History Main / InVinoVeritas

* ''Series/TheCrown2016''. In "Assassins", Margaret says that she knows that Porchey still holds a torch for Queen Elizabeth because he said so when he was drunk. Elizabeth doesn't believe it because, as she points out, drinking's "when the nonsense comes out" (though the episode hints that Margaret is right).

* '''[[{{Flanderization}} Personality Distillation]]''': SergeantRock becomes DrillSergeantNasty, the HairTriggerTemper starts [[AxCrazy looking around for a chopping implement.]]

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

* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': From "Guest Entry - Mikoto": Misaka thinks to give Uiharu a FakeHigh so she'll spill some info:
--> her precinct uses some really nasty frequency jumping algorithms and encryption tricks that makes it harder than Anti-Skill's stuff. Hmm. Note to self - buy Uiharu some rum and raisin ice cream and see if that has a placebo effect that gets her tipsy so she talks about how she implemented it. It's starting to get on my nerves that I can't reliably listen in.

* '''[[MirrorMoralityMachine Personality Inversion]]''': TheStoic turns on the OcularGushers, LoserProtagonist becomes a CasanovaWannabe, the NiceGuy becomes a {{Jerkass}}.

* PlayedForDrama in ''AudioPlay/TheMorgueFiles''. During one of Evelyn's drunken outbursts, she outright tells Tobias that she thought of him as a mistake, telling him that she never loved him at all. She tries to explain this away with the alcohol, but this doesn't stop Tobias from killing her and Frank.

** She spends [[WebcomicTime weeks]] valiantly repressing her [[AnythingThatMoves habitual lecherous promiscuity]] [[LadykillerInLove for the sake of her budding relationship with Erik]]. But while on a girls' night out, after [[DidNotThinkThisThrough intercepting multiple drinks]] bought for sex-goddess [=DiDi=] by various men, she [[spoiler:ends up rather buzzed in her apartment with an ex-lover who has been trying to get back into her pants and someone whose pants she has been on a quest to get into, on and off, since the comic started. Cue Orgy and personal disaster.]]

** Omakes reveal that [[TheQuietOne Yomo]] is a major light-weight, and becomes ''incredibly'' talkative while drunk. He admits to struggling to find the words to express his concern for others, and his [[ThreeAmigos friends]] later suggest that he drink in order to have a serious conversation with Kaneki.

-->'''Noblewoman''': How is your wife doing?\\

* ''Website/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.

* In "The Evil Drink Does," from Isaac Asimov's ''Azazel'', the main character suggested that a rather straitlaced woman, who was worried about being a perpetual virgin, should loosen up a bit by getting drunk, only to be told that a single drink made her violently ill. He then asked the title imp to adjust her body chemistry so that alcohol became a "healthful food" for her. That resulted in her becoming thoroughly uninhibited. Unfortunately, due to its having actual nutritive value and to the quantity she drank for years afterwards, she also became morbidly obese.
* In the ''Literature/MatadorSeries'', Pen teaches Khadaji Pubtending alongside his Sumito lessons, both for its practicality (A good pubtender is always in demand across the galaxy) and this trope:
-->'''Pen''': Ah, but it is a perfect job for a priest, even one so un-priestly as I. Consider: who has a better opportunity to see people with their masks lowered than a pubtender? Men will confide things to you drunk they wouldn’t tell a brother when sober; stoned women will reveal secrets they’d never speak as pillow talk while straight. More than one pubtender has come from the ranks of practicing psychologists-or gone there from some bar.

* ''Literature/FireAndBlood:'' During the reign of King Jaehaerys I, at one point two guards in King's Landing find the king's fool being tormented in a brothel, and hear the nearby Lord Motoon, who's plainly had more than one drink, claiming it was Princess Saera's idea. Lord Motoon and his buddy are brought up before the Iron Throne to ''explain'' that little comment, but by the time they get there they've sobered up amazingly quickly, and swear blind the guards [[ImplausibleDeniability misheard him]].
* ''Literature/TheFourthProtocol''. General Karpov has to down a ''[[VodkaDrunkenski lot]]'' of booze with a KGB colleague before he reveals anything about Plan Aurora. Even then it's only a couple of names, but it's enough for Karpov to go with (once he recovers from his hangover).

-->"Listen to me going on! Must be the brandy."

* In the first season of [[Creator/TelltaleGames TellTale's]] ''Franchise/SamAndMax'' games, during the fourth episode, Bosco will hawk a "truth serum" that, upon purchase, turns out to be a bottle of vodka. This seems less useful than Bosco makes it out to be since the duo is well aware that InVinoVeritas is under no circumstances guaranteed, but they do in fact use it as such when Max needs to start a war and Whizzer is being tight-lipped to maintain peace among the brothers.
* In one scene in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', the main cast is under the mistaken impression that they're drinking booze, leading to Yukiko telling KidDetective Naoto ''everything'' about what the TrueCompanions have been doing. Naoto [[CassandraTruth doesn't believe a word of it]].
** How they managed to get drunk off non-alcoholic beer... well, it's probably the PlaceboEffect.
** Subverted in the case of Detective Adachi, who lets a few things regarding the case slip while drunk at the Dojimas', but no more than he usually does sober. [[spoiler:Also ''averted'', as he manages to not reveal his true intentions and crimes even while drunk. His ramblings while drunk may, in fact, also be the result of him being just as duplicitous as he usually is, making this a complete aversion. Hard to tell.]]
* One quest in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' has you getting a man named [[MeaningfulName Three Sheets]] [[CantHoldTheirLiquor Dutong]] drunk to confess that the Imperial writ that he used to cheat Old Mother Kwan out of her tea house is fake. There are three stages of drunkenness; first he's cheerful and doesn't want to talk about something as "dry and boring" as the writ, then he's depressed and is willing to confess to faking the writ, then he gets too paranoid and must be given a sobering potion. The player must give him the right number of drinks to get him into the second stage of drunkenness to finish the quest.

* Brought up by an NPC in ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'' when he mentions how alcohol sales are high in times of war.
* Gets quoted in ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusJackTheRipper'' by the detective after a drunk reporter reveals information essential to the case.
* [[DemolitionsExpert The 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/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'', it's shown that [[GeniusBruiser General Wind Whistler]] used this as part of her plan to build support against [[TheCaligula Commander Sullamander]]. She invited Generals Downpour and Torrent (who weren't blind supporters of Sullamander, like the other Joint Chiefs-Of-Staff) to her home for dinner, and slowly got them drunk on wine. Once their inhibitions were down, she got them to admit to hating Sullamander and talked them into joining her in leading a coup. Wind Whistler's daughter, Pansy, bore witness to this and was extremely impressed.

* A running gag in the Blog/ReadingRainbowverse is Fluttershy's passionate and outgoing nature... when drunk. She almost invariably regrets what she says because of how she says it... but never because it isn't true.

More often than not, this is a quick byproduct of when someone who CantHoldTheirLiquor gets ahold of alcohol.

More often than not, this is a quick byproduct of when someone who [[CantHoldHisLiquor can't hold their liquor]] gets ahold of alcohol.

* Shiraori of ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' is near-mute and withdrawn most of the time, on account of being rather anti-social. However when she gets drunk she'll start talking about her life, rambling on about how useful certain Skills are, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick trying to eat]] [[EatsBabies a toddler]].

More often than not, this is a quick byproduct of when someone who CantHoldTheirLiquor gets ahold of alcohol.

More often than not, this is a quick byproduct of when someone who CantHoldHisLiquor gets ahold of alcohol.

* If you think [[IceQueen Haruka Hasegawa]] from ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}'' is scary under normal circumstances, you should see what she's like when drunk, as poor Misato found out. And it [[CantHoldHisLiquor doesn't take a lot of booze]] to get her cutting your face with her FemmeFatalons and joking (we hope) about biting your nose off.

* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'' Komui even uses this for his own good. In the drama CD, he feeds Allen, Lavi, and Kanda a drug that should make them blurt out their true thoughts about his [[BigBrotherInstinct precious, precious Lenalee]]. It works. And aside from that has similar effects as alcohol. Complete with AlcoholHic and [[CantHoldHisLiquor Allen losing his temper.]] Allen - high on the drug - even mentions it feels just the same when he ate a box of liquor-filled chocolates.

* [[TheStoic Kobayashi]] from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' reveals [[FieryRedhead her true personality]] when drunk ([[CantHoldHerLiquor which happens rather easily]]). Her maid otaku nature comes out, she becomes very loud, often strips Tohru naked, and argues about nerd things.

** Carla starts bossying Happy and Lily around. Meanwhile, Wendy CantHoldHerLiquor and just collapses in a daze.

* In ''Fanfic/FrozenHeartsSakume'', 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]].

* In ''Fanfic/AnUncommonWitness'', FemmeFatale [[MafiaPrincess Rue Corvo]] uses wine on [[IntrepidReporter Autor Brahms]] in order to get information out of him. Autor, [[CantHoldHisLiquor with just two or three cups]], is drunk enough to reveal detective Fakir's involvement in the case against her family but also [[spoiler:unintentionally gives her hints about Duck being the witness that can bring her father down.]]

* One quest in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' has you getting a man named [[MeaningfulName Three Sheets]] [[CantHoldHisLiquor Dutong]] drunk to confess that the Imperial writ that he used to cheat Old Mother Kwan out of her tea house is fake. There are three stages of drunkenness; first he's cheerful and doesn't want to talk about something as "dry and boring" as the writ, then he's depressed and is willing to confess to faking the writ, then he gets too paranoid and must be given a sobering potion. The player must give him the right number of drinks to get him into the second stage of drunkenness to finish the quest.

* "Crumley Cogwheel" was a 1963 Paramount Modern Madcap about an office schlub who has spent 20 years with Michigan Nuts And Bolts and had never asked for a raise. His boss gives him a week to do so or else he will be fired. On the last day, Cogwheel is on his lunch break, and instead of going to his usual tea house, he goes into a bar. Only after he gets plastered does he summon up the courage to not only barge into his boss' office during a board meeting, but also demand a raise. His boss is completely impressed and gives Cogwheel his raise--of one dollar. Stunned of utter disappointment, Cogwheel faints (Boss: "Poor guy...I guess the shock was too much for him").

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

** The Romans didn't trust teetotalers, as they thought you could never be certain of what such man was thinking or plotting if he never allowed wine to loosen his tongue.