History Main / DrinkBasedCharacterization

* ''Film/DocSavage: The Man of Bronze'' film. While at Captain Seas' dinner party, Doc's aides order lemonade, root beer and a glass of milk, and Doc himself asks for a Coke.

* ''Series/UFO'': Commander Ed Straker drinks Coke. Although he was never an alcoholic, he was once drunk, off-duty, when a crisis came up, and he handled it badly. He gives up alcohol because he doesn't want that to happen again.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
** Gibbs also likes to drink coffee.
** Abby and her Kaf-Pow! soda.

* On ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', manly man Ron Swanson naturally sticks to Scotch whisky especially Lagavulin. "Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets." Nick Offerman is now making advertisements for Diageo, the company that owns Lagavulin, because his character brought attention to the brand.

** Claude Erskine-Brown, the least self-aware and snobbiest character on the programme, fancies himself a wine connoisseur, and is frequently seen ordering reasonably sophisticated wines.[[note]]A case of TheCastShowoff: Julian Curry, who played Erskine-Brown, really is an amateur wine expert and has done a bit of work in informing the public about fine wine.[[/note]] Even when he's on hard times and "scraping the bottom of [Rumpole's] barrel," he tries to avoid Pommeroy's usual plonk. (It probably helps here that his wife is a mega-successful QC and then Red Judge, so his financial problems are never that dire--unlike Rumpole's.)

* ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'': Rumpole's drink of choice is "Pommeroy's Plonk," aka "Chateau Fleet Street," aka "Chateau Thames Embankment," aka whatever claret Pommeroy's Wine Bar stocks for two quid a bottle. She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed (i.e. his wife Hilda) is typically seen quaffing gin and tonic. The clerk Henry goes for Dubonnet and lemonade, while Claude Erskine-Brown fancies himself a wine connoisseur[[note]]A case of TheCastShowoff: Julian Curry, who played Erskine-Brown, really is an amateur wine expert and has done a bit of work in informing the public about fine wine.[[/note]] and Sam Ballard CantHoldHisLiquor and therefore drinks mineral water.

* Harley Stone in ''Film/SplitSecond'' survives on nothing but heavily-sweetened coffee and chocolate since his partner was killed by a monster no one else believes in.

* ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'': Dan loves ale and according to his sister has eaten almost nothing else in the last three years.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', the protagonist [[TheEveryman Vincent]] often spends times drinking in the local watering hole, the Stray Sheep, with his friends. All of them have their own drinks of choice ([[ChivalrousPervert Orlando]] and [[ButtMonkey Tobias]] like beer, while [[TheStoic Jonny]] favours Japanese sake), and you can order your own drinks: beer, sake, whiskey, or cuba libre. All of them offer a BoozeBasedBuff, and as a nice touch, you also get some cool trivia on the drinks as well.
* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'': In the original Arcade game, Soda Popinski's name was Vodka Dunkeiski and he was [[TheAlcoholic constantly drinking Vodka]].

* ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection:'' The feature "Anchorage Bar" will make your current "secretary" [[MoeAnthropomorphism ship girl]] serve a certain drink that's mostly appropriate to their age (or at least, how old they look). Most destroyers and coastal defense ships, who look like little girls, serve juice; the only "older" girls who serve juice are Tenryuu, Naka, Sakawa and Nagato. Most older ship girls (heavy cruisers, battleships, aircraft carriers) serve hard drinks that vary between each girl and the hour you visit them. A few of them may serve food (of different kinds) in addition to drinks.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In one episode where [[TheDragon Travis]] is supposed to be a [[SpaceWestern tough gunslinger]], he walks into a bar and orders a vitazade. Which [[HilariousInHindsight unfortunately is now an Irish soft drink]]. Apart from this the usual booze of choice is "adrenaline and soma", implied to be a pick-me-up with the [[Literature/BraveNewWorld soma]] to take the edge off.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Captain Picard's signature "Tea, Earl Grey, hot." A SpotOfTea, a very British drink for a very Bri...er, ''French'' captain. It provides a nice contrast to his coffee-drinking contemporaries [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Sisko]] and [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Janeway]], helping to highlight how he's considered the most intellectual Captain in the franchise.
** [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Worf]] has a particular fondness for prune juice, calling it a warrior's drink. It actually serves to highlight how different he is from most Klingons; when [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Quark]] first meets him, he immediately assumes that Worf will want bloodwine, like every other Klingon he serves, and bursts out laughing when Worf asks for prune juice instead.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Dr. Agnes Jurati loves Earl Grey tea, just like Jean-Luc Picard does. Although their personalities and interests are different, they're both intellectuals.

* Used to establish several characters in ''Literature/{{Victoria}}''. For example, the can-do Southerner Bill [=McMoster=] offers the protagonist John Rumford a classy Bourbon, while the aristocratic Germanophile William Kraft prefers rare European wines.

** In ''{{ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand}}'' the crimelord Scarface also has a strong craving for Zesti, and will reward anyone who brings him a bottle, which are not easy to come by in the famine-stricken streets of the No Man's Land. Scarface, for the record, is a ''ventriloquist dummy'' and seeing him get soda poured down his throat while half the city starves is presented as very BlackComedy.

** In {{ComicBook/Batman No Mans Land}} the crimelord Scarface also has a strong craving for Zesti, and will reward anyone who brings him a bottle, which are not easy to come by in the famine-stricken streets of the No Man's Land. Scarface, for the record, is a ''ventriloquist dummy'' and seeing him get soda poured down his throat while half the city starves is presented as very BlackComedy.

** The Watch, being coppers, naturally need to do a good amount of drinking to deal with their jobs. While he's [[TheAlcoholic had to quit]], Vimes used to go for whiskey, with the main attribute he was looking for being "cheap". Angua will drink beer but also orders fruit juice when on duty. Cheery only drank beer to fit in with other dwarfs and would actually prefer a cocktail. Nobby orders a "long slow double entendre" (with a fruit salad in it). Carrot orders milk.

** Wizards are fond of beer, and in large quantities. Ridcully takes "good Ankh-Morpork ale" when he can, and we certainly know what goes into that! (Which is why all the other wizards drink beer instead.)

* ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' uses whether or not one orders alcohol for character development. A recovering alcoholic orders whiskey, but then manages to stop himself from drinking it; a chronic lush orders coffee to indicate she's taking things seriously; and a workaholic orders whiskey to illustrate that he's actually treating his vacation as such.

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* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' has the CreepyTwins Shirase and Souya like drinking carrot juice. [[spoiler: Even in their bunny forms.]]

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* ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' has an interesting take on this with the resident LadyDrunk, Eva. After hitting RockBottom a number of times, [[HopeSpot Eva finds a chance at happiness]] alongside her [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold surly but gold-hearted]] [[BodyguardCrush bodyguard]], Martin -- who, among other things, inspires her to try to quit drinking. Unfortunately for her though, [[YankTheDogsChain Martin gets himself killed on her behalf]] and Eva is once again alone in the world. How does she respond to this? By immediately waltzing into the nearest bar and ordering [[spoiler:coffee]].

* ''Videogame/KantaiCollection:'' The feature "Anchorage Bar" will make your current "secretary" [[MoeAnthropomorphism ship girl]] serve a certain drink that's mostly appropriate to their age (or at least, how old they look). Most destroyers and coastal defense ships, who look like little girls, serve juice; the only "older" girls who serve juice are Tenryuu, Naka, Sakawa and Nagato. Most older ship girls (heavy cruisers, battleships, aircraft carriers) serve hard drinks that vary between each girl and the hour you visit them. A few of them may serve food (of different kinds) in addition to drinks.

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* The AI characters in ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' share a fondness for tea. They can't actually drink it, but the smell can apparently cause their sensory apparatus to go haywire and evoke soothing mental images.

* In ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'', Marco loves cola.

* Shizuo Heiwajima from ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' likes milk (and dairy products in general, according to his profile) probably far more than is healthy. Not only is he known to down around six bottles of it during a meal, but it's one of the few things that's managed to avert one of his trademark {{Unstoppable Rage}}s entirely. Understandably, he needs it for his RequiredSecondaryPowers, that is, bones that are MadeOfIron that can handle his HairTriggerTemper-induced SuperStrength.

* The favorite drink of Anime/AfroSamurai: "Lemonade. Ice cold." (Lemonade is a major part of one of his few good childhood memories.) Do ''not'' interrupt the man while he's drinking, either.
* Colonel [[spoiler:Paya]] Livingston from ''Anime/DaiMahouTouge'' orders "the usual" at the bar and gives the barkeep a jar with "sake" written on it. However, "the usual" turns out to be chocolate milk, which the barkeep pulls from under the counter.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'':

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'':

* ''LightNovel/YoujoSenki'': Tanya is very fond of coffee, as you'd expect from an overachieving former salaryman/current military strategist.

** [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] loves Zesti, a brand of soda, and then there's his memetic dependency on [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]] (which is not supported by cannon where he drinks tea far more often).

* Music/{{Rush}} members Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee both have huge wine cellars (Geddy in particular has a thing for burgundies). Geddy also has a [[http://www.caplanskys.com/menu breakfast]] named after him at Caplansky's Delicatessen in Toronto- salami and lox scrambled into eggs, with rye toast and latkes with applesauce, "just the way he likes it." Neil, himself, loves The Macallan, a brand of fine scotch.