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{{quote|Oh, I get it. Just because I Chinese, you think I build wall. That i' bullshit! I'm not stereotype, okay?! Just because I'm Chinese doesn't mean I go around building wall! I'm just a normal person like all o'you! I eat ahrice and drive ahreally slow, just like the rest o'you! I'm not stereotype!|
A form of [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Alan makes a criticism of Bob. Bob denies this criticism, but does so in a way that [[Hypocrite|validates the statement]]. This almost always overlaps with [[Not Helping Your Case]] if you're insistent the criticism doesn't apply to the point of justifying it for them instead and/or the criticism concerns a fairly significant character flaw.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Ayu of ''[[Kanon]]'', offended at being teased that she looks like a young boy, protests that she's a girl -- [[Bokukko|but not very girlishly]].
* While the cast of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' were talking about how some members of their group acted when they were kids, the Wolkenritter to chime in on how [[Genki Girl|Reinforce Zwei]] was such a child when she was younger. Naturally, Rein protested, insisting that she had always acted like an adult... [[Third Person Person|in a not-very-adult way]].
** The [[Token
* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', [[Otaku|Konata's father]] insists that it's wrong to call him a [[lolicon]] because he likes both young-looking girls ''and'' normal girls, [[Not Helping Your Case|so it's more correct to say that he's "'''also'' a lolicon"...]] Konata wasn't the least bit reassured.
{{quote|'''Konata:''' You still lose at life.}}
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(priestess does her best to stifle laughter, elf and dwarf don't bother to try)}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Groo the Wanderer]]'': [[Running Gag|"What do you mean slow of mind?"]] is usually said several pages after someone calls Groo such (once, he even said it to a flashback).
* One homebrew ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' strip had Bob ranting about how he likes to kill [[Strawman Political|those media pundits who claimed role-playing games promoted violence]].
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'''Rictus''' (indignant): [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I don't fuck goats, Mr. Gibson,]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|I make love to them!]]}}
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* This exchange from ''[[Windows of the Soul]]'', when Natsuki and Shizuru talk about Shizuru's father, whom Natsuki does not get along with.
{{quote|'''Shizuru''': [[Gratuitous Japanese|Otousama]] isn't an easy person to get along with. He has a difficult personality, because he is honest. In general, he's willing to imply anything he likes should he think about it.
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'''Shizuru''': Oh, nothing really. I was just going to say that the problem is, that you're the same as him. In that respect.
'''Natsuki''': I'm nothing like that stuck-up bastard!}}
* Employed much more directly for deliberate in-universe humor in chapter three of ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel]]'':
{{quote|"...[Y]ou can call me Looney Toons."
"...Ruuni Tuunusu?" she struggled to pronounce the English.
I shrugged. "Code names. What can you do?"
"You told me you picked your code name yourself, sensei," [[Sailor Moon|Moon]] said with a naughty smile. She turned to Mikan and added in a conspiratorial whisper, "He's a very silly man sometimes."
"Hey!" I protested. "That's entirely accurate!"}}
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Face Off]]'', one of Castor Troy's signature lines:{{context|What remark does this "resemble"?}}
{{quote|'''Castor:''' You watch your fucking mouth!}}
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'''George:''' I love America. Please don't kill me.}}
== [[Literature]] ==
* Paraphrased from the [[Dragaera]] book ''Jhegaala''—after the hero Vlad, a former assassin and gangster, has been mistaken for a thug: "I hate when people do that. It makes me want to break their legs."
** Kiera the Thief makes a similar comment in ''Orca'', to the effect that she hates when people think she's trying to steal their purses and how it makes her want to rob them.
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* In ''[[X-Wing Rogue Squadron|X-Wing: The Bacta War]]'' Booster Terrik is trying to negotiate with the New Republic to keep a Star Destroyer he captured. The New Republic's agent tells him the New Republic can't let someone other than them or their allies keep a ship with enough firepower to slag a planet. Booster retorts that he should just use it to conquer a random world and declare himself a New Republic ally before his daughter tells him that's exactly what the New Republic is afraid of.
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* In ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'':
{{quote|'''Man''': [to Dick] You look capable of violence!
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* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "The Corbomite Maneuver", Kirk berates McCoy for not telling him about an alert. After the former leaves the latter alone, McCoy [[Thinking Out Loud|says]] "If I jumped every time a light came on around here, I'd end up talking to myself."
* In ''[[Will and Grace]]'', any time someone would throw an insult toward Karen, she would respond this way. One time, when Grace accused her of being racist, she responded: "I may be a lot of things. A homophobe? Sure. Distrustful of Spaniards? Who isn't? But I am not a racist."
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
* ''[[iCarly]]'':
{{quote|'''Kid Sam is beating up:''' I'm sorry!
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'''House:''' (making a stupid face) Huh?}}
== [[Music]] ==
* [[N.W.A.]]'s "Fuck tha Police" alternates between protesting unfair police attention due to being black and the usual rap refrain of boasting about crime. This is likely done on purpose, e.g. to draw attention to how even the most public of examples of police brutality towards black people who didn't "deserve" it are used to pathologize and polarize the entire race.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin rants about how violence on television doesn't have any effect on the watcher, and concludes with "I'd like to shoot the idiots that think this stuff affects me."
** Calvin also ranted about a television show which made no sense. When Hobbes remarked that it was targeted at the average American's fifteen-second attention span, Calvin's response was only, "You're still talking about that?"
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* There was a ''[[Bloom County]]'' strip which said something to the effect that men with facial hair tend to be more violent than those without. The next strip had a rebuttal from a fellow with a big mustache, who said the equivalence made him "so mad I could strangle a manatee in the nude!"
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' [http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-03-18 here] has CEO jumping into this one.
* In a ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip, Lucy is offended when Charlie Brown claims she isn't perfect. She storms home, rants about it to Linus, and:
{{quote|'''Linus:''' So I suppose you hit him, huh?
'''Lucy:''' Rats! I knew I forgot something!}}
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Played for drama in ''[[The Hairy Ape]]'' by [[Eugene O'Neill]]. The main character attempts to prove that just because he's poor doesn't mean he's a brute, and tries to do this by beating up the girl he thought insulted him. {{spoiler|He gets killed by an ape instead.}}
* A variation from the [[musical]] ''[[New Girl in Town]]'', where Marthy and Chris are singing about their friendship:
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'''Bertha:''' "Stanley, ''dammit'', don't cuss on Christmas!"}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The title character of ''[[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'' catches himself doing one of these at one point - the Judge says "I'm not sure we could reasonably expect Mr. Justice to do anything delicately", and Apollo thinks "Hey! Why I oughta...take a deep breath and calm down."
* At the end of the first TV spot for ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', Francis shouts, "I'll see peace back on Earth if I gotta murder every one of these animals with my own bare hands!" This can also be heard in the game under certain conditions. The in-game version of the line replaces "animals" with "bastards".
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* The Thraddash of ''[[Star Control II]]'' revere force to the point that they have semi-regular rebellions which attempt to overthrow the current "Culture" and install themselves as the new Culture. Among the history you can learn from them is the story of Culture 14, who believed that this system of violent revolution set the Thraddash's cultural and technological evolution back 500 years each time. They were wrong, as demonstrated only 10 years after they came to power, when the next revolution only set them back "two, three hundred years tops".
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]''
{{quote|'''Tycho:''' [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/2/19/ It says here] you made 'Crude sexual references a number of times throughout a Mech Assault match'.
'''Gabe:''' Oh, yeah? Well, his mom gives lousy head! ...I mean, that guy's a fucking liar.}}
** Also [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/09/22/ this strip].
* ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' has a plotline where the Light Warriors face their inner demons:
** Red Mage's inner demon would not leave until Red Mage conquered his hubris. Red Mage denied his hubris in the most arrogant way possible, including adding humility points to his character sheet while saying things like...
{{quote|'''Red Mage:''' Let this sheet bellow unto the heavens themselves that Red Mage is the most humble man to walk upon Earth! '''EVER!'''
'''Demon:''' Literal adherence to a law means little without respect for the ''spirit'' of that law.}}
:* Red Mage eventually admits he cannot defeat his trial, thereby proving his humility and defeating his trial, prompting him to [[Ignored Epiphany|immediately boast about how brilliant he is to have worked out that solution]].
:... and then there's Fighter's trial, where he must learn to solve problems with his brain as well as his swords, which he does by [[Exact Words|following his brain's advice and slicing his inner demon into little pieces]].
* [http://www.bobwhitecomics.com/20090717.shtml This strip] of ''[[Bobwhite]]''.
* In ''[[No Need for Bushido]]'', Ken responds to an accusation that he's not the most agreeable sort... by [https://web.archive.org/web/20081210050719/http://www.noneedforbushido.com/archive_comments.php?strip_id=304 punching his accuser in the face.]
{{quote|'''Ken:''' THAT'S FER SAYIN' I WASN'T AGREEABLE!}}
* ''[[Ghastly's Ghastly Comic]]'': Bobby protests to a time-traveller from the 1970s that gay people in the twenty-first century "no longer feel the need to conform to the stereotypes society has used to keep us segregated and ashamed". His boyfriend F'ga, a bright pink [[Naughty Tentacles|tentacle monster]], promptly bursts flamboyantly into the room, singing showtunes at the top of his lungs.
{{quote|"So you was sayin' 'bout twenty-first century homos?"
"F'ga doesn't count. I don't think he knows it's the twenty-first century."}}
* [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=336# This] ''[[Questionable Content]]'' strip combines this trope with an [[Insult Backfire]].
{{quote|"Goddamnit, I've been flummoxed by someone with the IQ of a herring."
"Herrings are pretty birds so I'll take that as a compliment."}}
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' prequel "On the Origin of PCs" has Roy saying that he thinks wizards put too much faith in magic; his father Eugene immediately proves his point by saying that magic is perfect and all-powerful.
** In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0844.html this] comic, [[Chaotic Good]](ish) Haley points out that lawful types have a tendency to make other people agree with them... or else. [[Lawful Good]] characters Roy and Durkon immediately tell her that this is absurd and to stop with the crazy talk. Even [[The Ditz|Elan]] sees the hypocrisy.
* In the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130606234924/http://antiheroescomic.com/comic/95 Anti-Heroes Webcomic]:
{{quote|'''Aldran:''' I'm not manipulative.
'''Lana:''' Well, I dunno, you can be a bit-
'''Aldran:''' I '''said''' "I'm not manipulative."
'''Lana:''' Okay, okay, you're not. Jeez.}}
* ''[[Spacetrawler]]'':
{{quote|'''Nogg:''' Krep is our pilot from planet Flimboulx. He's very bad tempered and I'd advise avoiding him.
'''Krep:''' What?! You are such a suppositorial dipshit, Nogg.
'''Nogg:''' You can see my point.}}
* In [http://egscomics.com/?date=2006-01-20 this] ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' strip, right before Tedd orders some pizza, Justin accuses Nanase of going into really long rants when she's hungry... only to be followed by a [[Wall of Text]] from Nanase.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had Tagon resenting a remark... [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-01-17 fortunately, one of his officers got it straight].
* A self-applied example regarding [[Antiquated Linguistics]] from ''[[Homestuck]]'':
{{quote|'''Jake:''' Pardon me but do i SOUND like some trollycar bellwether toiling in the heart of the mustache belt from the ruff n tumble year of nineteen aught nine???}}
* ''[[Virtual Shackles]]'' on [https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/gepnl/gamepro_g4tv_and_vgchartz_gamrfeed_have_been/ this] case of [[Astroturf]]ing: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815235057/http://www.virtualshackles.com/202 the Reddit crowd agrees that astroturfing was accidental]... er... ouch.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Acts of Gord]]'': In ''[http://www.actsofgord.com/Annoy/chapter23.php Acts of Gord, Book of Annoyances, Chapter 23]'', a reporter asks Gord (owner of a videogame store) for a quote for the front page of the newspaper, pertaining to videogame violence and its impact on society. Gord replies, "Video games don't make people more violent, and I'll kill anyone who disagrees." After a dramatic pause, the reporter replies that he doesn't think they can print that.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' has Mako.
{{quote|'''Mako:''' I am not a freaky fish guy! And I will harpoon anyone who says otherwise!}}
:* Also, from episode 46:
{{quote|'''Melvin:''' If you're done fighting with your girlfriend we have a card game to play!
'''Florence:''' [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|He's not my girlfriend!]]
'''Marik''': [[Transparent Closet|You tell him, honey!]]}}
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''"
{{quote|'''Washington:''' Quit bickering! You guys are the most immature soldiers I have ever met!
'''Grif:''' Yeah well, [[Your Mom|your face]] is immature! }}
* In ''[[Kickassia]]'', a reporter tells Angry Joe that people think he's gun crazy. Joe demands to know who said that, and shoots the camera.
* From [[The Spoony Experiment]] review of ''[[Phantasmagoria 2]]'': "I'm not crazy! I'll kill anyone who says I am!"
* [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]'s article on atheists has a "butthurt" banner claiming that the article generated more offended rants and vandalism than any other article on religion - the discussion page had an atheist demanding that the banner be removed because atheists don't take offense to people not agreeing with them.
* News site [[Reddit]] has recently been working to dispel allegations of rampant misogyny among its userbase. Around the same time that drama was playing out, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130724090820/http://www.quickmeme.com/Cool-Chick-Carol/ Cool Chick Carol] [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] was created. [[Lampshaded]] on at least two of the samples, though.
* [[Gamergate]] as a whole was rife with instances of this.
** The "cultural warfare" began in earnest when, in response to accusations of corruption over 48 hours, over a dozen (officially) unaffiliated video game websites published editorials proclaiming some variant of "gamers are dead", without referencing or citing a source editorial. While the initial accusations were of questionable legitimacy and a reach at best, the blatant lockstep and willingness to smear their target audience proved the presence of collusion beyond a shadow of a doubt in the eyes of many. It's worth noting that said collusion wasn't all that new ''or'' all that unnoticed, but had never been publicized in such a manner prior to the controversy taking off.
** ''Atomic Think Tank'' (one of the [[Green Ronin]] forums) had a poster comparing hysteria over Gamergate to the 1980s [[Satanic Panic]]. The moderator's reaction was a mix of hysterical "don't you dare!!!" and an equivalent of "the satanists abducted and almost sacrificed a [[Damsel in Distress]], but I won't tell you any verifiable details [nor mention reporting this to the local law enforcement, which I would do if it was real]". Of course, the comparison itself would eventually prove to age even worse [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|for reasons that hopefully should not have to be stated in this article]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Foghorn Leghorn from ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' may not be the [[Trope Namer]], but he's certainly the [[Trope Codifier]].
* Various examples from ''[[Futurama]]'':
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{{quote|'''Homer:''' I won't sleep in the same bed with a woman who thinks I'm lazy! I'm going right downstairs, unfold the couch, unroll the sleeping ba-...uh, good night. (*''zzzzz''*)}}
:* Moe again: "Nobody calls [[Awesome McCoolname|Moe St. Cool]] a phony!"
:* [[Narcissist|Artie Ziff]]'s [[Heel Realization]]:
{{quote|'''Marge:''' Your problem is, you never think of anyone besides yourself!
'''Artie:''' Marge, I think about a lot more than just ''moi''!
''(Imagines a nightclub with can-can dancers who look like him, singing his name repeatedly, and an audience who also looks like him, applauding.)''
'''Artie:''' Oh... my... God...}}
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
{{quote|'''Toph''': You're not my mom, and you're not their mom.
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[SpongeBob screams, then shivers and bites his lip in fear as Mrs. Puff sees Patrick's drawing of her.]
'''Mrs. Puff:''' (suddenly resembling the drawing) As if I really look like this!}}
* At the end of one episode of ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'', there's this exchange between Megavolt and Quackerjack when the two villains are on prison work detail:
{{quote|'''Quackerjack:''' [[Sarcasm Mode| Why don't you learn to relax, Sparky?]]
'''Megavolt:''' Stop calling me that! And I am relaxed! I AM COMPLETELY RELAXED!!}}
* Log entry by [[The Medic| Dr. T'Ana]] on ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'':
{{quote|'''Dr. T'Ana:''' Chief Medical Officer's Log, Stardate who the ''[Profanity Censor]'' cares? So get this, Peanut Hamper - am I saying that right? Stupid name - bugged out in the middle of a big battle. But I gotta admit, she was an impressive, talented surgeon. Skilled Ensigns are hard to come by, FOR SOME ''[Profanity Censor]'' REASON I INTIMIDATE THEM!}}
* In one episode of ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', the Aesop at the end - delivered by Teela - is about owning up to mistakes. Then [[Inept Mage| Orko]] appears, and...
{{quote|'''Orko:''' Of course, when you're like ''me'', you ''never'' make a mistake!
'''Teela:''' Orko!
'''Orko:''' Uhm, I think I'll disappear...
''(Loud "POOF!" and'' Teela ''disappears.)''
'''Orko:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny| Oops! I made a mistake]]...}}
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* Violent riots and other forms of protest by Muslims in response to caricatures of prophet Muhammad and other portrayals of Islam as violent are commonly cited as examples of this trope. Of course, there's always more to those stories: the Qu'ran has a commandment that forbids the use of graven images, and many Muslims err on the side of extreme caution with this - such that it's not uncommon for them to take offense at any depictions of prophet Muhammad, offensiveness or lack of notwithstanding. As such, it's not hard to imagine that this tendency is purposely exploited, [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|though the question of "by whom?" is one this page is not suited to answering]].
** It becomes especially ironic when the people behind the portrayals, criticisms and caricatures are Christian-adjacent in nature - [[wikipedia:Alexios I Komnenos|Alexius I]] had Pope Urban II sanction various Crusades against the Muslims alongside other churches of the time in response to Muslim raids on territories that they had taken through their own bloody conquest.
* "[http://boingboing.net/2009/06/27/comics-creator-stopp.html Comics writer Mark Sable was detained and intensively questioned by the TSA for carrying a script for an upcoming comic book about a writer who is detained and intensively questioned by the TSA]". If the script within the comic was itself about a comic writer stopped and interrogated by the TSA, the recursive nature of the meta-humor would have [[Your Head Asplode|exploded the TSA's collective heads all at once]].
* Comic author John O'Farrell had an extract from his book ''Things Can Only Get Better'' in which he parodied lefties in the early eighties as being totally humourless published in the Guardian. Next week, the letters page of ''[[British Newspapers|The Guardian]]'' was full of outraged lefties complaining there was absolutely nothing funny about lefties in the early 80s.
* Surrounding ''[[The Godfather]]'' were Italian-Americans who cried that the film had [[Unfortunate Implications]]. They decided to respond by stealing the crew's equipment, sending death threats (and trying to act on them), and generally being shitheads.
* In Germany, Jewish journalist Henryk M. Broder once commented that Polish culture was based on alcoholism and antisemitism. As he said, he got many angry letters from drunken Polish patriots who threatened him.
* [[wikipedia:Jonathan Lee Riches|Johnathan Lee Riches]], famous for filing lawsuits against nearly everybody and nearly everything (including such targets as "Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party") once filed an injunction against the Guinness Book of World Records to prevent it from naming him the world's most litigious man
* Used in [[Barack Obama]]'s speech at the 2011 White House Correspondent's Dinner: "For example, some people now suggest that I am too professorial, and I would like to address this head on, by assigning all of you some reading that will help you draw your own conclusions."
* The McLibel case. In response to claims that McDonald's is an unethical business, the company hired private detectives to spy on peaceful protesters and break into their offices.
* King George II (1683–1760) of England once assured his subjects that despite coming from the German House of Hanover, "I have not one drop of blood in my veins dat is not English."
* [[Facebook]] once came under fire by Prager University for [https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/08/17/this-is-so-zucked-up-facebook-now-censoring-prager-university-including-a-kimberley-strassel-video-on-wait-for-it-censorship/ censoring a video posted to their FB page] covering... the subject of censorship. Not helping the case is [https://web.archive.org/web/20181227134554/https://features.weather.com/course-climate-misinformation/ PragerU's own history] [https://web.archive.org/web/20210127014327/https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/prageru-video-contains-misleading-claims-about-covid-19-deaths-falsely-claims-94-of-covid-19-deaths-had-pre-existing-conditions/ of blatant misinformation] and a tendency (shared with many American conservatives) to treat pushback to dubious claims as "censorship", making this a likely case of [[Right for the Wrong Reasons]].
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