Light Yagami

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Light Yagami is the titular main protagonist in the Death Note franchise.
== His Fallen Rankings ==
=== What makes him heroic? ===
* He has established that he wanted to fix the Justice system and chooses to kill criminals which makes crime rates lower and was initially a somewhat good and reasonable cause as it stopped some criminals and saved innocents along the way.
* In the manga, he initially feels remorse and debates in his mind his first killings
* When he has amnesia, he genuinely despises Kira and helps catch him
* This version of light also refuses to lie to Misa as he doesn't want to use a woman
* He is stated to have helped the police solve various cases before
* Initially, he plans to join the police force as he genuinely wants to help the world - which may explain the difference between Light when he has amnesia and Light in the first episode as he is genuinely trying to make a difference and catch Kira unlike in the first episode where he is bored and disgusted by the world
* In the anime, he is given a sympathetic death as he looks back on his life before the death note - establishing his fall from his initial self
* While this is later twisted, he initially only kills criminals who have committed abhorrent acts
* He genuinely believes what he is doing is heroic and genuinely believes he is saving the world
* He stops all wars and brings global crime rates down to 70% - even if his original goal became corrupted, he genuinely made a difference in society
* The fact that when he dies global crime rates steadily increase to normal shows he was making a difference and without him they wouldn't be able to stay down again
=== What has made him villainous? ===
*Whether or not it truly helped to the Justice system doesn't matter. As later on, Light's usage of the Death Note gets out of hand as it kills not just criminals but innocents along the way.
*He blackmails a FBI Agent getting them to unknowingly kill their other FBI Agents and then drives his wife to suicide.
*He kills another Death Note user - while this user was abhorrent, the only reason Light killed him was to save himself and to give himself an alibi
*He tries to get his father to use the Death Note to kill Mello. This was likely due to him at least trying to get an opportunity to kill Mello who was trying to hunt down and take down Kira. 
*He gets Takada to kill Mello after manipulating her into thinking he liked her and then caused her to kill herself 
*Manipulated Misa's Shinigami Rem into killing L and Watari which costed Rem's life.
*He gives another Death Note user an opportunity to kill criminals and eventually try to kill Near and still relies on him when being gunned down by the Kira investigators.
*He shows zero redeeming traits within the end of the manga - and while his death is played for sympathy in the anime, it still doesn't really show any redeeming qualities of his
*He insults his dead father by saying he was 'made to be a fool'
== Trivia ==
* He is so far one of the only Fallen Heroes to be Pure Evil asides from Dream.
* He is the only Death Note Fallen Hero to be considered Pure Evil.
== External Links ==
*Light Yagami on Villains Wiki
*Light Yagami on Pure Evil Villains Wiki
*Light Yagami on Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
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