History Hypocrite / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/BearAndBreakfast'', Gus is a self-proclaimed {{Jerkass}} who looks forward to the humans returning to Silver Valley because they've "got the best food and baubles", calling them a "jerk's dream". But when Hank thinks Gus doesn't look like a jerk, he takes offense to that.

* In the "Gangstas in Space" DLC of ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', PrimaDonnaDirector Andy Zhen criticises female lead Jenny for doing the exact same things that he praises the Boss for.
** Also, [[KnightTemplar Cyrus Temple]]. He's the leader of STAG, a law enforcement paramilitary agency which declares martial law and moves into Steelport to get rid of the destructive gangsters waging a MobWar in the streets. In spite of this, STAG ends up causing more damage to Steelport than all four gangs combined with their [[OutsideGenreFoe highly-advanced sci-fi type weapons and technology]], and his second-in-command Kia [[spoiler:kidnaps two of the [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Saints]], along with Mayor Creator/BurtReynolds, so that she can blow up the Magarac Island Monument and [[FalseFlagOperation blame it on the Saints]].]] After the Saints foil this plan, and are hailed as heroes by the public, an enraged Temple defects from the US military. By the time ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' comes around, [[spoiler:he's now [[FallenHero allied with a terrorist organization]] and launches a nuke towards Washington DC, to spite the government for making the Saints heroes, when in his mind, they "ruined America". [[SarcasmMode Right, because nuking Washington DC will somehow prove less ruinous to America than the hijinks of a few gangsters]].]]

--->'''Yuri:''' "[[IDidWhatIHadToDo I recognise it for what it is, but I've made my choices]]."

* Kenny in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' is a huge hypocrite when it comes to his family and the safety of others. If anyone is in danger, he'll basically say screw them if A) they're someone he doesn't know or B) he hates their guts. If his own family is at risk, he'll do anything it takes to keep them out of harm's way or at least deny that there's anything wrong. This comes back to bite him ''hard'' at the end of episode 3 where [[spoiler: his son is bitten by a walker and despite Lee telling him that the kid is going to turn, Kenny goes into complete denial and says there's a way to save his son, even though he already knows that once someone is bitten, they're fucked.]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{X}}-Universe'' series has [[FantasticDrug Space Fuel]] (AKA Argon Whiskey), an alcoholic beverage that is declared contraband in Commonwealth space. Yet, in the Argon sectors of Herron's Nebula and Nyana's Hideout, two distilleries can be seen there and their goods can be bought. Even more jarring is that every Argon shipyard has them in stock and they actually ''allow'' you to buy one of them for personal use. One wonders why the Commonwealth haven't put a blacklist on the purchasing and sale of distilleries when an [[LoopholeAbuse easy loophole can be exploited by potential fixers]]. Needless to say, this makes trading with pirates easier as long as no combat missions are performed against them and that the distillery in question is built on non-Commonwealth space.

* In ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'':
** Injustice!Superman calls out Sinestro for killing someone, despite he himself having already killed [[HeroKiller Green Arrow, Black Canary, several Green Lanterns and Hercules]] in the prequel comics. Sinestro calls him out on it.
---> '''Sinestro''': Says the alien who was trying to extricate Batman's head from his body. Spare me your petty distinctions.
** When he finds out Batman has allied himself with Etrigan, he claims Batman has fallen as he's willing to "Ally with Hell", this while Superman happens to be wearing Sinestro's yellow ring of fear.
** He complains that the citizens have become ungrateful to him after he killed [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]], not realizing that he was very ungrateful to Shazam who had just saved his life.
** Injustice!Batman expects those in the Insurgency to follow his every word, yet he refuses to trust them in return and withholds information from them.

*** Caesar's Legion generally has ''tons'' of this. Firstly, they preach at how important loyalty is (in fact, it's the reason [[KickTheSonOfABitch they butchered]] [[WretchedHive Nipton]]) but constantly betray their allies, in fact betraying and assimilating their allies is practically their official policy. Secondly, the Legion is strongly opposed to drugs, but Hydra can occasionally be found on the bodies of dead legionnaires, and it's implied that they manufacture drugs themselves.

** Vivia Twilight accuses Yuma of being reluctant to accept the truth that [[[spoiler:Yakou Furio is Dr. Huesca's killer in Chapter 4, but the reason that he isn't helping Yuma discover the truth in the first place and [[HeroAntagonist is in fact doing the opposite]] is because he himself is reluctant to let him find out.]]

* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', in a meta sense. Just... [[ExaggeratedTrope the entire game]]. [[WarIsHell Anti-violence message?]] [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools That's fine.]] One that shows up at the end of a game where ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption? Not so much. No PacifistRun here, just force the player to murder everyone, then tell him/her that he/she sucks for doing so. It also says you're a horrible person for enjoying the shooter genre... but this ultimately falls apart because of the game's developers and publishers being ultimately responsible for being part of said genre, not to mention [[InsaneTrollLogic the complete lack of logic that implies]] due to the excessive amounts of railroading and most of the characters doing far worse things than [[PlayerCharacter Walker]] himself.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'':

*** At the beginning of Chapter 2, Yakou is furious over Halara and Desuhiko going off on their own despite the Peacekeepers being on alert since the Nail Man case was solved and Yuma (and Halara) provoked Yomi to take action against the agency. Then, he tells Yuma to go and buy meat buns from Kamasaki District regardless of him getting into the same risk of provoking the Peacekeepers again, which, of course, Yuma immediately calls him out for. Partially counts as Hypocritical Humor as well.

** [[DaChief Chief Yakou Furio]], despite being the leader of the main detective agency, acts hypocritical:

** In Chapter 3, the Phantom of the case's culprit, [[spoiler:that being [[FalseFriend Icardi]] of the Resistance]], reveals that his reason for [[spoiler:killing Shachi and framing Yuma as a terrorist, and constantly ratting him out to keep the plot going, was due to hating that the Peacekeepers made Kanai Ward into a horrible place to live in, and he had lost hope that peace could be brought back, something of which Shachi promoted constantly. Despite this, his whole scheme revolves around using the blind corruption of the Peacekeepers themselves to serve his agenda by using the secondary plot of framing Yuma as a terrorist to distract them from Icardi's bank robbery scheme by flooding one of Kanai Ward's districts, in turn making him no better than the despots the Peacekeepers are.]]

** Diluc chides Rosario for her vigilante activities when she is supposed to be a nun, but she makes it clear that she knows that Diluc is also a vigilante who is supposed to be a businessman.

** [[VideoGame/BioShock1 First game's]] Andrew Ryan founded the underwater city of Rapture to be an [[Creator/AynRand Objectivist]] utopia, where personal freedom and self-advancement were valued above all else. However, Ryan's desire to keep his city an Objectivist utopia eventually led to him taking dictatorial control over the city -- in direct violation of all the principles on which Rapture was founded -- to prevent it from falling into the hands of his (much more competent) competition... exactly the way his own theory said it ought to. Furthermore, as Sophia Lamb points out in the second game, despite his atheism and even having banned religion in Rapture, the "Great Chain" his ideology centered on was divinity in all but name.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' has Ghetsis, who [[spoiler:claims N is a freak without a human heart, when it was Ghetsis who was manipulating N the whole time. N is his ''[[AbusiveParents son]]''. Cheren and Alder do note this, though. N [[WellIntentionedExtremist was only trying to do what he felt was right]], but Ghetsis is a self-serving monster.]]
** We also have Team Plasma in general, who [[AnimalWrongsGroup fight for the freedom of Pokémon, while at the same time abuse the Pokémon they catch when nobody's looking]].
*** Or when it's just you and your close friends looking. Who [[KickTheDog kicks a Munna]]?
** In fact, N seems to be the only member of Team Plasma who is ''not'' a hypocrite, at least until ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''. In that game, he is the leader of a splinter group of Plasma with more noble goals that opposes the current group.
*** N, however, has his own team of Pokémon despite being against catching them and using them for battles.
*** N's Pokémon are always local, though, implying that he always releases them back to their homes after facing you. In addition, [[HypocrisyNod he admits to the practice]], saying that the only way to change the system is to reach the top of it (that is, become League champion, and then, presumably, disband it).
** ''Videogame/PokemonXAndY'' has [[KnightTemplar Lysandre]]. He hates thieves, liars, and selfish people and wants to eliminate them from the world. Who does he hire? Team Flare; a group that is made up of the very kind of people he claims to hate and he wants to blow up the world and start it over with THESE people. He's either [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter really stupid]] or this trope. Not to mention that he steals a bunch of pokeballs from the Pokeball Factory. What's worse? [[VillainWithGoodPublicity No one ever calls him out on it]].

** Mizuho, a village of {{ninja}}s who have an entire culture built around spying on everyone on the planet for seemingly no reason at all, yet completely flip when someone spies on ''them''. It's somewhat justified in that the spy became a traitor to his own village over a rather petty grudge.

* ''VideoGame/TheSandman'': [[AlphaBitch Regan]] and her GirlPosse like to torment Sophie. Particularly about her bright red hair... which is quite rich, when one considers one of Regan's cronies has bright bubblegum pink hair.

* Hypocricy acts as a recurring element throughout the mainline ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' series.

** Marian Mallon tells the heroes that [[MisanthropeSupreme humanity deserves the zombie apocalypse due to their greed and apathy]], completely disregarding the fact that not only does she cause zombie outbreaks both for [[{{Greed greed]]}} and [[FortheEvulz for pleasure]], but the only greedy and apathetic human being to be seen at that moment was Marian herself, who even tells a lie that she created a cure, but withheld it from the public in order to keep raking in money from Zombrex.