People attempting to deal with depression by getting drunk in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- In Between My Brother and Me: Mors Omnibus, Yvonne is slurping down two bowls of oh no kaung swe — a Burmese noodle soup dish made with chicken and coconut milk — the chapter after she has to kill Yusho Sakaki. She even asks Mallow (who runs a Burmese restaurant in this story) if she has noodles for said sorrows.
- The Boys: Real Justice: Maeve's guilt over being part of the Seven drives her to the bottle which is made worse when the Justice League proves to be better than her at the hero game.
- Cycles Upon Cycles: After the Battle of the Citadel and Shepard being spirited away by the Dominion, Kasumi retreats to Dead Man's Port to drink herself into a stupor after all her attempts to locate him fail.
- Death Note Equestria: Colgate does this when L's methods get to be too much for her. Meanwhile, Celestia is strongly implied to have developed an outright drinking problem because of Kira's actions.
- This is the last thing we see Atreus do in Hiver's Here Be Dragons, since his starship was destroyed by Dooku using it to ram a drug cooker's.
- I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC:
- Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
- Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
- Iron Man went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
- In the Once Upon a Time/Mr. Right fanfic Love at First Sight (Once Upon a Time), after breaking up with Robin and being attacked by a cat on the same day, Regina decides to drink a whole bottle of wine and is continuing to do so when Kathryn finds her.
- Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations
: Mitsuzane, through his backstories, started turning to the bottle two months after Kouta and Kaito's climactic battle, despite him underage at that time. This is the reason why Micchy openly revealed his alcoholism to Gou and Samus.Samus's Point of view: Mitsuzane had a very serious problem with alcohol. It all started two months after the Helheim Invasion, Mitsuzane had began to abuse alcohol when he was still unable to cope up over his depression. He had frequented in bars to drink, spending his family's money just to satisfy his greed for liquor to forget his troubles. Takatora also mentioned that while he was in comatose at that time, that his brother's isolated state and his alcoholism usually got him into trouble. - The Night Unfurls:
- Invoked by Maia in the original version, who tries to dull her Past Experience Nightmares from her traumatic rape with a tankard of ale. She manages only a few sips.
- During her Heroic BSoD in the original version, Olga is seen drinking, sorrowful about her servant, surrogate daughter, and Living Emotional Crutch Chloe being in critical condition. Kyril stops her from continuing by grabbing her wine bottle and down it entirely. He also has something to say about this.Kyril: It's good wine. But it's not exactly something that will dull the pain.
- The Nutdealer Expanded Universe: "Red Nut Ale" consists of Nathan drinking the eponymous spirit while he broods about Tommy's betrayal.
- In the RWBY/Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep crossover ''RWBY: Aqua's Mission, it is revealed that Taiyang Xiao Long has taken to alcohol in an attempt to cope with Summer Rose's death. Deconstructed in chapter 8, when the group was going to visit Summer's grave on her second birthday after her death, only for Taiyang to have a nervous breakdown and drink a lethal amount of alcohol. It was only due to Aqua restarting his heart with a Thundaga spell that he didn't die.
- Once Upon a Time / Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic Swapping Genres: After finding out that Neal is Rumplestiltskin's son, Emma gets drunk to get over being lied to. Coincidentally, this leads to Emma getting a Curb-Stomp Battle from Black Widow.
- In Thousand Shinji, when Shinji went missing for one whole month and was in a coma for another month, his guardian Misato resorted to drink copiously to try to overcome the pain.
- A Moth to a Flame:
- Chapter 11 reveals that Anne's mother took to drinking to help cope with her disappearance, until one day she had a total breakdown and her husband convinced her to see a therapist, which helped her get past it.
- Chapter 15 shows that Marcy's mom has similarly turned to alcohol to handle things.
- After Calvin gets invited to a fancy New Year's party instead of his parents in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, Dad notes this:"Come on, dear. You can drown your sorrows in the cider."
- Soda at 70 Proof starts with Rachel at a bar getting drunk on soda because she misses Nigel. After three drinks in less than thirty minutes, Fanny decides she's had enough and takes her back home.
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Denial: Played for Drama during the second arc, as this becomes a crucial detail in the second murder trial. Specifically, the fact that only the culprit is aware that their victim was getting plastered.
- The Queen of Hearts: After her parents died, Elsa would often drink wine, sometimes even whole bottles.
- In the Belle/Aurora Disney Princess one-shot To a Merry Christmas, Belle invites the princesses to a Christmas Eve party. Late at night, she goes down to the library when she spots Aurora drinking and reading by the fireplace. It turns out Aurora was drinking eggnog with brandy, though it wasn't her eggnog and she hadn't expected it to be quite as strong. Aurora has been troubled since her life changed. She misses living in the woods and doesn't like being called "Aurora". She makes herself keep up a facade of being a perfect Princess Classic but it's not something she's used to. Belle ends up drinking with Aurora as they talk. Afterwards, Belle escorts Aurora to her room; however this leads to them sleeping together due to Aurora's fears of sleeping alone.
- In Epiphany, Aerith gets plastered in her room after meeting Sephiroth. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that tens of thousands of people in Midgar will die in a matter of days, Sephiroth's own evil plans, and the Arbiters blocking her attempts to stop all of it, she copes with it all by downing Elmyra's cooking sherry and baking brandy that night.
- In Son of the Desert, Roy tries to drown his PTSD flashbacks in booze. It turns him from a wreck to a drunk wreck.
- Backward With Purpose:
- In Book I, Harry, Ron and Ginny were doing this in the Bad Future before they decided to go back in time. Harry later does it again after getting kicked out of the Burrow.
- In Book II, Al Potter fails their first mission in the past and goes to get drunk. This makes things significantly worse when he starts blabbing secrets in the middle of a crowded pub. Afterwards, the whole experience inspires a new guideline on time travel:Don't get drunk. Just don't do it. It may not cause 'Pain Unto Death' (even a hangover is not that bad compared to the spanking the universe gives you if you're naughty), but it's just not a smart idea.
- Sirius Black tries this in Chapter 117 of The Moment It Began after his brother Regulus dies.
- Mark Printzen in chapter ten of The Ollivanders At War. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
- In Much Ado About Shakespeare: Love's Labours Won, Archie Kennedy drinks ale at the Inn after his panic attack fades away and he's anxious having confessed his love to his fellow officer and friend inadvertently. He's not sure how his friend will react, and kind of hopes he didn't realize because he recited Shakespeare's sonnet to him but checked himself before he would finish the most revealing final line.
- Parodied at one point in The New Adventures of Invader Zim, where Tenn goes to a diner to mope over her being demoted to Tak's assistant, drowning her sorrows in soda and doughnuts. Her interactions with the bartender are played as if she's in a bar.
- Farewell to Life the Way We Knew It: It's mentioned that, due to the high unemployment rate, many people hang around bars, even in the morning.
- An elderly Johannes "Jojo" Betzler drinks heavily in Butterflies.
- 'Maim de Maim'':
- Ryuuko in chapter 22. She even mentioned this to be such.
- At first, it looked like Nui was doing this, however, it was subverted, when it was she stated that she was combining the alcohols from the collection to commit suicide with.
- After his saddening 'breakup' with Satsuki, Junketsu, of all living organisms, resorts to the very substances that his brother's wearer always indulged in on a daily basis.
- The Black Prince: Harry gets drunk after Eggsy leaves him.
- The Vow:
- Lord Chang succumbs to drinking wine after his wife passes away.
- While Lord Shen is wallowing in the shame of being crippled during the epilogue, he considers doing this. However, he ultimately defies this trope when he remembers the above mentioned Chang and decides he doesn't want to become like the swan noble he despises.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Rodney Skinner in the fourth installment of The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain. The second version of the volume, told from his point of view, revealed his reaction to Elizabeth (who he's hopelessly in love with) announcing her engagement to Ben Everett. Unaware that she did so under duress, he spends the day drinking himself stupid until Tom comes along to drag him out of the bar.
- Inverted in Final Toll. The happy and oblivious Romani gets drunk, but Cremia doesn't touch a bottle.
- While on their forced European vacation in If They Haven't Learned Your Name, Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson get smashed at a seedy bar in Croatia (Steve has to take a sip of some kind of mysterious liquor every minute to remain drunk) and commiserate about their respective fallen friends, and those friends' sexual practices. This eventually leads to Steve brokenly confessing to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America, and the two crying into each others' shirts.
- Kiryu Fudo Nagare of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Paradox is a high-functioning alcoholic that his drinking had become his coping mechanism for his post-traumatic stress disorder from his harrowing ordeals in the Bad Future, he has no problem drinking too much until he dies. Chapter 11 takes it a more extreme levels to the point he nearly suffered from alcohol poisoning.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Aftermath of a Fallen Star: The day before Twilight was assassinated, Rainbow Dash confronted her over how she'd spoken against Dash being immediately assigned to the Wonderbolts due to her short fuse. The last thing Dash said to her was how much she hated her. The guilt of this drives her to drink afterwards.
- The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity:
- Trixie and Cheerilee reference word for word having done this in Morning Glory, Trixie apparently simply due to feeling uncomfortable being with the other ponies at Fluttershy and Big Macintosh's wedding reception (despite having been hired to entertain the foals), and Cheerilee due to losing Big Mac to Fluttershy.
- In The Changelings Have a King, Dash and Caramel on the anniversary of Pinkie's death.
- Also in Changelings, Cheerilee and Crescendo after the former is chewed out by Big Mac for suggesting that they and Fluttershy form a herd since Fluttershy cannot have any more foals (which Mac had not even known) and the latter learns Spike is planning to propose to Rarity, whom Crescendo has realized he is still in love with.
- This occurred to Celestia in the backstory of Drop of Moonshine. After banishing her sister Celestia began drinking copious amounts of alcohol. This caused her council to force her to go cold turkey by throwing away all the alcohol in Equestria. Celestia eventually banned alcohol period, though after Luna came back, her sister convinced her to legalize it again. As a result, ponies no longer understand what alcohol is.
- In I Against I, Me Against You, Spike goes to Berry Punch's bar when he can't take any more of having Grif and Simmons as roommates... and drinks apple juice.
- This is implied in the animation for the fan-song "Lullaby for a Princess". Luna is briefly shown crying with a large number of bottles nearby.
- The MLP Project: Pinkie Pie gets absolutely wasted after attending Twilight Sparkle's funeral.
- The Power of the Equinox: After the ruling council fails to convict Dimmed Star who continues walking free, Business Savvy retreats to drink in a tavern while keeping on a chair next to him a photograph of his son Dream Gavel whom Dimmed Star killed.
- Done very frequently in Racer and the Geek. Given what the protagonist has seen and done, it's understandable that he drinks himself into a stupor practically every night.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: After banishing her sister into the sun, Luna spent most of the next twelve years getting thoroughly sloshed, usually showing up in a random town and demanding booze, until a mob of rampaging dragons shook her out of her funk, and made her realize the harm her absence was inflicting on Equestria. She is now Nailed to the Wagon. She also leaves out a salient detail that it wasn't just losing Celestia that caused this, but having to give up Cadenza.
- Why Am I Crying?:
- Filthy Rich became an alcoholic wreck after the tragic death of his wife Crystal Eyes and their unborn son, and again when his daughter Diamond Tiara was hit by a carriage and died.
- Big Macintosh apparently does this whenever someone brings up his deceased parents, as it is mentioned that he left the farmhouse for hours and returned with cider on his breath whenever his little sister Apple Bloom asked him how they died.
- Silhouettes takes a scene from the anime of Shikaku getting so hammered that he isn't aware of his son's progress in the Chuunin Exams and turns it into this. His own father, Shikahiko, was a distant and dour figure whose approval Shikaku desperately desired, and he drinks in an effort to suppress the bad memories of his own first attempt at the Chuunin Exams.
- Happens to Kurenai in Son of the Sannin in the aftermath of Konoha's raid to Root's headquarters. Shizune finds her at the local bar looking miserable, since she's depressed over learning that her former student Yakumo Kurama, whom she presumed dead years ago, was actually taken by Danzo and turned into one of his puppet agents.
- Advice and Trust: After having a tense talk with Rei, Ritsuko spent the whole night drinking wine and crying.
- The Child of Love: Subverted in chapter 8. Misato is sitting at the kitchen table, head buried in her hands because she is grief-stricken and hopeless to save Asuka’s life. A beer can is sitting on the table in front of Misato, suggesting she has been drinking to try to forget...until the narration states that she has not touched her beer yet.
- Doing It Right This Time: In the first story draft Rei decided to get hammered when she thought she had missed her second chance and Asuka had beaten her to the punch again because she was under house arrest (long story) for long enough for Asuka getting there and get her claws into Shinji before she did.
- Evangelion 303: In chapter 10 Shinji has spent several months keeping watch over his comatose girlfriend Asuka, not knowing whether she will ever wake up or not and his father — whom he has not seen in years — shows up to lecture him about supposedly neglecting his duties because he is infatuated with a pretty face. Feeling more angry and depressed, Shinji goes to a bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
- In Futures Freak Me Out, Shinji and Asuka fly to Germany to visit Asuka's family, and they verify her father continues to show zero concern for his red-haired daughter; so Asuka decides to drag Shinji to the nearest bar and get very, very drunk.
- HERZ: During one scene, Misato recalls she got hammered because she didn't have the guts to confess to Kaji.
- Walking in the Shadow of Dreams: Asuka uses to do this when she is depressed — which happens a lot. Usually, she drinks heavily and then she latches onto Shinji for comfort and reassurance.
- Subverted in Old West. The relationship between Rattlesnake Jake and Grace Glossy becomes strained after Jake kills Grace's estranged husband for bruising her. Rango finds Jake in the saloon holding a glass of untouched whiskey. Eventually Jake smashes the glass in his foul mood, saying that he won't allow himself to be destroyed by booze like his father was.
- In With Strings Attached, Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. He's dying of jealousy because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a Beard of Sorrow, though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a He's Back! moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
- Fixing RWBY: Yang's Hard-Drinking Party Girl attitude is in part a way of coping with her abandonment issues over her biological mother Raven running off when she was an infant.
- Bart Simpson: Attorney at Law: Bart ends up doing this. In college, he ended up drinking himself into a stupor after Gina cheated on him. It was so bad, he even contemplated suicide. Jessica Lovejoy worming her way into Bart's life and Gina returning to Springfield drive him back to the bottle, forcing an intervention by Milhouse and Alex.
- Empath from Empath: The Luckiest Smurf becomes an alcoholic from drinking sarsaparilla ale in the alternate timeline where Smurfette marries Papa Smurf. Hefty in the main timeline story "Empath's Wedding" sits alone in Tapper's Tavern with a single glass of sarsaparilla ale on the night before the wedding, wondering why Smurfette won't marry him and realizing that he just couldn't compete against Empath. By morning, it is clear that Hefty is hung over just from that single glass.
- In A RoseAnd A Thorn 5: Resurrection, Midnight makes for an absolutely pathetic drunk at Club Rouge. He drinks to forget, but all he forgets is how many drinks he's had. Mirage pulls him into a dressing room, where he continues to cry in front of her, barely comprehensible, before walking out, throwing up, and passing out on the sidewalk.
- Chasing Dragons:
- The Watch commander of Gulltown is doing this when Ser Harry Flash arrives to investigate the Old Faith situation in the Vale, due to Denys and Gerold Arryn's heavy-handed attempts to stomp out the movement only leading to widespread unrest and a burgeoning potential Civil War.
- Jaime spends some time on the Summer Islands doing this in light of how his life has spiraled ever since renouncing his inheritance. It lasts until a local priest literally smacks some sense into him and offers to help him redeem himself.
- The Raven's Plan: After realizing that the Remembering really is a case of having been sent back in time and not just a nightmare, Stannis resorts heavily to drinking in order to cope with the guilt of everything he did in the original timeline.
- Wearing Robert's Crown: Having spent years of restraining himself to well-watered wine, Drakebert drinks himself into a stupor after executing Quentyn Martell.
- The Desert Storm: At the start of the story, Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as having become The Alcoholic to cope with his grief in the four years following Order 66.
- In Finding The Way, Din Djarin raids Moff Gideon's stash of Corellian Whiskey after showing his face to Grogu and giving him to Luke Skywalker.
- In Everqueen, we are shown an Eldar priest drunk out of his wits after the Fall.
- The Accidental Warlord And His Pack: Zofia, who never before spent any of her coin on alcohol, turns to trying to drink away the image of her sister's corpse and stops socializing with anyone on or off the job after her sister is murdered.
- In Worldwar: War of Equals, alien pilots in occupied Mexico stage a protest against their superiors demanding safer missions out of fear from both stealth fighters and rumored airborne laser weapons. Despite reassurance of safety, many pilots still handle their stress with ginger.
