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{{quote|''"Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue."''|'''[[François de La Rochefoucauld]]''' (1613-1680), French author and moralist}}

Yes, we all know that this is very much a regular occurrence in [[Real Life]], and that is all we need to say about that on this page, so '''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]'''

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* [[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.

* 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.

** 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.

* ''[[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.

** 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.

* ''[[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.

** 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.

** 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. Worse, she punishes Harry most severely for asserting that Voldemort is at large, insisting that he "not tell lies", while aping the official Ministry line on Voldemort, which is patently and obviously false. In the final book, {{spoiler|she persecutes Muggle-borns for "stealing magic" which she should certainly know is a nonsensical charge, while claiming that the locket she took as a bribe is an old family heirloom supporting her own bloodline. The injustice and cruelty of this enrages Harry so much that he attacks her immediately without resorting to a more subtle plan.}}

** 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.

* ''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.

 

== Music ==

* Jay-Z put "Death of Auto-Tune (D.O.A.)" on an album with several Auto-Tuned hooks. Jeez.

* 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 ....")

 

 

== Web Comics ==

* [[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]

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