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Here's a Just for Fun index of Tropes that would make a good name for a drink, with a brief description of what the combination of potables and mixers would be.

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Some of the trope-named cocktails listed here may contain some dangerous ingredients. Do not try making them at home if you value your life.


Examples:

  • Adaptational Weapon Swap: A special, homemade brand of vodka. Every time it's poured in a glass, a different mixer is added. The name less applies to one drink as it applies to a catalogue of drinks made with this vodka.
  • The Afterafterlife: One-part vodka, one-part bootleg alcohol (to kill you due to a lack of government inspection) and one-part adrenaline shot (to resuscitate).
  • Alien Sky: A mix of lemon-lime soda, vodka, lime juice and green food coloring, garnished with whipped cream topped with green-colored syrup.
  • Ambiguously Trained: A mix of imported liquor, whiskey and vodka with the labels removed, garnished with an Iraqi marijuana leaf.
  • The Anti-Grinch: One part egg nog (alcoholic), one part egg-nog (non-alcoholic), one part apple cider (alcoholic), garnished with Fruit Cake crumbs. Make sure to keep insulin on hand.
  • Autobots, Rock Out!: A layered cocktail that mixes vodka with Faygo Red Pop (for the "red" part), blue curaçao (for the "blue" part) and a mixture of ice, grenadine and blue & red food coloring for the layer between, with a few ice cubes in the "red" part. For best results, serve in a Transformers-themed glass.
  • Asmodeus: One part Cherry Heering Liqueur, two parts Absolut Vodka, add a maraschino cherry and however many drops of animal blood you are comfortable with.
  • Ballistic Bone: Put a freshly cooked porkchop in a blender, spike the slurry with vodka. Garnish with the bone.
  • Beelzebub: Mix equal parts Bourbon, Lucano amaro, Giffard Orgeat Syrup, lemon juice and however many drops of animal blood you are comfortable with.
  • Beergasm: Half a can of beer with a shot of Irish Cream, Kahlua, Amaretto and Cream
  • Better than Sex: Frangelico, Irish cream, Grand Marnier, & Kahlua mixed together in a highball on the rocks with cream poured on top.
  • Big Applesauce: An Anita Bryant cocktail with Postobón apple-flavored soda instead of apple juice, topped with a thin layer of apple sauce.
  • Big, Bulky Bomb: Tequila with a shot of tabasco sauce, a scoop of wasabi and a teaspoon of gunpowder.
  • Blue Is Calm: A non-alcoholic version of the Blue Hawaiian cocktail made with clear cream soda (e.g. Jones Cream Soda).
  • Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Raw egg yolk (or JUST Egg if you're vegan) mixed with whiskey and a whole can of Budweiser & Clamato Chelada, garnished with bread crumbs.
  • Botanical Abomination: Vodka mixed with carrot, spinach, celery, cucumber and ginger root juice.
  • The Burlesque of Venus: A Venus cocktail but with ginger-ale instead of gin and cranberry juice instead of bitters. Its a Virgin cocktail.
  • Butch Lesbian: You take a Wet Pussy (Vodka, Peach Schnapps, Cranberry Juice and a Lime Wedge), pour it in a tall glass with a Bull Dyke (Vodka, Red Bull Soda and Ice), drink it in one sitting and then smash the glass over a bitch's head.
  • Camp Gay: One part red wine, one part cranberry juicer, one part orange juice, one part vanilla liqueur and sprinkle with sugar crystals. Add a piece of orange, pineapple and a maraschino cherry and garnish with a sparkler. Have the DJ or Jukebox in the bar switch from whatever is playing to a hip techno beat when they take their first sip.
  • Camp Straight: Make a Camp Gay cocktail, but make sure it's in a wine-cup with none of the garnishes.
  • Captain Fishman: Two-parts spiced-rum, one-part golden tequila, one-part pineapple juice, garnish with seaweed.
  • Chaos While They're Not Looking: One part Irish cream, two parts Everclear® alcohol, one-half part chloral hydrate.
  • Chocolate of Romance: One part chocolate milk, two parts vodka, and one-half part rum.
  • Christmas Light Chaos: One part rum, one part eggnog. Garnish with Christmas-colored "Frosty Nerds" candy. Carefully apply overproof rum on top, light on fire and serve when the fire goes one.
  • Criminal Convention: Absinthe mixed with marijuana oil and vintage 19th-century Coca-Cola.
  • Crying After Sex: A Sex on the Beach cocktail (any recipe will do) mixed in a bucket of raw whiskey.
  • Crystal Landscape: Irish cream diluted in vodka with crushed rock-candy and sea salt sitting at the bottom of the glass.
  • Curse: Black Vodka spiked with a slow-acting poison.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: One part Black Vodka, one part Blueberry juice, one part sweet tea. Garnish with cocoa powder and poppy-seeds and have served to you by a gentleman wearing a tuxedo.
  • Death and the Maiden: Half a glass of Death in the Afternoon and half a glass of Maiden's Prayer.
  • Devil's Pitchfork: A Bloody Mary with tabasco sauce and a Caroline Reaper pepper for garnish. Add a fork for decoration.
  • Diverging Evolutionary Phases: Make a Metamorphosis, pour them into various shot-glasses and add different ingredients to each glass. Potential ingredients include: olives and olive juice, onions and garlic, chocolate syrup and green creme de menthe, coffee syrup flavoring and kahlua, etc.
  • Earth Song: One part organic vodka, one part homemade moonshine, one part kelp juice and one part peoti, all drunk and then immediately followed by a drum-circle in the middle of the desert for full-effect.
  • Elite Zombie: One part Jamaican rum, one part Puerto Rican gold rum, one part 151-proof demerara rum. Garnish with gold flakes.
  • Energy Ball: Mountain Dew Voltage, a container of 5 Hour Energy, and vodka, with tapioca pearls mixed in.
  • Everybody Hates Hades: A glass of raw, unmixed whiskey with red food-coloring passed off as a glass of Hades' Temptation.
  • Everybody Loves Zeus: A Zeus cocktail with a scoop of Vanilla ice-cream in it.
  • Evil Is Burning Hot: One part Fireball Whiskey, one part cinnamon, a splash of kerosene and the rest is just straight-up poison.
  • Fairy Devilmother: Black vodka, lemon juice, rye whiskey and tonic water. Absinthe is a must.
  • Fairy Godmother: Elderflower liqueur, Pineapple, Lemon and Lime. Absinthe is optional.
  • Fake Orgasm: A really lame, lazy variation of the Screaming Orgasm with a few missing ingredients when they aren't on hand.
  • Filthy Fun: One part vodka, one part chocolate liqueur and a spoonful of unbaked Brownie mix.
  • Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: A glass of vodka mixed with watermelon pucker, orange juice, grenadine, rum, amaretto and a spray of canned whipped cream.
  • Forbidden Fruit: An appletini with a knife instead of a skewer for decoration.
  • Forgot the Disability: Moonshine diluted to the point where it only causes partial blindness.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: A blue hard-slushie with maraschino cherry syrup on the very top so that you can only taste it through the straw after drinking the rest of it.
  • Frothy Mugs of Water: Stir an alka seltzer in water, mix with gin in a blender and served in a class pint.
  • Future Funk: One part raspberry-cranberry juice, one part watermelon-syrup, one part vodka. Line the glass with pink-colored sugar. Add a cocktail-skewer loaded with strawberries, raspberries and/or maraschino cherries.
  • Grasp the Sun: Orange juice, Sunny D and Limoncello. Garnish with sunflower seeds.
  • Glitch Entity: A mixture of Vodka with h3ff8Xjno33rc3note 
  • Godlike Gamer: Vodka mixed with Mountain Dew and Live kombucha soda (any flavor will do) poured in a martini glass. Garnish with a olives, gummy worms, or cheeto.
  • Greenwashed Villainy: An appletini with a cup of sugar poured into it.
  • The Grinch: One part peach schnapps, one part bacardi rum, one part blue curaçao liquor, three parts orange juice a can of lemon-lime soda and garnished with maraschino cherries and orange slices.
  • Halloween Trickery: One part vodka, one part milk, one part chocolate liqueur. Garnish with M&Ms, Skittles and your choice of candy-bar.
  • Hammer and Sickle: Three parts vodka, one part champagne (imported from Russia) garnished with a slice of pickled beetroot and potato skins.
  • Having a Blast: Light rum, grape juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, garnish with gunpowder.
  • The Heart: One part vodka, one part raspberry syrup, one part cranberry juice. Add chocolate syrup, garnish with one heart-shaped Dark Chocolate candy.
  • Hell: Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce, Ghost Pepper flakes, three drops of sulfuric acid, a tablespoon of powdered sulfur, one hot coal, and a Yorsh.
  • Hollywood Fire: Infusing liquor with chili peppers, jalapeños, orange juice and lemon juice. Garnish the rim with crushed red pepper flakes and a lime wedge.
  • Hollywood Glass Cutter: Two parts orange juice, one part lemon juice, one part orgeat, one part white rum. Instead of ice, put in glass cubes that look a little like ice.
  • Impossible Pickle Jar: Vodka mixed with pickle juice and a mix of spices that makes it somewhat drinkable.
  • The Immodest Orgasm: A Screaming Orgasm, but several shots of expresso, a handful of sugar and an insulin shot.
  • Knockout Gas: One part gin, one part dry vermouth, one part sedative. Garnish with a cherry.
  • Land Shark: One part spiced rum, one part light rum, one part Blue Curacao and one part vodka. Hold the ice.
  • The Living Dead: One part Jamaican rum, one part Puerto Rican gold rum, one part black vodka. Add chocolate syrup and garnish with mint.
  • Lord of the Ocean: A Blue Lagoon cocktail with a shot of whiskey and a tablespoon of sea salt.
  • Love Is a Crime: A Crime and Punishment cocktail with creme de cacao.
  • Mad Science Fair: A Pineapple margarita with lemon juice, lime juice and a spritz of Blue Curacao liqueur.
  • Made of Explodium: Similar to the Molotov Cocktail, but with a list of ingredients including, but not limited to, scumble, white phosphorus, pure ethanol, nitroglycerin, saltpetre, sulfur and gunpowder. We’ll leave it to you to imagine what happens if it sets on fire.
  • Manly Tears: Silver Tequila, Lemon Mrytle Liquer and a shot of whiskey. Garnish with onion.
  • Masochist's Meal: A Bloody Mary with three different kinds of hot-sauce, ghost-pepper juice, reaper-pepper juice, battery-acid and a drop of honey, garnished with a sharpened army-knife slathered in lemon juice and a still-lit cigarette.
  • Medium Blending: Mix water, vodka, coffee, juice (any juice will do), coffee creamer (any creamer will do), garnish with a pen. Use a sheet of paper as a coaster for the glass it's served in and draw on the piece of paper for your next art-prompt.
  • Metamorphosis: Becherovka Liqueur, Lemon Juice and Honey Syrup.
  • Molotov Cocktail: A mixed drink solely comprised of alcoholic substances that are flammable.
  • Neat Freak: Dilute sterilizing alcohol and hand-sanitizer in distilled water until it reaches an alcohol content that won't kill you if you drink it. Mix with Dawn dish-soap, garnish with sea-salt and a lemon wedge.
  • Ominous Television: Ask for a Miami Vice, but replace the rum in it with equal parts malt liquor and vodka. Be sure to mute your TV as you drink it for full-effect.
  • Private Eye Monologue: One part scotch, another part scotch, and another part scotch... basically it's a lot of scotch on the rocks.
  • Pseudo-Santa: 1 cup of almond milk, 1 cup of non-alcoholic egg nog, one cup of water, 1 cup of nutmeg. Mix in a punchbowl and serve with a ladle. Garnish with a spritz of nutmeg or cinnamon.
  • Qurac: One part Laban Ayran, one part Jallab, one part pomegranate juice, one part coffee and a shot of kahlua.
  • Radish Cure: 100%-proof alcohol garnished with dried tobacco, fresh marijuana, on the rocks with meth frozen in an ice-tray. Take a bite out of an actual radish as a palette cleanser.
  • Rambunctious Italian: One part vodka, one part Limoncello, one part Chef Boyardee Pizza-Sauce and garnished with red pepper flakes.
  • Ride the Rainbow: One part grenadine, one part peach schnapps, one part Pineapplejuice, one part vodka, one part Blue Curaçao and garnished with a cherry, an orange slice, half a box of Nerds candy and pop rocks (any color of your choice).
  • Robot Republic: One part vodka, two drops of grenadine syrup, two parts whiskey and a tsp of artificial engine oil. Having it made with an automated cocktail-making machine and serve it to the droids ordering it in your cantina.
  • Samurai Shinobi: First mix one-part sake with one part orange juice with a marachino cherry (that's the "samura" portion). Get a second glass and add one-part sake with one-part Coca-Cola and add a dash of Cocoa-powder (the "ninja"). Then mix one-half of the "samurai" mixture and one half of the "ninja" into a glass. Then dunk the remaining part of the "samurai" mix down the drain to eliminate the threat, then do the same with the "ninja" mix because it questioned the authority of your Shogun.
  • Santa Claus: 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of alcoholic egg nog, 1 cup of rum. Mix in a punchbowl and serve with a ladle. Garnish with a candy cane and/or your choice of cookie crumb.
  • Science Cocktail: Water down sterilizing alcohol down to a non-fatal drinking level, mix with a shot of vodka, white grape juice and green apple syrup. Pour into a beaker and drink from it.
  • Sexy Scandinavian: One part vodka, one part aquavit, one part Swedish punsch, one part lingonberry juice, one part orange juice and garnish with a zest of orange.
  • Shark Pool: 1/2 any drink, 1/2 Gummy Sharks
  • Sounds of Science: Mix ethanol, water, sugar and vodka of any serving amount in a martini glass and then set it on fire until it reaches a safe drinking level. Add a skewer with a green olive and/or cocktail onion.
  • Space Zone: Take a hard-kombucha of any flavor, mix it with purple and/or blue fruit-flavored drink-powder, leave a medium-sized jawbreaker to dissolve at the bottom of the glass under the ice. Serve with a swirly straw. An ideal cocktail for Sci-Fi Conventions.
  • Spicy Latina: A Margarita cocktail with Tabasco sauce, garnish with sliced jalapeño and a cilantro leaf.
  • Spring Cleaning Fever: One part gin, one part dry vermouth, garnish with a lemon-twist, a maraschino-cherry and dish soap.
  • Stern Sun Worshippers: Amber wine mixed with orange juice and garnished with church wafers.
  • Sticky Fingers: Vodka with a shot of maple syrup slathered over the outside of the glass. Add one soft-caramel.
  • Straight Gay: Make a Camp Gay cocktail, but remove the orange, pineapple, cherry and sparkler. Garnish with a mint leaf.
  • Sugar Bowl: A screwdriver cocktail with orange cream soda instead of orange juice, topped with whipped cream covered in maple syrup, Fruity Pebbles and small chunks of Hershey's chocolate.
  • Super-Speed: One shot of Kahlua, one shot of KOPI Coffee Flavored Rum, mix with coffee, the coffee-creamer of your choice, an entire bag of sugar and a shot of expresso.
  • Thieving Pet: One part aged rum, one part aged rum, one part coconut cream. Garnish with a ripe banana, chocolate syrup and then drink half of it before giving it to the guy that ordered it.
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: 99% water, colored with tons of black food coloring. 1% is a mixture of Black beans, black coffee, Charcoal dust, and vodka.
  • Torture Cellar: One part vodka, one part vinegar, one part reaper-sauce, one part Ghost-pepper sauce, one part acid (the drug, not the chemical), two parts acid (the chemical, not the drug). Serve by telling the customer it's a mimosa and they can only have it if they get to it past a floor of hot-coals.
  • Twisted Ankle: One part raspberry liquer, one part Sour mix, garnish with a lime.
  • Vibrant Orange: A screwdriver cocktail with orange soda instead of orange juice, topped with whipped cream covered with Torani orange syrup. Not to be confused with Sugar Bowl.
  • Vomiting Cop: Rum Orange Cruzan, Soda Water, Ice and Ipecac syrup.
  • Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000: Pour gallon of cow's blood into a tankard of cheap college beer, pour yourself a glass of it in a human skull, garnish with a box of bullets.
  • Wrestling Doesn't Pay: One part Broken Skull IPA beer, one part store-brand cola, one part vodka and one part lemon juice; served up in a wrestling promotional drinking glass.

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