History Main / InVinoVeritas

A Latin phrase meaning "In wine, truth" (or, if you will, "In wine, [there is] truth"). Used in popular media to illustrate what happens when a character consumes alcohol and his true personality emerges. TruthInTelevision of course, but TV Land generally exaggerates it enormously. Symptoms include:

* ''AzumangaDaioh'' has straight-laced teacher Nyamo spending the weekend with the girls and drinking all the booze they smuggled in, to prevent Yukari from getting into it... and promptly telling the kids everything they ever wanted to know about sex (and [[strike:probably]] almost certainly a few things they didn't).

* ''{{Metalocalypse}}'': Every single of the band's mothers, but '''especially''' Toki's, who goes from an incredibly straight-laced religious person with a high amount of restraint to a total pervert when she gets drunk on alcohol.

A Latin phrase meaning "In wine, truth." Used in popular media to illustrate what happens when a character consumes alcohol and his true personality emerges. TruthInTelevision of course, but TV Land generally exaggerates it enormously. Symptoms include:

* In ''MyBalls'', the sweet, unassuming shopkeeper girl turns into a ''raging nymphomaniac'' whenever she takes a drink. Which might ''potentially'' be a good thing, except [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere the protagonist will destroy the world if he ever orgasms.]]

* It turns out if you give the ToLoveRu girls alcohol, (or in this case a pollen that makes them act drunk) they go though types 1 and 3. of this trope. Haruna's personality zigzags, Yui initiates MarshmallowHell, Run tries very hard to kiss Rito but can never seem to get the right person, Mikan tries to confess and Yami starts seeing things.

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** Subverted with Lord Vetinari. In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' he gets stone drunk. It's mentioned that men twice his size with a reputation for being able to hold their drink had been hauled home in wheelbarrows, but despite having drank just as much as they had the only noticeable difference in Vetinari's behavior is that he's a bit more talkative than usual, and it's a bit harder the next day for him to do the crosswords in the morning paper. Apparently, he's very good at acting sober.

* ''MutekiKanbanMusume'': Crude and violent Miki transforms into a YamatoNadeshiko when drunk, while her BitchInSheepsClothing rival Megumi shows her true colors.

* Arthur/England from ''AxisPowersHetalia'' considers himself a gentleman. He isn't quite one when sober, and he's often cranky and irritable. But when he gets drunk, he will run around naked and cackling, or sometimes start crying over [[TheAmericanRevolution that one ungrateful whelp]]. Sometimes both.

** Subverted with Lord Vetinari. In Unseen Academicals he gets stone drunk. It's mentioned that men twice his size with a reputation for being able to hold their drink had been hauled home in wheelbarrows, but despite having drank just as much as they had the only noticable difference in Vetinari's behavior is that it takes him 50 seconds longer to do the crossword puzzle.
*** And he becomes rather talkative.

* Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic rant to a cop while pulled over for drunk driving. Several apologists who {{Did Not Do The Research}} used the defense of "He was drunk, he didn't really mean it!"

See DrunkenMaster (for when booze acts as a SuperSerum), MushroomSamba (for when things just get... weird instead), ButLiquorIsQuicker.

* One of the songs on the Who album Quadrophenia, ''Dr Jimmy'' is about a guy who has two substance-related AlternatePersonalities:

* RealLife example that may or may not be true. This is the reasoning behind a custom attributed to the Germans and Persians by Tacitus and Herodotus, respectively: In their assemblies, matters are debated twice. Once sober, once drunk. Though it's more a 'too drunk to think their way through lies and subterfuge' than personality shifing.

** Cato the Younger was known for never drinking or indulging in vices of any kind, always telling the truth and his general incorruptibility. This really annoyed his rivals, expecially Julius Caesar.

* An episode of Lexx, when they met Oberon and Puck and Oberon's Wife (Titania?). Titania was played by a bearded dwarf in drag and Oberon seems to really HATE being married to "her". Stanley asks Puck how they got together in the first place, it's explained that Oberon was very very drunk. Puck invokes the trope when Stanley is doubtful as to how drunk one would have to get to find Titania attractive: "So yer saying, he's the kind of guy who really prefers..." (cut off by Puck before he can explicitly question the Fairy King's heterosexuality.

** Get Sheldon drunk, and he'll perform ''FiddlerOnTheRoof'' karaoke, or give him caffeine and he'll think he's TheFlash.

* The heroine of A Dance With Rogues is way, way more promiscuous when really drunk. The two times the player has the option of getting really drunk are during the scene with Pia in the first chapter and the contest with Gemli in the second; during the first if you get drunk enough you don't remember what happens but Pia implies it was really, really great, during the second if you lose the drinking contest your character, a human with relatively normal sexual tastes, will screw a filthy, stinky, hairy, dwarf.