My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
Hypocrite in this series.- Rainbow Dash, of all ponies, is the first pony to confront Trixie about her bragging in Boast Busters. She does gives it a Hypocrisy Nod a bit later, albeit with zero humility.Rainbow Dash: There's no need to go strutting around and showing off like that. That's my job!
- Then there's "Ponyville Confidential". The citizens of Ponyville enjoyed reading about the gossip that was spread about each other, but when they were gossiped about, they got angry.
- Reading gossip about other ponies? A-OK. Discovering gossip about you? "I'LL DESTROY HER!" Granted, Rarity reacted this way because she recognized the article came from her own diary, which was a blatant invasion of her own privacy...
- Only Twilight was against Gabby Gums spreading lies about other ponies until it happened to those other ponies. This is only briefly spotlighted with Rarity. The rest are just out-and-out hypocrites.
- Rarity also calls out Sweetie Belle (one of the Crusaders that were gossiping) for gossiping about her using her diary, calling it an invasion of privacy, while using herself going through her saddle bag to find it as an example.
- In "Twilight's Kingdom Part 2", despite continually showing bitterness and hate for his brother Scorpan betraying him to save Equestria, Tirek has no qualms about stabbing Discord in the back for power. Of course, since Tirek thought friendship and loyalty were a worthless gesture in the first place, this may have been his point.
- Starlight Glimmer preaches about equality by removing cutie marks and getting rid of special talents to avoid disharmony, partly on the basis that having special talents is going to make ponies think they're better than others. It turns out she's still got her own cutie mark, hidden with paint, as she needs her magic talent to accomplish this all... and that she thinks she needs to be the exception because she knows better than others what's good for them. So others should not have special talents because it'll make them think they're better than others, but she should because she is better than others. She also talks about how everyone is in her commune out of their own free will — but if someone freely wills not to take part...
- It gets worse when Starlight returns for The Cutie Remark as Starlight, in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown, screams to Twilight that she has no idea about who she is and her past. Twilight concedes that part, but it's obvious that Starlight is in the same position towards the Mane Six. It's this little bit that makes her Make Wrong What Once Went Right plot a Didn't Think This Through plot - she had absolutely no idea that the friendship between the Mane Six was so integral to the history of Equestria that by disrupting it, it would plunge the entire world into darkness or, even worse, a barren wasteland.
- Twilight Sparkle falls into this in No Second Prances where, after easily forgiving Starlight Glimmer for everything she pulled, she still holds a grudge against Trixie. Trixie and even Starlight herself both call her on her Double Standard at least a couple times throughout the episode. She gets better in the end.
- A similar moment happens in "The Times They Are A Changeling" when Starlight is told of what Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings nearly accomplished back in "A Canterlot Wedding", causing her to immediately be distrustful of Thorax when his cover is blown in front of her, Twilight, Cadance, and Sunburst. However, during Spike's heartfelt song to convince them to accept Thorax, Starlight realizes that Thorax is in the same position she had been in, and begins to regret judging him so harshly because of Twilight's past experience with Changelings.
- Similarly, Twilight Sparkle often takes exception to things her friends do, and then turns right around and does those things herself. Like chastising her friends for being too competitive and then acting the exact same way herself, or chastising Discord for deliberately putting her in a bad spot to teach her An Aesop and then turning right around and doing the exact same thing to Rainbow Dash.
