The Ultimate List of 100 Character Flaws

We provide your one-stop list for character flaws, as well as a fun exercise to create dynamic characters!

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Creating a character is a difficult task. There are several things to consider from what do they look like, how do they sound, how do they act, and what makes them who they are? All of these things and more should be focused on when building a character. But you should also focus on their weakness or flaws.

These types of traits can be anything from fear, a vice, or failing. They could also be something another character can use against them or hold over their head. It may even be another person. Someone they are afraid to speak with or even see. Whatever it is, characters with weaknesses are more engaging to readers as they are more realistic.

Character Building Exercise: Choose five numbers randomly, or use one of those random number generation tools online. Or roll a d100 five times! Write down those five traits and create a character out of them. Decide how this personality happened. What in the character’s past caused these traits to form? How do they use them? Do they fully understand them? If there are contradicting ones, what caused this internal battle?

1. Absent-Minded
2. Abusive
3. Anxious
4. Arrogant
5. Bashful
6. Belligerent
7. Betrayal
8. Bigmouth
9. Blunt
10. Bold
11. Childish
12. Clumsy
13. Compulsive
14. Covetous
15. Coward
16. Crude
17. Cruel
18. Curious
19. Daydream
20. Deceitful
21. Disloyal
22. Driven by Goals
23. Drunkard
24. Egotistical
25. Emotionless
26. Envious
27. Fanatical
28. Fearful
29. Fickle
30. Finicky
31. Flawless
32. Flirty
33. Forgetful
34. Gambling
35. Gluttony
36. Greedy
37. Grumpy
38. Hubris
39. Hunted for betraying someone
40. Ignorant
41. Immature
42. Impatient
43. In Debt
44. Infamy
45. Inquisitive
46. Jealous
47. Judgmental
48. Kleptomaniac
49. Klutz
50. Lazy
51. Lewd
52. Lies
53. Lustful
54. Manipulative
55. Materialistic
56. Messy
57. Meek
58. Mischievous
59. Naïve
60. Nervous
61. Nosey
62. Obsessed
63. Obsessive
64. Pacifist
65. Paranoid
66. Perfectionist
67. Pessimistic
68. Poor Hygiene
69. Powerless
70. Predictable
71. Prideful
72. Procrastination
73. Rapacious
74. Rebellious
75. Reckless
76. Remorseless
77. Rude
78. Sacrilegious
79. Sarcastic
80. Seducer
81. Selfish
82. Shallow
83. Shameful
84. Showy
85. Shy
86. Skeptical
87. Solemn
88. Spoiled
89. Stern in Thought
90. Stubborn
91. Superstitious
92. Suspicious of Others
93. Swindler
94. Timid
95. Too Trusting
96. Unable to Trust
97. Unfaithful
98. Unreliable
99. Vain
100. Wrathful