Hypocrite / Video Games

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• Danganronpa
• The DCU
• Pokémon

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Individual examples:

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• Ace Attorney:
  • Franziska von Karma constantly refers to people by their full names. When she is called by her first name, she says that calling people by their full names is rude.
  • Like father, like daughter, at least in regards to hypocrisy. Case four of Investigations has a great example of this:
    Manfred: There shall be no yelling in this sacred hall of law! [Coupled with a loud cane slam and the sound effects denoting yelling.]
  • In Trials & Tribulations during Mia's (as well as Edgeworth's) first trial, Edgeworth comes up with phrases like "Young people these days simply don't know how to respect their elders" or "I can't be outwitted by this novice bimbo", to the point of Mia outright calling him a hypocrite (in her head). Might be justified in a way for as long as he copies his mentor's fashion preferences and gestures at the time, he might also be copying him right down to speech.
    Edgeworth: *sigh*... The rashness of youth. How charming.
    Mia: (This coming from someone younger than me!)
  • Ace Attorney Investigations gives the character of Justine Courtney. She claims that Edgeworth hinders investigations by hiding evidence and taking his investigation into legally murky areas. However, Justine does the same thing in the 4th case. When evidence is brought to light that she had ample opportunity to be the killer ^note As Justine was the only person who entered the crime scene other than the victim, she dismisses the evidence without a second thought, then uses evidence she is already aware was fabricated to arrest an innocent girl. And she is given no comeuppance for this.
  • In the DLC case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, Pierce Nichody, butler of the Sprocket family, is concerned by how Sorin is stuck in the past after a car crash killed Sorin's sister Selena, and wants him to move on. However, Pierce is also affected by the incident, since Selena was his fiancee, and plots to frame Sorin's fiancée Ellen for murder in revenge. It also turns out that Sorin has anterograde amnesia and loses all his memories each time he sleeps(meaning that for him, it is as though he's constantly traveling back in time to the accident), whereas Pierce has no excuse.
• Commissioner Gordon in Batman: Arkham Origins called out Batman for supposedly killing Bane and refuses to work with him. Except that previously he shot two mooks trying to kill Warden Joseph for the same reason as Batman did (Saving an innocent life). Nobody even acknowledges it when Batman defends himself. Justified in the fact that while Gordon is a police officer who killed in the line of duty, Gordon sees Batman as a vigilante sanctioned by and accountable to no one.
• BioShock series:
  • First game's Andrew Ryan founded the underwater city of Rapture to be an Objectivist utopia, where personal freedom and self-advancement were valued above all else. However, Ryan's desire to keep his city an Objectivist utopia eventually led to him taking dictatorial control over the city — in direct violation of all the principles on which Rapture was founded — to prevent it from falling into the hands of his (much more competent) competition... exactly the way his own theory said it ought to. Furthermore, as Sophia Lamb points out in the second game, despite his atheism and even having banned religion in Rapture, the "Great Chain" his ideology centered on was divinity in all but name. On the other hand, Ryan could be said to be a subversion, especially if one considers the very likely idea that he's taken his philosophy to its logical if excessive conclusion: that he did everything for his own benefit. Add in the idea of altruism being considered anathema to personal self-interest, and the emphasis on "looking out for number one", and it suggests that Rapture wasn't meant to be a refuge for the world's elite — all that mattered to Ryan was himself and his own self-interest, arguably the one thing he wasn't hypocritical about to the end.
  • BioShock 2 has Sofia Lamb, who is an extremely outspoken collectivist who preaches that man needs to ignore his selfish desires to advance the greater good (the exact opposite ideals of Ryan). Yet many of her actions are essentially pushing her own beliefs onto others, diverting blame away from herself, refusing to admit she might be wrong, and rarely listens to other's ideas. This makes her a very self centered and biased woman who has a superiority complex with the very flaws she preaches against. Granted, she admits that she is flawed and has biases, yet she remains blind to how contradictory her words and her horrible actions really are.
  • Bioshock Infinite keeps up the tradition with Zachary Hale Comstock, a born-again Christian and Patriot who violates Christian teachings and seceded from his own country. Comstock founded his floating city as a way of upholding what he saw as the values of American life, but rather than a democratically elected leader, Comstock rules Columbia as a theological dictator. Also, Comstock (literally) preaches Christian ideals and philosophy to his populace, and became a Born-Again Christian to cope with the guilt of being a war criminal. Despite this he has no compassion or forgiveness of his own, and actually went so far as to build a museum praising the "heroism" he claims to have repented from. Comstock is also openly racist, which he uses to justify the treatment of non-whites in Columbia, but is secretly part Native American. This is all in contrast to the protagonist, Booker, who has many of Comstock's own flaws and failings (and some of his own) but admits his shortcomings and tries to become The Atoner.
    Comstock: The Lord forgives everything. But I'm just a prophet, so I don't have to.
• In Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the true Big Bad, Dominique Baldwin, eventually delivers a Motive Rant that reveals that she was devastated by the loss of her parents to the first Demonic Invasion, and decided that any god who was willing to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to their followers while they suffered did not deserve to be acknowledged as a god. While Dominique's pain is understandable, she says this in the same conversation where she reveals that she plans to summon Bael, the ultimate demon, cause an even larger-scale Demonic Invasion in order to become a higher being than God, and dismisses anybody who dies as a result as too weak to deserve sympathy, which is disgustingly hypocritical. Unsurprisingly, Miriam is not impressed at how twisted Dominique has become since her parents' deaths.
  • Dominique also expresses anger that Zangetsu would betray her by giving Miriam his sword to surprise-attack Gremory. This coming from the same individual who has been manipulating Miriam and her allies since the very beginning. In fact, it was Zangetsu becoming suspicious of Dominique's true motives and inquiring Alfred to learn the truth, that led to him "betraying" her in the first place.
• Borderlands 2's very own Handsome Jack. He views Angel's suicide-by-vault-hunter as the the murder of an innocent girl, and regularly calls the Vault Hunters "child-killers" after it happens, but he himself has implicitly, and in one case very explicitly, killed children, including those of his own employees. In addition, he ruthlessly mocks Helena Pierce's facial scars, in spite of the fact that he himself is scarred under his mask. Also, despite disliking his former boss calling him John, he does the same thing when referring to Jeffery Blake as "Jimmy". And, he considers death a perfectly suitable punishment for swearing and often chastises Angel for doing so. This does not stop him from throwing the odd swear word around.
• C14 Dating:
  • Upon her introduction, Rosemarie tells Hendrik to not pun around her, all while calling him something that turns out to be a pun if Hendrik's route is pursued. The "ace" in "ace geologist" has two possible meanings and Hendrik qualifies for both.
  • One of the options for greeting Shoji upon finding him online late at night on the second week-end is to chide him for being up late.
• The dwarves in Chrono Cross hate humans for their genocidal, polluting ways. They also commit genocide against the faeries and fight using filthy, smoke-spewing tanks. That the game doesn't recognize the contradiction here is one of the major dividing points in its fanbase.
• Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly: Despite hosting a prank show, Lucas doesn't like pulling pranks himself because he believes they're the lowest form of entertainment. Rather, he helps in production and marketing behind the scenes. This is because he was the subject of a traumatic prank during his time at Pro House Vlogs, so he doesn't want to be directly involved in them again.
• The Global Liberation Army in Command & Conquer: Generals are pretty much this trope. At first, they scream incessantly about oppression, imperialism, and how just they are. Other comments, however, underscore that they're basically ill-tempered, sadistic, sociopathic low-lifes to a man, and have no problem in killing civilians to get what they want. Except for the lowly Workers, who are some of the single most hilariously down-trodden, abused schmucks in gaming history.
  • Likewise, the Brotherhood of Nod from the parent setting share many of the same goals, yet have several missions focused on killing those they are supposedly trying to 'liberate' from GDI. This hypocrisy is on full display in the introduction video of the third game, where Killian will talk about the gifts of Tiberium in one sentence, in the next lament the fact that the Brotherhood was driven into "Tiberium-infested Red Zones" in past wars, and then not even two sentences later be back to praising Tiberium as a divine gift for mankind.
• In Dark Souls III, when Lapp regains his memory, he laments that every age has been blighted by the greed of man. While he's not necessarily wrong, it's a bit rich given that the dude spent most of those ages trying to get people killed in order to loot the corpses in his pre-amnesia identity as Patches. Although he's probably not exempting himself from that, since after a rather insincere claim that he is "devoid of all worldly wants", he remarks with a wistful sigh, "Maybe that's just the way we are." Also, an Alternate Character Interpretation put forward by YouTube lore-ist VaatiVidya theorizes that Patches's MO is not greed, but to punish greed in a Pay Evil unto Evil Karmic Death sort of way. After all, he wouldn't be able to keep kicking people off cliffs and looting their corpses if they weren't all so easily tempted by the mere mention of treasure, would he?
• Dead Rising:
  • In Dead Rising: Sean Keanan runs a cult that is dedicated to cleansing the "tainted" blood of survivors in hopes that it will bring salvation from zombies. However, Sean is doing the exact same thing as the zombies are doing, which is needlessly killing people for their own gain, making him just as bad, if not even worse then the zombies.
  • Dead Rising 2: Brandon Whittaker believes that to end the oppression on zombies, he should infect every survivor he comes across. But during his death scene, he gets bit by a zombie and instead of embracing his own beliefs, commits suicide by slitting his throat with a glass shard to prevent himself from turning.
  • Marian Mallon tells the heroes that humanity deserves the zombie apocalypse due to their greed and apathy, completely disregarding the fact that not only does she cause zombie outbreaks both for greed and for pleasure, but the only greedy and apathetic human being to be seen at that moment was Marian herself, who even tells a lie that she created a cure, but withheld it from the public in order to keep raking in money from Zombrex.
• In Dead to Rights Retribution, Jack Slate calls the G.A.C. Judge, Jury, and Executioner. He's not quite wrong, but in terms of Police Brutality (Case in point, his takedown moves.) he's at least as bad as them, if not worse.
• Adria the Witch from the Diablo franchise, according to the fragments of her diary you can collect in Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. In an early entry, she discusses her resentment towards her father, who only cared about his wealth and social standing and raised her without compassion as though she were a tool for his own gain. In later entries, she discusses how she was corrupted into serving the demon lord Diablo, siring a daughter by him, and her own lack of remorse when she sacrificed the daughter to him - after all, "Daughters are so expendable."
• Disgaea 3 - Super Hero Aurum is a gigantic hypocrite. He kills a nice guy, imposes as a loyal butler, and messes up the next two hundred years of Mao's life to raise him as a cruel and wicked overlord, and all so he (Aurum, that is) could have a truly evil villain to fight. He even abuses his number one fan with a death curse while the poor lad remains painfully oblivious to the fact his mentor betrayed him up until the last moment. By the time Mao turns things around (if he does turn things around), the entirety of his party is more than ready to tear him a new one for committing hypocritically evil acts on such a grand scale.
  • Aurum has gone pretty much insane from being absurdly powerful and having nobody to fight for hundreds of years, and doesn't seem to be able to die after having absorbed the powers of so many evil gods. Of course, gaining evil powers isn't good for your psyche either.
• Devil May Cry 4: The Order of the Sword are a weird case. Specifically, it's not their secret, under-the-table dealings that make them hypocrites, but their public image. They've styled themselves as an angelic Light Is Good, Knight Templar, Crystal Dragon Jesus-esque cult organization that despises anything demon-related (Credo and Agnus even call themselves "Angels" after being infused with Demonic power), even though they worship Sparda, a dark-visaged Noble Demon. Sparda's son Dante himself also claims the Order might've gotten some facts wrong due to the confusion surrounding Sparda's myth. If anything, their secret experiments with controlling demonic power to fight demons is more in line with worshiping a demon that protected humanity.
• Dice and the Tower of the Reanimator: Glorious Princess: Played straight in the bad ending, where Bambooblade attempts to negotiate with the Reanimator despite showing no mercy to the non-human Dark Ones. Averted in the good ending, where Bambooblade spares the Dark Ones, making his offer of a truce more consistent.
• DmC: Devil May Cry:
  • Vergil absolutely despises Mundus for his poor treatment of the humans, but doesn't have a very high opinion of them himself. Dante even accuses him of being not that different than Mundus.
  • Mundus also hates Dante and Vergil for murdering his wife in cold blood, despite doing the same thing to their mother and planned to do it again to them.
• Dragon Age: Origins:
  • Almost everyone says that blood magic is evil, including the mages in the party and the Player Character if the player so chooses. Despite this, all mage characters in the party may learn the Blood Mage specialization. They will continue to declare its evilness.
  • Loghain Mac Tir always froths in moral outrage at the mere mention of Orlais because of how it "enslaved" Ferelden decades before the events of the story, and uses it to justify most of more morally questionable actions. But as regent he sold the City Elves into literal slavery. If called out on it by the player, he'll try to justify it with his usual "I Did What I Had to Do to save Ferelden" line, neatly glossing over the fact that the elves are citizens of Ferelden. Instead of showing remorse, he is dismissive and contemptuous, and even has the audacity to call a City Elf player egotistical for not instantly getting over it.
  • The Dwarves of Orzammar are loaded with all kinds of hypocrisy.
    • King Endrin Aeducan of Orzammar told Harrowmont on his deathbed to not let Bhelen become king of Orzammar because he suspected that Bhelen had something to do with Trian's death and his other siblings' exile. Bhelen tells the Dwarf Noble that Endrin himself convinced his older brother to enter the Proving against a convicted murderer.
    • Orzammar constantly needs goods from the surface, yet any Dwarf who lives there is Casteless and disconnected from the Stone. Well, except for those who become Grey Wardens.
    • The Casteless Dwarves are considered rejects and a stain on Orzammar society. Yet the Nobles do not hesitate using the Cartas' skills in subterfuge for their own ends. And many Male Nobles would love to lay with a Noble Hunter to increase their House.
  • During companion dialogue Morrigan flirts with Sten a bit. If you are in a romance with Morrigan, Sten will remind her that she is with you, to which she replies that she belongs to no one and that you probably wouldn't mind. Yet if you are also in a romance with Leliana or Zevran, she will be mad at you for cheating on her.
• Dragon Age II:
  • Knight-Commander Meredith sees magic as a curse, and mages as a major threat to her city who must be contained at all costs. So she uses an ancient magical artifact to give herself magical superpowers and animate statues to indiscriminately attack people in the final battle.
  • The same could be said about Anders, who accuses her of going too far in her treatment of mages as dangerous people, yet he proves just how dangerous and obsessed he himself is - ask the people in the Chantry he blew up. Not exactly the strongest point in making mages seem like all the other people.
  • Anders is just as bad when dealing with party members, especially Merrill, who is an extremely sweet and friendly blood mage. During her quest, when someone runs from her and gets killed messily, she says that the runner fled her as if she was a monster, at which point Anders bluntly says that she is one. This happens even if Anders himself callously murdered a young mage while under the thrall of the spirit he willingly allowed to possess him, whereas Merrill mostly uses her blood magic to attempt to restore a fragment of lost Elven history, meaning that Anders is saying this despite being more monstrous than Merrill, and predicting her eventual fall into a dark fate that he himself greeted with open arms! Moreover, even though his whole thing is freedom for mages, he is the only party member who approves Hawke selling Fenris back into slavery to Danarius.
  • And Fenris believes Mages are too powerful to be trusted and will inevitably abuse their power, so they should accept being enslaved and controlled by the Chantry. He himself is an escaped slave with magical powers who is being hunted by his former master and will mercilessly kill those who are no longer a threat to him if they piss him off enough. Like Meredith he has a massive Freudian Excuse, but it gets a little old when he spouts out reasons for mistreating mages that could just as easily apply to him. Anders calls him out on this.
• Dragon Age: Inquisition:
  • The Big Bad Corypheus one of the original Darkspawn Magisters frequently mocks the widespread belief in The Maker and people praying to Him since his experiences have convinced him that there is no Maker or other gods (and he plans to become a god himself). When he first awoke from his slumber he tried praying to his Old God Dumat with no success, which apparently convinced him that Dumat was either dead or never really existed at all. Yet at the end of the final battle when his death is all but certain, he desperately tries praying to them one last time.
  • Cassandra gets very upset whenever the Inquisitor criticizes the Chantry, Templars, or Seekers (even if they're a mage and/or elf and therefore has very good reason to do so), if said Inquisitor opts to respect the rituals of Mythal, Cassandra scoffs, "Why are we wasting our time with this heathen nonsense?" She will encourage a Dalish Inquisitor to believe in the Maker, but yet doesn't volunteer to start worshiping Dalish gods in the interest of fairness.
  • If the Inquisitor spares the abusive noble in her personal quest, Sera will call them out on it. The Inquisitor can counter that Sera fills her pockets with the money of the very nobles she is quick to condemn, while not helping anybody herself. Sera sputters for a few moments, then changes the subject.
  • Sera also hates "elfy" elves for being intolerant of non-elfy elves like her, yet Sera herself refuses to tolerate any elfiness. To the point that she'll dump Lavellan as a friend or lover for refusing to agree with her that the elven religion is just demon worship.
  • Vivienne constantly preaches that mages are dangerous, that they need to be locked up for everyone's good, and that they should never hold power over others. Vivienne herself lives in her lover's lavish estate instead of in a Circle, is introduced using her magic to put an annoying noble in his place, and attempts to, and actually succeeds with the player's help, of becoming Divine, where the first thing she does is violently forc the mages back into the Circles after previously castigating them for violently rebelling after the abuses of the Chantry and Templars' became too much. If Vivienne's campaign to become Divine fails, she instead creates a competing mage organization just so she can be Grand Enchanter despite criticizing the rebels for pitting mages against each other.
• Dishonored has High Overseer Campbell. Despite being the head of a religious organisation dedicated to rooting out the practice of black magic and The Outsider worship, he maintains a secret room full of books detailing spells, as well as an Outsider rune. His room also contains discarded ladies' undergarments and notes from a nearby brothel, despite preaching of virtue and temperance. Although, the brothel is where Lady Emily is being held, but it does mention that he likes being there to sample their services while keeping an eye on Emily. In fact, that probably hints on something even worse about Campbell. If you aim the heart at him, it says, "He breaks each of the Seven Strictures daily. It is his own private joke."
• Double Homework:
  • Tamara gives the protagonist a lot of grief for the callous way he broke up with Rachel. However, Tamara was the one who advised him to break up with Rachel in that way.
  • As lampshaded by her whole class, Ms. Walsh is one of these as well. She expects the whole class to work silently, but she herself won’t do the job she’s being paid to do.
  • Morgan calls Lauren a “fucking fake bitch” on the first day of summer school, but she admits later that she’s also a fake. While she crafted a hard-edged image, she is a fantasy nerd beneath it all. Amazingly, Lauren even lampshades this right after Morgan calls her “fake,” saying that Morgan is the fake one, but not elaborating.

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• The Elder Scrolls:
  • The Dunmer (Dark Elves) were frequent hypocrites throughout their history. They were xenophobic and didn't like outlanders settling in Morrowind, but they had no problem invading other nations in order to kidnap their inhabitants as slaves. Additionally, the Tribunal Temple outlawed necromancy and made it punishable by death despite it being legal (with certain limitations) elsewhere in the empire. However, the Temple faithful would summon the spirits of their ancestors or reanimate their corpses to serve as guards for their tombs and other holy sites. This was considered a holy act in reverence of their ancestors, with any other forms of necromancy being a sacrilege. However, at the beginning of the 4th Era, their culture went into a sharp decline and was dealt a devastating blow when the Ministry of Truth crashed down causing Red Mountain to erupt which destroyed most of Vvardenfell and rendered much of Morrowind uninhabitable due to choking ash. Then, one of their former slave races (the Argonians) invaded and captured much of what was left of habitable Morrowind. The Dunmer have paid for their hypocrisy and then some, now scattered with many of them settling on the frozen, barren island of Solstheim and in Skyrim, where they are treated as second-class citizens (at best) by the native Nords.
  • Skyrim:
    • Draconic Big Bad Alduin calls the the Last Dragonborn "arrogant" for assuming the title of "Dovah". However, Alduim himself is essentially the personification of draconic arrogance.
    • The Blades have long served the emperors of Tamriel as bodyguards and spies, dating back to when Reman Cyrodiil co-opted the Akaviri Dragonguard. Tiber Septim, founder of the Third Tamriellic Empire who ascended to godhood as Talos, reformed the Blades order upon becoming emperor, and many Blades worship him as part of the Order of Talos. Prior to his rise, Septim trained with the Greybeards and their leader, the Heel-Face Turned dragon Paarthurnax, to increase the strength of his Thu'um. Tiber Septim then explicitly ordered the Blades to not kill Paarthurnax. However, come the events of Skyrim, the Blades' hatred for the dragons is so strong that they're literally defying their own god by ordering Paarthurnax's death.
    • The Vigil of Stendarr is a Church Militant order dedicated to hunting down and destroying supernatural threats to mortal life, including Daedra, Daedra worshipers, vampires, lycanthropes, and others. Despite serving in the name of Stendarr, the Aedric Divine of Mercy, Justice, and Compassion, they're not very quick to extend mercy to anyone who catches their ire, despite invoking Stendarr's name. Additionally, some can be found carrying Daedric weapons, despite doing so going against everything they say and do regarding Daedric objects.
      Vigilant: "Stendarr have mercy, for the Vigil has none to spare."
    • Rolff Stone-fist of Windhelm, who is racist against the Dunmer of the city and claims they are spies for the Imperial Legion and the Thalmor because they do nothing to support Ulfric's rebellion. He claims they are parasites and thieves living off the Nords. Big words from an alcoholic who doesn't have a job or do anything to support the Stormcloaks himself and just spends his days drinking in the inn.
    • Ulfric Stormcloak is adamant that his rebellion is justified to preserve and uphold Skyrim's traditions, which the Empire are trampling on. However, when faced with the prospect that the Moot of jarls might give the crown to the current incumbent Elisif instead of honoring the fact that he won the crown in a duel with the old king Torygg, as is their perogative since time immemorial, his reaction is "Damn the Moot, and damn Elisif, the crown is mine". There is also the fact that for all his talk about the importance of local customs and culture against foreign influence, he cut his teeth as a field commander attempting to stamp out a resistance movement among Skyrim's Breton indigenous minority population, whose grievances against the Nords mirror the Nords' against the Empire pretty much to the letter.
• Frank Horrigan, Final Boss and Dragon-in-Chief of Fallout 2 is the Boomerang Bigot variation. The Enclave believes that all people with "corrupt" DNA, which is pretty much everyone bar Vault-dwellers and the people in the Enclave, since it's After the End and there's radiation and mutation viruses everywhere, are inhuman and should be purged. Frank is wholeheartedly on-board with this, and openly calls the protagonist "mutie"—despite having been exposed to FEV and currently being twelve feet tall, green-skinned, superhumanly strong, and nearly bulletproof. But the protagonist, who is a completely ordinary human with some traces of radiation? Yeah, they're beyond saving.
• Several of the prominent antagonists in Fallout: New Vegas suffer from this:
  • Caesar is an Evil Luddite who considers over-dependence on technology to be a sign of weakness, and forbids the use of any medicine more complicated than healing powder (a concoction of medicinal herbs). This has resulted in thousands dying in his empire due to improper medical care, which he dismisses because apparently they were too weak to live. However, he keeps a broken Auto-Doc in his tent and, if the courier sides with him, commands the courier to fix it so it can cure him of a brain tumour. Plus his Elite Mooks get to use more technologically advanced weapons than the lower ranking members.
    • Caesar's Legion generally has tons of this. Firstly, they preach at how important loyalty is (in fact, it's the reason they butchered Nipton) but constantly betray their allies, in fact betraying and assimilating their allies is practically their official policy. Secondly, the Legion is strongly opposed to drugs, but Hydra can occasionally be found on the bodies of dead legionnaires, and it's implied that they manufacture drugs themselves.
    • The Legion also propagates the idea that survival must come through personal strength, right down to the lowliest Legionnaire. Vulpes Inculta himself claims that the main reason he butchered or enslaved the entire town of Nipton is because they were too weak to prevent him from doing it, and therefore they deserved it. If you decide to kill him then and there and demonstrate his own weakness, his allies send assassins after you to avenge his death. Guess the whole "survival of the strongest" thing only applies when it's convenient to them.
  • Ulysses, from the Lonesome Road DLC, invites the Courier to the Divide so he can deliver a massive What the Hell, Hero? about how actions can have unforeseen consequences (A package the courier delivered to the Divide detonated the nukes that were stored there and completely wrecked the place). But playing through the other three DLC will show that Ulysses himself has caused plenty of chaos throughout the Wasteland, often as an indirect consequence of his actions: He led the White Legs during the sacking of New Canaan, which was just as prosperous as the town the Courier accidentally destroyed, and he trained them and gave them machine guns, allowing them to become the major antagonists of Honest Hearts. He almost released the Think-Tank from their imprisonment in Big MT by asking them an Armor-Piercing Question. And he told Elijah the location of the Sierra Madre, setting in motion the events of Dead Money, which results in dozens of people getting kidnapped and murdered and the entire continent nearly being drowned under poison gas as part of Elijah's plan. Unfortunately, since the DLC aren't programmed to interact with each other, there's no way to call him out on this.
  • Elijah is a huge example in Dead Money. For example, he'll talk down to you for using a Pip-Boy, saying that it dulls your brain... but you can clearly see him using a Pip-Boy himself. He expresses amazement at how many people he's been forced to kill because they let their greed for the Sierra Madre's treasure get the better of them and compromised his plans, not realising that he's suffering the same obsession as they were.
    • He also criticizes his previous captives for trying to take advantage of each other and killing each other when they've outlived their usefulness, necessitating the linked collars, yet once you get into the Villa, he suggests you kill off your now useless team. And once you open the Vault (unless you're evil and make a deal with him) he'll come down to kill you himself.
  • Salt-Upon-Wounds, leader of the White Legs from Honest Hearts, says that he and his tribe are honorable and strong warriors, but he'll beg for mercy if Joshua Graham shows up, kills all his warriors, and holds him at gunpoint. Even worse, he says that Joshua Graham is crazy because "he kill all White Legs", even though Salt-Upon-Wounds ordered the slaughter of every man, woman, and child in New Canaan- Joshua Graham's hometown.
• Fallout 4:
  • Ten years after the events of 3, the Eastern Brotherhood of Steel has discarded the idealistic humanitarian beliefs of Owyn and Sarah Lyons in favour of their old "keep technology out of people's hands to keep it from being abused" mission. This is said while invading the Commonwealth with armies of knights in Powered Armor, fleets of Vertibirds, a Cool Airship and a rebuilt Liberty Prime. Basically, what they've done is shuffle the deck until they've ended up with all the best cards.
  • DiMa from the Far Harbor DLC is a self acknowledged example. He wants to turn Acadia into a safe haven for synths, and is openly distrustful towards both the Institute and the Railroad; the former because they treat synths as property and are the reason so much distrust exists between synths and normal humans, the latter because even though they are sympathetic towards synths, the way they help them involves wiping synth's memories and giving them new identities, which he sees as contrary to Acadia's principles. However, digging into his past will reveal that he is not above murdering an innocent human woman and replacing her with a memory wiped synth if it will serve his vision of the greater good, then wiping his own memories because he found the thought of himself doing such a thing too horrible to dwell on.
• Fate/stay night:
  • Shirou's ideal is a world where no one ever has to cry, and where he can save everyone. Many, many people point out that this is impossible, and that he knows it's impossible, and that trying anyway is just going to cause more pain. The logical result of this ideal (as demonstrated by Shirou's father Kiritsugu in Fate/Zero) is The Needs of the Many. Kill one to save ten, kill ten to save a hundred, so on and so on. Archer is a version of Shirou who embraced this ideal and ultimately became a Counter Guardian, a Guardian Entity for the human race who is summoned into the absolute worst situations throughout time to slaughter anyone who threatens humanity's survival. Of course, Shirou being Shirou, his ultimate answer can be summarized as "If I'm a self-righteous hypocrite, then I'm gonna be the biggest and best self-righteous hypocrite anyone ever saw."
  • Saber/King Arthur, who is basically a female Shirou with less delusions, is a heroic example. Archer is the one to call her out on the fact that while she is dismissive of Shirou's dream of becoming a superhero, her wish (to save her kingdom by going back in time and making someone else the king) is the same as his only more so.
  • Rin Tohsaka is also guilty of this. In Heaven's Feel She eventually realizes her own self-righteousness and double standards when she cannot really to bring herself to kill Sakura, despite the cold pragmatic value that doing so would have latter.
  • revealed that Saber will be staying with Shirou, Taiga immediately voices her disapproval, claiming to be looking out for Shirou's well being, and that it's not safe to have a foreign girl living with him, when in reality she only cares about food and didn't like the idea of sharing with another guest. Her later action of welcoming Illya to stay over despite her being a foreigner like Saber, further proves her double standards.
  • Gilgamesh is The Social Darwinist who wants to unleash the billion curses contained within the Holy Grail to purge humanity of the "unworthy," leaving the survivors to be ruled by him. Due to the way magic works and the world's decline from The Age of Myths, he's actually got a point, but he's still a hypocrite. His biggest "proof" of his plan is Shirou surviving the previous time the Grail's curses were unleashed. This should make him worthy in Gilgamesh's eyes, but instead he dismisses him as yet another "mongrel" and tries to kill him multiple times because he is insulted that he exists.
• In Final Fantasy X, the Church of Yevon preaches that all machina (advanced technology) is blasphemous and the reason for Sin's existence. Yet they have no compunctions with using machina weapons themselves. Learning this while exploring the church headquarters in Bevelle is essentially the final straw that causes the party to lose all faith in the church. The earliest sign is when Wakka speaks with Seymour, a Maester of the church (second only to the Grand Maester, who's head of the church), supervising Operation Mi'ihen, a Crusader mission to fight Sin with machina weapons.
  Wakka: These machines are abominations against Yevon!
  Seymour: Then pretend you didn't see them.
  Wakka: ...That's not something a maester would say!
  Seymour: Then pretend I didn't say it.
• Amidst all her other flaws and irredeemable qualities, Anabelle in Final Fantasy XVI is also this.
  • She refers to her oldest son Clive as a "failure" and "just another man" because he didn't become Phoenix's Dominant. Her husband reminds her that he would also fit those same descriptions since he also isn't Phoenix's Dominant and only became Archduke because his father died early. She disagrees since he is in his "rightful place". Furthermore, Anabelle's third son Olivier with Emperor Sylvestre isn't a Dominant and she ends up scorning her stepson Dion despite him being Bahamut's Dominant while doting endlessly on Olivier.
  • She claims that noble blood - specifically hers - is the only important thing in the world but refuses to acknowledge any positive qualities of Clive. She is emotionally abusive to him and largely treats him like a low-born commoner despite his high ranking.
  • She mocks Dion's mother for supposedly "weighing her child's worth in gil." This is despite the fact that Anabelle bought her new position as Empress of Sanbreque with her children (Joshua as the Phoenix Dominant and Olivier as the new heir to the throne). Not to mention how she literally sells her oldest son to slavery.
• Just as Cronos is about to die at Kratos's hands in God of War III, he accused Kratos of being a coward for killing his own kin. This is despite the fact that he previously ate his children out of fear that they will soon overthrow him.
• In the Fire Emblem series:
  • In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Soren gets a moment of this when Ike and co are saved at the last minute by Laguz forces from Gallia. When Lethe angrily rants about what humans have done to Laguz, Soren tells her to shut up and stop blaming them for things that aren't their fault, before insulting them and calling them filthy sub-humans and attacking them. When Ike defuses the situation by taking the hit intended for Soren and then scolds him for fighting, Soren protests he was only trying to defend Ike - when he's the one who picked a fight in the first place. Not to mention he tells Lethe not to blame them for the suffering of the Laguz, but his hatred for Laguz stem from the abuse they put him through as a child.
  • In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Ludveck attempts to usurp Queen Elincia as ruler of Crimea, under the basis that she's a weak queen unwilling to make hard decisions or sacrifice her own people for a greater good, and framing his insurrection as a Secret Test of Character. However, Elincia calls him out on the fact that even if it was true, Ludveck's treatment of his soldiers and citizens as mere pawns proves that he won't be a better ruler because all he cares about is his own power.
  • In Fire Emblem Fates, Takumi is hostile to the Avatar in Birthright because while they were born in Hoshido, they were raised in Nohr owing to being kidnapped as a child. When Azura attempts to speak, Takumi tells her to shut up as he doesn't trust her either, leading the Avatar to point out that he shouldn't have a problem with her because Azura was born in Nohr but raised in Hoshido.
  • Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia:
    • Clive is a mostly good person but he does believe in the Zofian feudal system and believes there is a difference between nobles and commoners. He's not as bad as Fernand, but when Alm goes to rescue Delthea (who is Brainwashed and Crazy), Clive says they can't afford to stop and save every maiden they hear of. Alm point blank asks him if he would say that if Delthea was a noble, and when Clive claims that's different, Alm calls him out on it directly.
    • During an argument she has with Alm, Celica accuses him of being too bullheaded and stubborn to listen to what anybody else has to say and storms out... while completely ignoring Alm's very reasonable argument that he feels he has to march on Rigel in order to protect Zofia. What's worse, by Chapter 4, Celica's search for Mila also takes her to Rigel, so she has no right to judge him. In fact, Alm tries to arrange for peace talks with Rigel after driving the Rigelian forces out of Zofia, and only invades after Rigel proves unwilling to talk.
  • There are several hypocrites in Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
    • Edelgard. She loathes the methods of "those who slither in the dark," but actively aids them with their experiments by lending them military support and collecting Crest Stones for them to use to turn innocents into Demonic Beasts with her assault on the Holy Tomb; she is also motivated by her formative years of abuse, but is willing to put Fódlan through years of chaos in pursuit of accomplishing her goal of a better future, causing the exact same suffering she (and many others) have experienced at the hands of those in power onto the world. She gets better if you side with her; she gets worse if you don't.
    • Dimitri. He snaps at Rodrigue, a friend of his late father who lost a son in the same incident in which Dimitri's father died, not to put words in the mouths of the dead yet he is completely obsessed with getting revenge on Edelgard for his dead family (for something that wasn't her fault), because he believes it's what they want him to do. He accuses Randolph of justifying killing and bloodshed for various reasons that don't justify it at all, yet he seems to think that his single-minded vengeance is justified, and while he never justifies his own killings, he seems to act like the long-term goal outweighs the short-term consequences. He gets better after Rodrigue dies and drops this by the end of the route.
    • Claude frequently investigates other people's pasts, but doesn't like it when people ask him about his past, as Balthus does in their supports. Near the end of his route, he calls Rhea out for keeping secrets from her allies, despite the fact that he'd kept his past secret from the rest of his class, though to be fair Claude's reasons were for personal survival while Rhea is refusing to talk about how to defeat her most powerful enemy.
    • Rhea is very unforgiving of those who "abuse the power gifted to you by the goddess." She, however abused her power as the Archbishop to revive the Goddess, her mother.
    • Leonie is very rude and disrespectful to Byleth in their supports because she feels that they don't appreciate their father Jeralt enough, as he's Leonie's mentor and idol, while ignoring the fact that she is even worse when it becomes to being respectful of her teacher when it's Byleth. To make matters worse, the B support, in which she is most critical of Byleth, is unavailable until after Jeralt's death.
    • Dorothea calls out Lorenz for wanting to marry a highborn who can improve his house's standing and accusing him of discriminating against commoners, which is true... but Dorothea explicitly states in her support conversation with Byleth that she came to Garreg Mach to find herself a rich suitor who can improve her social standing. She also asks Sylvain if he's only interested in talking to her because she's young and beautiful, but Sylvain retorts that she's only talking to him because he's rich and from a very influential family. Finally, one of the reasons she dislikes nobles is because they inherited power and wealth and never once had to work to earn it. While Dorothea did need to work to get to where she is, she also was born with natural beauty and talent that many other people, nobles included, lack, and used those talents to make a name for herself, meaning that she, just like the nobles she detests, are using things given to them to get ahead in life.
    • Felix calls Dimitri out for obsessing over the dead and letting them guide his actions, but he mentions more than once that he's working to surpass his brother Glenn, who died years before the story begins, though to be fair, Felix is merely working to get stronger while Dimitri becomes consumed with getting Revenge.
    • Ingrid spends many of her supports criticizing people for their behavior, but when other people do the same to her (Claude pointing out her bossiness or Yuri commenting on her gluttony), she gets defensive and tells them they have no right to judge her.
• Genshin Impact:
  • Diluc chides Rosaria for her vigilante activities when she is supposed to be a nun, but she makes it clear that she knows that Diluc is also a vigilante who is supposed to be a businessman.
  • Prior to the fight with Signora in Inazuma, the Traveler spells out her crimes as to why they want to fight her, either citing Venti or Liyue as the cause. Signora responds by chastising them for holding grudges of things long past. Signora holds a massive grudge against Venti/Barbatos for centuries and this hatred is why she targeted him with such viciousness, compared to Zhongli or Ei.
    • In addition, Signora responds to the Traveler's challenge for a duel before Inazuma's throne by reminding that the loser will die, mocking the Traveler if that is what they really want. After Signora loses and the Shogun begins to advance on her to execute her, suddenly Signora isn't a fan of the idea and is reduced to trying to talk the Shogun out of it.
• Francis McReary from Grand Theft Auto IV the Deputy Police Commissioner of Liberty City, who honestly believes that his status and position automatically make him a morally just person and acquits him of any crimes that he commits. You quickly see past this facade when he orders you to gun down people by the dozens in order to hide his corruption and more importantly, when he orders you to gun down his own brother to save his career.
• Grand Theft Auto V: Michael and Trevor. Michael is a backstabber who criticizes other backstabbers (a gold digger who gave him ten bucks and an autograph for cleaning up her sabotage of her husband's vehicle, and his psychiatrist for ratting him out after getting paid in the hundreds of thousands), and Trevor criticizes Michael for his betrayal of friendship, even after brutally killing his best friend's cousin and said cousin's fiancee for pissing him off, and selling people to a cult. Neither of them are very morally conflicted about this, as seen in this exchange.
  Michael: Ooh, Hypocrisy, Franklin; Civilization's greatest virtue.
  Trevor: Jesus, your therapist has a lot to answer for.
  Michael: I know, I still hate myself. But hey, at least I know the words for it now.
  Trevor: Yeah, but I hate you, and I know the words for it, so does that mean I don't have to go to therapy-
  Franklin: Hey, look, you two motherfuckers terrify me of that middle-age.
• The Ascalonians of Guild Wars, and particularly Gwen, decry the Charr for destroying their country and killing most of them. Unfortunately, they then go on to try to commit genocide against the Charr. Since the RPG elements of Guild Wars Nightfall are gone by EotN, the player has no real choice but to go along with it.
  • The Charr in Guild Wars 2 have their fair share of hypocrisy. They refer to the humans as cowardly and dishonorable for using artifacts like the Foefire and Stormcaller to rain magic down upon the Charr, but then turn around and praise the Searing despite it doing the same thing. Furthermore, the Charr like to rub it in the other races' (particularly the humans') faces about how they retook their ancestral homeland and have no need for gods. All the while, they conveniently forget that the Searing, which is largely what allowed them to conquer Ascalon in the first place, was the work of the now hated Flame Legion and the false gods they worshiped.
• The Happyhills Homicide: Gordon Barker, one of John Wade's former coworkers at the school he worked as a janitor, criticized him for giving a gift to a student named Madison Carpenter, asking if he left her "one of [his] disgusting gifts" again. After John becomes the Clown and murders Gordon as revenge, the police investigation after the fact reveals that Gordon was a pedophile with a criminal record of producing and distributing underage pornography and stalking playgrounds. Meaning that Gordon had no room to say John was disgusting for giving Madison gifts, especially since, compared to John, Gordon actually acted on his urges.
• Heart of the Woods:
  • At the start of the game, long-time best friends Madison and Tara have a falling out, over the former's decision to quit the latter's YouTube show, Taranormal after one last trip to search for paranormal phenomena in a town called Eysenfeld. While the two keep things reasonably civil for the first few days, things come to a head after Madison sees the Forest Spirit for the first time and asks to help out, only for Tara to freeze her out. Tara ends up complaining about Madison to her new friend Morgan, but Morgan calls Tara out on the hypocrisy in Tara's actions. Despite not wanting to lose Tara's friendship or see her quit, Tara is also refusing to listen to Madison or accept her help. Morgan gets through to Tara, and Tara and Madison apologize to each other when they're reunited in Chapter 5.
  • Madison is also guilty of hypocrisy. She gets upset over Tara freezing her out of the investigation into Eysenfeld, then keeps the existence of Abigail, a ghost, secret from Tara partly out of spite. She realizes this is unfair, and apologizes for it in Chapter 5.
• Hero King Quest: Peacemaker Prologue: Dark Lord Spidergland claims non-dark elf races can't be trusted and therefore deserve to be treated as second-class citizens. Spiderweb points out that she's trying to maintain peace with the assumption that the human nations will keep their word, showing that Spidergland is willing to twist the concept of trust to justify the oppression of her citizens.
• Hollow Knight: Zote has a list of 57 precepts that he loves to preach, but he does not follow all of them. One of the more blatant ones is the Fourteenth one, "Respect Your Superiors," in strength or intelligence. He constantly insults and antagonizes the Knight even though they are not only significantly more powerful than he is, but after they have saved his life twice and beaten him in a battle where he is literally incapable of hurting them. These actions must even be done to hear him talk about his precepts in the first place.
• In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Sol can agree with Cal's Actual Pacifist beliefs, even if the former killed an animal prior to this conversation. Cal doesn't even call out Sol for it and still gains 2 points on his heart meter.
• In Kid Icarus: Uprising, Viridi, the Goddess of Nature views humans as violent beings who do nothing but cause war and must be destroyed for it. That said, she isn't afraid of going to war against Pit and Palutena, or dropping a nature nuke on opposing armies who were manipulated by Hades.
• In Kindred Spirits on the Roof, Megumi gets offended when Yuna addresses her by her first name without honorifics, pointing out that she's older than Yuna despite having died at a younger age than Yuna is at the start of the game, but doesn't use any on Yuna either. It's worth noting that Megumi's girlfriend and fellow ghost Sachi was older than Yuna when she died, but still uses "-san" on Yuna, and Yuna responds in kind, so Megumi's age is no excuse for her.
• Kingdom Hearts: Master Xehanort claims to seek Balance Between Light and Darkness, deeming pro-Light characters (e.g., Eraqus) too "absolute"... but clearly leans toward Darkness himself. And not only do his plans keep benefiting the Realm of Darkness at the Realm of Light's expense (thus vindicating said characters as Properly Paranoid); but he has no qualms about declaring that Darkness can't be destroyed, yet vowing that the Light of his enemies (e.g., Terra) will. He gets even worse about this in Kingdom Hearts III, having become even more fanatically pro-Light than Eraqus ever was. His new plan is to purge the realms of people (because their hearts are the true source of Darkness in his eyes) with the light of Kingdom Hearts.
• Kreia of Knights Of The Old Republic II will talk about how arrogant and closed-minded the Jedi are and how they should be more open to other people's ideas. Of course, if you then point out flaws in her philosophy, she'll dismiss you as incapable of understanding it.
  • In addition, Kreia despises the Force and those who are dependent on it, and seeks to destroy it. However, all of her attacks and scheming are dependent on the Force, and she's too physically frail to fight otherwise. If the player calls her on this, she claims that it's because being intimate with the Force gives greater insight on how to destroy it. But to her credit, she does concede that the player makes a good point, and may very well be right.
  • She's got nothing on Atris though. Atris is an immensely Holier Than Thou Knight Templar that smugly insists in being the last true jedi left. She even wanted the exile executed for defecting to Revan. Even Bastila didn't go that far. She also completely fails to realize that her absolutism has corrupted her to the dark side long ago. It takes Kreia to convince her otherwise.
• The very first line of dialogue from Yuga of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is to criticize the Priest of the Sanctuary for calling him a fiend, mocking how quickly he "stoops to petty insults". Not only did the Priest have a damn good reason to call Yuga a fiend (he was threatening the Priest's daughter, Ceres), but Yuga is a narcissistic Smug Snake who loves to insult others. The number of times Yuga opens his mouth to not insult everybody around him can be counted on one hand.

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• Manafinder:
  • Illia believes humans are too dependent on her fellow deities and on manastones, yet she's willing to empower her own followers to give them an edge against the manafinders. Azain in particular receives manastone implants to make himself stronger.
  • Octavius claims that a society based around the safety of the manastones demands conformity, but his nomad society also forces people to conform to roles, as shown when Lhania is expected to give up on mingling with the weak commoners and focus solely on her role as a warrior.
• Mass Effect
  • Khalisah bint Sinan Al-Jilani has shown an extremely strong pro-human and anti-alien bias from Shepard's conversations with her in both games, so it may come as a surprise to see her kissing and embracing an asari in a few select data files in Lair of the Shadow Broker.
  • In Lair of the Shadow Broker, Shadow Broker's agent Tela Vasir calls Shepard a hypocrite for judging her dealing with the Shadow Broker when Shepard's working with the terrorist organization, Cerberus, right before she dies. She has a point if you're playing a full Renegade Shepard, who will endorse Cerberus' actions. Paragon Shepard, not so much; they see working with Cerberus as a Necessary Evil at best and will betray it in the end, if they haven't done so already.
  • Ronald Taylor, Jacob's father, taught his son that a man always admits to his mistakes. On Jacob's loyalty mission, we find out that Ronald has turned the Hugo Gernsback and his crew into his own personal kingdom and thoroughly doesn't own up to everything that he's been doing.
  • Warden Kuril claims that he wants to make the galaxy a safer place by locking up dangerous criminals. Yet he extorts the criminals' homeworlds, sells criminals, and attempts to arrest Shepard just so he can sell them as a slave on the black market or hold them for ransom. Shepard naturally calls him out on this and he attempts to justify it but fails miserably.
  • And of course, there's the turian at customs, who has neared meme status:
    "You humans are all racist!"
  • The asari, the most technologically advanced Council race, made a law stating that anyone who withholds Prothean technology will be fined severely and the tech will be taken from them, with extreme force if necessary, so it can be shared with the galaxy at large. Then the third game reveals that they have possibly the only intact Prothean beacon in existence. Obviously, this gives them a massive advantage, especially considering they've had it since their Stone Age and hid it in an ancient temple.
  • Harbinger derides the asari as inferior for relying on other species to reproduce. Guess what the Reapers need to make more Reapers?
  • Mass Effect 3 has Kai Leng, who brags about how either Thane or Kirrahe died like cowards if he killed them yet in the game repeatedly proves that he's a Dirty Coward who relies more on firepower or manpower rather than personal skill when confronting Shepard and tends to run whenever things go south for him. Not to mention that these so-called "cowards" went down fighting. Leng's last act? Trying to stab Shepard while his/her back is turned.
  • In an unusually tragic example of this, Shepard at one point berates James Vega for the Death Seeker tendencies he shows, despite having become somewhat of a Death Seeker him/herself by this time.
  • Liara, if the player chooses a certain dialogue option, calls Ashley/Kaidan short-sighted for not trusting Shepard due to Shepard working with Cerberus. She conveniently leaves out the part where that conflict can be traced back to Liara's own shortsightedness in obsessing over revenge to the point of forgetting to tell Shepard's other companions about the circumstances surrounding Shepard's death and return.
  • The Salarian Dalatrass Linron refuses to accept the idea of the Krogan being cured because she sees the Krogan as only violent because the Salarians uplifted them to be that way. She refuses to admit that the Krogan rebelled because the Salarians used them liked tools. And she is also planning to uplift the Yahg, which are far more dangerous than the Krogan, as demonstrated in the "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC chapter in Mass Effect 2.
• Master Detective Archives: Rain Code:
  • Chief Yakou Furio, despite being the leader of the main detective agency, acts hypocritically:
    • At the beginning of Chapter 2, Yakou is furious over Halara and Desuhiko going off on their own despite the Peacekeepers being on alert since the Nail Man case was solved and Yuma (and Halara) provoked Yomi to take action against the agency. Then, he tells Yuma to go and buy meat buns from Kamasaki District regardless of him getting into the same risk of provoking the Peacekeepers again, which, of course, Yuma immediately calls him out for. Partially counts as Hypocritical Humor as well.
    • In Chapter 4, his desire for revenge overcomes his desire for caution when he ends up manipulating the agency and the Peacekeepers for his plan to murder Dr. Huesca at the expense of his own life, which ends up causing more complications with the agency itself than Yuma's prior interferences with the Peacekeepers beforehand, which Yakou previously scolded him for thrice total.
    • A chief detective, who is usually supposed to expose a murderer and be completely against them, manipulates his loyal detectives into aiding him in committing a murder of his own.
  • Halara Nightmare distrusts other people due to suspecting them to be acting only on their self-interest, like a stereotypical cynic, because they were betrayed by their alleged "best friend" during middle school. Halara knowingly acts on their own self-interest in the present day, however, not making them much better than the society they accuse of doing such.
  • Vivia Twilight accuses Yuma of being reluctant to accept the truth that Yakou Furio is Dr. Huesca's killer in Chapter 4, but the reason that he isn't helping Yuma discover the truth in the first place and is in fact doing the opposite is because he himself is reluctant to let him find out.
  • In Chapter 3, the Phantom of the case's culprit, that being Icardi of the Resistance, reveals that their reason for killing Shachi and framing Yuma as a terrorist, and constantly ratting him out to keep the plot going, was due to hating that the Peacekeepers made Kanai Ward into a horrible place to live in, and he had lost hope that peace could be brought back, something of which Shachi promoted constantly. Despite this, his whole scheme revolves around using the blind corruption of the Peacekeepers themselves to serve his agenda by using the secondary plot of framing Yuma as a terrorist to distract them from Icardi's bank robbery scheme by flooding one of Kanai Ward's districts, in turn making him no better than the despots the Peacekeepers are.
  • Yomi Hellsmile is hypocritical in many ways:
    • He calls Seth unforgivable for turning a blind eye to the church's crimes in exchange for bribes. Later on it's revealed he gained a lot of his influence by selling Amaterasu trade secrets to other companies. Hell, Seth even points out that Yomi was the one who told him to take the bribes to begin with.
    • Yomi sees himself as the hero in Kanai Ward, but he is actually the cause of all of the problems regarding the city as a whole.
    • Yomi is willing to condemn others for their betrayal of trust as long as it's towards him specifically (the most notable cases being Martina and Dr. Huesca), but he ignores that he betrays the citizens within all of Kanai Ward through his hedonistic attempts to seize control and power over the city no matter how destructive it becomes and no matter who dies in the process.
  • Regarding Makoto Kagutsuchi, the game's Big Bad:
    • At the end of Chapter 4, Makoto openly condemns Yomi for abusing his power as Peacekeepers director by conspiring with Amaterasu Corporation's head researcher to leak technological information to other enterprises so he could bribe others into following his whims. In the following chapter, it's revealed Makoto also abused his power as CEO and a clone of the WDO's Number One to conspire with the WDO by ordering death row inmates to be sent to his factory in the restricted area so he could kill them and turn them into meat buns to feed Kanai Ward's homunculus residents and make them complacent. Downplayed in that, while Yomi's conspiracy transpires for his personal gain, Makoto's transpires due to his love for Kanai Ward's homunculi.
    • He also condemns Yuma for "going around killing criminals" with Shinigami's powers after entering into Kanai Ward, but that is not only a result of Makoto's negligence regarding the homunculus' awareness of their own mortality (despite wanting to protect them), Makoto does exactly that as part of the game's overarching plot, and on a global scale with the assistance of the entire WDO, something he himself takes note of only moments before.
• In Mega Man Battle Network 4, Duo seeks to destroy the earth because humans are wicked. For some reason, the morality of destroying an entire planet is never brought up, despite being painfully obvious to the player.
• Dr. Weil in Mega Man Zero is quick to point to the Maverick Wars as reason enough for the subjugation of all Reploids, nevermind that whereas the Maverick Wars were caused by a computer virus and none of the parties involved were at fault, the Elf Wars that Dr. Weil himself started were entirely the product of his own free will and ended up senselessly killing ~75% of the world's population and rendering over 90% of it uninhabitable. With no provocation. In the span of 4 years. Needless to say, nobody else really sees where he's coming from.
• The Metal Gear series has these examples:
  • Sundowner of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance constantly goes on about how Desperado Enforcement are only suppliers, rather than the creators of the market for war. When you keep in mind the fact that Desperado's plan, under Armstrong's guidance, was to instigate a terrorist incident while the U.S President was in Pakistan in order to create another war on terror, thus increasing the market for war big time, then you can tell that Sundowner is full of crap.
    • Along with the fact that for all of Armstrong's talk about setting your own rules and deciding your own destiny, he gets furious at and talks down to the robotic Bladewolf for doing exactly that.
  • In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's prologue, Ground Zeroes, Kazuhira Miller repeatedly goes on bleak, venomous rants against Paz for being The Mole for Cipher against MSF, during the rescue, when he himself was leaking info to Cipher behind Big Boss' back during Peace Walker. Furthermore, Kaz chose to work for Cipher of his own free will, whereas Paz had no say in the matter.
    • By the end of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Big Boss has firmly cemented himself as one. That is to say, the original Big Boss, and not Venom Snake. After defecting from the Patriots for cloning him without his consent for the purpose of making the ultimate soldier, he does the exact same thing to one of his own men by means of robbing him of his past identity in order to turn him into a body double. In spite of singing a lot of hypocritical purple poetry about creating a nation whereby soldiers will not be abused by their governments, he takes advantage of an innocent soldier's loyalty and ruins his life, becoming the kind of manipulator that he started his private military to get away from.
• Metroid: For all of the Galactic Federation's boasting of "creating a safer galaxy", a good deal of them have absolutely no qualms whatsoever when it comes to creating experimental, unstable Phazon-based equipment, secretly growing/researching various Metroid breeds for "peaceful applications" and are profoundly stupid in deciding to capture an SA-X specimen in order to see if they can turn it into a weapon, even though there's practically no real chance of that happening. Yeah... They're really no different to the Space Pirates when it comes to researching so-called "promising specimens" of varying degrees.
• Octopath Traveler:
  • Helgenish believes that there is nothing wrong with his abusing the women who work for him at every opportunity he can, even treating them like slaves, and takes pleasure in doing so. However, the moment he's on the receiving end of the slightest criticism, he proves what a Psychopathic Manchild he is by immediately flying into a rage about how unfair it is for him to be disrespected.
  • Darius has no problem using and betraying others to get what he wants, yet feels entitled to his subordinates' Undying Loyalty and decries them as traitors when they turn on him, having become fed up with how badly he treats them. According to his subordinates, Gareth was the only one of them who actually cared about Darius, who abandoned him to die fighting Therion while he escaped with the emerald dragonstone.
• A major and minor instance of this happens in Persona 3:
  • On a major level, Strega calls out SEES for wanting to get rid of the Dark Hour, taking note that most of them feel that they have a purpose with it, and that they'll only go back to boring, everyday lives when it's gone. Several characters, namely Junpei and Akihiko, do feel this way, but as Character Development creeps in for SEES, they all truly make it known that the world is better without Shadows, and unlike Strega, they have things to live for, whereas Strega do not.
  • The minor one is the source of tension between longtime friends Akihiko and Shinjiro; the latter left SEES due to killing Ken Amada's mother by accident, going so far as taking suppressants that seal away his Persona. Akihiko continuously pesters Shinjiro to return to SEES, seeing him as an idiot for dwelling on the past...thing is, Akihiko's reason for fighting is nearly identical. When his sister died in a fire when he and Shinjiro were children, he pretty much threw himself into fighting, constantly citing that he'd never lose someone again, and when Shinjiro brings it up, Akihiko gets incredibly defensive. Also problematic is that Ken Amada also wants Shinjiro dead for what he did, so it's harder for Shinjiro to avoid penance. Akihiko's dwelling is never re-addressed after Shinjiro dies, and when Akihiko confesses about Miki to the female protagonist in the Playstation Portable port of the game, the only responses you can give him when he gets upset are sympathetic ones.
  • Yukari is bitter with her mother for being so consumed by grief over losing her husband and Yukari's father that she neglects her daughter and enters shallow relationships. In The Answer, Yukari herself decides to turn back time to see if there's a way to prevent the Fall without the protagonist (the guy Yukari loved) having to sacrifice himself, even if doing so puts the world at risk. To her credit, in the female protagonist route, she acknowledges that she and her mother aren't so different after the protagonist gets hurt saving her from the car, an incident that upsets Yukari due to how close she came to losing her friend.
• In Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, all of the Designated Heroes of the movies are this to a T.
  • Kamoshidaman, the "superhero" of his titular movie envisions himself as the sole ruler of his city based on Might Makes Right. However, when the Phantom Thieves beat him and basically anyone else can tell that the Thieves outsmarted him, he keeps yelling that he is the absolute ruler.
  • The Herbivore Dinosaurs in Junessic Land claim that they are weak and they must run away from the dinosaurs all the while when calling themselves a democracy... It's only that any differing opinions from a dinosaur will result in them being ostracized from the herd. Furthermore, the Dinosaurs are in no means, weak, for they are still dinosaurs and pack enough strength to topple trees and overwhelm Carnivores in large numbers.
  • The Overseer in A.I.G.I.S prohibits any robot from having personality for it will risk the war that wiped out humanity in the movie repeating in his utopia. Any robot who has a personality will be executed... anyone but him, of course. He clearly has a savior complex like Ikutsuki, whom he is based on, and forces his robots to like his bad puns.
• Persona 5:
  • In the original game, Youji Isshiki, Futaba's uncle, claims that Sojiro isn't doing a very good job of raising Futaba, since she never leaves the house or goes to school. He's not wrong about that, but he's willfully disregarding how he was so abusive to Futaba when serving as her guardian(which includes making her sleep on the floor and not allowing her to bathe) that she's terrified of him, and he's blatantly trying to shake Sojiro down for money.
  • Ann disapproves of rumors, particularly since many of her schoolmates spread gossip of her being romantically involved with Kamoshida and Slut-Shaming her. Despite that, she believes rumors that Makoto, as Student Council President, knew about Kamoshida's crimes and did nothing about them. In truth, Makoto wanted to help, but felt as powerless as Ann was, and realizing this results in Ann apologizing to Makoto.
  • Akechi frequently criticizes Sae for going too far with her investigation of the Phantom Thieves, and upon hearing her Shadow self claim that she's primarily motivated by bitterness over her father's death, he says that he'd hoped she was motivated by something better. Not only had Akechi admitted to the Phantom Thieves that his detective work is a way of getting back at rotten adults, but he turns out to be the "Black Mask," who'd caused dozens of mental shutdowns and various other crimes. Akechi did all this for the purpose of enabling his father Shido to rise to power, so that Akechi could reveal himself as Shido's illegitimate son and take revenge on him.
  • In Royal, Kasumi Yoshizawa told Akechi and the protagonist that she doesn't support the Phantom Thieves because she doesn't like people over-relying on them to solve their problems, something that can very easily lead the player into thinking that she is evil. It turns out that this is actually her sister Sumire Yoshizawa, who actively asked Takuto Maruki to turn her into Kasumi because she lost Kasumi courtesy of a traffic accident caused by her jealousy-induced fit trying to run away from her, only for Kasumi to become roadkill in place of her, effectively entrusting her very own problems to him. And it is heavily implied that this is actually the real Kasumi Yoshizawa's mindset; Which she doesn't follow towards Sumire. In fact, she arranged most of Sumire's life instead of encouraging her to stand up for herself, which contributed to her suicidal depression combined with Kasumi's virtually uncontested gymnastic prowess. In an eerily ironic fashion, the very moment that she tried to prevent Sumire from becoming roadkill was her very own demise.
• Red Dead Redemption:
  • Federal Agent Edgar Ross constantly derides John Marston about how Marston was (and, as Ross sees it, still is) a criminal, never letting up on how morally superior he is because Marston kills people. Although, Ross never seems to make the connection that Marston is only killing people now because Ross has taken his wife and son hostage and is forcing him to hunt down the members of his old gang. And whats more, it was Ross' job to bring in those men, so he's basically having Marston do his job for him. And then, when Marston has fulfilled his end of the bargain and goes back to living peacefully on his ranch with his family, Ross sends the army to kill them anyway.
  • Dutch van der Linde despises civilization and idolizes nature and the frontier. Despite this, he makes use of the technological advancement that comes with civilization by favoring a semi-automatic pistol and an automobile.
• In Red Dead Redemption 2:
  • Dutch in general is shown to be fairly hypocritical.
    • For all of his constant preaching of freedom and anarchy, he does not tolerate any individualism if it clashes with his opinions and sees the act as traitorous.
    • He urges every member in the gang to donate to the money box yet he himself has yet to contribute anything to the box and is never listed in the ledger.
    • At one point, he chastises Arthur for breaking John out of prison saying it gave the gang unwanted attention from the Pinkertons. However, a short while later, Dutch assassinates Cornwell on a whim in broad daylight and surrounded by Pinkertons.
  • Mary constantly criticizes Arthur for his outlaw ways and unwillingness to leave that life yet she tends to call upon him for situations that require exactly that kind of man. To her credit, she recognizes this and is guilty for doing this to Arthur.
• In Resident Evil 2 (Remake), a news article about Brian Irons says that he's well known for his charitable work, including donating large amounts of money to the causes of battered women and animals. He, himself, is actually a wife beater (and heavily implied serial killer of young women and girls), in addition to being an avid hunter and taxidermist, even of endangered species.

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• Saints Row:
  • In the "Gangstas in Space" DLC of Saints Row: The Third, Prima Donna Director Andy Zhen criticises female lead Jenny for doing the exact same things that he praises the Boss for.
  • Cyrus Temple is the leader of STAG, a law enforcement paramilitary agency which declares martial law and moves into Steelport to get rid of the destructive gangsters waging a Mob War in the streets. In spite of this, STAG ends up causing more damage to Steelport than all four gangs combined with their highly-advanced sci-fi type weapons and technology, and his second-in-command Kia kidnaps two of the Saints, along with Mayor Burt Reynolds, so that she can blow up the Magarac Island Monument and blame it on the Saints. After the Saints foil this plan, and are hailed as heroes by the public, an enraged Temple defects from the US military. By the time Saints Row IV comes around, he's now allied with a terrorist organization and launches a nuke towards Washington DC, to spite the government for making the Saints heroes, when in his mind, they "ruined America". Right, because nuking Washington DC will somehow prove less ruinous to America than the hijinks of a few gangsters.
• The Sandman (2014): Regan and her Girl Posse like to torment Sophie. Particularly about her bright red hair... which is quite rich, when one considers one of Regan's cronies has bright bubblegum pink hair.
• Hypocricy acts as a recurring element throughout the mainline Shin Megami Tensei series.
  • In Shin Megami Tensei I, the Chaos Hero (one of the main hero's companions) leaves the group after defeating his nemesis Ozawa, since now that he's finally acquired real power, you'll just hold him back and slow him down. Never mind that you've carried him for most of the game until this point, saved him, helped him get out of the afterlife and back to the living world, AND that his precious new power stems from him stealing your most powerful demon and fusing with it.
  • Each of the Reason-bearers in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne is a hypocrite who violates the philosophy they subscribe to in some way, as are each of the Reason-Gods they create to help them achieve their visions, who have hypocrisy built into the mechanics of the boss fights against them:
    • The philosophy of Shijima preaches of The Evils of Free Will, decrying human ambition as destructive, and requires the creation of a World of Silence. Its Reason-bearer is Hikawa, a highly ambitious Übermensch who's prepared to trigger the apocalypse to see his goals reach fruition. Its god, Ahriman, initially treats the boss fight as a game, imposing rules that limit what actions the Demi-fiend and their allies can take and intending to annihilate the party when their chaotic nature causes them to break one of the rules. When he realizes Demi-fiend is winning anyway, he loses his mind and turns the fight into a slug-fest.
    • Yosuga is a philosophy of "Paradise ruled by the strong", resulting in a world where Might Makes Right: those with strength have absolute power and the weak are subjugated or killed. Its Reason-bearer is Chiaki, a relatively weak individual who only gains power when an entity much stronger than herself takes pity on her and offers a Deal with the Devil. Its god, Baal Avatar, does have a devastating Signature Move, but it's a Glass Cannon, and when the Demi-Fiend doesn't buckle immediately it quickly panics and summons helpers to heal and buff it.
    • Musubi, the philosophy of isolation, states that all beings must be isolated from each other and free to pursue their own ideals without interference from others. Isamu, its Reason-bearer, is ineffective at accomplishing anything for himself and only succeeds when he gets others to do his dirty work for him. Noah does change its own world by constantly cycling its weaknesses, but its most powerful and dangerous attack is Domination, which works by leeching HP and MP from others.
    • The neutral allignment is represented by Yuko Takao, the Demi-Fiends teacher, and wished for a better world than the old one. However to do this she helped Hikawa trigger the conception to end the world and kill everyone in it with the exception of her students, herself, and Hikawa, and ultimately she is completely incapable of convieving a Reason of her own for what the better world she desired was. In the end, following the Freedom Ending undoes the Conception, resetting the world to the one she helped destroy in the first place.
  • In Shin Megami Tensei IV, enemy demons get furious at you if you rob them using the Fundraise skill. Yet some of these demons have no problem using Macca Beam, a skill that zaps away a fraction of your Macca. It gets even sillier when you consider that enemy demons actually have infinite Macca and can be Fundraised as many times as you want; you stealing a small amount of their limitless money is wrong, but them destroying 20% of your finite (and frequently scarce) Macca is perfectly acceptable!
  • In Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, Dagda is one of the biggest hypocrites in the game. Despite being a staunch individualist who despises friendship and constantly derides humanity for their lack of independent thought and reliance on each other, has his entire plan hinge on Nanashi agreeing with his ideals. He claims that influence is a poison and the other gods have toxic narrow minded views, despite him trying to convince Nanashi that humans are awful that he himself believes that the universe should be destroyed and remade. Despite calling Nanashi's friends useless, Dagda himself will never help you out in battle (all of his help is outside battle) while your chosen companion will risk themselves to help you during fights. In addition, despite him telling Nanashi that they'll kill every god and demon, Dagda only kills Danu if you side with him on Massacre and he'll try to kill you if you turn against him during Bonds.
  • In Shin Megami Tensei V, both the law rep and the chaos rep are hypocrites. Tsukuyomi and Atsuta want to use the throne to restore proper godhood to all Demons so that everyone will have the worship they deserve. But that still involves one God having the throne and thus being inherently superior to all the others. Abdiel and Dazai want to use the throne to maintain the will of YHVH, but to do so they have to become a Nahobino, which violates the first commandment "Thou shall have no gods before me". Abdiel is a rare example in the series of someone that is fully aware of her hypocricy, however her loyalty to God is more important to her than her personal morals.
• In Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair, Taiko has a strong sense of justice, and insists that the group must be willing to consider the possibility that one of their friends is a murderer. This is a reasonable enough assertion, but at the climax, Taiko lets his anger over his best friend Kotoba being badly burned get the better of him, and he becomes adamant that Kamen, who is innocent is the mastermind behind the murders, becoming almost completely unwilling to listen to any arguments to the contrary. Ironically enough, while Rie admits that she has the opposite problem, in that she blindly trusts her friends, her best friend Runa, who was Taiko's initial suspect due to being a romantic rival of the first victim, is actually innocent. Furthermore, in the climax, Rie also suspects the falsely accused Kamen, although said individual is more suspicious than the aforementioned Runa.
• Many of the faction leaders in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Santiago pulls a lot of strings to protect her sickly weakling of a son despite being a firm advocate of The Spartan Way, Zakharov often conducts horrifying experiments in secret despite his vocal support for freedom of information, and Deidre's avowed pacifism doesn't get in the way of her "declaring vendetta" against other factions or outright weaponizing the Planet's killer fauna when she feels they need to learn a Green Aesop.
• In S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the Duty faction preaches about the horrific dangers of the Zone and why it must be contained from spreading over to the whole world. Yet, in Call of Pripyat, a quest involves you investigating a strange anomaly at an abandoned water cooling station northwest of the Yanov train station. The quest requires you to secure a special detector from the wrecked ship in the first map. Once you have it and use it, the anomaly spits out the bodies of now lifeless Duty stalkers down to the ground. Among them is the original founder of the faction. His PDA reveals that the faction was originally comprised of soldiers and SFOs from the Ukrainian Security Service (AKA the Ukrainian military) sent out to the Zone to secure it from unauthorized personnel. According to the backstory, his unit was on a particularly risky expedition of unknown caliber when a sudden blowout wiped out almost his entire unit. Shaken by this upheaval, the Captain (AKA the founder, who is only known as Tachenko) of the unit staged a communications breakdown and ordered his troops to go rogue from the USS and join the other stalkers for opportunistic jobs in the Zone. His ploy proved successful even though he also inadvertently caused chaos within his unit. The Captain and his subordinates managed to silence this debacle and continued on with impunity. Then, one day, he and three others with his group traveled to the water cooling station and end up getting trapped in the anomaly that you discover in this game. His group disintegrated under tragic circumstances and Captain Tachenko, by then self-promoted to General, became Driven to Suicide. The rest of the unit legally declared Tachenko MIA, and by then had recently appointed General Krylov (from Clear Sky) to assume leadership of the unit and he turned it into the now supposedly adamant Knight Templar faction that we know presently. After hearing the little story in the founder's PDA, you can choose whether to give it to Duty, Freedom, or the trader in the wrecked ship. Giving the PDA to the Freedom leader will cause him to blissfully call out Duty for being a bunch of frauds acting like every other greedy and selfish stalker out there in the Zone. Had this anomaly not occurred and had disappeared in the game or had the PDA's data gotten erased, Duty's dirtiest secret would have never been discovered in the first place and that bit of information would have more likely to be found in the game manual which no player these days would even bother. Depending on your perspective, though, this can be seen as either Becoming the Mask or a weird inverted Motive Decay, as Duty so really seem to be dedicated to their new mission.
  • In Shadow of Chernobyl, one side mission involves assassinating a minor character who preaches how Zone artifacts are evil and must be removed from the world. Investigating his corpse, however, reveals that he possesses a unique shotgun whose properties are enhanced by a shard of Gravi embedded in the barrel; this makes him a special kind of Straw Hypocrite.
• In Suikoden V, Gizel Godwin informs his young wife Queen Lymsleia that her brother is raising an army against them and refers to him as a traitor. Lym angrily points out that Gizel staged a coup of the palace and caused the deaths of her parents and that he was the traitor.
• Bowser in the Super Mario Bros. franchise. He's always bragging about his evilness, but there are times where he has engaged in very unvillainous behavior as an excuse to get his way, and to (usually) get his castle back.
• Tales of Symphonia:
  • Mizuho, a village of ninjas who have an entire culture built around spying on everyone on the planet for seemingly no reason at all, yet go to extreme lengths to keep their own village and culture a secret and completely flip when someone spies on them. It's somewhat justified in that the spy became a traitor to his own village over a rather petty grudge.
  • When Lloyd calls out the Big Bad for preventing the Great Seed from germinating so he can revive Martel, Yggdrasill responds by pointing out that Lloyd pretty much did the same thing when he abandoned the dying world of Sylvarant just to save Colette. Lloyd has no response to this.
  • Much earlier, Lloyd had been furious to learn that Governor-General Dorr, leader of Palmacosta (one of the only cities that resists the Desians) had betrayed his city in order to return his wife to normal. After the fateful decision comes, and Lloyd refuses to accept sacrificing Colette to (temporarily) restore prosperity to Sylvarant, Lloyd realizes he came off as hypocritical in retrospect.
• Tales of Vesperia:
  • Some accuse Yuri Lowell of this, considering his tendency to take the law into his own hands. In-universe, Flynn calls him out on it and stats that he is very close to Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. Yuri makes a Hypocrisy Nod:
    Yuri: I recognise it for what it is, but I've made my choices.
  • A far more egregious case is the party's meeting with Phaeroh. Earlier, Yuri justified his murder of Ragou and Cumore by telling Karol a metaphor about cutting off a badly infected body part before it can damage the whole. When Phaeroh uses the exact same metaphor to justify killing Estelle, Yuri claims that he doesn't believe that at all, never acknowledges the similarities between his justifications and Phaeroh's, and Karol never calls him out on blatantly contradicting himself like that.
  • Flynn's subordinate Sodia despises Yuri for being a vigilante. Unfortunately, her hatred of Yuri is so great that she stabs him on top of Zaude, causing him to fall into the ocean and nearly die, an action that she performs without Flynn's knowledge or approval. To her credit, she realizes that what she did was wrong, and stops judging Yuri.
• Played for Laughs on Undertale as an Easter Egg if you swear during Mettaton's essay question. The ratings drop by 150 for it, and...
  Mettaton: Oh my! This is a family friendly show. Now stand still while I murder you.
• View from Below: God stripped Jesus of his divinity and barred him from Heaven for losing faith in humanity. However, the lore states that God Himself lost faith in humanity too, and the only moral high ground He has over Jesus is that He's not actively trying to wipe out humanity, instead taking a stance of complete apathy.
• Kenny in The Walking Dead (Telltale) is a huge hypocrite when it comes to his family and the safety of others. If anyone is in danger, he'll basically say screw them if A) they're someone he doesn't know or B) he hates their guts. If his own family is at risk, he'll do anything it takes to keep them out of harm's way or at least deny that there's anything wrong. This comes back to bite him hard at the end of episode 3 where his son is bitten by a walker and despite Lee telling him that the kid is going to turn, Kenny goes into complete denial and says there's a way to save his son, even though he already knows that once someone is bitten, they're fucked.
• Warframe
  • Captain Vor tries to call you out for not fighting with honor. The charge rings hollow given that he uses Teleport Spam and mines and springs flunkies on you.
  • Some of Corpus Sergeant's taunts include mocking the Tenno's fashion sense (while wearing a ridiculous spacesuit) and challenging them to face him (often while cloaking and running away).
  • Nef Anyo abhors charity and considers it a mortal sin, yet this doesn't stop him in the slightest from goading the gullible into donating to his temple. He also claims he made his fortune starting from rock bottom and says to his Solaris "workers" that they will end up with the same fortune if they only "work. harder.". He pulls all sort of dirty tricks to ensure these Solaris people never pay off their debt, including charging for the privilege to pay off debt.
• Sylvanas Windrunner in World of Warcraft makes a big deal over how she and her followers the Forsaken were raised as undead against their will and forced to serve the Lich King. The moment she gains access to the power to create new Forsaken, she sets about a campaign of murdering every human in the Eastern Kingdoms to raise as new Forsaken who are forced to serve her. She also has a habit of making the defenders that she turns immediately go to work killing the family and friends they were defending, the exact thing she hated Arthas so much for doing to her.
  • The short story Edge of Night reveals that the hypocrisy may actually be a result of her simply lying to her people about how she actually feels. She was revealed to have been a vain person who saw her charges as nothing more than disposable tools on the path to victory, even when she was alive. Ultimately, she stops seeing undeath as a Fate Worse than Death because she discovers that death, for her, will be worse after all. She admits that she finds the people she rules disgusting, and continues to bolster their numbers solely to have Cannon Fodder to throw in the way of anyone trying to make her meet her fate.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3: N, The Dragon of Moebius, practically radiated hypocricy. As the original incarnation of Noah, he fought time and time again through Aionios' endless cycle of life and death to free the world from Moebius for the sake of the people he loved, only to eventually join them because he couldn't bare to live without Mio, who he also had transformed into Moebius without her concent, and killing their son in the process. He imprisions the party and makes them wait out the last month of Mio's life for the sole purpose of driving the current incarnation of Noah to the same dispair he felt over losing his Mio, only for Noah to find his resolve thanks to a "Freaky Friday" Flip Thanatos Gambit by M that saved Mio, driving N ever further over the edge. In their final confrontation he rants about how it's Noah's fault M died for being to weak, even though it was his actions that led to her death in the first place.
• The X series has Space Fuel (AKA Argon Whiskey), an alcoholic beverage that is declared contraband in Commonwealth space. Yet, in the Argon sectors of Herron's Nebula and Nyana's Hideout, two distilleries can be seen there and their goods can be bought. Even more jarring is that every Argon shipyard has them in stock and they actually allow you to buy one of them for personal use. One wonders why the Commonwealth haven't put a blacklist on the purchasing and sale of distilleries when an easy loophole can be exploited by potential fixers. Needless to say, this makes trading with pirates easier as long as no combat missions are performed against them and that the distillery in question is built on non-Commonwealth space.
• In one of the Yandere Simulator videos, Musume Ronshaku throws slurs at Kokona for being engaged in Compensated Dating to earn money and help her father with his debt, despite being more of a slut than her and wearing a shorter school skirt. She also mocks Kokona for her large chest, despite not being particularly small-chested, either. In fact, she has the third largest chest (1.5) after Kokona and Mai Waifu (2) and Saki Miyu (1.7) out of all the currently implemented characters.
• In the endgame of Zork: Grand Inquisitor, the Grand Inquisitor who based his regime on stamping out magic can't resist the temptation of the Coconut of Quendor's magic.

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