What was madame vastra drinking

Not to be confused with The Teetotaler. Contrast A Glass of Chianti. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. In Cardcaptor Sakura , neither Kero nor Yue, being magical guardians, actually need to eat at all.

Kero mooches food off of Sakura during the course of the entire anime and manga series solely for his own amusement. Inverted, of course, with Yukito, Yue 's Sleep-Mode Size , who uses caloric energy to supplement any insufficient magic energy source. That's right, Piccolo is a plant.

Although before that revelation, Piccolo has been shown eating other things, mainly fish. The general consensus is that they only need water and sunlight, but are capable of eating. It may have to do with Kami and therefore Piccolo being from before the disaster that wiped out all Namekians except Guru, whose children may have been altered - much as King Piccolo's demon sons did not look like regular Namekians.

Another factor could be that Namek has three suns, while Earth only has one. Inverted in Ergo Proxy where a mysterious man living all alone in a castle drinks nothing but wine , to excess beyond belief; it makes him just as creepy as someone who doesn't eat or drink.

Al from Fullmetal Alchemist is a disembodied soul bound to a suit of armor , meaning he can't eat or drink anything. To people who don't know that there's nobody inside the armor, this can be a tip-off that Al's not what he seems as if the freaking armor itself isn't enough of a tip-off.

He's in training! You know, for his Alchemy. An odd example in Hellsing comes from Seras tries to remain human by refusing to drink blood and trying to eat human food.

The problem comes from the fact that, being dead, she can not only not process human food, but trying to eat it is outright painful; she can't even swallow it without immense effort. Alucard, on the other hand, is seen enjoying a bottle of wine more than once. On an airplane. In broad daylight. Over the Pacific Ocean. He's just so powerful that the weaknesses suffered by other vampires tend not to apply.

In Inuyasha , Sesshomaru references this to Rin after she brings him a meal to thank him for saving her life after they met. He literally tells her that he doesn't eat human food and simply wonders why she just keeps smiling at him. Sailor Moon 's Ail and An, Sibling alien lover Really only brought forth in the two episodes where they're directly confronted with Earth food, and none of the cast members catch on to it even when An flat out says that she doesn't eat food, though she catches herself.

In Tokyo Ghoul , Ghouls are not only unable to digest any human foods save for coffee, but find the taste so repulsive that it tends to make them throw up in response.

Those choosing to pass as humans practice tricks to swallow enough to look like they're actually having a meal, but this requires that they throw it up shortly afterwards to avoid getting sick. When Ken Kaneki becomes a Half-Human Hybrid , his inability to eat human food is his first sign that something went horribly wrong during his surgery. In Urusei Yatsura , the Oni can eat most human foods and even produce equivalents of their native dishes by 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. 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.

In Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Alpha, a Ridiculously Human Robot , is absolutely fine with any plant-based food which she does indeed eat, despite being a robot , and actually can drink wine, but is lactose intolerant.

It is heavily implied that any animal protein gives her and, probably, other robots severe indigestion. Comic Books. The Vision averts this trope despite being a synthezoid android with a human mind and soul inside. He once explained that he has learned to simulate eating and drinking so that he could better blend in with humanity. Film — Animated. In Henry Sellick's Coraline , the Other Mother cooks fantastically delicious meals, but we never see a speck of it on her plate.

We find out later that she eats Film — Live-Action. Universal's Dracula of course, as the Trope Namer. The exact line is "I never drink— wine.

Dracula's Daughter also never drinks wine, giving the same line. But tea is no problem. Bram Stoker's Dracula uses the line verbatim in a shout out to Lugosi's performance. Dracula uses a variant when Lucy offers Dracula coffee: "I don't drink Let me try it. Count Yorga : After the seance at the start of the film, Erica notes Yorga hasn't eaten or drank anything since he came to Donna's home.

Vastra ran over to her. Vastra checked her pulse. But she could sense which way he had gone by the horrible smell of sweat he had left after him. She turned another corner and heard him before seeing him, he was breathing heavily. He growled at her. Jack took two steps back. Jack pulled another knife from his sock and ran at her. Vastra whipped off her cloak and licked her lips.

She threw her tong at his chest and hit him directly; poison was soon flooding through his system. He froze and stared at her. The ride back home was one of the best she had had in a long time she had had her dinner and had saved London from a villain that had been doing wrong for years. When she arrived back home Jenny was waiting for her, she told her about her night and then Jenny told her there was a little matter to attend to in the living room.

Vastra walked in and froze; there she saw the blue box that contained the most amazing man in the world. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. There she met the Doctor, newly regenerated into his twelfth incarnation , along with his companion Clara. She took the Doctor back to her house and used a psychic trick in order for him to sleep off his post-regeneration trauma.

When the dinosaur was reduced to nothing more than smoke and ash through the process of spontaneous combustion that night, Vastra and Jenny began investigating nine similar murders plaguing the city. While the Doctor investigated on his own, Clara discovered a cryptic ad in a newspaper which led them to Mancini's Family Restaurant , which was being used by a group of Clockwork Droids from the 51st century as an organ-harvesting factory.

Vastra waited outside the restaurant while Clara and the Doctor investigated, and when she received a distress signal from the pair, she and Jenny cut through the clockwork decoys populating the upper floors of the restaurant. They managed to get down to the droids' crashed ship , where the Doctor and Clara were being accosted by the droids' control node. Their intervention forced the control node to flee in his escape capsule, followed closely by the Doctor, while the others fought off the advancing robots.

Over time, however, they were overwhelmed and were only saved when the control node fell to his death from the escape capsule, deactivating his clockwork subordinates. Victorious, the group travelled back to Vastra's house, where Clara was reunited with the Doctor while Vastra, Jenny and Strax returned to life as normal on Paternoster Row.

TV : Deep Breath. Vastra devolved into a primitive Silurian. On 12 December , Scotland Yard summoned the gang to the London Zoo to investigate a mysterious green fog which was laced with temporal radiation. During this case, Vastra was devolved by the radiation into a savage ancestor of the Silurians.

Jenny was able to return Vastra to normal by reminding her of their love. Near the end of , Vastra and Strax went undercover as freaks at Holmes' Travelling Carnival and Freakshow after detecting high levels of artron energy in the area. They were recognised as non-humans by Harrison Crane , a criminal with a stolen vortex manipulator who was responsible for the artron energy leakage. During a confrontation in which Crane demanded that Strax hand over Sontaran technology which could repair the vortex manipulator, Crane murdered the owner of the carnival before he himself was killed by Strax's faulty technology.

With the carnival ownerless, Vastra decided to rename it Madame Vastra's Carnival Haven for the Wyrd and Unusual and have it remain a leaderless place for "freaks" to be safe.

When Strax failed to appear for two days, Vastra left a note asking for him at the Red Tavern. Returning to the tavern with George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago , it was through reading the note that Strax finally realised that the pair were not Vastra and Jenny respectively as he had believed after being disorientated by Miss Multravers whom he had ultimately defeated with their assistance.

When the gang investigated the Dream Doorway of Samuel Lumber , Vastra used her sonic hat-pin to seal the door. Vastra mentally fights the Danger Thinkers.

After Jenny witnessed an explosion caused by the psychic powers of three women , she quickly returned to Paternoster Row and informed Vastra and Strax. Vastra observed the Danger Thinkers from a distance and noticed that they were going in the direction of the Houses of Parliament and that they had the power to read minds. Using these two facts, Vastra formulated a plan to defeat them. She had the gang hide in the entrance to Parliament and think thoughts that would confuse the Danger Thinkers.

Vastra mentally recited Silurian poetry composed of mathematical equations and optical illusions. Combined with Jenny's regular poetry and Strax's thoughts of military training, Vastra mentally attacked the Danger Thinkers and knocked them unconscious.

In , Isabel de Bobadilla came to ask her to investigate a uniquely interesting artefact that was being transported through London from Cuba. Having read of Winston Churchill 's exploits in Cuba she asked for his advice. She later consulted an antiques salesman and found out that the Doctor was also investigating. She asked the Paternoster Irregulars to locate the Doctor and learnt from him that he was trying to find an alien pearl.

Tracing it to Luis Ortega , she had to use her Silurian powers to help them escape. As one of the people that she had met during her travels with the Doctor, Vastra was included in a series of notes written by Clara when she was planning to confess to Danny Pink via phone call about her adventures with the Doctor.

TV : Dark Water. Shortly before regenerating, the Twelfth Doctor dreamt of Vastra along with some of his other companions. TV : The Doctor Falls. While she shared some of the prejudices of many Silurians against humans, referring to them as "apes", sometimes threatening to eat them, and saying that all mammals "look alike", Vastra was much more tolerant and accepting of humans than many of her species.

She apologised for her remarks about humans to Jenny and showed concern for the safety of the infant Melody.

Vastra also showed suspicion when visited by Clara Oswald. However, she quickly warmed to Clara and was impressed when she was able to get the Doctor to return to save the world with a single word, something that Vastra, Jenny and Strax had been trying to do for a long time. When Clara was mortally wounded, Vastra showed concern and sorrow and later attended her funeral after she died.

Vastra was very honest, brutally so at times, and was determined to ensure the honesty of those in her company as well. She told Clara that the truth could be said in one word, whilst lies were just a string of words.

She sometimes used the "One word test" to ensure that people were telling the truth. When Clara fell from a cloud, Vastra was sorrowful but bluntly stated that she was dead, despite the impact the pronouncement would have on the Latimer family, who had all been very fond of her. TV : The Snowmen Her desire to ensure the honesty of others was also shown when she said she rather thought the Doctor meant it when he said he had retired.

However, despite her usually calm and collected nature, Vastra's resolve had one weakness - her wife's well-being. The normally composed Silurian openly wept over Jenny's lifeless body, and threatened to kill her friend and comrade Strax if he could not revive her. She was very loyal and protective, ordering her allies to protect Melody Pond at all costs. However, although she supported the Time Lord, she disagreed with his decision to stay out of the affairs of the universe.

Although she understood that he was heartbroken and told Jenny that such tragedy affected everyone, she also felt that he had spent too much time sulking on his cloud and was therefore delighted when the Doctor returned to save the world.

Even after the Intelligence disputed this claim by listing people the Doctor had fought or killed, as well as terrible names the Time Lord would have by the end of his life, Vastra dismissed it, not believing that any of it was true. When Vastra got bored, she enjoyed eating comfort food in the form of local human criminals. She poisoned one of them with her venom, but this was only to stop him from calling for help.

When her sisters died in hibernation, Vastra was enraged, but with the Doctor's help she controlled her anger and did not seek further revenge on the humans who had awakened her. Vastra showed a considerable understanding of time and space and even the Time Lords themselves, knowing about the Untempered Schism, regeneration, and even how the Time Lords became what they were through prolonged exposure to the Time Vortex.

TV : A Good Man Goes to War She also believed that the universe did not make bargains, but was less sure when the Doctor gleefully told her that Clara was still alive in another era after her death. Vastra was a fierce warrior who wielded two swords in combat. She held her own against a group of Headless Monks, surviving without any apparent injury.

Evidently a member of the Silurian branch found in Wales , Vastra lacked the third eye common amongst other Silurians and also had the ability to extend her tongue over a long distance. This tongue was laced with a nasty venom, but it was not necessarily fatal.

Vastra was also well known for her exceptional skills as a detective. Indeed, her skills were so renowned that the adventures of Sherlock Holmes were believed to be based on her and Jenny's exploits. She had experience with telepathy, being able to trick the Doctor into "assisting" with "her" sleep problems, and bouncing the help back at him. TV : Deep Breath She also knew enough of telepathic fields to recognise potential danger when she saw it.

Vastra was able to speak with an accent reminiscent of those from the nation of Scotland. The newly regenerated Twelfth Doctor , who found himself with a Scottish accent in this persona, found solace in being able to understand Vastra when she did so. Since their appearance, Vastra and Jenny have become quite popular among fans, with many wishing for a spin-off series based on their adventures. Steven Moffat addressed this, saying he considered a spin-off when he created the two characters, but would not have the time, though he would like to revisit them.

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