Immune to Drugs: Difference between revisions

Except when terrible addictions to horrible drugs are [[Played for Laughs]], often using a character who is [['''Immune to Drugs]]'''.

Sometimes used when the character in question is poisoned, in which they show no ill effects. [[Rule of Funny|Because it's funny.]] Often used in this manner to break the Drama or [[Establishing Character Moment|establish the character]] as [[Immune to Drugs|'''Immune to Drugs.]]'''

There is also a second variety where characters from Sci-Fi and fantasy media are ''literally'' immune due to their race or some kind of [[Green Rocks]]. That overlaps with [[Never Gets Drunk]].

* Spider Jerusalem from ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', though he gets a rather horrible neurological ailment that makes him even more unpredictable, and is eventually likely to turn him into a vegetable -- butvegetable—but that is caused by the one "drug" that he didn't take voluntarily.

** Not to mention the fact that he lives in a future where you can change your species and smoking won't kill you as long as you take the appropriate medication. It should be relatively easy to repair any damage caused by drugs and alcohol.

{{quote| '''Doctor:''' 10cc of this would kill an ''elephant.''}}

== Literature ==

* Father Jack Hackett from ''[[Father Ted]]'' who is ''always'' drinking but never dies -- evendies—even after drinking floor polish, toilet cleaner (once drank a bottle of Toilet Duck), and a whole bottle of illegal sleep medication. He is apparently only sober every twelve years.

** [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rHlFXnWAxBQ Subverted]: "I suppose sobriety for Father Jack must be like taking some sort of mad hallucinogenic." Whilst sober he can't see properly with single-vision. Usually able to spot a Nun, he has to be told a Nun is standing right in front of him.

{{quote| '''Fr. Ted:''' No, Father! Don't drink that it's--<br />

''(Jack takes a sip)''<br />

* ''[[Bottom]]'': Edward Elizabeth Hitler -- aHitler—a man who has only ever been drunk once. (17 years and counting.) Managed to get blind-drunk (even by his own standards) on £1.75 (a special offer on "Old Spice"), leading him to be unable to find the front door or the floor ''[[Epic Fail|after]]'' falling over, finally finishing with a nightcap consisting of a bottle of bleach. He always carries a hip-flask which contains brandy{{spoiler|, meths, Pernod, paint stripper, Mister Sheen, brake fluid [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and Drambuie]]}}.

* Patsy Stone from ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]''. Although she's had her stomach pumped many times, she's never experienced long-term side effects. Along with her rampant drug and alcohol abuse, she is almost never seen without a cigarette. When she attempted to quit smoking, she apparently began recharging the multiple patches on her body!

* Subverted by Charlie in ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]''. The hard-drinking, glue-sniffing loon scarfs down some home-made brownies that he himself spiked with downers, saying, "I can handle my sedatives." To the amazement of his friends, he's still standing hours later, but he's in a drugged-out fog, muttering gibberish. By the end of the episode, he's passed out and drooling.

* This trope is one of the reasons the Noise Marines in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' are so messed up, except replace "drugs" with "all sensation". After thousands of years in worship of the god/ess of decadence, they get to the stage where they need to invent [[I'm a Humanitarian|new drugs]] and listen to concussive blasts of pressure to get their kicks.

* Alcohol in ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]]'' allows Jack to regain health, and drinking a lot makes your vision blurry. So if you're low on health and find a lot of wine....

* Drinking vodka in ''[[STALKER|S.T.A.L.K.E.R]]'' will cure your radiation poisoning. It'll also make your screen sway a bit, but that passes after a few minutes.

* Kingston from ''[[SSDD]]''. At one point, during a Webcomic Time joke, he claims that a doctor told him that he's got "enough chemicals in his system to render most of China catatonic."

** Tessa and the other [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]]s supposedly have the second type; according to Lee it would take enough alcohol to poison an elephant for them to get drunk (though it might be a retcon, considering that Kerrie was shown drunk once before and Tessa supposedly got drunk and ordered Tin-head to disassemble her CO's car).

* Possibly a Justified Trope for [[PPC|PPCers]]ers tend to go through [[Brain Bleach|Bleeproducts]], alcohol, and painkillers at a fair rate and never suffer any longterm effects. Possibly [[Justified Trope]] in that [[Good Thing You Can Heal|they can draw on medical treatment from any continuum ever created]], so the ill-effects could be mended if they start to become a problem. To quote one agent when told he shouldn't try marijuana, "If Dr Fitzgerald can sew limbs and genitals back on he can rebuild the inside of my lungs if necessary, and I fail to see what it could do to my brain that this job has not already done."

{{quote| "[[Long List|Crack, smack, uppers, downers, outers, inners, horse tranquilizers, cow paralyzers, blue bombers, green goofers, yellow submarines, LSD Mach 3, and trace amounts of human urine."]]}}

{{quote| ''"The sporting editors had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls."''}}

{{quote| ''I know there's a cure for bio terrorism or whatever it is, and I know it lies within Keith Richards. He is the only man on the planet who can go "Anthrax? ''(snort)'' Alright! Doesn't go with my e-coli, but fuck..." Keith is the only man who can make the Osbornes look fucking Amish. He's insane! I've seen him go up to a drug dealer and the drug dealer's like, "I'm out man, I'm sorry; I have nothing left!" Supposedly, he goes to Switzerland and changes his blood...not one or two pints, but like a fucking Chevrolet--all of it. Now what I wanna know is [[Fridge Logic|who gets his blood?]] Some old Swiss man, going, "HEIDI! We gotta go on tour, you bitch! We gotta pay for Mick's babies!" I know we will all be dead and gone, but Keith will still be there with five cockroaches. He'll be going, "You know, I smoked your uncle, did ya know that? Fucking crazy..."''}}

** According to the documentary ''Python'', a significant part of the problem was that he acted ''[[Cloudcuckoolander|exactly the same]]'' when drunk as he did when he was sober -- sosober—so they couldn't tell the difference between when he was completely sloshed and when he was just doing Pythonesque things.

*** Except during the making of ''[[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]]'', where he proved he was not Immune to [[Going Cold Turkey]] and suffered from withdrawal.

** Ozzy's actually having his genome mapped, so scientists can figure out why he and others like him can survive what they do themselves. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140823193033/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-07-01/news/sc-nw-dna-0702-20100701_1_genome-genetic-blueprint-gene-mapping Really!]

{{quote| ...I am going to sue the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only twelve years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown and Williamson have promised to kill me. But I am now eighty-two. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the planet were named [[George W. Bush|Bush]], Dick and Colon.}}

* Due to his advanced metabolism, [[Captain America (comics)]] cannot get drunk.

* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] by Aaron Stack, Machine Man, in ''[[Nextwave]]'', who personally rewired his robot body to be affected by alcohol consumption. He's since become dependent on the stuff.

* Hyperion in ''[[Supreme Power]]'' is literally unaffected by any drugs whatsoever, due (probably) to his impossibly dense musculature and alien physiology. After several bottles of tequila, he isn't even buzzed.

* [[Averted Trope|Aversion]]: In ''[[Dogma]]'', not only were angels vulnerable to alcohol, but God forbade them from drinking after a drunken Loki told God off after carrying out the ten plagues described in Exodus. Early on, we see the Metatron order tequila "and an empty glass" -- he—he can drink it for the taste but then has to spit it out.

* [[The Lord of the Rings|Bilbo the Hobbit]] mentions that elves (unlike the ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons|D&D]]'' ones) are quite difficult to get drunk. They ''are'' shown to get drunk on really large mugs of very strong wine (the exact amount needed is not specified), but then, Legolas is of somewhat higher blood than a mere warden.

* Most militaries in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' vaccinate their members against various drugs to prevent enhanced interrogation.

* The Doctor in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is mostly immune to drugs. Most drugs -- hedrugs—he mentions "shrooms as an example at one point -- do nothing to him, but he's once seen tipsy from drinking [[G-Rated Drug|ginger beer]], and [[Mushroom Samba|once hallucinated after taking antihistamines]].

* Space Marines of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' are generally immune to normal drugs due to their modifications, Fenrisian mead might be an exception though considering a [[Space Vikings|Space Wolf]] once claimed it would give you a hangover "like continents colliding."

* In ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' 3.0 and later, a character with enough ranks in the Monk class becomes effectively immune to toxins, which means that they are effectively immune to any intoxicating substances like alcohol or recreational drugs.

{{quote| '''Skoll:''' ''(with several empty glasses in front of her)'' Guys... I don't think I can get drunk anymore...<br />

{{quote| '''Fry:''' Bender, you've been drinking too much. Or not enough. I can't remember how it works with you. The point is, ''you haven't been drinking the exact right amount''.}}

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