Wily used to murder Light's beloved Emily. I personally think that only one assassin is mentioned, not because there is really only one, but as a effective tool to show how little force it takes to install a paranoid terror into the mind of a population. This is of course an echo of Nazi Germany's secret police, and also the secret police in Russia. They didn't have records on the whole population, but because people thought that they did the plan worked. Through the red eyed assassin, Wily is able to deal with any possible resistance while simulatniously maintaining his image of benevolence. This is what a totalitarian ruler must do- to have all crimes carried out in secret and detatched from the officiality of daylight. In this manner Wily is able to to protect the "rotten core of the onion" [ 3 ] of totalitarianism. At this point we can see a clearer case for Wily's society not merely being a technological dystopia, but a totalitarian one. But allow me, before jumping to conclusions, to address several of the classic requirements or hall marks of a totalitarian state. Much of the post World War II literature on totalitarianism warns of the role that new media and transportation technologies played in the advent of 20 th century totalitarianism. The Protomen definitely have followed this school of thought. After all, let's go through the laundry list technologies that Wily employed to take control. He used the existing mass media infrastructure to