I Do Not Drink... Wine: Difference between revisions

* The metabolism of the Seven Lucky Gods (and their people) in ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]: [[The Movie|Big Trouble in Nekonron, China]]'' can only handle rice and pickled vegetables. When trying an alternative meal, Kirin actually collapsed in agony and cried out for "P-P-P-PICKLEEEES!" Then again, said alternative meal was prepared by ''[[Lethal Chef|Akane]]'', so...

* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', the [[Ancient Astronauts|Oni]] can eat most human foods and even produce equivalents of their native dishes by [[Fire-Breathing Diner|inhuman amounts of spice]], but some earth cuisine is beyond their capacity to handle. Umeboshi, which are basically pickled sour plums, get them totally plastered (humans, meanwhile, traditionally use them as a hangover and overindulgence remedy), though sake can cure them from being drunk, and they find the scent of garlic so strong and nauseatingly overpowering it has the same effect on them as tear gas.

** Inverted, of course, with {{spoiler|Yukito, Yue}}'s [[Sleep Mode Size]], who uses caloric energy to supplement any insufficient magic energy source.

* In the [[CLAMP]] series ''[[Wish]]'' Kohaku, being an angel, is nauseated by any food that's ever been alive, including plants (though she can eat honey); she gets her nutrition by bathing in sunlight.

== Film ==

* Universal's ''[[Dracula]]'' of course, as the [[Trope Namer]]. [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|The exact line]] is "I never drink-- wine."

*** Dracula broke his word about wine in ''House of Frankenstein'', however.

* ''[[Dracula 2000]]'' uses a variant when Lucy offers Dracula coffee: "I don't drink... coffee."

 

 

** In ''Unseen Academicals'', one of the more [[Genre Savvy]] characters asks for clarification as whether Vetinari "does not drink wine" or "does not drink ... wine."

*** Later we are treated to Vetinari offering his vampiric lady friend some ...wine. The ellipsis is his.

* [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]'s ''Saint-Germain'' series of historical fantasy is otherwise excellent, with the painful exception of the vampire protagonist's stubborn insistence on repeating the title of this trope at least once in ''every book of the series''.

* While the famous line doesn't appear in the book [[Dracula]], Jonathan Harker does notice that he never sees the Count drink or eat.

** [[Running Gag|...food.]]

* In ''[[Neverwhere]]'', the [[Our Vampires Are Different|sort-of-vampire]] Lamia, when offered food: "I do not eat... curry."

* Most of the mages in [[Tamora Pierce]]'s novels have this problem.

* In Shai Agnon's fantastical short story ''The Lady and the Peddler'', a Jewish peddler is seduced by a beautiful widow living alone in a mansion in the woods. She feeds him endlessly with delicious multi-course meals, but he never once sees her eat or drink. {{spoiler|It is eventually revealed that the widow is a cannibal and has killed and eaten all of her previous husbands. In fact, her body has grown so accustomed to eating human flesh it can no longer digest regular food.}}

 

 

'''Todd the Wraith''': ''"I thought it would make our discussions a bit more... comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them."'' }}

** Terrifyingly subverted in one episode, in which the team starts {{spoiler|finding corpses with teeth marks on them. The wraiths of the ship had been given a retrovirus to make them more human. The common wraiths, only ever having eaten by draining life force with their palms, removed their almost permanently worn face covering masks and started experimenting with using their teeth.}}

* When Peter Tork auditioned for ''[[The Monkees]]'', the producers offered him a cigarette; Tork's reply was, "I don't smoke...those." [[The Stoner|Guess what he did smoke.]]

* In [[Sapphire and Steel]], when offered a cocktail at a fancy dinner party in Assignment 5, Steel says he doesn't drink. Sapphire, however, has a glass of champagne.

** She actually delivers variations on the line when presented with other beverages.

* If you talk to a peaceful vampire in [[Nethack]], the message you get is "I only drink... potions."

* The same line spoken by Dracula is also used in [[Blood Rayne]] 2.

* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', vampires do not eat food or drink booze like normal dwarves. This can be extremely helpful in identifying them.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* In Warhammer 40,000, Eldrad Ulthran, famous Farseer of the Eldar craftworld of Ulthwe, appears to invoke this trope. When meeting with the primarch Fulgrim, he hosts a banquet and Fulgrim notes that Eldrad does not have any meat on his plate. When Fulgrim asks, "Does your kind not eat meat?", Eldrad replies simply "*I* do not eat meat."