There is no "hero" in the strictest sense of the word in Death Note. The whole thing pretty much leaves you with that decision.kawaiiamethist said:
Poll: The DeathNote
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That made me outright laugh.pimppeter2 said:
Light was a douche. He was pretending to be God. He's not God. God doesn't need a fucking Notebook to strike down anyone who offends him. He just goes "poof", and they die. As for Light, if he was the good guy, he wouldn't have to have fought the police, his dad, like 3 of his girlfriends, and the world's best detectives, in order to spend his time killing criminals.
I rather like the idea of being able to write down someone's name and kill them, though. Seems like something you do to people who have been absolutely proven guilty in the joke we call our legal system.
On a random note, did you know there've been copy cat murders based on this series in real life?
I voted that he was good, but only up until a certain point. He had this tendency to punish petty thieves the same way he punished rapists: Instant Death, no appeals. That's not good. That's pretty solidly gray. I personally would like to think that, if I were to get a Death Note, I would use it only in A) the direst of circumstances and B) only against people who are threatening others with death or severe injury. And, y'know, wouldn't give anyone any hints as to who was doing it. Like putting a giant "L" on a screen and saying "Hey guys, I'm killing criminals!"
Dur.
Of course, as His Ultraness pointed out, the point of the anime is that absolute power corrupts absolutely. So I have no idea if I could do that.
Dur.
Of course, as His Ultraness pointed out, the point of the anime is that absolute power corrupts absolutely. So I have no idea if I could do that.
It's debatable, obviously, else the thread wouldn't exist.
Deciding who lives and who dies to eliminate crime is something I personally admire, but is highly unethical, obviously.
However, killing police and others who try to stop you...That's bad.
Killing people who stand in your way for a questionable cause/goal in the first place is certainly a villainous quality.
Personally, if I could kill a bunch of "Bad" criminals to help "Good" citizens, I'd love to.
However, due to the subjective nature of bad and good, I don't even know where I stand on this.
Some people call them terrorists.
Others say they're just misguided boys with stressful lives who were pushed into bad decisions.
Deciding who lives and who dies to eliminate crime is something I personally admire, but is highly unethical, obviously.
However, killing police and others who try to stop you...That's bad.
Killing people who stand in your way for a questionable cause/goal in the first place is certainly a villainous quality.
Personally, if I could kill a bunch of "Bad" criminals to help "Good" citizens, I'd love to.
However, due to the subjective nature of bad and good, I don't even know where I stand on this.
Some people call them terrorists.
Others say they're just misguided boys with stressful lives who were pushed into bad decisions.
Why did I not sympathize with Light in the slightest, even with what he intended to achieve?
Oh that's right, probably because he kept talking about being a god.
Death Note is not such a great Anime, mostly because there isn't a great deal you can do with a book that kills people. Except kill people of course.
Oh that's right, probably because he kept talking about being a god.
Death Note is not such a great Anime, mostly because there isn't a great deal you can do with a book that kills people. Except kill people of course.
Yeah great anime. Did it just finally end in America cause I kinda already finished watching the entire series about a year and a half ago. Anyway. Yeah the show pretty much was the basic that power corrupts absolutely and yes Light did become insane by the end of the show. But I don't think he was strictly evil. But at then end of the show he kinda had a noble sort of evil yes it was still evil but he didn't think so. Take what you will but I defiantly loved this series and hated it at the same time cause my fav character died.
Watashi wa L desu.
Raito was a C**kmuncher who thought he was God.
the fact that shinigami followed him as his "angles"
can't have been very good for his brain eighter.
The death note is evil, yet however the earth is a little
over populaten and if a few ten-hundred thousand people must die
then I'd prefer it'b be the crimminals. this is a very good topic
indeed. well done.
Boku wa Sekida.
Raito was a C**kmuncher who thought he was God.
the fact that shinigami followed him as his "angles"
can't have been very good for his brain eighter.
The death note is evil, yet however the earth is a little
over populaten and if a few ten-hundred thousand people must die
then I'd prefer it'b be the crimminals. this is a very good topic
indeed. well done.
Boku wa Sekida.
Actually, I regard this as the real ending. It's far superior to the generally accepted one in my opinion.Rhodeyo said:
And I liked the world as Light made it. I didn't like his motives for creating it, but I did like the results.
But then, I'm worryingly close to Teru Mikami in terms of my personality, setting aside the whole hero worship thing.
To this I say the original premise of the series was original, fresh, played with the powers of darkness and destruction, and involved a maniacally unstable protagonist (which for me is win-win). It was at the point that it started with the stupid police/detective-esque bullshit that it got bad. We don't have enough stories about teenagers unleashing apocalyptic mass murder upon Earth, and we've got more than enough detective stories.
There is absolutely no way to justify the killing of criminals. If they are at large, I can understand wanting to stop the worst of them, but non-violent means must always come before violent. If they are incarcerated anyway, then the use of such an object on them is merely a disgusting show of humanity, striking against those who have already been humbled.
Too much of a gray area to comment on. Light was an amoral bastard when it came down to it and he didn't believe in his own principles. He was a sociopath and a murderer.
But the crime rates went down. People felt safer. He got his own cult.
It could go either way.
But the crime rates went down. People felt safer. He got his own cult.
It could go either way.
i really liked the deathnote, up to the point that something massive happened. (quess it or watch it, not gonna spoil allthou everyone probly has seen the whole thing.) after that the quality went to bullocks and the ending was really crappy and not logical at all.
but on the topic, i don't think that there should be such "power to kill the bad". it ain't right to do that way, when theres possibility educate and such the wrong doers. in summary, if someone wants to kill someone, he's free to do it, but it also gives us the right to protect that target by killing the person thats going for a kill.
but on the topic, i don't think that there should be such "power to kill the bad". it ain't right to do that way, when theres possibility educate and such the wrong doers. in summary, if someone wants to kill someone, he's free to do it, but it also gives us the right to protect that target by killing the person thats going for a kill.
Where it the option for "It was a terrible manga/anime and I am glad they all died" or something. Did they all died? I got bored half way through and re-read all the chapters of One Piece out.
I prefered the Live-Action over both the anime and the manga...after about book 5 or so, it just started to slag on and lose it's touch, especially with that Mello and Near stuff...
The LA finished it off a lot better too, and in a 4 hour(2 DVDs) timeframe:
But ya...Light was a dick.. =/
The LA finished it off a lot better too, and in a 4 hour(2 DVDs) timeframe:
They basically end it at where L dies in the manga/anime, but then, when he confronts his father when he is bring the Deathnote back to HQ, it turns out L wasn't really dead....L had already wrote down that he had 30 some-odd days left to live, so Light couldn't kill him, and ends up with Ryuk writing down Light's name..etc., forward a few month, more criminals are out and about now that Kira is gone. Light's sister and dad talk about how they miss him and how he was a "good" person. End Movie. Ryuk flies over Tokyo..or whatever.
But ya...Light was a dick.. =/
To much power under one person leads nowhere good, and being in control of life and death in such an easy way simply is to much power for a human being. Life's life, shit happens and there will always be bad people, deal with it.
