Light Yagami

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## Entertainingly Detestable

### Powers / Skills

Genius-level intelligence
Charisma
Manipulation

### Goals

Kill off all individuals he deemed as criminals
Kill L, Near, and anyone who stops him in his goal

### Most Entertaining Features

Charisma
Genius-level intelligence
Messiah-like inspiration to get others to worship him

### Most Detestable Traits

Egotism and god-complex
Willingness to kill his sister

### Type of ED

Egotistical Mastermind

**Light Yagami** is the main protagonist villain of the *Death Note* franchise. He is an overachiever at the school he attended. When he found the Death Note, he decided to commit murder by killing multiple people in his vision of justice and eventually became Kira. Light is the son of the Soichiro Yagami and the archenemy of L Lawliet.

In the *Death Note* anime, Light was voiced by Mamoru Miyano in the Japanese version (who also voiced Doma), as well as Brad Swaile in the English dubbed version.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* He is an exceptional genius, being an overachiever at his school who later becomes a criminal mastermind who changes the entire world.
* Light is highly perceptive of his environment and can tell if anything is off. When local law enforcement agency suspected that he was Kira and that they were surveilling him in his house, he pretended to be a normal student who is studying hard for his exams.
* His evil actions inspired other people to take up the Death Note and become Kira. He essentially became an idol to individuals like Misa Amane who loved him and a messiah-figure to Teru Mikami who saw him as a god.
* He was brilliant enough to out-maneuver and keep up his guard against his enemy, L Lawliet, who was one of the most brilliant detectives in the world. He was able to continue his murders while also making strategical moves to try and uncover L's identity and kill him.
* At one point, he pulled a long-term plot against L by having his memories wiped to try and lower L's and other's suspicions of him in an attempt to try and kill L.
* He succeeded in killing L after their long-drawn conflict.
* Light, under the anonymous alias of Kira, becomes very popular among many people in the society who came to idolize and respect him.
* He is able to keep up with the highly intelligent, Near, as the latter tries to come after him.
* He sometimes makes dramatic gestures and tone that is unintentionally comical to the audience such as when he says: "I'll take a potato chip and eat it!".
* He has an iconic villainous laugh.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* He was an egotistical individual who saw himself as a god of the world because he had the Death Note. As such, he also viewed himself as justice itself, despite the fact that he was committing murder. When he is challenged by others like L who tried to bring him to justice, he is shown to have homicidal fury against those individuals.
* Light murdered Raye Penber, when he tries to investigate him. He also callously murders his wife, Naomi Misora, after the latter tricked her and coldly revealed his identity to her.
* He never respected or cared for Misa Amane and only used her to further his agenda. This is in spite of the care she showed him.
* He inspired others to become Kira and kill people.
* Light is shown to take a lot of glee in killing his own enemies and can act very arrogant such as mocking L after he was able to successfully kill him.
* He contemplated killing his own sister in order to further his plans.
* Light does not take his defeat lightly or with any dignity. He had a villainous breakdown when he realized his plans are foiled. His defeat was way more pathetic in the manga version when he pleaded Ryuk to write all the agents names and pleading not to die.

## External Links

* Light Yagami on the Villains Wiki
* Light Yagami on the Pure Evil Wiki
* Light Yagami on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
* Light Yagami on the Base Breaking Character Wiki