History Hypocrite / Pokemon

* Team Rocket. They get incensed when someone steals from them, even though the heroes were merely reclaiming what the villains stole in the first place.

* Max has a tendency to criticize May and Ash for their flaws as a coordinator & a trainer respectively, but when it was time for Max to battle one time, he knew almost nothing about battling. This may be understandable, since he is too young to be a trainer, after all.

** She lambasted Ash regularly for his poor training, despite Starmie and Psyduck being just as poor under her handling. Dumb luck is usually relied on when it comes to Psyduck and her Starmie, which is supposed to be her ace, is never seen winning any battles on screen (this is slightly justified in Ash wanting to become a Pokémon Master, which requires a lot more work and skill than Misty being a Water Type specialist).
** She is equally bad at taking her level of criticism back, despite her being so keen on criticizing Ash. The first time Ash called her out on this in the latter's case, she threatened him quiet in frustration. Like Ash, this trait ''mostly'' toned down as episodes passed, even if she retained a lot more of a similar cockiness than she'd like to admit.

*** She is equally bad at taking her level of criticism back, despite her being so keen on criticizing Ash. The first time Ash called her out on this in the latter's case, she threatened him quiet in frustration. Like Ash, this trait ''mostly'' toned down as episodes passed, even if she retained a lot more of a similar cockiness than she'd like to admit.

** She lambasted Ash regularly for his poor training, despite Starmie Psyduck being just as poor under her handling. Dumb luck is usually relied on when it comes to Psyduck and her Starmie, which is supposed to be her ace, is never seen winning any battles on screen (this is slightly justified in Ash wanting to become a Pokémon Master, which requires a lot more work and skill than Misty being a Water Type specialist).

** Paul is willing to place his own Pokémon on the field when they're type-disadvantaged (he sent the Fire-type Chimchar out to face Roark's Rock-type Pokémon), but criticizes Ash for his own tendency to do the same thing (especially the one time when he criticized Ash for using Grotle in [[AnIcePerson Candice's]] gym.

** Her vendetta against Cilan is based on Cilan supposedly criticizing her harshly., yet she often criticizes other trainers and their Pokémon harshly.

** During the Junior Cup, she calls Georgia a "pipsqueak", even though Georgia is actually slightly taller than her.

** In JN135, [[spoiler:he swears off his friendship with Ash when the newly-minted WCS Monarch announces he and Pikachu are taking another journey alone—when Goh was going to make a similar announcement himself, having held back out of fear he would destroy his friendship with Ash. Cinderace calls him out hard for this]].

** ''Videogame/PokemonXAndY'' has [[KnightTemplar Lysandre]]. He hates thieves, liars, and selfish people and wants to eliminate them from the world. Who does he hire? Team Flare; a group that is made up of the very kind of people he claims to hate and he wants to blow up the world and start it over with THESE people. He's either [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter really stupid]] or this trope. Not to mention that he steals a bunch of pokeballs from the Pokeball Factory. What's worse? [[VillainWithGoodPublicity No one ever calls him out on it]].

** Misty has a couple moments of hypocrisy:
*** She lambasted Ash regularly for his poor training, despite Starmie Psyduck being just as poor under her handling. Dumb luck is usually relied on when it comes to Psyduck and her Starmie, which is supposed to be her ace, is never seen winning any battles on screen (this is slightly justified in Ash wanting to become a Pokémon Master, which requires a lot more work and skill than Misty being a Water Type specialist).

** Team Rocket. They get incensed when someone steals from them, even though the heroes were merely reclaiming what the villains stole in the first place.
** The samurai from the fourth episode ''really'' gets hypocritical. He berates Ash for not finishing what he started... even though he wasn't polite by waiting for Ash to finish catching that darn Weedle. Instead, he rudely and instantly challenges him to a Pokemon battle, leaving the Weedle enough time to escape and warn its Beedrill buddies. And to top it off, he calls Ash a terrible trainer for not rescuing Metapod when a Beedrill took it away even though Ash tries to call it back, but the Beedrill kept out of the way with its agility.
** Mewtwo wants to destroy humans because he hates them for [[CloneAngst cloning him]]. How does he go about this destruction? By making clones. The dub changes his motivation, as 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.
** Falkner states how he hates the consensus that Flying types would always lose to Electric types due to a type disadvantage and then subsequently patronizes Ash for using Chikorita, for no reason besides her type disadvantage.
** Max has a tendency to criticize May and Ash for their flaws as a coordinator & a trainer respectively, but when it was time for Max to battle one time, he knew almost nothing about battling. This may be understandable, since he is too young to be a trainer, after all.
** Paul can be one:
*** Paul tells Ash to his face that when a Pokémon loses, it's the trainer's fault for not training it correctly -- Paul also blames his own Pokémon, like Chimchar, for their losses.

*** Paul is willing to place his own Pokémon on the field when they're type-disadvantaged (he sent the Fire-type Chimchar out to face Roark's Rock-type Pokémon), but criticizes Ash for his own tendency to do the same thing (especially the one time when he criticized Ash for using Grotle in [[AnIcePerson Candice's]] gym.
** Cyrus, the leader of Team Galatic is one. He scolds his underlings for their eagerness to kill Ash and his friends in the finale, after he previously tried to blow up Iron Island in order to do just that.
** Cilan’s rival Burgundy is one in spades:

** Goh from the Journeys series has two moments:
*** He tells Scorbunny that he should expand his horizons when they first meet. Yet, in the preview of Kicking It from Here Into Tomorrow!, he's shown to be dismissive of Scorbunny's desire to become stronger because he thinks that Double Kick/Quick Attack is perfect. Moreover, he doesn't want Scorbunny — the Fire-type — to learn a Fire-Move, yet he caught a Darmanitan just three episodes prior.
*** In JN135, [[spoiler:he swears off his friendship with Ash when the newly-minted WCS Monarch announces he and Pikachu are taking another journey alone—when Goh was going to make a similar announcement himself, having held back out of fear he would destroy his friendship with Ash. Cinderace calls him out hard for this]].

* (* In the finals of the Tag Team Tournament, he maintains his belief that Chimchar and Ash are weak since Heracross was still briefly standing despite being hit point blank by a Flamethrower, and that it only fainted because Buizel collided with it when hit by Electabuzz's Thunder. While accurate, the exact same thing would apply for Paul and Electabuzz as Buizel was briefly still standing despite being hit point blank by a move it was weak too as well.

During the Junior Cup, she calls Georgia a "pipsqueak", even though Georgia is actually slightly taller than her.