Hypocrite/The Walking Dead (video game)

• Kenny:
  • Kenny doesn't hesitate to kill Larry when it looks like he might die and come back as a walker. But when Duck gets bitten, he dismisses the problem and goes into denial. You can call him out on this, too.
  • In episode 2, he calls Lilly out on treating the group like a dictator. Yet he does the same in episode 4, refusing to consider any plan besides his boat plan (even when they get to the river and find nothing). Later in season 2 episode 4, if Clem decides they should head to a town the day after the baby is born, Kenny refuses to let the group stop even when Rebecca is dying of exhaustion.
  • If Kenny has a mixed relationship with Lee by the end of episode 4, he'll be on the fence about helping Lee rescue a kidnapped Clementine. If Lee then loses his temper and tells Kenny to "grow the fuck up", Kenny will then lose his and call Lee out on "losing his shit" when his friends don't "bend over backwards" to help him. This is despite Kenny doing the exact same any time Lee disagreed with him.
  • His blaming of Clementine for Sarita's death. He's especially angry if Clem chopped off Sarita's arm, claiming she "no right" to do so. This is despite the fact that he almost cut off Lee's arm while Lee was unconscious in season 1 episode 5 (provided he went with Lee at all). If Clem axes Sarita in the head to stop her turning, Kenny will be furious with her and again claim that she had "no right" to make that decision, despite doing the exact same thing to Larry in season 1 episode 2.
• Lilly:
  • If Lee sides with Kenny at the beginning of episode 2 and feeds him one of the rations, Lilly will accuse him of "playing favourites", despite doing so herself with her father. In fact, it turns out she was skimming food for Larry (Lee finds out either by giving him food and causing him to complain about Lilly worrying about him, or by not giving him food and causing him to complain about not getting his daily rations). This makes her complaints about Ben being brought into the group and the supplies being stolen next episode hold less weight.
  • If Lee helps Kenny kill Larry, Lilly calls him a "vulture" when Lee loots her father's corpse for coins. However, if Lee later allows Lilly to stay despite her killing Carley/Doug, she will take advantage and steal the group's RV.
  • By season 4, she supports actions that result in people cutting others loose for being liabilities, hence why she accepted Minerva into the Delta for killing her sister and tells Clementine she has to do the same to AJ to survive. This is despite how she kept her father around in Season 1 despite his bad heart condition, and reacted badly to Kenny suggesting he needed to be put down.
  • Considers those loyal to the Delta a family yet doesn't bother sending a rescue party to save Abel.
  • Calls James "too broken to fit in a community", after Lilly herself was too broken to continue in her leadership role following her father's death, and chose to abandon the group if kept after murdering Carley/Doug.
  • For all of her talk about loyalty, Lilly consistently puts herself first. In season 1, she attempted to start a witch hunt when she believes someone has been stealing supplies, while she herself hoarded food for herself and Larry. Many years later, she speaks highly about the Delta and how they look after one another, yet if she survives Broken Toys, she will deem them a lost cause and leaves her group to the walkers.
• Larry:
  • Lee has the option of asking him if he would be so quick to throw his daughter Lilly to the walkers if she was bitten rather than Kenny's son Duck. Larry does point out that Lilly is an adult rather than a small child, but gets dismissive and doesn't miss a beat in declaring that one of his children would never find themselves in such a situation.
  • Larry blaming Lee for taking the group to the dairy rings hollow if Lee voted against it, which Larry called him out for. Similarly, Larry can blame Lee for (potentially) goading him into eating the human dinner, despite being more than happy to eat it originally.
  • If Lee gave Larry the axe at the motel, then Larry will later accuse Lee of being ungrateful after saving him at the motel, although Larry himself showed no gratitude towards Lee for saving his life at the drugstore.
  • When they're stuck in the St. Johns' meat locker, Larry can potentially call Lee a "prick" and an "asshole", which are two words that would perfectly describe himself.
• Andrew blames Lee and the motel group for starting the battle between them and the St. Johns, despite Andy and family escalating it once they were revealed as cannibals.
• Despite calling Lee out if he kills Jolene, Danny will kill her himself if Lee does not.
• The Save-Lots Bandits getting mad at Ben and the motel survivors for keeping food from them is laughable considering they're bandits.
• Katjaa's arguments that Kenny isn't strong enough to put down Duck, while valid, fall flat five minutes later when she kills herself out of grief instead, meaning the last thing her son sees is his dead mother's corpse.
• While on the train, Chuck calls Lee out for not having a plan for once they get to Savannah. If Lee asks where he's headed, his response is "that way". Though, to be fair to him, he's not the one in a group with a little girl to look after.
• Christa:
  • In season 1 episode 3, she criticises Lee for taking Clementine with him and putting her in danger against walkers. Yet in season 2 episode 1, she leaves Clem alone in an abandoned bathroom, leaving her open to being robbed by Michelle.
  • In season 1 episode 4, she calls Lee out for keeping secret that Clem's radio is working, an episode after she was evasive herself to Lee about her and Omid's argument.
• Vernon will hold Lee at full fault if Lee threatens him at their first meeting, believing he was roped into helping him. This is despite Vernon pointing a gun at Lee and continually doubting him on Brie's advice.
• Brie calls Lee a "son of a bitch" and refuses to speak to him at Crawford if he steals Vernon's gun and threatens the pair, despite Brie's own distrust of Lee and immediately suggesting that Vernon shoot him.
• The Stranger calls Lee a monster for every decision he made that disapproves of, or put Clem in danger. This is right after revealing how he somehow lost his son while hunting, and left all his supplies unguarded in an unlocked car.
• Bonnie:
  • She seemingly distrusts men and paints them as untrustworthy, yet she lies and manipulates the group at the ski lodge and sells them out to Carver. Along with Mike and Arvo, she betrays the group, steals their supplies and runs off, leaving Clementine to bleed to death from Arvo's gun shot wound.
  • In season 2 episode 5, if Clem chooses to cover Luke on the ice despite Bonnie's insistence on Clementine going to save him, Bonnie will go instead and crack the ice under their weight. If Bonnie survives, she will blame Clem for Luke's death, and storms off before Clem can defend herself. Her comments afterwards about Clementine having it easy because she's 'pretty' also ring hollow considering how often Bonnie dumped tasks onto Clementine, and the previous situation between her and Leland right in front of his middle-aged chubby wife.
• Luke criticises Clem if she steals Arvo's medicine for allowing Jane to "rub off on her"... before proceeding to have sex with Jane.
• William Carver:
  • Upon meeting Clem, he makes a big point of instilling seeds of doubt in her regarding her current friends and explaining what a valuable commodity trust is. All while dodging her questions and lying to her face about who he is.
  • For all his talk of how forgiving he can be, even the most minor of inconveniences sets him off, and he usually blatantly rigs a situation where the opposing party only has the option of being beat down or killed.
• Jane is shown to commit several actions that go against her ideals and words, to the point where she may as well be a poster-girl of this trope:
  • She sees Rebecca's pregnancy as a liability, yet she's implied to have had unprotected sexual intercourse with Luke in Episode 4, which could have very well impregnated Jane. This could also be seen as foreshadowing because in season 3, if she's with Clem at Howe's, she tells Clem that she doesn't feel so good and goes inside for a nap. Clem discovers that she has hanged herself because she discovered the reason for her sickness is that she has, in fact, become pregnant with Luke's baby and has, in a sense, become a liability herself.
  • She ridicules others for "not letting go of the past", yet she quite often talks about her deceased sister Jaime fondly to Clementine almost whenever they speak to each other.
  • Upon rescuing the group from the Russian shootout, she feels remorseful over having to kill someone who has never wronged her before. Yet she is content to have Sarah killed, though indirectly, for being a 'liability', someone who never wronged Jane since they met.
  • Mocking Kenny about a dead member of his family, despite not being able to take the same shit from Rebecca previously when she talked about Jaime.
  • Her attempt at convincing Clem that Kenny was both insane and dangerously codependent towards her involves abandoning a newborn baby in a truck surrounded by walkers in the middle of a snow storm. All so that Clem would choose go with her over him. Proving that she is just as codependent towards Clementine as Kenny is, and arguably just as insane.
  • If Clem saves her by killing Kenny but then refuses to forgive Jane and abandons her, Jane becomes heartbroken. This is despite detailing earlier how Clem should be prepared to go alone eventually.
• David:
  • He punishes Clem for stealing medicine behind his back to help treat an ill AJ, while ignoring Lingard wasting all kinds of drugs and medicine on himself purely to get high. In the same situation, he calls out Clem for not being a team player, when he himself not only has problems working with others but also attempts to leave the New Frontier after a herd attacks the city.
  • All his comments about Javi being irresponsible, selfish, and not caring about family ring hollow when David was the one who wanted to leave and to reenlist in the army, practically forcing Javi to step up and protect David's family in his absence. David then doesn't bother trying to find them over the next four years. In the flashback of episode 4, right after admitting of wanting to abandon them to return to the army, David has the nerve to call Javi selfish if his brother does not promise to look after his family.
• Kate:
  • If Javi defends her against David in the season 3 episode 2 flashback, Kate will actually be angry with him for straining her and David's marriage as it is "for life". Yet in episode 4, she is ready to end things with David to be with Javi.
  • Despite stating that Javi is under "no pressure" to reciprocate her love in episode 4, Kate becomes heartbroken and acts colder towards Javi if he does not.
• If Javi kills Conrad in season 3 episode 2, Gabe rats him out for it in episode 4 in front of everyone and criticises him for being a killer (despite Gabe pleading for Javi to shoot him). But if Javi instead accepts Conrad's deal to take Clementine prisoner, Gabe criticises him for being a coward.
• Eleanor blames Javi if Tripp was killed by Joan, after Javi vouched for him to be saved, and Eleanor was the one who sold the group out to Joan in the first place.
• In season 4, if Clem tries to defend AJ's choice to shoot Tenn to save Violet's life, the latter retorts that this doesn't justify "just gunning down one of their own". Yet in episode 2, she was fine with AJ gunning down Marlon even after it was made clear that he was no longer a threat, going as far as defending this action at the funeral. She gets better about this at the end of episode 4, admitting that Tenn's naïveté had endangered people before and that AJ ultimately made the right choice. She can't help feeling some anger and grief, but promises that she will get over it.
• Minerva:
  • Being an unstable and a Horrible Judge of Character makes her an easy target for hypocrisy. She accuses Clem of getting people killed, but she killed her sister and allowed Lilly and the rest of the Delta to kidnap or kill her old friends at the school.
  • She states that Clem's group needs to step down and join the Delta or "the people you love die", but she murdered her sister and fights in unnecessary wars. She also lets Louis get his tongue cut out by Lilly if he is captured, without any objections or disgust.