History Main / DrunkenMaster

* In the other ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games, the strength boost from drinking alcohol will give the player a bonus t o melee damage. Most noticeable in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', where strength is more closely tied to melee damage. A character with the party boy/girl perk drinking a [[GargleBlaster Dirty Wastelander]] can do anywhere from 25 to 50% more melee damage, depending on how strong they were to begin with.

** Apparently Exalted is also fun to 'play' while drunk.

* The Michael Shayne series of detective novels always portrayed Shayne, the HardboiledDetective, as TheAlcoholic but a FunctionalAddict. Sometimes, he insisted that drinking actually made him a better detective.

* In ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'', Ethan has become an alcoholic. When using a firearm, his arm wavers and jitters heavily while looking through the iron sights. After draining a bottle of whiskey, though, his DT's disappear and his aim is dead-on for the next several minutes. It ceases to be a problem close to the end of the game, after a bizarre dream sequence in which [[spoiler:he ''fights and kills the AnthropomorphicPersonification of his alcoholism'']].

* ''Literature/BodiesAreWhereYouFindThem'': Throughout the Michael Shayne series Shayne, a HardboiledDetective, comes across as TheAlcoholic but a FunctionalAddict, toting bottles of cognac around and drinking while he's detecting, drinking while interviewing suspects, drinking in the morning. In this novel, after escaping the cops and making his way to Tim Rourke's apartment Shayne finds a full bottle of whiskey there, and drinks all of it. When Rourke comes back and is shocked to find Shayne drunk, Shayne says "I’ve stayed too sober on this case. That’s what’s wrong. You know my brain cells don’t circulate without stimulation." Sure enough, right after this Shayne figures out the final piece of the puzzle: the bad guys didn't kill Real Helen a month ago, they held her alive as a prisoner in the asylum and killed her right after killing the impostor Fake Helen.

* ''Film/OlsenBanden'': Harry is an explosives expert who can only do this job properly when drunk. The gang learns this the hard way when they need him to blow up a safe when he has tried to quit drinking; it takes him three times and getting everyone both electrocuted and then thrown across the room. That said his skills when drunk are very specific, as his attempt at DrunkDriving also ends in catastrophy.

* Rock Lee in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is an incredible hand-to-hand fighter in normal conditions, but if he gets even one tiny sip of sake... just run. Lee's combat moves are normally [[BareFistedMonk pretty direct]], albeit [[SuperSpeed quite fast]] and [[SuperStrength hard-hitting]]. Drunken, however, his moves become [[ConfusionFu all but impossible to read, predict, or counter.]] And if anything, even faster and stronger.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has a confusing example. Kunō suddenly shoves a bottle full of sake down girl Ranma's throat, but when she starts the drunk-fu, Genma claims it is a technique where she is just ''pretending'' to be drunk. She falls into a drunken sleep after a few kicks, anyway.

* In the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' OVA, Mihoshi feeds Ryo-Ohki (the dual-class rabbit/spaceship) some wine, and the ship's wobbling avoids the MacrossMissileMassacre.
-->'''Kagato:''' Now that's a very capable evasion. I wonder if it's due to the power of the boy's sword?
* ''Literature/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'' has a character named To Eigetsu who is [[TheSmartGuy intelligent, quiet, and mild-mannered]], until he gets drunk. Then his SplitPersonality Yougetsu takes over and starts kicking ass and taking names.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' had Chu, who became more dangerous after taking a swig of Ogre Killer. Taken to whole new levels when his most powerful attack actually involves mixing his energy with alcohol to make an energy ball powerful enough that two shots of Yusuke's Spirit Gun couldn't equal it. The first shot weakened the attack and the second shot burst through it, punching a hole in the middle, but not stopping it. He also has a special kind of alcohol that... well... induces vomiting. Once he's emptied his stomach, he gets drunk even ''faster'', which summons more of his demonic energy for him to use. (Tequila?)

* Shinnosuke in ''Manga/{{Airmaster}}'' reveals DrunkenBoxing to be his ace in the hole when his weapon is destroyed by a [[GiantMook particularly huge thug]].
* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Kamijou Touma, in the light novel, one time gets drunk, dodges [[ShockAndAwe Misaka's]] lightning attack instead of negating it, then walks around town for five minutes and ends up with over 10 girls clinging to him like iron sand to a magnet.
* Inverted with Master Roshi in the eighth ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movie. He is a professional Martial Arts master, and is capable of doing the Drunken Punch. However, when he became drunk with alcohol in the movie (which ended up bowdlerized/woolseyized as him becoming both berserk at someone hiding all his [[DirtyOldMan girlie magazines]], and being sick from eating too many Tuna Sandwiches), he is completely useless, a notable example being when he attempted to beat Broly with his max power form, but only ended up making a fool of himself by changing facial expressions using his fool's mask as a curtain.
** Much earlier (in the ''Manga/DragonBall'' manga) he managed to outfight Goku by ''pretending'' to be drunk - since Goku had never been drunk himself, he couldn't predict Roshi's movements. This lasted until Goku came up with his own style of ConfusionFu to counter with. This was likewise bowdlerized into "Mad Cow Style" in the Funimation dub.

** Kaido is a raging drunk, but that doesn't make him any weaker. In fact, being drunk makes him even ''more dangerous'', as he's still a NighInvulnerable, LargeAndInCharge Dragon-Man, but the alcohol causes him to act unpredictably.
* Bachhus Groh in ''Manga/FairyTail'' becomes a much more proficient opponent when he's drunk, and is the counterpart to bottomless boozer Cana, whose drinking has the more realistic effect of rendering her totally witless.
* One story in the old ''Manga/LupinTheThird'' manga, (appropriately titled 'Drunken Masters') had a wasted Lupin still manage to break into a victim's house, ''decapitate their guard dog'', throw said dogs head ''through a window'' '''and''' open a massive safe, while still carting around a bottomless bottle of whisky over one shoulder. A watching cop declares uneasily that he'd hate to see him sober.
* ''Literature/JuniTaisenZodiacWar'' has the Warrior of the Tiger, for a darker take on the trope. A brilliant but naive martial artist, she turned to alcohol to deal with discovering that WarIsHell. She found that drinking helped silence her own guilty conscience and made it easier to kill, becoming a ''literal'' raging Alcoholic that tears her victims to pieces while drunk.

* In the MOBA ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', there is a character named Gragas, known as the Rabble Rouser, because his favorite pastime is to go to bars with his good friend Jax, get himself hammered drunk, and [[BarBrawl proceed to beat up everyone in the room.]] In the game itself, Gragas' entire ability set is built around his liking for alcohol.
** His passive ability is called Happy Hour, which restores 6% of his maximum HP every time he uses an ability.
** His Q ability is called Barrel Roll (no, not in ''[[VideoGame/StarFox64 that]]'' way), in which he rolls out his keg, which explodes and deals ability power-based damage.
** His W ability is called Drunken Rage, in which he chugs from his keg to add area magic damage to his next attack, and reduces damage from all sources for a few seconds.
** His E ability is called Body Slam, in which Gragas [[LeeroyJenkins charges straight for wherever you're aiming]], dealing damage to enemies hit. This can be used to go over walls, either to escape or to engage.
** Finally, there's his ultimate (R) ability, Explosive Cask. Gragas throws his barrel, which explodes upon hitting the ground, dealing damage to all enemies in the radius and knocking them straight back from the epicenter of the explosion.

* Creator/StephenKing could be considered an example, as many of his best works have been written when he was either drunk or coked up, and he's admitted to being a big fan of LSD in the sixties. He once stated that he really likes ''Literature/{{Cujo}}'', so it's a shame that he has absolutely no recollection of writing it.

* In the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series, it's a very bad idea to pick a fight with Kazuma. It's an even ''worse'' idea to pick a fight with Kazuma ''when he's drunk'': while drunk, his Heat meter recharges faster, and he even has some special (not to mention ''bone shattering'') moves that he can only do while drunk. You will probably spend lots of yen just getting him hammered or buying alcohol to go to always make sure you always have a little extra oomph. Somehow, the enemies don't understand this and will attack you more often if you're drunk, thinking you're an easy mark. In [[Film/{{Yakuza}} the movie]], the enemies actually panic when they see him drinking from a bottle.

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* In this VideoGame/FateGrandOrder [[https://twitter.com/Hiru_Nagi_7/status/1447504246023208960?t=rapRVB5rI0JcWtzeNDbPOQ&s=19 doujin]], a drunk Baobhan Sith, who normally is the ButtMonkey in this fan series, get drunk on sake and is able to defend Ritsuka and Kadoc from the drunken trio of Nagetora, Jing Ke, and Ushiwakamaru.

* Master Gregory in ''Film/{{Seventh Son|2015}}'' is VERY fond of his alcohol, which he says is to kill "cowardice." At one point he beats up a man in a bar fight using his mug of liquor as a weapon - without spilling any of his drink.
* In ''Film/{{Beerfest}}'' Barry is a master at drinking games, but only while inebriated.
* The Creator/ShawBrothers' classic ''Film/{{Come Drink With Me}}'' introduces the Drunken Master to western cinemaphiles. Displaying wisdom beyond logic and martial ability beyond discipline, this character has full understanding of his own weaknesses. This ''in vino veritas'' introspection empowers this character to open for repair the Achilles's heel of the hero or heroine while protecting him or her by rebuffing the villains with comical exploitation of their weaknesses. Warmly comic, resembling the gruff uncle, getting by on the kindness of the public, popular with children, aspiring to nothing more than his next drink; this character comes from the ancient Asian reverence of the holy madman, the embodiment of unknowable chaos.

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* In VideoGame/DwarfFortress, every single dwarf in the world, be it male, female or child. We're talking about people able to build enormous strongholds or beating a bull to death, as long as there is enough booze for everyone.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series, it's a very bad idea to pick a fight with Kazuma. It's an even ''worse'' idea to pick a fight with Kazuma ''when he's drunk'': while drunk, his Heat meter recharges faster, and he even has some special (not to mention ''bone shattering'') moves that he can only do while drunk. You will probably spend lots of yen just getting him hammered or buying alcohol to go to always make sure you always have a little extra oomph.
** Somehow, the enemies don't understand this and will attack you more often if you're drunk, thinking you're an easy mark.
** In the movie, the enemies actually panic when they see him drinking from a bottle
* The Demoman of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is commonly depicted as a drunkard who is very good at his job despite the fact that he is consistently inebriated.
** Or perhaps because of. It's not a job you'd want to be doing when tense. As he explains, one crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant ''twitch'' - and '''kablooie!''' Also, once one becomes an alcoholic, stopping is very difficult - a well known side effect of alcohol withdrawal is 'delirium tremens', literally meaning 'the insane trembling'. This would be a great ''many'' errant twitches. Thus, stopping would probably be fatal in short order.
** Surprisingly, despite being a drunkard and a Scotsman, the Demo is portrayed as a very nice guy who cares for his family, lives in a mansion, has three jobs including demolitions expert and makes five million dollars a year. In fact, the comic almost seems to imply he's drunk ''only'' for work. Later comics imply this is just a functional level of drunk that just ''looks'' like sobriety to everyone else, because he's become such an alcoholic his body physically needs alcohol and will [[ItRunsOnNonsenseoleum ferment it out of whatever it has if he goes cold turkey]].
** It is also entirely possible that being drunk gives him the extra depth perception he needs to make up for his missing eye.

* Shuten-dōji from the mobile RPG ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'' is definitely this as well as an AddledAddict. His weapon is an enormous alcohol bottle and he can heal himself by drinking.

* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': Will Munny is pretty much a washed up failure, until he gets drunk; then he turns into a ruthlessly effective gunfighter and a cold-blooded killer.

* Aacorind to ''Webcomic/TerminalLance'', every platoon has at least one person who is like this, who only gets better when drunk. For his own platoon, it was [[http://terminallance.com/2012/06/01/terminal-lance-203-that-one-guy/ Cone]].

[[caption-width-right:250:A Pandaren Brewmaster, [[JustForPun getting punch-drunk.]]]]

* ''Anime/JuniTaisenZodiacWar'' has the Warrior of the Tiger, for a darker take on the trope. A brilliant but naive martial artist, she turned to alcohol to deal with discovering that WarIsHell. She found that drinking helped silence her own guilty conscience and made it easier to kill, becoming a ''literal'' raging Alcoholic that tears her victims to pieces while drunk.

* ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'' has a character named To Eigetsu who is [[TheSmartGuy intelligent, quiet, and mild-mannered]], until he gets drunk. Then his SplitPersonality Yougetsu takes over and starts kicking ass and taking names.

* [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Hard drinking party girls]] Ruko and Yukari from ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'', on the pure power of booze, are able to infiltrate a highly-guarded mansion and take out several armed men, something thought ''impossible'' by some of the top {{Ninja Maid}}s in the show. They then collapse immediately.

* ''LightNovel/JuniTaisenZodiacWar'' has the Warrior of the Tiger, for a darker take on the trope. A brilliant but naive martial artist, she turned to alcohol to deal with discovering that WarIsHell. She found that drinking helped silence her own guilty conscience and made it easier to kill, becoming a ''literal'' raging Alcoholic that tears her victims to pieces while drunk.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Kamijou Touma, in the light novel, one time gets drunk, dodges [[ShockAndAwe Misaka's]] lightning attack instead of negating it, then walks around town for five minutes and ends up with over 10 girls clinging to him like iron sand to a magnet.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts: From the New World'' has a ''[[TalkingAnimal cat]]'' named Mao who practices Drunken Fist.