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{{quote|''"Gentlemen," said Aramis, "the principal question is not to know which of our four lackeys is the most discreet, the most strong, the most clever, or the most brave; the principal thing is to know which loves money the best."''|'''Alexandre Dumas''', ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]''}}
Heroes have moral standards; villains exploit that. Villains have [[It's All About Me|no concept of loyalty]]; heroes abuse that. Sometimes, villains have [[Even Evil Has Standards|standards]]; both heroes and worse villains can use that.
This is similar to the [[Hero Ball]] and [[Villain Ball]] in that both deal with the inherent limits heroes and villains have or place on themselves, but differs in that the former deals with the two tripping themselves up, whereas Flaw Exploitation is someone else doing so. Neither the hero nor the villain need to make mistakes for Flaw Exploitation to occur, just act in character.
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== Anime ==
* In the Bount Arc of ''[[Bleach]]'', Yoshi takes a hostage and pulls off an astounding 16X Multiplier<ref>2 hostages (x2), one is female (x2), both are children (x4) = x16</ref> during her battle against
** Aizen also exploits Ichigo's saving-people-thing by kidnapping Orihime, which leads to him, Ishida, Chad, Renji and Rukia going to Hueco Mundo to save her. While there they all get their asses kicked, and have to be saved by four shinigami captains. Aizen then uses this opportunity to lock them all in Hueco Mundo while he goes to Karakura Town, leaving the shinigami forces several men down.
* In ''[[Hellsing]]'', the first villain that appears tries this with a policewoman. Alucard asks the girl if she's a virgin (in the manga) or if she'll go with him (in the anime). He then shoots her right through the chest to kill the vampire. When the mission is over, he turns her into a vampire. Alucard is not exactly a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] (except literally, in volume 8).
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** Vaarsuvius [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0397.html resolves] a [[Spot the Imposter]] situation by offending the [[Evil Twin]]'s [[Pride]] and zapping the one that takes offense.
** More recently, V's own [[Pride]] has been exploited by {{spoiler|fiends aware that V would rather [[Deal with the Devil|rent out his soul]] for the power to do things without help than rely on others to accomplish the same thing without obligation.}}
* In [[The Dreamland Chronicles]], the [[
* [[Bob and George]] How Mega Man defeats the robots, [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020409c sometimes by accident].
** [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050103c How Proto Man gets George to defend Mike], even if he's a title character and Mike's just a [[Mauve Shirt]]
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== Western Animation ==
* Azula in the [[Beach Episode]] of [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] has her team concentrate on a single player of the opposing team that she deduced had a childhood knee injury to win a volleyball game.
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]],'' Doctor Octopus pegs Spider-Man as "weak" because he's obliged to save [[Innocent Bystander
* An early episode of the 80s ''[[Transformers]]'' cartoon has Megatron executing a plan to teleport Cybertron (the Transformers' homeworld) into Earth orbit, the presence of which would disrupt Earth's gravity and ultimately destroy the planet. The Autobots try to stop him, but when Optimus finally does prevent Megatron from pressing the button to complete the teleport, Megatron gloats, and insists that ''Optimus'' will be the one to push the
** In an earlier episode, Megatron goads Optimus into a one-on-one duel in which the loser's faction will exile themselves forever, knowing the Autobot leader's sense of honor would never allow him to refuse a chance to end their war peacefully. Naturally, he cheats during the competition, but at least he was just [[Genre Savvy]] enough to send troops into the Autobot base to disable their computer and prevent the deception from being noticed (and he would've gotten away with it, too, were it not for those meddling Dinobots...).
* [[Harmless Villain|Dr. Drakken]] is known to have exploited [[Kim Possible|Kim Possible's]] teenager flaws, like making Kim disappear if she's too embarrassed or sending in a perfect boyfriend for Kim to fall in love with.
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