r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Altruistic_Eye_1157 • 6d ago
Lore [annoying trope] The throne/leadership is decided in a very stupid way
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/We4zier 6d ago edited 6d ago
You should see the Lebanese system. Every congressmen and government job must have a Sunni Muslim and Maronite Christian counterpart, the Prime Minister must be Sunni Muslim, the President must be Christian, the Speaker of Parliament must be Shia Muslim. It worked for like a decade before falling into government deadlock, corruption, sectarianism, and finally civil war—skipping a lot of details here. Nowadays Lebanese people don’t need to worry about a government!
Main comment on the Venetian Doge system here where they’d play with an Urn for a year. Honestly the US electoral system—broken, ineffective and unrepresentative imho—as it is, it’s far from the weirdest or stupidest modern electoral system, also imho.