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Nailed to the Wagon
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Bob likes his booze. A lot. He may be a recreational alcoholic, or drinks to escape remembering his Dark and Troubled Past. Fate, being a cruel and fickle mistress, has other ideas. Alice drags Bob (usually shambling and slurring rather than kicking and screaming) somewhere without liquor of any kind. The reasons vary; Alice may be doing an intervention, she may be trying to save his life from people out for his blood, or Bob (all by his lonesome) stumbled onto a bus/ship/plane/rocket/Farside Island to a place where the only spirits are of the figurative variety. Effectively, Bob has been nailed to the wagon and will be forced to go sober against his wishes. He'll whine, complain and take every opportunity to get a drop of booze. (Oddly, he will seldom see Pink Elephants, although in Real Life, they are the consequences of withdrawal rather than drunkenness.) However, once he's over a rather epic hangover and finishes his physical withdrawal, he'll do the emotional equivalent of curling into a ball in a corner because now he can no longer avoid facing his life. If he can resolve whatever emotional hangups were leading him to drink the sadness away, he may decide that being sober is better, and it will stick. If he's fundamentally unchanged, he'll jump Off the Wagon into the nearest vat of beer. While this kind of gesture is usually well-intentioned, in Real Life completely cutting a person off from physically addicting drugs can cause withdrawal symptoms so severe that they could actually die from the body's chemical imbalance. So for any readers hoping to help a loved one get off the juice, remember to do so gradually and preferably under a doctor's supervision. Despite the use of beer in the description, this trope also applies to other forms of drugs. Notably caffeine. A form of Kind Restraints. Compare Going Cold Turkey, when the sudden withdrawal is a voluntary decision on Bob's part. Also see No Matter How Much I Beg, where the character makes the decision to shut himself away from temptation, with friends enlisted to enforce that decision after the fact. |
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Rumisiel from Misfile is forced to stay sober while living with Ash and her dad. It's a work in progress for all of them. | |
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Also happens to Jack in King's The Shining, since all liquor was removed from the Overlook during the hotel's shutdown for the winter. | |
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Happens accidentally in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia when The Gang (notably hypochondriac Frank) believes they're all coming down with a deadly illness. They're sealed in one of the bar's bathrooms, where their worsening physical conditions lead them to believe they really are dying. Eventually, Charlie reveals he replaced all the cleaning solution with alcohol, and they decide to have one last drink. Several minutes later, they find that all their symptoms have suddenly vanished, and realize that they weren't sick in a traditional sense, but rather going through withdrawal symptoms due to all being severe alcoholics. They decide to save dealing with the latter revelation for a later date. | |
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In Eureka, Doctor Grant (who is from the late 1940s and believes Smoking Is Cool) is injected with nanobots that hurt him when he smokes. | |
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Life's a Zoo: Happens to the entire cast in "Self Helpless" when all the housemates are forcibly deprived of their addictive vices. | |
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El-Hazard's Mr. Fujisawa: He hates being sober, but he gains super-strength from it, so the other characters enter a conspiracy to keep him off the bottle. He doesn't take it well. And while El-Hazard does have native alcoholic beverages, in the OAV at least, Fujisawa is also a smoker and El-Hazard has no tobacco equivalent. Fujisawa runs out of smokes about halfway through the last episode and the nicotine cravings kick in just in time for the finale. Good thing it turns out that it boosts his sober level Super-Strength. | |
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Fallout: Equestria: Littlepip is tranquilized by Velvet Remedy and dragged to a rehab clinic when her addiction to Party-Time Mint-Alls gets out of control. | |
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Star Trek: Picard: In "Broken Pieces", Raffi decides I Need a Freaking Drink. | |
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Henry declines any alcohol for the first half of Double Homework, as his doctor told him to avoid it from then on to avoid getting cirrhosis of the liver. | |
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Wars of Light and Shadow: In Ships of Merior, Asandir makes sure that Dakar (a well-established drunk, glutton, and lech) keeps a hastily-given promise (which he fully intends to break) by cursing him so that the finest alcohol tastes like turpentine, the tastiest food tastes like shit, and the thought of getting with a woman gives him sharp pains in his groin until he gets off his stubborn duff and catches up with Arithon. Later, in Warhost of Vastmark, Arithon ensures that Dakar remain sober by pitching all the alcohol over the side of the ship while Dakar is passed out. |
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In the Halloween episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Bloo ties Mac to a bed in order to prevent him from eating any candy, setting off his maniacal Sweet Tooth. | |
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How Ryan Miller of Ripper (2014) got sober: he was entitled to accept help from a program from the Veterans Administration, but he was too proud or too macho for that. A like-minded neighbor had him strip naked and left him by himself in his apartment without any of his clothes, his phone or his computer for three days. He is absolutely miserable and even contemplates breaking out the window. But when she comes to get him, he is clean and manages to stay clean for years. | |
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In The Dresden Files book Proven Guilty, Molly Carpenter inflicts this on a pair of addicts by using Black Magic to rewire their cravings into prohibitive revulsion for their drug of choice. Although it's effective and well-intentioned, it's also a form of Mind Rape for overriding their free will, and one of her victims winds up with serious psychological damage because she got careless. | |
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In Cornered!, the store owner forces his junkie nephew, who is craving for a fix, to stay in the apartment above the store every night until he's well. | |
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Supernatural: Dean and Bobby lock Sam up in the panic room to "detox" from demon's blood. | |
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One Metalocalypse villain's Start of Darkness resulted from his legally mandated sobriety. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a sexual variant when Sir Galahad the Chaste gets sidetracked to a castle full of sex-starved babes. He's about to give in when Sir Lancelot nails him back to the wagon in an Unwanted Rescue. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a Khajiit by the name of J'zhar signs both himself and his brother J'darr up for an expedition to a remote ruin in order to break J'Darr's Skooma addiction. It doesn't go well, and J'Darr eventually murders his brother with an ax. | |
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In Persona 5, following the fourth Palace, the gang spends a week rehabilitating resident hikikomori Futaba Sakura, who had spent two years shut away in her room at Sojiro's house due to the trauma of her mother's apparent suicide and the subsequent shunning she received from her family. Somewhat averted in that, while she takes numerous opportunities to hide behind someone or wear a mask, she clearly wants to improve and has little trouble adding to conversations or even holding them if the subject interests her. | |
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My Name Is Earl: In the second episode, Earl kidnaps the mother of one of his friends and tries to help her by forcing her to quit smoking while trying to kick the habit himself. Catalina called it the sweetest, most justified kidnapping she's ever seen. | |
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A Year and Change: Owen finds some success with sobriety after breaking both of his arms and is unable to pick up alcoholic drinks on his own. | |
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In Father Goose Walter is nailed to the wagon twice in the same movie: In the first instance his friend and employer Cmdr. Houghton hides his booze around the island that Walter is using as a coastwatching base, giving him the hiding places only when Walter radios in with Japanese troop movements. Houghton then has to give up all the booze locations as incentive to get Walter to go on a risky mission. Having got all the booze, the mission turns out to be the rescue of (initially) prudish school teacher Catherine and her students. Catherine then arranges for the children to steal all the booze and hide it again. |
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In Resolution, our hero chains his friend to the wall to make him get straight. This turns out to be a very bad idea. | |
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Tropic Thunder: Jeff Portnoy is wrestling with a severe drug addiction during the actors' misadventures in the jungle. At one point he asks to be tied to a tree until he "gets it out of his system." He tells the others not to untie him, no matter how much he begs. Predictably, he does, even going as far as to tell Alpa Chino "I will literally suck your dick right now" in exchange for being untied. | |
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Renton has his parents, in Trainspotting, lock him in his room to force himself through withdrawal. In his case, he does see Pink Elephants. Specifically, a baby crawling towards him on the roof. It gets worse, but it sticks eventually. | |
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Bloom County: Binkley once forced his father to quit cigarettes cold turkey by disposing of all of those in their house and hiding his wallet and his car keys so he couldn't go out and buy more. Opus hid Steve Dallas's cigarettes. This might not have been his best idea. "Even with nicotine IN his bloodstream, Steve is a maniac!" Steve: "WHERE'D YA HIDE 'EM?! ... POUND! POUND! POUND!"note Steve is trying to break open the bathroom door while tied to a chair, wearing only underpants, and clenching a fire ax in his teeth. |
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Catching Fire: Upon the announcement of the Quarter Quell, Peeta dumps all of Haymitch's liquor, much to the latter's dismay, and caps it off by going to District 12's liquor seller and threatening to turn her in to the Peacekeepers if she sells to him. This is in spite of the fact that Haymitch had previously had a rather terrifying withdrawal when he ran out of liquor, but the sobriety doesn't last long anyway. | |
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Batman does this to himself when he gets hooked on Venom. He locks himself up in the Batcave and doesn't come out until he's totally free of the drug. | |
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To make sure he's sober before his hearing, Denzel Washington in Flight is confined to his hotel room with a security guard barring exit and entry, with a mini-bar stocked with nothing harder than Diet Coke. The unlocked adjacent room, however, has a fully stocked mini-bar. | |
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In the Kaeloo episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Kaeloo forces Quack Quack to go without yogurt for an hour. He then experiences withdrawal symptoms and finally goes insane and tries to cannibalize everyone after hallucinating them as yogurt containers. | |
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This happens to Hal in Season 4 of Being Human (UK) to get him off blood. | |
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M*A*S*H: Hawkeye and Trapper are forced to remain sober after their beloved still is confiscated by Frank Burns. They are disturbed to discover just how dependent they have become on their rotgut gin. In another episode, one of BJ's patients turns out to have a morphine addiction. When BJ finds out, he turns to this trope, and after an agonizing (for the patient, at least) half an episode, the patient seemingly kicks the habit. One episode shows why this can backfire. One of Margaret's old drinking buddies join the nursing staff. When she shows up to the OR drunk, she gets Nailed to the Wagon, promising not to drink. A few days later, delirium tremens hits when she's in a crowded mess tent; Colonel Potter recognizes the symptoms, gets her to the recovery tent immediately for proper treatment, and admonishes Margaret for making her quit cold turkey. |
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Charlie from Lost is a heroin addict until he crashes on the island, where he has no access to drugs. Or so he thinks. | |
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In Ships of Merior, Asandir makes sure that Dakar (a well-established drunk, glutton, and lech) keeps a hastily-given promise (which he fully intends to break) by cursing him so that the finest alcohol tastes like turpentine, the tastiest food tastes like shit, and the thought of getting with a woman gives him sharp pains in his groin until he gets off his stubborn duff and catches up with Arithon. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, when Elizabeth and Jack are dropped off on a remote island by Barbossa, Elizabeth is annoyed to discover that, rather than being as remote as Jack led people to believe, it was actually a hideaway for rumrunners. Jack plans to get piss-drunk and does so. After he passes out, Elizabeth takes the opportunity to use all the rest of the rum as fuel for a honking huge signal bonfire. It works, but Jack is more hung up on the fact that all the rum is now gone. | |
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Phillip from Goats during the whole multiverse arc. He's kept prisoner in a "dry dimension" where there's no beer. | |
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Mockingjay: Happens to Haymitch again when the survivors of District 12 move into the underground bunkers of District 13, where all alcoholic beverages are strictly forbidden and even the rubbing alcohol in the hospital is locked away. He's kept in seclusion until he recovers enough to be presentable. | |
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In the Babylon 5 episode "Objects at Rest", Londo visits Sheridan and Delenn at their home on Minbar to give them a gift, where there is no alcohol on the premises (or likely easily obtainable on the planet), due to the Minbari having a huge neurological aversion to alcohol that gives them a psychotic reaction to it. This is actually an unfortunate thing for Londo and all involved, given that alcohol is the only thing that can temporarily disable the Keeper that controls Londo, and disabling it is the only way that Londo can warn the couple of the danger of the gift he brings them. (Likely the same Keeper also prevented Londo from packing booze for the trip, though he drank plenty on Centauri Prime, where the Drakh who controlled him through the Keeper could watch him directly as well.) | |
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In Dogma, after two drunk angels tell God to Take This Job and Shove It, He decrees that the rest of them can no longer drink alcohol. The booze-loving Metatron resorts to sipping and then spitting out his drinks. | |
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This happens to Liriel, aka "Blueberry" in Drowtales, notable for her being a teenager by drow standards (but chronologically in her thirties). She's forced sober because Ariel takes her (she's Ariel's slave) to the overworld to look for a friend and her alcohol stash is destroyed in an attack. She grows increasingly loopy as time goes on and at one point attempts to eat some grass, taking Kyo'nne's earlier reference to there being "herbs" on the surface that can get you high a bit too literally. Liriel's reason for alcoholism? She was trying to suppress the pain of Diva'ratrika's Aura Possession, and being forced off the wagon finally lets Diva break through fully. | |
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Stargate Universe: Dr. Rush. Involuntary caffeine and nicotine withdrawal (he was a heavy smoker and coffee drinker on Earth but they could only grab emergency supplies and they didn't include coffee or cigarettes) is amongst the reasons why he blacks out in the middle of a rant. | |
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Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai. A chronic alcoholic for almost a decade after being forced to slaughter an innocent Indian village, he takes a job in Japan to train Imperial conscripts and is subsequently injured and captured during their first real battle. While he's on the mend, Taka gives him sake at first but then withholds it after seeing how desperately he needs it. Algren asks for sake, then screams for it, then screams period at the guilty memories he can't drown in booze anymore. | |
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One episode of Criminal Minds featured an unsub kidnapping drug-addicted young women and keeping them locked in his basement without access to their drugs of choice, forcing them to not only quit but also become healthier in general (he even provided a UV light to compensate for the lack of sun). One of his victims even asks if it's a hardcore rehab program. Of course, that's not his actual goal. Drug addicts are just easy to get hold of, and he needs the girls healthy so that they can bear his children. If they don't manage that, or worse, give him daughters, he kills them anyway. | |
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Upon the announcement of the Quarter Quell, Peeta dumps all of Haymitch's liquor, much to the latter's dismay, and caps it off by going to District 12's liquor seller and threatening to turn her in to the Peacekeepers if she sells to him. This is in spite of the fact that Haymitch had previously had a rather terrifying withdrawal when he ran out of liquor, but the sobriety doesn't last long anyway. Mockingjay: Happens to Haymitch again when the survivors of District 12 move into the underground bunkers of District 13, where all alcoholic beverages are strictly forbidden and even the rubbing alcohol in the hospital is locked away. He's kept in seclusion until he recovers enough to be presentable. |
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Maria Campbell of the Astral Clocktower: Maria of Cainhurst, like many people in her world, was addicted to the power in everyone's blood. Even Maria, who started as a Wide-Eyed Idealist and became a Well-Intentioned Extremist, had a habit of losing control and drinking her maids dry on a regular basis. Then she gets reincarnated into the world of Fortune Lover as Maria Campbell, where she promptly discovers that no one's blood has any power whatsoever. She occasionally tries drinking it anyway, only to invariably be disappointed. She's basically an alcoholic in a world without alcohol. | |
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Paula's parents force her to detox in Ugly Memories by ML Lanzillotta. This hurts more than it helps. In fact, the withdrawal-induced sleep deprivation indirectly leads to Paula getting kicked out of rehab at the story's climax. | |
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Long Joseph in Otherland, who was the father to one of the heroes, drank to avoid responsibility for his children and sadness over his wife's death. He's forced sober when they hole up in an abandoned government base to escape assassins. | |
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One episode of Happy Tree Friends has Nutty land in the hospital when he consumes a literal truckload of candy. Sniffles decides to get Nutty to kick his sugar addiction by locking him in a padded cell for an indefinite amount of time. | |
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In The Basketball Diaries, Jim's friend Reggie imprisons him in his (Reggie's) apartment and makes him go off heroin cold turkey. He fully detoxes, but eventually relapses. He later gets clean again while doing six months at Riker's, and this time he's able to stay that way. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Prescription Heroine," Lois becomes addicted to painkillers. Eventually, Brian locks her in a dog carrier until she overcomes her addiction. | |
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Tanked gets Nailed To The Wagon in Bear Nuts chapter 29: "Tanked Goes Dry", when one of Evil's pranks causes the zoo to lose its liquor license, cutting off Tanked's supply. None of the other bears are particularly happy about this since Tanked starts throwing tantrums all over the place. The following chapter (":The Origin Of Tanked") reveals that, thanks to a particular childhood experience, going sober might be legitimately bad for Tanked. | |
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You can do this to colonists with addictions in RimWorld, by removing both their legs (by installing and removing peg legs) so they physically can't get to the drug stash (and replacing the legs with prostheses once they are no longer addicted). You can also just arrest them and lock them up until they get through withdrawal but that has the risk of them violently resisting arrest, or breaking out and heading back to the drug stash. If you want to avoid blatant Video Game Cruelty Potential you can simply burn all the drugs, but some are valuable trade goods, or useful in certain circumstances. | |
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Professor Moriarty Series: In The Revenge of Moriarty, Moriarty tries to enforce a version of this trope that is not meant to help the addict by cutting off Sherlock Holmes's cocaine supply, hoping that the withdrawal will mentally destroy him. It turns out that Holmes secretly kicked his cocaine addiction some time ago, and he uses Moriarty's plan to lure the professor into a trap that he barely escapes. | |
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One episode of Frasier has him attempt to counsel his agent Bebe into quitting smoking. He ends up holing her up in his apartment for three days, but in the end, all the encouragement she needs is to be reminded that her "85 years old and on his third pacemaker" fiancé won't marry her unless she quits. | |
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Ghost (1990): The "subway ghost" has learned how to manipulate objects (and teaches the protagonist), but not enough to light and smoke a cigarette (which apparently was his addiction when he was living). "I'd do anything for just one drag!" | |
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