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    Major Spoilers Question of the Day: Incompetent Leader Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 5 Comments1 Min Read

    Most of the time, when I construct our MS-QOTD, I try to have multiple examples of the tropes or topics addressed.  Not so this time.  For me, any discussion of the incompetent leader tropes starts in Douglas Adams’ epic five-part trilogy, ‘The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”, embodied in the three-armed two-headed form of Zaphod Beeblebrox.  Vain, arrogant, ignorant and cowardly, yet somehow the leader of the galaxy, the Z-man is the epitome of cool but utterly unfit for any type of leadership role, leading to today’s inexplicable query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) would like to point out that no real-world parallels are intended, but that’s not to say Faithful Spoilerites in the right parts of the world couldn’t make them anyway, asking: What *fictional* head honcho is the most incompetent leader of them all?

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    5 Comments

    1. Rob on

      The thing you need to remember about Zaphod is he’s just this guy, you know?
      In terms of shear vitality Mayor Joe Quimby has to take the prize

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    2. Malone_hasco on

      Strangely enough, most of them. I get it because of creating tension and drama but 9 out of 10 leaders are terrible. Its only about 50/50 in real life.

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