History Hypocrite / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the third episode, Lestat de Lioncourt 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.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the third episode, Lestat de Lioncourt is sleeping 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.

* Nathan falls victim to this trope quite a bit on ''Series/{{Haven}}'', mostly owing to his massive [[LoveMakesYouDumb blind spot]], and huh is certainty that his ends justify the means. On display quite prominently in "301," where Duke's solution to deal with a Troubled person who is about to destroy the town with an alien spaceship he is imagining is to kill him. Nathan condemns this, and instead convinces the Troubled man to be abducted, whisking him and the destruction away from Haven. When Duke points out that Nathan's solution wasnt any different from his, and that they don't know being abducted by his own delusion didn't kill the guy, Nathan tries to defend himself by saying it was the man's choice. No hint of irony or self awareness.
** Seasom four makes it obvious, to the point even Audrey calls him out. Shes pissed at him, because she's being forced to [[EasyAmnesia hide her identity]] so the Guard wont make her kill Nathan (the man she loves), the latest theory to end the Troubles. The reason she has to do this is because Nathan disrupted the usual order of supernatural events, and now shes back in Haven 27 years ahead of schedules and the Troubles are,too, when they were supposed to leave with her in the Barn. Nathan feels guilty and insists she must kill him so the suffering of the town will stop. She snaps on him after the third or so time he insists, pointing out the hypocrisy in him expecting her to let him go so easily when the reason they're in this mess is because he refused to do the same last season.

* Nathan falls victim to this trope quite a bit on ''Series/{{Haven}}, mostly owing to his massive [[LoveMakesYouDumb blind spot]], and huh is certainty that his ends justify the means. Om display quite prominently in "301," where Duke's solution to deal with a Troubled person who is about to destroy the town with an alien spaceship he is imagining is to kill him. Nathan condemns this, and instead convinces the Troubled man to be abducted, whisking him and the destruction away from Haven. When Duke points out that Nathan's solution wasnt any different from his, and that they don't know being abducted didn't kill the guy, Nathan tries to defend himself by saying it was the man's choice. No hint of irony or self awareness.
** Seasom four makes it obvious, to the point even Audrey calls him out. Shes pissed at him, because she's being forced to [[EasyAmnesia hide her identity]] so the Guard wont make her kill Nathan, the latest theory to end the Troubles. The reason she has to do this is because Nathan disrupted the usual order of supernatural events, and now shes back in Haven 27 years ahead of schedules and the Troubles are,too, when they were supposed to leave with her. Nathan feels guilty and insists she must kill him so the suffering of the town will stop. She snaps on him after the third or so time he insists, pointing out the hypocrisy in him expecting her to let him go so easily when the reason they're in this mess is because he refused to do the same last season.

** Arnold J. Rimmer. Taken gloriously UpToEleven and always PlayedForLaughs, the man embodies HypocriticalHumour. In [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVDNA “DNA”]] he refuses to go with Cat saying quote “You’re totally egocentric, you flee at the first sign of danger, you only look after number one, you're vain, you're selfish, you're narcissistic and you're self-obsessed” Rimmer doesn’t seem to acknowledge that he just perfectly described ''himself'' there. The best example is in [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIIBackwards “Backwards”]] where when Lister exits the bar during the unrumble, Rimmer blatantly calls out “Where are you going, you coward?”- all while cowering under a table.

* ''Series/BigBrother 12'' has Hayden and Kristen. They thought it was bad that Brendan and Rachel were in a relationship, but they thought it was okay for them to be in one.

** There is also Glinda. She mandates celibacy for her acolytes, and demeans West for [[MissKitty running a brothel]], even going so far as to [[spoiler:lock up one of her own acolytes for breaking her vow of chastity in "They Came First."]] The very next episode shows [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E7TheyCameFirst "They Came First"]], [[spoiler: Glinda having sex with Roan, who the audience knew as Lucas before this point.]]

* ''Series/{{Tyrant}}'': Abu Omar leads the Army of the Caliphate, an Islamic militant group that imposes very harsh sharia law. He also takes Deliyah from her husband, something forbidden by sharia.

** Natalia playing the victim after Quintanilla removes her as president of the student comittee and her classmates keep on calling her a thief for stealing the money collected for the NONA party.

** Rachel in many episodes. She dumps Ross for sleeping with someone else while they were on her poorly defined 'break', (which he fairly enough thought was a break-up - Rachel herself referred to it as "we broke up"). A previous episode has her attempting to seduce Ross when he's in a relationship with another woman, then when he gets a new girlfriend, she kisses him and tries to have sex with him. She also once slept with an engaged man. When Ross marries another woman, she chooses not to attend, then buys a ticket and crashes his wedding at the last minute (she even runs down the aisle in the middle of the ceremony), causing him to inadvertently say her name, for largely unexplained or poorly elaborated reasons.

** Monica herself gets this. Despite having dated the 21-years-her-senior Richard and likely having had to put up with snide comments from peers, she has no problem joining the rest of the group in ridiculing Ross for his relationship with his student Elizabeth, even though the girl is merely ten years younger than him.

** Sofia said to Raul life is more easy without lies as she said Raul and his friends' life is fake but she's a ConsummateLiar herself especially with her mother.

** Stella pressures Ted to move to New Jersey with her after they get married because she claims Manhatten to be a dangerous place to raise her daughter in. However, after [[RunawayBride she leaves him at the altar and gets back together with Tony]], she actually moves to Manhatten with him despite having refused to do the same for Ted. It gets even worse Tony gets a job in Los Angelos as a film writer[[note]] where he made ''Film/TheWeddingBride''[[/note]]. So moving into the city is bad, but ''moving far across the country'' is okay?!

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'':
** The Client comes off as this during his rant about how terrible and uncivilised the Galaxy has become since TheEmpire has fallen. Hard to accept an era where people are hostile to each other and lack order, could be any worse than the time where ''entire planets get blown up on the whim of tyrannical space Nazis''. Then again it’s you can write it off as a case of BelievingTheirOwnLies.
** On the other hand, from what we see in the New Republic, their organisation is pretty hypocritical as well. Despite considering themselves moral and fair compared to the Empire, they still open fire on Mando in their X-Wings in “The Passenger” for [[DisproportionateRetribution not emitting a transponder on his ship]], even after he gives them ping. While they do later rescue Mando from a GiantSpider and acknowledge he’s helped the New Republic, they still refuse to help him fix his ship and abandon him. Even before that in the “The Prisoners”, several New Republic X-Wings pilots blow up an entire space full of people, all because the station was going to launch a single gunship. True it’s [[GoodIsNotNice better to be careful]] with the number of threats in the Galaxy, but their actions don’t really paint them as any better than the Empire.
** Bo-Katan Kryze really comes off as this. In “The Heiresses” she looks down her nose at Mando for being a Child of the Watch and for refusing to take his helmet off, criticising his tribe as “zealots” who refused break away from outdated traditions. Yet during the finale Bo-Katan can’t accept getting casually handed the Darksaber, all because of an outdated tradition where the Darksaber has to be won from a fallen opponent not freely given. This shows she’s just as hung up on ancient Mandalorian customs as Mando is, if not more so. ''WesternAnimation/TheCloneWars'' makes Bo-Katan look even more hypocritical here since she was the one who hated and sought to undo the new pacifistic teachings of her ruling sister Satine and bring Mandalore back to its martial roots. But when Mando stays loyal to the ancient values, she conversely regards him as a freak.
*** Her attitude to [[spoiler: Boba Fett can be seen as hypocritical, she’s disgusted by the fact he’s a clone of Jango Fett. She had no problem working with Clone Troopers when she needed to take back Mandalore from Darth Maul in the Clone Wars]].

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** The ''Series/GossipGirl'' character who really takes the cake is Dan Humphrey. "Humphrey levels of hypocrisy" is an actual term among the show's fandom. He's a serial cheater who judges other characters if they cheat. He's always critical and judgmental of the UES characters when they plot and scheme even though Dan himself does so every other episode. He judges the UES characters for their lifestyle yet happily lives off their money and enjoys the benefits of their riches. The list goes on and on and on... Basically, he's the guy who claims he has high morals and constantly judges the other characters when they fail to live up to those morals even though Dan himself is just as bad as the rest of them.

* ''Series/WolfHall''

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** It gets even better, in the final season Crixus splits the rebel forces and leads an army to Rome's doorstep. [[spoiler: Crixus' final mistake.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Vulcans blame humans for being so emotional and illogical, yet, as demonstrated in episodes like "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]" and "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", there is nothing logical about their own contempt for humans.
** Also, the Vulcan motto is "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations", just so long as you think and behave exactly according to the rules that one man wrote thousands of years ago, and don't you dare pollute our precious Vulcan purity by adopting or breeding with offworlders, you filthy race traitor.
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' and several novels in the ExpandedUniverse have gone on to explore Vulcan culture in considerable depth, and one of the key facts about the Vulcan ideal of logic and rationalism is that it is just that, an ''ideal''. Not many Vulcans actually live up to it, and a non-trivial percentage manage to come up with totally "logical" (to themselves) justifications to be arrogant, self-righteous, and bigoted.
** Klingons are brave and honourable. Except when they're not. Later seasons of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]] and [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]] made it very clear that "honour" among Klingons was the exception rather than the rule: most of them were nothing more than thugs or bullies, many of them were deceitful and treacherous, their leadership was riddled with corruption and they were more than happy to cover up acts of extreme dishonour out of political expediency. We can only hope that Martok made some significant changes. This is at least partly a translation issue; with the exception of Worf what Klingons mean by 'honor' is the old-fashioned reputation/face kind, not the internal code kind.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Troi gets called out on her hypocritical attitude regarding use of Betazoid empathy during the third season episode The Price by her love interest of the week, Ral. When she complains to him about his use of empathic abilities to gain an advantage at the negotiation table, he flatly points out that people have done such things for thousands of years without anyone calling foul while he simply happens to be slightly better at it. He then goes on to [[WhatTheHellHero point out the real hypocrisy as he sees it]]: Troi uses her empathic abilities every bit as much to aid her 'client:' the crew, the captain and Starfleet, often at the expense of whatever opponent they're dealing with at the moment. As Ral states, the difference between them is that when Troi manipulates and spies on the opposition without their knowledge or consent, people very well might die rather than simply fail to acquire some property. Troi's arguments are supported, however, by the implication that Ral is ''directly'' influencing his opposition during the negotiations, and using his empathy to manipulate them into dropping out of the race entirely.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** The Cardassians led a brutal occupation of Bajor, and are later themselves occupied by the Dominion. It leads to this exchange between Damar (a Cardassian) and Kira (a Bajoran) when Damar learns the Dominion has executed his family:
--->'''Damar''': To kill her and my son... the casual brutality of it... the waste of life. What kind of state tolerates the murder of innocent women and children? What kind of people give those orders?\\
'''Kira''': Yeah, Damar, what kind of people give those orders?
** Doubly hypocritical given Damar himself has casually murdered an unarmed woman (Ziyal). She might, by her own admission, have been an enemy of the state, but at the time she was no threat and could have easily been subdued.
** Notably, this is actually part of his character development. Damar toed the line under Dukat and the Dominion, slowly being driven to rebel after seeing his people be pushed to the sidelines and sacrificed needlessly. It is this quote that helps him to realize what Cardassia was, and why it needs to change. Garak even pointed this out to Kira when she regretted her words, telling her that if Damar would lead a new Cardassia, then Damar's pain made him ''more'' receptive to Kira's words, not less.
** Gul Dukat became a leader of a Pah-Wraith cult and tried to lead them in a mass suicide. While holding their suicide pills, Kira tried to stop them and bumped into Dukat and the pill he was holding became scattered with a few hundred others. The cult got Kira under control but Dukat was frantically looking for the pill he had. Everyone realized that his pill was a fake; he wasn't planning on committing suicide at all. Needless to say, his influence on the cult fell apart pretty quickly. Though one cultist ''did'' take the pill anyway even after Dukat's lies had been exposed. Dukat claimed that the Pah-Wraiths had told him to take a fake pill and get everyone else to kill themselves, and the cultist in question decided to believe him, even if he didn't seem to like it. It should be noted, also, that this might not be hypocrisy at all -- the Pah-Wraiths are essentially the LegionsOfHell, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity posing to the cult]] as [[SatanIsGood misblamed fallen angels]] when in actually they are {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s- it is could be that they really ''did' order him that which would mean he isn't actually a hypocrite (in this particular instance, at least).
** Garak spends a lot of time complaining about Bashir's Federation smugness, and a similar amount of time extolling the cultural superiority of Cardassia.
** Vulcan captain Solok has built his entire academic career on the assertion that Vulcans are inherently superior to humans and other emotional races, but he's the one who refuses to let one Academy incident with Sisko be forgotten, to the extent that he teaches his crew baseball. There's certainly no ''logical'' reason for him to pick baseball and then challenge Sisko except that he wants to humiliate Sisko, and there's no logical benefit for him to do so. When the Niners celebrate getting one run as though they've actually defeated Solok's team, Solok's pissiness at their "incorrect" reaction has them pointing out, quite correctly, that he's getting embarrassingly emotional about the matter. He's also still ranting about "human" emotions when most of the Niners aren't human.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Captain Archer is prone to excessive hypocrisy, to the point where many viewers saw him as being written as a case of ProtagonistCenteredMorality.
** Contrasted in the episodes "Dear Doctor" and "Observer Effect". In "Dear Doctor", the ''Enterprise'' makes contact with a race of aliens that are dying from a genetic disorder which, according to the GoalOrientedEvolution cited by Dr. Phlox, [[HollywoodEvolution they "evolved" so as to make room for another species on their planet with more evolutionary potential]]. Although Phlox can provide a cure, [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide he and Archer agree to not help the aliens]], observing that they don't want to "play God" and that [[CallForward in the future]] there may even be a [[AlienNonInterferenceClause rule about this]] (i.e. the Federation's Prime Directive). But in "Observer Effect" Trip and Hoshi return to ''Enterprise'' having contracted an incurable disease while [[TooDumbToLive digging around in an alien garbage dump without hazmat suits]]. They soon die and Archer at least has also become infected as well. It turns out that a couple of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens have been watching this all play out. Both Phlox and Archer blast them for their complete lack of compassion. Archer goes even further, referencing his decision in "Dear Doctor", but not accepting it as an excuse for why these aliens have not intervened to help him and his crew with a disease they contracted through sheer carelessness.
** Archer's actions in "Fortunate Son" where he tirades against Ryan for seeking revenge against pirates who have repeatedly attacked his ship and nearly fatally injured one of his crew, compared to "Silent Enemy" where Archer seeks revenge against unknown aliens who have repeatedly attacked his ship and nearly fatally injured one of his crew. Bad enough already, but the latter takes place only ''two'' episodes later!
*** During this same argument, Archer states that Ryan cannot be a vigilante while at the same time acknowledging there is no such thing as organized police in this part of space. Queue Archer running around with an armed ship doing whatever he feels is right one episode to the next.
** On a more broad scale, Archer is always advocating open-mindedness and embracing other lifeforms, and yet as the series goes on, we find that he falls into the occasional habit of being suspicious, paranoid, and almost hostile upon first contact with truly alien forms of life or humanoids that are very different from the human norm for absolutely no good reason (except maybe his "feelings"), while he is warm, welcoming and forgiving to more familiar humanoids for the exact same lack of reasoning. Sometimes his paranoia ends up being justified. He really edges onto WhatMeasureIsANonHuman in his interspecies treatment.
** Archer's grievances against Vulcans are that they "wouldn't let humans stand on their own feet" and he holds a personal grudge against them for withholding their technology so his father didn't live long enough to see his life's work completed. It never seems to occur to him that by withholding their technology and forcing humans to invent it themselves, letting humans stand on their own feet is exactly what they did.
** In "The Breach", Phlox points out that Denobulan Medical Ethics prevent him from treating someone who does not want to be treated and that he ''must'' respect his patients' wishes, even if they lead to their death. Which makes his actions in "Dear Doctor" even more shocking in retrospect, since the Valakians most certainly ''did'' want to be treated!
** Purposefully invoked and deconstructed in "Damage", where Archer realises that in order to reach Azati Prime in time to prevent the Xindi from destroying Earth, he ''must'' engage in piracy and steal a replacement warp coil from the Illyrians. In other words, become no different from the Osaarian pirates from "Anomaly" that he so despised.
** John Paxton, the leader of the xenophobic Earth organization Terra Prime. He had unwavering dedication to his cause and was willing to scorch half of San Francisco to make his demands known. Considering this was after a devastating alien attack, their concerns about an alien alliance had some validity. T'Pol deduced from a trembling hand that Paxton had a genetic disorder, one that should have killed him when he was a teenager, but didn't because of "freely given" alien medical technology. Paxton will only admit that he's not the first leader to fail to live up to the standard of an idol (in his case, a mass murderer from Earth's post WW3 period), and refuses to back down. This fact exposed him as a man who was just racist.

** Near the end of season 6, Dean finds out that [[spoiler:Castiel has been working with Crowley]], and promptly chews him out for it. Even though Dean did the same thing the previous season. And one of the first things he does in season 7 is [[spoiler:call Crowley for help in taking down Cas.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]]: The Brigadier says he's planning to blast his way through a forcefield. Jo criticizes him for always thinking of blowing things up. The Doctor then berates Jo for not showing the Brigadier due respect — even though he's ''always'' saying the exact same thing.
** The Doctor criticizes others for changing history. This matter does depend on the Doctor, but the 10th Doctor made numerous alterations to history, [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion such as]] bringing down a Prime Minister who would have brought about Britain's Golden Age because of something he didn't like them doing. Later stories show he apparently made things worse. Eleven also made alterations to history but seems to have been more subtle about it, although it was during his era that the catchphrase "Time can be rewritten" gained traction, despite this being a direct contradiction of opinions stated back as far as the First Doctor.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]]: In a rather humourous example, plastic-surgery addict Lady Cassandra assumes the Doctor is one because, after he called out her excesses in their [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld first encounter]], he's [[TheNthDoctor somehow]] gotten himself a whole new face, she assumes via MagicPlasticSurgery. In this particular instance, though, she's wrong.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]]: John Lumic wants to upgrade the entire population of his Earth into Cybermen, but refuses to upgrade himself until he's on his last breath.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]]: Dalek Thay has the audacity to say "Daleks do not question orders" after disobeying orders and participating in a coup to oust the Cult of Skaro's former leader, Dalek Sec.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: President Winters takes Prime Minister Saxon to task for ignoring UN conventions and not taking FirstContact seriously. He then goes on to gloat that ''he'll'' be the one getting all the screen time, and orders his aides to brand the event with his seal of office, instead of the UN's.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky "The Poison Sky"]]: The Sontarans are {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who've never run from a battle, and yet cripple the UNIT soldiers' weapons so they can't fight back.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]]:
*** Davros plans to obliterate the whole cosmos with a reality bomb. At the end of the story, when the Daleks are all being destroyed, Davros blames the Doctor and brands him "The Destroyer of Worlds", which really just makes Davros look like a sore loser.
*** Davros did get in a really good dig (that pops up frequently in the series) with the Doctor never carrying a weapon, but getting others to do the killing and destruction for him.
*** The Doctor criticises his clone for wiping out the Daleks ([[JokerImmunity they're back next series]]) after they are barely stopped from destroying the Universes. Yet he had already tried doing this multiple times. This may be excused as his character development meant he became more reluctant to wipe out the Daleks, yet earlier that series had wiped out a less dangerous race than the Daleks.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]]: Miss Hartigan explains in one breath that she joined with the Cybermen because they offered her liberation (from men, it's implied), and then [[BoomerangBigot tells Rosita to be quiet because she's probably not paid to talk]]. Given the Victorian setting, there's probably some degree of racism (Rosita is black) and classism at work here as well.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]]: The Doctor calls Rory out on this when Rory demands to be allowed to stay and help the Doctor save the day, pointing out that Rory himself had earlier took the Doctor to task for the way that he tended to encourage people to put their lives at risk. Particularly since the Doctor had taken this on board and had in fact arranged for Amy and Rory to return to the TARDIS where they'd be safe.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople Eleven]] berates miners for treating clones as disposable but then leaves two gangers behind to activate an anti-ganger bomb to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek when he could have activated it himself and survived.
** Over the course of the revival, the Doctor has to call Rose Tyler, River Song, and Clara Oswald out in turn for [[spoiler:trying to save the life of a deceased loved one]] as doing so violates a fixed point in time and threatens the survival of the universe. In the Series 9 finale [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]], ''he'' attempts to do the exact same thing in the wake of [[spoiler:Clara's death]], demonstrating the top level of this trope. In his defense, he has been DrivenToMadness by a TraumaCongaLine that would break just about anybody and accepts LaserGuidedKarma for his actions once he has his HeelRealization, admitting he broke his own rules. The Doctor's grief-driven hypocrisy in the finale is intentionally placed in contrast to earlier in the season, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E4BeforeTheFlood "Before the Flood"]], when the Doctor has to physically restrain a man from preventing the already-seen death of the woman he loved, giving the exact same rationale that the Doctor himself later ignores when faced with the same scenario.
** Twelve’s poor attitude towards Clara’s boyfriend and ex-sergeant Danny Pink in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker “The Caretaker”]] is extremely hypocritical. He strongly dislikes the fact Clara is dating a soldier someone who kills people and frequently insults Danny labelling him a “PE teacher” even though he actually teaches maths. Putting aside the fact the Doctor has heaps of military friends from UNIT and several of his previous companions are or have become soldiers, what makes Twelve‘s prejudice against Danny truly hypocritical is that the Doctor has (reluctantly) been a soldier himself and has explicitly killed before, making his dismissal of Danny who’s similar to him very rich. Danny calls him out on it at the end, pointing out all the orders Doctor gives are like an officer bellowing commands. Much to Twelve’s anger.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]]: Mixing this trope with PayEvilUntoEvil, the Doctor calls out [[spoiler:the Master]] for using Nazis to track her down in 1943 Paris as "low"... only to do the same thing to ''him'', getting him arrested for allegedly being a DoubleAgent for the British so she can steal his time machine.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon "Fugitive of the Judoon"]]: The Doctor calls out [[spoiler:the Ruth Doctor]] for threatening people with a gun, saying that "The Doctor never uses weapons!" ...except for all the times that the Doctor ''has''. And this isn't even counting the times the Doctor's let enemies destroy themselves with sabotaged weaponry, which she ''also'' chastises [[spoiler:Ruth]] for.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E7CanYouHearMe "Can You Hear Me?"]]: In a sympathetic take, the Doctor gives a speech about how HumansAreSpecial for being able to deal with their pain... this coming from a woman so desperate to avoid it that she considers time-travelling to the next day to not be alone with her thoughts.

* ''{{Series/Beyond}}'': While Frost has built up Hidden Sky as a way to prove the existence of life after death and help other people reconnect with dead relatives & loved ones, he's really doing it just to see his deceased wife Celeste again. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This comes back to bite him hard]]. He also claims to understand the importance of family, though he'd also abandoned his daughter.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' & ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** Glory constantly goes on about how much she hates being human and considers human things beneath her, and yet she adores silk and has quite the shoe collection.
** Buffy is one in a few ways:
*** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E21TwoToGo Two to Go]]", she attempts to talk Dark Willow down by getting her to focus on the positives in life, but Willow promptly shoots her down with a BreakingSpeech, pointing out all of Buffy's self-destructive habits during the season since Willow brought her BackFromTheDead, as well as the fact that Buffy herself freely admitted that she finds it so difficult to be alive.
*** In season 5, shows compassion and empathy for Warren's SexBot April, but later views the Buffybot, who was designed by Warren for Spike for a similar purpose, as nothing but an "[[ItIsDehumanizing it]]."
*** When Willow goes dark, Buffy insists on helping her and talking her down, but when Anya, now a vengeance demon again, kills several people in granting a wish in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E5Selfless Selfless]]", Buffy jumps right to MurderIsTheBestSolution; when Xander points this out, Buffy replies that it's not the same thing [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman because Willow is human and Anya is a demon]]. In the same conversation, she states that when it comes to demons, she is the law and her word and judgment is absolute, when previously, she specifically told Faith that Slayers ''aren't'' the law or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers above it]].
** Xander is also a hypocrite in many ways:
*** In season 3, he's furious that Buffy knew that Angel had come BackFromTheDead and withheld the information from the others when he himself had deliberately neglected to tell Buffy that Willow was planning to curse Angel with a soul again in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2 Becoming Part 2]]" to ensure that Buffy ''would'' kill him.
*** He also has a relationship with Anya, a former demon, whilst looking down on Buffy's relationship with Angel because Angel is a vampire. As Angel has a soul and regrets the things Angelus did, he is really just as moral as Anya is. This gets magnified when he yells at Buffy for wanting to kill Anya, who is back on a vengeance demon-killing spree, and she reminds him that she killed Angel to save the world.
** Angel is one on multiple levels:
*** Angel and Buffy "take a break" after seeing him kiss Faith pretending to be Angelus in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E17Enemies Enemies]]". In the next episode, we see Angel violating her need for space with his excuse being he wanted to make sure she was safe. This happens in a similar way on Season 5 of ''Angel'', where Angel hires a spy on Buffy to keep tabs on her even though as far as he knew at the time she supposedly didn't trust him...
*** He breaks up with Buffy because he wants her to be with a normal guy, but then the minute she is with one (aka Riley), behaves resentfully and practically provokes his fight with Riley by insinuating he "lost his soul again" (translation: "slept with Buffy") and then acts like he's entirely blameless.
*** When Angel visits Sunnydale to protect Buffy in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E8Pangs Pangs]]", he keeps his presence a secret from everyone but her, able to see her but she can't see him. This hypocrisy is called out by Giles and later Buffy herself, although Angel justifies it in both cases as "protecting her."
*** Angel tries to kill Wesley and alienates him from the team for being responsible for Connor in Quor'toth and raised by Holtz even though it was a "mistake for the greater good" ... Something Angel continually does himself, which he does eventually acknowledge.
*** Constantly making decisions that affect others without consulting them first such as his break-up with Buffy, wiping everyone's memories of Connor in Atvs S4, rewinding his one human day with Buffy that only he remembers, and [[spoiler: his choice to become Twilight and the Twilight prophecy, which involved Buffy in a deep and intimate way.]]
*** Angel gets jealous and pissy with Buffy over Spike, even though at this point in the series he had also fallen for Cordelia and even had a kid with Darla he may or may not have told her about...
** Simone blames Buffy for all the Slayers killed during the Twilight crisis, but is feeding her own loyal Slayers to Zompires, trying to find a way for them to be turned but still have their mind so ''she'' can become one and kill Buffy.

* Happens a ''lot'' in ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', with the titular wives doing some pretty underhanded or morally questionable things they get outraged at other people for.
** Susan is a chronic offender - for example, she constantly freaks out whenever her daughter starts dating a boy, but Susan has dated several men at the same time, cheated on Mike when he was in a coma, kissed Mike when she was about to marry Ian, slept with a handsome Doctor Ron after remarrying Karl for life-insurance purposes but still having feelings for Mike, etc. She also constantly discusses her sex life with her teenage daughter.
** She also gets upset when Lynette demands she vote for her as president of the homeowners association over Katherine and tells her friends shouldn't put each other in that position. Pretty rich considering she demanded Gaby go on a date with her StalkerWithACrush to pay for Mike's bail, with no thought to what might happen to Gaby. She also did the exact same thing to Julie when she heard Edie was going to play the guitar at Julie's music recital and guilted Julie into letting Susan play onstage with her instead, even though Susan doesn't play a musical instrument.
** She's outraged when Edie Britt burns down her house, but when she confronts her about it, Edie retorts that Susan did exactly the same thing to her back in Season One (granted it was by accident, but Susan didn't fess up until months later, and Susan had technically broken into her house and knocked over a candle that caused said fire.)
** She frequently engages in SlutShaming with Edie and accuses her of throwing herself at every man she meets - Susan is in no position to talk, given how many men ''she's'' dated over the course of the series and she even cheated on Mike while he was in a coma.
** Susan is horrified when Julie is dating her ex-college professor, who has been divorced three times, but he points out Susan herself has been divorced twice. [[LameComeback She retorts that two is still a smaller number than three.]]
** Bree is appalled when she first discovers Andrew is gay and tells him he won't go to heaven. Kind of rich coming from the woman who helped Andrew cover up the fact he ran over Juanita Solis.
** In Season Four, Bree is appalled when Orson confesses that [[spoiler: he was the one who ran over Mike and put him in a six-month coma]], saying she can't forgive him. Again, she was fine covering up her son doing the ''exact same thing'', only even worse because Juanita actually died shortly after that, Mike recovered.
** During an argument with Lynette when Bree spanked Porter, Bree apologises but then backhandedly remarks that Lynette's children run wild and a little physical discipline would do them some good. Lynette promptly counters by snarkily pointing out Bree didn't exactly do such a stellar job with ''her'' kids.
** Lynette frequently goes behind Tom's back to make decisions at work without his input, but utterly freaks out whenever Tom wants to do anything on his own. This power struggle is often the root cause of nearly all their arguments during the series.
** Lynette is offended and outraged when Tom is suspicious that she's been cheating on her with Rick. Though Lynette was innocent, she's jumped to the conclusion Tom is cheating on her several times before, once even taking the kids and leaving to stay in a motel without telling him or bothering to try and get his side.
** Gaby cheats on Carlos in Season One with John but is ''outraged'' when he cheats on her with Su Yin. (Though granted, she was mostly angry because Carlos didn't have a meaningless fling, he picked the woman carrying their surrogate child.)
** Gaby also engages in SlutShaming with Edie when she starts dating Carlos, even though Gaby and Carlos just got divorced and Gaby was the one who cheated on him.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'': Kerry Weaver and Mark Greene, who frequently made people's lives hell if they even ''thought'' about bending or breaking the rules, yet never had any problem bending or breaking the rules themselves. Kerry also made people's lives hell for the slightest of screw-ups, making sure that they were punished as severely as possible, yet almost always acted as if her own screw-ups were no big deal and did everything she could to avoid being reprimanded.

** On a third-season episode, Carol expresses ''disapproval'' when she finds out that Ross cheated on Rachel (although Ross insisted that it wasn't cheating because they were "on a break" at the time). This, despite the fact that Carol actually slept with Susan ''while she was still married to Ross.'' In response to Carol reproachfully saying, ''"You slept with another woman,"'' Ross stammers, ''"Oh, y-you're one to talk,"'' which could either have been a reference to Carol's own infidelity or simply a pun on the fact that Carol is a lesbian.

** After Ross reminds her of this, Carol's only response is to grimace and look away.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Tywin Lannister:
*** He constantly preaches the importance of family while destroying the bonds he has with his children by psychologically abusing them. Tywin often wastes no time reminding his children of their shortcomings, all whilst ignoring ''his'' poor parenting as a huge reason why they are so flawed.
*** The majority of his actions which are considered "best for the family" often boil down to what will most benefit ''himself'' first. Tyrion even calls him out on how Tywin never makes any personal sacrifices for the sake of the Lannisters but expects his kids to do so in return... to which Tywin answers that his sacrifice was to let Tyrion survive childbirth. Case in point: he is ''very'' disappointed that he has no suitable heir and criticizes Jaime for remaining on the Kingsguard and Tyrion for being a deviant and presses his children into political marriages for the sake of family legacy (such as when he arranges for Cersei to marry Loras and have his children while she is still fertile) while never remarrying himself, even though as a man his reproductive system has no expiry date and he could have more children. Not to mention that by the time of the series he has been widowed for ''over thirty years'' so there could have been several more adult Lannister children by now to make new alliances and maybe make up for the "disappointments" of his first three children. Meanwhile, his first marriage was a ''marriage for love'' - his first cousin Joanna, who as another Lannister brought ''no'' new wealth, lands, or armies with her.
*** He constantly condemns Tyrion for his whoring while secretly bedding them himself. Namely, Tyrion's former lover Shae, after Tyrion's trial.
*** When Tyrion complains that his hill tribes in Season 1 are unruly Tywin is quick to preach that the responsibility of bad behavior from soldiers lies with their commander, but when Oberyn confronts him about Gregor Clegane however Tywin simply replies that men at war commit all kind of crimes without their superior's knowledge. In the books, Tywin insists that he never ordered Gregor to kill Elia but he did order Gregor to kill her children and only wishes that they did it cleanly.
*** Also, his justification for the Red Wedding is that it's more noble to kill dozens at a dinner rather than thousands in battle.....which conveniently leaves out the fact that not only were Robb and his court slaughtered, but also his entire army, in a very cowardly way.
** Cersei Lannister:
*** She calls Margaery a harlot and a whore, despite herself having committed adulterous incest with her brother. She also resents Margaery for manipulating the king and trying to become a power behind the throne like her... which, unlike Cersei, Margaery would prove seemingly successful at.
*** So, Cersei defends her cheating on Robert with her brother Jaime as "true love" and her and Jaime "belonging together", adding too that her husband being an UnwantedSpouse who was whoring around himself, anyways? Fine... until Jaime goes to war and Cersei starts bedding a cousin behind her "true love's" back, as part of manipulating him to help kill her husband Robert.
*** Cersei is deeply offended that Tywin played favorites with his children, favouring the gifted Jaime. Cersei has no problem playing favorites by focusing on her firstborn son Joffrey. Myrcella and Tommen are pretty much ignored unless there is some setback on the horizon.
*** Cersei looks down on and insults Ellaria Sand for being a bastard even though all three of her own children are secretly illegitimate and pretenders to both the throne and to her own House.
*** She accuses Tyrion of overestimating his own intelligence, something she does ''constantly'', and often at great cost to herself and House Lannister. [[LampshadeHanging Tyrion calls her out on this immediately.]]
*** She deeply loves Tommen because he is her son, but shows little respect and concern for the actual individual, not thinking twice before undermining and manipulating him or before hurting the woman he loves because Cersei's powerplays come first. At most, she views herself as a WellIntentionedExtremist.
*** In Season 4, she accuses Tywin that once she is gone that he and Margaery would dig their claws into Tommen and fight over him until he would be ripped apart. Comes season 5, after Tywin's death, she constantly struggles with Margaery to manipulate Tommen, until he ends up killing himself after realizing that his mother's schemes ruined his chances of becoming a good king.
** Joffrey scorns his brother Tommen for crying during Myrcella's farewell, conveniently forgetting he was on the verge of tears at Robert's deathbed and that he was weeping for his life when Arya had him at swordpoint and Nymeria bit his arm.
** Balon Greyjoy is quick to point out the flaws of others and abuses his son for growing up among the Starks even though it was his failure that made Theon a hostage in the first place. He also resents Ned and Robert for defeating him and taking his son, even though the Old Way he so cherishes encourages taking from those weaker than you and so by all rights everything was taken from him fair and square.
** A fairly minor example, but the Blackfish chides Edmure for calling Robb "nephew" rather than the style due to a king, whilst himself referring to Edmure as "nephew" rather than the style due to a Lord Paramount.
** Janos Slynt justifies his betrayal of Ned Stark by saying the man tried to bribe him. Tyrion notes that the only mistake there was not realizing Janos had already been bought.
*** He also justifies this betrayal and [[spoiler: the murder of a baby who was one of Robert's bastards]] by saying that [[JustFollowingOrders "orders are orders"]]. When he is later a member of the Night's Watch and Lord Commander [[spoiler: Jon Snow [[ReassignedToAntarctica assigns him the command of a ruined fort on The Wall]] ]], he refuses the order with a very insulting rebuttal. [[spoiler: LaserGuidedKarma ensues.]]
** Walder Frey speaks of his glorious victory and how his enemies crumbled before him, which annoys Jaime to the point where he asks how many battles Frey had personally partaken in. Not only does Frey dodge the question, but he then questions Jaime's personal combat prowess. This of course makes The Kingslayer even angrier.
** Brienne of Tarth:
*** She tells Stannis she's killing him in the name of Renly the rightful King... even though Stannis clearly had more right to the throne than Renly, and if he hadn't killed Renly, Renly probably would have killed him.
*** Later, Brienne tells Sansa not to trust Davos for supporting Stannis and cites the fact he wasn't with Stannis to show his disloyalty. However, Davos was away on Stannis' orders and by this logic, Brienne was disloyal to Catelyn for not being with her when she was murdered. In fact, she comes across as worse by this logic, as rather than remaining to protect Sansa she went off to murder Stannis and it was only luck that enabled her to save Sansa.
** Roose Bolton becomes this in hindsight. Remember when he called the Greyjoys "treasonous whores"?
** Ellaria Sand off-handedly berates Jaime for being "The Kingslayer", then kills her king Doran Martell a few episodes later.
** Harald Karstark sided with the Boltons because the Starks killed his father. Yet, he is not bothered in the slightest when Ramsay murders his own father Roose who also avenged Harald's father. He also sided with the Boltons who were allied with the Lannisters, whom his father had a hostile hatred of and would have never sided with any house allied with them. Not to mention that he doesn't seem to remember or care that the Boltons' Lannister allies killed his brothers, with Jaime Lannister himself having murdered Torrhen in cold blood. Combined with his cold demeanor, it really makes you wonder what his relationship with Torrhen and Harrion was like...
** Jaime Lannister:
*** Him reminding Randyll Tarly that he had sworn an oath to the crown is kind of this considering that Jaime killed the king he had sworn to defend (while he was right to do it, it doesn't change the fact he betrayed his oath) and is persuading him to serve a woman that murdered a king (Robert) and a queen (Margaery) and is responsible for the death of another (Tommen).
*** He claims to Brienne that he was proud of killing the Mad King before he unleashed wildfire on the people of King's Landing, come Season 7, he serves Cersei a Queen who unleashed wildfire on the people of King's Landing and willingly follows her around like a minion.
** Upon meeting Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen tries to get him to bend the knee by citing the oath his ancestors made. The moment he replies with the atrocities her father committed, she asks him not to judge her by her father's sins. It's such a blatant show of hypocrisy that even Jon Snow himself hangs a lampshade on it immediately afterwards.
** Varys has a hard time defending how his bid to remove Robert — a lazy and uninvolved ruler but one who provided peace and stability, and an improvement on the Mad King, with Viserys II, a cruel, stupid, and weak man — fits with his mantra about the "good of the Realm".
*** This was an AdaptationInducedPlotHole due to the removal of the "Aegon" subplot from the books. Essentially, Varys has worked to slightly destabilize the Baratheon and Lannister dynasties because he was intending to put Rhaegar's allegedly still living son back on the throne, having been raised all of his life to be the "perfect prince". Varys's original plan was to use Viserys and Daenerys as ''decoys'' to distract King Robert before bringing over Aegon later. At some point, the showrunners decided not to use this subplot, so Varys's plans no longer make sense with what was established in the earlier seasons.
** Qhono tells Tyrion that his people (the Lannisters) are weak... Except you know, they are fighting against a Dothraki horde and ''a dragon''. Not a fair strategy.
** Renly Baratheon:
*** He claims him becoming King would be better for the common people, even though his attempt to usurp the Iron Throne leaves King's Landing starving.
*** He asks Ned if good warriors make good Kings. However, he is basically planning to take the Iron Throne through military force. For someone who is afraid of blood and peaceable, he shows no remorse for ordering the deaths of Daenerys Targaryen and Viserys, which Ned alone disagreed with, and Robert felt guilty about and tried to rescind. He tells Catelyn he and Robb are natural allies, comparing them to his brother Robert and Robb's father Ned... except Renly went against Ned's wishes in trying to usurp the crown and abandons him in King's Landing.
** Eddard Stark:
*** He is considered the most honest and honorable man in Westeros to a fault (and is on display prominently in the HonorBeforeReason trope), but when Cat arrests Tyrion for being behind Bran's maiming in a spur of the moment decision, he claims to Jamie later it was at his command. Ned frequently calls out other people for their faults as liars, cheats, and double-crossers, but apparently is willing to lie on behalf of his immediate family. Particularly egregious since he holds Jamie responsible for serving as bodyguard to the Mad King (who executed Ned's father and brother) and also breaking his oath for eventually killing the same king.
** Arya Stark:
*** She is furious with her sister Sansa for lying and covering for Joffrey when Joffrey attacked Micah, leading to Micah's death. When Sansa points out that it was Sandor Clegane who killed Micah, Arya retorts that as Joffrey's sword shield, he does whatever Joffrey tells him to. But later on in Season Three, when Sandor is put on trial by the Brotherhood Without Banners, Arya angrily brings up the murder of Micah, even though by her previous logic, Joffrey should be the one held accountable for Micah's death, not Sandor. Sandor even retorts when Arya points out that she's the one who attacked Joffrey and Micah just ran away that he should have killed Arya instead.
*** Arya briefly served as Tywin's cupbearer in Season Two when she was a prisoner at Harrenhal, yet she twice called out other people for doing the same thing - she was appalled Jaqen H'ghar became a Lannister soldier even though he had previously been their prisoner (he called her out on it), then again when she is reunited with Sansa, she gets angry when she finds a letter Sansa wrote back in Season One telling Robb to denounce Ned's claims Joffrey is a bastard and bend the knee and accuses her of serving their enemy, but Sansa retorts that Cersei forced her to write the letter and she had to pretend to still be loyal to the Lannisters to survive.
* ''Series/GeneralHospital'':
** Carly Corinthos Jax. Slept with Jason for weeks without even knowing his name. Seduced her stepfather, then later cheated on ''him'' and spent the duration of her pregnancy pretending that the baby she conceived that night was his when she knew there was a chance it wasn't. Cheated on her husband--she has probably never been faithful to ''any'' man that she's been married to or involved with -- and tried to pull the same pregnancy stunt with ''him'. But she verbally and physically assaults any woman who dares to so much as say "hello" to a man she's interested in, branding them as a "slut" or a "tramp".
** Sonny Corinthos also counts. A mobster, yet claims to be better than most people he despises and [[NeverMyFault makes excuses for ''all'' his crimes]], from his [[FreudianExcuse abusive childhood]] to his bipolar disorder and berates women if they lie or cheat, despite his history of infidelity, despite having fathered more children than anyone else on the show.
** Brenda spent the entirety of her relationship with Sonny acting very improperly with her friend Miguel--gushing about how gorgeous and sexy he was, hanging all over him, provocatively dancing with him--but the two of them would go ballistic if Sonny so much as talked to Miguel's fiancee Lily. It was also somehow perfectly okay for Brenda and Miguel to jump into bed within days of her breaking up with Sonny, but horrible for Sonny and Lily to begin dating, even though they had the sense to take their time getting involved. The most glaring example of this hypocrisy had to be Brenda making snide comments about this--as she's sitting on Miguel's lap, and then when the towel-clad, post-ShowerOfLove Brenda and Miguel reacted with disgust and anger at the sight of the ''fully clothed'' Sonny and Lily returning home from their date.

* ''Hypocrite/Charmed1988''