These are from TvTropes.
- Alcoholism (except when it leads to violence)
- Drug addiction (except when it leads to violence)
- Tobacco use (cigars, cigarettes, and especially pipes)
- Sexual promiscuity or (as long as it doesn't involve children, animals or the unwilling, like rape, zoophilia or necrophilia)
- Reverse snobbery
- Being too cool to socialize.
- Being a klutz.
- "Sticking to your guns" even when the odds seem stacked against you (Which some may argue isn't even a flaw at all, except when it results in Good Is Dumb)
- Stupidity (as long as it stems from genuine ignorance, and not apathy or bigotry)
- Misanthropy
- Emotional aloofness, especially with Male Love Interests
- Lack of self-confidence
- Holding ridiculously high standards, especially with snarky comments.
- Being a Noble, Innocent or Tragic Bigot (Assuming they're a good guy of course), especially for people who grew up a long time ago or those with Police or Military backgrounds.
- A hot temper (except when it leads to violence)
- Laziness
- Cussing (except in the presence of the clergy, monarchs, aristocrats, the elderly, children, and sometimes women)
- Self-Deprecation
- Cowardice (except when failure to act causes someone else's harm)
- Weirdness and a lack of social norms, particularly in female love interests
- Clumsiness, notable in that it's often the single flaw given in an otherwise perfect character
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