History Main / TheStoner

The stoner is generally a comical character who smokes, gets beat up, makes bad jokes, and suffers other sorts of ButtMonkey type things, only with more drugs. Almost always denoted by their DrearyHalfLiddedEyes in animation, if his eyes aren't noticeably bloodshot to begin with. The most likely character to get a MushroomSamba bit. He is basically a cross between ButtMonkey and the wacky guy. Usually somewhere between a [[TechnicalPacifist technical]] and an ActualPacifist, and almost always entirely non-threatening, in physical appearance. May very occasionally be prone to [[LetsGetDangerous getting dangerous]], but only rarely and under truly exceptional circumstances.

The stoner is very similar to the 19th Century "funny drunk." However, that became a DiscreditedTrope as groups like AA and MADD gained influence. The modern stereotype is that drunks are likely to beat you up, while stoners aren't, so stoners make better comedy. When played for drama, they are likely to be burnt-out losers living dead-end lives with no ambition or meaningful aspirations beyond getting high.

May evolve into an EruditeStoner. If the character fits the type but is never shown actually imbibing, that's a GRatedStoner. Expect them to [[FourTwentyBlazeIt make reference to a certain number]], too. See also TheSlacker and SurferDude for related character types. Compare GranolaGirl, NewAgeRetroHippie, and MellowFellow.

* The main trio from [[Film/GameOverMan2018 Game Over, Man]], but especially Darren, who is seen smoking salvia more than once.

* Music/SnoopDogg. [[MemeticMutation Smoke weed erryday~]] In the first of his Reddit [=AMAs=], he claimed to smoke [[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/14cb0c/im_snoop_lion_ask_me_anything/c7brms7 81 blunts a day.]] This claim is Wiki/TheOtherWiki official, by the way.

* Absolutely everyone in ''Fanfic/MarijuanaSimpson''. Marge at one point gets so high she forgets Homer is her husband, not her father.
%%* Lazy Smurf is interpreted as this in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf''.
* The [[Series/{{Glee}} Warbler member]] Nick is a foul-mouthed, HotBlooded pot-smoker in ''Fanfic/HuntingTheUnicorn.'' The Warblers constantly call him a stoner, but it's more of an in-joke since he only smokes a couple of times a week. He's [[CloudCuckooLander prone to strange logic]] even without getting stoned.
* In ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', Satsuki is literally this throughout most of the fiction until[[spoiler: her Kamui partner told her that the very last batch she acquired and ingested was salvia, which is not terribly fun for the unprepared. Now upholding her promise to Junketsu, she has now decided to quit weed for a while; which will only, in turn, improve her already astonishing performance with Junketsu]].
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/HighlyQuestionableDecisions''. While she didn't consume any drugs, Satsuki acts like one when she "turns off her brain" (at Ryuuko's advice). Naturally, those around her assumed she was on drugs.

%%* Matsuda Mitsubishi from ''Roleplay/YukariIsFree''.

* Skank from Film/TheWraith takes this UpToEleven by drinking car chemicals to get high.

* Ernie and Bernie from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' are lampshaded to be this. Not only that they [[TheGrotesque look like they smoked to much]] but [[ChaoticStupid they're very stupid as well]].

The stoner is very similar to the 19th Century "funny drunk." However, that became a DiscreditedTrope as groups like AA and MADD gained influence. The modern stereotype is that drunks are likely to beat you up, while stoners aren't, so stoners make better comedy. When played for drama, they are likely to be burnout losers living dead-end lives with no ambition or meaningful aspirations beyond getting high.

May evolve into an EruditeStoner. If the character fits the type but is never shown actually imbibing, that's a GRatedStoner. Expect them to [[{{420}} make reference to a certain number]], too. See also TheSlacker and SurferDude for related character types. Compare GranolaGirl, NewAgeRetroHippie, and MellowFellow.

May evolve into an EruditeStoner. If the character fits the type but is never shown actually imbibing, that's a GRatedStoner. Expect them to [[{{420BlazeIt}} make reference to a certain number]], too. See also TheSlacker and SurferDude for related character types. Compare GranolaGirl, NewAgeRetroHippie, and MellowFellow.

May evolve into an EruditeStoner. If the character fits the type but is never shown actually imbibing, that's a GRatedStoner. Expect them to [[420BlazeIt make reference to a certain number]], too. See also TheSlacker and SurferDude for related character types. Compare GranolaGirl, NewAgeRetroHippie, and MellowFellow.

May evolve into an EruditeStoner. If the character fits the type but is never shown actually imbibing, that's a GRatedStoner. See also TheSlacker and SurferDude for related character types. Compare GranolaGirl, NewAgeRetroHippie, and MellowFellow.

Not to be confused with TheAtoner. One key away means a whole different thing...

May evolve into an EruditeStoner. If the character fits the type but is never shown actually imbibing, that's a GRatedStoner. See also TheSlacker and SurferDude for related character types. Compare GranolaGirl.

[-[[caption-width-right:275:"Hold up. Let me spark this; take a breather; breathe that reefer in my lungs, I got grapes what you watching son?" ]]-]

May evolve into an EruditeStoner. See also TheSlacker and SurferDude for G-rated examples. Compare GranolaGirl.

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%%* [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Don't forget]] [[MemeticMutation to bring a towel.]] [[CatchPhrase You wanna get high?]]

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-->''[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Wanna get high?]]''

[-[[caption-width-right:275:"Hold up. Let me spark this; take a breather; breathe that reefer in my lungs, I got grapes what you watching son? [[labelnote:note]] [[MemeticMutation It's the Nutshack!]] /labelnote"]]-]