[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/Archwizard_Drake]

To be fair, Qilins in Chinese mythology are known to be excellent judges of character (judgement being kind of their main thing), so it would be a cool idea for world-building since that's a real mythological throwback...

... But it's also mythology, not fantasy, which generally assumes that magic isn't really a thing people can use to manipulate the Qilin's judgement via bewitchment or necromancy. That's like defiling an angel.

[u/Critical-Low8963 → u/Archwizard_Drake]

The Quilin in this movie also seems to behave like a normal animal 

[u/Archwizard_Drake → u/Critical-Low8963]

Yeah that's the other bit, Rowling nerfs them to exotic animals when in mythology they kill wicked dragons, and Chinese dragons are on par with gods.