1 | '''Basic Trope''': Just a sip of liquor and he's passed out. |
2 | * '''Straight''': After taking a sip of liquor, Bob passes out for several hours. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Bob passes out for a week after so much as smelling alcohol. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Bob can drink a bit of liquor. Any more than that, and he's out. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Bob rarely drinks, is young, or both, and has not built up any tolerance. |
7 | ** Bob is genetically incapable of tolerating alcohol. |
8 | ** Bob has recently eaten an "inky cap" mushroom (''Coprinopsis atramentaria''), which ruined his alcohol tolerance. |
9 | ** Bob can hold most drinks as well as others, but he ordered a GargleBlaster, which exceeded his limits by too much. |
10 | * '''Inverted''': NeverGetsDrunk |
11 | * '''Subverted''': |
12 | ** Bob passes out after taking a sip of liquor ... then it turns out he'd been drinking for several hours. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. |
13 | ** Bob passes out after one drink... then it turns out someone slipped him a Mickey. |
14 | * '''Double Subverted''': He'd just been drinking the weakest drinks imaginable and shouldn't be tipsy in the least. |
15 | * '''Parodied''': |
16 | ** [[YourMindMakesItReal It's all in Bob's head]] -- when his friends tell him a soda pop is an alcoholic beverage, [[FakeHigh he passes out]]; meanwhile, he takes a Long Island Iced Tea (not knowing its alcoholic content) with no problems. |
17 | ** Bob gets DrunkOnMilk. |
18 | ** Bob gets drunk even though he hasn't ingested any beverage. |
19 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob passes out late in the afternoon after a small sip of liquor. But he'd been drinking all day ... except he was drinking very weak liquor. But he'd still been drinking ''all day'' -- anyone would pass out after that much drinking. |
20 | * '''Averted''': Bob has a reasonable, if not extreme, tolerance. |
21 | * '''Enforced''': "We need to show the viewers that [[DrugsAreBad drinking is bad]]. Let's have a seemingly healthy adult male pass out after a drop of liquor!" |
22 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
23 | -->'''Charlie''': He's passed out already? The party hasn't even ''started''. |
24 | -->'''Alice''': That's Bob for you. |
25 | * '''Invoked''': Bob doesn't like drinking, but succumbs to peer pressure, so he acts as if he's very drunk after just a small sip as an excuse not to drink any more. |
26 | * '''Exploited''': Knowing that Bob will be extremely drunk after only a sip, Alice offers Bob a drink in an attempt to make him slip up and reveal private information. |
27 | * '''Defied''': Bob is TheTeetotaler, and his alcohol tolerance is never tested. |
28 | * '''Discussed''': |
29 | -->'''Alice''': That's it, Bob! First drink of the night! |
30 | -->'''Bob''': Well, you've seen the TV shows. Maybe I'll be passing out before I can bring the second drink to my mouth. |
31 | * '''Conversed''': "...That's just a can of beer, right? How's he that drunk? Was the studio too lazy to film more than one sip of drinking?" |
32 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob is seen as less of a man and ostracized because of his inability to handle alcohol. People are reluctant to befriend him because they know he (and by extension they) can't drink. |
33 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
34 | ** He finds friends who don't drink. |
35 | ** He gets his existing friends to accept his condition and they go to bars by cab, on foot, by bus, or with him as the designated driver. |
36 | * '''Played for Horror''': |
37 | ** Bob is robbed, raped, and killed while he's out cold. |
38 | ** Bob transforms into [[EldritchAbomination something bizarrely nonhuman]] while he's out cold; what's more, it would really [[PainfulTransformation hurt him]] if he were awake. |
39 | * '''Played for Laughs''': Bob takes a sip of wine and gets drunk. HilarityEnsues. |
40 | * '''Played for Drama''': Bob has an alcoholic drink despite having no tolerance for it (possibly after eating the aforementioned "inky cap") and is hospitalized with alcohol poisoning. |
41 | * '''Implied''': At a WildTeenParty, Bob is the only kid who passes out. |
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43 | Back to ... back ... to ... back ... eh, here's the [[CantHoldHisLiquor main trope page]], ah'm gunnnnna ([[AlcoholHic hic!]]) go lie down... |
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