History Hypocrite / LiveActionTV

** Later in the episode, Lestat denigrates humans for their primitive mindset: "Every human thought boils down to three things... I want food, I want sex, I want to go home. [...] Dull, monotonous [...] the petty musings of [[CallAHumanAMeatbag meat]]." However, Lestat himself is engrossed by food (he enjoys hunting, torturing and eating humans in an "extravagant" manner), sex (he's so lecherous that [[ReallyGetsAround he's habitually banging someone]], whether it's his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac, his mistress Antoinette Brown, prostitutes, or a member of the Women's Opera Society) and home (which he equates with Louis, whom he's besotted with and always longs to return to him) on a daily basis. As a vampire, Lestat is higher up on the food chain, but his psychology is just as simplistic as his "savory inferiors."

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
** A recurring element of Oliver Queen's character. He criticizes Thea for her partying despite having done the same thing himself, and she at least has the excuse of acting out after the apparent death of her father and brother, while he was just young, rich, and stupid. His attempt to tell Helena what she's doing is wrong fails utterly because they're ''both'' murderous vigilantes, and he was actually going to kill the same man she killed for the same reason (In Season 2 after adopting ThouShaltNotKill he tries again with a little more success, as he actually has a leg to stand on that time). He's furious at Moira for [[spoiler: not telling him about Thea's real father]], but not only is he keeping much more dangerous secrets from his family, but he doesn't tell [[spoiler: Thea]] either, even though she arguably has a much greater right to know than he does.
** Laurel also suffers from this (repeatedly keeping secrets from her loved ones and then chewing others out for keeping secrets from her being the main issue) though at least she tends to be called out on it more than Ollie.
** In season 4, Felicity gets angry at Oliver then breaks up with him because he hid his illegitimate son from her despite herself keeping secrets from him before including at the beginning of the season when she was still assisting Team Arrow.

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** Eobard Thawne (in the guise of Professor Wells) gets upset when Barry changes the timeline (even though he only changes the events of one day and does it to save the city) and gives him a stern talking to about the dangers of time travel. This is coming from a man who traveled back over a hundred years in the past to kill ComicBook/TheFlash as a child because of a petty grudge (and settled on killing his mother when the attempt failed) and killed various other people afterwards (including the original Wells) in his attempt to get back to the future. And that is not counting that after Flashpoint saves him, in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' he creates [[LegionOfDoom a group]] in which he damages the timeline. In that other series, Thawne tells Ray Palmer that he is not as evil as historical monsters, but later [[Series/CrisisOnEarthX joins a group of Nazis]].
** Iris West scolds Barry and Joe for locking her out of the loop regarding Barry being The Flash. She has been hiding Wally West from Barry and Joe. Even she herself admits the hypocrisy later.
** In "Run, Iris, Run", Ralph Dibny accused Iris of hiding while the other teammates fight, but that was exactly what he was doing in this episode. He even said that [[ItsAllAboutMe he didn't care about the other possible victims]].

* In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Barbara is upset at Gordon for not being entirely truthful about how he knows Cobblepot when she herself is keeping secrets from Gordon about taking drugs.
** Later on, she calls Gordon and a woman answers (actually Ivy when she and Selina break into Gordon's house to get out of the storm). Barbara mistakenly believes Gordon is seeing someone else and declares "I'm done with him". This is after she left him, never saying when she will be back and already cheated on Gordon with Montoya.

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Madac is this.
** While leading a lecture, he says that you cannot force a character to do anything. He forces Calliope to give him inspiration for his works.
** In the same lecture, he also tells a student to not be discouraged by difficulty or rejection. Madac himself is so afraid of further rejection and disappointment of his work that he has resorted into holding Calliope captive against her will.
** Mere moments of giving a lecture of encouraging students to not give up hope on their dreams of being writers, he strikes down the dreams of a medical student who is helping him, not even bothering to look at her work.
** At the release party of his latest novel, Madac hits on a woman saying he is a "feminist writer", naming several female writers as his literary influences and that his casting movie has 50% be female or of color. All the while ignoring that his successes come from imprisoning and raping a Greek goddess.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': The worst example has to be ComicBook/LexLuthor (which is actually intentional, since this is one of Lex's defining attributes in the comics), who constantly bitches about Clark keeping his secret from him, while simultaneously keeping an army of skeletons (all of them far, far darker than Clark's) in his own closet.
** Lana complains constantly about Clark and Lex hiding things from her, but the minute she has a secret (the black spaceship, the fact that Lex is still alive, etc.), she goes out of her way to hide it from Clark.
*** Which also makes her TooDumbToLive, since in those situations Clark is probably the ''first'' person she should be talking to, as he actually has a proven track record of saving her from these situations.
** In "Nocturne", Clark peevishly comments that Lana's SecretAdmirer sounds like a stalker. This, from Mr. Peeping Telescope. The characters point this out in-universe.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Hawkins Fuller has never been monogamous with anyone, including his lover Timothy Laughlin. However, he is deeply jealous when he finds out that Tim kissed another man at the Nomad bar. This is followed by [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence violent foreplay and rough sex]] during which Hawk repeatedly asks "Who do you belong to?" (and makes Tim affirm that "I belong to Hawkins Fuller.")

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': Perrin notes that the Tua'than, pacifist vegetarians, still let their dogs run wild and hunt anything they like, saying that it seems a little hypocritical to him. The Tua'than quickly point out that it is only them who are vegetarian pacifists and not their dogs.

** In the second episode, a bloodstained Lestat de Lioncourt lampshades this after he butchered two priests: "I recognize the hypocrite I am, emphasizing cleanliness after I overindulged."
** Later, Lestat denigrates humans for their primitive mindset: "Every human thought boils down to three things... I want food, I want sex, I want to go home. [...] Dull, monotonous [...] the petty musings of [[CallAHumanAMeatbag meat]]." However, Lestat himself is engrossed by food (he enjoys hunting, torturing and eating humans in an "extravagant" manner), sex (he's so lecherous that [[ReallyGetsAround he's habitually banging someone]], whether it's his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac, his mistress Antoinette Brown, prostitutes, or a member of the Women's Opera Society) and home (which he equates with Louis, whom he's besotted with and always longs to return to him) on a daily basis. As a vampire, Lestat is higher up on the food chain, but his psychology is just as simplistic as his "savory inferiors."
** In the third episode, Lestat is having an affair with Antoinette and admits that he likes "a little variety." Louis is angry and hurt ("Aren't I enough?") by his boyfriend's promiscuity, and he clearly prefers to be in a monogamous relationship, but he's willing to accept this arrangement as long as he can sleep with others as well. Lestat reluctantly agrees (it's obvious from his facial expression that [[ObviouslyNotFine he's NOT okay with it]]), so Louis has a sexual interlude with Jonah Macon, his OldFlame. The next day, an infuriated Louis discovers that Lestat had followed them and [[ThePeepingTom watched them be intimate]]. Lestat then confesses that he doesn't like sharing and pathetically attempts to defend his own infidelity with "It's different. I don't have feelings for her." Lestat tries to depict Louis being with Jonah as intolerable because they still share some emotional connection, and he's hysterical when he shouts, "[[AnguishedOutburst I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!]]", but the fact of the matter is that Lestat doesn't want ''anyone'' to go near Louis.
** In the fourth episode, Lestat insists that there are no secrets within their family, yet he becomes crotchety whenever Claudia inquires about his past or the history of vampires. She confides to Louis that it bothers her that Lestat keeps a lot of information hidden from them.

** In the third episode, Lestat is having an affair with Antoinette and admits that he likes "a little variety." Louis is angry and hurt ("Aren't I enough?") by his boyfriend's promiscuity, and he clearly prefers to be in a monogamous relationship, but he's willing to accept this arrangement as long as he can sleep with others as well. Lestat reluctantly agrees (it's obvious from his facial expression that he's NOT okay with it), so Louis has a sexual interlude with Jonah Macon, his OldFlame. The next day, an infuriated Louis discovers that Lestat had followed them and [[ThePeepingTom watched them be intimate]]. Lestat then confesses that he doesn't like sharing and pathetically attempts to defend his own infidelity with "It's different. I don't have feelings for her." Lestat tries to depict Louis being with Jonah as intolerable because they still share some emotional connection, and he's hysterical when he shouts, "[[AnguishedOutburst I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!]]", but the fact of the matter is that Lestat doesn't want ''anyone'' to go near Louis.

** Later, Lestat denigrates humans for their primitive mindset: "Every human thought boils down to three things... I want food, I want sex, I want to go home. [...] Dull, monotonous [...] the petty musings of [[CallAHumanAMeatbag meat]]." However, Lestat himself is engrossed by food (he enjoys hunting, torturing and eating humans in an "extravagant" manner), sex (he's so lecherous that [[ReallyGetsAround he's habitually banging someone]], whether it's his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac, his mistress Antoinette Brown, prostitutes, or a member of the Women's Opera Society) and home (which he equates with Louis, whom he's besotted with) on a daily basis. As a vampire, Lestat is higher up on the food chain, but his psychology is just as simplistic as his "savory inferiors."

** Later, Lestat denigrates humans for their primitive mindset: "Every human thought boils down to three things... I want food, I want sex, I want to go home. [...] Dull, monotonous [...] the petty musings of [[CallAHumanAMeatbag meat]]." However, Lestat himself is engrossed by food (he enjoys hunting, torturing and eating humans in an "extravagant" manner), sex (he's so lecherous that he's habitually banging someone, whether it's his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac, his mistress Antoinette Brown, prostitutes, or a member of the Women's Opera Society) and home (which he equates with Louis, whom he's besotted with) on a daily basis. As a vampire, Lestat is higher up on the food chain, but his psychology is just as simplistic as his "savory inferiors."

** In the third episode, Lestat is having an affair with Antoinette Brown and admits that he likes "a little variety." Louis de Pointe du Lac is angry and hurt ("Aren't I enough?") by his boyfriend's promiscuity, and he clearly prefers to be in a monogamous relationship, but he's willing to accept this arrangement as long as he can sleep with others as well. Lestat reluctantly agrees (it's obvious from his facial expression that he's NOT okay with it), so Louis has a sexual interlude with Jonah Macon, his OldFlame. The next day, an infuriated Louis discovers that Lestat had followed them and [[ThePeepingTom watched them be intimate]]. Lestat then confesses that he doesn't like sharing and pathetically attempts to defend his own infidelity with "It's different. I don't have feelings for her." Lestat tries to depict Louis being with Jonah as intolerable because they still share some emotional connection, and he's hysterical when he shouts, "[[AnguishedOutburst I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!]]", but the fact of the matter is that Lestat doesn't want ''anyone'' to go near Louis.

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Okay, here's one very few fans caught onto. Miss [=DeGroot=], the mean librarian who hated Al (even when he was a child) allowed him to take out ''one'' book, simply to prove he'd never return it; he forgot to, and she worked at the library over thirty years to prove it, somehow cheating death from old age, despite a rather unhealthy lifestyle where she drank coffee with half a container of sugar per cup. When Al finally confronts her (and she offers to waive the fine of $2,000 as a type of CruelMercy) she tells him how satisfying it is he grew up to be the loser she envisioned - this from a woman who has lived alone all her life, unmarried, working as a school librarian for three decades over a petty obsession over a ten-year-old student who irked her. She calls ''Al'' a loser? She's never even ''tried'' loser.

** Steve from Headhunters. Pretty much everything he says is Blatant Lies; but in one notable incident, he claimed that if his staff wanted to be given an hourly wage, he was behind it. However, immediately after they start to fill out the paperwork, he starts making comments about how they will have less hours and pay if they do this. Also, he still doesn't pay them.

* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': During their falling out, Enid brings up defending Wednesday, even though Wednesday never asked her to defend her, while yelling at Wednesday for not thinking about others feelings or wants.

* ''Series/TheOutpost'': A lot of the Prime Order's officials don't abide by their rules. Dred has no tolerance for this, ordering one he catches in bed with a woman to hang (alongside her). as they aren't married.

* ''Hypocrite/GameOfThrones''

** In the third episode, Lestat is having an affair with Antoinette Brown and admits that he likes "a little variety." Louis de Pointe du Lac is angry and hurt ("Aren't I enough?") by his boyfriend's promiscuity, and he clearly prefers to be in a monogamous relationship, but he's willing to accept this arrangement as long as he can sleep with others as well. Lestat reluctantly agrees (it's obvious from his facial expression that he's NOT okay with it), so Louis has a sexual interlude with Jonah Macon, his OldFlame. The next day, an infuriated Louis discovers that Lestat had followed them and [[ThePeepingTom watched them be intimate]]. Lestat then confesses that he doesn't like sharing and pathetically attempts to defend his own infidelity with, "It's different. I don't have feelings for her." Lestat tries to depict Louis being with Jonah as intolerable because they still share some emotional connection, and he's hysterical when he shouts, "[[AnguishedOutburst I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!]]", but the fact of the matter is that Lestat doesn't want ''anyone'' to go near Louis.

** In the third episode, Lestat is having an affair with Antoinette Brown and admits that he likes "a little variety." Louis de Pointe du Lac is angry and hurt ("Aren't I enough?") by his boyfriend's promiscuity, and he clearly prefers to be in a monogamous relationship, but he's willing to accept this arrangement as long as he can sleep with others as well. Lestat reluctantly agrees (it's obvious from his facial expression that he's NOT okay with it), so Louis has a sexual interlude with Jonah Macon, his OldFlame. The next day, an infuriated Louis discovers that Lestat had followed them and [[ThePeepingTom watched them be intimate]]. Lestat then confesses that he doesn't like sharing and pathetically attempts to defend his own infidelity with, "It's different. I don't have feelings for her." Lestat tries to depict Louis being with Jonah as intolerable because they still share some emotional connection, and he's hysterical when he shouts, "I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!", but the fact of the matter is that Lestat doesn't want ''anyone'' to go near Louis.