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Guess they never heard of the Streisand Effect— or they're using it to sell books.
Examples of Hypocrite in Western Animation.

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  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Cindy always calls Jimmy "Nerdtron", even though she's a bit of a nerd herself.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball:
    • Nicole has repeatedly told her kids they need to respect Richard; in "The Hero", she goes so far as to refuse to provide for Gumball and Darwin until they do so. Of course, come "The Deal", it's revealed Nicole herself doesn't respect Richard that much for his parenting skills.
    • Gumball can get stubborn and preachy about beliefs he'll suddenly take up without being able to live by. For example in "The Money," he refuses to sell out the family to do a Joyful Burger commercial despite them in desperate need for money after Richard tosses it all in the ocean. When the family is forced to sign the contract lest all of Elmore is destroyed, Gumball still has one last stubborn stand for his principles of the day... except when he sees the contract.
      Gumball: I got principles! Just turns out I can't live by them.
  • American Dad!:
    • Hayley in the early seasons. Her initial role in the show was to act as a Liberal rival to her extremist Republican father Stan, often proving to be just as self-serving and vindictive as he is. She likes to speak as a Soapbox Sadie and a Granola Girl, but will try to bail out when made to practice what she preaches.
    • Stan Smith is this in freaking spades:
      • Several plots (such as "Seizures Suit Stanny") revolve around Stan being deeply against something, then (by circumstance or his own choice) trying it for himself, and becoming obsessed with it (and usually trying to cover his hypocrisy around his family). These episodes more often than not tend to portray Stan at his most unlikable, especially with the lows he'll sink to in order to cover his tracks.
      • Stan often derides Steve for being a geek and a "wuss", despite the fact that he was the same (or even moreso) at his age, and constantly tries to "make a man" out of him. But several episodes (such as "Chimdale") have shown that, when push comes to shove, Steve can be more of a man than Stan is.
      • Despite the hard time he gives Steve for the latter's niche hobbies, Stan often shows an abnormal level of passion for his own interests, such as joyously treating the United States Census as an actual holiday.
      • In "Bully for Steve", Stan acted as a bully to Steve, constantly telling him that he needed to stand up to bullies. Not only did Stan never stand up to his childhood bully, Stelio Kontos (because he simply moved away), but when Steve brings him in to do the fighting for him, Stan doesn't even try to fight back, letting Stelio beat him to a pulp.
      • In "There Will Be Bad Blood", he tells Steve he should appreciate what he already has, so he decides to bring him to his allegedly poor Native American half-brother Rusty's place in Arizona to teach him humility. However, upon finding out Rusty is actually supremely rich, he tries to steal the wealth for himself and throws a massive temper tantrum about how it should all be his.
      • In "Big Stan on Campus", he looks down on the campus security team, believing them to be "unprofessional", even though he himself saw his temporary employment there as being like a "vacation", and wanted the students to see him as a Cool Uncle rather than an authority figure. When the students made it clear they didn't see him that way, he attacked them all with pepper spray.
      • "The Mural of the Story" began with Stan lecturing Hayley about how you should always put family first. But when Hayley ends up taking the blame for the damage he caused to the town's beloved mural while attempting to restore it, Stan does nothing to correct that belief and is perfectly willing to let his own daughter suffer rather than publicly admit his failure.
      • He frequently finds fault with others, expecting them to just stand there and take it, but he himself Can't Take Criticism at all.
  • Amphibia:
    • In "True Colors", Sasha singles out Marcy for betraying her and Anne by taking them to Amphibia against their will so she could spend more time with them. While Sasha isn't wrong, it still doesn't change the fact that, moments earlier, she betrayed Anne and Marcy with far more malicious intent.
    • Sprig also singles out Marcy for the same reason as Sasha. But later in "Sprivy", he and his girlfriend Ivy willingly put an important mission at jeopardy because he didn't want to spend even 5 minutes away from his girlfriend.
    • One of reasons why Hop Pop is a Base-Breaking Character is because he occasionally calls out his grandchildren and Anne on things he himself does.
  • Angry Birds: Summer Madness:
    • In "Fly Like a Mighty Eagle", one of the Three tells Mighty Eagle that "Money is an illusion, created by greed"... despite the fact that he'd lent money from Mighty Eagle, and won't pay him back.
    • In "Pigmas", Neiderflyer tries to take advantage of the holiday to get gifts for himself. When Red points out that they're doing this for Penley, Neiderflyer complains that they're not thinking about him.
  • Arthur:
  • Beast Wars: When Blackarachnia finally breaks free of Tarantulas's control, he calls her "treacherous" while threatening to disassemble her. Tarantulas himself has such a case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder that Megatron keeps him around mostly to keep himself on his toes.
  • Beavis And Butthead: Butt-Head constantly insults Beavis by calling him a "dumbass", despite being incredibly stupid himself.
  • Ben 10: Omniverse:
    • Will Harangue always enforces propaganda and media harrass against Ben for his reckless antics. This coming from a guy who once created a Killer Robot in attempt to kill Ben in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. It gets even more deconstructed in "The Frogs of War" where in the first part he calls out Ben on hiding the existence of the aliens inhabiting Undertown, but in the second part praises the Incurseans as their new "benevolent galactic overlords" after they sent Ben into outer space and took over Earth. This ends up costing him his reputation and he still denies it.
    • Master Kundo was an extremist who hated outsiders and technology, going to Earth to force Rook Blonko and his siblings back home. The siblings rightfully point out his hypocritical stance; despising technology despite his planet using technology, willing to trade some of his planet's valued Amber Ogia to a pilot to take him home, assaulting his people despite believing that he's saving them. He refuses to concede, instead blaming Rook leaving for Earth as the reason he had to make those decisions. He only agrees when he's been turned into a cyborg. Even then, he still considers technology evil despite it keeping him alive.
  • Bob's Burgers: Hugo Habercore takes advantage of making Bob's life hell with his work as a health inspector. He's shown to find even the smallest misdemeanor to make things worse because Bob married the woman he loved who left Hugo because she never really loved him. It isn't just Bob, Hugo is shown to have strict and unfair treatment towards any restaurant that fails to meet any safety expectations. However, he always turns a blind eye for Jimmy Pesto because the two have a shared dislike of Bob. To emphasize this, Jimmy Pesto has given people food poisoning and doesn't bother getting fresh ingredients, yet Hugo never bothers him.
  • Brickleberry: Malloy harasses others online (including a cancer patient), but when he gets harassed by someone else online, he doesn't take it well, to say the least.
  • Castlevania:
    • The Corrupt Church and the Bishop in particular are a bunch of nasty hypocrites. They are totally convinced that magic and any form of advanced technology is satanic, yet they were perfectly happy to employ the supernaturally inclined Belmont clan before eventually ostracizing them, though they still have the gall to expect Trevor to obey them. Their execution of Lisa, an innocent women at the stake, was according to the Bishop God’s will, despite being the opposite of everything a loving God represents. Even a demon calls the Bishop out on his hypocrisy when the latter finds himself surrounded by monsters in church with nobody upstairs looking out for him.
      The Bishop: SHE WAS A WITCH!
      Blue Fangs: Lies? In your house of God? No wonder he has abandoned you.
    • Carmilla comes off as this, particularly in the later seasons. In Season 2 during a Motive Rant she cites herself as the Only Sane Woman and describes Dracula and rest of his male generals as a bunch of "man children" and Dracula’s Roaring Rampage of Revenge over the death of his wife as a "tantrum". Yet as we see, Carmilla herself is nothing more than a power-hungry Psychopathic Woman Child who goes ballistic when things don’t go her way and tortures Hector purely for the pleasure of it. Her Freudian Excuse is that having been abused by her sire, she won’t be dictated by "mad old men" anymore, but fails to acknowledge she herself is a mad old woman, trying to dictate everyone to her will. In Season 4, Carmilla is even worse as despite criticizing Dracula’s genocidal agenda born from grief, her schemes boil down to just "I want everything" in a big Villainous Breakdown.
    • Lenore, while more sympathetic than Carmilla, is still a hypocrite on multiple levels. Firstly, she dubs herself as "the diplomat" of the four vampire sisters and the only one who will treat Hector fairly. Except she was perfectly willing to lull him into a false sense of security, and slip a soul binding ring on his finger while having sex with him and literally calls him her pet afterwards, which is as far from diplomacy as you can get. In Season 4, when the roles are switched as Hector is free and she’s left at his and Isaac’s mercy, even though she’s developed a genuine relationship with Hector ironically she says can’t stand feeling trapped (despite happily holding Hector captive for months) and decides to let herself burn to ash in the sunlight rather than be stuck living with him.
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog:
    • Eustace Bagge calls Courage a "stupid dog" when he himself gets injured, maimed, transformed, and otherwise killed for being Too Dumb to Live. In addition, he criticizes Courage for not doing anything right when Eustace himself can't cook, can't grow anything in his farm, and can't fix anything, not to mention that he's completely useless during whatever ordeal the Bagges come across. In short, Eustace is exactly everything he calls Courage out for being, with the only difference being that he's a much bigger coward than Courage, which at one point was even lampshaded by the Shadow in "The Shadow of Courage".
    • Dr. Zalost turns every citizen in the city of Nowhere into people who feel very miserable, just because he feels miserable and wants everyone to feel like it, and demands a lot of money from the mayor. Even after he gets his money, he still refuses to turn everyone back to normal, just because he doesn't feel happy with his money. He then calls out the mayor, and people in general, for being selfish, completely ignoring what he did before.
  • Danny Phantom:
    • One of the reasons Sam Manson is considered a Base-Breaking Character is because of her hypocritical behavior. She says she opposes violence yet is fine with hitting her friends, namely Tucker, even when it isn't needed. She despises forcing beliefs and opinions onto others, yet in the first episode, she forced the entire school to eat her "recyclable organic matter" because "we don't need meat". She scolds Danny for using his ghost powers against powerless school bullies, yet she tries to get Danny to use his ghost powers to cause millions of dollars in property damage to a dealership because they were selling eco-unfriendly trucks.
    • Danny's archenemy, Vlad Plasmius, counts as one too. Despite his claims that all he wanted was to be loved, he treats the only two people who showed him any kind of love or admiration like dirt, all because they weren't the wife and son he always wanted. He instead obsesses over a woman, a married one at that, who doesn't even like him as a friend; he doesn't care how she actually feels, gaining his teenage archenemy as a son.
  • Daria: A recurring theme. Daria sets high moral standards and judges people for failing to meet them — including herself. She often beats herself up for her own perceived hypocrisy, and part of her Coming of Age is learning to forgive others and herself. Exemplified in the episode "Through a Lens Darkly", in which she realizes that she actually does care about her physical appearance — and it's the words of airheaded cheerleader Brittany that convinces her that's okay.
    Daria: Thank you, Brittany. You're right. We are all just human or whatever.
  • Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter's older sister, Deedee, enjoys causing misery and grief to him by trespassing into his secret Laboratory and stealing, misusing, and breaking his things without even showing an ounce of shame for it. But one time when Dexter went into Deedee's room and messed up all of her stuff with labels, Deedee gets vengefully angry over it.
  • The Dragon Prince
    • Minor example. When Queen Aanya refuses to yield to his warmongering, Lord Viren calls her weak, and unable to make important decisions. As Aanya pointed out, the other rulers had pretty much resigned themselves to following the majority. Viren only called Aanya weak because she didn't submit to him.
      • A better example shows up in the first two episodes. Viren repeatedly tries to convince King Harrow to save himself, saying that every one of his soldiers would willingly give their lives for their king. Harrow shuts him up by asking him if he would do the same.
      • And then there's the fact that he hates elves with a burning passion, yet he's working with one. He also — begrudgingly — accepts that his daughter is dating Terry, an Earthblood Elf, and even compliments Terry's chosen name as being a strong one.
      • He also claims that he wishes for humanity to thrive and prosper and that he only wants what is best for humanity. While a nice sentiment, the problem here is that many of his actions to ensure that has been first and foremost to benefit his own prosperity. While he does share the benefits later on, it's done in a fashion to ensure he doesn't get any flak for it, as shown by his turning his own army into fanatical inhuman monsters.
      • While he claims that everything he does is to protect humanity, no matter how dangerous, vile and evil, and he claims that he is a pragmatist willing to take hard choices for the greater good, in Season 5 he knows now he was just a greedy, bloodthirsty, jingoistic and uncaring idiot making bad excuses to deny is his fault many innocents died.
      • In the early seasons he was willing to sacrifice his son for his goals of killing the princes of Katolis preventing the egg from returning to Xadia, but later he affirms he would never sacrifice his children when Aaravos told him he needs the blood of his child to make his resurrection permanent, it's when he refuses to kill Sparklepuff that Viren realizes he was a hypocrite regarding everything he said about protecting humankind.
    • The Sun Dragon Sol Regem despises dark magic and has zero tolerance for it because it causes the deaths of innocent magic creatures. This is understandable... yet he is perfectly willing to murder innocents himself if they refuse to yield to his demands; he threatens to destroy a city inhabited by hundreds of thousands of innocent humans (including children) just to punish a single rebellious dark mage, and later threatens to kill a teenage elf and a baby dragon just for siding with a teenage human. An added note of hypocrisy to the latter is that he considers magical creatures to be superior to "lesser beings" such as humans, but is still willing to kill them if they do something he doesn't like.
  • Drawn Together: Princess Clara presents herself as a racist religious fundamentalist who believes that masturbation and homosexuality are evil, yet she has no qualms about dressing in thongs and doing erotic dances to entertain men.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy:
    • Sarah is this in spades:
      • She hates it when someone bullies her or Jimmy, but she has no problems with bullying others in how she wishes.
      • She kicks Ed out of their house (she even locks him out of his own room) in "Knock Knock Who's Ed", kicks Ed out of their backyard in "Stiff Upper Ed", but when a pissed off Ed does the same in "Little Ed Blue"... "ED! You can't kick me out! I live here too!"
    • Kevin often insults the Eds by calling them "dorks", but calling him one is a Berserk Button for him.
    • Ed's mom tells him he "should never hit girls", but she willingly allows Sarah to hit Ed. The fact that Ed is The Un Favourite may have something to do with it.
    • In "If It Smells Like an Ed", the kids (bar Sarah) laughed their asses off when Eddy gave Jimmy a wedgie, yet they act all indignant and defensive towards him near the end of the episode after he claims that the Eds "made [him] cry."
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Throughout "Store Wars", Bloo berates Coco for not having any money, despite the fact that Bloo himself is poor; the money he had was actually from his friends.
  • Futurama: In "Attack of the Killer App", Leela takes offense to Fry for taking a video of the singing boil on her butt named Susan and posting it online — right after Leela had explicitly advised him that if he wanted more social media followers, he'd have to sink to Bender's level. Clearly, she's totally fine with people being ruthlessly humiliated to produce the next viral masterpiece, as long as it's not her.
  • Generator Rex. Hunter Cain is obsessed with killing all Evos after his wife became one. He convinces everyone he is out to save humans from the Evo threat. However, he cloned an Evo to make sure only his men could destroy an army of it to discredit Rex and abandons his men when things go wrong. In his second appearance, he threatens to shoot an old woman for defending her Evo family. In his final appearance, he works with other enemies of Rex to get revenge, yet conveniently ignores that No-Face, who he personally set free, is an Evo. Rex even calls him out on it.
  • On Goof Troop, Pete has insulted and yelled at his son PJ for being lazy, or cowardly, or dishonest, or doing poorly in school — when he treats PJ as a personal slave to avoid doing work, is shown to back down in most dangerous situations when PJ won't, lies to everyone, including PJ, on a regular basis (including both times he gave PJ a hard time for being dishonest), and also did poorly when he was in school. He also seems to think that it's perfectly okay for him to screw Goofy over deliberately, but that if Goofy screws him over by accident then he deserves all the blame in the world.
  • Grojband:
    • Laney Penn says she dislikes "boy-crazy girly girls", but she has a huge crush on Corey and occasionally has shown a hidden girly side. Also she gets mad when singer Candy Jams doesn't have the creative mind to write her own songs when Grojband themselves create their songs by stealing Trina's diary.
    • Trina Riffin hates Kin for being a nerd, but the episode "Math of Kon" shows she's secretly a nerd herself. Also in the episode "Dueling Buttons", she's shown to be singing and enjoying music, despite claiming to despise Corey and his band and constantly trying thwart their gigs.
  • How to Catch a Cold: The man calls the businessman, paperboy, and two men on the bus inconsiderate for exposing him to their colds, but he did the same when he first contracted his.

    I-Z 
  • Invincible (2021):
    • Omni-Man aka Nolan gets furious at Cecil for endangering his wife Debbie and lying and antagonizes Damien Darkblood for being a shifty character. Nolan himself has been lying to everyone about his intentions and plans to conquer Earth for the Viltrumite empire which will put Debbie and billions of others at risk, making Nolan’s You Monster! comments to other people over their misdeeds extremely rich.
    • Rex Splode is always quick to call others out, calling Mark an asshole for leaving Teen Team to do the cleanup job and is sarcastic and antagonistic with Robot whenever he has a miscalculation. But Rex himself is a near-constant douchebag and highly incompetent making his remarks hypocritical. Also Rex’s suspicion that Eve loves Mark and anger at Robot for going behind people’s backs is twofold hypocrisy since he repeatedly cheated on Eve by boinking Dupli-Kate when she wasn’t around.
    • Amber has a strong streak of hypocrisy during her troubled relationship with Mark. She rips into Mark and dumps him for "abandoning" her and William during Sinclair's cyborg attack when he was actually saving their lives as Invincible, this could be excused with unawareness of his alter ego but in Episode 7 she reveals she knew all along making her and her actions look two-faced. Moreover, Amber criticizing Mark for selfishness is rich, when she herself comes off as extremely entitled and selfish, being pissy over Mark choosing to save lives over spending time with her. Even her anger at him keeping his superhero identity a secret is hypocritical when she’s the Secret Secret-Keeper.
  • In the John Doormat cartoon “Dustcap Doormat”, John’s neighbor chastises him for being so submissive towards his wife and tries to teach him to stand up for himself. After many failed attempts, John finds out that said neighbor is also a Henpecked Husband. He is not pleased and clocks him on the head for it.
  • Kaeloo:
    • The eponymous character. She gets angry at others for cheating, yet will cheat at a game if she's bad at it. She's quick to get Pretty to stop hugging Mr. Cat because "there are kids watching", but won't think twice before hugging him herself, sometimes in a far more inappropriate matter.
    • Olaf accuses Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat of being insane. The thing is, Olaf himself seems to be lacking sanity. He's a Mad Scientist whose goal in life is to Take Over the World.
  • King of the Hill frequently features one-shot characters who had hypocritical attitudes when causing the Hills trouble. Examples?
    • A Holier Than Thou woman protested Halloween to the point of having everyone under house arrest, so that she could invite all of the children to her home to spout her religious propaganda.
    • A new family moves in, their son harasses Hank but they see it as harmless, but are annoyed when Bobby acts the same to them.
  • Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts:
    • Most of the Mutes hate humans and view them as inferior beings yet their societies are all based on various human subcultures.
    • Scarlemagne claims to only use his Mind Control pheromones on "lower-class primates" (aka humans) and he even says "even a monkey needs to have standards" but he uses a collar full of his pheromones to force a peaceful and possibly sapient Mega-Monkey to attack the human burrow.
  • The Legend of Korra:
    • Season 1’s Big Bad Amon, despite being the leader of a powerful anti-bending movement called the Equalists, can take a person's bending away. But to do that, he at first appears to use "energybending", which is the oldest form of bending, and then there's The Reveal that it's actually bloodbending, the most dangerous form of bending on the planet. And this makes Amon Tarrlok's brother and the bloodbending crime boss Yakone's other son.
    • Unalaq, the Big Bad of Season 2, is this in spades. He goes on about how the world lacks spiritual balance, and yet he created a spiritual imbalance to have his brother banished so that he could become chief of the Northern Water Tribe. He also paints Tonraq and Tenzin as poor fathers and mentors for letting their children get in harm's way and controlling every aspect of Korra's life, yet he shows no regard for the lives of his own two children, even telling his daughter to leave her brother to die, and manipulated Korra into helping him. Finally, he accused the Avatar of causing chaos for separating the spirit world and material world by sealing Vaatu, yet he's trying to free Vaatu, the very incarnation of chaos, and has done nothing but cause chaos himself. Season 3 adds his objection to Korra being raised in a Gilded Cage despite him being the mastermind behind the kidnapping attempt that led them to do so.
    • Season 3 Big Bad Zaheer is a big fan of the Air Nomads, using how the Fire Lord nearly wiped them out as one of his more compelling arguments for the destruction of governments and leaders. He himself then threatens to wipe them out in order to pull a Hostage for MacGuffin (the prospect that he's bluffing is brought up but quickly dismissed given how far he's proven willing to go).
    • Season 4 Big Bad Kuvira, despite having openly renounced the traditional Earth Kingdom rule, still defines the parameters of her Empire in accordance with the old Earth Kingdom borders, and uses this as her justification for why Zaofu, which was not thrown into chaos by the Earth Queen's assassination, must be treated the same way as any other region and assimilated, designating it "internal Earth Empire business"
  • Mike, Lu & Og: Lu always criticizes Mike and some of the other island's residents for doing horrible work and messing up even when they do their tasks right, while she doesn't do any work at all and always messes everything up when she tries to get involved in others' work to try to prove that she's better.
  • Miraculous Ladybug:
    • Several times, Hawk Moth will akumatize a child or teenager and monologue about how they deserve freedom or how sad it is that they feel unloved... when he, in his civilian form, is a neglectful Control Freak towards his own teenage son.
    • Tomoe Tsurugi tells her daughter Kagami that she needs to be like Tomoe Gozen, a female warrior that defied her society's expectations to become a samurai... and is even more of a Control Freak than Gabriel, completely stifling Kagami's life and becoming furious when the girl defies her expectations.
    • A minor example: at the end of the season 3 finale, Luka reassures Marinette that she can tell him as much or as little as she wants... only for him to get akumatized the very next episode because she's keeping secrets that she can't reveal to him.
  • Monkey Dust: The Paedofinder General (a recurring character whose shtick revolves around murdering people after accusing them of molesting children for absurdly flimsy reasons) frequently goes on about how paedophiles deserve to die for the harm they cause to children, yet he has orphaned at least one child by beheading the mother, is willing to kill children himself if he can find an excuse to accuse them of being potential paedophiles as well, and in one sketch is shown browsing a child pornography website, which he excuses as "research".
  • The Owl House:
    • Before her Character Development, Amity Blight exhibited a bad habit of not practicing what she preaches. She claims to have higher standards than others, yet she tends to deflect blame and behave unprofessionally when things don't go her way. She even called Luz a bully over misunderstandings, disregarding her own nasty own behavior until this point.
    • A recurring theme with Emperor Belos is that he never acts on what he preaches. While most of his speeches and lectures as Emperor of the Boiling Isles are cold, calculated lies to keep his subjects in line, his actions even run contrary to what he personally believes in. He sees himself as a selfless hero trying to eliminate the evil, conniving, and unforgivable witches for humanity's salvation, but he acts exactly like the very witches he describes; his "selfless" agenda is rooted in selfish desires for glory.
  • Paradise PD: Randall Crawford belittles his son as an idiot and a loser not fit to be in the police force, but he's hardly a model cop himself. In fact, it's his own failure as a police officer that causes his wife to have enough and fire him and the rest of the PD.
  • The Patrick Star Show: At the end of "A Root Galoot", right after leaving the house out of anger, Shmandrake cries in disbelief of how the family was so selfish in eating most of him. This is despite the fact that he tricked the four of them into pampering him in the first place under the pretense that he would grant a wish to his favorite of the family.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
  • Fred was this big time in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. The show had a bully named Red Herring (a very Meaningful Name, it seemed) who Fred would accuse Once an Episode of being behind whatever mischief was going on, with no evidence other than the fact that Red was a jerkass bully. In truth, Red was only guilty once when Fred did not accuse him, and that was when the crime was stealing his aunt's motorcycle — Red had actually borrowed it to fix it for her birthday.
  • In the Ready Jet Go! "That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion!", Mitchell chastises Jet for singing to his pumpkin, but Mitchell himself insists that talking to plants is normal kid behavior and creepily talks to his own pumpkin and calls it his "precious". Er... you okay, Mitch?
  • Rick and Morty: Rick Sanchez, in spades. Just a few examples include:
    • Calls Morty "gay" despite being openly pansexual.
    • He's repulsed by rapists, yet has no problem having sex with Unity when she's inhabiting the bodies of people who can't consent. He even threatens Beta Seven with his own selfishly twisted form of Karmic Rape, when he tells them he intends to have sex with them once Unity possesses them and "comes crawling back to him".
    • Rick really can't stand having to comply with others' wishes, but expects everyone around him to defer to his authority and whims at all times. Even Morty has pointed out Rick's seemingly bottomless selfishness.
    • In "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy", part of his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Jerry is that Jerry ruined Beth's life by impregnating her while they were teenagers, conveniently leaving out the fact that his Parental Abandonment of her is easily the biggest reason the family is so messed up. It becomes worse when you learn later in the series that Ricks deliberately get Beths and Jerrys together to produce Mortys: Ricks are literally the reason the highly incompatible Jerry and Beth are together in the first place, and yet he blames Jerry for being with Beth. Though this particular instance is Subverted later when it's revealed that Rick's Beth died when she was still a child and the Beth we know was abandoned by a different Rick entirely, which absolves him of both points and re-contextualizes his hatred of Jerry.
    • In "Morty's Mind Blowers", he won't give sexual favors to an alien for information because there are "some lines [he] won't cross", tricks Morty into doing it for him, and then tells Morty that if he's comfortable with applying torture (as Rick is), then he should be comfortable with that.
    • He blames Summer for the shit that goes down in "The Wedding Squanchers", because Summer introduced Tammy to Birdperson. When Summer retorts that Tammy only befriended her in the first place to get close to Rick, his only rebuttal is, "Fuck you, Summer!"
  • South Park
    • In "Tonsil Trouble", when Cartman and Kyle both wind up getting HIV throughout the episode, Cartman comes up with a stupid catchphrase: "He isn't just sure. He's HIV positive." This leads Kyle to angrily berate him, saying that AIDS is serious and no laughing matter. It would probably have some deeper impact if it weren't for the fact that earlier in the episode, he was continuously laughing at and mocking Cartman for getting HIV.
    • In the early seasons, Cartman was shown to be a homophobe and made fun of Stan's dog for being gay, yet as the series progresses, Cartman has shown signs of being ambiguously gay to the point where he makes himself look bigger and gayer than Big Gay Al due to the Ho Yay he has with Kyle and Butters.
    • In "Butterballs", the head of the anti-bullying campaign bullies people in order to get his way (which may or may not be the point of the episode).
    • Rob Reiner lectures people on how smoking is bad for their health while constantly eating junk food.
    • The Canadian prince and his wife in "The Worldwide Privacy Tour" are the worst offenders of hypocrisies on this show. They claim that they want to be left alone, yet they announce it in a way that draws much attention, to the point that it becomes impossible to ignore (read: setting off fireworks and blocking the street while yelling at people to leave you alone). When Kyle finally manages to ignoring them (against all odds), rather than be happy that they got what have been demanding, they complain about being victimized because they were ignored.
  • Eddie Brock/Venom in The Spectacular Spider-Man. While it wasn't wrong for him to be angry with Peter, his actions as Venom don't paint him any better. He accused Peter of being a user and causing people's suffering, not caring who he hurts, yet proceeded to do the same as Venom, such as kidnapping Gwen, leaving her in a position where she could fall and die, traumatizing her in the process, and kept Peter from saving her. While Peter did cause people problems, they weren't intentional and he felt bad for it. Venom did it deliberately, even stating he'd sit and enjoy while Peter would be unable to save his loved ones from his enemies should he make Peter lose his powers and reveal his identity to the world.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants:
    • While Spongebob meant well, he unintentionally came off as a hypocrite in the episode "Jellyfish Jam" when he complained about how Squidward’s bad clarinet playing ways was making noise…when Spongebob himself (again, unintentionally) had a whole house party for 18 hours.
    • Patrick Star never follows any of the "advice" he teaches SpongeBob:
      • In "Grandma's Kisses", he tells SpongeBob to act like a grown-up but later acts like a baby himself. When SpongeBob points out his hypocrisy, he says that being a "grown-up" is boring and that he likes being a baby.
      • In "Something Smells", when SpongeBob believes that he is shunned by everyone in town because they think he is ugly, Patrick tells him that he should accept his ugliness. Later, Patrick thinks he caught SpongeBob's ugliness and refuses to accept it, declaring that he was once one of the "beautiful people" (in reality, it was their bad breath that caused the townsfolk to ignore them).
    • In "Breath of Fresh Squidward", SpongeBob gets annoyed by Squidward's clinginess towards him, completely overlooking the fact that he himself acts this way towards Squidward all the time, such as breaking into his house earlier on.
    • In "Little Yellow Book", the Bikini Bottomites laugh at SpongeBob's expense as Squidward reads his diary and his embarrassing secrets, and then become disgusted with Squidward when SpongeBob runs away crying, but hey, they all knew who they were laughing at in the first place. Made even worse when Squidward points out that Patrick also read the diary, only for Patrick to dismiss him as "blaming everyone else" when he actually isn't.
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks:
    • "Kayshon, His Eyes Open": The Collector's Guild representative harps on the crew about not stealing anything, only to snag an item for himself when no one is looking.
    • "Mugato, Gumato": T'Ana sends Tendi out to collect medical scans of reluctant crew, but has gone to great lengths to avoid having herself scanned, proving that doctors do indeed make the worst patients. And that cats hate the vet.
  • Star vs. the Forces of Evil: When they are introduced, The Magic High Commission are shown to be fairly reasonable with helping to rule Mewni despite their Immortal Immaturity. However, they are soon shown to be just as racist against monsters as the rest of Mewni, having imprisoned the former Queen Eclipsa and her monster lover for getting together and having a child, then sending said child to a school where she was horribly abused into becoming Miss Heinous, and replacing her with an average girl to become the next Queen — and all this was in spite of the fact that while they are not technically monsters, they do resemble monsters themselves.
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
    • This is brought up numerous times throughout the series. The Republic in its entirety and the Jedi specifically employ millions of clone troopers as slave labor. They are sent out to fight and die without regard for their own wants or desires, going their entire lives without being allowed to make a single decision for themselves. Leaving the military, for any reason, is considered treasonous desertion and A.W.O.L., even if the clone trooper in question has not yet even graduated training or only leaves to become a farmer. Even clones who are unable to become soldiers, due to either physical or mental deformities, are not released from service, instead becoming support workers for the military industrial complex. Throughout this treatment, however, the Republic government and the Jedi continuously speak about how their war revolves around the core concepts of freedom and liberty and they see no problem with ensuring this via the martial might of those fundamentally without liberty. Ironically, the Jedi themselves would likely have the best understanding of the clone troopers because although they have a right to leave, they themselves for the most part never had a life that preceded training in the Jedi academy.
    • In "The Hidden Enemy" Slick claims his actions are to free his fellow clone troopers from what is slavery in all but name, yet his actions cause the deaths of more clone troopers than would have happened otherwise. Rex and Cody call him out on this at the end.
    • Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee becomes convinced that the Jedi are responsible for the war and have fallen to the dark side of the Force. However, the methods she uses to protest this — terrorism, mass murder, and framing her best friend for both — make it clear that she has fallen to the dark side herself. When Anakin confronts her, she gives some indication that she is aware of this.
    • The Jedi Council, especially Mace Windu, are known for being staunch, even stubborn traditionalists who insist people must be patient and learn from their mistakes. However, when Ahsoka Tano is falsely accused of murder and treason, and Tarkin demands she be expelled from the Jedi Order so she can be tried by the Republic instead of being given a traditional Jedi trial, the Council rather quickly agrees and expels her without a proper trial, or even trying to investigate the matter further. After Ahsoka's innocence is proven thanks to the efforts of Anakin Skywalker, the Council invites her to rejoin the Order, but instead of uniformly admitting the were wrong to expel her, they claim that her ordeal was the Force's way of testing her worthiness of becoming a Jedi Knight. As noted by Maul, it was these hypocritical acts that drove Ahsoka to leave the Jedi.
    • Pre Vizla insists that he's holding to the honorable ideals of Mandlore's past culture, in defiance of Duchess Satine's unreasonably pacifistic regime. However in his attempts to overthrow Satine he commits several acts that are considered dire sins in Manalorian culture (kills an underage girl despite children being considered off-limits in war, betraying someone he made an alliance with, etc.), meaning that he's just as guilty of betraying his culture as Satine.
  • Steven Universe
    • Jasper claims that fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger and shows a lot of disdain towards Garnet for being a fusion. This doesn't stop her from attempting to fuse with Lapis or a Corrupted Gem Monster when the chips are down.
    • When Garnet gives love advice to Steven and Connie, she makes it clear that a partner should serve as a complement and should not be used as Living Emotional Crutch, or something similar. This becomes a hypocritical lesson when it is revealed that Ruby is too dependent on Sapphire, so Garnet had never actually followed her own advice.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): The Shredder is this due to his Never My Fault mentality and being blinded by hatred. It's shown that he tried to convince Tang Shen to leave Hamato Yoshi because he's too loyal to his family and won't change. Once he finds out he's the last of the Foot Clan, he converts members of the Hamato clan to serve him and becomes just as, if not more so, attached to his family history and refuses to change. Years later, he blames Splinter for Karai being mutated into a snake mutant, despite that he was willing to use her as bait to lure the Turtles so that he could use the mutagen on them. The fact that he used someone he claims he cares for as bait is further proof of this, not to mention that Karai isn't his daughter, she's Splinter's.
  • Thunder Cats 2011:
    • Pumyra. Even ignoring she wants revenge on Lion-o for not saving her because he was too far away to see her or hear her calling out to him, she is willingly serving Mumm-Ra to do it. Mumm-Ra was the one who caused the attack on Thundera, the same attack that got her killed in the first place.
    • Many of the non-Mumm-Ra follower antagonists see the cats as oppressors and barbarians (understandably so, as the cats were The Empire until the events of the pilot), yet have no issues oppressing not only the cats, but also other species, and act like the animals they are (literally). Perhaps the worst is Vultaire, who in addition to this is also a petty Sore Loser who reacts to failure much in the way he accuses the cats of acting, and has two episodes worth of pretentious ethical rhetoric and then betrays his own civilisation to Mumm-Ra when it becomes clear he will have benefits for that. And that the cats will suffer.
  • Velma: Velma is often shown not to practice what she preaches, especially when it comes to racism and sexism. She is very outspoken about how women and people of color are judged unfairly in society, but she often unfairly judges white men throughout the show, and her ideas of what womanhood should be are just as restrictive as the sexism she claims to hate so much.
  • In the We Bare Bears episode "Primal", Grizz becomes dissatisfied with how he and his brothers, Panda and Ice Bear, are living like humans, and wants to go out and live in the wild like real bears. However, Grizz is also the first one of the bears to cheat by stealing food from civilization.

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