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* ''Webcomic/ILoveYoo": Shin-Ae's father. She frequently comes home to find him drunk. [[spoiler: In later episodes, he makes attempts to change this after suffering though a stroke.]]



* ''Webcomic/ILoveYoo'': Shin-Ae's father. She frequently comes home to find him drunk. [[spoiler: In later episodes, he makes attempts to change this after suffering though a stroke.]]
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* ''Webcomic/ILoveYoo'': Shin-Ae's father. She frequently comes home to find him drunk. [[spoiler: In later episodes, he makes attempts to change this after suffering though a stroke.]]
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* ''Film/MyAnimal'': Heather's mom Patti gets drunk almost every night. While drunk, she makes nasty and embarrassing public scenes sometimes that hurt Heather deeply.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': Wallace's mom is so dysfunctionally drunk, Wallace has moved out on his own to an abandoned house, looking after other orphaned and/or neglected kids from the neighbourhood. The one time we see the mother, she is drunk and beligerant towards the police trying to look for her son, telling them Wallace owes her money. Michael and Bug's mother, and Dookie's parents are [[JunkieParent full on drug addicts]].

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* ''Series/TheWire'': Wallace's mom is so dysfunctionally drunk, Wallace has moved out on his own to an abandoned house, looking after other orphaned and/or neglected kids from the neighbourhood. The one time we see the mother, she is drunk and beligerant towards the police trying to look for her son, telling them Wallace owes her money. Michael and Bug's mother, and Dookie's parents are [[JunkieParent full on drug addicts]]. Jimmy [=McNulty=] meanwhile is the AlcoholicParent to his sons, and in season five, the now teenage sons no longer have the patience for his constant absenteeism.
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* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has Ellie's mom, who passed out once and almost burned down their house because she left the stove on. This causes Ellie to temporarily move in with her boyfriend Sean.

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* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' has Ellie's mom, who passed out once and almost burned down their house because she left the stove on. This causes Ellie to temporarily move in with her boyfriend Sean.
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* * In ''FilmTheyLiveByNight'', Keechie's father Mobley is an alcoholic, and is one of the reasons she decides to run away with Bowie.

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* * In ''FilmTheyLiveByNight'', ''Film/TheyLiveByNight'', Keechie's father Mobley is an alcoholic, and is one of the reasons she decides to run away with Bowie.
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* * In ''FilmTheyLiveByNight'', Keechie's father Mobley is an alcoholic, and is one of the reasons she decides to run away with Bowie.
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* ''VideoGame/FearAndHungerTermina'': Levi's father was an alcoholic, and regularly [[DomesticAbuse physically assaulted both his wife and son in his drunken rage]]. After beating his wife to death, Levi was removed from his "care" -- not that [[OrphanageOfFear St. Domek's Orphanage]] was any better.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': Wallace's mom is so dysfunctionally drunk, Wallace has moved out on his own to an abandoned house, looking after other orphaned and/or neglected kids from the neighbourhood. The one time we see the mother, she is drunk and beligerant towards the police trying to look for her son, telling them Wallace owes her money. Michael and Bug's mother, and Dookie's parents are full on drug addicts.

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* ''Series/TheWire'': Wallace's mom is so dysfunctionally drunk, Wallace has moved out on his own to an abandoned house, looking after other orphaned and/or neglected kids from the neighbourhood. The one time we see the mother, she is drunk and beligerant towards the police trying to look for her son, telling them Wallace owes her money. Michael and Bug's mother, and Dookie's parents are [[JunkieParent full on drug addicts.addicts]].
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* ''Series/TheWire'': Wallace's mom is so dysfunctionally drunk, Wallace has moved out on his own to an abandoned house, looking after other orphaned and/or neglected kids from the neighbourhood. The one time we see the mother, she is drunk and beligerant towards the police trying to look for her son, telling them Wallace owes her money. Michael and Bug's mother, and Dookie's parents are full on drug addicts.
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* Beth from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty,'' who currently provides the trope image, is sometimes played for laughs, but mostly for drama. In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E4TotalRickall Total Rickall]]", her daughter Summer has at least one memory of Beth already wasted in the morning and accidentally hitting her in the eye with a wine bottle.

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* [[Characters/RickAndMortyBethSmith Beth Smith]] from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty,'' who currently provides the trope image, is sometimes played for laughs, but mostly for drama. In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E4TotalRickall Total Rickall]]", her daughter Summer has at least one memory of Beth already wasted in the morning and accidentally hitting her in the eye with a wine bottle.
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* In ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'', Seven and Saeran's mother was a physically abusive, emotionally volatile, raging alcoholic; because of her, Seven [[TheTeetotaler restrains from drinking at all, save for the very rare sip of champagne for special occasions]].

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* In ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'', Seven [[spoiler:Seven and Saeran's mother was a physically abusive, emotionally volatile, raging alcoholic; alcoholic;]] because of her, Seven [[spoiler:Seven [[TheTeetotaler restrains from drinking at all, save for the very rare sip of champagne for special occasions]].]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': Cleo's foster mom; she is always seen with a martini in her hand and has a permanent drunken slur to her voice.
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* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': Besk, Dys and Tang's mother, is remembered as a depressed drunk by the latter. An event during which Marz is looking at photos from her childhood includes one of Dys and Tang at their shared fifth birthday party with their mother just out of frame, holding a drink.
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* ''Film/FeastOfLove'': Oscar's dad is one, halfhazardly driving home drunk before parking his car halway on the lawn. He gets very aggressive while drunk, verbally abusing both Oscar and Chloe, sometimes also threatening her with violence too.
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* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Mark Russell]] reveals that in the aftermath of his son Andrew's [[OutlivingOnesOffspring death]], he turned to drinking as a way of coping for a time, and he expresses profuse shame that his surviving child Madison had to see him like that.

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* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Mark Russell]] reveals that in the aftermath of his son Andrew's [[OutlivingOnesOffspring death]], he turned to drinking as a way of coping for a time, and he expresses profuse shame that his surviving child Madison had to see him like that.
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* Ryuuji's mom Yasuko in ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''. Somewhat more understandable, as she actually works as a bar hostess, thus her ''job'' includes drinking quite a bit and interacting with drunk people.

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* Ryuuji's mom Yasuko in ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''. Somewhat more understandable, as ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'' is often rather hungover during the day, which leads Ryuuji to do most of the chores around the house. There is some justification for this since she actually works as a bar hostess, thus her ''job'' includes drinking quite a bit and interacting with drunk people.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': While it only comes up in a couple of episodes ("[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS4E1And2MineIsTerribleToWaste A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste]]" and "Talkin' Trash"), Wheeler's father is an alcoholic. His first appearance shows him berating his young son, who is trying and failing to get more drinking money for him. Wheeler spent a lot of time away from home to avoid him and [[TheRunaway ultimately chose to live on the streets]] rather than deal with the constant disparagement. Later, his mother calls him back to New York, saying his father's health is failing. Wheeler comments bitterly that it shouldn't be much of a surprise.

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* In ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'', Seven and Saeran's mother was a physically abusive, emotionally volatile, raging alcoholic; because of her, Seven [[TheTeetotaler restrains from drinking at all, save for the very rare sip of champagne for special occasions]].



* In ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'', Seven and Saeran's mother was a physically abusive, emotionally volatile, raging alcoholic; because of her, Seven [[TheTeetotaler restrains from drinking at all, save for the very rare sip of champagne for special occasions]].
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* ''VideoGame/NekomewsNightmares'': Heavily implied with [[spoiler:Nekomew's mom. Lots of liquor bottles are present in one of Nekomew's memories after the passing of her husband, which may also imply that she did not take his death well and started abusing her own children in a drunken state.]]
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* ''Film/CatherineCalledBirdy2022'': Birdy introduces her hedonistic father Rollo as "very vain and often drunk". He's so out of it that he's whittled away much of the family money.
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* ''Series/YouMeHer'': Izzy's parents were both like this. Her mom used vodka and pills, while her dad was a general alcoholic, leaving years before.
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* ''Webcomic/TrippingOverYou'': Liam's mother is a PosthumousCharacter, but apparently she drank herself to death. It's why Liam himself adamantly refuses to drink alcohol.

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* ''Webcomic/TrippingOverYou'': Liam's mother Riva is a PosthumousCharacter, but apparently she drank herself to death. It's why Liam himself [[TheTeetotaler adamantly refuses to drink alcohol.alcohol]].
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* ''Theatre/KimberlyAkimbo2021'': Kimberly's dad is an inattentive, beer-guzzling sod.
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* Beth from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is sometimes played for laughs, but mostly for drama. In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E4TotalRickall Total Rickall]]", her daughter Summer has at least one memory of Beth getting wasted and accidentally hitting her in the eye with a wine bottle.

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* Beth from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty,'' who currently provides the trope image, is sometimes played for laughs, but mostly for drama. In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E4TotalRickall Total Rickall]]", her daughter Summer has at least one memory of Beth getting already wasted in the morning and accidentally hitting her in the eye with a wine bottle.
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* Ran Mouri's BumblingDad Kogoro in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' fits into ''both'' sides of the spectrum. On the "Dramatic" hand, he does have a good perception in solving cases at times, but most of the time, he just wastes time drinking, and at least once he's been straight-up [[DrowningMySorrows drinking his sorrows away]]. He still [[OverprotectiveDad loves Ran]] and cares for Conan [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold in his own way]], though.

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* Ran Mouri's BumblingDad Kogoro in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' fits into ''both'' sides of the spectrum. On the "Dramatic" hand, he does have a good perception in solving cases at times, but most of the time, he just wastes time drinking, and at least once he's been straight-up [[DrowningMySorrows drinking his sorrows away]]. He still [[OverprotectiveDad loves Ran]] Ran and cares for Conan [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold in his own way]], though.

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