Are there still people who think Light Yagami was the good guy?

Garrosh Hellscream did nothing wrong

If anything though, it wasn't ultimately his fault.
The "Deathnote" is a corrupting influence on any mortal.
Without it, he'd have just been a dedicated detective, like "L".

If anything though, it wasn't ultimately his fault.
The "Deathnote" is a corrupting influence on any mortal.
Without it, he'd have just been a dedicated detective, like "L".

The only corrupting influence the Death Note has is the power to anonymously murder. Light would have been a bad person regardless, the Note just gave him the ability to act on it.

The only corrupting influence the Death Note has is the power to anonymously murder. Light would have been a bad person regardless, the Note just gave him the ability to act on it.

I mean Links the bad guy in Links Awakening....

Without the Death Note he may have said to himself "the world was crap", and "It deserves a re-do", but he'd have been powerless to intercede without great cost and detriment to his life, unlike with The Death Note. Light would have been powerless to intercede, and thus would not have; as he was quite pragmatic.

Without it being so easy, he'd have done literally nothing except complain in his head, about the state of the world.

Sure, his character (and I mean in the metaphorical sense) would have still been not great, but he'd have been innocent of any murders.

Like Robert G. Ingersoll said "If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity only a great man can stand prosperity."

The only corrupting influence the Death Note has is the power to anonymously murder. Light would have been a bad person regardless, the Note just gave him the ability to act on it.

Actually, the show supports the opposite. When he loses memory of the Death Note, he seems to lose his whole egomaniacal behavior, and he also had no problem cooperating with L to catch Kira. I think the Death Note may have help Light realize some deep-seated justice fantasy, but without it, he might have very possibly pursued an honest career in law enforcement or as a prosecutor like Mikami.

Basically, what I do when I collect souls is I go around, there's wicked people in the world, and a lot of wicked people live in very comfortable countries and have very boring lives, so they go through their whole life and kinda backdoor their way into heaven.

They were bad the whole time, but they were just comfortable, and they never had a shot to do something wicked. So what devils like me do is kinda just give people a shot to show their true colors, you know what I mean? Think like the harmless guy at the bar who's just got a big mouth and everyone's like, oh, that guy's a crank, you know, he's harmless? Well, if he was prime minister, he'd be a fuckin' war criminal, right? He'd be a monster.

I thought he was the good guy in the same way Dexter is the good guy

at least Dexter didn't deliberately kill innocent people (and the one he did kill was only innocent of the crime he thought he committed, he absolutely deserved to die )

Did I think he was a good guy? No.
Did I want him to win instead of the most clichd thing possible happening? Yes.

Which person was this, again?

The most clichd thing possible would have been for L to beat him. Light killed L, ruled the world for 6 years, and then FINALLY got his comeuppance.

That would certainly have been shittier, but that doesnt redeem the existing shit ending.

Light winning would have been subversive, but would it have necessarily been good? Kinda boring to just watch a bad guy constantly get away with his crimes and never face comeuppance. The ending at least showed us how pathetic Light would become in the face of defeat, and gave him a LONG overdue reality check as well as showing the aftermath of a world no longer ruled by Kira's influence. We already got to see how the world would operate under his thumb, so I don't see how him winning would have served a purpose other than shocking the audience.

There shouldnt have been a second half at all. It ruined the series. Should have ended with Ls death .

There shouldnt have been a second half at all. It ruined the series. Should have ended with Ls death .

Nah that's stupid, Light needed to get his comeuppance and he did, in gloriously pitiful fashion.

Ending was great.

I always thought it was fucked up killing all those prisoners. Isn't that the point of prison. People commit crimes so they go there as punishment but still killed a lot of them.

There shouldnt have been a second half at all. It ruined the series. Should have ended with Ls death .

Youre in the vast minority. The second half of Death Note is one of the most widely hated arcs of all time.

Most people don't like bleak endings. Even those who say it should have ended with L have in mind that he should have been the one who defeated Light.

It wouldnt have been bleak, but original and interesting. Not every story ever has to end the same way.

didn't crime go down by the millions when he was active?

didn't crime go down by the millions when he was active?

Light is an agent of the ruling class. He enforces existing socioeconomic hierarchies and never even imagines using his unlimited killing ability to create a more equitable world.

Light is not WOKE

It's what makes me think that, at a bare minimum, Light's view of injustice is just very immature. Like he's incapable of thinking of people beyond the labels of "good" and "evil".