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When people have asked my opinions about their characters (often specifically if I consider them as Mary Sues or not, thanks to my tutorial about avoiding Mary Sues), a reoccurring theme in those conversations has been the character flaws. A frequent (and rather crude) definition of Mary Sue is "Mary Sue is a character without prominent flaws", and I would add, "without prominent character flaws". In order to apply this definition, it is necessary to know what is a character flaw. This is what this article is about. Or, tutorial, review, rant, something like that. In any case, I hope this will be useful for someone! At least to me, as I can l