Sandbox / Hypocrite Wick Checks

Hypocrite Wick Checks

As per the Hypocrite discussion about cleaning up the trope here.

Hypocrite is the target of two redirects which are currently both in use. As of 30th May 2020, there were:

• 9441 Hypocrite page wicks = 97 page wicks to check
• 95 Hypocrisy page wicks = 50 page wicks to check (square root <50)
• 43 The Hypocrite page wicks = 43 page wicks to check (<50 wicks exist)

Wick check only performed on the main trope, which is clearly Hypocrite based on the above numbers.

Note: I didn't know whether I should only pick one example from each page or do them all. I opted to do every example I could find on each page I looked at. That means I looked at 97 pages and checked 146 examples.

Clarifying the Groupings Chosen

Groupings

• Correct: Examples establish the narrative is exploring the trope.
• Correct via potholing: There's enough context in the example to indicate the trope is correctly potholed.
• Misuse: Examples establish that the narrative is not exploring this trope.
• Misuse via sinkholes: The context of the example indicates the incorrect potholing.
• Zero Context Examples: There's not enough context to know if the trope is in play.
• Unclear: Examples do not make it clear what's going on.
• Unclear: Troping Groups: Does the trope cover groups instead of just individuals?

Results Summary

Results

• Correct (22)
  • Narrative intention established by example: 22/22
• Correct via potholing (4)
  • Narrative intention established by example: 4/4
• Misuse (30)
  • Audience judgement: 19/30
  • Possible Fridge Logic: 2/30
  • Narrative suggests different trope: 3/30
  • Troping real life: 2/30
  • Complaining: 4/30
• Misuse via sinkholes (24)
  • Audience judgement: 15/24
  • Page Quote potholing: 1/24
  • Narrative suggests different trope: 7/24
  • Troping real life: 1/24
  • Speculative Troping: 1/24
• Zero Context Examples (17)
  • Lack of information (including wordy ZCE entries): 17/17
• Unclear (45)
  • Entry doesn't clarify if it's audience judgement or narrative set-up: 27/45
  • Entry isn't clear if there's a different trope in play instead: 8/45
  • Entry isn't clear what's going on at all: 10/45
• Unclear: Troping Groups (3)
  • Groups or organisations are being troped instead of individuals: 3/3

Conclusion

Conclusion

Total examples checked: 145

The biggest issue found is a failure to establish that the narrative is setting up the use of the trope (61 examples)

• Examples misuing the trope for audience reaction: 19
• Examples sinkholing audience reaction: 15
• Examples not clarifying whether they're audience reaction or narrative intent: 27

The next biggest issue is that there is a lesser, but consistent, problem with examples being confused over what they want to describe (28 examples)

• Examples suggest a different trope: 3
• Examples sinkholing wrong trope: 7
• Entry isn't clear what trope is in play: 8
• Entry isn't clear at all 10

Following that are zero context examples (17 examples)

Lastly, there are are very few issues with real life troping, speculative or fridge troping, potholing page quotes, and troping organisations instead of individuals.

Hypocrite wicks

Correct Use (22)

Corrupt Church

• Daniel Amos:
  • The followup, Doppelgänger, was an even more thorough critique of televangelists. "New Car!" and "Angels Tuck You In" mocked the Prosperity Theology that they preached; "Do Big Boys Cry" portrayed them as hypocrites who never admit to wrongdoing; and "Autographs for the Sick" portrayed them "counting dollars in the afterglow" while utterly failing to help anyone with their ministries. "I Didn't Build It for Me" described a real-life incident where a televangelist used his followers' donations to build an obscenely lavish ministry headquarters—then tried to claim that it was really for the use of all Christians, and besides, God told him to build it. The entry describes there being a narrative use of this trope.

Characters.Fallout New Vegas New California

President Aaron Kimball

• Hypocrite: Openly respects a democratic process and maintains NCR elections during his presidency, although many in the NCR claim he bought or manipulated his most recent votes. The example indicates that there is a narrative exploration of how his actions and words don't match.

Characters.Good Omens 2019

• Hypocrite: Famous for staging a rebellion against against his father/mother, he's suddenly against rebellious children when his own son says "Screw Destiny" and rejects him. He even calls Adam his "rebellious son" in a tranquilly furious tone. Satan's entry; looks like it's correct based on the rest of the character section; could use more context to clarify the narrative set-up, however.

Characters.Legend Of The Galactic Heroes

• Hypocrite: After the Lippstadt Rebellion starts to unravel, he gives an impassioned yet ineffectual speech denouncing anyone who would run away from the coming battle as a Dirty Coward — then immediately makes an aside comment to one of his aides revealing he's made an escape shuttle ready for himself. Narrative intent established in example.

Characters.MCU Peggy Carter

• Hypocrite:
  • And then in the second season of Agent Carter she gets angry at Sousa for telling Wilkes the location of the uranium rods in order to save her life, when for the entire season she repeatedly takes huge risks to save the lives of her friends and allies. Sousa calls her out on it in the final episode (though that was at least partly to make her admit she's fallen for him). Occurs within the narrative.
  • Peggy takes serious issue with the sexism she faces, but has no qualms about exploiting those attitudes: enacting violence against men (including her own Love Interest) despite knowing that they cannot and will not retaliate, solely because of her gender. Additionally, there are times when Peggy herself underestimates women and their capacity to exploit gender roles, which is how Dottie managed to get the drop on her. The example seems to be describing that the narrative does set up a consequence for her hypocrisy, suggesting there is narrative intent. The entry isn't wonderfully worded.

Fanfic.Aftermath Of A Fallen Star

• Hypocrite:
  • Amadeus' chapter shows some stunning displays of hypocrisy as he contemplates his plans and convinces himself he's "just" a Well-Intentioned Extremist. He talks about how his family and his allies have forcibly prevented inter-tribal breeding among their ranks, to the extent of not only exiling unicorns who fell in love with pegasi/earth ponies but forcibly aborting mixed-tribe foals... and then insists that they don't hate pegasi or earth ponies, and that the latter species do have their roles in the empire, it's just that unicorn blood "needs" to be kept pure in order to preserve the strength of their magic to protect ponies against other races. He also talks about how Celestia's focus on Harmony makes their race weak, and how they should instead be focusing on Unity. This seems to be correct as it appears to be describing a scenario where the character is trying to convince themselves that they're something they're not.

Fanfic.Missing Linc

• Hypocrite: Although Dirk keeps insisting the Louds are nothing but a bunch of kids, he utterly loses it and acts like a petulant child after his plan is ruined. Lori even lampshades it:
  Lori: Oh, who am I kidding? It's still pathetic. Because this is a grown man throwing a tantrum over not getting his way while screaming that we're a bunch of immature kids.
  • Occurs within the narrative.

Fanfic.The Road Not Trekked Series

• Hypocrite: When Leo gives Nerr shit about sparing and recruiting Shura, she reminds him that he and Camilla have people who have done far worse serving as their retainers. The Rising Dark section Occurs within the narrative.

Film.Blood Of The Tribades

• Hypocrite: Élisabeth condemns the priests of Bathor for being this, since although they condemn her for "abomination" by having sex with a woman, they're also turned on by this (none of them denies the fact). Narrative role of trope described in the entry.

Film.Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

• Hypocrite: Wonka thinks chewing gum is disgusting, so Mike asks why he makes it. Wonka ignores the question. Narrative role established in the entry.

Film.X Men 1

• Hypocrite: Magneto is willing to sacrifice Rogue, but not himself in the advancement of his cause. Beautifully called out by Wolverine, who tells him: "You're so full of shit. If you were really so righteous, it would be you up in that thing." Of course, the biggest irony of that is, if he had been willing to sacrifice himself, the plan would have worked. Narrative role established in the entry, although it could use a rewrite to remove the natterific final sentence.

Recap.Daria S 1 E 12

• Hypocrite: Fortunately for the family, Helen brought a hidden cellphone with her. Daria used it to call the paramedics. Lampshaded by Daria.
  Daria: Okay, calm down. Family has gone mad. Must get them back to civilization, but no way to contact civilization because mother made big deal about cutting off all comunication. What to do? (celphone rings) Rely on mother's hypocrisy to see us throught this crisis.
  • Correct use as indicated by the entry and quote

Recap.Teen Titans Go S 3 E 7 Hey You Dont You Forget About Me In Your Memory

• Hypocrite: Robin notes that one of the roles as the American Boy is to stand up to bullies, which doesn't help the fact he bullies Beast Boy because of his label as a nerd. I think this is correct, it's not well worded.

RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness.Tropes D To I

• Hypocrite: I've put a lot of examples here into the Misuse section as well; this entire group of entries may need rewriting to combine a couple of entries and clean up the wording of others.
  • In Act I chapter 20, Dark calls Kokoa out on this, pointing out that she's insisting that Tsukune isn't worthy of being with a vampire because he isn't as strong as Moka is, but is still insisting that Dark is worthy of being with Kokoa herself despite having lost to Inner Moka in a fight. When Kokoa proceeds to declare that it's different because Dark is a stronger fighter than Tsukune and protects those around him, Dark quickly turns her logic against her by pointing out that, even before Tsukune got vampire powers, he risked his life to protect his friends again and again before proceeding to remark that, not only is she being unfair to Tsukune, she's still chasing after Dark even though he's already chosen Mizore as his girlfriend; when Kokoa decides to actually beg Dark not to reject her, Inner Moka then calls her out over the fact that, after all of her talk about vampire pride, she Ain't Too Proud to Beg Dark to be with her even though he's already made his choice. Kokoa realizes that everything they both said is true, and is left in tearful remorse. Correct use, although very woolly in wording.
  • In Act III chapter 44, Kokoa ends up accusing Akua and Kahlua as such, considering the fact that they had the nerve to crack jokes about her damaged pride and her current bond of servitude to Tsukune when they themselves have thrown their honor away to work for Fairy Tale. Correct use
  • In Act III chapter 50, and again in chapter 52, when Kokoa demands to know where their vampire pride is, Akua smugly responds that Kokoa has little room to talk about pride considering the fact that she's made herself Tsukune's slave in penance for creating a ghoul. Correct use
  • In Act IV, most other members of the group reject Akua and Kahlua because they worked for Fairy Tale and nearly killed them, while forgetting that Dark himself once worked for Fairy Tale and has committed atrocities just as bad, if not worse. When Dark calls them on it, the others agree to at least give Kahlua and Akua a chance. Correct use
  • Talon Ryashen in Act VI. He seeks revenge on everyone who ever worked for Fairy Tale for turning him into a weapon, but as pointed out by others, he resummoned Jovian and Jacqueline and is using them as weapons to achieve this goal. Talon adamantly denies this, insisting that he summoned them for them to work together, and doesn't want them to be his slaves. Correct use
  • Invoked in Act VI chapter 30; when Hothorne asks Moka how he can trust her story on Babylon's invasion, Moka turns it around on him by pointing out that, since his organization has a tendency to automatically deem all monsters evil, he has little room to talk to them about trust issues. Correct use
  • For all of the angels' claims that they want to protect humanity, they seem to constantly have excuses not to help Tsukune and co. do so, with a healthy dose of Lawful Stupid thrown in; for example, in Act IV chapter 16, they refuse to help them stop Hokuto from raising Alucard because, as Hokuto Was Once a Man, he is still considered human to the Heavens and is thus considered sacred and untouchable to the angels until he actually dies with sin. In that chapter, Rason outright calls them "hypocrites of a twisted Heaven," with Ruby flat-out accusing them of having no respect for the humans they supposedly swore to protect. Correct use

WesternAnimation.WITCH

• Hypocrite: Will calls her mother out on lying about having a boyfriend when she earlier lectured her daughter about doing the same. Taranee also bawls her mother out for jumping to conclusions about her and Nigel being involved in a serious crime just because Nigel is a bit of a prankster. Correct use

Correct Use via Potholes (4)

E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi

• A variation occurs in the Rick and Morty episode "The Ricks must be Crazy." When the power supply of Rick's car suddenly dies, he takes Morty into the battery, and tells him that he's created a "Microverse," waited until a sapient life form evolved, told them he was an alien and introduced to the wonders of electricity via "Gooble Boxes," which produce the power necessary to run his car when used to run or walk in place. When Morty tells Rick he's essentially enslaved an entire planet, Rick says they aren't slaves since they created a complex society, when Morty says "that's slavery with extra steps," Rick just brushes him off. Inside the Microverse they encounter Zeep, basically a Rick Expy, who created a "Miniverse," waited until a sapient life form evolved, told them he was an alien, and gave them "Flooble Cranks," which produce the electricity needed to power his world, and render the "Gooble Box" obsolete. When Rick tells Zeep he's essentially enslaved an entire planet, Zeep says they aren't slaves since they created a complex society, when Rick says "that's slavery with extra steps," Zeep just brushes him off. Inside the "Miniverse" they find a researcher named Kyle, who's just created a "Teenyverse," and is waiting for a sapient life form to evolve, so that he can give them "Blooble Yanks," a pulley based exercise device that will power his world, and render the "Flooble Crank" obsolete. When Zeep tries to explain that Kyle plans to enslave an entire planet, Kyle says that since the people of the Teenyverse will live in a complex society, they won't be slaves. Just as Zeep begins to explain "that's slavery with extra steps," he figures out what why they are there, and he attacks Rick. Hearing them fight, Kyle figures out that Zeep, Rick, and Morty aren't aliens, that he couldn't make time for his father's funeral because he was making his Teenyverse, and was only born to power Zeep's world. Despite Morty's attempted consolation, Kyle goes into his ship, and crashes it on a nearby cliff side. After being stranded for months inside the "Teenyverse," Rick, Morty, and Zeep make it all the way to the "Microverse," where Rick destroys Zeep's "Miniverse." After escaping the "Mcroverse" Rick starts his car, and tells morty he told Zeep to tell everyone in the "Microverse" that he "would either have toss a broken battery or the battery wouldn't be broken.''

Good Adultery, Bad Adultery

• In Scenes From a Mall, in which the two spousal protagonists cheat on each other, the wife, who is a famous psychologist, writes a book that essentially justifies adultery by claiming that human beings were originally monogamous because they had such short lifespans in the past, but modern-day married couples live much longer and therefore are forever dissatisfied sexually. However, she handles the news of her husband's infidelity with a lot less tolerance than he does hers. I vacillated over whether this was an 'Unclear' or 'Correct' example. I think there's enough here to suggest it's being correctly used. Side note: it is misusing the Berserk Button trope.

Pantheon.Leadership

• Zamasu outright loathes Darkseid with a passion, seeing him as a perversion of the concept of Gods and finds the very concept of an "Evil God" to be blasphemous and twisted. Darkseid on the other hand, finds Zamasu to be a joke in his belief and goals, outright stating him to be no different from the races he wishes to destroy. The very fact that Zamasu champions himself as a "well-intentioned" and righteous bringer of Justice only causes Darkseid to further underscore what a deluded, hopeless figure he really is. He knows full well it infuriates Zamasu, and he enjoys it. The pothole seems to be used correctly.

WhatMeasureIsAMook.Anime And Manga

• Naruto
  • Sasuke is pursuing Danzo, the most recent target of his ongoing quest for revenge, into a foreign country where the Kages are meeting. On the way, he is found by the Samurai in charge of guarding the area. Before, Sasuke proved capable of defeating hundreds of mooks non-lethally, but Sasuke elects instead to just kill everyone that gets in his way, slaughtering dozens of men just doing their jobs because it was quicker than not killing them. Ironically, this act is never remarked upon by other characters beyond Suigetsu noting that Sasuke is becoming more and more of a Hypocrite. Correct use

Misuse (30)

Characters.Courage The Cowardly Dog Minor Villains

• Hypocrite: Zalost berates humanity for being selfish, after he literally just stated that no one deserves to be happy if he can’t. This looks like audience judgement to me. The rest of his character section is constantly troping that he suffers from severe depression, which makes it sound like there isn't a narrative attempt to portray a hypocrite, just someone with a mental health problem.

Characters.DCEU Task Force X Officials And Agents

• Hypocrite: She's at least as bad as most any member of the team of super-villains she looks down on. Amanda Waller entry; this looks like straight audience judgement.

Characters.Fallout New Vegas New California

• Hypocrite: General Lee Oliver entry
  • Says the Courier doesn't have what it takes to look after the Mojave. While he has a point, considering that the general himself is the cause of MANY of the NCR's problems in the Mojave... Misuse; appears to be audience judgement and possibly even Fridge Logic
  • He can be talked into retreating, claiming that the lives of his men matter the most to him, although this doesn't stack up too well with his Zerg Rush attrition tactics. Misuse; appears to be audience judgement and possibly even Fridge Logic

Characters.MCU Peggy Carter

• Hypocrite:
  • She and Steve bond over facing prejudice; he for being a small, sickly guy, she for being a woman in a male-dominated profession. When she finds him, post-enhancement, kissing a hot blonde, she refuses to listen to him telling her it's Not What It Looks Like (the blonde came onto him) and lumps him in with the other horndog soldiers. This looks like audience judgement, as the entry is suggesting the narrative set-up is 'create mistaken scenario for character to reach wrong conclusion and get upset').

Characters.Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

• Hypocrite: A major aspect of Shinn's character is he contradicts himself - a lot. Shinn Asuka's character sheet
  • He's outraged by what the Earth Forces have done to Stella, and is enraged when Kira—who had no other options available—cuts her down in the middle of a fight, going so far as to try and get revenge on him for it. He himself does the exact same thing to Auel and Sting (who he is fully aware are Extended) without batting an eye. ^note With Auel, Shinn was holding back until he was pushed into SEED Mode by Kira. For Sting, the Chaos Gundam was shot down in Berlin, so Shinn likely assumed Sting was already dead. The note makes it pretty clear that this is audience judgement and therefore misuse; it's acting as a justifying edit.
  • He also got his start with his family dying in a war. What does he do? Fight in wars. Especially bad once his side invades the country that his family died in, essentially making a cycle of pain. Audience judgement; misuse.

Characters.Our Avatars Are In A Room Together

• Hypocrite: He tells Homura to not be so self-destructive and to care for herself. He himself doesn't practice what he preaches, if his treatment of Shirou is any indication. Fate/stay night Archer entry; Misuse — audience judgement.

Characters.Red Vs Blue Blue Team

• Hypocrite:
  • When Church refuses to help him with taking down the Meta, he responds with a Dare to Be Badass speech, arguing that it would be a selfish decision that would haunt Church afterwards. In the following season, Wash teams up with the Meta in order to retrieve Epsilon and get a clean slate on life. Which is, well... a selfish decision that would haunt him later on. Agent Washington's entry; Audience judgement — their two situations are completely different and the show makes no attempt to compare them. Wash had been imprisoned for life for avenging Church's situation, so took the only chance to escape gaol he'd ever get; when given the chance to fake his death and rejoin the Blue Team, he takes it.
  • More generally, Washington often complains about being constantly betrayed and taken advantage of, all while scheming against his employers and former teammates. It is however quite understandable even when he is siding against the heroes, as he had enough bad experiences not to care too much about honesty or loyalty himself. As the entry itself states, this is shoehorning at best; misuse at worst. Having seen the show, I can also add it's an inaccurate write-up.

Characters.The Tudors

• Hypocrite: Became Queen by becoming one of the King's Mistresses and encouraging him to get rid of his first wife, is absolutely irate at the possibility that Jane Seymour could be doing the same. It would seem that Anne only has a problem with infidelity when she's the wronged party. Anne Boleyn entry; this is clearly audience judgement; misuse.

Characters.The Walking Dead Comic Hershels Farm

• Hypocrite: She agrees with Rick allowing Negan to live despite the fact that he beat her husband to death with a baseball bat right in front of her, yet when Gregory attempts to poison her she almost immediately agrees with Jesus that he must be executed. The fact that that her reason for doing it (fear of Gregory's popularity among the Hilltop citizens, despite everyone hating his guts) and the method used to carry it out (hanging, which Maggie herself had experienced first hand when she attempted to take her own life) has only reinforced this perspective in the eyes of many fans. In #174, however, Negan correctly deduces that Maggie was not happy about Rick's decision to spare him. Maggie's entry; the entry makes it clear it's an audience judgement; misuse.

ComicBook.Xenozoic Tales

• Hypocrite: Jack openly opposes nearly all technology, seeing it as an evil that endangers the natural balance. However, he has no problem resurrecting mid-20th century gas guzzling cars that certainly contributed to pre-Cataclysmic Earth's pollution for his own enjoyment. To be fair, he's refurbished them to run on "slither guano", as in dinosaur excrement, of all things. Looks like audience judgement, especially as the entry effectively undermines it's opening argument (the cars contributed to pollution due to their fuel, but he actually fixes the fuel problem); misuse.

Creator.Chris Morris

His penchant for pitch black humour and fearless parody of public figures made him something of a televisual enfant terrible for a time, particularly after the 2001 Brass Eye paedophile special was attacked for supposedly making fun of paedophilia and child abuse (it was actually satirising the media's then-preoccupation with sensationalised paedophile stories, and the subsequent bouts of civil unrest that they caused). In one notable case The Daily Star published an article attacking the "paeodphile comedy" opposite a photograph of then-15-year-old singer Charlotte Church◊ in which it commended the size of her breasts. This is troping real life (a tabloid, to be exact), so is automatically misuse of the trope.

Fanfic.Aftermath Of A Fallen Star

• Hypocrite:
  • During the the trial, Celestia says that she loves each and every one of her subjects. This becomes a little hard to believe when it's revealed that she has torturers working for her. Audience judgement; misuse

Film.The Spirit

• Hypocrite: Just before the climax, Sand and the Octopus are planning on exchanging their respective MacGuffins. Sand tells her latest cohort to blow the Octopus' head off the moment the transaction is complete. But the moment she arrives, she lectures Silken Floss about how the Octopus can't be trusted and will undoubtedly betray her (despite it never having been so much as hinted that either one is unsatisfied with the other). This is written as complaining about a Shocking Swerve; misuse.

Film.X Men 1

• Same with Wolverine. Calls Scott a dick (when no scene shows as such) ^note and this movie came long before the comics eventually portrayed Scott as a Well-Intentioned Extremist like Magneto but Logan himself antagonizes Scott throughout the movie, takes Scott's motorcycle and instigates himself toward Jean. He also berates everyone's codenames when he himself has an alias in the fighting cage. Example indentation issues aside, this entry is written as complaining and uses the note as a justifying edit. Misuse.

IdiotPlot.Fan Works

• This sums up The Opposite Effect, an Ace Attorney fanfiction in which Pearl and Trucy decide to hook up Ema and Klavier, despite Ema clearly hating him. Somehow, the two repeatedly miss Ema throwing away Klavier's gifts for her and screaming abuse at him, while Ema never thinks to directly confront the two about their actions or ask Phoenix to do something about it. When Apollo finally gets around to asking them what they're doing and telling them that Ema doesn't like Klavier, they somehow get it in their heads that he's jealous and proceed to try to set him up with Trucy's history teacher and high school principal. At this point, still nobody talks to Phoenix about what's going on (despite him being Pearl's friend and Trucy's legal guardian). Meanwhile, Klavier spends the fic convinced that Ema loves him based solely on Pearl and Trucy's word, despite Ema repeatedly yelling at him, throwing his gifts out the window, and hitting him. In the end, the only way Apollo and Ema can think to resolve the issue is to trick Klavier into being set up with Trucy's teacher, essentially resorting to the same stupid tactic they were upset the girls were doing. Entire entry is written as complaining, but the pothole is in a sentence that indicates it's audience judgement rather than narrative intention.

Recap.Arrow S 5 E 23 Lian Yu

• Hypocrite: Black Siren mocks Dinah for thinking she could "replace" her, despite having nothing but disdain for her heroic Earth-1 counterpart, and shrugging off Oliver's attempts to reform her. Audience judgement

Recap.The Sopranos S 4 E 12 Eloise

• Hypocrite: Carmela tries to restrict Meadow's arrangements to prevent pre-marital sex with her boyfriend, Finn. But it could be said that Carmela has committed emotional adultery with Furio even if she hasn't gone that far with him. Audience judgement

RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness.Tropes D To I

• Hypocrite:
  • In Act III chapter 23, Apoch and Astreal state that part of the reason they refuse to let Yukari near Ahakon is because she "never learns and chases after those who are taken." In the next chapter, their jerkish actions towards Yukari lead Ahakon to break up with them; for the rest of the fic, they themselves chase after Ahakon even though he loves Yukari and even try to steal him from her at least once. Looks like audience judgement.
  • For all of Fairy Tale's claims that they're looking out for monsters, they also spend quite a bit of time killing their fellow non-humans, having personally destroyed Ahakon's village and killed everyone there, nearly doing the same to Mizore's hometown not once, but twice, and also directly attacking Yokai Academy for preaching human/monster co-existence. Audience judgement
  • In Act VI chapter 16, Kahlua tells Talon that he isn't the only one that's suffered at Fairy Tale's hands, stating that she and Akua have been altered by Alucard's blood as well and they'll never be full-blooded vampires again. Of course, this part falls flat because Akua and Kahlua willingly joined Fairy Tale in support of their ideals (though they didn't know what Kiria was really after) and chose to take Alucard's blood into themselves, whereas Talon was kidnapped off the streets and forcibly injected with it. Audience judgement; also, Examples Are Not Arguable language makes this entry talk itself out of being this trope.
  • In Act VI chapter 20, Arial criticizes Ran for chasing after Ahakon and refusing to accept him as taken when she herself is/was the same way with Dark. She also has the gall to call Kokoa out over her Hair-Trigger Temper when Arial's own temper is just as bad, if not worse. Finally, she actually demands that Mizore learn to respect her before she even considers giving her her blessing to marry Dark, when she herself has done nothing but disrespect Mizore since they met and is continuing to do so. Audience judgement, also written as complaining.
  • In Act VI chapter 27, Sun joins in the others in chewing out Arial for her blatant refusal to accept that Dark loves Mizore and not her. While she makes a valid point, she has little room to talk since she was the exact same way with Gin, repeatedly refusing to accept that he's moved on to Kokoa in the three years since they last met. Audience judgement

Real Time with Bill Maher

• Hypocrite: The aforementioned Double Standard Rape: Female on Male parodied how in society male pedophiles are obviously scum, but women like Debra LaFave and Mary Kay Letourneau get a free pass. Misuse; this is a continuation of the entry that's under Double Standard Rape: Female on Male, and should be deleted in favour of retaining the other entry.

Saved by the Bell

• Hypocrite: Jessie more than anyone else in the series. She's a Straw Feminist who is jealous of Girly Girl Kelly, possessive of her boyfriend, will sell out her beliefs and outrage for a chance to be a model, and has no issue with physically abusing her significant other. Audience judgement

SeriousBusiness.Real Life

• You like irony? You'll love that not taking things seriously is Serious Business. You show the slightest bit of emotion on anything, people will tell you to "calm down, it's just X". It gets weird when it's applied to things that are, in fact, serious business, such as the Internet. A good portion of the population spends a lot of time on it, it's a major part of the world economy, and people have been murdered and committed suicide over things that have happened online. The people who mock others with "Internet. Serious business." have a tendency to be hypocrites; say something that hits their Berserk Button, and they'll call down fire and brimstone on your head. Misuse by potholing real life content.

Video Game/Oni

• Hypocrite: Griffin pretty much calls Dr. Kerr this a couple times early on. Griffin is referring to the fact that Dr. Kerr made two Daodan Chrysalis and becoming a criminal in the process, but Dr. Kerr stands there and says that they have no right to treat Konoko as a weapon and not as a human being. Ironically, Terrance Griffin is revealed as this later on. Griffin made Dr. Kerr implant a Daodan Chrysalis inside Konoko. He acted as a father figure towards Konoko, but he actually thinks of her as a weapon and a tool to be used and thrown away afterwards, instead of a human being with feelings. There is also the fact that Konoko is being accused of homicide or murder, and yet Griffin himself tried to murder her via Shinatama. He acts like he is doing all this because it is his job, but he seems to be ignoring the fact that he is breaking laws, violating human rights, and being just as much a criminal as the Syndicate he fights so hard against. If Konoko spares Griffin, she says "I won't be the monster you thought I would be! Just remember what I am: the woman you betrayed because you weren't big enough to take responsibility for your own actions!" She is calling him out on his hypocrisy and is saying that he did not betray her out of necessity, but because he was afraid that she would mess up his tidy little world and reveal him as a hypocrite. Misuse; The first two sentences appear to be a correct use of this trope (Griffin calling Dr Kerr a hypocrite). However, the rest of the entry appears to be complaining about Griffin and using someone's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to shoehorn a justification for the complaint.

Warhammer40000.W40k Tropes A To H

• Hypocrite: The Imperium. Big time. Their culture is obsessed with keeping the purity of the human form, and so is hugely supremacist against mutants. However the Adeptus Astartes, their finest warriors and their strongest line of defence against their inhuman opponents, are so heavily augmented with cybernetic and genetic modification (so they are able to take them on one-on-one) that they certainly don't qualify as anything remotely human any more. The Imperium also persecutes psykers despite the fact that a) the whole Imperium would undeniably collapse without them, as their FTL travel relies on their powers, and b) the God-Emperor who founded the Imperium and whom they now worship as a god was/is one, the most powerful one in the galaxy, bar none to boot. Audience judgement

Misuse via Sinkholes (25)

Archangel Gabriel

• Gabriel appears as a redheaded woman a few times in Crimson, along with Archangel Michael and five other archangels. Too bad they're all holier-than-thou assholes who despise humanity (but have come to enjoy indulging in some of its vices). Satan comes off better from what we see of him. This looks like the audience making a judgement rather than the work actually calling it out.

Spiritual Antithesis

The page quote is potholing hypocrite. Even if the trope is being used correctly, it needs to be removed because Page Quotes are not supposed to pothole tropes.

"I came home from these regular monthly drinks that we have in London and grabbed one of the nice hardback comics next to the bed—and in this case it was [Frank Miller's] 300. I picked it up, flipped through it, really not very much paying any attention to it. And one of the speeches about 'The only free men the world has ever known', and literally had a moment of incandescent rage and shouted at the book, ‘You hunted slaves!’ And at that second the entire plot of Three downloaded, including the twist, the structure, everything."

— Kieron Gillen talking about Three.

Analysis.Arrowverse

Moreover, it is clear that Snowbarry shippers are alright with any pairing that is not Iris. When Patty Spivot, who is white, was introduced in season 2, many Snowbarry shippers decided that they liked ‘Spallen’ together, and did not say anything when fans and critics complained that Iris was being side-lined, even though Snowbarry shippers usually claim to ‘love’ Iris. When Patty left and Iris started to get more focus, the hate for her increased once more. Patty and Iris essentially had the same storyline – Barry is lying to them about being the Flash and they are trying to find out. When Iris asked Barry what was going on (as well as the other people who were lying to her), she was called nosy, whiny and annoying by shippers. When Patty tried to force Barry and Joe to tell her, she was praised for her tenacity, including the moment where she outed him on a train. Furthermore, Snowbarry shippers were curiously onboard with comic canon when it came to Barry and Patty's relationship. Because of selective perception, they ignore any evidence that Iris could be in the right, but grant leniency to other characters. They also ship him with Kara and Felicity, where he has shown no interest in the former and does not want a relationship with the latter. The Hypocrite sinkhole is targeting a specific group of the work's fandom over shipping behaviour. This has nothing to do with the work. It looks like Double Standard is being misused for the same reason.

Elves Versus Dwarves

• Dwarf Fortress double subverts this trope. Textually, dwarves are on good enough terms with elven civilizations to engage in trade. However, the Dwarf Fortress playerbase loathes elves, due to their obnoxious, arrogant attitudes, their constant attempts to restrict players from cutting down trees, and the fact that they will be appalled if you sell wooden goods even though they sell wooden goods themselves.^note Elves somehow "grow" their wood items, apparently independently of trees so they aren't entirely hypocritical. This has led players to do drastic things just to spite elves. This looks like an audience judgement call because the 'note' that follows it effectively creates an Examples Are Not Arguable problem by suggesting there's actually an in-universe reason for why the Elves can hold their position without the narrative setting them up as hypocrites.

Corrupt Church

• Sliders: In "Prophets and Loss", an Evangelical Right so evil and powerful that it has outlawed all science and performs chemical lobotomies on "rationalists" claims to control an interdimensional portal to heaven. The heroes notice that it looks awfully similar to their own portal... but it doesn't actually go anywhere; it's just an incinerator tied to a special effect so that the church can vacuum up assets from the gullible and kill them. The Chief Oracle even describes herding unbelievers into these ovens as "the final solution." Take That!, Jerry Falwell! This looks like an audience making a judgement rather than the work actually calling it out.

DisproportionateRetribution.Live Action TV

• In the American Big Brother, Rachel got houseguest Cassi evicted because she said a comment about Porsche off-hand that she didn't like. This gets even more annoying when you consider she did the same thing about Jordan and wondered why she hit Jeff's Berserk Button. Audience judgement entry, misuse.

EasilyForgiven.Video Games

• Warcraft:
  • Baine rather infamously combines this with Felony Misdemeneaor and Crime of Self-Defense in Tides of War., where he declares the Alliance firebombing Camp Taurajo while the hunters and soldiers were away was justified, because it was a military target. Baine then exiled all tauren who fought back against Alliance military targets, despite the Alliance military sieging the gates of Mulgore and the dwarves in particular having led a genocidal campaign against the tauren in the area. It's the middle of a war and one army doesn't let the other army get away with tactics it successfully uses; this seems like a sinkhole, given that's pretty much how wars go.

EvilCannotComprehendGood.Comic Books

• Batman:
  • Poison Ivy presents one lighter case at "Batman and Robin Adventures" #24, Touch of death. This issue shows how disconnected Poison Ivy is from her true motivations to save a Brazilian boy who is a Poisonous Person from a Government Conspiracy and brings him back to his home. She acts on pity, but she cannot understand it.
    Poison Ivy: And with the kid, I could... [Beat] ...poison people faster? ...what was I thinking?
    • The trope is potholed to her being disconnected from her true motives, then the entry goes on to say that she was acting on pity, but can't understand pity. So, not hypocrisy then.

Film.Jumper

• Harsher in Hindsight: David's mother is revealed to be one of the leaders of the Paladins, the same group that's been slaughtering Jumpers and their families for possibly carrying the bloodline to be a Jumper. In response she abandoned David for his safety to be neglected and abused by her husband before going off and having a Replacement Goldfish daughter with someone else in solitude when her daughter could have easily been born a Jumper like David. All of this ends up making her actions come off as a mixture of Useless Bystander Parent and Hypocrite instead of sympathetic. The entry is clearly audience judgement, making it a sinkhole. Note the entry is on the wrong page anyway because Harsher in Hindsight is a YMMV trope).

Funny.Drake And Josh

• The best part is what happens afterwards: The biology teacher shows everyone a real human eye and everyone reacts in disgust. She then scolds them and tells them the human body isn't disgusting, before ordering Drake to put down his book. When he lowers his book to reveal the rash he developed due to not eating sweets, she proceeds to retch in disgust and runs out of the classroom. While still carrying the eyeball. The fact it's hypocrisy seems to be correct, but the more appropriate pothole to use would be Hypocritical Humour.

Manga.Dragon Ball Super

• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Black
    • His relationship with Vegeta. In the manga, Black finds Vegeta annoying and arrogant after he manages to beat him twice and he takes great pleasure using his Super Saiyan Rosé to clobber him up. In comparison, Black in the anime never takes Vegeta seriously even when he overwhelms him. To him, Vegeta is a warm-up or as he puts it 'an appetizer'. This looks like an audience judgement sinkhole
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Manga Black loses his temper very easily. He goes into rage just because Super Saiyan God Vegeta is smirking at him, saying how he has that arrogant look. When Vegeta keeps easily dodging and hitting him, he starts screaming for him to stop smiling. Same sinkhole use as the previous example.
• Hypocrite: Zamasu and his counterparts are huge ones.
  • Goku Black looks down on mortals and thinks they all deserve to be destroyed, yet he steals Goku's body in order to attain a perfect form.Even more, in the manga, he let mortals like Future Dabra and Babidi kill U7's Supreme Kai. Then, after Future Trunks flees the timeline and with all the gods in his time dead, he becomes bored without anyone to oppose him — just like how he and Zamasu believe mortals can't go on without war and destruction]]. Audience judgement.
  • Goku Black hates Vegeta because he finds him an arrogant prick. This is coming from the same person who bullied Future Trunks for over a year and rubbed his face in about him being weak. He also declares himself to be beyond any mortal after he obtained his Super Saiyan Rosé form. Audience judgement,
  • Merged Zamasu mocks Goku and Vegeta for being arrogant when they fought his components. You know, the same Goku Black and Future Zamasu who were both Smug Supers and Smug Snakes. Not to mention he has an ego bigger than both of them combined. Audience judgement

Hotel Impossible

• Downer Ending: The Thunderbird Motel (Season 3 Episode 11) is Anthony's first complete failure - he comes to restore the hotel after it was damaged in Hurricane Sandy, but spends the entire episode feuding with the extremely stubborn family that runs it, including being called a liar to his face, accused of fabricating fake drama for the show, and even receiving death threats. The episode ends with Anthony deciding to leave entirely after catching the owners in a string of very large lies - in particular, the family patriarch lets it slip that he's actually a real estate multimillionaire, when he'd previously told Anthony that the family was completely dependent on the hotel - he could've fixed it at any time himself, he just didn't want to spend any of his own money on it. Potholing misuse; pointing the trope to a section of language about 'very large lies' suggests a falsehood trope should have been potholed instead. If they are this trope, the entry itself doesn't say.

Useful Notes.Todmorden

It is famously the home of former actor Tony Booth, who is also former Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie's father (don't hold it against them). It is also home to the woman who married Osama bin Laden's son, the policeman who was reportedly abducted by aliens, and factory owner John Fielden, an avid campaigner for workers' rights. This is potholing to real life.

WebVideo.Suburban Knights

• Apocalypse How: If Malachite eliminated technology as he said he wanted to, we would likely be looking at a Class 2: Civilization Extinction and with our dependency on science, a good chunk of the population would go down. Considering Malachite though, cellphones at least might make it regardless. Speculative Troping; misuse
• Stunned Silence: The reviewers when they see Malachite using an smartphone. Sinkhole because this has been troped under Hypocritical Humour, which seems to be the right trope.

WesternAnimation.Justice League The Flashpoint Paradox

• Straw Feminist: Flashpoint Wonder Woman fully believes that all the problems of the world are caused by men. This being the same woman who killed 32 million people in her siege and started a war solely because she wanted Aquaman. Audience judgement

YMMV.Nobunaga The Fool

• Love to Hate: Caesar. Most fans hate him for his stalker-ish behavior toward Ichihime leading to him killing her father to get to the girl, and most of all, for backstabbing Takeda and framed the protagonist for it, all while calling Nobunaga "a coward". Audience judgement

YMMV.The Nostalgia Critic

• Esoteric Happy Ending: Maybe just to spoof the film (seeing as both the review and film were dark with sappy endings) but A.I.. Critic did the sappy speech and the TMZ crew got their comeuppance, but Critic came off like a homophobic Designated Hero hypocrite, and TMZ became Unintentionally Sympathetic. Doug at least somewhat realized this, admitting the episode was too cruel in commentary, redoing a better version of the speech in Alice in Wonderland (2010) and the next episode ("Master Of Disguise") putting all the focus on Critic being abusive and crazy. Audience judgement
• MST3K Mantra: At the end of "When Is a Movie Just a Movie", where condescending that it's your own problem if you get hurt by a movie he plays this song. Then he says that if ''he'' gets upset then that's allowed. Audience judgement

YMMV.Watch Dogs

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Some believe Aiden Pearce to be a Flat Character while others argue he's a perfectly fine one but lacks depths. A third faction, however, believes that Aiden may actually be a Deconstruction of traditional The Atoner Anti-Hero protagonists by pointing out he's a raging Hypocrite for being a vigilante while associating with career criminals as well as doing similar crimes himself. Likewise, he claims to be doing his vigilante work for his family but, in fact, is endangering them worse than ever. In this, he's sort of a Expy of Edward Kenway. Only, instead, he's a hacker instead of a pirate. Indeed, this later motivation has even generated some blog posts dedicated to the subject. Later, this fan theory was confirmed via Word of God. Which just shifted the debate to whether Ubsisoft was pulling a Parody Retcon. Audience judgement, given that it's linked to a fandom interpretation of the character.

Zero Context Examples (17)

Corrupt Church

• The titular Gemstones on The Righteous Gemstones are a family of crooked and extraordinarily wealthy televangelists, introduced as owning a gigantic estate, a theme park, three private jets (named the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit), and a megachurch that's built more like an arena, all paid for through the tithes of parishioners. The patriarch Eli is driven by greed, thinking nothing of opening a satellite church in a neighboring town despite the protests of local churches there, but he's a saint compared to his sons Jesse and Kelvin, the former a debauched hypocrite who is caught and filmed snorting cocaine with strippers by people trying to blackmail the family, the latter a layabout slacker in an Ambiguously Gay relationship with an ex-Satanist who he "saved". This is a very wordy ZCE; it's hard to tell from the entry whether this is called out in-universe or whether the audience is making a judgement.

Mistaken for Cheating

• In the Get Some In! episode "Kit", Drill Sergeant Nasty Corporal Marsh buys a box of hankies from Teddy boy aircraftman Jakey Smith, who secretly has dozens of boxes he is selling at a huge profit. He sells another box to LAC Hodder, the quartermaster at RAF Skelton, who gives them to his girlfriend. When Marsh shows up with Aircraftman Second Class Richardson, who has lost his kit and needs a replacement, he finds one of the hankies and assumes it must belong to Alice, and he beats Hodder up in retaliation. However, when he discovers that Alice still has all the hankies in her box, he punishes Smith for being a spiv and Richardson for doubting Alice's fidelity. I'm really not sure what's going on here; the pothole just seems to have been dropped into the end of the entry without any clarification.

Anime.Goemon Ishikawas Spray Of Blood

• Hypocrite: The Saigo Brothers blames Goemon for Inaniwa Sr's death... despite the fact that it was them, along with the other two "Heavenly Kings", who decided to abandon their boss to his fate on the burning ship. A wordy ZCE; but it doesn't explain whether the work has set this up or whether this is just an audience judgement.

Anime.Osomatsu San

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Todomatsu and Osomatsu give Choromatsu an extended one in "Choromatsu Rising because of his hypocritical nature. It relies on the "The Reason You Suck" Speech trope do all the explaining for it.

Characters.Criminal Minds Un Subs

• Hypocrite: Hates abusive husbands despite keeping his own family terrified of him. This is the Karl Arnold character section, which describes the character as a victim of abuse from his own father, who inflicts abuse on other families after his wife and children leave him because he's inflicted abuse on them. I suppose someone who's trapped in the cycle of abuse would indeed be regarded as a hypocrite, but the entry doesn't tell us if that's what the narrative is going for or whether that's an audience judgement.

Characters.IDROCR

• Hypocrite Leo Icarus entry; ZCE.

ComicBook.Holy Terror

• Hypocrite: Fixer considers using a Kill Sat to nuke a mosque from orbit. ZCE

Fanfic.Aftermath Of A Fallen Star

• Hypocrite:
  • The ponies who tried to disparage Twilight went into a state of mourning... and promptly went back to disparaging her. ZCE; no explanation about why this is the trope

Fanfic.The Road Not Trekked Series

• At Least I Admit It: Gunter's opinion of Garon, compared favorably to Xander, who he considers to be a Dirty Coward and a Hypocrite. The Ephemeral Equinox section; ZCE potholing.

Funny.Shin Megami Tensei IV

• During the Never Have I Ever game, when Laura types "Never have I ever offered to trade Jess's life for mine" and Adam loudly accuses Blaire of doing so, which leads to Blaire, Mitch and Adam arguing over whether or not Blaire could have done it or not, only for Adam to admit it was him.

  Adam: 'CAUSE YOU ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH, RIGHT, BLAIRE? YOU ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH! [long pause as Laura counts down] Fine, it was me.

  Jess: ADAM, JESUS!
  ** Not sure what this sinkholing is all about as the use of it appears to contradict the scene being described. It's ZCE pothole/sinkhole either way.

Characters.Legend Of The Galactic Heroes

• Hypocrite:
  • Also, see Irony. ZCE entry relying on the following Irony entry, which doesn't provide enough context to explain if the trope is in play:
• Irony: Believes in Eugenics, but his link to the Goldenbaum dynasty is a wife and daughter carrying a hereditary disease.

Recap.Mystery Science Theater 3000 S 08 E 22 Overdrawn At The Memory Bank

• Kids Are Cruel: Between the little sexual deviant and the Bratty Half-Pint complaining about how her teacher seems to be something of a hypocrite, Tom muses if it's "Children of the Damned day at the brain institute". ZCE pot hole

Recap.Star Wars Rebels S 4 E 01 In The Name Of The Rebellion

• Hypocrite: Saw accuses Mon Mothma of being one, as she denounces him as a criminal even though she is also one in the Empire's eyes. ZCE. It's very confusingly worded, making it unclear why someone's been called the trope and therefore why it's in play.

Saved by the Bell

• Very Special Episode:
  • Most blatantly "Jessie's Song" (Jessie is discovered to be addicted to caffeine pills) and "No Hope With Dope" (a teen idol looking to film an anti-marijuana PSA at Bayside is discovered to be a hypocrite). ZCE potholing. It just says the trope is in effect, but doesn't explain how.

The OA

• Hypocrite: The OA points out that if Hap thought his experiments were really worth all of the suffering, he'd put himself through them. It's not very detailed, borderline ZCE. As a result, it's not clear it's this trope as opposed to a different trope.

VisualNovel.Lucy The Eternity She Wished For

• Job-Stealing Robot: One of the reasons 2050 society shuns robots but remains dependent on them. ZCE

WesternAnimation.Twelve Forever

• Hypocrite: Kendra proudly shows off her cubic zirconia bracelet, but scoffs at Reggie's mother's class ring for having a supposedly fake ruby. Unclear why this is the trope. It's a wordy ZCE as well.

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Mildly Military

• VideoGame.The Legend Of Heroes Trails Of Cold Steel:
  • Despite the emphasis that the branch campus is more militaristic than the main campus was when Rean attended, the attitude of the students still doesn't seem appropriate for a military school. During Panzer Soldat training in Chapter 1, Ash steals the Hector Instructor Randolph was piloting, and challenges Rean to a one-on-one fight. He does this by attacking Rean unprovoked, forcing Rean to fight back. Despite this, the most he gets is a warning for his behavior. Then there's the field study in Sutherland, in which Rean orders the new Class VII to stay behind at camp while he deals with orders he was given by the imperial government. He orders them to stay behind because they are too inexperienced to help him out. With the help of Ash, the new Class VII leaves the camp, and also takes one of the Soldats with them to help out Rean. When Rean's scolding the new Class VII for their actions, he even tells them that if they were real soldiers, their actions would've gotten them court-martialed. However, Rean's old classmates point out how they used to defy orders all the time, making him look like a hypocrite. This doesn't change the fact that they did defy orders and stole expensive military equipment, making it more a case of Hypocrite Has a Point on Rean's part. It does look like the narrative is creating a legitimate 'hypocrite' scenario. However, the entry seems to be very ambiguous over whether the trope in play is Hypocrite or HypocriteHasAPoint.

Troubled Sympathetic Bigot

• King Uther from Merlin. He hates all magic because of his wife's death, and genuinely believes that he's doing what's right when he commits genocide against those that practice magic. He's also a Hypocrite considering he seeks out magical help when he's really desperate (thus indicating that he knows magic can be used for good), and ultimately his actions cause his illegitimate daughter to turn against him, something that drives him to his death. As someone who doesn't know the work, I don't think this entry is clear on whether the narrative has set him up as a hypocrite, for which his daughter's betrayal is a consequence, or whether it's something the audience has concluded.

Anime.Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Rebellion

• Hypocrite: Homura tells Kyoko to stay low and keep quiet, as to not draw the attention of the witch and her familiars... and then proceeds to take apart her glasses and braids in an incredibly and unnecessarily dramatic way. She then goes on to attack Bebe, the suspected witch, head on, resulting in a climactic battle with Mami that flattens an abandoned church and riddles a large portion of the city with bullet holes. This entry doesn't tell us whether the work is setting up the narrative that she's a hypocrite, or whether this is audience judgement.

Characters.Bleach Thirteen Court Guard Squads 1 To 7

• I Am Big Boned: When Nirgge (who's quite heavy himself) calls him fat, he claims that he's merely plump, which is a sign of his affluence as opposed to someone poor like Nirgge being fat for no reason. This is a weird one. The entry is under Omaeda's character shection. I know the work and the scene is two overweight Butt-Monkey characters shit-talking during a Shounen fight scene. Nirgge is based on an elephant whereas Omaeda is Shinigami ('human'), so hypocrite might not be in effect for Nirgge since his weight hints at his animal connection. Meanwhile, Omaeda's weight is set-up to hide the Mood Whiplash when he suddenly reveals just how fast he can move (something his weight disguises). Either way, I think this pothole is misuse because it's making an audience judgement out of context from the rest of the entry... the entry itself is actually acting like Omaeda is the hypocrite, but it's Nirgge who has been potholed to the trope. I'm therefore not sure how to judge this one.

Characters.Demo Reel

• Hypocrite: He's disgusted by the con-goers who look like freaks, but is more than happy to sleep with a few of the hot ones. Karl Copenhagen entry. The entry doesn't make it clear whether this is an audience judgement or set up by the narrative.

Characters.Exit Fate

• Hypocrite: They continually reference Daniel as a "traitor". They betrayed all 3 countries in the war by the time they kick it! Trevor and Sick's character sheet. Judging by the rest of the page, this appears to be audience judgement, as Daniel is framed for treason, so the narrative appears to have set up that people should think he's a traitor. The character sheet also states that Trevor and Sick are completely insane and utterly hate Daniel. The whole character page is a mess. It's hard to know what's going on here.

Characters.Fallout New Vegas New California

Naomi Han

• Hypocrite: As noted in her profile, one of Naomi's biggest hangups is being judged based on her appearance, but she has a tendency to do the same thing herself. Namely, she thinks that most popular or upstanding types only behave the way they do to get away with things. The reference to her profile appears to just be a character quote, so isn't helpful in clarifying whether the narrative sets her up to be hypocritical about this, or whether it's audience judgement.

Characters.Friendship Is Magic Discord

• Hypocrite: In "The Break Up Break Down", Discord claims that love isn't real, like all things "warm and fuzzy". He apparently doesn't count friendship among those things. Spike seems to acknowledge this, even claiming at one point Discord is just "putting on a front." The use of Weasel Words like 'Spike seems' makes this difficult to know whether the narrative is setting up the trope, or whether the audience is just reading what they want into it. The entry comes across more as a Beneath the Mask entry than a Hypocrite one as a result.

Characters.Good Omens 2019

• Hypocrite: Criticizes Aziraphale for consorting with a demon, but has contacts in Hell whom she uses for information. Michael's entry; Hard to know if this is narrative or audience judgement given that other entries suggest that Michael only had to contact demons to investigate what Aziraphale's been up to (with a demon). Very murky as a result.
• Hypocrite: Hastur is appalled by Crowley going so far as using holy water on a fellow demon, yet he himself dunks an actually innocent demon into a tub full of it because he was at the wrong place the wrong time. Hastur's entry; it might be correct, but there isn't enough to context to clarify whether it's narrative set-up or audience judgement.

Characters.Halt And Catch Fire

• Hypocrite: Early on, he claims that mediocrity and making a project about one's self leads to the downfall of a company. However, his ego gets irrecoverably tied to any project he undertakes and he will abandon the project if he doesn't get the result he wanted or expected. Case in point, he destroys the first shipment of Giants and abruptly leaves Cardiff Electric. Joe MacMillan's entry; The entry doesn't state whether his ego led to the downfall of a company (and the rest of the page implies the company is successful without him). It's murky as it doesn't clarify whether this is deliberate narrative or the audience taking different bits of the story and putting it together as this trope.
• Hypocrite: In "Up Helly Aa", he chews Donna out for having a supposed affair with her former boss Hunt; however, in "10Broad36", he has an affair himself with his brother's ex-high school girlfriend no less. Gordon Clark's entry; This doesn't give us enough information to know if it's narrative set-up or audience judgement.
• Hypocrite: She tells the Mutiny coders to never trust Joe MacMillan. However, when Joe advises Cameron to pull out of the Westgroup acquisition deal, she does so. Cameron Howe entry; Not enough context to know if it's narrative set up or audience judgement.
• Hypocrite: Donna Clark entry
  • When Joe comes over to discuss Mutiny's network rental terms, Donna tells Cameron to keep her cool; however, Donna is the one who has an emotional meltdown mid-negotiation. This is a common trope, where one character tells others to be calm and then turns out to be the one who flies off the handle — it's usually a completely different trope, however; so this seems to be straight misuse, but the lack of narrative clarification makes it hard to know for certain.
  • In season 3, she prevents Cameron from firing two asshole programmers from SwapMeet because she thinks Cameron should learn how to play well with others. In "The Threshold", she chooses to have Cameron ousted from Mutiny rather than try and work around Cameron's conditions for launching an IPO. Later in "NeXT", she tries to convince Cameron to oust Joe from the World Wide Web project. Is this hypocrite or someone reaching the end of their tether with a maverick who won't conform and then later deciding to just the strengths the maverick has instead of constantly failing to change them? The entry doesn't tell us, so it's hard to know if it's really this trope or audience reaction.
• Hypocrite: In Season 3, Joanie lectures Gordon and his date about animal rights, only to swipe some bacon off his plate the next morning. Haley and Joanie Clark entry; there isn't enough context really for us to know why the lecture happens at all so we have no way of knowing if it's really the trope; caring about animal rights and being a meat-eater are not mutually exclusive or automatically hypocritical, so more context is needed.

Characters.Kurohime

• Evil Is Petty: It's usually not petty to want to exact vengeance for the death of one's beloved. However, Yasha could have easily saved Darkray and while the other gods want Kurohime dead for more pragmatic reasons, she rarely gets beyond "Kill Darkray's murderer." Even her reason for killing Darkray is petty. Yashahime entry; pothole with no context, making it a ZCE issue.
• Hypocrite: She has: Yashahime entry
  • Killed Darkray—whom she claims to be madly in love with—while holding the MacGuffin that would save his life. Why? Seeing his soul in such a wretched state breaks her cool perception of him. Her grudge against Kurohime derives almost entirely from the fact that Kurohime murdered him in the first place. I wish this was more context, but it's too murky; is it saying Darkray was killed twice? Her motive for killing him seems to relate to the state of his soul when she sees it — is there a story-related reason for him to end up in this state or is it genuinely a case of hypocrisy? Murky example; more context needed.
  • Stabbed herself to keep her from killing Kurohime and then claiming the resulting scar is Kurohime's fault. Again, no context to tell us if this is a narrative set-up of the trope or audience judgement.
  • Claimed that the God of Death isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone, then blushing because he asked if her wounds had healed. Is this saying she thinks the God of Death doesn't care but blushes because she cares? I don't see how that's this trope. If it is, it's missing context to explain why the trope is in effect.

Characters.Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

• Hypocrite: A major aspect of Shinn's character is he contradicts himself - a lot. Shinn Asuka's character sheet
  • He bawls Cagalli out for Orb's actions during the last war, claiming (not unfairly) that Orb's attempt to stick to it's neutrality lead to a lot of people getting killed, his family among them. Then, when Orb sides with The Earth Alliance to keep from being invaded again, he gets pissed off and calls them hypocrites, even though that was essentially what he was advocating to Cagalli. The entry isn't clear on where the hypocrisy is occurring. He complains Cagalli's previous neutrality cost lives then complains when Cagalli chooses a side to avoid an invasion, he calls Cagalli's actions hypocritical. However, the entry claims he's hypocritical because he doesn't like Cagalli doing something he wanted Cagalli to do... but the entry seems to be about something completely different. This is a very murky write-up.
• Hypocrite: Like Azrael he believes that Coordinators are abominations. This doesn't stop him from using drugs and torture to create his own army of Super Soldiers to oppose them. Lord Djibril's entry; Murky entry — it doesn't explain why the Coordinators are abominations or what they have to do with Super Soldiers; it doesn't clarify that the narrative is setting him up as a hypocrite.

Characters.Steven Universe Amethyst

• Hypocrite: Amethyst has no problem with Peridot making insensitive comments about her friends. However, the moment Peridot does the same thing to her, she becomes greatly offended. Not clear whether this is an audience judgement or whether the narrative wants this trope in play.

Characters.The Devil Is A Part Timer Earth

• Hypocrite: While she hates people asking about her past, at times she will pester her way into finding out the past of people around her. Rika Suzuki entry; Not clear whether this is audience reaction or narrative.

Characters.The Heart Trilogy

• Adaptational Anti-Hero: In spite of being faithful to the movie characterisation of Thorin, Heart of Fire doesn't cover up or shy away from his more unsavoury character traits when he encounters Kathryn in a later phase of his Sanity Slippage. His Fatal Flaws are highlighted, showcasing how in spite of his Pride and Greed (and refusal to acknowledge it), he is not so different from Smaug in one of the worst possible ways. Thorin Oakenshield's entry; Is refusing to acknowledge one's character's flaws automatically a case of the Hypocrite trope? The entry is breaking down the Fatal Flaw trope, which suggests this is audience judgement to apply Hypocrite to it.

Characters.The Tudors

• Hypocrite: He is outraged at the idea that one of his wives might have been unfaithful to him. Meanwhile, he usually can't stay faithful to them for more than one episode after the wedding. Henry VIII entry; It's not clear whether this is audience judgement or narrative.
• Hypocrite: He's extremely dismissive of the "new men" populating Henry's court, but his only friend at court is Suffolk, who was made Duke without an ancient or celebrated lineage. Charles looks uncomfortable every time Surrey rants about the importance of lineage, and tries to gently remind him of the worthwhile service people like the Seymours have rendered the King, Blue Blood or not. The Earl of Surrey's entry; I'm not sure if this is a hypocrite trope or some kind of bigot trope instead. Clarification needed on this one.

Characters.Total Drama Presents The Ridonculous Race

• Hypocrite: Owen called the Iceland feast gross, yet he drank a camel's saliva in Morocco. He also ate much worse things during his time on Total Drama, particularly the "Brunch of Disgustingness" in Island. Noah and Owen character section: the way this is written makes it look like it's an audience judgement and therefore misuse, but there isn't enough context to be certain.

Characters.Tower Of God Regulars First Batch

• Hypocrite: Calls Khun "trash" for "abandoning" Bam before the Submerged Fish test, despite intending to do so himself before! Paracule entry; the way this is written makes it look like it's an audience judgement and therefore misuse, but there isn't enough context to be certain.

Characters.Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

• Hypocrite: Julian was a married man when she first began her affair with him. After marrying him and discovering his infidelity, she's furious. Jacqueline's entry; the way this is written makes it look like it's an audience judgement and therefore misuse, but there isn't enough context to be certain.

Fanfic.The Road Not Trekked Series

• Hypocrite: Azura repeatedly treats returning to Nohr as a horrible and wrong decision, yet expresses no qualms about siding with Hoshido despite her circumstances being the effective inverse of Nerr's. "Series in General" section; This entry isn't clear about what the situation is that's being regarded as hypocritical.

Fanfic.The Worm Protocol

• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Digimon have one with what "Attribute" they are: Vaccine beats Virus, Virus beats Data, Data beats Vaccine, and Free types are always equal to what they face. The Angel Territory happily embraces their strength against all Virus Digimon while trying to ignore that this means that their "inferior" Data-type charges have just as much "right" to give them the same treatment. This is an unclear pothole; the entry's supposed to be an Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors write-up with a hypocrite pothole. However, the entry comes across more as a hypocrite write-up instead and therefore seems shoehorned. It's a very murky example as a result.

Film.Fight Club

• Hypocrite: A major part of Tyler Durden's ranting diatribes against modern society is how it has turned people into unthinking drones who never question anything. After he turns Fight Club into Project Mayhem, the members become underlings whom he expects to follow his orders without questioning anything. This is written like audience reaction, so it's unclear whether it genuinely is narrative intent or just audience reaction.

Film.I Spit On Your Grave

• Hypocrite: In the third film, Jennifer is kidnapping, torturing and murdering people she perceives as rapists and child molesters while blaming the police for caring more about the rapists than their victims. Yet the police are entirely right to investigate the murders and Jennifer clearly has no business dispensing "Justice". Written like audience judgement, so it's not clear whether this is the narrative intention.

Funny.Shin Megami Tensei IV

• When you use the Fundraise skill on a demon that has been afflicted with Bind, you're actually stealing from the demon, as their rather angry dialogue indicates. It gets funny if the target demon has Macca Beam or Wastrel Beam. Unclear whether this is narrative or audience judgement, or possibly even Fridge Logic.

Literature.The Girl Next Door TRIGGERING CONTENT BEHIND SPOILER TAGS

• Hypocrite: Aunt Ruth denies Donnie the chance to rape Meg because Willie just raped her and Ruth considers it incest. Later on, it is revealed that Aunt Ruth has molested Susan (to the point she made her bleed. I don't even know what to do with this entry. Sorry.

MoralEventHorizon.Dragon Ball

• Officer Black goes too far after he decides to destroy the entire Red Ribbon Army base just so he can kill Goku. There were still many soldiers left on the base and this comes after he gets on Red for needlessly throwing away lives. "Manga section"; It's unclear whether this is audience judgement or narrative intent. Note, this was a substitution for Literature: A to C because all the Monster pages were Admin locked, so used the next wick after the Monster wicks

Recap.Everybody Hates Chris S 2 E 1 Everybody Hates Rejection

• Hypocrite: Rochelle denies that Bed-Stuy is a shithole and refuses to form a neighborhood watch until something happens to her family personally. Unclear whether this is audience judgement or narrative set-up

Recap.Game Of Thrones S 1 E 9 Baelor

• Hypocrite
  • Varys urges Ned Stark to put aside his pride and bring peace to the realm, but we know Varys is only doing so because the planned Dothraki invasion isn't ready to go ahead yet. Unclear from write up whether this an example of this trope in action or misuse and should a different trope, given that it indicates the character is employing strategy to ensure a victorious invasion.
  • "If soldiers lack discipline the fault lies with their lord commander." The question of exactly how much responsibility Lord Tywin bears for the actions of his soldiers becomes an issue in Season 4. The quote isn't attributed and is therefore zero context. This means the entry is unclear whether this is the hypocrite trope or a different trope. The entry also suggests that it shouldn't be troped on this page, which points to a Season 1 episode, because the entry suggests that, if hypocrite is in effect, it's actually explored in Season 4, not this episode itself.

Recap.Miraculous Ladybug S 02 E 10 Sapotis

• Hypocrite: Hawk Moth's "akuma victim detected" speech of the episode has him mocking typical things that strict parents say, and claiming that kids should be allowed to do whatever they want. Meanwhile, he himself is an extremely strict father, micromanages every facet of his own son's life, and doesn't even allow him to leave the house except for school and photo shoots (and school was only added to that list very recently). Unclear whether this is audience judgement or set-up by the narrative.

Recap.Paperinik New Adventures S 1 E 49 In The Shadow

• Hypocrite: Not really explicit, but it's there: Zoster sounds like a Hollywood Atheist when the other mercenaries force him to pay respect and homage to the Last Haga, which they almost worship, and does so begrudgingly. When he obtains Xadhoom's powers, he immediately demands respect and worship from the nearby planets threatening retribution, in god-complex like hamminess. Unclear whether this is a genuine narrative example due to the entry relying on Examples Are Not Arguable language. 'Not really explicit' suggests audience judgement is being applied here rather than narrative set-up.

Series/Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil

• Hypocrite: Reggie, in his introduction, gave a speech to Atticus about how he took an oath to protect the privacy of others and try not to turn the entire school into a surveillance police state. But then in "Loser Generated Content," Reggie has absolutely no problem using the book to spy on Todd, tear apart his life, and watch in glee as Todd's life is destroyed and he dies at the hands of the girl he loved. Looks like audience judgement, but it's not entirely clear if there's a narrative set up here.

WebComic.I Made A Comic About Internet Explorer

• Hypocrite: When alone, Google Chrome fumes about how Internet Explorer is just like the company that created her (Microsoft), a power-hungry, merciless rival-destroying entity and even calls her 'evil'. That description actually fits Google Chrome more; although she did have a point in that Microsoft the company tend to perform questionable acts. But then again so do Google the company. Unclear whether this is audience judgement or narrative set-up. It comes across as audience judgement.

YMMV.The Secret Circle

• Complete Monster:
  • Eben is the leader of the witch hunters. He's first seen in a flashback that reveals that he and his men murdered the members of the old Circle by pretending to want peace and tried to kill John Blackwell. He gets even worse when he turns out to have survived the fire, only with nasty scarring, and proves bent on killing every witch alive, even those who have never heard of him, just because. He doesn't bat an eye at using magic provided by a resurrected and psychotic Nick to brainwash Cassie into trying to kill her father and to escape an attack by the Circle that should've killed him outright. Later, he summons and absorbs multiple demons for their power, no doubt driving him even crazier. This is after he sacrifices one of his own men to a demon and using him to lure Blackwell and the Circle into a death trap that just barely fails. According to another witch hunter, he's even killed off Isaac. Then he kidnaps Faye, fully intending to murder her and her covenmates. This entry doesn't make it clear if there's a narrative set-up for him to be potholed as a hypocrite, or whether it's an audience designation based on the magic issue. Complicated by the fact that this is a Complete Monster entry; clarification can probably be sought from the CM clean-up thread.

Unclear: Troping Groups (3)

Characters.SCP Foundation Groups

• Hypocrite: The Coalition's charter states that the paranormal is "anathema to the survival of the human race", and yet, it allows its members access to clearly anomalous technology and often recruits anomalous members (see Assessment Team "Sparkplug" below"). This is the Global Occult Coalition, so it's troping an organisation rather than an individual character. Unclear whether this is misuse, and whether it's narrative or audience judgement.
• Hypocrite: They punish tyranny and cruelty, on both baseline Earth and in fiction. Yet they'll set up heavy-handed police states to eradicate crime, and their punishments for particularly wicked individuals (like the protagonists of A Clockwork Orange or the Masters from Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom) border on torture porn. The Three Moons Initiative is an organisation, not a character. Unclear whether this is misuse, and whether it's narrative or audience judgement.
• Hypocrite: A recurring theme in works featuring them is the fact that, despite all of their preaching about how the world should be purely rational, they can be just as toxic as the superstitions and religions they rage against. SAPPHIRE is an organisation rather than a character. Unclear whether this is misuse, and whether it's narrative or audience judgement.

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