You Are What You Hate in Video Games.
- Balthazar from Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal is a Bhaalspawn who plots to exterminate all Bhaalspawn (though he at least plans on taking this to its logical conclusion once the others are wiped out.)
- In Baldur's Gate III, this ends up being a recurring theme within the party and even more so for an evil-aligned one.
- Shadowheart is a cleric for the God of Evil Shar, and as a result of being a brainwashed Tyke Bomb initially refuses to believe that Shar's every bit the monster she accused her Good Twin Selune of being and then some. She accuses Selune of betraying her family, but not only did Shar try to kill her sister and spend the past century torturing her niece, she also tries to manipulate Shadowheart into becoming a Self-Made Orphan. Shadowheart also regards Selunites as being naive and brainwashed, only to find out that her Religion Is Wrong and she was a Selunite herself before her kidnapping.
- Folk Hero warlock Wyll was manipulated by his demonic patron Mizora into trying to kill Karlach for working for the archdevil Zariel, conveniently forgetting that Mizora actively does so and by extension, so does he. The Player Character can even lampshade the hypocrisy and Kick the Dog by pointing out he's everything he accused Karlach of being.
- The Smart Guy Gale was abandoned by his goddess Mystra, and while he still worships her he was slightly embittered, becoming significantly more critical of the gods and their treatment of mortals. If convinced to claim the Artifact of Doom for himself, he becomes a Deity of Human Origin and just like the Jerkass Gods he previously resented.
- Astarion resented his vampire master Cazador for being a sadistic bully, but if allowed to usurp his Deal with the Devil Astarion ultimately fails to escape The Chain of Harm and becomes just like him.
- Sergeant Avitus of Dawn of War plays this trope to a T in the route where he winds up being the traitor. A sneering, scornful, insanely violent man who constantly derides anything he perceives as a sign of weakness and is always looking for an excuse to destroy the enemy... who is eventually revealed to be utterly disgusted by the never-ending senseless slaughter of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and channels his anger and fatalism into the battlefield. His Rage Against the Heavens moment is thoroughly laced with Self-Deprecation.
- Adell from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, the last human who hasn't become a demon, hates real demons. Turns out he only looks human...
- Chris Haversam in Fallout: New Vegas 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 technician to fix it.
- Paladin Danse in 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 if you 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.
- King Zephiel, the Big Bad of Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, is a Misanthrope Supreme who believes that the "madness" of humanity causes suffering, and the only solution is to bring back the dragons, which humans sealed away in the ancient war known as the Scouring. Roy, The Hero of the game, counters that since Zephiel started a war that caused countless deaths, he's no better.
- Kratos from God of War. 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 he's the son of Zeus himself, he doesn't take it well.
- Grand Theft Auto IV gives us Bryce Dawkins, Deputy Mayor of Liberty City, notorious for his vitriolic homophobic rants (and advocacy of family values) to appease his right-wing base... all the while having an affair with Bernie Crane, a famously Camp Gay fitness trainer 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.
- In Grand Theft Auto V, 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 Hatoful Boyfriend, Sakuya, the proud heir of a pure-blood fantail noble family, treats every non-pureblood bird like trash, including even his half-brother Yuuya who he calls a "half-breed mongrel". However, he learns on the Bad Boys Love route that he's actually not the true heir of the Le Bel family and is Yuuya's full brother, which means that he's the very same "mongrel" that he constantly scorned Yuuya for being.
- Bertrand from inFAMOUS 2 considers Conduits to be demons and ultimately wants them to be exterminated, 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 "you hate that others like you possess awesome powers yet yours suck."
- Done in a rather literal sense in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, as one of the focal points of the story is Master Xehanort manipulating Terra enough to make the boy immensely hate him, thus giving in to the darkness within his heart, which in turn would make Terra a suitable host for Xehanort's heart.
- Master Atris from Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is an arrogant, self-righteous Jedi with a raging hatred of the Sith that borders on fanaticism, viewing even the slightest hint of The Dark Side as proof that someone is irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. Naturally, having such an insane and zealous attitude towards life and the Force has caused 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 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.
- During NieR: Automata 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. One of the reveals that led to his Sanity Slippage 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.
- Pokémon:
- In Pokémon Platinum's Distortion World, Cyrus's Straw Nihilist attitude gives way to a screaming tantrum, revealing that he's an uncontrollable Mood-Swinger who hates his own passions most of all.
- Pokémon Gold and Silver: Silver considers Team Rocket a weak nuisance. It's revealed in an event in HeartGold and SoulSilver that he's the son of Giovanni, a mafia don who lost his organization to a 10-year-old boy.
- Adrian from X-Men: Destiny 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.
