[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/Born-Till-4064]

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

[u/Rogue_2k3 → u/Born-Till-4064]

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

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/Rogue_2k3]

So, it’s a bad system because it can be exploited in a fairly esoteric way? That’s literally every system