Fatal Flaws are mental or physical weaknesses that humans,demigods, and immortals possess. These flaws can often cause the downfall of the being, but are particularly dangerous to demigods. In Greek plays, they are often referred to as "Tragic Flaws".
Contents
1 Siren's Music
2 Known Fatal Flaws
2.1 Alive
2.2 Deceased
2.3 Immortal
3 Trivia
Siren's Music[]
The Siren's music has an oral hypnotic effect. When the Sirens sing, they sometimes reveal your fatal flaw. Flaws can produce an enticing image which is what lure sailors and adventurers to their deaths, either by drowning, being eaten by the Sirens, or by hitting the sharp rocks (and in modern times, mines) surrounding the island.
Known Fatal Flaws[]
Alive[]
Percy Jackson: His fatal flaw is excessivepersonal loyalty. He will risk his life (and even the world) for his friends, family, and sometimes even strangers and enemies with whomhe empathizes (like when he warned enemy demigods thatthe Princess Andromeda was about to explode). Beingoverly loyal could lead to making you predictable to your enemies as well.
Annabeth Chase: Her fatal flaw is hubris, deadly pride. She thinks she can do anything better than everyone, even the gods, such as saving her family and building a brand new world exactly as she wanted (seen in The Sea of Monstersand The Battle of the Labyrinth). Annabeth says that many children of Athenashare the same fatal flaw. In addition, her other fatal flawisambition. She desires power even though she knows she either doesn't needor can't have it.
Nico di Angelo: His fatal flaw is holding grudges. He will hold a grudge even if it costs him his own life. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, his deceased sisterBiancatells him that holding grudges is very dangerous for children of Hades.
Leo Valdez: His fatal flaw is a feeling of inferiority. He always feels like he's the least important; even in the team of seven demigods, he feels that he is the "seventh wheel." This causes him to sacrifice himself, though he is resurrected afterwards.
Drew Tanaka: Her fatal flaw is vanity, or excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, and achievements. She shares this flaw among many otherchildren of Aphrodite.
Hazel Levesque: Her fatal flaw was her past. This is shown by her flashbacks, and even though she ended up losing them, she still remembers her first life and treats it like her new life. For example, she treats Leo as if he were Sammy.
Frank Zhang: His fatal flaw was his low self-esteem. In Son of Neptune, he showed doubts of his own self-worth, which caused him to panic at the time he is needed. However, after the Blessing of Mars, these flaws seem to have faded slightly.
Piper McLean: Her fatal flaw is her low self-esteem. Being a daughter of a seemingly 'useless' love goddess, Aphrodite, she thinks herself as useless and invaluable. She feels so poor of herself that it causes her to get constantly bullied by kids from Wilderness School. But these flaws seem to have reduced after The House of Hades.
Mimi: Her fatal flaw is most likely wrath. She spent decades plotting revenge on Camp Jupiter for kicking her out of the legion due the uncontrollable foul odor she inherited from her divine mother, not caring about the lives she could have taken with her actions.
Deceased[]
Perseus: His fatal flaw wasambition. This was shown when he wanted to prove himself worthy of hospitality. He ended up promising that he would kill Medusa because of this, which gave rise to his near-impossible quest. Despite his actions, Perseus ended up living a happy life.
Odysseus: His fatal flaw was hubris. This was shown by his encounter with Polyphemus, when declared his true name after escaping the island, and by the statement that he won the Trojan Warby himself, without any help from a god. Both of these brought the wrath of Poseidonupon him.
Theseus: His fatal flaw was impulsiveness/recklessness. He dumped Ariadneand acted rashly along with his friend Pirithous. He had the audacity to affront Hades, for which he was punished. Later, he fell out of favour from his subjects and died.
Bellerophon: His fatal flaw was hubris. He was too proud and attempted to force his way into Olympus. Zeus crippled him and the hero died slowly.
Otrera: Her fatal flaw was hubris. She was too proud and fought Dionysus, almost getting herself killed in the process.
Phaethon: His fatal flaw was his recklessness. As a result of being raised by his over-protective mother and sisters, he started to carelessly get himself in trouble. This flaw caused him to ride the SunChariot, ignoring his father Helios' advice, and leading to his own death.
Thomas Jefferson Jr.: Like all children of Tyr, T.J's fatal flaw was recklessness/inability to resist a challenge. This has lead to his death during the American Civil War and being baited into stabbing a stone giant in the heart.
Michael Varus: His fatal flaws wereambition and hubris. He showed ambition when he chose to journey to Alaska to solve theProphecy of Seven and demonstrated the latter when ignoring the current augur's advice that the prophecy wasn't for him.
Luke Castellan: His fatal flaw was his excessive wrath. He was unable to forgive his father Hermesfor what he had been through. Luke's anger blinded him so much that he went against his closest friends. By the time he realized it, it was too late and Luke ended up sacrificing himself.
Jason Grace: His fatal flaw was his temptation to deliberate. For years in Camp Jupiter, Jason always relied on careful choices, compromises, and hearing both sides of a debate. He never chose what he wanted. He never knew where he wanted to belong. Notus said that Jason reminds him of his own children, blown place to place, undecided, changingfrom day to day. Notus warned him that such hesitation could kill him one day.
Immortal[]
Pandora: Her fatal flaw iscuriosity. When she was given the pithos from the gods, her curiosity made her open the pithos, which she was ordered not to, causing the world's destruction.
Hercules: His fatal flaw is his wrath. This flaw has led him to kill his own family, which caused him to the Twelve Labors. After that, he pushed an innocent boy off a cliff, causing him to work for the queen.
Arachne: Her fatal flaw is hubris, deadly pride. She thinks she can do anything (weaving, in her case) better than everyone else, even the gods. This resulted in Athena turning her into a monster.
Psyche: Her fatal flaw islow self-esteem.She didn't trust herself to make the right decisions and was tricked by her sisters to look upon Eros' true form. Despite her actions, Psyche was welcomed into godhood and got happily married.
Trivia[]
Hamartia is another word for a fatal flaw used mainly in the context of literature in reference to characters. It is a Greek word that means "missing the mark."
"Hamartia" is also the Greek word used in the Christian Bible commonly translated as "sin" in English.
They are often the same for demigod children of the same godly origin.
It is stated by Athena that the most dangerous flaws are those that are good in moderation in The Titan's Curse. In Percy's case, it is good to be loyal to your friends, but being overly loyal could lead to sacrificing Olympus or make you predictable to your enemies.
Of all the known Fatal Flaws, hubris is seen to be the most common throughout the series.
Hubris is a common fatal flaw formany characters in the Greek myths and beyond.
Thomas Jefferson Jr. is the onlyNorse demigod whose fatal flaw is known.
The word hamartia refers to a flaw or mistake that leads to a fictional character's downfall. Classical tragedies revolve around the main character's hamartia, the tragic flaw that sets a series of disastrous events in motion. Achilles' heel was his hamartia – his fatal flaw.
Harry Harry's biggest flaw is his mistrust of authority. As someone who's spent his childhood in an abusive home, Harry doesn't trust authority figures.
It is a flaw which causes an otherwise noble or exceptional character to bring about their own downfall and, often, their eventual death. Examples of this could include hubris, misplaced trust, excessive curiosity, pride and lack of self-control.
A tragic hero is the protagonist of a tragic story or drama, in which, despite their virtuous and sympathetic traits and ambitions, they ultimately meet defeat, suffering, or even an untimely end. They are often imperfect or wounded with some sort of fraught experience, and typically have some sort of fatal flaw.
Voldemort finds the idea of human death shameful because it means that even if you have absolute power, you will never be immortal. This fatal flaw/ fear of his eventually leads to his downfall as Voldemort tries to live forever in various ways.
A tragic flaw (TRAH-jik FLAWW) or fatal flaw is a character trait that causes the downfall or demise of that character. This flaw can be negative, like jealousy, or positive, like honesty. In Greek, the tragic flaw is also closely aligned with hamartia, meaning “to err” or “to miss the mark.”
For all of Hermione's many strengths, one of her biggest weaknesses was that she could be close-minded. She often thought her way of viewing the world was the only right one, and she would shut down anything that seemed illogical to her.
Hamartia, or the flaw that causes the hero's downfall, could be characterised as Snape's inability to move on after being rejected by Lily. Similarly, Snape proves to have excessive pride, or hubris, throughout the series.
While most would agree that it was heartbreaking when Hedwig was killed off in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, many would argue that Dobby's death was the saddest in the film.
Hamartia is a literary term with two definitions: a fatal mistake (usually used in the context of Greek tragedies) or a fatal flaw (more common in literary works written after the advent of Christianity). A hamartia is something that causes a character's downfall.
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