#2: Jan 1st 2016 at 1:46:29 PM
Locking per New Year Purge.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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As described this sounds more like an audience reaction than a trope; I think it should be reclassified as a YMMV item. For something to actually be a trope, my understanding is that it has to be a plot device or some such that the author intentionally included.
The description is basically that a character does something that a viewer perceives as going against said character's usual values, but there's nothing at all in-universe acknowledging the hypocrisy, and the viewer is like "Come on, why is no one calling them out on that blatant hypocrisy?"
This isn't a plot device related to hypocrisy; the work isn't portraying it as hypocrisy. It's the audience interpreting it as hypocritical. I don't think this situation can be called a trope.
I mean seriously, look at the page quote. It's literally just an out-of-universe third party commentator calling a character out on hypocrisy when nothing actually within the work seems to be doing so. It illustrates the fundamental nature of this concept quite well, and it clearly shows it to be an audience reaction.