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* A DiscussedTrope in the ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' episode [[Recap/TitansS1E5Together "Together"]]. Kory Anders buys a big bottle of tequila and brings it to Dick Greyson's room, hoping to get some answers about him, since he isn't exactly a big sharer. Dick immediately realises she has this on her mind, even [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this trope. So they [[CoitusEnsues just sleep together instead]], but he's no more communicative afterwards. But then they're attacked by the bad guys, and Dick has to reveal his superhero identity, which tells Kory a ''lot''.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In season 2, Nancy Wheeler gets drunk at a teen party and starts laying into her boyfriend Steve about covering up Barbara's death from the previous season and she doesn't really love him. She doesn't remember this incident the next day, but when he presses her on it she admits it.

* In one ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' Shippuuden ''omake'', [[ChristmasCake Shizune]] drunkenly confesses that she's jealous of Kurenai for having a boyfriend and maybe even husband while she is too busy working for Tsunade to find one. Unfortunately, Tsunade happens to hear it. (Ironically, this omake is shown a few episodes before [[spoiler:Asuma dies]] and a couple months later in the manga [[spoiler:Shizune herself dies. [[DeathIsCheap Temporarily]]]]).

* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': When we first meet [[TheAlcoholic Iratu]] he was drunk of his ass (and according to a Q&A comic he is always drunk in the ring of the slightly damned), but he was friendly but [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy careless]] to his younger adoptive brother Buwaro, but when they meet him sober during the [[spoiler: St Curtis invasion]] he is cold and even violent to Buwaro especially after he learns [[spoiler:their adoptive sister Sakido died getting Buwaro and Rhea to Medus]] [[labelnote:more spoilers]] WordOfGod says Iratu actually hated Buwaro so it could be assumed he got drunk just to be able to stand being near him [[/labelnote]]

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Whenever Hank Hill gets drunk, he tends to talk about issues he finds uncomfortable to talk about with anyone, like his narrow urethra.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation:'' [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-3634 SCP-3634]] is a novelty corkscrew with this trope's very name embossed on the key-shaped case. When it's used to open a container of alcohol, anyone who drinks said alcohol will immediately start going off about something inappropriate they've done, thought, or said, and in some cases, start doing things they normally would never do in public. The object was discovered in England after a family Christmas party where all the guests got into a fight that resulted in 56 injuries and 3 deaths.

* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' had an all-girls party where a very young {{succubus}} drank some liquor and proclaimed "I feel like ''alllllll'' my inhibitions just ''melllllted'' away". Oh, and aside of girls being uncomfortable with her sudden urge to cuddle up in the absence of boys, they almost have seen her soul-draining a small crowd by accident once -- those guys were reanimated, but the aftermath didn't look pretty.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In season 2, Nancy Wheeler gets drunk at a teen party and starts laying into her boyfriend Steve about covering up Barbara's death from the previous season and she doesn't really love him. She doesn't remember this incident the next day, but when he presses her on it she admits it.

-->'''O'Brien''': You're not an in-between kind of guy. People either love you or hate you.\\

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'': Woodes Rogers gets very drunk in a party towards the end of the game after having been called back to England, and as a result he gets much, ''much'' more honest than he usually is.

* The titular location of ''Literature/TheCitadelOfChaos'' have a wine cellar manned by a crafty Black Elf, who will offer any visitors drinks while randomly spiking them with Truth Serum. Intruders to exposed themselves will be attacked on the spot.

* The Music/{{Lonestar}} song ''Tequila Talkin''' is about the aftermath of this. The now-sober singer spends the entire song trying to convince his ex-girlfriend (and quite possibly himself) that the only reason he told her that he still loved her and wanted her back the night before was that he was drunk.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** When Tyrion is exceptionally drunk, he lets hidden sides of himself rise to the surface. He tells Shae and Bronn about his disastrous first marriage in a very depressed tone. After drinking heavily during his wedding, he struggles more than usual to contain his contempt for Joffrey and Lord Tywin and angrily threatens to castrate Joffrey when pushed too far.
** Before Roose Bolton shows his true colors, it's mentioned a few times that his being a teetotaler marks him as suspicious to most people because of this trope.
* In ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', while [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Clark]] is immune to alcohol, Red Kryptonite is his personal replacement, explicitly stated to strip away his inhibitions, leaving behind the 'Kal' persona. So far, while on Red Kryptonite, he has managed to buy expensive stuff with money stolen from his parents, make advances towards Lana, Chloe, Lois, Alicia, and other girls, run away to Metropolis and spend months causing havoc (bank robberies were involved), "married" Alicia in Vegas, crash Lana's [[spoiler:engagement party]] and dropped cruel (but [[JerkassHasAPoint arguably accurate]]) comments to Martha and Chloe, and become best pals with Zod.
* In ''Series/BreakingBad'' season 4, after [[spoiler: Walter drinks too much wine, he hints to Hank that Gale was not the mastermind behind Blue Sky.]] In other words, [[spoiler: Walt sheds away his cold, logical exterior, and [[{{foreshadowing}} gives us a sneak preview]] of his egocentric reasons for getting into the business in the first place.]]

* When drunk, Robin from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' becomes [[CanadaEh Super-Canadian]].
** Well, she was drinking Moulson.
** Barney goes through several stages of drunkenness, including "Richard Dawson Drunk" (he kisses every woman he meets like the ''Series/FamilyFeud'' host); "Friends With Strangers Drunk"; "Marcel Marceau Drunk" (he walks like the famous mime's walk-against-the-wind routine); "Jabba Drunk" (he talks incoherently like [[Franchise/StarWars Jabba the Hutt]]); and finally, "Truth Serum Drunk", where he compulsively tells the truth.
* From one of ''Series/LateNight with Creator/JimmyFallon'''s "Thank You Notes":
-->"Thank you, summer barbecues, for always featuring fun family games like horseshoes, croquet, and 'Let's see how many daiquiris Grandma can drink before she gets racist'."
* A recurring character on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', during the Weekend Update segment, is Drunk Uncle. His conversations always devolve into rambling rants about all the problems he perceives in modern culture.
** The "Bill Brasky" segments center around four or five raucously drunk businessmen swapping tall tales about the mighty and (by all rights) terrifying [[MemeticBadass Bill Brasky]]... interspersed with blurting out various secrets ranging from "embarrassing" to "criminal" that have nothing to do with Bill Brasky.

* ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey''. Newsreader Henry Davenport gets drunk at his award ceremony.
-->"I remember the days when the television industry was run by giants. Whereas now it is run... BY PYGMIES! LIKE HIM! AND HIM!"
* [[DoubleSubversion Double-subverted]] on ''Series/DocMartin''. Louisa tries this on Martin, but he says that alcohol just makes him sleepy. But then he [[spoiler:admits that he loves Louisa]]. And then he falls asleep.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
** In "A New Man", Giles runs into Ethan Rayne, and the two [[GoKartingWithBowser friends-turned-arch enemies get drunk in a pub together]], with Giles spilling his frustrations about how obsolete he feels in the face of the covert techno-military demon-fighting efforts of the Initiative.
** In "Life Serial", Buffy has been drinking straight from the bottle [[DrowningMySorrows after a very bad day]], and delivers a long rant to Spike over how her life sucks, the world sucks, and specifically Spike sucks for not fixing all this with some gratuitous violence, [[ShipTease even though he's the only person she can stand to be around.]]
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'':
** Murdoch asks Brackenreid for a drink before confessing his compromised principles in "Murdoch in Wonderland".
** In the B-plot of "Staircase to Heaven", Brackenreid and Crabtree are in the station house guarding a prisoner due to flooding at another station when they share some whiskey. Their conversation turns to the subject of Murdoch (who is on an island investigating a murder), and they confide to each other things about their colleague that they find annoying, including the fact that he never seems to have a hair out of place. Crabtree mentions the detective's repeated advice to "look for the small details" as a particular irritant, [[{{Foreshadowing}} and Crabtree later notices such a detail]] that tips him off to [[spoiler: the presence of an infamous criminal trying to kidnap their prisoner to prevent him from testifying in court]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' has an example of this in the episode "It's a Good Life." [[EnfantTerrible Anthony]] [[CreepyChild Fremont]] serves as the episode's main antagonist. He is all of six years old and [[RealityWarper has erased the world save for a little village in Ohio.]] He can create entirely new creatures and [[{{Telepathy}}even read the minds of the people he lives with.]] [[{{Thoughtcrime}} Think any bad thoughts about him and he will kill you]] [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse.]]. None of this matters when the few adults left gather at Anthony's house to celebrate Dan's Birthday. He gets drunk on Peach Brandy and delivers a stinging TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Anthony that (Not surprisingly) begins [[YouMonster with him calling Anthony a monster.]] Ultimately, Dan gets turned into a Jack in the Box with his human face on it and wished into the cornfield outside.[[StatusQuoIsGod The party resumes and the attendees act as if nothing ever happened.]] Silly Dan. It's ABirthdayNotABreak.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In "Trial", Trooper Par offers Space Commander Travis a QuickNip, then it's revealed he did so at the suggestion of Major Thania who wants to loosen Travis' tongue and find out what he's up to. But Travis refuses to talk to her, except to sneer at such an obvious ploy.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In season 2, Nancy Wheeler gets drunk at a teen party and starts laying into her boyfriend Steve about covering up Barbara's death from the previous season and she doesn't really love him. She doesn't remember this incident the next day, but when he presses her on it she admits it.
* A DiscussedTrope in the ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' episode [[Recap/TitansS1E5Together "Together"]]. Kory Anders buys a big bottle of tequila and brings it to Dick Greyson's room, hoping to get some answers about him, since he isn't exactly a big sharer. Dick immediately realises she has this on her mind, even [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this trope. So they [[CoitusEnsues just sleep together instead]], but he's no more communicative afterwards. But then they're attacked by the bad guys, and Dick has to reveal his superhero identity, which tells Kory a ''lot''.
* ''Series/ForAllMankind''. After the [[AlternateHistory Soviets beat the US to the Moon]], the Apollo astronauts are ordered to go out and blow off some steam. While DrowningTheirSorrows, an astronaut who did a lunar flyby mission but who wasn't allowed to land on it blows off some steam to a journalist about how the Apollo One disaster caused NASA to stop taking risks. He gets in a lot of trouble when the comments appear in ''Newsweek'', and his wife angrily points out that the astronauts had a code where they don't discuss their feelings with anyone ''[[WhatTheHellHero including their own family]]'', whereas all it took in this case was a few beers.
* In ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Niles has too many beers at a Halloween party and finally admits that he feels his father regards him and his brother as disappointments for not being down-to-earth, working-class guys.
* ''Series/FeelGood'': George inadvertently tells her friends she's with Mae while high on pain medication and thus gets uninhibited.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Not A Very Civil Servant", George Cowley lends a sympathetic ear along with several friendly drinks to a local councilor facing charges for corruption. Given Cowley's oft-mentioned liking for single malt Scotch, he's a lot better at guarding his tongue while drunk than the councilor.

* [[DemolitionsExpert The]] [[AngryBlackMan Demoman]] from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is actually a genial, easy to get along with guy off the clock and off the bottle. On the job, and with ample swigs of Scrumpy, he becomes the [[MadBomber Demoman]] everyone is more familiar with.

* In ''Fanfic/FrozenHearts'', this trope comes into play at the worst possible time. Heins, Hans' brother, who CantHoldHisLiquor, eats some fondue, gets drunk, and [[spoiler:reveals his and Hans' true identities at Queen Elsa's masquerade ball, which they're attending with assumed names]]. This is something they ''desperately'' want to keep secret since the truth getting out results in [[spoiler:the brothers immediately being arrested and thrown in the dungeon]].

** Poor Amon gets caught between office rivals Akira and Takizawa, quickly discovering neither of them can hold their liquor. Takizawa rants about his insecurities concerning Akira, calling her a bitch in the process and cussing his partner out over the phone. After he leaves, Akira turns moody and drunkenly blames Amon for her [[YouKilledMyFather father's death]]. However, she also ends up [[CryCute crying]] and shows a more vulnerable side while still drunk. After he takes care of her (and rejects her drunken, half-naked clinging), she warms up considerably and begins to develop feelings for him.

* [[Comicbook/XMen Dr. Moira McTaggart]] is quite the mean drunk.

* Done rather heartbreakingly in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' with Rocket Raccoon. While drunk, he rails about how he didn't want to be made the way he is, and how he's sure that everyone views him as a monstrous freak or a joke. It did not help that Gamora and Drax had been calling him "rodent" and "vermin" throughout the film up until that point.

* In ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', while [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Clark]] is immune to alcohol, Red Kryptonite is his personal replacement, explicitly stated to strip away his inhibitions, leaving behind the 'Kal' persona. So far, while on Red Kryptonite, he has managed to buy expensive stuff with money stolen from his parents, make advances towards Lana, Chloe, Lois, Alicia, and other girls, run away to Metropolis and spend months causing havoc (bank robberies were involved), "married" Alicia in Vegas, crash Lana's [[spoiler:engagement party]] and dropped cruel (but [[{{JerkassHasAPoint}} arguably accurate]]) comments to Martha and Chloe, and become best pals with Zod.

* In season 2 of {{Series/Supernatural}}, Sam usually plays serious, quiet, little brother to older brother Dean's loud, comedic style. But when Sam gets drunk, he gets giggly and truthful, calling Dean short and bossy before making Dean promise to kill him if Sam should ever turn to the dark side.

* A DiscussedTrope in the ''Series/{{Titans}}'' episode [[Recap/TitansS1E5Together "Together"]]. Kory Anders buys a big bottle of tequila and brings it to Dick Greyson's room, hoping to get some answers about him, since he isn't exactly a big sharer. Dick immediately realises she has this on her mind, even [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this trope. So they [[CoitusEnsues just sleep together instead]], but he's no more communicative afterwards. But then they're attacked by the bad guys, and Dick has to reveal his superhero identity, which tells Kory a ''lot''.

* [[DemolitionsExpert The]] [[AngryBlackMan Demoman]] from ''{{VideoGame/Team Fortress 2}}'' is actually a genial, easy to get along with guy off the clock and off the bottle. On the job, and with ample swigs of Scrumpy, he becomes the [[MadBomber Demoman]] everyone is more familiar with.

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* ''{{Webcomic/Slightly Damned}}'': When we first meet [[TheAlcoholic Iratu]] he was drunk of his ass (and according to a Q&A comic he is always drunk in the ring of the slightly damned), but he was friendly but [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy careless]] to his younger adoptive brother Buwaro, but when they meet him sober during the [[spoiler: St Curtis invasion]] he is cold and even violent to Buwaro especially after he learns [[spoiler:their adoptive sister Sakido died getting Buwaro and Rhea to Medus]] [[labelnote:more spoilers]] WordOfGod says Iratu actually hated Buwaro so it could be assumed he got drunk just to be able to stand being near him [[/labelnote]]

* Both the manga and anime of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' feature a comedic variation of this trope. Belldandy is completely unaffected by alcohol, but ends up getting drunk off a can of soda, and ends up getting a personality distillation; she's already [[FriendToAllLivingThings a friend to all living (and non-living!) things]], but this gets cranked UpToEleven and she ends up going on a miracle spree, granting miracles and wishes for ''everything'' she comes across, including a telephone pole who was tired of standing (so she knocked it over). [[{{Flanderization}} It wasn't this extreme in the manga, though.]]

* When drunk, Robin from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' becomes [[OhCanada Super-Canadian]].

* Invoked in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice''. In Turnabout Storyteller, this is the only way to get [[spoiler:Uendo Toneido to reveal his hidden fourth persona, who is a key character to the murderer's identity, though all the wine does it knock Uendo and the other personalities out for Owen to come out in the open since Owen himself can't come out while the other three are out at the same time]].