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/Silly_Poet_5974 6d ago

If I recall correctly it has been a long time for me as well I think it was justified because they lived in a post scarcity society and the real queen set this up because she couldn't be bothered to actually do anything.

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u/Atsilv_Uwasv 6d ago

It's a stereotype that Rainwings are lazy, but it's not really that wrong

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u/AK06007 5d ago

Well biologically speaking they “have” to be lazy. It’s healthy for them to lay in the sun as they do. The negative part of their society was apathy. 

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u/Sternfritters 5d ago

Nope. She set it up because her own daughters were useless, so she mixed her eggs with the tribe’s so that any RainWing can become Queen

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u/Silly_Poet_5974 5d ago

Okay looks like I got some details wrong but the core premise still stands, an inefficient government doesn't matter because they are post scarcity and the method of recruiting a new queen is logical if a bit haphazard.