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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Frollo professes to [[EgocentricallyReligious be a devout]] [[HolierThanThou Christian]] who longs to purge the world of sin, yet he's the most corrupt person in the whole movie. He also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain hates]] the Romani people, yet he develops an [[BigotWithACrush unhealthy]] obsession over a Romani woman. His hypocrisy is lampshaded in the opening song, and countless people even call him out on it. He also uses PsychologicalProjection to find faults in others and [[NeverMyFault blame them for his misery]], but refuses to acknowledge his own faults to the end due to his self-righteous pride.
* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', Disgust's (and thus Riley's) dislike of [[StockYuck broccoli]] is a running gag throughout the film. Disgust [[WordOfGod has been stated]] to have been designed based on broccoli. (This connection is lost in the Japanese dub, where every mention and appearance of broccoli in the film is replaced with green bell peppers.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Tyler expresses disdain for fans of 4*Town but is secretly a fan himself and [[GuiltyPleasures fears revealing it]].

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AmericanBeauty'', [[spoiler: the homophobic neighbor turns out to be a closeted homosexual]].
* Subtly hinted at [[HypocriticalHumor for comedy]] with Nigel Powers in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': "There are only two things I can't stand in this world! People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the ''Dutch''!"
* The film Film/TheBeliever is about a young Jewish man who despite growing as in a religious lifestyle, later becomes extremely antisemitic and joins the American Nazi Party, hiding his true identity until it's later exposed in the press, after which he commits suicide.
* ''[[http://www.8asians.com/2011/11/29/my-newest-movie-chink/ Chink]]'' is a movie about Eddy Tsai, a self-hating Asian who becomes a serial killer targeting other Asians. He changes his name to "Richards" and falsely claims to have been adopted by white parents.
* In ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', the character of Zeus is a black man with serious problems with white people, most especially white racists. Eventually [=McClane=] calls him out on the fact that he's acting like a racist himself.
* [[spoiler:Gretel]] in ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'' is revealed to be a witch by inheritance. This leads to no CharacterDevelopment whatsoever.
* In ''Film/TheHumanCondition'', Kaji openly states his moral disgust for [[spoiler: deserters and POW escapees]]. He becomes both by the end of the film.
* In ''Film/IRobot'', Detective Spooner (Creator/WillSmith) displays an intense dislike towards humanoid robots... [[spoiler:despite being a cyborg]]. Although, he ''does'' have a tragic reason for that one.
* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': [[spoiler:Arthur is an elitist prick who has it in for Eggsy the WorkingClassHero throughout the movie. He later turns out to be in league with the BigBad and tries to poison Eggsy, but a simple sleight of hand trick leaves him the one choking to death on laced brandy. For his final dying expletives he speaks in a very coarse East End accent, implying that he started out in the lower classes and put on snobby airs to distance himself from his origins as he worked his way up the organisation.]]
* ''Film/{{Milk}}'' subtly suggests that Dan White may have been a closeted gay man himself, adding another dimension to his crimes.
* Brian from ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' hates Romans only for his mother to reveal that he is half-Roman. He hates them because they have invaded his homeland, not because they are Romans, though.
* Long before ''The Chappelle Show'' and its iconic black white supremacist, a [[NightmareFuel much less comedic]] version of this idea was used in the 1963 film ''Film/ShockCorridor'', which featured a black KKK member in an insane asylum. In case you missed that one, suffice to say that anti-black rhetoric sounds even ''more'' terrifying when it's being delivered by a ScaryBlackMan.
* ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'': [[spoiler:The Prophet, a man leading a group against the eponymous [[RemoteBody surrogates]], is [[RoboticReveal himself a surrogate]], controlled by the inventions' ''creator'' at that.]]
* Lampshaded in ''Film/ThisIsEngland'': one of the far-right extremist characters, Combo, is a racist played by a mixed-race actor... hence his MeaningfulName.
* The movie ''Film/{{Thor}}'' spends much of its arc following the self-destruction of Loki, setting him up for his role as the villain of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. His racism against Frost Giants clearly has deep roots but was never a major part of his life until it turned out he was one. Along with being a WellDoneSonGuy who seems honestly to be TheUnfavorite and regularly suffer AllOfTheOtherReindeer, ''and'' with knowing he's actually responsible for Thor's exile and the fact that they're currently at war, and combined with unexpectedly being temporary king, this violent undermining of his entire identity causes him to go completely insane.
* In ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', Chad hates hillbillies because his mother was raped by a hillbilly SerialKiller who also murdered his father. [[spoiler:The serial killer was actually Chad's real father, the proof being an old newspaper article with a photo of the killer, who looks exactly like Chad. Chad, already murderously insane by that point, has a total breakdown when he learns the truth.]]
* Jay of Film/TheViewAskewniverse often makes homophobic remarks, but it's been hinted [[ArmoredClosetGay he's secretly gay or at least bi]].
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', [[spoiler:Judge Doom turns out to be a Toon in a human mask.]] Possibly justified in that he was motivated by greed, not bigotry, although he makes several anti-Toon statements prior to TheReveal as well (claiming, for example, that Toons are naturally lawless and deserve the most brutal punishments imaginable). It's probable that he's saying those things not because he believes [[spoiler:other]] toons are like that, but because he knows that [[spoiler:HE is like that]]. Another possible interpretation is that [[spoiler:Doom, being an ''evil'' Toon, simply has it out against ''other'' Toons, true to stereotype. After all, his master plan involves ''wiping out Toontown''.]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Erik/Magneto hates Nazis due to being a survivor of the Holocaust but ultimately embraces racism against non-mutants. This is highlighted in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
** Enforced in ''Film/XMen1'', where Magneto's crew mutates Senator Kelly, the US government's biggest backer of mutant suppression. It's implied that he might have come to regret his bigotry but we don't really get too good a gauge of how he feels about it since he dies from the forced mutation right afterwards.

[[folder:Jokes]]
* If racists are becoming a minority nowadays, and [[{{Irony}} racists hate minorities]]...
* Arachnophobes are latent spiders.

[[folder:Music]]
* Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' has the main character become the very thing his father had died fighting against, as noted in the later songs "In The Flesh", "Run Like Hell", and "Waiting For The Worms"...at least within his own mind. This is made even more noticeable in the movie version.
* Titledropped in "Brush the Dust Away" by in Flames, "We think we're in control then we become the things we hate"
* The video for "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Music/FallOutBoy, is about a teenage boy with antlers, who starts dating a girl whose dad [[DatingWhatDaddyHates despises the fact that she's dating a boy with antlers]]. In the end, the dad gets hit by a truck while trying to shoot the boy, and as Antler Boy rushes over to help, it's revealed the dad has deer hooves.

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* During a segment on ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', Wrestling/CMPunk taunted Wrestling/JohnCena with the fact that he (and by extension, Cena's hometown of Boston, of which ''Raw'' was taking place in that night...) was no longer the underdog by consistently being the "top dog" in the WWE, stating that he was no longer the Boston Red Sox, but rather the ''New York Yankees''. Naturally, Cena didn't take too kindly to the comparison and promptly decked Punk after his comments. This got turned around on Punk years later in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling after both Wrestling/EddieKingston and Wrestling/{{MJF}} accused him of being a dynasty like Cena instead of the renegade the fans fell in love with all those years ago. ''Un''like Cena, Punk was annoyed and irritated by their words but didn't get angry at them, nor did he deny them, because they were correct. As one of the most popular wrestlers in WWE history and one of the biggest names in all of professional wrestling, he ''is'' a dynasty, and he acts like it too.
* It's often remarked by fans that Wrestling/RandyOrton also embodies this. Orton started off his career as "The Legend Killer" attacking and then defeating several in-ring veterans and legends, portraying the archetypal cocky, young hotshot, full of arrogance and disrespect. These days, Orton himself is a legend and a shoo-in for the WWE Hall of Fame when he eventually retires -- albeit, he's a [[TheDreaded legend]] his younger self would've gone after [[TooDumbToLive if he lacked any self-preservation]].

[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
* PlayedForLaughs when Creator/RonWhite uses this logic against his homophobic Cousin Ray.
--> '''Ray:''' Man, this world would be so much better if there weren't so many queers.\\
'''Ron:''' You know what, the next time you have a thought...let it go. Besides, we're all gay, it's just a question of to what extent.\\
'''Ray:''' That's bullshit, man! I ain't gay at all!\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, you are, and I can prove it.\\
'''Ray:''' All right, prove it!\\
'''Ron:''' All right, you like porn?\\
'''Ray:''' Yeah, I love porn. You know that.\\
'''Ron:''' Do you only watch scenes with two women naked?\\
'''Ray:''' No, I watch a man and woman making love.\\
'''Ron:''' Do you want the man to have a little-bitty half-flaccid penis?\\
'''Ray:''' No, I like big, hard, throbbing co-- ''({{beat}}, with a look of realization)'' I did not know that about myself.

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/AfterTheBomb,'' Emperor Daniel Christian, leader of the violently anti-mutant Empire of Humanity, is secretly a mutant himself. Since he looks human, as opposed to the FunnyAnimal mutants the empire wages war against, it's not as big of a deal, though his rhetoric combined with his burning hatred is still questionable.
* In the ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'':
** ''Second Sight'' explicitly states that possessors of the two anti-psychic merits listed are latent psychics who have mental blocks preventing them from accessing their powers and that this in turn makes them virulently skeptical.
** Banishers in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' are either this or {{Boomerang Bigot}}s: their flawed Awakenings give them an instinctive hatred for magic, but they might not understand it or know that they themselves are mages. One group firmly believes that they are AlienAbduction victims who gained superpowers from the experimentation, and whether they identify another mage as a fellow victim or as an enemy [[AlienAmongUs alien infiltrator]] depends entirely on [[TautologicalTemplar whether they think the mage is on their side]].
* A campaign in ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' had a mutant villain wanting to eradicate all mutants, founding an American NASI party, and of course being mutant himself.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}:''
** Every player character is a "Troubleshooter" whose job is to hunt down various types of traitors, including unregistered mutants. Due to unacknowledged malfunctions in the cloning vats, everyone in the setting is a mutant. Bonus irony if they're also a member of the "Anti-Mutant" secret society, the members of which are completely unaware that [[FlockOfWolves there's not a single genetically pure human among them]].
** Friend Computer vehemently hates [[RedScare Communism]], and considers Communists to be the single greatest threat to Alpha Complex. Indeed, all other threats, like mutants or other secret societies, are considered tools, pawns, or fronts for Communists. This despite the fact that the actual Communists are [[ForbiddenFruit only around because of the Computer's crackdown]], and [[FutureImperfect have little to no knowledge of actual Communist ideology]]). In most editions of the game, Alpha Complex under the Computer's rule is practically a Communist dictatorship.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, Malocchio Aderre seized political control of Invidia and initiated a pogrom against the Vistani. Malocchio's mother, whom he ousted from power, is part Vistani herself. Of course, she's no better; While most Darklords leave the Vistani alone, Invidia is one of the few realms where simply associating with them are liable to get a visitor killed.
* While his official stat-line disproved this, it is rumoured in-universe that Emperor Karl Prosek in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' is secretly a magician.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}:''
** Though the Warp is considered (Not without reason) an evil, corrupting force that must never be played with, or even acknowledged, the Imperium still makes heavy use of sanctioned psykers, who must wield the energies of the Warp to defend Humanity from, among other things, the creatures of the Warp. Unsanctioned psykers are exterminated, often by burning.
** Psykers and navigators are also needed for FTL travel and communication. The last time FTL travel went down caused the downfall of human civilization straight from golden to dark age during Age of Strife. And that was when the only major opponent of humanity were [[LaughablyEvil Orks]].
** The Emperor is a psyker. Some members of Ecclesiarchy actually acknowledge that and look upon the psyker without disdain, while others would burn you for saying that.
** The Adeptus Astartes (Better known as {{Space Marine}}s) are ProHumanTranshuman defenders of humanity in the extremely racist/speciest Imperium. Uriel Ventris views this as a noble sacrifice for a cause far greater than himself. [[Literature/HorusHeresy Horus Lupercal]] viewed it as a proof that once the Great Crusade is over, he will be disposed of and forgotten.
** Both Mortarion and Conrad Kurze became what they hated most. Mortarion led his homeworld in a rebellion against alien tyrants dwelling in the poisoned mists, then ended up ruling a carbon copy of it in the Eye of Terror with his own Space Marines as the tyrants. As for Kurze, he started out preying on the tyrants and killers of Nostromo, only to become a much worse monster than any he fought -- which is probably part of the reason he accepted [[SuicideByCop his own assassination]].
* Naturalized dryads from ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherGameOfImagination'' will fight humanity to the death... while [[TragicHero being brainwashed human girls and young women]].

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Kokichi hates murderers and calls out [[spoiler: Kaede]] for playing into Monokuma's hands by trying to murder someone. [[spoiler: In chapter 4, he manipulates the SuperGullible Gonta into murdering Miu, playing the killing game just like Kaede did- but ''without'' her excuse of trying to kill the Mastermind. It's heavily implied that he [[ThanatosGambit allows himself to be killed]] in the next chapter because of how guilty he felt about becoming a murderer himself.]]
* This trope is given something of a work-out in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', especially in the "Unlimited Blade Works" route: Archer is quite vocally disapproving of the [[WideEyedIdealist idealism and stubbornness]] that seems to plague most of his 'allies' (especially Shirou), and yet it is repeatedly pointed out by several characters and scenes that he is, in many ways, just as bad when it comes to suffering from ChronicHeroSyndrome. Just to make things weirder, this is a [[spoiler:LITERAL example in regards to Shirou, considering that they are the same person]].

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', Dan does not take it lightly when he [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_303.php is told he is an Incubus]] and spends some time in [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_407.php denial]] about it.
* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': Throughout 2017 the Dewclaw family were being harassed by N.O.P.E., an anti-Mixed Species hate group. Lindesfarne, who suffered the brunt of the harassment due to the birth of her Mixed Species baby, had enough and tricked the N.O.P.E. members to spit on her car, which allows her to perform DNA tests. The result is that ''none'' of the members were pure-blooded as they thought to be. This has two effects: one member performs a HeelFaceTurn and turns in the members who committed felonies, and the info revealed ensures no one in the group will trust each other ever again, leaving them decimated.
* ''Webcomic/RodneyRRodney'': Most of the people who think Rodney is a crazy stalker don't really display the best respect for boundaries themselves. This includes sneaking uninvited onto his property to take pictures (and breaking one of his flower pots in the process), and [[spoiler: literally stalking him to steal his hair]]. ItMakesSenseInContext. The level of paranoia they display also makes them look worlds more unstable than Rodney actually is.
* ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'': Turns out the homophobic (by Nordic standards) Faroe Islands [[http://satwcomic.com/ungodly-surprise likes yaoi]].
* Natani of ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' is a complicated case. He was introduced as an [[HeManWomanHater extreme misogynist]] Kedrian assassin. We find out later that [[spoiler: He's biologically female. The complication comes with the later revelation that Natani was injured on a mission and needed to have pieces of his brother's soul spliced into his to save him. This process partially overwrote Natani's personality with her brother's, including his attitudes towards females. Since we've seen very little of Natani's pre-splice personality, we don't know how much of his misogyny and self-loathing is his own and how much is his brother's influence. Nor do we know if Natani was trans previous to the spice.]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebAnimation/NeuroticallyYours'': Germaine hates how women are treated as nothing but sexual objects by men and are pressured to dress up in more provocative clothing yet has no problem using her own sexuality to manipulate men or allowing herself to become a slut while still complaining about how men are pigs.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Tyler expresses disdain for fans of 4*Town but is secretly a fan himself and fears revealing it.

* The main character of ''Inside A Skinhead'' / ''Film/TheBeliever'' is a highly anti-semitic white supremacist despite being of Jewish origin himself. [

** Psykers and navigators are also needed for FTL travel and communication. The last time FTL travel went down caused the downfall of human civilization straight from golden to dark age during Age of Strife. And that was when the only major opponent of humanity were [[ComicRelief Orks]].

* The video for "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Music/FallOutBoy, is about a teenager with antlers, whose girlfriend's dad [[DatingWhatDaddyHates despises the fact she's dating a boy with antlers]]. In the end, dad gets hit by a truck while trying to shoot the kid, and as Antler Boy rushes over to help, it's revealed the dad has deer hooves.

** The Emperor is a psyker. Mention this around any Ecclesiarchy personnel and you will burn. Literally.

** Enforced in ''Film/XMen1'', where Magneto's crew mutates Senator Kelly, the US government's biggest backer of mutant suppression. Although we don't really get too good a gauge of how he feels about it since he dies as a result not too long after.

* The film Film/TheBeliever is about a young Jewish man who despite growing as in a religious lifestyle, later becomes extremely antisemitic and joins the K.K.K., hiding his true identity until later exposed in the press, after which he commits suicide.

* The movie ''Film/{{Thor}}'' spends much of its arc following the self-destruction of Loki, setting him up for his role as the villain of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. His racism against Frost Giants clearly has deep roots but was never a major part of his life until it turned out he was one. Along with being a WellDoneSonGuy who seems honestly to be TheUnfavorite and regularly suffer AllOfTheOtherReindeer, ''and'' with knowing he's actually responsible for Thor's exile and the fact that they're currently at war, '''and''' combined with unexpectedly being temporary king, this violent undermining of his entire identity causes him to go completely insane.

* The main character of ''Inside A Skinhead'' / ''Film/TheBeliever'' is viewing himself as a highly anti-semitic white supremacist, despite being of Jewish origin himself. [[spoiler: Of course, he tries to hide his biggest secret but ultimately fails.]]

** Insane actions taken include but are not limited to setting up a complex plot to allow him to 'heroically' kill his biological father in person and the attempted destruction of the Frost Giant home world. He attempts suicide at the end but just comes back crazier.

** Erik/Magneto hates Nazis due to being a survivor of the Holocaust, but ultimately embraces racism against non-mutants, this is highlighted in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.

* During a segment on ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', Wrestling/CMPunk taunted Wrestling/JohnCena with the fact that he (and by extension, Cena's hometown of Boston, of which ''Raw'' was taking place in that night...) was no longer the underdog by consistently being the "top dog" in the WWE, stating that he was no longer the Boston Red Sox, but rather the ''New York Yankees''. Naturally, Cena didn't take too kindly to the comparison and promptly decked Punk after his comments.
** This got turned around on Punk years later in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling after both Wrestling/EddieKingston and Wrestling/{{MJF}} accused him of being a dynasty like Cena instead of the renegade the fans fell in love with all those years ago. ''Un''like Cena, Punk was annoyed and irritated by their words but didn't get angry at them, nor did he deny them, because they were correct. As one of the most popular wrestlers in WWE history and one of the biggest names in all of professional wrestling, he ''is'' a dynasty, and he acts like it too.

* Germaine from ''WebAnimation/NeuroticallyYours'' in the classic series is this full stop. She hates how women are treated as nothing but sexual objects by men and are pressured to dress up in more provocative clothing, yet has no problem using her own sexuality to manipulate men or allowing herself to become a slut while still complaining about how men are pigs.
** It's taken a step further with her magic breast control ring [[spoiler: during her delusions]] which she uses to make her breasts large to the point of ridiculous solely to get men to give her bigger tips at her job. Representing her becoming nothing more than a pair of breasts to be used to her advantage.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Much of the plot of Creator/OsamuTezuka's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII saga ''Manga/{{Adolf}}'' revolves around the largely discredited notion that UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's grandfather was a Jew.
* In one chapter of ''Manga/AiKora'', Maeda attracts the attention of Sajima, a SadistTeacher who seems to have it out for him because of his "parts love". Turns out Sajima is a parts fetishist himself, [[spoiler: but because of this, he was once in a student-teacher love affair that ended in tragedy, and he doesn't want something like that happening to Maeda.]]
* [[spoiler:Eren Yeager]] in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. He doesn't particularly mind, though, so long as it lets him kill Titans more effectively.
** [[spoiler:Most of the would-be Titan Shifters on the mainland call the Wall's inhabitants 'Violent Devils', despite also being ticking time bombs who are persecuted to heck by their own country.]] They're completely unaware that their situations are the same; a caste of slaves who are killed by their oppressors for leaving the nest or trying to make things better for everyone.
* Minako Aino in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' openly dislikes cops, but as Sailor V she acts exactly like a Japanese cop, and, at the end of the manga, [[spoiler: [[SuperCop she actually joins the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, implying she's still a cop for the entire run of]] ''Manga/SailorMoon'']], while TheNineties ''Anime/SailorMoon'' anime has her being a SuperCop in London for a while. She ''still'' dislikes the average cop.
* In ''Anime/CrossAnge'', after declaring her intent on solving the Norma "problem", [[FallenPrincess Ange]] is devastated when she discovers that she is one. She changes her tune over the next several episodes, and when she faces execution and public jeering when lured back via WoundedGazelleGambit from her sister, she's made a complete 180 and declares mana users to be the real "savages".
* Doubly invoked in ''LightNovel/DateALive''. [[FantasticRacism Origami hates spirits]] and vows to kill them all because it was a spirit that killed her parents. This spurs her to use dangerous equipment from DEM to go after them, despite knowing that they're no longer considered a threat after Shido seals them. After being outclassed by them, she is encouraged to seek even greater power and becomes a spirit as a result. This disgusts her when she realizes what she's become, but ultimately confirms that [[IgnoredEpiphany it will not change her agenda]] and confirms that she'll kill herself when she's done with the spirits. She locates Kurumi with the intention of using her power to go back in time to kill the spirit that killed her parents. However when she does, she finds out that the spirit who killed them [[spoiler: was her [[TemporalParadox future self all along,]]]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation which makes her Inverse when she finds out.]]
* Light / Kira of ''Manga/DeathNote''. When he describes his plan to kill off all the criminals and evil people in the world, [[{{Shinigami}} Ryuk]] [[WhatTheHellHero calls him on it]]:
-->'''Ryuk:''' But if you did that, you'd be the only bad person left.
-->'''Light:''' [[SelectiveObliviousness Huh? I have]] ''[[SelectiveObliviousness no idea]]'' [[SelectiveObliviousness what you're talking about, Ryuk.]]
* Used in a very unusual way in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''. Goku Black [[spoiler:is a version of Zamasu who used the Super Dragon Balls to trade bodies with Goku before killing him. This is despite Goku being everything Zamasu ''hates'' about mortals like him hanging out with gods like he's their equal, fighting them in battle, and being immature as well as being extremely powerful. It was his entire meeting with Goku that sent him on his StartOfDarkness. Yet, not only did he steal the body of the mortal he hates the most, but he takes many of his character traits like his need to fight, grow stronger, and be challenged. This gets lampshaded in the FinalBattle, where Vegetto points out to the [[FusionDance Merged Zamasu]] that even if he [[OmnicidalManiac wipes out all life]], Goku will live on forever as part of his body; Zamasu responds that he's fine with this, since Goku will serve as an eternal symbol of the gods' failures and the mortals' arrogance]].
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': Despite hating AbusiveMom Ren's guts, Akito is really the same as her: a PsychopathicWomanchild who is obsessed with proving that only she deserves to be loved by the Sohma men and gets insanely jealous over other women who "steal" their attention. The only reason Akito doesn't end up a solitary crazy lady ignored or outright despised by everyone around her is because of [[AllLovingHero Tohru]] reaching out to her and convincing her to [[HeelFaceTurn change her ways]].
* The main characters of the anime ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' are a bunch of otaku all fitting a certain subset of otaku life. The character Chika Ogiue introduced in the second season represents the self-loathing otaku, and she is very open about this despite being a prominent member of the Genshiken club. Kanji himself started off as this trope being a closet otaku before coming to terms with it.
* One of the more interesting elements lost in the adaptation of ''Anime/GoLion'' to the series ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' is that Prince Sincline is not only [[spoiler: the son of a human woman whom his father later disposed of, but that this woman was a citizen of Planet Altea, where his worst enemy lives.]] His reaction: kill [[spoiler: his own grandmother Honerva.]]
* [[{{Tsundere}} South Italy (also known as Italy Romano)]] of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' isn't fond of Germans in general, but he ''especially'' [[BerserkButton hates]] the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personification]] of [[TheComicallySerious Germany]] itself. When Germany points out that Romano also has Germanic blood, it angers him enough to get him to charge Germany...and then [[AmusingInjuries slip on a banana peel]], FacePlant, and skin his arm.
* Humorous example in ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombina]] dislikes films with fast-moving, intelligent zombies and prefers the Romero-styled ones... despite being a zombie herself, a member of a special SWAT-like squad and one of the most active and boisterous characters in the entire series.
* In ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', [[spoiler:the BigBad Atlantean-supremacist Gargoyle]] didn't know he actually was [[spoiler:a human that was adopted by Atlanteans.]]
* Neji of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' repeatedly put down Naruto and Hinata for trying to escape their "fate" to be weak. During their fight, Naruto pointed out that, despite everything he said, Neji was still struggling against his own fate as a member of the Branch Family.
* Fujimoto in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' hates humanity even though he is very much aware that he is a (former?) human being himself. He also at first opposes Ponyo's attraction to Sosuke, even though that situation is very much akin to that of her parents (Granmammare and Fujimoto) when ''they'' first met.
* In ''Manga/SamuraiUsagi'' (not to be confused with ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'') a group of samurai-hating/murdering ''ronin'' [[spoiler: all come from samurai families so they know first-hand how horrible samurai can be]]. To their consternation, they're matched with the Usagi Dojo, who [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits really clash]] with how they imagine samurai to be.
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** Having spent the series' early arcs rejecting any connection between himself, his father, and bad guys like [[spoiler:[[BigBad Asura]] and Eibon, Death the Kid]] does not react well to the revelation that he and they are the same; [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch/Humanoid Abominations]]]], even more so when he learns that [[spoiler:Asura is his ''older brother'', since he is also a fragment of Shinigami.]]
** Death the Kid despises [[NeatFreak anything that is even the slightest bit asymmetrical]], yet he himself is glaringly asymmetrical. This is lampshaded to him, but it doesn't stop him to continuing to act in the most asymmetriphobic way possible, despite a brief HeroicBSOD over it.
* Provides a series of major twists in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. [[spoiler: The Washuu Clan, famous Ghoul Hunters that founded and have led the [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]] for more than a century... are themselves ghouls. Their oppression of their own kind seems to be motivated by their desire to become human]]. Likewise, [[spoiler: Kishou Arima and his proteges from the Sunlit Garden are flawed HalfHumanHybrids with ghoul parentage. While Arima turns out to have been faking his disdain for his own kind, others like Hairu Ihei seem to have genuinely enjoyed killing ghouls]].
* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': Seto Kaiba ''loathes'' his adoptive/stepfather and yet, because of the nightmarish training he underwent, he actually became the man who ruined his childhood. While he's not as bad as him, his methods and actions are rather questionable.

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The "homophobes are all secretly gay" idea shows up in a few comics, including ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' and ''ComicBook/TheAuthority.''
* In DC Comics, government agent Cameron Chase has a dislike and distrust (and occasional hatred) of super-beings (both heroes and villains alike) due to her father's murder. (He was a minor superhero, and his career as one resulted in his daughter witnessing his incredibly gory murder at the hands of a villain named Dr. Trap.) Unfortunately for Chase, she fits the bill herself, having a psychic ability to dampen the abilities of other "metahumans", which she apparently triggers subconsciously whenever she is threatened.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', Mindfuck (yes, this is her actual superhero name) takes a peek into (ex-)lover Spooky's memories and instantly grasps that her public persona has been subconsciously patterned after the same vain blond bimbos she was so traumatized by. Both physically (sans actual blond hair) and personality. [[spoiler:The bimbos even [[DealWithTheDevil sold their souls]] for "supernatural hotness" (sans superpowers) just like Spooky did, and for the exact same reasons. Spooky discovered this when she tried to use her powers to take revenge -- her patron demon didn't allow it because he is forbidden from interfering with other demons' clients.]]
* ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''-era Maxwell Lord was prone to making speeches about how metahumans were the cause of all society's ills, and claiming that non-powered heroes like ComicBook/BlueBeetle should be on his side, as fellow normal humans. When Beetle pointed out that Max was ''currently using his metahuman powers'', Max simply shrugged this off as beside the point. He knew who ''he'' meant by metahuman, and it wasn't himself.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'', The Survivor (briefly) helps defeat The Plutonian out of vengeance for killing his twin brother, and soon takes the spot of the world's most powerful hero. The power and reputation quickly corrupt him though, and he soon becomes just as petty and vindictive as the Plutonian was before he became evil. [[spoiler:This includes feeling [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled to having Kaidan]], who had picked his brother over him, and considering murdering his ''other'' brother so he could keep his top spot once The Plutonian comes back.]]
* In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story "The Neon Knights", Dredd unmasks the leader of the eponymous robot-hating "Klan", revealing him to be...A CYBORG! "I thought his voice sounded synthetic; like all bigots, he HATED HIMSELF and transferred that hatred to the thing he most resembled...Robots!" is Dredd's explanation.
* Xander Payne from the ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' comic is leader of the anti-robot group Emerald-Spears but is actually part robot himself. His brother had Xander's eye surgically replaced with a cybernetic implant after Elec Man fried it during Dr. Wily's first world domination attempt.
* In ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor: God of Thunder]]'', the God Butcher, Gorr, lived his life believing gods did not exist, because he and his people suffered through so much tragedy, particularly those who deeply believed in the gods, that he thought there was just no way anyone with that level of power would allow this stuff to happen... Then two gods in a grudge match crash land next to him, and he realizes that gods aren't helping people because they're too busy fighting ''each other'', so he kills the remaining god with the other's power. He then dedicated himself to killing all gods across all of time, so that everyone would have to learn to cherish what time they had, and would turn to ''each other'' for help. He does this by basically empowering himself into a god, and waging war on various pantheons. A god he is torturing asks him if he is so powerful as to be able to do these things, who is more godly than he is? He...does not react well.
* Mocked to hell and back in ''[[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]]'', where Brakko's mother in law is openly racist and hates him for being black while being black herself ([[NWordPrivileges hence how the author gets away with her constant use of the N-word]]). Considering the series, she's likely too stupid to realize she's black.
* ComicBook/RedHulk is implied to be someone who really hates the Hulk. He turns out to be [[spoiler:General Ross]].
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'': Valance hates droids and cyborgs with a seething passion, but is secretly a cyborg himself. He hides his condition by covering his cybernetic parts with false skin, and in his first appearance, he destroyed the hospital where he was rebuilt to keep anyone from learning the truth.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' the biggest mutantphobic person turns out to be a mutant.
* In the UltimateUniverse Magneto [[spoiler:and all mutants are actually human beings, who have been genetically altered by an airborne variation of the super-soldier serum.]]
* There is a theory that [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] was deeply closeted because of his apparent dislike for homosexuals (and women). See the WMG page for the graphic novel. Somewhat wobbly, since Rorschach dislikes [[SexIsEvil all forms of sexuality]].
* In a comic so full of bigotry as ComicBook/XMen there are bound to be examples:
** Graydon Creed, the founder of the anti-mutant Friends of Humanity in ''ComicBook/XMen'', is not himself a mutant -- but his parents were Mystique and Sabretooth. However, in a twist that Marvel Comics themselves once pointed out, a mutant is a being that differs markedly from their genetic parents. Thus, by not having powers in any way, Graydon Creed ''is'' a mutant.
** Larry Trask, son of Sentinel-maker Bolivar Trask. He very nearly succeeded in having his giant robots wipe out all (then-known) mutants, but when his dad's friend Judge Chalmers ripped the power-suppressing amulet off of him, surprise surprise, Larry's a mutant too.
** In ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'', Anne -- TheDragon of the Purifiers, a [[TheFundamentalist fanatical religious terrorist]] organisation who go around executing every mutant that they find, due to their belief that they are agents of Satan, was most devoted and loyal to the leader of this group -- [[SinisterMinister Reverend William Stryker]], [[WouldHurtAChild even killing children under his command without batting an eye]] when they turn out to be mutants. At some point late into the story arc to her horror, [[spoiler: she discovers that she is a mutant herself. Stryker soon kills her after this discovery]].
** Sentinels can technically be considered mutants, according to Sebastian Shaw. He once outfitted a series of them with a LogicBomb built in, in the event that he could use it to destroy them if they turned rogue, [[AIIsACrapshoot as Sentinels often do]]. The logic being that Sentinels were derived from the blueprints of the original Mark-Is, and since then, they have evolved and grown stronger, thus they are Mutants. Since they are Mutants, they must be destroyed, as per their prime directive. Sadly, it doesn't work out as Shawn plans, as ComicBook/{{Loki}} fuses three of them into the deadly Tri-Sentinel, his magic overriding Shaw's command; only confuses them long enough for ComicBook/SpiderMan to use his recently gained Captain Universe powers to take them out.
** A surprisingly large number of anti-mutant bigots from the X-Men's RoguesGallery are ''cyborgs'' -- including Pierce, Akab, Cameron Hodge, Bastion and the Phalanx. So while they're not mutants, they're not exactly normal humans, either.
** The villain ComicBook/{{Magneto}} is also an example. He hates Nazis for what they did to him and his family, but as a result became a mutant-supremacist, hating all humans and just becoming a different kind of bigot. (A major case of DependingOnTheWriter. He's dated humans, and he's gone way out of his way to protect them… but, yes, he's also tried to wipe them out. He's conflicted.)
** In ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', Rev William Stryker Jr is as much a mutant hater as his 616 counterpart, due to his abusive father (based on General Stryker from the movies), and said abusive childhood has left him in utter denial that he's a mutant himself.

[[folder:Fanfiction]]
* The Psyche Master in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is a Smurf who hates his own blue-skinned race and creates a light-skinned race of people called the Psyches who are taught to hate Smurfs. Of course, none of the Psyches know what the Psyche Master really is.
* [[spoiler:Rika]] in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanfic ''The Tale of Rumia'' hates Youkai with a blinding passion -- and at the end of the arc she's introduced in, it's revealed that over the years, she herself became a Youkai. She never really stops being in denial about it, although she privately [[spoiler:turns herself into a robot so that she won't have to live with the shame.]]
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse]] loathes [[spoiler:Discord]] and seeks to punish him for his crimes. However, her methods of doing so ultimately not only make her ''worse'' than he is, but [[spoiler:causing him to have a HeelRealization and her ''forcing'' him still doing the things she's punishing him just so [[KnightTemplar she can keep punishing him,]] effectively meaning everything she hates him for is now ''her'' doing. Rota Fortuna, the Alicorn of Fate,]] lampshades this [[spoiler:by giving her a BreakingLecture during the Nightmare's defeat.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Rota Fortuna''']]]: You condemn [[spoiler:Discord]] for the murder and sin he's done onto others, yet you use those same ponies to die and suffer for your satisfaction. He only continued to make the ponies suffer because you allowed and then forced him to do so. The very sins you claim to punish him for are now your own. You embarrass yourself!!
* In a comedic version of this, we have ''Fanfic/{{Intercom}}'' when Riley's Disgust finds out she's shaped similar to Broccoli, Riley's (and by extension, her) least favorite vegetable.
-->'''Disgust''': WHY WAS I CURSED TO LOOK LIKE MY LEAST FAVORITE THING IN THE UNIVERSE!!???”
* ''Fanfic/TheVow'' shows that no matter what [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 Lord Shen]] did, he was rejected by almost everyone as an abomination due to his paleness, and it played [[FreudianExcuse a part]] in his eventual FaceHeelTurn. His former fiancée Lianne tells him that he has become what he was for so long accused of being during one of her failed attempts to reach out to him.
-->'''Lianne:''' You used to be a good man, you would have followed your father's footsteps: [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood you would have been a great ruler of this city]]. The only thing that ever brought you down was the prejudice of others. All the petty words and insults the nobles ever threw at you... they called you a monster, though you hated it, you sought to prove them wrong. Even then you rose above that to be more. Shen, why do you squander this? You could have had the world at your feet!
-->'''Shen:''' ''[chuckles cruelly]'' [[TakeOverTheWorld And so I shall...]]
-->'''Lianne:''' Then I was wrong. You have truly become the monster you always hated!
** After Shen [[spoiler:destroys his family's home]] just to kill Po, Lianne tells him that he's becoming just as extreme as her father, whom he hates with a passion.
* ''Webcomic/DogsOfFuturePast'' has this as an element in the ultimate confrontation with Dr. Gaster. The good doctor loathes 'cheaters' who think they can bend the rules to suit their own purposes, whether for good or ill -- because he himself tried to do the same, and ended up condemning himself and several innocent test subjects to a hell outside existence, and doesn't believe that he deserves to be saved.
--> '''River Person/[[spoiler: The first test subject]]''': A person hates most in others what they hate most in themselves.
* ''Fanfic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'': Evidence is scattered throughout the Extra Stage that Patchouli is more like Coop than she thinks. Among other things she has some familiarity with video games and associated terminology thanks to her dreams, she eventually gives in to the urge to request a pizza-wrapped ham from the Mansion's kitchen, and her idea of getting out of an escort mission is [[FastballSpecial to throw Reimu at the escortee]]. All this is despite the fact that she developed a hefty loathing for Coop, his lifestyle and stupidity, and Megas by the time they get brought up.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11761475/1/Hate Hate]]'', the faunus-hating Cardin is secretly a rabbit faunus himself (with a tail that he hides). His parents are human but Cardin's mother had rabbit faunus in her lineage, leading to a faunus child.
* ''Fanfic/DannyPhantomStranded'': Star has a very distant, complicated relationship with her mother Stella and an outright hatred for her stepsister Colette prior to the fic series and during it. Both Stella and Colette are spoiled; selfish women don't care how their actions hurt others as long as they get their way, and Star resented both of them deeply. However, before her character development. Star was no better as their influence made her insecure enough to join the A-Listers. A group of selfish kids who pick on others, which turned Star into the selfish, shallow, two-dimensional popular girl, that was shown in the series. Thankfully, Star changed due to her relationship with Danny. In "Stuck," she acknowledges that and admits to Sam that Danny saved her from a life of being a shallow girl who put too much value on looks, money, clothes, and status, much like her mother and stepsister.
* Throughout ''Fanfic/LadyBugOut'', Alya is ''outraged'' at any suggestion that she's like [[AlphaBitch Chloe]]. Chloe ''herself'' suggests as much when Alya resorts to personal attacks to try and defend her [[TabloidMelodrama positing a photo without context for attention]], and Ladybug later draws a direct parallel: if Chloe isn't qualified to bear the Bee due to behaving badly as a civilian, then why should Alya be trusted with the Fox despite personally betraying Ladybug?
** At one point, Alya perfectly sums up one of her greatest issues... [[PsychologicalProjection while accusing]] ''Marinette'' of being someone who "won't apologize and can't even see what she did." This only convinces Marinette to break off their relationship for good.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13538715/1/Along-Came-a-Spider Along Came a Spider]]'', Jaune's conversation with White Fang member Tifa causes her to realize that several White Fang are just as racist against other Faunus as the humans they fight. What helps cement it is a conversation she hears in passing of two Faunus insisting a woman was a slut because she was a rabbit Faunus.

[[folder:Films — Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Frollo professes to [[EgocentricallyReligious be a devout]] [[HolierThanThou Christian]] who longs to purge the world of sin, yet he's the most corrupt person in the whole movie. He also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain hates]] the Romani people, yet he develops an [[BigotWithACrush unhealthy]] obsession over a Romani woman. His hypocrisy is lampshaded in the opening song, and countless people even call him out on it. He also uses PsychologicalProjection to find faults in others and [[NeverMyFault blame them for his misery]], but refuses to acknowledge his own faults to the end due to his self-righteous pride.
* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', Disgust's (and thus Riley's) dislike of [[StockYuck broccoli]] is a running gag throughout the film. Disgust [[WordOfGod has been stated]] to have been designed based on broccoli. (This connection is lost in the Japanese dub, where every mention and appearance of broccoli in the film is replaced with green bell peppers.)

[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AmericanBeauty'', [[spoiler: the homophobic neighbor turns out to be a closeted homosexual]].
* Subtly hinted at [[HypocriticalHumor for comedy]] with Nigel Powers in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': "There are only two things I can't stand in this world! People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the ''Dutch''!"
* ''[[http://www.8asians.com/2011/11/29/my-newest-movie-chink/ Chink]]'' is a movie about Eddy Tsai, a self-hating Asian who becomes a serial killer targeting other Asians. He changes his name to "Richards" and falsely claims to have been adopted by white parents.
* In ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', the character of Zeus is a black man with serious problems with white people, most especially white racists. Eventually [=McClane=] calls him out on the fact that he's acting like a racist himself.
* [[spoiler:Gretel]] in ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'' is revealed to be a witch by inheritance. This leads to no CharacterDevelopment whatsoever.
* In ''Film/TheHumanCondition'', Kaji openly states his moral disgust for [[spoiler: deserters and POW escapees]]. He becomes both by the end of the film.
* The main character of ''Inside A Skinhead'' / ''Film/TheBeliever'' is viewing himself as a highly anti-semitic white supremacist, despite being of Jewish origin himself. [[spoiler: Of course, he tries to hide his biggest secret but ultimately fails.]]
* In ''Film/IRobot'', Detective Spooner (Creator/WillSmith) displays an intense dislike towards humanoid robots... [[spoiler:despite being a cyborg]]. Although, he ''does'' have a tragic reason for that one.
* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': [[spoiler:Arthur is an elitist prick who has it in for Eggsy the WorkingClassHero throughout the movie. He later turns out to be in league with the BigBad and tries to poison Eggsy, but a simple sleight of hand trick leaves him the one choking to death on laced brandy. For his final dying expletives he speaks in a very coarse East End accent, implying that he started out in the lower classes and put on snobby airs to distance himself from his origins as he worked his way up the organisation.]]
* ''Film/{{Milk}}'' subtly suggests that Dan White may have been a closeted gay man himself, adding another dimension to his crimes.
* Brian from ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' hates Romans only for his mother to reveal that he is half-Roman. He hates them because they have invaded his homeland, not because they are Romans, though.
* Long before ''The Chappelle Show'' and its iconic black white supremacist, a [[NightmareFuel much less comedic]] version of this idea was used in the 1963 film ''Film/ShockCorridor'', which featured a black KKK member in an insane asylum. In case you missed that one, suffice to say that anti-black rhetoric sounds even ''more'' terrifying when it's being delivered by a ScaryBlackMan.
* ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'': [[spoiler:The Prophet, a man leading a group against the eponymous [[RemoteBody surrogates]], is [[RoboticReveal himself a surrogate]], controlled by the inventions' ''creator'' at that.]]
* Lampshaded in ''Film/ThisIsEngland'': one of the far-right extremist characters, Combo, is a racist played by a mixed-race actor... hence his MeaningfulName.
* The movie ''Film/{{Thor}}'' spends much of its arc following the self-destruction of Loki, setting him up for his role as the villain of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. His racism against Frost Giants clearly has deep roots but was never a major part of his life until it turned out he was one. Along with being a WellDoneSonGuy who seems honestly to be TheUnfavorite and regularly suffer AllOfTheOtherReindeer, ''and'' with knowing he's actually responsible for Thor's exile and the fact that they're currently at war, '''and''' combined with unexpectedly being temporary king, this violent undermining of his entire identity causes him to go completely insane.
** Insane actions taken include but are not limited to setting up a complex plot to allow him to 'heroically' kill his biological father in person and the attempted destruction of the Frost Giant home world. He attempts suicide at the end but just comes back crazier.
* In ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', Chad hates hillbillies because his mother was raped by a hillbilly SerialKiller who also murdered his father. [[spoiler:The serial killer was actually Chad's real father, the proof being an old newspaper article with a photo of the killer, who looks exactly like Chad. Chad, already murderously insane by that point, has a total breakdown when he learns the truth.]]
* Jay of Film/TheViewAskewniverse often makes homophobic remarks, but it's been hinted [[ArmoredClosetGay he's secretly gay or at least bi]].
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', [[spoiler:Judge Doom turns out to be a Toon in a human mask.]] Possibly justified in that he was motivated by greed, not bigotry, although he makes several anti-Toon statements prior to TheReveal as well (claiming, for example, that Toons are naturally lawless and deserve the most brutal punishments imaginable). It's probable that he's saying those things not because he believes [[spoiler:other]] toons are like that, but because he knows that [[spoiler:HE is like that]]. Another possible interpretation is that [[spoiler:Doom, being an ''evil'' Toon, simply has it out against ''other'' Toons, true to stereotype. After all, his master plan involves ''wiping out Toontown''.]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Erik/Magneto hates Nazis due to being a survivor of the Holocaust, but ultimately embraces racism against non-mutants, this is highlighted in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
** Enforced in ''Film/XMen1'', where Magneto's crew mutates Senator Kelly, the US government's biggest backer of mutant suppression. Although we don't really get too good a gauge of how he feels about it since he dies as a result not too long after.

[[folder:Jokes]]
* If racists are becoming a minority nowadays, and [[{{Irony}} racists hate minorities]]...
* Arachnophobes are latent spiders.

[[folder:Literature]]
!!!'''By Author:'''
* The trope is reduced to absurdity in [[GermanHumour F. W. Bernstein's]] most well-known two-line poem:
-->''Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche''\\
''waren früher selber welche.''[[note]] The harshest critics of mooses / Used to be ones themselves.[[/note]]
!!!'''By Work:'''
* The short story "Am I Blue?" has two characters, one extremely homophobic politician and a bully who beat up the protagonist for being gay, who were both revealed to be gay.
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl:'' ''The Lost Colony'' has Leon Abbot, who has an intense hatred of warlocks for relying on magic over brute strength, despite the fact that he uses magic power he stole from a warlock to brainwash his kinsmen into loyal minions.
* ''Literature/TheBlackWitchChronicles'': The Gardnerian Mages despise everyone who isn't Gardnerian, especially Kelts and the Fae. It turns out they are Kelt-Dryad Fae hybrids.
* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'': Dionysus in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' hates demigods because his wife, Ariadne, was abandoned by the demigod Theseus. When Percy and Jason are fighting the Giants -- who can only be beaten by a god and a demigod working together -- it comes out that Dionysus (who is currently going by Bacchus) was the demigod who originally helped defeat them in ancient times. Of course, he's since become a god in his own right and one of the twelve Olympians to boot, so perhaps, in his case, you hate what you ''were'' before you got better.
* ''Literature/{{Chrestomanci}}'': In ''Literature/WitchWeek'', an alternate Earth on which witches are known, feared, and persecuted turns out to also be a world on which ''nearly every human is secretly a witch''.
* In ''Literature/{{Deryni}} Rising'', the first book of Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series, Queen Jehana loudly claims her hatred of all Deryni, and later on Morgan describes this very trope when confronting her to obtain her peaceful cooperation during her son Kelson's coronation. It turns out that she is, indeed, a full-blooded member of the magically gifted Deryni race. Thanks to InternalizedCategorism, she becomes a BoomerangBigot and spends several years in penance for the sins of being Deryni.
* In Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby", the slave-owner Armand rejects his wife Desiree and their newborn son due to the son's obvious African heritage. He takes this to be proof that Desiree is also of mixed heritage, and she eventually gets fed up and goes back home to her parents with her son in tow. While throwing out Desiree's things, Armand eventually comes across letters from his deceased mother that reveal that she was one of his father's former slaves.
* ''Literature/DifferentSeasons'': In ''Apt Pupil'', Todd is repulsed by one of his girlfriends, thinking that she is Jewish (due to the influence Dussander has had on him). He himself is 1/8 Jewish.
** Dussander himself claims he and Todd have something in common; in that Dussander's mother was a Jew -- it is unclear whether he was serious or joking.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The dwarven conspirator's motivation in ''Literature/TheFifthElephant''. Dwarf women in Ankh-Morpork are increasingly able to admit and show their true gender. As an Uberwald dwarf, [[spoiler:Dee]] cannot, and is forced to pass as male by society. So she plots with werewolves to undermine a symbol of that society.
* ''Literature/DragonsOfRequiem'' has [[BigBad King Raem Seran]] from the ''Dawn of Dragons'' trilogy. He's obsessed with exterminating the Vir Requis from the world because he's ashamed of being one himself, believing that all Vir Requis are "cursed".
* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'':
** Shortly after having his new home destroyed, his father killed, and being forced on the run with his mother by the Harkonnen family, Paul points out to his mother that she is Baron Harkonnen's daughter, making them part of the very noble family that they despise.
** Essentially directly stated in one of the epigraphical quotations at the beginning of a chapter:
--->"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."\\
''from the Manual of Muad'dib by the Princess Irulan''
* In "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn", the title character goes insane and [[SelfImmolation sets himself on fire]] upon realizing that one of his distant ancestors was [[spoiler: an ape goddess]].
* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In the ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series' Book 1, [[spoiler: Lord Roderik Hightower spent years obsessively going out hunting werewolves. He only ever found one, but it was enough -- the werewolf bit him and turned him into the very thing he despised]].
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Even though his father was a Muggle, Lord Voldemort, the BigBad, believes in the supremacy of pure-blooded wizards and hates those with Muggle blood. WordOfGod states that Voldemort's own half-blood nature, coupled with his [[FantasticRacism obsession with wizard blood purity]], is based on perceptions of Hitler.
** Severus Snape is an example through MoralMyopia and [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]]. He has ''detested'' James Potter since boyhood (James very much returned the hate). While part of Snape's hate for James comes from envy (Snape grew up in an abusive home, James in a loving one, etc.), Snape very frequently calls James out for his arrogance and behavior. However, Snape is at least as arrogant as an ambitious young wizard who wants everyone to see how clever and powerful he is. Snape joins a gang that becomes the Death Eaters -- a group that commits worse crimes than the Marauders; while Snape may not do anything himself, he certainly pardons his friends' escapades while being raving pissed if he is targeted by James and or Sirius' tomfoolery. A lot of what Snape hates in James is within himself, and, unlike James, his hatred never leaves.
** While it is not apparent in the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix books]] [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince she]] [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows appears]] in Dolores Umbridge, who despises half-bloods and Muggles, was confirmed to have a muggle mother and a Squib brother by Rowling on Pottermore.
* In ''Literature/HearTheWindSing'', the Rat despises the rich, despite coming from a wealthy family.
* ''Literature/LunarChronicles'': [[spoiler:Cinder expresses hate toward the Lunars, a race/species of people who live on the moon and have powers. It turns out that Cinder isn't just a Lunar, she's ''their princess.'']]
* [[spoiler:Colin]] is the only character from ''Literature/OutOfPosition'' who despises Dev for being homosexual, whereas everyone else on the Firebirds team has lightened up to him. ''Uncovered'' reveals that [[spoiler:Colin is a closet homosexual who has sex with Argonne and still refuses to accept that he's gay, or that he's cheating on his wife]].
* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'', one of the things Michael Bruce hates the most about Tony Toronto is that Tony is a terrible womanizer. Michael, however, is pretty much the same, spending most of the first series dating two women simultaneously and seeing a few others on the side.
* Averted in ''Literature/RobotsAndEmpire''. In the beginning, Dr. Mandamus tries to obtain evidence from Gladia that he is not the descendant of Elijah Baley, claiming Amadiro suspects him of being one, and that prevents him from making a career. While given enough evidence, he claims it won't be enough for Amadiro, yet still seems to leave triumphant. Daneel figures out the reason -- there was enough evidence to convince ''Mandamus'', so now he can proceed with his plans to destroy Earth without being hindered by the trope.
* From ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'': "Seek ye the true reflecting pool? Look to the enemy you despise, not the friend you love."
* In "Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth", the protagonist finds out that one of his ancestors is a Deep One, a fish-like monster. He eventually goes underwater to live with the other Deep Ones.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': Some speculate that rabidly xenophobic half-human Grand Admiral [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Danetta_Pitta Danetta Pitta]] was based in characterizations of Heinrich Himmler's PsychoForHire [[TheDragon Dragon]] Reinhard Heydrich possessing Jewish ancestry.
* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': Tobias Brogan, who not only hates magic and its users but leads the Blood of the Fold, a group intent on killing them all, himself has the gift. It's a secret his mother and sister kept hidden from him all of his life. The protagonist Richard Rahl is clearly able to recognize Brogan has the gift, confusing Brogan greatly during a discussion on defeating insidious evil, and telling him "Be careful the shadow you chase is not the one you cast." Brogan explicitly does not understand what Richard is hinting at. After he finds out, it drives him mad.
* There is a light-skinned black female character in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Literature/TheirEyesWereWatchingGod'' who is contemptuous of dark-skinned black people. She complains that [[StopBeingStereotypical the dark-skinned blacks are ignorant buffoons who "cut de monkey for white folks," causing light-skinned blacks to get unfairly blamed for these antics]]. When she gets called out for these remarks by the book's protagonist since she is black herself, the woman retorts with something along the lines of [[FacialProfiling "I ain't got no saucer lips!"]]
* Hinted at, though never explicitly stated, for one character in ''[[Creator/JohnRidley Those Who Walk in Darkness]]''. [[spoiler:Soledad joined [[CapeBusters MTac]] as a means of revenge on the super-villain Bloodlust, who [[DoomedHometown destroyed her hometown]]. It's mentioned offhandedly that Bloodlust's "power" was his [[GadgeteerGenius skill]] at inventing things, which he mostly used to design weapons. Soledad herself designs AbnormalAmmo, including but not limited to phosphorus bullets, poisoned bullets, explosive bullets, and ''homing bullets'', all clearly beyond the skill of any other normal person in the setting.]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Jocelyn Jee Esien's sketch show featured the character of Fiona, a black woman who dislikes black people and fears they will "out" her to her white co-workers, who (she believes) do not know that she's really black.
* In the second episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'':
-->'''Liz''': Toofer's just afraid of black people.\\
'''Tracy''': Which one is Toofer?\\
'''Liz''': The black guy.
* In ''Series/{{The 100}}'' episode "Resurrection", Clarke, normally an AllLovingHero, becomes obsessed with killing the Mountain Men in revenge for their missile attack on a village, despite Clarke herself being partly responsible for the resulting carnage, since she knew the missile was coming but chose not to warn anyone. It's implied that she's focusing her hatred on the Mountain Men as part of a coping mechanism, so she won't have to face how much she hates herself for what she let happen.
* The ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode ''"The Waldo Moment"'' sees a British comedian run his cartoon bear character Waldo as a by-election candidate as a protest vote against corrupt and clueless politicians; as far he is concerned, politicians are all just made-up characters with nothing to say, and so is he but [[AtLeastIAdmitIt at least he admits it]]. [[spoiler:[[FullCircleRevolution He ends up becoming the figurehead of a global movement which sees the old democratic institutions torn down and replaced by a new internet-based direct democracy]], [[DemocracyIsBad where the darkest impulses of human nature and mob rule are made into law]].]]
* ''Series/TheBorgias'': This is used to explain Rodrigo Borgia's treatment of his elder son Cesare, whom he spurns and ignores in favour of his [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling bratty younger son Juan]]. While Cesare is certainly [[MagnificentBastard no saint]], he is clearly the more dutiful and intelligent of the two, and Rodrigo's hostile attitude towards him sometimes seemed illogical, but he finally breaks down and admits that he sees too much of himself in Cesare, and therefore finds him far more difficult to love than his other children.
* The image above is from ''Series/ChappellesShow'', which contains an extremely literal example; in the sketch "Clayton Bigsby, White Supremacist", about a BlindBlackGuy who grew up not knowing that he's black and became a prominent white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan leader. His friends make sure that their fellow Klansmen never see him in public out of his robes, and don't tell him that he's black because they are afraid that if he ever found out, he'd kill himself just so there'd be one less black person in the world, and he's too important to the Klan for them to lose. This fear turns out to be unfounded, as when he does find out, he simply becomes a BoomerangBigot and resumes business as usual.
-->'''Closing Narration:''' In the past few weeks, Clayton Bigsby has finally accepted that he is a black man. And just three days ago, he filed for divorce from his wife. When asked why, after ''nineteen years'' of marriage, he replied, '''''"[[RefugeInAudacity Because she's a nigger lover.]]"'''''
* In ''Series/TheColbertReport'', the eponymous Stephen Colbert ([[AlterEgoActing the character, obviously]]) considers gays and their agenda to be one of the biggest threats to America, and is so deeply closeted [[TransparentCloset a diagram of his brain had a large area labeled "Repressed Homosexual Urges"]].
* The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Killer Of The Week]] on an episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' turned out to be a Jewish (or at least half-Jewish) member of a neo-Nazi group. Another member of that same group touts himself as being of "pure white Christian blood", but Scotty, who is himself Hispanic, smugly informs him that no matter what he says, him being of Spanish heritage means that he's Latino and therefore one of the very people that such groups denounce.
* In the July 28, 2010 episode of ''Series/TheDailyShow'', Jason Jones interviewed Scott Lively, who argued that [[HitlerAteSugar the Nazis]] persecuted gays to hide their sexuality:
-->'''Scott Lively''': The Nazis did persecute homosexuals to distract public attention away from ''their'' homosexuality.\\
'''Jones''': So that which you hate the most... you secretly are.\\
(''{{Beat}}'')\\
'''Lively''': I am not gay.\\
'''Jones''': I didn't say you were.
* Hazel on ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' is rude to the Muslim girl on Culture Day and secretly pretends to be Jamaican, until the Muslim girl's exhibit is vandalized (context: this was only a few months after 9/11) and Hazel comes clean about her Somali heritage.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]], the Dalek Emperor created more [[AbsoluteXenophobe Daleks]] out of HumanResources. They consider any mention of them being "half-human" to be "'''Blasphemy!'''", and the Doctor believes that this knowledge has driven them (more) insane.
** "[[Characters/DoctorWhoNinthDoctor You]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters would make]] [[Characters/DoctorWhoWarDoctor a good]] [[Characters/DoctorWhoDaleks Dalek]]."
* In the first season finale of ''Series/FirstKill'', [[spoiler: Juliette transforms Theo into a vampire to save his life, an action that nobody approves of. As Cal states, she turned him into the thing he hates the most because it attacked and killed his mother in front of him.]].
* ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' had an episode set during the 1996 election where Jessica proudly supported an anti-illegal immigration proposition. When Mexican immigrants protest her campaign, she calls INS on them. The INS agents discover one of the protesters is an illegal immigrant, but so is Jessica.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** The two Lannisters who hate each other the most (Tywin and Tyrion) also have the most in common, down to their names.
** It is not so much as in the books, but at the end of the day Cersei is a philanderer, a drunkard and an incompetent ruler, not unlike her hated late hubby (albeit in a different style and more malicious compared to his apathy).
* [[ArmouredClosetGay Dave Karofsky]] on ''Series/{{Glee}}'' is highly homophobic and bullies [[CampGay Kurt]], and it's revealed in the second season that he's actually gay.
* Extremely southern Blanche[[note]]who does not actually hate Yankees (or Jews)[[/note]] from ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' discovers when attempting to join "The Daughters of the South" (an ''expy'' for "Daughters of the Confederacy") that not only is her great-grandmother a Yankee from Buffalo NY, but was nee Feldman.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', Nick suspected there was another Grimm killing wesen in Portland. [[spoiler: It turned out to be another wesen who was in denial about what he was and was trying to kill all wesen. When he's forced to confront his true form, he starts saying to Nick "You should kill me!"]]
* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Angela vaguely hints that Danko, a member of the CapeBusters, might be a super himself. Whether this is true is left ambiguous, but he never shows any powers.
* ''{{Series/House}}'':
** Dr. House harbors a simmering rage at stupid doctors and clueless patients. He's both; when doctors misdiagnosed his leg clot, House insisted on waiting it out instead of amputating. He ended up with 1½ legs and double the pain.
** Kutner acts pretty hostile towards a group of high school bullies. His co-workers immediately assume he was bullied in high school (as Taub theorizes, being an Indian-American and having had his parents murdered in front of him most likely didn't help his popularity). However, at the end of the episode, we see Kutner visiting a former classmate and apologizing to him about bullying him. A rare positive example?
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', when after years of enduring his taunts surrounding her heritage, [[CanadaEh Robin]] finds out that Barney is one-quarter Canadian.
* PlayedForLaughs in a ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' sketch involving a LiteralMinded school bully. After hurling a homophobic insult, the bully immediately confesses that he only said it because he's beginning to realize that he himself might be gay, and thus wants to seem like he hates homosexuals so that nobody will suspect him.
* ADA Sonya Paxton of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' shows an intense hatred of a suspect who committed his crimes while he was drunk, ranting numerous times about how being drunk is no excuse. Then she shows up to trial late and noticeably drunk...
* It's probably not "hate", but in the Dizzy Gillespie episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Scooter says that Kermit doesn't allow puppets in the studio. (This rule wasn't always in effect; Edgar Bergen was a previous guest, and they had no objections then, given how ''all of them'' took part in the "Consider Yourself" musical number.)
* The Season 2 finale of ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' has a mild example. A visiting Mountie starts upstaging Murdoch in the areas where he usually excels which leads Murdoch to declare "I don't know how anyone could put up with it." As Murdoch walks off his superior says to a third character [[LampshadeHanging "Yet somehow I manage."]] Of course it also later turns out that [[spoiler:Murdoch and the Mountie are half-brothers.]]
* Helena from ''Series/OrphanBlack'' is a clone, but initially hates her sisters, believing herself to be the original from whom her sisters were cloned.
* Leslie Knope from ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' is very disdainful of people from Eagleton, a nearby affluent town. She later discovers she was born there.
** The fifth season introduces Marcia Langman's husband, Marshall. Like her, he's a right-wing Christian fundamentalist horrified by the slightest hint of sexual deviation. He's also very obviously CampGay.
* One of the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' "Bill Brasky" sketches tells us these (comparatively mild) facts about the legendary salesman:
-->"He hated Mexicans!"\\
"And he was half-Mexican!"\\
"And he hated irony!"
* ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'': Jerry once dated a woman whose mannerisms and interests were basically identical with his own, to the point that he at first thought she was "the one". In the end, though, he broke up because she was ''[[TooMuchAlike too]]'' like him.
-->'''Jerry:''' I can't be with someone like me... I hate myself!
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
** Bloody Mary kills people who have a secret where they're even vaguely culpable in somebody's death, if such a person looks into a mirror after she's been summoned. This leads to one of the most ironic or meta cases of HoistByHerOwnPetard imaginable [[spoiler:when she sees herself in a mirror and gets sent to Hell by herself for killing people]].
** In Episode 7x01, Castiel kills a homophobic preacher who Cas reveals is secretly gay himself.
** Gordon Walker hated all supernatural creatures and thought [[VanHelsingHateCrimes that they should all be killed]]. After his KarmicTransformation into a vampire, he agrees to let his partner kill him, but not before using his enhanced abilities to try and kill Sam Winchester, who [[spoiler: gained psychic powers after ingesting demon blood.]]
* In ''Series/TheThickOfIt'', [[TheStarscream Ollie Reeder]] eventually usurps his hated, bullying "mentor" Malcolm Tucker and takes his job.

[[folder:Music]]
* Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' has the main character become the very thing his father had died fighting against, as noted in the later songs "In The Flesh", "Run Like Hell", and "Waiting For The Worms"...at least within his own mind. This is made even more noticeable in the movie version.
* Titledropped in "Brush the Dust Away" by in Flames, "We think we're in control then we become the things we hate"
* The video for "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Music/FallOutBoy, is about a teenager with antlers, whose girlfriend's dad [[DatingWhatDaddyHates despises the fact she's dating a boy with antlers]]. In the end, dad gets hit by a truck while trying to shoot the kid, and as Antler Boy rushes over to help, it's revealed the dad has deer hooves.

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* During a segment on ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', Wrestling/CMPunk taunted Wrestling/JohnCena with the fact that he (and by extension, Cena's hometown of Boston, of which ''Raw'' was taking place in that night...) was no longer the underdog by consistently being the "top dog" in the WWE, stating that he was no longer the Boston Red Sox, but rather the ''New York Yankees''. Naturally, Cena didn't take too kindly to the comparison and promptly decked Punk after his comments.
** This got turned around on Punk years later in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling after both Wrestling/EddieKingston and Wrestling/{{MJF}} accused him of being a dynasty like Cena instead of the renegade the fans fell in love with all those years ago. ''Un''like Cena, Punk was annoyed and irritated by their words but didn't get angry at them, nor did he deny them, because they were correct. As one of the most popular wrestlers in WWE history and one of the biggest names in all of professional wrestling, he ''is'' a dynasty, and he acts like it too.
* It's often remarked by fans that Wrestling/RandyOrton also embodies this. Orton started off his career as "The Legend Killer" attacking and then defeating several in-ring veterans and legends, portraying the archetypal cocky, young hotshot, full of arrogance and disrespect. These days, Orton himself is a legend and a shoo-in for the WWE Hall of Fame when he eventually retires -- albeit, he's a [[TheDreaded legend]] his younger self would've gone after [[TooDumbToLive if he lacked any self-preservation]].

[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
* PlayedForLaughs when Creator/RonWhite uses this logic against his homophobic Cousin Ray.
--> '''Ray:''' Man, this world would be so much better if there weren't so many queers.\\
'''Ron:''' You know what, the next time you have a thought...let it go. Besides, we're all gay, it's just a question of to what extent.\\
'''Ray:''' That's bullshit, man! I ain't gay at all!\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, you are, and I can prove it.\\
'''Ray:''' All right, prove it!\\
'''Ron:''' All right, you like porn?\\
'''Ray:''' Yeah, I love porn. You know that.\\
'''Ron:''' Do you only watch scenes with two women naked?\\
'''Ray:''' No, I watch a man and woman making love.\\
'''Ron:''' Do you want the man to have a little-bitty half-flaccid penis?\\
'''Ray:''' No, I like big, hard, throbbing co-- ''({{beat}}, with a look of realization)'' I did not know that about myself.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/AfterTheBomb,'' Emperor Daniel Christian, leader of the violently anti-mutant Empire of Humanity, is secretly a mutant himself. Since he looks human, as opposed to the FunnyAnimal mutants the empire wages war against, it's not as big of a deal, though his rhetoric combined with his burning hatred is still questionable.
* In the ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'':
** ''Second Sight'' explicitly states that possessors of the two anti-psychic merits listed are latent psychics who have mental blocks preventing them from accessing their powers and that this in turn makes them virulently skeptical.
** Banishers in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' are either this or {{Boomerang Bigot}}s: their flawed Awakenings give them an instinctive hatred for magic, but they might not understand it or know that they themselves are mages. One group firmly believes that they are AlienAbduction victims who gained superpowers from the experimentation, and whether they identify another mage as a fellow victim or as an enemy [[AlienAmongUs alien infiltrator]] depends entirely on [[TautologicalTemplar whether they think the mage is on their side]].
* A campaign in ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' had a mutant villain wanting to eradicate all mutants, founding an American NASI party, and of course being mutant himself.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}:''
** Every player character is a "Troubleshooter" whose job is to hunt down various types of traitors, including unregistered mutants. Due to unacknowledged malfunctions in the cloning vats, everyone in the setting is a mutant. Bonus irony if they're also a member of the "Anti-Mutant" secret society, the members of which are completely unaware that [[FlockOfWolves there's not a single genetically pure human among them]].
** Friend Computer vehemently hates [[RedScare Communism]], and considers Communists to be the single greatest threat to Alpha Complex. Indeed, all other threats, like mutants or other secret societies, are considered tools, pawns, or fronts for Communists. This despite the fact that the actual Communists are [[ForbiddenFruit only around because of the Computer's crackdown]], and [[FutureImperfect have little to no knowledge of actual Communist ideology]]). In most editions of the game, Alpha Complex under the Computer's rule is practically a Communist dictatorship.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, Malocchio Aderre seized political control of Invidia and initiated a pogrom against the Vistani. Malocchio's mother, whom he ousted from power, is part Vistani herself. Of course, she's no better; While most Darklords leave the Vistani alone, Invidia is one of the few realms where simply associating with them are liable to get a visitor killed.
* While his official stat-line disproved this, it is rumoured in-universe that Emperor Karl Prosek in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' is secretly a magician.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}:''
** Though the Warp is considered (Not without reason) an evil, corrupting force that must never be played with, or even acknowledged, the Imperium still makes heavy use of sanctioned psykers, who must wield the energies of the Warp to defend Humanity from, among other things, the creatures of the Warp. Unsanctioned psykers are exterminated, often by burning.
** Psykers and navigators are also needed for FTL travel and communication. The last time FTL travel went down caused the downfall of human civilization straight from golden to dark age during Age of Strife. And that was when the only major opponent of humanity were [[ComicRelief Orks]].
** The Emperor is a psyker. Mention this around any Ecclesiarchy personnel and you will burn. Literally.
** The Adeptus Astartes (Better known as {{Space Marine}}s) are ProHumanTranshuman defenders of humanity in the extremely racist/speciest Imperium. Uriel Ventris views this as a noble sacrifice for a cause far greater than himself. [[Literature/HorusHeresy Horus Lupercal]] viewed it as a proof that once the Great Crusade is over, he will be disposed of and forgotten.
** Both Mortarion and Conrad Kurze became what they hated most. Mortarion led his homeworld in a rebellion against alien tyrants dwelling in the poisoned mists, then ended up ruling a carbon copy of it in the Eye of Terror with his own Space Marines as the tyrants. As for Kurze, he started out preying on the tyrants and killers of Nostromo, only to become a much worse monster than any he fought -- which is probably part of the reason he accepted [[SuicideByCop his own assassination]].
* Naturalized dryads from ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherGameOfImagination'' will fight humanity to the death... while [[TragicHero being brainwashed human girls and young women]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* [[spoiler: Balthazar]] from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal'' is a Bhaalspawn who plots to exterminate all Bhaalspawn (though he at least plans on taking this [[DrivenToSuicide to its logical conclusion]] once the others are wiped out.)
* Sergeant Avitus of ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' plays this trope to a T in [[spoiler: the route where he winds up being the traitor.]] A [[BloodKnight sneering, scornful, insanely violent man]] who constantly derides anything he perceives as a sign of weakness and is always looking for an excuse to destroy the enemy... who is eventually revealed to be utterly disgusted by the never-ending senseless slaughter of the TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 universe, and channels his anger and fatalism into the battlefield. His RageAgainstTheHeavens moment is thoroughly laced with SelfDeprecation.
* Adell from ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'', the last human who hasn't become a demon, hates real demons. Turns out he only ''looks'' human...
* Chris Haversam in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is a human who believes himself to be a ghoul because of his hideous disfigurement... a.k.a. ordinary male pattern baldness. Any attempt by human or ghoul to convince him that he is obviously human will just be met with accusations of trying to trick him. And yes, he derisively refers to humans as "smoothskins" just like other ghouls. Ironically, him leaving his previous job as Vault 34's reactor technician after "becoming a ghoul" doomed the rest of the vault population to actually becoming ghouls, since the reactor suffered a leak and there was no techician to fix it.
* [[spoiler:Paladin Danse]] in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' subscribes to the Brotherhood of Steel's ideology of exterminating Super Mutants, ghouls and synths for the benefit of mankind, [[TomatoInTheMirror not realizing that he himself is a synth.]] When the truth is discovered, he asks you to put him down, insisting that he be an example rather than an exception, but if you [[spoiler: convince Maxson to spare his life, Danse will be exiled and pronounced dead to everyone else, whereupon he learns to make peace with his identity.]]
* Kratos from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''. He doesn't like any of the gods he used to work with, and nearly hates them all vehemently, not without a valid reason. Once he finds out [[spoiler:he's the son of Zeus himself]], he '''[[RageAgainstTheHeavens doesn't take it well]]'''.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' gives us Bryce Dawkins, Deputy Mayor of Liberty City, notorious for his vitriolic homophobic rants (and advocacy of family values) to appease his right-wing base... all the while having an affair with Bernie Crane, a famously CampGay fitness trainer [[spoiler:and alter-ego of Florian Cravic, Niko Bellic's former comrade]]. Once their affair is leaked (as a postgame radio news program indicates), blowing the closet open for the whole city to see, Dawkins apparently decides to enter rehab until the pressure has dissipated.
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', on the way to the Paleto Bay bank to scope it out, Michael De Santa deduces that his partner Trevor Philips is a {{hipster}} due to the way he dresses and his lifestyle. Trevor repeatedly states that he hates hipsters, and Michael retorts by saying that self-hatred is a common hipster affliction.
* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', [[spoiler:Sakuya, the proud heir of a pure-blood fantail noble family, treats every non-pureblood bird like trash, including even his half-brother Yuuya who he calls a "half-breed mongrel". However, he learns on the Bad Boys Love route that he's actually not the true heir of the Le Bel family and is Yuuya's ''full'' brother, which means that he's the very same "mongrel" that he constantly scorned Yuuya for being]].
* Bertrand from ''VideoGame/InFamous2'' considers [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduits]] to be demons and ultimately wants them to be exterminated, [[spoiler:but is secretly a Conduit himself, and practically lept at the chance to become one. Although Cole points out that he most likely is jealous of the fact that whilst others became shiny supermen, he got to be a big bug]]. So maybe instead of "you are what you hate," he falls more under "[[spoiler:you hate that others like you possess awesome powers yet yours suck.]]"
* Done in a rather literal sense in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep]]'', as one of the focal points of the story is [[spoiler:Master Xehanort manipulating Terra enough to make the boy immensely hate him, thus giving in to the darkness within his heart, which in turn would make Terra [[GrandTheftMe a suitable host for Xehanort's heart]].]]
* Master Atris from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' is an [[HolierThanThou arrogant, self-righteous]] Jedi with a raging hatred of the Sith that borders on fanaticism, viewing even the slightest hint of TheDarkSide as proof that someone is irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. [[spoiler:Naturally, having such an insane and zealous attitude towards life and the Force has caused [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Atris herself to unwittingly fall to the Dark Side and effectively become a Sith Lord in all but title]]. She refuses to admit this in [[IRejectYourReality a way that borders on delusion]], having the audacity to call herself the last true Jedi even after causing the Order's near-destruction by using them as bait to lure out the Sith.]]
* During ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' 9S -- an Android -- is shown having complete disregard for Machines. He calls them mindless things, incapable of emotions and any evidence showing otherwise, he concludes that they're mimicking human behavior. [[spoiler: One of the reveals that led to his SanitySlippage is him finding out Machines and Androids were built using the same foundation, and that Androids were made to be the more disposable of the two.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Platinum]]'''s Distortion World, Cyrus's StrawNihilist attitude gives way to a ''[[VillainousBreakdown screaming tantrum]]'', revealing that he's an uncontrollable MoodSwinger who hates his own passions most of all.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'': Silver considers Team Rocket a weak nuisance. It's revealed in an event in ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'' that [[spoiler:he's the son of Giovanni, a mafia don who lost his organization to a 10-year-old boy]].
* Adrian from ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'' is a Purifier-in-training and despises mutants. Turns out he is one, though he had no way of knowing until the events of the game.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* This trope is given something of a work-out in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', especially in the "Unlimited Blade Works" route: Archer is quite vocally disapproving of the [[WideEyedIdealist idealism and stubbornness]] that seems to plague most of his 'allies' (especially Shirou), and yet it is repeatedly pointed out by several characters and scenes that he is, in many ways, just as bad when it comes to suffering from ChronicHeroSyndrome. Just to make things weirder, this is a [[spoiler:LITERAL example in regards to Shirou, considering that they are the same person]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', Dan does not take it lightly when he [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_303.php is told he is an Incubus]] and spends some time in [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_407.php denial]] about it.
* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': Throughout 2017 the Dewclaw family were being harassed by N.O.P.E., an anti-Mixed Species hate group. Lindesfarne, who suffered the brunt of the harassment due to the birth of her Mixed Species baby, had enough and tricked the N.O.P.E. members to spit on her car, which allows her to perform DNA tests. The result is that ''none'' of the members were pure-blooded as they thought to be. This has two effects: one member performs a HeelFaceTurn and turns in the members who committed felonies, and the info revealed ensures no one in the group will trust each other ever again, leaving them decimated.
* ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'': Turns out the homophobic (by Nordic standards) Faroe Islands [[http://satwcomic.com/ungodly-surprise likes yaoi]].
* Natani of ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' is a complicated case. He was introduced as an [[HeManWomanHater extreme misogynist]] Kedrian assassin. We find out later that [[spoiler: He's biologically female. The complication comes with the later revelation that Natani was injured on a mission and needed to have pieces of his brother's soul spliced into his to save him. This process partially overwrote Natani's personality with her brother's, including his attitudes towards females. Since we've seen very little of Natani's pre-splice personality, we don't know how much of his misogyny and self-loathing is his own and how much is his brother's influence. Nor do we know if Natani was trans previous to the spice.]]
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Germaine from ''WebAnimation/NeuroticallyYours'' in the classic series is this full stop. She hates how women are treated as nothing but sexual objects by men and are pressured to dress up in more provocative clothing, yet has no problem using her own sexuality to manipulate men or allowing herself to become a slut while still complaining about how men are pigs.
** It's taken a step further with her magic breast control ring [[spoiler: during her delusions]] which she uses to make her breasts large to the point of ridiculous solely to get men to give her bigger tips at her job. Representing her becoming nothing more than a pair of breasts to be used to her advantage.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'': [[EvilChancellor Dolf]] is a [[FunnyAnimal crow]] [[FantasticRacism supremacist]] with a lot of Hitler parallels, and he's secretly half-blackbird, presumably a reference to how Hitler may have had Jewish ancestry.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Francine is MistakenForRacist when she kicks Steve's new black love interest out of the house. When her kids confront her she reveals [[DiscriminateAndSwitch it's actually]] a dislike of ''left-handed'' people who she calls "the devil's minions". The kids dig into it and their grandmother tells them it's because Francine herself was left-handed as a young child, but [[OrphanageOfFear the orphanage they adopted her from]] was run by [[NunTooHoly nuns who beat her for it repeatedly]] (using the exact phrase she parroted), forcing her to become right-handed.
* Sporting an upbringing beneath an abusive father and a self-hating mother, Uncle Ruckus from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is the darkest guy in the series, and yet he hates black people with a passion. He does his best to distance himself from being black, holding onto whatever European heritages he believes he has [[spoiler:(though a genetic test in one episode reveals he's 102% African, with a 2% margin of error)]] and claims to have a skin condition called "re-vitiligo", the "opposite of what Music/MichaelJackson had", which supposedly causes him to get darker.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** Peter Griffin starts hating on illegal immigrants only to discover he, himself, was one, [[CriticalResearchFailure or at least the writers' idea of what defined being an illegal immigrant]]. And since he has convinced the brewery to fire illegal immigrants, he was HoistByHisOwnPetard. Though unsure if this is a clear example since he had no idea he was one until he talked with his mother to get his birth certificate.
** Brian is a liberal dog who disapproves of racism but instinctively barks at black men due to his upbringing (his father was a police dog).
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' where Bender and Amy had a {{robosexual}} relationship, Bender at one point was sent to a retreat where Preacherbot urged sinners to wrestle with human mannequins in order to symbolically beat out their sinful impulses. Naturally, this entailed the robots making out with the mannequins. Preacherbot was clearly aroused. Professor Farnsworth also opposed robosexual marriage because a robot stole his girlfriend. He later discovered he was repressing the fact that she was ''also'' a robot.
* Despite pissing off JackassGenie Puck when he's actually trying to be nice to her, Demona of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has her wish granted so she doesn't turn to stone during the day. To her horror, she is able to walk in daylight because, in a cruel twist, she turns into the one thing she despises above all else: a human. She makes use of this ability/curse to blend in with the humans during the day, and changes back into her true form at night.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', General Eiling deeply despises superheroes and metahumans. When his organisation Cadmus was disbanded, he decided to use a [[SuperSerum superhuman serum]] and turn himself into "The General" to fight the Justice League, facing the League's non-metahuman members. The public calls him out on his actions and Eiling personally hangs a {{lampshade|Hanging}} on his actions and says the trope name almost word for word, though he claims he is still in the right.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has an interesting case: Hank Hill, proud Texan that he is, is initially horrified to find out he was actually born in [[FelonyMisdemeanor *gasp*]] NEW YORK! Not just New York, but the ''women's restroom of Yankee Stadium''. "[[MemeticMutation NEW YORK CITY?!?!]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has this with [[spoiler:BigBad Amon wanting to get rid of all Benders while secretly being a waterbender]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', Jenny defeats a huge mecha dogmatically seeking to eliminate all weapons by pointing out that it, itself, is a weapon.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' episode "Monster Next Door" Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Animal, and Summer call Sweetums a monster who is mean as he has scraggly fur, lumpy bumpy noses, and hairy feet. Sweetums then calls them out by saying the traits they used to label him a monster they have themselves. Animal has scraggly fur, Gonzo has a big, giant nose, and Fozzie has hairy feet. Kermit and company learn from their error and apologize to Sweetums and become friends with him.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' episode "Number 7" is, among other things, about Enzo realizing that he [[spoiler: is becoming just like Megabyte.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Spinelli despises "The Ashleys" (a group of AlphaBitch-esque girls all named Ashley) yet becomes very defensive when it's pointed out that her own first name is Ashley since she despises the thought of being lumped in with them. As Spinelli puts it, she doesn't ''hate'' her first name (she's named after a relative who was a war hero), she just didn't want to be associated with the rest of the Ashleys since they all have the same name. Spinelli's fears later turned out to be justified when playground law dictated she ''had'' to join their group because of her first name. Thankfully her friends got her out when they convinced most of the other kids to pretend their names were now Ashley and swarm the Ashleys' clubhouse.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Ed Bighead both hates circus clowns and secretly wishes to be one, a situation that many children [[LateToThePunchline only realized years later]] was a ''giant, glowing metaphor'' for sexual fetishes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', the greeter at the medieval fair professes nothing but contempt at the pirates who attend on the outside, but in private secretly wishes to be one.
* When Springfield tried to pass a law deporting all immigrants in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Moe was one of its most vocal supporters. He viciously blames them for everything that ever happened in town, including bear attacks, and rants about things that piss him off about them like not learning the local language. He was later spotted nervously taking the citizenship exam wearing [[PaperThinDisguise a very thin disguise]].
* Played with on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Cartman hates "Gingers" (People with red hair, freckles, and pale skin) and insists they have no souls. As revenge Stan, Kenny, and Kyle draw freckles on him and dye his hair red in the middle of the night. He then hangs out with the gingers and whips them into a genocidal frenzy against everyone else. At a massive rally, they're about to kill everyone who isn't a ginger (starting with the "Daywalker", [[FieryRedhead Kyle]]) only to have Stan, Kyle, and Kenny reveal Cartman's not a real ginger. Then he just goes back to ripping on gingers (though while also calming down the riot he just started). [[spoiler: And then in "201" it turns out Cartman's father was also Scott Tenorman's father, making Cartman half-ginger after all]]. It's also worth noting that Cartman is anti-Semitic due to Jewish stereotypes he perceives as true such as Jews being frugal and carrying gold. This is ironic considering Cartman had no issues taking advantage of Walmart deals and ultimately isn't at all above doing absolutely anything for money, from scamming people to eating kilos of gold to smuggle it out of an attraction. He converts to Judaism after a prank seriously backfires and Kyle reluctantly goes to save him.
** [[DepravedBisexual Mr. Garrison]] is homophobic in the early seasons, and is in denial about his sexuality throughout Seasons 1-3 until he admits to himself that he is gay in the fourth season. When his sex change results in his then-lover Mister Slave breaking up with him, he goes back to being hateful to homosexual men, and when it turns out Mister Slave is going to marry Big Gay Al, Garrison becomes an angry opponent of gay marriage. Then there's a mini-arc where ''Mrs.'' Garrison thinks it's "wrong" to be with another woman, but enjoys it and claims to then be a lesbian... And then there's a reverse sex change and Garrison becomes a man again, and almost immediately uses a homosexual slur. There's a quote from one of the creators that goes something along the lines of, "Garrison just hates whatever he happens to be."
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'', the High Evolutionary despises mankind, considering them the dregs of society in comparison to his race of Mutanimals, despite the fact that he himself is a human. Surprisingly, nobody brings this up, even Spider-Man who is known for calling out his enemies.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Gem Empire is meant to embody perfection as decreed by the Great Diamond Authority, and for this reason gems who are deemed "off color" are ruthlessly oppressed. It turns out that [[spoiler:White Diamond, head of the Diamond Authority,]] is herself an off color, though to her credit she seemed to be legitimately unaware of this and lightens up considerably once she realizes her imperfection.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Frollo professes to [[EgocentricallyReligious be a devout]] [[HolierThanThou Christian]] who longs to purge the world of sin, yet he's the most corrupt person in the whole movie. He also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain hates]] gypsies, yet he develops an [[BigotWithACrush unhealthy]] obsession over a gypsy woman. His hypocrisy is lampshaded in the opening song, and countless people even call him out on it. He also uses PsychologicalProjection to find faults in others and [[NeverMyFault blame them for his misery]], but refuses to acknowledge his own faults to the end due to his self-righteous pride.

* Neji of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' repeatedly put down Naruto and Hinata for trying to escape their "fate" to be weak. During their fight, Naruto pointed out that despite everything he said Neji was still struggling against his own fate as a member of the Branch Family.

** Having spent the series' early arcs rejecting any connection between himself, his father, and bad guys like [[spoiler: [[BigBad Asura]] and Eibon, Death the Kid]] does not react well to the revelation that he and they are the same; [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch/Humanoid Abominations]]]]. Even more so when he learns that [[spoiler:Asura is his ''older brother'', since he is also a fragment of Shinigami.]]

** "[DoctorWhoNinthDoctor You] [HeWhoFightsMonsters would make] [DoctorWhoWarDoctor a good] [DoctorWhoDaleks Dalek].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]], the Dalek Emperor created more [[AbsoluteXenophobe Daleks]] out of HumanResources. They consider any mention of them being "half-human" to be "'''Blasphemy!'''", and the Doctor believes that this knowledge has driven them (more) insane.

** Bloody Mary kills people who are even vaguely guilty of somebody's death, if such a person is near a mirror after she's been summoned. This leads to one of the most ironic or meta cases of HoistByHerOwnPetard imaginable [[spoiler:when she sees herself in a mirror and gets sent to Hell by herself for killing people]].

* ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'': Jerry once dated a woman whose mannerisms and interests were basically identical with his own, to the point that he at first thought she was "the one". In the end, though, he broke up because she was ''too'' like him.

** Bloody Mary kills people who are even vaguely guilty of somebody's death. This leads to one of the most ironic or meta cases of HoistByHerOwnPetard imaginable [[spoiler: when she sees herself in a mirror and gets killed by herself for killing people.]]

* Helena from ''Series/OrphanBlack'' is a clone, but hates her sisters, believing herself to be the original from whom her sisters were cloned.