Hypocrites in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- AWE Arcadia Bay (Rogue_Demon): When Emily rebuffs Dr. Evans' inappropriate flirting, she gets defensive and tells Emily to stop acting like a "bullied school girl" and "grow up".
- In BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, Adam Taurus props himself up as a hero fighting for the superiority of the Faunus race, but Terumi casually points out that for all his grandstanding, he has no qualms with gleefully killing off his own kind, something that naturally flies in the face of his stated goals. Adam also calls Terumi a monster, something Terumi points out he has no right calling anyone considering how much of a psychotic asshole he is.Terumi: Okay little animal, bit of a pro tip when calling someone a monster. Make sure you're not throwing stones in a glass house.
- Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron:
- Lelouch calls Suzaku one in Chapter 11, pointing out that, for all the latter says about opposing rebellion, he's supporting one right now by being the Purple Paladin.
- Lelouch accuses Allura of this during Rai's Escape, pointing out how she wanted him to share his secrets regarding his heritage even though she willingly hid the fact that Zarkon was the original Black Paladin. Suzaku notes that this could work both ways, though.
- Initially Kallen refuses to believe that there are any good Galra, even though she opposed Britannia while being a half-Britannian herself. She grows out of it by the end of Rai's Escape.
- In The Faith Chronicles, Faith basically accuses the Scoobies of this when she learns that Willow killed Oz by accident, as the gang condemned Faith as a murderer and assured Willow her actions were just an accident when both killed someone by mistake (although it's later revealed that Willow was manipulated into killing Oz by Kennedy).
- In The Gods Awaken, Boscha makes fun of Willow for being a half-witch despite the fact that her father was a jinn thus making her a half-witch as well.
- In Heaven's Light, Frollo is a perfect example of this, seeking to take the throne of Corona to get rid of all those he considers criminals but willing to recruit the Stabbington Brothers, ACTUAL criminals, as his personal guardsmen.
- In Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily: Grace Monroe makes it a clear fact that she doesn't care about the lives of the denizens on the Train (or "Nulls") as she calls them. We learn two stories later that she knew all along that passengers who don't complete their Train trip become reincarnated into denizens and denied it due to a trauma when she was younger.
- In Just an Unorthodox Thief, a Fate/Zero/Lupin III crossover fic, Saber condemns the Lupin III cosplayers who get plastic surgery to look more like him:Completely ignoring the life they had been given for an opportunity to be someone else? It was worse than trying to escape reality. It was obsession to an unhealthy degree.
- She's not wrong about the cosplayers, but from Fate/stay night we know that this wording describes Saber's motivation for winning the Holy Grail pretty well. She wants to use the Holy Grail to erase her rule as King Arthur by choosing not to pull the sword from the stone, ignoring all the good she did as king and trying to become someone else.
- A Possible Encounter for a Phantom:
- Bonnie wants Danny, despite giving Kim a lot of flak due to him being younger than her. She also seems not to want to admit her feelings in public.
- Danny calls out Barkin dismissing Ron's masculinity for Kim saving his life, since he needed Kim to rescue him the night before.
- The Prayer Warriors have too many examples to list here, but the one that best notes their tendency to fall into this is when Jerry says "Killing a Christian is a sin", and in the next paragraph, when Thalia Grace comes up to him repenting her sins, Jerry kills her, believing that she deserves to die if she's lying and if she's telling the truth, she will die a Christian death.
- Rick and The Loud House: In Chapter 3, Rick calls out the sisters for constantly meddling with Lincoln's life. Then it turns out he did some meddling of his own when he builds Anatomy Park inside Ronnie Anne's body when he saw her picking on Lincoln (though he claims to have been drunk at the time). Lampshaded by Lori.
- Spider, Slayer, Vampires and Avengers;
- When Hamilton tells Wesley that the Senior Partners want Illyria gone, Wesley points out that the Senior Partners trashed Gunn when he went to them to ask for a way to save Fred from Illyria taking over her body.
- When the Vampire doppelganger of Robin Wood tells Spike that he's not a monster like him, Spike is astounded by the hypocrisy, since Vampire Robin joined up with Apocalypse of all people to get back at a completely different Spike from the one he knew.
- In The Story to End All Stories, the villain plans to destroy fiction due to his lack of fame but doesn't care about what happens to characters even more obscure than him.
- Wilted Flowers
:- After it came out that Izuku's father was a notorious supervillain, he faced suspicion and derision at U.A., with Aizawa serving as one of his biggest detractors. While dealing with an akuma who de-ages their victims, Izuku teams up with a teenaged Aizawa, learning that he was treated poorly for having a supposedly 'villainous' Quirk. Izuku has to take a moment to calm down, realizing that Aizawa's own experiences didn't stop him from treating Izuku even worse than he himself was treated.
- Following the fight, Izuku calls out Aizawa for immediately going after the freshly deakumatized victim, berating him for going on the attack without having all the facts — much like how Aizawa had berated Izuku in the past.
- Ageless: Despite using the who'll "past is past, live in the present" mindset to not pick favorites with Korra, Lin holds a particularly spiteful grudge against Ryou for knocking up her ancestor two hundred years prior, telling him that she never wants to see him in Republic City again and threatening life-incarceration (especially considering he is immortal) after arresting him as an accomplice to Korra's stint of vigilante justice.
- Outcast really shows Kya as this.
- When Zuko burns his family pictures to forget the past, Kya accuses him of not caring about his family. This comes from the same girl who flat-out abandons the Water Tribe (which includes her half-sister Yue and their father) once she learns that she has Fire Nation blood.
- She also yearns to have a real mother, even if she coldly disregards the woman who's raised her as if she were her own daughter.
- The Redemption of Harley Quinn: Lyle Bolton and Aaron Cash both call out Harley and Poison Ivy for demanding sympathy when they've had no problem with causing misery for countless others.
- Did I Make the Most of Loving You?;
- Some of Adama and Roslin’s political rivals accuse them of this as the two condemned Adar’s attempt to make peace with the Cylons but gave at least two known Cylons sanctuary in the fleet, particularly since Adama and Roslin can’t explain why they trust those Cylons and still affirm that Adar’s treaty as a bad idea.
- Cavil rants about how Adama's desire to torture him proves that humans are basically animals when he destroyed twelve planets to try and kill all of humanity.
- In the opening scene of An End to All Things, Okazaki advises Furukawa to not live in the past. What was he doing shortly before he told her that? Reliving a memory.
- Blackened Skies:
- All of the participants in this Danganronpa fic have one thing in common: they murdered somebody in their previous mutual killing game. Those less inclined to work together frequently remind the others of this, accusing them of flagrant hypocrisy - ignoring the Elephant in the Living Room in order to pretend they have the moral high ground.
- Celeste takes particular delight in informing Kaede that they're not so different after it comes out during the first trial that both of them were lying, deliberately concealing important information from the others regarding what happened the night before. She's not the only one who feels that way; Kaede's social standing takes a severe hit from the news.
- Ryouta Hoshino of Despair's Last Resort tends to be one at times. In the early chapters, he's likely to claim that anyone could be a murderer and quickly places blame on someone else. If someone tries to suggest that he's the culprit, he insults the accuser and tries to say they did it. After nearly getting falsely convicted in the second trial, this behavior is toned down. Though it still comes out at times.
- Danny Phantom: Stranded: According to Beatrice Traville's bio, her obsession with money and state is partly because when she was a young woman at age 18, she was forced into an arranged marriage that she did not want to be in. Having been, in her mind, sold off to save her family's fortune caused her to be determined not to let that happen again. That makes her actions of marrying off her granddaughter Star even more hypocritical and despicable. For one thing, there is no need to marry off Star because Beatrice's family was financially secure, and while it implied that Beatrice encouraged her family to marry wealthy blue-blood people, it's also implied she had never forced a relationship before. Another thing is that in Beatrice's situation, she had a number of suitors she could choose from, while she is trying to force her granddaughter to marry someone she clearly dislikes without at least seeing if there's someone else who granddaughter would be more of a match to. Finally, Beatrice tries to pair her granddaughter with someone she clearly hates; Beatrice, at least like Richard at the start of their marriage, chooses to marry him over a number of suitors and tries to be a good wife to him at the beginning of their marriage. Beatrice is trying to marry off her granddaughter to someone she clearly hates; even when her preferred suitor hits her granddaughter Star, she refuses to admit that she was wrong and takes the suitor's side, partly because he was blue blood and did not want to admit she was wrong, and partly because she cannot stand her granddaughter's boyfriend for being middle-class and did not want to take his side for defending her granddaughter. Beatrice shows how selfish despicable, and hypocritical she is by trying to force her granddaughter into an abusive marriage with someone her granddaughter hates and someone that does not love her granddaughter, whereas, in Beatrice's arranged marriage, she had options and eventually chose a good guy that genuinely loved her and treated her well.
- Facing the Future Series:
- Sam calls Undergrowth out on this, saying he's just as greedy as he says mankind is, always taking, not caring for anything other than himself.
- Later Danny points out Walker's Screw the Rules, I Make Them! policy, and calls him the biggest hypocrite he's EVER met.
- When Skulker is complaining about Technus's plan to hunt down Danny and Sam once he's gained control of the Cybertron processor, the latter points that he was perfectly willing to accept his help earlier, and that he of all people should know that a true hunter is a Combat Pragmatist.
- In Digimon Adventure 02: The Story We Never Told, Cody is the most vehemently opposed to killing any of their opponents, insisting that criminals should be arrested and given a chance to consider their actions. Yet ironically, he is also the most opposed to giving Ken any benefit of the doubt, refusing to believe that he's changed and is truly repentant and remorseful over the things he did as the Digimon Emperor.
- In "Between Sanity and Madness", Francis pushes Chris away from Herbert, and actually saved Chris as Herbert tried to get Chris into bed with him, and told him not to waste his time on the elderly (despite the fact that he himself is elderly).
- "Chick Cancer" has Francis get on Thelma for how she was neglectful to Peter in his youth by leaving him to go gambling, despite the fact he himself as was neglectful to Peter (and also abusive).
- "Full Metal Jackass" has Peter scold Chris for being a coward, not wanting to join the military. Despite the fact he never had gone to the military himself for the same reasons as Chris.
- "Girlfriend, Eh?" has Peter talk about Lois' negative aspects and how she's not a good person. And like Herbert, he's not wrong, but he's no better than her as Chris points out.
- "Neighbor Pains" has Herbert come over to the Griffin house to talk to them over the breaking and entering violation Brian committed earlier. And while he does have a reason to be mad, Herbert himself has done multiple instances of breaking-and-entering, as him being charged for child abduction implies.
- "North by North Quahog" Principal Sloan when he got mad at Chris and his friends drinking vodka in the school bathroom, yet when they left, he drank some of the vodka himself.
- Francis scolds Peter for drinking in "Power Over Peter", yet Peter finds Francis drinks himself in private.
- "Running Mates": Principal Sloan scolded Chris for peeping in the girls' locker room. yet after Peter, Lois and Chris left, he peeped through a peephole behind a bookshelf in his room, where he could see into the girls' locker room.
- Fate/Black Dawn: Morgan le Faye hates Lancelot and Guinevere because of this. They feel guilty for having an affair, which will undermine Camelot if it ever comes to light, and will do anything to redeem themselves... but they're still sleeping together. Morgan doesn't particularly care about the affair itself (and neither does King Arthur, who never had sexual feelings for either of them), she just dislikes the hypocrisy.
- Frayed Edges:
- William Afton accuses his son Michael of being a monster and having driven him to become a Serial Killer by accidentally killing his brother Evan. William conveniently ignores that not only was he already murdering children and abusive to Michael long before this, and puts the blame for his crimes solely on Michael.
- Played rather tragically with Michael. He has completely internalized William's victim blaming and is convinced he's a monster who doesn't deserve love, yet he jumps to reassure Ennard that he's totally blameless when he admits Baby blamed him for William's murders because he was William's first success at transferring one of his victim's souls into an animatronic. Ennard lampshades it, and tells Michael it wasn't his fault either.
Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
- Of Gold and Iron: Tywin at one point criticizes Cersei's parenting by pointing out she has no control of Joffrey, but when Cersei points out that Tywin himself has no control of Tyrion, Tywin ends the conversation right there.
- An Unpleasant Surprise: When Ashley tells Molly that she's too young to be making such a life-changing decision like being attracted to other girls, Molly points out that the former mentioned earlier that boys would probably line up to ask her for out on dates, despite being the same age as her, which Ashley justifies by saying girls liking boys is "natural" while girls liking other girls isn't. After Molly ends the call with her, Scratch refers to Ashley as a "self-righteous hypocrite".
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Alan Jonah will sacrifice others, even people whom he genuinely cares about, for the so-called "greater good" without hesitation, but he'll never put his own life at serious risk in the name of his cause — something which San and Vivienne Graham call him out on.
- San points out that his resurrected brothers, by propagating and exploiting the Many, are being exactly like the long-dead and much-hated Abusive Precursors who turned them into Ghidorah, and the accusation makes Ichi/Eldest Brother snap at San in wrath.
- Maia Simmons comments that her father Walter Simmons has a tendency to claim he's reasonable and open to hearing constructive criticism, then dismiss it as stupid and say you're stupid when you actually give it to him.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed
- Discussed in-universe in Gold Poisons when Wei Wuxian, the only known golden core donor, begs Wen Qing not to let Lan Wangji donate his core to save Xichen’s if it comes to that.
- Su She in Impenetrable Walls. Right after threatening Wei Wuxian for criticizing the Imperial family, Su She immediately complains about the Imperial Brother. Lampshaded by Wei Wuxian himself.
- In A Well-Intentioned Blocking, Nie Huaisang points out that Nie Mingjue has no right to scold him about having a lover, seeing as Mingjue apparently sleeps with both of his Sworn Brothers regularly.
- In Season 2 of Freeman's Mind, Gordon Freeman claims that Cutting the Knot just makes you look like a brute who is too stupid to solve the problem the intended way and can only smash things. In the same episode, he cuts two knots and calls himself a problem-solving genius for doing so. Not only was the first time completely by accident (he was trying to shoot a manhack but missed and hit an explosive barrel that blew up a pipe and flooded the room, allowing him to progress), meaning he has no business taking credit for solving that problem at all, but both methods of knot-cutting were modded in and not possible to do in a vanilla playthrough, so he definitely wasn't solving those problems the intended way. Then there were all the times in Season 1 that he skipped over portions of the game through a modded-in game breaking ability that allowed him to... realistically climb short ledges slightly too high for him to jump up.
- Child of Grace: When Blaise calls Lupin a "damned beast" and hates him for being a werewolf because a werewolf killed his father, Holly says nothing in disagreement, even mentally. He even says that he doesn't want to be anywhere near "that thing", and Holly says that he won't have to. When Lupin is outed as a werewolf and parents write in, on the grounds that a werewolf teaching their children is unsafe, however, Holly is furious about how narrow-minded and bigoted they are while ignoring Blaise's prejudice.
- Blaise himself is a hypocrite here, since he is often telling Holly about how open-minded and non-judgmental people who follow the Old Ways are.
- The Slytherins insist that they are slandered against, and that they never pick on muggle-born or blood-traitors. Then they go beat up a muggle-born and a blood traitor for supposedly harassing Holly, the latter letting them get away with it.
- The Chosen Six:
- After his first year at Hogwarts, Dudley muses that Petunia's attitude towards feeding him makes little sense, as she goes to so much trouble to keep herself thin but fixates on feeding him and Vernon to the point of them both being overweight.
- Draco mocks the Six and the entire Weasley family for being charity cases who didn't even buy their own Top Box tickets, even though Draco's family didn't buy their tickets either and instead attend the World Cup as Fudge's guests.
- This is just one of the things wrong with Barb in Christian Potter Chandler:Barb: (After Bob reproaches her for yelling at Chris for talking) Whose side are you on?! Not too long ago, you were trying to get Child Protection to take him!
Bob: Whose side are YOU ON?! Not too long ago, he ate fifty candy bars without paying and you just waited for him to finish! - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality:
- It's practically a Running Gag that Harry criticizes others' cognitive biases after demonstrating them himself.
- Dumbledore considering immortality intrinsically immoral is hypocritical to his lack of issue with the Flamels practicing it, and he tries to rationalize this by saying the Flamels are maintaining their long lives for the good of others and technically aren't immortal.
- Rhianne thinks it's creepy when boys spy on their crushes in secret, but she is guilty of doing the exact same when she's the one who has a crush.
- In Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past, Harry's friends call this out when Snape gives Draco full marks for the first task in the Triwizard Tournament, and then gives Harry an appallingly low score, even though they both damaged the dragon's eggs, Harry only breaking one egg (and even that was external sabotage), while Draco's actions damaged several as well as mortally wounding the dragon itself.
- In Oh God, Not Again!, Harry (affectionately) thinks this when Sirius insists Snape should really let go of his resentment because Sirius himself is quite mature in those regards.
- The Power of Seven:
- Chapter 12 reveals that Voldemort is basically this, as while he talks about the strength of blood purity, he privately acknowledges that the strongest wizards he knows outside of himself and Dumbledore are Snape and Harry, and while there is no sign Voldemort knows much about Dumbledore's past he is fully aware that himself, Snape and Harry are half-bloods who have been shaped by their difficult childhoods.
- In Chapter 29, Harry concedes that it might be slightly hypocritical of him to admit that he'd be fine if Katie wants to be with other guys when he'd have more trouble if it was Hermione or Ginny making such a 'demand', but none of the other girls criticise him for this view.
- Chapter 30 sees various male and female students either denouncing Harry and the girls as sluts and whores or trying to catch Harry on his own for a quick shag, although all members of the harem shoot them down; Katie explicitly notes that the males in particular are hypocrites denouncing them as slags while desperate to have sex themselves.
- Chapter 36 has Fleur accusing Ginny of this, as Fleur feels that Ginny has been judging her for her attitude towards sex even when she just accused Fleur of doing that to Ginny. The other girls also wonder if it's hypocritical of Ginny not to want to ask Fleur to get involved in their relationship just because she's marrying Bill when Ginny has no problem letting them into her relationship with Harry, but Ginny clarifies that this is because Bill is "a one woman for all time kind of guy" who would be hurt if Fleur wanted such a relationship even if he'd try to understand it.
- Keiran Halcyon wrote the Rose Potter series due to thinking that all the plot twists and such in the original were so obvious that anyone could have seen them coming. The series abruptly stopped when Deathly Hallows came out, due to the events of that book NOT being what Halcyon predicted.
- Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: The bully is this. Germany and Japan are quick to call him out on it.Bad choice. The raven took several menacing steps forward. "First you said what you said was a joke and that words don't hurt—"
"And now that what you're saying is the truth and that it hurts?" The blond finished, glaring daggers at the adolescent. "Which is it? Both contradict each other." He sneered. "You hypocrite."
- In Issei: The Gaming Gear, the Purifiers, a group who hate supernatural beings including humans that can use magic and/or have the power of a Sacred Gear, but are perfectly willing to use Magitek in their crusade.
- Lereal Belsai of Hivefled thinks of himself as a devout Sufferist, but instead of thinking the hemospectrum ranking should be removed, he wants it reversed and the coldbloods enslaved in turn, hating them to the point that he dismisses Gamzee as a spy out of hand despite the obvious marks of torture on him, and demands that a ragtag collection of Child Soldiers try to take on the entire empire. He's been described by a reader as the Malcolm X to the Sufferer's Martin Luther King.
- In chapter 123 of A Thing of Vikings, Benedict the Ninth starts censoring clergy for not being celibate when he himself is in violation of that rule.
- In Queen of All Oni, Ikazuki looks down on humanity and gives Tohru a "The Reason You Suck" Speech about it, but Tohru shuts down the speech by pointing out the Oni General's hypocrisy: Ikazuki was defeated by humans, and even now needs a human body to be more than a wall decoration.
- Natural Selection:
- Despite her Might Makes Right, Social Darwinist mindset and belief that power must stand alone, Ryuko actively protects Mako and the Safe Zone during the Naturals Elections. She even gets accused of this by the crowds, which she shrugs it off, telling them to kill her and take her place so they can pick their own favorites. She also keeps Uzu on the council and kicks Houka out, despite the former losing his first match in the Sudden Death Runoffs and the latter winning his.
- Mako may be a genuinely kind person who openly desires and tries to protect the well-being of others, but her ideals and goals are completely at odds with the fact that she's working for a bloody tyrant and is complacent with her girlfriend's horrific acts. She even gets explicitly called out on this by Satsuki during their battle in Chapter 12.
- Entering The Love Hina World: Naru proves herself to be one in several ways:
- Firstly, Naru breaks off their Childhood Marriage Promise, declaring that Keitaro's not a "real man" if he can't handle that. When he takes it in stride, bluntly informing her that he's not in love with her anymore after realizing how horribly she treated him, Naru gets offended.
- Naru angrily declares that Anthony has no right to judge her when they've barely interacted, only for Anthony to point out that she leapt to her own unflattering conclusions about him the moment they met.
- For His Own Sake:
- Granny Hina repeatedly accuses others of being incredibly manipulative or hurtful. That perfectly describes how Hina herself deals with others, being a Manipulative Bitch Control Freak who can't stand the fact that things are no longer going the way she wants them to go.
- Mutsumi proves to be a Horrible Judge of Character who latches onto a pair of untrustworthy False Friends who tell her just what she wants to hear. She turns around and tells Keitaro that he "can't just go around believing what others say".
- Motoko constantly insists that men are "vile perverted scum who think of nothing but forcing women into sexual acts". She's also a Covert Pervert with a secret stash of adult novels she wrote herself.
- The Boy Who Cried Idiot:
- Mrs. Johnson yells at Lincoln, but when Lincoln yells back, she labels it as "acting like that" and sends him to the principal's office.
- Lynn Sr. calls Lana rude for interrupting him, even though he himself was snarking at Lincoln moments before.
- Principal Huggins calls Lincoln out for interrupting Martin, then later interrupts Lincoln.
- In Lincoln is Done, Lana is mad at Lola for disobeying their parents, only she disobeyed them too in the same way.
- In The Nightmare House, this happens twice:
- The first is when Mick Swagger disses rock despite being a rock singer himself.
- The second is when the evil teddy bear spanks Lisa, despite earlier being afraid she'd fall on her butt and injure it.
- Brought up in My little Morningstar when Azrael is talking with the Goddess/Charlotte Richards about her attitude towards God. While Charlotte insists that God is the reason their family has fallen apart over the millennia, Azrael points out that, for all of her talk about how God was the "bad guy", Charlotte hasn't actually done anything to prove she's better than her husband, more focused on making him look bad than making herself look like the better parent on her own merits.
- In Polarity, Punisher reveals he has an agreement with Rhino not to go after him so long as Aleksei "keeps his nose clean". Shocker, who A: has never been any worse than a thief who meticulously avoids killing people to his own detriment, B: caused the villains to spontaneously rise to save people through his own instinctive heroic act, and C: has been repeatedly attacked and brutalized by the Punisher, furiously calls him out on this exemption.
- Subverted in A Prize for Three Empires. Carol Danvers thinks her teammates are hypocrites for believing she has a drinking problem even though Iron Man has a drinking problem and both Thor and Hawkeye drink beer. Unflappably, her mother points out that they have never gone out drunk into battle.
- In Mega Man Reawakened, the Neo Emerald Spears profess hatred of robots yet use mechs to attack.
- Alya is regularly depicted as such in Salt Fics. The girl who once said "A good reporter always checks her sources" flat out doesn't do that whenever Lila tells her something, accepting Lila's word as gospel and outright refusing to change her opinion when evidence to the contrary starts piling up.
- Similarly, it's common in salt fics for Alya to harp on and on about keeping in Marinette's best interests...so long as they benefit her (i.e., Marinette getting together with Adrien, especially if Marinette has long since moved on from her crush on him). At best, Alya's depicted as a Control Freak; at worst, she's a False Friend altogether.
- Chameleon: alternate ending features a "Marinette version" and an "Adrien version". In the latter, Marinette reveals how she had to fend off an akumatizing butterfly after Lila threatened her... and he cheerfully declares that just proves how she's capable of dealing with her lies without exposing her. Then she reminds him of how Lila had stolen his father's book, and that he was only allowed to return to school because Marinette found and returned it to him. He immediately turns around and casually exposes Lila to the whole class, leaving Marinette to realize he only cared once he was personally impacted and wondering what she ever saw in him.
- Feralnette AU:
- During Even a Worm Will Turn, Lila falsely claims to be dealing with a stalker. In the following episode, Alya winds up accusing her of being a hypocritical Stalker with a Crush on Felix after seeing her threaten to blackmail them with their own gender identity.
- Alya also claims that "even Marinette" never went as far as Lila, blithly ignoring how she was the one responsible not just for coming up with lots of Zany Schemes to "help" her hook up with Adrien, but repeatedly forced Marinette into them against her will, refusing to take no for an answer.
- While confronting Lila over the above, Alya shoves her to the floor, then declares that "Just because you're upset doesn't mean you can do anything to hurt them!" Lila promptly uses this to start guilt-tripping Alya, calling her out on being pushy, overbearing, and never wanting to listen to anyone.
- This gets Played for Drama after Marinette is injured by Battement. Alya berates her for being so reckless, only for Marinette to point out her Moral Myopia. The drama stems from how Marinette doesn't believe that Alya actually cares about her, seeing her only as a hypocrite who's gotten up on her high horse in order to berate her former friend:Marinette: Sure, let's have this conversation now. So it's fine when you, the blogger, run off to follow dangerous akuma for social media, but if I run off to try and help people, it's time for me to be lectured?
Alya: That — wait, that's not the same! I'm not trying to fight an akuma!
Marinette: I wasn't trying to fight her either. I was trying to distract her till I realized she wasn't going to let me leave. (tilts head) The difference is that ever since you started regularly hanging out with Lila, you assume the worst of me.
Alya: You know I'm trying to figure out my whole situation with Lila... and I don't think the worst of you.
Marinette: No, no, you do. But to be fair, the entire class does. It's not hard to manipulate a group of people... Children especially. Probably why Hawkmoth prefers to take them instead of adults...
- Juleka vs. the Forces of the Universe:
- After Chat Noir is Caught on Tape sexually harassing Ladybug, with Ladybug reminding him that she has repeatedly told him she's not interested, Alya attempts to defend her ship by claiming the pair were bluffing the eavesdropper to hide their relationship from Hawkmoth. Juleka notes that this has never stopped Alya from trying to 'expose' their supposed relationship and that she's never given a crap about their privacy or any other concerns.
- Chat Noir hates the other Miraculous Heroes, Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence and acting as though Ladybug is "cheating on him" whenever she calls them into play. Yet he also gleefully flirts with other heroines, pushing his way past their boundaries the same way he does with Ladybug.
- For all that Chat Noir insists that they don't need the others, he outright refuses to take his responsibilities as a superhero seriously, being more interested in harassing his "partner" than working with her. Ladybug eventually starts listing off all of the akumas where he either refused to help or actively worked against her, only for him to insist none of those incidents were his fault.
- The Karma of Lies: Adrien wrongly believes that he benefits from Protagonist-Centered Morality, making everything he does automatically right by default. This leads him to some stunningly flagrant acts of hypocrisy:
- Despite knowing that Lila is a Manipulative Bitch who's scamming his classmates, Adrien insists that she's not actually hurting anyone... right up until she stabs him in the back. At which point he's all for exposing her, claiming that it's simply not right to let her get away with stealing from anyone. (Namely him.)
- Adrien claims that his father shouldn't be charged with terrorism, murder, or treason because Ladybug's Miraculous Cure repaired all the damage he'd done, even bringing people Back from the Dead. Therefore, none of it 'really counts'. Save for the temporary deaths he suffered as Chat Noir, which he believes he should be recompensed for — those are the only ones that matter.
- Alya and most of Marinette's former friends and classmates expect to be Easily Forgiven for how they exploited her kindness, then shunted her aside and ignored her warnings about Lila. Yet even as they're plotting to go over her head and have her parents make her forgive them, they grouse and gloat about how they intend to hold this against her forever.
- In Liberatrix by George_Glass (NSFW), a woman is akumatized after a Moral Guardian, continuing her late husband's crusades, shuts down her Museum of Erotic Art and History. Said moral guardian is forced to review her stance after the battle damages her husband's desk, showing the size of his Porn Stash.
- Two Letters: As Chat Noir, Adrien spent the better part of two years doggedly pursuing Ladybug out of a gross sense of entitlement, refusing to accept that she wasn't interested in getting together. Just when he'd worn her down to the point where she was starting to consider giving in to his advances, he abruptly switched targets to Marinette, unaware that they were the same person. He completely dismisses how much this might have hurt Ladybug, declaring that she should have immediately accepted that he wasn't interested... despite how he had staunchly refused to do so himself for ages. This underscores how Adrien ultimately only cares about himself.
- Weight Off Your Shoulder has Future!Alix/Bunnyx, who comes back in time to dissuade Marinette from renouncing her Guardianship and passing the Earrings to somebody else. She condescendingly tells her to "suck it up", claiming everything will work out fine in the long run...before accidentally revealing that things are going to get significantly worse first. She then brushes off Marinette and the Kwamis' horror at these revelations, insisting that she can't tell them anything that might change the future, like Hawk/Shadow Moth's secret identity...yet when Marinette strips her of the Rabbit Miraculous before going through with her plans, bringing down the magical terrorist and changing things for the better, Future!Alix is more than happy to spill any secrets that she thinks will help her "fix" everything, such as revealing Marinette's secret identity to Alya, Rose, Juleka, Mylene, and her past self.
- Then it turns out that she's been meddling with the 'original timeline' all along, trying to arrange things so that Marinette and Adrien end up together, adding whole new layers to her hypocrisy.
- In What Friends Do, Alya calls Marinette this because of how she treats Chat Noir and Adrien. Marinette gets mad at Chat Noir for trying to win her even after he is told she loves someone else, yet she has still been trying to win Adrien over after he confessed he loved another girl in "The Puppeteer 2". In fact, some of her romantic tactics have been even worse than Chat Noir's, like trying to humiliate romantic rivals in public or taking advantage of Adrien when he's sad. Marinette is upset by the tactics Chat uses on her, writing off the unknown rival as a jerk to justify wooing, refusing to move on despite being told they are just friends, expecting them to overlook their flaws because of their good points, or telling themselves that they can change their love's mind and convince them to give them a chance if they try harder, yet the series has thus far shown us that she has no problems doing those same things to Adrien. What's more, Alya accuses Marinette of thinking herself as above all Adrien's Loony Fans who only have Celeb Crushes on him, and that she herself loves him for who he is on the inside, when in reality, she, too, is Loving a Shadow, as she has had two years to get over her Smitten Teenage Girl problems, but let herself be intimidated by his status and fame, keeping her stuck as a Stalker with a Crush who barely knows him beyond the flawless image she has of him.
- Played for Laughs in this DeviantArt piece where Sonya arrests Jade, Kitana, and Mileena for public indecency. (Sonya's Fanservice-ish clothes are just as revealing.)
- AfO's Guide To A Peaceful Retirement:
- An element of this is in play with Mitsuki Bakugo. She was intensely against Inko dating Hisashi due to his fire breath, which she says is dangerous and villainous. Four years later, Mitsuki goes to the Midoriya apartment and demands to know why Hisashi has withdrawn Izuku from his and Katsuki's shared preschool. Hisashi all but outright says it's to protect Izuku from Katsuki, calling the latter "a little shit and a bully", as Katsuki has been intentionally attacking Izuku with his explosions. In reply, Mitsuki tries to assault Hisashi. The implication is that she sees it as okay for her to try to seperate her loved ones from those she considers dangerous, but not Hisashi. The complication comes in with the context that she was so caught up in her dislike of Hisashi and her grief over losing Inko that when she noticed Izuku's absence, it's implied she wasn't really emotionally considering anything other than fear and anger over potentially losing Izuku too, let alone taking a righteous stance, hypocritical or otherwise. She later has a Jerkass Realization when she fully accepts what Katsuki had actually been doing to Izuku, and blames herself for her son hurting Izuku and the restraining order now between the Bakugos and the Midoriyas.
- All Might, Sir Nighteye, and Gran Torino spent years helping Shimura Tenko accept himself and his Quirk as not innately villainous despite its destructive potential, only to turn around and villainize Izuku for the Quirk he was born with.
- Aizawa in Critical Overcharge preaches logic and rationality but also makes a point of singling out Izuku with the intent of expelling him because he doesn't like the boy. It's revealed that Aizawa refused to give Izuku any Hero Points for rescuing Ochako because the boy broke his bones doing so, citing "he traded himself to save one person". Finally, Aizawa engages in Moving the Goalposts when some of his students chat with each other during the Quirk Assessment, saying the entire group now has to place in the top ten and all have at least one top five finish or be expelled.
- A Hero's Wrath: Bakugo still thinks that Izuku can't be a hero because he has no quirk and relies on mantra, ignoring the fact that his family is historically tied to the Mantra of Violence, his own uncle being Wyzen.
- In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Shouto Todoroki is called out by Aizawa on his recklessness for disobeying the teachers' orders to stay out of the fight against the League of Villains, trying to take the Noumu on by himself and forcing Midoriya to step in to save him (and getting injured within an inch of his life in the process). Todoroki tries to justify his actions by saying that "Heroes must be willing to risk everything to protect people", to what Aizawa points out that with him holding back his fire powers in a life-or-death situation he wasn't doing his best to protect everyone, instead placing them in greater danger.
- A central theme of Reality Check (MHA) is Shinsou's total hypocrisy when it comes to his classmates. He constantly mentally harrangues them for "not taking things seriously" and "slacking off" when he puts in functionally zero effort in class and absolutely no effort outside of class. He wastes hours playing video games or browsing the internet rather than training then insults the others for watching a movie after they finish their training. Shinsou also insists people are getting by on their Quirks while trying to do the same himself and ignoring that most of them don't even have the physical Quirks he says they're using. Lastly, he feels like people unfairly judge him, especially for his quirk, while also hating his former classmates for not wanting to be heroes, especially the ones with powerful quirks.
- Central to the Sleeper Hit AU. Aizawa preaches the importance of looking at things rationally and logically, and purports that he only trains those he judges to have potential. Yet when faced with a Quirkless Midoriya who'd managed to pass U.A.'s Entrance Exam, and who managed to outperform one of his Quirked peers during his assessment test, Aizawa still fudges the results to expel him. All because he wanted to ensure there was a slot open in his class for his protege Shinsou once he managed to prove himself, and preferred Hagakure's invisibility over Midoriya's Quirklessness.
- Made worse when he reveals to Shinsou that he actually did see potential in Midoriya — enough that he secretly wrote a recommendation to help him get into another Hero school. Yet he utterly humiliated Izuku in front of his would-be classmates at the time, outing him as Quirkless in front of the lot while claiming that he wouldn't get any "special treatment" for his disability.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Codex Equus: As stated by both the Codex entries and many people In-Universe, High King Irminsul sees himself as a wise and benevolent leader, yet is utterly and willingly blind to his own flaws. He is extremely puristic and intolerant towards anything he deems 'dark' and 'evil', yet is willing to use 'good' magic for selfish ends, such as purifying his unborn son in-utero to create the perfect and flawless heir he desired. He's also willing to abuse people (including his own children) if they are 'evil' or don't fit his high standards, regardless if they truly deserved such mistreatment or not. It's deconstructed in that he influenced his people and family to act the same way, eventually causing his pantheon to splinter into various independent sub-groups after his children and followers got sick of his behavior and abandoned him.
- The TCB Ponies of The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum can talk one's ears off about the evils of the human race, never mind that they're doing far worse. They also consider technology and human works to be evil, yet they have used zeppelins and concrete for their own purposes. That, and as Marcus points out, their talk about love, friendship, and harmony is at complete odds with the Mind Rape and forcible transformation of an entire species into perpetually smiling Extreme Doormat newfoals.
- The founder of the PER, a misanthropic doctor named Jacqueline Reitman, is a hypocrite in several major ways:
- She claims to hate humanity and human culture, technology, and science, all the while glossing over the fact that she herself is human, uses plenty of technology herself, and is a scientist of human medicine. It is implied that she rejected her humanity her whole life.
- She sneeringly refers to TCB!Lyra as "the Betrayer", never mind she herself is a remorseless Vidkun Quisling for the entire human race.
- To top it off, she wouldn't even consider taking the potion herself, while forcing it on countless others. Word of God states that Queen Celestia placed a hypnotic suggestion into her mind to keep her from taking the potion because she'd likely be much less useful as a newfoal anyway.
- She also claims that humans and ponies can't be friends, in spite of the fact that she herself was friends with plenty of ponies (particularly the unicorn Catseye). The ghost of TCB!Lyra even points out this hypocrisy with an Armor-Piercing Question.
- The founder of the PER, a misanthropic doctor named Jacqueline Reitman, is a hypocrite in several major ways:
- Death Note Equestria: Twilight says the Second Kira disgusts her for killing innocents, even foals (like Sweetie Belle). This in spite of having killed plenty of innocents to protect her own hide, including a reporter not much older than Sweetie Belle.
- The Author Avatars of Friendship is Failure tend to not practice what they preach.
- Talon Ted takes offense to being called selfish and lazy despite making a charitable donation and working hard at the toll booths/loading docks. He glosses over the part where he threatened to rescind that donation, or merely flaunted it in a retcon, just to be a jerk to his own sister and that he slacks off regularly at his job. Not to mention he insists on getting into the acting industry without any real education and declined proper acting jobs simply because going through the education system hurt his pride. He takes issue when Twilight and Ath-Lita plan to trick him but apparently has no issue at all with tricking them back in retaliation and humiliating them in the process.
- Garfield calls the girls pathetic for getting captured by "a group of third-rated poor-excuse for villains", even though said villians also managed to disarm and nearly kill him, only failing to do so because he gets exposed to the magic they had been extracting and turns into a dragon.
- Beast Boy tells Terra that her actions towards him were inexcusable, regardless of the pain she suffered in her old life, but has no problem using his own tragic past to justify his own bad actions. Both before and after he becomes Count Logan.
- Helper Soul says he doesn't wish any harm on Nightlight but he implies he regrets trying to save Night which led to Helper's Career-Ending Injury, thus by proxy, he wishes harm on Night (Mykan later revised how Helper got crippled, making this trope averted).
- Davis claims that the girls pursuing him are all extremely shallow and only pursue him for his reputation rather than him as a person. Meanwhile, the first thing he does in the story is to reject a girl for not being Kari, which makes him look equally shallow.
- In many of the stories he is in, Stone Heart complains about how unfair it is that ponies hate his books just because they don't conform to their preferences. However, Stone himself openly admits he only writes books that appeal to him, without caring what other ponies like and he has no problem dismissing books that don't appeal to his own preferences as 'terrible', even going as far as to say that he hates ponies who do enjoy them.
- Write of Way ends with Stone Heart publishing a self-help book in which the contents of said book essentially boil down to "Friendship doesn't make everything alright but money does." This is after it was established Stone Heart frequently gives checks away because he's too "proud" to get money from a source he doesn't approve of.
- Luna Light accuses Twilight of being a Control Freak who expects everypony to follow her way of life when she herself expects everypony close to her to hate Twilight as much as she does or else she cuts them out of her life like she does to Moondancer.
- Loved and Lost, an extended retelling of "A Canterlot Wedding", has a couple of examples.
- Prince Jewelius admonishes the heroes he has disgraced — the princesses, Shining Armor and Twilight's friends — for being overly focused on the wedding when there was a threat of unknown attackers against Canterlot. He himself gets so caught up tormenting the imprisoned heroes that he fails to realize that Luna isn't among them before she rescues Celestia from being hanged. He also willfully dismisses the renewed threat of the Changelings and focuses entirely on destroying the heroes. This bites him in the flank big time in the end. He also preaches as part of his propaganda that the ponykind needs to be strong enough to fend for itself without the protection of the alicorns and the Elements of Harmony. He himself is a cowardly Non-Action Big Bad who lets his more powerful allies/pawns — including Twilight Sparkle, one of the Elements of Harmony — do the fighting. He also convinces Twilight that the other heroes refused to listen to her about the false Cadance because they chose to ignore the reality in favor of their fantasies. He himself ends up letting his delusions of grandeur get to his head to the point that he refuses to acknowledge the escaped Changelings as a threat.
- During their duel in the climax, Vivian admonishes Rainbow Dash for blindly supporting the fake Cadance (a complete stranger) to the point of giving her friend Twilight the cold shoulder. The Element of Loyalty concedes that Vivian is right, but then she states that Vivian is in no position to judge about blind loyalty while she serves a monster like Jewelius without question.
- Practicing what they preach is a foreign concept to the Space Ponies of My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic.
- A particularly notable example is in season 3 where they don't go after Raven because she's potentially too strong for them to handle. Except she's pretty small potatoes compared to the likes of Titan before her, several villains afterward, and King Sombra in the same season, whom they fought with no hesitation. Additionally, she is an Equestrian, which has been stated several times to be incapable of matching the strength of even the weakest Space Pony.
- Speaking of which, this decision led to the death of Twilight Sparkle. Despite the fact that they could have swooped in and fought like they did with all of the above-mentioned villains but chose not to, it's her that's at fault for not following orders not to go after Raven. Not the supposedly superior Space Ponies, no siree. Not to mention, back in season 1, Abra-Kadabra and Lightning Dawn both stepped out of line to attack the villains at different points, and they didn't get so much as a slap on the wrist.
- They insist on making the Equestrian ponies drop terms like "everypony" for the sake of political correctness because not everyone's a pony. Not only are they referred to as "original space ponies", but they also look down heavily on their Equestrian counterparts, which is the opposite of politically correct.
- They happily criticize any aspect of Equestrian culture that they don't agree with, but if anyone voices complaints about their culture, the complainers are looked down on as degenerate and wrong.
- In the third chapter of the rewritten Season 1, Lightning suggests blowing up the Dark Planet with Titan on it, but dismisses the thought because, to quote the text, "Starfleet was not a murderous force. They couldn't go around blowing worlds up without good reason or cause." While they do bring down a few enemies through non-lethal means, most of the time they don't display any particular reluctance to kill enemies they consider irredeemable (including Titan, ironically enough), and they actually chew Twilight out for having an issue with killing.
- When a hero is the last member of a dying race, nearly everyone around them feels sorry for them (see all the times Lightning being the last living Harmonian is wheeled out for cheap sympathy points). When a villain is the last member of a dying race, Starfleet will kill them (or possibly send them to one of their Hellhole Prisons where they must serve multiple life sentences), thus rendering said villain's species extinct with Starfleet feeling absolutely no remorse.
- In the seventeenth episode of the ninth season, they learn that, when settling disputes, Vistulans compete in a series of games and competitions, with losers getting banished and shunned. They consider this requirement of settling disputes to be a barbaric law, even before finding out what happens to the losers. However, in the third episode of the same season, Applejack and an Earth Pony named Apple Spice find out they're engaged to be married by a certain time and the contract cannot be changed at all. They must get married, even though they don't want to and Applejack's parents, the ones who arranged the marriage, changed their minds or they will be penalized according to the law.
- The Powers of Harmony: During their Wizard Duel, Trixie calls Twilight a fraud who relies on ancient artifacts instead of her own talent. She says this while using the Alicorn Amulet.
- In Unexpected Confessions, the Mane 6 find themselves in a rather ridiculous chain of crushes, with Twilight>Applejack>Rainbow Dash in the middle. At one point, Twilight calls AJ out for pining over Dash, suggesting she look for (hint hint) somepony who loves her for herself, rather than pursuing somepony for whom she would at best be a second choice or safety net- the latter, of course, being what Twilight is doing at that exact moment.
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- In Catarina Claes MUST DIE!, Henrietta is this:
- She calls Catarina a vile woman but eventually plots to murder her and frame someone else for it.
- She claims that Catarina bullied and abused Maria for being a commoner, but when Maria protests that it's not true, Henrietta yells at her to "know [her] place" and calls her an "ungrateful peasant" for not backing her up.
- She claims she tried to kill Catarina to save Maria and Keith from her, but as Geordo points out when he and Mary interrogate her in the jail, she had foreknowledge of Maria being bullied but did nothing because what she really wanted was for Catarina to suffer. Mary also adds that Catarina made everyone's lives better than before and that includes her younger brother. Henrietta just willfully ignored the signs of Keith's pleasant and cordial relationship with his sister.
- Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison: For all his talk about how "Those who abandon their allies are worse than trash," Kakashi not only proves to be a Sink or Swim Mentor who offers little guidance to his genin, he sits silently and lets Sasuke trash, belittle and insult his teammates unchallenged. In fact, he actively encourages infighting by teasing the boys whenever Sakura outperforms them, then expects her to play peacemaker and keep her temper despite Sasuke repeatedly telling her that she'll never be more than Cannon Fodder. Sakura is swiftly convinced that he fully agrees with every horrible thing Sasuke says and considers her expendable, teammate or not.
- Escape From The Hokage's Hat: Kakashi is known for preaching the importance of teamwork, declaring that "Those who abandon their mission are trash. Those who abandon their allies are worse than trash." However, this didn't stop him from neglecting Naruto and Sakura's training in favor of focusing entirely upon Sasuke, who ultimately betrayed Konoha... and proceeded to mope around over the unfairness of Sasuke being arrested and prosecuted for his crimes when by his own teachings his former student was "worse than trash". As news of this spreads, many of his fellow shinobi are unimpressed by his hypocrisy, and Sakura calls him out on it directly when he implies that it was her fault that he chose not to teach her anything beyond tree-walking because she was "too weak to be worth his time":Sakura: What part of Those who abandon their allies are worse than trash do you believe?
- The Last Prayer: Tenten's father calls Zabuza and Naruto the scum of society for being a criminal and a jinchuriki respectively, even though he not only tried to steal Zabuza's sword from Naruto, he also intended to kill Naruto for it if necessary.
- The Moon Cries in Reverse: Hiruzen sees nothing wrong with hurting children whom he has deemed to be potential threats to Konoha, putting Naruto, Sakura and Shikamaru through hellish ordeals while insisting that their loyalty must be tested For the Greater Good. Yet he's unwilling to do anything about his "old friend" Danzo despite his rival's history of horrible actions.
- Three's A Crowd also takes Kakashi to task for not practicing what he preaches as a teacher:
- When Sakura is the only one of his prospective students to recognize that the bell test is meant to encourage them to work together, he punishes her for being the only one who didn't attempt to attack him by herself, not understanding that she realized the pointlessness of doing so without backup.
- Despite seeing firsthand how Sasuke and Uo blatantly disrespect Sakura as part of their Ineffectual Loner attitudes, he refuses to intervene, expecting Sakura to step up and wrangle Team Seven into a functional unit without any assistance from their jounin instructor. When she's naturally unable to do so, he insists it's HER FAULT that the boys don't see her as their equal and that she needs to show off her skills more, ignoring how she was the Top Kunoichi in their class — something both boys know and clearly don't care about.
- What You Knead: Jiraiya's Establishing Character Moment is him barging into the Ryouken Bakery to give Kakashi grief over his decision to retire from active service, trying to guilt-trip him by invoking Minato's name. Kakashi counters that Jiraiya has no room to talk, given how he abandoned Konoha for years and has done nothing to honor the promise he made Minato to look after Naruto as his godson. Jiraiya then further proves his hypocrisy by claiming Kakashi also abandoned Naruto in his time of need, only to learn that the Copy-nin has been building up a relationship with him as a Big Brother Mentor, while Jiraiya himself remains unwilling to reach out to the kid even when presented with an opportunity to introduce himself.
- The Child of Love:
- Asuka calls Misato this in chapter 1 since Misato is lecturing her about having sex despite of her and Kaji having a healthy sex life. It misses the point since Misato is lecturing her about being underage and having unprotected sex claiming she was bored.
- In chapter 5 Misato chides Asuka about always pushing Shinji away, and Asuka accuses her of hypocrisy again, stating she does the same things with Kaji. This time, she has a point.
- Ghosts of Evangelion:
- Kyoko hates her husband for cheating on her. However, she slept with a married man long before meeting Asuka's father.
- Asuka declines to babysit Ryuko after threatening Shinji with dire consequences if he didn't take care of their daughter. Subverted because it was part of her plan to help Shinji become a better father.
- In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, as the Emerald Tablet, a rogue A.I., delivers a Breaking Speech to Asuka, it claims that it only seeks to help and understand her, dismissing her relationship with Shinji as only being a source of misery, stating its belief that Shinji, as a mere human, can only ever regard her as a Lust Object to use for his own ends. The Tablet conveniently ignores the fact that it itself has done nothing but inflict both physical and mental misery upon every single person it has ever encountered, especially Asuka herself, and that itself very much regards Asuka as an object that it wishes to possess for its own self-gratification (which it justifies as being more "pure" in that it desires Asuka for her mind rather than her body), as well as use her for its own ends, that of controlling Unit-02 through her.
- The One I Love Is...: In chapter 6 Shinji calls Rei a hypocrite because she said that she'd never hurt him, but she kept things from him.
- Common Sense: Still bitter about her loss to Ash in the Cerulean Gym, Misty has the gall to call Ash a cheater for using flying Pokémon against her water ones. When he accepts her rematch, she immediately orders her Staryu to stay above Ash's Squirtle, not unlike what Ash did to dodge her attacks in the gym. When he calls her out on this, she calls it "strategy".
- Old West:
- Grace rightfully calls the distrustful townsfolk out for their Fantastic Racism and having the nerve to consider themselves without sin, but Grace herself is very prejudiced towards outlaws (though not without very understandable reasons), and what's more she herself has killed in rage in the past.
- Benjamin Hares is very self-righteous when accusing the very wife that he abandoned ten years ago of committing adultery.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness:
- In Act I chapter 20, Dark calls Kokoa out on this, pointing out that she's insisting that Tsukune isn't worthy of being with a vampire because he isn't as strong as Moka is, but is still insisting that Dark is worthy of being with Kokoa herself despite having lost to Inner Moka in a fight. When Kokoa proceeds to declare that it's different because Dark is a stronger fighter than Tsukune and protects those around him, Dark quickly turns her logic against her by pointing out that, even before Tsukune got vampire powers, he risked his life to protect his friends again and again before proceeding to remark that, not only is she being unfair to Tsukune, she's still chasing after Dark even though he's already chosen Mizore as his girlfriend; when Kokoa decides to actually beg Dark not to reject her, Inner Moka then calls her out over the fact that, after all of her talk about vampire pride, she Ain't Too Proud to Beg Dark to be with her even though he's already made his choice. Kokoa realizes this and is left almost speechless.
- In Act IV, most other members of the group reject Akua and Kahlua because they worked for Fairy Tale and nearly killed them while forgetting that Dark himself once worked for Fairy Tale and has committed atrocities just as bad, if not worse. When Dark calls them on it, the others agree to at least give Kahlua and Akua a chance.
- For all of Fairy Tale's claims that they're looking out for monsters, they also spend quite a bit of time killing their fellow non-humans, having personally destroyed Ahakon's village and killed everyone there, and nearly doing the same to Mizore's hometown not once, but twice.
- In Act VI chapter 20, Arial criticizes Ran for chasing after Ahakon and refusing to accept him as taken when she herself is/was the same way with Dark. She also has the gall to call Kokoa out over her Hair-Trigger Temper when Arial's own temper is just as bad, if not worse.
- Talon Ryashen in Act VI. He seeks revenge on everyone who ever worked for Fairy Tale for turning him into a weapon, but as pointed out by others, he resummoned Jovian and Jacqueline and is using them as weapons to achieve this goal. Talon adamantly denies this, insisting that he summoned them for them to work together, and doesn't want them to be his slaves.
- Invoked in Act VI chapter 30; when Hothorne asks Moka how he can trust her story on Babylon's invasion, Moka turns it around on him by pointing out that, since his organization tends to automatically deem all monsters evil, he has little room to talk to them about trust issues.
- Ironside:
- Teams RWBY and JNR along with Qrow insist that Ironwood can't be trusted because he took a day to inform them that someone was murdering his political rivals. At the same time, they're trying to justify why they're withholding far more critical information, such as the Relic of Knowledge still having one question left, for weeks.
- Yang is the worst of the group, trying to hide from everyone that her mother is the Spring Maiden, despite knowing how important said information is. All the while, she's one of the most insistent that Ironwood can't be trusted for withholding information.
- A New World on her Shoulders:
- Weiss states that she wouldn't want Pyrrha to be her partner because she assumes her to be an egotistical smug know-it-all. These traits tend to fit Weiss at her worst more than they do Pyrrha. Ruby even has to hold back on telling Weiss that she's basically describing her worst qualities.
- Ironwood is willing to cheat the system to allow Ruby and Penny to be on the same team, but Ruby points out to him that this goes against the ethos emphasized in his introductory speech to the new students, namely that a Huntsman never cheats or lies. Ironwood is actually proud of Ruby for calling him out on this and considers her to have amazing potential for a future Huntress.
- Prison Island Break: Silver finds himself betraying his friends and denouncing God in order to survive in prison.
- Hypocrisy Nod: He becomes aware of his hypocrisy and is disgusted with himself.
- Despite being a murderer and rapist in this story, Shadow's main character flaw is that he is deliberately written as a gigantic hypocrite - he tends to consider himself morally superior to all the other murderers and rapists on Prison Island despite showing pride in being one of the worst and gets irritated when people accuse him of doing bad things.
- In Doctor Ghemor, I Presume?, for all their claims of loving their son and sacrificing everything for him, Richard and Amsha Bashir refuse to see him as more than something to prop them up and immediately accuse him from being ungrateful when he refuses to comply.
- Garak points the Federation preaching empathy and tolerance starts to ring hollow when the persecution against augments — most often people who had no choice regarding their nature — comes to light.
- Averted in Darth Vader: Hero of Naboo; while Vader is busy verbally tearing the Jedi a new one for their complacency, he also isn’t afraid to admit that the Sith also have some problems that need to be solved such as infighting and destructive competition.
- Total Drama Redemption: Trent calls Noah a faker in the Newfoundland challenge. And this is coming from a guy who faked a broken limb.
- Total Drama What If Series: Sky calls her team in World Tour a bunch of jerks when annoyed by them, ignoring the fact that she acted like one in the past season.
- In Black Crayons, Sentinel Prime, who betrayed the Autobots and everything they stood for, is outraged at Megatron betraying him. Obviously, Optimus Prime calls him out on this.Sentinel Prime: (to Megatron) Traitor.
Optimus Prime: You have already betrayed those around you. You betrayed yourself. Why are you so surprised to receive such treatment? Especially from Megatron.
- Better Bones AU: Jayfeather is mad at Leafpool and Squirrelflight for lying about his parentage to hide that Leafpool, a cleric who gave a Vow of Celibacy, gave birth to him, despite also being a cleric and lying about the parentage of his own children. He's aware of the hypocrisy and knows he shouldn't feel angry but can't stop himself from feeling that way.
- Many of the supporters of Thistle Law ideology are often willing to work with other Clans despite their claims of focusing on blood purity and xenophobia towards others; this is done intentionally to reflect how real bigots are often like that.
- In The Land of What Might-Have-Been, Alphaba (the insane alternate Elphaba) is confirmed to have this attitude in regards to her children; while Alphaba condemns the Childlike Researchers as a mistake, she uses their age-regression techniques to keep her daughters young until they can be 'cured' of a biological weapon that caused their recessive green skin to manifest (Alphaba was given a normal complexion years ago but the genetic traits for her original skin are still present in her body).
- A Darker Path: Saint persuades Mags that Atropos should be killed, because she's a multiple murderer — even though all Atropos' targets were multiple murderers. Apparently, if Atropos puts an end to a serial killer, it's bad, but if Saint puts an end to a serial killer, it's good. Of course, the real reason is that Atropos is using the same exploits on Dragon that the Dragonslayers are, and Saint just can't let that go.
- In Wanda's Life, for all of Magneto's talk of mutant supremacy, he disapproves of Wanda's relationship with Kurt Wagner just because of Kurt's appearance.
- With This Ring: While it's because he believes that Wonder Woman and the rest of the League should be held to a higher standard, it's still rich of Paul to get on his high horse and openly condemn all of them for the cover-up of Giovanni Zatara, when at the drop of a hat, he's quick to justify lying to even the Team when he thinks it necessary.
