I Need A Freaking Drink / Fan Works

• Advice and Trust:
  • Strypgia said that Ritsuko would need a whole bottle of vodka after seeing both Unit 01 and 02 awakening and going berserk given the implications of the fact.
  • In chapter 8, Asuka and Shinji carry out a plan to let Misato know they are together and get her to accept they are also sleeping together and they will not stop. Every step of that plan (involving Strip Chess, foot massages, and Shinji and Asuka swapping roles) invariably gets Misato craving for alcohol. Plenty of it.
    I need a beer, right away...' Misato stumbled her way back to the kitchen.
    "Hey, Misato! We saved the world yesterday! Can we have a raise in our allowance?" Asuka called after her.
    A lot of beer...'
• Afterglow (Unfaithful): Walker's in dire need of "a shower and a beer or five". He eventually starts drinking his way through the Damned's leftover booze.
• Amateur Theatrics: Agent Coulson leaves to get a drink after having to tell Fury about a spectacularly bad mission that ended with Steve depowered, Tony gender bent, Natasha and Bruce body switched, Loki amnesiac and a child, and Thor in a coma (Clint ends up being left in charge purely because he's the only one who hasn't had any crazy shit happen to him).
• While dealing with Motoyasu's drunken boasting in Ambition of the Red Princess, two of his companions have obviously fixed smiles on their faces while the third is chugging her beer as fast as she can.
• Upon learning Dr. Tofu has a crush on her in Anything Goes Game Changer, Kasumi is first horrified (the man is over a decade her senior and was her childhood doctor) then grabs a bottle of her father's sake and swallows half of it in one gulp.
• In The Big Reveal, after finding out Colin Morgan has been replaced by his character Merlin in a Real-World Episode sort of thing, Anthony Head reaches for a bottle of wine. He then puts it back down, stating he needs something stronger.
• After The Reveal in Blizzard of the Red Castle, the seemingly straight-laced destroyer shipgirl Mutsuki reveals that she has an entire stash of imported whiskey.
• Boldores And Boomsticks:
  • Yang asks about a bar after seeing Team Rocket members blast off in complete defiance of physics. Ruby objects, saying that if she has to remember Yang does too.
  • Remnant's scientists who try to understand the Grimm frequently turn to alcohol.
• A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script:
  • Beren often expresses that need in the Halls of Mandos. The sheer weirdness and tragedy of his and his wife’s situation is too mind-screwing to cope without alcohol.
    Beren: [shaking his head] If I was alive I would say this needs a drink to make any sense out of.
  • Tulkas also needs a drinking after an argument with Orome:
    Orome: [shaking his head] What my sister sees in you I will never know.
    Tulkas: That's pretty good, actually. —I need a drink to clear my mind.
    Orome: You always need a drink, if that's the case.
• Bring Me All Your Elderly!: Both Zuko and his movie counterpart, Z-Patel, visit a bar for similar reasons: the former just found out he's a cartoon character, while the latter is coming to grips that he's a good actor stuck in a bad adaptation.
• The Chaotic Masters: This is Constantine's reaction after the fighting at Roulette's auction, as well as finding out that the Chaotic Masters are returning.
• Child of the Storm: This is Rhodey's usual response to the bizarreness that is his life. Since he's the Only Sane Man in an utterly bizarre universe, one that saves a particular serving of weird for him, it's also kinda justified (as well as being a Running Gag).
• Danganronpa: Paradise Lost: After witnessing the second execution, both Yashiro and Shion rush out to obtain alcoholic drinks to cope with what they have seen. Shion quickly reveals that this is far from the first time she has done so.
• The Darwin Chronicles: In "You Heard It Here First", Logan needs a beer when Jubilee tells him he could have avoided to walk right in on Scott and Jean having sex on the garden if he had just listened to her.
  "And here I am trying to fill you in, and you totally get growly and blow me off, and that's why you didn't know that Scott and Jean are on this whole nature kick lately and you really can't go near the flowerbeds lately without making tons of noise to warn them, unless you wanna walk right in on them, like, dude, almost on top of them, and that's why you're all pissed off and ready to claw your own eyes out, but y'know, if you did that, they'd probably grow right back, right? How cool."
  "Kid," Logan said, slumping into a kitchen chair, "I dunno where you're going with this, but I got a feeling I can't get through this without beer."
  "Dude, I like, totally feel your pain, y'know?" Jubilee said, pulling a stool up to the kitchen table. "And not just because Dr. Grey's all, 'Oh, I was just checking him for ticks!' explanation is, like, enough to make anyone heave. You think you're all pissy? Dude, I bet they're worse. And they write up our midterms! So you totally know that in bio and calculus we're all gonna be paying big time for this, whattayacallit, carpe interruptus."
  "Oh, for fuck's sake," Logan muttered, hauling a second six pack out of the refrigerator.
• Diplomatic Relations: Kankuro and Temari's reaction when they discover their younger brother Gaara making out with Rock Lee.
• Doing It Right This Time: Misato being Misato, this trope naturally comes up quite a lot:
  • After several instances of her pilots behaving oddly, Misato demands an explanation. Before explaining things, Asuka suggests her picking a beer first:
    Asuka smiled sadly. "Knew you'd figure it out sooner or later. You might wanna grab a beer for this."
  • As she is listening to their story about futures gone awfully wrong and Time Travel, Misato decides a beer is not enough:
    Misato tossed back the whiskey she'd poured herself after realising beer just wasn't going to cut it tonight.
  • And then the next day, when she finds out about Ritsuko and Maya's Relationship Upgrade:
    Misato suddenly wished she hadn't promised Shinji she'd stop drinking beer with her breakfast.
  • Later that chapter, even Gendo gets in on it after a confrontation with Misato:
    Once he was alone in his office again, Gendo opened the bottom drawer of his desk and took out a bottle of inexpensive bourbon. He had what he liked to consider highly refined tastes in liquor and didn't normally drink this sort of thing, but a man of highly refined tastes in liquor didn't waste the good stuff by slopping two fingers into a cheap plastic tumbler and tossing it back in one swallow just because he'd had an exhausting meeting.
    And this had been a very exhausting meeting.
  • And this list will only get longer.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami: Multiple, in two consecutive chapters:
  • From "Cleaning Up", Cathy needs one after learning Ami hired what are basically the most dangerous demon type available:
    "Fuck. I need another drink," Cathy said, and glanced over at the blue-haired girl. "Actually, so do you. Have some fun once in a while!"
  • From "Beryl's Plan": Ami, on thinking about her crush having a possible Incompatible Orientation with her:
    Could it be that he was gay? She needed another drink!
• Earth's Alien History:
  • Within ten minutes of arriving on the Enterprise for the first time, Kirk heads to his ready room to break open a bottle of brandy, after seeing Scotty try to dismantle Yoko's buddyroid For Science!.
  • The Terran Treaty Organization and Shield Alliance ambassadors to the Deltan Union retreat to a bar together after the Deltans decide to join the Pact of the Raptor instead of either of their respective blocs.
• Elisif the Dragon-Queen: Elisif's initial reaction to finding out that she's the Dragonborn is to run to her bedroom, pull out a bottle of brandy and a glass, fill up the glass, then give up on the glass and instead chug straight from the bottle.
• Empath: The Luckiest Smurf: Many of the adult Smurfs end up having Tapper's sarsaparilla ale instead of smurfberry wine after witnessing Smurfette marrying Papa Smurf in an alternate timeline. In the normal timeline story "Papa's Big Crush", Duncan McSmurf goes with Tapper to the tavern for a drink to get the thoughts of Smurfette with Papa Smurf out of his mind.
• Ere we go, Pluz Ultra!: Izuku's ability to completely break the laws of physics with ordinary objects^note He made a subspace pocket out of a bicycle light quickly drives Powerloader to drink heavily.
• Eternity: The reason for Jun'you's heavy drinking habit is that she was one of the very few who fought Enterprise and lived to tell about it. For reference, When Enterprise, now Yonaga after serving Japan for decades, looks at the mirror and sees her Pacific War-self, she sees herself as a Wo-Class. Thankfully, the years after the War greatly mellowed her out.
• Eyes on Me: In I'll Follow You Into the Dark, Bitsy has Helen fetch her some sangria after being informed of Whitney's death.
• Fate/Harem Antics: Kirei Kotomine drinks when he fails to steal Bazett's Servant, and again when he is forced to team up with his estranged daughter Caren, who endlessly trolls him.
• Fates Collide:
  • Gilgamesh is ordered to fight Bazett Fraga McRemitz and he most likely loses. He comforts himself with wine. Nero Claudius and Weiss Schnee join him and share the wine, and Weiss impresses him with her knowledge of alcoholic beverages.
  • Zhuge Liang decides he should go drinking due to being stressed out by his job as Headmaster of Chaldea Academy.
• A Flower's Touch:
  • Aerith's therapist, who in this case is Jessie's mother, upon hearing how her daughter met her fate in the original timeline, getting crushed under the Sector 7 plate, shuts down their session and goes to hit a bar.
  • Sephiroth, after listening to his recordings of Aerith's therapy and hearing how the One-Winged Angel kept returning and wearing down AVALANCHE until he beat them, finds the hardest liquor he has, lamenting that his Mako enhancements don't allow him feel more than a slight burn down his throat.
• In Foxy Lady, after Joyce gives tacit permission for an alternate Buffy (named Beth) to have sex with Xander, Buffy demands to know if she's drunk, to which Joyce replies that she's "working on it".
• A Gem in the Rough: Zoro discovers that he is not old enough to legally drink in Beach City. This displeases him greatly.
  Priyanka Maheswaran: In our... dimension... you need to be at least twenty-one to drink alcohol!
  Roronoa Zoro: ...kill me... kill me slowly...
• In Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters, Nimue spends her brief appearance in Chapter 19 nursing a bottle of wine, to comfort herself over the failure of her plan during the subway fight which concluded in the previous chapter.
• In Halloween Unspectacular: The Final Push, after hearing Cochrane's plan to take out the enemy fleet's biggest ship — which involves packing his own ship with barrels of gunpowder and ramming — Athena takes his discarded wine glass and downs the contents.
• Harry Potter fanfics:
  • Harry offers Amelia Bones some scotch in The Awakening of a Magus, after she sees Remus in human form during the full moon (Harry worked out a procedure to change the werewolf curse into wolf Animagus ability).
  • In Brutal Harry,
    • In Chapter 3,McGonagall responds this way to a letter from Hermione, especially after she realizes how comments she'd made in the previous chapter had come across to Harry, who doesn't know her at all. Her sense of guilt over Harry winding up with the horrifically abusive Vernon doesn't help her at all. Later on in the same chapter, she considers a system for rating Hermione's letters by how many drinks she needs while reading same.
    • In Chapter 4, Dumbledore, of all people, does this, pouring himself a shot of whiskey and chugging it down in an instant after he's informed exactly how badly Harry was abused at the Dursley's, which has resulted in a borderline sociopathic, justifiably pissed off and magically powerful child (reminiscent of Voldemort in fact), with all that rage directed at him and nearly every other authority figure. He also is considering how he's essentially allowed all of his students to suffer under Snape and other bullies at his school due to his inattentiveness.
  • Faery Heroes: Miranda (Hermione's mother) is thinking along these lines while Xeno (Luna's father) is telling her about their future grandchildren in a few years.
  • Harry Potter and the Descent into Darkness: Snape, after he learns that Harry is a Dark Wizard and allied with Voldemort.
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Professor McGonagall goes into the bar for a drink after a long day of taking Harry shopping for school supplies. This is perfectly justified.
  • In Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path, Victor Krum wants either alcohol or an "Obliviate" spell after seeing a morbidly obese version of himself covered in dirt and smears of food and condiments.
  • It's Always The Quiet Ones: After the Cthulhu incident is safely past, Professor Flitwick considers assigning a three-foot-long essay on why Great Old Ones shouldn't be summoned at dinnertime, or at any time ever, but instead goes out and gets very drunk.
  • In The Lone Traveler, various iterations of Minerva McGonagall usually need a drink to make her brain stop hurting after one of the Traveler's schemes has come to light.
  • Minima Maxima Sunt: OC Jenny Anderson's reaction to her adopted stray dog turning into Sirius Black was "I need a drink, want one? I've got whiskey and brandy and wine..."
  • Raptor: Hermione starts habitually drinking and almost becomes an alcoholic after finally learning Harry's familiars are velociraptors.
  • The Sleeper Awakes: This is Percy Weasley's reaction to discovering that the Ministry is corrupt, Umbridge is persecuting innocent people, and Voldemort has the new Minister of Magic under the Imperius curse. Alberforth lets him get completely smashed because he knows that if Percy's incredibly drunk, the death eaters in the bar will overlook the anti-Ministry rant Percy goes on.
  • This Means War:
    • This trope goes for both Harry and Sirius as their way of coping when Sirius decides Harry needs The Talk in Chapter 2.
    • Hermione also does this in Chapter 4, when she and Ginny barge into a meeting in Dumbledore's office to tell him and the house heads that Harry's doing things that defy the known laws of magic. Surprisingly, Snape's the one who indulges her by giving her the requested alcohol. The five adults then follow her lead after she explains what Harry did.
• Hero Chat: Subverted. When a couple teachers discover that several of their students are superheroes, throwing themselves into danger on a regular basis, they want alcohol. But one of them points out that drinking heavily every time there's an akuma is a fast track to alcoholism, so they eat ice cream instead.
• Higher Learning: When Misato realizes her wards Shinji and Asuka have just had sex her immediate reaction is to reach for a beer and pray to the gods of birth control.
• Hours 'Verse: Anna's reaction after narrowly preventing the end of the world at Nyx's hands in Stars Shine Brighter without Sunlight.
• Infinity Crisis:
  • Hearing of the mass disappearances, Mick says he needs a beer and Nate remarks that for once, he's speaking for all of them.
  • In the side one-shot Detective Work, when Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez from the Highlander films finds himself in Earth-8107's Binghamton after his sacrifice in Highlander II, he states he could use a drink... before falling over because he's standing in the field of an ice rink.
• Subverted in Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily; after everything that The Fog Car gave everyone, up to and including, torture, pain, and very very hard looks at themselves, Gladion is depressed that he's not old enough to drink (he's 14).
• The Kakashi Way:
  • Hiruzen prefers smoking to drinking, and lights up his pipe before informing Kakashi that one of his students has just been hospitalized and is being treated for shock after finding an arm filled with stolen Sharingan eyes dumped on his doorstep. It's also repeatedly mentioned that he's using his pipe during other difficult conversations regarding the depths and scope of Danzo's newly uncovered treachery.
  • After spending a few hours getting acquainted with Danzo's private files, which provide extensive records of all the horrible things the scheming elder was involved with, Jiraiya reflects that he could use a drink. Or ten. Or commandeer and chug down the contents of an entire bar.
  • Inoichi feels similarly after having to inform Kakashi that Danzo orchestrated the social shunning that led to his father's suicide, which triggered the Copy-nin losing time.
• Downplayed in King of Thrones where Tywin is thankful he does not keep wine in his solar while reading a letter from Cersei filled with nothing but complaints and orders.
• A Man of Iron has a couple of examples:
  • Tywin Lannister is so overwhelmed by the incredibly poor circumstances that his children and grandson's actions have put the family in by the end of the first book, he starts downing wine in large capacities. Tyrion is seriously freaked out by seeing this.
  • Tyrion himself gets a moment of this when he arrives in King's Landing in A Crack of Thunder. He's so overwhelmed by the sheer stupidity of the Small Council just accepting Sansa Stark "miraculously" coming Back from the Dead and justifying it with some half-assed excuses, that he just grabs a wine bottle and starts guzzling straight from it.
  • Stannis' reaction to seeing Thor fly later in A Crack of Thunder is to drain a tankard of ale with such gusto that it's noted Robert is probably looking down on him from the Seven Heavens with pride.
• In My Huntsman Academia, Glynda of all people pulls out a bottle of Mistral Brandy to relax while trying to help Toshinori get accredited. She can toss back entire glasses in a single gulp and claims to have drunk Qrow under the table.
• Small colorful horses have a way of driving those around them to drink. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic includes two examples in the show and a lot in its fan works, including, among many others:
  • In The Ballad of Twilight Sparkle, Twilight Sparkle has this reaction to a movie studio's legal team trying to intimidate her into signing over the rights to her likeness for a movie the Great and Powerful Trixie is making. It probably didn't help that Twilight had thoroughly embarrassed herself in front of Trixie several times earlier in the fic.
  • A Brief History of Equestria: According to one biographer, when Puddinghead finally won the chancellorship, her father responded by drinking heavily for almost a week.
  • Cultural Differences: Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy decide to get out some booze and vodka after learning that not only does Zephyr Breeze have a fillyfriend, she wants him to get a herd license to "spice things up."
  • In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, Judge Mullan advises the lawyer Estermann to fill Queen Chrysalis (his client) up with vermouth before breaking to her that in her absence, the Equestrian forces have begun closing in on her hive. Estermann mentions that, on top of being a queen, she's a mother to her hive too. Mullan concedes, and advises poitín instead.
  • Ditzy Doo's Dismally Derpy Day : Big Macintosh says that if Ditzy were to die, "Ah might just have to break my own rule against Gran'pappy Moonshine's blastin' hooch. Don't think there's nothing else that could dull that hurt."
  • Duel Nature: Luna's revelation that the theories he's developed over fifteen years of study are completely wrong, that he's misidentified an artifact of world-shaking power as an ashtray, and that the ancient religious document he's spent the last month trying to decipher is actually an ancient takeout menu prompt Buried Secrets to start taking pulls from a hip flask in the middle of the afternoon.
  • Earth and Sky:
    • Diamond Tiara, when Professor Destiny blows her plan to tie up the Harmony Harness in a duel over patent rights by instead staking the royal charter on a race, grabs a glass of champagne and chugs it.
    • When Shining Armor realizes he has to tell Princess Celestia that the Flim-Flam brothers have escaped again and turned one of her officers into a giant grape, he pulls out a bottle of liquor and a shot glass. Then he puts away the glass and chugs the bottle.
  • The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds: When Tirac's forces attack Ponyville, the Mayor's reaction is to get hammered, forcing Twilight to take over organizing the town's defenses.
  • The Great Alicorn Hunt: After her short arc in Neigh Orleans — which included, among other things, being literally dragged through the bayou by her own magic — Rarity decides to get "smashed off [her] plot" (her words) once back on her airship. Fortunately, her servants eventually switch out the champagne in her mimosas for ginger ale, keeping her from doing too much damage.
  • And one semi-meta example. The Infinite Loops sometimes does this to Loopers who end up in some strange variant or other universe, but only Equestria has a bar specifically for visiting loopers to do this, run by Big Mac and/or Berry Punch. On one occasion, Sleipnir, the admin for the Equestrian loops, joins in after having to personally rescue Twilight from a particularly horrifying loop.
  • A non-alcoholic example in Manehattan's Lone Guardian. After Leviathan discovers that she's somehow been transported to a land of colorful and civilized ponies, she expresses envy of humanity for their ability to drink and wishes that she had some tea for the sake of de-stressing.
  • Fluttershy and Princess Luna, at two different points, find themselves in need of alcohol in The Model Caretaker. Fluttershy steals Fleur de Lis' glass of red wine after Fleur kisses her and asks her out (though this is pretty much the culmination of a somewhat stressful Coming-Out Story on Fluttershy's part), and Luna asks for one after finding out just how badly managed Ponyville's disaster planning is.
  • Once Bitten, Twice Shy gave this reaction to Fluttershy of all ponies on a disastrous not-date with Twilight Sparkle. After one setback, Rarity gives her a glass of wine to help get her confidence up. Following a particularly stressful incident, Fluttershy drains most of the wine bottle and has to be magically sobered up before she's able to stand, let alone go back into the restaurant.
  • The Palaververse: "Part 19 of the Palaververse: The World Beyond the Mirror" is about the creation and first use of a magical mirror for travelling between worlds by walking into it, and starts with Meadowbrook getting drunk to deal with the effort it took to find the info to make that mirror:
    This happily didn't interfere with my own designs at all, which were to sequester myself away in my own room with several bottles of liquor, some light licentious fiction, and other such objects that could help soothe my new intake of mental and emotional scars whilst waiting for whatever patches of my hide had proven all-too flammable to grow back.
  • Reading Rainbowverse:
    • Big Mac is reading Sonichu. His reaction is understandable.
    • Fluttershy also has this reaction when two of her co-judges spend their time arguing with each other rather then focusing on the Battle of the Pans.
  • Romance and the Fate of Equestria uses this constantly, starting in the very first chapter and remaining as a Running Gag throughout the story, sometimes Played for Drama. Fluttershy's relationship with Big Macintosh tends to be a source of these moments, from Applejack discovering he's a Chick Magnet, to Fluttershy calming her nerves on her first date with him, to Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack taking shots of what turns out to be raspberry vinaigrette as more and more bombshells about a Love Triangle are dropped.
  • Rarity and the protagonist constantly do this after their dealings with Cashmere in Sophistication and Betrayal. At one point Cashmere even offers them a drink for that very purpose.
  • Sunset's Isekai: This is largely what the Isekai is all about- if you need a good drink, someone to lend an ear, and/or maybe even some sage advice, the Isekai might just show up in front of you.
  • Windfall sees Nurse Redheart requiring a long pull of Granny Smith's "special" cider after having to deal with an outburst from mother-to-be Fluttershy, which according to Word of God included a dose of "The Stare".
• The Morning After: Odin asks for more wine after waking up from a coma when he finds out Loki has been in charge and has made several changes to Asgard, including instituting a parliamentary democracy, writing a constitution, setting up an electrical grid, and establishing banks (and bank holidays to go with them).* In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Jor-El asks K.E.L.E.X. for a drink to dull his frustration over the Kryptonian Science Council's inability to accept evidence that Krypton is going to be destroyed.
• Naru-Hina Chronicles:
  • This is Kushina's reaction when Naruto reveals that Jiraiya did invite him to do some peeping.
  • In Chapter 133, after returning to her office, Tsunade says she needs a drink as a result of Naruto wanting to know more about the woman who raised him during the first four years of his life, which was actually Tsunade herself.
• Nerve Damage: This is Jordan Lionstone's reactions towards who his servants are, and his servant Archer's reaction towards him.
• Once More with Feeling:
  • A hilarious version. Shinji, on a whim, reveals the whole bit about "I'm a time traveler who's trying to change the past to atone for my mistakes"... to Pen Pen. The bird's response?
    (PenPen) stared at his back for several long, long seconds before continuing into the kitchen, retrieving a can from Misato's stash, stopping in consideration, retrieving a second, and retreating into his fridge.
    "Yeah" Shinji muttered as he stacked the plates in the dishwasher. "That's about what I thought you'd say".
  • Played straight with Kaji, who admits he needed several hours of hard drinking after getting proof of Shinji's claims of time-travel.
• One More Trigger: Danny deliberately gets himself plastered after executing Jack Slash. He doesn't regret what he did, but would rather not remember it so vividly.
• Only a Wisp of Smoke: Poppy gets high on morphling after realizing that she's going back into the Games. Granted, she often gets high on morphling, but that time is preceded by a screaming fit.
• Past Continuous: Eleya needs one, and offers one to Berat as an apology, after she mouths off to him. She also quotes a Bajoran poet as having said "spring wine is the Prophets' way of showing us they love us."
• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: It happens as a Running Gag, usually with the villains.
  • Giovanni gets a strong craving for alcohol when he realizes the future of Team Rocket is in the hands of Jessie, James and Meowth.
  • Hunter J goes straight for her liquor cabinet as soon as she finishes her assignment from the Bloodline King.
  • Professor Oak says he doesn't have the time or the alcohol to recount the story of how he found out Ash was a bloodliner.
  • A sailor named Scouse had to fill in as a waiter at a political dinner, and got himself very drunk to cope with the "exposure to so much concentrated hypocrisy", as one of his coworkers puts it.
  • Tobias gets a strong craving for whiskey when he realizes during his inter-dimensional travels, he has created Christmas.
• Queen of the Swarm: In Spawn 1.05 Taylor tells her father about her fight against powerful super-villain Lung and her latest meeting with Emma (in which she learnt that her ex-friend bullied her because she was in fact psychologically ill). After hearing her daughter's tale, Danny decides that he needs alcohol, pronto.
  Dad had gotten home just as I bade goodbye to the Barneses and I now had two long stories to tell him. By the end of the discussion, he needed some booze and I needed to relax.
• Rise of the Minisukas: After hearing Misato's plan to destroy Ramiel by hijacking Japan's entire power supply, Ritsuko wonders "if Ooi still had that bottle of vodka hidden away at her station."
• Ripples ends with Will/Van asking for a bottle of wine to be opened when she hears that Caleb is being chased, leading to the beginning of the Guardians' adventures in Meridian.
• Robb Returns:
  • This is the reaction of Rodrik Harlaw, his new wife Alys and Asha Greyjoy after they find out what the High Harlaw runes state.
  • This is also several characters' reaction to finding out about the canon future Robb was sent back from.
• In Role-Playing (Evangelion), Misato decides she nees a beer NOW when she happens upon Shinji and Asuka disguised as Nerv's commanders.
• RWBY: Epic of Remnant: Lancelot goes to Junior's club and orders as much alcohol as he can to try to forget all the craziness of his new circumstances. Unfortunately for him, he finds he can't get drunk.
• Saying I Will, a Bleach fanfic, features this in the final major arc of the story: Byakuya drinks a 1000-year old Sake after finding out that Ichigo is the deceased Soul King's nephew and is next in line for the throne. Made worse by the fact his reaction is all recorded on tape.
• Shinji the Casanova: After seeing Shinji singing and dancing down the hall, wearing socks, a long white shirt and sunglasses, Misato decides she and Asuka need a beer.
  It was dead silent in the apartment once again. Misato silently got up, walked to the fridge and grabbed herself a beer. Without asking, she grabbed one for Asuka as well. Both of them downed their respective beers, cringed at the taste, then continued to stare at the wall.
• Six Days the Animorphs Were Idiots: When her date with Visser Three goes to hell — first his DNA allergy causes him to lose control of his morphing, and then the Animorphs show up — Visser One downs an entire bottle of wine.
• Story Shuffle 2: Double Masters: "Faith of Light": Twilight having to deal with Pinkie Pie, the Cloudcuckoolander:
  After the pure shock wore off, Twilight thought about what had just happened [...] She concluded that she needed a drink.
  She still managed to pour herself a cup of hot sauce.
• Strange Times Are Upon Us: Brokosh's reaction to finding out he's in a Stable Time Loop is to ask if the tavern Ba'wov and K'Gan visited in the previous scene is still open.
• In The SuperStarr Chronicles, Irene Adler goes straight for the bottle of Jack Daniel's when she gets a vision that Clara Creed has returned to Earth.
• Zelda pours gin into her cup of tea in A Tale of Two Rulers after her fiancee Ganondorf breaks open her door, soaking wet, wanting to ground their daughter Rinku because Rinku pushed Ganondorf into a lake.
• Alot of this going on in Chapter 11 of Temporal Anomaly:
  • Cent and Two share a bottle of red wine outside of the after party of the latter's wedding.
  • After discussing various affairs with a group of nobels, One drinks directly from a wine bottle to deal with the headache that came from the conversation.
  • Zero herself is drinking from a bottle of ale, even offering some to Sougo. He politely declines, stating that he has had his fill of red wine.
• This Bites!:
  • Cross and Nami get this sentiment when Luffy, Masira and Shoujou start singing in Chapter 27.
  • Wiper gets this sentiment when he finds himself the Only Sane Man in a Straw Hat party.
  • Smoker, Hina, Tashigi and a visiting Captain T-Bone get this sentiment when Su joins Soundbite on Cross's SBS in Chapter 29.
  • Mr. 5 gets this when they realize Su has joined Soundbite full-time on the SBS.
  • Foxy shares a cask of rum with Apoo as he tells him exactly what kind of insanity he's getting into.
• This Was Easier on the Tabletop: After the Battle of New Avalon (his first direct experience of combat), John leaves the award ceremony for the cadets and he heads into city looking for a dive-bar.
• Through a Diamond Sky: As Flynn's working on escaping his captors, he remarks to himself that he needs a nap, a cold beer, and a long talk with his wife; not necessarily in that order.
• In the Bleach fic To Undo It All, Toshiro demands some sake after a series of world-upending revelations from Ichigo.
• True Potential: The first thing the fifth Hokage Jiraiya does after reading a letter from the Raikage is to drink an entire bottle of sake to deal with the stress caused by said letter.
• Underneath the Sakura Tree: Before Yoshi and Tang Shen's sons were conceived, Yoshi would sometimes help himself to red wine when his daughter's death and clan's collapse start to get to him.
• Unity (pink_shoes): Perceptor's response to Ratchet and Wheeljack descending into an argument is to down two cubes of high-grade energon he was saving for an emergency.
• The Wedding Crashers: Dean breaks out a flask of whiskey and offers some to both Sam and Claire during the ceremony when the newlyweds and the bride's parents are making the most obnoxious, sappy, pretentious, ego-stroking vows and speeches anyone could possibly make. He also makes more than a few stops at the complementary champagne fountain for similar reasons.
• In when they built you, brother, they broke the mould, Catelyn Stark and Theon Greyjoy decide they need a drink or ten when Robb reveals Jon Snow is actually Lyanna's son by Prince Rhaegar.
• Whispers: The mere mention of his brothers is enough to get Arcanus drinking wine despite asserting earlier in that scene that he has no taste for it.
• White Devil of the Moon: In an omake, Makoto suggests this when the whole war with the Dark Kingdom ended because Nanoha (in this fanfic the reincarnated Princess Serenity) admitted she was a lesbian and Beryl took that as a chance to go chase Mamoru instead of trying to kill everyone.
• Who Silenced Elly Patterson: Anthony, who was supposed to be the designated driver, invoked this and said they can hire a cab instead when he figured out his father was arrested because he murdered his mother.
• In the Sailor Moon fanfic With Sprinkles, Setsuna/Sailor Pluto goes to the other senshi to both announce that the Great Freeze is no longer set in stone and find out if they know what caused the change. When she finds out they attacked a Planeswalker, she promptly starts chugging a bottle of whiskey. When Haruka learns just how quickly a Planeswalker gains power (gaining new mana in a few seconds, as opposed to the Senshi getting one more each decade), she follows Setsuna's example.
• With Strings Attached: Said by George (without the "freaking" part) after John reveals his wings to him. The four then proceed to a bar and get trashed (except for John, who can't any more).
• With this Ring... (Green Lantern): Carl Ferris isn't a drinking man. After his daughter Carol has gone missing again together with Hal Jordan, he wishes he was.
  Carl Ferris wished he was a drinking man at times like these. Sometimes, so did his wife, Yvonne.
• You're Cute When You're Happy: England states that he needs alcohol when he finds out America didn't realize they had been in a real relationship when they were sleeping together (which they had been doing for over sixty years).

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