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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]]s include:'''
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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.
▲== Fan Fiction ==
* 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.
* In ''[[Oh God,
* Many "Alternate Universe" ''Harry Potter'' fanfics have depicted Harry being Sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor. In a distressingly large number 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.
** 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.)
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* 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 ==
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* 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 ==
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* [[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.}}
== Web Original ==
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== 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.
{{quote|'''Lemongrab''': STOP SCREAMING!!! WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING?!?!}}
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* From the ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Homer vs the City of New York":
{{quote|'''Bart''': Don't judge a place you've never been to. That's what people do in Russia.}}
* [[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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