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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'': After leaving Megatron for dead, [[TheStarscream Starscream]] planned on having an AwesomeMomentOfCrowning when he finally assumed the role of Decepticon Leader. [[NotQuiteDead Unfortunately]], [[CameBackStrong Galvatron]] [[ShootTheDangerousMinion was not impressed.]]
--> '''Galvatron:''' Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'': After leaving Megatron for dead, [[TheStarscream Starscream]] planned on having an AwesomeMomentOfCrowning when he finally assumed the role of Decepticon Leader. [[NotQuiteDead Unfortunately]], [[CameBackStrong Galvatron]] [[ShootTheDangerousMinion was not impressed.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'': After leaving Megatron for dead, [[TheStarscream Starscream]] planned on having an AwesomeMomentOfCrowning when he finally assumed the role of Decepticon Leader. [[NotQuiteDead Unfortunately]], [[CameBackStrong Galvatron]] [[ShootTheDangerousMinion was not impressed.]]
--> '''Galvatron:''' Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy.
--> '''Galvatron:''' Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy.
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* On ''TheSimpsons'', Troy [=McClure=] marries Selma to dispel rumors that [[BestialityIsDepraved he had been doing inappropriate things with fish]] and jumpstart his [[IncrediblyLamePun floundering]] career. Selma soon finds out that the marriage is a sham, but she's married and living "the good life," so she doesn't mind. Until Troy wants to have a baby with Selma (or rather ''has'' to have a baby [[ItMakesSenseInContext in order to co-star on Rainer Wolfcastle's latest movie]]); she reasons that while "they're not hurting anybody" living a sham marriage, she can't bring a baby into a loveless marriage, and divorces him.
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* On ''TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Troy [=McClure=] marries Selma to dispel rumors that [[BestialityIsDepraved he had been doing inappropriate things with fish]] and jumpstart his [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} floundering]] career. Selma soon finds out that the marriage is a sham, but she's married and living "the good life," so she doesn't mind. Until Troy wants to have a baby with Selma (or rather ''has'' to have a baby [[ItMakesSenseInContext in order to co-star on Rainer Wolfcastle's latest movie]]); she reasons that while "they're not hurting anybody" living a sham marriage, she can't bring a baby into a loveless marriage, and divorces him.
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* ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'': In "The Hermit of Luton Forest", Richard and his fiancée-to-be go along with their ArrangedMarriage (he's ten) once he learns from Hyacinth that it won't be legally binding [[spoiler:since the titular hermit isn't a priest but a traitor in hiding]].
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* ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'': In "The Hermit of Luton Eyton Forest", Richard and his fiancée-to-be go along with their ArrangedMarriage (he's ten) once he learns from Hyacinth that it won't be legally binding [[spoiler:since the titular hermit isn't a priest but a traitor in hiding]].
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Few dictators dare to openly say ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem. No, they need an excuse for wielding power over everyone. Of course, this excuse can have ANY degree of flimsiness, as long as people are sufficiently uneducated or scared to buy it.
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Few dictators dare to openly say ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem. No, they need an excuse for wielding power over everyone. Of course, this This is why the "President" of the PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny does not admit he is a tyrant, but instead keeps up the pretense that citizens are voting for him in election: democracy is a more legitimate government. It doesn't matter how flimsy the excuse can have ANY degree of flimsiness, is, as long as people are sufficiently uneducated or scared to buy it.
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* Homestuck: In an alternate timeline, Guy Fieri and the Juggalo Brothers betray humanity, side with the Troll Queen Betty Crocker, and the former swears the latter into the presidency. The disgusting things they do to and around the book make it very clear to the rest of humanity that they're all screwed.
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* Homestuck: Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}: In an alternate timeline, Guy Fieri and the Juggalo Brothers betray humanity, side with the Troll Queen Betty Crocker, and the former swears the latter into the presidency. The disgusting things they do to and around the book make it very clear to the rest of humanity that they're all screwed.
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->''"Listen, [[StrangePondWoman strange women lyin' in ponds]] distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!"''
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->''"Listen, [[StrangePondWoman strange women lyin' in ponds]] ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!"''
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Not restricted to political power, this trope includes any case when a ceremony or ritual ''in itself'' gives power, privilege or recognition in society while the true power dynamic is obfuscated. Not limited to successful attempts, this trope includes exposed and failed attempts to gain or maintain the status from a ShamCeremony.
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Not restricted to political power, this trope includes any case when a ceremony or ritual ''in itself'' gives power, privilege or recognition in society while the true power dynamic is obfuscated. Not limited to successful attempts, this trope includes exposed and failed attempts to gain or maintain the status from a ShamCeremony.
Sham Ceremony.
ShamWedding is a subtrope.
ShamWedding is a subtrope.
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* ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'': The Tully-Frey wedding (aka, the "Red Wedding"), which was announced to bring two FeudingFamilies together, but turned out to be a trap for one to wipe out the other once and for all. The marriage between Roslin and Edmure itself is valid.
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* Homestuck: In an alternate timeline, Guy Fieri and the Juggalo Brothers betray humanity, side with the Troll Queen Betty Crocker, and the former swears the latter into the presidency. The disgusting things they do to and around the book make it very clear to the rest of humanity that they're all screwed.
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* On ''TheSimpsons'', Troy [=McClure=] marries Selma to dispel rumors that [[BestialityIsDepraved he had been doing inappropriate things with fish]] and jumpstart his [[IncrediblyLamePun floundering]] career. Selma soon finds out that the marriage is a sham, but she's married and living "the good life," so she doesn't mind. Until Troy wants to have a baby with Selma; she reasons that while "they're not hurting anybody" living a sham marriage, she can't bring a baby into a loveless marriage, and divorces him.
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* On ''TheSimpsons'', Troy [=McClure=] marries Selma to dispel rumors that [[BestialityIsDepraved he had been doing inappropriate things with fish]] and jumpstart his [[IncrediblyLamePun floundering]] career. Selma soon finds out that the marriage is a sham, but she's married and living "the good life," so she doesn't mind. Until Troy wants to have a baby with Selma; Selma (or rather ''has'' to have a baby [[ItMakesSenseInContext in order to co-star on Rainer Wolfcastle's latest movie]]); she reasons that while "they're not hurting anybody" living a sham marriage, she can't bring a baby into a loveless marriage, and divorces him.
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* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has many of these, since every single character in this online world is treated like TheChosenOne and the player is supposed to pretend that all other players (as well as his own alternate characters) are The HeroOfAnotherStory in spite of doing the exact same quests.
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* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has many of these, since every single character in this online world is treated like TheChosenOne and the player is supposed to pretend that all other players (as well as his own alternate characters) are The HeroOfAnotherStory in spite of doing the exact same quests.
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Not restricted to political power, this trope include includes any case when a ceremony or ritual ''in itself'' gives power, privilege or recognition in society while the true power dynamic is obfuscated. Not limited to successful attempts, this trope includes exposed and failed attempts to gain or maintain the status from a ShamCeremony.
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* Single-party "elections".
** Elections where all parties or candidates except [[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin one]] are suspiciously unambitious and underadvertised is the more modern version.
** Elections where all parties or candidates except [[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin one]] are suspiciously unambitious and underadvertised is the more modern version.
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** Elections where all parties or candidates except [[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin one]] are suspiciously unambitious and underadvertised is the more modern version.
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* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', quite possibly the little religious display that the four watch when they attend dinner with the Idri'en Tagen for the first time. After all, the very first person they met in the world told them that the Ketafan religion was fake and was imposed on the populace as a way to establish the Idris' legitimacy, and while a number of the Idris take the display seriously, the Idri-Head Grynun clearly does not.
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* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', quite possibly the little religious display that the four watch when they attend dinner with the Idri'en Tagen for the first time. After all, the very first person they met in the world told them that the Ketafan religion was fake and was imposed on the populace as a way to establish the Idris' legitimacy, and while a number of the Idris take the display seriously, the Idri-Head Grynun clearly does not.
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* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', quite possibly the little religious display that the four watch when they attend dinner with the Idri'en Tagen for the first time. After all, the very first person they met in the world told them that the Ketafan religion was fake and was imposed on the populace as a way to establish the Idris' legitimacy, and while a number of the Idris take the display seriously, the Idri-Head Grynun clearly does
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* ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'': In "The Hermit of Luton Forest", Richard and his fiancée-to-be go along with their ArrangedMarriage (he's ten) once he learns from Hyacinth that it won't be legally binding [[spoiler:since the titular hermit isn't a priest but a traitor in hiding]].
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* ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'': In "The Hermit of Luton Forest", Richard and his fiancée-to-be go along with their ArrangedMarriage (he's ten) once he learns from Hyacinth that it won't be legally binding [[spoiler:since the titular hermit isn't a priest but a traitor in hiding]].
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