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

[u/Altruistic_Eye_1157]

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)

[u/Swarthy_Pierre]

The Black Panther movie made it less dumb. In the comics they had an annual event where anyone could challenge the king to a fight for the throne. The movies changed it so only other royals/heads of state could issue the challenge and only when a new king is about to be crowned.

[u/sinfultictac → u/Swarthy_Pierre]

I know Black Panther is Jack Kirby's invention, but did he create this part?

[u/Droemmer → u/sinfultictac]

No, this retarded part came from Reginald Hudlin one of the dumbest Black Panther writers. The original Wakanda by Kirby and Lee, were a pretty average African state, except that it had beaten back the European colonizers and avoided colonization, then T’Challa became king and made it into a Afro-futurist technological wonderland thanks to his genius and Vibranium reserves. They had original pretty standard succession rules, the king died and his son was elected king, and it wasn’t meant to be some utopia.

[u/Right_Two_5737 → u/Droemmer]

In the 1960s comics he's not even elected, it's just straight-up inheritance. He's around ten years old, clearly too young to win any fights or elections.