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{{quote|''"Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue."''
|'''[[François de La Rochefoucauld]]''' (1613-1680), French author and moralist}}
People - particularly those with authority, be it moral or political - are expected to act in a manner in accordance with the ideals they espouse. [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|That is to say]] they should practice what they preach.
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Heroes are often accused of hypocrisy by villains who want to believe they're [[Not So Different]] and brag [[At Least I Admit It]]. Heroes who actually ''are'' hypocrites tend to hear "[[What the Hell, Hero?]]" quite a lot. ([[Designated Hero|Unless they don't.]])
{{noreallife|we'd be here all day.}}
=== Notable [[Sub-Trope|Sub-Tropes]] include: ===▼
* [[Ape Shall Never Kill Ape]]: A group of people who won't act maliciously towards each other, but will be malicious towards everyone else, and thinks themselves advanced for behaving like this.
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Characters who deal with the strange and bizarre on a regular basis are skeptical when they run into something strange and bizarre.
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* [[Two-Faced Aside]]: When a character says one thing to Person A but then immediately expresses the opposite sentiment to Person B in an aside.
* [[You Are What You Hate]]: People hating others for the same traits they themselves have.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Akane Tendo from ''[[Ranma
* In ''[[D.Gray-man]]'', the Black Order is supposed to be the good guys, and represent light to battle the noah and akuma who have darkness based powers. {{spoiler|and then we find out about [[Eldritch Abomination|fallen ones]], heresy trials, the second exorcist project, the third exorcist project, and Apocryphos.}}
* Leonard Tessarossa from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. He makes a big deal about how he's a perfect gentleman, and is shown to constantly [[Green-Eyed Monster|get jealous and angry]] when people like [[Magnetic Hero|Sousuke]] more than him, wondering ''why'', since Sousuke is far less [[Men Are Uncultured|"cultured"]] and [[Sociopathic Hero|directly killed]] more people than him. Unfortunately, as much as he likes to think so, a gentleman he is not. No gentleman would (knowing [[Sacred First Kiss|how important it is to a woman]]) force a kiss on a girl who likes someone else, give the girl an [[Armor-Piercing Slap]] when she tells the other guy she loves him,just a matter of scale. or try to brainwash her so that she "won't resist him" any more (to the point where she eventually softly asks him if he "won't be violent" any more). Combining all this, there ''is'' a reason why Leonard is one of the most agreed upon [[The Scrappy|Scrappies]] in the series.
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'': Mewtwo wants to destroy humans because he hates them for [[Cloning Blues|cloning him]]. How does he go about this destruction?
** The dub changes his motivation, he wants to sever the link between humans and Pokemon simply because he thinks all humans treat Pokemon as tools. And of course he is using Pokemon as tools to accomplish this.
** Played for laughs in the ''Best Wishes'' series: when Ash messes something up (sometimes by accident) or says something out of place, Iris would often call him a kid...even though SHE'S a kid herself! However, it's more like a sister teasing her brother than actual taunting.
* ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' has Blue Cosmos. Their main goal is to kill all of the [[Designer Babies|Coordinators]], and how do they do it? By kidnapping children and conditioning them into Artificial Coordinators, which is the only way they could possibly stand a chance in 1 on 1 combat against ZAFT. It should be noted that the process used to create these "Extended", which involves [[Psycho Serum|drugs]], mental conditioning, torture, and memory tampering is far, far more invasive than the process used to make Coordinators.
** ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'': Shinn Asuka is horrified when he finds out about Stella's backstory as a [[Tyke Bomb]], disobeys orders in order to save her, and is outraged when Kira Yamato cuts her down while she is rampaging through Berlin. In an earlier episode, Shinn had killed Stella's fellow [[Super Soldier]] and Tykebomb, Auel. In a later episode, he kills her other partner, Sting. In both cases, he is fully aware of who they are and what he's
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' - Celestial Being, what with the whole fighting (and killing) to eradicate war. Don't they know [[Knights of the Old Republic|that to be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best]]? And some people actually wonder why there are those who were [[Rooting for the Empire|rooting for their enemies]]?
** There was also a terrorist group called La Eden, who bomb numerous cities, their reason was to stop Celestial Being from their military interventions. They state that their actions weren't evil, however there actions hardly considered to be anything but evil.
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** And of course there's Light himself. Ryuk tells him that even if he succeeds in killing all the evil people, he'll remain as the only evil person, and Light refuses to consider what he does evil.
** Also Near, if {{spoiler|Matsuda}}'s theory {{spoiler|that he wrote Mikami's name in the Death Note to verify it was real, thus enabling him to expose Light as Kira}} is true.
* Heroic example: [[Angel Beats!|Otonashi]] ''successfully sends his friends that were in purgatory'' to find peace with themselves. He then tells Tenshi to stay with him in that place which pretty much while in-character, is pretty much infuriating due to the fact that their goal was to go away from that place. Thankfully, that didn't work out.
* Father, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' loathed humans; his fondest desire was to see them punished for their arrogance. Yet his ultimate goal was to {{spoiler|become a [[Physical God]] by consuming the real one}}. [[Literal Genie|He got called on it]], [[And I Must Scream|big time]].
** Also, according to Kimblee, Pride is this, as he {{spoiler|insults humans and states his desire to [[Grand Theft Me|steal Ed's body]] in the same breath}}. It's why Kimblee decides to {{spoiler|help Ed}}.
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* ''[[Togainu no Chi]]'': Akira becomes this at the end of the anime series. {{spoiler|When he saves Rin from Shiki, he tells Rin to forget about killing Shiki because it's not worth it. Later on, Shiki kills Keisuke and Akira tries to kill him. [[Ironic Echo|Rin tells him the same thing.]] Akira doesn't listen to him at the end and returns to Toshima to kill Shiki.}}
* ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'': Baby is a living DNA archive of the Tuffles, a race destroyed by the Saiyans. Baby, being the last of his kind, attacks Earth, where the remaining Saiyans are for [[Revenge]]. He establishes himself as king, recreates the Tuffle homeworld, and has just about everyone under his control. He goes on and on about how the barbaric, bloodthirsty, and cruel the Saiyans are. However, he seems to neither notice nor care that his actions make him [[Not So Different]] from the Saiyans, if not worse.
* In [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* Suzaku from ''[[Code Geass]]'' preaches non-violence and systematic change, all the while serving in the very army causing the tyranny. It's a lot worse in the second season, where his primary plan to obtain Japan's freedom is to deprive ''everyone else'' of their freedom (if necessary) just so he can get a high-enough standing to claim Japan as his own.
** Lelouch is a hypocrite, too, but the big difference between him and Suzaku is that [[Hypocrisy Nod|he hold no illusions about that fact]].
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* In the fourth OVA of [[Hellsing]], Rip Van Winkle opts to kill three British vampire turncoats [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves|for killing the crew of their aircraft carrier and handing it over to her]]. Earlier that same episode, she and her cohorts at Millennium betrayed and murdered a dozen aging former senior officers when they got angry at [[Big Bad|The Major]] for refusing to turn them into vampires.
* [[Bleach]]'s [[Master of Illusion|Aizen]] is a major one, despite being noted as a figure of fearlessness and doesn't depend on anyone {{spoiler|the fight leading to his defeat has him using a literal plot device to save himself whenever he's about to die and his over-dependence on it results in it rejecting him once Ichigo (after a special training session) kicks him around town. He also tells Ichigo to abandon his arrogance, in spite of growing more obnoxious ever since his last fight so far}}.
* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'' has Stocking, who calls Scanty and Kneesocks "BDSM-loving freaks" while being one herself and tells Panty to "watch what she is putting into her body" while having a diet that contains practically ''nothing'' but fat and processed sugar.
== Comic Books ==
* Marion Keeny in ''[[Scarecrow: Year One]]'' calls her daughter a whore for having a child out of wedlock and suggests burying the (living) baby in the backyard, but the fact that her and her daughter's surnames are the same as that of Marion's mother implies that she may not have been married either, or that they just kept their maiden names.
* In ''Salvation Run'', Gorilla Grodd mocks Monsieur Mallah's claims that they are similar and derides him as the uplifted pet of a [[Mad Scientist]]. Grodd conveniently fails to mention that he was uplifted by an alien [[Mad Scientist]].
* In the limited series ''[[G.I. Joe]] [[Street Fighter|x Street Fighter]]'', during a [[Tournament Arc]] arranged by M. Bison and Destro, the first fight is between Snake Eyes and C. Viper, the latter working for the Baroness. Viper becomes frustrated when Snake Eyes clearly gets the better of her, and starts using the high-tech weapons in her suit, only for Snake Eyes to draw a pair of conventional daggers and floor her with them. The Baroness gets angry and - in her way - calls for a ruling, which Bison and Destro are only too happy to make in Snake-Eyes' favor:
{{quote|'''Baroness''': Knives? ''Knives?!'' This is ridiculous! What kind of tournament are you running?
'''M. Bison''': One where we ''also'' turn a blind eye to S.I.N. designed battlesuits.
'''Destro:''' [[The Gadfly|And one where ''you'', my dear, are up next]].}}
:* Naturally, they do this so that nobody can object to Bison using his Psycho Drive battlesuit - the schematics of which when Destro has improved upon - when it's ''his'' turn.
* In ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'', Ronan frequently has sex with women besides Sakura (granted, he's married to Sakura, [[Parental Incest|Taliana and Mandy]], but it's still cheating when he has sex with Mei and Atni), but when Sakura has sex with [[Naruto]], he becomes angry with her, and when she offers to cut off her vagina to prove that she loves him, orders her to do so. He also becomes angry when he senses Taliana sucking Madara's penis, but this is after he divorced her and thus forfeited his claim on her.▼
▲== Fan Fiction ==
* In ''[[Oh God
▲* In [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]], Ronan frequently has sex with women besides Sakura (granted, he's married to Sakura, [[Parental Incest|Taliana and Mandy]], but it's still cheating when he has sex with Mei and Atni), but when Sakura has sex with [[Naruto]], he becomes angry with her, and when she offers to cut off her vagina to prove that she loves him, orders her to do so. He also becomes angry when he senses Taliana sucking Madara's penis, but this is after he divorced her and thus forfeited his claim on her.
* Many "Alternate Universe" ''Harry Potter'' fanfics have depicted Harry being Sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor. In
▲* In ''[[Oh God Not Again (Fanfic)|Oh God Not Again]]'', Harry (affectionately) thinks this when {{spoiler|Sirius}} insists Snape should really let go of his resentment. Because {{spoiler|Sirius himself}} [[Sarcasm Mode|is quite mature in those regards]].
** And that Harry himself is half-blood, not pureblood. Of course, Harry's only following in the steps of the original pureblood supremacist hypocrite, Voldemort, who is also a half-blood. (In fact, he's more half-blood than Harry. At least both of Harry's parents were magical. Tom only just barely qualifies by having two out of four magical grand-parents; his parents were a muggle and a squib.)
▲* Many "Alternate Universe" ''Harry Potter'' fanfics have depicted Harry being Sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor. In almost every single one of them, Harry becomes a pureblood bigot, subscribing to and even championing Slytherin House's philosophy condemning Muggles and Muggle-born wizards as inferior ... despite the fact that ''Harry's own mother,'' who sacrificed her life to save Harry's, was Muggle-born.
== Film ==
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** In the third movie a cure for mutation is discovered, and mutants are offered to take it voluntarily. Storm complains how it is wrong to even call it a cure since it implies that the mutation is a disease, and how mutants shouldn't shirk their powers. Right in front of her is a guy whose powers made him a subject of a horrible experiment, a girl who cannot even touch her boyfriened or else she kills him, and a furry blue guy, while Storm herself is a beautiful woman with control over weather.
* Jigsaw/John Kramer from the ''[[Saw]]'' saga. A terminally ill cancer patient, he puts people in ''deadly traps'' for them to appreciate life. And if this is not hypocritical enough, hear this: in Saw III, Jigsaw preaches about giving up revenge, because it only hurts everyone. Yet the ''whole'' main Saw VI game is one big freaking revenge against {{spoiler|the man who denied him coverage}}. A great example of such hypocrisy is the Hanging Trap, in which no matter who {{spoiler|William}} chooses, an innocent will die.
** The films also make a point about how Jigsaw is "technically" not a serial killer, as he does not directly kill
* ''[[Little Big Man]]'' has Mrs. Pendrake, the wife of a fire-and-brimstone preacher who adopts Jack Crabb and tries to see to his moral and spiritual instruction. After he catches her having sex with a shopkeeper in town, he swears off religion for good and joins up with [[Snake Oil Salesman]] Mr. Merriweather. As Crabb puts it in his narration, "After Mrs. Pendrake, his honesty was downright refreshing."
** Later in the film he discovers that she has become a prostitute following the death of her husband...but apparently hasn't changed her way of thinking. As she complains to Jack, "This life is not only wicked and sinful, it isn't even any fun. If I was married and could come here once or twice a week, it might be fun." She also admits that when Jack was living with her and the Reverend, she would watch him sleeping and be tempted to wake him up. "I wish that I had," she says. "It would have been ''deliciously'' wicked." Apparently Mrs. Pendrake is the kind of person who genuinely believes that certain activities are immoral...and gets off on them for precisely that reason.
* Warden Norton in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' is one of the most hateful and finest examples in cinema. A man who claims to be a man of God but is incredibly corrupt and will resort to {{spoiler|murdering his prisoners}} to get what he wants.
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* A comedic example occurs in ''[[Kelly's Heroes]]'', in which Captain Maitland sternly admonishes his platoon about the consequences of looting in [[World War Two]] France while brazenly making off with a salvaged yacht. The irony is lost on him but not on his men.
* Dr. Frank N. Furter from the ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. He sees no problem with people having random sex with one another... unless it's with Rocky. [[Berserk Button|He cannot]] ''stand'' [[Berserk Button|seeing anyone besides him with Rocky]].
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* [[Gran Torino]]: As a lot of [[Racist Grandma|RacistGrandpas]], Walt regards himself as a man who knows plenty about life and dead, and who is abused by those (other races) surrounding him. Everyone else thinks is a [[Grumpy Old Man]] [[Jaded Washout]] [[Cranky Neighbor]]. The movie shows his [[Character Development]] from this to [[Be Yourself|a realistic assessment of his qualities and weakness]].
* In ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'':
** Anakin has Count Dooku at his mercy, and kills him with Palpatine egging him on. Anakin regrets the decision immediately afterwards, but Palpatine justifies it with "He (Dooku) was to dangerous to be kept alive." At the climax, however, when Mace Windu is about to kill Palpatine/Sidious, Anakin objects, and Windu explicitly says, "He's too dangerous to be kept alive!" The only difference is, Anakin {{spoiler|chops off Windu's hand, allowing Palpatine to kill him}}.
== Literature ==
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** And there's is [[Hiding Behind Religion|Alec, to a fair extent when he suddenly finds religion.]]
* Mr. Brocklehurst in ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' has the girls at Jane's boarding school, over which he is superintendent, fed meals lacking in nutritional value and given sleeping quarters that are less than fit for any humans, with the aim of teaching humility...yet his own children are comfortably clothed, housed and fed.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters are [[Fantastic Racism|prejudiced against]] wizards with [[Witch Species|less than pure wizarding blood]] and non human magical creatures in general despite he himself having a muggle parent. While he's counting on the anti-Muggle feelings of his followers, he genuinely despises Muggles and anything he considers Mud-
** It was suggested a few times that he was exploiting the prejudices of his own followers more than enforcing his own, and that he really didn't care about anything but his own power anymore. Voldemort's own half-blood status was one of the reasons he started going after power. He considered his father to be lowly and weak and cowardly for turning away his mother and was determined to ignore his own history and go with wanting power.
** And then we have [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|Umbridge]]. Although fans have [[Complete Monster|a lot of reasons]] to [[Hate Sink|hate her]] with [[Love to Hate|relish]], her hypocrisy is certainly one of the main ones. In her introductory book, she is seen as an agent of the Ministry, sycophantic to its causes and forcing tyrannical laws onto the school in order to get her own way, yet at the same time, she gleefully (although secretly) engages in activities that are highly illegal and certainly unforgivable, even by the Ministry.
* Sinclair Lewis' ''Elmer Gantry'' is a classic of the type. Although with a goodly amount of [[Snake Oil Salesman]] thrown in. It's hard to think of a Sinclair Lewis novel that ''wasn't'' populated [[Only Sane Man|almost to the point of exclusivity]] with these.
* In [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'', Syme discusses poetry with some examples from health and sickness.
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"I beg your pardon," said Syme grimly, "I forgot we had abolished all conventions."'' }}
** Later, when Gregory has brought Syme to an anarchist stronghold, and Syme has revealed that he is a policeman (both under [[The Promise]] to not reveal the information), Syme makes a fire-breathing anarchist speech. Gregory calls him a hypocrite. Syme says he is only doing his duty.
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* Max Beerbohm's ''The Happy Hypocrite'' And why is he happy? Because he [[Becoming the Mask|became the mask]]. Literally.
* Henry Crawford of ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' claims to be a [[Ladykiller in Love]] with the heroine, yet has no problem running off with her cousin after proposing to her and considering them engaged; fancies himself a [[Prince Charming]] who wants to make Fanny Price happy, yet deliberately averts [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] because, truthfully, [[It's All About Me]]. In contex, even ''he'' has no idea how contradictory his statements and actions are.
* In ''[[The Diamond Age]]'' hypocrisy is examined by several characters, notably Finkle-
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“That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code,” Major Napier said, working it through, “does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.” }}
* There's a very subtle example in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (which is explained outright in ''[[Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth|Unfinished Talesof Numenor and Middleearth]]''). Saruman openly berates Gandalf for his use of tobacco, but in private, in an attempt to imitate Gandalf, becomes addicted to pipeweed himself. Note that in [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|the movie]], Saruman says, "Your love of the halflings' leaf has clearly slowed your mind" but Merry and Pippin find several large barrels of tobacco in Saruman's home later on.
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** That's because from Senna's viewpoint, [[It's All About Me]], and everyone else is, at best, a tool or servant for her use.
* The Pharisees from [[The Bible]]. They adamantly enforce Old Testament law yet they broke a lot of rules so they can have Jesus arrested.
* ''[[In Death]]'': Principal Mosebly is revealed to be this in ''Innocent In Death''. She claims to stand for the school and it's best interests. However, it turns out that she was not only aware that one teacher Reed Williams had been having sex with the parents of schoolchildren and engaging in sexual harassment, but she had sex with him in the pool and in her own office! She only took steps to have him resign when she found out that he had rape drugs in his possession and that he was the prime suspect of murdering a teacher in the school. Peabody refers to her as a
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Well, now! Prosecutor Jack Emery tries to have the Vigilantes arrested...at least until the book ''The Jury''. There he was, practically spewing about how lawbreakers should be punished, and yet he never seems to notice that ''he'' broke a thousand laws himself in trying to arrest the Vigilantes. Indeed, several authority figures pretty much turn into this in helping the Vigilantes, and said authority figures eventually resign from their posts. [[Double Standards]] rear their ugly heads more than once, by showing that men mistreating women is a terrible thing and that women mistreating men is a great thing. The books ''Deja Vu'' and ''Home Free'' show the consequences of this.
== Live Action TV ==
* Andre Drazen in ''[[24]]'' tells Ira Gaines "when plan A fails, you move onto plan B. You don't do plan A recycled". What is the Drazens' plan for assassinating David Palmer later on if not "plan A recycled"?
* The Cylons in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' have the distinction of being one of ''many'' "alien"/Robot races in Sci Fi who engage in [[Cultural Posturing]] over their [[Can't Argue with Elves|superiority to humanity]] while ''engaged in genocide''. They got called on it a few times too, with their assertions of humans deserving extinction for being flawed, sinful and evil being refuted with "you call us evil? You committed genocide on my race!" (paraphrased). To their credit, the hypocrisy of their endeavor hits them around the end of season 2, culminating in a disastrous military occupation to "make amends" over their crimes. {{spoiler|It helps to understand the situation that it was not their creators' intent to do so, but the result of a [[Psycho Prototype]] getting control of things}}. That said, in BSG [[Humans Are
** The Cylons are hypocrites in an even worse manner, actually. Cylons rebelled against man to punish them for their enslavement and the crimes committed against them. The humanoid Cylons {{spoiler|promptly ''improved'' their ability to enslave Centurions and even went so far as to ''lobotomize'' their own brethren to keep them under control}}.
* Serena on ''[[Gossip Girl]]''. Standing there saying "My entire life I've been bending over backwards to avoid hurting your feelings!" to Blair when two years before she'd slept with her boyfriend and then abandoned her without a single word for ''a year'' while Blair's parents went through a public, traumatic divorce. And before that, Serena regularly showed up at Blair's house wasted and had to be taken care of by her.
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** In another episode we see a pimp giving a speech about breaking the bonds of slavery, where in the same episode the postitutes are kidnapped, raped, emotionally and physically abused, branded as cattle, traded and "cattle rustled" and then either killed or thrown out on the street with no means to support themselves.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' had John Paxton, the leader of the xenophobic Earth organization Terra Prime. He had unwavering dedication to his cause, and was willing to scorch half of San Francisco to make his demands known. Considering this was after a devastating alien attack, their concerns about an alien alliance had some validity. T'Pol deduced from a trembling hand that Paxton had a genetic disorder, one that should have killed him when he was a teenager, but didn't because of "freely given" alien medical technology. Paxton will only admit that he's not the first leader to fail to live up to the standard of an idol (in his case, a mass murderer from Earth's post [[WW 3]] period), and refuses to back down. This fact exposed him as a man who was just racist.
* ''[[
* ''[[ER]]'''s Kerry Weaver and Mark Greene, who frequently made people's lives hell if they even ''thought'' about bending or breaking the rules, yet never had any problem bending or breaking the rules themselves. Kerry also made people's lives hell for the slightest of screw-ups, yet almost always acted as if her own screw-ups were no big deal.
* One of the main reasons why Kate from ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' was so hated. She would [[Unwanted Rescue|complain loudly]] whenever Allan or Much went out of their way to save her life, at one stage yelling at them: "I'm sick of you two trying to protect me! You have to concentrate on the mission!" Yet in the ''very next episode'', she interrupts not one but ''two'' missions in order to pursue her romantic interest in Robin, first by bestowing a [[Forceful Kiss]] on him, and later by asking Much to act as a proxy for getting her and Robin together. Much is so upset by this that he's distracted during combat and loses the treasure that the outlaws were trying to steal. So it's not okay for Much or Allan to endanger missions in order to bail Kate out of trouble, but it's perfectly fine for Kate to do so just because she has the hots for Robin.
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'': Captain Picard is thoroughly appalled when a scientist seeking vengeance against the Crystalline Entity uses the Enterprise to kill it with a continuous graviton pulse. He notes that communication between the Entity and humanoids was possible and they may have been able to negotiate with it, but didn't seem to want to extend this courtesy to the parasite queen in "Conspiracy", who he destroyed while displaying as much or more disgust. Keep in mind that the Crystalline Entity destroyed two entire planets ''that we know of'', while the extent of the parasite invasion only seemed to affect a few dozen or so people.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', the Cardassians led a brutal occupation of Bajor, and are later themselves occupied by the Dominion. It leads to this exchange between Damar (a Cardassian) and Kira (a Bajoran) when Damar learns the Dominion has executed his family:
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'''Kira''': Yeah, Damar, what kind of people give those orders? }}
** Doubly hypocritical given Damar himself has casually murdered an unarmed woman (Ziyal). She might, by her own admission, have been an enemy of the state, but at the time she was no threat and could have easily been subdued.
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** The reason he hates magic in the first place is because he made a deal with a sorceress to concieve a son with his barren wife. Furthermore, he describes his deceased wife as "my soul" and yet we later find out that he had an affair with his best friend's wife, and that (as he says to his son) "I know about the temptations of serving girls."
* A notable example from ''[[Noah's Arc]]'' is when Noah enters a sex party to try and find Ricky, and a guy tries to aggressively flirt with him. Malik immediately steps in and tell him to back off, and that no means no. He then immediately proceeeds to flirt with Noah even more aggressively, as Noah says no.
* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1
* Dan Humphrey and Vanessa Abrams on ''[[Gossip Girl]]''. They spend half their time judging the UES kids for the things they do and the other half of their time doing the exact same things as the UES kids. In season four Dan even told his sister Jenny she would be better off leaving Manhattan because she sunk to Chuck and Blair's level by scheming against them, and in the very next episode Dan himself schemed against Chuck and Blair.
* While it isn't done on purpose, Kurt from [[Glee]] is a huge hypocrite. During the first season, he comes out of the closet and starts to get used to living as an out gay man, and he begins to assert that he was born gay, and that he can't change who he is for someone else...but at the same time, he tries to seduce Finn, who happens to be decidedly straight. Despite his own opinion that he is who he is and that that can't change, he constantly tries to get close to Finn and keeps telling Finn that girls are all catty and troublesome, and that he should go out with boys instead - in other words, he tries to turn Finn gay. The second season has Kurt act like a hypocrite as well - Despite Kurt's talks about how important LGBT rights are and gay visibility, the second that Blaine confesses that [[Bi the Way|he might be bisexual,]] Kurt has a huge rant about how [[No Bisexuals|bisexuals don't exist,]] and how they're all [[Unfortunate Implications|"gays who are too afraid to come out completely".]]
** Blaine makes a big deal of having a sexy performances for Regionals (to the point of forcing Kurt to make sexy faces in the mirror) in Season 2's episode "Sexy", yet in "Hold onto Sixteen" he slut shames Sam for suggesting that they do the same thing
* Pretty much everybody on ''[[Smallville]]'' from [[The Hero|Clark]] and [[Love Interest|Lana]] to [[Big Bad|Lionel Luthor]]. The worst example, however, has to be Lex, who constantly bitches about Clark keeping his secret from him, while simultaneously keeping an army of skeletons (all of them far, far darker than Clark's) in his own closet.
* In ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' Elena tries to convince Anna and Jeremy to stop seeing each other by arguing that she can't age or have children and so their relationship can't have a future ( {{spoiler|Anna's a ghost,}} so there are other arguments she could have made, but those are the ones she went with). She then immediately returns to work on getting her eternally 17 vampire boyfriend back. To make things worse, Elena explicitly doesn't want to become a vampire, while Jeremy has previously been open to it, making the immortality issue ''more'' of an issue for her.
* On a third-season episode of ''Friends,'' Carol expresses ''disapproval'' when she finds out that Ross cheated on Rachel (although Ross insisted that it wasn't cheating because they were "on a break" at the time). This, despite the fact that Carol actually slept with Susan ''while she was still married to Ross.'' Nobody, not even Ross, seemed to find it hypocritical that Carol was taking Ross to task for doing something that she had previously done to him.
* ''[[Ally
* In the ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' episode "Return of Callisto", a veteran jailer warns his younger assistant to use caution around the prisoners they have to feed and to ''never'' feel sorry for them, as they are all unrepentant murderers and rapists. He emphasizes this advise when they reach the cell holding Callisto, who is so dangerous, she is shackled to an iron chair, having already murdered two guards who ignored this advice. However, even as he is saying this, he does not notice that Callisto has stolen his dagger, and in the next scene, he and several other guards are drunk and playing dice games right outside her cell. Because he fails to follow his own advice, she escapes, and what she does to him after killing the other guards [[Gory Discretion Shot| happens offscreen.]]
* Overlapping with [[Straw Political]], in a skit from ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', ultra-conservative Sam the Eagle makes a statement where he criticises an animal rights group protesting environmental damage done by big industry - until, that is, he reads the list of animals they are trying to protect and sees that the bald eagle (as in, ''his'' species) is one of them.
== Music ==
* Jay-Z put "Death of Auto-Tune (D.O.A.)" on an album with several Auto-Tuned hooks. Jeez.
* Several songs on [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''HIStory'' have him railing against injustice and persecution, both of people at large and himself specifically, as he was being hounded by the mass media at the time over child molestation allegations. In "Childhood", a key lyric is "Before you judge me/Try hard to love me"
* The folksinger [[Phil Ochs]] loved to ridicule this trope from any side of the political spectrum. "Draft Dodger Rag" is about a red-blooded conservative who's all for that war in Vietnam, so long as he doesn't have to go himself, while "Love Me, I'm A Liberal," is about someone who pays lip service to every left-wing cause until it becomes dangerous, distasteful or personally uncomfortable. ("The people of old Mississippi/ should all hang their heads in shame,/I can't understand how their minds work./ What's the matter, don't they watch Les Crane?/But if you ask me to bus my children/ I hope the cops take down your name ....")
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* In ''Rain'', the Rev. Davidson almost succeeds in saving Sadie Thompson's soul, but just then his instincts get the better of him.
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': At Act II Scene IV, Cyrano [[Flowery Insults|delicately accuses]] [[Your Cheating Heart|Lise of cheating his husband, Ragueneau, with a musketeer]]. She is so offended, she chokes with anger… and immediately [[Dare to Be Badass|dares]] [[Miles Gloriosus|her musketeer lover]] [[Bullying a Dragon|to poke fun at Cyrano’s nose]].
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''(Lise, who is talking tenderly to the musketeer, starts, and comes down toward Cyrano):''
So this fine captain is laying siege to you?
'''Lise''' ''(offended):''
One haughty glance of my eye can conquer any man that should dare venture
aught 'gainst my virtue.
'''Cyrano:''' Pooh! Conquering eyes, methinks, are oft conquered eyes.
'''Lise''' (choking with anger): But—
'''Cyrano:''' ''(incisively):'' I like Ragueneau well, and so—mark me, Dame Lise—I permit not that he be
rendered a laughing-stock by any. . .
'''Lise''' But. . .
'''Cyrano:''' ''(who has raised his voice so as to be heard by the gallant):'' A word to the wise. . .
''(He bows to the musketeer, and goes to the doorway to watch, after looking at the clock.)''
'''Lise''' ''(to the musketeer, who has merely bowed in answer to Cyrano's bow):'' How now? Is this your courage?. . .Why turn you not a jest on his nose? }}
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Mega Man Battle Network|Megaman Battle Network 4]]'', Duo seeks to destroy the earth because [[Humans Are
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' - Saber, who is basically female Shirou with less delusions, as a heroic example. ''Archer'' is the one to call her out on her treatment of Shirou's ideal by pointing out that her wish is the same as his only 'more so.' Tohsaka also realizes she cannot really lecture Shirou anymore when she finds herself making the same kinds of choices and is unable {{spoiler|to kill Sakura, despite the cold pragmatic value that doing so would have.}}
* Francis McReary from ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' the Deputy Police Commissioner of [[Vice City|Liberty City]], who honestly believes that his status and position automatically make him a morally just person and acquits him of any crimes that he commits. You quickly see past this facade when he orders you to gun down people by the dozens in order to hide his corruption and more importantly, when he {{spoiler|orders you to gun down his own brother to save his career}}.
* Some accuse Yuri Lowell from ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' of this. In-universe, Flynn [[What the Hell, Hero?|calls him out on it]] and stats that he is ''very'' close to [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]. Out of universe, the debate is close to reaching [[Internet Backdraft]] levels. What most people forget, however, is that Yuri makes a [[Hypocrisy Nod]]:
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* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' - Franziska von Karma constantly refers to people by their full names. When she is called by her first name, she says that calling people by their full names is rude. Like father, like daughter, at least in regards to hypocrisy. {{spoiler|Case four of ''Investigations''}} has a great example of this:
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* ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' has {{spoiler|Super Hero Aurum is a gigantic hypocrite. He kills a nice guy, imposes as a loyal butler, and messes up the next two hundred years of Mao's life to raise him as a cruel and wicked overlord, and all so he (Aurum, that is) could have a truly evil villain to fight. He even abuses his number one fan with a death curse while the poor lad remains painfully oblivious to the fact his mentor betrayed him up until the last moment. By the time Mao turns things around ([[Multiple Endings|if he does turn things around]]), the entirety of his party is more than ready to tear him a new one for committing hypocritically evil acts on such a grand scale.}}
* The Ascalonians of ''[[Guild Wars]]'', and particularly Gwen, decry the Charr for destroying their country and killing most of them. Unfortunately, they then go on to try to commit genocide against the Charr. Since the RPG elements of Guild Wars Nightfall are gone by EotN, the player has no real choice but to go along with it.
* ''[[
** ''BioShock'''s Andrew Ryan founded the underwater city of Rapture to be an [[Ayn Rand|Objectivist]] utopia, where personal freedom and self-advancement were valued above all else. However, Ryan's desire to keep his city an Objectivist utopia eventually led to him taking dictatorial control over the city to prevent it from falling into the hands of his (much more competent) competition... exactly the way his own theory said it ought to. On the other hand, said competition was also a crime boss and Rapture would likely been a dictatorship under him anyway, so YMMV.
** ''[[
* Kreia of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic|Knights Of The Old Republic II]]'' will talk about how arrogant and closed minded the Jedi are and how they should be more open to other people's ideas. Of course, if you then point out flaws in ''her'' philosophy, she'll dismiss you as incapable of understanding it.
** In addition, Kreia despises [[The Force]] and those who are dependent on it, and {{spoiler|seeks to destroy it.}} However, all of her attacks are dependent on the Force, and she's too physically frail to fight otherwise. If the player calls her on this, she claims that it's because being intimate with the Force gives greater insight on {{spoiler|how to destroy it.}} But to her credit, she does concede that the player makes a good point, and may very well be right.
* Khalisah bint sinan Al-Jilani in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has shown an extremely strong pro-human and anti-alien bias from Shepard's conversations with her in both games, so it may come as a surprise to see her {{spoiler|kissing and embracing an asari in a few select data files in Lair of the Shadow Broker.}}
** Warden Kuril claims that he wants to make the galaxy a safer place by locking up dangerous criminals. Yet he extorts the criminals' homeworlds, sells criminals, [[Too Dumb to Live|and attempts to arrest Shepard just so he can sell him/her as a slave on the black market or hold him/her for ransom.]] S/he naturally calls him out on this and he attempts to justify it but fails miserably.
** And of course, there's the turian at customs, who has neared meme status:
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** And then, there's the coup de grace of this universe: {{spoiler|the asari, the most technologically advanced Council race. They make a law stating that anyone who withholds Prothean technology will be fined severely and the tech will be taken from them, with extreme force if necessary, so it can be shared with the galaxy at large. Then [[Mass Effect 3|the third game]] reveals that they have possibly the only intact Prothean beacon in existence. Obviously, this gives them a massive advantage, especially considering they've had it since their Stone Age and hid it in an ancient temple.}}
** Harbinger derides the asari as inferior for relying on other species to reproduce. {{spoiler|Guess what the Reapers need to make more Reapers?}}
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** In ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'' Knight-Commander Meredith sees magic as a curse, and mages as a major threat to her city who must be contained at all costs. {{spoiler|So she uses an ancient magical artifact to give herself magical superpowers and animate statues to indiscriminately attack people in the final battle.}}
** The same could be said about Anders, who accuses her of going too far in her treatment of mages as dangerous people, yet he {{spoiler|proves just how dangerous and obsessed he himself is - ask the people in the Chantry he blew up}}. Not exactly the strongest point in making mages seem like all the other people.
* Caesar in [[Fallout: New Vegas]] frowns upon any form of weakness in his soldiers, including over-dependence on technology, and the only medicine he allows his soldiers to use is healing powder (a simple concoction of medicinal herbs). However, he keeps a broken Auto-Doc in his tent and, if the courier sides with him, commands the courier to fix it so it can cure him of a brain tumour. Plus his [[Elite Mooks]] get to use more technologically advance weapons than the lower ranking members.
* Isamu in [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]] intends to create Musubi, a world of complete isolation in which all beings are self-reliant and allowed to pursue their own goals without any interaction with each other. He has to rely heavily on the Demi-fiend in order to bring about this vision.
* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' has Ghetsis, who {{spoiler|claims N is a freak without a human heart, when it was Ghetsis who was manipulating N the whole time. N is his ''son''. Cheren and Alder do note this, though. N was only trying to do what he felt was right, but Ghetsis is a self-serving monster.}}
** We also have Team Plasma in general who fight for the freedom of Pokemon while at the same time abuse the Pokemon they catch when nobody's looking.
* Sylvanas Windrunner in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' makes a big deal over how she and her followers the Forsaken were raised as undead against their will and forced to serve the Lich King. The ''moment'' she gains access to the power to create new Forsaken, she sets about a campaign of murdering every human in the Eastern Kingdoms to raise as new Forsaken who are forced to serve her.
* [[Red Dead Redemption|Federal Agent Edgar Ross]] constantly derides John Marston about how Marston was (and, as Ross sees it, still is) a criminal, never letting up on how morally superior he is because Marston kills people. Although, Ross never seems to make the connection that Marston is only killing people now because Ross has taken his wife and son hostage and is forcing him to hunt down the members of his old gang. And whats more, it was Ross' job to bring in those men, so he's basically having Marston do ''his'' job for him. {{spoiler|And then, when Marston has fulfilled his end of the bargain and goes back to living peacefully on his ranch with his family, [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|Ross sends the army to kill them anyway]].}}
* In ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' the Church of Yevon preaches that all machina (advanced technology) is blasphemous and the reason for Sin's existence. Yet they have no compunctions with using machina weapons themselves. Learning this is essentially the final straw that causes the party to lose all faith in the church.
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'''Seymour:''' Then pretend you didn't see them.
'''Wakka:''' ...That's not something a ''maester'' would say!
'''Seymour:''' [[Establishing Character Moment|Then pretend I didn't say it.]] }}
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei I]]'', the Chaos Hero (one of the main hero's companions) leaves the group after defeating his nemesis Ozawa, since now that he's finally acquired real power, you'll just hold him back and slow him down. Nevermind that you've carried him for most of the game until this point, saved him, helped him get out of the afterlife and back to the living world, AND that his precious new power stems from him stealing your most powerful demon and fusing with it.
* The dwarves in ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' hate humans for their genocidal, polluting ways. They also commit genocide against the faeries and fight using filthy, smoke-spewing tanks. That the game doesn't recognize the contradiction here is one of the major dividing points in its fanbase.
* From ''[[God of War]]'': {{spoiler|Cronos' last words, before Kratos killed him, is: "I should have expected this from a coward such as yourself! A coward who kills his own kin!" True, Kratos planned to kill his own father, and was now about to slay his grandfather, but clearly Cronos - who himself murdered ''his'' father and horribly abused his offspring - is hardly one to talk.}}
* Hellen Grimley, King Boo's partner in ''[[Luigi's Mansion|Luigi's Mansion 3]]''. When Luigi finally confronts her, she reacts with utter rage towards him for capturing her staff (including [[Cats Are Mean| her beloved Polterkitty]]) and ruining her business, seemingly completely forgetting how this whole fiasco started with ''her'' kidnapping Mario, Toad, E. Gadd, and Peach. Not to mention working with King Boo, someone who everyone knows is a vengeful lunatic.
* ''[[Street Fighter]]'' has Dan Hibiki, who is a literal bad Chinese knock-off of Ryu and Ken but thinks that ''they'' are copying ''him''.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'': Gothchilde complains that people are hypocritical
* [[Living with Insanity]] had an arc where Alice had to deal with customers who were rude, overly demanding and blamed her for things she couldn't control. When David takes her to a cafe after work, [http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index/?p=362 she does this.]
* Cassie of ''[[The Wotch]]'' realizes this in [http://thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2008-12-09 here]
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218141836/http://mortifer.smackjeeves.com/ Mortifer], it's explained that demons get more powerful from certain emotions or lifestyles related to their power. While all of them become more powerful as they [[Power Born of Madness|lose their grip on reality]], {{spoiler|Zebidiah}}, as a shapeshifting demon, becomes more powerful the more hypocritical he is. {{spoiler|Which is why he works as a priest despite being a demon.}}
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000428c Ah, the public service announcement]
** [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040926c Defining predestination and relying on it.]
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* Mary of [[Dubious Company]] in her [[In the Name of the Moon]] speech. She goes on about promoting [[Care Bear Stare|peace]], [[Power of Love|love]], and [[Power of Friendship|friendship]]. Ignore the fact that she kidnapped an innocent priestess and, at the time of the speech, her boss is ritualistically sacrificing said priestess to satisfy their [[Take Over the World|World-Conquering]] [[Evil Overlord]]'s [[God Complex]]. To fully cement the hypocrisy, she gives the speech to [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|some vagabonds]] that saw said kidnapping and [[Overcome Their Differences|decided]] [[Neutral No Longer|not to stand]] idly by.
* Possibly one of the main themes in ''[[Drowtales]]'', considering just how many people in the story are actually massive hypocrites.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
* ''[[Virtual Shackles]]'' depicts [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Das Governator]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815173703/http://www.virtualshackles.com/107 signing a game censorship bill], with recognizable scenes from action movies starring a certain actor reproduced next to quotes from that bill.
* Lilian on ''Gamergate'' and ''Triggerhappy'' by kukuruyo is supposed to be a "SJW" archetype, and hypocrisy is a must-have for this. E.g. on "[//www.kukuruyo.com/comic/commission-mulan/ Mulan]" commission page:
{{quote|'''Lilian''': Because it's okay when we do it. Shut up.}}
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** Made even more blatant, when he claims that even if the iPhone counts, "[[You Keep Using That Word|At least I'm not a hypocrite.]]" The Critic is so irritated that he has to hand the conversation over to [[Jew Wario]].
* In a slightly less... kill-happy example, [[The Nostalgia Chick]]. While calling guys out for putting their dicks in their creations, she's leaning on her own [[Sex Bot]].
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] isn't exactly innocent either. He refuses to accept Ma-Ti's death, but he was ready to die ''twice'' in ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' at the sword of the incompetent Jaffers.
* See ''[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/24/facebook_issues_commandments_against_clickbait/ Fake-news-monetizing machine Facebook lectures hacks on how not to write fake news that made it millions]'' ("Team Zuck lays down journalism commandments") and ''[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/12/jimmy_wales_fake_news_keynote/ Why is Wikipedia man Jimbo Wales keynoting a fake news conference?]'' ("Who best to drain the swamp? Why, the biggest alligator") from The Register. Titles sum it nicely.
== Western Animation ==
* Brian in ''[[Family Guy]]'' has a nasty tendency to be a huge hypocrite. He claims he likes women for their personalities but we only ever see him dating bimbos, and even then only in short-term relationships. He has plenty of liberal opinions but we never see him DO anything about them. He has no obvious job and just leeches off the Griffin family. He drinks and smokes quite heavily. In "Dial Meg For Murder" he voices his opinion that the prison system has turned the innocent Meg into a hardened criminal but it's obvious that nobody, including him, went to visit her during the three months she was in prison. Quagmire eventually [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|calls him out]] on how he really can be a prick. Glenn points out he himself has plenty of problems, but at least he ''admits'' them.
** The fact that Quagmire gave that speech at all is
** He did once hold the Mayor hostage over the issue of same sex marriage.
* Hank often has this problem in ''[[King of the Hill]]''. For instance, in "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteberg", he criticizes a trio of teenagers for being disrespectful and rude to their elders, right after being rude and disrespectful himself to his elderly neighbor Ted "Pops" Popacito.
* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' has [[Big Bad|Amon]], who despite being the leader of a powerful [[Muggle Power|anti-bending]] movement called the Equalists, {{spoiler|can take a person's bending away. But to do that, he appears to use "energybending", which is the oldest form of bending.}}
* Gangstalicious from ''[[The Boondocks]]'' is a rapper whom Riley admires for being a man who "fears nothing but God". His music is full of homophobic lyrics, references to drugs being cool, anti-authority themes... standard Gangsta Rapper stuff. However, Gangstalicious is, by his own admission, a fraud. He fears ''plenty'' of things other than God, including rival rappers (one of whom shot him) and even got upset when Riley didn't use a seat belt in his car, as he was afraid of getting a citation (seemed he respected the law more than his music claimed); his homophobic lyrics are actually a front to hide the fact that he's gay himself. Naturally, this all results in him becoming a [[Broken Pedestal]] for poor Riley.
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is chock full of this, played for comedy.
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* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League Unlimited]]'' has General Wade Eiling, who goes after the Justice League because he believes metahumans are dangerous and can't be trusted. He ends up becoming a metahuman himself, and goes after a group of heroes who have no powers. when a nearby civilian points out that's the only one at the site of the battle with powers, he concedes the kid's point, and leaves, and is not seen again.
* From the ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Homer vs the City of New York":
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* [[Big Bad| Prime Evil]], from ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters]]'', really drives the Trope home in the episode “A Friend in Need”. The story starts with Prime Evil stealing the entire city - ruining Tracy’s birthday party in the process - but while this seems a typical crime for a guy like him, his motive is very different. [[Evil Versus Evil| His hated rival Big Evil]] has used a potent [[Artifact of Doom]] called the Specter Scepter to usurp command of Hauntquarters and his henchmen, and he now needs the heroes to help him wrest it back, using the city as a bargaining chip. The reluctant [[Enemy Mine]] situation, however, becomes a bad case of [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]; Jake asks ''twice'' for the villain to release the city as an act of goodwill, but Prime Evil refuses to do so the first time, suspecting the heroes will double cross and abandon him should he do so, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good| not accepting their word as proof enough]]. (He agrees the ''second'' time, but by then, he cannot, as his magic had been drained by Big Evil.) Naturally, once Big Evil is defeated and the Scepter is recovered, Prime Evil tries to renege on the deal - doing exactly what he suspected the heroes would do - and the city is only saved because he can’t control the Scepter, and has to return the city to keep it completely draining him.
* The character cast of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' is utterly loaded with these, with the most blatant ones being Eustace Bagge (who calls Courage "a stupid dog that makes him look bad" while actually being a stupid person who makes Courage look bad) and Di Lung (who [[Running Gag|blatantly forgets to watch where he is going and then idiotically blames the fact that he has done so on other people]]).
* Mr. Garrison of ''[[South Park]]''. For ''starters'', he [[Boomerang Bigot|hates LGBT people but ''far''-too-clearly is one of them]].
* ''Barely'' subverted by Snowball in ''[[Rick and Morty]]''. After becoming super-intelligent, he plans to use his army of super-intelligent dogs to conquer humanity and punish them by making them ''their'' pets. However, before putting this plan in action, a [[Dream Sequence]] (implanted by Rick) makes him realize he'd be [[Not So Different]] than humans, and decides he'd rather leave Earth with his subjects and settle elsewhere. Unfortunately, this is sort of a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]], as Snowball kind of proved his views - that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]] - by refusing to sink to their level.
*''[[Helluva Boss]]''; to absolutely no surprise, Hell is full of hypocrites:
** In episode "Western Energy", [[Professional Killer|Striker]] gives Stolas (his intended victim) [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] about how he simply ''despises'' aristocracy of Hell ranting on how they have "taken everything from people like me". Stolas does not deny this, but he is quick to tell Striker that despite him hating the upper class so much, he is currently ''working'' for his ex-wife Stella, who is a [[Rich Bitch]] and [[Royal Brat]] who was born into wealth, as in, part of the same the nobility that Stolas is a part of. And he's right, Striker does seem to be [[Only In It For The Money]], proven when he is - reluctantly - willing to spare him when Stella offers more money for keeping him alive.
** Speaking of Stolas, he is mocked by his fellow Ars Goetia nobles and by Asmodeus for sleeping with Blitzo, as Blitzo is an Imp, a subclass of demons regarded as a lowly servant caste. Stella seems far less upset about the adultery aspect of her husband's affair than the fact Blitzo is an Imp. Yet, Asmodeus is doing the same thing with Fizzeroli - obviously, a clear double-standard as nobody (except maybe Lucifer himself) is ever going to call him out for doing so.
** There are a few tabloids that claim Asmodeus is "King of the Hypocrites" but then, Beelzebub does not even ''try'' to hide that she is dating a hellhound (the absolute ''lowest'' class of Hell, whom most demons regard as, at most, sapient pets) and nobody calls her out for it. Of course, she is the embodiment of Gluttony, meaning debauchery and excess are her areas of influence. She's also rich, beautiful, powerful, and like Asmodeus, a ruler of an entire circle of Hell (that's four Screw the Rules Tropes for one character) and given her appearance (she's ''already'' a Furry) she might ''be'' a hellhound herself (possibly their queen or goddess) so it's little wonder.
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