History Main / HangoverSensitivity

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Crack That Whip", Dr. Doofenshmirtz suffers from extreme sensitivity to noise, including his own {{evil laugh}}ter, when he has "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar a headache]]" after staying out late at [[CardCarryingVillain an evil mixer]].

* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', Spike starts the episode ''Heavy Metal Queen'' in a diner with a viscous hangover, making himself a [[HideousHangoverCure Prairie Oyster]]. When some punks start a fight that results in his Prairie Oyster getting spilled before he can drink it, he delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in retaliation instead of his typical combat habit of dancing around and making his opponents look like fools.

* In ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', after getting really drunk, a hungover England covers his head with a blanket and weakly groans "Why won't the lights just shut up? I swear, I'm never going to drink again. Someone, please kill me."

** Parodied in "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses": Marge's hangover appears to be magnifying Homer's footsteps to the point that they're obnoxiously loud, but it turns out they ''[[NinjaProp are]]'' that loud because he's breaking in a pair of ski shoes.

** The Roman legionnaries suffer from this, too. Which is a shame, for them, considering the loud yelling of their [[DrillSergeantNasty centurion...]]

* ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'': HiveMind bounty hunter Psmith drinks and passes out in [[WretchedHive Asteroid Al's bar]], with every other member of the hive-mind being similarly affected (to the point where they think the original one is dead because they're no longer receiving signals from him-- until they get close, which causes them to act drunk and eventually pass out themselves); when the original is finally isolated in a psionic-proof chamber, they all wake up with roaring hangovers (even the light 'ssssshhhh' of a hover-tray being sent into the room with a hangover-cure causes groans of pain) and villain Grispfat's annoying attempt to Chessmaster them at that point results in [[spoiler: him being disintegrated]]. When the heroes bring in an actual hangover cure, they drink it [[SuicideAsComedy in the hopes that it's poison.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In “The Wedding Reception,” Mittens wakes up with a killer hangover after a drinking bout, crawling under the covers to escape the light and noise. Inverted with Rhino, who is surprisingly immune to hangovers despite also imbibing, because of his fast metabolism.

* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixInBritain'': After a Roman garrison gets completely sloshed trying to identify the one barrel of magic potion among countless wine barrels, the LargeHam centurion gives them a good chewing out, complete with echo.
-->'''Centurion:''' '''LEGIONARIES!''' YOU ARE THE '''DISGRACE''' OF THE ROMAN ARMY! YOU'VE BEHAVED LIKE BARBARIANS! YOU DESERVE TO BE '''FED TO THE LIONS!'''
-->'''Legionary:''' Feed me to the lions, but please, make him stop shouting...

* In the original version of ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1963'', after a night drinking as his alter-ego, the titular professor has to teach a class with a hangover. Several shots from his point of view feature very amplified sound effects.

'''Chekhov:''' (''leaning his head into his hand'') Only the size of my head...

* ''{{Film/Heavyweights}}'': Despite the lack of booze, the morning after the kids' wild food-for-all is treated like this, with the counselor using a ''megaphone'' to wake the kids up (and hammer in the consequences of overindulgence).

* ''Series/CriminalMinds''

'''Josh:''' (''under his breath'') Not even listening to you now.\\

'''Josh:''' Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. (''collapses onto his desk'')

* In ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E16CommunicationStudies Communication Studies]] Britta, Jeff, and Abed all show sensitivity to lights and sounds after drinking.

-->'''Hawkeye:''' (''sleepy tone of voice'') Trapper? Trapper?\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Cosmo, Wanda, and Jorgen suffer hangover sensitivity the next morning after a wild party celebrating friendship.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Crack That Whip", Dr. Doofenshmirtz suffers from extreme sensitivity to noise, including his own {{evil laugh}}ter, when he has "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar a headache]]" after staying out late [[CardCarryingVillain at an evil mixer]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E21EveryLittleThingSheDoes Every Little Thing She Does]]", Twilight's friends experience hangover-like symptoms after being cured of a mind-control spell. Rarity in particular wears glasses and a sun hat, and is sensitive to loud noises to the point that even [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy's]] normal speaking voice makes her wince.
-->'''Rarity:''' If everypony could speak in a whisper for the next few days, that would be delightful...

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In one episode, Bart's teacher Ms. Krabappel tells her class "Okay class, today we'll be sitting quietly with the lights off because teacher has a hangover."
** Parodied in "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses": Marge's hangover appears to be magnifying Homer's footsteps to the point that they're obnoxiously loud, but it turns out they ''[[NinjaProp are]]'' that loud because he's breaking in a pair of ski shoes.
* Shows up all over on ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''. Pam's often seen drinking a 40 after a night of partying, and Lana wears dark glasses into work after nights of heavy boozing. The only one who's not seen with hangovers is Archer... likely because he's perpetually drinking.
-->'''Archer:''' I'm afraid if I stop drinking all at once, the collective hangover would literally kill me.

This is something we see everywhere, sometimes in [[TruthInTelevision real life]], but it's also a convenient [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools tool]] for writers to use, reminding us that no drinking fest is going to be without consequence. The consequences for fictional characters are just as rough as they are for us, as media will constantly remind you.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Happens to Mittens in “The Wedding Reception” the morning after a bout of drinking. She hides under the covers to escape the light and noise. Inverted with Rhino, who is surprisingly immune to hangovers despite also imbibing, because of his fast metabolism.

* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' seems to take it to a new level: Another person's ''blinking'' is too loud.

** The third game's final DLC, "Citadel", ends with a party that leaves several characters hungover the next morning (depending on how much Shepard amps it up). Tali is curled up in a ball and [[LastOfHisKind Javik]] thinks everything that's happened since he got out of stasis was a dream. Ash[[note]]if the Virmire Survivor[[/note]] is still vertical, but in need of coffee. Kaidan[[note]]if the Virmire Survivor[[/note]] has [[MustHaveCaffeine already had coffee]]. Jack manages to avert this, citing her overclocked biotic amp making her effectively hangover-proof. If the second phase of the party is Loud, then [[BoisterousBruiser Wrex]] cites this state as being the best time to train with guns when declaring a "man emergency" over Joker letting his small arms training get rusty, as it makes you "angry at every little sound".

* ''WesterAnimation/AsterixInBritain'': After a Romans garrison gets completely sloshed trying to identify the one barrel of magic potion among countless wine barrels, the LargeHam centurion gives them a good chewing out, complete with echo.

** In ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'', the LemonyNarrator comments that this sort of description often owes more to "hangover machismo" than actually conveying that hangovers are horrible, and [[GargleBlaster scumble]] hangovers are ''worse'' than language can convey anyway.
** The Oh God of Hangovers in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' naturally feels like this all the time, although he stops feeling like a malevolent imp is hitting his skull with a sledgehammer after Susan chases the malevolent imp with the sledgehammer away.

* ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'': Hive-mind bounty hunter Psmith drinks and passes out in [[WretchedHive Asteroid Al's bar]], with every other member of the hive-mind being similarly affected (to the point where they think the original one is dead because they're no longer receiving signals from him, and also pass out themselves); when the original is finally isolated in a psionic-proof chamber, they all wake up with roaring hangovers (even the light 'ssssshhhh' of a hover-tray being sent into the room with a hangover-cure causes groans of pain) and villain Grispfat's annoying attempt to Chessmaster them at that point results in [[spoiler: him being disintegrated]]. When the heroes bring in an actual hangover cure, they drink it [[SuicideAsComedy in the hopes that it's poison.]]

* A frequent gag in ''Series/BlackBooks'', given the amount of [[DrinkOrder red wine]] the characters are always chugging, and the reason that the perpetually grouchy Bernard is ''even worse'' [[NotAMorningPerson first thing in the morning]]. However, special mention goes to "The Entertainer", where the characters' dark glasses are part of a CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise that leads some charity fundraisers to think they're all blind.

* There's at least one episode of ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'' wherein Rumpole, after a night of "carousing" with the chambers clerk Henry, has to come into court shading his eyes. It doesn't help that his [[DrinkOrder drink of choice]] is a cheap claret.

This is something we see everywhere, sometimes in [[TruthInTelevision real life]], but it's also a convenient [[TropesAreTools tool]] for writers to use, reminding us that no drinking fest is going to be without consequence. The consequences for fictional characters are just as rough as they are for us, as media will constantly remind you.

* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' Norman thinks a bird is singing too loud, [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20031229.html so he fires a shotgun at it...]] And then realizes the blast is even worse.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E21EveryLittleThingSheDoes Every Little Thing She Does]]", Twilight's friends experience hangover-like symptoms after being cured of a mind-control spell. Rarity in particular is sensitive to loud noises to the point that even [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy's]] normal speaking voice makes her wince.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Every Little Thing She Does", Twilight's friends experience hangover-like symptoms after being cured of a mind-control spell. Rarity in particular is sensitive to loud noises to the point that even [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy's]] normal speaking voice makes her wince.

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[[caption-width-right:350:But it was ''[[WorthIt so worth it]]''.]]

So a character has had a long night. Maybe he was playing a [[DrinkingGame certain kind of game]], or maybe he just CantHoldHisLiquor at the bar. But whatever the reason, he was blind drunk the night before, meaning that the next morning is one of the worst days of his life.

While all this is going on, it's very likely that the character's friend is fixing a HideousHangoverCure, and perhaps even pepping them up to return to a state of normality and ambition. And it doesn't usually work -- but without another character to trigger them off, we might never see their sensitivity.

So when the hung over character has got a friend who comes in and opens the blinds? "Aaaahhh! Close the blinds!"

* Rin from ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'' starts every episode but five waking up with a hangover induced headache, and a little [[HairOfTheDog "Russian Water"]] to fix it.

* ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'': Hive-mind bounty hunter Psmith drinks and passes out in [[WretchedHive Asteroid Al's bar]], with every other member of the hive-mind being similarly affected (to the point where they think the original one is dead because they're no longer receiving signals from him, and also pass out themselves); when the original is finally isolated in a psionic-proof chamber, they all wake up with roaring hangovers (even the light 'ssssshhhh' of a hover-tray being sent into the room with a hangover-cure causes groans of pain) and villain Grispfat's annoying attempt to Chessmaster them at that point results in [[spoiler: him being disintegrated]]. When the heroes bring in a actual hangover cure, they drink it [[SuicideAsComedy in the hopes that it's poison.]]

* This condition also pops up in Creator/DavidEddings' stories quite often, particularly Literature/TheBelgariad and Malloreon, since most of the main characters are Alorns - a people who are justly famous for their hard-drinking lifestyle. Inevitably, the women around them reacts with barely-hidden schadenfreude, though Polgara the Sorceress has been known to prepare an effective remedy for the condition. (Sadly, [[HideousHangoverCure it tastes so vile]] that most of the characters prefer to just suffer in silence.)

* ''Literature/TheMasterAndMargarita'' scene where Stepa Likhodeyev meets [[{{Satan}} Woland]] may be the best description of hangover and its effects in the literature.

** There's the season 7 episode "A Family Affair" where at the end of the episode on the [[OnceAnEpisode plane ride]] back home, JJ complains about forgetting to book a babysitter for her son so she can go with Prentiss and Garcia to "ladies night out." So [[InsufferableGenius Reid]] offers to babysit. Cue the OhCrap look from Prentiss and JJ. Prentiss is says "he can do a couple of hours." Reid adds, "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong" SmashCut to Hotch's race with the team in crowd. The girls are wearing sunglasses and look like hell.

* There's at least one episode of ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'' wherein Rumpole, after a night of "carousing" with the chambers clerk Henry, has to come in to court shading his eyes. It doesn't help that his [[DrinkOrder drink of choice]] is a cheap claret.

** Future Ted wistfully lampshades this trope in "Murtaugh" by comparing the gang's reactions to a night of hard partying when they were twenty four to when they were thirty. This trope hits them much harder in the latter example.

* The infamous Globelink Christmas Party in ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'' was like this for George, Henry and Dave. It was worsened by the antics of a totally sober and vindictive Damien Day (who came armed with bacon sandwiches and bellowed greetings).

* Done in an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' when Julie, Elliot, Carla and Jordan come to work after a drunken night out and range in demeanor from "perky" to "catatonic", reflecting their increasing age-brackets.

* The hard-drinking students/doctors in the ''Series/DoctorInTheHouse'' franchise inevitably run up against hangover sensitivity in a few episodes, and get no sympathy from their colleagues who abstained or drank in moderation the previous night. For example, in "The Epidemic" from ''Doctor in Charge'', Dr. Waring arrives one morning in a cheerful mood to find Drs. Stuart-Clark and Collier badly hung over, and proceeds to make as much noise as he can purely to aggravate their conditions. As he leaves the room, he throws a metal kidney dish onto the floor, to which the other two react as though a thunderclap has just gone off inside their own heads.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "Scratch N Sniff", Crichton and D'Argo wake up after a night's partying to find they're been robbed and their fellow crewmembers are missing. They start PerpSweating a female criminal to find out what happened, but stop in terror when she threatens to scream.
* In the ''Series/QuincyME'' episode "Tissue of Truth", after solving the case Sam and Quincy stagger into work the next morning incredibly hungover. Quincy gloats that at least Dr Asten, their boss, will be worse because he kept topping up Asten's glass every time he wasn't looking. Then Asten walks in all bright and cheery and not hungover in the slightest, much to Quincy's dismay.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Vila is carousing in a ViceCity instead of manning the flight deck, ready to [[TeleportationRescue teleport the others]]. As a result several of the crew get captured and nearly killed. Blake doesn't bother keeping his voice down when giving a WhatTheHellHero roasting to a hungover Vila afterwards.

I've got a thunder storm in my left ear\\

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has Hideous Hangovers as a mild negative trait that gives penalties to the character the morning after they get drunk. For extra hilarity, it can be combined with Low Alcohol Tolerance to insure that the character will get drunk almost instantly.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Cosmo, Wanda and Jorgen suffer hangover sensitivity the next morning after a wild party celebrating friendship.