The Alcoholic - TV Tropes

It takes a lot of beer to get a 1,200-pound horse drunk.

Alcohol, my permanent accessory
Alcohol, a party time necessity
Alcohol, alternative to feeling like yourself
Oh alcohol, I still drink to your health...

— Barenaked Ladies, "Alcohol"

WHERE'S MY BOURBON?

This person likes their liquor, and in large amounts. They may realize they have a problem, and get on and Off the Wagon, or they may be a Drunken Master, and this is merely a part of their "training", or a result of their — "skills".

Sometimes, this character is merely Drowning Their Sorrows and will bounce back later in the series. Other times, they've been this way from the beginning and have no plans to stop anytime soon. Worried friends may try to help by Nailing Them to the Wagon, though this attempt at forcing them to go Cold Turkey will result in delirium tremens (hence why it is a tradition in psychology that when rehabilitating someone, do it step-by-step).

Real Life alcoholics are not always lying in the gutter — sometimes they are just people who drink alone, or for the sake of drinking, but never appearing to drink to excess (due to tolerance). Commonly, alcohol is drunk due to its effects as an anti-anxiety drug. It is entirely possible that successful people may be alcoholics on the inside. The High-Functioning Alcoholic is proof that sometimes you cannot tell an alcoholic by mere appearance, and they may be in fact be in lofty professions such as law and politics (both highly associated with alcoholism; there are even specialized help lines and recovery networks for lawyers and judges needing help with alcohol and drug use). Hollywood, however, prefers the "Straw Boozer" form: someone wandering the streets in a stupor with a bottle in their hand is more obvious and pathetic than a high-functioning alcoholic who usually stays in their room with a glass in hand contemplating.

Many fictional alcoholics experience Pink Elephants — another trope that only loosely touches on the reality.

There is no known cure for alcoholism. Someone who has managed to quit the habit is considered a recovering alcoholic, and if committed to it, remains in whatever therapy they used to become sober. That said, there are people who quit without therapy, or who stay sober without therapy, as well as some (very) rare people who don't become sober but do become moderate and responsible drinkers (and their mere existence is controversial to the point of Flame Wars over whether they are "in denial" or if it really is possible to drink responsibly once having become addicted).

Note that making a Real Life actual alcoholic (as in a physically addicted to alcohol one, not just an emotionally addicted one or ordinary irresponsible drinker) go cold turkey is putting their life at risk, as alcohol withdrawal can lead to delirium tremens, which, if untreated, results in death. Physically addicted alcoholics must be tapered off of alcohol, slowly reducing the amount they drink, or weaned from it in a proper hospital setting where if they begin to go into delirium tremens, it can be treated.

The Always Female versions are Hard-Drinking Party Girl and Lady Drunk, but alcoholism is only one of her character traits. The Alcoholic Parent is a parent who happens to be an alcoholic.

Compare The Stoner, Drunken Master, Vodka Drunkenski, Hard-Drinking Party Girl, Off the Wagon, Beergasm, Quick Nip, I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!, and Addled Addict. As you'd probably expect, the Drunk Driver often comes into play. If the whole plot is about how a character became an alcoholic, it's an example of Descent into Addiction, and if said alcoholism is vilified, count on there being an Anti-Alcohol Aesop. Oddly, there are "alcoholics" who can get drunk off milk. The Teetotaler is the direct opposite. It can go with Drug-Crazed Savagery, which is when characters become aggressive and perform dangerous activities under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

We also have a Useful Notes page on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.

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Berman, of the Magic Bullet infomercials, is quite obviously hungover when he stumbles into the kitchen. He's the drunk of the whole shebang.

Anime & Manga

Kikuri Hiroi from Bocchi the Rock! is always drunk off cheap convenience store sake. Not that this stops her from being a popular bassist in her own band, despite playing drunk and breaking stuff during concerts, leading to her having to pay for damages and having to stick to aformentioned cheap sake. She actually started drinking on her first performance to calm her stage fright, and now has keep it up to stay inside her "Happiness Spiral", so she wont be tormented by her many anxieties.
In Brigadoon: Marin and Melan Tadashi is nearly always seen drunk, drinking, or asking for more sake. It's shown to have seriously damaged his family.
Sylia Stingray from Bubblegum Crisis 2040 is definitely abusing something. She's seen drinking pretty often, but might have a drug habit on the side.
Kishibe from Chainsaw Man is almost never seen without drinking from his flask, this doesn't stop him from being the best devil hunter there is. Despite claiming to be emotionless, he notes that he always seems to increase the amount he drinks after seeing a student of his die a horrible death.
Delicious in Dungeon: Chilchuck's self-admitted favourite "food" is ale, and any chance he gets he'll always be the first to start chugging alcohol. His father died of drinking, but he actually considers that a good way to die. He is still a professional and resist the temptation as long as he's on the clock though.
Cross Marian from D.Gray-Man. Who's hinted to be drowning his sorrows, given his room filled with wine bottles, and his character quote.
Cross Marian: Sake is the best medicine.
A Dog of Flanders (1975): Ensor is violent because he can't put the bottle down, and frequently takes out his anger on his poor dog, Patrasche. In the book it leads to his death because he got into a drunken brawl with a man much stronger than him.
Hiroshi's neglective father in Domu: A Child's Dream. He does nothing but lie around his apartment intoxicated and that's why his wife and son left him.
Mr Fujisawa from El-Hazard: The Magnificent World. He is even sad that he can have his fantastic strength only if he doesn't drink.
Fairy Tail: Cana drinks thirty percent of the liquor drunk by the Fairy Tail Guild from a giant barrel. Bear in mind the guild has dozens of members and not many seem to be teetotallers.
Roy from Fullmetal Alchemist has some elements of this. He drowns his sorrows due to being a Shell-Shocked Veteran haunted by the war. He was even worse before his friend Hughes cleaned him up.
Hetalia: Axis Powers:
- Russia, "obeying" the Vodka Drunkenski stereotype about Russians as a whole, is all but stated to be this. Subverted in that, while he is shown drinking and straight-up admits the stereotype above, he is never shown straight-up drunk.
- Russia's neighbor and former subordinate Latvia is said to be this in side materials, which state that despite looking like a teenager he's capable of drinking at least 15 vodka glasses in a single serving.
- Prussia shows signs of it, always having a beer in hand, though he may be closer to a male Hard-Drinking Party Girl.
- Denmark is the heaviest drinker of the Nordics, of course. He's seen excitedly drinking beer, and trying to get free drinks out of Iceland during his special announcement.
- Finland has quite the fondness for alcohol as well. He gets drunk after Sweden calls off a battle with Lithuania and Poland. In one of his character songs, he mentions his love of beer and cider.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Phantom Blood: Dario Brando constantly drinks with a lot of his abuse towards Dio occurring when he gets drunk.
- Golden Wind: Anita is a drinker and smoker, as seen by the wine and cigarettes in her train compartment. Melone is happy about this when he's analyzing her potential as a mother for Baby Face.
- Steel Ball Run: Axl Ro used to hit the bottle hard to cope with the horrors of the Civil War. One of his blackout stupors caused him to not spot an incoming enemy attack until it was far too late and they were right under his lookout post, meaning sounding the alarm would have resulted in his immediate death. The guilt of this haunts him to this day.
- JoJolion: Yasuho's mother, Suzuyo, constantly drinks, making her pass out at home while surrounded by bottles, infuriating Yasuho upon seeing the sight of it.
- The JoJoLands: The moment Usagi sets foot in Rohan's villa, he immediately starts stealing from his wine rack (and only bottles, as opposed to Paco stealing both random junk like a plunger, and more valuable items). Dragona quickly tells him to knock it off since they can't get it through airport security anyway when they're all considered under the legal drinking age.
Kumiko from Kotoura-san started to drown her sorrows because she really couldn't handle the fallout from her daughter's Telepathy. When she came over to her daughter's place, she had her buy copious amount of alcohol and drank them.
Arguably Kitsune in Love Hina — most of the time she's depicted either drinking or obviously drunk.
Yui from Lucky Star does on occasion come home to Konata's house drunk. In the sixth episode, Nanako is forced to drive after Yui can't due to this.
Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow: Arthur moves from England to Australia in hopes of becoming rich and wealthy. When he ends up in poverty instead, he turns to alcohol to cope.
Kobayashi from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is often seen drinking beer or sake, or suffering from a hangover. She even met Tohru after a night of hard drinking.
Nozomi in the Sun: A sweet example with Shinsuke Mine. Nozomi catches him drunkenly singing her songs, and it reminds her of why she became a musician in the first place.
Sumeragi Lee Noriega from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is a Hard-Drinking Party Girl most of the time, but is known to get specifically drunk to forget her past failures very often. Then again she's an expy of Misato Katsuragi, so it's not surprising.
There are two notable examples is Monster (1994), both of whom are drowning their sorrows.
Akari from My Monster Secret — Although she's (mostly) professional and (always) sober when working, she keeps a large stash of beer and sake at home, mostly to help her cope with living with her Trolling ancestor Akane.
Major Misato Katsuragi in Neon Genesis Evangelion. In the second episode, Shinji observes her fridge contains nothing but ice, relishes, and beer.
One Piece:
- Zoro absolutely loves his sake, and the guy never seems to get drunk so no hangovers for him. In fact, one might deign to say that he loves his alcohol as much as Luffy loves his meat: while training under Mihawk, he is horrified to learn that he would be denied his booze until he learned to infuse his blades with so much Haki that they'd turn completely black.
- Even more amazing is old lady Kokoro introduced in the Water 7 arc. She is never seen without a bottle of booze in hand, so one can only assume she constantly drinks and therefore is constantly drunk. But despite this she somehow retains the ability to drive a freakin' speeding out-of-control train. It's implied during Franky's flashback that she started drinking as a way to cope with the loss of her close friend and associate Tom and the apparent death of the latter's apprentice Cutty Flam, aka Franky.
- Kaido of the Four Emperors spends most of his time being either piss-drunk or complaining that he's too sober and looking for more sake. In his dragon form, his breath reeks of booze so much it blankets an entire town. Even Luffy gets annoyed when he starts drinking mid-fight. It's later revealed his birthplace is called the Vodka Kingdom. The poor man never stood a chance.
Ms. Igarashi of Pani Poni Dash!, who often shows up to school drunk, or at least smelling of alcohol.
While Happosai, one of the most consistently villainous characters in Ranma ½, is better known for his other appetites, he's also quite a boozehound when the opportunity arises. When your students' first plan to finally kill you is to feed you several barrels of sake, then seal you up inside one and throw it and some dynamite into a cave that they then block with a Zigzag Paper Tassel-wrapped boulder... and it works... you've got a drinking problem.
Silver Plan to Redo From JK: Maki's father has a drinking problem due to his debts, his sick wife (who needs expensive treatment) and his gambling problem.
Doctor Sakezo Sado in Space Battleship Yamato (Dr. Sane in Star Blazers). He is usually seen drinking sake, and he drinks lots of it. Star Blazers tried to cover this up by calling it spring water.
Mr Legend from Tiger & Bunny is revealed to have been this in his past, drowning his sorrows away after losing his NEXT powers.
Voltes V: Nakamura. After the Boazanians abduct his parents, he turns to alcohol to cope. However, while drunk, he tries to steal a plane from Big Falcon and fly it to the Boazanian base, and as a result is fired by Professor Sakonji. This makes his Fantastic Racism towards Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi worsen.
In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira loves beer, not realizing how good it tasted until after he's started being able to drink it for relaxation rather than Drowning His Sorrows. His first supply runs are not for essential items like food and medicine but for more beer.
Akira: [singing] Suds! Brewskis! Any and every kind of BEER! Give me all your BEER! Beer, bee- [runs into Shizuka]

Arts

The Bacchus◊ by Michelangelo Buonarroti makes it clear the titular god is smashed by capturing him with his goblet raised to the heavens, his eyes rolled into his skull, and his head nearly tilted off. The guy is even holding the fur of a tiger, an animal classically synonymous with wine-making grapes. His satyr companion seems pretty undisturbed by his master's inebriation, hinting that this is Bacchus' default state.

Audio Plays

Jeff the Killer (Pastra): The first victim of Jeff we see onscreen is Jay Douglas, who comes home to his house extremely hammered. In his house we see that there are bottles scattered all over the place.
Downplayed, but in Starboard it's implied by Chauncy that Reginald's main vice when he was a duke was brandy, and indeed he starts the first episode severely hungover.
The main shtick of Blade of the Touch Tone Terrorists was to be horribly, disgustingly drunk or hungover to the point of loudly vomiting over the phone, much to the shock of the unfortunate people calling in, thinking they were reaching a business. His Catchphrase was "Sorry, I just had a little too much to drink." When called out on such behavior, however, he would talk about how much fun it was to drink and sometimes even suggest that the caller come over and drink along with him.

Comedy

Foster Brooks made a career of jokes built around his heavy drinking. This was often played off as Fair for Its Day, with Brooks explaining that he had mixed up his dates and would never have intentionally shown up in this condition.
Craig Ferguson, a recovering alcoholic, has joked about his antics when he was still abusing alcohol and drug back in Scotland.
Dean Martin used to do his act seemingly drunk with a glass of whisky (usually claimed to have actually been apple juice, though stories vary) in his hand, but while he wasn't a teetotaler, he wasn't the lush he pretended to be either. The HBO movie "Rat Pack" lampshades this rather hilariously: the camera pans up the side of the Sands hotel, showing glimpses of what's going on in everyone's room: Sammy has a girl and a drink, Peter has a girl and a drink, Joey has a girl and a drink, Frank has two girls and a drink ... and at the very top is Martin, sitting in bed alone watching TV, drinking a glass of milk.
Christopher Titus described his dad as always having a beer in hand, including funerals, waterskiing and PTA conferences. It's a firmly established part of his childhood memories that associates the can opening up with his dad saying something soul crushing.
Robin Williams would play his prior addictions for laughs.
Robin: When I became a reformed alcoholic I realized I'm the same asshole. I just have fewer dents in my car.

Comic Books

In All Star Section Eight, Sixpack drinks a lot, hence his codename.
The title character of Arne Anka, though as he insists in one of his famous quotes:
Arne Anka: I'm not having problems with the alcohol, I'm having problems with the reality!
Asterix:
- In Asterix and Caesar's Gift, Tremensdelirius (a pun on "delirium tremens", the trembly hallucinations that are a side-effect of withdrawal in an alcoholic), like other legionaries, is awarded a plot of land by Julius Caesar for twenty years of service. But since he spent all twenty of them drunk and publicly insulted Caesar in a fit of Alcohol-Induced Stupidity, Caesar decides to award him the title deed to a certain little Gaulish village. Tremensdelirius sells it to an innkeeper for more wine when he's broke.
- Tremensdelirius returns in Asterix and the Actress where he has joined Pompey's forces, but his Alcohol-Induced Stupidity completely derails Pompey's plans when he accidentally sets both Caesar and the Gauls on Pompey's trail. At one point he is released from jail and given an alternative punishment: water corvée. He immediately pleads to be sent back to jail as he can't stand water, something his superiors are well aware of.
Blast: Polza has a long-standing drinking problem that's taken a toll on his physical and mental well-being. He somehow hasn't died from liver failure even though he drinks straight gin everyday and routinely has life-threatening nosebleeds because his blood can't coagulate. Polza rationalizes his constant drinking as a tool for self-discovery on his journey, an idea the detectives are immediately skeptical of.
Cerebus the Aardvark:
- Cerebus gets smashed whenever he can, and can knock back prodigious amounts of booze, such as drinking whiskey out of full brandy snifters^note and scotch out of buckets. In the early issues, this was usually played for laughs, but by the time Guys came around, the alcohol-based comedy is balanced by playing all the consequences of Cerebus' boozing much more seriously. For instance, Cerebus has to deal with the aftermath of very rude things he says about his former mercenary pal Bear while drunk, and in the middle of a booze pass-out, he tells "Dave" that he just wanted to die.
- Cirinist society actually enables this trope; unmarried men tend to be sequestered in bars because the state provides free room and board for them and all the alcohol they can handle. The thought process is that they will either get tired of that lifestyle, shape up, and leave to find a wife, or eventually drink themselves to death. The Guys Story Arc is set in a bar and deals with this concept in multiple fashions.
- In keeping with his real-life basis, F. Stop Kennedy can't stay away from his gin. In Going Home, he spends many evenings on the boat ride with Cerebus and Jaka drunkenly soliloquizing on the roof of his cabin.
The easiest way to find the town doctor in Copperhead is to check the bar for the drunkest man. He is introduced immediately after the bartender cuts him off, but goes on to competently treat a dying person and claim he's done more complex treatments while drunker.
Ninjette in Empowered is initially introduced as a comic Hard-Drinking Party Girl but her heavy drinking is treated with increasing seriousness as the comic's Cerebus Syndrome develops. In the "Nine Beers With Ninjette" short it's finally confirmed that she's an alcoholic and knows it.
Inspector Gill of Fish Police. This is even mentioned in one letters section, where a reader points out that Gill went a whole issue without drinking. Moncuse counters that by saying that the violence and sex in that issue make up for it.
Howard Nissen from Give Me Liberty, after having to deal with more than fifty separatist movements in the US and his mostly right-wing secretaries actively opposing him. Moretti may also be blamed.
Ghost Rider: In "Personal Demons" (Issue #69, June 1982), an angry, drunk redneck named Harry Donovan thinks his girlfriend is sweet on Johnny Blaze, so he steals a giant bulldozer from a nearby construction site and tries to run down Blaze during a performance. The narration specifically says Donovan has lost numerous jobs as a result of his uncontrollable drinking and resulting violent rages, which is one common way that alcoholism affects its victims. Of course the Ghost Rider stops him and burns his soul with hellfire ... which in this case might be a good thing, because the final panel suggests that the trauma may cure Donovan of drinking, for good.
As Gotham Central progresses Renee Montoya descends further and further into depression as she experiences the violence and corruption of the Gotham City Police Department. After being involuntarily outed by Two-Face, forced to beat up a Corrupt Cop in order to get evidence to exonerate her falsely-implicated partner and experiencing the general events of Gotham City she begins to drink heavily and grows increasingly violent. This is noticed by her girlfriend, Daria Hernandez, and her partner, Crispus Allen, and it looks like she might actually decide to get some counseling to deal with this issue...when Crispus is murdered by Jim Corrigan who then walks on the crime. When her character returns in 52 the creator commentary reveals that she has become an actual alcoholic and has driven away her remaining friends and family.
Iron Man:
- Tony Stark went through a serious alcohol problem in the comics, which was treated realistically and respectfully. But thanks to Never Live It Down, this is the default portrayal of him in other media. In the movie, nearly every scene that's not a fight scene has him drinking an alcoholic beverage of some sort. As the sequel was partially an adaptation of the storyline dealing with the drinking problem, it was Foreshadowing.
- Stark helped Carol Danvers (a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, Binary, Warbird, and Captain Marvel) get a handle on her drinking problem. The Ultimate version takes this to the Ultimate extreme. A prime example is this dialogue between Black Widow and Stark:
  Black Widow: Listen... but do you really think it is wise to knock back so many vodkas before you fly that thing?
  Tony Stark: Oh, absolutely, darling. In fact, it's really quite essential... I mean, who in their right mind's going to climb into it sober?
- Of course, there's a secondary reason for Ultimate Stark's alcoholism: he has an inoperable brain tumor that will kill him in under five years, which means he must be dealing with some massive migraines. Ultimate Stark also has brain tissue all over his body that makes him more intelligent but also causes him to feel constant agony... until the eventual retcon that this was made up for an in-universe TV series about him. Wearing a special bio-suit and being plastered 24-7 helps him to cope with it.
Several in Jack Chick tracts.
- In "Happy Hour", Jerry ends up spending most of his family's money drinking, causes his wife to die after pushing her over during an argument over his drinking, and uses the grocery money on alcohol. Naturally, while his kids think that he should have died instead of their mother, they end up forgiving him and Christianity is what he needs to get over his alcoholism.
- In "Tiny Shoes", Juan's alcoholism is the reason why he is unable to keep his promise to buy shoes for his son. After the saloon is destroyed by lightning, he decides to buy the shoes, but by then, Juanito has died of pneumonia after walking out in the rain to search for him.
- In "Mad Machine", a father and a son go to a facility described to treat alcoholism. The father's told that he'll like it there, but he says that his son is the patient.
Judge Dredd Megazine: Jack Point carries a hipflask of whiskey everywhere and drinks it at every available opportunity.
Major Disaster became a serious alcoholic during his time in Justice League Elite. His drinking became so bad that his powers malfunctioned during a particularly disastrous battle with the Justice Society, causing an explosion that nearly killed Hawkgirl. He later became sober after Manitou Raven died protecting him from a bomb.
Greg Rucka also used this trope with Tara Chace in Queen and Country. Don't misunderstand, Tara is a highly functional alcoholic, but she is definitely an alcoholic. At one point, she is shown having fallen asleep with an empty bottle of whiskey. Another time, she is shown drinking from another bottle of whiskey in the shower. On another occasion, she and a coworker, both already drunk, decide to break into a liquor store to get more alcohol. As much of a badass superspy as Tara may be, she clearly has a huge drinking problem. She does quit drinking after she finds out she is pregnant, however.
Arsenal from Red Hood and the Outlaws is a recovering one. He laments hanging out in a bar in #4 even though he's only drinking soda.
Among his many other vices (spousal abuse, rape, hypocritical religious zeal, etc.), Klara Prast's (Runaways) husband was a drunk who often blew her meager wages on alcohol.
Spider-Man:
- Flash Thompson's asshole of a father was one, and Flash was too for a while. Flash was smart enough to clean up his act and get help, but sadly, Norman Osborn exploited this in a plot to get revenge on Spidey. At present, it seems Flash is sober, but he has plenty more to worry about..
- Mary Jane Watson's dad was this too, and it cost him his marriage and the respect of both his daughters, although Mary Jane eventually reconciled with him a little.
- Also true of Electro's father and probably Dr. Octopus' father, the problem causing both villains to have Abusive Parents and broken homes. To be blunt, as unlucky as he is, Peter Parker had a much better history than most of his foes.
Casey Sullivan from Sullivan's Sluggers is a pretty heavy drinker, brought on by the end of his baseball career by a ball he failed to catch in 1976.
Captain Haddock in Tintin. The portrayal is rather horrifying in his first appearance, The Crab with the Golden Claws, where his Alcohol-Induced Idiocy arguably makes him more dangerous to Tintin than the baddies they're fighting. Although often the subject of jokes, readers are left in no doubt that it's an addiction and has terrible side effects not only on Haddock himself but everyone around him. It's also a running gag that he is so addicted to alcohol, he's incapable of drinking non-alcoholic drinks, especially water. Fortunately, his addiction slowly weakens during the course of the series thanks to a combination of Character Development, horrible repercussions, and Tintin's efforts to keep him away from alcohol.
Trakk: Monster Hunter: Trakk spent four decades with a bottle of booze in his hand after failing to save a woman in The '60s.
The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Bots have a Fuel Intake Moderator Chip which allows them to filter their fuel, switching it off allows them to get drunk, and Trailbreaker (later Trailcutter) is always drinking, from his spotlight to most of his regular appearances. In Season 2, Megatron forcibly switches the FIM chip on with a blow to his head to ensure permanent sobriety.
Sunfire from the Uncanny Avengers, who turned to drinking after an ill-advised Face–Heel Turn where he betrayed the X-Men and joined Mr. Sinister's Marauders. When Wolverine finally tracks him to Tokyo, Sunfire drunkenly assumes that his former ally is there to kill him for his betrayal.
In Vampirella, Pendragon cannot resist the lure of alcohol.
In Violine, Kombo, a witch doctor, even going so far as to save bottles of whiskey from a fire (he thought a child was still inside). His alcoholism also prevents him from seeing the future in time, or at all.
In Watchmen, the Mothman's alcoholism gets so bad that he is eventually committed to a sanitarium. This would not have been unusual for the time period, though.

Comic Strips

Hi and Lois has Thurston, next-door neighbor to the Flagstons, whose fondness for the bottle has earned him the nickname "Thirsty".
91:an Karlsson: Major Morgonkröök often keeps a bottle on him, and frequently gets into arguments with the army doctor Krank due to his drinking habit. In one of Rudolf Petersson's strips, it is revealed that he also hoards his emptied bottles to the point where 91 managed to find about 100 liters' worth of empty bottles in various sizes while cleaning his office once.
In PVT Murphy's Law, a brigade of troops coming back from a long deployment overseas find themselves craving alcohol so badly that back in the US, a beer company executive bolts upright in bed because he can feel a great disturbance in the force. This has actually happened twice in the comic so far.
The Wizard of Id has Bung, named after a wine cask's stopper, (and the other characters call him "sot", which is a historical word for "drunk" more often than they call him by his name) who is almost perpetually drunk, although that apparently doesn't (usually) stop him doing his job competently. In one strip, the King describes the most remarkable part of Bung's act as, "he sobered up."

Fairy Tales

Alexander Afanasyev's "Little Master Misery": Misery has one only goal in its life: getting drunk...with someone else's money. It'll latch on to some poor loser and will pester him into going to the local tavern to drink every day until its poor victim has run out money and things to pawn.

Fan Works

Asuka Quest: Asuka (or more accurately, the person who accidentally bodyjacks Asuka) has a drunk phase early on in the quest. Her in-universe excuse is all of canon!Asuka's mental issues catching up to her, but the actual reason was more to escape the fact that she got stuck in the Darker and Edgier Humongous Mecha series. She drops it after the fiasco of a battle against Matariel, but not before she got Shinji into Dark Souls and accidentally revealed that she knew Rei was a Nephilim.
The Black Prince: Harry's excessive alcohol consumption is commented on repeatedly. Eggsy eventually calls him out on being a drunk after they break up.
Contraptionology!: Applejack's love of drink and brewing is played up to counterpoint her teetotaler Love Interest Bell Pepper.
Fate of the Clans:
- Tenkei is commonly drinking beer, and got dead drunk during the party to celebrate summoning Mordred and Iskandar. According to Mordred, he drinks so much beer that it made his blood taste bad.
- Iskandar picked up Tenkei's drinking habit. Even Tenkei complains about this, since his Servant makes the beer empty twice as fast as before.
The Fearless Moral Inventory of Milhouse Van Houten: This fic paints Milhouse as an alcoholic who attends AA meetings and struggles to stay sober.
Racer and the Geek: Sunny Breeze, the protagonist, drinks at least Once an Episode and gets drunk in the majority of them. He's got damn good reasons to want to drown his sorrows.
War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology has both Willow and Winter Schnee devolve into alcoholism as a result of their trauma. Willow after learning Jacques never loved her and their children, and Winter after the loss of her wife and daughter.
The Immortal Game has Sir Unimpressive, who's never seen without a flask of whiskey. Twilight at one point wonders where he keeps managing to get it refilled.
Frederick von Hohenzollern, the main hero in A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism, is a devoted high-functional alcoholic - to the point he's never seen without a flask. Of course, the name kind of gives it away...
Earth and Sky: Prince Blueblood is sloshed in every scene he's in. Justified by the fact that being stuck in a loveless marriage of convenience with Diamond Tiara is hardly a state of marital bliss.
In Under the Northern Lights King Ukko is a bitter drunkard. Heavy drinking is socially mandated among reindeer, but he does it enough that even they react negatively.
Fallout: Equestria: Littlepip's mother always has a bottle nearby. She's a very high-functioning drunk, but she still mostly ignores her daughter. Her drinking habits also mean that Littlepip is one of the very few ponies in the small world of the Stable who doesn't know who her father is. When Littlepip finally returns to the Stable, after fending off the Steel Rangers who were assaulting the place, she notes that her mother is even more drunk than usual to deal with the trauma. The only obvious outward sign is that she's gossiping with her friends about how she had to suffer her dress getting dirty when a friend died.
Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons: Blackjack never, ever passes up an opportunity to get wasted, especially when Wild Pegasus whiskey is available. Though seeing how she's been through more mental, physical, and spiritual trauma than nearly every fictional character except for Guts from Berserk, can you blame her?
In Boys do Tankary?, Vincent and Gage were this, apparently since the age of seven. They had fought in a war on opposite sides, and Nyra, who was Vincent's sister, but on Gage's side, got captured by Vincent's side, who raped and murdered her squadmates after taking her prisoner. When Vincent spared Nyra, they were put into a cell with a gun and told one had to kill the other by the end of the month, and Vincent complied; both he and Gage were driven to drink by the experience. Nyra, however, turns out to be alive, and Gage resolves to quit drinking.
Dante, or rather, Donte, is the Slayer of Tequila in The Kanyeverse.
We have Rei the drunk secretary from Kill la Kill AU and this has gotten her into trouble, as she's sent four kids on a beer run. Apparently, she is rarely sober, as she doesn't seem to be sober when she hired as a babysitter. Apparently, this is a deconstruction, seeing as we are shown the harmful consequences of her being one, i.e, she is mentioned to be passed out in her own vomit from time to time.
Maim de Maim:
- We have Ragyo, who is mentioned to be drinking red wine on a semi-regular basis until Chapter 14. She returns to that habit afterward.
- Ryuko is too, to a lesser extent. Considering that the Kiryuins were revealed to have a large alcohol collection, it would safe to say that they all were or are.
Empath in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf alternate timeline story "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" turns into this after Smurfette marries Papa Smurf and has a child through him, and after he successfully leads a rebellion against the new couple that forces them and those that are loyal to them (which included Polaris Psyche and the Smurflings) out of the village, with Empath still being heartbroken from being spurned by Smurfette in favor of Papa Smurf.
Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations has Mitsuzane, the origins of his alcoholism is revealed in the first part of the Kamen Rider Kiva character arc of the said story, Micchy started to get himself hammered at an early age out of guilt of his actions two months after Helheim's eradication from Earth. Then again, Gou also notes that Micchy is an expy of Tony Stark as a whole, the portrayal of his alcoholism is being treated realistically similar to Stark.
- The Kamen Rider Gaim fanfics I shouldn't be alive, unless it was for a reason and Gone Cold Turkey, both are written by the same writer as Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations listed above, which is the backstory is based on. Word of God states that Micchy's first slow descent into alcoholism following the tragic events in the TV canon, albeit underage, is inspired from the Demon in a Bottle issue from the Iron Man comics; which explores the realistic portrayal of him of turning to the bottle and how he manages to recover.
Zeroninety's Jem fanfics The Mess I'm In and Lasting Fame portray an older Kimber as a recovering alcoholic who has frequent problems with relapsing. She has barely talked with her sister Jerrica in years as a result (not helped by Jerrica's own issues with her identity). A factor to Kimber's alcoholism was her divorce with Sean.
Arizona in Scary News out of Tokyo-3 gradually descends into addiction as impossible and disturbing events continue to pile up on him. He starts out in I Need a Freaking Drink territory, but his offhand references to what he's currently drinking grow more and more frequent; after a nervous breakdown that forces him into retirement, he does practically nothing but drink, and the quality and coherence of his posts vary wildly depending on whether or not he's sober at the time.
In The Undesirables, Lightning Dust has basically living in the bottle since she dropped out of the Wonderbolts Academy. However, after being recruited by Luna for her team, she's inspired to pull herself together, becoming more of a Functional Addict.
The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Drop of Moonshine is comedic, however the backstory behind it is not. After banishing her sister to the moon Celestia began drinking the pain away to the point where she could barely function as princess. This led to ponies stopping the production of alcohol so that the princess would be forced to go cold turkey. Eventually Celestia straight up banned alcohol (and thus modern ponies don't know what alcohol or being drunk is). Celestia has been sober for over 900 years, though when Luna starts making moonshine she picks up on drinking again (albeit for fun). This leads to alcohol being legalized again in Equestria and reintroduced into society.
Mercy in the Overwatch fanfic Break My Heart, Break Your Heart, stemming primarily from her guilt over her actions that turned Gabriel Reyes, the man she once loved, into Reaper.
Forum of Thrones: After the reality of his poor life slowly hit him, Robb became this, especially after getting rejected by Harpy, the only woman he ever developed genuine feelings for.
The Pieces Lie Where They Fell:
- Wind Breaker drinks a lot (but only enough to get buzzed, no more), and Night Blade, noticing this, fires him from a job for it during the former's Establishing Character Moment due to the laws against public intoxication. There's a legitimate reason for his drinking habit though - when he was a child, he couldn't stop from telling the truth and got into fights because of it, so his caretakers decided to give him alcohol to try and restrain his truth-telling. This happened when he was nine, and he hasn't been able to stop drinking since, though after earning his Element, he promises Applejack that he'll try and sober up and finally admits to himself and the others that he has a problem.
- An unnamed Earth Pony was this in Wind Breaker's background. It's explained that he drank enough that one day, he forgot he wasn't a pegasus and tried to fly, only to fall almost eighty feet straight down, shattering all four legs on impact and only surviving because of a combination of his natural durability and one of the unicorns below managing to cast a cushioning spell on the ground at the last minute - if not for both of these factors, he would have died on impact. Instead, he's alive and has been completely wheel bound ever since, the experience resulting in him sobering up for good.
In Laying Waste To Halloween, Gabe, like his canonical appearance in Percy Jackson and the Olympians is an alcoholic. In this fic, Percy thinks he's better when he's unconscious from drinking so much or out drinking with his friends. He's worse when the beer runs out.
In My Huntsman Academia, Glynda Goodwitch is depicted as this to deal with her wacky, headache-inducing students and co-workers, downing an entire bottle of pricey Mistral Brandy every month to relax. She apparently once drank Qrow under the table.
As per his MCU self, Tony Stark in Child of the Storm drinks a lot during the first book, even keeping a supply of alcohol in every lab. If he's not on caffeine, he's probably on alcohol. However, he does cut down on it somewhat once his daughter Ada is born and he has a role model to set.
Due to his Dark and Troubled Past, Hiccup in Persephone has developed a drinking problem, something that Astrid (with much protest and horrifying withdrawal) helped him kick. And even then he has relapses.
After losing his job, Eric starts drinking excessively in the Jem fic Our Time Is Now. This only worsens his Sanity Slippage.
In the Danny Phantom fanfic Resurrected Memories, Paulina is secretly drinking while underage, even hiding some bourbon in her diet cola when she is at school.
Roxy is implied to be this way in Mary Phillips Story. She refuses to do drugs, but she does drink a lot. She refuses to admit it's an issue.
RWBY: Scars:
- Coco is a Hard-Drinking Party Girl bordering on an alcoholic. She drinks both for fun and to deal with her experiences as a huntress-in-training. Her teammates think she drinks too much, but Coco insists that she's fine. Eventually she sees a therapist and is diagnosed with PTSD.
- Qrow's drinking is Played for Drama compared to in canon. He drinks because of all the trauma he's had in life. Being forced to kill his lover Summer is his primary reason to drink.
- Weiss and Winter's mother is a neglectful Alcoholic Parent. Winter's disdain for alcoholics is a large part of why she gets along so poorly with Qrow.
In Do You Believe in Fairies?, Owen's heavy drinking stems from his fear of being alone and his insecure nature, especially surrounding his sexual orientation. He's closeted because he dislikes being seen as "different" and doesn't like making things difficult for those around him.
A Prize for Three Empires: Carol Danvers develops an addiction to alcohol when she starts losing her powers. It takes a while until she owns up her alcoholism and starts fighting it.
Last Call:
- Lapis is an alcoholic. The story starts with her calling her exe Jasper for the first time in two years. She needs a ride home because the bartender took her keys.
- Jasper is recovering from alcoholism brought on by Lapis' abuse.
Lasting Fame: Kimber has been struggling with alcoholism for years. She was doing okay for a few months but relapsed when her daughter mentioned that her step-mother was pregnant.
A Diplomatic Visit: Discussed in chapter 9 of the sequel Diplomat at Large. When Fancy Pants comes to meet Blueblood with a bottle of wine, the latter implies that if he keeps this up, ponies who love to gossip might start thinking of him as having a drinking problem. Fancy rather firmly denies that he's an addict; his only drinking problem is when he has a good bottle and nopony to share it with.
King Thranduil of The Hobbit is very frequently portrayed this way in fanfics both serious and cracky, owing to his reputation in the fandom as the "dwarf-racist party dad".
The Pokémon Squad:
- June is seen drinking in almost any given episode.
  - Apparently, Alcoholics Anonymous banned June for life when she attacked the leader of the group for telling the group members to try to go a week without drinking.
- Doug Funnie, probably to cope with being traumatized by Barney on three separate occasions (and because the Disney version of his show gave him PTSD).
- Two words: Elmo Reddmonster. In fact, he founded Elmo's Tavern solely because there weren't any bars in Unnamed Town and wanted a place to drink at.
- Downplayed with RM. He doesn't normally drink, but he almost always turns to alcohol first whenever he's depressed. Sometimes subverted, because Elmo has given him non-alcoholic variations of normally-alcoholic drinks on a few occasions (such as in "Rayquaza Mistress").
Another Day in Bluffington Duology: Doug Funnie became a drunkard in order to cope with everything around him changing. Even his morning routine starts with a glass of gin and water.
Which One Direction member will kill you?: Harry Styles is an alcoholic who is constantly drunk and abuses his girlfriend after he's been drinking.
Three Sheets to the Wind: There isn't a single moment when Jaune isn't drinking from a bottle, can or barrel. Interestingly, there isn't a big dramatic reason for this other than the fact that his semblance gives him unlimited alcohol, so he just drinks non-stop. No wonder his teammate, his sisters and everyone else called him a menace to society.

Films — Animation

Uncle Waldo from The Aristocats. He is first seen being chased out of a restaurant as an attempt to avoid being killed and eaten as part of a dish called "Prime Country Goose a la Provençale" that apparently involved him being "stuffed with chestnuts and basted in white wine." And because of the latter, Uncle Waldo actually became extremely drunk as a result of this. While it may not seem to be an example (after all, he may have been forced to drink it), he clearly ingested enough for one of the cats to lampshade it, and he even notes that he has a preference. Later on, near the end of the movie, he's in 'Everyone Wants to Be a Cat,' and either he's still drunk... or he's found something else.
In Brambletown, Badger becomes depressed and develops an obsession with drinking maple syrup, which is very obviously a metaphor for alcoholism. However, it starts negatively affecting his health.
"But his gut started aching, and his paws started shaking / And he knew that somethin' weren't right / Dr. Mole, Dr. Mole, can you fix me right up? / My body is fallin' apart."
Ratigan's henchman Bartholomew from The Great Mouse Detective. In his short amount of screentime, he's already drunk the first time we see him and he's sad which he runs out of his beverage, then when Ratigan pours champagne into his fountain he immediately runs over to drink from it, ultimately his intoxicated state leads to his demise — he accidentally calls Ratigan a rat (which Ratigan hates) and is fed to his pet cat.
Evelyn of Incredibles 2 is implied to be alcoholic. She has a permanently disheveled appearance with eye bags and several of her scenes involve her drinking. One scene has her having a heart-to-heart with Elastigirl late at night nursing a drink, and her acting casually tipsy (slightly drawn out words, big arm gestures, kind of slow to follow Elastigirl's thought process, etc).
Aline in Mars Express. She has quit drinking, and every machine detects she has enabled sobriety mode (this is a sci-fi setting). As the case she is working on becomes stressful she disables that and starts drinking all the time.
Sleeping Beauty (1959): King Stephen's minstrel while entertaining and serving King Stephen and Hubert he sneaks drinks of their wine, and sneaks more any chance he gets. It gets to the point where he fills his lute with the wine and eventually passes out from intoxication.

Magazines

Kopalny, one of the mascots of the Top Secret magazine, is a lovable bum who loves beer and has frequent hangovers, and spends most of the time complaining about having to work menial jobs around the office.

Music

The aptly named song "Alcohol" by the Barenaked Ladies, which opens with the line "Alcohol, my permanent accessory" pretty much sums up the attraction of drinking in the line "Alcohol, Alternative to feeling like myself."
Old Red-Eyes is Back by The Beautiful South tells a tale of a sad old drunk who looks back on his life and regrets how he spent it. When he dies, every bartender in the area mourns him, and he is buried with an empty bottle of whiskey beside him.
"Old Red-Eyes is back
Red from the night before the night before
Walked into the wrong bar walked into a door
Old Red's in town
And sitting late at night he doesn't make a sound
Just adding to the wrinkles on his deathly frown
They're only red from all the tears that I should've shed
They're only red from all the women that I could've wed
So when you look into these eyes I hope you realize
They could never be blue."
Elvis Costello's "Beyond Belief" is very clearly being narrated by someone on the verge of a drunken stupor: "So in this almost empty gin palace / In a two-way looking glass, you see your Alice." The singer himself once got into serious trouble because of remarks he made while inebriated. The lyrics to "Man out of Time" are also noticeably booze-sodden: "You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning.
Daughtry's video for "Over You" has the main character, Sarah. Her drinking problem causes herself and her boyfriend to get in a car crash and the video ends with her seeking help at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Played for laughs in the song Cheeky Little Wine by the comedy band Dead Cat Bounce. In it, the singer compares the various wines he drinks to different kinds of women, and ends up drinking lighter fluid and paint.
"Filthy little wine!
She bad, she's nasty!
Can't pronounce her name;
Don't even ask me!
In a paper bag,
Down in an alley,
She's a dirty little whore of a wine!

And my wife doesn't know;
She thinks I'm still a lawyer!
If she found out the truth,
It'd prob'ly destroy 'er!
(She's gonna find out soon, anyway; we're about to lose the house.)"
The title of The Devil Makes Three's "Old Number 7" refers to Jack Daniel's whiskey. The song is about an alcoholic who drinks a lot of it.
Dice has an album called The 40 Made Me Do It.
The music video for "A Reason to Fight" by Disturbed symbolises this with a guy trapped in a bottle held in his own hand. The lyrics are a more general Pep-Talk Song that could apply to a struggle against alcoholism or something else.
The narrator in Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" may or may not be, as might the narrator in "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again." The narrator in "Moonshiner" definitely is.
"Bottle of Wine" by the Fireballs, about a wino who complains about how hard it is to ditch his wine addiction.
In Gang of Youth's "Achilles Come Down", Achilles is warned to put down his bottle, as what he finds in it will only tell him "chaos, confusion" that is not worthy of listening to. A bit of Reality Subtext as the singer was drunk on the night he attempted (and failed) suicide.
"I Drink Alone" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers is about a man who regularly likes to drink alone.
The man being sung about in "The Sadness Runs Through Him" by The Hoosiers very often drowns his sorrows.
Elton John (and his main lyricist Bernie Taupin) often played this trope for laughs, or at least as character study, in songs like "Elderberry Wine", "Social Disease", and "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" with the occasional tragic drunk thrown in as in "Talking Old Soldiers". Understandably, it slowed down as Taupin himself sobered up in the late 1970s and Elton followed in 1990.
Määnin, of KAJ's Kayfabe Music alter ego group Vörjeans shared in an interview that he'd recently gone to rehab for alcohol abuse; while there, he set a new personal record by going 30 minutes without having a drink.
"From the Bottle to the Bottom" by Country Musician Kris Kristofferson is about a man who takes the breakup of a relationship with a women very hard and starts drinking heavily trying to get over her:
"You ask me if I'm happy now
That's good as any joke I've heard
It seems that since I've seen you last
I done forgot the meaning of the words
If happiness is empty rooms
And drinkin' in the afternoon
Well I suppose I'm happy as a clam...

Did you ever see a down and outer waking up alone...
...because he's never seen a single dream come true
That's the way that I've been feelin' since the day I started falling
From the bottle to the bottom stool by stool
Learnin' hard to live with losin' you"
Cry Baby's mother in Melanie Martinez's Concept Album "Cry Baby" is an alcoholic who drinks because of her husband's infidelity. She's implied to be an abusive (or at least neglectful) parent. She ends up murdering her husband and tries to kill Cry Baby.
Glenn Miller signature tune Little Brown Jug, which is an old folk song about alcoholism.
Ozzy "The Prince of Darkness" Osbourne. His songs "Suicide Solution" and "Demon Alcohol" are about this. "Suicide Solution" doubles as an I Thought It Meant as it describes alcohol as a solution in chemical meaning (a stuff where other substances have been dissolved) which slowly kills you, not suicide as a solution in meaning of "resolving your problems".
Red Hot Chili Peppers ' "Porcelain" (from the album "Californication") is about an incident Anthony Kiedis observed in which he observed an alcoholic mother's drunken behavior around a young child, and to make matters worse, she was pregnant. This situation had a profound effect on Kiedis, whose father had introduced him to hard drugs at a young age, leading him to have many periods of addiction, including a relapse several years before. As he states in his book "Scar Tissue", he felt that the daughter was doomed to a life of alcoholism if the mother kept up like that (if she didn't die first). A couple of years after writing "Porcelain", Kiedis became clean, and has remained that way since, having a son several years later.
The Replacements (who were notorious for their drunken behavior) allude to alcoholism in songs like "If Only You Were Lonely" and "Here Comes a Regular".
The subject of Jimmie Rodgers' A Drunkard's Child, as the title suggests, is about the child of a man who became an alcoholic and then abandoned his family.
From Savatage's Streets: A Rock Opera, the main character, DT Jesus, is a junkie with an implied drinking problem as well. What motivates him to turn his life around is finding his childhood hero, a famous blues guitarist, is little more then a homeless wino.
Sia's "Chandelier" is about a Hard-Drinking Party Girl who uses the persona to hide her deep depression.
The subject of Bessie Smith's Me and My Gin who says they are sinning due to her drinking habits, claims to befriend any bootlegger they meet and will fight the army and navy should they ever try to get in the way of her gin.
"Between the Bars", and some other songs by Elliott Smith, is about this.
Gary Stead, from the Saint Etienne Concept Album Tales From Turnpike House. He spends most of the album as a comedy alcoholic in the Barney Gumble mould (in "Milk Bottle Symphony" he "staggers downstairs with a heavy head", i.e. a hangover), but eventually "Last Orders For Gary Stead" reveals him to be Drowning His Sorrows over an awkward divorce.
Tankard. A vast majority of their songs are related to beer and drunk partying.
The unnamed subject of Richard Thompson's bitter, brilliant "God Loves A Drunk." Notable for the balance of the portrayal — while drunkenness itself is portrayed very harshly, the eponymous drunk is treated quite sympathetically and gets to do his own lashing out against the banal nature of the life he's escaping.
Tom Waits professed to alcoholism earlier in his career: songs like "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)" and "Bad Liver & A Broken Heart" from Small Change are semi-biographical.
"I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk. I ended up telling myself to cut that shit out."
Scott "Wino" Weinrich from Saint Vitus is known to have had many a problem with alcohol. He even wrote a song about it, "Dying Inside", which is quite a Tear Jerker if you suffer or know someone who suffers from alcoholism.
Wise Guys: "Die Philosoffen" portrays many famous philosophers as this. By the end, the narrator is himself tempted to start drinking.

Podcasts

Harley of Find Us Alive. He drinks heavily throughout the majority of Episode 0, risks his life by stealing a bottle of vodka, drunkenly rants at O5 Command for not coming to their rescue, passes out and has to be carried back to his room, and that's just in the first episode. He denies that he has a problem—"a dependency, maybe", but hides his drinking habits from his psychologist despite Lancaster's protests.
Harley: (drunk) ...am I an alcoholic?
Raddagher: (also drunk) Who cares.
Harley: I'll drink to that.
The Lucky Die: Jenz is a phoenix who reinvents her personality with every rebirth. Her current personality is a violent, alcoholic whore.
Pretending to Be People:
- Dave from Akron claims that any day ending in "y" is a good day to get blackout drunk.
- Judge Ephraim Courtland wakes up every day hungover off of fancy liquors, and spends the entire arc in a drunken stupor.
Alcoholism is a defining trait of the The Thrilling Adventure Hour's Frank and Sadie Doyle. Every episode opens with them clinking their glasses in a toast, they frequently comment themselves on being some level of inebriated, have a walk-in liquor cabinet, and when given three wishes by a djinni, wish only for alcohol and scoff at the idea that the ironic twist to that wish is they've been given more liquor than they can possibly drink.
Frank: Who cares what evil lurks in the hearts of man?
Sadie: Unless evil's carrying the martini tray, darling. (clink)

Professional Wrestling

André the Giant was notorious for his ability to drink somewhere in the region of 7,000 calories of booze each day. Thing is, being a giant that already drank a lot on principle (and had done so all his life), it took INSANE amounts of booze to get him drunk — for example, 1,428 oz (that's 119 12-oz bottles) of beer to make him pass out.
Keni'chiro Arai of Dragon Gate. His initial gimmick was a hardcore fan of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team who'd drink heavily at the games. The drunk part of his gimmick slowly disappeared — then he went through a Face–Heel Turn, dropped the baseball fan part of it and became a full time alcoholic who carried bottles of beer and sake to the ring with him.
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin was famous for drinking multiple beers during nearly every appearance on TV.
Scott Hall in WCW and later WWE. That his real-life drinking problem was played for laughs left a bad taste in many viewers' mouths.
Hangman Adam Page rarely has a segment in AEW where he isn't drinking from a glass of beer or whiskey at some point.
Jake Roberts: During his original run in the World Wrestling Federation, substance abuse problems began to mount for "The Snake," and came to a head after he left the organization. By 1996, he returned, having cleaned up and was now depicting himself as a born-again Christian who had left the bottle behind. A feud was created around his newfound sobriety, with Jerry Lawler playing the shameless antagonist. Lawler –- then a mean-spirited, arrogant heel –- constantly mocked Roberts and alleged that he had shown up at events under the influence. Roberts eventually had enough and eventually came to the arena "drunk" to lower Lawler's guard.
Toru Yano originally entered New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Toukon Club on account of his accomplishments in amateur wrestling but from 2004 onward he became increasingly alcoholic, to the point technical wrestling was largely beyond him. His theme is even called "intoxication".

Radio

Jackie "The Jokeman" Martling, Artie Lange, and especially Jeff the Drunk of The Howard Stern Show.
Comedy pair Hudson & Landry featured a few skits involving drunks making phone calls. Their best known skit is about a already hammered drunk ordering more liquor.
Barry Cryer is seen as this by everyone else on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. He seldom mentions it himself.
Jack: One of the judges for this year's Beer Festival was our very own Barry Cryer. Barry sampled several dozens of different lagers, a variety of beers, and one or two champagnes, and as such, never made it to the festival.
The Jack Benny Program:
- Phil Harris portrayed himself this way, once even claiming that he only drank so Jack would have something to joke about.
- Beyond Harris, the entire band was portrayed as being a bunch of drunken reprobates, particularly guitarist Frank Remly.

Roleplay

JoJo's OC Tournament: Dr. Gregor Yuvecksky almost always has a flask on his person that cotnains some kind of alcoholic substance, and regularly takes swigs from it, even in the midst of battle. He has been drinking for so long that, despite being an elder, his tolerance to alcohol is so high almost nothing can get him drunk anymore.

Tabletop Games

Warhammer:
- Giants are, almost to the last, hopeless drunkards in a constant state of inebriation punctuated by giant-sized hangovers, and generally fight for whoever can provide them with enough alcohol to slake their thirsts. The stated reasons for this vary between materials, but it's generally portrayed as a way of Drowning Their Sorrows from their ancient empire's collapse and their ongoing decline into extinction.
- Mordheim: The Ruffian Henchmen from the Ostlander Mercenary warbands have taken their fellows love of alcohol to the extreme and are never sober, in fact they are rarely ever conscious. While their constant state of inebriation make them near fearless in battle, their base combat abilities tend to be compromised somewhat and are unable to use missile weapons.

Theatre

Davy Zlatic in Bandstand was one of the soldiers who liberated Dachau; now he drinks heavily to try to forget the things he's seen.
Davy: I know there's not enough whiskey in the world to forget what I've seen. But I figure, I owe it to myself to try.
Bug (1996): Agnes, Peter, Goss, and R.C. all imbibe a large amount of booze. Lampshaded:
Peter: You drink a lot.
Agnes: So do you!
Peter: I'm sorry. I meant it observationally, not pejoratively.
Agnes: Then you should have said we drink a lot, pejoratively.
Cyrano de Bergerac: Ligniere. He dislikes orange juice and milk, only stays at the theater to drink four glasses of wine, he happily retires to again betake his pet vice in a tavern, and when Christian tries to save him from a trap, he’s advised to leave notice for Ligniere at five different taverns.
Eric in An Inspector Calls is frequently "squiffy". It's obvious to most of his family, but his mother's in total denial about it.
For the first two scenes (the last two, chronologically) of Merrily We Roll Along, Mary Flynn is constantly either drunk, drinking, or wishing that she were.
The title character of Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, so very much. The play is actually set in a pub in which he has awoken, long after closing time, after passing out at some point in the evening.
The title character of P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest, whose voice type is described as "basso blotto."
Several characters in Road can be played this way. Many of them have little to do but drink.
Tom Daley in That Championship Season has become an alcoholic drifter in the twenty years since he was part of the Fillmore High basketball team that won the Pennsylvania state championship in 1952. He is unable to hold down a steady job, and spends the team's annual reunion with their coach drinking heavily and telling the others what he really thinks of the fantasy world they inhabit.

Toys

Tamagotchi:
- Oyajitchi is obsessed with sake, even going as far as to get Tamagotchi Planet itself drunk in the franchise's first ever Animated Adaptation, Tamagotchi Honto no Hanashi. The obsession with sake was replaced with coffee for international versions.
- Also applies to Horoyotchi, who is fashioned after a gourd of sake, carries around a sakazuki glass, and has red cheeks and squinty eyes.

Visual Novels

In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, part of what makes Bucky Whet a nightmare client is that he shows up to his own murder trial wasted, is passed out in the infirmary when the court wants to question him, and keeps barging in to speak on his own behalf in a manner that only makes him look worse. He’s a pun character: a soba chef, but not a sober chef.
In Blooming Panic, nightowl plays Never Have I Ever with the protagonist in one video call, two nights before his final exam. The next day, onionthief reveals that nightowl was Held Back in School because of his drinking problem, and he and the protagonist try to call him out for it, but nightowl enters a drunken rage and logs out because he feels betrayed by them.
Although he’s still in high school, Henry from Double Homework has consumed so much alcohol that his doctors have warned him to stop lest he gets cirrhosis of the liver. And as soon as the doctors revise their diagnosis so that the danger of cirrhosis isn’t so immediate, he starts drinking heavily again. In one memorable get-together with the protagonist and Lauren, Henry passes out from his drinking, allowing the other two to fool around (if they’re an “official” couple).
As time goes on in Find Love or Die Trying, it becomes more and more obvious that Kat has taken to the bottle to deal with the insanity that is this reality show and the difficulties with escaping the island. Considering the protagonist literally needs to keep up the ratings to survive, and her editing is the only thing keeping those ratings up (and she's editing while drunk), they're understandably concerned.
Odon in Fleuret Blanc. He tries to be secretive about it, but you can usually find him hanging around the bar, and other characters will confirm that he has a major drinking problem. This is unusual, as he's a laid-back monk who frequently preaches the importance of freeing oneself from material possessions and influences. It's one of the hints that his past is more complex than it appears: he used to be a delinquent drug addict, and though he tried to turn his life around, he's been through a lot, and can't kick his alcohol dependence.
Sofiya from Missing Stars is implied to be one, despite her young age. He bio mentions she really likes alcohol.
What a Legend!: Lana comes across as this, and she has a magic bottle which is never quite empty. The fact that the stuff in the bottle tastes revolting doesn't deter her. Given that she's not really the beggar she seems, she might be exaggerating her drinking. It doesn't seem to slow her down her much (Madeline claims Lana thinks better when drunk), and she eventually sacrifices the bottle to help start a fire.

Web Animation

Crispy Toast: While she may not look like the type, Leilane is known for drinking alcoholic beverages.
Boomstick of DEATH BATTLE!, being the stereotypical southern American redneck, is portrayed as this. Many of Boomstick's Noodle Incidents, if not all of them, has been attributed to him handing Wiz his beer and going "Here, hold this." Of course, the man does have limits — in a preview video for Amy Rose, Wiz lied to Boomstick about that [Boomstick] has the ability to drink as much alcohol as he wants only for the man to lose all of that and everything else all over the floor during the preview video for Amy's opponent, Ramona Flowers.
In Les Kassos, this is Aspégix and Grodébilix problem in all their appearances. That... "magic potion" of theirs might contain a little bit of alcohol. Grodébilix once tries to quit because he's fallen in love, but one pep talk from Aspégix makes him quickly plunges back.
Lobo (Webseries): Lobo has a stach of Gutrot, a beer in his bike.
514 from Lucky Day Forever. His fridge is filled with Little Prolie Beer. Used to show that 514 buys into the Whites' propaganda.
Mo from RObotzi is a rusty robot who's obsessed with alcoholic drinks.
RWBY:
- Qrow Branwen's first non-flashback appearance is in a bar somewhere, his dialogue has a noticeable slur, and when he walks away, he's visibly swaying. Later on he's seen carrying a flask, and picks a fight with an important foreign agent (and personal ally of his).
  Winter: [complaining] He was drunk!
  Glynda: He's always drunk.
  - Qrow's drinking gets played more seriously in Volume 6, where due to not only finding out Salem cannot be killed, and there is no plan to defeat her, and how Ozpin has utterly betrayed the loyalty and trust he had in the man for decades, he starts drinking even worse. He spends most of the episodes "Alone in the Woods" and "The Coming Storm" passed out drunk, almost getting everyone else killed when he's not awake for a serious danger. In the volume finale, he puts away his flask.
- The same is also implied for Marcus Black, as his son Mercury said to Cinder that Qrow "smelled like my dad after a long day".
- Willow Schnee, as her daughter Weiss puts it, gradually transitioned from glasses to bottles of wine to dull the pain of her loveless marriage to the cold-hearted Gold Digger and Corrupt Corporate Executive Jaqcues Schnee. Now, she's almost completely withdrawn herself from social life and drinks vodka straight from the bottle. Like Qrow, she to kicks the habit when the Hound shows up at the mansion and Whitley is in danger and runs to his rescue. In the animatic episode 11 of Volume 9 she is shown to also have given up on alcohol as a coping mechanism with some assistance from Qrow.
- Invoked for Black Comedy with the unofficial name for Qrow and Willow's Crack Ship: "Alcoholics Anonymous".

Web Comics

Lyle Gabriel from Achewood is nearly always drunk and usually blitzed well beyond the point of coherence. It gets less comedic as time goes on; later strips depict him as being unable to function if he doesn't drink constantly.
King Hippo in Captain SNES has been Drowning His Sorrows for a long time thanks to a combination of the horrible things he'd witnessed toward the end of Mother Brain's reign of terror, and the fact that since that time, his tenure as a villain and general oafishness has made him unable to hold down a job or any measure of respect for long. When pressed on why he was being so helpful and escorting Alex to the Queen of Videoland:
King Hippo: Okay, so it might have been less good citizenship... and more the nine hundred bucks she offered to grab you and Marle. That's like nine hundred one-dollar beers. That's almost enough for one sitting!
In Crankrats, Jack, the not-quite-Psycho Electro with Dark and Troubled Past like you wouldn't believe. Doesn't help that his job is serving drinks.
Merno from Dragon Sanctuary is one of the Drowning Their Sorrows variety. He's seen so much tragedy and trauma across his life that it's easier for him to be drunk than deal with it sober and head-on. Not that it stops him from joking about how much he intakes.
Elf Blood has Shanna, who was constantly depicted drinking alcohol in the earlier sections of the comic. She doesn't appear to suffer any deleterious effects from her condition though, or at least none that have been shown yet.
Izzy Pritchard's twin sister Adelie from Ennui GO! is rarely seen without an alcoholic beverage in hand and is shown to be drunk at multiple points, though she seems to functional enough that it doesn't interfere with her work or home life. Much like her sister's depressive fugues, this is a result of PTSD from their mother's abuse and (as revealed much later on) losing one of her own children in-utero.
Baek Seol-A of the Korean Webcomic Fluttering Feelings will empty the pockets of many of a man sad enough to take her drinking.
Hazel from Girls with Slingshots is often drinking or drunk. She writes all of her articles smashed. Occasionally Lampshaded when she gets so drunk she forgets what happened, or realizes how common intoxication is for her. Such as when she "levels up" her faux sober threshold to nine beers.
Doctor Henry Jekyll in The Glass Scientists opens a bottle of wine instead of having breakfast. This is not the worst of his problems, though. Edward Hyde probably cannot be counted as an alcoholic, even if he does binge on absinthe, because, well, he's Hyde.
Roomie in Go Get a Roomie! is initially depicted as a Hard-Drinking Party Girl, but as the strip goes on it becomes increasingly clear that her drinking is pathological.
Edison Lighthouse, in Groovy, Kinda, rarely appears without a drink in hand. At 39, she's old enough to be a Lady Drunk, but she's far too cheerful.
Apollo from The Guide to a Healthy Relationship insists that he's only drinking for fun and could stop anytime. Except he never does stop. The few times he's in the process of sobering up, he's miserable, and while his friends seem to be aware that he has a problem, they tend to rather enable than care to help him.
Detective Noir of Hero Material drinks nigh-constantly out of his flask. He never gets too drunk to do his job, though.
Homestuck: Roxy Lalonde spends the first three parts of Act 6 hammered. And she's a teenager. By the fifth part, she admits that she had a problem.
Kyotoshi Lypha from Inhuman, starting after his parents were killed in a planet-wide massacre. His fridge contains only vodka and a clean, folded towel.
In Knights of Buena Vista, Adriana bases one of her in-character actions on "Aunt Felicia after two bourbons". Her brother Bill says that's a mean comment, but a true one.
A major character in Mountain Time is Chimneyfoot, who drinks much more than humanly possible (owing at least in part to the fact that he isn't human).
No Need for Bushido has Ken, who, after running out of sake in the middle of a battle, decides to go maul an enemy camp and take their supply. He then proceeds to do this several more times until he gets so drunk he falls unconscious, and when he regains consciousness, he finds he's run out yet again and goes out for some more.
Ragnar: The Prelude to Nixvir: Ragnar really, really, really loves his alcohol. In fact he narrates his story in his private bar, where his barmaid serves him round after round of alcohol. Justified since, as a snowman, he cannot die from alcohol poisoning, so his love for alcohol is as intense as Dougal's love for sugar.
Out There: One of the most common settings is Sherry's bar, but only Clayton fits the trope. Miriam is more accurately described as a Hard-Drinking Party Girl, and none of the other characters seem particularly dedicated to the task.
Almost everyone in Questionable Content drinks frequently (like a lot of 20-somethings) but some take it to more extremes than others.
- Faye's drinking habits make her friends fear that she's an alcoholic, though she improves with therapy and some healthy relationships. A bad breakup leads to a binge that gets her fired and hospitalized, which motivates her to sober up for good.
- Steve goes through a long binge-drinking period following his breakup with Ellen. He is drunk so often that the US Government hires him as a spy, knowing that anyone he broke secrecy with would dismiss it as an alcohol-induced hallucination.
Golgo in Rice Boy. Played for Drama and portrayed surprisingly realistically, although he's addicted to the black spirit made by an apothecary, which is much more addictive than normal ethanol and will make you evil. Also, TOE and Calabash drink whiskey as if it was water.
Taisei from Sakana is "drunk 50% of the time". When having a hangover is also pretty much the only time he is depressed.
Schwarz Kreuz, another webcomic with noir-fantastic vibe, has an even more Dark and Troubled Past-addled male lead, Nick, who drinks because he's a vampire and hates the fact.
Starslip Crisis has Cutter Edgewise, space pirate!. Well, former space pirate, anyway. He's nearly always at least semi-drunk, though he's still likely to be more level-headed than Vanderbeam.
String Theory (2009) has the alcoholic Dr. Schtein. He's also an avid user of a large number of other drugs.
In SwordCat Princess, Officer Jack Dawson is often seen drinking at Zora DaiQuirides bar. He sometimes drinks while on duty. He has bottles of alcohol around his apartment, including a 40 of Pabst in his living room.
Graham in Wizard School is abducted to the Academy after a drunken bender — and is immediately asking small children to summon alcohol for him.
Nitrous Blight of Zokusho Comics could head this way if he's not careful. He is a powerful telepath and alcohol is one of the few ways to dull the volume of the thoughts of others.

Websites

Gary: Landlord of the Flies: Gary is said to drink frequently, which leads to a number of his less coherent and amicable moments.
In "The Ballad of G.I. Joe", at G.I. Joe headquarters, while everyone else is about various after-hours pursuits and worries, Snow Job's simply "drinkin' beers".
(I heard he likes to drink quite a bit...)

Web Videos

American High Digital:
- Julia in "Dry January" has obtained from drinking every day to follow through... with her court probation after getting into a DUI. When February hits, she'll be hospitalized.
- The "Alpha Moms" videos, especially "Alpha Moms At Book Club" suggest that they get really into their wine.
- One of Julia's many problems in "Why Am I Still Sick?" is that almost every night is dedicated to some sort of drinking event.
- Trevor in "How Teachers Thought You'd React When They Passed Something Around" is stated to be an alcoholic. The "WWII artifact" he brought may just be his regular flask.
- Hyde in "Guy That's A Bar 'Regular'" gets deals because he goes to the bar every day. Tommy and Julia note that it's not really something to brag about.
Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara portrays the already discussed Ultimate Iron Man (and at times the regular one, when it's not wrong to do so) with a drunkard voice that's utterly hilarious. Iron Man, when he's reading from something out of the "Ultimate" series, is given (...relatively) exaggerated drunken mannerisms at all times. When it came time to read Iron Man's first appearance "Secret Origins Month", he kept the voice, built on the reasoning that it took place before the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline.
Belkinus Necrohunt: After their first 48 hours of adventuring, when the party reaches Luna's hometown the first thing Enoch does is order a double of the strongest drink available at the tavern. When the first shot turns out to be a Gargle Blaster, he's elated, and goes back for the second.
In ContraPoints, Natalie is pretty open about having been one, and to smaller extents still being one. Lots of videos feature alcohol either for comedic purposes or as a sign of class and style.
Dabchick, the main character of the series of the same name, frequently gets drunk at restaurants and parties, resulting in slurred speech, falling over, and vomiting.
All of the main cast of Demo Reel has some drinking problem or another. Donnie leaves empty scotch glasses around his office, Rebecca can't handle caffeine but can drink an Italian mafioso under the table. Quinn and Karl are Irish and German ex-spies respectively, and treat drinking without each other as Serious Business. Tacoma is the only one remotely reluctant to get drunk and even he caves pretty fast to the idea. Of course, all of them have Dark And Troubled Pasts and are trying to drown their sorrows.
In the Dream SMP, Jschlatt is shown to be constantly drinking or drunk. Being a politician, that results in him delivering slurred and sometimes nonsensical speeches. He ultimately dies due to a stroke or heart attack, that may or may not have been related to his drinking problems.
Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party portrays Fyodor Dostoevsky as this. When his bottle of vodka is stolen by Lenore The Lady Ghost, a fellow alcoholic, he is really... delighted that they have something in common! This is part of the reason why many quickly jumped on the Lenore/Fyodor ship. Also, the humor of the situation is not lost on him.
Dostoevsky: A spirit for a spirit !
Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time rarely appears without a bottle of Jack in hand. One time, he and the others made breakfast with alcohol.
In the "Ask Jack" video from the The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon series, Jack reveals that the reason he is still fat despite running from the Ginosaji for years is because he's developed eating and drinking problems to cope with the insanity. During the segment he's trying to eat a plate of spaghetti and drink a glass of wine while the Ginosaji is still slowly beating him to death with a spoon.
Internet Comment Etiquette: Erik always has a glass of wine handy in his videos. He attempts to quit drinking via Training Montage in the "Drinking" video and fails miserably, several times.
Danielbeast in lonelygirl15 became an alcoholic at one point, as a result of trying to drown his sorrows.
The host of The Music Video Show is shown passed out drunk in episode 24 and is the reason why she got through three Chris Brown videos in a row.
- When discussing Black Out's "Video Games", she claims the band's name is something she would do when she is drinking.
- One episode is dedicated to the host doing a Drinking Game. She gets hammered in less than two minutes.
The Nostalgia Critic: The Critic is a complete and utter lightweight, but still drinks a lot. Malcolm, Tamara, and Rachel (the characters) all spend their off-time getting hammered as well. Even Santa Christ has been lampshaded to have drinking issues, while mother and daughter Aunt Despair and Hyper admit they're always drunk.
OnCinema: Tim has been shown as one at times. He frequently drinks too much during the Oscar specials which leads to them getting quite chaotic. He even admitted he had issues during the third Oscar special.
Overlord DVD: In-universe, OverlordDVD is one of these, but it rarely comes up in conversation.
Ozzy Man Reviews: Eddie Stark the Australian Dad from Eddie Stark, Australian Dad (Gag Dub of Game of Thrones) has a drinking problem. Most characters keep telling him he drinks too much. Eddie is in denial and says that a man needs a drink and that he has two beers, tops. However, it affects his work and his relationships suffer because of his drinking, too.
The eponymous Paul Powers of The Paul Powers Show, at least in a couple of videos. Notably, he seems to drink a lot more when he is alone and doesn't have a "special guest."
Sam & Mickey portray Barbie as constantly wasted.
Text Theater: Shawn constantly got drunk which worried his fiancée, who is the MC. This eventually led to him missing a meeting with his future mother-in-law, and after MC found out that Shawn cheated on her with Rachel, she called off the wedding.
Breakout Character Ciara, of The TRY Channel, has a reputation for this. In one episode, Brian brings it up ("It's what they say in the [YouTube] comments."):
Let's just put that to rest. If that were true, I would have a lower tolerance, because my liver would be fucked.
Vaguely Recalling JoJo: Dio Brando during the Phantom Blood spoof, which is an exaggeration of Dio tasting alcohol and enjoying it during the scene where he tests the Stone Mask on a test subject.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.: Euseph Kramer, programmer at MacNeil Tech, seems to have taken to drink to deal with being overworked. At the start of "Anomaly PSA (2003)", Gabriel asks him if he's drinking again after hearing him pour something, and Euseph tells him to mind his own business.
During her review of Xanadu, due to not being impressed with how bored the voice actor of Zeus sounded, The Nostalgia Chick's impersonation of him made him sound ridiculously drunk instead. She herself is nearly always seen with a bottle of beer.
Yandere High School:
Taurtis: Why are you drinking before school, Sam?
Sam: Because I need a little buzz before school gets started.
Taurtis: You have a problem, I think we need to talk about this.
Sam: What's the big deal? I don't see what the big deal is, Taurtis.

Western Animation

Mouse Fitzgerald of 12 oz. Mouse uses this trope as his defining trait. He's seen practically every ten minutes with a beer in his hand.
The titular character of Archer is basically always drunk and claims that if he were to stop drinking, the cumulative hangover would kill him. His mother Malory made him start drinking when he was eight to, in his words, keep him quiet.
Teleportation Larry of The Awesomes is pretty much constantly drunk, which is almost always a liability.
The Berenstain Bears Specials: Discussed briefly in The Berenstain Bears' Easter Surprise, but subverted — when the town finds that Boss Bunny has quit, one bear says he heard Boss Bunny has developed a problem with fermented carrot juice. This isn't the case though; as Brother finds out later, Boss has just gotten old and cranky.
The title character of BoJack Horseman is a jerk, hates himself, and is almost always drunk (as pictured in the trope's main page). But at least he never denies it.
In Castlevania (2017), due to the Church excommunicating the Belmont family and destroying their ancestral home, Trevor Belmont has spent his days since then as a vagrant wandering the land from tavern to tavern, spending what little remains of his family fortune on booze.
Franklin Sherman of The Critic almost always has a drink in his hand and it's heavily implied alcohol plays a major role in his Cloud Cuckoo Lander tendencies.
In the series finale of Daria, Quinn gets a job as a hostess where she befriends a girl name Lindy, but as they hang out after work, she soon discovers Lindy has a drinking problem. She gets fired when she's found with a screwdriver (vodka and orange juice) at her post to deal with a hangover. Quinn tries to confront her about her drinking, only for Lindy to get angry with her. In the end, she apologizes to Quinn, still wanting to be friends, but while admitting to going overboard when drinking sometimes, she still refuses to believe she has a problem.
Bean of Disenchantment certainly loves her drink. One time she tries to convince her father, King Zøg, that she's given it up, only for him to point out she's holding a beer, apparently she had grabbed it from force of habit.
Family Guy:
- Brian Griffin is rarely seen without a glass of something in his hand. In comparison he is probably worse than Peter — Peter usually goes out drinking for fun with friends, but Brian often drinks alone, or to 'drown sorrows', or for the sake of drinking.
- Peter Griffin frequently gets absolutely smashed, with or without his friends at the bar.
Fugget About It: Cheech is almost always seen with a drink in his hand. In fact, the whole reason for the show dials back to Cheech revealing mob secrets while too drunk to know any better.
Futurama:
- Robots are alcoholics by default, as alcohol works as their fuel. However, they stumble around as if they were drunk when they're sober... and at other times (particularly in earlier episodes) they are portrayed binge-drinking human style. Bender himself speaks with a mild slur at all times. In one episode where Bender can't/won't drink, he's depicted as staggering, slurring his speech, and with a patch of rust resembling beard stubble.
Fry: "You've been drinking too much! Or not enough. I forget how it works with you."
- In the episode "Benderama", Bender uses a self replicating device to make 2 smaller copies of himself. This process repeats itself until thousands of molecule level Benders rearrange the molecules of Earth's oceans ^note, turning all the water into alcohol.
  Morbo: ...Water is now b-booze, and everyone's tiddly much protally fit-shaced.
Husk from Hazbin Hotel is a high-functioning alcoholic as a result of having to deal with his soul being owned by Alastor.
Helga's mother Miriam Pataki from Hey Arnold! is a textbook example, though mainly off screen. On screen all she wants is a "smoothie".
In the second season of Kaeloo, Mr. Cat is shown to be severely addicted to alcohol, despite being underage. Several episodes show him having a hangover, and in Episode 60 he is actually shown drunk. In some instances, he ends up drinking so much he passes out.
Mostly averted on King of the Hill, despite the fact that the 4 main characters drink almost daily and Alamo beer is just as ubiquitous as Duff and Pawtucket Patriot they rarely actually get drunk, and when they do it's considered out of character for them (especially Hank and Boomhauer.) Some may consider Bill to be a borderline case, though it's more accurate to say he has a depressive disorder that he occasionally self-medicates with alcohol, rather than a problem with booze itself. There's not even a Barney Gumble-type ancillary character used for cheap gags on the show.
The Stork from Looney Tunes is almost always shown drunk (the only exceptions being Pappy's Puppy and the beginning of Stork Naked), even when he's doing his job. Naturally, this leads to him giving the wrong babies to the wrong mothers. The short Stork Naked shows that he drinks with the babies' new parents to celebrate after every delivery.
Captain K'Nuckles of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack comes off as this, always needing a pick me up or becoming wasted at the Candy Barrel.
The entire band Dethklok in Metalocalypse, but particularly Pickles the Drummer. Alcoholism and drug use is such a heavy part of Pickles's past and personality that when his former bandmates headlined a Straight Edge-esque concert with a new singer, he was mortally offended and vowed to crash the concert. It's eventually revealed that his alcoholism started because he was The Un-Favorite of the family, to the point that he got blamed for burning down the garage even though Seth did it. He was six when he started drinking. Special points also to Nathan Explosion, who apparently needs regular liver transplants, and is shown receiving one as part of fan touring of Mordhaus.
The Mighty Nein: Nott the Brave is a goblin with a visibly-apparent alcohol addiction. If she goes without for too long, she starts suffering from delirium tremens (confusion, anxiety, and body tremors stemming from withdrawal).
Clay Puppington in Moral Orel. It turns out he was introduced to alcohol by Bloberta. Once he became an alcoholic, she quit being one.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic background character Berryshine (a.k.a. Berry Punch) has a Cutie Mark consisting of grapes and a strawberry — two common ingredients in wine. Due to this, she's sometimes hinted to be a drunk, with official trading cards attributing quotes to her such as "Wow, what did I drink last night? Because I'm definitely gonna need more of that." Series creator Lauren Faust has mentioned that she had nicknamed the character "Pinot Noir" after her own favorite wine, although that name didn't stick.
Pear Cider and Cigarettes: Techno abuses a lot of substances but apparently alcohol was the worst. He destroys his liver with alcohol. He is refused a liver transplant in Canada because he won't stop drinking. Even after he flies to China to get a new liver, he keeps drinking in his hospital room. One of Robert's jobs in Guangzhou is to continually confiscate the bottles of liquor in Techno's room.
Rick and Morty:
- Rick is constantly intoxicated and habitually takes a sip from a flask. Lampshaded in one episode when Rick gets shot.
Rick: She got me right in the goddamn liver, Morty! It's the hardest working liver in the galaxy, Morty! And now it has a hole in it.
- Beth is not as bad as him but is very often seen sloshing down large amounts of red wine, often when under great distress.
The Simpsons:
- Homer Simpson. They don’t call him "Sir-Drinks-A-Lot" for nothing (It’s on a trophy he won).
  Homer: And [I'll get to] get drunk on a Tuesday.
  Marge: Today's Tuesday and you've had six beers!
  Homer: But I'm not drunk.
- It's a running gag that when somebody asks Homer if he's been drinking, he never says no.
  Marge: How drunk are you?
  Homer: Not. Very.
  - It's even occasionally unprompted.
    Anesthesiologist: Okay, count backwards from ten.
    Homer (lying on operating table): Fine, I admit it. I'm drunk.
- "Duffless" confronts this by having Homer go a month without beer and, by the end of it, realize he has a bit of a problem. But, well... Status Quo Is God. However, in one episode set 30 years in the future Homer states he's off the stuff for good.
- Barney Gumble appears worse than Homer, but is often seen trying to overcome his problem — Homer has not even acknowledged he has a problem, outside of some throwaway gags.
- In fact, all the denizens of Moe's have a problem to some extent. In one episode, when Homer goes to the bar on Sunday to invite his friends to a party on Mr Burns' yacht, he finds them patiently waiting for the sunbeam through the window to reach a chalk mark on the floor that indicates the time alcohol can legally be sold. As they are sailing out towards international waters, Moe has to fight the barflies off with a whip as they try to reach the beer keg Homer bought, and when Lenny receives rubbing alcohol for his wounds, he immediately begins chugging it.
- Lionel Hutz is shown to have a pretty severe drinking problem on occasion.
  Hutz: Mrs. Simpson claims she forgot she was carrying that bottle of delicious... bourbon... brownest of the brown liquors... so tempting... (puts the bottle to his ear) What's that? You want me to drink you? But I'm in the middle of a trial! ...Excuse me! [runs out of courtroom]
Also:
Lionel Hutz: Mrs. Simpson, you're in luck, your sexual harassment suit is exactly what I need to rebuild my shattered practice! Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
Marge: It's 9:30 in the morning.
Hutz: Yeah, but I haven't slept in days. [takes a large belt of scotch, and waves the dregs at temptingly at Marge] Last chance! [finishes the bottle]
- Phil Hartman's other character Troy McClure, who used to drink 50 cans per day (according to Brad Goodman).
  Troy McClure: Ahhh. Sweet liquor eases the pain.
- In the 14th season episode "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third-Grade", Ms McConnell, who is something of a Gossipy Hen, denotes that Lisa's Teacher Ms. Hoover an alcoholic, though if you had students like Ralph Wiggum you would be too. Ms. Hoover's also handed back graded papers with liquor stains on them.
- Lindsey Naegle is a self-proclaimed alcoholic and has been seen at AA meetings.
- In each of his guest appearances, Ron Howard appears wearing a bath robe and with a drink in his hand. Seeing Homer drinking a cocktail of his own invention — a concoction of vodka and wheat grass which Homer dubs a "lawn mower" — he cheerfully asks Homer to make him one.
- Subverted with Marge in "You Only Move Twice". Increasingly bored as a housewife due to the automation of her chores, she turns to the wine — only to reveal that she's drinking less than the amount recommended by doctors.
  - "Co-Dependent's Day" subverts this with Marge again: she slides into problem drinking after she and Homer have fun on a trip to wine country, which eventually causes her to go to a clinic to get treatment. However, the impulse to drink completely disappears when she's there and she realizes that what she was actually enjoying was the time she was spending with Homer, since they always drank together.
- In one of the earlier episodes, Hans Moleman states that excessive drinking has ruined his life, to the point where despite looking like a decrepit senior citizen, is actually younger than Homer.
- Sarah Wiggum is implied to be this in the episode "Little Girl in the Big Ten" when Ralph sees Lisa fall asleep in class. Both her son and her husband are complete morons, so she probably does it as a coping mechanism.
  Ralph: You're like my mommy after her box of wine!
In the South Park episode "Bloody Mary", Randy becomes an alcoholic by way of the nocebo effect. After being caught drunk-driving, he is ordered by the court to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and becomes convinced that he is powerless to stop drinking.

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