Hypocrisy Nod: Difference between revisions

It should be noted that, in logic and debate at least, hypocrisy isn't a factor in whether a person is right or wrong. The "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque Ad Hominem Tu Quoque]" fallacy (also known as the "Appeal to Hypocrisy") is a logical error; just because a person is being a hypocrite about something doesn't of necessity make them wrong about it.

 

 

[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] [[At Least I Admit It]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[Boys Love Genre]] ''[[Ai no Kusabi (Light Novel)|Ai no Kusabi]]'' has second in command of Tanagura, Raoul telling Iason, the top ruling Blondie, he's a hypocrite for enforcing laws yet breaking a few laws himself for his [[Sex Slave|Pet]]. Iason doesn't deny it as a means to shrug off and end the conversation.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'', Heaven's Feel: Played for drama (and technically after the fact). {{spoiler|After berating Shirou the entire route and the two before it for being too soft to kill, Tohsaka realizes she is too as she can't bring herself to stab Sakura and is nearly killed instead. 'I guess I can't get mad at Shirou anymore.'}}

* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'', the [[Big Bad]] despises [[The Force]] and those who are reliant on it. However, all the Big Bad's attacks are Force-reliant, and she's too frail to fight with anything but the Force. If the player calls her out on this, she'll attempt to explain her behavior. However, she'll also admit the player makes a very good point, and it's possible that the explanation she just gave is just an excuse.

* ''[[Saints Row the Third (Video Game)|Saints Row the Third]]'' seems to be an elaborate parody of the commercialised glorification of "gangsta life" in modern culture. The Saints, originally a street gang led by the player character with increasingly omnicidal tendencies, have become an established brand name complete with clothing stores, an energy drink, a movie about their life, and random fangirls asking for your autograph or snapping pictures of you after you turn a busy intersection into a pile of corpses and burning car wrecks. Even the Saints themselves realise they sold out. Of course, the game itself is a commercialised glorification of gangsta life and provides you with weaponry specifically intended to express your own omnicidal tendencies. This duality seems to be intentional.

* [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|The Spoony One's]] [http://spoonyexperiment.com/2009/02/19/fanboys-are-mine-to-toy-with-old-man/ response] to Roger Ebert's [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090204/REVIEWS/902049987/1001 review] of the movie [[Fanboys (Film)|Fanboys]] involves acknowledging his own pot-shots at various geek fandoms (not the least of which is the Final Fantasy crowd) but ends with a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|rousing speech]] telling geeks not to be ashamed of who and what they are.

* [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost16057I-Hypocrisy%2Ejpg This] poster shows us Hasbro doing a [[Hypocrisy Nod]] in one of its [[Take That/Commercials|ads]] and then... ''slipping''.

 

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** During "Ponyville Confidential", she tells off her sister Sweetie Belle for snooping through her possessions, pointing out that Sweetie Belle didn't like it when Rarity went through ''her'' stuff just a bit earlier. (Admittedly she could afford it, since she only browsed a newspaper that poked out of Sweetie Bell's bag, while Sweetie Bell took content from Rarity's diary and ''published it in that same public newspaper''.)

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Sideshow Bob's quote from the top of the page.

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