Hypocrite / Doctor Who

• "The Dæmons": The Brigadier says he's planning to blast his way through a forcefield. Jo criticizes him for always thinking of blowing things up. The Doctor then berates Jo for not showing the Brigadier due respect — even though he's always saying the exact same thing.
• The Doctor criticizes others for changing history. This matter does depend on the Doctor, but the 10th Doctor made numerous alterations to history, such as bringing down a Prime Minister who would have brought about Britain's Golden Age because of something he didn't like her doing. Later stories show he apparently made things worse. Eleven also made alterations to history but seems to have been more subtle about it, although it was during his era that the catchphrase "Time can be rewritten" gained traction, despite this being a direct contradiction of opinions stated back as far as the First Doctor.
• Davros firmly believes that Virtue Is Weakness, explicitly engineering the capacity to feel compassion and mercy out of the Daleks. When his own life is on the line, however, he'll usually resort to begging for compassion or mercy, such as in his first appearance when he pleaded for pity when the Daleks turned against him...despite reminding him they were designed not to feel pity.
• "New Earth": In a rather humourous example, plastic-surgery addict Lady Cassandra assumes the Doctor is one because, after he called out her excesses in their first encounter, he's somehow gotten himself a whole new face, she assumes via Magic Plastic Surgery. In this particular instance, though, she's wrong.
• "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel": John Lumic wants to upgrade the entire population of his Earth into Cybermen, but refuses to upgrade himself until he's on his last breath.
• "Evolution of the Daleks": Dalek Thay has the audacity to say "Daleks do not question orders" after disobeying orders and participating in a coup to oust the Cult of Skaro's former leader, Dalek Sec.
• "The Sound of Drums": President Winters takes Prime Minister Saxon to task for ignoring UN conventions and not taking First Contact seriously. He then goes on to gloat that he'll be the one getting all the screen time, and orders his aides to brand the event with his seal of office, instead of the UN's.
• "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky": The Sontarans are Proud Warrior Race Guys who've never run from a battle, and yet cripple the UNIT soldiers' weapons so they can't fight back.
• "Journey's End":
  • Davros plans to obliterate the whole cosmos with a reality bomb. At the end of the story, when the Daleks are all being destroyed, Davros blames the Doctor and brands him "The Destroyer of Worlds", which really just makes Davros look like a sore loser.
  • Davros did get in a really good dig (that pops up frequently in the series) with the Doctor never carrying a weapon, but getting others to do the killing and destruction for him.
  • The Doctor criticizes his clone for wiping out the Daleks (they're back next series) after they are barely stopped from destroying the Universes. Yet he had already tried doing this multiple times. This may be excused as his character development meant he became more reluctant to wipe out the Daleks, yet earlier that series had wiped out a less dangerous race than the Daleks.
• "The Next Doctor": Miss Hartigan explains in one breath that she joined with the Cybermen because they offered her liberation (from men, it's implied), and then tells Rosita to be quiet because she's probably not paid to talk. Given the Victorian setting, there's probably some degree of racism (Rosita is black) and classism at work here as well.
• "The Vampires of Venice": The Doctor calls Rory out on this when Rory demands to be allowed to stay and help the Doctor save the day, pointing out that Rory himself had earlier took the Doctor to task for the way that he tended to encourage people to put their lives at risk. Particularly since the Doctor had taken this on board and had in fact arranged for Amy and Rory to return to the TARDIS where they'd be safe.
• Eleven berates miners for treating clones as disposable but then leaves two gangers behind to activate an anti-ganger bomb to defeat the Monster of the Week when he could have activated it himself and survived.
• "A Town Called Mercy": Amy's speech to the Doctor about not stooping to Jex's level when he debates whether or not to shoot him point blank would hold a lot more weight had she not murdered Madame Kovarian in cold blood the previous season.
• Over the course of the revival, the Doctor has to call Rose Tyler, River Song, and Clara Oswald out in turn for trying to save the life of a deceased loved one as doing so violates a fixed point in time and threatens the survival of the universe. In the Series 9 finale "Hell Bent", he attempts to do the exact same thing in the wake of Clara's death, demonstrating the top level of this trope. In his defense, he has been Driven to Madness by a Trauma Conga Line that would break just about anybody and accepts Laser-Guided Karma for his actions once he has his Heel Realization, admitting he broke his own rules. The Doctor's grief-driven hypocrisy in the finale is intentionally placed in contrast to earlier in the season, in "Before the Flood", when the Doctor has to physically restrain a man from preventing the already-seen death of the woman he loved, giving the exact same rationale that the Doctor himself later ignores when faced with the same scenario.
• Twelve's poor attitude towards Clara’s boyfriend and ex-sergeant Danny Pink in "The Caretaker" is extremely hypocritical. He strongly dislikes the fact Clara is dating a soldier - someone who kills people - and frequently insults Danny labelling him a “PE teacher” even though he actually teaches maths. Putting aside the fact the Doctor has heaps of military friends from UNIT and several of his previous companions are or have become soldiers, what makes Twelve‘s prejudice against Danny truly hypocritical is that the Doctor has (reluctantly) been a soldier himself and has explicitly killed before, making his dismissal of Danny who’s similar to him very rich. Danny calls him out on it at the end, pointing out all the orders the Doctor gives are like an officer bellowing commands, much to Twelve’s anger.
• "Spyfall": Mixing this trope with Pay Evil unto Evil, the Doctor calls out the Master for using Nazis to track her down in 1943 Paris as "low"... only to do the same thing to him, getting him arrested for allegedly being a Double Agent for the British so she can steal his time machine.
• "Fugitive of the Judoon": The Doctor calls out the Ruth Doctor for threatening people with a gun, saying that "The Doctor never uses weapons!" ...except for all the times that the Doctor has. And this isn't even counting the times the Doctor's let enemies destroy themselves with sabotaged weaponry, which she also chastises Ruth for.
• "Can You Hear Me?": In a sympathetic take, the Doctor gives a speech about how Humans Are Special for being able to deal with their pain... this coming from a woman so desperate to avoid it that she considers time-travelling to the next day to not be alone with her thoughts.

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