Hypocrite / Web Original

• The "(Name): (Does X)/ Also (Name): (Does Y)" meme can sometimes be used to call out the hypocrisy of whoever's being discussed, especially if Y is a blatant contradiction of X.
• In Anon, Miranda calls Candace self-centered and egotistical all while bragging about how amazingly humble she is.
• DEATH BATTLE!: Goku starts his fight with Superman because he believes the latter is an alien out to destroy the planet. This is coming from the same guy who is friends with several aliens who were like that, and Goku himself is an alien sent to destroy Earth when he was a baby.
• Karl Copenhagan of Demo Reel is disgusted at Rebecca for potentially killing her cat, but slaughters a pig right in front of Tacoma (who upchucks) and Donnie (who is disturbingly okay with it).
• Epithet Erased:
  • Mera shoots down the idea of using the Arsene Amulet to remove her Epithet, which would spare her its debilitating side effects, because she's worked hard to master it, and sticks with her plan of stealing Molly's power, not caring how much work Molly has put in on mastering her Epithet.
  • Molly's sister Lorelai is a tremendously bratty, self-centred and entitled person who constantly blows off her chores and assumes Molly will just do them without complaining. Whenever Molly suggests that Lorelai could actually help out around the place, maybe actually finish a shift at the toy store's cash register instead of disappearing into a dream bubble, Lorelai is quick to accuse her of "making everything about herself" for the crime of not making everything about Lorelai.
  • Zora Salazar gets this from multiple angles. For someone who hates how easy her frankly overpowered time-control Epithet makes her life, she sure does enjoy using it to bully and intimidate the people around her, give her an unfair advantage in competitions and otherwise exploit its tremendous power. When Percy challenges her to a no-Epithets duel, when Zora starts losing her patience, out comes her Epithet, although she does score a few points back by eventually calming down enough to realise this. On a lighter note, she also seems to enjoy ageing stuff into powder in front of its owner, complete with mocking commentary, but seethes with rage when Ramsay wrecks one of her guns.
    Ramsay: Oh, so breakin' stuff's only fun if it's not yours? [WHAM] Nope, still fun! I'm havin' a ball!
• Everyone in Farce of the Three Kingdoms is a hypocrite at one point or another - but even in that cast, Shu manages to make it their Hat.
• Gary: Landlord of the Flies: Gary tends to criticize others for their perceived shortcomings, despite frequently indulging in the exact same behavior.
• Rip Van Winkle in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged talks and acts like a Social Justice Warrior despite literally being a member of the original Nazi Party.
• Played for Laughs by Legal Eagle during his Real Lawyer Reacts to Idiocracy video, when he calls out the lawyer in the film for having a corporate sponsorship.
  A lawyer with a corporate sponsorship?! That's completely ridiculous! Legal Eagle is sponsored by Curiosity Stream and Nebula! Get 26% off using the link in the description!
  • He frequently calls Gabe a "coward" during the security deposit feud, even though he habitually attempts to prevent any kind of confrontation in person (both before and after the eviction).
  • In this email exchange, he criticizes a minor grammatical mistake of Gabe's while ignoring the fact that his own writing is significantly worse (including excessive punctuation, texting shorthand, and Bold Inflation). Gabe lampshades this by calling him a "hypocritic".
• Murder Drones: Doll attempts to call Uzi out for working with the murderous disassembly drones even though they've both lost loved ones to them. This might have had more impact if Doll had not just brutally killed two kids for no apparent reason less than a minute before.
• Saphir from Noob. She takes care of admissions for a MMORPG elite guild and her policy boils down to: "Don't even dare apply unless you are a jobless celibate loner with nothing besides the game going on in your life.". Her Day in the Life from the comic version reveals that she's helping her sisters run an Internet café and has no problem casually chatting with them. Noob: Le Conseil des Trois Factions went even further when explaining a period during which she stopped playing and had one of the aforementioned sisters temporarily replace her: she was on maternity leave.
• In a slightly less... kill-happy example, The Nostalgia Chick. While calling guys out for putting their dicks in their creations, she's leaning on her own Sex Bot.
• The Nostalgia Critic isn't exactly innocent either. He refuses to accept Ma-Ti's death, but he was ready to die twice in Suburban Knights at the sword of the incompetent Jaffers.
• On Cinema: Tim maintains he is pro-life even though he tried to get Ayaka to have an abortion. Similar thing happened in season 9 when it seems he convinced Axiom's sister to abort her pregnancy as well.
• Party Crashers:
  • In "Mario 3D World is FUN with 4 Players..." and "Sometimes Mario Party wants you to win... or lose...", Brent mocks Graeme and Sophist respectively for questioning hitboxes in video games, which is big talk coming from the same guy who constantly complains about the hitboxes in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
  • In "Mario Party 2 is more TOXIC than I remember....", Vernias gets rather upset at Brent for accidentally landing on the Event Space that causes the train to knock him back to the start, despite the fact that he was rather amused at the possibility of him doing that to Brent earlier when he had the chance. Brent naturally calls him out on this while editing in the video:
    Vernias: Brent is the person who's trying to constantly cause my downfall. I don't like you, man.
    Brent: Dude, I didn't mean to step on that!
    Vernias: Yeah, you didn’t mean to run me over with a train. Oopsie, oopsie.
    (video flashes back)
    Brent: Yeah, if you hit the Goomba, it would have went backwards and you would have hit me.
    Vernias: That would have been infinitely funnier honestly.
  • In "The WORST Board in Mario Party 1...", Nick berates Brent for being a "Puppet Master" trying to control the others for his own gain, which is big talk coming from the same guy who will gladly gaslight the others into not stealing from him whenever they visit a Boo while he's currently in 1st place.
  • In "Mario Party but there's only ONE star", Nick slut-shames Brent and Sophist for playing as Donkey Kong and Rosalina instead of their usuals mains Luigi and Wario respectively. Cut to Mario Party 6's Snowflake Lake one month later, where Nick decides to play as Boo instead of his go-to character Daisy.
  • In "I got bullied in Mario Party 2...", Vernias berates Nick and Sophist for always targeting each other instead of Brent, despite the fact that he was perfectly on board ganging up on Nick while they were all right next to the Boo earlier, something that was suggested by Brent no less. Nick naturally calls him out on this:
    Nick: Vernias! No, you literally were so on board, so ready to take 3 Stars from me, Vernias! I don't wanna HEAR IT!
  • In "Mario Party 3 broke us all...", Sophist berates Vernias for wanting to pick Random when visiting the Boo, which is big talk coming from the same guy who picks Random at almost every chance he gets.
• RWBY:
  • Pyrrha advises Jaune to stop engaging in over-the-top antics and give Weiss a simple, heartfelt, no-frills Love Confession. Nora points out that Pyrrha, who is in love with Jaune, needs to take her own advice.
  • The narrative singles out Ironwood's hypocrisy three times:
    • In Volume 2, Ironwood reveals to Glynda that he thinks Ozpin is hiding something from them. Glynda points out that he's part of the inner circle that's hiding things from the rest of the world and that he needs to stop talking about trust and learn how to trust others. Ignoring her advice, he secretly collaborates with the Vale Council to strip Ozpin of his control over the Vytal Festival security, then tells Ozpin to trust him. This comes to a head in Volume 7 when Yang and Blake secretly collaborate with Robyn; unlike Ozpin, who takes the betrayal very quietly and continues working with Ironwood without complaint, Ironwood turns on Team RWBY and orders their arrest. Thus, his expectation that everyone trust him while giving no trust in return destroys the fledgling anti-Salem alliance.
    • In Volume 7, the heroes discuss the possibility of implementing martial law. Ironwood asserts that sacrifices are necessary for the greater good and that every one of them has made sacrifices. Nora bluntly tells him that he's not sacrificing anything while forcing Mantle to sacrifice everything. He repeats this claim to Winter in "The Final Word", but she reiterates Nora's point that he's sacrificed nothing and squeezed Mantle until it broke.
    • Ironwood has always cited council law when justifying his actions to Jacques Schnee, but the council confronts him in Volume 7 once Jacques is elected to office. As Ironwood brings up the checks and balances to justify the appropriateness of him holding two seats, Councilman Sleet counters that Ironwood has been ignoring said checks and balances and making policy decision without the rest of the council.
  • The narrative calls out Raven for being a hypocrite twice:
    • Raven has a problematic view of family responsibilities. She feels Qrow's abandonment of the Branwen tribe is turning his back on family, but he feels she has no business lecturing him when she abandoned Taiyang and Yang. Qrow tells Yang Raven only contacts him when she wants him; once Yang seeks out Raven so she can take her to Qrow and Ruby, Raven complains about family only visiting when they need something.
    • Raven's entire philosophy is built on being strong to survive, and claims to be able to make decisions others are too cowardly to make. At the end of Volume 5, Yang calls her out for this, pointing out that collecting powerful abilities has nothing to do with strength. She abandons or uses others to save herself, blames others for her mistakes, and runs away when things get too hard. Yang's speech results in Raven fleeing her presence in tears.
  • Although Adam is seeking personal power and Faunus supremacy, he is willing to work with Salem's humans to achieve it. Sienna Khan calls him out on allying with the very humans he claims to despise, pointing out that his talents are being diminished by shortsightedness. He also constantly belittles Blake for fleeing him every time he attacks her, but when she stands up to him with a Faunus militia, he abandons his men to their fate and flees; Blake stops Sun going after him because she knows he'll try and ambush them, and because she wants him to finally know what it feels like to run.
  • Due to his sister dying in a Beacon training mission, Hazel hates Ozpin and wants to destroy the Huntsman Academy system because he thinks Ozpin is a monster who kills children for a hopeless war. However, his willingness to harm children in Ozpin's name and help Salem destroy lives and civilisations results in Ozpin calling him out in Volume 8. When Hazel tries blaming Ozpin for his torturing of Oscar, Ozpin says he's not helping Salem make the world a better place, Oscar and the people of Remnant don't deserve what he's doing to them, and he's only thinking about himself.
  • Ozpin constantly expresses his faith in humanity's ability to overcome adversity and stop the worst people from causing chaos. However, he doesn't trust humanity with the truth about Salem, not even his closest allies. When the heroes confront him about this in Volume 6, Ruby asks if his talk of having faith in humanity means everyone except the very team that's risking their lives for him. Although he tries to explain she's misunderstood, all it does is convince Ruby that she needs to ask the Relic of Knowledge to reveal what Ozpin is hiding.
  • Volume 7 explores the reason for Ozpin's secrecy as a plot point. Ruby decides to copy Ozpin and hide the truth from Ironwood. The heroes are extremely uncomfortable with this; while they trust Ruby, they feel they're doing to Ironwood exactly what Ozpin did to them. When Ruby worries she's no better than Ozpin, Qrow tells her that Ozpin trusted no-one with the truth while she's waiting for Ironwood to earn her trust so that she can tell him. Ruby isn't convinced by that argument. Ozpin had tried to tell them that everyone who learns the truth turns on him, which they themselves do when they learn the truth; Oscar also reveals that Ozpin kept the secret to protect people from losing all hope. When they finally tell Ironwood the truth, it contributes to him taking a series of extreme decisions that lead to him and the heroes turning on each other as enemies.
• Smosh: Ian lies about his problems on a regular basis. Anthony occasionally does this. Look for the drawn-out, accusing 'no' or frustrated and accusing return.
• SMPLive:
  • It can easily be argued that the ACC is a Cult itself, as the description of the video where the base is first built reads...
    "we started the ACC (Anti-Cult Coalition) - It's definitely not a cult"
  • In "SMPLive: Fruitcoin", Cooper tells off Poke for fighting in the courtroom, before immediately trying to shoot at Carson with his bow.
    Cooper: Nononononono! We do not battle in the courtroom!
    Cooper: (a few moments later) You think if I Punch bow him, he'll fall in the lava?
• The titular Suction Cup Man chides Guy Business for insulting him with a good old fashioned "Suck my dick!" by saying "What, are you gay?!" Then, literally 30 or so seconds later, when the cops tell Suction Cup Man to get off the tower:
  Suction Cup Man: Suck my dick!
• At the climax of Suburban Knights the Big Bad Malachite, after spending the series killing people for being overly reliant on technology (and unlike most killing on TGWTG.com shows, his actions are NOT played for laughs) and in the middle of declaring his intention to destroy all technology, is interrupted by an utterly trivial call on his iPhone. He is promptly called out on for this, and initially responds by trying to deny that an iPhone counts as technology.
  • Made even more blatant, when he claims that even if the iPhone counts, "At least I'm not a hypocrite." The Critic is so irritated that he has to hand the conversation over to JewWario.
• Text Theater: Bailey kept making fun of Marion's sister for being jobless even though Bailey is a housewife and doesn't do much around the house.

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