History Main / TheAlcoholic

Well I suppose I'm happy as a clam...\\

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* ''WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' has a bar for setting. The host has replaced his book with AGlassOfChianti.
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Linkara portrays the already discussed Ultimate Iron Man (and at times the regular one, when [[DudeNotFunny it's not wrong to do so]]) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2NXW1yV6o with a drunkard voice that's utterly hilarious.]] Iron Man, when he's reading from something out of the "Ultimate" series, is given (...relatively) exaggerated drunken mannerisms at all times. When it came time to read Iron Man's first appearance "Secret Origins Month", he ''kept'' the voice, built on the reasoning that it took place ''before'' the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline.
* WebVideo/TheCriticalDrinker is commonly depicted as a drunk Scotsman (including his thumbnail). Subverted with Jordan himself who is mostly sober.
* All of the main cast of ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' has some drinking problem or another. Donnie leaves empty scotch glasses around his office, Rebecca can't handle caffeine but can drink an Italian mafioso under the table. Quinn and Karl are Irish and German ex-spies respectively, and treat drinking without each other as SeriousBusiness. Tacoma is the only one remotely reluctant to get drunk and even he caves pretty fast to the idea. Of course, all of them have {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s and are trying to [[DrowningMySorrows drown their sorrows]].
* ''WebVideo/EdgarAllanPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty'' portrays Fyodor Dostoevsky as this. When his bottle of vodka is stolen by Lenore The Lady Ghost, a fellow alcoholic, [[HairTriggerTemper he is]] ''[[MakeTheBearAngryAgain really]]''... [[SubvertedTrope delighted that they have something in common!]] This is part of the reason why many quickly jumped on the Lenore/Fyodor ship. Also, the humor of the situation is not lost on him.
-->'''Dostoevsky''': A spirit for a spirit !
* Harley Morenstein of ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'' rarely appears without a bottle of Jack in hand. One time, he and the others made breakfast with alcohol.
* In the "Ask Jack" video from the ''WebVideo/TheHorriblySlowMurdererWithTheExtremelyInefficientWeapon'' series, Jack reveals that the reason he is still fat despite running from the Ginosaji for years is because he's developed eating and drinking problems to cope with the insanity. During the segment he's trying to eat a plate of spaghetti and drink a glass of wine while the Ginosaji is still slowly beating him to death with a spoon.
* Danielbeast in ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' became an alcoholic at one point, as a result of trying to drown his sorrows.
* The host of [[WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow The Music Video Show]] is shown passed out drunk in episode 24 and is the reason why he got through three Chris Brown videos in a row.
** When discussing Black Out's "Video Games", he claims the band's name is something he would do when he is drinking.
** [[https://youtu.be/OEkC42_5iSo One episode]] is dedicated to the host doing a [[Main/DrinkingGame Drinking Game]]. He gets hammered in less than two minutes.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': The Critic is a complete and utter lightweight, but still drinks a lot. Malcolm, Tamara, and Rachel (the characters) all spend their off-time getting hammered as well. Even Santa Christ has been lampshaded to have drinking issues, while mother and daughter Aunt Despair and Hyper admit they're always drunk.
* ''WebVideo/{{OnCinema}}'': Tim has been shown as one at times. He frequently drinks too much during the Oscar specials which leads to them getting quite chaotic. He even admitted he had issues during the third Oscar special.
* WebVideo/OzzyManReviews: Eddie Stark the Australian Dad from ''Eddie Stark, Australian Dad'' (GagDub of ''Game of Thrones'') has a drinking problem. Most characters keep telling him he drinks too much. Eddie is in denial and says that a man needs a drink and that he has two beers, tops. However, it affects his work and his relationships suffer because of his drinking, too.
* The eponymous Paul Powers of ''WebVideo/ThePaulPowersShow'', at least in a couple of videos. Notably, he seems to drink a lot more when he is alone and doesn't have a "special guest."
* BreakoutCharacter Ciara, of ''WebVideo/TheTRYChannel'', has a reputation for this. In one episode, Brian brings it up ("It's what they say in the [Website/YouTube] comments."):
-->Let's just put that to rest. If that were true, I would have a lower tolerance, because my liver would be '''''fucked'''''.
* ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo'': Dio Brando during the Phantom Blood spoof, which is an exaggeration of Dio tasting alcohol and enjoying it during the scene where he tests the Stone Mask on a test subject.
* During her review of ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'', due to not being impressed with how bored the voice actor of Zeus sounded, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's impersonation of him made him sound ridiculously drunk instead. She herself is nearly always seen with a bottle of beer.
* In ''WebVideo/YandereHighSchool:''
-->'''Taurtis''': Why are you drinking before school, Sam?\\
'''Sam''': Because I need a little buzz before school gets started.\\
'''Taurtis''': You have a problem, I think we need to talk about this.\\
'''Sam''': What's the big deal? I don't see what the big deal is, Taurtis.
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* ''Captain Slaughter's Rejects'' has Shaz, a perpetually drunken [[TheGreys Tau]] with an itchy trigger finger.
* ''Series/TheCryOfMann'':
** Sam Weiner is slowly revealed as someone who likes alcohol a little too much. Not only did he come in drunk during "Tanking Mann", but he also admitted to being drunk several times on set, claiming that it was okay because nobody noticed.
** Both Jouglat and Courtney, as part of their SanitySlippage, start to drink heavily. Jouglat is constantly wasted, unkepmt and angry right up until he decides to go back to the warr, and Courtney was very much drunk when talking to her callers or monologuing, even asking Berry to get her a drink.
* Dabchick, the main character of the [[WebVideo/{{Dabchick}} series of the same name]], frequently gets drunk at restaurants and parties, resulting in slurred speech, falling over, and vomiting.
* ''Blog/GaryLandlordOfTheFlies'': Gary is said to drink frequently, which leads to a number of his less coherent and amicable moments.
* In "The Ballad of G.I. Joe", at Franchise/GIJoe headquarters, while everyone else is about various after-hours pursuits and worries, Snow Job's simply "drinkin' beers".
-->(I heard he likes to drink quite a bit...)
* ''Literature/{{Plonqmas}}'': Played with in the series. While Plonq frequently spends his Christmases in various stages of inebriation, he doesn’t appear to have a classic hard-core drinking problem. The holidays just seem to bring this out in him, perhaps understandably so given his luck.
* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'':
** [[LargeHam Dave from Akron]] claims that any day ending in "y" is a good day to get blackout drunk.
** [[HangingJudge Judge Ephraim Courtland]] wakes up every day hungover off of fancy liquors, and spends the entire arc in a drunken stupor.
* Creator/SamAndMickey portray Franchise/{{Barbie}} as constantly wasted.
* Alcoholism is a defining trait of the ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour's'' Frank and Sadie Doyle. Every episode opens with them clinking their glasses in a toast, they frequently comment themselves on being some level of inebriated, have a walk-in liquor cabinet, and when given three wishes by a djinni, wish only for alcohol and scoff at the idea that the ironic twist to that wish is they've been given more liquor than they can possibly drink.
-->'''Frank''': Who cares what evil lurks in the hearts of man?\\
'''Sadie''': Unless evil's carrying the martini tray, darling. ''(clink)''
* Glitch, of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', who's obviously alcoholic, and a sophomore in high school. He blames his parents for all his problems.
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* Lyle Gabriel from ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' is nearly always drunk and usually blitzed well beyond the point of coherence. It gets less comedic as time goes on; later strips depict him as being unable to function if he doesn't drink constantly.
* [[VideoGame/PunchOut King Hippo]] in ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'' has been DrowningHisSorrows for a ''long'' time thanks to a combination of the horrible things he'd witnessed toward the end of [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Mother Brain's]] [[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster reign of terror,]] and the fact that since that time, his tenure as a villain and general oafishness has made him unable to hold down a job or any measure of respect for long. When pressed on why he was being so helpful and escorting Alex to the Queen of Videoland:
--> '''King Hippo''': Okay, so it might have been less good citizenship... and more the nine hundred bucks she offered to grab you and Marle. That's like ''nine hundred one dollar beers.'' '''That's almost enough for one sitting!'''
* In ''Webcomic/{{Crankrats}}'', Jack, the not-quite-PsychoElectro with DarkAndTroubledPast like you wouldn't believe. Doesn't help that his job is [[TheBartender serving drinks]].
* Merno from ''Webcomic/DragonSanctuary'' is one of the DrowningTheirSorrows variety. He's seen so much tragedy and trauma across his life that it's easier for him to be drunk than deal with it sober and head-on. Not that it stops him from joking about how much he intakes.
* Father Abaddon in ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak''.
-->"Father Abaddon, have you been drinking?"\\
"I've never stopped."
* ''Webcomic/ElfBlood'' has Shanna, who was constantly depicted drinking alcohol in the earlier sections of the comic. She doesn't appear to suffer any deleterious effects from her condition though, or at least none that have been shown yet.
* Baek Seol-A of the Korean Webcomic ''Webcomic/FlutteringFeelings'' will empty the pockets of many of a man sad enough to take her drinking.
* Hazel from ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' is often drinking or drunk. She writes all of her articles smashed. Occasionally {{Lampshaded}} when she gets so drunk she forgets what happened, or realizes how common intoxication is for her. Such as when she "levels up" her faux sober threshold to ''nine'' beers.
* Roomie in ''Webcomic/GoGetARoomie'' is initially depicted as a HardDrinkingPartyGirl, but as the strip goes on it becomes increasingly clear that her drinking is pathological.
* Edison Lighthouse, in ''Webcomic/GroovyKinda'', rarely appears without a drink in hand. At 39, she's old enough to be a LadyDrunk, but she's far too cheerful.
* Apollo from ''Webcomic/TheGuideToAHealthyRelationship'' insists that he's only drinking for fun and could stop anytime. Except he never does stop. The few times he's in the process of sobering up, he's miserable, and while his friends seem to be aware that he has a problem, they tend to rather enable than care to help him.
* Detective Noir of ''Webcomic/HeroMaterial'' drinks nigh-constantly out of his flask. [[FunctionalAddict He never gets too drunk to do his job, though.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Roxy Lalonde spends the first three parts of Act 6 hammered. And she's a teenager. By the fifth part, she admits that she had a problem.
* Kyotoshi Lypha from ''Webcomic/{{Inhuman}}'', starting after his parents were killed in a planet-wide massacre. His fridge contains only vodka and a clean, folded towel.
* In ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'', Adriana bases one of her in-character actions on "Aunt Felicia after two bourbons". Her brother Bill says that's a mean comment, but a true one.
* A major character in ''Webcomic/MountainTime'' is Chimneyfoot, who [[http://mountaincomics.com/comic/mt601/ drinks much more than humanly possible]] (owing at least in part to the fact that he isn't human).
* ''Webcomic/MuhPhoenix'': Tony Stark. Emma Frost as well.
-->'''Iron Man''': Like Mama Stark always said, you're never too drunk to fly a giant robot.
* ''Webcomic/NoNeedForBushido'' has Ken, who, after running out of sake in the middle of a battle, decides to go maul an enemy camp and take their supply. He then proceeds to do this several more times until he get so drunk he falls unconscious, and when he regains consciousness, he finds he's run out yet again and goes out for some more.
* ''Webcomic/OutThere'': One of the most common settings is Sherry's bar, but only Clayton fits the trope. Miriam is more accurately described as a HardDrinkingPartyGirl, and none of the other characters seem particularly dedicated to the task.
* Almost everyone in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' drinks frequently (like a lot of 20-somethings) but some take it to more extremes than others.
** Faye's drinking habits make her friends fear that she's an alcoholic, though she improves with therapy and some healthy relationships. [[spoiler:A bad breakup leads to a binge that gets her fired and hospitalized, which motivates her to sober up for good.]]
** Steve goes through a long binge-drinking period following [[spoiler: his breakup with Ellen]]. He is drunk so often that [[spoiler: the US Government hires him as a spy, knowing that anyone he broke secrecy with would dismiss it as an [[PinkElephants alcohol-induced hallucination]].]]
* Golgo in ''Webcomic/RiceBoy''. PlayedForDrama and portrayed surprisingly realistically, although he's addicted to the [[FantasticDrug black spirit]] made by an apothecary, which is much more addictive than normal ethanol and ''will'' make you evil. Also, [=TOE=] and Calabash drink whiskey as if it was water.
* Taisei from ''Webcomic/{{Sakana}}'' is "drunk 50% of the time". When having a hangover is also pretty much the only time [[FunPersonified he]] is depressed.
* ''Webcomic/SchwarzKreuz'', another webcomic with [[UrbanFantasy noir-fantastic]] vibe, has an even more DarkAndTroubledPast-addled male lead, [[TrenchCoatBrigade Nick]], who drinks because he's a [[VegetarianVampire vampire]] and [[YouHateWhatYouAre hates the fact]].
* ''[[Webcomic/{{Starslip}} Starslip Crisis]]'' has Cutter Edgewise, ''space pirate!''. Well, ''former'' space pirate, anyway. He's ''nearly always'' at least semi-drunk, though he's still likely to be more level-headed than Vanderbeam.
* ''Webcomic/StringTheory2009'' has the alcoholic [[FunctionalAddict Dr. Schtein.]] He's also an avid user of a large number of other drugs.
* In ''Webcomic/SwordCatPrincess'', Officer Jack Dawson is often seen [[http://www.swordcatprincess.thecomicseries.com/comics/29/ drinking at Zora DaiQuirides bar]]. He sometimes drinks while on duty. He has bottles of alcohol around his apartment, [[http://www.swordcatprincess.thecomicseries.com/comics/95/ including a 40 of Pabst]] in his living room.
* In ''Victoria'' games, you need alcohol to train and supply army units. You can have all the metal, gunpowder, and men in the world, but you literally cannot make even one more cannon if it's crew don't get there beer.
* Graham in ''Webcomic/WizardSchool'' is abducted to the Academy after a drunken bender -- and is immediately [[http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1307 asking small children to summon alcohol for him.]]
* Nitrous Blight of ''Webcomic/ZokushoComics'' could head this way if he's not careful. He is a powerful telepath and alcohol is one of the few ways to dull the volume of the thoughts of others.
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* Boomstick of ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', being the stereotypical southern American redneck, is portrayed as this. Many of Boomstick's {{Noodle Incident}}s, if not ''all'' of them, has been attributed to him handing Wiz his beer and going "Here, hold this." Of course, the man does have limits -- in a preview video for [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Amy Rose]], Wiz lied to Boomstick about that [Boomstick] has the ability to drink as much alcohol as he wants only for the man to lose all of that and everything else all over the floor during the preview video for Amy's opponent, [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim Ramona Flowers]].
* In ''WebAnimation/LesKassos'', this is [[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} Aspégix and Grodébilix]] problem in all their appearances. That... "magic potion" of theirs might contain a little bit of alcohol. Grodébilix once tries to quit because he's fallen in love, but one pep talk from Aspégix makes him quickly plunges back.
* 514 from ''WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever''. His fridge is filled with Little Prolie Beer. Used to show that 514 buys into the Whites' propaganda.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Qrow Branwen's first non-flashback appearance is in a bar somewhere, his dialogue has a noticeable slur, and when he walks away, he's visibly swaying. Later on he's seen carrying a flask, and picks a fight with an important foreign agent (and personal ally of his).
--->'''Winter:''' ''[complaining]'' He was drunk!\\
'''Glynda:''' He's ''always'' drunk.
** Qrow's drinking gets played more seriously in Volume 6, where due to [[spoiler:finding out Salem ''cannot'' [[InvincibleVillain be killed, and there is no plan to defeat her]]]], he starts drinking even worse. He spends most of the episodes "Alone in the Woods" and "The Coming Storm" passed out drunk, almost getting everyone else killed when he's not awake for a serious danger. In the volume finale, [[CharacterDevelopment he puts away his flask]].
** The same is also implied for [[AbusiveParents Marcus Black]], as his son [[TheSociopath Mercury]] said to Cinder that Qrow "smelled like my dad after a long day".
** Willow Schnee, as her daughter Weiss puts it, gradually transitioned from glasses to bottles of wine to dull the pain of her loveless marriage to the cold-hearted GoldDigger and CorruptCorporateExecutive Jaqcues Schnee. Now, she's almost completely withdrawn herself from social life and drinks vodka straight from the bottle.
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* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSectionEight'', Sixpack drinks ''a lot'', hence his codename.
* The title character of ''ComicBook/ArneAnka'', though as he insists in one of his famous quotes:
-->'''Arne Anka''': I'm not having problems with the alcohol, I'm having problems with the reality!
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'':
** In ''Asterix and Caesar's Gift'', Tremensdelirius ([[GeniusBonus a pun on "delirium tremens"]], the trembly hallucinations that are a side-effect of withdrawal in an alcoholic), like other legionaries, is awarded a plot of land by Julius Caesar for twenty years of service. But since he spent all twenty of them drunk and publicly insulted Caesar in a fit of AlcoholInducedStupidity, Caesar decides to award him the title deed to a certain little Gaulish village. Tremensdelirius sells it to an innkeeper for more wine when he's broke.
** Tremensdelirius returns in ''Asterix and the Actress'' where he has joined Pompey's forces, but his AlcoholInducedStupidity completely derails Pompey's plans when he accidentally sets both Caesar and the Gauls on Pompey's trail. At one point he is released from jail and given an alternative punishment: water corvée. He immediately pleads to be sent back to jail as he can't stand water, something his superiors are well aware of.
* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'':
** Cerebus gets smashed whenever he can, and can knock back prodigious amounts of booze, such as drinking whiskey out of full brandy snifters[[note]]that's at least double the capacity of the standard highball glass[[/note]] and scotch out of ''buckets''. In the early issues, this was usually played for laughs, but by the time ''Guys'' came around, the alcohol-based comedy is balanced by playing all the consequences of Cerebus' boozing much more seriously. For instance, Cerebus has to deal with the aftermath of very rude things he says about his former mercenary pal Bear while drunk, and in the middle of a booze pass-out, he tells [[AuthorAvatar "Dave"]] that he just wanted to die.
** Cirinist society actually enables this trope; unmarried men tend to be sequestered in bars because the state provides free room and board for them and all the alcohol they can handle. The thought process is that they will either get tired of that lifestyle, shape up, and leave to find a wife, or eventually drink themselves to death. The ''Guys'' StoryArc is set in a bar and deals with this concept in multiple fashions.
** In keeping with [[Creator/FScottFitzgerald his real-life basis]], F. Stop Kennedy can't stay away from his gin. In ''Going Home'', he spends many evenings on the boat ride with Cerebus and Jaka drunkenly soliloquizing on the roof of his cabin.
* The easiest way to find the town doctor in ''ComicBook/{{Copperhead}}'' is to check the bar for the drunkest man. He is introduced immediately after the bartender cuts him off, but goes on to competently treat a dying person and claim he's done more complex treatments while drunker.
* Ninjette in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' is initially introduced as a comic HardDrinkingPartyGirl but her heavy drinking is treated with increasing seriousness as the comic's CerebusSyndrome develops. In the "Nine Beers With Ninjette" short it's finally confirmed that she's an alcoholic and knows it.
* Inspector Gill of ''ComicBook/FishPolice''. This is even mentioned in one letters section, where a reader points out that Gill went a whole issue without drinking. Moncuse counters that by saying that the violence and sex in that issue make up for it.
* Howard Nissen from ''ComicBook/GiveMeLiberty'', after having to deal with more than fifty separatist movements in the US and his mostly right-wing secretaries actively opposing him. Moretti may also be blamed.
* As ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' progresses Renee Montoya descends further and further into depression as she experiences the violence and corruption of the Gotham City Police Department. After being involuntarily [[StalkerWithACrush outed by Two-Face]], forced to beat up a CorruptCop in order to get evidence to exonerate her falsely-implicated partner and experiencing [[CrapsackWorld the general events of Gotham City]] she begins to drink heavily and grows increasingly violent. This is noticed by her girlfriend, Daria Hernandez, and her partner, Crispus Allen, and it looks like she might actually decide to get some counseling to deal with this issue...[[FromBadToWorse when Crispus is murdered by Jim Corrigan who then]] ''[[FromBadToWorse walks on the crime]]''. When her character returns in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' the creator commentary reveals that she has become an actual alcoholic and has driven away her remaining friends and family.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'':
** Tony Stark went through a serious alcohol problem in the comics, which was treated realistically and respectfully. But thanks to NeverLiveItDown, this is the default portrayal of him in other media. In [[Film/IronMan1 the movie]], nearly every scene that's not a fight scene has him drinking an alcoholic beverage of some sort. As [[Film/IronMan2 the sequel]] was partially an adaptation of the storyline ''dealing'' with the drinking problem, it was {{Foreshadowing}}.
** Stark helped [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] (a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, Binary, Warbird, and Captain Marvel) get a handle on her drinking problem. The Ultimate version takes this to the Ultimate extreme. A prime example is this dialogue between Black Widow and Stark:
--->'''Black Widow:''' Listen... but do you really think it is wise to knock back so many vodkas before you fly that thing?\\
'''Tony Stark:''' Oh, absolutely, darling. In fact, it's really quite essential... I mean, who in their right mind's going to climb into it sober?
** Of course, there's a secondary reason for Ultimate Stark's alcoholism: he has an inoperable brain tumor that will kill him in under five years, which means he must be dealing with some massive migraines. Ultimate Stark also has brain tissue all over his body that makes him more intelligent but also causes him to feel constant agony. Wearing a special bio-suit and being plastered 24-7 helps him to cope with it.
* Several in ''ComicBook/JackChick'' tracts.
** In "Happy Hour", Jerry ends up spending most of his family's money drinking, causes his wife to die after pushing her over during an argument over his drinking, and uses the grocery money on alcohol. Naturally, while his kids think that [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead he should have died instead of their mother]], they end up forgiving him and Christianity is what he needs to get over his alcoholism.
** In "Tiny Shoes", Juan's alcoholism is the reason why he is unable to keep his promise to buy shoes for his son. After the saloon is destroyed by lightning, he decides to buy the shoes, but by then, Juanito has died of pneumonia after walking out in the rain to search for him.
** In "Mad Machine", a father and a son go to a facility described to treat alcoholism. The father's told that he'll like it there, but he says that [[WhamLine his son is the patient]].
* ''[[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Dredd Megazine]]'': Jack Point carries a hipflask of whiskey everywhere and drinks it at every available opportunity.
* Major Disaster became a serious alcoholic during his time in ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite. His drinking became so bad that his powers malfunctioned during a particularly disastrous battle with the ComicBook/{{Justice Society|OfAmerica}}, causing an explosion [[spoiler:that nearly killed Hawkgirl.]] He later became sober [[spoiler:after Manitou Raven [[HeroicSacrifice died protecting him from a bomb.]]]]
* Greg Rucka also used this trope with Tara Chace in ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry''. Don't misunderstand, Tara is a highly functional alcoholic, but she is definitely an alcoholic. At one point, she is shown having fallen asleep with an empty bottle of whiskey. Another time, she is shown drinking from another bottle of whiskey in the shower. On another occasion, she and a coworker, both already drunk, decide to break into a liquor store to get more alcohol. As much of a badass superspy as Tara may be, she clearly has a huge drinking problem. [[spoiler:She does quit drinking after she finds out she is pregnant, however.]]
* Arsenal from ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' is a recovering one. He laments hanging out in a bar in #4 even though he's only drinking soda.
* Among his many other vices (spousal abuse, rape, hypocritical religious zeal, etc.), Klara Prast's (''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'') husband was a drunk who often blew her meager wages on alcohol.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** Flash Thompson's asshole of a father was one, and Flash was too for a while. Flash was smart enough to clean up his act and get help, but sadly, ComicBook/NormanOsborn exploited this in a plot to get revenge on Spidey. At present, it seems Flash is sober, but he has [[ButtMonkey plenty more to worry about..]]
** ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson's dad was this too, and it cost him his marriage and the respect of both his daughters, although Mary Jane eventually reconciled with him a little.
** Also true of Electro's father and probably Dr. Octopus' father, the problem causing both villains to have AbusiveParents and broken homes. To be blunt, as unlucky as he is, Peter Parker had a ''much'' better history than most of his foes.
* Casey Sullivan from ''ComicBook/SullivansSluggers'' is a pretty heavy drinker, brought on by the end of his baseball career by a ball he failed to catch in 1976.
* Captain Haddock in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''. The portrayal is rather horrifying in his first appearance, ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', where his AlcoholInducedIdiocy arguably makes him more dangerous to Tintin than the baddies they're fighting. Although often the subject of jokes, readers are left in no doubt that it's an addiction and has terrible side effects not only on Haddock himself but everyone around him. It's also a running gag that he is so addicted to alcohol, he's incapable of drinking non-alcoholic drinks, especially water. Fortunately, his addiction slowly weakens during the course of the series thanks to a combination of CharacterDevelopment, horrible repercussions, and Tintin's efforts to keep him away from alcohol.
* ''ComicBook/TrakkMonsterHunter'': Trakk spent four decades with a bottle of booze in his hand after failing to save a woman in TheSixties.
* ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye: Bots have a Fuel Intake Moderator Chip which allows them to filter their fuel, switching it off allows them to get drunk, and Trailbreaker (later Trailcutter) is always drinking, from his spotlight to most of his regular appearances. In Season 2, [[spoiler: Megatron]] forcibly switches the FIM chip on with a blow to his head to ensure permanent sobriety.
* Sunfire from the ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'', who turned to drinking after an ill-advised FaceHeelTurn where he betrayed the ComicBook/XMen and joined Mr. Sinister's Marauders. When ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} finally tracks him to Tokyo, Sunfire drunkenly assumes that his former ally is there to kill him for his betrayal.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'', Pendragon cannot resist the lure of alcohol.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'', Kombo, a witch doctor, even going so far as to save bottles of whiskey from a fire (he thought a child was still inside). His alcoholism also prevents him from seeing the future in time, or at all.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', the Mothman's alcoholism gets so bad that he is eventually committed to a sanitarium. This would not have been unusual for the time period, though.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'' Tadashi is nearly always seen drunk, drinking, or asking for more sake. It's shown to have seriously damaged his family.
* Sylia Stingray from ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis 2040'' is definitely abusing ''something.'' She's seen drinking pretty often, but might have a drug habit on the side.
* [[FourStarBadass Cross Marian]] from ''Manga/DGrayMan''. Who's hinted to be [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]], given his room filled with wine bottles, and his character quote.
-->'''Cross Marian''': Sake is the best medicine.
* Hiroshi's neglective father in ''Manga/{{Domu}}: A Child's Dream''. He does nothing but lie around his apartment intoxicated and that's why his wife and son left him.
* Mr Fujisawa from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''. He is even sad that he can have his fantastic strength only if he doesn't drink.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Cana drinks thirty percent of the liquor drunk by the Fairy Tail Guild from a giant barrel. Bear in mind the guild has dozens of members and not many seem to be teetotallers.
* Roy from ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' has some elements of this. He drowns his sorrows due to being a ShellShockedVeteran haunted by the war. He was even worse before his friend Hughes cleaned him up.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** Russia, "obeying" the VodkaDrunkenski stereotype about Russians as a whole, is all but stated to be this. Subverted in that, while he is shown drinking and straight-up admits the stereotype above, he is never shown ''straight-up'' drunk.
** Russia's neighbor and former subordinate Latvia is said to be this in side materials, which state that despite looking like a teenager he's capable of drinking at least 15 vodka glasses in a single serving.
** Prussia shows signs of it, always having a beer in hand, though he may be closer to a male HardDrinkingPartyGirl.
** Denmark is the heaviest drinker of the Nordics, [[TruthInTelevision of course.]] He's seen excitedly drinking beer, and trying to get free drinks out of Iceland during his [[BigBrotherInstinct special announcement]].
** Finland has quite the fondness for alcohol as well. He [[DrowningMySorrows gets drunk]] [[BoisterousBruiser after Sweden calls off a battle with Lithuania and Poland]]. In one of his character songs, he mentions his love of beer and cider.
* Kumiko from ''Manga/KotouraSan'' [[DrowningMySorrows started to drown her sorrows]] because she really couldn't handle the fallout from her daughter's {{Telepathy}}. When she came over to her daughter's place, she had her buy copious amount of alcohol and drank them.
* Arguably Kitsune in ''Manga/LoveHina'' -- most of the time she's depicted either drinking or obviously drunk.
* Yui from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' does on occasion come home to Konata's house drunk. In the sixth episode, Nanako is forced to drive after Yui can't due to this.
* Kobayashi from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' is often seen drinking beer or sake, or suffering from a hangover. She even met Tohru [[WhatDidIDoLastNight after a night of hard drinking]].
* Sumeragi Lee Noriega from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' is a HardDrinkingPartyGirl most of the time, but is known to get specifically drunk to [[DrowningMySorrows forget her past failures]] ''very'' often. Then again she's an expy of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Misato Katsuragi]], so it's not surprising.
* There are two notable examples is ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', both of whom are [[DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]].
* [[BadassTeacher Akari]] from ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' -- Although she's ([[SenseiChan mostly]]) professional and (always) sober when working, she keeps a large stash of beer and sake at home, mostly to help her cope with living with her {{Troll}}ing ancestor [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Akane]].
* Major Misato Katsuragi in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. In the second episode, Shinji observes her fridge contains nothing but ice, relishes, and beer.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Zoro absolutely loves his sake, and the guy never seems to get drunk so no hangovers for him. In fact, one might deign to say that he loves his alcohol as much as [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Luffy loves his meat]]: [[spoiler:while training under Mihawk, he is horrified to learn that he would be denied his booze until he learned to infuse his blades with so much Haki that they'd turn completely black]].
** Even more amazing is old lady Kokoro introduced in the Water 7 arc. She is never seen without a bottle of booze in hand, so one can only assume she constantly drinks and therefore is constantly drunk. But despite this she somehow retains the ability to drive a freakin' speeding out-of-control train.
* Ms. Igarashi of ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'', who often shows up to school drunk, or at least smelling of alcohol.
* While Happosai, one of the most consistently villainous characters in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', is better known for his [[DirtyOldMan other appetites]], he's also quite a boozehound when the opportunity arises. When your students' first plan to finally kill you is to feed you several barrels of sake, then seal you up inside one and throw it and some dynamite into a cave that they then block with a ZigzagPaperTassel-wrapped boulder... and it ''works''... you've got a drinking problem.
* ''Manga/SilverPlanToRedoFromJK'': Maki's father has a drinking problem due to his debts, his sick wife (who needs expensive treatment) and his gambling problem.
* Doctor Sakezo Sado in ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' (Dr. Sane in ''Star Blazers''). He is usually seen drinking sake, and he drinks lots of it. ''Star Blazers'' [[FrothyMugsOfWater tried to cover this up by calling it spring water]].
* [[spoiler:Mr Legend]] from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' is revealed to have been this in his past, [[spoiler: [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows away]] after losing his NEXT powers.]]
* Mansam from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''. All of the ingredients of his Full Course contain alcohol.
* Quent Yaiden from ''Anime/WolfsRain''. He's probably been mentioned in a similar context before.
* In ''Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead'', Akira ''loves'' beer, not realizing how good it tasted until after he's started being able to drink it for relaxation rather than DrowningHisSorrows. His first supply runs are not for essential items like food and medicine but for more beer.
-->'''Akira:''' ''[singing]'' Suds! Brewskis! Any and every kind of BEER! Give me all your BEER! Beer, bee- ''[runs into [[HeadTurningBeauty Shizuka]]]''
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This person likes their liquor, and in large amounts. They may realize they have a problem, and [[RecoveredAddict get on]] and OffTheWagon, or they may be a DrunkenMaster, and this is merely a part of their "training", or a result of their — "skills".

RealLife alcoholics are not always lying in the gutter — sometimes they are just people who drink alone, or for the sake of drinking, but never appearing to drink to excess (due to tolerance). Commonly, alcohol is drunk due to its effects as an anti-anxiety drug. It is entirely possible that successful people may be alcoholics on the inside. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-functioning_alcoholic High-Functioning Alcoholic]] is proof that sometimes you cannot tell an alcoholic by mere appearance, and they may be in fact be in lofty professions such as [[EvilLawyerJoke law]] and [[SleazyPolitician politics]] (both highly associated with alcoholism; there are even specialized help lines and recovery networks for lawyers and judges needing help with alcohol and drug use). Hollywood, however, prefers the "[[StrawCharacter Straw Boozer]]" form: someone wandering the streets in a stupor with a bottle in their hand is more obvious and pathetic than a high-functioning alcoholic who usually stays in their room with a glass in hand contemplating.

Many fictional alcoholics experience PinkElephants — another trope that only loosely touches on the reality.

* Sumeragi Lee Noriega from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' is a HardDrinkingPartyGirl most of the time, but is known to get specifically drunk to [[DrowningMySorrows forget her past failures]] ''very'' often. Then again she's an expy of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Misato Katsuragi]], so it's not surprising.
* Quent Yaiden from ''Anime/WolfsRain''. He's probably been mentioned in a similar context before.
%%* Yoshiyuki's father from ''Literature/DeepLove''.
* Major Misato Katsuragi in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. In the second episode, Shinji observes her fridge contains nothing but ice, relishes, and beer.

* Arguably Kitsune in ''Manga/LoveHina'' -- most of the time she's depicted either drinking or obviously drunk.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Cana drinks thirty percent of the liquor drunk by the Fairy Tail Guild from a giant barrel. Bear in mind the guild has dozens of members and not many seem to be teetotallers.
* Hiroshi's neglective father in ''Manga/{{Domu}}: A Child's Dream''. He does nothing but lie around his apartment intoxicated and that's why his wife and son left him.
* In ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'' Tadashi is nearly always seen drunk, drinking, or asking for more sake. It's shown to have seriously damaged his family.
* Mr Fujisawa from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''. He is even sad that he can have his fantastic strength only if he doesn't drink.
* In ''Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead'', Akira ''loves'' beer, not realizing how good it tasted until after he's started being able to drink it for relaxation rather than DrowningHisSorrows. His first supply runs are not for essential items like food and medicine but for more beer.
-->'''Akira:''' ''[singing]'' Suds! Brewskis! Any and every kind of BEER! Give me all your BEER! Beer, bee- ''[runs into [[HeadTurningBeauty Shizuka]]]''

* [[FourStarBadass Cross Marian]] from ''Manga/DGrayMan''. Who's hinted to be [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]], given his room filled with wine bottles, and his character quote.
-->'''Cross Marian''': Sake is the best medicine.
* [[BadassTeacher Akari]] from ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret''-- Although she's ([[SenseiChan mostly]]) professional and (always) sober when working, she keeps a large stash of beer and sake at home, mostly to help her cope with living with her {{Troll}}ing ancestor [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Akane]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Zoro absolutely loves his sake, and the guy never seems to get drunk so no hangovers for him. In fact, one might deign to say that he loves his alcohol as much as [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Luffy loves his meat]]: [[spoiler:while training under Mihawk, he is horrified to learn that he would be denied his booze until he learned to infuse his blades with so much haki that they'd turn completely black]].
** Even more amazing is old lady Kokoro introduced in the Water 7 arc. She is never seen without a bottle of booze in hand, so one can only assume she constantly drinks and therefore is constantly drunk. But despite this she somehow retains the ability to drive a freakin' speeding out-of-control train.
* Ms. Igarashi of ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'', who often shows up to school drunk, or at least smelling of alcohol.
* Roy from ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' has some elements of this. He drowns his sorrows due to being a ShellShockedVeteran haunted by the war. He was even worse before his friend Hughes cleaned him up.
* Kobayashi from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' is often seen drinking beer or sake, or suffering from a hangover. She even met Tohru [[WhatDidIDoLastNight after a night of hard drinking]].
* Yui from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' does on occasion come home to Konata's house drunk. In the sixth episode, Nanako is forced to drive after Yui can't due to this.
* Doctor Sakezo Sado in ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' (Dr. Sane in ''Star Blazers''). He is usually seen drinking sake, and he drinks lots of it. ''Star Blazers'' [[FrothyMugsOfWater tried to cover this up by calling it spring water]].
* Kumiko from ''Manga/KotouraSan'' [[DrowningMySorrows started to drown her sorrows]] because she really couldn't handle the fallout from her daughter's {{Telepathy}}. When she came over to her daughter's place, she had her buy copious amount of alcohol and drank them.
* ''Manga/SilverPlanToRedoFromJK'': Maki's father has a drinking problem due to his debts, his sick wife (who needs expensive treatment) and his gambling problem.

%%* Daniel Cross in ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedTheFall''.

%%* Katchoo in ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise''.
* Captain Haddock in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''. The portrayal is rather horrifying in his first appearance, ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', where his AlcoholInducedIdiocy arguably makes him more dangerous to Tintin than the baddies they're fighting. Although often the subject of jokes, readers are left in no doubt that it's an addiction and has terrible side effects not only on Haddock himself but everyone around him. It's also a running gag that he is so addicted to alcohol, he's incapable of drinking non-alcoholic drinks, especially water. Fortunately, his addiction slowly weakens during the course of the series thanks to a combination of CharacterDevelopment, horrible repercussions, and Tintin's efforts to keep him away from alcohol.

* ''[[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Dredd Megazine]]'': Jack Point carries a hipflask of whiskey everywhere and drinks it at every available opportunity.
* As ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' progresses Renee Montoya descends further and further into depression as she experiences the violence and corruption of the Gotham City Police Department. After being involuntarily [[StalkerWithACrush outed by Two-Face]], forced to beat up a CorruptCop in order to get evidence to exonerate her falsely-implicated partner and experiencing [[CrapsackWorld the general events of Gotham City]] she begins to drink heavily and grows increasingly violent. This is noticed by her girlfriend, Daria Hernandez, and her partner, Crispus Allen, and it looks like she might actually decide to get some counseling to deal with this issue...[[FromBadToWorse when Crispus is murdered by Jim Corrigan who then]] ''[[FromBadToWorse walks on the crime]]''. When her character returns in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' the creator commentary reveals that she has become an actual alcoholic and has driven away her remaining friends and family.
* Greg Rucka also used this trope with Tara Chace in ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry''. Don't misunderstand, Tara is a highly functional alcoholic, but she is definitely an alcoholic. At one point, she is shown having fallen asleep with an empty bottle of whiskey. Another time, she is shown drinking from another bottle of whiskey in the shower. On another occasion, she and a coworker, both already drunk, decide to break into a liquor store to get more alcohol. As much of a badass superspy as Tara may be, she clearly has a huge drinking problem. [[spoiler:She does quit drinking after she finds out she is pregnant, however.]]
* Often in combination with AnAesop in the stories of Creator/WilhelmBusch.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'':
** In ''Asterix and Caesar's Gift'', Tremensdelirius ([[GeniusBonus a pun on "delirium tremens"]], the trembly hallucinations that are a side-effect of withdrawal in an alcoholic), like other legionaries, is awarded a plot of land by Julius Caesar for twenty years of service. But since he spent all twenty of them drunk and publicly insulted Caesar in a fit of AlcoholInducedStupidity, Caesar decides to award him the title deed to a certain little Gaulish village. Tremensdelirius sells it to an innkeeper for more wine when he's broke.
** Tremensdelirius returns in ''Asterix and the Actress'' where he has joined Pompey's forces, but his AlcoholInducedStupidity completely derails Pompey's plans when he accidentally sets both Caesar and the Gauls on Pompey's trail. At one point he is released from jail and given an alternative punishment: water corvée. He immediately pleads to be sent back to jail as he can't stand water, something his superiors are well aware of.
* Inspector Gill of ''ComicBook/FishPolice''. This is even mentioned in one letters section, where a reader points out that Gill went a whole issue without drinking. Moncuse counters that by saying that the violence and sex in that issue make up for it.
* Arsenal from ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' is a recovering one. He laments hanging out in a bar in #4 even though he's only drinking soda.
* Among his many other vices (spousal abuse, rape, hypocritical religious zeal, etc.), Klara Prast's (''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'') husband was a drunk who often blew her meager wages on alcohol.
* Major Disaster became a serious alcoholic during his time in ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite. His drinking became so bad that his powers malfunctioned during a particularly disastrous battle with the ComicBook/{{Justice Society|OfAmerica}}, causing an explosion [[spoiler:that nearly killed Hawkgirl.]] He later became sober [[spoiler:after Manitou Raven [[HeroicSacrifice died protecting him from a bomb.]]]]
* Ninjette in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' is initially introduced as a comic HardDrinkingPartyGirl but her heavy drinking is treated with increasing seriousness as the comic's CerebusSyndrome develops. In the "Nine Beers With Ninjette" short it's finally confirmed that she's an alcoholic and knows it.
* Several in ''ComicBook/JackChick'' tracts.
** In "Happy Hour", Jerry ends up spending most of his family's money drinking, causes his wife to die after pushing her over during an argument over his drinking, and uses the grocery money on alcohol. Naturally, while his kids think that [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead he should have died instead of their mother]], they end up forgiving him and Christianity is what he needs to get over his alcoholism.
** In "Tiny Shoes", Juan's alcoholism is the reason why he is unable to keep his promise to buy shoes for his son. After the saloon is destroyed by lightning, he decides to buy the shoes, but by then, Juanito has died of pneumonia after walking out in the rain to search for him.
** In "Mad Machine", a father and a son go to a facility described to treat alcoholism. The father's told that he'll like it there, but he says that [[WhamLine his son is the patient]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'', Pendragon cannot resist the lure of alcohol.
* ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye: Bots have a Fuel Intake Moderator Chip which allows them to filter their fuel, switching it off allows them to get drunk, and Trailbreaker (later Trailcutter) is always drinking, from his spotlight to most of his regular appearances. In Season 2 [[spoiler: Megatron]] forcibly switches the FIM chip on with a blow to his head to ensure permanent sobriety.
* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'':
** Cerebus gets smashed whenever he can, and can knock back prodigious amounts of booze, such as drinking whiskey out of full brandy snifters[[note]]that's at least double the capacity of the standard highball glass[[/note]] and scotch out of ''buckets''. In the early issues, this was usually played for laughs, but by the time ''Guys'' came around, the alcohol-based comedy is balanced by playing all the consequences of Cerebus' boozing much more seriously. For instance, Cerebus has to deal with the aftermath of very rude things he says about his former mercenary pal Bear while drunk, and in the middle of a booze pass-out, he tells [[AuthorAvatar "Dave"]] that he just wanted to die.
** Cirinist society actually enables this trope; unmarried men tend to be sequestered in bars because the state provides free room and board for them and all the alcohol they can handle. The thought process is that they will either get tired of that lifestyle, shape up, and leave to find a wife, or eventually drink themselves to death. The ''Guys'' StoryArc is set in a bar and deals with this concept in multiple fashions.
** In keeping with [[Creator/FScottFitzgerald his real-life basis]], F. Stop Kennedy can't stay away from his gin. In ''Going Home'', he spends many evenings on the boat ride with Cerebus and Jaka drunkenly soliloquizing on the roof of his cabin.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'', Kombo, a witch doctor, even going so far as to save bottles of whiskey from a fire (he thought a child was still inside). His alcoholism also prevents him from seeing the future in time, or at all.
* The title character of ''ComicBook/ArneAnka'', though as he insists in one of his famous quotes:
-->'''Arne Anka''': I'm not having problems with the alcohol, I'm having problems with the reality!
* The easiest way to find the town doctor in ''ComicBook/{{Copperhead}}'' is to check the bar for the drunkest man. He is introduced immediately after the bartender cuts him off, but goes on to competently treat a dying person and claim he's done more complex treatments while drunker.
* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSectionEight'', Sixpack drinks ''a lot'', hence his codename.

* ''ComicStrip/HiAndLois'' has Thurston, next-door neighbor to the Flagstons, whose fondness for the bottle has earned him the nickname "Thirsty".
%%* ''ComicStrip/AndyCapp''.

* Ratigan's henchman Bartholomew from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. In his short amount of screentime he's already drunk the first time we see him and he's sad which he runs out of his beverage, then when Ratigan pours champagne into his fountain he immediately runs over to drink from it, ultimately his intoxicated state leads to his demise-- he accidentally calls Ratigan a rat (which Ratigan ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'') and is fed to his pet cat.
* King Stephen's minstrel from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' while entertaining and serving King Stephen and Hubert he sneaks drinks of their wine, and sneaks more any chance he gets. It gets to the point where he fills his lute with the wine and eventually passes out from intoxication.

* Music/XJapan. Almost everyone out of the band (aside from vocalist [[Music/ToshimitsuDeyama Toshi]], who by almost all accounts CantHoldHisLiquor) is legendary for their alcohol problems: late guitarist [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] died in part from his alcoholism in a drunken accidental suicide, bandleader/drummer/pianist [[Music/YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] is well known for being The Alcoholic (and a rather destructive one and a repeat DrunkDriver before he seemed to have learned his lesson about it), ex-bassist [[Music/TaijiSawada Taiji]] was a documented, confessed alcoholic and possibly OffTheWagon around the events of his death, and rhythm/second guitarist [[Music/TomoakiIshizuka Pata]] is sadly well known for being an alcoholic - and almost died in 2016 as a result of alcoholism-induced liver and colon damage, delaying the band's album debut and tour.
* Benjamin Burnley of Music/{{Breaking Benjamin}} is currently a recovering alcoholic as of 2020, and revealed in a past interview that he wanted to "drink [himself] to death". He drank so much so that the band had to take a hiatus in 2010 so he could address his numerous health issues. The album "Dear Agony" as well as the eponymous song, is about the health problems and regret that came as a result of Ben's earlier drinking issues-- it is also the first album to have been written without the use of alcohol. Benjamin says that he regrets ever drinking a drop of alcohol and is victim to Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome due to his past excessive drinking.

* The unnamed subject of Richard Thompson's [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism bitter]], [[TearJerker brilliant]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-noSz2XsIY "God Loves A Drunk."]] Notable for the balance of the portrayal--while drunkenness itself is portrayed very harshly, the eponymous drunk is treated quite sympathetically and gets to do his own lashing out against the banal nature of the life he's escaping.

* Wrestling/JakeRoberts: During his original run in the World Wrestling Federation, substance abuse problems began to mount for "The Snake," and came to a head ''after'' he left the organization. By 1996, he returned, having cleaned up and was now depicting himself as a born-again Christian who had left the bottle behind. A feud was created around his newfound sobriety, with Wrestling/JerryLawler playing the shameless antagonist. Lawler – then a mean-spirited, arrogant heel – constantly mocked Roberts and alleged that he had shown up at events under the influence. Roberts eventually had enough and [[PlayingDrunk eventually came to the arena "drunk"]] to lower Lawler's guard.

* Keni'chiro Arai of Wrestling/DragonGate. His initial gimmick was a hardcore fan of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team who'd drink heavily at the games. The drunk part of his gimmick slowly disappeared - then he went through a FaceHeelTurn, dropped the baseball fan part of it and became a full time alcoholic who carried bottles of beer and sake to the ring with him.

* Barry Cryer is seen as this by everyone else on ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue''. He seldom mentions it himself.
-->'''Jack''': One of the judges for this year's Beer Festival was our very own Barry Cryer. Barry sampled several dozens of different lagers, a variety of beers, and one or two champagnes, and as such, never made it to the festival.

* For the first two scenes (the last two, chronologically) of ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong'', Mary Flynn is constantly either drunk, drinking, or wishing that she were.

%%* Doc Delaney, in William Inge's ''Come Back Little Sheba''.
* The title character of Music/PDQBach's ''The Stoned Guest'', whose voice type is described as "basso blotto."

%%* Dodge in ''Theatre/BuriedChild''.

* Davy Zlatic in ''Theatre/{{Bandstand}}'' was one of the soldiers who liberated Dachau; now he drinks heavily to try to forget the things he's seen.
-->'''Davy''': I know there's not enough whiskey in the world to forget what I've seen. But I figure, I owe it to myself to try.

** Qrow's drinking gets played more seriously in volume 6, where due to [[spoiler:finding out Salem ''cannot'' [[InvincibleVillain be killed, and there is no plan to defeat her]]]], he starts drinking even worse. He spends most of the episodes "Alone in the Woods" and "The Coming Storm" passed out drunk, almost getting everyone else killed when he's not awake for a serious danger. In the volume finale, [[CharacterDevelopment he puts away his flask]].

* 514 from ''WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever''. His fridge is filled with Little Prolie Beer. Used to show that 514 buys into the Whites' propaganda.
* In ''WebAnimation/LesKassos'', this is [[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} Aspégix and Grodébilix]] problem in all their appearances. That... "magic potion" of theirs might contain a little bit of alcohol. Grodébilix once tries to quit because he's fallen in love, but one pep talk from Aspégix makes him quickly plunges back.
* Boomstick of ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', being the stereotypical southern American redneck, is portrayed as this. Many of Boomstick's {{Noodle Incident}}s, if not ''all'' of them, has been attributed to him handing Wiz his beer and going "Here, hold this." Of course, the man does have limits - in a preview video for [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Amy Rose]], Wiz lied to Boomstick about that [Boomstick] has the ability to drink as much alcohol as he wants only for the man to lose all of that and everything else all over the floor during the preview video for Amy's opponent, [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim Ramona Flowers]].

* In ''Webcomic/SwordCatPrincess'', Officer Jack Dawson is often seen [[http://www.swordcatprincess.thecomicseries.com/comics/29/ drinking at Zora DaiQuirides bar]]. He sometimes drinks while on duty. He has bottles of alcohol around his apartment, [[http://www.swordcatprincess.thecomicseries.com/comics/95/ including a 40 of Pabst]] in his living room.

* Kyotoshi Lypha from ''Webcomic/{{Inhuman}}'', starting after his parents were killed in a planet-wide massacre. His fridge contains only vodka and a clean, folded towel.

* ''Webcomic/OutThere'': One of the most common settings is Sherry's bar, but only Clayton fits the trope. Miriam is more accurately described as a HardDrinkingPartyGirl, and none of the other characters seem particularly dedicated to the task.
%%* ''ComicStrip/CaptnCrazy'' and Hugo, the rat. Played for laughs.

* ''Webcomic/NoNeedForBushido'' has Ken, who, after running out of sake in the middle of a battle, decides to go maul an enemy camp and take their supply. He then proceeds to do this several more times until he get so drunk he falls unconscious, and when he regains consciousness, he finds he's run out yet again and goes out for some more.
* ''Webcomic/ElfBlood'' has Shanna, who was constantly depicted drinking alcohol in the earlier sections of the comic. She doesn't appear to suffer any deleterious effects from her condition though, or at least none that have been shown yet.
* Lyle Gabriel from ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' is nearly always drunk and usually blitzed well beyond the point of coherence. It gets less comedic as time goes on; later strips depict him as being unable to function if he doesn't drink constantly.
* Taisei from ''Webcomic/{{Sakana}}'' is "drunk 50 % of the time". When having a hangover is also pretty much the only time [[FunPersonified he]] is depressed.
%%* Decoy Octopus in ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''.
* Nitrous Blight of ''Webcomic/ZokushoComics'' could head this way if he's not careful. He is a powerful telepath and alcohol is one of the few ways to dull the volume of the thoughts of others.
* Graham in ''Webcomic/WizardSchool'' is abducted to the Academy after a drunken bender -- and is immediately [[http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1307 asking small children to summon alcohol for him.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Roxy Lalonde spends the first three parts of Act 6 hammered. And she's a teenager. By the fifth part, she admits that she had a problem.
* ''[[Webcomic/{{Starslip}} Starslip Crisis]]'' has Cutter Edgewise, ''space pirate!''. Well, ''former'' space pirate, anyway. He's ''nearly always'' at least semi-drunk, though he's still likely to be more level-headed than Vanderbeam.
* Detective Noir of ''Webcomic/HeroMaterial'' drinks nigh-constantly out of his flask. [[FunctionalAddict He never gets too drunk to do his job, though.]]
* ''Webcomic/MuhPhoenix'': Tony Stark. Emma Frost as well.
-->'''Iron Man''': Like Mama Stark always said, you're never too drunk to fly a giant robot.
* In ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'', Adriana bases one of her in-character actions on "Aunt Felicia after two bourbons". Her brother Bill says that's a mean comment, but a true one.
* Father Abaddon in ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak''.
-->"Father Abaddon, have you been drinking?"\\
"I've never stopped."
%%* [[TheCheerleader Billie]] and [[LovingBully Ruth]] from ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''. It is very much PlayedForDrama
* Golgo in ''Webcomic/RiceBoy''. PlayedForDrama and portrayed surprisingly realistically, although he's addicted to the [[FantasticDrug black spirit]] made by an apothecary, which is much more addictive than normal ethanol and ''will'' make you evil. Also, [=TOE=] and Calabash drink whiskey as if it was water.
* Baek Seol-A of the Korean Webcomic ''Webcomic/FlutteringFeelings'' will empty the pockets of many of a man sad enough to take her drinking.
* Roomie in ''Webcomic/GoGetARoomie'' is initially depicted as a HardDrinkingPartyGirl, but as the strip goes on it becomes increasingly clear that her drinking is pathological.
* A major character in ''Webcomic/MountainTime'' is Chimneyfoot, who [[http://mountaincomics.com/comic/mt601/ drinks much more than humanly possible]] (owing at least in part to the fact that he isn't human).
* [[VideoGame/PunchOut King Hippo]] in ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'' has been DrowningHisSorrows for a ''long'' time thanks to a combination of the horrible things he'd witnessed toward the end of [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Mother Brain's]] [[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster reign of terror,]] and the fact that since that time, his tenure as a villain and general oafishness has made him unable to hold down a job or any measure of respect for long. When pressed on why he was being so helpful and escorting Alex to the Queen of Videoland:
--> '''King Hippo''': Okay, so it might have been less good citizenship... and more the nine hundred bucks she offered to grab you and Marle. That's like ''nine hundred one dollar beers.'' '''That's almost enough for one sitting!'''
* In ''Webcomic/{{Crankrats}}'', Jack, the not-quite-PsychoElectro with DarkAndTroubledPast like you wouldn't believe. Doesn't help that his job is [[TheBartender serving drinks]].
* ''Webcomic/SchwarzKreuz'', another webcomic with [[UrbanFantasy noir-fantastic]] vibe, has an even more DarkAndTroubledPast-addled male lead, [[TrenchCoatBrigade Nick]], who drinks because he's a [[VegetarianVampire vampire]] and [[YouHateWhatYouAre hates the fact]].
* Merno from ''Webcomic/DragonSanctuary'' is one of the DrowningTheirSorrows variety. He's seen so much tragedy and trauma across his life that it's easier for him to be drunk than deal with it sober and head-on. Not that it stops him from joking about how much he intakes.
* Apollo from ''Webcomic/TheGuideToAHealthyRelationship'' insists that he's only drinking for fun and could stop anytime. Except he never does stop. The few times he's in the process of sobering up, he's miserable, and while his friends seem to be aware that he has a problem, they tend to rather enable than care to help him.

* Dabchick, the main character of the [[WebVideo/{{Dabchick}} series of the same name]], frequently gets drunk at restaurants and parties, resulting in slurred speech, falling over, and vomiting.
* Glitch, of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', who's obviously alcoholic, and a sophomore in high school. He blames his parents for all his problems.

* Alcoholism is a defining trait of the ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour's'' Frank and Sadie Doyle. Every episode opens with them clinking their glasses in a toast, they frequently comment themselves on being some level of inebriated, have a walk-in liquor cabinet, and when given three wishes by a djinni, wish only for alcohol and scoff at the idea that the ironic twist to that wish is they've been given more liquor than they can possibly drink.
-->'''Frank''': Who cares what evil lurks in the hearts of man?\\
'''Sadie''': Unless evil's carrying the martini tray, darling. ''(clink)''
* Creator/SamAndMickey portray Franchise/{{Barbie}} as constantly wasted.
* In "The Ballad of G.I. Joe", at Franchise/GIJoe headquarters, while everyone else is about various after-hours pursuits and worries, Snow Job's simply "drinkin' beers".
-->(I heard he likes to drink quite a bit...)

* WebVideo/TheCriticalDrinker is commonly depicted as a drunk Scotsman (including his thumbnail). Subverted with Jordan himself who is mostly sober.

* ''Blog/GaryLandlordOfTheFlies'': Gary is said to drink frequently, which leads to a number of his less coherent and amicable moments.

* WebVideo/OzzyManReviews: Eddie Stark the Australian Dad from ''Eddie Stark, Australian Dad'' (GagDub of ''Game of Thrones'') has a drinking problem. Most characters keep telling him he drinks too much. Eddie is in denial and says that a man needs a drink and that he has two beers, tops. However, it affects his work and his relationships suffer because of his drinking, too.

* ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo'': Dio Brando during the Phantom Blood spoof, which is an exaggeration of Dio tasting alcohol and enjoying it during the scene where he tests the Stone Mask on a test subject.
* BreakoutCharacter Ciara, of ''WebVideo/TheTRYChannel'', has a reputation for this. In one episode, Brian brings it up ("It's what they say in the [Website/YouTube] comments."):
-->Let's just put that to rest. If that were true, I would have a lower tolerance, because my liver would be '''''fucked'''''.

* The eponymous Paul Powers of ''WebVideo/ThePaulPowersShow'', at least in a couple of videos. Notably, he seems to drink a lot more when he is alone and doesn't have a "special guest."
* Danielbeast in ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' became an alcoholic at one point, as a result of trying to drown his sorrows.
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Linkara portrays the already discussed Ultimate Iron Man (and at times the regular one, when [[DudeNotFunny it's not wrong to do so]]) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2NXW1yV6o with a drunkard voice that's utterly hilarious.]] Iron Man, when he's reading from something out of the "Ultimate" series, is given (...relatively) exaggerated drunken mannerisms at all times. When it came time to read Iron Man's first appearance "Secret Origins Month", he ''kept'' the voice, built on the reasoning that it took place ''before'' the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline.
* During her review of ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'', due to not being impressed with how bored the voice actor of Zeus sounded, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's impersonation of him made him sound ridiculously drunk instead. She herself is nearly always seen with a bottle of beer.
* The host of [[WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow The Music Video Show]] is shown passed out drunk in episode 24 and is the reason why he got through three Chris Brown videos in a row.
** When discussing Black Out's "Video Games", he claims the band's name is something he would do when he is drinking.
** [[https://youtu.be/OEkC42_5iSo One episode]] is dedicated to the host doing a [[Main/DrinkingGame Drinking Game]]. He gets hammered in less than two minutes.
* Harley Morenstein of ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'' rarely appears without a bottle of Jack in hand. One time, he and the others made breakfast with alcohol.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': The Critic is a complete and utter lightweight, but still drinks a lot. Malcolm, Tamara, and Rachel (the characters) all spend their off-time getting hammered as well. Even Santa Christ has been lampshaded to have drinking issues, while mother and daughter Aunt Despair and Hyper admit they're always drunk.
* ''WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' has a bar for setting. The host has replaced his book with AGlassOfChianti.
* All of the main cast of ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' has some drinking problem or another. Donnie leaves empty scotch glasses around his office, Rebecca can't handle caffeine but can drink an Italian mafioso under the table. Quinn and Karl are Irish and German ex-spies respectively, and treat drinking without each other as SeriousBusiness. Tacoma is the only one remotely reluctant to get drunk and even he caves pretty fast to the idea. Of course, all of them have {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s and are trying to [[DrowningMySorrows drown their sorrows]].
* In the "Ask Jack" video from the ''WebVideo/TheHorriblySlowMurdererWithTheExtremelyInefficientWeapon'' series, Jack reveals that the reason he is still fat despite running from the Ginosaji for years is because he's developed eating and drinking problems to cope with the insanity. During the segment he's trying to eat a plate of spaghetti and drink a glass of wine while the Ginosaji is still slowly beating him to death with a spoon.

* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople''

* Captain Haddock in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''. The portrayal is horrifying in his first appearance -- ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', where he's arguably more dangerous to Tintin than the baddies they're fighting. Although often the subject of jokes, readers are left in no doubt that it's an addiction and has terrible side effects not only on Haddock himself but everyone around him. It's also a running gag that he is so addicted to alcohol, he's incapable of drinking non-alcoholic drinks, especially water. Fortunately, his addiction slowly weakens during the course of the series thanks to a combination of CharacterDevelopment, horrible repercussions, and Tintin's efforts to keep him away from alcohol.

* During her review of ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'', due to not being impressed with how bored the voice actor of Zeus sounded, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's impersonation of him made him sound ridiculously drunk instead. She herself is nearly always seen with a bottle of beer.

* Creator/DeanMartin used to do his act seemingly drunk with a glass of whisky (usually claimed to have actually been apple juice, though stories vary) in his hand, but while he wasn't a teetotaler, he wasn't the lush he pretended to be either. The HBO movie "Rat Pack" lampshades this rather hilariously: the camera pans up the side of the Sands hotel, showing glimpses of what's going on in everyone's room: Sammy has a girl and a drink, Peter has a girl and a drink, Joey has a girl and a drink, Frank has ''two'' girls and a drink ... and at the very top is Martin, sitting in bed alone watching TV, drinking a glass of ''milk''.

* Screamin' Jay Hawkin's breakout hit "I Put a Spell On You" was intended to be a love ballad, but Hawkins (and the rest of the band) were so drunk when they recorded it that it came out as ... well ... just [[StalkerWithACrush listen to it]]. When it became a hit, Hawkins had to teach himself how to sound like that when ''sober''.

[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Cass (full name Rose of Sharon Cassidy, but [[BerserkButton you'd better not call her that]]), a traveling merchant who you first meet drinking excessive amounts of whiskey at a bar. Though that was because her caravan had been destroyed, she says she's been drinking a lot for a long time; she mentions that she had to stop trying to transport alcoholic beverages to sell because she would arrive with nothing but empty bottles. Given the setting, it's possible her tolerance for it is due to a mutation.
* Conway, the first player character in ''VideoGame/KentuckyRouteZero'', is revealed to be a former alcoholic, and he's tempted to fall off the wagon during the course of the game. [[spoiler:He falls back into it in Act 3]].
* In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'' it is revealed that former deputy police chief Bravura is a recovering alcoholic, and he offers to take the protagonist to meetings with him. It isn't made clear if he is merely misreading Payne's survivor's guilt or if Max actually has a problem.
* In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'', Max has become a full blown alcoholic. About halfway into the game it becomes one of Max's main goals to quit drinking.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', you can make any Sim this, though due to [[FrothyMugsOfWater the substitution of "juice" and "nectar"]] for alcohol, it takes either a fix names mod or imagination. That said, it's easy enough to make your character do nothing but drink. Unfortunately, as the game [[GoodBadBugs doesn't have any effect for this]], you will need to accomplish symptoms via personality traits. Some good ones are Party Animal (which has a lot of drinking-related wants), Dramatic (which allows "Fake Passing Out,") Hot-Headed or Grumpy (for the violent drunk), and Inappropriate or Insane (bad behavior) or Clumsy (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin). Giving them the Nectar Maker or Mixologist skills also helps.
** In ''VideoGame/TheSims4'', as of the ''Get Famous'' expansion, it's possible for famous Sims to become addicted to "juice" by getting the Juice Enthusiast fame quirk. Sims with this quirk slip into foul moods if they haven't had any juice in some time.
** In ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' Sims with the Drunkard flaw must frequently drink alcohol. If they don't within a few days they will get a negative buff.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', it's possible to make your player character one, granted that you have enough gold for the stronger alcohol items. If you're a Blood Elf, you don't even need the gold -- there's a location close to your starting zone, that after a quest you can undertake around level 10, gives weak but free alcohol.
* Mr. Galloway of ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' who is also arguably the coolest teacher in the game.
* Part of the first quest in ''VideoGame/FableII'' is returning a drunk's lost bottle. The 'good choice' is to give it to his wife, who's trying to make him quit, while the 'evil' one is giving it back to him.
* Granin in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. To the point that he divulges Sokolov's location to Snake while intoxicated.
* Gen of ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'' is a drunken samurai. His 'win' animation after the battles show him drinking...and drinking...and drinking. You even recruit him from a bar in a backwater region. Sadly justified, as he's the SoleSurvivor of a devastated region [[DrowningMySorrows drinking to forget]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'':
** Players could speculate that the jug of sake hanging from Auron's belt was well used.
** Jecht is a better example: Tidus mentions having trouble remembering a time when he ''wasn't'' drunk. This apparently ended when he stabbed a shoopuf in a drunken panic (he thought it was a fiend); after Braska was forced to give the animal's handler all their money, Jecht never drank again. (You can find a recording of the aftermath of the incident around the same area where it happened.)
* In the first ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' game, there was Farnham the Drunk, a comedic character who actually had a tragic side to him; he had to watch most of his friends get slaughtered during a raid in the dungeons. In the sequel, there's Geglash in Act II. While he is played for comedy, he is also an experienced fighter, and Atma notes that he has been drinking more than usual since the 'troubles' began.
* Kenshin Uesugi in ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors''. Depending on who you ask, [[TruthInTelevision real life as well!]]
* The [[BoisterousBruiser mouthy]] Demoman of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' seems to be [[DrunkenMaster perpetually drunk on the battlefield]]. His default melee weapon is even a [[GrievousBottleyHarm scrumpy bottle!]] Interestingly, the comics imply that he's a perfectly reasonable guy while sober... [[HilariousInHindsight which means that he's]] ''[[HilariousInHindsight always]]'' [[HilariousInHindsight drunk off his ass in-game.]]
-->'''Demoman''': ''[on sudden death]'' Thankfully, I already don't remember this.
* Sleip of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion''. She doesn't fit into the AlwaysFemale versions at all -- she's young, she's cutesy, she's MsFanservice, and she's ''very'' resistant to the idea of sobering up.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
*** Oghren, both in the main game and the expansion ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]''. His alcoholism seems to have started as a way of DrowningMySorrows. He used to be a renowned warrior and his wife was named a Paragon, the greatest honour a dwarf can ever achieve. When she left him and set off into the Deep Roads, however, things went downhill. By the time you meet him he can still fight well enough, but he's the laughing stock off the city and under the layers of bloodthirstiness and bluster he knows it.
*** Depending on the choices you make in the game, [[spoiler:Alistair]] may become one as well.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' gives us [[JerkassWoobie Fenris]], who spends his free time drinking alone. Given his [[DarkAndTroubledPast backstory]], you can't really blame him.
** Dorian in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' repeatedly refers to drinking or [[INeedAFreakingDrink needing to get drunk]]. It's implied he picked it up from [[AlcoholicParent his mother]].
* Possibly Bo Rai Cho from ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. It's never actually confirmed that he has an addiction, but seeing as he ''invented'' Drunken Boxing and can use vomit as a weapon during a fight, it is possible. Not to mention the fact that his name is derived from ''borracho'', the Spanish word for "drunk".
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
** Gensokyo's resident drunkards, [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Suika Ibuki]] and [[BoisterousBruiser Yuugi Hoshiguma]]. Official manga shows pretty much all of Gensokyo is quite fond of the sauce.
** And, to an extent, the series's creator ZUN as well. Pictures of him are hard to find. Pictures of him ''without'' some form of alcohol are nonexistent.
* Jim Raynor in ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', in reaction to what he feels is his role in Kerrigan being turned into the Queen of Blades. Matt Horner apparently has to clean up after him a lot.
* The eponymous character of ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''. Conker outright starts the game drunk (and he lazes around for a while until he sobers up).
* Grayson Hunt of ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' is a revenge-obsessed drunkard. The player can decide to take Ishi's threat to kill him if he starts again to heart, by shooting the bottles of alcohol you see.. or taking a drink, and getting point bonuses for killing enemies while drunk.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'':
** The one thing that all of the dwarfs have in common is that they "need alcohol to get through the working day". Almost everything else will vary between them (including what they like, what they hate, their personality traits, etc.), but alcohol is their default drink of choice (though, that said, the ''type'' of alcohol that they like best also varies).
** Dwarves are ''born'' alcoholic: dwarven babies drink booze instead of breast-milk. It's even affected their physiology, a deep look at the raw files reveals dwarven livers are enormous, which lets them handle a lot more booze. Or rather, not die from the amount of booze they already drink; almost every other sentient species in the game would die from alcohol poisoning with those amounts.
** Other sentient creatures don't go out of the way to drink alcohol, unless they have the "doesn't care about anything anymore" quality from repeated, relentless trauma. If that's the case, [[DrowningMySorrows they'll match the dwarves drink for drink]].
* Baofu from ''VideoGame/Persona2'' always enjoyed tipping a few back. With him, alcohol is integrated as a philosophy and as a way to know a real person as "the truth can be seen in a shot glass".
-->'''Baofu''': Hey Maya, why don't you try to become the best wine?\\
'''Ulala''': What do you mean?\\
'''Baofu''': The best wines are those that are treated well, but ultimately become spoiled or bad if misused over time. It's the same with humans.
* The PlayerCharacter in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' is an AmnesiacHero detective who spent his first three days in town on a chaotic bender instead of solving the murder he was called in for, and as a result [[WhatDidIDoLastNight not only can he not remember his name or profession]], even the concept of money temporarily eludes him. Half of the game is spent solving the mystery of who you are and why you became like this.
* The town doctor in ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' was such a habitual drunkard that in an early puzzle, a prescription written by him had to be looked at ''through the bottom of a whiskey glass'' in order to become legible.
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2: Off The Record'' has [[spoiler:Chuck Greene]] reduced to alcoholism after [[spoiler:the death of Katey]]. He carries a bottle of whiskey everywhere, as well as Molotov Cocktails made from some old liquor bottles from his previous binges, and his boss theme is actually called "Firewater".
* Generals and admirals in ''VideoGame/NapoleonTotalWar'' start to drink heavily if left idle for too long, which has of course increasingly negative consequences on their troops' morale and their own leadership capacities.
%%* In ''VideoGame/TheNovelist'' this is one possible outcome for Dan.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'' presents this as the fate of all wizards. Being that you, and everyone, gets mana from [[BoozeBasedBuff booze]], they presumably needed to get absolutely tanked on a regular basis. Even their formidable magic prowess couldn't save them, however, and thus the only wizards you do find are dead, either by a pile of empty bottles (some of them describing some... less-than-healthy beverages), killed by a colleague with a mean drunk streak, or both.
* Moira from "Videogame/{{Piss}}" is an extreme example, she regularly drinks so much she sometimes suffers from amnesia to the point where she occasionally even needs her diary to remind her who she is... it's deliberate though as she's desperate to numb the memory and pain of her DarkAndTroubledPast.
* Carno's second wife Victoria from ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria}}'' is implied to have been this, although we only see one flashback of her being drunk. Whether she suffered from alcoholism before being married off to Carno or whether she started drinking heavily soon after their marriage as a result of his abuse is unclear, but either way she was clearly unhappy as it's her spirit you hear (but don't see) sobbing in the wine cellar.
* Played with in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''. Some examples also seem to understand it's not smart to get drunk with all the zombies around.
** Chuck was a homeless alcoholic before the apocalypse.
** Kenny appears to have a history of alcohol abuse. [[spoiler:In season 1, after his plan to find a boat seems to fail, he resorts to getting drunk off a bottle of whiskey. Much later in season 2, he adamantly refuses to have any alcohol at all, hinting strongly at his past with alcohol abuse.]]
** Christa in season 1 refuses a drink at first, but then grabs the bottle and takes an extremely long swig while the other characters stare at her in disbelief. [[spoiler:It is revealed Christa is pregnant so that could have been the reason for her initial refusal.]]
* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' has a few characters of this sort considering how frequently wine is featured in the series. Karen from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' is the most popular example (though in other games such as ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' she is a HardDrinkingPartyGirl instead). She loves her wine, not helped by the fact her family runs the local winery and she's works at a bar. At least one of her heart events has her drunk and wine is one of her favorite gifts. It's implied a good chunk of her drinking is due to [[DrowningMySorrows her sadness]] over having a poor relationship with her father and [[SmallTownBoredom hating living in a small town]].
* ''VideoGame/HarvestTown'' has Jim Ortiz, the local artist who seems to spend most of his time high on alcohol. His son complains about his drinking habits, and he apparently owes a 50k drinking debt to [[TheBartender Andy]]. It's all but mentioned that he took up alcoholism to [[DrowningMySorrows cope]] with his wife suddenly abandoning him.
* ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' has Pam, Penny's grumpy middle-aged mother who was put out of a job after the bus to Calico Desert broke down, and Shane, Marnie's nephew who is dissatisfied with his job at [[PredatoryBusiness JojaMart]]. Naturally, both of them have Beer as a loved gift. The effects are tragic in both cases; Pam's drinking has alienated her daughter, driven away her husband, and left her unable to maintain her own home, and Shane is [[DrowningMySorrows self-medicating for chronic depression]] in [[DeathSeeker the worst way possible]].
* Both [[BigBad Dr. Luis]] and [[TheHero Alex]] of ''VideoGame/SouthOfReal'' are implied to have troubles with alcohol. While Alex wants to drink on the job in the face of an impending CosmicHorror apocalypse, Dr. Luis seems to be trying to drink away his sorrows.[[spoiler:..and the [[KnightTemplar things he's done]]. The habit must run in the family.]]
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** This is within the sphere of Sanguine, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[FunPersonified Debauchery]] and [[TheHedonist Hedonism]]. Sanguine's M.O. is to tempt mortals into sin through vice, with alcohol being a common component. Sanguine himself is often seen with some form of drink in his hand, even in his statues. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', his quest even begins with a drinking contest at an inn.
** This is a common trait of the Rieklings - small, primitive, blue-skinned humanoids native to [[GrimUpNorth Solstheim]] who somewhat resemble [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent ice goblins]]. They are known for [[TrashOfTheTitans collecting and hording detritus]] scavenged from the more civilized races, which they "form strange attachments to" and can even be witnessed [[CargoCult worshiping]]. Above all else, they love scavenging any alcoholic beverages they can get their hands on, which they refer to as "fizzydrink."
* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': Both Randal and Matt are deep in this trope, and it's the root of the large majority of their troubles. [[spoiler:The final puzzle revolves around keeping them both sober to escape the ring's loop.]]
* Gerry of ''VideoGame/GraveyardKeeper'' is an especially notable example, craving and clamouring for alcohol constantly, in spite of the fact that he's a talking skull, and he openly acknowledges he no longer has functioning taste buds.
* Hank of ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'', who turned to drinking after [[spoiler: the death of his son, Cole.]]
* In ''VideoGame/XCOM2'', Central Officer Bradford, once an upstanding advisor to the commander in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'', had turned to drowning his sorrows after the fall of XCOM, on his way to becoming a more grizzled version of his former self.
* In ''VideoGame/BlackCloset'', this is what becomes of [[spoiler: both Miss Talmage and the Red Mask if you take them both down in the same playthrough. They apparently get together to drink and idly plot revenge against you.]]
* ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'': The Black Knight. He has a conveyor belt of what are clearly mugs of beer set up next to his throne, and chugging them then flinging the empty mug at you is his only form of attack.
* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': In the chain of events required to recruit Jovan, Noaksey mentions rumors of Sir Friderick having a drinking problem. Sir Friderick regularly having too much to drink is later confirmed by Jovan himself.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'':
** Oyajitchi is obsessed with sake, even going as far as to get Tamagotchi Planet itself drunk in the franchise's first ever AnimatedAdaptation, ''Tamagotchi Honto no Hanashi''. The obsession with sake was replaced with [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]] for international versions.
** Also applies to Horoyotchi, who is fashioned after a gourd of sake, carries around a ''sakazuki'' glass, and has red cheeks and squinty eyes.
* If some alcohol is examined in the Heaven's Night club in ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', James will say that he doesn't want a drink right now given the extreme situation, but also implies that he's dissolved into alcoholism during his wife's long terminal illness.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': Packie [=McReary=] is an extremely heavy drinker (and drug addict). He even mentions while drunk at one point that he's worried he won't live to see thirty.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto5'': Michael de Santa has devolved into alcoholism by the start of the game, largely owing to his boredom and general dissatisfaction with his life and family.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Asuka (or more accurately, the person who accidentally bodyjacks Asuka) in ''Roleplay/AsukaQuest'' has a drunk phase early on in the quest. Her in-universe excuse is all of canon!Asuka's mental issues catching up to her, but the actual reason was more to escape the fact that she got stuck in ''the'' DarkerAndEdgier HumongousMecha series. She drops it after the fiasco of a battle against Matariel, but not before she got Shinji into ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' and accidentally revealed that she knew Rei was a Nephilim.
* Sunny Breeze, the protagonist of ''Fanfic/RacerAndTheGeek'', is this. He drinks at least OnceAnEpisode and gets drunk in the majority of them. He's got [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/racer-and-the-geek damn good reasons]] to want to drown his sorrows.
* ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'' has [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Sir Unimpressive]], who's never seen without a flask of whiskey. Twilight at one point wonders where he keeps managing to get it refilled.
* Frederick von Hohenzollern, the main hero in ''Roleplay/ADynastyOfDynamicAlcoholism'', is a devoted high-functional alcoholic - to the point he's never seen without a flask. Of course, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name]] kind of gives it away...
* ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'': Prince Blueblood is sloshed in every scene he's in. Justified by the fact that being stuck in a loveless marriage of convenience with [[RichBitch Diamond Tiara]] is hardly a state of marital bliss.
%%* [[http://nickfanon.wikia.com/wiki/A_Collection_of_Pointless_Adventures A Collection of Pointless Adventures]] has Web.
%%%%** Fluttershy also fits this trope.
%%** As does Wario, to a lesser extent.
* In ''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'' King Ukko is a bitter drunkard. Heavy drinking is socially mandated among reindeer, but he does it enough that even they react negatively.
* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'': Littlepip's mother always has a bottle nearby. She's a very high-functioning drunk, but she still [[ParentalNeglect mostly ignores her daughter]]. Her drinking habits also mean that Littlepip is one of the very few ponies in the small world of the Stable who [[HeroicBastard doesn't know who her father is]]. When Littlepip finally returns to the Stable, [[spoiler:after fending off the Steel Rangers who were assaulting the place]], she notes that her mother is even more drunk than usual to deal with the trauma. The only obvious outward sign is that she's gossiping with her friends about how [[SkewedPriorities she had to suffer her dress getting dirty when a friend died]].
* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'': Blackjack never, ever passes up an opportunity to get wasted, especially when [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Wild Pegasus whiskey]] is available. Though seeing how she's been through more mental, physical, and spiritual trauma than nearly every fictional character except for Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', can you blame her?
* In ''Fanfic/BoysDoTankary'', Vincent and Gage were this, apparently since the age of ''seven''. They had [[ChildSoldiers fought in a war]] on opposite sides, and Nyra, who was Vincent's sister, but on Gage's side, got captured by Vincent's side, who [[GratuitousRape raped]] [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene and murdered]] [[MoralEventHorizon her squadmates after taking her prisoner]]. When Vincent spared Nyra, they were put into a cell with a gun and told one had to kill the other by the end of the month, and Vincent complied; both he and Gage were driven to drink by the experience. [[spoiler:Nyra, however, turns out to be alive, and Gage resolves to quit drinking]].
* [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]], or rather, Donte, is the Slayer of Tequila in ''Fanfic/TheKanyeverse''.
* We have Rei the drunk secretary from Webcomic/KillLaKillAU and this has gotten her into trouble, as she's sent four kids on a beer run. Apparently, she is rarely sober, as she doesn't seem to be sober when she hired as a babysitter. Apparently, this is a deconstruction, seeing as we are shown the harmful consequences of her being one, i.e, she is mentioned to be passed out in her own vomit from time to time.
* ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'':
** We have Ragyo, who is mentioned to be drinking red wine on a semi-regular basis [[spoiler: until Chapter 14.]] She returns to that habit afterward.
** Ryuko is too, to a lesser extent. Considering that the Kiryuins were revealed to have a large alcohol collection, it would safe to say that they all were or are.
* Empath in the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' alternate timeline story "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" turns into this after Smurfette marries Papa Smurf and has a child through him, and after he successfully leads a rebellion against the new couple that forces them and those that are loyal to them (which included Polaris Psyche and the Smurflings) out of the village, with Empath still being heartbroken from being spurned by Smurfette in favor of Papa Smurf.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'' has [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Mitsuzane]], the origins of his alcoholism is revealed in the first part of the [[Series/KamenRiderKiva Kamen Rider Kiva character arc]] of the said story, Micchy started to get himself hammered at an early age out of [[HeelRealization guilt of his actions]] two months after Helheim's eradication from Earth. Then again, [[Series/KamenRiderDrive Gou]] [[LampshadeHanging also notes]] that Micchy is an expy of [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] as a whole, the portrayal of his alcoholism is being treated realistically similar to Stark.
** The ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' fanfics ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11974309/1/I-shouldn-t-be-alive-Unless-it-was-for-a-reason I shouldn't be alive, unless it was for a reason]]'' and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12052733/1/Gone-Cold-Turkey Gone Cold Turkey]]'', both are written by the [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5551569 same writer]] as ''Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations'' listed above, which is the backstory is based on. WordOfGod states that Micchy's first slow [[DescentIntoAddiction descent into alcoholism]] [[DrowningMySorrows following the tragic events]] in the TV canon, [[spoiler:albeit underage]], is inspired from the ''Demon in a Bottle'' issue from the ''Iron Man'' comics; which explores the realistic portrayal of him of turning to the bottle and how he manages to recover.
* Zeroninety's ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' fanfics ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7582881/1/The-Mess-I-m-In The Mess I'm In]]'' and ''Fanfic/LastingFame'' portray an older Kimber as a recovering alcoholic who has frequent problems with relapsing. She has barely talked with her sister Jerrica in years as a result (not helped by Jerrica's own [[LossOfIdentity issues with her identity]]). A factor to Kimber's alcoholism was her divorce with Sean.
* Arizona in ''Roleplay/ScaryNewsOutOfTokyo3'' gradually descends into addiction as impossible and disturbing events continue to pile up on him. He starts out in INeedAFreakingDrink territory, but his offhand references to what he's currently drinking grow more and more frequent; after a nervous breakdown that forces him into retirement, he does practically nothing ''but'' drink, and the quality and coherence of his posts vary wildly depending on whether or not he's sober at the time.
* In ''Fanfic/TheUndesirables'', Lightning Dust has basically living in the bottle since she dropped out of the Wonderbolts Academy. However, after being recruited by Luna for her team, she's inspired to pull herself together, becoming more of a FunctionalAddict.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/DropOfMoonshine'' is comedic, however the backstory behind it is not. After banishing her sister to the moon Celestia began [[DrowningTheirSorrows drinking the pain away]] to the point where she could barely function as princess. This led to ponies stopping the production of alcohol so that the princess would be forced to go cold turkey. Eventually Celestia straight up banned alcohol (and thus modern ponies don't know what alcohol or being drunk is). Celestia has been sober for over 900 years, though when Luna starts making moonshine she picks up on drinking again (albeit for fun). This leads to alcohol being legalized again in Equestria and reintroduced into society.
* [[TheMedic Mercy]] in the ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BreakMyHeartBreakYourHeart'', stemming primarily from her guilt over her actions that turned Gabriel Reyes, the man she once loved, into [[WasOnceAMan Reaper]].
* ''Fanfic/ForumOfThrones'': After the reality of his poor life slowly hit him, Robb became this, especially after getting rejected by Harpy, the only woman he ever developed genuine feelings for.
* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'':
** Wind Breaker drinks a lot (but only enough to get buzzed, no more), and Night Blade, noticing this, fires him from a job for it during the former's EstablishingCharacterMoment due to the laws against public intoxication. [[spoiler: There's a legitimate reason for his drinking habit though - when he was a child, he couldn't stop from telling the truth and got into fights because of it, so his caretakers decided to give him alcohol to try and restrain his truth-telling. This happened when he was ''nine'', and he hasn't been able to stop drinking since, though after earning his Element, he promises Applejack that he'll try and sober up and finally admits to himself and the others that he has a problem.]]
** An unnamed Earth Pony ''was'' this in Wind Breaker's background. It's explained that he drank enough that one day, he forgot he wasn't a pegasus and tried to fly, only to fall almost eighty feet straight down, shattering all four legs on impact and only surviving because of a combination of his natural durability and one of the unicorns below managing to cast a cushioning spell on the ground at the last minute - if not for both of these factors, he would have died on impact. Instead, he's alive and has been completely wheel bound ever since, the experience resulting in him sobering up for good.
* In Fanfic/LayingWasteToHalloweeen, Gabe, like his canonical appearence in PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians is an alchoholic. In this fic, Percy thinks he's better when he's unconsious from drinking so much or out drinking with his friends. He's worse when the beer runs out.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Glynda Goodwitch is depicted as this to deal with her wacky, headache-inducing students and co-workers, downing an entire bottle of pricey Mistral Brandy every month to relax. She apparently once drank [[DrunkenMaster Qrow]] under the table.
* As per his MCU self, Tony Stark in ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' drinks a ''lot'' during the first book, even keeping a supply of alcohol in every lab. If he's not on caffeine, he's probably on alcohol. However, he does cut down on it somewhat once [[spoiler:his daughter Ada]] is born and he has a role model to set.
* Due to his DarkAndTroubledPast, Hiccup in ''Fanfic/{{Persephone}}'' has developed a drinking problem, something that Astrid (with much protest and [[GoingColdTurkey horrifying withdrawal]]) helped him kick. [[spoiler: And even then he has relapses.]]
* After losing his job, Eric starts drinking excessively in the ''Jem'' fic ''Fanfic/OurTimeIsNow''. This only worsens his SanitySlippage.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ResurrectedMemories'': [[spoiler: Paulina]] secretly is drinking underage, even hiding some bourbon in her diet cola when she is at school.
* Roxy is implied to be this way in ''Fanfic/MaryPhillipsStory''. She refuses to do drugs, but she does drink a lot. She refuses to admit it's an issue.
* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'':
** Coco is a HardDrinkingPartyGirl bordering on an alcoholic. She drinks both for fun and to deal with her experiences as a huntress-in-training. Her teammates think she drinks too much, but Coco insists that she's fine. Eventually she sees a therapist and is diagnosed with PTSD.
** Qrow's drinking is PlayedForDrama compared to in canon. He drinks because of all the trauma he's had in life. [[spoiler:Being forced to kill his lover Summer]] is his primary reason to drink.
** Weiss and Winter's mother is a neglectful AlcoholicParent. Winter's disdain for alcoholics is a large part of why she gets along so poorly with Qrow.
* In ''Fanfic/DoYouBelieveInFairies'', Owen's heavy drinking stems from his fear of being alone and his insecure nature, especially surrounding his [[{{Gayngst}} sexual orientation]]. He's closeted because he dislikes being seen as "different" and doesn't like making things difficult for those around him.
* ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'': ComicBook/CarolDanvers develops an addiction to alcohol when she starts losing her powers. It takes a while until she owns up her alcoholism and starts fighting it.
* ''Fanfic/LastCall'':
** Lapis is an alcoholic. The story starts with her calling her exe Jasper for the first time in two years. She needs a ride home because the bartender took her keys.
** Jasper is recovering from alcoholism brought on by Lapis' abuse.
* ''Fanfic/LastingFame'': Kimber has been struggling with alcoholism for years. She was doing okay for a few months but relapsed when her daughter mentioned that her step-mother was pregnant.
* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': Discussed in chapter 9 of the sequel ''Diplomat at Large''. When Fancy Pants comes to meet Blueblood with a bottle of wine, the latter implies that if he keeps this up, ponies who love to gossip might start thinking of him as having a drinking problem. Fancy rather firmly denies that he's an addict; his only drinking problem is when he has a good bottle and nopony to share it with.
* King Thranduil of ''Film/TheHobbit'' is very frequently portrayed this way in fanfics both serious and cracky, owing to his reputation in the fandom as the "dwarf-racist party dad".
* ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'':
** June is seen drinking in almost any given episode.
*** Apparently, Alcoholics Anonymous banned June for life when she attacked the leader of the group for telling the group members to try to go a week without drinking.
** Doug Funnie, probably to cope with being traumatized by Barney on three separate occasions (and because the Disney version of his show gave him PTSD).
** Two words: Elmo Reddmonster. In fact, he founded Elmo's Tavern solely because there weren't any bars in Unnamed Town and wanted a place to drink at.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with RM. He doesn't normally drink, but he almost always turns to alcohol first whenever he's depressed. Sometimes subverted, because Elmo has [[DrunkOnMilk given him non-alcoholic variations of normally-alcoholic drinks]] on a few occasions (such as in "Rayquaza Mistress").
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* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' claims that if he were to stop drinking, the cumulative hangover would kill him. His [[LadyDrunk mother, Malory,]] is frequently seen drinking cocktails herself.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
** Robots are alcoholics by default, as alcohol works as their fuel. However, they stumble around as if they were drunk when they're sober... and at other times (particularly in earlier episodes) they are portrayed binge-drinking human style. Bender himself speaks with a mild slur at all times. In one episode where Bender can't/won't drink, he's depicted as staggering, slurring his speech, and with a patch of rust resembling beard stubble.
-->'''Fry''': [[LampshadeHanging "You've been drinking too much! Or not enough. I forget how it works with you."]]
** In the episode "Benderama", Bender uses a self replicating device to make 2 smaller copies of himself. This process repeats itself until thousands of molecule level Benders rearrange the molecules of Earth's oceans [[note]] taking H[[subscript:2]]O and some ambient carbon atoms, and arranging it into C[[subscript:2]]H[[subscript:6]]O[[/note]], turning all the water into alcohol.
--->'''Morbo''': ...Water is now b-booze, and everyone's [[{{Spoonerism}} tiddly much protally fit-shaced]].
* Helga's mother Miriam Pataki from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' is a textbook example, though mainly off screen. On screen all she wants is a "[[FrothyMugsOfWater smoothie]]".
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' is a jerk, he hates himself, and is almost always drunk. But [[AtLeastIAdmitIt at least he never denies it.]]
* Clay Puppington in ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. It turns out he was introduced to alcohol by [[spoiler:Bloberta. Once he became an alcoholic, ''she'' quit being one]].
* The entire band Dethklok in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', but particularly Pickles the drummer. Alcoholism and drug use is such a heavy part of Pickles's past and personality that when his former bandmates headlined a UsefulNotes/StraightEdge-esque concert with a new singer, he was mortally offended and vowed to crash the concert. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that his alcoholism started because he was TheUnfavorite of the family, to the point that he got blamed for burning down the garage even though Seth did it. He was ''six'' when he started drinking.]] Special points also to Nathan Explosion, who apparently needs regular liver transplants, and is shown receiving one as part of fan touring of Mordhaus.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** Brian Griffin is rarely seen without a glass of something in his hand. In comparison he is probably worse than Peter - Peter usually goes out drinking for fun with friends, but Brian often drinks alone, or to 'drown sorrows', or for the sake of drinking.
** Peter Griffin frequently gets absolutely smashed, with or without his friends at the bar.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Homer Simpson. He can consume more beer (leading into excessive intoxication obviously) than [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter]] can.
--->'''Homer''': And [I'll get to] get drunk on a Tuesday.\\
'''Marge''': Today's Tuesday and you've had six beers!\\
'''Homer''': But I'm not ''drunk''.
** It's a running gag that when somebody asks Homer if he's been drinking, he ''never'' says no.
--->'''Marge''': How drunk are you?\\
'''Homer''': Not. Very.
*** It's even occasionally unprompted.
---->'''Anesthesiologist''': Okay, count backwards from ten.\\
'''Homer''' ''(lying on operating table)'': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Fine, I admit it. I'm drunk]].
** "Duffless" confronts this by having Homer go a month without beer and, by the end of it, realize he has a bit of a problem. But, well... StatusQuoIsGod. However, in one episode set 30 years in the future Homer states he's off the stuff for good.
** Barney Gumble appears worse than Homer, but is often seen trying to overcome his problem -- Homer has not even acknowledged he has a problem, outside of some throwaway gags.
** In fact, all the denizens of Moe's have a problem to some extent. In one episode, when Homer goes to the bar on Sunday to invite his friends to a party on Mr Burns' yacht, he finds them patiently waiting for the sunbeam through the window to reach a chalk mark on the floor that indicates the time alcohol can legally be sold. As they are sailing out towards international waters, Moe has to fight the barflies off with a whip as they try to reach the beer keg Homer bought, and when Lenny receives rubbing alcohol for his wounds, he immediately begins chugging it.
** Lionel Hutz is shown to have a pretty severe drinking problem on occasion.
--->'''Hutz''': Mrs. Simpson claims she forgot she was carrying that bottle of delicious... bourbon... brownest of the brown liquors... so tempting... ''(puts the bottle to his ear)'' What's that? You want me to drink you? But I'm in the middle of a trial! ...Excuse me! ''[runs out of courtroom]''
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--->'''Lionel Hutz''': Mrs. Simpson, you're in luck, your sexual harassment suit is exactly what I need to rebuild my shattered practice! Care to join me in a belt of scotch?\\
'''Marge''': It's 9:30 in the morning.\\
'''Hutz''': Yeah, but I haven't slept in days. ''[takes a large belt of scotch, and waves the dregs at temptingly at Marge]'' Last chance! ''[finishes the bottle]''
** Creator/PhilHartman's other character Troy [=McClure=], who used to drink 50 cans per day (according to Brad Goodman).
--->'''Troy [=McClure=]''': Ahhh. Sweet liquor eases the pain.
** In the 14th season episode "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third-Grade", Ms [=McConnell=], who is something of a {{Gossipy Hen|s}}, denotes that Lisa's Teacher Ms. Hoover an alcoholic, though if you had students like [[TheDitz Ralph Wiggum]] you would be too.
** Lindsey Naegle is a self-proclaimed alcoholic and has been seen at AA meetings.
** In each of his [[AdamWesting guest appearances]], Creator/RonHoward appears wearing a bath robe and with a drink in his hand. Seeing Homer drinking a cocktail of his own invention -- a concoction of vodka and wheat grass which Homer dubs a "[[ATankardOfMooseUrine lawn mower]]" -- he cheerfully asks Homer to make him one.
** Subverted with Marge in "You Only Move Twice". Increasingly bored as a housewife due to the automation of her chores, she turns to the wine -- only to reveal that she's drinking less than the amount recommended by doctors.
** In one of the earlier episodes, Hans Moleman states that excessive drinking has ruined his life, to the point where despite looking like a decrepit senior citizen, [[YoungerThanTheyLook is actually younger than Homer.]]
%%* Roger of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''.
%%* Pickles of ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs''
%%* [[DeliveryStork The Stork]] from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
* Captain K'Nuckles of ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' comes off as this, always needing a pick me up or becoming wasted at the Candy Barrel.
* Teleportation Larry of ''WesternAnimation/TheAwesomes'' is pretty much constantly drunk, which is ''almost'' always a liability.
* Franklin Sherman of ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' almost always has a drink in his hand and it's heavily implied alcohol plays a major role in his CloudCuckooLander tendencies.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' background character Berryshine (a.k.a. Berry Punch) has a Cutie Mark consisting of grapes and a strawberry -- two common ingredients in wine. Due to this, she's sometimes hinted to be a drunk, with official trading cards attributing quotes to her such as "Wow, what did I drink last night? Because I'm definitely gonna need more of that." Series creator Lauren Faust has mentioned that she had nicknamed the character "Pinot Noir" after her own favorite wine, although that name didn't stick.
* Mouse Fitzgerald of ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' uses this trope as his defining trait. He's seen practically every ten minutes with a beer in his hand.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Bloody Mary", Randy Marsh becomes an alcoholic by way of the nocebo effect. After being caught drunk-driving, he is ordered by the court to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and becomes convinced that he is powerless to stop drinking.
* Rick from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is constantly intoxicated and habitually takes a sip from a flask.Lampshaded in one episode when Rick gets shot.
-->'''Rick''': She got me right in the goddamn liver Morty! It's the hardest working liver in the galaxy Morty! And now it has a hole in it.
** His daughter Beth is not as bad as him but is very often seen sloshing down large amounts of red wine, often when under great distress.
* In the second season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', Mr. Cat is shown to be severely addicted to alcohol, despite being underage. Several episodes show him having a hangover, and in Episode 60 he is actually shown drunk. In some instances, he ends up drinking so much he passes out.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', due to the Church excommunicating the Belmont family and destroying their ancestral home, Trevor Belmont has spent his days since then as a vagrant wandering the land from tavern to tavern, spending what little remains of his family fortune on booze.
* In the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', Quinn gets a job as a hostess where she befriends a girl name Lindy, but as they hang out after work, she soon discovers Lindy has a drinking problem. She gets fired when she's found with a screwdriver (vodka and orange juice) at her post to deal with a hangover. Quinn tries to confront her about her drinking, only for Lindy to get angry with her. [[BittersweetEnding In the end, she apologizes to Quinn, still wanting to be friends, but while admitting to going overboard when drinking sometimes, she still refuses to believe she has a problem.]]
* Bean of ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' certainly loves her drink. One time she tries to convince her father, King Zøg, that she's given it up, only for him to point out she's holding a beer, apparently she had grabbed it from force of habit.
* ''WesternAnimation/PearCiderAndCigarettes'': Techno abuses a lot of substances but apparently alcohol was the worst. He destroys his liver with alcohol. He is refused a liver transplant in Canada because he won't stop drinking. Even after he flies to China to get a new liver, he keeps drinking in his hospital room. One of Robert's jobs in Guangzhou is to continually confiscate the bottles of liquor in Techno's room.
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* Evelyn of ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' is implied to be alcoholic. She has a permanently disheveled appearance with eye bags and several of her scenes involve her drinking. One scene has her having a heart-to-heart with Elastigirl late at night nursing a drink, and her acting casually tipsy (slightly drawn out words, big arm gestures, kind of slow to follow Elastigirl's thought process, et cetera).

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%%* Patsy and Edina on ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous''.
* ''Series/AmishMafia'' has Crazy Dave. He kept on screwing things up with Levi and was caught drinking while driving a buggy. It got so bad that he ended up in an Amish Crazy House.
* Otis Campbell, on ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' is regularly seen drunk. Andy even has his own jail cell reserved so Otis can come in and lock himself up on the weekends. On a couple of occasions, some of the others will try to get him to sober up, [[StatusQuoIsGod but nothing ever sticks]]. By ''Film/ReturnToMayberry'', however, he appears to have sobered up on his own.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': The term is never overtly used but while all the characters have a reason to [[DrowningMySorrows drown their sorrows]] mid-series, Wesley is the one who doesn't stop. The latter half of series 5 has the gang mentioning with increasing frequency just how heavily Wesley is drinking. It's also implied that Wesley's fully aware it's becoming a problem.
* Lucille from ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. She's rarely ever seen without a drink in hand. At one point, her rival Kitty challenges her to a [[DrinkingContest drink-off]] with George Sr. as the prize. Lucille promptly grabs a glass of wine from a passing waiter, downs it, and casually says "That one doesn't count." She continues to sip wine between turns throughout the contest.
* In Season One of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' Quentin Lance is shown to have started drinking after the death of his daughter, Sara, five years previously. In Season Two, Laurel starts using alcohol and anti-depressants to cope with her own grief and depression.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** Garibaldi; for most of the series, he avoids alcohol, except for a couple of occasions where he is either [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]] or falling OffTheWagon due to intense job stress. Overall, through the course of five years, we only see it happen twice (albeit one occasion had it happen for half of season five, but some say that season [[FanonDisContinuity never happened anyways]].
** Londo Mollari is almost never seen drinking anything that isn't alcoholic, and he spends most of the first season at bars, strip clubs, and casinos. It actually helps him later on when [[spoiler: he's infected with a [[PuppeteerParasite Keeper]], which has a lower alcohol tolerance than he does.]]
* ''Series/BarneyMiller'' had a number of people who were brought in drunk, but only a couple who were explicitly alcoholic. One was a minor federal official who was DrowningHisSorrows over being stuck with the department of "underdeveloped suburban areas, mines, parks, and Indians" for his work on Nixon's campaign. Another was a career robber who tried to hold up a store with a FingerGun, having been too drunk to remember that you put it in your pocket first.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': Both Saul Tigh and his wife Ellen, especially in proximity to one another [[spoiler:though his biggest bout of drinking was on ''Galactica'' after he was forced to kill her on New Caprica]]. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is also referred to as a (very high-functioning) alcoholic both by other characters (there are repeated references to "not needing another Tigh onboard") and by the actress portraying her (Katee Sackhoff is quoted saying that Starbuck "drinks most of her calories").
%%* Dylan [=McKay=] in the original ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''.
%%** Noah Hunter in the later episodes as well.
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** [[GirlNextDoor Penny]] is pretty well stated as having a difficult relationship with alcohol, binge drinking whenever sad or upset. When [[NiceGuy Leonard's]] mom, a cold psychiatrist, first came to visit she quickly psychoanalyzed Penny's insecurities and all the childhood issues Leonard had came to the forefront. Needless to say when Leonard was considering "turning to alcoholism as a career path" he visited Penny, who was all ready for downing shots. In the first half of season five it's implied Penny was depressed over her... [[WillTheyOrWontThey complicated]]... relationship [[{{UST}} with Leonard]] and thus showed her to be drinking more often.
** Raj didn't drink before the series began, but mid-season one learned that he is able to overcome his "can't talk to women" issues with a bit of a buzz. For the most part he manages okay, but being introduced to alcohol gave way to occasional problems with it. He eventually learns that he can drink [[MagicFeather non-alcoholic beer]] and get the same effect, so long as he believes the drink had alcohol.
* Bernard Black from ''Series/BlackBooks'', and to a very slightly lesser extent Fran (whose surname is German for Hangover), are seen drinking all the time. Bernard appears to drink at all hours of the day.
-->'''Bernard:''' You can sort your life out any time; ''the pub closes in five hours!''
* Eddie of ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', who cheerfully drinks Old Spice, cooking oil, and bleach. Note to reader: Only one of these things actually contains alcohol, and only one of these things is supposed to be edible. They are not the same thing.
-->'''Richie:''' What's in this?!\\
'''Eddie:''' Brandy...\\
'''Richie:''' Good!\\
'''Eddie:''' Meths, pernod, paintstripper, Mr. Sheen, brake fluid and Drambuie!\\
'''Richie:''' ''[sarcastically, with an effeminate voice and camp gesture]'' Drambuie?! Oooh hoo-hoo hoo-hoo!\\
'''Eddie:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright! You've gotta put something in for the birds, haven't you?\\
'''Richie:''' ''[takes a whiff]'' Jesus! How are you alive?\\
'''Eddie:''' I may very well NOT be.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': A significant portion of Xander's family are either directly stated or implied to be alcoholic. Of course, being the ButtMonkey, he's sort of contractually obligated to have a [[FamilyDisunion family]] drunken [[JerkAss assholes.]] Who are implied to be even [[ParentalNeglect more]] [[ParentalAbandonment unpleasant]].
* Sam Axe from ''Series/BurnNotice'' is constantly seen knocking back a drink of some sort, with his preferred drink being a mojito. He once presented Mike with a birthday present; a six pack of beer - ''imported'' beer. Well, a five-pack. And then he took one to drink, with the very lightest of prompting. But in spite of the large quantities of liquor he consumes, he's only been noticeably drunk at the beginning of ''Film/BurnNoticeTheFallOfSamAxe'', and only ever mentioned having a a hangover once. In fact, the way you know something is hitting Sam especially hard is if he '''''refuses''''' to drink!
%%* They appear to be setting this up with Dr Zoe Hanna in ''Series/{{Casualty}}''.
%%** Nurse Charlie Fairhead had an alcoholism subplot a few years ago.
* Sam Malone on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' is a recovering one.
* Jeff on ''Series/{{Chuck}}''. Although in the final season, it was revealed that [[spoiler:his constant state of stupor was caused by [[TooDumbToLive routinely sleeping in his car with the motor running]], and once he stopped doing that, he became incredibly lucid.]]
* There are a number of alcoholic women who appear on ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', usually as the long-suffering wives of the main suspects.
%%* In ''Series/{{Community}}'', Shirley's backstory before she came to Greendale is shown to be partly this trope.
* Margaret is usually seen drinking several times an episode in ''Series/TheCoolKids''.
%%* Calamity Jane on ''Series/{{Deadwood}}''. Al also drinks a whole damn lot.
* In ''Series/{{Dickensian}}'', Mrs Gamp, the incompetent nurse from ''Literature/MartinChuzzlewit'', is portrayed as motivated entirely by beer and gin.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]], Lady Eddison is nearly always seen with an alcoholic drink in hand. [[UnreliableNarrator Even when she claimed to have been drinking tea.]]
* Nearly all the main characters on ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' are seen drinking beer in their spare time. One of Mimi's pranks on them included drugging them so they couldn't have alcohol for a few weeks without getting sick (she did this around St. Patrick's Day). Everyone's alcoholism is usually PlayedForLaughs.
* Victor from German crime comedy ''Series/DrPsycho''. It is the main thing he and psychiatrist Max clash about, but after [[spoiler:someone gets shot]] while Victor is drunk on duty, his police colleagues chime in with Max as well.
%%* Abby Lockhart on ''Series/{{ER}}''
* ''Series/FamilyTies'' had a second-season episode "Say Uncle", where SpecialGuest Creator/TomHanks plays Elyse's brother, Ned Donnelly. Unemployed since he was fired for embezzling millions from his previous company (to prevent the layoff of 1,800 co-workers) and unable to find work [[note]](this was depicted in an episode aired a year earlier)[[/note]], Ned -- already a steady drinker -- becomes a hardened, full-blown alcoholic by the time he arrives at the Keatons, staying with them after he gets a job interview at the PBS station (where Steven is station manager) for a reporting and economic analyst's job. Things spiral out of control during the episode:
** Ned stays up all night drinking, at one point, desperately rummaging through the pantry to find anything with alcohol (he even chugs a bottle of pure vanilla extract)
** He gets upset at Alex and threatens him after he declines his help studying for an important test. Ned blames Alex for him considering him "not being good enough" to provide help, although Alex (already assuring him he could manage fine) is clearly uncomfortable asking someone who is drunk for help.
** Still drunk the next morning, Ned non-chalantly drinks a screwdriver for breakfast, concerning Elyse.
** Drunk for the interview, Ned makes a complete fool out of himself, angering the station owner and embarrassing Steven, who had made special arrangements to set up the interview and custom-made position for Ned.
** That night, Steven tells Ned point blank that he is an alcoholic and is in need of professional help, but Ned is resigned to his fate as a hopeless, unemployed drunken loser. When Alex tries to reassure him that he's not finished yet, the two get into a fight and Ned [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches him]]. That seems to shock him into realizing he needs to confront his demons head on ... now.
* ''Series/FatherTed'': Father Jack Hackett knows four words: "Girls!", "Arse!", "Feck!", "Drink!". Without regular supplies of the fourth one he gets peppery. He's been known to drink Toilet Duck and floor polish when he's run out, the latter of which temporarily killed him and Ted notes during Lent that he hasn't been sober in over a decade.
* ''Series/TheFive'': Pru is revealed to have had a severe problem with alcohol in the past. As things start to unravel for her, she falls off the wagon. She's seen out at the bar frequently after this until Mark stops her.
* On ''Series/TheFlightAttendant'', it becomes increasingly clear as the series progresses that the main character Cassie Bowden is an alcoholic and her father was too, having introduced Cassie to beer at an early age. She later progressed to the hard stuff.
* Every one of the Riggins men in ''Series/FridayNightLights'' . Dad Walt Riggins and his sons Billy and Tim are all frequently shown drunk, drinking or hungover.
* Fun Bobby, an occasional boyfriend of Monica's in ''Series/{{Friends}}''. Alcohol was what made him entertaining. When he quit drinking, Monica started upping her alcohol intake to cope with his stories about shoelaces.
* ''Series/{{Frontier}}'': Father Coffin, the town priest at Fort James, is a drunk. This makes him both easy to bribe as well as inherently untrustworthy.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Robert Baratheon has fallen deep into alcoholism and is often seen with a drink in hand, which eventually leads to his death. In one memorable scene, he discusses the state of the Seven Kingdoms with Cersei, saying that every powerful man in Westeros has a different agenda. When Cersei asks him what he wants, Robert simply holds up his goblet of wine.
** Like her late husband, Cersei shows an increasing fondness for wine throughout the series as there are an increasing number of scenes where she has a cup close to hand, and she notably gets quite drunk during the Battle of Blackwater. In the books, this trait is because as Queen Regent she increasingly turns to drink while crumbling under the pressure of ruling seven kingdoms and politicking the great and good of the royal court to keep her children safe. Jaime mentions it in "Two Swords" and Margaery uses it as a barb in their PolitenessJudo in "High Sparrow".
--->'''Margaery''': I wish we had some wine [for you]. It's a bit early in the day for us.
** Tyrion is definitely a very high-functioning example, since he is almost never seen without some kind of booze at hand. Tywin is particularly annoyed by this and tends to withhold wine during their interactions. Recent events put Tyrion into full-blown DrowningMySorrows early in Season 5. Varys ''tries'' to keep him functional, as the first thing Tyrion does when he gets out of the crate in which he crossed over to Essos is grab a bottle of wine and drink until he pukes. Daenerys quickly picks up on it and criticizes him and starts restricting his drinking, but in Season 6 there are literally only a couple of scenes in which he appears ''without'' a glass or decanter of wine nearby. Between Cersei and Tyrion, it seems like a safe bet that the Lannisters are genetically predisposed to alcoholism. In the books, other Lannisters from (relatively recent) Westerosi history would also stand as evidence of this genetic predisposition, such as Lord Tytos Lannister, Tywin and Kevin's father. This may go a long way in explaining why Tywin has such a grudge against it. By the time he returns to Westeros, though, he largely seemed to have kicked the habit or reduced it dramatically.
---> '''Tyrion''': It's not easy being drunk all the time. If it were easy, everyone would do it.
** Ser Dontos Hollard shows up to a tourney so drunk he struggles to pick up his own helmet.
** The Hound's drinking is somewhat toned down, but he still needs a freaking drink during the Battle of Blackwater, is captured by the Brotherhood after drinking himself into a stupor, and pounds back Polliver's ale before their confrontation.
** Thoros of Myr is an unabashedly self-aware one, even referring to himself as "only the drunk who says the prayers."
* ''Series/GeneralHospital'':
** Dr. Noah Drake, who was PutOnABus for many years, returned to the show as a ShellShockedVeteran with a drinking problem.
** Luke Spencer has been drinking non-stop for years and years. It only became a full-blown problem when he [[spoiler:ran over his grandson.]]
** Add A.J. Quartermaine to the list, because of his drinking he's wiped his brother's memory, lost his child and his mind, and had to fake his death.
* ''Series/GentlemanJack'': Sam Sowden is a vicious drunk who abuses his family and nearly gets them thrown out onto the streets because of his inability to play nice with his landlady. [[spoiler:After Sam dies and his oldest son Thomas because the family patriarch, Thomas outright bans alcohol from the house, telling his uncle that it's the root cause of all the family's struggles.]]
* Adam on ''Series/{{Girls}}'' is a recovering alcoholic who has been attending AA meetings since age 17.
* In ''Series/GoodGirlsRevolt'' [[spoiler:Cindy]] hits the bottle pretty hard, at first when she’s stressed, by the end of the season she has a little bottle of liquor with her when she goes on travels and takes a swig when she’s happy.
* ''Series/GoodTimes'': Keith develops a drinking problem, despondent over the loss of his football career and inability to find a decent job. He has a HeelRealization after slapping Thelma in a drunken rage.
* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': After spending a night drinking, Bullock jokes to Gordon that it would take him a couple more drinks for him to sober up.
%% Ned The Wino.
%%* Clive in ''Series/GrandmasHouse''.
* In ''Series/HaltAndCatchFire'', the first time we see Gordon Clarke, he's being released from the drunk tank.
* When a ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' character makes an offhand comment about recovering alcoholics in Jimmy Price's presence, he quickly apologizes, which Jimmy brushes off with a blithe "[[FunctionalAddict Oh, I'm not recovering]]."
* ''{{Series/Hightown}}'': Jackie is one, along with a coke addiction. She goes to a drug rehab clinic and attended meetings (initially to avoid jail time for a DUI) but soon drops out, before coming back.
* ''Series/TheHour'', which is set in the fifties, has nearly everyone drinking at some point, but Lix and Hector drink far more than the others and are the only ones labelled as such. Randall used to be one, but [[TheTeetotaler he's recovered]].
* ''Series/{{Innocent}}'': Tarık is a chronic alcoholic who turns to excessive drinking after the death of his wife, [[spoiler:which he believes he caused]].
%%* Jinx in ''Series/InPlainSight''.
* Dave Attell in ''Series/InsomniacWithDaveAttell'' always managed to hit several bars in one night no matter the town, usually drinking beer and shots of Jagermeister.
* This is one of Ted Altman's many personality flaws on ''Series/{{Intelligence}}''. Rarely does an episode go by that he is not seen drinking, even once.
* Everyone from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', so much so that when one of the characters thinks to put boxed wine in soda cans for public consumption, everyone thinks it's a ''[[PlayedForLaughs great idea]]''. A later episode had them quarantined without alcohol, thinking they all had an infectious disease but eventually realising they were going into alcohol withdrawal. An even later episode has Mac suggest that they drink mouthwash while on a dry cruise "to stave off the shakes".
* Sarah Mackenzie in ''Series/{{JAG}}'' is a recovering alcoholic. Got once OffTheWagon after her [[CartwrightCurse ex-boyfriend died]] in her arms.
* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Jessica is shown to be quite dependent on alcohol, and even mentions most of her money goes towards booze.
* Judith from ''Series/LastTangoInHalifax''. She can't even quit drinking [[spoiler:when she's pregnant.]]
* In ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'', Colbert parodies the 2016 presidential election as (it was eventually clarified) "Julius Flickerman", in the manner of ''Film/TheHungerGames'', with bizarre wigs, colorful jackets, and a glass of something alcoholic in one hand. A few installments into ''The Hungry for Power Games'', we got:
-->'''Julius Flickerman''': Sadly for these Tributes, it's time to bid farewell... and even sadly for me, because this is part [sic] of the show I'm allowed to drink champagne in. Ha haa! [-(I have a problem!)-]
* Lennie Briscoe from ''Series/LawAndOrder'' was this before the series started. He relapses in the final episode of season six, which indirectly leads to [[spoiler: Claire dying in a car accident while she was driving him home from the bar]]. The guilt he feels is enough to keep him sober for the rest of the series.
* Don Cragen from ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' is a recovering alcoholic. He occasionally mentions attending A.A. meetings. Olivia's mom becomes one after being raped, resulting in Olivia's conception. This allows her to relate to a girl with a similar problem.
* Nate Ford on ''Series/{{Leverage}}''. "Are we still unclear? I'm a functioning alcoholic, you know? And the trick is not to get hung up on the alcoholic but celebrate the function part of the sentence.". When the crew relocate after season one, they comment on the fact that Nate took an apartment that's just upstairs from a Bar.
* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Various one-time characters were alcoholics, and the consequences associated with their drinking would always be played seriously. However, the one where it was played most dramatically was Isaiah Edwards, the Ingalls' long-time friend and confidant. Early in the series (and hinted at in the pilot movie as well), Edwards is a drifter who consumes alcohol in large quantities, all to drown the sorrows of losing his wife and daughter from smallpox. Thanks to the Ingalls, Edwards is able to sober up -- or in the very least keep his drinking under control – while he becomes a family man and somewhat successful farmer, and later a logging tycoon. However, during Season 8, John Jr. dies under mysterious circumstances, and while Mr. Edwards is deeply in grief, when he learns the truth about his eldest son's death – he was killed by a corrupt businessman whom newspaper reporter John Jr. was about to expose as a crook -- he [[OffTheWagon falls off the wagon]], destroying his family and business in the process... and it nearly also destroys his bond with the Ingalls. Only with the help of God and the Rev. Alden (himself a recovering alcoholic) does Mr. Edwards find resolve to go on without the bottle and face his demons head on.
* Christian and Jack Shephard [[spoiler:after he left the Island]] on ''Series/{{Lost}}''; also Frank used to be one.
%%* Woody from ''Series/MadDogs''.
* ''Series/MadMen'':
** Herman "Duck" Philips from is a recovering alcoholic. [[spoiler:Until, that is, Season 2's "Maidenform", when he falls OffTheWagon in the middle of his nasty divorce. While somewhat sympathetic and under control at first, the liquor gets the best of him, and by Season 4's "The Suitcase," he is a ''raging'' alcoholic and a ''massive'' dick, too.]]
** Freddy Rumsen, who once gets so drunk at work that he passes out and pees himself during a pitch to Samsonite. Naturally, he's fired (which doesn't do anything for his sobriety) and Peggy inherits his office (much to her chagrin, as Rumsen had been the first to notice her talent for copywriting) and his legendary office stash of booze.\\
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After this incident, Rumsen was PutOnABus until Season 4, when he shows up again, a member of AA. Roger Sterling has come to hate going out with Rumsen for this very reason, as he apparently thinks Freddy is a bit holier-than-thou about it.
** While Don Draper has been drinking like a fish since the beginning, he was never shown as really ''drunk'' (lubricated perhaps, but never ''hammered'') until Season 4 (in the wake of his divorce from Betty). After that, he's depicted as being sloshed at least every other episode, even to the point of puking in "The Suitcase". At this point, it's fairly clear that we are witnessing Don Draper's [[Music/TheNewPornographers Slow Descent Into Alcoholism]].
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': Later in the series, Francis reveals that he joined Alcoholics Anonymous after his drinking began to get out of control. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it turns out that he barely drank at all even before joining, and he simply convinced himself he was an alcoholic as part of his old habit of [[NeverMyFault blaming his problems on anything but himself]].
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'':
** Almost the entire cast, but especially Hawkeye, due to the constant suffering they have to deal with. Fortunately they're all functional enough to still be an excellent M*A*S*H unit. In one episode, Hawk manages to kick drinking for a while, but admits that he needs alcohol to get by, and he relapses by the next episode.
** One episode has one of Margaret's old drinking buddies join the nursing staff. When she shows up to the OR drunk, she gets NailedToTheWagon, promising not to drink. A few days later, delirium tremens hits when she's in a crowded mess tent; Colonel Potter recognizes the symptoms, gets her to the recovery tent immediately for proper treatment, and admonishes Margaret for making her quit cold turkey.
%%* Walter Findlay on ''Series/{{Maude}}''
%%* Brandy from ''Series/NoahsArc''. Also doubles as a MeaningfulName.
* ''Series/OddSquad'': Oprah, otherwise known as Ms. O, is the Director of Precinct 13579 and is depicted as a G-rated version of this, with her drink of choice being juice instead of anything truly alcoholic, like beer or wine. She has ''1,000 juice boxes on the daily'' and not drinking at least one causes her to experience severe withdrawal symptoms much like an alcoholic in RealLife would. It helps that she had a stake in the Shmumbers business, working alongside Yucks Shmumbers, her business partner and friend, to invent juice boxes before becoming an agent of Odd Squad. Her office also consists of a juice bar, complete with stools for her to sit at, which is exclusively for her and no one else. When she becomes the Big O in Season 3, she gets a new office with a new juice bar that has white juice boxes, which match her color theme. She claims they taste like "power with a hint of cranberry".
* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': Two examples, one real, one fake.
** "The Loaded Custodians": The former custodian Mr. Jensen was said to have been dismissed for drunkenness. Curiously, in his few radio appearances (i.e. "Key to the School", "School Safety Adviser"), Mr. Jensen isn't a drunk. His main idiosyncrasy is that he's extremely LiteralMinded.
** "Cure That Habit": Walter Denton plays a prank, sending a postcard in Mr. Conklin's name to the titular agency. The Head of the Board of Education, Mr. Stone, hears of it and comes to see his supposedly drunken principal. [[spoiler:HilarityEnsues as Mr. Conklin is suffering from an unfortunate case of the hiccups, having pets mistakenly placed in his office, and being spun around in a chair.]]
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
** In "Essence of Life", Dan Kagan was a severe alcoholic until his wife Juliette became seriously ill and he became sober so he could care for her.
** In "Family Values", Brooke Miller started drinking as she was depressed over the fact that her husband Jerry was hardly ever home and left everything, including raising their children Candace and Russ, to her. She typically drank at least one glass of vodka and three glasses of wine per day. She eventually gave up drinking after the robot Gideon was able to get the Miller household in order.
* ''Series/PoliticalAnimals'': Margaret and her grandson T.J. both drink heavily throughout the series. Margaret rarely goes a scene without either having a drink in her hand or having one made for her (usually by T.J.). Her stories about her youth suggest she was a HardDrinkingPartyGirl, now grown into a snarky LadyDrunk. However, she highly dislikes the idea of a person getting themselves in deep enough to have an addiction, having witnessed T.J.'s grandfather self-destruct due to his drug addiction, and she bluntly informs T.J. that he's headed down the same path as his grandfather if he doesn't get ahold of himself soon. That being said, she has apparently struggled herself when attempting to abstain from alcohol in solidarity with T.J.
--> '''Douglas Hammond''': Last time you tried simpatico sobriety with T.J., you lasted about two hours.
* Tommy Gavin on ''Series/RescueMe'' has a decidedly volatile relationship with the bottle (specifically whiskey), as do many other characters.
* [[TheVoice The often heard, but never seen]] Carlton the Doorman from ''Series/{{Rhoda}}'' is often reportedly drinking on the job. He's not one to deny it either. Rhoda and friends will occasionally supply him with alcohol from time to time. It's all PlayedForLaughs.
%% * Woodrow Anderson on ''Series/SanfordAndSon''
* Dr. Cox from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' is well defined as drinking way too much, presumably as a way to cope with some very big personal issues as well as the stress of working at a hospital. [[AlmightyJanitor The Janitor]] mentions he has access to all personnel records and his major hang-up is "drinks a lot." For the most part it doesn't affect his job, except for one instance detailed in "My Fallen Idol" [[WhatTheHellHero where he shows up completely drunk.]] That episode has Jack say "Daddy drinks a lot," which Jordan says is his first full sentence. J.D. also calls him a "borderline alcoholic" in one episode.
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'':
** News anchor Floyd Robertson (who goes off to a rehab facility to dry out but returns to drinking literally one sketch later)
** Prima donna actor/producer/midday show host Johnny [=LaRue=] (who seems to be a DrowningMySorrows example).
* Frank Gallagher from ''Series/ShamelessUS''. His son Lip puts it most succinctly:
-->'''Lip''': ...and he drinks, and he does drugs. That's his whole life.
%%* Beatrice, the mother of the Reed Series/{{Sisters}}, along with second-oldest sister Teddy and her second husband.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
*** Scotty's solution to distracting an alien that takes over the ship in the episode "By Any Other Name" is to have a {{drinking contest}} with him, during which it's shown that he hides booze in his quarters. Upon finding himself in the 24th century, one of the first things he does is find Ten-Forward (''Enterprise's'' bar) and berate the bartender for serving poor quality "scotch", and then goes to drink alone in a holodeck.
*** Dr. [=McCoy=] often prescribes alcohol to his patents, seems to store booze in sickbay, has been seen drinking that booze on-duty, and prepares beans with bourbon.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Damar picks up a bottle of kanar after killing [[spoiler:Tora Ziyal]] and doesn't put it down until the final season. Weyoun even describes him as "half-dressed" when he starts turning up to work without a bottle, [[spoiler:not realising that Damar is sober now because he's decided to backstab the Dominion in the hope of saving Cardassia]].
** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Raffi is a heavy drinker, and she even jokes (or not) that she's planning to drink herself to death.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Dean Winchester. After six seasons of already-reckless drinking and DrowningMySorrows, he hits the sauce hard during his depression in season seven. He's heavily implied to have learned it from his dad.
** Also partially learned from his surrogate dad, Bobby Singer. Sheriff Mills only knows Bobby as "the town drunk" before she learns the truth about his life.
** Sam also has this tendency when he finds himself overwhelmed (it's implied that he spent the first few months after Dean went to Hell in a constant drunken stupor).
** Rufus and Ellen were hard drinkers, too. It seems to be a pretty common affliction for hunters, which is pretty understandable, [[ThereAreNoTherapists considering.]]
* ''Series/{{Taken}}'':
** In "High Hopes", Russell Keys mentions that he drank a fifth of vodka every night for eight years, seemingly to ease the stress associated with his repeated abductions by the aliens.
** In "High Hopes", it is revealed that Colonel Thomas Campbell became an alcoholic after Owen Crawford stole the UFO project from him in 1947 (as seen in "Beyond the Sky") and died of cirrhosis of the liver prior to October 1962.
* Kitty Forman on ''Series/That70sShow'', although not so much early on in the series. Later as she goes through menopause it becomes a running joke.
* Papa Titus from ''Series/{{Titus}}'', as per Creator/ChristopherTitus' stand-up act. Christopher turned to alcohol after his custom car shop went under and started calling himself an alcoholic, to which Papa Titus took offense because he "[[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne hasn't earned it.]]"
* Jim Lahey's defining character trait in ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'', getting progressively worse as the series continues. He's not the only example, either. At one point, Ray was desperate enough to pull the copper pipes from his walls to sell for booze money, and he always has prodigious stacks of empties lying around. Julian is rarely seen without a rum and Coke in his hand. Ricky never misses an occasion to get drunk, either.
%%* Letti Mae Thornton in ''Series/TrueBlood''
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E23AWorldOfDifference A World of Difference]]", Gerald Raigan is a severe alcoholic whose drinking has cost him numerous acting jobs in the past.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E32APassageForTrumpet A Passage for Trumpet]]", Joey Crown's alcoholism has ruined his once promising career as a jazz trumpeter.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek The Night of the Meek]]", the [[MallSanta department store Santa]] Henry Corwin is a chronic alcoholic. After the store manager Mr. Dundee fires him for showing up late and falling over drunk in front of the customers, Henry angrily tells him that he drinks because he wants to forget about all of the misery and poverty that he sees on a daily basis and so that he can believe that he is the real SantaClaus.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E98TheDummy The Dummy]]", Jerry Etherson began drinking heavily after he became convinced that his ventriloquist's dummy Willie was alive. As a result of his drinking, he missed 110 performances and his agent Frank had to cover for him. Jerry tells Frank that he drinks in order to cope with his nightmares about Willie.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E121InPraiseOfPip In Praise of Pip]]", Max Phillips is an alcoholic and bitterly regrets that his drinking caused him to miss so much of his beloved son Pip's childhood.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E141SpurOfTheMoment Spur of the Moment]]", Anne and David Mitchell are both alcoholics in 1964. Anne's mother Mrs. Henderson scolds her for drinking and ignoring the fact that their house is going to be repossessed but Anne retorts that it helps her. She clearly drinks as an attempt to escape her [[AwfulWeddedLife miserable life with David]].
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E151TheEncounter The Encounter]]", Fenton is an alcoholic whose drinking has recently cost him his job and seemingly his marriage. It is implied that he drinks due to the PTSD that he suffers from fighting in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
** In "Cold Reading", Milo Trent replaces Earl Sedgewick, who usually plays the title character's younger brother Timmy in ''Dick Noble, African Explorer'', as he has reportedly taken ill. The writer Nelson Westbrook's assistant Carla makes a drinking gesture at Milo, indicating that Sedgewick is too drunk to record his part.
** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", the Prince of Darkness tells Bluestone that Mary Ellen Cosgrave spends most of her time in 1987 drinking vodka in a vague malaise about what she imperfectly remembers as her golden years.
** In "The Hellgramite Method", Miley Judson is a severe alcoholic whose drinking is ruining his life. Over the years, he has tried to quit many times through psychiatric treatment, aversion therapy and other methods but he always starts drinking again after two or three months at most. Miley's drinking has cost him many friends and is on the verge of costing him his marriage as his wife Frannie can't cope with much more. He admits that he both loves and hates alcohol. One night at a bar, Miley is approached by Dr. Eugene Murrich, who gives him a matchbox advertising the Hellgramite Method for treating alcoholism. When he goes to Dr. Murrich's house, he is given a pill to swallow. Murrich tells him that this is all there is to it. The next day, Miley discovers that he can't feel the effects of alcohol no matter how much he drinks. He confronts Dr. Murrich, who explains to him that the pill contained the larva of a Hellgramite worm. The larva has already grown and is absorbing all of the alcohol that Miley drinks. Murrich tells Miley that he can starve the worm into dormancy but he will have to [[GoingColdTurkey go cold turkey]] in order to do so. He also warns Miley that even if he is successful, the worm will come back stronger if he ever takes another drink.
* Charlie Harper from ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' became this in later seasons. At first, he did drink a lot and was drunk on more than one occasion, but he wasn't always drunk. In the later seasons, any scene of him at home usually has him with an alcoholic drink of some kind and well on his way to being drunk or already drunk.
%%* Claire Meade in ''Series/UglyBetty''
%%* Leo [=McGarry=] on ''Series/TheWestWing'' was a recovering alcoholic.
%%** Also, Vice President John Hoynes - stopped drinking at age 22.
* ''Series/WhiteCollar'' gives us an interesting [[SubvertedTrope subversion.]] Mozzie takes immense pleasure in diminishing Neal's wine supply on a regular basis. He has a drink in his hand in pretty much every other scene. Unlike many of his alcohol-loving counterparts from other shows, however, Mozzie can hold his liquor (or in his case, wine) with no problem. Only one episode shows him getting drunk, and that was justified, given that he was helping Neal with a case where they had to counterfeit a bottle of whiskey.
%%* Karen Walker of ''Series/WillAndGrace''.
* ''Series/TheWire'': Jimmy [=McNulty=]. He lays off in season four as he gets his act together, but falls off the wagon again in season five. Bunk, his drinking partner, is also something of a MrViceGuy - [=McNulty=] has to bail him out of trouble more than once, but it's pretty clear which of them is the most self-destructive. [=McNulty=] is indirectly called a "high-functioning alcoholic" by [[spoiler: the FBI guys profiling his fake serial killer]]] in season five.
* ''Series/WithoutATrace'''s Martin Fitzgerald notes that fellow agent Danny Taylor doesn't drink. Danny confirms that he's a recovering alcoholic--"I haven't had a drink in 7 years, 6 months, and 18 days". We never see him struggling with the temptation to drink, but when Martin himself develops an addiction to painkillers after being shot, he recognizes the signs instantly--"I know what an addict looks like". [[note]] His father and brother are drug addicts as well, so indeed, he'd recognize it even if he weren't an alcoholic himself. [[/note]]
* ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'':
** PlayedForLaughs with Dr. Johnny Fever who has abused his body with drugs and alcohol for decades, culminating in an on-air sobriety test with a state trooper where his reflexes [[DrunkenMaster get better with every drink he takes,]] to the great ire of the trooper.
** Played seriously with Herb Tarlek who is shown to have a very serious drinking problem that almost destroys his family and career.
* On the 2015 season of ''Worst Cooks in America'', contestant Sarah makes nearly orgasmic noises when informed that wine is an ingredient in a dish, and consumes at least as much of it as she uses in her dish.
* While he hasn't become a full blown alcoholic per se, Sam has started [[DrowningMySorrows turning to alcohol]] in the second season of ''Series/TheWrongMans'', being caught drinking on the job at least once. This is because his seemingly-recovering life was turned upside-down by an attempted car-bombing, forcing him to relocate to an area where he's not as popular and (try to) accept that his girlfriend thinks he's dead. Combined with the fact that Phil's suddenly become popular and his MeanBoss constantly abuses him, it's not hard to see why.
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* The Wakecliff family in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' had some very bad and rather suspicious times. A family of fifty-eight all died within one season. Eldest Wakecliff, the head of the family, took to [[DrowningMySorrows drinking heavily]] and later died of alcohol poisoning after going on a binge when she heard about six of her kin dying in a carriage accident.
* ''Literature/TwilightoftheRedTsar'': [[spoiler:Mao descends into rampant alcoholism after being forced out of power by the Chinese Politburo due to his insistence on continuing the Sino-Soviet war.]]
* [[SympatheticPOV A relatable example]] with Kyle Griffin, the protagonist of ''Literature/TheImpairment'' where he turns to booze to help lower the stress he feels after being framed for the murder of his roommate by an extra-terrestrial. Needless to say, [[FromBadToWorse it's not much of a comfort]] as that's where all the trouble always starts.
%%* Huckleberry Finn's dad in both ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'' and ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn''.
%%** Muff Potter as well. Injun Joe uses this to his advantage and frames him for murder, and because Muff was too drunk to remember what happened, he can't disprove it.
* ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'': Eve drinks far too much, sometimes in place of a meal or to put off sleep. In fact, our very first sight of her was when she was drunk, holding a tea cup filled with gin in one hand and a [[RecklessGunUsage Luger]] in the other. She uses alcohol to [[DrowningMySorrows kill the pain]] of her memories of the [[WarIsHell war]].
* Several characters from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. King Robert Baratheon spends as much time as he can with a [[TheHedonist comfortable buzz]]... mainly because he's depressed as hell, and it's his way of coping. It bites him in a [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy number of ways]]. [[LadyDrunk Cersei]] becomes one over the course of the series, which is part of the reason Jaime finds her increasingly repulsive. Sandor Clegane has long been one, and even in the second book is rarely seen sober; in the third book, he basically wanders around getting drunk when and wherever possible (with a ten-year-old in tow, no less). [[spoiler: It's his [[FatalFlaw downfall]]. Turns out it's kind of hard to fight when you're that drunk.]] There's Tyrion Lannister, who is a high functioning version of this, and is always looking for more wine. But, as the series illustrates, the more drunk you are, the better your chances of catching the IdiotBall, even if you don't go full-on AlcoholInducedIdiocy. Even you, Tyrion.
* ''Literature/DragonQueen'': the old man drinks enough to knock himself out in his [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first appearance]].
* Sydney Carton in ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'', which, despite being one of his many [[ButtMonkey fall-backs]], a drink or two [[strike: or twenty]] causes him to [[DrunkenMaster work more efficiently.]]
* Renzo Leoni in ''Literature/AThreadOfGrace'' occasionally gets so drunk that he'll pass out in the bed of a strange woman and has to check the fabric of his clothes and the class of woman to remind himself which fake identity he had adopted the night before. He's still a charismatic and effective resistance leader.
* Johnny Nolan in ''Literature/ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn''.
* Played for cynical effect in ''The Black Cat''. An alcoholic protagonist kills his black cat in an insane manner, and later kills his wife when he's hunting for another black cat with little to no remorse.
%%* Marmeladov in ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment''.
* In ''Film/{{Devdas}}'', the eponymous character relies too much on DrowningMySorrows after his childhood friend Paro gets married to someone else (because of ParentalMarriageVeto concerning their [[TypeCaste social classes]]), and becomes this. [[spoiler: [[TearJerker It leads to his demise, right at Paro's doorstep, and she's not even allowed to go see him.]]]]
* In Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Sam Vimes is a recovering alcoholic, though he objects to the term (he was a drunk, he wasn't rich enough to be an alcoholic), partly because he is so [[TheCynic cynical]] that his natural blood alcohol is ''negative'' and he needs a stiff double to count as sober. Also kind of a case of OnceDoneNeverForgotten, since his history of drunkenness has been used [[spoiler:[[Literature/FeetOfClay by the nobles of Ankh-Morpork to try to frame him for poisoning Lord Vetinari]]]] and [[spoiler:[[Literature/{{Snuff}} by Stratford to get him drunk enough to pass out so he, Stratford, can murder Vimes' son]]]]. In both cases, Vimes saw what was being planned, and either poured out the booze on the carpet or had his manservant substitute the drink for a "virgin" version.
** This is perhaps the natural state of the [[BlueBlood Ramkin patriarchs]], as described in ''Literature/{{Snuff}}''. Antics like drunkenly handing out lavish (if occasionally [[AristocratsAreEvil red-hot]]) tips and swilling a cask of sherry in public after winning a bet earned them an odd sort of respect from their servants, of the "our drunk old lord can beat your drunk old lord in a drinking contest" variety.
* ''Literature/{{Eileen}}'':
** Eileen's father has such a drinking problem that he is confined to the house due to being too belligerent and delusional to work as a police officer, drive a car, or even walk around the neighborhood. He drinks at least a bottle of gin a day and spends all his time hallucinating about mobsters and verbally abusing Eileen.
** Eileen herself, while much more functional than her father, still has problems with drinking that involve frequent drunk driving, drinking at work, and heavy drinking. In one incident, she drank so much she passed out in her crashed car and likely would have died if she hadn't been found.
%%* Harry Driscoll in Adam Davies' ''Literature/TheFrogKing''.
* The titular protagonist of ''Literature/EleanorOliphantIsCompletelyFine'' drinks two bottles of vodka every weekend and gets drunk many times through the story, all to deal with her loneliness and desperation for companionship. [[spoiler:She later almost drinks herself to death with a suicide attempt.]]
* In ''Literature/TheGirlWhoWouldBeKing'', Lola's mother Delia was an alcoholic. Over the course of the novel, Lola ends up becoming an alcoholic herself.
* ''Literature/HarryHole'', the protagonist in a series of crime thrillers by Norwegian Jo Nesbø. A detective in the Oslo Police Department, Harry is usually tolerated by his superiors and colleagues despite his habitual alcoholism and unorthodox methods because he is a brilliant detective.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Winky the house elf, who, being an elf, gets drunk on butterbeer.
** And Professor Trelawney with her cooking sherry. Though it only started because Umbridge put her on probation.
** [[EmotionalBruiser Hagrid]] is heavily implied to be one. He swears at least once that he'll never drink again (it doesn't take), and the trio end up [[ManChild taking care of him]] more than vice versa.
** It is implied that Sirius has a drinking problem in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]''. This likely stems from him being forced to stay in the house where he experienced his unhappy childhood.
* David and Simon from ''Literature/{{Haunted 1988}}''. The former had cleaned up in the film version.
%%* Doc from ''Literature/TheHost''
* Literature/TheHungerGames gives us Haymitch, who is perpetually shown drunk or at least mildly intoxicated, largely an effect of the horrors the Hunger Games he competed in. He is an alcoholic to the point where the main characters worry about him after police shut down the local liquor brewers.
* ''Literature/JakubWedrowycz'' stories: Jakub, as well as most of his home village, this being set in Poland, is heavy on the drink. Yet they don't seem to be intoxicated very often, or at least not debilitated by it.
* Bertie's Uncle George in ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' "discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought." Occasionally "his liver lodges a formal protest" and he goes to a healing center to get cleaned up, only to go back to drinking as soon as he returns to London.
* In ''[[Literature/TheLeagueOfPeoplesVerse Expendable]]'', former Explorer Phylar Tobit is an alcoholic. Festina is disgusted by him, but also secretly feels somewhat envious. All Explorers receive psychological conditioning to make them fastidiously clean and tidy; in becoming a stinking drunkard, Phylar has managed to overcome that programming and in a way beat the system.
* Grantaire in ''Literature/LesMiserables'' almost always had a bottle in his hand, and actually sleeps through the final battle because he's passed out from alcohol.
* ''Literature/TheManWhoFellToEarth'': Thomas Jerome Newton is an AlienAmongUs who becomes one over the course of the work.
%%* The protagonist of Russian novel ''Literature/MoscowPetushki'' by Venedikt Erofeev.
* Literature/{{Nevada}}: The main character drinks as a coping mechanism for her failing love life and her [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} gender dysphoria]].
* Cat from the ''Literature/NightHuntress'' books has [[NeverGetsDrunk high alcohol tolerance]], and drinks gin like water. She also [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs a freaking drink]] more often than is really healthy; Bones comments that her gin bottle is like a security blanket for her.
* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': [[BoisterousBruiser Bruin]] has a drinking problem, and tends to turn into a [[TheBerserker Berseker]] when he's had too much. He tends to drink before battle to take advantage of this.
* Richard Lopez of ''Literature/ShipBreaker'' is an extreme alcoholic, who is almost constantly drunk. Of course he's also a [[DrugsAreBad drug-addicted]] ArchnemesisDad and an AxeCrazy [[TheSociopath sociopath]] so this is honestly the least of his problems.
* Stag Preston in ''Literature/SpiderKiss'', and it just makes his other negative traits that much worse.
* Kurak in the ''Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire'' novels. At one point, she refuses to believe that she has alcohol poisoning, because as far as she's concerned alcohol is only a poison to "weak" races such as humans. Usually Klingon physiology fights off the negative effects of alcohol, but she'd consumed so much that even Klingon biology couldn't cope.
* Arthur's mother in ''Literature/{{Theatrica}}'' [[spoiler:who falls of a roof, piss drunk, and dies]].
* 1st Sgt. Welsh in ''Literature/TheThinRedLine'', possibly due to the stress of his job.
* Athos of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' is almost always [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning His Sorrows]], but NeverGetsDrunk (or at least doesn't show it).
* Margo's father in ''Literature/TimeScout''. He's the sort who's drinking away his troubles due to the death of an infant child.
* Sam Houston in ''Literature/TrailOfGlory'' is shown as a high-functioning alcoholic, which he also was in real life.
* Second Prize in ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' spends the majority of the book intoxicated, often putting his junkie mates to shame through his AlcoholInducedStupidity.
%%* Geoffrey Firmin in ''Literature/UnderTheVolcano''.
* Creator/CharlesBukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski. Most of Bukowski's novels are autobiographical, so it's pretty obvious that he really enjoyed beer by the bucketful.
* Several of Creator/MarianKeyes's novels feature alcoholics, such as Lucy's father and her boyfriend Gus in ''Lucy Sullivan is getting married'' and of course the alcoholics in the treatment centre in ''Rachel's Holiday''.
* Several Creator/StephenKing protagonists (especially [[AuthorAvatar the writers]]), have this particular affliction, most notably Jack Torrance from ''Literature/TheShining'' (also Danny Torrance in ''Literature/DoctorSleep'') and Jim Gardener from ''Literature/TheTommyknockers''. King himself went through alcoholism and recovery during the course of his career, so that's not too surprising. Ironically, many people think he wrote better books ''before'' he stopped drinking. In his memoirs, King himself denies that there's any relationship between being a good writer and being an alcoholic. He mentions in his memoirs that he has no recollection of writing ''Literature/{{Cujo}}'' -- that was one pretty impressive bender there.
* ''Literature/TheLastFullMeasure'' references UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant's previous alcoholism and explains its origins. He's shown almost going OffTheWagon after the disastrous assault on Cold Harbor, but one of his aides intervenes. General Ledlie also appears and gets no sympathy, since his inebriation in two battles resulted in disaster for his men.
* Arthur Huntingdon in ''Literature/TheTenantOfWildfellHall'', to the point that it ends up killing him before he's forty.
* Runge Margavo from the sci-fi anthology ''Literature/RieselTalesTwoHunters'' loves his alcohol, though he doesn't usually take his addiction to absurd levels.
* The ditzy popstar Cherry Pye in Creator/CarlHiaasen 's book ''Literature/StarIsland'' drinks constantly and to excess, often resulting in a disastrous aftermath, like Axl Rose headed zebra tattoos, which must be cleaned up by her handlers.
%%* Sebastian Flyte from ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited''.
* The mugger in ''Literature/TheManWhoControlledMetal'' is a completely unrepentant drunk. [[spoiler:Until he gets scared straight, anyway.]]
* August from ''Literature/OfFearAndFaith'' is a recovering alcoholic and the stress from his bouts with TheLegionsOfHell occasionally drives him back to the bottle. Despite some close calls, he's yet to fall off the wagon however.
* Cithrin in ''Literature/TheDaggerAndTheCoin'' becomes this by the end of the first book, which is especially distressing when you consider just how young she is.
* Adrian Ivashkov from ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', is addicted to alcohol, played with in that it's more to block out spirit.
* In ''Literature/TheGodfather'' a doctor is talking to a friend of Johhny Fontaine, telling the man that if he doesn't cut out the smoking and drinking he'll be dead in five years. The man gives off an apparently horrified reaction as he says, "My God! Doc, are you serious? I'll be dead in five years? You mean it's going to take ''that long''?
* Frank Browning in the ''Literature/AhrimanTrilogy'' is the sad variety, drinking to forget the horrible things he's seen.
%%* Salome Otterbourne from ''Literature/DeathOnTheNile''
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Giji Mesh is a regular at "The Full Mug" and inevitably becomes rowdy after drinking herself into a stupor. At that point, her lieutenant takes her home.
* Ahmed in ''Literature/MidnightsChildren''. After purchasing Methwold's estate, he becomes a bit too attached to the English wine cabinet, and starts "warring with [[StealthPun djinns]]". This eventually makes him very delusional.
* In ''Literature/ApathyAndOtherSmallVictories'', Shane is almost completely unable to deal with the rest of the world without getting blitzed out of his mind.
* Hunn Raal, from the ''Literature/KharkanasTrilogy'', who is one of the commanders in Urusander's Legion. Nobody likes him and his constant drinking makes everyone think he's a useless fool. [[spoiler:Evidence shows it's ObfuscatingStupidity.]]
* In ''Literature/GunsOfTheDawn'', Father Burnloft, the priest attached to the army in which Emily is sent to serve, is habitually drunk. It may simply be a consequence of [[DrowningMySorrows all the death he's seen]], but soldiers who've seen just as much and now have to listen to him stagger through the funeral service for their dead comrades don't necessarily have much sympathy.
* In ''Literature/UnderTheDome'', Sloppy Sam Verdreau fits this trope. He's almost constantly drunk, and although he's fairly functional, [[spoiler:this proves to be his downfall by making him more susceptible to the machinations of more villainous characters]].
* In ''Literature/{{Addicted|Series}}'', Loren and Jonathan Hale are both alcoholics, [[spoiler:along with Ryke Meadows in the past. Loren recovers eventually.]]
* Terry Lennox in the Literature/PhilipMarlowe novel ''Literature/TheLongGoodbye''. And Roger Wade. And, arguably, Marlowe himself.
* Eren dom Hastrell of ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' is drunk most of the time, having descended into alcoholism after he was dishonorably discharged from the EliteArmy he used to be a part of. [[spoiler:Or so he wants everyone to think.]]
* In Lawrence Block's thriller ''Literature/ArielBlock'', David, Ariel's father, is a functioning one of these. His portrayal is partly based on Block's own.
* In ''Literature/LightAPennyCandle'', Tony [[spoiler: gets drunk on his wedding night, and passes out before the marriage can be consumated. He's also frequently drunk, and when Aisling finally confronts him about it, he hits her in a violent rage. He ends up dying in a nursing home from liver failure.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Madicken}}'', Abbe's father spends most of his time drinking or sleeping, which puts a lot of stress on his wife. He's a much more sympathetic character though than many other examples of this trope, because he's a genuinely kind man at heart.
* Danny Capistrano is in serious alcohol withdrawals throughout the majority of ''Literature/ParaisoStreet'' . The ending implies that he might be on a real path to recovery.
* ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'': Ronall, Elelar's husband, is a hopeless drunk and drug addict. He only sobers up when imprisoned by the Valdani, and the withdrawal was apparently quite hard on him. The very first thing he does after being released is go get drunk once again.
* ''Literature/BigBlonde'':
** Hazel becomes an alcoholic early into the story. Originally she couldn't stand the taste of liquor but her alcoholic husband encouraged her to drink with him. By the time her husband leaves her she's an alcoholic who drinks several times a day and can't stand to be sober.
** Many of Hazel's friends and lovers are drinkers. Most notable is her husband Herbie. She thought his drinking was funny at first however she soon began to become annoyed by it. This, combined with Hazel's depression, annoyed Herbie which kept him at an arm's distance from her.
* Lucky's owner in ''Literature/{{Survivor|Dogs}}s'' was an alcoholic who beat him up. As a puppy, he ran out the door and has since been turned off from being anyone's pet.
* Sephy's mother from ''Literature/NoughtsAndCrosses'', and eventually Sephy herself.
* Literature/JamesBond tends to drink a lot, though more so in the novels than in the movies. He's constantly guzzling down on booze, and sometimes likes to mix it with coffee or water. By the end of Fleming's run, he's consumed over [[http://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/title-the-man-with-the-golden-liver_52aa474022381_w1500.jpg 1150 alcohol units]], including martinis, beer, whisky, bourbon, cocktails, gin and champagne. A tragic example comes in ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', where he goes completely off the rails after [[TheLostLenore Tracy's death]] in ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', drunkenly wandering about London, [[SanitySlippage thinking irrationally]] and getting ''multiple hangovers'' on a daily basis.
* ''Literature/{{Doglands}}'': Dedbone is an alcoholic who [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals mistreats his racing greyhounds]].
* ''Literature/TheElenium'': Krager, henchman to Martel and then to [[spoiler:Zalasta]], is best-known for being an unapologetic alcoholic. He starts out as a FunctionalAddict, since he's quite clever and even exploits his reputation to [[PlayingDrunk Play Drunk]]. RealityEnsues later in ''The Tamuli'' -- he slowly becomes an AddledAddict, compromises a mission due to a bribe of his favourite drink, and only fails to be the sole KarmaHoudini because he's teetering over the edge of terminal liver failure at the finale.
* ''Literature/DevilsAndThieves'': Jemmie drinks a ''lot'', and everyone around her is worried about her bad habit. Crowe even has to cut her off from the bar in his first scene, knowing she'd already had two drinks in the span of twenty minutes. It's a big step forward when she decides to go out without some alcohol.
* ''Literature/NightmareAlley'' contains two prominent characters that are alcoholics:
** Zeena's carny husband Pete is a raging one, drinking heavily every night and sleeping throughout the day. He dies when the main character Stan [[AccidentalMurder accidentally passes him a bottle of wood alcohol]] instead of the rotgut he intended to give him.
** Stan himself becomes increasingly dependent on alcohol throughout the book and by the end falls into complete alcoholism when he is homeless and on the run from Ezra Grindle's hired goons.
* In Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado'', Fortunato has an affinity for wine and a love of drinking that ends up being his doom.
* ''Literature/JPBeaumont'': Beau drinks heavily to cope with the things he sees a homicide detective. He eventually realizes that he has a problem and joins A.A. In the later books, he is a recovering alcoholic. (WordOfGod from Jance is that for the first few novels, she did not realize that Beau was showing all of the classic signs for alcoholism.)
* ''Literature/TheHeartstrikers'':
** Amelia the Planeswalker, eldest surviving daughter of Bethesda the Heartstriker, one of the two greatest dragon mages in the world, and inarguably one of the most powerful entities to walk this or any other plane, is mostly known for being an unreliable drunk. Considering her own mother has been trying to murder her for centuries for stupid reasons, this is understandable. Of course, as a dragon, it takes a ''lot'' to get her drunk. She normally cuts her alcohol with hydra venom.
** In the sequel series ''Literature/{{DFZ}}'', Amelia is [[spoiler:the Spirit of Dragons, the immortal god of all dragonkind]]. She's still a drunk. Opal is instructed on how to get her attention using ''cheap'' alcohol. Opal is worried, because even she would be insulted if someone tried to summon her with such cheap offerings, but she's barely finished when Amelia has already appeared and is drinking the offerings.
* A recurring theme in ''Literature/ThereThere'', examined through its effects on others. Thomas is an alcoholic and lost his job, Tony's mother left him with fetal alcohol syndrome, Octavio lost his family in a drunk driving accident, and Jacquie is trying to become sober after her daughter committed suicide.
* Real-life LAPD chief Bill Parker is a character in Creator/JamesEllroy's ''Literature/{{Perfidia}}''. Ellroy portrays him as an alcoholic desperately fighting his addiction in the days immediately after Pearl Harbor. Doesn't help that Parker is under a ton of stress.
* In ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', almost all of the pirates and Mr. Arrow. Billy Bones's stroke at the beginning is attributed to drinking little but rum at the Benbow Inn, and Captain Flint was allegedly killed by rum as well.
* In ''Literature/ANightInTheLonesomeOctober'', the monk Rastov is always drinking whenever we see him. His assistant Quicklime says it's an attempt to numb the pain Rastov feels from his compassion for the suffering people of the world.
* ''Literature/SecretSanta'': During Erik's hunt for his SecretSanta, he finds a bottle of Jim Beam in Company Comptroller Peter Jarry's desk.
* ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'': Eleanor’s stepfather Richie drinks constantly, spends a lot of time in a bar and has driven drunk with the kids more than once.
* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': The ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series features recurring character Lord Arthur Sinclair, who spends most of his time drinking (he even started his own political party based on removing all taxes on alcohol), and it's suggested by some that he's trying to drink himself to death.
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* In ''Film/FortyFive'', Big Al carries a hip flask and is [[QuickNip constantly swigging from it]], and seems half in the bag most of the time. Vic tells Kat that alcoholics don't have loved ones, they have hostages.
%%* ''Film/NineToFive''. Margaret. "Atta girl!"
* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''. Ted Striker has a "drinking problem", by which he means [[ExactWords he always misses his mouth]].
* In ''Film/{{Anamorph}}'', Detective Aubrey doctors all of his drinks with alcohol when he thinks no one is looking.
* Miss Hannigan is one in ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'', and it's largely PlayedForLaughs. She spends the majority of the movie in her cups. Pepper, the cynical oldest foster kid, makes fun of her for it.
* ''Film/{{Arthur}}'': Arthur Bach is one of the last functioning [[PlayedForLaughs "funny drunk"]] examples of this trope before changing attitudes towards alcohol use in UsefulNotes/TheEighties made such portrayals come off as in bad taste. His near-constant drinking is a symptom of his LonelyRichKid / {{Manchild}} nature; while it is mostly for pleasure (he's FunPersonified), some of it does have more serious motivations -- he tells his valet that [[LiquidCourage he's not going to go to a meeting with his humorless father sober]]. He is capable of completely abstaining from alcohol while [[spoiler: he tends to said valet, who is dying]], but he does sink into a bout of DrowningMySorrows afterward. At one point, his valet points out that he can afford to be an eccentric drunk because he's so wealthy; otherwise he'd be a typical gutter drunk. With that in mind, in the sequel ''Arthur 2: On the Rocks'' as he goes from RichesToRags his alcoholism becomes much more of a problem, and part of [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning his happy ending]] is finally getting on the wagon on a long-term basis. The 2011 remake of the original film also treats his situation more seriously, with Arthur being pushed to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
* Arthur Housman played this role almost exclusively throughout his career, appearing alongside a number of popular comedy actors, including Creator/LaurelAndHardy. According to Stan Laurel, Housman was an alcoholic, but his on-camera performances were always true performances. He was never drunk on the set.
* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Marty's mom, Lorraine, is depicted in pre-time travel 1985 as a prematurely aged (and HollywoodPudgy) alcoholic, the booze implied to be a coping tactic for her unhappiness in being married to her wimpy, cowardly husband George. When Marty goes back in time to 1955, he is shocked to find that his mom's alcoholic tendencies were taking root even in her high school days, when she pulls out and takes a swig from a bottle of booze she swiped from her mom's liqour cabinet. He gives his mom a stern warning about drinking, telling her she'll regret it later in life, and thankfully, his warning sticks, as upon his return to 1985, his mom is still strikingly thin and beautiful, the effects of her years of alcohol abuse nowhere apparent.
%%* TheSheriff in ''Film/BadDayAtBlackRock''.
* In ''Film/BlackAngelVol1'', Mayo really hits the skids during the 14 year TimeSkip. When he turns up to hire her, Nogi comments that she got herself off the drugs but had become an alcoholic in the process. At her lowest, she angrily flings a glass of booze away from her, but then, realising what she had done, starts licking the liquor off the barroom floor.
* ''Film/BladeRunner'': Deckard, as a futuristic DefectiveDetective, has a sty of a home filled with booze.
* In ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', Jim, the Waco Kid. He gets better. Creator/GigYoung was originally cast in the role, but his real-life alcoholism led to him being fired after one day on set, where, according to Creator/MelBrooks on the commentary track, he had the shakes constantly. Some of the reverse angle shots of the Sheriff coming to wake the Kid were shot with Young there.
* Uncle Tadpole in ''Theatre/BranNueDae'', evidenced when he spends Willy's last few dollars on booze, forcing them to hitchhike a very long distance. Don't really see him drinking again after that incident though.
* ''Film/TheBurning'': According to Todd, Cropsy drank two bottles of whiskey in a day when he was still the caretaker at Camp Blackfoot.
* Smoky Callaway from ''Film/CallawayWentThataway'' is a Western actor whose popularity skyrocketed when his shorts were put on television. The real Smoky lives as an alcoholic womanizer so, when no one is able to contact him, it's opted to use a younger lookalike instead.
* Jimmy Blake (played by Dean Martin) in ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' movies. He is seldom seen without a drink in his hand -- even while driving -- and the race organizer describes him and his partner Fenderbaum (Sammy Davis, Jr.) as more juiced-up than their Ferrari.
* ''Film/TheChargeAtFeatherRiver'': Pvt. Smiley was in the guardhouse for drunkenness. When the brigade departs, he takes 5 canteens with him; each one filled with hooch instead of water.
-->'''Pvt. Smiley:''' When a man is forced by bitter circumstances to drink water, you might have the common decency to turn the other way.
* In ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'', Vanet is steadily drinking himself to death as his circus slowly dies around him.
* Trumbull in ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'' is an abusive drunkard that frequently winds up in a drunken stupor throughout the film.
* Mike in ''Film/{{Coherence}}''. His wife mentioned that his drinking problem destroyed his career in showbiz.
* Peter in ''Film/TheConIsOn''. Over the course of the film he consumes an amount of alcohol that would be toxic to most people
* ''Film/CruelAndUnusual'': Doris was this while alive, so much that at times she couldn't get herself out of bed. It eventually led to her suicide.
* The lead couple in ''Film/DaysOfWineAndRoses''. When they meet, she won't touch the stuff, but then he finds an alcoholic drink she likes (he already has a bit of a problem). By the end of the movie, they've both hit bottom. He dries out, but she doesn't.
* ''Film/DoingTimeOnMapleDrive'': [[Creator/JimCarrey Tim]] is this, to cope with his father's perfectionism and disappointment in him for flunking out of the military academy.
* Nick Halsey in ''Film/EverythingMustGo'' is a very realistic and self-destructive portrayal.
* Nathan from ''Film/ExMachina'' regularly binges on alcohol and is frequently seen passed out or hungover in the morning. It may actually have been part of his ObfuscatingStupidity to make Caleb underestimate him. [[spoiler:This comes back to bite him when Caleb uses it to steal his key card and reprogram the power loss protocols to set Ava free]].
%%* Lonesome Rhodes in ''Film/AFaceInTheCrowd''.
* In ''Film/TheGrizzlies'', alcoholism is shown to be widespread in the Inuit community to cope with intergenerational trauma, the climate, and boredom due to the isolation. This plays a factor in the neglect and abuse of the main characters.
* Laurie Strode in ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' has become quite the alcoholic. Though, considering who her brother is, who can blame her?
* In ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'', Inspector Gruber is notorious for being a heavy drinker, to the point where [[SignatureItemClue his tendency to leave lots of empty bottles around after drinking is used as evidence that he was present at a place]].
* Ned in ''Film/{{Holiday}}'' is permanently drunk or hung-over.
* in ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles1983'', CanonForeigner Geoffrey Lyons is a struggling artist whom Dr. Morimer describes as "an artist by trade and a drunkard by nature". Played by Creator/BrianBlessed.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Haymitch became a drunk to cope with his PTSD and survivor guilt after winning his hunger game.
* Sarah Packard of ''Film/TheHustler'', who drinks almost constantly to dull the pain of being a BrokenBird.
* ''Film/IEvenMetHappyGypsies'': Derd is seemingly always drunk. He gets so drunk that Bora thinks nothing of going to Derd's house and having sex with his wife while Derd lies passed out.
* In ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'', Doctor Parnassus has kept himself perpetually blotto ever since the death of his wife.
* A downplayed example in ''Film/IngridGoesWest'', but Ezra is drinking in nearly every scene he's in to help cope with his artistic inability and his wife's vapidity. He doesn't show the general tropes of being an alcoholic however.
* ''Film/InTheBleakMidwinter'' featured Carnforth Greville, an actor frequently seen leaving rehearsal under various suspicious pretexts.
-->'''Carnforth Greville''': Chaps, I'm just dipping down to the... post office for a quick... [[UnusualEuphemism stamp.]]
* Viktor Cherevin, the BigBad of ''Film/JackRyanShadowRecruit'', is revealed to be this. [[spoiler:[[YourDaysAreNumbered It's also one of the reasons why he's dying.]]]]
* ''Film/JamesBond'': Just like the novel counterpart, 007 drinks a lot. On average, Creator/DanielCraig's Bond consumes the most alcohol per movie than his cinematic predecessors. ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' has him flat out acknowledging that he has a serious drinking problem.
* In ''Film/{{Khalnayak}}'', Ballu's MommyIssues have led to him becoming this.
* Ben Sanderson in ''Film/LeavingLasVegas'' is purposefully drinking himself to death.
* In ''Film/{{Killdozer}}'', Kelly is a recovering alcoholic. When strange things start happening, Dennis suggests that he might have fallen OffTheWagon.
* ''Film/{{Killers}}'': Jen's mom, to judge by her drinking every chance she gets.
* ''Film/LetThereBeLight2017'': Harkens prior to his conversion. In fact drunk-driving is what leads to this, since he crashes and undergoes a near death experience which convinces him God is real.
%%* Many characters in ''Film/{{Leviathan|2014}}''.
* ''Film/TheLostWeekend'' (1944) is possibly the first Hollywood film to treat the main character's alcoholism in anything resembling a realistic way. It was initially supposed to be about a man who took to drink after realizing he is ''gay'', but had to be {{Bowdlerize}}d.
* ''Film/MidwinterNightsDream'': After Lazar defected from the army, he was so traumatized by what he'd seen and done that he spent most of his time drunk. [[spoiler:He ended up drunkly murdering his best friend and being sentenced to ten years in prison.]]
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/IronMan2'': Tony Stark. Apparently kills the pain of [[spoiler:palladium poisoning]]. Anton Vanko is also implied to have been one, with his "20-year-vodka-filled-rage" destroying himself and his son Ivan.
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Valkyrie, who [[DrowningMySorrows drinks to forget]] the fact that [[spoiler:Hela killed her fellow Valkyries, leaving her as the LastOfHerKind]].
-->'''Valkyrie''': Look, I’ve spent years in a haze, trying to forget my past. Sakaar seemed like the best place to drink and forget, and to die one day.\\
'''Thor''': I was thinking that you drink too much, and that probably was going to kill you.\\
'''Valkyrie''': I don’t plan to stop drinking.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Thor becomes one after he fails to prevent Thanos from wiping out half of all life in the universe.
%%* Tom Reagan from ''Film/MillersCrossing''. And since it is FilmNoir, everyone else.
%%* Implied with Frank in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* Woody from ''Film/{{Nebraska}}''. His son David tries to point this out to him but he refuses to listen to him. [[spoiler: It's later revealed to be a result of his time in the Korean War, having been shot down while being transferred.]]
* Holland March in ''Film/TheNiceGuys'' is a "functioning" alcoholic. And, by the end of the film, it appears that [[spoiler:Healy]] has fallen off the wagon as well.
* ''Film/NonStop'': Air Marshal Marks, by his own admission. [[spoiler: This is also one of the reasons the terrorists chose a flight he was on, figuring an alcoholic wouldn't be able to stop them.]]
* Donna Stern in ''Film/ObviousChild'' almost, dare I say it, made alcoholism adorable in Obvious Child, despite it undeniably contributing to how the film's principal dilemma happened in the first place. Also a subversion of WineIsClassy, as Donna is all about getting the most affordable Pinot she can get her hands on.
* When the Rangers arrive in Waco in ''Film/TheOverTheHillGangRidesAgain'', they discover that their old comrade the Baltimore Kid is now the town drunk.
* ''Film/PrairieFever'': After accidentally killing his wife while attempting to stop a BankRobbery, Preston Biggs goes from being TheSheriff to being the town drunk. During the trip to Carson City, his supply of whisky is destroyed when the wagon loses a wheel, and he is forced to use his replacement whiskey as MolotovCocktail. This lack of booze, combined with his newfound sense of responsibility toward the women in his care (and some strategic nagging from Olivia) forces him to sober up, to the point that he is able to sit in a saloon for several hours without having a drink. He briefly fall OffTheWagon when he learns the truth about Olivia and Monte, but the end of the film indicates he is back on the wagon for good
* In ''Film/TheReturnOfCaptainInvincible'', this is Captain Invincible's super-weakness, to the point that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8W2fkhfFPc it gets exploited in song]] by Creator/ChristopherLee! It is, however, completely played straight. In a parody of different ages of superheroes, Captain Invincible made the transition by getting betrayed by the people he helped and running away. Years pass in an alcoholic stupor and he returns DarkerAndEdgier with a tendency to drink himself catatonic.
* In ''Film/RingOfFear'', O'Malley's main accomplice is Twitchy, an alcoholic clown. Beatty has stated that he will fire any member of the crew who buys Twitchy alcohol.
* If Dean Martin is in a film without Jerry Lewis, Martin is probably playing one of these. "Dude" in ''Film/RioBravo'' is just one of many examples.
* ''Film/SchindlersList'': Schindler is an insatiable womanizer and drinker. He uses this to his advantage by taking Nazi officers out to bars and getting them drunk while he remains [[FunctionalAddict level-headed]] and able to exploit them. This was TruthInTelevision, as the real Schindler was noted to have a nearly superhuman tolerance for alcohol.
* Jack Torrance from ''Film/TheShining''. Tried to stay on the wagon but the haunted hotel kept throwing him parties with ghost booze that worked like the real stuff.
* Norman from ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|1954}}'' already had alcoholic tendencies, however, as his acting career begins to fail and his wife becomes increasingly popular he takes more to alcohol. He even first meets Esther while drunk and acting out at a benefit. One memorable moment has him ruining her receiving an award by walking up on stage in a drunkard stupor and giving an awkward speech. His alcoholism is a major factor in his famous SuicideBySea.
* When the crew of the Enterprise-E meets Zefram Cochrane, inventor of warp drive, in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', they're forced to deal with the fact that [[NeverMeetYourHeroes he's a womanizing, money-grubbing cynic who is seemingly perpetually drunk.]] They manage to sober him up long enough to make the test flight, though he's clearly suffering from a major hangover, and he gets plastered again the moment he's back on the ground.
* ''Film/TheStrangeLoveOfMarthaIvers'': Walter can't bear the burden of sending an innocent man to the gallows and the fact that Martha doesn't love him, so he drinks.
* In ''Film/{{Sunset}}'', Michael Alperin is a lush who beats up women when he is drunk.
* Skid in ''Film/SwingHighSwingLow''. He's okay when he's with Maggie, but once she's gone, he's completely lost in drink.
* In ''[[Film/{{T2Trainspotting}} T2 Trainspotting]]'', a brief appearance by an alchoholic who turns out to be [[spoiler:Begbie's dad]].
* ''Film/TalesOfTerror'': In "The Black Cat", Montressor is a drunken sot who hasn't worked for 17 years and whose only concern is where the price of his next drink is coming from.
* Harris in ''Film/TenDeadMen'' is a [[TheGamblingAddict gambling addict]] and alcoholic who drinks to forget his gambling losses. This combination of vices means none of the gang think it strange when he drops off the radar for a couple of days.
%%* Daniel Plainview of ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''.
* In ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot'', Walter Brennan plays Eddie, the alcoholic unofficial mate played to Humphrey Bogart's fishing boat captain. He may be a rummy but he's a loyal, (fairly) brave rummy.
* ''Film/Trench11'': Berton. He's first pulled from a bar by military police, his LoveInterest wishes he didn't drink as much, and he carries a flask with him into the tunnels.
* Billy in ''Film/TheWarWagon''. Lomax finds drunk under a verandah, and Taw goes to some length to ensure that he can't get anything stronger than cowboy coffee in the lead-up to TheHeist. Most of the gang, and especially Lomax, aren't keen on the idea of someone with shaky hands handling nitroglycerine.
* Major Guy Broughton in ''Film/WhatACarveUp'', who spends most of the movie with a drink in his hand. It's implied that his alcoholism is the reason why he is no longer in the army. When Syd tells him that he is going drink himself to death, Guy's response is a dreamy "What a way to go!"
* Jane from ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'' drinks heavily and is drunk in quite a few scenes. This was brought on due to wanting to relive her life as a [[FormerChildStar child star]] and due to having to take care of the sister she left wheelchair bound.
* Detective Ringwald in ''Film/WhenEvilCalls''. He spends the entire film drunk, climbs out his car clutching a bottle of booze, and is shown eating ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs and whiskey for breakfast.
* Eddie Valiant from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is a fairly realistic example, played for all the drama it's worth: He turned to drinking some time after [[spoiler:his brother was murdered by a toon, who'd dropped a piano on the poor guy]]. If some of the comments made by minor characters are to be believed, he prefers whiskey.
%%* The king of this trope is Withnail from ''Film/WithnailAndI''.
* Lawrence comes off as this in ''Film/TheWolfman2010''. Played pretty straight in the book adaptation of the movie.
* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': Main protagonist Akikazu drinks a lot, to the point where he completely loses control and beats up whoever he gets his hands on (most notably his family). He's implied to have been a heavy drinker for many years.
* In ''Film/{{Wolves}}'', Gail Timmons is swaying drunk in every scene she's in. She has a pretty strong FreudianExcuse, though; her father killed her mother, then himself, when she and her sister Angel were teenagers.
* Gary King from ''Film/TheWorldsEnd''. Everyone else sees how harmful his binge drinking is, although he sees it all as a bit of fun and seems to be in denial. Gary is still in the teenage mindset of alcohol making you an adult. [[spoiler:He's stopped drinking by the end of the film]].
* ''Film/WouldYouRather'': Conway (John Heard) is a recovered alcoholic -- but AffablyEvil host Shep Lambrick challenges him to drink a glass of wine for $10,000 -- or an entire decanter of top-shelf Scotch in exchange for $50,000. Conway eventually opts for the Scotch.
* In ''Film/WrittenOnTheWind'', Kyle drinks so much that Mitch points out when he's more or less sober, for once.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': It's not specified if Charlie was a heavy drinker before, if [[DrowningMySorrows the war made him so]], or if he is self-medicating, but he surely is a booze sponge.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': The younger Charles Xavier has been a drunk for the past decade by the time Logan meets him.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Ms. Maximoff is a heavy drinker because she's holding a glass of what appears to be whiskey in the middle of the day. She also took a sip of alcohol during daytime in ''The Rogue Cut''.
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* TheAlcoholic/Literature

!!Examples:

* As per his MCU self, Tony Stark in ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' drinks a ''lot'' during the first book, even keeping a supply of alcohol in every lab. If he's not on caffeine, he's probably on alcohol. However, he does cut down on it somewhat once [[spoiler: his daughter Ada]] is born and he has a role model to set.

* Boomstick of ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', being the stereotypical southern American redneck, is portrayed as this. Many of Boomstick's {{Noodle Incident}}s, if not ''all'' of them, has been attributed to him handing Wiz his beer and going "[[FamousLastWords Here, hold this.]]" Of course, the man does have limits - in a preview video for [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Amy Rose]], Wiz lied to Boomstick about that [Boomstick] has the ability to drink as much alcohol as he wants only for the man to lose all of that and everything else all over the floor during the preview video for Amy's opponent, [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim Ramona Flowers]].

** In the episode "Benderama", Bender uses a self replicating device to make 2 smaller copies of himself. This process repeats itself until thousands of molecule level Benders rearrange the molecules of Earth's oceans [[note]] taking H[[subscript:2]]O and some ambient carbon atoms, and arranging it into C[[subscript:2]]H[[subscript:6]]O[[/note]], turning it into alcohol.

** In the episode "Benderama", Bender uses a self replicating device to make 2 smaller copies of himself. This process repeats itself until thousands of molecule level Bender's rearrange the molecules of earth's oceans [[note]] taking H[[subscript:2]]O and some ambient carbon atoms, and arranging it into C[[subscript:2]]H[[subscript:6]]O[[/note]], turning it into Alcohol.

We also have a UsefulNotes page on UsefulNotes/AlcoholismAndAlcoholAbuse

* Downplayed, but in ''AudioPlay/{{Starboard}}'' its implied by [[RobotMaid Chauncy]] that [[TheDandy Reginald's]] main vice when he was a duke was brandy, and indeed he starts the first episode severely hungover.

%%* Heinz the punk from German comic ''ComicStrip/{{Rudi}}''.

%%* Qrow and Glynda in ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora''.

%%* Edward Elric (of all people) in ''Fanfic/FullmetalLol''

* Norman from ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|1954}}'' already had alcoholic tendencies however as his acting career begins to fail and his wife becomes increasingly popular he takes more to alcohol. He even first meets Esther while drunk and acting out at a benefit. One memorable moment has him ruining her receiving an award by walking up on stage in a drunkard stupor and giving an awkward speech. His alcoholism is a major factor in his famous SuicideBySea.