"To alcohol! The cause of — and solution to — all of life's problems."
— Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Tropes about alcoholic beverages and the consumption thereof. But you don't need to read this index! You can quit any time you want! *hic*
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- Addled Addict: An alcoholic's physical and mental health deteriorate due to their addiction.
- Adjective Animal Alehouse: A common naming scheme for bars and inns, of the form "The [Adjective] [Animal]."
- Alcohol Hic: A drunk person has the hiccups.
- The Alcoholic: A character who tends to excessively consume alcoholic drinks.
- Alcoholic Parent: A parent who is an alcoholic.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: A character ends up doing stupid things after getting drunk.
- Alcohol Is Gasoline: Alcohol is used in place of gasoline to power a motor.
- All Beer Is Ale: Lager doesn't seem to exist in most fictional worlds.
- Anthropomorphic Vice: Alcohol and other vices are personified or anthropomorphized.
- Bar Brawl: A huge fight breaks out at a bar.
- Bar Slide: The bartender slides the drink across the bar to the customer.
- Beer Commercials: TV ads for beer in the U.S. aren't allowed to show the beer being drunk.
- Beergasm: Someone drinks alcohol and reacts with over-the-top pleasure.
- Beer Goggles: Getting drunk will cause a person to see another person as being more attractive than they actually are.
- Binge Montage: When you have thirty seconds to show a long night of partying.
- Booze-Based Buff: Video games have alcohol featured as a power-up to make the player character stronger.
- Booze Flamethrower: Spitting alcohol through an open flame to create a much larger burst of fire.
- But Liquor Is Quicker: Getting someone drunk so that it would be easier to bed them.note
- Can-Crushing Cranium: Crushing an empty can of beer against your own forehead to show how tough you are.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: It doesn't take a lot of alcohol for a person to get drunk.
- Descent into Addiction: An arc where a character goes from a healthy drinker to an alcoholic.
- Designated Driver: A sober person who has to drive people home when they're too drunk to safely drive their own vehicles.
- Discreet Drink Disposal: A character quietly gets rid of their drink due to wanting to stay sober, without offending the person who gave it to them.
- Drink-Based Characterization: A character's choice of drink is used to reveal something about them.
- Drinking Contest: A competition to see who can drink the most alcohol.
- Drinking Game: A game where you take a swig of an alcoholic beverage every time something happens while you're watching a movie or show.
- JustForFun.Drinking Game: Make your own!
- Drinking on Duty: Drinking when you're supposed to be working.
- Drowning My Sorrows: A character becomes alcoholic after falling into depression.
- Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows: Resolving a Love Triangle over some drinks.
- Drunk Driver: Alcohol and automobiles don't mix. Here's what happens when you try.
- Drunken Glow: Blushing as a sign of drunkenness.
- The Drunken Sailor: Sailors love booze.
- Drunk on Milk: A character becomes inebriated after drinking a non-alcoholic drink.
- Drunken Master: A character who is incredibly competent—but only when drunk.
- Drunken Montage: When you have thirty seconds to show a long night of drowning your sorrows.
- Drunken Song: Character sings to show that they are drunk.
- Drunk Rolling: Stealing from people who have passed out drunk.
- Dry Crusader: A character who abstains from alcohol and tries to make others give up alcohol as well.
- Expensive Glass of Crap: Wine snobs can't tell the difference between fancy wine and bum wine that's had its label swapped.
- Fake High: Characters get drunk on a non-alcoholic placebo.
- Flair Bartending: Drink-making with an eye to showmanship.
- Frothy Mugs of Water: Alcoholic beverages are replaced with non-alcoholic beverages, but are still treated as if they are alcoholic.
- Gargle Blaster: A concoction of different alcohols that isn't remotely safe to drink.
- Gigantic Gulp: Drinking from a comically huge cup.
- A Glass of Chianti: Villains love red wine.
- Going Cold Turkey: An alcoholic curing themself by the most direct, painful way possible.
- Hair of the Dog: The best cure for a hangover is more alcohol!
- Hangover Sensitivity: Lights are too bright and sounds are too loud for a hung over character.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: A girl who drinks hard and parties hard.
- Heal It with Booze: Using alcohol as a disinfectant or anesthetic.
- Hideous Hangover Cure: Folk remedies for hangovers with bizarre ingredients.
- Hillbilly Moonshiner: The stereotype that people living in the country like to illegally brew their own alcohol.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: A character remarks that they need a drink to make it clear how exasperated and depressed they are about the current situation.
- I Never: A kind of drinking game where the objective is for everyone to take a shot whenever another person claims to have not done something that the other person actually did do.
- I'll Take Two Beers Too: A joke where one character orders drinks for themself, and the other thinks they're ordering for them both; or, vice versa.
- I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!: The character drinking at the bar gets confrontational when the bartender tries to tell them to go easy on how much alcohol they're consuming.
- Impairment Shot: A point-of-view shot of someone in a boozy state.
- Intoxication Ensues: Accidentally getting drunk.
- In Vino Veritas: Getting drunk causes you to show how you really are.
- Kids Raiding the Wine Cabinet: Kids sneaking a drink of the funny grape juice.
- Lady Drunk: An old, bitter, female drunk.
- Lampshade Wearing: A character wears a lampshade on their head to show that they are drunk.
- Libation for the Dead: A drink is poured onto the ground to honor the deceased.
- Liquid Courage: Alcohol makes you braver.
- Luxurious Liquor: Rich people drink fancy alcohol.
- Military Moonshiner: When military regulations forbid alcohol, some soldiers get creative.
- Nailed to the Wagon: An alcoholic is forced to go cold turkey.
- Necktie Headband: A classic sign of drunkenness.
- The Need for Mead: The standard fantasy-world tavern setting.
- Never Gets Drunk: A character never gets drunk no matter how much they've been boozing.
- No More for Me: A character consuming an alcoholic beverage witnesses something strange that they assume to be an inebriation-induced hallucination and promptly gets rid of their drink.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: When not serving drinks, bartenders dry glasses and do nothing else.
- Ode to Intoxication: A song about how great drinking alcohol is.
- Ode to Sobriety: A song about how great not drinking alcohol is.
- Off the Wagon: A recovering alcoholic starts drinking again.
- One Drink Will Kill the Baby: A pregnant woman abstains from alcohol out of concern that consuming it could be harmful for her baby.
- Pink Elephants: Alcohol-induced hallucinations.
- Playing Drunk: A character pretends to be drunk.
- Quick Nip: Casually taking a quick sip of alcohol without commenting on it or interrupting what you're doing.
- Recovered Addict: They used to be The Alcoholic, but not anymore!
- A Round of Drinks for the House: A man expresses joy at an occurrence by offering everyone at the bar drinks that he alone will pay for.
- Saint-Bernard Rescue: Big dogs carrying brandy to help those trapped in the snow.
- Science Cocktail: Beakers, flasks, and other cool-looking glassware is used to create a drink.
- Sentimental Drunk: Alcohol makes them nicer.
- Single Malt Vision: Severe drunkenness makes you see double, triple, or more.
- Skull Cups: Celebrate your dark victory by drinking from the skulls of your defeated enemies.
- Sommelier Speak: Some characters can only describe wine in Purple Prose.
- Sorry Ociffer: A drunk person gets confronted by police and fails spectacularly at hiding their drunkenness.
- Stalling the Sip: A character keeps putting off drinking the poisoned wine, despite not knowing it's poisoned.
- Suddenly Sober: Sobriety as the plot demands.
- A Tankard of Moose Urine: Absolutely awful beer.
- The Teetotaler: They don't drink, for personal reasons.
- To Absent Friends: Proposing a toast to people who are dead or not present.
- Umbrella Drink: No tropical vacation is complete without a brightly colored fruity drink garnished with a paper umbrella.
- Undiscriminating Addict: They're addicted to alcohol, but only because they're addicted to everything.
- Unsuspectingly Soused: Drinking something that they don't know is alcohol.
- Vodka Drunkenski: Russians are drunks, with a preference towards vodka.
- Watering Down: adding water to a drink, to weaken it or to make it last longer.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: A character regains consciousness after a night of being drunk and starts to panic while trying to remember what they did while they were inebriated.
- Wine Is Classy: Wine as a symbol of sophistication or wealth.
And I'll tell you when I've had too many tropes!
- Nappa: Vegeta! What does the breathalyzer say about his blood alcohol content?Nappa: WHAT? Nine percent? How the hell is he even alive?
