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10 Drug Fueled Geek Adventures

by The Mary Sue Staff | 12:41 pm, December 13th, 2011


Allow Us To Explain

Allow Us To Explain

Drugs. Who doesn’t like drugs? They can do so many things for your story. Your. Story.

It can be a MacGuffin! A metaphor for religion! For fossil fuels! A statement on our increasingly medicated society! A lampshade hung on the question of how your characters stay awake all the time! A way of giving a certain character an emotionally revelatory experience!

And there’s simply so much precedent for it! From drugs that get you into other worlds, to drugs that only come from your world, to drugs that everybody uses to drugs that everybody accidentally uses. So, for your amusement, we present our ten (utterly subjectively chosen) favorite drug fueled geek adventures.

Runners up include Captain America, Preacher, and Neuromancer.


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  • http://twitter.com/molly4114 Molly O C Rowan

    Left out Serenity?! Blasphemy.

  • Anonymous

    I am so amused that you used an egg for the “Allow Us to Explain” picture. This is your Mary Sue. And this is your Mary Sue on drugs.

  • http://twitter.com/peyj_turner Paolo Jasa

    Man, you forgot to mention the first episode of Cowboy Bebop where the antagonist took ‘Bloody-Eye’ to become super strong and super fast!

  • http://www.wulfmojo.com Wulfy

    Nice grid :)

    Good to see Equilibrium getting some referencing love, I’ve always had a soft spot for ‘The Matrix as written by Orwell’.

  • John Wao

    What about “Naked Lunch”? Or the Sherlock Holmes stories? The Blade movies? Videodrome and Scanners?

  • Carmen Sandiego

    I know, right?  PAX!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001026080682 Francess Dunbar

    No Fringe? After the cartoon episode!

  • Anonymous

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000132443742 Eric Bazilio

    The choice of pictures alone made this article funny as hell.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Gorillazfan Emily Hill

    I love Ed so much

  • Anonymous

    Gah, sorry, but I gotta do this: “Yeats”, not “Yates”. It’s *pronounced* “Yates”.

  • Anonymous

    And furthermore: The Hobbit? Poppycock! What the heck are YOU smoking?

  • Anonymous

    Minor vocabulary quibble: when a statute of limitations is active, it means that the particular law in question (here, the rule against spoilers) can still be enforced.  The statute lasts a set amount of time (definitely less than 50 years for novel spoilers), after which it expires and the law can’t be enforced anymore.  So if you want to say that something is so old it’s not enforceable, you’d say that the statute of limitations has expired.  End of quibble!

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