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* In ''ComicBook/SupergirlWomanOfTomorow'': On her 18th birthday, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] travels to the tavern of a red sun medieval-like world in order to get drunk.

* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'': Lina and co sometimes take a break in these. [[PersonOfMassDestruction Considering her reputation and her temper though]], sometimes this is to the detriment of the other customers, the tavern, the city the tavern is located at...

* In ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' comics this is done straight and played with. In the standard version of this trope, the [[ComicBook/Thor2014 unknown female Thor]] meets the Warriors Three in a tavern. There, they give her a series of quests to do before they will accept her as a rightful Thor (they also had her do a drinking contest as well to see if she could hold her liquor). In the 'played with' version, a little alien girl prays to Thor to save their harvest from a decades long drought. Thor does so and is about to leave when the grateful, impoverished aliens ask him to stay a while and they have a large stock of mead made from slugs to offer. Since 'mead' was involved of course Thor had to stay and in the course of the evening learns about the events of the Godbutcher. What makes this atypical was that there is no tavern, the aliens are too impoverished to have anything so fancy. It was just a somewhat solemn occasion held by a campfire.

* In the ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' games, there's one in every town, possibly two in a large city, and a few outside of towns. These are {{Rest And Resupply Shop}}s for the franchise, although each varies in cost and the quantity you can buy. Many have various other functions, like obtaining information and hiring henchmen.

* In ''Film/The13thWarrior'' Ahmad ibn Fadlan explains that, as a Muslim, he is forbidden to drink alcohol made from either grain or grape. His Viking host laughs and says mead is made from honey. Drunkenness ensues.

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward finds his younger brother, Tosten, in such a tavern, where Tosten works as bard. This comes as a bit of a surprise as Ward had actually left him with a cooper, as apprentice. However, Tosten is a good bard, and apparently manages not to be molested by the [[HelloSailor sailors.]] (Ward was worried about this, as in the setting, the sailors ''don't'' wait until they've spent ninety days at sea. [[DepravedHomosexual Nor does anyone else.]])

* The Mended Drum in Literature/{{Discworld}} is a parodic exaggeration; it's been rebuilt several times, and is widely regarded as the best tavern of ill-repute in the world. The regulars are rough, in a rather specific way; someone coming in and calling himself "Urblad the Undefeatable" would soon have the entire bar proving him wrong with a wide variety of sharp and blunt instruments, but a ten-year-old popping in for a glass of lemonade would never get worse than a clip on the ear (and that more likely than not from ''his mother'', when she hears her child's expanded vocabulary). By ''Literature/GoingPostal'', the brawlers rehearse their moves to look the best for tourists and the bar brawls have become Ankh-Morpork's most popular organized sport.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Waldreg owns an poorly lit inn Tirharad, where people go to drown their sorrows daily. His inn is also the place where the people of Southlands and the Elves show they contempt for each other.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': Lina and co sometimes take a break in these. [[PersonOfMassDestruction Considering her reputation and her temper though]], sometimes this is to the detriment of the other customers, the tavern, the city the tavern is located at...

So they head to a stock fantasy tavern, which will be of wooden construction and generally poorly lit. The drinks, generally either [[AllBeerIsAle ale]] or mead, will be of [[ATankardOfMooseUrine questionable quality]]. Nobody there may even ''realize'' that mead and beer aren't the same thing.[[note]]Mead is made by fermenting honey. No hops or barley are involved. There is a kind of mead/beer hybrid called a braggot, but ''nobody'' outside of homebrewers knows about it these days.[[/note]] Other features may include:

* [[FanServiceWithASmile A serving wench in a low-cut, shoulder-revealing top]]

* Places to sleep

See also MedievalEuropeanFantasy. Compare RestAndResupplyStop.

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* A variety of species

* ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'' has [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglish Ye Pubbe]], the tavern where Crim and Meidri work and the guys hang out (and post their reviews).

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': Lina and co sometimes take a break in these. [[PersonOfMassDestruction Considering her reputation and her temper though]], sometimes this is to the detriment of the other customers, the tavern, the city the tavern is located at...

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with VideoGame/NeedForSpeed.

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* Many of the tropes are parodied in WebVideo/KnightSquire's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEsELDa3rQ Indoorsia]]'' short.
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