Hypocrites are Pure Evils who set standards for others to follow, punishing those who don't, but then violate those same standards themselves. They can either be hypocrites from the start or they slowly become one during their path to the dark side. While it's true that people in general make mistakes and tend to be hypocritical at various times, therefore nobody is perfect with villains being no exceptions, these villains on this page chose not to know their limits or the severity of their self-contradictions and kept going with their actions just to satisfy their own interests, despite the latter consequences.

Judge Claude Frollo is a textbook example, since he hates religious corruption, but commits multiple sins and represents the very thing he claims to hate. Adam Sutler (not to be confused with Adam Susan = Comic), is another example because even though he may be a devout Christian, he never actually put any of his things he preaches into practice given how he is the totalitarian dictator of England. Jill Roberts (OG Scream 4) successfully killed Charlie and revealed she was planning to frame him all along for the murders in spite of working with him for most of Scream 4 and Charlie loving her. The same can be said with Scar because he begged Simba to spare him because they were in the same family, completely ignoring the fact he killed his own brother in cold blood. To add fuel to the fire, he blames the hyenas for his actions. Lord Voldemort who holds supremacist views on Half Bloods or Muggles, yet he was born to a muggle father, so he is a Half Blood himself. Same with Dolores Umbridge, not only for persecuting half-human races when she is a half-blood herself, but she commits this twice more when she badgers people about lying and then turns around and lies twice herself. Masayoshi Shido who said he was loyal to Japan yet had his son that he once abandon come back to his side to order multiple crimes and have the blame be put on Joker. Vice-Counsel DuPont and Andrew Brandt, both executed thousands of Sense Offenders and preach for people to use the Prozium II drug to suppress emotions, but both are happening to be Sense Offenders themselves and to make their hypocrisy worse, they never took the drug in the first place. DuPont shows an even worse example when he expected Preston to spare his life for this reason. Bellroc and Skrael both want to wipe out the universe due to the corruption of mankind, ignoring all the other creatures that they will be killing, and their own corruption, as well as Bellroc attacking a troll, despite claiming to protect magickind. Frieza harbors a large disgust for Saiyans because they can go Super Saiyan and inherited the hatred from his dad...Yet enslaves a couple if not many for businesses or kept them to sell for future slavery. David Griffin who says he cares for Joel Campbell when he only does to fabricate his obsession. Even Emperor Belos doesn't escape this category, because he hates wild magic because he says that's what killed his brother, when in reality, Belos killed his brother for loving a witch, taking no responsibility for it, and is addicted to palismen since he absorbed countless to stay alive centuries after his failed attempt to control glyphs by carving them on his skin. Not to mention, they come from wild magic, the very thing Belos hates. Syndrome is also a hypocrite because even though he murdered superheroes because Mr. Incredible "broke his feelings" Syndrome just so happens to have a desire to be a superhero in the eyes of the public. Another great and ironic example is Light Yagami, because even though he wipes out all criminals from the World, like Ryuk had stated, the only criminal that would be left after it's over would be Light himself because he had to kill so many people in order for his plan to work. In other words, Light wants to rid all criminals and rotten people...By doing mass murder.

The Major (Hellsing) is no exception to this; because he hates Alucard for his inhumanity when he's a cyborg and is evil himself. He could have easily died in World War Two by the Russian Soldiers if he wanted to die so bad but was okay with Doc turning his into a cyborg instead, meaning he wanted to die how he wanted to. He also hates Alucard for becoming a vampire...This is of course coming from the same guy that has over a thousand vampire soldiers used to destroy London and he is stated to be somewhat immortal as well. Speaking of his vampiric soldiers, he could have easily gotten any corrupt butt holes into power to do what he wants on the mostly false promise of immortality or manipulate a larger-scale conflict from behind the scenes and even states personally he wanted to...And then chose to use his vampire guys instead.

Hypocrites can also originally be villains who had tragedies that used to be real, till they became total hypocrites due to being too ruthless to be excused as their actions completely go against their tragedy or do the exact opposite of how to solve their own problems. Drago Bludvist is a good example since his family was killed by dragons, yet enslaves dragons, the very beings responsible for their deaths, to his will to oppress people and take over the world and to give the same fate his village had to so many villages who didn't accept his control. Also, every delusional villain, no matter their past or background by default counts as a hypocrite, because they believe they are doing good despite their actions and endgame proving otherwise. In a way propagandists can also count as Hypocrites as they spread false information to claim that a certain group is evil, yet they commit crimes that are far worse than what they do or are the exact thing they demonized on others. Egotists and Master Manipulators can be that way too; Master Manipulators because usually, good manipulators would never believe he or she is in the wrong, and egotists due to the belief of having superiority over others and the belief that they are better than others when not. They may also be hypocrites for similar reasons to Master Manipulators. The same can go with Supremacists and Xenophobes because the people they recruit can sometimes be the opposite of what they say they hate. Either that, or they are a member of the exact race or ethnicity they hate. Any villain that claims to be Nihilists and says that life is meaningless when they overvalue their lives also go in this category and the reason is understandable (e.g. Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, Muzan Kibutsuji, and Dimentio (OG Super Paper Mario). Dark Priests who aren't actual dark priests but are simply use the word of God to justify their acts are also hypocrites, and the reason is self-explanatory.

Note: Most Pure Evils would end up in this category though not all hypocrites. Some do not set up standards for anybody, themselves included (e.g. General Grievous, Cassandra Nova, Red Death, Marlo Stanfield, Bill Sykes, Barty Crouch Jr. and William Wharton). It may also be because they had less screen time and therefore don't get to see a whole lot of their actions, but still managed to stand out (e.g. Sam Choksey and Dormammu).