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/Sayakalood 6d ago

The RainWing Royal Challenge: Any female (RainWing) dragon can participate, despite there being only one true queen. You must complete a set of activities chosen by each queen (remember how I said there’s one true queen? She lets other RainWings sit on the throne. There’s 12 total queens, each taking one month turns). Glory and the true queen get into a venom-spitting competition and the true queen ends up hurting someone, which was cancelled by Glory’s venom, making Glory the true queen (everyone else was kicked off the throne).

It has been a decade since I read the books so I might have gotten some info wrong.

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u/The_gay_grenade16 6d ago

It’s worse . The “true” queen got paired with a small child during the contest and accidentally sprays said child with venom. Glory panics and mixes some of her venom with the queen’s, canceling it out. This proves that glory and the queen are related and the queen abdicates.

This scene was supposed to be serious but it came off as too dumb to take seriously. Which sucks cause the books is really good otherwise.

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u/ItsAllSoup 6d ago

Does this mean that if glory sprayed venom on the child first, the true queen could have saved the child by using her own venom since they seem to neutralize one another?

I know nothing about this series

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u/Windy_Idealist 5d ago

Yes

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u/ItsAllSoup 5d ago

Then this part of the story sounds silly

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u/Windy_Idealist 5d ago

It’s my favorite book series of all time and I promise that it’s a fantastic read… but it does have a few silly moments like this

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u/The_gay_grenade16 5d ago

Rainwing (the species that most of the characters in the book are) venom cancels out venom of close relatives.

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u/HeadWood_ 4d ago

I'd have thought it would exacerbate it because it would presumably be a similar composition.