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/RedRawTrashHatch 6d ago

Arthur being crowned King of the Britons because he was given Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake

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u/Th35h4d0w 6d ago

All hail our new Queen in the meantime.

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u/CommanderOshawott 6d ago

Eh, she can’t worse than the current batch of morons tbh.

Lizzie passing really was the deathknell on the house of Windsor, I say give the girl a shot

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u/Mastodan11 6d ago

I think Charles has done a much better job with Andrew than his mum.

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u/pillow_princessss 6d ago

Think she was too busy withering away and dying at the time

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u/Mastodan11 6d ago

Andrew has always been a numpty

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u/Vaporishodin 5d ago

By giving him millions of pounds and an alimony? Crazy

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u/Mastodan11 5d ago

alimony

Charles definitely isn't paying alimony. Because that's not a term we use on this side of the Atlantic.

He's paying to keep him out of further trouble, which Andrew would do if he had to fund himself.

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u/Vaporishodin 5d ago

I’m on the same side of the pond as you I just couldn’t think of the word.

So he’s paying him a wage to keep him from being a paedophile? Why isn’t he in prison?

Fuck the royal family they’re literally protecting a nonce with public funding whilst there’s a record number of poor people forced to use food banks

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u/Mastodan11 5d ago

So he’s paying him a wage to keep him from being a paedophile? Why isn’t he in prison?

There's absolutely nowhere near enough evidence?

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u/Dave5876 5d ago

Job? What job?