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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Everything Must Go" (DC issue #44) has the girls confronting Mojo Jojo over his yard sale of his destructive arsenal which their buyers are using to unwittingly cause mayhem. Mojo justifies his motives as capitalism being beneficial. But when the girls insist that Mojo can't sell dangerous weapons to people, Mojo counters "I most certainly can. This is a yard sale. Is it against the law to have a yard sale?" Cornered, the girls relent.

* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'': At one point in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W5d89zUC0g Mario Party brings out the worst in you...]]", Sophist points out Vernias' ridiculous DoubleStandard when he accepts the fact Brent is about to steal his Star, but was rather ticked off earlier when Sophist (secretly randomly) stole ''10'' coins from him clean off the bat. However, Vernias explains that "it make sense", as he is literally the only option Brent has to steal a Star from, whereas Sophist stole from him seemingly for shits and giggles:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E36TrueColors True Colors]]", [[spoiler:Sasha Waybright rightfully calls out Marcy on betraying her and Anne, not only separating them from their families and livelihoods but also endangering their lives in the process, even if Sasha was just as guilty of this herself. Even Marcy herself agrees with her on it, calling her own actions "super dumb" later on.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Let's compromise, you can carry me on your back instead."]]

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': During one early scene, [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Mark Russell]] judges his [[GriefInducedSplit ex-wife]] Emma for putting [[{{Workaholic}} commitment to her work studying monsters]] before her own mental health and consideration of their family in the aftermath of their son's death. Whilst Mark himself has put [[DrowningMySorrows the bottom of a bottle]] and shutting everyone else out before his own mental health, and he's done it when his family really needed him to be strong, it turns out that Emma is a lot worse off than him: [[spoiler:whereas Mark simply professes hatred of the {{Kaiju}} and pushes his remaining loved ones away, Emma is planning to manipulate the Kaiju to cause potentially ''billions'' of casualties on a global scale because of her unprocessed grief, and because of her discovery that humanity are responsible for the Kaiju's awakening]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E36TrueColors True Colors]]", [[spoiler:[[Characters/AmphibiaSashaWaybright Sasha Waybright]] rightfully calls out Marcy on betraying her and Anne, not only separating them from their families and livelihoods but also endangering their lives in the process, even if Sasha was just as guilty of this herself. Even Marcy herself agrees with her on it, calling her own actions "super dumb" later on.]]

'''Sophist:''' I take ten coins from you, you're like "WHAT THE SHIT?!"\\

** Notably averted with both Zaheer and the Earth Queen, one is a proper hypocrit (the Queen, who terrorizes her people out of a delusional narcissim), the other has a proper point (Zaheer and his members of the Red Lotus preach freedom and chaos, and are willing to stand by that belief unto death if need be).

* ''Manga/DeathNote:'' Light's foes, particularly L and Near, call him a hypocrite for using the Death Note to execute criminals. Even if Light's intentions were [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist less than pure]] ([[MotiveDecay or at least became that way]]), his reign as Kira had led to a drastic decrease in crime and ended wars.

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'': A common element of several large stories in the verse, such as ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' and ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocus'' is the fact that both Goh and Chloe share many of the same faults and foibles: avoiding their problems instead of confronting them, reacting badly to past events, shutting themselves off from others, assuming the worst of others, etc, but this never changes the fact that the other does in fact have these problems and that what they accuse the other is something that they both share and need to address in order to better themselves.

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': When brooding over his broken bond with Chloe, Goh notes that she never confronted him about their growing distance over the years until she hit her RageBreakingPoint. While this is true, he's glossing over [[NeverMyFault the part he played]], ignoring how ''he'' didn't make any effort to reach out to her beyond occasional invitations to join him in hunting Pokémon.

** As infuriating as Iris can be with her catchphrase, she is correct that Ash can engage in such childish and idiotic antics (like only relying on one Pokémon against Elesa).

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Huey, Dewey, and Louie's mother, Della Duck, was separated from her children since before they were hatched after her thrill-seeking overrode her good sense and caused her to be stranded far from home for ten years. She manages to return to her family in season 2 and, in "Timephoon!", she chews out Louie for a get-rich-quick scheme that endangered everyone without considering the problems it might cause. Despite Louie pointing out the similarities to her own actions, the story treats her as in the right, as Mrs. Beakley praises her for putting her foot down. Though "hypocrite" might be a bit of a stretch here, as Della didn't try to deny his below remark, even stopping Beakley from telling him off over it, but still asserts that Louie nearly destroyed space and time ''and'' separated their family for a "get rich quick" scheme and grounds him.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Brian and Quagmire's rivalry pretty much revolves around how on-the-dot they are about the other's deflecting of what terrible hypocritical people are:

** While Anakin definitely needs lessons in honesty, his anger towards Obi-Wan for faking his death and deliberately not telling him is justified. No matter what the reason, it was still a rather cold-hearted and manipulative act for Obi-Wan to do to someone he considered a brother, especially as he's well aware of Anakin's attachment issues.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In one episode, John Redcorn confesses to Nancy that he doesn't think Dale should be raising Joseph, his illegitimate son who was born as a result of their affair. The episode portrays John Redcorn as the one who's in the wrong, given that he's an adulterer who's leaving the task of taking care of his son to his lover and her oblivious husband... But it's ''not'' a baseless accusation. Dale is not only a hardcore ConspiracyTheorist, but also certifiably insane. He genuinely loves his wife and who he thinks is his son, but he constantly causes Nancy no end of problems by getting sucked into his latest delusion, and his love for Joseph sees him unpredictably flip-flopping between spoiling him rotten and setting an incredibly bad example for him. Honestly, Dale is one of the most realistic examples of someone you ''really'' wouldn't want to raise a child.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E36TrueColors True Colors]]", [[spoiler:[[Characters/AmphibiaSashaWaybright Sasha Waybright]] rightfully calls out Marcy on betraying her and Anne, not only separating them from their families and livelihoods but also endangering their lives in the process. This doesn't change the fact that, moments prior, Sasha herself betrayed Anne for the sake of control, but Marcy would eventually call her own actions "super dumb" later on, implicitly agreeing with her]].

** Amon rails against the prevalence of [[ElementalPowers bending]] and advocates its destruction for fear of oppression of non-benders. Amon is revealed to [[spoiler: have the ability to strip away bending by using his unique bloodbending]], but those with bending capabilities do in fact have more opportunities and honors than those who do not. This eventually leads to Republic City supporting diversity while still rejecting Amon's fanaticism, such as doing away with the Council that was composed entirely of benders, and electing a non-Bending president.

** In "Ponyville Confidential", Rarity calls out Sweetie Belle for taking part in a gossip column with her friends and invading everyone's privacy, [[HypocrisyNod while also pointing out]] how she probably didn't like it when she did it herself twice before. This, along with an ArmorPiercingQuestion, is enough to give Sweetie second thoughts.
** Played with in episode "No Second Prances". Twilight Sparkle encourages her ex-[[BigBad bad guy]]-turned-student Starlight Glimmer to make a new friend but quickly backpedals on it when Starlight ends up befriending the rather sketchy [[JerkAss Trixie]], who Twilight has a rocky history with. Twilight is naturally worried that Starlight will fall prey to ToxicFriendInfluence and she has a point, except she was perfectly willing to [[EasilyForgiven easily forgive]] Starlight Glimmer for far worse evil beyond whatever jerkish pettiness Trixie ever did (Trixie was just a once in a while antagonist, while Starlight Glimmer was a Season Wide BigBad who enslaved a village and went out of her way to nearly destroy the world in order to get revenge on Twilight), and even told Starlight that all Friendships are important to talk her into a HeelFaceTurn, but she is still very distrustful and begrudging of Trixie (if for the fair reason that she ''[[ReformedButNotTamed kept]]'' a lot more of her {{Jerkass}} qualities than Starlight did). Starlight even [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on this]]. Twilight is proven to be correct to an extent when Trixie [[OpenMouthInsertFoot inadvertently reveals]] that she only became friends with Starlight just to show Twilight up, causing her friendship with Starlight to break apart, causing a heartbroken Trixie [[BecomingTheMask (who really did want to be Starlight's friend)]] to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize how badly she messed up]]. Twilight herself also realizes her own hypocrisy and aspires to make things up between the three of them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': In "Enemy of My Enemy," Karai attempts to form an EnemyMine with the Turtles against the Kraang, only for the Turtles to take advantage of it to attempt to assassinate the Shredder, Karai's father; Karai is furious and chews Leo out for it, while ignoring that ''she'' had previously double-crossed the Turtles herself in "The Alien Agenda," all while mocking Leo to his face for trusting her. That being said, she's not wrong; Karai was nothing but honest about being untrustworthy in "The Alien Agenda", agreeing with Raph rather than Leo about being "bad news". She never made Leo any promises ''not'' to betray their alliance, while Leo did with her. Also, it should be noted that after all of the discussion about whether or not to trust Karai, the Turtles are the ones who double-crossed ''her'' this time, not the other way around.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Dave is annoyed at his whole team other than Sky for being useless, while he complains more than lending a helping hand, but he is right. This is best shown in the first challenge in the episode "Uh So This Is My Team" where each member of Waneyihtam Maskwak mess up in getting someone to help build their own shelter. Shawn grabs soup instead of something useful, Ella found a bucket of glitter, and when Dave draws Chef's fire while Beardo makes a run for more supplies, Beardo runs in slow-motion but ends up getting hit by a tennis ball, and Leonards just suggests they all build a wizard tower, to which everyone agrees but Dave. While Sky was the most useful in this challenge, even she agrees to build the tower, mostly because the team voted and she felt building something was better than nothing. When building the tower failed and it was time to vote someone off, an annoyed Dave asks if he can vote off four people.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E36TrueColors True Colors]]", [[spoiler:[[Characters/AmphibiaSashaWaybright Sasha Waybright]] rightfully calls out Marcy on betraying her and Anne, not only separating them from their families and livelihoods but also endangering their lives in the process. This still doesn't change the fact that, moments prior, Sasha herself betrayed Anne for the sake of control]].

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Desire claims the reason that she and Despair like "playing games" with Dream is because he thinks of himself as self-important and of need of some humbling. While it is true {{Pride}} is a FatalFlaw of Dream, Desire herself is selfish and vindicative by nature.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': Megatron cannot stand treachery--or at least treachery being done incompetently. In the Predacon ranks, treason is almost a prerequisite to ruling, for if the current leader is unable to deal with being betrayed, who's to say they should still be in charge? Over half his lieutenants have tried to stab him in the back, and he's far from happy about it, yet his backstory shows he got to where he was in the show thanks to stabbing his own mentor in the back. Yet he's not wrong when he says this line:

** Paul was extremely hypocritical when he criticized Ash for using Grotle, a Grass type, in an Ice-type gym (yet Paul himself used Chimchar and Elekid against Roark). He did, however, have a point, considering that Ash has made this mistake many times and half of the time the battles don’t turn out in Ash’s favor.

'''Double D:''' If you had paid attention to what I said, ''*shoves Eddy back*'' and ''NOT'' PUSHED THE RED BUTTON--

-->'''Kotal Kahn:''' i was a just and compassionate emperor.\\