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A minor character flaw is an imperfection which serves to distinguish the character in the mind of the reader / viewer / player / listener, making them memorable and individual, but otherwise does not affect the story in any way.
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Billy Budd is a seaman who stammers at moments of emotion, which results in his killing a Royal Navy officer and being hanged for murder:
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1849:Pop culture
1730:Short story
1708:Epic poetry
1429:Time travel
1242:Red herring
1227:Plot device
1198:Frame story
1151:Cliffhanger
1094:Tritagonist
1069:Protagonist
730:Miko Kubota
570:Taxi Driver
565:urban decay
510:Carl Denham
451:immortality
445:'s extreme
420:The Odyssey
303:Oedipus Rex
161:action hero
134:heroic flaw
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1979:Nonfiction
1943:Underwater
1839:Picaresque
1814:Historical
1799:Epistolary
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1582:Peripeteia
1564:Exposition
1320:Dreamworld
1262:Stereotype
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887:References
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724:Doctor Who
680:Family Guy
610:The A-Team
588:Television
523:Casablanca
486:Billy Budd
443:Tom Riddle
395:Trojan War
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223:Major flaw
190:Minor flaw
76:newspapers
2001:Narration
1950:Superhero
1874:Chivalric
1859:Religious
1844:Political
1779:Adventure
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1686:Tall tale
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1487:Narration
1387:Leitmotif
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150:prejudice
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2009:Diegesis
1989:Creative
1962:Thriller
1911:Southern
1829:Paranoid
1824:Nautical
1735:Vignette
1693:Gamebook
1661:Folklore
1568:Protasis
1447:Allegory
1392:Metaphor
1350:parallel
1345:universe
1325:Dystopia
1282:Suspense
1168:Dialogue
1156:Conflict
1064:Narrator
1036:Hamartia
791:Zelena's
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632:Futurama
462:Jo March
415:Poseidon
407:Odysseus
391:Achilles
321:paranoid
287:Examples
267:Hamartia
169:Achilles
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2137:Prequel
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1869:Romance
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1720:Novella
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1472:Imagery
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1052:Byronic
387:Briseis
355:monster
334:Macbeth
329:Macduff
309:Macbeth
233:amnesia
90:scholar
2141:Sequel
2125:Retcon
2120:Reboot
2084:Future
1918:Horror
1906:Gothic
1891:Satire
1809:Erotic
1676:Legend
1578:Climax
1452:Bathos
1359:Utopia
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1146:Cliché
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844:Gaming
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744:is a "
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1666:Fable
1644:Drama
1609:films
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1382:Irony
1374:Theme
1287:Trope
856:Chaos
504:Rocky
182:, or
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97:JSTOR
83:books
2153:List
2074:Past
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1794:Docu
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