History Main / HypocriticalHeartwarming

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', one of Johnny Cage's intros with Sub-Zero is to mockingly call him "Grandmaster Blueberry Ice", to Sub-Zero's chagrin. When Comicbook/TheJoker makes the same crack, however, Sub-Zero is quick to tell him, "Only Johnny Cage may use that name and ''live''!"

* The Poles are the absolute masters of this trope. They can sling around insults and backbites about their fellow Poles, but if you try to get in on the joke as an outsider, well, the Poles then promptly declare Jihad! If you find yourself in a group of Poles and accidentally repeat (or worse, created) a joke about another Pole without them reacting like you've just violated one of their siblings, you know that you've finally become one of the gang.

* Very common among Brazilians, who generally make fun of and complain about their country all the time, but are famously not welcoming when foreigners do it. A TV ad played with this -- two Brazilians are having a conversation about their country's shortcomings, but when an Argentinian joins in and agrees with them, they switch to saying "What are you talking about? This country's wonderful, man, there's nothing to complain about" and give him a DeathGlare.

-->'''Angelica:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} Nobody messes with my dumb babies 'cept me!]]

* ''Series/TheBoys'': Billy Butcher invokes this frequently, he has an (admittedly understandable) very vocal and active hatred of Supes and people with superpowers. Yet with the baby with EyeBeams, he gave the infant a kiss on head and gently put the child back in their cot after using them to laser some Vought mooks apart. He also comes to love the superpowered Ryan [[spoiler:his wife’s Becca ChildByRape after being assaulted by his ArchEnemy Homelander, and willingly betrays his deal with Soldier Boy out of his love for Ryan.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'':

* Shannon Casull teases his little sister Pacifica mercilessly in ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', but he literally swears to oppose God Himself in her defence, even if it means the destruction of the world.

--->'''Gene:''' No one blackmails our sister but us!\\

* One moment in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', when a gang of villains smashes the inside of a mall and a small piece of debris bounces off Dee Dee's head, mildly distracting her.

''[Dexter promptly dispatches the mooks with his superhero gear]''

** In some cases, players will even intervene if one of their own teammates is being too rough with an opponent, especially if it's a between-plays incident.

* It's the same way with most sports teams. Team members can make fun of each other, but if ''another'' team insults your teammates... Similarly, opposing player frequently trash-talk each other, but if a player gets significantly hurt, expect both teams to rally around the injured player -- and they do ''not'' take it well if [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/49ers-the-wave_n_4097568 fans make light of the injury]]. In some cases, players will even intervene if one of their own teammates is being too rough with an opponent, especially if it's a between-plays incident.

* In ''Literature/TheSaddleClub'', the Lake siblings fight with each other constantly, but are the first to come to each other's defense if someone outside the family messes with them, or if one of them is ill or injured. This is especially true with Stevie and Alex, who have an extra layer of connection due to being twins.

* In ''Literature/TheSaddleClub'', the Lake siblings fight with each other constantly, but are the first to come to each other's defense if someone outside the family messes with them, or if one of them is ill or injured. This is especially true with Stevie and Alex, who have an extra-close bond due to being twins.

* In the film adaptation of ''Literature/TheGreatGillyHopkins'', the eponymous character picks on her younger foster brother, William Earnest, constantly but immediately intervenes when he's targeted by bullies at school. She claims that it's because she wants picking on William Earnest to be her sole purview, but it's actually the first hint that [[CharacterDevelopment she's beginning to care despite herself]]. In later scenes, she teaches him how to fight back against the bullies.

* ''Fanfic/TwoTwentyOneB'': "Boswells Unite!" features Watson receiving a letter from the Strand informing him they're not printing any more of his stories for the moment because someone has been sending in "gutter-press" under his name. Holmes fumes that only he can criticize Watson's writing and immediately sets out to find the perpetrator and teach him a lesson for blackening his biographer's reputation.

''(Later in the final minutes, when they see Eddy’s Brother beating up Eddy…)''\\

''[[Later in the final minutes, when they see Eddy’s Brother beating up Eddy…]]''\\
'''Lee:''' WHAT’S HE DOING TO MY MAN?!

-->'''Marie:''' Ain't no one beating up on my man but me!

* ''Film/PromWars'': Rupert is one of the only jocks at the Selby school (due to being a legacy) and can be a JerkJock at times. But after the Lancaster boys bully some of his classmates and steal their pants, Rupert angrily says that no one can do that to Selby students except him.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Drax does this in the climax; not one minute after he calls Gamora a whore, Nebula appears... And Drax [[ShutUpHannibal angrily shoots her mid-rant]] for insulting Gamora.

** Chi-Chi never wastes a moment to chide her husband Goku for being a layabout with no job, frequently calling him a idiot when in a bad mood. Yet in the anime when she hears a nasty and sadistic tutor she hired for Gohan call Goku a “worthless father”, Chi-Chi defenestrates the bastard without a moment hesitation. It seems as far as Chi-Chi is concerned only ''she’s'' is allowed to insult Goku, ''anyone else'' who insults her beloved dumb hubby is just asking for pain.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]]'' has this dynamic pop up between twin brothers Beerus and Champa of the [[Recap/DragonBallSuperUniverseSurvivalArc Universe Survival arc]]. After learning that the Kais of the other universes held a meeting without inviting the Kai of Universe 7, Champa engages his own meeting with the other Gods of Destruction to make sure they weren't planning anything underhanded, and gets notably stressed once the topic moves to Beerus, and by extension, Goku, since they're scapegoating the entirety of Universe 7 for putting them through the tournament and slating them for destruction if they lose when both Champa and Vados know that Zen'o was planning on destroying them anyway until Goku reminded him of the tournament. When this claim falls on deaf ears, he gets visibly irate at them disrespecting both his brother and Goku despite his intense rivalry with Beerus.
%%** There's one instance right after the [[Recap/DragonBallZNamekArc Namek arc]] of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' when Chi Chi hires a tutor for Gohan. This tutor happens to be quite abusive toward Gohan, and when he starts calling Goku a delinquent absentee parent (Goku is missing following the fight with Frieza), Chi Chi decides she's had enough and promptly defenestrates the tutor. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; explain in what way she usually bullies him herself.)

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': The first sign of Wolverine mellowing from JerkWithAHeartOfJerk to JerkWithAHeartOfGold is when a demon attacks the X-Mansion ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]) and insults [[Characters/MarvelComicsNightcrawler Nightcrawler]]. Logan, who only a few pages prior had tried to outright ''murder'' Kurt for laughing at him, tears into the demon on the grounds that the elf is his buddy.

* ''Series/BlackBooks'' has a half-dying Bernard (having had to look after himself for a whole day) snap out of it when he hears that Manny is being bullied by his new boss. "[[WhoDares How]] ''[[WhoDares dare]]'' [[WhoDares you?]] Don't you touch a hair on that boy's head! Have you no respect? He's mine! Get your ''own'' human plaything, you quartz-brained little cream puff!"

* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', Mal calls Inara a whore all the time. But he's also the first to defend her if anyone else calls her (or implies that she is) a whore. He later states that while he loathes and insults her job, he's not insulting the woman herself and actively tries to protect her professional reputation (just never to her face). On the other hand, the person who triggered his Hypocritical Heartwarming was treating Inara herself (instead of her job) like a whore, and even a slave. And mutually, their VolleyingInsults can range from [[InHarmsWay overprotectiveness]], a defensive mechanism against rejection, or just an [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple act to annoy each other]].