Hypocrite: Difference between revisions

** 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.

* 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]].

* 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.

"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.

* 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-[[Mc Graw]] and Napier.

“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.

* ''[[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:

'''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.

* 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]].

'''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? }}

 

* 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]]:

* ''[[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:

* ''[[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.

** 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:

** 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?}}

* [[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.

'''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 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.}}

* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is chock full of this, played for comedy.

* ''[[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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