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** [[spoiler:[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies The phantom]]]] has Paranoia; they could have easily escaped the game scot-free with no one even knowing of their involvement, but they just ''had'' to get rid of anything that might remotely incriminate them... which of course put them in a position to get all their crimes exposed in front of a courtroom.

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** [[spoiler:[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies The phantom]]]] Phantom]]]] has Paranoia; they could have easily escaped the game scot-free with no one even knowing of their involvement, but they just ''had'' to get rid of anything that might remotely incriminate them... which of course put them in a position to get all their crimes exposed in front of a courtroom.
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** [[LightningBruiser Harriet Bree]]'s flaw are her loyalty to Ironwood and determination to follow orders. [[spoiler:Shortly before the destruction of Atlas, despite the rest of the Ace-Ops turning against Ironwood, Harriet personally tries carrying out Ironwood's plan to blow up Mantle out of loyalty. Once she comes to her senses, Dr. Arthur Watts has hacked the bomb so it can't be stopped, and Vine Zeki is forced to sacrifice himself to protect everyone else from the explosion; Harriet is left horrified and grief-stricken over the fact that someone she cared about is dead as a direct result of her actions.]]

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** [[LightningBruiser Harriet Bree]]'s flaw are her loyalty to Ironwood and determination to follow orders. [[spoiler:Shortly before the destruction of Atlas, despite [[spoiler:Despite the rest of the Ace-Ops turning against Ironwood, Ironwood shortly before the destruction of Atlas, Harriet personally tries carrying out Ironwood's plan to blow up Mantle out of loyalty. Once she comes to her senses, Dr. Arthur Watts has hacked the bomb so it can't be stopped, and Vine Zeki is forced to sacrifice himself to protect everyone else from the explosion; Harriet is left horrified and grief-stricken over the fact that someone she cared about is dead as a direct result of her actions.]]
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** [[CoolBigSis Yang's]] impulsive personality makes her impatient, quick to anger, and prone to thrill-seeking, obsession and dangerously thoughtless acts. As a child, her obsession with finding her [[MissingMom birth mother]] meant that, the moment her father's back was turned, she dragged her sister on a quest to locate Raven. All she found was a nest of Grimm. If not for [[CoolUncle Qrow]] turning up just in time, both girls would have died. Although she now controls her obsession with her mother, she revels in thrill-seeking and [[TheBerserker weaponises]] her [[HairTriggerTemper quick temper]]: combining her wrath, impatience and [[SuperStrength Semblance]] allows her to win fights very quickly without bothering with either strategy or temperance. This fighting style makes her quite predictable to the villains, enabling Neo to defeat and almost kill her without receiving a single hit in return and also enabling Emerald and Mercury to disgrace her as a ruthless fighter who will hit an opponent who is already down.

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** [[CoolBigSis Yang's]] Yang Xiao Long's]] impulsive personality makes her impatient, quick to anger, and prone to thrill-seeking, obsession and dangerously thoughtless acts. As a child, her obsession with finding her [[MissingMom birth mother]] meant that, the moment her father's father Taiyang's back was turned, she dragged her sister Ruby Rose on a quest to locate Raven.Raven Branwen. All she found was a nest of Grimm. If not for her uncle [[CoolUncle Qrow]] Qrow Branwen]] turning up just in time, both girls would have died. Although she now controls her obsession with her mother, she revels in thrill-seeking and [[TheBerserker weaponises]] her [[HairTriggerTemper quick temper]]: combining her wrath, impatience and [[SuperStrength Semblance]] allows her to win fights very quickly without bothering with either strategy or temperance. This fighting style makes her quite predictable to the villains, enabling Neo to defeat and almost kill her without receiving a single hit in return and also enabling Emerald and Mercury to disgrace her as a ruthless fighter who will hit an opponent who is already down.



** [[LadyOfBlackMagic Cinder Fall]] is an [[{{Narcissist}} egomaniac]], whose flaw is accompanied by [[{{Sadist}} sadism]], an insatiable [[AmbitionIsEvil hunger for power]] and a severe [[EvilIsPetty case of pettiness]]. This has led to her losing badly several times. Cinder's driven to uplift herself while bringing everyone else down, even if she has to pause to waste time gloating instead of completing the plan without incident. If someone she perceives as beneath her gets the better of her, she will pay them back in the worst way possible, even if doing so is either pointless or detrimental to the long-term plan. If she thinks there's a way to fulfill Salem's mission and get what she wants she'll go for it, no matter how risky it is. [[spoiler:Her cruel, arrogant lust for power finally gets the better of her near the end of Volume 5, when she falls for Raven's decoy and exposes herself to defeat by Raven's hand. In Volume 7, her need to gloat to Fria instead of immediately taking Fria's power gives the ailing Winter Maiden time to focus her mind and protect herself just long enough for help to arrive. Cinder then wastes even more time to take revenge on Winter for cutting off her Grimm arm, distracting Cinder from killing Fria and allowing Penny to become the new Winter Maiden instead.]]
** [[WesternTerrorists White Fang]] High Leader, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sienna Khan]] sums up [[FantasticRacism Adam Taurus's]] weakness as [[GeneralFailure short-sightedness]]. He possesses the charisma to lead Vale's faction of the White Fang in any endeavour he supports; even when many [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] lose their lives during the Volume 2 finale, he is confident that his followers will continue to do his bidding. Claiming he's inspired by Sienna's strength, he joins forces with [[BigBad Salem]] to destroy [[ExtranormalInstitute Beacon Academy]]. Sienna is furious because Adam cannot see that his actions have justified humanity's hatred and fear of the Faunus and that the White Fang is now more of a target than it ever was. [[AntiHero Blake]] explains to Sun that Adam symbolises the concept of '[[EvilIsPetty spite]]' to her; the world hurt him, so he intends to hurt the world right back; he neither cares nor comprehends the wider consequences of his actions. He believes in Faunus superiority and plans for a day when humanity will be forced to serve the Faunus, but he's willing to ruin his own plans for short-term gain, such as the destruction of Beacon Academy or putting a hit out on Blake's family just because they oppose him. [[spoiler:Murdering Sienna to obtain control of the White Fang and trying to assassinate the Belladonnas motivates a previously neutral Menagerie to form an army for the sole purpose of stopping him from doing to Haven Academy what he did to Beacon; his ability to control the White Fang is therefore destroyed by his own weakness almost as soon as he set his plans in motion.]]
** [[BigGood Ozpin's]] desire to stop [[BigBad Salem]] is ultimately hampered by his [[PoorCommunicationKills inability to give a straight answer]] to any question regarding the [[SecretWar situation]] or his [[DarkAndTroubledPast past]]. He implies to the heroes that his behavior stems from a desire to avoid being betrayed, leading him to engage in deflections, half-truths, lying by omission and pure deception. While he wants the heroes to trust that he has good reasons for his decisions, his tactics inadvertently alienate his allies. Ironwood's frustration with Ozpin's passivity leads him to go behind Ozpin's back and override Ozpin's responsibility for protecting the Vytal Festival while Raven abandoned him and his cause by investigating the truth for herself. [[spoiler:Ruby's group learn the truth through the [[ArtifactOfPower Relic of Knowledge]], leading even the [[UndyingLoyalty loyal Qrow]] to [[BrokenPedestal turn on him]]; his [[HeroicBSOD response]] is to lock himself deep inside [[SharingABody Oscar's mind]] where even [[LegacyCharacter Oscar]] can't go. When Ironwood asks Oscar why Ozpin kept secret the truth about Salem, Oscar reveals that Ozpin keeps his secrets because he's terrified people will [[DespairEventHorizon lose all hope]].]]
** [[FourStarBadass General Ironwood]] is a good man, but his ability to do good is hampered by his [[TheParanoiac paranoia]]. His default tactic to any threat is overwhelming military force, which puts him at odds with Ozpin, Glynda and Qrow when he arrives in Vale with his army; while he thinks the show of force makes people feel safe, Ozpin points out it'll just make them wonder what the threat level is. While he expects others to trust him, Glynda points out that he's not willing to trust others in return. The mistrust and paranoia mean that he doesn't follow orders well because he's willing to turn on allies as soon as they do something he doesn't like, such as reporting Ozpin to the Vale Council after the first time the Grimm breach Vale's defenses. It also makes it easy for Cinder's manipulations to target him when the virus she uploads into Beacon's security network allows the villains to take control of the army he wasn't supposed to bring to Vale. Later, the villains pull similar moves on him in Atlas, ramping up his paranoia until he's willing to put Mantle under curfew, contemplate martial law and circumvent the democratic mandate of the Atlesian council just to get things done without having to share any information. The villains find him easy to manipulate while his allies find him difficult to work with. [[spoiler:When Cinder breaks into his office just to leave a Black Queen chess piece on his desk, Ironwood's paranoia manifests in a panic of second-guessing whether every decision he's made has played right into Salem's hands. After Salem manifests in his office, revealing her forces are on the way to Atlas, Ironwood orders the arrest of Teams RWBY and JNR, Qrow and Oscar. Convinced he's now exhausted his troops trying to evacuate Mantle, he dooms the city to death by deciding to fly Atlas higher into the heavens and orders the arrest of everyone who's not on board with that plan to ensure they can't thwart him.]]
** [[BornLucky Clover Ebi's]] flaw is his loyalty to Ironwood. [[spoiler:In "With Friends Like These", when General Ironwood ordered the arrests of RWBY, JNR, Oscar and Qrow, Clover blindly follows his orders, which is one of the factors that leads to the Manta crashing. During his fight with Qrow and Tyrian, Clover is so focused on following orders that he initially focuses solely on Qrow, leading Tyrian to manipulate the situation in his favour and ultimately kill him.]]
** [[LightningBruiser Harriet Bree]] has two, her loyalty to Ironwood and determination to follow orders. [[spoiler:At the climax of Volume 8, despite the rest of the Ace-Ops realizing how far Ironwood has fallen and turning on him, Harriet not only continues to support him, but attempts to personally carry out his plan to bomb Mantle on principle. By the time she comes to her senses, Dr. Watts has hacked the bomb so it can't be stopped, and Vine is forced to sacrifice himself to protect everyone else from the explosion; Harriet is left horrified and grief-stricken over the fact that someone she cared about is dead as a direct result of her actions.]]

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** [[LadyOfBlackMagic Cinder Fall]] is an [[{{Narcissist}} egomaniac]], whose flaw is accompanied by [[{{Sadist}} sadism]], an insatiable [[AmbitionIsEvil hunger for power]] and a severe [[EvilIsPetty case of pettiness]]. This has led to her losing badly several times. Cinder's driven to uplift herself while bringing everyone else down, even if she has to pause to waste time gloating instead of completing the plan without incident. If someone she perceives as beneath her gets the better of her, she will pay them back in the worst way possible, even if doing so is either pointless or detrimental to the long-term plan. If she thinks there's a way to fulfill Salem's mission and get what she wants she'll go for it, no matter how risky it is. [[spoiler:Her cruel, arrogant lust for power finally gets the better of her near at the end conclusion of Volume 5, the battle at Haven, when she falls for Raven's decoy and exposes herself to defeat by Raven's hand. In Volume 7, the Atlas arc, her need to gloat to Fria instead of immediately taking Fria's power gives the ailing Winter Maiden time to focus her mind and protect herself just long enough for help to arrive. Cinder then wastes even more time to take revenge on Winter for cutting off her Grimm arm, distracting Cinder from killing Fria and allowing Penny to become the new Winter Maiden instead.]]
** [[WesternTerrorists White Fang]] High Leader, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sienna Khan]] sums up [[FantasticRacism Adam Taurus's]] weakness as [[GeneralFailure short-sightedness]]. He possesses the charisma to lead Vale's faction of the White Fang in any endeavour he supports; even when many [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] lose their lives during the Volume 2 finale, he is confident that his followers will continue to do his bidding. Claiming he's inspired by Sienna's strength, he joins forces with [[BigBad Salem]] to destroy [[ExtranormalInstitute Beacon Academy]]. Sienna is furious because Adam cannot see that his actions have justified humanity's hatred and fear of the Faunus and that the White Fang is now more of a target than it ever was. [[AntiHero Blake]] explains to Sun that Adam symbolises the concept of '[[EvilIsPetty spite]]' to her; the world hurt him, so he intends to hurt the world right back; he neither cares nor comprehends the wider consequences of his actions. He believes in Faunus superiority and plans for a day when humanity will be forced to serve the Faunus, but he's willing to ruin his own plans for short-term gain, such as the destruction of Beacon Academy or putting a hit out on Blake's family just because they oppose him. [[spoiler:Murdering Sienna to obtain control of the White Fang and trying to assassinate the Belladonnas motivates a previously neutral Menagerie to form an army for the sole purpose of just to stopping him from doing to Haven Academy what he did to Beacon; thus, his ability to control the White Fang is therefore Fang's destroyed by his own weakness almost as soon as he set his plans in motion.]]
** [[BigGood Ozpin's]] desire to stop [[BigBad Salem]] is ultimately hampered by his [[PoorCommunicationKills inability to give a straight answer]] to any question regarding the [[SecretWar situation]] or his [[DarkAndTroubledPast past]]. He implies to the heroes that his behavior stems from a desire to avoid being betrayed, leading him to engage in deflections, half-truths, lying by omission and pure deception. While he wants the heroes to trust that he has good reasons for his decisions, his tactics inadvertently alienate his allies. Ironwood's frustration with Ozpin's passivity leads him to go behind Ozpin's back and override Ozpin's responsibility for protecting the Vytal Festival while Raven abandoned him and his cause by investigating the truth for herself. [[spoiler:Ruby's group learn the truth through the [[ArtifactOfPower Relic of Knowledge]], leading even the [[UndyingLoyalty loyal Qrow]] to [[BrokenPedestal turn on him]]; his [[HeroicBSOD response]] is to lock himself deep inside [[SharingABody Oscar's mind]] where even [[LegacyCharacter Oscar]] can't go. When Ironwood asks Oscar why Ozpin kept secret the truth about Salem, but Oscar reveals that Ozpin keeps his secrets because he's terrified people will [[DespairEventHorizon lose all hope]].]]
** [[FourStarBadass General Ironwood]] is a good man, but his James Ironwood]]'s ability to do good is hampered by his [[TheParanoiac paranoia]]. His default tactic to any threat is At even the slightest hint of a threat, Ironwood immediately assumes the worst-case scenario and uses overwhelming military force, which puts force. However, he is uninterested in having his allies talk him at odds down from making his decisions or sharing information with Ozpin, Glynda and Qrow when him because he arrives in Vale with his army; while he thinks the show of force makes people feel safe, Ozpin points out it'll just make them wonder what the threat level is. While he expects others to trust him, Glynda points out that he's not willing to trust others in return. often mishandles delicate scenarios. The mistrust and paranoia mean that he doesn't follow orders well because he's willing to he willingly turn on allies as soon as they do something he doesn't like, dislikes, such as reporting Ozpin to the Vale Council after the first time the Grimm breach Vale's defenses. It also makes it easy to fall for Cinder's manipulations to target him ploys when the virus she uploads into Beacon's security network allows the villains to take control of the army he wasn't supposed to bring to Vale. Later, in Atlas, the villains pull similar moves on him in Atlas, ramping ramp up his paranoia until he's willing to put he willingly puts Mantle under curfew, contemplate martial law and circumvent the Atlesian council's democratic mandate of the Atlesian council just to get things done without having to share sharing any information. The villains find him easy to manipulate while his allies find him difficult to work with. [[spoiler:When Cinder breaks [[spoiler:Cinder breaking into his office just to leave a Black Queen chess piece on his desk, desk causes Ironwood's paranoia manifests to manifest in a panic of second-guessing whether every decision he's made has played right into Salem's hands. After Salem manifests in his office, revealing her forces are on the way to Atlas, Ironwood orders the arrest of arrests Teams RWBY and JNR, Qrow and Oscar. Convinced he's now exhausted his troops trying to evacuate Mantle, he dooms leaves the city citizens to death die by deciding to fly Atlas higher into the heavens and orders the arrest of has everyone who's not on board with that plan to ensure arrested, so they can't thwart him.foil his plans.]]
** [[BornLucky Clover Ebi's]] flaw is his loyalty to Ironwood. [[spoiler:In "With Friends Like These", when General Ironwood ordered the arrests of has RWBY, JNR, Oscar and Qrow, Qrow arrested, Clover blindly follows his orders, which is one of the factors that leads to the Manta crashing. During his fight While fighting with Qrow and Tyrian, Clover is so focused on following orders that he initially focuses solely on Qrow, leading Tyrian to manipulate the situation in his favour and ultimately kill him.]]
** [[LightningBruiser Harriet Bree]] has two, Bree]]'s flaw are her loyalty to Ironwood and determination to follow orders. [[spoiler:At [[spoiler:Shortly before the climax destruction of Volume 8, Atlas, despite the rest of the Ace-Ops realizing how far Ironwood has fallen and turning on him, against Ironwood, Harriet not only continues to support him, but attempts to personally carry tries carrying out his Ironwood's plan to bomb blow up Mantle on principle. By the time out of loyalty. Once she comes to her senses, Dr. Arthur Watts has hacked the bomb so it can't be stopped, and Vine Zeki is forced to sacrifice himself to protect everyone else from the explosion; Harriet is left horrified and grief-stricken over the fact that someone she cared about is dead as a direct result of her actions.]]

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