History Main / NeverGetsDrunk

* A side effect of [[XMen Wolverine's]] HealingFactor is that he is constantly sobering up while he is still drinking, meaning he can't get drunk.

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'''Type 2'''

'''Type 3'''

* Lord Vetinari in ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' plays with it a bit. After spending the night drinking beer with football enthusiasts (many of whom had passed out by the time the feast was winding down) and at the very ''least'' matching them by glass with equal-strength drinks, he appears to be very much a straight example of the trope. However, he also becomes rather more talkative than usual, and the morning after it takes him roughly 50 seconds longer than usual to solve the crossword puzzle in the ''Times'', and he even coops to having to look up a few words in the dictionary. Vetinari eventually admits he was drunk, but he's also ''very'' good at acting sober.

* Protestant reformer Martin Luther was a huge fan of his ale, and boasted that he could drain an entire mug in the time most men took to get a third of the way through. He was never recorded to have gotten drunk.

* Lord Vetinari in ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' subverts it a bit. He admits he ''is'' drunk, but he's very good at acting sober.
** He interprets stumbling slightly as being completely slushed, after spending the night drinking beer with football enthusiasts (many of whom had passed out by the time the feast was winding down) and at the very ''least'' matching them by glass with equal-strength drinks. He is very much a straight example of the trope.
*** In all fairness, it ''does'' take him 50 seconds longer than usual to solve the crossword.

* 3b: Belldandy from ''AhMyGoddess''. Alcohol might as well be water for all the effect it has on her. She will, however, get plastered... on ''soda.''

* Two episodes of ''DarkerThanBlack'' revolve around how BlessedWithSuck type 3b can be if you [[INeedAFreakingDrink really, really need to get drunk]] -- Huang has an extremely high tolerance for alcohol and it takes a ''lot'' of alcohol to get him drunk, which is a problem when he's had a life so crappy that being able to [[DrowningMySorrows Drown Your Sorrows]] would be a blessing.

* Kana drinks 30 percent of [[''Fairytail'']]'s liquor and has never been shown getting drunk.

* Kana drinks 30 percent of ''Fairytail'''s liquor and has never been shown getting drunk.

* [[{{Saiyuki}} Cho Hakkai]] is a type 1, if I remember correctly. There was an episode involving a {{drinking contest}} and while the rest of the town is passed out (Sanzo and Gojyo too), Hakkai has only just gotten buzzed, expressing disappointment in the wine, if I'm recalling this right.
** "I've never seen Cho get drunk before" "And you never will".

*[[{{Dojikko}} Tae]] from ''AiYoriAoshi'' has a ridiculously high tolerance which surprises even [[BottleFairy Tina]].

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*In the recent animated ''WonderWoman'' film, Diana is shown to have a much higher tolerance for alcohol than her human companion, and scoffs at the idea of him trying to keep pace with her while drinking.

*Spock himself is a mix of types 1 and 3 of this.

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*In one episode of ''WKRPInCincinnati'', Johnny Fever participates in an on-air experiment to show the dangers of drunk driving. He takes a simple test to measure his reaction time while sober then repeats it several times, drinking beer between the tests. Ordinarily, reaction time is slower the more alcohol you consume, but somehow Johnny's reflexes are faster the drunker he gets.

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*3a: The professional wrestler Andre the Giant had to drink an entire case of beer just to get a little buzz, this is probably because of his enormous body mass.
*3a: Elves from ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'' are hardly affected by alcohol, as humorously depicted in the ''Return of the King'' film, where Legolas only begins to feel a tingling sensation whilst Gimli is passing out drunk.
**Not in ''TheHobbit'', they didn't. One of the elven guards guarding the dwarves gets sloshed along with the fortress butler, allowing Bilbo to steal his keys.
***That was elven mead, though. Quite different from human beer.
*3a: Case in ''{{Neuromancer}}'' is left unable to get drunk (or, in most cases, high) after his employers implant a super-liver in him to counteract his years of substance abuse.
*3b: Claire from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' and {{Wolverine}} of the {{X-Men}} (both due to their {{healing factor}}).
**Claire had to fake being drunk in order to win a drinking contest. She made her biological father look like a supreme moron.

*Vampires and presumably Vampaneze from ''TheSagaOfDarrenShan'' need to drink massive amounts of alcohol in order to get drunk, due to their superhuman qualities. Harkat, on the other hand, is totally incapable of getting drunk, but that [[HilarityEnsues doesn't stop the vampires from trying...]]
*A type three in the comedy series ''TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'' where Gaz challenges a University Student he thinks is coming onto his girlfriend to a drinking contest. Only one slight problem, he forget the student in question was Australian.
*Due to his enhanced metabolism, CaptainAmerica can't get drunk.

*RealLife: Protestant reformer Martin Luther was a huge fan of his ale, and boasted that he could drain an entire mug in the time most men took to get a third of the way through. He was never recorded to have gotten drunk.
*In the ''MercyThompson'' books, werewolves' high healing factor means that they have to drink a lot to get drunk. One character's backstory is that after becoming a werewolf, he had just started to notice that he wasn't getting drunk until the second or third full bottle of whiskey when another werewolf told him what he was.
*3a or possibly 3b: Keira Knightley of ''AHDotComTheSeries'' is a synthetic clone of [[KeiraKnightley the actress in question]] -- one side-effect of her simplified genetics is that she processes alcohol far more efficiently than the average human, and can drink almost anyone under the table.
*The [[FanFicRecs/StarWars fanfic]] "[[http://yonwords.livejournal.com/4728.html Crack Shots]]" by yonwords applies type three a to all Corellians, including [[XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]], to great hilarity. It ends on a SpoofAesop: Never try to out-drink Wedge.
*3a: Noa Izumi from {{Patlabor}}. Her family owns a liquor store in Hokkaido and she started drinking earlier to keep company to them and their clients and friends, so she's used to even the hardest stuff. The discovery brings the ''other'' BottleFairy of the group, Kanuka Clancy, to tears.

*[[DoctorWho Gallifreyans]] metabolize alcohol very quickly, so it is almost impossible for them to become drunk or suffer the effects of hallucinogens. Thus can easily drink 10 pints of beer without showing any ill effects. Some Gallifreyans can use special meditations to regulate their metabolism. This gives them a very fine control over the rate at which they metabolize alcohol, making inebriation or hallucinations possible. However, [[GRatedDrug Ginger pop]] has a severely deleterious effect on any Gallifreyan metabolism.
*Cat from the ''NightHuntress'' series is a {{dhampyr}}, with inhumanly high alcohol tolerance. While she often [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs a freaking drink]] to cope with trauma, the calming effect is psychological rather than physical. The only she's ever seen actually drunk is after drinking an entire bottle of [[GargleBlaster Bones's moonshine]], and even then she's walking upright when she should be dead several times over.

*Angels and demons (who are angels anyway, just on the other side) in ''GoodOmens'' can get drunk, but among their abilities is soberization--no matter how plastered they are, they can always just miracle it away when they need to.
*Angels in ''{{Dogma}}'' used to be able to get drunk--but then Loki and Bartleby flipped off God and got kicked out of Heaven, which led to Him forbidding angels from imbibing alcohol.
*In HBeamPiper's ''Four Day Planet'', "Bish" Ware seems the opposite of this, as he's never seen completely sober -- but Bish is actually a type 3a and [[spoiler:one of TheFederation's best secret agents, [[ObfuscatingStupidity posing as the town drunk]] while tracking down an interstellar criminal]]. His reflexes are shown to still be swift and precise.
*Alistair from DragonAge tells a story about a type 3a Grey Warden who drank a pint for every half-pint the other Wardens drank, and was STILL drinking long after all the others had passed out.
*Novas (superpowered people) from the ''{{Aberrant}}'' RPG setting are extremely resistant to poisons and drugs (a starting character gets Resistance 4 (on a 0 to 5 scale) for free). Regular alcohol and drugs just don't cut it. This being ''{{Aberrant}}'', there are of course people who find alternate solutions, but a drink that gets a Nova pleasantly buzzed is likely to kill a mere human in three seconds.

* TheGodsOfArrKelaan have been type 3a's ever since their diefication, to Ronson's (god of [[{{Irony}} Alcohol]] and Apathy) [[WhoWantsToLiveForever endless]] [[DrowningMySorrows dismay]]. Consuming the most [[http://www.rmcomics.com/Mirror/Consequences/?viewDate=20090717 alcoholic drink on the planet]] quickly enough will get him "slightly numb" for a few moments.
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*your chracter in fable 2. i think. you lose purity though... if i am wrong please correct this.