History FatalFlaw / Film

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Mike Wazowski has two major flaws in each film:

** Then, in ''Monsters, Inc.'' itself, this flaw is his own selfishness, primarily over maintaining his and Sully's efforts to break the all-time scare record rather than help Boo get home, showing no concern for her throughout most of the film and doing everything he can to get rid of her as quick as he can.

* ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'': For the title character, it's Vanity. Wade was rather proud of his looks before Weapon X and his subsequent deforming is why he doesn't approach Vanessa after he escapes and why he takes [[spoiler: too long to warn her that Ajax might be after her, indirectly getting her kidnapped as a result]]. He refuses to believe that Vanessa or anyone else could love him because of his new face, pointedly ignoring how Weasel and Blind Al are fond of him for other reasons. Lampshaded in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qIRtFE6aIc Honest Trailer]] for the film, as Deadpool would do anything to get his fiancée back... "Except talk to her". [[NoFourthWall In his own words]].

*** His silver tongue and {{Pride}} are his greatest strengths. [[spoiler: But they also lead to his downfall, as during the climax, when Simba, still blaming himself for his father's death, is dangling from the edge of Pride Rock, Scar can't resist indulging in this and [[EvilGloating freely admits]] to Simba that ''[[CainAndAbel he]]'' [[CainAndAbel killed Mufasa]]. At this revelation, Simba pulls off his HeroicSecondWind and literally ''chokes'' Scar to get him to admit the truth to everyone else]]. This in turn leads to...
*** ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. Family or lackeys, Scar will betray them at the drop of a hat. [[spoiler: He betrays his own family, killing his brother and trying to do the same to his nephew, and later sells out the hyenas to save his own life even though all this lying and backstabbing is what got him into the situation he is in to begin with. [[TheDogBitesBack The last backstab proves to be the final straw for the now enraged hyenas, who overheard his plot to betray them]].]]

* ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'': Mills's massive lust for money ultimately [[JustForPun bites]] him in the ass really hard after the film's climax. [[spoiler: Once Maisie frees the trapped dinosaurs and they all stampede out of the manor, wrecking Mills's car and trampling his remaining mercenaries to death, the guy nonetheless has the guts to try and secure the ''Indominus'' rib sample for Wu, even as multiple predators begin ganging up behind him. Unsurprisingly, Mills winds up becoming an hors d'oeuvre for Rexy.]]

** Rey's fatal flaw is a combination of stubbornness & [[{{NaiveNewcomer}} naïvet&acutee;]]. She is very insistent for most of ''The Force Awakens'' and much of ''The Last Jedi'' on remaining on/returning to [[{{CrapsackWorld}} Jakku]] to wait for her family to return for her. However, she is in denial that her family is long gone and thus [[{{RefusedTheCall}} refuses the call,]] even when other characters like Maz Kanata point it out (To which Rey reacts in anger). So she is essentially wasting her life away on a ScavengerWorld that has no real prospect of a better life for her. Rey, despite her skill, doesn't have the best knowledge of people which causes her to [[{{HorribleJudgeOfCharacter}} misjudge them,]] especially in regards to Kylo Ren/Ben Solo. She believes that she can redeem him, despite Luke's warnings, but it simply leads to her being captured, tortured, and nearly killed. In fact, Rey and Kylo are on even ''more'' hostile terms because of her actions.

** The rest of the Riveras, specifically Imelda and Abuelita, all apply to Pride. Years of forbidding music from the family made them rigid and stubborn. Many parts of movie show how reluctant they are to let go of the past and lift the ban on music (not even for supporting one of their own, who truly loves it). Even after Miguel runs away and the family searches him, the matriarchs ''still'' refuse to compromise and let go of the ban or even try to understand '''why''' anyone would want them to. Even worst, because Imelda enforced the ban on music, the family missed multiple clues of what truly happened to her husband [[spoiler:Hector, and put him in danger of FinalDeath]].

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': Thanks to his rather abusive upbringing - where his parents and the rest of his family would repeatedly abandon him so he wouldn't be a hindrance to them - Sid has some major abandonment issues, which he becomes increasingly aware of throughout the movies. The Herd gave Sid a place where he belonged for the first time in his life, and in the [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs third film]], he comes to the stinging, sobering realization that he's more reliant on his friends for company than they're reliant on him: he spends a good chunk of that movie wondering what he's going to do with his life, when they're all seemingly moving on with theirs. Sid can also be very needy for validation due to his low self-esteem, which stems from a similar origin as his abandonment issues. In the [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown second film]], Sid grows resentful of the fact that Manny and Diego apparently don't respect him, and he spends much of that movie trying to prove himself and gain approval from someone or something.

** Syndrome's flaw is that he wants to be acknowledged as a superhero simply by having "powers" which, for him, are provided by advanced technology. However he shows no interest in actually cultivating the deeper aspects of character that make one a true hero like a desire for justice, self-sacrifice, or a willingness to help those who can't help themselves. It's a lesson he never learns.

** HorribleJudgeOfCharacter. Mufasa trusted his clearly power-hungry brother Scar a ''little'' too much. [[spoiler:It gets him killed.]]
** Simba [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex often struggles to feel like he's living up to his father's legacy]]. Scar exploits this and tricks him into visiting the elephant graveyard in order to prove that he was brave like his father and into running away after [[spoiler:Mufasa was killed]] and he blames himself and believes he won't ever be fit to take up his father's mantle as king.

*** His silver tongue and {{Pride}} are his greatest strengths. [[spoiler:But they also lead to his downfall, as during the climax, when Simba, still blaming himself for his father's death, is dangling from the edge of Pride Rock, Scar can't resist indulging in this and [[EvilGloating freely admits]] to Simba that ''[[CainAndAbel he]]'' [[CainAndAbel killed Mufasa]]. At this revelation, Simba pulls off his HeroicSecondWind and literally ''chokes'' Scar to get him to admit the truth to everyone else]]. This in turn leads to...
*** ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. Family or lackeys, Scar will betray them at the drop of a hat. [[spoiler:He betrays his own family, killing his brother and trying to do the same to his nephew, and later sells out the hyenas to save his own life, even though all this lying and backstabbing is what got him into the situation he is in to begin with. [[TheDogBitesBack The last backstab proves to be the final straw for the now enraged hyenas, who overheard his plot to betray them]].]]

** Zira's Fatal Flaw is her [[RevengeBeforeReason thirst for vengeance]]. While she shows at [[spoiler:Nuka's death]] and other times that she loves her children, her all-consuming thirst for vengeance causes her to be an AbusiveParent, ultimately causing [[spoiler:the death of one of her children and the HeelFaceTurn of the other two]], as well as [[spoiler:her own demise]].

** Ariel's curiosity and recklessness frequently gets her into some scrapes.

** Sebastian's flaws are his LooseLips and BlindObedience to Triton. None of the events mentioned above would have happened if he kept '''his huge gob shut''' and listened to Ariel instead when she told him not to tell her father anything. This risks [[BrokenPedestal Ariel's respect in him]].
** Ursula's flaw is her penchant for cruelty and the fact that she doesn't pay attention to her surroundings. First she taunts Ariel by gloating about how she'll kill Eric, ignoring Ariel while she aims. This allows Ariel to grab Ursula just before she fires, causing the shot to veer off and kill Flotsam and Jetsam instead (henchmen who were in the way because Ursula ordered them after Eric). Later, Ursula attempts to snipe a helpless Ariel, ignoring Eric who has commandeered a ship and rams Ursula with a broken bowsprit.

** First, in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity," it's his {{Pride}} in his abilities as a scarer. He certainly has the knowledge of scaring, but he lacks the imposing features of his peers. Not that it stops him from helping other monsters like him achieve this talent, but he thinks he's so scary, he fails to realize the fault with his own abilities [[spoiler: until he gets trapped in the human world.]]

* Medusa of ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' gets screwed over by being a BadBoss, as she bullies her sidekicks Snoops endlessly throughout the film, blames him for everything that goes wrong and refuses to share the Devil's Eye with him when the Penny finally manages to retrieve it from the well. When Penny escapes, she even turns on her own pet crocodiles by riding them after Penny through the swamp and abusing them, resulting in both Snoops and the crocodiles turning against her.

** Meena loves to sing and has an amazing voice but suffers terribly from stage fright and confidence issues, preventing her from singing when she had the opportunity. Part of her story arc is to overcome this.
** Buster has a bad habit of making people promises that he can't keep, under the assumption that he can discreetly fix it down the line. It happens in both movies, and in both cases the eventual fallout is far worse than anything he could have predicted.

** All the Spiders' flaw is their IWorkAlone mindset. While they do team-up to infiltrate Kingpin's place, they don't want to get anyone else involved because they don't want to lose anyone else that they love. Working with Miles helps them overcome that.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'': Killer Frost's Fatal Flaw is {{Greed}}. She could have likely gotten away scot-free with her life had she just let Zoom keep the card and his goons finish off the rest of the helpless Squad, but [[spoiler:she had to waste time double-crossing him and killing them to take the card for a payday, thus giving Copperhead time to break free of her ice and end up causing both of their deaths.]]

* In ''Film/AssaultOnAQueen'', Victor is obsessed with jewels. This ultimately gets him killed when he is attempting to escape and spots a massive diamond on the finger of one of the passengers. He breaks off his getaway and attempts to take the ring off her.

* ''Film/CarlitosWay'' has a variation of this trope. Carlito's Fatal Flaw is either his determination to keep his "reformed" status, or his ties to his criminal past. If he had gotten rid of one of the two, there might have been a happy ending.
* In ''Film/CanyonPassage'', George is [[TheGamblingAddict a gambling addict]], and it is this addiction -- combined with a desire to find an easy way to get rich quick (as opposed to Logan, who has gotten wealthy through hard work and the willingness to take risks) -- that eventually destroys him, as his debts mount and drag him into theft, murder and eventually [[spoiler:death, as he is shot by the posse as he attempts to escape town before he can be lynched]].
* ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': For Koba it's Wrath, FantasticRacism, and inability to understand why anyone would have sympathy for humans. At the start of the movie Koba is a loyal and trustworthy friend of Caesar and HonoraryUncle towards his son, Blue Eyes. But then the humans show up, and Koba rapidly starts to go off the deep end. Koba understandably hates humans for the years he spent in their labs being tortured and experimented on. He cannot forgive or forget the pain humans have caused him, nor he is willing to risk any possibility of returning to his old life, and he cannot understand Caesar's decision to work with them for the sake of peace between humans and apes. Eventually, these flaws cause Koba turn against Caesar and wage war against the human settlement. By the end of the movie, these three flaws have so utterly dominated Koba that he doesn't care how many apes die in his war, so long as he gets to kill humans and satisfy his unquenchable lust for revenge. Additionally, his violent tendencies are what turns the rest of the ape community against him during his climactic battle with Caesar, as he becomes so unhinged that he shoots any ape between him and Caesar.
* ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'': For the title character, it's Vanity. Wade was rather proud of his looks before Weapon X and his subsequent deforming is why he doesn't approach Vanessa after he escapes and why he takes [[spoiler:too long to warn her that Ajax might be after her, indirectly getting her kidnapped as a result]]. He refuses to believe that Vanessa or anyone else could love him because of his new face, pointedly ignoring how Weasel and Blind Al are fond of him for other reasons. Lampshaded in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qIRtFE6aIc Honest Trailer]] for the film, as Deadpool would do anything to get his fiancee back... "Except talk to her". [[NoFourthWall In his own words]].

* In ''Film/{{Exam}}'', [[spoiler:White]] loses the competition due to his own hubris.

** When Uther sees Cornwall's wife Igrayne, he absolutely has to have her, and doesn't think about the consequences.

** Maximus is an ardent patriot and his worst mistakes come because of his love of Rome. His acceptance of Emperor Marcus Aurelius' plea to help make it a republic again gets his family killed. [[spoiler:His choice to become a RebelLeader and try to make contact with his army gets him and his fellow gladiators killed.]]
** Commodus likes to look cool all the time. His arrival in the German battlefield needs to be dramatic and his entrance into Rome needs to be a triumphant procession. Instead of disposing of Maximus outright, he makes it a DuelToTheDeath at the Colosseum. [[spoiler:Maximus kills him despite being mortally wounded.]]
* The Corleone Brothers in ''Film/TheGodfather'' all inherited a trait from their father (Sonny's charisma, Fredo's heart and Michael's cunning) which they don't have in each other. Had they worked together, they would have been an unstoppable criminal empire.

** Henry is greedy and set up his own operation that gets him arrested. Worse is that he clearly hasn't learned anything by the end.

** [[spoiler:Kíli]]'s recklessness leads directly to his death.
** His grandfather Thrór became so greedy and obsessed in filling his halls with gold that it attracted Smaug and eventually led to the downfall of Erebor.
* Dr. Elsa Schneider in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' suffers from multiple flaws: ambition, greed, and vanity. Her ambition to get the holy grail at all costs turns fatal when she's faced with the decision to reach for the grail or give Indy her free hand. Overcome with greed, she reaches and cannot stop herself. Indiana can't hold her because, in her vanity, she wore fancy leather gloves on her hands, which promptly slips off. All these flaws contribute to her long plunge of a DeathByMaterialism.
** Donovan's is [[StupidEvil ignorance]]. A wealthy American socialite who shook hands with the Nazis to possess the Grail, but he has no appreciation for the history of the artifact he seeks -- it's a magical artifact that can grant you eternal life, that was all he knew and all that mattered to him. This bites him in the ass in the end when he's faced with a room with hundreds of cups and the elderly guardian warns him that as the true Grail will give life, a "false one will take it away". [[spoiler:Elsa is able to trick him into drinking the wrong one and he dies a horrible death from rapidly aging centuries in a matter of moments.]]

*** [[TheCasanova His womanizing]]. Bond's life is full of beautiful women who initially don't want relationships. But when they do, [[CartwrightCurse it ends badly]] for him. Many of the villains [[FlawExploitation even exploited this flaw to some degree of success]], most notably when [[spoiler:his wife Tracy is killed on their honeymoon by Blofeld in revenge for foiling his EvilPlan in ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' and its [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService film adaptation]].]] The BigBad of ''Film/GoldenEye'' even rubs it in his face.

*** For the Daniel Craig era, it is Bond's inability to trust others, which disconnects him from his loved ones and erodes his humanity. [[Film/NoTimeToDie Even from behind bars]], Blofeld tries to wreck Bond's morale even further and rubs it in his face [[spoiler:by sending his thugs to ambush the man while he was visiting Vesper's grave. Though Bond and Madeleine overcome the assassins, Bond thought Madeleine had a part in the ambush and leaves her despite her pleas. They do get better though after Bond kills off Blofeld]].

*** [[EvilIsPetty Pettiness]]. He [[BadBoss often kills]] his minions for [[YouHaveFailedMe failure to complete their tasks.]] And in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', his obsession to see 007 suffer, whether by [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] or [[TheAnticipator elaborate mind-games]] with him just because of ParentalFavoritism brings him down. [[spoiler:This pettiness leads to his downfall in ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', as BigBad Safin killed him in revenge for murdering his parents when he was a child]].

* ''Film/JurassicWorld'': Hoskins' manipulative nature and exploiting the ''Velociraptors'' for his evil deeds [[spoiler:causes him to be eaten by one]].
* ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'': Mills' massive lust for money ultimately [[JustForPun bites]] him in the ass really hard after the film's climax. [[spoiler:Once Maisie frees the trapped dinosaurs and they all stampede out of the manor, wrecking Mills' car and trampling his remaining mercenaries to death, the guy nonetheless has the guts to try and secure the ''Indominus'' rib sample for Wu, even as multiple predators begin ganging up behind him. Unsurprisingly, Mills winds up becoming an hors d'oeuvre for Rexy.]]
* In ''Film/KnivesOut'', Harlan's ControlFreak tendencies, flair for drama and ComplexityAddiction is what leads to his death. He thinks he knows what's better than anyone and when [[spoiler: Marta believes she accidentally administered a fatal dose of morphine to him, Harlan overrides her desire to call an ambulance and orchestrates a complex cover-up via suicide to protect her]]. Detective Blanc explicitly said that if Harlan had simply listened to [[spoiler: Marta]], he would still be alive.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Pride for Saruman. He holds himself as above everyone and everything, Saruman '''the Wise''' this pride means he underestimates his enemies and forgets about the simpler things (like GaiasVengeance in the form of the Ents).

*** Steve Rogers' greatest trait and one of his major flaws is that he is a {{Determinator}}. He will refuse to stand down and compromise over things that he believes are worth fighting for. This leads to him going to extreme lengths to protect his friend Bucky from people who want him to pay for his crimes as the Winter Soldier, as well as refusing to sign the Accords due to his belief that the heroes are the best ones to make the judgement call, not the government. All of this only leads to escalating the conflict in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.
*** Another big one for Steve is his steadfast, uncompromising {{Black and White Morality}}. Though his {{Incorruptible Pure Pureness}} is the reason why the super soldier serum worked for him in the first place, his views/morals leave him with the inability (or refusal) to see the [[GreyandGrayMorality grey]] in various situations. His resulting actions have led to disastrous long-term consequences in the MCU. He condemns the unsavory methods regularly utilized by Nick Fury and SHIELD yet fails to see that DirtyBusiness is a necessary evil at times and Fury does so in order to keep the Avengers' hands clean. When the Sokovia Accords are sanctioned, he is unwilling to play ball with the U.S. Government and actively fights against it, failing to recognize that said government has strong, solid reasons for passing said accords in the first place. His unceasing support of polarizing individuals like [[BestFriend Bucky]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Barnes]] and [[TheWoobie Wanda]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Maximoff]] earns him enmity from his friends and allies. Albeit sympathetic, Bucky and Wanda are destructive [[PersonOfMassDestruction weapons]] who have committed guilt-ridden atrocities that many would agree are unforgivable. Even after [[spoiler: Steve retires and passes the Captain America [[Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier mantle]] to Sam Wilson, his friend initially decides to pass on the offer. Despite meaning (and choosing) well, Cap fails to anticipate the population's reactions and the ramifications it would have to a guy like Sam (especially one struggling to take on a legacy as legendary as Steve's)]]. So ultimately while Cap's decisions may have been morally justified, it doesn't mean they were the right ones.

*** His pride, impulsiveness and ItsAllAboutMe tendencies are his primary flaws. His "run before you can walk" philosophy resulted in him and Pepper almost getting killed by the Mandarin because he basically told the Mandarin on live television, "here is my address, come fight me". His desire to protect the world and save his friends without any real plan or even discussing things with said friends lead to the creation of [[GoneHorriblyWrong Ultron]]. He has a very hard time giving up being Iron Man and because of this, in ''Civil War'', [[spoiler:Pepper breaks up with him because being Iron Man is more important than she is.]]
*** Additionally, another major flaw of Tony's is his need to try and fix his mistakes, which only makes things worse in the long run. When he first becomes Iron Man, he shuts down his weapons division, having seen firsthand just how destructive they are, but doing so hurts Stark Industries financial standing (at least for the first film, as they are able to bounce back). After [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the attack on New York]] (which in part was made possible thanks to Loki using his tower), he nearly destroys his relationship with Pepper and almost hands America to [[spoiler: Aldrich Killian]] after spending months building more suits to protect the world. Then, in an attempt to try and rectify [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron what happened with Ultron]] and [[spoiler: make up with Pepper]], he stubbornly refuses to listen to Cap's claims that both sides on the Superhuman Registration conflict are being played until it's almost too late, [[spoiler: and even then he falls out with Cap big time when the truth about his parents' deaths are revealed]]. With the Avengers divided, Earth is [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar vulnerable to Thanos]], and not only does [[spoiler: [[TheBadGuyWins Thanos win]], but Tony is [[Film/AvengersEndgame later forced to sacrifice himself]] in order to stop him once and for all.]] This even plays out [[spoiler: posthumously, as him [[Film/SpiderManFarFromHome building an entire satellite defensive network]] and gifting it to an emotionally traumatized teenage superhero still grieving his death leads a bitter ex-employee to manipulate his way into stealing it and nearly killing a lot of innocent people.]]
* Cypher from ''Film/TheMatrix'''s biggest flaw is his jaded cynicism and defeatism. He's been through the war long enough to lose his faith, and doesn't buy any of this talk about beating the machines. Deep down, he wishes he were back in the Matrix, instead of in the Real World. [[spoiler:This flaw ultimately leads to him siding with the Machines and betraying the Resistance in return for permanent re-insertion into the Matrix]].

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' seems to have cemented small-mindedness as Admiral Stenz's Fatal Flaw. He considers Monarch naive for their worshipful attitude to Godzilla despite respecting their expertise, seeing the Kaiju merely as "things". Depending on [[YMMV/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Alternative Character Interpretation]], his role in ''King of the Monsters'' indicates he's either persistent in his [[FantasticRacism distrust of the Kaiju]] despite his reasonable attributes, or he's choosing [[ToBeLawfulOrGood To Be Lawful rather than Good]] to a fault. Either way, him failing to wrap his head around the Kaiju as anything other than a potential threat and furthermore not taking Serizawa's advise more seriously has so far racked up two ''extreme'' cases of making things go FromBadToWorse.

** For Emma Russell it's Pride. It's noted in the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization that once she's committed to something and has gotten it into her head that she's right about something, she can be very unmoving about it. [[spoiler:This leads to her FaceHeelTurn towards being a WellIntentionedExtremist]].

* Billy Valence's arrogance and refusal to listen to advice in ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive''. Following a discussion about gunfights in the old days, Cain tells him never to holster an empty pistol. He is eventually killed when he beats Luke Santee to the draw [[spoiler:only to discover that he never reloaded his pistol after murdering Ruffalo, and he tries to shoot Luke with an empty gun]].
* In ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'', Raiden states that each of the main heroes have one that they must overcome.

** Liu Kang has two. He first prioritizes his revenge against Shang Tsung for killing his brother rather than saving Earth and he does so to hide the fact Liu feels responsible for his brother's death.

** Additionally, Ryan, Cassie's love interest, has the critical flaw of being unable to take responsibility for his moral failures. [[spoiler:He was present at Nina's rape, but tries to shift responsibility away from himself by claiming he was too drunk to remember what happened, that Nina put herself in the situation, and that Cassie is in the wrong for pushing the issue. This weakness costs him his relationship with Cassie and implies at the end that he will lose his career and reputation when the tape showing his passive role in Nina's rape gets out.]]

** In the prequels, Anakin Skywalker's fatal flaw is his arrogant insistence that he can do anything and his inability to let go of that which is important to him, ironically causing him to turn to TheDarkSide in his narrow-minded effort to [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl save Padmé]] at all costs. Outside of the films, he's established as having another fatal flaw in that he cares too much about those close to him and is willing to get very violent very fast to protect them, which includes using the Force to torture a Separatist leader for information on saving his padawan Ahsoka Tahno.
** Also in the prequels, Obi-Wan Kenobi's fatal flaw is his overprotectiveness of Anakin. It also largely contributed to his uneasy Master-Apprentice relationship with Anakin, who was very emotional and rather unstable, which lead to Anakin turning to TheDarkSide. By the end of the prequel trilogy, Obi-Wan had loved Anakin too much that he couldn't see what he had turned into.
** The Jedi Order’s is complacency and political ineptness which led to them being all but wiped out at the end of the Clone Wars. Expanded material has strongly implied the whole reason Sidious chose to enter politics was exactly because it was one of the Order's weaknesses. Arguably hubris does play a role in Revenge of the Sith as Mace Windu only takes a few council members to confront a Sith Lord of unknown skill but one who hid from the Yoda himself despite being regularly in close proximity. The resulting fight gave Sidious the perfect excuse for Order 66 to give to the public.

** Rey's fatal flaw is a combination of stubbornness & [[{{NaiveNewcomer}} naivety]]. She is very insistent for most of ''The Force Awakens'' and much of ''The Last Jedi'' on remaining on/returning to [[{{CrapsackWorld}} Jakku]] to wait for her family to return for her. However, she is in denial that her family is long-gone and thus [[{{RefusedTheCall}} refuses the call,]] even when other characters like Maz Kanata point it out (To which Rey reacts in anger). So she is essentially wasting her life away on a ScavengerWorld that has no real prospect of a better life for her. Rey, despite her skill, doesn't have the best knowledge of people which causes her to [[{{HorribleJudgeOfCharacter}} misjudge them,]] especially in regards to Kylo Ren/Ben Solo. She believes that she could redeem him, despite Luke's warnings, but it simply leads to her being capture, tortured, and nearly killed. In fact, Rey and Kylo are on even ''more'' hostile terms because of her actions.

* ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'': Hugh Ashdown is a military ConsummateProfessional with decades of experience. He believes that military might, gathered under effective leadership, is the only thing that can save humanity now. To a degree, he's right -- but he also has very little concern for civilians, while John Connor clearly does. He finds Connor a useful [[MagneticHero tool for bringing new Resistance recruits]], but thinks he's too young and naive to lead.
* Daniel Plainview from ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' thrives on animosity and he goes after enemies with a will. He ends up driving away the boy who he treated as his son and kills his arch-enemy without thought of consequence.
* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'': Optimus Prime's fatal flaw is his [[WideEyedIdealist idealism]]. After spending countless years fighting the Decepticons, Optimus wants to bring a peaceful end to conflict. Unfortunately, his idealism puts him through many nasty hardships, which include losing an arm, getting temporarily killed, brainwashed, betrayed by his best friend, [[spoiler:his mentor and even the humans he swore to protect]], all because Optimus wants to see the good in people.
* ''Film/TripleFrontier'': The greed of several of the team members, particularily Redfly's insistence on taking more money than they can handle, is what causes the relatively simple plan to steal Lorea's money to derail horribly.
* CLU in ''Film/TronLegacy'' suffers from an unquenchable need for perfection. He inherited this from Kevin Flynn when he was programmed, but unlike Flynn he is a program and is unable to learn from his mistakes.

** Bud Fox is [[NaiveNewcomer too]] [[WideEyedIdealist wide-eyed]] about Gordon Gekko's schemes, as Gekko is solely driven by greed and wants him to obtain insider information on companies by any means necessary, even if it's illegal. Bud also wanted to be like Gekko, but doesn't realize the costs of having such a lifestyle [[spoiler:[[BittersweetEnding until it was too late.]]]]
** For Gekko himself, it is his {{Greed}} and [[{{Pride}} excessive hubris]]. Being a CorruptCorporateExecutive, he is solely driven to make a quick profit by using Bud Fox to obtain information via illegal methods. His NewEraSpeech to a group of investors even exemplifies his MO: "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." [[spoiler:It costs him greatly, as his reputation and familial relations are in complete tatters [[Film/WallStreetMoneyNeverSleeps as shown in the sequel]].]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': For Professor X, it's arrogance. He has a habit of attempting to control those who are close to him, with or without the help of his psychic abilities. He's more inclined to do this with the women in his life (e.g. his foster sister and his surrogate daughter) than with the men. This paternalistic attitude stems from him being born in the early 1930s as a privileged male (Xavier was a male chauvinist in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''), and as a highly skilled telepath, he thinks he can understand a person better than s/he can know him/herself, and therefore he believes that he knows best in terms of what it is they truly "need."
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Upon meeting Jean Grey, Xavier had placed constraints upon her powers which then led to the creation of [[SplitPersonality the Phoenix]], a PersonOfMassDestruction who ends up vaporizing a ''lot'' of people, [[spoiler:including Charles himself]]. Under the circumstances, her vast raw power, disregard for the sanctity of other minds, and the fact that her parents seemed to be outright afraid of her (and not without reason -- pre-teen Jean is quite different from her warm-hearted and motherly adult self), this perhaps was not unwarranted.

*** Instead of trusting Moira to not divulge his and his students' location to her CIA superiors, he simply erases her memories of them. To be fair, Charles was worried that the CIA would torture her for information, but it's still a symptom of him of not having faith in a woman whom he cares about (an ImpliedLoveInterest, in this case).
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Part of 1973 Xavier's CharacterDevelopment revolves around realizing this and learning to trust instead of control. [[spoiler:It pays off when he proves just how much he trusts in Raven's good nature to do the right thing, instead of attempting to manipulate her. She doesn't murder Trask, and the bad Sentinel future is averted.]]

*** Xavier "repairs" the tragic mistake he had made with Jean in the original timeline by [[spoiler:encouraging her to embrace her Phoenix power to its fullest extent, which allows her to defeat Apocalypse, and she ends up saving the world instead of becoming a mass-murdering villainess. By doing the opposite of what he did to Jean in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', Charles' fate is also reversed -- he is rescued by her instead of being disintegrated.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Claude Frollo's main flaw is PsychologicalProjection, [[NeverMyFault as he always finds faults in others except for himself]], but can't separate his faith from his arrogance. Claiming to be HolierThanThou while others are pure and vile scum, he's ironically a [[TheFundamentalist Bible-thumping]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, and perverted monster]]. His unhealthy obsession with Esmeralda is what leads to his eventual VillainousBreakdown. Lampshaded below by Clopin himself.

** The Jedi council’s is hubris and complacency. This led to them being all but wiped out at the end of the Clone Wars.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'':

* ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour''
** Poppy's fatal flaw is her belief that things will work out combined with her default response to obstacles being a harder push combines into a tendency to innocently steamroll her friends. She ends up not listening to them as she overbears to resolve what she sees as a problem.

** The rest of the Riveras, specifically Imelda and Abuelita, all apply to Pride. Years of forbidding music from the family made them rigid and stubborn. Many parts of movie show how reluctant they are to let go of the past and lift the ban on music (not even for supporting one of their own, who truly loves it). Even after Miguel runs away and the family searches him, the matriarchs ''still'' refuse to compromise and let go of the ban. Even worst, because Imelda enforced the ban on music, the family missed multiple clues of what truly happened to her husband [[spoiler:Hector, and put him in danger of FinalDeath]].

*** [[TheCasanova His womanizing nature]]. This is arguably 007's biggest weakness, as his life is full of beautiful willing women who initially don't want relationships. But when they do, [[CartwrightCurse it ends badly]] for him. And many of the villains [[FlawExploitation even exploited this flaw to some degree of success]], most notably when [[spoiler:his wife Tracy is killed on her honeymoon by Blofeld in revenge for foiling his EvilPlan in ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' and its [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService film adaptation]].]]
*** [[TheAlcoholic Alcoholism]]. This is another big weakness for Bond, though more so in the novels. He's constantly guzzling down on booze, and sometimes likes to mix it with coffee or water. By the end of Fleming's run, he's consumed over [[http://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/title-the-man-with-the-golden-liver_52aa474022381_w1500.jpg 1150 alcohol units]], including martinis, beer, whisky, bourbon, cocktails, gin and champagne. A tragic example comes in ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', where Bond goes completely off the rails after [[spoiler:[[TheLostLenore Tracy's]] death]], drunkenly wandering about London, [[SanitySlippage thinking irrationally]] and getting ''multiple hangovers'' on a daily basis. This also became a major problem for him in the Creator/DanielCraig era to the point that 007 flat-out acknowledges it as a problem.

*** [[ItsAllAboutMe An inflated ego]], [[GloryHound desire for recognition]] and [[{{Pride}} vanity.]] He's willing to use underhanded means to get rich quickly, even if it means condemning millions to chaos. This results in a bloated ego, as the process by which he demands to not only get acceptance in society, but also the ability to dominate and fleece it led to an increased vanity. This actually becomes a major problem for him in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', as he is notably saddled with the exploitable weakness of snobbery about his assumed nobility, indicating that he is losing his [[SanitySlippage grip on sanity]]. And in [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice the book version of]] ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', his ego and vanity has eaten up whatever remaining sanity he had.
*** [[EvilIsPetty Pettiness]]. He [[BadBoss often kills]] many of his minions for minor reasons such as insubordination or [[YouHaveFailedMe failure to complete their tasks.]] And in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', his obsession to see 007 suffer, whether by [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] or [[TheAnticipator elaborate mind-games]] with him just because of ParentalFavoritism proves to be a major problem. [[spoiler:This pettiness leads to his downfall in ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', as BigBad Lyutsifer Safin killed him in revenge for murdering his parents when he was a child]].

*** In the novels, apart from his inflated ego and tendency to kill minions for minor reasons, the MagicPlasticSurgery he constantly does to radically alter himself [[KarmaHoudini in order to escape justice]] in both ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' and ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' comes with the [[SanitySlippage price of slowly losing his grip on sanity]]. By ''You Only Live Twice'', he's completely into VillainousBreakdown mode.

** Sebastian's flaws are his LooseLips and BlindObedience to Triton. None of the events mentioned above would have happened if he kept '''his huge gob shut''' and listened to Ariel instead and she told him not to tell her father anything. This risks [[BrokenPedestal Ariel's respect in him]].

** Sebastian's flaws are his LooseLips and BlindObedience to Triton. None of the events mentioned above wouldn't of happened if he kept '''his huge gob shut''' and listened to Ariel instead and she told him not to tell her father anything. This risks [[BrokenPedestal Ariel's respect in him]].

** Zira's Fatal Flaw is her [[{{Revenge}} thirst for vengeance]]. While she shows at [[spoiler:Nuka's death]] and other times that she loves her children, her all-consuming thirst for vengeance causes her to be an AbusiveParent, ultimately causing [[spoiler:the death of one of her children and the HeelFaceTurn of the other two]], as well as [[spoiler:her own demise]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Miguel's narrow-minded ambition. Miguel is so determined to fulfill his long-repressed aspirations that he denounces his loving (if flawed) family, performs a literal KickTheDog moment, and nearly becomes a spirit. It also leads Miguel to forsake the good advice of others if they don't apply to his "here and now", generally rushing to what seems to be the most direct answer to his problems without considering the potential consequences.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'': The Beldam/Other Mother's is her love for games. She actually lets Coraline collect the ghost eyes just to have some fun.