History Main / JunkieProphet

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%%* ''Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}'': The spacemen.

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* ''Film/Hercules2014'': While describing a vision, one of his mercenary allies, Autolycus, snarks: "If you're going to keep using those stange herbs, at least share."
* ''Film/FromHell'': Johnny Depp's character has opium-induced psychic visions.
* ''Film/TheHallelujahTrail'': Donald Pleasence plays "Oracle" (of course), who's able to prophesy with the help of a taste of booze. The catch is that liquor is in short supply in his small town, and he's prophesying about the arrival of a shipment -- and how they need to make sure the Indians don't steal it or the temperance workers destroy it. Notably, every time he takes a drink, a heavenly chorus is heard just before he speaks.

* ''Film/{{Push}}'': Creator/DakotaFanning uses alcohol to increase her abilities as a Watcher. The catch? She's twelve.
* ''Film/ScotlandPA'' (a [[SettingUpdate modernized adaptation]] of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'') had the three witches portrayed as stoned bohemians.

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* "Aryans and Absinthe": Karl learns that he can see the future when consuming absinthe. After his attempt to assassinate Hitler fails due to the interference of a friend obsessed with novel social phenomenon, he realizes that his friend similarly sees the future in this manner...

* ''Literature/CoyoteKingsOfTheSpaceAgeBachelorPad'': An addled {{steampunk}}er is given crack distilled from the glands of other crack users in order to make him one of these.

* In ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' Roland takes mescaline before seeing the "speaking demon".

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' the warlocks of the Undying of Qarth drink an intoxicating concoction known as "shade of the evening" to the extent that it stains their skin blue. It's unclear whether they believe this to grant them their powers, or whether it's simply a ritual act.

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* ''Series/Dracula2013'': A pair of {{Seers}} operate out of a 19[[superscript:th]]-century London OpiumDen and make liberal use of the local product while performing their scrying (and before, and after). Whether it's an indulgence or an aid to their work isn't specified.
* ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' had an episode called, you guessed it, "The Prophet", which featured an LSD user and his 'Temple of the Expanded Mind'.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Isaac Mendes, although he eventually learns to use his powers without drugs.

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* ''Videogame/Fallout4'': Mama Murphy is a psyker gifted with "The Sight", and can gain prophetic visions through the use of chems. By feeding her habit, she can give the protagonist certain hints about the main plot, even giving them information that would let them bypass certain quests and obstacles. Too many chems, however, will kill her. Alternatively, you can talk her into giving up Chems altogether at the cost of her abilities.

* ''VideoGame/ThePark'': Lorraine Maillard finds a jar of antidepressant medication which she claims are hers, and - possibly in an attempt to regain some control over her apparent descent into madness - takes some. Immediately, [[MushroomSamba she begins hallucinating]]: most of the things she witnesses are just mild exaggerations of the things she's seen so far, but when she finds the newspaper clipping on the child found dismembered behind the cotton candy stand, it's been rearranged into [[WordSaladHorror complete gibberish]]: "Beaumont will come to the island, bearing the talisman, and he will shatter the seals that bind the orthodoxy of corruption," among other things. [[spoiler: It turns out that Lorraine is actually a latent psychic, and that "gibberish" was actually a distorted prediction of events from ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld,'' including the activities of the game's StarterVillain, Freddy Beaumont.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': Rada Nastase occasionally strays into this territory; already heavily medicated by her caretaker in order to stop her from running away, Rada's habit of washing down the pills with wine results in her blurting out deeply-hidden secrets. Some of these are things that she ''could'' have theoretically witnessed in passing - like the vampires gathering up at the castle, for example; however, one snippet of overheard dialogue features her somehow predicting what appear to be the events of the apocalypse, making references to "[[FallenAngel black-eyed angels]]," "[[WasOnceAMan metamorphosis]]," and a "[[MouthOfSauron signal]]".
* Brin, a shaman from ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', drinks the "blood" of the machine animals to gain his visions. Despite the negative effects it has on his health, he is able to give out [[TheCloudCuckooLanderWasRight surprisingly accurate visions]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': Meatwad begins to give out predictions in a Godly monotone, like Frylock exploding (from his point of view -- it was actually just a dog exploding on their porch [[NoodleIncident (again)]] after Frylock opened the door, which only irritated Frylock). Turns out, he got visions from eating glue. [[spoiler: Namely, false visions.]]

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* ''Film/ThreeHundred'': The Oracle.

* ''Videogame/Fallout4'': Mama Murphy is a psyker gifted with "The Sight", and can gain prophetic visions through the use of chems. By feeding her habit, she can give the protagonist certain hints about the main plot, even giving them information that would let them bypass certain quests and obstacles. Too many chems, however, will kill her.

* The Oracle of Delphi. There's strong evidence to suggest that volcanic gases filtered into the cave where she made her predictions.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary Dr. Timothy Leary]] is a Real Life example from the Hippie Era. He coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out" and was a major promoter of the spiritual use of LSD. His advocates included many 60s/70s counterculture icons, including Music/TheBeatles.
* Olga Bogdashina saw similarity between Aldous Huxley's experiences with mescaline and the heightened sensory perceptions of people with autism in ''Autism and the Edges of the Known World''. And later in the same book she states that some autistics can appear to be precognitive due to their senses and unconscious perceptions, similar to dogs barking before an earthquake. One can draw the conclusion that mescaline may be able to grant prospective intuition, though the hallucinations would be problematic.

%%* ''Film/ThreeHundred'': The Oracle.
* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': Bethany ends up recruiting [[Film/TheViewAskewniverse Jay and Silent Bob]] after the Metatron tells her that she'll meet two prophets and only do so because Jay starts complaining that they won't get any "profits" where they were and they were heading back to Jersey, where she needed to be. They barely do any "propheting" like when Jay suggests they just tell the bishop to stop the ceremony. [[spoiler:Jay does give Bethany a huge clue that God is stuck inside "John Doe Jersey", a comatose homeless man, that leads to saving the world.]]

* ''Film/MinorityReport'': The Precogs or "Oracles" only have premonitions while sleeping, so they kept on heavy doses of drugs so that they're in a perpetual sleepy trance. Many Precogs are also the children of drug addicts, their powers arising from their parents' experiments with new strains of narcotics at the time of conception/during pregnancy.

* ''Film/FromHell'': Johnny Depp's character has opium-induced psychicvisions.

* ''Series/{{Dracula}}'': A pair of {{Seers}} operate out of a 19[[superscript:th]]-century London OpiumDen and make liberal use of the local product while performing their scrying (and before, and after). Whether it's an indulgence or an aid to their work isn't specified.

* Traditional shamans in many historical and some modern cultures often use various ethnobotanicals, such as psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, peyote to induce transcendent states for spiritual purposes.

The use of drugs, hallucinogens or other trance-inducing behaviour to invoke DreamingOfThingsToCome. TruthInTelevision - its use, if not its effectiveness - as many people past and present have associated hallucinations with [[ReligionIsMagic spiritual experiences]].

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* The Doctor of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' might qualify. Not sure if the drugs enhanced his powers or if he was just a particularly powerful junkie, though...
* The spacemen from ''Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}''

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* The Oracle in ''[[Film/ThreeHundred 300]]''
* Alluded to with Ian McShane's character in the 2014 Hercules movie. While describing a vision, one of his mercenary allies, Autolycus, snarks: "If you're going to keep using those stange herbs, at least share."
* Johnny Depp's character in the film version of ''Film/FromHell'' has opium-induced psychicvisions.
* The Precogs or "Oracles" of ''Film/MinorityReport'' only have premonitions while sleeping, so they kept on heavy doses of drugs so that they're in a perpetual sleepy trance.
** Also exists in the backstory-- many Precogs are the children of drug addicts, their powers arising from their parents' experiments with new strains of narcotics at the time of conception/during pregnancy.
* ''Film/ScotlandPA'' (a [[SettingUpdate modernized adaptation]] of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'') had the three witches portrayed as stoned bohemians.
* Creator/DakotaFanning in ''Film/{{Push}}'' uses alcohol to increase her abilities as a Watcher. The catch? She's 12.
* In the Western ''Film/TheHallelujahTrail'', Donald Pleasence plays "Oracle" (of course), who's able to prophesy with the help of a taste of booze. The catch is that liquor is in short supply in his small town, and he's prophesying about the arrival of a shipment -- and how they need to make sure the Indians don't steal it or the temperance workers destroy it. Notably, every time he takes a drink, a heavenly chorus is heard just before he speaks.
* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': Bethany ends up recruiting [[Film/TheViewAskewniverse Jay and Silent Bob]] after the Metatron tells her that she'll meet two prophets and only do so because Jay starts complaining that they won't get any "profits" where they were and they were heading back to Jersey, where she needed to be. They barely do any "propheting" like when Jay suggests they just tell the bishop to stop the ceremony. [[spoiler:Jay does give Bethany a huge clue that God is stuck inside "John Doe Jersey", a comatose homeless man, that leads to saving the world.]]

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* The [[SpiceOfLife Spice]] in ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' induces psychic ability, [[GreenRocks among other things]].
* Chef Bushey from ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' becomes a junkie prophet while suffering a meth seizure, and the town's third selectwoman does the same while coming off of Oxycontin. Granted, Chef's prophecy is [[spoiler: self-fulfilling]]...

* Seers in the ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm Branion]]'' series do this a lot, making half-poisonous potions with deadly fantasy plants. The sovereign takes one at his coronation ceremony. One Seer becomes addicted, taking the potions for medical purposes after coming down with a disease.
* Played for laughs in Creator/JohnMoore's FracturedFairyTale ''Bad Prince Charlie'', when Charlie goes to see an oracle who turns out to be a very naked and very stoned young woman, who talks and acts like the stereotype of TheStoner.
* Karl, of F. Paul Wilson's "Aryans and Absinthe" short story, learns that he can see the future when consuming absinthe. After his attempt to assassinate Hitler fails due to the interference of a friend obsessed with novel social phenomenon, he realizes that his friend similarly sees the future in this manner...
* Witkacy in Literature/DoraWilkSeries and ''Literature/ShamanBlues''. He's been experimenting with drugs since he was teenager, causing quite a lot of problems for him. When he was forty, he found out that he's a shaman and as such he can see and interact with spirits, only in Doraverse, shamans must drug themselves in order to access this abilities. They do this instinctively, thus explaining Witkacy's problems.
* Subverted in ''Literature/GoodOmens'', prophets have a tendency to turn to drugs in an attempt to stay sane with all the visions they get. The author of the Book of Revelation is specifically said to have had a mushroom habit.
* In Minister Faust's ''Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad'', an addled {{steampunk}}er is given crack distilled from the glands of other crack users in order to make him one of these.
* ''Literature/OneNationUnderJupiter'': The oracle at the Temple of Apollo.

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* Isaac Mendes in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', although he eventually learns to use his powers without drugs.
* [[spoiler:The Wizard is [[InvokedTrope kept this way]], as a means of controlling him,]] in the sci-fi channel miniseries ''Series/TinMan''.
* Colonial oracles in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' use a drug called chamalla, when President Laura Roslin starts taking it to treat her cancer she interprets her hallucinations as visions from the gods.
* Interesting version in ''Series/{{Misfits}}''; Curtis normally has MentalTimeTravel abilities which only work [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong backwards]], but a [[ReverseThePolarity power-reversing]] FantasticDrug gives him a vision of the future.
* ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' had an episode called, you guessed it, "The Prophet", which featured an LSD user and his 'Temple of the Expanded Mind'.

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* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' has Fungoid Cave-Shamans, [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Grots]] who consume huge amounts of hallucinogenic mushrooms to see visions of the future. This being a fantasy setting, it kind of works, although it not only drives them insane even by greenskin standards, [[BodyHorror their bodies are now partially mushroom-based.]]

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* Mama Murphy of ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'' is a psyker gifted with "The Sight", and can gain prophetic visions through the use of chems. By feeding her habit, she can give the protagonist certain hints about the main plot, even giving them information that would let them bypass certain quests and obstacles. Too many chems, however, will kill her.
* Rada Nastase of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' occasionally strays into this territory; already heavily medicated by her caretaker in order to stop her from running away, Rada's habit of washing down the pills with wine results in her blurting out deeply-hidden secrets. Some of these are things that she ''could'' have theoretically witnessed in passing - like the vampires gathering up at the castle, for example; however, one snippet of overheard dialogue features her somehow predicting what appear to be the events of the apocalypse, making references to "[[FallenAngel black-eyed angels]]," "[[WasOnceAMan metamorphosis]]," and a "[[MouthOfSauron signal]]".
* During ''VideoGame/ThePark'', Lorraine Maillard finds a jar of antidepressant medication which she claims are hers, and - possibly in an attempt to regain some control over her apparent descent into madness - takes some. Immediately, [[MushroomSamba she begins hallucinating]]: most of the things she witnesses are just mild exaggerations of the things she's seen so far, but when she finds the newspaper clipping on the child found dismembered behind the cotton candy stand, it's been rearranged into [[WordSaladHorror complete gibberish]]: "Beaumont will come to the island, bearing the talisman, and he will shatter the seals that bind the orthodoxy of corruption," among other things. [[spoiler: It turns out that Lorraine is actually a latent psychic, and that "gibberish" was actually a distorted prediction of events from ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld,'' including the activities of the game's StarterVillain, Freddy Beaumont.]]

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* Meatwad, from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', begins to give out predictions in a Godly monotone, like Frylock exploding (from his point of view - it was actually just a dog exploding on their porch [[NoodleIncident (again)]] after Frylock opened the door, which only irritated Frylock). Turns out, he got visions from eating glue. [[spoiler: Namely, false visions.]]
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Red Man's Greed" where Stan huffs paint thinner in order to [[ItMakesSenseInContext find the cure to the SARS that the Native Americans infected the people of South Park with.]]

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* Averted in ''Film/{{Dogma}}''. Bethany ends up recruiting [[Film/TheViewAskewniverse Jay and Silent Bob]] after the Metatron tells her that she'll meet two prophets and only do so because Jay starts complaining that they won't get any "profits" where they were and they were heading back to Jersey, where she needed to be. The closest thing they do to "propheting" is when Jay suggests they just tell the bishop to stop the ceremony.

* Half the shamans and magicians in the ''Literature/NorthlandSeries'' are on ''serious'' hallucinogens.

* There's a theory that Aztec mythology was full of feathered snakes and corn- or snake-headed deities and heart-ripping directly because of the amounts of mescaline and mushrooms (of the magic variety) their priests were using to induce visions. The heart-ripping probably caused by a horror trip.

* Johnny Depp's character in the film version of ''Film/FromHell'' has opium-induced psychic visions.

** Same applies to John of Revelation, albeit with the addition of bizarre symbolism.

* Creator/PhilipKDick went through some pretty strange epiphanies after a heroic dosage of sodium pentothal. See [[http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo/weirdo1.htm The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick]] (illustrated by Robert Crumb for a CrowningMomentOfAwesome).

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' has Fungoid Cave-Shamans, [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Grots]] who consume huge amounts of hallucinogenic mushrooms to see visions of the future. This being a fantasy setting, it kind of works, although it not only drives them insane even my greenskin standards, [[BodyHorror their bodies are now partially mushroom-based.]]

* Rada Natasse of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' occasionally strays into this territory; already heavily medicated by her caretaker in order to stop her from running away, Rada's habit of washing down the pills with wine results in her blurting out deeply-hidden secrets. Some of these are things that she ''could'' have theoretically witnessed in passing - like the vampires gathering up at the castle, for example; however, one snippet of overheard dialogue features her somehow predicting what appear to be the events of the apocalypse, making references to "[[FallenAngel black-eyed angels]]," "[[WasOnceAMan metamorphosis]]," and a "[[MouthOfSauron signal]]".

* Meatwad, from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', begins to give out predictions in a Godly monotone, like Frylock exploding (from his point of view - it was actually just a dog exploding on their porch [[NoodleIncident (again)]] after Frylock opened the door, which only irritated Frylock). Turns out, he got visions from eating glue.

* Averted in ''Film/{{Dogma}}''. Bethany ends up recruiting JayAndSilentBob after the Metatron tells her that she'll meet two prophets and only do so because Jay starts complaining that they won't get any "profits" where they were and they were heading back to Jersey, where she needed to be. The closest thing they do to "propheting" is when Jay suggests they just tell the bishop to stop the ceremony.

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* Mama Murphy of ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'' is a psyker gifted with "The Sight", and can gain prophetic visions through the use of chems. By feeding her habit, she can give the protagonist certain hints about the main plot, even giving them information that would let them bypass certain quests and obstacles. Too many chems, however, will kill her.

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* Meatwad, from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', begins to give out predictions in a Godly monotone, like Frylock exploding (from his point of view - it was actually just a dog exploding on their porch [[NoodleIncident (again)]] after Frylock opened the door, which only irritated Frylock). Turns out, he got visions from eating glue.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Red Man's Greed" where Stan huffs paint thinner in order to [[ItMakesSenseInContext find the cure to the SARS that the Native Americans infected the people of South Park with.]]