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Dry Crusader
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During its long history, alcohol has caused (and "solved") a myriad of problems. There's no dispute that excessive consumption has caused damage to countless lives and society in general, from damaged livers, domestic violence, and impaired driving. Controlling its use has been a problem since the beginning of civilization; Ancient Greeks and Romans also struggled with drunkenness and wine-addled misbehavior. The solution of the Dry Crusader is one of complete prohibition. The Dry Crusader is what you get when you cross The Teetotaler with the Moral Guardians, the Principles Zealot, and (sometimes) the Well-Intentioned Extremist tropes. It's a character who believes the consumption of alcohol is always evil in any amount at all times to everyone. Anyone who's unfortunate enough to be drinking a glass of beer within the Dry Crusader's line of sight will soon be subjected to an angry harangue warning him of the spiritual, moral, and health hazards that will result from one sip of the demon rum. It goes without saying that nothing short of a total ban on alcohol will satisfy the Dry Crusader. To achieve this goal, this person on occasion is not above resorting to any means necessary. When the Dry Crusader appears, it's often in works that are set in the United States during the 19th and early 20th century which is the time the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League were at their peak of influence, and which ultimately led to the Prohibition era, which lasted from 1920 to 1933 and saw the rise of organized crime to meet the demand. Instances of the Dry Crusader in stories set after the repeal of Prohibition in the U.S. in 1933 are far less common. You'll still come across characters who inveigh against all consumption of alcohol but, recognizing its historic total failure, they're less likely to advocate a complete ban or subjecting bars and taverns to hatchetization to achieve their goal. Rather, they'll call for restrictions on opening and closing hours, carrying open bottles, bar liquor licensing rules, locations of liquor stores, how alcoholic beverages are sold, strengthening drunk driving laws, and so on. Often the character will serve as a Strawman Political and usually be Played for Laughs. Expect your crusader to unknowingly imbibe alcohol at some point (sometimes an honest accident, sometimes for a prank, sometimes medicinally) and for them to get hilariously soused after one drink. This may break some of their pride and help them admit that they're only human, and to be a bit more understanding towards occasional indulgence. Or it could just make them angrier — tricking someone into imbibing a substance they have a moral revulsion to is generally not a nice thing. In many ways, the Smug Straight Edge is the descendant of the Dry Crusader in that both have a tendency to act self-righteously toward and condemn those who imbibe. Compare to, and may cross over with, Heteronormative Crusader. |
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In a Happy Days episode where Richie's great-uncle-for-this-episode tells the story of one of Richie's relatives, a saloon-busting DA in Prohibition-era Chicago, we see a Whole Episode Flashback starring the main characters as these other characters from the period. Mrs. C. "plays" a local version of Carrie Nation, coming into the speakeasy and trying to catch them selling alcohol so she can bust it up. | |
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In Guns, Gore & Cannoli, the Bureau of Prohibition, having realized that Prohibition was a failure, created a poison so they could spike the ingredients of alcohol. It was rejected because the effects were too..."extravagant." | |
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Played for Laughs when Phryne, an unabashed hedonist, visits a relative who turns out to be active in the temperance movement; Phryne quickly smuggles some champagne into the household. Subsequently Played for Drama when it's revealed that the relative is a closet alcoholic who's being Blackmailed by her supplier. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer Vs The Eighteenth Amendment", a prohibition movement is started after Bart is caught drunk on camera during the St. Patrick's Day parade. The movement discovers that alcohol has actually been banned in Springfield for over two centuries but has never been enforced, and the Mayor is pressured to agree to the prohibition. At the end of the episode, it's discovered that the prohibition law was repealed only a year after the original ban, and everything returns to normal. | |
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Parodied (along with every other possible Trope) in Airplane!. As the plane is in trouble, a passenger takes a shot from his hip flask, which he offers to the elderly, tightly-dressed-looking woman next to him. She snaps, "Certainly not!" in an offended and horrified tone before turning around and doing a line of coke. | |
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Winnefred Goodman and her father are members of Arizona Revival who fight for clean and honest country in Lemonade Joe. | |
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Parodied in Discworld with the Black Ribboners, a group of vampires who have sworn off drinking (human) blood. According to Thud!, one of their slogans is "Lips that touch Ichor shall never touch Mine". | |
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In Hazbin Hotel, one of the changes Alastor makes to the hotel is to include a bar. Vaggie immediately tries to veto the bar because, as their mission is to reform sinners so they can go to Heaven, they should be discouraging bad behavior like drinking. | |
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In both the book and movie version of Elmer Gantry, the title character publicly preaches against the evils of booze. Privately, it's another story. (In the novel, he does eventually quit.) | |
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In Never Grow Old, the Christian Temperance League has taken over the town of Garlow and banned alcohol, gambling and whores. | |
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In the first few novels of the Worldwar series, which starts in 1942, characters throughout the United States often talk about and recall the events of Prohibition, particularly when they are drinking alcohol. At one point, Mutt Daniels actually finds himself taking shelter in what was once a headquarters of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and thinks on the irony; he even says that he started drinking when he was a young man because he figured that anything the Union was against was probably okay. | |
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In Fallout 2, Moral Guardian mafia wife Ethyl Wright is the sole member of the "New Reno Temperance Union" while her husband controls the city's alcohol supply behind her back. If informed of the truth she'll potentially smash up the family stills herself. | |
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Animal Farm: Among the principles of Animalism is prohibition, as alcoholism turned Jones into an incompetent farmer. Napoleon and his cronies selling Boxer to a knacker to buy more booze is the most serious sign that they've turned their backs on Animalism. | |
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Lucky Luke: Thanks to taking place during the Old West, these characters pop up every now and then, usually temperance groups consisting mostly of women, but men too, such as the visiting scientists from The Black Hills, who not only order things like tea or lemonade in a saloon they stop at with Luke, they also give a lecture about the health effects on alcohol to an Indian they meet. An interesting example is Big Bad August Oyster from Calamity Jane, who starts out as a saloon owner using his business to smuggle guns, but after losing it in a bet, he lies to the local temperance group that he's decided to turn over a new leaf and become this trope, so they'll help him shut it down. | |
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Dry Crusaders appear in Victoria II in several forms, such as events asking the leader to teach temperance, sometimes even asking to outright ban alcohol over the nation. The player themselves can in turn become one, but this does come with some risks such as encouraging reactionary thought or encouraging general population militancy, which may not end well. | |
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Frank from House Party (2017) issues a total ban on all alcohol at what is supposed to be a normal college party. If either he or his assistant Leah catch you handling any booze, they'll beat you down before you know it. He claims it's because he's straight edge and feels it's his duty to spread the philosophy by any means necessary. However, certain bits of random chatter and later opportunities reveal he's actually a drug dealer who is trying to peddle his wares to the partygoers, with the alcohol ban only being in place because he doesn't want anyone to get too drunk to buy from him. | |
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In The African Queen, Methodist missionary Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) is visibly upset when her captain Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) starting drinking gin, but she politely keeps her opinions to himself. After he gets drunk and starts ranting at her, however, she dumps all of his gin out while he's sleeping it off. | |
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A semi-regular recurring facet of the The Murdoch Mysteries given its set at time when the Temperance Leagues were at the most active. Sometimes they're central to the plot, sometimes they're just a background element. Very often a thorn in the side of the Inspector Brakenreid given he is a heavy drinker (though rarely to excess). | |
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M*A*S*H: The episode "Alcoholics Unanimous" has Frank Burns assuming this role while he's in temporary command of the 4077. In a later episode, "The Moon Is Not Blue", a wounded general who's recovering in post-op is one of these. |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Elizabeth shows a brief flash of this trope when she and Jack are marooned on an island. Much to his horror, she burns all the rum. It's mostly for a signal fire, but she cites the additional reason that rum is "a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels." | |
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In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, the priest at Fort Frostmoth (Antonius Nuncius) in the Bloodmoon expansion plays with the trope. He claims to be intercepting and hiding the alcohol shipments to the fort for moral reasons. In actuality, he's hoping that the disgruntled soldiers will rebel so that he can be reassigned someplace more hospitable than Solstheim. | |
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In the Blackadder II episode "Beer", Edmund's puritanical relatives, the Whiteadders, are textbook examples of this trope (at least until the end of the episode). | |
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At the beginning of Boardwalk Empire, Margaret Schroeder is a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, mainly because her husband is an alcoholic and commits Domestic Abuse. | |
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In Back to the Future: The Game, Edna Strickland turns out to be one. When transported to Hill Valley's founding in the 1800s by accident, the character in question is ecstatic to be in such a "pure" era and makes no attempt to leave... until Beauregard Tannen shows up and builds a saloon. Edna's views on any place that serves alcohol is to burn it down. Unfortunately, this ends up resulting in the entire town going up and threatening the timeline as a whole. | |
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At the beginning of The Wild Bunch, a preacher is delivering an anti-alcohol sermon during a temperance rally just before its participants get caught in the crossfire during a bank robbery. A lot of them get mowed down. | |
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LISA the Painful has Ajeet Mandeep, who hates Joy so much he will refuse to join your party if you've taken at least two pills of Joy. Amusingly, a glitch in the original version made it so that he would only refuse to join you if you had taken exactly two pills. Any more and he's completely fine with you! There's also nothing stopping you from just giving him Joy once he's a party member. | |
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Midsomer Murders: Temperance campaigners, led by fervent, recovered-alcoholic parson Norman Grigor, protest against the Midsomer Abbas May Festival in "The Night of the Stag". | |
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Murder for the Modern Girl: It's mentioned in chapter 1 that Jeremiah Newhouse has lectured to his daughters about the dangers of alcohol for hours on end. | |
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The Great White Hope: The Women's League For Temperance arrives at the club Jack Jefferson has opened (the story is set in 1910) and stage a loud protest. Jack and his friends manage to scatter them. | |
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Cora Massingale, leader of the Women's Temperance League, in The Hallelujah Trail. | |
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