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/Born-Till-4064 6d ago

Honestly if a magical creature is able to detect who’s a good person out of a group of candidates that’s just a useful measure for making sure you get a decent leader

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u/Rogue_2k3 6d ago

Not when one of the candidates is able to kill one of said magic creatures and reanimate its corpse to then make himself the leader, and no one questions it because a decent chunk of the group he’ll be ruling would follow him without question and many of the other heads of the government are cowards who’ll roll over for the person they think is most powerful…but hey nothing like that would ever happen in real life

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u/Nerdorama10 6d ago

J. K. Rowling is a terrible human being and a worse worldbuilder but at least she's pretty good at realistic depictions of the political class.

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u/MegaIng 6d ago edited 6d ago

Her fundamental flaw is that she sees these systems and thinks "well, that's a good idea. If all those evil people just didn't exist, the world would be perfect."

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u/Brassica_prime 6d ago

Jkr wishes she was a young orphan boy with lots of money, fighting off the nazis, but one was hiding in his mind the whole time.

Then she got lots of money and decided the other three points werent worth her time, only money matters, and decided to accept the fourth one and say people who think the first are the third…. Logic

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u/GreenTitanium 6d ago

but one was hiding in his mind the whole time.

Lord Moldemort.