The minis of Les Misérables are mini-Bricks. Mini-Bricks are mobile, speech-capable books. They walk on somewhere between dozens and hundreds of tiny legs. Their mouths are filled with many pointy little teeth. It's apparently not possible to actually read a mini-Brick like a book, as they "are internally composed entirely of unidentifiable miasma." A mini-Brick tends have a personality and speech pattern similar to that of its namesake. It also has the misspelled name that created it printed on its back or "face." Certain characters' minis may have visual cues relating to their namesake, such as the sideburns on Inspector Javert's mini-Bricks, and the wings on the backs of Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre minis.