History Main / AtLeastIAdmitIt

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': This is a big part of the philosophy behind BlackMagic: Black Mana is, at its core, inherently selfish, exploitative, and ruthless ([[DarkIsNotEvil though Black-aligned characters are not necessarily so]]), but it's also very upfront and honest about those things, viewing people who try to dress up their motives behind guises of morality or ideology as cowards and hypocrites. This view extends to the other four colors, and ''especially'' [[LightIsNotGood White]].
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* In the ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' story in ''Comicbook/TwoThousandAD Sci Fi Special'' 2022, when Dredd caputures Judge Fray, he asks why a good Judge turned bad. Fray retorts that there is no such thing as a good Judge, and he just had the awareness to realise they were the bad guys, and the nerve to ''commit'' to it.

** Villain Crossbones has used this while trying to deprogram Red Skull's daughter Synthia,[[note]]i.e. turn her back into the AxCrazy DaddysLittleVillain she was before SHIELD gave her FakeMemories and brainwashed her into being a normal, healthy person[[/note]] he goes on a rant about how the "American Way" is just a lie used to control the masses.
--->'''Synthia''': Oh, and fascism's better, then?\\
'''Crossbones''': Not better, maybe, but more honest, at least. It don't pretend to value human life while making that life a whole helluva lot worse off.
** He also did it in ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' #149, during the ''ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}'' crossover:
--->'''Crossbones''': Fine with me. I'll burn out more of these Jap zombies.\\
'''Moonstone''': That's right-- you don't talk much so I forget you're a crazy racist.\\
'''Crossbones''': Everyone is. I'm just honest about it.
* The reason ComicBook/EmmaFrost always wears those {{Stripperific}} outfits is that she's an AttentionWhore, and she will gladly admit it.
* During one of the most-quoted tirades delivered in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', ComicBook/TheJoker chastises Batman for not admitting to his particular insanity.
** See also ''ComicBook/JokersAsylum'', where he hijacks a game show and turns it into a DeadlyGame, just to prove how sick the viewing audience and ratings-obsessed staff are.

* ''ComicBook/{{Pathfinder|DynamiteComics}}: Origins'' #4: While evaluating TheTeam for membership in the Pathfinder Society, Venture-Captain Heidmarch somewhat angrily calls Merisiel a thief: [[NoodleIncident apparently she stole an artifact from a party of Pathfinders several years ago]]. Meri retorts that the Pathfinders had stolen the item in question from a tomb to begin with.[[note]]This is a ContinuityNod to the Pathfinder Society's InUniverse reputation in the ''Lost Omens'' setting: they fancy themselves {{Adventurer Archaeologist}}s who bring ancient knowledge to the public and take dangerous items out of circulation, but their methods vary widely in legality and political acumen and they're often accused of being glorified thieves and/or disrespecting native cultures.[[/note]]

* In ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Drama-O-Rama" (DC issue #48), Sedusa stages a reality TV show in Townsville so the citizens will ham it up for the cameras while she robs the city blind. The Powerpuff Girls aren't immune to it, either. When Sedusa instructs the people to be more dramatic, Blossom takes umbrage...she says she's ''already'' a drama queen.

** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Unlike Magneto, Wolverine, or many lethal-minded characters, Sabertooth purely kills because he likes it. He knows he's a monster.
* In ''ComicBook/VoteLoki'', this is basically Loki's campaign platform: He's a supervillain and a trickster god, but at least he's honest about how dishonest he is while other politicians lie about who they are. [[spoiler:In fact, what ultimately thwarts him is when people realise that is ''literally'' his entire platform and he either hadn't bothered or had genuinely forgotten to make any actual campaign promises, even bad or dishonest ones, and was just letting people project their desires onto him.]]

-->'''Dole''': I'm a plain and honest man.\\
'''Voters''': Bullshit!\\
'''Clinton''': Hi folks, I'm completely full of shit and how do you like that?\\
'''Voters''': Y'know something? At least he's honest.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''Deathstroke'': The villain group "The Destroyers" decide to take over the United States. They think they'll be better leaders than the corrupt politicians running the country because the Destroyers admit that they're criminals.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': This is the biggest difference between Lelouch and Suzaku. They're both {{hypocrite}}s and {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, but Lelouch acknowledges his own hypocrisy and never once tries to justify it, whereas Suzaku is the exact opposite and [[NeverMyFault refuses to own up to anything he does]]. Lelouch even lampshades it at one point, telling Suzaku point-blank that he [[HypocrisyNod doesn't have time to debate which of them is a bigger hypocrite]].