| Spoilers In The Replies I Assume: I felt a little nostalgic for Death Note today and I just started thinking about Light, was he truly an evil person? I know he had great intentions at the start of the series (and pre-timeskip) but especially after the time-skip, he started growing insane and evil every episode. I know he started kind of emotionless but even then he started growing into a husk of himself as soon as Kira started taking over. I would love to hear your thoughts! |
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| A person who kills evil people for good but doesn't think that what he is doing is evil Then that person is evil |
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| If this mofo ain't evil then no one is |
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| He is inherently evil, it’s the point of the entire story. They try to make you root for the antagonist until it gets so bad all you kind think about is damn this guy is fucked, kinda like how breaking bad also did that. There is not a single redeeming quality about Light and his Kill count is over 120,000 deaths in every possible source some claiming in the 250k+ there is no rectifying that, on top of having used and abused literally every person that helped him and killed most of them the only exception being Ryuk because he literally couldn’t. |
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TheTakora said: no he was doing it for the greater good of humanity sure it was bad about l and mellow and L and his ex and L but other than I think what he was doing was good. Btw like ur danganronpa pics Spoilers In The Replies I Assume: I felt a little nostalgic for Death Note today and I just started thinking about Light, was he truly an evil person? I know he had great intentions at the start of the series (and pre-timeskip) but especially after the time-skip, he started growing insane and evil every episode. I know he started kind of emotionless but even then he started growing into a husk of himself as soon as Kira started taking over. I would love to hear your thoughts! 😌👌 |
| he became an extreme authoritarian so ye he is evil the end does not justify the means a lot of times |
| No he's not evil because he handsome. How someone evil if they handsome? |
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| No person is 100% evil nor good (except simplistic fictional villains), and that rule applies to Light as well imo. From the beginning, you see he has moral standards when it comes to behavior from the way he chooses who to kill. The Death Note essentially does grant him God-level powers, but if people were to ever find out, that power would be taken away from him and it would ruin him, so he doesn't have much of a choice but to aggressively protect it until the end. "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic" - some might view me as a psychopath for saying this, but honestly there's so much truth in this |
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| extremely egotistical and narcissistic, that's for sure. I find it hard to call him evil for some reason. |
| Really need to define what exactly is evil. He is a fair man, you follow his ideals, he won't kill you. You get in his way, he will kill you. It isn't like he when wild and killed people for no reason. Also, are people forgetting them 5-6 eps of DN when after Light lost the Death Note, he literally was this average guy, though he did admit that Kira was on a level of thinking similar to him, he just wouldn't aspire to do such things. |
| If that power had been put in the hands of someone truly evil, like 90% of MAL users, they'd use it for self-gratification. So no, he's not evil. |
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| Yes, although the reasoning with which the characters, such as L and the police, used to make the case had a pretty weak foundation. Light wasn’t evil because he sought and succeeded in killing the wicked, he was evil because he played God. |
epidemia78 said: If that power had been put in the hands of someone truly evil, like 90% of MAL users, they'd use it for self-gratification. So no, he's not evil. Maybe we have different perspective. From my view point what light did is self gratification too. It just a different kind of desire. Which is exactly why he is evil |
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| Well, the author himself said that the point of Light's character was to portray absolute evil so yeah. I mean in episode 2 he kills the guy pretending to be L without any hesitation while throwing a tantrum like sure that dude was a criminal but Light did not know that. The fact that he killed a person he thought was innocent so easily without feeling any remorse and so early into the story should be enough to say that he is evil. |
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| Probably. His intentions may have had some hints of good but overall, his actions were evil |
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| His intentions were not completely evil, but he was |
| Well i think the reason he did it is...ok but the way he handeled it was kinda ass. |
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