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** [[spoiler:Most of the would-be Titan Shifters on the mainland call the wall's inhabitants 'Violent Devils', despite also being ticking time bombs who are persecuted to heck by their own country.]] They're completely unaware that their situations are the same; a caste of slaves who are killed by their oppressors for leaving the nest or trying to make things better for everyone.
* In one chapter of ''Manga/AiKora'', Maeda attracts the attention of Sajima, a SadistTeacher who seems to have it out for him because of his "parts love". Turns out Sajima is a parts fetishist himself, [[spoiler: but because of this, he was once in a student-teacher love affair that ended in tragedy, and he doesn't want something like that happening to Maeda.]]
* One of the more interesting elements lost in the adaptation of ''Anime/GoLion'' to the series ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' is that Prince Sincline is not only [[spoiler: the son of a human woman whom his father later disposed of, but that this woman was a citizen of Planet Altea, where his worst enemy lives.]] His reaction: kill [[spoiler: his own grandmother Honerva.]]
* In ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', [[spoiler:the BigBad Atlantean-supremacist Gargoyle]] didn't know he actually was [[spoiler:a human that was adopted by Atlanteans.]]

* Minako Aino in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' openly dislikes cops, but as Sailor V she acts exactly like a Japanese cop, and, at the end of the manga, [[spoiler: [[SuperCop she actually joins the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, implying she's still a cop for the entire run of]] ''Manga/SailorMoon'']], while TheNineties ''Anime/SailorMoon'' anime has her being a SuperCop in London for a while. She ''still'' dislikes the average cop.
* Much of the plot of Creator/OsamuTezuka's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII saga ''Manga/{{Adolf}}'' revolves around the largely discredited notion that UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's grandfather was a Jew.
* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': Seto Kaiba ''loathes'' his adoptive/stepfather and yet, because of the nightmarish training he underwent, he actually became the man who ruined his childhood. While he's not as bad as him, his methods and actions are rather questionable.
* In ''Manga/SamuraiUsagi'' (not to be confused with ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'') a group of samurai-hating/murdering ''ronin'' [[spoiler: all come from samurai families so they know first-hand how horrible samurai can be]]. To their consternation, they're matched with the Usagi Dojo, who [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits really clash]] with how they imagine samurai to be.
* Neji of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' repeatedly put down Naruto and Hinata for trying to escape their "fate" to be weak. During their fight, Naruto pointed out that despite everything he said Neji was still struggling against his own fate as a member of the Branch Family.
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** Having spent the series' early arcs rejecting any connection between himself, his father, and bad guys like [[spoiler: [[BigBad Asura]] and Eibon, Death the Kid]] does not react well to the revelation that he and they are the same; [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch/Humanoid Abominations]]]]. Even more so when he learns that [[spoiler:Asura is his ''older brother'', since he is also a fragment of Shinigami.]]
** Death the Kid despises [[NeatFreak anything that is even the slightest bit asymmetrical]], yet he himself is glaringly asymmetrical. This is lampshaded to him, but it doesn't stop him to continuing to act in the most asymmetriphobic way possible, despite a brief HeroicBSOD over it.
* In ''Anime/CrossAnge'', after declaring her intent on solving the Norma "problem", [[FallenPrincess Ange]] is devastated when she discovers that she is one. She changes her tune over the next several episodes, and when she faces execution and public jeering when lured back via WoundedGazelleGambit from her sister, she's made a complete 180 and declares mana users to be the real "savages".
* The main characters of the anime ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' are a bunch of otaku all fitting a certain subset of otaku life. The character Chika Ogiue introduced in the second season represents the self-loathing otaku, and she is very open about this despite being a prominent member of the Genshiken club. Kanji himself started off as this trope being a closet otaku before coming to terms with it.
* Fujimoto in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' hates humanity even though he is very much aware that he is a (former?) human being himself. He also at first opposes Ponyo's attraction to Sosuke, even though that situation is very much akin to that of her parents (Granmammare and Fujimoto) when ''they'' first met.

* Provides a series of major twists in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. [[spoiler: The Washuu Clan, famous Ghoul Hunters that founded and have led the [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]] for more than a century.....are themselves ghouls. Their oppression of their own kind seems to be motivated by their desire to become human]]. Likewise, [[spoiler: Kishou Arima and his proteges from the Sunlit Garden are flawed HalfHumanHybrids with ghoul parentage. While Arima turns out to have been faking his disdain for his own kind, others like Hairu Ihei seem to have genuinely enjoyed killing ghouls]].
* Humorous example in ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombina]] dislikes films with fast-moving, intelligent zombies and prefers the Romero-styled ones... despite being a zombie herself, a member of a special SWAT-like squad and one of the most active and boisterous characters in the entire series.
* [[{{Tsundere}} South Italy (also known as Italy Romano)]] of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' isn't fond of Germans in general, but he ''especially'' [[BerserkButton hates]] the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personification]] of [[TheComicallySerious Germany]] itself. When Germany points out that Romano also has Germanic blood, it angers him enough to get him to charge Germany...and then [[AmusingInjuries slip on a banana peel]], FacePlant, and skin his arm.

* In a comic so full of bigotry as ComicBook/XMen there are bound to be examples:
** Graydon Creed, the founder of the anti-mutant Friends of Humanity in ''ComicBook/XMen'', is not himself a mutant -- but his parents were Mystique and Sabretooth. However, in a twist that Marvel Comics themselves once pointed out, a mutant is a being that differs markedly from their genetic parents. Thus, by not having powers in any way, Graydon Creed ''is'' a mutant.
** Larry Trask, son of Sentinel-maker Bolivar Trask. He very nearly succeeded in having his giant robots wipe out all (then-known) mutants, but when his dad's friend Judge Chalmers ripped the power-suppressing amulet off of him, surprise surprise, Larry's a mutant too.
** In ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'', Anne - TheDragon of the Purifiers, a [[TheFundamentalist fanatical religious terrorist]] organisation who go around executing every mutant that they find, due to their belief that they are agents of Satan, was most devoted and loyal to the leader of this group - [[SinisterMinister Reverend William Stryker]], [[WouldHurtAChild even killing children under his command without batting an eye]] when they turn out to be mutants. At some point late into the story arc to her horror, [[spoiler: she discovers that she is a mutant herself. Stryker soon kills her after this discovery]].
** Sentinels can technically be considered mutants, according to Sebastian Shaw. He once outfitted a series of them with a LogicBomb built in, in the event that he could use it to destroy them if they turned rogue, [[AIIsACrapshoot as Sentinels often do]]. The logic being that Sentinels were derived from the blueprints of the original Mark-Is, and since then, they have evolved and grown stronger, thus they are Mutants. Since they are Mutants, they must be destroyed, as per their prime directive. Sadly, it doesn't work out as Shawn plans, as ComicBook/{{Loki}} fuses three of them into the deadly Tri-Sentinel, his magic overriding Shaw's command; only confuses them long enough for ComicBook/SpiderMan to use his recently gained Captain Universe powers to take them out.
** A surprisingly large number of anti-mutant bigots from the X-Men's RoguesGallery are ''cyborgs'' - including Pierce, Akab, Cameron Hodge, Bastion and the Phalanx. So while they're not mutants, they're not exactly normal humans, either.
** The villain ComicBook/{{Magneto}} is also an example. He hates Nazis for what they did to him and his family, but as a result became a mutant-supremacist, hating all humans and just becoming a different kind of bigot. (A major case of DependingOnTheWriter. He's dated humans, and he's gone way out of his way to protect them… but, yes, he's also tried to wipe them out. He's conflicted.)
** In ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', Rev William Stryker Jr is as much a mutant hater as his 616 counterpart, due to his abusive father (based on General Stryker from the movies), and said abusive childhood has left him in utter denial that he's a mutant himself.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' the biggest mutantphobic person turns out to be a mutant.
* In the UltimateUniverse Magneto [[spoiler:and all mutants are actually human beings, who have been genetically altered by an airborne variation of the super-soldier serum.]]

* There is a theory that [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] was deeply closeted because of his apparent dislike for homosexuals (and women). See the WMG page for the graphic novel. Somewhat wobbly, since Rorschach dislikes [[SexIsEvil all forms of sexuality]].
* ComicBook/RedHulk is implied to be someone who really hates the Hulk. He turns out to be [[spoiler:General Ross]].

* In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story "The Neon Knights", Dredd unmasks the leader of the eponymous robot-hating "Klan", revealing him to be...A CYBORG! "I thought his voice sounded synthetic; like all bigots, he HATED HIMSELF and transferred that hatred to the thing he most resembled...Robots!" is Dredd's explanation.
* ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''-era Maxwell Lord was prone to making speeches about how metahumans were the cause of all society's ills, and claiming that non-powered heroes like ComicBook/BlueBeetle should be on his side, as fellow normal humans. When Beetle pointed out that Max was ''currently using his metahuman powers'', Max simply shrugged this off as beside the point. He knew who ''he'' meant by metahuman, and it wasn't himself.

* [[spoiler:Rika]] in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanfic ''The Tale of Rumia'' hates Youkai with a blinding passion- and at the end of the arc she's introduced in, it's revealed that over the years, she herself became a Youkai. She never really stops being in denial about it, although she privately [[spoiler:turns herself into a robot so that she won't have to live with the shame.]]

* ''Webcomic/DogsOfFuturePast'' has this as an element in the ultimate confrontation with Dr. Gaster. The good doctor loathes 'cheaters' who think they can bend the rules to suit their own purposes, whether for good or ill - because he himself tried to do the same, and ended up condemning himself and several innocent test subjects to a hell outside existence, and doesn't believe that he deserves to be saved.

* The main character of ''Inside A Skinhead'' / ''Film/TheBeliever'' is viewing himself as a highly anti-semitic white supremacist, despite being of Jewish origin himself. [[spoiler: Of course, he tries to hide his biggest secret but ultimately fails.]]

* Lampshaded in ''Film/ThisIsEngland'': one of the far-right extremist characters, Combo, is a racist played by a mixed-race actor... hence his MeaningfulName.
* Brian from ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' hates Romans only for his mother to reveal that he is half-Roman. He hates them because they have invaded his homeland, not because they are Romans, though.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Erik/Magneto hates Nazis due to being a survivor of the Holocaust, but ultimately embraces racism against non-mutants, this is highlighted in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
** Enforced in ''Film/XMen1'', where Magneto's crew mutates Senator Kelly, the US government's biggest backer of mutant suppression. Although we don't really get too good a gauge of how he feels about it since he dies as a result not too long after.
* In ''Film/IRobot'', Detective Spooner (Creator/WillSmith) displays an intense dislike towards humanoid robots... [[spoiler:despite being a cyborg]]. Although, he ''does'' have a tragic reason for that one.
* ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'': [[spoiler:The Prophet, a man leading a group against the eponymous [[RemoteBody surrogates]], is [[RoboticReveal himself a surrogate]], controlled by the inventions' ''creator'' at that.]]
* In ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', the character of Zeus is a black man with serious problems with white people, most especially white racists. Eventually [=McClane=] calls him out on the fact that he's acting like a racist himself.

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', [[spoiler:Judge Doom turns out to be a Toon in a human mask.]] Possibly justified in that he was motivated by greed, not bigotry, although he makes several anti-Toon statements prior to TheReveal as well (claiming, for example, that Toons are naturally lawless and deserve the most brutal punishments imaginable). It's probable that he's saying those things not because he believes [[spoiler:other]] toons are like that, but because he knows that [[spoiler:HE is like that]]. Another possible interpretation is that [[spoiler:Doom, being an ''evil'' Toon, simply has it out against ''other'' Toons, true to stereotype. After all, his master plan involves ''wiping out Toontown''.]]
* ''[[http://www.8asians.com/2011/11/29/my-newest-movie-chink/ Chink]]'' is a movie about Eddy Tsai, a self-hating Asian who becomes a serial killer targeting other Asians. He changes his name to "Richards" and falsely claims to have been adopted by white parents.
* Jay of Film/TheViewAskewniverse often makes homophobic remarks, but it's been hinted [[ArmoredClosetGay he's secretly gay or at least bi]].
* The movie ''Film/{{Thor}}'' spends much of its arc following the self-destruction of Loki, setting him up for his role as the villain of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. His racism against Frost Giants clearly has deep roots but was never a major part of his life until it turned out he was one. Along with being a WellDoneSonGuy who seems honestly to be TheUnfavorite and regularly suffer AllOfTheOtherReindeer, ''and'' with knowing he's actually responsible for Thor's exile and the fact that they're currently at war, '''and''' combined with unexpectedly being temporary king, this violent undermining of his entire identity causes him to go completely insane.
** Insane actions taken include but are not limited to setting up a complex plot to allow him to 'heroically' kill his biological father in person and the attempted destruction of the Frost Giant home world. He attempts suicide at the end but just comes back crazier.
* In ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', Chad hates hillbillies because his mother was raped by a hillbilly SerialKiller who also murdered his father. [[spoiler:The serial killer was actually Chad's real father, the proof being an old newspaper article with a photo of the killer, who looks exactly like Chad. Chad, already murderously insane by that point, has a total breakdown when he learns the truth.]]
* Long before ''The Chappelle Show'' and its iconic black white supremacist, a [[NightmareFuel much less comedic]] version of this idea was used in the 1963 film ''Film/ShockCorridor'', which featured a black KKK member in an insane asylum. In case you missed that one, suffice to say that anti-black rhetoric sounds even ''more'' terrifying when it's being delivered by a ScaryBlackMan.
* ''Film/{{Milk}}'' subtly suggests that Dan White may have been a closeted gay man himself, adding another dimension to his crimes.

* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'': Dionysus in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' hates demigods because his wife, Ariadne, was abandoned by the demigod Theseus. When Percy and Jason are fighting the Giants — who can only be beaten by a god and a demigod working together — it comes out that Dionysus (who is currently going by Bacchus) was the demigod who originally helped defeat them in ancient times. Of course, he's since become a god in his own right and one of the twelve Olympians to boot, so perhaps, in his case, you hate what you ''were'' before you got better.

* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In the ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series' book 1, [[spoiler: Lord Roderik Hightower spent years obsessively going out hunting werewolves. He only ever found one, but it was enough -- the werewolf bit him and turned him into the very thing he despised]].

** Severus Snape is an example through MoralMyopia and [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]]. He has ''detested'' James Potter since boyhood (James very much returned the hate). While part of Snape's hate for James comes from envy (Snape grew up in an abusive home, James in a loving one, etc.), Snape very frequently calls James out for his arrogance and behavior. However, Snape is at least as arrogant as an ambitious young wizard who wants everyone to see how clever and powerful he is. Snape joins a gang that becomes the Death Eaters - a group that commits worse crimes than the Marauders; while Snape may not do anything himself, he certainly pardons his friends' escapades while being raving pissed if he is targeted by James and or Sirius' tomfoolery. A lot of what Snape hates in James is within himself, and, unlike James, his hatred never leaves.

* Averted in ''Literature/RobotsAndEmpire''. In the beginning, Dr. Mandamus tries to obtain evidence from Gladia that he is not the descendant of Elijah Baley, claiming Amadiro suspects him of being one, and that prevents him from making a career. While given enough evidence, he claims it won't be enough for Amadiro, yet still seems to leave triumphant. Daneel figures out the reason - there was enough evidence to convince ''Mandamus'', so now he can proceed with his plans to destroy Earth without being hindered by the trope.

* The season two finale of ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' has a mild example. A visiting Mountie starts upstaging Murdoch in the areas where he usually excels which leads Murdoch to declare "I don't know how anyone could put up with it." As Murdoch walks off his superior says to a third character [[LampshadeHanging "Yet somehow I manage."]] Of course it also later turns out that [[spoiler:Murdoch and the Mountie are half-brothers.]]

** In episode 7x01, Castiel kills a homophobic preacher who Cas reveals is secretly gay himself.

* A campaign in ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' had a mutant villain wanting to eradicate all mutants, founding an American NASI party, and of course being mutant himself.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, Malocchio Aderre seized political control of Invidia and initiated a pogrom against the Vistani. Malocchio's mother, whom he ousted from power, is part Vistani herself. Of course, she's no better; While most Darklords leave the Vistani alone, Invidia is one of the few realms where simply associating with them are liable to get a visitor killed.

** Both Mortarion and Conrad Kurze became what they hated most. Mortarion led his homeworld in a rebellion against alien tyrants dwelling in the poisoned mists, then ended up ruling a carbon copy of it in the Eye of Terror with his own Space Marines as the tyrants. As for Kurze, he started out preying on the tyrants and killers of Nostromo, only to become a much worse monster than any he fought - which is probably part of the reason he accepted [[SuicideByCop his own assassination]].

* In the ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'':
** ''Second Sight'' explicitly states that possessors of the two anti-psychic merits listed are latent psychics who have mental blocks preventing them from accessing their powers and that this in turn makes them virulently skeptical.
** Banishers in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' are either this or {{Boomerang Bigot}}s: their flawed Awakenings give them an instinctive hatred for magic, but they might not understand it or know that they themselves are mages. One group firmly believes that they are AlienAbduction victims who gained superpowers from the experimentation, and whether they identify another mage as a fellow victim or as an enemy [[AlienAmongUs alien infiltrator]] depends entirely on [[TautologicalTemplar whether they think the mage is on their side]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}:''
** Every player character is a "Troubleshooter" whose job is to hunt down various types of traitors, including unregistered mutants. Due to unacknowledged malfunctions in the cloning vats, everyone in the setting is a mutant. Bonus irony if they're also a member of the "Anti-Mutant" secret society, the members of which are completely unaware that [[FlockOfWolves there's not a single genetically pure human among them]].
** Friend Computer vehemently hates [[RedScare Communism]], and considers Communists to be the single greatest threat to Alpha Complex. Indeed, all other threats, like mutants or other secret societies, are considered tools, pawns, or fronts for Communists. This despite the fact that the actual Communists are [[ForbiddenFruit only around because of the Computer's crackdown]], and [[FutureImperfect have little to no knowledge of actual Communist ideology]]). In most editions of the game, Alpha Complex under the Computer's rule is practically a Communist dictatorship.

* Adrian from ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'' is a Purifier-in-training and despises mutants. Turns out he is one, though he had no way of knowing until the events of the game.
* Bertrand from ''VideoGame/InFamous2'' considers [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduits]] to be demons and ultimately wants them to be exterminated, [[spoiler:but is secretly a Conduit himself, and practically lept at the chance to become one. Although Cole points out that he most likely is jealous of the fact that whilst others became shiny supermen, he got to be a big bug]]. So maybe instead of "you are what you hate," he falls more under "[[spoiler:you hate that others like you possess awesome powers yet yours suck.]]"

* [[spoiler: Balthazar]] from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal'' is a Bhaalspawn who plots to exterminate all Bhaalspawn (though he at least plans on taking this [[DrivenToSuicide to its logical conclusion]] once the others are wiped out.)
* Adell from ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'', the last human who hasn't become a demon, hates real demons. Turns out he only ''looks'' human...
* Kratos from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''. He doesn't like any of the gods he used to work with, and nearly hates them all vehemently, not without a valid reason. Once he finds out [[spoiler:he's the son of Zeus himself]], he '''[[RageAgainstTheHeavens doesn't take it well]]'''.
* Chris Haversam in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is a human who believes himself to be a ghoul because of his hideous disfigurement... a.k.a. ordinary male pattern baldness. Any attempt by human or ghoul to convince him that he is obviously human will just be met with accusations of trying to trick him. And yes, he derisively refers to humans as "smoothskins" just like other ghouls. Ironically, him leaving his previous job as Vault 34's reactor technician after "becoming a ghoul" doomed the rest of the vault population to actually becoming ghouls, since the reactor suffered a leak and there was no techician to fix it.
* [[spoiler:Paladin Danse]] in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' subscribes to the Brotherhood of Steel's ideology of exterminating Super Mutants, ghouls and synths for the benefit of mankind, [[TomatoInTheMirror not realizing that he himself is a synth.]] When the truth is discovered, he asks you to put him down, insisting that he be an example rather than an exception, but if you [[spoiler: convince Maxson to spare his life, Danse will be exiled and pronounced dead to everyone else, whereupon he learns to make peace with his identity.]]
* During ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' 9S - an Android - is shown having complete disregard for Machines. He calls them mindless things, incapable of emotions and any evidence showing otherwise, he concludes that they're mimicking human behavior. [[spoiler: One of the reveals that led to his SanitySlippage is him finding out Machines and Androids were built using the same foundation, and that Androids were made to be the more disposable of the two.]]
* Master Atris from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' is an [[HolierThanThou arrogant, self-righteous]] Jedi with a raging hatred of the Sith that borders on fanaticism, viewing even the slightest hint of TheDarkSide as proof that someone is irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. [[spoiler:Naturally, having such an insane and zealous attitude towards life and the Force has caused [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Atris herself to unwittingly fall to the Dark Side and effectively become a Sith Lord in all but title]]. She refuses to admit this in [[IRejectYourReality a way that borders on delusion]], having the audacity to call herself the last true Jedi even after causing the Order's near-destruction by using them as bait to lure out the Sith.]]

* ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'': Turns out the homophobic (by Nordic standards) Faroe Islands [[http://satwcomic.com/ungodly-surprise likes yaoi]].

* Natani of ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' is a complicated case. He was introduced as an [[HeManWomanHater extreme misogynist]] Kedrian assassin. We find out later that [[spoiler: He's biologically female. The complication comes with the later revelation that Natani was injured on a mission and needed to have pieces of his brother's soul spliced into his to save him. This process partially overwrote Natani's personality with her brother's, including his attitudes towards females. Since we've seen very little of Natani's pre-splice personality, we don't know how much of his misogyny and self-loathing is his own and how much is his brother's influence. Nor do we know if Natani was trans previous to the spice.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Ed Bighead both hates circus clowns and secretly wishes to be one, a situation that many children [[LateToThePunchline only realized years later]] was a ''giant, glowing metaphor'' for sexual fetishes.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Francine is MistakenForRacist when she kicks Steve's new black love interest out of the house. When her kids confront her she reveals [[DiscriminateAndSwitch it's actually]] a dislike of ''left-handed'' people who she calls "the devil's minions". The kids dig into it and their grandmother tells them it's because Francine herself was left-handed as a young child, but [[OrphanageOfFear the orphanage they adopted her from]] was run by [[NunTooHoly nuns who beat her for it repeatedly]] (using the exact phrase she parroted), forcing her to become right-handed.

* Played with on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Cartman hates "Gingers" (People with red hair, freckles, and pale skin) and insists they have no souls. As revenge Stan, Kenny, and Kyle draw freckles on him and dye his hair red in the middle of the night. He then hangs out with the gingers and whips them into a genocidal frenzy against everyone else. At a massive rally, they're about to kill everyone who isn't a ginger (starting with the "Daywalker", [[FieryRedhead Kyle]]) only to have Stan, Kyle, and Kenny reveal Cartman's not a real ginger. Then he just goes back to ripping on gingers (though while also calming down the riot he just started). [[spoiler: And then in "201" it turns out Cartman's father was also Scott Tenorman's father, making Cartman half-ginger after all]]. It's also worth noting that Cartman is anti-Semitic due to Jewish stereotypes he perceives as true such as Jews being frugal and carrying gold. This is ironic considering Cartman had no issues taking advantage of Walmart deals and ultimately isn't at all above doing absolutely anything for money, from scamming people to eating kilos of gold to smuggle it out of an attraction. He converts to Judaism after a prank seriously backfires and Kyle reluctantly goes to save him.
** [[DepravedBisexual Mr. Garrison]] is homophobic in the early seasons, and is in denial about his sexuality throughout seasons 1-3 until he admits to himself that he is gay in the fourth season. When his sex change results in his then-lover Mister Slave breaking up with him, he goes back to being hateful to homosexual men, and when it turns out Mister Slave is going to marry Big Gay Al, Garrison becomes an angry opponent of gay marriage. Then there's a mini-arc where ''Mrs.'' Garrison thinks it's "wrong" to be with another woman, but enjoys it and claims to then be a lesbian... And then there's a reverse sex change and Garrison becomes a man again, and almost immediately uses a homosexual slur. There's a quote from one of the creators that goes something along the lines of, "Garrison just hates whatever he happens to be."
* Sporting an upbringing beneath an abusive father and a self-hating mother, Uncle Ruckus from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is the darkest guy in the series, and yet he hates black people with a passion. He does his best to distance himself from being black, holding onto whatever European heritages he believes he has [[spoiler:(though a genetic test in one episode reveals he's 102% African, with a 2% margin of error)]] and claims to have a skin condition called "re-vitiligo", the "opposite of what Music/MichaelJackson had", which supposedly causes him to get darker.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' where Bender and Amy had a {{robosexual}} relationship, Bender at one point was sent to a retreat where Preacherbot urged sinners to wrestle with human mannequins in order to symbolically beat out their sinful impulses. Naturally, this entailed the robots making out with the mannequins. Preacherbot was clearly aroused. Professor Farnsworth also opposed robosexual marriage because a robot stole his girlfriend. He later discovered he was repressing the fact that she was ''also'' a robot.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', General Eiling deeply despises superheroes and metahumans. When his organisation Cadmus was disbanded, he decided to use a [[SuperSerum superhuman serum]] and turn himself into "The General" to fight the Justice League, facing the League's non-metahuman members. The public calls him out on his actions and Eiling personally hangs a {{lampshade|Hanging}} on his actions and says the trope name almost word for word, though he claims he is still in the right.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Spinelli despises "The Ashleys" (a group of AlphaBitch-esque girls all named Ashley) yet becomes very defensive when it's pointed out that her own first name is Ashley since she despises the thought of being lumped in with them. As Spinelli puts it, she doesn't ''hate'' her first name (she's named after a relative who was a war hero), she just didn't want to be associated with the rest of the Ashleys since they all have the same name. Spinelli's fears later turned out to be justified when playground law dictated she ''had'' to join their group because of her first name. Thankfully her friends got her out when they convinced most of the other kids to pretend their names were now Ashley and swarm the Ashleys' clubhouse.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has this with [[spoiler:BigBad Amon wanting to get rid of all Benders while secretly being a waterbender]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'': [[EvilChancellor Dolf]] is a [[FunnyAnimal crow]] [[FantasticRacism supremacist]] with a lot of Hitler parallels, and he's secretly half-blackbird, presumably a reference to how Hitler may have had Jewish ancestry.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' episode "Number 7" is, among other things, about Enzo realizing that he [[spoiler: is becoming just like Megabyte.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', the greeter at the medieval fair professes nothing but contempt at the pirates who attend on the outside, but in private secretly wishes to be one.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Judge Frollo professes to [[EgocentricallyReligious be a devout]] [[HolierThanThou Christian]] who longs to purge the world of sin, yet he's the most corrupt person in the whole movie. He also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain hates]] gypsies, yet he develops an [[BigotWithACrush unhealthy]] obsession over a gypsy woman. His hypocrisy is lampshaded in the opening song, and countless people even call him out on it. He also uses PsychologicalProjection to find faults in others and [[NeverMyFault blame them for his misery]], but refuses to acknowledge his own faults to the end due to his self-righteous pride.

** Brian is a liberal dog who disapproves of racism but instinctively barks at black men due to his upbringing.

* In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Platinum]]'''s Distortion World, Cyrus's StrawNihilist attitude gives way to a ''[[SanitySlippage screaming]] [[VillainousBreakdown tantrum]]'', revealing that he's an uncontrollable MoodSwinger who hates his own passions most of all.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'': Silver considers Team Rocket a weak nuisance. It's revealed in an event in ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'' that [[spoiler:he's Giovanni's son]].

* Mocked to hell and back in ''ComicBook/RatMan'', where Brakko's mother in law is openly racist and hates him for being black while being black herself ([[NWordPrivileges hence how the author gets away with her constant use of the N-word]]). Considering the series, she's likely too stupid to realize she's black.

* Xander Payne from the ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' comic is leader of the anti-robot group Emerald-Spears but is actually part robot himself. His brother had Xander's eye surgically replaced with a cybernetic implant after Elec Man fried it during Dr. Wily's first world domination attempt.

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' has a list of "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_22086_5-self-righteous-critics-who-were-total-hypocrites.html 5 Moral Crusaders Caught Being the Worst Hypocrite Possible]]".

* Long before ''The Chappelle Show'' and its iconic black white supremacist, a [[NightmareFuel much less comedic]] version of this idea was used in the 1963 film ''Shock Corridor'', which featured a black KKK member in an insane asylum. In case you missed that one, suffice to say that anti-black rhetoric sounds even ''more'' terrifying when it's being delivered by a ScaryBlackMan.

* [[spoiler:Paladin Danse]] in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' subscribes to the Brotherhood of Steel's ideology of exterminating Super Mutants, ghouls and synths for the benefit of mankind, not realizing that he himself is a synth. When the truth is discovered, he asks you to put him down, insisting that he be an example rather than an exception, but can be convinced to find a new life outside the Brotherhood instead.

* This trope is given something of a work-out in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', especially in the "Unlimited Blade Works" route: Archer is quite vocally disapproving of the [[WideEyedIdealist idealism and stubbornness]] that seems to plague most of his 'allies' (especially Shirou), and yet it is repeatedly pointed out by several characters and scenes that he is, in many ways, [[NotSoDifferent just as bad]] when it comes to suffering from ChronicHeroSyndrome. Just to make things weirder, this is a [[spoiler:LITERAL example in regards to Shirou, considering that they are the same person]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Judge Frollo professes to [[EgocentricallyReligious be a devout]] [[HolierThanThou Christian]] who longs to purge the world of sin, yet he's the most corrupt person in the whole movie. He also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain hates]] gypsies, yet he develops an [[BigotWithACrush unhealthy]] obsession over a gypsy woman. His hypocrisy is lampshaded in the opening song, and countless people even call him out on it. He also uses PsychologicalProjection to find faults in others and [[NeverMyFault blame]] them for his misery, but refuses to acknowledge his own faults to the end due to his bloated ego.

* In ''Film/IRobot'', Detective Spooner (Will Smith) displays an intense dislike towards humanoid robots... [[spoiler:despite being a cyborg]]. Although, he ''does'' have a tragic reason for that one.

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', [[spoiler: Judge Doom turns out to be a Toon in a human mask.]] Possibly justified in that he was motivated by greed, not bigotry, although he makes several anti-Toon statements prior to TheReveal as well (claiming, for example, that Toons are naturally lawless and deserve the most brutal punishments imaginable). It's probable that he's saying those things not because he believes [[spoiler: other]] toons are like that, but because he knows that [[spoiler: HE is like that.]] Another possible interpretation is that [[spoiler:Doom, being an ''evil'' Toon, simply has it out against ''other'' Toons, true to stereotype. After all, his master plan involves ''wiping out Toontown''.]]

* This trope is given something of a work-out in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', especially in the "Unlimited Blade Works" route: Archer is quite vocally disapproving of the [[WideEyedIdealist idealism and stubbornness]] that seems to plague most of his 'allies' (especially Shirou), and yet it is repeatedly pointed out by several characters and scenes that he is, in many ways, [[NotSoDifferent just as bad]] when it comes to suffering from ChronicHeroSyndrome. Just to make things weirder, this is a [[spoiler:LITERAL example in regards to Shirou, considering that they are the same person]].

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', on the way to the Paleto Bay bank to scope it out, Michael De Santa deduces that his partner Trevor Philips is a hipster due to the way he dresses and his lifestyle. Trevor repeatedly states that he hates hipsters, and Michael retorts by saying that self-hatred is a common hipster affliction.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Francine is MistakenForRacist when she kicks Steve's new black love interest out of the house. When her kids confront her she reveals its actually a dislike of ''left-handed'' people who she calls "the devil's minions". The kids dig into it and their grandmother tells them it's because Francine herself was left-handed as a young child, but [[OrphanageOfFear the orphanage they adopted her from]] was run by [[NunTooHoly nuns who beat her for it repeatedly]] (using the exact phrase she parroted), forcing her to become right-handed.

** Cartman hates "Gingers" (People with red hair, freckles, and pale skin) and insists they have no soul. As revenge Stan, Kenny, and Kyle draw freckles on him and dye his hair red in the middle of the night. He then hangs out with the gingers and whips them into a genocidal frenzy against everyone else. At a massive rally, they're about to kill everyone who isn't a ginger (starting with the "Daywalker", [[FieryRedhead Kyle]]) only to have Stan, Kyle, and Kenny reveal Cartman's not a ginger. Then he just goes back to ripping on gingers (though while also calming down the riot he just started). [[spoiler: And then in "201" it turns out Cartman's father was also Scott Tenorman's father, making Cartman half-ginger]]. It's also worth noting that Cartman is anti-semitic due to Jewish stereotypes he perceives as true such as Jews being frugal and carrying gold. This is ironic considering Cartman had no issues taking advantage of Walmart deals and ultimately isn't at all above doing absolutely anything for money, from scamming people to eating kilos of gold to smuggle it out of an attraction. He converts to Judaism after a prank seriously backfires and Kyle reluctantly goes to save him.
** [[DepravedBisexual Mr. Garrison]] is homophobic in the early seasons, and is in denial about his sexuality throughout seasons 1-3 until he admits to himself that he is gay in the fourth season. When his sex change results in Mister Slave breaking up with him, he goes back to being hateful to homosexual men, and when it turns out Mister Slave is going to marry Big Gay Al, Garrison becomes an angry opponent of gay marriage. Then there's a mini-arc where ''Mrs.'' Garrison thinks it's "wrong" to be with another woman, but enjoys it and claims to then be a lesbian... And then there's a reverse sex change and Garrison becomes a man again, and almost immediately uses a homosexual slur. There's a quote from one of the creators that goes something along the lines of, "Garrison just hates whatever he happens to be."
* Sporting an upbringing beneath an abusive father and a self-hating mother, Uncle Ruckus from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is the darkest guy in the series, and yet he hates black people with a passion. He does his best to distance himself from being black, holding onto whatever European heritages he believes he has [[spoiler:(though a genetic test in one episode reveals he's 102% African, with a 2% margin of error]]) and claims to have a skin condition called "re-vitiligo", the "opposite of what Music/MichaelJackson had", which supposedly causes him to get darker.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has this with [[spoiler:BigBad Amon wanting to get rid of all Benders while being a waterbender.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'': [[EvilChancellor Dolf]] is a [[FunnyAnimal crow]] [[FantasticRacism supremacist]] with a lot of Hitler parallels, and he's secretly half-blackbird.

* Despite pissing off JackassGenie Puck when he's actually trying to be nice to her, Demona of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has her wish granted so she doesn't turn to stone during the day. To her horror, she is able to walk in daylight because, in a cruel twist, she turns into the one thing she despises above all else: a human. She makes use of this ability/curse to blend in with the humans during the day, and changes back into her true form at night.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', the greeter at the medieval fair professes nothing but contempt at the pirates who attend on the outside, but in private secretly wishes to be one.

** Most of the would-be Titan Shifters on the mainland call the wall's inhabitants 'Violent Devils', despite also being ticking time bombs who are persecuted to heck by their own country. They're completely unaware that their situations are the same; a caste of slaves who are killed by their oppressors for leaving the nest or trying to make things better for everyone.

** Bloody Mary kills people who are even vaguely guilty of somebody's death. This leads to one of the most ironic or meta cases of HoistByHerOwnPetard imaginable [[spoiler: when she sees herself in a mirror and gets killed by herself.]]

** Bloody Mary kills people who caused somebody's death. This leads to one of the most ironic or meta cases of HoistByHerOwnPetard imaginable [[spoiler: when she sees herself in a mirror and gets killed by herself.]]

* In episode 7x01 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Castiel kills a homophobic preacher who Cas reveals is secretly gay himself.
** Gordon Walker hated all supernatural creatures and thought [[VanHelsingHateCrimes that they should all be killed]]. After his KarmicTransformation into a vampire, he agrees to let his partner kill him, but not before using his enhanced abilities to try and kill Sam Winchester, who gained psychic powers after ingesting demon blood.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' gives us Bryce Dawkins, Deputy Mayor of Liberty City, notorious for his vitriolic homophobic rants (and advocacy of family values) to appease to his right-wing base... all the while having an affair with Bernie Crane, a famously CampGay fitness trainer [[spoiler:and alter-ego of Florian Cravic, Niko Bellic's former comrade]]. Once their affair is leaked (as a postgame radio news program indicates), blowing the closet open for the whole city to see, Dawkins apparently decides to enter rehab until the pressure has dissipated.

* Humorous example in ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'': [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombina]] dislikes films with fast-moving, intelligent zombies and prefers the Romero-styled ones... despite being a zombie herself, a member of a special SWAT-like squad and one of the most active and boisterous characters in the entire series.

** Graydon Creed, the founder of the anti-mutant Friends of Humanity in ''Comicbook/XMen'', is not himself a mutant -- but his parents were Mystique and Sabretooth. However, in a twist that Marvel Comics themselves once pointed out, a mutant is a being that differs markedly from their genetic parents. Thus, by not having powers in any way, Graydon Creed ''is'' a mutant.

** In ''Comicbook/GodLovesManKills'', Anne - TheDragon of the Purifiers, a [[TheFundamentalist fanatical religious terrorist]] organisation who go around executing every mutant that they find, due to their belief that they are agents of Satan, was most devoted and loyal to the leader of this group - [[SinisterMinister Reverend William Stryker]], [[WouldHurtAChild even killing children under his command without batting an eye]] when they turn out to be mutants. At some point late into the story arc to her horror, [[spoiler: she discovers that she is a mutant herself. Stryker soon kills her after this discovery]].

* The "homophobes are all secretly gay" idea shows up in a few comics, including ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'' and ''ComicBook/TheAuthority.''

* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', Mindfuck (yes, this is her actual superhero name) takes a peek into (ex-)lover Spooky's memories and instantly grasps that her public persona has been subconsciously patterned after the same vain blond bimbos she was so traumatized by. Both physically (sans actual blond hair) and personality. [[spoiler:The bimbos even [[DealWithTheDevil sold their souls]] for "supernatural hotness" (sans superpowers) just like Spooky did, and for the exact same reasons. Spooky discovered this when she tried to use her powers to take revenge -- her patron demon didn't allow it because he is forbidden from interfering with other demons' clients.]]

* ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis''-era Maxwell Lord was prone to making speeches about how metahumans were the cause of all society's ills, and claiming that non-powered heroes like Comicbook/BlueBeetle should be on his side, as fellow normal humans. When Beetle pointed out that Max was ''currently using his metahuman powers'', Max simply shrugged this off as beside the point. He knew who ''he'' meant by metahuman, and it wasn't himself.

* [[spoiler:Rika]] in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanfic The Tale of Rumia hates Youkai with a blinding passion- and at the end of the arc she's introduced in, it's revealed that over the years, she herself became a Youkai. She never really stops being in denial about it, although she privately [[spoiler:turns herself into a robot so that she won't have to live with the shame.]]

* '''Catbug''' from very odd (Maybe Crackfic) or somewhat infamous (Likely Trollfic) Five Nights at Freddy's fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10780828/1/Bear-got-Diabetes Bear got Diabetes]] have Catbug implies hating himself not being an Catbug put he believes he Furry [[InsaneTrollLogic since he acting like much human as others when Fazbear crew take over Colorado and later some parts of Mexico and most the West coast of United States]] and turn all captured humans somewhat into [[WasOnceAMan titular Furries]] for everything to make them Furry though Magic, Genetic Engineering and Cybermatics and Cybermatics is only for Mordecal except [[spoiler: it's really Mike Schmidt (The same human, that was captured by Fazbear crew) who turn into that Blue Jay Mordecal by Fazbears crew.]] Put Catbug tries getting attention by making an one of [[spoiler: Kuriva's giant Robot to win the war]].

* ''FanFic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'': Evidence is scattered throughout the Extra Stage that Patchouli is more like Coop than she thinks. Among other things she has some familiarity with video games and associated terminology thanks to her dreams, she eventually gives in to the urge to request a pizza-wrapped ham from the Mansion's kitchen, and her idea of getting out of an escort mission is [[FastballSpecial to throw Reimu at the escortee]]. All this is despite the fact that she developed a hefty loathing for Coop, his lifestyle and stupidity, and Megas by the time they get brought up.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Ed Bighead both hates circus clowns and secretly wishes to be one, a situation that many children [[LateToThePunchline only realized years later]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar was a]] ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar giant, glowing metaphor]]'' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar for sexual fetishes]].

** In Series 12 (Season 38), a partially converted Cyberman known as Ashad (who isn't completely covered in metal and doesn't have his emotions inhibited) seeks to destroy all organic life and have all the Cybermen "ascend to full mechanisation," despite being more organic than other Cybermen.

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* In MyLifeAsATeenageRobot, Jenny defeats a huge mecha dogmatically seeking to eliminate all weapons by pointing out that it, itself, is a weapon.

Often a cause of UnfortunateImplications. See also HypocriticalHumor, PsychologicalProjection, HeWhoFightsMonsters, KarmicTransformation, CulturalCringe, IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam, and TheHorseshoeEffect. Contrast PretendPrejudice (in which a person pretends to hate a group but secretly likes or tolerates them), HunterOfHisOwnKind (which usually involves {{HalfHumanHybrid}}s) and ColorMeBlack (where a bigot is forcibly turned into a member of the group they hate, usually by supernatural means). ArmouredClosetGay is one common SubTrope. If the hater doesn't realize that they're a member of the group they hate, they might just be a TomatoInTheMirror. See also StopBeingStereotypical in which a person doesn't ''hate'' his group, but is embarrassed by the behavior of some members.

Often a cause of UnfortunateImplications. See also HypocriticalHumor, PsychologicalProjection, HeWhoFightsMonsters, KarmicTransformation, CulturalCringe, IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam, and TheHorseshoeEffect. Contrast PretendPrejudice, in which a person pretends to hate a group but secretly likes or tolerates them. ArmouredClosetGay is one common SubTrope. If the hater doesn't realize that they're a member of the group they hate, they might just be a TomatoInTheMirror. Contrast HunterOfHisOwnKind, which usually involves fantastic {{Half Human Hybrid}}s. Contrast ColorMeBlack for when a bigot is forcibly turned into a member of the group they hate, usually by supernatural means. See also StopBeingStereotypical in which a person doesn't ''hate'' his group, but is embarrassed by the behavior of some members.

* [[{{Tsundere}} South Italy (also known as Italy Romano)]] of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' isn't fond of Germans in general, but he ''especially'' [[BerserkButton hates]] the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personification]] of [[TheComicallySerious Germany]] itself. When Germany points out that Romano also has Germanic blood, it angers him enough to get him to charge Germany...and then [[AmusingInjuries slip on a banana peel]], FacePlant, and skin his arm.

** In ''Comicbook/UltimateXMen'', Rev William Stryker Jr is as much a mutant hater as his 616 counterpart, due to his abusive father (based on General Stryker from the movies), and said abusive childhood has left him in utter denial that he's a mutant himself.
* In ''Comicbook/UltimateSpiderMan'' the biggest mutantphobic person turns out to be a mutant.

* The "homophobes are all secretly gay" idea shows up in a few comics, including ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'' and ''Comicbook/TheAuthority.''
* There is a theory that [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] was deeply closeted because of his apparent dislike for homosexuals (and women). See the WMG page for the graphic novel. Somewhat wobbly, since Rorschach dislikes [[SexIsEvil all forms of sexuality]].

* [[spoiler:Rika]] in the [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Touhou]] fanfic The Tale of Rumia hates Youkai with a blinding passion- and at the end of the arc she's introduced in, it's revealed that over the years, she herself became a Youkai. She never really stops being in denial about it, although she privately [[spoiler:turns herself into a robot so that she won't have to live with the shame.]]

-->'''Lianne''': You used to be a good man, you would have followed your father's footsteps: [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood you would have been a great ruler of this city]]. The only thing that ever brought you down was the prejudice of others. All the petty words and insults the nobles ever threw at you... they called you a monster, though you hated it, you sought to prove them wrong. Even then you rose above that to be more. Shen, why do you squander this? You could have had the world at your feet!
-->'''Shen''': ''[chuckles cruelly]'' [[TakeOverTheWorld And so I shall...]]
-->'''Lianne''': Then I was wrong. You have truly become the monster you always hated!

* Throughout ''FanFic/LadyBugOut'', Alya is ''outraged'' at any suggestion that she's like [[AlphaBitch Chloe]]. Chloe ''herself'' suggests as much when Alya resorts to personal attacks to try and defend her [[TabloidMelodrama positing a photo without context for attention]], and Ladybug later draws a direct parallel: if Chloe isn't qualified to bear the Bee due to behaving badly as a civilian, then why should Alya be trusted with the Fox despite personally betraying Ladybug?

** In Series 12 (Season 38), a partially converted Cyberman known as Ashad (who isn't completely covered in metal and doesn't have his emotions inhibited) seeks to destroy all organic life and have all the Cybermen "ascend to full mechanization," despite being more organic than other Cybermen.