and magically powerful child (reminiscent of Voldemort in fact), with all that rage directed at him and nearly every other authority figure]]. He also is considering how he's essentially allowed all of his students to suffer under Snape and other bullies at his school due to his inattentiveness.
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** This trope goes for both Harry and Sirius as their way of coping when Sirius decides Harry needs TheTalk in Chapter 2 of ''[[https://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/This_Means_War/index/ This Means War]]''.
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*** This trope goes for both Harry and Sirius as their way of coping when Sirius decides Harry needs TheTalk in Chapter2 2.
*** Hermione also does this in Chapter 4, when she and Ginny barge into a meeting in Dumbledore's office to tell him and the house heads that Harry's doing things that defy the known laws of''[[https://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/This_Means_War/index/ This Means War]]''.magic. Surprisingly, Snape's the one indulges her by giving her the requested alcohol. The five adults then follow her lead after she explains what Harry did.
*** This trope goes for both Harry and Sirius as their way of coping when Sirius decides Harry needs TheTalk in Chapter
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* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'':
** This is [[spoiler:Kushina]]'s reaction when Naruto reveals that [[LovableSexManiac Jiraiya]] did invite him to do some peeping.
** In Chapter 133, after returning to her office, Tsunade says she needs a drink as a result of [[spoiler:Naruto wanting to know more about the woman who raised him during the first four years of his life, which was actually Tsunade herself]].
** This is [[spoiler:Kushina]]'s reaction when Naruto reveals that [[LovableSexManiac Jiraiya]] did invite him to do some peeping.
** In Chapter 133, after returning to her office, Tsunade says she needs a drink as a result of [[spoiler:Naruto wanting to know more about the woman who raised him during the first four years of his life, which was actually Tsunade herself]].
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** In chapter 8 Asuka and Shinji carry out a plan to let Misato know they are together and get her to accept they are also sleeping together and they will not stop. Every step of that plan (involving Strip Chess, foot massages, and Shinji and Asuka swapping roles) invariably gets Misato craving for alcohol. ''Plenty of it.''
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* In ''Fanfic/TheSuperStarrChronicles'', Irene Adler goes straight for the bottle of Jack Daniel's when she gets a vision that [[spoiler: Clara Creed has returned to Earth.]]
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* In the ''Anime/{{Bleach}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13167363/6/To-Undo-it-All To Undo It All]]'', [[TheStoic Toshiro]] demands some sake after a series of world-upending revelations from [[PeggySue Ichigo]].
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* In the ''Anime/{{Bleach}}'' ''Franchise/{{Bleach}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13167363/6/To-Undo-it-All To Undo It All]]'', [[TheStoic Toshiro]] demands some sake after a series of world-upending revelations from [[PeggySue Ichigo]].Ichigo]].
* ''Fanfic/TruePotential'': The first thing the fifth Hokage [[spoiler:Jiraiya]] does after reading a letter from the Raikage is to drink an entire bottle of sake to deal with the stress caused by said letter.
* ''Fanfic/TruePotential'': The first thing the fifth Hokage [[spoiler:Jiraiya]] does after reading a letter from the Raikage is to drink an entire bottle of sake to deal with the stress caused by said letter.
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* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'': Said by George (without the “freaking” part) after John reveals his wings to him. The four then proceed to a bar and get trashed (except for John, who can't any more).
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* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'': Said by George (without the “freaking” "freaking" part) after John reveals his wings to him. The four then proceed to a bar and get trashed (except for John, who can't any more).
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* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'':
** [[WordOfGod Strypgia]] [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/2137040/ said]] that [[TheProfessor Ritsuko]] would need a whole bottle of vodka after seeing both [[HumongousMecha Unit 01 and 02]] [[spoiler:awakening and going [[TheBerserker berserk]]]] given the implications of the fact.
** In chapter 8 Asuka and Shinji carry out a plan to let Misato know they are together and get her to accept they are also sleeping together and they will not stop. Every step of that plan (involving Strip Chess, foot massages, and Shinji and Asuka swapping roles) invariably gets Misato craving for alcohol. ''Plenty of it.''
--->'' 'I need a beer, right away...' Misato stumbled her way back to the kitchen.''\\
''"Hey, Misato! We saved the world yesterday! Can we have a raise in our allowance?" Asuka called after her.''\\
'' 'A lot of beer...' ''
* ''Fanfic/AfterglowUnfaithful'': Walker's in dire need of "a [[ShowerOfAngst shower]] and a beer or five". He eventually starts drinking his way through the Damned's leftover booze.
* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/373529/chapters/608972 Amateur Theatrics]]'': Agent Coulson leaves to get a drink after having to tell Fury about a spectacularly bad mission that ended with Steve {{depower}}ed, Tony [[GenderBender gender bent]], Natasha and Bruce [[FreakyFridayFlip body switched]], Loki [[LossOfIdentity amnesiac]] and a [[FountainOfYouth child]], and Thor [[ConvenientComa in a coma]] (Clint ends up being left in charge purely because he's the only one who hasn't had any crazy shit happen to him).
* While dealing with Motoyasu's drunken boasting in ''Fanfic/AmbitionOfTheRedPrincess'', two of his companions have obviously fixed smiles on their faces while the third is chugging her beer as fast as she can.
* Upon learning Dr. Tofu has a crush on her in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11701126/7/Anything-Goes-Game-Changer Anything Goes Game Changer]]'', Kasumi is first horrified (the man is over a decade her senior ''and'' was her childhood doctor) then grabs a bottle of her father's sake and swallows half of it in one gulp.
* Harry offers Amelia Bones some scotch in ''Fanfic/TheAwakeningOfAMagus'', after she sees Remus in human form during the full moon (Harry worked out a procedure to change the werewolf curse into wolf Animagus ability).
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/237304/chapters/363777 The Big Reveal]]'', after finding out Creator/ColinMorgan has been replaced by his character Series/{{Merlin|2008}} in a RealWorldEpisode sort of thing, Creator/AnthonyHead reaches for a bottle of wine. He then puts it back down, stating he needs something stronger.
* After TheReveal in ''Fanfic/BlizzardOfTheRedCastle'', the seemingly straight-laced [[Anime/KanColle destroyer shipgirl Mutsuki]] reveals that she has ''an entire stash'' of imported whiskey.
* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'':
** Yang asks about a bar after seeing Team Rocket members blast off in complete defiance of physics. Ruby objects, saying that if she has to remember Yang does too.
** Remnant's scientists who try to understand the Grimm frequently turn to alcohol.
* ''Fanfic/ABoyAGirlAndADogTheLeithianScript'':
** [[TheHero Beren]] ''often'' expresses that need in the Halls of Mandos. [[StarCrossedLovers The sheer weirdness and tragedy of his and his wife’s situation]] is too mind-screwing to cope without alcohol.
--->'''Beren:''' ''[shaking his head]'' If I was alive I would say this needs a drink to make any sense out of.
** [[PhysicalGod Tulkas]] also needs a drinking after an argument with [[TheWildHunt Orome]]:
--->'''Orome:''' ''[shaking his head]'' What my sister sees in you I will never know.\\
'''Tulkas:''' That's pretty good, actually. —I need a drink to clear my mind.\\
'''Orome:''' You always need a drink, if that's the case.
* ''Fanfic/BringMeAllYourElderly'': Both [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko]] and his movie counterpart, Z-Patel, visit a bar for similar reasons: the former just found out he's a cartoon character, while the latter is coming to grips that he's a good actor stuck in [[Film/TheLastAirbender a bad adaptation]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': This is Rhodey's usual response to the bizarreness that is his life. Since he's the OnlySaneMan in an utterly bizarre universe, one that saves a particular serving of weird for him, it's also kinda justified (as well as being a RunningGag).
* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'': After witnessing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the second execution]], both [[TokenReligiousTeammate Yashiro]] and [[MysteriousWaif Shion]] rush out to obtain alcoholic drinks to cope with what they have seen. Shion quickly reveals that [[DrowningMySorrows this is far from the first time she has done so]].
* ''Fanfic/TheDarwinChronicles'': In "You Heard It Here First", Logan needs a beer when Jubilee tells him he could have avoided to walk right in on Scott and Jean having sex on the garden if he had just listened to her.
-->"And here I am trying to fill you in, and you totally get growly and blow me off, and that's why you didn't know that Scott and Jean are on this whole nature kick lately and you really can't go near the flowerbeds lately without making tons of noise to warn them, unless you wanna walk right in on them, like, dude, almost on top of them, and that's why you're all pissed off and ready to claw your own eyes out, but y'know, if you did that, they'd probably grow right back, right? How cool."\\
"Kid," Logan said, slumping into a kitchen chair, "I dunno where you're going with this, but I got a feeling I can't get through this without beer."\\
"Dude, I like, totally feel your pain, y'know?" Jubilee said, pulling a stool up to the kitchen table. "And not just because Dr. Grey's all, 'Oh, I was just checking him for ticks!' explanation is, like, enough to make anyone heave. You think you're all pissy? Dude, I bet they're worse. And they write up our midterms! So you totally know that in bio and calculus we're all gonna be paying big time for this, whattayacallit, carpe interruptus."\\
"Oh, for fuck's sake," Logan muttered, hauling a second six pack out of the refrigerator.
* ''Fanfic/DiplomaticRelations'': Kankuro and Temari's reaction when they discover their [[spoiler:younger brother Gaara]] making out with [[spoiler:Rock Lee]].
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': Misato being [[FunctionalAddict Misato]], this trope naturally comes up quite a lot:
** After several instances of [[PeggySue her pilots behaving oddly]], Misato demands an explanation. Before explaining things, Asuka suggests her picking a beer first:
--->''Asuka smiled sadly. "Knew you'd figure it out sooner or later. You might wanna grab a beer for this."''
** As she is listening to their story about futures gone awfully wrong and TimeTravel, Misato decides a beer is not enough:
--->''Misato tossed back the whiskey she'd poured herself after realising beer just wasn't going to cut it tonight.''
** And then the next day, when she finds out about Ritsuko and Maya's RelationshipUpgrade:
--->''Misato suddenly wished she hadn't promised Shinji she'd stop drinking beer with her breakfast.''
** Later that chapter, even ''Gendo'' gets in on it after a confrontation with Misato:
---> ''Once he was alone in his office again, Gendo opened the bottom drawer of his desk and took out a bottle of inexpensive bourbon. He had what he liked to consider highly refined tastes in liquor and didn't normally drink this sort of thing, but a man of highly refined tastes in liquor didn't waste the good stuff by slopping two fingers into a cheap plastic tumbler and tossing it back in one swallow just because he'd had an exhausting meeting.''\\
''And this had been a'' very ''exhausting meeting.''
** And this list will only get longer.
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Multiple, in two consecutive chapters:
** From [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355768 "Cleaning Up"]], Cathy needs one after learning Ami hired what are basically the most dangerous demon type available:
---> "Fuck. I need another drink," Cathy said, and glanced over at the blue-haired girl. "Actually, so do you. Have some fun once in a while!"
** From [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355769 "Beryl's Plan"]]: Ami, on thinking about her crush having a possible IncompatibleOrientation with her:
---> Could it be that he was gay? She needed another drink!
* ''Fanfic/EarthsAlienHistory'':
** Within ten minutes of arriving on the ''Enterprise'' for the first time, Kirk heads to his ready room to break open a bottle of brandy, after seeing Scotty try to dismantle Yoko's buddyroid ForScience.
** The Terran Treaty Organization and Shield Alliance ambassadors to the Deltan Union retreat to a bar together after the Deltans decide to join the Pact of the Raptor instead of either of their respective blocs.
* ''Fanfic/ElisifTheDragonQueen'': Elisif's initial reaction to finding out that she's [[TheChosenOne the Dragonborn]] is to run to her bedroom, pull out a bottle of brandy and a glass, fill up the glass, then give up on the glass and instead chug straight from the bottle.
* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'': Many of the adult Smurfs end up having Tapper's sarsaparilla ale instead of smurfberry wine after [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels witnessing Smurfette marrying Papa Smurf in an alternate timeline]]. In the normal timeline story "Papa's Big Crush", Duncan [=McSmurf=] goes with Tapper to the tavern for a drink to [[BrainBleach get the thoughts of Smurfette with Papa Smurf out of his mind]].
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13193683/10/Ere-we-go-Pluz-Ultra Ere we go, Pluz Ultra!]]'': Izuku's ability to completely break the laws of physics with ordinary objects[[note]]He made a subspace pocket out of a bicycle light[[/note]] quickly drives Powerloader to drink heavily.
* ''Fanfic/{{Eternity}}'': The reason for Jun'you's heavy drinking habit is that she was one of the very few who fought Enterprise and lived to tell about it. For reference, When Enterprise, now Yonaga after serving Japan for decades, looks at the mirror and sees her Pacific War-self, she sees herself as a Wo-Class. Thankfully, the years after the War greatly mellowed her out.
* ''Fanfic/EyesOnMe'': In ''I'll Follow You Into the Dark'', Bitsy has Helen fetch her some sangria after being informed of Whitney's death.
* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': Kirei Kotomine drinks when he fails to steal Bazett's Servant, and again when he is forced to team up with his estranged daughter Caren, who endlessly trolls him.
* ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'':
** Gilgamesh is ordered to fight [[TheDreaded Bazett Fraga McRemitz]] and he most likely loses. He comforts himself with wine. Nero Claudius and Weiss Schnee join him and share the wine, and Weiss impresses him with her knowledge of alcoholic beverages.
** Zhuge Liang decides he should go drinking due to being stressed out by his job as Headmaster of Chaldea Academy.
* ''Fanfic/AFlowersTouch'':
** Aerith's therapist, who in this case is Jessie's mother, upon hearing how her daughter met her fate in the original timeline, getting crushed under the Sector 7 plate, shuts down their session and goes to hit a bar.
** Sephiroth, after listening to his recordings of Aerith's therapy and hearing how the One-Winged Angel kept returning and wearing down AVALANCHE until he beat them, finds the hardest liquor he has, lamenting that his Mako enhancements don't allow him feel more than a slight burn down his throat.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13140019/12/Foxy-Lady Foxy Lady]]'', after Joyce gives tacit permission for an alternate Buffy (named Beth) to have sex with Xander, Buffy demands to know if she's drunk, to which Joyce replies that she's "working on it".
* ''Fanfic/AGemInTheRough'': Zoro discovers that he is not old enough to legally drink in Beach City. This displeases him greatly.
-->'''Priyanka Maheswaran:''' In our... dimension... you need to be at least twenty-one to drink alcohol!\\
'''Roronoa Zoro:''' ...kill me... kill me slowly...
* In ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'', [[spoiler: Nimue]] spends her brief appearance in Chapter 19 nursing a bottle of wine, to comfort herself over the failure of her plan during the subway fight which concluded in the previous chapter.
* In ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular: The Final Push'', after hearing Cochrane's plan to take out the enemy fleet's biggest ship -- which involves packing his own ship with barrels of gunpowder and [[StuffBlowingUp ramming]] -- Athena takes his discarded wine glass and downs the contents.
* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfics:
** In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7093738/4/ Chapter 4]] of ''Fanfic/BrutalHarry'', '''Dumbledore''', of all people, does this, pouring himself a shot of whiskey and chugging it down in an instant after [[spoiler:he's informed exactly how badly Harry was abused at the Dursley's, which has resulted in a borderline sociopathic, justifiably pissed off and magically powerful child (reminiscent of Voldemort in fact), with all that rage directed at him and nearly every other authority figure]]. He also is considering how he's essentially allowed all of his students to suffer under Snape and other bullies at his school due to his inattentiveness.
** ''[[Fanfic/TheDarknessSeries Harry Potter and the Descent into Darkness]]'': Snape, after he learns that [[FaceHeelTurn Harry is a Dark Wizard and allied with Voldemort.]]
** ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Professor [=McGonagall=] goes into the bar for a drink after a long day of taking Harry shopping for school supplies. ''[[JustifiedTrope This is perfectly justified]].''
** In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/25/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path chapter 24]] of ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheRuneStonePath'', Victor Krum wants either alcohol or an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "Obliviate" spell]] after seeing a morbidly obese version of himself covered in dirt and smears of food and condiments.
** ''Fanfic/ItsAlwaysTheQuietOnes'': After the Cthulhu incident is safely past, Professor Flitwick considers assigning a three-foot-long essay on why Great Old Ones shouldn't be summoned at dinnertime, or at any time ever, but instead goes out and gets very drunk.
** In ''Fanfic/TheLoneTraveler'', various [[TheMultiverse iterations]] of [[Literature/HarryPotter Minerva McGonagall]] usually need a drink to make her brain stop hurting after one of the Traveler's schemes has come to light.
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9767592/23/Minima-maxima-sunt Minima Maxima Sunt]]'': OC Jenny Anderson's reaction to her adopted stray dog turning into Sirius Black was "I need a drink, want one? I've got whiskey and brandy and wine..."
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11689576/9/Raptor Raptor]]'': Hermione starts habitually drinking and almost becomes an alcoholic after finally learning Harry's familiars are velociraptors.
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4007457/1/The-Sleeper-Awakes The Sleeper Awakes]]'': This is Percy Weasley's reaction to discovering that the Ministry is corrupt, Umbridge is persecuting innocent people, and Voldemort has the new Minister of Magic under the Imperius curse. Alberforth lets him get completely smashed because he knows that if Percy's incredibly drunk, the death eaters in the bar will overlook the anti-Ministry rant Percy goes on.
** This trope goes for both Harry and Sirius as their way of coping when Sirius decides Harry needs TheTalk in Chapter 2 of ''[[https://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/This_Means_War/index/ This Means War]]''.
* ''Fanfic/HeroChat'': Subverted. When a couple teachers discover that several of their students are superheroes, throwing themselves into danger on a regular basis, they want alcohol. But one of them points out that drinking heavily [[MonsterOfTheWeek every time there's an akuma]] is a fast track to alcoholism, so they eat ice cream instead.
* ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'': When Misato realizes her wards Shinji and Asuka have just had sex her immediate reaction is to reach for a beer and pray to the gods of birth control.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'':
** Hearing of the mass disappearances, Mick says he needs a beer and Nate remarks that for once, he's speaking for all of them.
** In the side one-shot ''Detective Work'', when [[spoiler:Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez from the ''Highlander'' films finds himself in Earth-8107's Binghamton after his sacrifice in ''Highlander II'', he states he could use a drink... before falling over because he's standing in the field of an ice rink]].
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily''; after everything that The Fog Car gave everyone, up to and including, torture, pain, and very very hard looks at themselves, Gladion is depressed that he's not old enough to drink (he's 14).
* ''Fanfic/TheKakashiWay'':
** Hiruzen prefers smoking to drinking, and lights up his pipe before informing Kakashi that one of his students has just been hospitalized and is being treated for shock after finding [[spoiler:an arm filled with stolen Sharingan eyes]] dumped on his doorstep. It's also repeatedly mentioned that he's using his pipe during other difficult conversations regarding the depths and scope of Danzo's newly uncovered treachery.
** After spending a few hours getting acquainted with Danzo's private files, which provide extensive records of all the horrible things the scheming elder was involved with, Jiraiya reflects that he could use a drink. Or ten. Or commandeer and chug down the contents of an entire bar.
** Inoichi feels similarly after having to inform Kakashi that Danzo orchestrated [[spoiler:the social shunning that led to his father's suicide]], which triggered the Copy-nin [[MissingTime losing time]].
* {{Downplayed}} in ''Fanfic/KingOfThrones'' where Tywin is thankful he does not keep wine in his solar while reading a letter from Cersei filled with nothing but complaints and orders.
%% * A ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' fic features ''Carth'' of all people saying something to this effect.
* ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'' has a couple of examples:
** [[NotSoStoic Tywin Lannister]] is so overwhelmed by the [[HumiliationConga incredibly poor circumstances]] that his children and grandson's actions have put the family in by the end of the first book, he starts downing wine in large capacities. Tyrion is seriously freaked out by seeing this.
** Tyrion himself gets a moment of this when he arrives in King's Landing in ''A Crack of Thunder''. He's so overwhelmed by the sheer stupidity of the Small Council just accepting [[spoiler: Sansa Stark "[[CameBackWrong miraculously]]" coming BackFromTheDead]] and justifying it with some half-assed excuses, that he just grabs a wine bottle and starts guzzling straight from it.
** Stannis' reaction to [[spoiler:seeing Thor fly]] later in ''A Crack of Thunder'' is to drain a tankard of ale with such gusto that it's noted Robert is probably looking down on him from the Seven Heavens with pride.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Glynda of all people pulls out a bottle of Mistral Brandy to relax while trying to help Toshinori get accredited. She can toss back entire glasses in a single gulp and claims to have drunk [[DrunkenMaster Qrow]] under the table.
* Small colorful horses have a way of driving those around them to drink. ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' includes two examples in the show and a ''lot'' in its fan works, including, among many others:
** In ''Fanfic/TheBalladOfTwilightSparkle'', Twilight Sparkle has this reaction to a movie studio's legal team trying to intimidate her into signing over the rights to her likeness for a movie the Great and Powerful Trixie is making. It probably didn't help that Twilight had thoroughly embarrassed herself in front of Trixie several times earlier in the fic.
** ''Fanfic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'': According to one biographer, when [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Puddinghead]] finally won the chancellorship, her father responded by drinking heavily for almost ''a week''.
** ''[[Fanfic/HarmonyAndValor Cultural Differences]]'': Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy decide to get out some booze and vodka after learning that [[spoiler:not only does Zephyr Breeze have a fillyfriend, she wants him to get a herd license to "spice things up."]]
** In ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'', Judge Mullan advises the lawyer Estermann to fill Queen Chrysalis (his client) up with vermouth before breaking to her that [[spoiler:in her absence, the Equestrian forces have begun closing in on her hive]]. Estermann mentions that, on top of being a queen, she's a [[spoiler:mother to her hive]] too. Mullan concedes, and advises [[GargleBlaster poitín]] instead.
** ''Fanfic/DitzyDoosDismallyDerpyDay'': Big Macintosh says that if Ditzy were to die, "Ah might just have to break my own rule against Gran'pappy Moonshine's blastin' hooch. Don't think there's nothing else that could dull that hurt."
** ''Fanfic/DuelNature'': Luna's revelation that the theories he's developed over fifteen years of study are completely wrong, that he's misidentified an artifact of world-shaking power as an ashtray, and that the ancient religious document he's spent the last month trying to decipher [[spoiler:is actually an ancient takeout menu]] prompt Buried Secrets to start taking pulls from a hip flask in the middle of the afternoon.
** ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'':
*** [[DiscOneFinalBoss Diamond Tiara]], when [[MadScientist Professor Destiny]] blows her plan to tie up the Harmony Harness in a duel over patent rights by instead staking the royal charter on a race, grabs a glass of champagne and chugs it.
*** When Shining Armor realizes he has to tell Princess Celestia that the Flim-Flam brothers have escaped ''[[PlotArmor again]]'' and turned one of her officers [[ItMakesSenseInContext into a giant grape]], he pulls out a bottle of liquor and a shot glass. Then he puts away the glass and chugs the bottle.
** ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'': When [[spoiler: [[BigBad Tirac]]]]'s forces attack Ponyville, the Mayor's reaction is to get hammered, forcing Twilight to take over organizing the town's defenses.
** ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': After her short arc in Neigh Orleans -- which included, among other things, being literally dragged through the bayou by her own magic -- Rarity decides to get "smashed off [her] plot" (her words) once back on her airship. Fortunately, her servants eventually switch out the champagne in her mimosas for ginger ale, keeping her from doing too much damage.
** And one semi-meta example. ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'' sometimes does this to Loopers who end up in some strange variant or other universe, but only Equestria has a bar specifically for visiting loopers to do this, run by Big Mac and/or Berry Punch. On one occasion, Sleipnir, the admin for the Equestrian loops, joins in after having to personally rescue Twilight from a particularly horrifying loop.
** A non-alcoholic example in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian''. After [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Leviathan]] discovers that she's somehow been transported to a land of colorful and civilized ponies, she expresses envy of humanity for their ability to drink and wishes that she had some tea for the sake of de-stressing.
** Fluttershy and Princess Luna, at two different points, find themselves in need of alcohol in ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/71788/the-model-caretaker The Model Caretaker]]''. Fluttershy steals Fleur de Lis' glass of red wine after Fleur kisses her and asks her out (though this is pretty much the culmination of a somewhat stressful ComingOutStory on Fluttershy's part), and Luna asks for one after finding out just how badly managed Ponyville's disaster planning is.
** ''[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/story-once-bitten-twice-shy.html Once Bitten, Twice Shy]]'' gave this reaction to ''[[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]]'' of all ponies on a disastrous [[NotADate not-date]] with Twilight Sparkle. After one setback, Rarity gives her a glass of wine to help get her confidence up. Following a particularly stressful incident, Fluttershy ''drains'' most of the wine bottle and has to be magically sobered up before she's able to stand, let alone go back into the restaurant.
** ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/621183/part-19-of-the-palaververse-the-world-beyond-the-mirror "Part 19 of the Palaververse: The World Beyond the Mirror"]] is about the creation and first use of a magical mirror for travelling between worlds by walking into it, and starts with Meadowbrook getting drunk to deal with the effort it took to find the info to make that mirror:
--->This happily didn't interfere with my own designs at all, which were to sequester myself away in my own room with several bottles of liquor, some light licentious fiction, and other such objects that could help soothe my new intake of mental and emotional scars whilst waiting for whatever patches of my hide had proven all-too flammable to grow back.
** ''Blog/ReadingRainbowverse'':
*** Big Mac is reading ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''. His reaction is understandable.
*** Fluttershy also has this reaction when two of her co-judges spend their time arguing with each other rather then focusing on the Battle of the Pans.
** ''Fanfic/RomanceAndTheFateOfEquestria'' uses this ''constantly'', starting in [[EstablishingSeriesMoment the very first chapter]] and remaining as a RunningGag throughout the story, sometimes PlayedForDrama. Fluttershy's relationship with Big Macintosh tends to be a source of these moments, from Applejack discovering he's a ChickMagnet, to Fluttershy calming her nerves on her first date with him, to Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack taking shots of what turns out to be raspberry vinaigrette as more and more bombshells about a LoveTriangle are dropped.
** Rarity and the protagonist constantly do this after their dealings with Cashmere in ''Fanfic/SophisticationAndBetrayal''. At one point Cashmere even offers them a drink for that very purpose.
** ''Fanfic/{{Windfall}}'' sees Nurse Redheart requiring a long pull of Granny Smith's "special" cider after having to deal with [[ScreamingBirth an outburst]] from mother-to-be [[BewareTheNiceOnes Fluttershy]], which according to WordOfGod included a dose of [[DeathGlare "The Stare"]].
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9068598/1/The-Morning-After The Morning After]]'': Odin asks for more wine after waking up from a coma when he finds out Loki has been in charge and has made several changes to Asgard, including instituting a parliamentary democracy, writing a constitution, setting up an electrical grid, and establishing banks (and bank holidays to go with them).* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Jor-El asks K.E.L.E.X. for a drink to dull his frustration over the Kryptonian Science Council's inability to accept evidence that Krypton is going to be destroyed.
* ''Fanfic/NerveDamage'': This is Jordan Lionstone's reactions towards who his [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper serv]][[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte ants]] are, ''and'' his servant Archer's reaction ''towards him''.
* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'':
** A hilarious version. Shinji, on a whim, reveals the whole bit about "I'm a time traveler who's trying to change the past to atone for my mistakes"... to PenPen. The bird's response?
--->([=PenPen=]) stared at his back for several long, long seconds before continuing into the kitchen, retrieving a can from Misato's stash, stopping in consideration, retrieving a second, and retreating into his fridge.\\
"Yeah" Shinji muttered as he stacked the plates in the dishwasher. "That's about what I thought you'd say".
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Kaji, who admits he needed several hours of hard drinking after getting proof of Shinji's claims of time-travel]].
* ''Fanfic/OneMoreTrigger'': Danny deliberately gets himself plastered after [[spoiler:executing Jack Slash]]. He [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doesn't regret what he did]], but would rather not remember it so vividly.
* ''[[Creator/SetaSuzume Only a Wisp of Smoke]]'': Poppy gets high on morphling after realizing that she's going back into the Games. Granted, she often gets high on morphling, but that time is preceded by a screaming fit.
* ''Fanfic/PastContinuous'': Eleya needs one, and offers one to Berat as an apology, after she mouths off to him. She also quotes a Bajoran poet as having said [[Creator/BenjaminFranklin "spring wine is the Prophets' way of showing us they love us."]]
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': It happens as a RunningGag, usually with the villains.
** Giovanni gets a strong craving for alcohol when he realizes the future of Team Rocket is in the hands of Jessie, James and Meowth.
** Hunter J goes straight for her liquor cabinet as soon as she finishes her assignment from the Bloodline King.
** Professor Oak says he doesn't have the time or the alcohol to recount the story of how he found out Ash was a bloodliner.
** A sailor named Scouse had to fill in as a waiter at a political dinner, and got himself very drunk to cope with the "exposure to so much concentrated hypocrisy", as one of his coworkers puts it.
** Tobias gets a strong craving for whiskey when he realizes [[spoiler:during his inter-dimensional travels, he has created Christmas]].
* ''Fanfic/QueenOfTheSwarm'': In Spawn 1.05 Taylor tells her father about her fight against powerful super-villain Lung and her latest meeting with Emma (in which she learnt that her ex-friend bullied her because she was in fact psychologically ill). After hearing her daughter's tale, Danny decides that he needs alcohol, pronto.
-->Dad had gotten home just as I bade goodbye to the Barneses and I now had two long stories to tell him. By the end of the discussion, he needed some booze and I needed to relax.
* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': After hearing Misato's plan to destroy Ramiel by hijacking Japan's entire power supply, Ritsuko wonders "if Ooi still had that bottle of vodka hidden away at her station."
* ''Fanfic/{{Ripples}}'' ends with Will/Van asking for a bottle of wine to be opened when she hears that [[spoiler:Caleb is being chased, leading to the beginning of [[WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}} the Guardians' adventures in Meridian]]]].
* ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'':
** This is the reaction of Rodrik Harlaw, his new wife Alys and Asha Greyjoy after they find out what the High Harlaw runes state.
** This is also several characters' reaction to finding out about the canon future Robb was sent back from.
* In ''Fanfic/RolePlayingEvangelion'', Misato decides she nees a beer NOW when she happens upon Shinji and Asuka disguised as Nerv's commanders.
* ''Fanfic/RWBYEpicOfRemnant'': Lancelot goes to Junior's club and orders as much alcohol as he can to try to forget all the craziness of his new circumstances. Unfortunately for him, he finds he can't get drunk.
* ''Saying I Will'', a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fanfic, features this in the final major arc of the story: Byakuya drinks a 1000-year old Sake after finding out that [[spoiler: Ichigo is the deceased Soul King's nephew and is next in line for the throne. Made worse by the fact his reaction is all recorded on tape.]]
* ''Fanfic/ShinjiTheCasanova'': After seeing Shinji singing and dancing down the hall, wearing socks, a long white shirt and sunglasses, Misato decides she and Asuka need a beer.
-->It was dead silent in the apartment once again. Misato silently got up, walked to the fridge and grabbed herself a beer. Without asking, she grabbed one for Asuka as well. Both of them downed their respective beers, cringed at the taste, then continued to stare at the wall.
* ''Fanfic/SixDaysTheAnimorphsWereIdiots'': When her date with Visser Three goes to hell -- first his DNA allergy causes him to lose control of his morphing, and then the Animorphs show up -- Visser One downs an entire bottle of wine.
* ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle2DoubleMasters'': "Faith of Light": Twilight having to deal with Pinkie Pie, the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
--> After the pure shock wore off, Twilight thought about what had just happened [...] She concluded that she needed a drink.\\
[[spoiler:She still managed to pour herself a cup of hot sauce]].
* ''Fanfic/StrangeTimesAreUponUs'': Brokosh's reaction to finding out he's in a StableTimeLoop is to ask if the tavern Ba'wov and K'Gan visited in the previous scene is still open.
* In ''Fanfic/TheSuperStarrChronicles'', Irene Adler goes straight for the bottle of Jack Daniel's when she gets a vision that [[spoiler: Clara Creed has returned to Earth.]]
* Zelda pours gin into her cup of tea in ''Webcomic/ATaleOfTwoRulers'' after her fiancee Ganondorf breaks open her door, soaking wet, wanting to ground their daughter Rinku because Rinku pushed Ganondorf into a lake.
* Alot of this going on in Chapter 11 of ''Fanfic/TemporalAnomaly'':
** Cent and Two share a bottle of red wine outside of the after party of [[spoiler: the latter's wedding.]]
** After discussing various affairs with a group of nobels, One drinks ''directly'' from a wine bottle to deal with the headache that came from the conversation.
** Zero herself is drinking from a bottle of ale, even offering some to Sougo. He politely declines, stating that he has had his fill of red wine.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'':
** Cross and Nami get this sentiment when Luffy, Masira and Shoujou start singing in Chapter 27.
** Wiper gets this sentiment when he finds himself the OnlySaneMan in a Straw Hat party.
** Smoker, Hina, Tashigi and a visiting Captain T-Bone get this sentiment when [[DeadpanSnarker Su]] joins [[TheGadfly Soundbite]] [[spoiler:on Cross's SBS]] in Chapter 29.
** Mr. 5 gets this when they realize Su has joined Soundbite full-time [[spoiler:on the SBS]].
** Foxy shares a cask of rum with Apoo as he tells him exactly what kind of insanity he's getting into.
* ''Fanfic/ThisWasEasierOnTheTabletop'': After the Battle of New Avalon (his first direct experience of combat), John leaves the award ceremony for the cadets and he heads into city looking for a dive-bar.
* ''Fanfic/ThroughADiamondSky'': As Flynn's working on escaping his captors, he remarks to himself that he needs a nap, a cold beer, and a ''long'' talk with his wife; not necessarily in that order.
* In the ''Anime/{{Bleach}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13167363/6/To-Undo-it-All To Undo It All]]'', [[TheStoic Toshiro]] demands some sake after a series of world-upending revelations from [[PeggySue Ichigo]].
* ''Fanfic/UnderneathTheSakuraTree'': Before Yoshi and Tang Shen's sons were conceived, Yoshi would sometimes help himself to red wine when his daughter's death and clan's collapse start to get to him.
* ''Fanfic/UnityPinkShoes'': Perceptor's response to Ratchet and Wheeljack descending into an argument is to down two cubes of high-grade energon he was saving for an emergency.
* ''Fanfic/TheWeddingCrashers'': Dean breaks out a flask of whiskey and offers some to both Sam and Claire during the ceremony when the newlyweds and the bride's parents are making the most obnoxious, sappy, pretentious, ego-stroking vows and speeches anyone could possibly make. He also makes more than a few stops at the complementary champagne fountain for similar reasons.
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/6684562 when they built you, brother, they broke the mould]]'', Catelyn Stark and Theon Greyjoy decide they need a drink or ten when Robb reveals Jon Snow is actually Lyanna's son by Prince Rhaegar.
* ''Fanfic/{{Whispers}}'': The mere mention of [[RoyalBrat his brothers]] is enough to get Arcanus drinking wine despite asserting ''earlier in that scene'' that he has no taste for it.
* ''Fanfic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon'': In an omake, Makoto suggests this when the whole war with the Dark Kingdom ended because Nanoha (in this fanfic the reincarnated Princess Serenity) admitted she was a lesbian and Beryl took that as a chance to go chase Mamoru instead of trying to kill everyone.
* ''Fanfic/WhoSilencedEllyPatterson'': Anthony, who was supposed to be the designated driver, invoked this and said they can hire a cab instead when [[spoiler: he figured out his father was arrested because he murdered his mother.]]
* In the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12446027/2/With-Sprinkles With Sprinkles]]'', Setsuna/Sailor Pluto goes to the other senshi to both announce that the [[ApocalypseHow Great Freeze]] is no longer set in stone and find out if they know what caused the change. When she finds out they attacked a Planeswalker, she promptly starts ''chugging'' a bottle of whiskey. When Haruka learns just how quickly a Planeswalker gains power (gaining new mana in a few seconds, as opposed to the Senshi getting one more each decade), she follows Setsuna's example.
* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'': Said by George (without the “freaking” part) after John reveals his wings to him. The four then proceed to a bar and get trashed (except for John, who can't any more).
* ''Fanfic/WithThisRingGreenLantern'': Carl Ferris isn't a drinking man. After his daughter Carol has gone missing ''again'' together with [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], he wishes he was.
-->Carl Ferris wished he was a drinking man at times like these. Sometimes, so did his wife, Yvonne.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6990878/1/You-re-Cute-When-You-re-Happy You're Cute When You're Happy]]'': England states that he needs alcohol when he finds out America didn't realize they had been in a real relationship when they were sleeping together (which they had been doing for over ''sixty years'').
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** [[WordOfGod Strypgia]] [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/2137040/ said]] that [[TheProfessor Ritsuko]] would need a whole bottle of vodka after seeing both [[HumongousMecha Unit 01 and 02]] [[spoiler:awakening and going [[TheBerserker berserk]]]] given the implications of the fact.
** In chapter 8 Asuka and Shinji carry out a plan to let Misato know they are together and get her to accept they are also sleeping together and they will not stop. Every step of that plan (involving Strip Chess, foot massages, and Shinji and Asuka swapping roles) invariably gets Misato craving for alcohol. ''Plenty of it.''
--->'' 'I need a beer, right away...' Misato stumbled her way back to the kitchen.''\\
''"Hey, Misato! We saved the world yesterday! Can we have a raise in our allowance?" Asuka called after her.''\\
'' 'A lot of beer...' ''
* ''Fanfic/AfterglowUnfaithful'': Walker's in dire need of "a [[ShowerOfAngst shower]] and a beer or five". He eventually starts drinking his way through the Damned's leftover booze.
* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/373529/chapters/608972 Amateur Theatrics]]'': Agent Coulson leaves to get a drink after having to tell Fury about a spectacularly bad mission that ended with Steve {{depower}}ed, Tony [[GenderBender gender bent]], Natasha and Bruce [[FreakyFridayFlip body switched]], Loki [[LossOfIdentity amnesiac]] and a [[FountainOfYouth child]], and Thor [[ConvenientComa in a coma]] (Clint ends up being left in charge purely because he's the only one who hasn't had any crazy shit happen to him).
* While dealing with Motoyasu's drunken boasting in ''Fanfic/AmbitionOfTheRedPrincess'', two of his companions have obviously fixed smiles on their faces while the third is chugging her beer as fast as she can.
* Upon learning Dr. Tofu has a crush on her in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11701126/7/Anything-Goes-Game-Changer Anything Goes Game Changer]]'', Kasumi is first horrified (the man is over a decade her senior ''and'' was her childhood doctor) then grabs a bottle of her father's sake and swallows half of it in one gulp.
* Harry offers Amelia Bones some scotch in ''Fanfic/TheAwakeningOfAMagus'', after she sees Remus in human form during the full moon (Harry worked out a procedure to change the werewolf curse into wolf Animagus ability).
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/237304/chapters/363777 The Big Reveal]]'', after finding out Creator/ColinMorgan has been replaced by his character Series/{{Merlin|2008}} in a RealWorldEpisode sort of thing, Creator/AnthonyHead reaches for a bottle of wine. He then puts it back down, stating he needs something stronger.
* After TheReveal in ''Fanfic/BlizzardOfTheRedCastle'', the seemingly straight-laced [[Anime/KanColle destroyer shipgirl Mutsuki]] reveals that she has ''an entire stash'' of imported whiskey.
* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'':
** Yang asks about a bar after seeing Team Rocket members blast off in complete defiance of physics. Ruby objects, saying that if she has to remember Yang does too.
** Remnant's scientists who try to understand the Grimm frequently turn to alcohol.
* ''Fanfic/ABoyAGirlAndADogTheLeithianScript'':
** [[TheHero Beren]] ''often'' expresses that need in the Halls of Mandos. [[StarCrossedLovers The sheer weirdness and tragedy of his and his wife’s situation]] is too mind-screwing to cope without alcohol.
--->'''Beren:''' ''[shaking his head]'' If I was alive I would say this needs a drink to make any sense out of.
** [[PhysicalGod Tulkas]] also needs a drinking after an argument with [[TheWildHunt Orome]]:
--->'''Orome:''' ''[shaking his head]'' What my sister sees in you I will never know.\\
'''Tulkas:''' That's pretty good, actually. —I need a drink to clear my mind.\\
'''Orome:''' You always need a drink, if that's the case.
* ''Fanfic/BringMeAllYourElderly'': Both [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko]] and his movie counterpart, Z-Patel, visit a bar for similar reasons: the former just found out he's a cartoon character, while the latter is coming to grips that he's a good actor stuck in [[Film/TheLastAirbender a bad adaptation]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': This is Rhodey's usual response to the bizarreness that is his life. Since he's the OnlySaneMan in an utterly bizarre universe, one that saves a particular serving of weird for him, it's also kinda justified (as well as being a RunningGag).
* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'': After witnessing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the second execution]], both [[TokenReligiousTeammate Yashiro]] and [[MysteriousWaif Shion]] rush out to obtain alcoholic drinks to cope with what they have seen. Shion quickly reveals that [[DrowningMySorrows this is far from the first time she has done so]].
* ''Fanfic/TheDarwinChronicles'': In "You Heard It Here First", Logan needs a beer when Jubilee tells him he could have avoided to walk right in on Scott and Jean having sex on the garden if he had just listened to her.
-->"And here I am trying to fill you in, and you totally get growly and blow me off, and that's why you didn't know that Scott and Jean are on this whole nature kick lately and you really can't go near the flowerbeds lately without making tons of noise to warn them, unless you wanna walk right in on them, like, dude, almost on top of them, and that's why you're all pissed off and ready to claw your own eyes out, but y'know, if you did that, they'd probably grow right back, right? How cool."\\
"Kid," Logan said, slumping into a kitchen chair, "I dunno where you're going with this, but I got a feeling I can't get through this without beer."\\
"Dude, I like, totally feel your pain, y'know?" Jubilee said, pulling a stool up to the kitchen table. "And not just because Dr. Grey's all, 'Oh, I was just checking him for ticks!' explanation is, like, enough to make anyone heave. You think you're all pissy? Dude, I bet they're worse. And they write up our midterms! So you totally know that in bio and calculus we're all gonna be paying big time for this, whattayacallit, carpe interruptus."\\
"Oh, for fuck's sake," Logan muttered, hauling a second six pack out of the refrigerator.
* ''Fanfic/DiplomaticRelations'': Kankuro and Temari's reaction when they discover their [[spoiler:younger brother Gaara]] making out with [[spoiler:Rock Lee]].
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': Misato being [[FunctionalAddict Misato]], this trope naturally comes up quite a lot:
** After several instances of [[PeggySue her pilots behaving oddly]], Misato demands an explanation. Before explaining things, Asuka suggests her picking a beer first:
--->''Asuka smiled sadly. "Knew you'd figure it out sooner or later. You might wanna grab a beer for this."''
** As she is listening to their story about futures gone awfully wrong and TimeTravel, Misato decides a beer is not enough:
--->''Misato tossed back the whiskey she'd poured herself after realising beer just wasn't going to cut it tonight.''
** And then the next day, when she finds out about Ritsuko and Maya's RelationshipUpgrade:
--->''Misato suddenly wished she hadn't promised Shinji she'd stop drinking beer with her breakfast.''
** Later that chapter, even ''Gendo'' gets in on it after a confrontation with Misato:
---> ''Once he was alone in his office again, Gendo opened the bottom drawer of his desk and took out a bottle of inexpensive bourbon. He had what he liked to consider highly refined tastes in liquor and didn't normally drink this sort of thing, but a man of highly refined tastes in liquor didn't waste the good stuff by slopping two fingers into a cheap plastic tumbler and tossing it back in one swallow just because he'd had an exhausting meeting.''\\
''And this had been a'' very ''exhausting meeting.''
** And this list will only get longer.
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Multiple, in two consecutive chapters:
** From [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355768 "Cleaning Up"]], Cathy needs one after learning Ami hired what are basically the most dangerous demon type available:
---> "Fuck. I need another drink," Cathy said, and glanced over at the blue-haired girl. "Actually, so do you. Have some fun once in a while!"
** From [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355769 "Beryl's Plan"]]: Ami, on thinking about her crush having a possible IncompatibleOrientation with her:
---> Could it be that he was gay? She needed another drink!
* ''Fanfic/EarthsAlienHistory'':
** Within ten minutes of arriving on the ''Enterprise'' for the first time, Kirk heads to his ready room to break open a bottle of brandy, after seeing Scotty try to dismantle Yoko's buddyroid ForScience.
** The Terran Treaty Organization and Shield Alliance ambassadors to the Deltan Union retreat to a bar together after the Deltans decide to join the Pact of the Raptor instead of either of their respective blocs.
* ''Fanfic/ElisifTheDragonQueen'': Elisif's initial reaction to finding out that she's [[TheChosenOne the Dragonborn]] is to run to her bedroom, pull out a bottle of brandy and a glass, fill up the glass, then give up on the glass and instead chug straight from the bottle.
* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'': Many of the adult Smurfs end up having Tapper's sarsaparilla ale instead of smurfberry wine after [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels witnessing Smurfette marrying Papa Smurf in an alternate timeline]]. In the normal timeline story "Papa's Big Crush", Duncan [=McSmurf=] goes with Tapper to the tavern for a drink to [[BrainBleach get the thoughts of Smurfette with Papa Smurf out of his mind]].
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13193683/10/Ere-we-go-Pluz-Ultra Ere we go, Pluz Ultra!]]'': Izuku's ability to completely break the laws of physics with ordinary objects[[note]]He made a subspace pocket out of a bicycle light[[/note]] quickly drives Powerloader to drink heavily.
* ''Fanfic/{{Eternity}}'': The reason for Jun'you's heavy drinking habit is that she was one of the very few who fought Enterprise and lived to tell about it. For reference, When Enterprise, now Yonaga after serving Japan for decades, looks at the mirror and sees her Pacific War-self, she sees herself as a Wo-Class. Thankfully, the years after the War greatly mellowed her out.
* ''Fanfic/EyesOnMe'': In ''I'll Follow You Into the Dark'', Bitsy has Helen fetch her some sangria after being informed of Whitney's death.
* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': Kirei Kotomine drinks when he fails to steal Bazett's Servant, and again when he is forced to team up with his estranged daughter Caren, who endlessly trolls him.
* ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'':
** Gilgamesh is ordered to fight [[TheDreaded Bazett Fraga McRemitz]] and he most likely loses. He comforts himself with wine. Nero Claudius and Weiss Schnee join him and share the wine, and Weiss impresses him with her knowledge of alcoholic beverages.
** Zhuge Liang decides he should go drinking due to being stressed out by his job as Headmaster of Chaldea Academy.
* ''Fanfic/AFlowersTouch'':
** Aerith's therapist, who in this case is Jessie's mother, upon hearing how her daughter met her fate in the original timeline, getting crushed under the Sector 7 plate, shuts down their session and goes to hit a bar.
** Sephiroth, after listening to his recordings of Aerith's therapy and hearing how the One-Winged Angel kept returning and wearing down AVALANCHE until he beat them, finds the hardest liquor he has, lamenting that his Mako enhancements don't allow him feel more than a slight burn down his throat.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13140019/12/Foxy-Lady Foxy Lady]]'', after Joyce gives tacit permission for an alternate Buffy (named Beth) to have sex with Xander, Buffy demands to know if she's drunk, to which Joyce replies that she's "working on it".
* ''Fanfic/AGemInTheRough'': Zoro discovers that he is not old enough to legally drink in Beach City. This displeases him greatly.
-->'''Priyanka Maheswaran:''' In our... dimension... you need to be at least twenty-one to drink alcohol!\\
'''Roronoa Zoro:''' ...kill me... kill me slowly...
* In ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'', [[spoiler: Nimue]] spends her brief appearance in Chapter 19 nursing a bottle of wine, to comfort herself over the failure of her plan during the subway fight which concluded in the previous chapter.
* In ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular: The Final Push'', after hearing Cochrane's plan to take out the enemy fleet's biggest ship -- which involves packing his own ship with barrels of gunpowder and [[StuffBlowingUp ramming]] -- Athena takes his discarded wine glass and downs the contents.
* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfics:
** In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7093738/4/ Chapter 4]] of ''Fanfic/BrutalHarry'', '''Dumbledore''', of all people, does this, pouring himself a shot of whiskey and chugging it down in an instant after [[spoiler:he's informed exactly how badly Harry was abused at the Dursley's, which has resulted in a borderline sociopathic, justifiably pissed off and magically powerful child (reminiscent of Voldemort in fact), with all that rage directed at him and nearly every other authority figure]]. He also is considering how he's essentially allowed all of his students to suffer under Snape and other bullies at his school due to his inattentiveness.
** ''[[Fanfic/TheDarknessSeries Harry Potter and the Descent into Darkness]]'': Snape, after he learns that [[FaceHeelTurn Harry is a Dark Wizard and allied with Voldemort.]]
** ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Professor [=McGonagall=] goes into the bar for a drink after a long day of taking Harry shopping for school supplies. ''[[JustifiedTrope This is perfectly justified]].''
** In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/25/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path chapter 24]] of ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheRuneStonePath'', Victor Krum wants either alcohol or an [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "Obliviate" spell]] after seeing a morbidly obese version of himself covered in dirt and smears of food and condiments.
** ''Fanfic/ItsAlwaysTheQuietOnes'': After the Cthulhu incident is safely past, Professor Flitwick considers assigning a three-foot-long essay on why Great Old Ones shouldn't be summoned at dinnertime, or at any time ever, but instead goes out and gets very drunk.
** In ''Fanfic/TheLoneTraveler'', various [[TheMultiverse iterations]] of [[Literature/HarryPotter Minerva McGonagall]] usually need a drink to make her brain stop hurting after one of the Traveler's schemes has come to light.
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9767592/23/Minima-maxima-sunt Minima Maxima Sunt]]'': OC Jenny Anderson's reaction to her adopted stray dog turning into Sirius Black was "I need a drink, want one? I've got whiskey and brandy and wine..."
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11689576/9/Raptor Raptor]]'': Hermione starts habitually drinking and almost becomes an alcoholic after finally learning Harry's familiars are velociraptors.
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4007457/1/The-Sleeper-Awakes The Sleeper Awakes]]'': This is Percy Weasley's reaction to discovering that the Ministry is corrupt, Umbridge is persecuting innocent people, and Voldemort has the new Minister of Magic under the Imperius curse. Alberforth lets him get completely smashed because he knows that if Percy's incredibly drunk, the death eaters in the bar will overlook the anti-Ministry rant Percy goes on.
** This trope goes for both Harry and Sirius as their way of coping when Sirius decides Harry needs TheTalk in Chapter 2 of ''[[https://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/This_Means_War/index/ This Means War]]''.
* ''Fanfic/HeroChat'': Subverted. When a couple teachers discover that several of their students are superheroes, throwing themselves into danger on a regular basis, they want alcohol. But one of them points out that drinking heavily [[MonsterOfTheWeek every time there's an akuma]] is a fast track to alcoholism, so they eat ice cream instead.
* ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'': When Misato realizes her wards Shinji and Asuka have just had sex her immediate reaction is to reach for a beer and pray to the gods of birth control.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'':
** Hearing of the mass disappearances, Mick says he needs a beer and Nate remarks that for once, he's speaking for all of them.
** In the side one-shot ''Detective Work'', when [[spoiler:Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez from the ''Highlander'' films finds himself in Earth-8107's Binghamton after his sacrifice in ''Highlander II'', he states he could use a drink... before falling over because he's standing in the field of an ice rink]].
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily''; after everything that The Fog Car gave everyone, up to and including, torture, pain, and very very hard looks at themselves, Gladion is depressed that he's not old enough to drink (he's 14).
* ''Fanfic/TheKakashiWay'':
** Hiruzen prefers smoking to drinking, and lights up his pipe before informing Kakashi that one of his students has just been hospitalized and is being treated for shock after finding [[spoiler:an arm filled with stolen Sharingan eyes]] dumped on his doorstep. It's also repeatedly mentioned that he's using his pipe during other difficult conversations regarding the depths and scope of Danzo's newly uncovered treachery.
** After spending a few hours getting acquainted with Danzo's private files, which provide extensive records of all the horrible things the scheming elder was involved with, Jiraiya reflects that he could use a drink. Or ten. Or commandeer and chug down the contents of an entire bar.
** Inoichi feels similarly after having to inform Kakashi that Danzo orchestrated [[spoiler:the social shunning that led to his father's suicide]], which triggered the Copy-nin [[MissingTime losing time]].
* {{Downplayed}} in ''Fanfic/KingOfThrones'' where Tywin is thankful he does not keep wine in his solar while reading a letter from Cersei filled with nothing but complaints and orders.
%% * A ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' fic features ''Carth'' of all people saying something to this effect.
* ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'' has a couple of examples:
** [[NotSoStoic Tywin Lannister]] is so overwhelmed by the [[HumiliationConga incredibly poor circumstances]] that his children and grandson's actions have put the family in by the end of the first book, he starts downing wine in large capacities. Tyrion is seriously freaked out by seeing this.
** Tyrion himself gets a moment of this when he arrives in King's Landing in ''A Crack of Thunder''. He's so overwhelmed by the sheer stupidity of the Small Council just accepting [[spoiler: Sansa Stark "[[CameBackWrong miraculously]]" coming BackFromTheDead]] and justifying it with some half-assed excuses, that he just grabs a wine bottle and starts guzzling straight from it.
** Stannis' reaction to [[spoiler:seeing Thor fly]] later in ''A Crack of Thunder'' is to drain a tankard of ale with such gusto that it's noted Robert is probably looking down on him from the Seven Heavens with pride.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Glynda of all people pulls out a bottle of Mistral Brandy to relax while trying to help Toshinori get accredited. She can toss back entire glasses in a single gulp and claims to have drunk [[DrunkenMaster Qrow]] under the table.
* Small colorful horses have a way of driving those around them to drink. ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' includes two examples in the show and a ''lot'' in its fan works, including, among many others:
** In ''Fanfic/TheBalladOfTwilightSparkle'', Twilight Sparkle has this reaction to a movie studio's legal team trying to intimidate her into signing over the rights to her likeness for a movie the Great and Powerful Trixie is making. It probably didn't help that Twilight had thoroughly embarrassed herself in front of Trixie several times earlier in the fic.
** ''Fanfic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'': According to one biographer, when [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Puddinghead]] finally won the chancellorship, her father responded by drinking heavily for almost ''a week''.
** ''[[Fanfic/HarmonyAndValor Cultural Differences]]'': Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy decide to get out some booze and vodka after learning that [[spoiler:not only does Zephyr Breeze have a fillyfriend, she wants him to get a herd license to "spice things up."]]
** In ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'', Judge Mullan advises the lawyer Estermann to fill Queen Chrysalis (his client) up with vermouth before breaking to her that [[spoiler:in her absence, the Equestrian forces have begun closing in on her hive]]. Estermann mentions that, on top of being a queen, she's a [[spoiler:mother to her hive]] too. Mullan concedes, and advises [[GargleBlaster poitín]] instead.
** ''Fanfic/DitzyDoosDismallyDerpyDay'': Big Macintosh says that if Ditzy were to die, "Ah might just have to break my own rule against Gran'pappy Moonshine's blastin' hooch. Don't think there's nothing else that could dull that hurt."
** ''Fanfic/DuelNature'': Luna's revelation that the theories he's developed over fifteen years of study are completely wrong, that he's misidentified an artifact of world-shaking power as an ashtray, and that the ancient religious document he's spent the last month trying to decipher [[spoiler:is actually an ancient takeout menu]] prompt Buried Secrets to start taking pulls from a hip flask in the middle of the afternoon.
** ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'':
*** [[DiscOneFinalBoss Diamond Tiara]], when [[MadScientist Professor Destiny]] blows her plan to tie up the Harmony Harness in a duel over patent rights by instead staking the royal charter on a race, grabs a glass of champagne and chugs it.
*** When Shining Armor realizes he has to tell Princess Celestia that the Flim-Flam brothers have escaped ''[[PlotArmor again]]'' and turned one of her officers [[ItMakesSenseInContext into a giant grape]], he pulls out a bottle of liquor and a shot glass. Then he puts away the glass and chugs the bottle.
** ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'': When [[spoiler: [[BigBad Tirac]]]]'s forces attack Ponyville, the Mayor's reaction is to get hammered, forcing Twilight to take over organizing the town's defenses.
** ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': After her short arc in Neigh Orleans -- which included, among other things, being literally dragged through the bayou by her own magic -- Rarity decides to get "smashed off [her] plot" (her words) once back on her airship. Fortunately, her servants eventually switch out the champagne in her mimosas for ginger ale, keeping her from doing too much damage.
** And one semi-meta example. ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'' sometimes does this to Loopers who end up in some strange variant or other universe, but only Equestria has a bar specifically for visiting loopers to do this, run by Big Mac and/or Berry Punch. On one occasion, Sleipnir, the admin for the Equestrian loops, joins in after having to personally rescue Twilight from a particularly horrifying loop.
** A non-alcoholic example in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian''. After [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Leviathan]] discovers that she's somehow been transported to a land of colorful and civilized ponies, she expresses envy of humanity for their ability to drink and wishes that she had some tea for the sake of de-stressing.
** Fluttershy and Princess Luna, at two different points, find themselves in need of alcohol in ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/71788/the-model-caretaker The Model Caretaker]]''. Fluttershy steals Fleur de Lis' glass of red wine after Fleur kisses her and asks her out (though this is pretty much the culmination of a somewhat stressful ComingOutStory on Fluttershy's part), and Luna asks for one after finding out just how badly managed Ponyville's disaster planning is.
** ''[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/story-once-bitten-twice-shy.html Once Bitten, Twice Shy]]'' gave this reaction to ''[[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]]'' of all ponies on a disastrous [[NotADate not-date]] with Twilight Sparkle. After one setback, Rarity gives her a glass of wine to help get her confidence up. Following a particularly stressful incident, Fluttershy ''drains'' most of the wine bottle and has to be magically sobered up before she's able to stand, let alone go back into the restaurant.
** ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/621183/part-19-of-the-palaververse-the-world-beyond-the-mirror "Part 19 of the Palaververse: The World Beyond the Mirror"]] is about the creation and first use of a magical mirror for travelling between worlds by walking into it, and starts with Meadowbrook getting drunk to deal with the effort it took to find the info to make that mirror:
--->This happily didn't interfere with my own designs at all, which were to sequester myself away in my own room with several bottles of liquor, some light licentious fiction, and other such objects that could help soothe my new intake of mental and emotional scars whilst waiting for whatever patches of my hide had proven all-too flammable to grow back.
** ''Blog/ReadingRainbowverse'':
*** Big Mac is reading ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''. His reaction is understandable.
*** Fluttershy also has this reaction when two of her co-judges spend their time arguing with each other rather then focusing on the Battle of the Pans.
** ''Fanfic/RomanceAndTheFateOfEquestria'' uses this ''constantly'', starting in [[EstablishingSeriesMoment the very first chapter]] and remaining as a RunningGag throughout the story, sometimes PlayedForDrama. Fluttershy's relationship with Big Macintosh tends to be a source of these moments, from Applejack discovering he's a ChickMagnet, to Fluttershy calming her nerves on her first date with him, to Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack taking shots of what turns out to be raspberry vinaigrette as more and more bombshells about a LoveTriangle are dropped.
** Rarity and the protagonist constantly do this after their dealings with Cashmere in ''Fanfic/SophisticationAndBetrayal''. At one point Cashmere even offers them a drink for that very purpose.
** ''Fanfic/{{Windfall}}'' sees Nurse Redheart requiring a long pull of Granny Smith's "special" cider after having to deal with [[ScreamingBirth an outburst]] from mother-to-be [[BewareTheNiceOnes Fluttershy]], which according to WordOfGod included a dose of [[DeathGlare "The Stare"]].
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9068598/1/The-Morning-After The Morning After]]'': Odin asks for more wine after waking up from a coma when he finds out Loki has been in charge and has made several changes to Asgard, including instituting a parliamentary democracy, writing a constitution, setting up an electrical grid, and establishing banks (and bank holidays to go with them).* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Jor-El asks K.E.L.E.X. for a drink to dull his frustration over the Kryptonian Science Council's inability to accept evidence that Krypton is going to be destroyed.
* ''Fanfic/NerveDamage'': This is Jordan Lionstone's reactions towards who his [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper serv]][[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte ants]] are, ''and'' his servant Archer's reaction ''towards him''.
* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'':
** A hilarious version. Shinji, on a whim, reveals the whole bit about "I'm a time traveler who's trying to change the past to atone for my mistakes"... to PenPen. The bird's response?
--->([=PenPen=]) stared at his back for several long, long seconds before continuing into the kitchen, retrieving a can from Misato's stash, stopping in consideration, retrieving a second, and retreating into his fridge.\\
"Yeah" Shinji muttered as he stacked the plates in the dishwasher. "That's about what I thought you'd say".
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Kaji, who admits he needed several hours of hard drinking after getting proof of Shinji's claims of time-travel]].
* ''Fanfic/OneMoreTrigger'': Danny deliberately gets himself plastered after [[spoiler:executing Jack Slash]]. He [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doesn't regret what he did]], but would rather not remember it so vividly.
* ''[[Creator/SetaSuzume Only a Wisp of Smoke]]'': Poppy gets high on morphling after realizing that she's going back into the Games. Granted, she often gets high on morphling, but that time is preceded by a screaming fit.
* ''Fanfic/PastContinuous'': Eleya needs one, and offers one to Berat as an apology, after she mouths off to him. She also quotes a Bajoran poet as having said [[Creator/BenjaminFranklin "spring wine is the Prophets' way of showing us they love us."]]
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': It happens as a RunningGag, usually with the villains.
** Giovanni gets a strong craving for alcohol when he realizes the future of Team Rocket is in the hands of Jessie, James and Meowth.
** Hunter J goes straight for her liquor cabinet as soon as she finishes her assignment from the Bloodline King.
** Professor Oak says he doesn't have the time or the alcohol to recount the story of how he found out Ash was a bloodliner.
** A sailor named Scouse had to fill in as a waiter at a political dinner, and got himself very drunk to cope with the "exposure to so much concentrated hypocrisy", as one of his coworkers puts it.
** Tobias gets a strong craving for whiskey when he realizes [[spoiler:during his inter-dimensional travels, he has created Christmas]].
* ''Fanfic/QueenOfTheSwarm'': In Spawn 1.05 Taylor tells her father about her fight against powerful super-villain Lung and her latest meeting with Emma (in which she learnt that her ex-friend bullied her because she was in fact psychologically ill). After hearing her daughter's tale, Danny decides that he needs alcohol, pronto.
-->Dad had gotten home just as I bade goodbye to the Barneses and I now had two long stories to tell him. By the end of the discussion, he needed some booze and I needed to relax.
* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': After hearing Misato's plan to destroy Ramiel by hijacking Japan's entire power supply, Ritsuko wonders "if Ooi still had that bottle of vodka hidden away at her station."
* ''Fanfic/{{Ripples}}'' ends with Will/Van asking for a bottle of wine to be opened when she hears that [[spoiler:Caleb is being chased, leading to the beginning of [[WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}} the Guardians' adventures in Meridian]]]].
* ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'':
** This is the reaction of Rodrik Harlaw, his new wife Alys and Asha Greyjoy after they find out what the High Harlaw runes state.
** This is also several characters' reaction to finding out about the canon future Robb was sent back from.
* In ''Fanfic/RolePlayingEvangelion'', Misato decides she nees a beer NOW when she happens upon Shinji and Asuka disguised as Nerv's commanders.
* ''Fanfic/RWBYEpicOfRemnant'': Lancelot goes to Junior's club and orders as much alcohol as he can to try to forget all the craziness of his new circumstances. Unfortunately for him, he finds he can't get drunk.
* ''Saying I Will'', a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fanfic, features this in the final major arc of the story: Byakuya drinks a 1000-year old Sake after finding out that [[spoiler: Ichigo is the deceased Soul King's nephew and is next in line for the throne. Made worse by the fact his reaction is all recorded on tape.]]
* ''Fanfic/ShinjiTheCasanova'': After seeing Shinji singing and dancing down the hall, wearing socks, a long white shirt and sunglasses, Misato decides she and Asuka need a beer.
-->It was dead silent in the apartment once again. Misato silently got up, walked to the fridge and grabbed herself a beer. Without asking, she grabbed one for Asuka as well. Both of them downed their respective beers, cringed at the taste, then continued to stare at the wall.
* ''Fanfic/SixDaysTheAnimorphsWereIdiots'': When her date with Visser Three goes to hell -- first his DNA allergy causes him to lose control of his morphing, and then the Animorphs show up -- Visser One downs an entire bottle of wine.
* ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle2DoubleMasters'': "Faith of Light": Twilight having to deal with Pinkie Pie, the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
--> After the pure shock wore off, Twilight thought about what had just happened [...] She concluded that she needed a drink.\\
[[spoiler:She still managed to pour herself a cup of hot sauce]].
* ''Fanfic/StrangeTimesAreUponUs'': Brokosh's reaction to finding out he's in a StableTimeLoop is to ask if the tavern Ba'wov and K'Gan visited in the previous scene is still open.
* In ''Fanfic/TheSuperStarrChronicles'', Irene Adler goes straight for the bottle of Jack Daniel's when she gets a vision that [[spoiler: Clara Creed has returned to Earth.]]
* Zelda pours gin into her cup of tea in ''Webcomic/ATaleOfTwoRulers'' after her fiancee Ganondorf breaks open her door, soaking wet, wanting to ground their daughter Rinku because Rinku pushed Ganondorf into a lake.
* Alot of this going on in Chapter 11 of ''Fanfic/TemporalAnomaly'':
** Cent and Two share a bottle of red wine outside of the after party of [[spoiler: the latter's wedding.]]
** After discussing various affairs with a group of nobels, One drinks ''directly'' from a wine bottle to deal with the headache that came from the conversation.
** Zero herself is drinking from a bottle of ale, even offering some to Sougo. He politely declines, stating that he has had his fill of red wine.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'':
** Cross and Nami get this sentiment when Luffy, Masira and Shoujou start singing in Chapter 27.
** Wiper gets this sentiment when he finds himself the OnlySaneMan in a Straw Hat party.
** Smoker, Hina, Tashigi and a visiting Captain T-Bone get this sentiment when [[DeadpanSnarker Su]] joins [[TheGadfly Soundbite]] [[spoiler:on Cross's SBS]] in Chapter 29.
** Mr. 5 gets this when they realize Su has joined Soundbite full-time [[spoiler:on the SBS]].
** Foxy shares a cask of rum with Apoo as he tells him exactly what kind of insanity he's getting into.
* ''Fanfic/ThisWasEasierOnTheTabletop'': After the Battle of New Avalon (his first direct experience of combat), John leaves the award ceremony for the cadets and he heads into city looking for a dive-bar.
* ''Fanfic/ThroughADiamondSky'': As Flynn's working on escaping his captors, he remarks to himself that he needs a nap, a cold beer, and a ''long'' talk with his wife; not necessarily in that order.
* In the ''Anime/{{Bleach}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13167363/6/To-Undo-it-All To Undo It All]]'', [[TheStoic Toshiro]] demands some sake after a series of world-upending revelations from [[PeggySue Ichigo]].
* ''Fanfic/UnderneathTheSakuraTree'': Before Yoshi and Tang Shen's sons were conceived, Yoshi would sometimes help himself to red wine when his daughter's death and clan's collapse start to get to him.
* ''Fanfic/UnityPinkShoes'': Perceptor's response to Ratchet and Wheeljack descending into an argument is to down two cubes of high-grade energon he was saving for an emergency.
* ''Fanfic/TheWeddingCrashers'': Dean breaks out a flask of whiskey and offers some to both Sam and Claire during the ceremony when the newlyweds and the bride's parents are making the most obnoxious, sappy, pretentious, ego-stroking vows and speeches anyone could possibly make. He also makes more than a few stops at the complementary champagne fountain for similar reasons.
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/6684562 when they built you, brother, they broke the mould]]'', Catelyn Stark and Theon Greyjoy decide they need a drink or ten when Robb reveals Jon Snow is actually Lyanna's son by Prince Rhaegar.
* ''Fanfic/{{Whispers}}'': The mere mention of [[RoyalBrat his brothers]] is enough to get Arcanus drinking wine despite asserting ''earlier in that scene'' that he has no taste for it.
* ''Fanfic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon'': In an omake, Makoto suggests this when the whole war with the Dark Kingdom ended because Nanoha (in this fanfic the reincarnated Princess Serenity) admitted she was a lesbian and Beryl took that as a chance to go chase Mamoru instead of trying to kill everyone.
* ''Fanfic/WhoSilencedEllyPatterson'': Anthony, who was supposed to be the designated driver, invoked this and said they can hire a cab instead when [[spoiler: he figured out his father was arrested because he murdered his mother.]]
* In the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12446027/2/With-Sprinkles With Sprinkles]]'', Setsuna/Sailor Pluto goes to the other senshi to both announce that the [[ApocalypseHow Great Freeze]] is no longer set in stone and find out if they know what caused the change. When she finds out they attacked a Planeswalker, she promptly starts ''chugging'' a bottle of whiskey. When Haruka learns just how quickly a Planeswalker gains power (gaining new mana in a few seconds, as opposed to the Senshi getting one more each decade), she follows Setsuna's example.
* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'': Said by George (without the “freaking” part) after John reveals his wings to him. The four then proceed to a bar and get trashed (except for John, who can't any more).
* ''Fanfic/WithThisRingGreenLantern'': Carl Ferris isn't a drinking man. After his daughter Carol has gone missing ''again'' together with [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], he wishes he was.
-->Carl Ferris wished he was a drinking man at times like these. Sometimes, so did his wife, Yvonne.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6990878/1/You-re-Cute-When-You-re-Happy You're Cute When You're Happy]]'': England states that he needs alcohol when he finds out America didn't realize they had been in a real relationship when they were sleeping together (which they had been doing for over ''sixty years'').
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