Tropescilloscope: Hypocrite

Espousing an ideal but not practicing it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Twist Ending Film Noir Index Arch-Enemy Mr. Fanservice Better to Die than Be Killed Pre-Mortem One-Liner Action Genre My God, What Have I Done? Genre Throwback Black Comedy Rape Adaptational Attractiveness Those Two Guys Famous Last Words Death by Irony Really Gets Around Central Theme Combat Pragmatist Suspiciously Specific Denial Fainting Token Minority Adult Fear Bait-and-Switch Broken Bird Serious Business Disney Villain Death Contrived Coincidence Jitter Cam Arc Words Sir Swears-a-Lot The Ghost Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Ditz "Well Done, Son!" Guy Never Trust a Trailer Never Found the Body Bury Your Gays Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Evil Sounds Deep Badass Bookworm All for Nothing Air-Vent Passageway Fatal Family Photo Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Enemy Mine The Film of the Book An Arm and a Leg Dressing as the Enemy Beta Couple Anti-Hero Chekhov's Gunman Maybe Ever After Ax-Crazy Dying Moment of Awesome Five-Man Band Anachronism Stew Not So Stoic Here We Go Again! No-Holds-Barred Beatdown May–December Romance Ominous Latin Chanting Police are Useless Bilingual Bonus Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Captain Obvious Defiant to the End No-Sell Knight Templar Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Action Girl Recycled IN SPACE! Auto Erotica Spared by the Adaptation From Nobody to Nightmare Ambiguous Disorder Real Life Writes the Plot Bad "Bad Acting" Adapted Out Celebrity Paradox Stylistic Suck Show Within a Show Undying Loyalty Face–Heel Turn Wicked Cultured The Chessmaster The Load Red Eyes, Take Warning Rasputinian Death The Mole Shown Their Work Evil Is Petty Plucky Comic Relief Leitmotif Laser-Guided Karma Police Brutality Retired Badass Reality Ensues Heroic BSoD Karmic Death Plot Hole As You Know My Beloved Smother Sports Stories Only in It for the Money Kubrick Stare A Father to His Men Failed a Spot Check Dark Is Not Evil Brick Joke Fate Worse than Death Ungrateful Bastard Animal Motifs Evil Brit Cluster F-Bomb Gold Digger Together in Death The Power of Love Kick the Dog Fourth Date Marriage Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Shout-Out Evil-Detecting Dog Breaking the Fourth Wall Dull Surprise Storming the Castle Brother–Sister Incest Small Name, Big Ego Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Mad Scientist Scenery Gorn Bloodier and Gorier Race Against the Clock The X of Y Killed Mid-Sentence Dropped a Bridge on Him Homage Black and Gray Morality Parental Incest Action Prologue Agony of the Feet Major Injury Underreaction The Dreaded Bad Boss Offscreen Teleportation Rule of Symbolism Works Set in World War II Final Girl Half the Man He Used to Be Let's Get Dangerous! Bland-Name Product Never My Fault Novelization "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Biopic Everyone Has Standards Obviously Evil Nothing Is Scarier The Voiceless The Oner Villain Song More Dakka Truth in Television Not So Above It All Arranged Marriage This Is Gonna Suck No Ending Fun with Acronyms Historical Hero Upgrade Karma Houdini Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Award-Bait Song Artistic License – Law Bottomless Magazines Domestic Abuse Body Horror Adaptation Dye-Job Artistic License – Gun Safety Stealth Pun Amoral Attorney Camp Gay Butt-Monkey Noodle Incident '80s Hair Russian Films The Big Guy Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Did Not Get the Girl Diabolus ex Machina Empathic Environment Guile Hero Ambiguously Gay What You Are in the Dark Beauty Is Never Tarnished Left the Background Music On Sinister Minister An Axe to Grind Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Posthumous Character Dogged Nice Guy Morality Pet Mr. Exposition Heel Realization A.I. Is a Crapshoot Tagline The Un-Reveal Line-of-Sight Name Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Coming-of-Age Story Jerk Jock Loophole Abuse Stuff Blowing Up The Dog Bites Back Rated M for Manly As the Good Book Says... Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dramatic Gun Cock Victoria's Secret Compartment Destination Defenestration Pragmatic Villainy Informed Ability Not Quite Dead Playing Gertrude Cruel and Unusual Death Easily Forgiven Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Anachronic Order Gainax Ending Dirty Coward Disproportionate Retribution Cold-Blooded Torture Needs Wiki Magic Love Visual Pun Aluminum Christmas Trees A Minor Kidroduction Motor Mouth Overly Long Gag Almost Kiss And Starring Alliterative Name Blood from the Mouth The Reveal Establishing Character Moment Would Hurt a Child Mighty Whitey Brutal Honesty The '90s Only Known by Their Nickname Documentary Bring My Brown Pants In Medias Res Manic Pixie Dream Girl Despair Event Horizon Lock and Load Montage Kick the Son of a Bitch Actually Pretty Funny Australian Movies Belligerent Sexual Tension Tranquil Fury Boom, Headshot! Precision F-Strike Villain with Good Publicity One-Word Title Expository Hairstyle Change Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Is Hammy Jerkass Has a Point Vitriolic Best Buds BFG Madness Mantra The Place Peek-a-Boo Corpse Closed Circle Sequel Escalation An Aesop Re-Cut Television Movie Index Bullying a Dragon Badass Longcoat The Smart Guy Freeze-Frame Bonus Asshole Victim Reasonable Authority Figure Mugging the Monster Corpsing Demoted to Extra Big Damn Heroes Ripped from the Headlines Red Oni, Blue Oni Riddle for the Ages Spiritual Successor Leaning on the Fourth Wall Dwindling Party Rich Bitch Black Comedy Cool Old Lady Punch-Clock Villain After the End It's Personal Decoy Protagonist Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Real Life Time Skip Japanese Films I Did What I Had to Do Sadistic Choice Foil Heroes Want Redheads Wham Line Aside Glance The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Roaring Rampage of Revenge Unwitting Instigator of Doom Random Events Plot Corrupt Corporate Executive The Brute Those Two Bad Guys Defrosting Ice Queen Up to Eleven Title Drop Male Gaze Artistic License – Biology Even Evil Has Standards Large Ham Laughing Mad Only Sane Man Wretched Hive Mundane Made Awesome Hong Kong Films Psychological Thriller Credits Gag Mooks Monumental Damage As Himself Gone Horribly Right Big Eater Cassandra Truth Wounded Gazelle Gambit For Want of a Nail Rule of Three Foregone Conclusion Vomit Indiscretion Shot Double-Meaning Title Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Wham Shot Film Series Match Cut Have a Gay Old Time Determinator aka: The Determinator Affably Evil Mystery and Detective Films Honor Before Reason Mood Whiplash Intrepid Reporter I'm a Humanitarian Deus ex Machina Double Entendre Cain and Abel Vampire Fiction Scenery Porn Crucified Hero Shot Actor Allusion Taking You with Me NO INDOOR VOICE Super Strength Bolivian Army Ending Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptational Badass Leave the Camera Running Spanner in the Works Nice Guy The Mafia Sexy Discretion Shot Heterosexual Life-Partners Bittersweet Ending Dual Wielding Pet the Dog Pyrrhic Victory Bond Villain Stupidity Unresolved Sexual Tension Gorn Shoot the Shaggy Dog Batman Gambit Adaptational Heroism Gilligan Cut The Bully Grievous Bottley Harm Irony I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Darker and Edgier Punny Name Freudian Excuse Mama Bear Parental Abandonment Eye Scream O.O.C. Is Serious Business Horror Comedy Framing Device Silent Movie Slasher Movie Say My Name Serial Killer Red Herring British Films Light Is Not Good My Greatest Failure Imagine Spot Politically Incorrect Villain Papa Wolf And the Adventure Continues Science Fiction Films Loads and Loads of Characters No OSHA Compliance Self-Deprecation Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Continuity Nod Manly Tears Unusually Uninteresting Sight Death by Adaptation The Alcoholic MacGuffin Composite Character Stalker with a Crush Knife Nut Meet Cute Our Zombies Are Different Adaptation Expansion Hope Spot Deal with the Devil Rewatch Bonus Foreshadowing Epic Fail "Shaggy Dog" Story Break the Cutie Fatal Flaw Shell-Shocked Veteran Canadian Movies Fat Bastard Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Running Gag Hero Antagonist I Have Your Wife Man on Fire Parental Substitute Meaningful Name Word of God Ascended Extra From Bad to Worse Canon Foreigner Badass Boast The Hero Artistic License – Military Ironic Echo Your Head A-Splode Superhero Paper-Thin Disguise Music Stories Once More, with Clarity! Dark Reprise You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Humans Are Bastards Frame-Up Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Take That! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Taking the Bullet Slap-Slap-Kiss Deconstruction Malevolent Masked Men Deadpan Snarker Historical Villain Upgrade Unusual Euphemism Ghost Fiction Fantastic Racism Comically Missing the Point Back from the Dead Death Glare Vacation Films Romantic False Lead Wrong Genre Savvy Historical-Domain Character Immune to Bullets Extreme Doormat Redshirt Army Bound and Gagged Author Avatar Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" 20 Minutes into the Future Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Big Bad Duumvirate Grey and Gray Morality Film Noir Cool Shades Crapsack World Based on a True Story Depraved Bisexual Darkest Hour Dramedy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Redemption Equals Death Exactly What It Says on the Tin Didn't Think This Through Parental Neglect Put on a Bus Outrun the Fireball Woman in White What the Hell, Hero? Deliberately Monochrome Would Hit a Girl Setting Update World of Ham Improbable Aiming Skills Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? He Knows Too Much Antagonist Title Made of Explodium Early Installment Weirdness The Starscream Big Fancy House Fingore Car Fu Cool Old Guy Armor-Piercing Question Pretty Little Headshots The Casanova Action Survivor Eyepatch of Power Bloodless Carnage Does Not Like Shoes Meaningful Echo Whole Plot Reference Faking the Dead Daylight Horror La Résistance Heel–Face Turn Index of Film Westerns Danny Peary Cult Movies List Downer Ending Henpecked Husband Gory Discretion Shot Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Kill 'em All Neck Lift Genre Savvy The Bad Guy Wins Bowdlerise Fanservice Cat Scare Villain Ball Rape as Drama Manipulative Bastard Badass in a Nice Suit Took a Level in Badass Reckless Gun Usage The Cameo Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Retirony Sequel Hook Villain Protagonist Cowboy Cop The Cavalry Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality One Steve Limit Expy A God Am I The Ace Alpha Bitch Important Haircut Romantic Comedy Accidental Murder Affectionate Parody Poor Communication Kills The '50s Dark Action Girl Smoking Is Cool Facial Horror Black Best Friend Developing Doomed Characters Overprotective Dad Insult Backfire Vomit Discretion Shot Adorkable Kill It with Fire Beware the Nice Ones Amusing Injuries The Remake Italian Films Abhorrent Admirer Fish out of Water Improbable Weapon User Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Off with His Head! All Men Are Perverts No Celebrities Were Harmed Those Wacky Nazis Historical In-Joke Betty and Veronica Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Humiliation Conga Ms. Fanservice Adaptation Name Change Genre Shift Captain Ersatz Male Frontal Nudity Ship Tease The Stoic Disappeared Dad Skewed Priorities Adaptational Villainy Star-Crossed Lovers True Companions Straight Gay Attempted Rape Cool Guns Meaningful Background Event Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Evil Counterpart Scare Chord Eureka Moment Funny Background Event Adaptation Distillation Death of a Child Big Brother Instinct Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bald of Evil Jump Scare Improvised Weapon Mistaken for Gay Becoming the Mask Chewing the Scenery In Name Only As Long as It Sounds Foreign Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Sealed Evil in a Can Costume Porn Psychopathic Manchild Flipping the Bird Death by Sex Guns Akimbo You Have Failed Me Due to the Dead Bloody Hilarious Conspicuous CG Red Right Hand War Is Hell Tap on the Head You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Villainous Breakdown Happily Married Four-Temperament Ensemble Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Kids Are Cruel Big Applesauce Unreliable Narrator Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Disguised in Drag Stock Footage Drowning My Sorrows Hell Is That Noise The Alleged Car Hypocrite Make It Look Like an Accident Narrator The Great Depression Blackmail Shipper on Deck Rousing Speech Lighter and Softer Slasher Smile Sci-Fi Horror Even Evil Has Loved Ones Intergenerational Friendship You Killed My Father Demonic Possession Fiery Redhead Military and Warfare Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Fanservice Extra Get Out! Market-Based Title Chekhov's Gun Our Vampires Are Different It's All About Me Fantasy Films Last-Name Basis Suspiciously Similar Substitute Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Dragon Broken Pedestal Early-Bird Cameo Zombie Stories Gender Flip Rule of Funny Naked People Are Funny Dirty Cop Camera Abuse Berserk Button Age Lift "Awesome McCool" Name Missing Mom Yandere Epic Movie Crazy-Prepared Not Even Bothering with the Accent Product Placement Cloudcuckoolander She's Got Legs Break the Haughty Totally Radical Eldritch Abomination Handicapped Badass Bare Your Midriff Hero of Another Story Dies Wide Open Cat Fight Good Is Not Nice Damsel in Distress Calling the Old Man Out She Cleans Up Nicely Bi the Way And I Must Scream One-Man Army Soft Glass Implacable Man Face Death with Dignity All Just a Dream Ugly Guy, Hot Wife He Who Fights Monsters Faux Affably Evil Daddy's Girl For the Evulz Crazy Jealous Guy Soundtrack Dissonance Reality Has No Subtitles Instant Death Bullet Villain Opening Scene Cool Car Heroic Sacrifice Properly Paranoid Stealth Hi/Bye Fan Disservice Call-Back Mythology Gag Country Matters Spell My Name with an "S" Big-Bad Ensemble Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Mercy Kill It Can Think Silence Is Golden All There in the Script Adults Are Useless A Date with Rosie Palms Author Appeal The Smurfette Principle Evil vs. Evil Refuge in Audacity Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pragmatic Adaptation Hair-Trigger Temper No Name Given I Need a Freaking Drink Psycho for Hire Every Car Is a Pinto Drugs Are Bad The '60s Pay Evil unto Evil Slashed Throat The Quiet One Smug Snake Scary Black Man timeperiod Men Are the Expendable Gender Hollywood Darkness Babies Ever After The Faceless Sole Survivor Friend to All Children Insane Troll Logic Be Careful What You Wish For Apocalypse How Creepy Child The Sociopath Spiteful Spit Big Bad Character Development Driven to Suicide Bond One-Liner Dirty Old Man Shirtless Scene Dumb Blonde Greater-Scope Villain Unspoken Plan Guarantee Curb-Stomp Battle Creator Cameo Accidental Misnaming Gratuitous English Awesome, but Impractical Flashback Not Using the "Z" Word N-Word Privileges Stepford Smiler Eiffel Tower Effect Mexican Standoff Mind Screw Oh, Crap! Black Dude Dies First Artistic License – Geography Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Children Are Innocent Lampshade Hanging Well-Intentioned Extremist Names to Run Away from Really Fast folderlabel Drives Like Crazy Took a Level in Jerkass Catch-Phrase Femme Fatale Chekhov's Skill Only a Flesh Wound Older Than They Look Creative Closing Credits Obstructive Bureaucrat Non-Indicative Name Christmas Movies Index Badass Normal Hypocritical Humor Hoist by His Own Petard Retcon Idiot Ball The Stinger Worthy Opponent Only One Name Anti-Villain Bunny-Ears Lawyer Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Stoner Jerk with a Heart of Gold Interrupted Suicide Pimped-Out Dress Public Domain Feature Films The End... Or Is It? Logo Joke Blatant Lies Casting Gag Room Full of Crazy Beard of Evil The Vamp Protagonist Title Too Dumb to Live There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Hero Dies Same Language Dub Obfuscating Stupidity Curse Cut Short Shower Scene Ass Shove Alas, Poor Villain Distracted by the Sexy Horror Films Eagleland The Atoner Trailers Always Spoil Fire-Forged Friends Moment Killer Reality Is Unrealistic Big "NO!" Married to the Job Training Montage Department of Redundancy Department Martial Arts Movie Fake Shemp Anyone Can Die Deliberate Values Dissonance Extremely Short Timespan Evil Laugh Abusive Parents Sacrificial Lion Jerkass Suddenly SHOUTING! Dark and Troubled Past Artistic License – Physics Evil Plan Bar Brawl The Musical Sanity Slippage Blood Knight Revenge Dutch Angle Determinator Hollywood Law Funny Foreigner Translation Convention Earn Your Happy Ending Not What It Looks Like Does This Remind You of Anything? Drill Sergeant Nasty Advertised Extra Anguished Declaration of Love Card-Carrying Villain Video Credits "The Reason You Suck" Speech Brainless Beauty The '70s Groin Attack Your Cheating Heart Pretty in Mink Woman Scorned Toplessness from the Back Bavarian Fire Drill Call-Forward Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Take a Third Option Catapult Nightmare The Lancer I Want My Beloved to Be Happy B-Movie German Films Green-Eyed Monster The Lost Lenore Disney Death Hate Sink Race Lift Love Triangle Thriller Red Shirt What Happened to the Mouse? In the Back How We Got Here Exact Words Chase Scene Insistent Terminology Dissonant Serenity Tempting Fate Animal Title Index Badass Grandpa Dramatic Irony Shut Up, Hannibal! Ambiguous Ending Nice Hat Death Seeker French Films Manchild Book-Ends Artistic License – History Rule of Cool Not So Different Sassy Black Woman Made of Iron Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome No Antagonist Animated Credits Opening Neck Snap Getting Crap Past the Radar Love at First Sight All There in the Manual Broken Aesop Annoying Younger Sibling Offscreen Moment of Awesome The '80s It Will Never Catch On Hidden Depths Covers Always Lie Authority Equals Asskicking Naïve Newcomer The Chick Chiaroscuro