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* Evance from ''Manga/BeautyAndTheBeastOfParadiseLost'' became a drunk after his wife disappeared. He forced their daughter, Belle to work as a seamstress, drank all the money she earned and kept her locked up as a punishment for insisting to go to the forest when she was a child, causing her mother to commit a HeroicSacrifice to save her from a monster. [[spoiler: Said monster kills him later, when Belle runs away and Evance tries to recapture her.]]

* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': Model's parents are unemployed alcoholics who are are never seen without a bottle or a glass in their hands. The teenaged Model provides the only income coming into the household.

* In ''Fanfic/LayingWasteToHalloween'', Percy's stepfather, Gabe is frequently drunk and abusive towards Percy.
* ''Fanfic/MikesNewGhostlyFamily'': Mike Schmidt's birth father started out as hard, but fair man, but when his wife died, he ended up DrowningHisSorrows, his alcoholism turning him abusive, with him constantly and brutally beating up Mike with a belt for the slightest provocations. It continued for six years before Mike [[TheRunaway ran away from home]]. [[spoiler:Mike's escape finally made him [[HeelRealization realize how horrible he became]], and decided to leave him alone to not force him through any more suffering, reuniting with him only on his deathbed, tearfully apologizing for all abuse he put his son through in the past.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheTaintedGrimoire'': Isabella, Luso's, and Frimelda's mother is this to the point of ParentalNeglect.
* ''Fanfic/Touch2005'': Roxy mentions that there was always plenty of cheap alcohol around her childhood home thanks to her alcoholic JunkieParent of mother. Her mother was also [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] and {{abusive|Parents}}.

* Conor from ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' has had this problem ever since his wife, Bronagh, vanished without a trace. While he does try his best to be a good father, he's still distant to his children and visits the pub to [[DrowningMySorrows drown his sorrows]] on his daughter's birthday because it reminds him of his wife's disappearance.

* In ''Film/TheGrizzlies'', Zach's parents are alcoholics and drug users, manifesting in parental neglect to the point of starvation. Kyle's father also drinks heavily, which results in physical abuse towards his wife and son. Alcoholism is implied to be a widespread issue in the Inuit community due to intergenerational trauma from colonialism and [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors residential schools]].

* In ''Film/SilentTongue'', Eamon [=McCree=] is a drunk who was terrible parent to his three children: including selling one of his daughters to Prescott Roe to be married to Prescott's son.
* In ''Film/StellaMaris'', after her last servant leaves her, the alcoholic Louise adopts a girl from an orphanage to be her new servant. She does nothing but yell and abuse Unity. When Unity comes home without her groceries, Louise beats her unconscious. She ends up arrested and sent to prison for three years.

* Lucas's mother Terri used to be one in ''Literature/ADogsWayHome''. She was a war veteran who turned to drugs and alcohol after returning home. Her alcoholism and drug addiction led to her neglecting her son growing up. As an adult Lucas tries not to think about this, but Terri is still upset about neglecting him as a child. Terri's alcoholism recovery is a major part of her character and she regularly goes to group counseling for veterans. The titular dog, Bella, ends up being her service dog to help with her seizures and her depression.
* Joe St. George from ''Literature/DoloresClaiborne'' was thought to be one, though his wife Dolores disputes it, claiming that he liked to drink, but was capable of moderating himself. Whatever the case, he also had a decidedly unwholesme interest in their teenage daughter Selena.

* Bob Ewell, in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', who physically abuses his daughter Mayella and is strongly implied to sexually abuse her as well.

** Murphy's mother drank herself to death, and died blaming him for his father's death.

*''Series/{{Bones}}'' has Booth's father. He's said to have drank to deal with his war experience and it often tied into beating Booth and Jared.

* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', Beckett's father fell into alcoholism after his wife's murder, but recovered thanks to his daughter.

** There's an episode where the team searches for a missing teenage girl who has an alcoholic father, implied to be physically abusive. When the team questions him, he basically states that he couldn't care less where his daughter is at, and seems happy at the thought that she skipped town.
** Ray Langston indicates his dad became one after his stint in Vietnam, along with giving into his violent tendencies.

* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E13Imprint Imprint]]", the prostitute reveals that her late father turned to drinking to drown his sorrows from living in poverty [[spoiler:due to his incestuous relation with his sister]].

-->'''Sam:''' So he's working over-time on a "Miller Time" shift; he'll stumble back in sooner or later.\\

* Leo on ''Series/TheWestWing'' had an alcoholic father who committed suicide when Leo was a kid. Leo grew up to be an alcoholic and drug-addicted parent himself (though with a good relationship with his daughter, who only says how proud she is when he confesses to it in a press conference). He gets better.

* The second girl in Music/{{Ludacris}}'s song "Runaway Love" is a ten year old with an abusive, alcoholic step-father.

** Cid Randell in the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' became a drunk after his wife died. Mewt, who is Cid's son, is upset by his father's drinking and cringes at his his behavior. The localized version of the game removes the drunk aspect and replaces it with Cid simply having trouble at work and being a loser.
* Jim Ortiz from ''VideoGame/HarvestTown'' became an alcoholic after his wife divorced him. Despite his best efforts to love and care for his young son Justin, Jim's drunken habits is one of the major points of conflict between him and his son.

** Cinder first meets Mercury just as he's killing the assassin she's arrived to hire -- Mercury's own father. Mercury's legs are bandaged, but hint at devastating injuries and the possibility that his father was abusive. When Mercury reports to Cinder that Qrow has arrived at Beacon Academy, he describes Qrow as smelling like his father after a long day. Qrow is an alcoholic and Mercury runs into him shortly after he spent time getting drunk in a bar, implying that Mercury's father might have been an alcoholic.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'', it's implied that Kevin, Ben's schoolyard bully, has this. It's outright stated that he doesn't have family he can depend on. The villain Forever Knight uses this to get Kevin to work for him for a time. The Tennysons are even aware of this and are just sort of waiting for Kevin to work things out. In some episodes, Max even has minor parenting moments with the boy, like rocking him as he sleeps and giving him a small talking to about empathy. One episode has Kevin trashing a theme park, which Gwen points out isn't like him and just asks what's wrong. Gwen and Ben are just told that Kevin's upset over hearing every kid at school talk about going, when no one takes him. The viewers are treated to a short flashback of Kevin angry over hearing kids talk about it at school and that a girl's dad took her. It crossfades to Kevin still looking angry standing in his hallway, having just come home from school. From where he stands, he can see into the living room, where a TV plays an ad for the theme park. The channel is changed mid-ad to one for "Beverage: the last beverage you'll need". The camera switches to show Kevin's front side again and we see that the person who changed the channel appears to be a man wearing sweatpants or pj's in a recliner. Kevin then goes upstairs without either of them saying a word.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' features a boy being kicked out by his abusive dad. WordOfGod is that his dad was an alcoholic. They were [[WhatCouldHaveBeen supposed to]] reappear in an episode which revealed as much, but the script was nixed.

** A possible subversion wit Stan's dad. Randy Marsh likes to drink with friends, but is only seen drunk in a couple of episodes. In one episode he gets a DUI and has to attend AA meetings, where instead of taking responsibility and controlling his behavior, he is told that he has a "disease". At the end of the episode, he possibly learns discipline and self-control.

* Satoko's adoptive uncle in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', [[EvilUncle Teppei]], drinks and plays cards with his buddies instead of being a responsible parent. He also makes her buy alcohol and beats her up when drunk. The kicker? She's around nine years old. Unlike other examples on this page, Teppei has no love for Satoko at all, and it's unknown whether her aunt drank any alcohol at all, either.

* Ryuuji's mom Yasuko in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''. Somewhat more understandable, as she actually works as a bar hostess, thus her ''job'' includes drinking quite a bit and interacting with drunk people.

* ''Fanfic/{{Touch}}'': Roxy mentions that there was always plenty of cheap alcohol around her childhood home thanks to her alcoholic JunkieParent of mother. Her mother was also [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] and {{abusive|Parents}}.

%%* Catherine's and Heathcliff's foster father in ''Literature/WutheringHeights''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'', it's implied that Kevin, Ben's schoolyard bully, has this. It's outright stated that he doesn't have family he can depend on. The villain Forever Knight uses this to get Kevin to work for him for a time. The Tennysons are even aware of this and are just sort of waiting for Kevin to work things out. In some episodes, Max even has minor parenting moments with the boy, like rocking him as he sleeps and giving him a small talking to about empathy. One episode has Kevin trashing a theme park, which Gwen points out isn't like him and just asks what's wrong. Gwen and Ben are just told that Kevin's upset over hearing every kid at school talk about going, when no one takes him. The viewers are treated to a short flashback of Kevin angry over hearing kids talk about it at school and that a girl's dad took her. It crossfades to Kevin still looking angry standing in his hallway, having just come home from school. From where he stands, he can see into the living room, where a TV plays an ad for the theme park. The channel is changed mid-ad to one for "Beverage: the last beverage you'll need". The camera switches to show Kevin's front side again and we see that the person who changed the channel appears to be a man in sweat pants or pj's and a lazy boy. Kevin then goes upstairs without either of them saying a word.

* [[spoiler:Oskar von Reuenthal's]] verbally abusive [[UnnamedParent father]] in ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes''.

* ''Series/{{The 100}}'':

* Junpei's father in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''. In "The Answer", one flashback shows Junpei at Paulownia Mall, having fled his father's drunken ravings, wondering how pathetic you have to be to get hammered on cooking wine.

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* The background pony "Berry Punch" is treated this way within the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanbase. Fans first noticed her when she pulled her daughter into her house in one episode. This led to her becoming known as "Overprotective Pony Parent", or "[=OPPP=]" for short. Not too long afterwards, fans noticed that her Cutie Mark was a group of berries. It thus became {{fanon}} that her special talent was related to wine-brewing, which ultimately caused a lot of jokes about her being a drunkard. The concept of her being an alcoholic has become AscendedFanon, albeit in the form of [[{{Fandom Nod}} sly jokes]]. Berry Punch is thus written by most fans as a (usually single) mother who drinks a lot. Her mothering skills tend to [[DependingOnTheWriter vary heavily from fan to fan]]. She can be anything from a responsible and overprotective mother who likes to drink to a barely coherent and [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] mother who is always drunk.

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* One of the kids at Pokey Oaks in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' apparently has one. In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E8PasteMakesWasteIceSore Paste Makes Waste]]", a children's drawing can be seen at the school featuring an angry man holding a bottle of alcohol with "Daddy" written under it.

* ''Film/Cherrybomb2010'': Luke's father is a shambling, drunken wreck who [[spoiler:unsuccessfully [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill himself]], and then [[ParentalAbandonment abandons his son]] altogether]].

* ''Film/{{Cherrybomb}}'': Luke's father is a shambling, drunken wreck who [[spoiler:unsuccessfully [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill himself]], and then [[ParentalAbandonment abandons his son]] altogether]].

%%*** Ben Stone's father as well. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Jack Drake starts DrowningHisSorrows after he makes some financial gambles that result in Drake Industries going bankrupt. He goes from ignoring Tim while traveling and being cluelessly chipper about his terrible parenting, to ignoring Tim while locking himself in his room while moping and drinking.

** In ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion JoJolion]], this trope returns with Yasuho Hirose's mother, Suzuyo. It's implied that the latter is very frequently found drunk and passed out in their house.

* Arisa Uotani's father in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is neglectful of her and assumed to be an alcoholic.

* ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': Madeleine Swann's mother drank as "medicine", probably to cope with the fact that her boyfriend/husband Mr. White was a killer. She even asked her own daughter to bring her booze, and it's said daughter who had to clean when she dropped alcohol on the floor.

* Ran Mouri's BumblingDad Kogoro in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' fits into ''both'' sides of the spectrum. On the "Dramatic" hand, he does have a good perception in solving cases at times, but most of the time, he just wastes time drinking, and at least once he's been straight-up [[DrowningMySorrows drinking his sorrows away]]. He still [[OverprotectiveDad loves Ran]] and cares for Conan [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold in his own way]], though.

* As said above, Kogoro Mouri of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' fits in both the Dramatic and Comedic sides of the trope. When the Comedic side is invoked on him, he's seen dancing or sleeping drunkenly with his tie around his forehead and is more of a ButtMonkey than usual.