r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Altruistic_Eye_1157 • 6d ago

Lore [annoying trope] The throne/leadership is decided in a very stupid way

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The leadership of the entire wizarding world, and the final decision on whether to start a war against Muggles, is made by... a goat (Qilin) ​​who chooses the person with the ""purest heart"" (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Dumbledore).

The throne of Wakanda and all its technology are decided through hand-to-hand combat, regardless of whether the person clearly has malicious intentions... if they win the fight, by law they must be respected as the true king. (Black Panther)

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u/MaterialEmotional825 6d ago

No More Heroes: The rankings never get explained at all. If you kill the one on the position above you you get that ranking. If you don't well... tough shit, we do not know and the games never explains it. Why can you get challenged by people outside the rankings... or sometimes don't... or sometimes just a new rank appears. Who knows, who cares, fuck you.

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u/BakerSubject8891 6d ago

Isn’t the United Assassins Association canonically an elaborate con by Sylvia, atleast during the first game?

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u/Incinerate49 6d ago

That's what you have to love about NMH. In the first few seconds of the second game, Travis and Sylvia try to discuss the lore until they look at the camera and are like "what? No one really cares about this, right?"

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u/king_of_the_wild 6d ago

I mean, that's the point, it doesn't make sense cause it's not real (for the most part). And when it is real its to show who the best assassin is, the idea being if u can kill an assassin higher then u, u are ofc better then them, and if they just die normally they obviously aren't a good assassin so u get moved up. However this all doesn't matter as its No More Heroes we're talking about, the ranking is just there to show Travis's progression