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Surprisingly, [[Bottle Fairy|Bottle Fairies]] rarely fall under this trope.
 
Contrast [[Drunk Onon Milk]]. For someone who Never Gets Drunk simply because they don't drink at all, see [[The Teetotaler]].
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* Averted with {{spoiler|Jason}} in ''[[Mystery Team]]''.
* The American team in ''[[Beerfest]]'' spends a year training for an international drinking games competition. As a result they all develop such high alcohol tolerances that it's nearly impossible for them to get drunk on beer alone (one team member who is trying to get drunk ends up chugging a bottle of schnapps because beer just isn't potent enough).
* In the recent animated ''[[Wonder Woman (Filmanimation)|Wonder Woman]]'' film, Diana is shown to have a much higher tolerance for alcohol than her human companion, and scoffs at the idea of him trying to keep pace with her while drinking.
* In ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger (Film)|Captain America the First Avenger]]'', Cap's metabolism is so high that he can't get drunk. This makes [[Drowning My Sorrows]] pretty much impossible for him.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Lord Vetinari in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'' plays with it a bit. After spending the night drinking beer with football enthusiasts (many of whom had passed out by the time the feast was winding down) and at the very ''least'' matching them by glass with equal-strength drinks, he appears to be very much a straight example of the trope. However, he also becomes rather more talkative than usual, he stubs his toe shortly afterwards, and the morning after it takes him roughly 50 seconds longer than usual to solve the crossword puzzle in the ''Times''. He even cops to having to ''look up a few words in the dictionary''. Vetinari eventually admits he was drunk, but he's also ''very'' good at acting sober.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'' Granny Weatherwax downs a bottle of absinthe under the impression that it's [[From a Certain Point of View|an herbal drink]], and complains of feeling "a bit woozy".
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]'': Athos is described as having the capacity of four men, but hardly shows it. It takes a two week binge of ten bottles a day for us to see him unsteady on his feet. Even then, he can tell an [[I Have This Friend]] story almost perfectly.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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** Although it's noted that even if he was drunk, nobody would be able to tell since he always acts silly.
* Xerxes Break in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' can't get drunk, but pretends to do so to go along with everyone else.
* [[Dojikko|Taeko]] from ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga)|Ai Yori Aoshi]]'' has a ridiculously high tolerance which surprises even [[Bottle Fairy|Tina]].
* Tylor of ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' can go drink for drink with the ship's doctor, who is [[The Alcoholic]] and has pretty much been drinking his entire life. This kind of quality is in keeping with Tylor being [[Born Lucky]] and possibly using [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. However, he does get really drunk once in the series in a [[Drowning My Sorrows]] moment.
 
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Genki Girl|Jin]] from ''[[Footloose (Webcomicwebcomic)|Footloose]]'' becomes a [[Deadpan Snarker]] when drunk.
 
=== Type 3 ===
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* 3b: Belldandy from ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]''. Alcohol might as well be water for all the effect it has on her. She will, however, get plastered... on ''soda.'' She's a Viking goddess - booze ''was'' basically water to them (safer than straight water), but they didn't have carbination on longships.
** Urd, meanwhile, seems able to get wasted on sake. Then again, she's only half-goddess.
* Apparently, [[Claymore|Claymores]] don't get drunk unless they want to, which results in Deneve and Clare being completely sober (despite Deneve drinking quite a bit more than should be possible), while Helen descends right into Happy Drunk land.
* 3a: Noa Izumi from ''[[Patlabor]]''. Her family owns a liquor store in Hokkaido and she started drinking earlier to keep company to them and their clients and friends, so she's used to even the hardest stuff. The discovery brings the ''other'' [[Bottle Fairy]] of the group, Kanuka Clancy, to tears.
* 3b: Major Kusanagi from ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]''. Her artificial body is immune to poisons, including alcohol.
** Batou is the same way because he's heavily cyborged.
*** The same applies to both of them. They ''can'' get drunk if they like, but they can decide to ''stop'' being drunk in the matter of seconds.
* Two episodes of ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' revolve around how [[Blessed Withwith Suck]] type 3 can be if you [[I Need a Freaking Drink|really, really need to get drunk]] -- Huang has an extremely high tolerance for alcohol and it takes a ''lot'' of alcohol to get him drunk, which is a problem when he's had a life so crappy that being able to [[Drowning My Sorrows|Drown Your Sorrows]] would be a blessing.
* 3a: Rock and Revy from ''[[Black Lagoon]]''. No one expected Rock to be able to hold his own in a drinking match with Revy right from the start. Rock's tolerance is due to heavy exposure to alcohol both at college and at his previous employer. As for Revy, she simply seems to be a heavy drinker.
* [[SoSora Rano No wo ToWoto]]'s Kureha is given this trait during the team's training exercise where they all drink (accidentally?). She isn't the least bit pleased about it. She also fits as a type 1, since (besides Rio), she's the most conventional trooper in the platoon.
* In [[Suzumiya Haruhi]], Nagato seems resistant or immune to alcohol. Not shown in the anime, due to rules against drinking, but shown in the light novels (Kyon noted that she drank champagne "like a whale") and made very obvious in the manga, where Koizumi asks her if she can really handle that amount. The justification is that she's not really human, so the likelihood is she's 3b rather than 3a.
* 3a: [[Trigun|Vash the Stampede]] only appears to get a hangover after downing "a few dallons" (let's just say a lot of bottles) the previous night, and what happens while he's drunk? His shooting ''gets better'' because his stupor actually ''interferes'' with his [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. That said, he seems just fine a little later, and in another scene in an earlier episode, after an apparent big bash, he appears to snap to sobriety quite quickly once they put him to bed, so it's hard to say just how much of his drunkenness is an act.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Due to his enhanced metabolism, [[Captain America]] can't get drunk.
* [[Wolverine]] varies between 3a and 3b [[Depending Onon the Writer]]. His [[Healing Factor]] either makes him have the tolerance of a much larger man and never get hung over, or completely neutralises the effect of alcohol.
* [[Superman]] usually falls into type 3b, such as in ''[[Smallville]]''.
* Hercules from [[Marvel Comics]] once tried to get Galactus drunk by giving him the most potent alcoholic drink in all the universe. It didn't work.
* [[The GodsofGods Arrof Arr-Kelaan]] have been type 3a's ever since their deification, to Ronson's (god of [[Irony|Alcohol]] and Apathy) [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|endless]] [[Drowning My Sorrows|dismay]]. Consuming the most [http://www.rmcomics.com/Mirror/Consequences/?viewDate=20090717 alcoholic drink on the planet] quickly enough will get him "slightly numb" for a few moments.
* The original [[Marvel Comics|Spider-Woman's]] powers gave her immunity to all poisons and toxins, which had the side effect of her never getting drunk.
* [[The Incredible Hulk]] is immune to alchohol.
* In the [[X -Men]], one of the Blob's vulnerabilities is toxins such as alcohol. The problem is his body can take massive amounts before it starts to take.
 
== Fan Works ==
* The [[Star Wars (Franchise)/Fanfic Recs|fanfic]] "[http://yonwords.livejournal.com/4728.html Crack Shots]" by yonwords applies type three a to all Corellians, including [[X Wing Series|Wedge Antilles]], to great hilarity. It ends on a [[Spoof Aesop]]: Never try to out-drink Wedge.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* In the ''[[Mercy Thompson]]'' books, werewolves' high healing factor means that they have to drink a lot to get drunk. One character's backstory is that after becoming a werewolf, he had just started to notice that he wasn't getting drunk until the second or third full bottle of whiskey when another werewolf told him what he was.
* Cat from the ''[[Night Huntress]]'' series is a [[Dhampyr]], with inhumanly high alcohol tolerance. While she often [[I Need a Freaking Drink|needs a freaking drink]] to cope with trauma, the calming effect is psychological rather than physical. The only she's ever seen actually drunk is after drinking an entire bottle of [[Gargle Blaster|Bones's moonshine]], and even then she's walking upright when she should be dead several times over.
* Angels and demons (who are angels anyway, just on the other side) in ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'' can get drunk, but among their abilities is soberization--no matter how plastered they are, they can always just miracle it away when they need to.
* In [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Four Day Planet'', "Bish" Ware seems the opposite of this, as he's never seen completely sober -- but Bish is actually a type 3a and {{spoiler|one of [[The Federation]]'s best secret agents, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|posing as the town drunk]] while tracking down an interstellar criminal}}. His reflexes are shown to still be swift and precise.
* Dr Gideon Fell, from John Dickson Carr's novels, can put away enough booze to land any two normal men in the ER with alcohol poisoning without showing any sign. Probably a 3A from pure body mass (if there's an Obese Detective trope, he's one of the poster children).
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* 3b: Claire from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' and [[Wolverine]] of the [[X-Men]] (both due to their [[Healing Factor]]).
** Claire had to fake being drunk in order to win a drinking contest. She made her biological father look like a supreme moron.
* A type three in the comedy series ''[[Two Pints of Lager and Aa Packet of Crisps]]'' where Gaz challenges a University Student he thinks is coming onto his girlfriend to a drinking contest. Only one slight problem, he forget the student in question was Australian.
* [[Doctor Who|Gallifreyans]] metabolize alcohol very quickly, so it is almost impossible for them to become drunk or suffer the effects of hallucinogens. Thus can easily drink 10 pints of beer without showing any ill effects. Some Gallifreyans can use special meditations to regulate their metabolism. This gives them a very fine control over the rate at which they metabolize alcohol, making inebriation or hallucinations possible. However, [[G-Rated Drug|Ginger pop]] has a severely deleterious effect on any Gallifreyan metabolism.
* ''[[Supernatural]]'': Castiel downs a half dozen shots in a row and calmly says "I think I'm starting to feel something." It's later discovered that he ''can'' get drunk, but it's when his angel-fu is largely drained away, and he needs to drink an entire liquor store to accomplish it.
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'''Cas''': And I DRANK IT. }}
* Being a vampire, Nikola Tesla of ''[[Sanctuary]]'' is immune to the effects of alcohol. Ironically, he drinks MORE once he gets {{spoiler|devamped}}.
* On ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', Lorne is drinking near-constantly, but his Pylean Demon physiology prevents him from ever becoming intoxicated.
{{quote| '''Lorne:''' I wish I could get drunk!}}
* The now-defunct gamerjargon.com website defined "[[The Avengers (TV series)|John Steed]]" as "to consume insane quantities of alcohol in a short period of time and not be in the least affected".
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* Novas (superpowered people) from the ''[[Aberrant]]'' RPG setting are extremely resistant to poisons and drugs (a starting character gets Resistance 4 (on a 0 to 5 scale) for free). Regular alcohol and drugs just don't cut it. This being ''[[Aberrant]]'', there are of course people who find alternate solutions, but a drink that gets a Nova pleasantly buzzed is likely to kill a mere human in three seconds.
* [[Space Marines]] from [[Warhammer 40 K40000]] have genetically enhanced biology, which, among other things, allows them to metabolise alcohol and other narcotics ''really'' fast. [[Word of God]] says that an astartes drinking competition is about who can drink enough fast enough to actually get drunk (generally around a barrel a minute, for reference).
** For example of how these things usually go, one short story had a group of [[Space Wolf|Space Wolves]]<ref> Space Vikings, essentially</ref> skulling ''prodigous'' amounts of alcohol, non-stop, only for one to suddenly pause, hiccup and finally collapse to the floor, where he began snoring loudly. The lord's response?
{{quote| '''Ragnar''': We have a winner! ''[cheers]''}}
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* 3a: Neil Fingleton, the UK's tallest man at 7ft 7in, joked about having to spend a fortune when he goes out drinking as it takes around 30 pints before he starts to feel the effects.
* Protestant reformer Martin Luther was a huge fan of his ale, and boasted that he could drain an entire mug in the time most men took to get a third of the way through. He was never recorded to have gotten drunk. Given that he was a big fella for much of his life, he'd probably count as a 3a.
* A lot of Chinese people are known to be genetically restricted to 3b rules. They metabolize alcohol in such a way that [[Blessed Withwith Suck|they skip "drunk" and just go straight to "hung over."]] (Depending on how these genes came about, this may also explain the stereotypical Native American intolerance to alcohol as well, as Amerindians are currently believed to be Mongolians who crossed the Bering Strait land bridge.)
* Generally, Men tend to be more resistant to alcohol than women, and require more to get inebriated. It's a combination of genetics, size of the individual, amount of body fat, and various other factors.
 
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