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Thanos.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The entire point of Death Note is pretty much to indicate that Light was a fuck up from the beginning. Having the Note didn't change him, it just revealed who he always was, right from the start. He was only the straight-A student who seemed like a good person because that's what society expected him to be, and the socially acceptable mask he wore because he wasn't willing to risk breaking the rules.

He wasn't a noble, good person who was slowly turned evil. He was basically a serial killer who figured out a way to put a noble face on his killing so people wouldn't object as strongly (a not-too-dissimilar mentality to the one being espoused by the Joker in The Dark Knight).

Clearly he crossed a few moral event horizons throughout the course of Death Note, but calling him evil is overly simplistic since iirc his ultimate agenda wasn't actually selfish and he was specifically punishing wrongdoers (as opposed to the indiscriminate violence of the Joker in The Dark Knight which was the *same* attitude reflected in the comics)

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