Launching in 12 hours under the title Drinking Contest. Last call for examples/additions/objections.

"I shall win. You haven't the liver or the stomach of a first-rate winebibber!"

Do We Seriously Not Have This?

Basically, a competition to see who can hold his liquor better. In its simplest form, participants drink equal amounts simultaneously and whoever quits or passes out first, loses. Variants may involve periodic tests of skill, often with the loser obliged to perform some humiliating forfeit.

(Needs A Better Description, and particularly perspectives on how this is used to establish character and setting.)

Distinct from Drinking Game, in two ways. One, many Drinking Games are like closet dramas, never meant to be performed; a Drinking Contest exists only in performance. Two, a Drinking Game has as its object getting drunk, and is noncompetitive or only nominally competitive; a Drinking Contest has as its object not getting (as) drunk (as the other guy) and always has a winner and a loser.

A Drinking Contest is typically dreaded by a character who Cant Hold His Liquor, and may be subject to exploitation by one who Never Gets Drunk.

Examples:

Anime and Manga

• In Maison Ikkoku, Mrs. Ichinose intentionally threw a drinking contest in her youth to get her husband to marry her (or something like that. I don't have the manga here for reference).
• One Piece: In Whiskey Peak, Zorro and Nami give up after consecutively beating 13, or 15, respectively, opponents. And even then they're faking.
• Black Lagoon: When Rock challenges Revy in the first episode/volume.

Comics

• Wolverine often takes advantage of his healing factor to coax money out of suckers this way.

Film

• In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marian's introduction comes as she is winning a drinking contest.
• Tower of London interprets Clarence's legendary drowning (in a pipe of wine) as being inflicted on him during a drinking contest he had, indeed, been winning.
• The Frat contest in Revenge Of The Nerds had drinking as a part of it.
• In Lord Of The Rings: Return of the King, Legolas and Gimli have a last-man-standing-wins drinking contest. By the end of the night, Gimli passes out on the floor while Leglolas is left perfectly sober except for a "slight tingling" in his fingers.
  • A classic case of Did Not Do The Research, since Dwarves almost never get drunk; meanwhile in The Hobbit, Legolas's butler and chief guard both passed out from a single flagon of strong wine, and there's no indication that Legolas would fare any better.

Literature

• I don't have the book to hand, but I seem to recall that Ol' Janx Spirit was used for one of the "periodic test of skill" variety, the skill in question being psychokinesis.
• The Devil May Cry novel #1 has one of these between Dante and Gilver.

Live Action TV

• Star Trek The Original Series episode "By Any Other Name". Scotty has a Drinking Contest with one of the alien Kelvans who have taken over the Enterprise (though the Kelvan doesn't realize what's going on). When the Kelvan passes out Scotty gets his device and tries to take it to Captain Kirk, but passes out himself before he can do so.
• In Heroes Nathan and Claire were trapped in Mexico. Nathan tried to use a Drinking Contest to win some cash with which to get home, but lost. Claire stepped up and won however, due to her Healing Factor making it impossible for her to get drunk.
• Blackadder, second series, episode "Beer", features Edmund Blackadder trying to simultaneously have a quiet dinner with his fanatically religious relatives in one room, and have a bawdy drinking contest with some friends in the next room down the hall.
• Red Dwarf: Lister has a drinking contest with his alternate universe female self, which leads to them sleeping together and him getting pregnant.

Tabletop Games (?)

• Space Wolves Primarch Leman Russ challenged the God Emperor to this. Surprisingly, Leman Russ won.

Video Games

• In Monkey Island 2, one of the things Guybrush has to do is to win one of these, and he does it by switching grog for near-grog, which doesn't have any alcohol.
• Usually in any fantasy RPG Game featuring Dwarves.
  • Neverwinter Nights
  • Baldurs Gate
  • The Witcher
• Chrono Trigger has two of these. One is a side game in the Millenial Fair, where he simply has to drink as much as he can in an effort to win some Silver Points. The other is plot-related, and he has to out-drink Ayla to win the Dreamstone. In the original SNES release, the drinks were censored to soda and soup, respectively.
• In Sly 3, one of the missions in the Outback involves a lemonade-drinking contest between Sly, Murray and Bentley and the miners they're battling, After you win, it leads to a bar fight because "that turtle spilled more than he drank!"
• Temple Of Elemental Evil has one in the Homlet Tavern, winning allows you to loot the KOed losers for some starting equipment. Any party member (even if they aren't the Paladin) participating when a Paladin is in the party makes them fall.
• One of the adventures in Kingdom Of Loathing is a drinking game. You can win by out-drinking your contestants, cheating, or teleporting your drinks into your opponents' stomachs.

Western Animation

• Family Guy does this. It's how Peter convinces his real Irish father that he's his son.

Real Life

• At one time a Russian agent was ordered to challenge a Turkish official to a drinking contest in order to get information out of him when drunk. Despite the fact that the Russian knew his employers were unforgiving it was the Turk that won and got information out of him. This was kind of an alchoholic Duel To The Death.

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