SpawnShadow posted...
No, because deep down, despite all of his justifications, Light didn't want to save
anything
or
anyone
except for himself and his fragile ego. He just wanted to make the masses fear and worship him as a god while he played with his shiny new murder-toy, all the while believing himself to be perfect in every possible way. Once he knew for sure that the Death Note
worked
, his god-of-justice complex was just his means of trying to reconcile "I'm better than everyone else" with "I just murdered two people with this thing".
If Light
really
wanted to save the world from its endemic corruption, he'd have at least focused on taking out brutal dictators and crooked politicians and business-people (like he ended up doing with the surviving members of the Yotsuba Group after he killed L and they ceased to be necessary for his plans) who are each
far
more responsible for the general state of the world than random criminals on the news and/or locked up in prison are. And he wouldn't have fallen for L's obvious "Lind L. Tailor" trap (let alone in just the
second
chapter/episode of the series) because of his wounded pride, he'd have just stayed on-course with his mission and ignored Tailor's blustering. And even
if
he was ever justified at any point, the absolute power of the Death Note is outright stated to corrupt absolutely (not from any sort of supernatural effects on the soul, mind you; just good old-fashioned human nature), so Light would not have remained "justified" for very long anyway.
It's hilarious how the netflix Light actually did take out dictators and warlords first but it was all mentioned off-handedly in 1 minute throughout a montage of him and Mia having sex and then the rest of the movie is just a poor imitation of the original series with L chasing Light for killing jailed criminals. The netflix movie was a complete mess lol