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* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': The film implies it, but the novelization confirms why Mark has turned against Godzilla again despite witnessing his heroics five years prior. Since Godzilla is now attacking Apex facilities seemingly for nothing, Mark is comparing him to Emma and fearing that history is repeating itself. Mark claims Emma and Godzilla are similar because they desire to protect the world but think the collateral damage their actions cause is necessary for the world's greater good. As Madison argues that it's wrong for Mark to doubt Godzilla because he only attacks for good reason, Mark says that animals can change like people; in other words, even Godzilla can turn bad on a dime since Emma caught everyone off-guard when she betrayed Monarch and threw in her lot with Alan Jonah.



*** He gives the crowd of Germans a lecture on how the mad scramble for power and identity diminishes their life's joy, something he is reluctant to admit about himself.

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*** He gives lectures the crowd of Germans a lecture on how the mad scramble for power and identity diminishes their life's joy, something he is reluctant to admit about himself.
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** One bad experience after another with the royal family members, King Aultcray and Princess Malty, leads the titular hero, Naofumi, initially projecting his feelings of animosity onto the second princess Melty, immediately thinking she was untrustworthy and was secretly planning to set him up, due to being related to Aultcray and Malty, the two who placed a FalseRapeAccusation on him and continued to dog his steps. This is despite Melty presenting herself as a genuinely kind-hearted princess when they first met, and even personally intervening to prevent Malty and Motoyasu from forcing Naofumi to fight a duel with the latter in the middle of a public area just moments prior. Naofumi does eventually realize his mistake and now sees her asa trusted ally and friend.

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** One bad experience after another with the royal family members, King Aultcray and Princess Malty, leads the titular hero, Naofumi, initially projecting his feelings of animosity onto the second princess Melty, immediately thinking she was untrustworthy and was secretly planning to set him up, due to being related to Aultcray and Malty, the two who placed a FalseRapeAccusation on him and continued to dog his steps. This is despite Melty presenting herself as a genuinely kind-hearted princess when they first met, and even personally intervening to prevent Malty and Motoyasu from forcing Naofumi to fight a duel with the latter in the middle of a public area just moments prior. Naofumi does eventually realize his mistake and now sees her asa a sa trusted ally and friend.
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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Several of Calvin's schemes for bugging Susie rely on the assumption she is as obsessed with bugging him as he is her, and not understanding that she really could not care less. Unsurprisingly, they usually fail.

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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Several of Calvin's ComicStrip/{{Calvin|And Hobbes}}'s schemes for bugging Susie rely on the assumption she is as obsessed with bugging him as he is her, and not understanding that she really could not care less. Unsurprisingly, they usually fail.
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* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'':
** In one episode, Bolander and Munch investigate the murder of a man by his wife. Bolander clearly sympathizes with the woman because he projects his own unhappy marriage onto her and ignores her guilt, until Munch convinces him to view the situation objectively and arrest her.
** A tragic example occurs with Bayliss. He admits he takes cases involving child abuse (particularly sexual abuse) so personally because he sees himself in every abused child, as he was molested by his uncle throughout his childhood and had an emotionally abusive childhood.

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* ''Literature/EverythingINeverToldYou'' deals with this trope via how the Lee family treat each other. They all constantly project their own issues onto each other instead of communicating about their feelings. For instance, Lydia is the favorite child because James and Marilyn project their hopes and dreams onto her - popularity for James and academic success for Marilyn and remain oblivious to the fact that Lydia is only trying to live up to their expectations to make her parents happy, not because she wants to herself. Meanwhile James and Nath have a very tense relationship because [[IHatePastMe James sees himself as a boy in Nath and resents him for being weak and nerdy like he was.]] Only [[TheRuntAtTheEnd Hannah]] is exempt from this and that's only because her family never pay any attention to her. Outside the family, Nath's animosity towards Jack is that he perceives Jack's behavior towards him as being mockery when it's actually his own insecurity leading him to jump to assume the worst in his classmate and he's totally unaware [[spoiler:Jack had a crush on him for a very long time and used his friendship with Lydia as an excuse to get closer to Nath.]]

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* ''Literature/EverythingINeverToldYou'' deals with this trope via how the Lee family treat each other. They all constantly project their own issues onto each other instead of communicating about their feelings. For instance, Lydia is the favorite child because James and Marilyn project their hopes and dreams onto her - -- popularity for James and academic success for Marilyn and remain oblivious to the fact that Lydia is only trying to live up to their expectations to make her parents happy, not because she wants to herself. Meanwhile James and Nath have a very tense relationship because [[IHatePastMe James sees himself as a boy in Nath and resents him for being weak and nerdy like he was.]] Only [[TheRuntAtTheEnd Hannah]] is exempt from this and that's only because her family never pay any attention to her. Outside the family, Nath's animosity towards Jack is that he perceives Jack's behavior towards him as being mockery when it's actually his own insecurity leading him to jump to assume the worst in his classmate and he's totally unaware [[spoiler:Jack had a crush on him for a very long time and used his friendship with Lydia as an excuse to get closer to Nath.]]



* Katniss tends to do this a lot in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. For example, in ''Catching Fire'', she insists that the other Tributes are out to get her and Peeta and that they cannot be trusted...but the first thing Katniss does upon entering the Arena is try to kill the other Tributes and she plots about backstabbing them several times, with the justification that [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl it's to save Peeta.]]

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* Katniss tends to do this a lot in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. For example, in ''Catching Fire'', she insists that the other Tributes are out to get her and Peeta and that they cannot be trusted...trusted… but the first thing Katniss does upon entering the Arena is try to kill the other Tributes and she plots about backstabbing them several times, with the justification that [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl it's to save Peeta.]]Peeta]].



** Let's look at the way Tyrion describes Cersei: "And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honor, for love." This ''is'' an accurate characterization of Cersei--but it's also an equally accurate a characterization of ''himself''.

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** Let's look at the way Tyrion describes Cersei: "And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honor, for love." This ''is'' an accurate characterization of Cersei--but Cersei -- but it's also an equally accurate a characterization of ''himself''.



* ''WebVideo/RatsSMP'': Upon being advised to carve a scarier design for his pumpkin to ward off a spirit in the HalloweenEpisode, Owen redesigns it to the scariest thing he can think of -- a clock. Martyn and Apo immediately interpret it as "ageing" and the passage of time, which Owen [[SureLetsGoWithThat goes along with]] whenever someone questions if him living in a broken grandfather clock while being scared of them would constitute as hypocrisy. In truth, the reason he's so afraid of clocks in the first place is that [[spoiler:he [[FictionalDisability lost his tail]] to one in a tinkering accident in the past]].



* There's a Spanish proverb, "cree el ladrón que todos son de su condición", that translates to "the thief believes everyone is like him".

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* There's a Spanish proverb, "cree "''cree el ladrón que todos son de su condición", condición''", that translates to "the thief believes everyone is like him".



** Similar thing happens with ShipToShipCombat between factions of the same fandom.

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** Similar A similar thing happens with ShipToShipCombat between factions of the same fandom.



* If one has interacted with people with extreme bigotry, it's easy to notice this as a means used to morally justify their views. To them, their bigotry is justified because the people they're bigoted against (IE, another race, gender, sexual identity, etc.) are the ''real'' bigoted ones, so it's completely OK to vote against them having rights and hate them. They also assume that moderates and people in their group who ''aren't'' bigoted are just lying and secretly, ''everyone'' hates the other side and are just being too polite/cowardly to admit it. The idea of ''not'' being racist/sexist/homophobic/etc is completely alien to them, so they simply don't believe that there are people who genuinely believe in equality.

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* If one has interacted with people with extreme bigotry, it's easy to notice this as a means used to morally justify their views. To them, their bigotry is justified because the people they're bigoted against (IE, another race, gender, sexual identity, etc.) are the ''real'' bigoted ones, so it's completely OK to vote against them having rights and hate them. They also assume that moderates and people in their group who ''aren't'' bigoted are just lying and secretly, ''everyone'' hates the other side and are just being too polite/cowardly to admit it. The idea of ''not'' being racist/sexist/homophobic/etc racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. is completely alien to them, so they simply don't believe that there are people who genuinely believe in equality.
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* ShallowCannotComprehendTrueLove: Superficial character assumes that everyone else is shallow like they are.

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-->[[IronicEcho "You were right, Lex... brain beats brawn every time!"]]

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** In ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2023'', Otto's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for Bailey reeks of this. He accuses Bailey of being "an impostor" when Otto himself stole Peter's identity and life and calls Bailey a "sad, broken little boy destined for failure" when Otto himself was trapped in a decaying body after many, many defeats at the hands of the wall-crawler. He ends his tirade by declaring that Bailey will ''never'' be Spider-Man, the very identity that Otto is trying to subsume.

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