Basic Trope: Just a sip of liquor and he's passed out.
- Straight: After taking a sip of liquor, Bob passes out for several hours.
- Exaggerated: Bob passes out for a week after so much as smelling alcohol.
- Downplayed: Bob can drink a bit of liquor. Any more than that, and he's out.
- Justified:
- Bob rarely drinks, is young, or both, and has not built up any tolerance.
- Bob is genetically incapable of tolerating alcohol.
- Bob has recently eaten an "inky cap" mushroom (Coprinopsis atramentaria), which ruined his alcohol tolerance.
- Bob can hold most drinks as well as others, but he ordered a Gargle Blaster, which exceeded his limits by too much.
- Inverted: Never Gets Drunk
- Subverted:
- Bob passes out after taking a sip of liquor ... then it turns out he'd been drinking for several hours. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
- Bob passes out after one drink... then it turns out someone slipped him a Mickey.
- Double Subverted: He'd just been drinking the weakest drinks imaginable and shouldn't be tipsy in the least.
- Parodied:
- It's all in Bob's head — when his friends tell him a soda pop is an alcoholic beverage, he passes out; meanwhile, he takes a Long Island Iced Tea (not knowing its alcoholic content) with no problems.
- Bob gets Drunk on Milk.
- Bob gets drunk even though he hasn't ingested any beverage.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob passes out late in the afternoon after a small sip of liquor. But he'd been drinking all day ... except he was drinking very weak liquor. But he'd still been drinking all day — anyone would pass out after that much drinking.
- Averted: Bob has a reasonable, if not extreme, tolerance.
- Enforced: "We need to show the viewers that drinking is bad. Let's have a seemingly healthy adult male pass out after a drop of liquor!"
- Lampshaded:Charlie: He's passed out already? The party hasn't even started.Alice: That's Bob for you.
- Invoked: Bob doesn't like drinking, but succumbs to peer pressure, so he acts as if he's very drunk after just a small sip as an excuse not to drink any more.
- Exploited: Knowing that Bob will be extremely drunk after only a sip, Alice offers Bob a drink in an attempt to make him slip up and reveal private information.
- Defied: Bob is The Teetotaler, and his alcohol tolerance is never tested.
- Discussed:Alice: That's it, Bob! First drink of the night!Bob: Well, you've seen the TV shows. Maybe I'll be passing out before I can bring the second drink to my mouth.
- Conversed: "...That's just a can of beer, right? How's he that drunk? Was the studio too lazy to film more than one sip of drinking?"
- Deconstructed: Bob is seen as less of a man and ostracized because of his inability to handle alcohol. People are reluctant to befriend him because they know he (and by extension they) can't drink.
- Reconstructed:
- He finds friends who don't drink.
- He gets his existing friends to accept his condition and they go to bars by cab, on foot, by bus, or with him as the designated driver.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob is robbed, raped, and killed while he's out cold.
- Bob transforms into something bizarrely nonhuman while he's out cold; what's more, it would really hurt him if he were awake.
- Played for Laughs: Bob takes a sip of wine and gets drunk. Hilarity Ensues.
- Played for Drama: Bob has an alcoholic drink despite having no tolerance for it (possibly after eating the aforementioned "inky cap") and is hospitalized with alcohol poisoning.
- Implied: At a Wild Teen Party, Bob is the only kid who passes out.
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