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** [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Well, she]] ''[[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas was]]'' [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas his surrogate daughter]].

* In the fourth ''{{Blackadder}}'' series, General Melchett is utterly enraged when Blackadder cooks and eats his pet pigeon, and sentences Blackadder to death in a comically ridiculous KangarooCourt. However, in the very same episode, it's revealed that he ran over Lt. George's pet dog when George was a child and is completely callous about it, both when it happened, and when he talks about it in the present.

** "Don't forget all the [[FinalFantasy Imps you killed for EXP]]!"

On the other end of this warped {{double standard}} is the belief that others not in their social group (even if they're considered non-persons) should treat ''them'' ethically and never do ''them'' wrong. So when the hero kills some {{mooks}} in self defense from their unprovoked attack, the bad guy draws his sword and curses the hero for taking the lives of such good men who were far better than he, spitting out "Now [=~It's Personal~=]!" and swearing to bring DisproportionateRetribution on him for ''daring'' to defend himself. This, of course, is the providence of [[EvenEvilHasStandards villains with 'standards']], who care about their minions rather than [[WeHaveReserves sending them to their dooms]]. Sometimes the bad guy (mid-attack) will [[AndThisIsFor emotionally throw the name]] or [[FatalFamilyPhoto some other personal detail]] about the minion who just died.

On the other end of this warped {{double standard}} is the belief that others not in their social group (even if they're considered non-persons) should treat ''them'' ethically and never do ''them'' wrong. So when the hero kills some {{mooks}} in self defense from their unprovoked attack, the bad guy draws his sword and curses the hero for taking the lives of such good men who were far better than he. Spitting out "Now [=~It's Personal~=]!" and swearing to bring DisproportionateRetribution on him for ''daring'' to defend himself. This of course is the providence of [[EvenEvilHasStandards villains with 'standards']] who care about their minions rather than [[WeHaveReserves sending them to their dooms]]. Sometimes the bad guy (mid-attack) will [[AndThisIsFor emotionally throw the name]] or [[FatalFamilyPhoto some other personal detail]] about the minion who just died.

Is often a PetTheDog for the villains and it is extremely rare for a CompleteMonster to exhibit this. A CompleteMonster tends to go all the way on to [=~It's All About Me~=], [[WeHaveReserves where even his followers don't merit his concern]].

Contrast: PayEvilUntoEvil. Also, this is a very widespread TruthInTelevision, tending to think so seems to be an [[HumansAreBastards innate human tendency]] that needs [[HeroicResolve lots of willpower]] to overcome. Leading cause of WhatMeasureIsAMook and easily facilitates {{demonization}}, and certainly related to ApeShallNeverKillApe. Related concepts include AMillionIsAStatistic, MoralDissonance and WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide. Compare/contrast: ProtagonistCenteredMorality.

* DC Comics had a hard-boiled detective series (forget the name, but it was set in the 20s or 30s and the art was done in pencil and colored pencil). In it there was a tough criminal who flew into a rage when someone hurt his cats.

* One of the Irish mercenaries in ''SinCity'' gets angry at Dwight for killing his fellow mercs. Despite the fact they were trying to murder Dwight.
* Example from ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'''s rogues gallery - after Kryptionians destroyed Amalak's homeworld, he went on a centuries-spanning rampage, killing any and all Kryptionians he could find, even those who had nothing to do with the genocide of his people. He didn't mind innocents getting caught in the crossfire either.

* In ''{{Children of Men}}'', Patric, one of the two men sent to kill Theo, takes it personally when Theo inadvertently kills the other assassin in the process of saving his own life. When they meet again near the end of the film Patric even knees him in the groin shouting about his fallen comrade: "He was nineteen!"
** Possibly a JustifiedTrope here. Remember the collective level of trauma the society as a whole experienced when an eighteen year old was killed in the beginning of the movie. Their outrage may have had less to do with Theo killing him with the fact that he was one of the youngest people on the planet at that point.

* Asagami Fujino of KaraNoKyoukai convicts Shiki of being a clearly insane killer, and Shiki is quick to point out that Fujino herself has already brutally murdered almost half a dozen people by ''twisting their limbs off''. Fujino refuses to accept that she's done anything immoral, citing that her stomach hurt.

Contrast: PayEvilUntoEvil. Also, this is a very widespread TruthInTelevision, tending to think so seems to be an [[HumansAreBastards innate human tendency]] that needs [[HeroicResolve lots of willpower]] to overcome. Leading cause of WhatMeasureIsAMook and easily facilitates {{demonization}}, and certainly related to ApeShallNeverKillApe. Related concepts include AMillionIsAStatistic and MoralDissonance. Compare/contrast: ProtagonistCenteredMorality.

** Envy often complains about others not fighting fair when they get the advantage over him in battle.

->"Those guys've turned nasty! They used to play fair, no matter what dirty tricks we pulled!"
-->-- Kasanegafuchi {{Delinquent}}, YuYuHakusho Manga

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* EncyclopediaDramatica tends to do this with 4chan in this troper's opinion. To be honest they are almost the same except for the fact that one is a wiki and the other is an imageboard.

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** Also, later on, [[spoiler: Yaminade no Itsuki gets hit ''hard'' with this, being Sensui's [[YaoiGuys boyfriend]] and PsychoSupporter. When Sensui dies, Itsuki tells off the heroes and accuses them of being {{Hypocrite}}s for (dub quote) "training a boy to kill and then expecting him not to kill as a man". Despite his ''severe'' MoralMyopia in regards to Sensui's KillAsllHumans worldview due to MadLove, many of Itsuki's fans consider [[UndyingLoyalty this last speech]] to be his CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]

** Also, later on, [[spoiler: Itsuki gets hit ''hard'' with this, being Sensui's [[YaoiGuys boyfriend]] and PsychoSupporter. When Sensui dies, Itsuki tells off the heroes and accuses them of being {{Hypocrite}}s for (dub quote) "training a boy to kill and then expect him not to kill as a man". Despite his ''severe'' MoralMyopia in regards to Sensui's worldview, many of Itsuki's fans consider this last speech to be his CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]

*In ''TraumaCenter'', the BigBad NietzscheWannabe Adam believes that medicine goes against the "right order" of the world and unnaturally prolongs human life. Yeah, sure. This coming from the guy who [[spoiler:made himself immortal through his own man-made viruses. Nothing unnatural about that, right? He justifies this by claiming he has placed himself outside the cycle of nature, not giving and not taking anything from the world...]] SoYeah.