Hypocritical Humor / Animated Films

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• In The 3 Little Pigs: The Movie, Big Boss hates Aromé’s skunk smell, but he’s a heavy cigar smoker, and tobacco isn’t exactly a pleasant smell either.
• The Angry Birds Movie: King Leonard gets angry at Red for destroying his house, ignoring that he previously destroyed Red's house (albeit unintentionally) and never apologized for it.
  King Leonard: You're wrecking my house! What's wrong with you?!
  Red: You wrecked my house!
  King Leonard: Your house was ugly!
  Red: Well, now we're even.
• In The Aristocats, Georges Hautecort, who doesn't look a day under 200, refuses to take the elevator instead of the stairs because "elevators are for old people".
• Beauty and the Beast:
  • In the song "Belle", the barber sings "...'cause her head's up on some cloud," while distractedly chopping off half his customer's mustache.
  • Gaston laughs at LeFou's insults of Belle's father, but then acts offended as soon as he sees Belle is.
    Belle: I have to get home to help my father.
    LeFou: That crazy old loon, he needs all the help he can get!
    [Gaston laughs heartily]
    Belle: Don't talk about my father that way!
    Gaston: Yeah, don't talk about her father that way! [hits LeFou on the head]
    Belle: My father's not crazy, he's a genius!
    [suddenly, an explosion comes from the direction of Belle's cottage; Belle hurries off, leaving Gaston & LeFou to continue laughing]
• In Bolt, Rhino (like Bolt) believes that the Bolt TV show is real despite it not being realistic (in-universe anyway). Then at the end, after watching a new episode with an alien storyline, Rhino, who is a talking hamster, turns off the TV and says "That is so unrealistic!"
• The Russian Animated Adaptation of The Cat in the Hat comes with this:
  Cat: And here we have a talking fish...
  Fish: Don't be idiots! Cats and fishes don't talk!
• Cinderella:
  • In the scene when the King who scoffs at the Duke's much more sensible ideas about letting the Prince fall in love:
  Grand Duke: Perhaps if we just let him alone—
  The King: Let him alone?! With his silly romantic ideas?
  Grand Duke: B-But, sire, in matters of love...
  The King: Love. Bah! Just a boy meeting a girl under the right conditions. (pushes books off the table and puts together the male and female figurines) So, we're arranging the conditions.
  • From Lady Tremaine after stopping Drizella and Anastasia's bickering during the music lesson.
  Lady Tremaine: Girls! Girls! Remember, above all, self-control.
  (As Tremaine was preparing to resume playing the piano, Cinderella knocks on the door from outside, interrupting the lesson)
  Lady Tremaine: (angrily slams her hands on the piano) YES?!?!
• Frozen:
  • After Anna puts her feet on the "dashboard" of Kristoff's sled, Kristoff shoos them off, asking "Seriously, were you raised in a barn?" Kristoff then spits on that part of the sled to do a quick "polish", some of his spit getting into Anna's face. The question itself is also comically ironic considering he was literally raised by trolls and sleeps in barns.
    Princess Anna: Ugh! No, I was raised in a castle!
  • According to Kristoff, the trolls (who are "love experts") would disparage Anna for getting engaged to a man she just met. When he brings her to them, they try to get them married immediately. In the trolls' defense, they don't know that the two of them just met. One troll mentions that Kristoff has been gone for awhile, so they might think that they've been going steady for awhile. Their comments about getting Anna's fiancé out of the way to fix the whole thing, on the other hand, are something different.
  • Elsa calls Anna out for falling for Hans so quickly saying, "Anna, what do you know about love?" reasoning that Anna is too sheltered to know what love means. It's understandable given Hans turns out to be plotting a coup, but it becomes this trope because Elsa has been confined to the castle most of her life, only ever in communication with her parents, Anna, and a few trusted servants.
• Hercules: In his Establishing Character Moment, Hades's sarcastic "hunk of moussaka caught in [his] throat" joke is met with cold stares of contempt from his fellow gods, causing him to wonder if it's an "audience or a mosaic." It's done to show how estranged and out-of-touch he is with them, and why he's despised on Mount Olympus. On the flip side, the entire pantheon bursts in laughter when Zeus made a similar pun about his workaholism, causing Hades to storm out in anger.
• In Hoodwinked!, Boingo mocks one of his minions, Keith, for having a name that's not very intimidating, and tells him to change it to "Boris", 'cause, "Ooh, watch out for Keith!" Not only is "Boingo" not really a scary name either, "Keith" and "Boris" have similar meanings in different languages, as "Keith" is Scottish-Gaelic for "from the battlefield", while "Boris" is Slavic for "battler" or "warrior".
• Horton Hears a Who!:
  • "The nerve of him, calling me a boob. I would never call anybody a boob! He's the boob!" (Said by the Mayor)
  • Another (rather cruel) example is when Sour Kangaroo talks about how she's doing what she's doing for the children's safety... until punting Katie out of the jungle like a football.
• Rather subtly used in The Incredibles. In the opening interview segments, each of the supers voiced opinions that they went on to contradict in the film itself:
  • Mr Incredible expresses annoyance that "No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again," and says that he'd like to settle down and start a family. But when the Super Registration Act is passed, Bob Parr has a harder time than anyone adjusting to civilian life, and is constantly itching to jump back into action.
  • And, naturally, the inverse applies to his wife, Helen, aka Elastigirl, who said that she wasn't about to settle down and leave the saving the world to the men; she adjusts to everyday life quite nicely.
  • This also applies nicely to Lucius Best, better known as Frozone. His marriage to Honey, who clearly expects an unusually high level commitment (expecting him to prioritize date night over saving the city), seems to be the last thing his younger self would have gone for, if this quote is any indication:
    "Super-ladies? They're always trying to tell you their secret identities (they think it'll strengthen the relationship or something like that.) I say 'Girl, I don't even wanna know about your mild-mannered alter-ego or anything like that.' I mean, if you tell me you're a super-mega-ultra-lightning-babe, that's just fine with me. I'm good... I'm good."
  • Incredibles 2: Helen is chilling on her Elasticycle in an alleyway, listening to police scanners, the way her husband would in the first film. She muses over the Irony of her getting hot under the collar when he did that while she is doing it.

    "I'm such a hypocrite."

• A darker, less humorous version in The Iron Giant; when said giant and Hogarth see a deer they go get a closer look, when two hunters shoot it. The hunters see the giant and exclaim, "IT'S THE MONSTER!", and flee while Hogarth and the giant sadly mourn the dead deer.
• In Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Stitch licks Lilo during their fight and she didn't like it. However, in the original Lilo & Stitch film, Lilo licked Nani during their fight after Cobra's visit.
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh gives us the following exchange between Pooh and Gopher:
  Pooh: Can you ssspare a sssmall sssmackerel?
  Gopher: Ssssay, you oughtta do ssssomething about that sssspeech impediment, ssssonny.
• Missing Link:
  Mr. Collick: But, my Lord, Frost's frivolous escapes usually amount to naught. He can't possibly win this wager.
  Lord Piggot-Dunceby: I'm not taking any chances, no! I must make a stand for all that is civilised!
  Mr. Collick: And, how are you going to do that, my Lord?
  Lord Piggot-Dunceby: I'm going to hire a thug to kill him.
• In Mulan:
  • Chi-Fu says: "...And I do not squeal like a girl!" (Panda eats Chi Fu's slipper and he squeals like a girl).
  • Mushu: "Dragon! Dra. Gon. Not lizard. I don't do that tongue thing." (He does that tongue thing.)
• In the Golden Films film The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit, Peter's overweight sister gets stuck in a box. Benny Bunny, who is pretty chubby himself, laughs at her and says she needs to lose some weight. Then he gets stuck in a fence.
• From The Princess and the Frog: "I was startin' to think that wishin' on stars was for babies and.. *Eye Twitch* crazy people..."
• In Shrek, when Donkey follows Shrek home, doesn't want to take the hint that Shrek wants to be left alone, and he won't stop babbling:
  Shrek: Shrek: I like my privacy.
  Donkey: You know, I do too. That's another thing we have in common. Like I hate it when you got somebody in your face. You're trying to give them a hint and they won't leave. And there's that big awkward silence you know? (awkward silence)
• In Shrek 2, when Fiona's parents are having an argument over the fact Fiona had married Shrek:
  Lillian: This is Fiona's choice.
  Harold: Yes, but she was supposed to chose the prince we picked out for her.
• Grouchy Smurf in The Smurfs and the Magic Flute song "Just Like Their Names": "I don't act like my name!"
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: As they're chewing Miles out for his frequent absentee-ism, Jeff yells that Miles doesn't have a driver's license. Miles points out his mom doesn't have one either, but Jeff immediately declares this is because they're proud New Yorkers who have no intention of ever leaving (an earlier argument the family had was Miles wanting to go to Princeton, in New Jersey, which Rio felt was too far away).
• Steven Universe: The Movie: At the end, the Diamonds turn up at Beach City, after the place has suffered extensive damage thanks to Spinel's giant injector. White Diamond sees fit to criticize Earth for being "destroyed" even though Homeworld is broken in half.
  "Steven, has your planet always been this... destroyed?"
• Storks: Pigeon Toady mocks Tulip for being different even though he's the only pigeon in the company.
• In Strange Magic, the Fairy King states your typical aesop about not judging people by their appearances. He promptly faints in shock when he sees his daughter kissing an elf. When he comes to, he then hides behind his hands in disgust at seeing his other daughter kissing the goblin king.
• Tangled: In "Mother Knows Best", Gothel sings the line "Skip the drama/stay with mama", whilst coming down candle-lined stairs in the dark, dramatically sweeping her cloak.
• Turning Red: After Mei grumpily storms off when her request to see the 4*Town concert is denied, Ming complains about the look Mei gives her, wondering how she could be so disrespectful to her own mother. Her husband Jin then tells Ming that her mother is on the phone. Ming then panics and yells "I'm not here!"
• Wreck-It Ralph: At Tapper's, Ralph runs into a Hero's Duty soldier named Markowski who has PTSD after only being plugged in for a week. Learning there's a medal to be won at the end of the game, Ralph asks if he can go along to Hero's Duty to which Markowski refuses, saying "Only the best and bravest serve in our corps!" A split second later, he sees a cockroach on Ralph's shoulder, screams like a little girl, and runs head-first into the wall, knocking himself unconscious. Subverted as we actually get to see the gameplay inside Hero's Duty, and just what exactly the bugs in his home game are like.
• In The Year Without a Santa Claus, Santa is told by an elf doctor that nobody cares about Christmas anymore. Before leaving, the doctor wishes Santa a Merry Christmas.
• Yogi the Easter Bear: Yogi and Boo-Boo consult an elderly bear named the Grand Grizzly on where they can find the Easter Bunny, but have some difficulty getting him to answer their question properly because he happens to be hard of hearing. When Boo-Boo questions the Grand Grizzly's final answer before leaving, the Grand Grizzly remarks "What are ya, deaf?"

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