Light Yagami

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## Base Breaking Character

* Manga
* Anime

### Alias

Kira
The First Kira
L
The Second L
L-Kira
God

### Powers/Skills

Shinigami Eyes
Death Note Access
Acting Skills
Singing Skills
Modelling

### Family

Soichiro Yagami † (father)
 Sachiko Yagami (mother)
 Sayo Yagami (sister)
 Misa Amane † (fiancé)

### Allies

Ryuk (killer; formerly)
Misa Amane †
Teru Mikami †
Kiyomi Takada † (victim)

### Enemies

Japanese Task Force:
* L Lawliet † (indirect victim)
* Watari † (indirect victim)
* Soichiro Yagami †
* Touta Matsuda
* Shuichi Aizawa
* Kanzo Mogi
* Hideki Ide

Special Provision for Kira:

* Near
* Anthony Rester
* Stephen Gevanni
* Halle Lidner

Reiji Namikawa † (victim)
Mello † (indirect victim)
Raye Penber † (victim)
Naomi Misora † (victim)
Kyosuke Higuchi † (pawn; victim)

### Goals

Kill L Lawliet and Mello (succeeded).
Rid the world of crime (succeeded but discontinued when he died).
Become a "God of a utopian new world."
Kill Near.
Kill anyone who opposes him (all failed).

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

He is a psychopath with a god complex that never shows any sympathy and kills even innocents cruelly and without remorse.
He uses and abuses his own allies, especially his lover Misa, and shows no problems getting rid of them if necessary.
He is completely willing to harm his own family if nedeed, and shows no remorse about it.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

He has many "evil is cool" moments and fascinates many viewers on his way to achieving his goals.
He is portrayed as a good person in the Yotsuba Arc, although he breaks it later.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Psychopathic Mastermind

**Light Yagami** is the protagonist of the Death Note franchise.

## What Makes Him a Base Breaking Character?

### What Do People Like About Him?

* He's a very charismastic mastermind villainous protagonist who is much more interesting compared to other protagonists because of his smart and manipulative ways.
* He has very cool evil strategies in moments in which fascinates his fans on the way he achieves his goals.
* Him laughing at L's grave and his laugh is considered to be a very iconic moment.
* While he is corrupted by the power of the Death Note, he was once a person with a brilliant future ahead of him, being admired as the most intelligent student in Japan and for being good at solving police cases. This adds some degree of dimensionality to him, particularly in how much of whether he was ever a good person corrupted by power or rotten to begin with.
* Because of his smart ways and how cool and manipulative he was, many of his fans believed that he should've won.
* His performance by both his Japanese and English voice actors is incredibly entertaining and well-done.

### What Do People Dislike About Him?

* Detractors dislike how unsympathetic he is towards everyone, even to his own family.
* He became very cruel when killing people, like with Naomi Misora and Kiyomi Takada. He will even mock his victims after killing them, with him laughing at L's grave being the most famous example.
* His detractors don't like the way he treated Misa because of how abusive he was to her. Despite her love for him, he never shows any sympathy for her and manipulates her until the very end.
* His downfall into becoming a delusional Knight Templar is viewed as rushed and unsatisfying by a part of the audience that would have wanted him to gradually degrade in his morals, and makes him a less three-dimensional character in their opinion.
* His smugness and constant self-flagellation is considered incredibly irritating by some members of the fanbase, which makes them dislike him more.

## Trivia

* In Anime-Planet database, He is among both the top 10 most liked and the top 10 most disliked characters.
	+ He is the only character to have this honor.
* Light is the current icon for the cleanup template.

## External Links

* Light Yagami on the Villains Wiki
* Light Yagami on the *Death Note* Wiki
* Light Yagami on the Pure Evil Wiki
* Light Yagami on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
* Light Yagami on the The Ultimate Evil Wiki