Eight Ace
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Eight Ace is a character in VIZ magazine. He is a miserable, foul-mouthed, unclean alcoholic, named after the quantity and brand of lager which rules his life and prevents his battleaxe wife from ever letting him into their ramshackle home, in which she brings up their huge number of children on the poverty line.
To buy eight cans of Ace lager, it costs £1.49 from Mr Patel's local 24-hour mini-mart, and each story sees him given this amount of money by his estranged wife to buy something vital for his 'bairns' (the Geordie dialect word for children) like medicine, or something needed for school or just food for their evening meal. The story sees Eight Ace telling himself, in a mildly inebriated manner, that this time he won't buy his favourite lager but will get the item his wife has demanded.
He maintains this self-instruction right up to arriving at the store - and then orders Eight Ace instead. He drinks each can one by one at great speed while loudly chastising himself for weakening again, and usually comes to a sticky end when he returns to his wife; often this is another night in a leaking shed, sleeping off the alcohol in a puddle of his own urine.