History MoralMyopia / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is full of this, with "heroic" and "villainous" characters alike capable of deploring the antics of others... while seeing no problem with doing the same thing themselves. [[LordErrorProne Tatewaki Kuno]] may perhaps be the best example of this in the characters; his statements about what makes a person moral (and he, naturally, is the most moral and honorable person in town if you listen to him) and his actual actions are pretty much exact opposites.

* This trope kept the feuding flames fueled in ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}''. CycleOfRevenge, indeed.

** [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]]
*** In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' anime, Light claims that L is evil because he used another human being as a scapegoat in Episode 2. This completely disregarding the fact that the man in question was a criminal scheduled for execution that day, the fact that ''Light himself killed him'', and how many people Light had killed up to the point where he said that.
*** Light in general is a spectacular example of this trope, at least in the beginning, as he endeavors to kill all the criminals and bad people on the planet but sees nothing wrong with killing thousands upon thousands of people, because he's a [[VillainProtagonist good guy]]. When Ryuk mentions at one point that Light will be the only evil person left on the planet should he succeed, Light [[ObliviouslyEvil has no clue what he means]].
*** The amount Light objects to the morality of an act, apart from the part in which he loses his memories of the Death Note and is not acting as Kira, tends to depend on how much it affects his plans. Even his disapproval of Mikami killing people he didn't think necessarily deserved to die ''yet'' is largely based on how it makes Kira look.

** In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' anime, Light claims that L is evil because he used another human being as a scapegoat in Episode 2. This completely disregarding the fact that the man in question was a criminal scheduled for execution that day, the fact that ''Light himself killed him'', and how many people Light had killed up to the point where he said that.
** Light in general is a spectacular example of this trope, at least in the beginning, as he endeavors to kill all the criminals and bad people on the planet but sees nothing wrong with killing thousands upon thousands of people, because he's a [[VillainProtagonist good guy]]. When Ryuk mentions at one point that Light will be the only evil person left on the planet should he succeed, Light [[ObliviouslyEvil has no clue what he means]].
** The amount Light objects to the morality of an act, apart from the part in which he loses his memories of the Death Note and is not acting as Kira, tends to depend on how much it affects his plans. Even his disapproval of Mikami killing people he didn't think necessarily deserved to die ''yet'' is largely based on how it makes Kira look.

* This is what makes the female protagonists of ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' so hard to like. They regularly treat the boys among them with indifference at best and annoyance at worst but are quick to go down hard on them if they show any interest in other girls. They have no problems with throwing insults, threatening, or even outright harming the boys they supposedly like, but if even a fraction of the same thing happens to them it gets treated like a MoralEventHorizon. But perhaps the most infamous example has to be when [[spoiler:Miharu throws a WhatTheHellHero speech at Akihisa for not treating Minami like a girl. The fact that she treats both [[PsychoLesbian Minami]] and [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Akihisa]] far worse [[{{Hypocrite}} never comes to her mind]], nor does it ever get [[KarmaHoudini brought up]].]]

* ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'': [[SinisterMinister Olba]] has the gall to call Emi out on working with [[SatanIsGood Maou]], questioning her sanity. This is despite the fact that not only is he in a VillainTeamUp with Lucifer, a FallenAngel and Maou's would-be [[TheStarscream Starscream]], but is actively using him to terrorize innocent people, whereas Emi was working with Maou to stop them from tormenting said innocent people. Even ''Lucifer himself'' calls Olba out on his hypocrisy.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'': Leonard Testarossa despises [[TheHero Sosuke Sagara]], calling him a horrible monster beyond redemption because he's killed people before, and even tries using this argument to drive a wedge between Sosuke and his {{Love Interest|s}} Kaname. The problem is, Leonard is the leader of Amalgam, a massive terrorist organization that's causes worldwide death and destruction in pursuit of their own selfish goals, while Sosuke's a soldier who fights to protect people with special abilities from being captured and exploited...by Amalgam. Essentially, Leonard believes that ordering minions to kill people isn't anywhere near the same as pulling the trigger himself, and he doesn't get why Kaname thinks [[YoureInsane he's out of his mind]].

* Asagami Fujino of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' accuses 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 (who is at this point utterly broken emotionally and in the middle of a profound psychotic break) refuses to accept that she's done anything immoral, citing that her stomach hurt. Add to that that Shiki didn't care that Fujino killed the men in the club who had been raping her ''every day for an entire year'', because that was simply revenge and a sudden burst of killing impulse and the victims [[AssholeVictim had it coming]]. It's when Fujino started actively tracking the guys who managed to escape and killing anyone who got in her way that Shiki thought she went too far. Of course, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Shiki has a unique concept of what it means to murder to begin with]].

* At one point in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', the Apostle Wyald tries to defend his actions to Zodd (who is currently moments away from murdering him) by claiming that the main directive of Apostles is to "do as you will"--that is, once they become Apostles, they can do whatever they want with their newfound power. Zodd then turns this logic on him by telling him that what ''he'' wants to do is execute Wyald for his stupidity. Wyald then starts begging from the logic that they're on the same side--never minding that the reason he was in this situation to begin with is that he was holding Griffith (someone planned to be a member of the God Hand) hostage.

* The BigBad of the first saga, Licht [[spoiler:aka Patolli]] heavily dips into this due to his vengeance against Clover Kingdom for the genocide they [[spoiler:supposedly]] committed unto the elves.

** 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'' moral myopia in regards to Sensui's MisanthropeSupreme[=/=]KillAllHumans worldview due to MadLove.]]

* This is what makes the female protagonists of ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' so hard to like. They regularly treat the boys among them with indifference at best and annoyance at worst but are quick to go down hard on them if they show any interest in other girls. They have no problems with throwing insults, threatening, or even outright harming the boys they supposedly like, but if even a fraction of the same thing happens to them it gets treated like a MoralEventHorizon. But perhaps the most infamous example has to be when [[spoiler:Miharu throws a WhatTheHellHero speech at Akihisa for not treating Minami like a girl. The fact that she treats both [[PsychoLesbian Minami]] and [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Akihisa]] far worse [[{{Hypocrite}} never comes to her mind]], nor does it ever get [[KarmaHoudini brought up]].]]

** When 9-year old Eren murders two human traffickers to rescue Mikasa, the third man flies into a rage over the death of his partners. Of course, not long before that the three of them had murdered Mikasa's parents and intended to sell Mikasa herself into sex slavery.

* Explored in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', with people taking horrible action but being fiercely protective of their own. After all, HeWhoFightsMonsters is a major theme of the series.

** Pride angrily upbraids Greed for betraying his "family" but threatens to eat him [[spoiler:and callously eats Gluttony- yeah it had a pragmatic purpose, but Pride licked his lips before doing it and was clearly very pleased with himself]].

** However, Gon has been showing signs of his own moral myopia since the very beginning and is even commented on by other characters, not really caring when fellow participants die in the hunter exams or that his training partner in Greed Island is a SerialKiller since all the other participants were strangers but he knew Binolt. [[spoiler:This eventually comes to a head when he dedicates everything to killing Pitou to avenge Kite, even threatening to kill an innocent woman until they come with him. Ends tragically when he decides to [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique "give up everything" for the power to brutally kill Pitou]] and needing to be saved from the brink of death in the next arc]]

** [[TheRival Koga]] serves as an excellent example. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is slaughtering an [[ThrowAwayCountry entire village]] because his pet wolves were hungry, but enters an UnstoppableRage when his [[MauveShirt pack]] is killed by Inuyasha's group, even though the group only killed the pack out of self-defense. Despite this Koga is considered to be [[AntiVillain sympathetic]] (and that appears to be purely because Kagome is flattered by his crude flirtations with her).
** Kagome get angry with Inuyasha any time he shows jealousy for other male characters flirting with her, but she herself tends to get insanely jealous any time Inuyasha pays attention to another woman (typically Kykio), even though he usually isn't even flirting.

** And speaking of Danzo, his idea of the right thing to do puts him second only to Orochimaru for trauma produced. If that. Danzo has a standard policy of abusing and brainwashing small children into his minions, he's strongly implied to have conspired with Orochimaru after Orochimaru betrayed the village. He's also responsible for Kabuto's StartOfDarkness; Not only did he blackmail Kabuto and his mother figure into spying for Root, he ''set them up to kill each other'' when he felt that they [[HeKnowsTooMuch knew too much]] and had become a liability. Consequently, Kabuto betrays Konoha. Most importantly, [[spoiler:he's the one who leaked the fact that Naruto had the Kyuubi sealed inside him and is responsible for the boy's rotten childhood]]. He is clearly in the top five evil people stakes for the series, but he ''[[IDidWhatIHadToDo doesn't think he's a bad person]]''.

* In ''Literature/TheHeroicLegendOfArslan'', in response to hearing that Pars has slaves, the young Lusitanian soldier Etoile tells Arslan that their country and people are far better than Parsians because their god Yaldabord teaches that all men are equal. But if you follow another religion, then you must be marked off and killed. Arslan naturally lampshades how inconsistent he is.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has [[GoldfishPoopGang Team Rocket]], a gang of {{Card Carrying Villain}}s who are more than happy to steal other people's Pokemon or valuables so they can give it to Giovanni and get a sweet reward out of it. Steal from them, even it's to take back what they stole, or take something of theirs on accident, and they act like they're the victims.

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'':

* Done for CreepyChild effect on ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. Thanks to their brainwashing, the cyborg girls have n awful no qualms about killing people and are indifferent to their own injuries, yet any attack on TheHandler they're conditioned to protect is an outrageous affront worthy of immediate vengeance.

* Happened in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', most notably with Chief Fang/Kiba Daioh and the Fang Clan. Fang and his tribe would rape, murder, pillage, plunder, and destroy entire villages, but if even one of their own died, then the chief would cry ManlyTears and swear unending revenge. This also counts as BlueAndOrangeMorality, since he is not above sacrificing his own children to [[DirtyCoward save himself]].

* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' anime, Light claims that L is evil because he used another human being as a scapegoat in Episode 2. This completely disregarding the fact that the man in question was a criminal scheduled for execution that day, the fact that ''Light himself killed him'', and how many people Light had killed up to the point where he said that.

** 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'' moral myopia in regards to Sensui's MisanthropeSupreme[=/=]KillAllHumans worldview due to MadLove.

** Usagi Tsukino is possessive over Mamoru and gets defensive when he talks to other girls, but she herself is perfectly willing to hit on other boys behind his back during their relationship.

** Luna the Cat is willing to cheat on Artemis behind his back, but when she thinks he is doing so to ''her'', she goes on an UnstoppableRage.
** Usagi is possessive over Mamoru and gets defensive whenever he talks to other girls, but she herself is perfectly willing to hit on other boys behind his back during their relationship.

** Usagi is possessive over Mamoru and gets defensive whenever he talks to other girls, but she herself is perfectly willing to hit on other boys during their relationship.

** Usagi is possessive over Mamoru and gets defensive whenever he talks to other girls, but she herself is perfectly willing to hit on other boys ''while she is already in a relationship with him''. The other guardians often call her out on this, though.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Luna the Cat is willing to cheat on Artemis behind his back, but when she thinks he is doing so to ''her'', she goes on an UnstoppableRage.