Current Events > Do you think the average CEman could carry out Light Yagami's mission

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better than Light Yagami?

You might think that Light is waaay smarter than your average CEman, but that kid got rage baited within like a week, giving away which country he was in.

The Death Note leaves behind no evidence. Youd have to be a total dummy to get caught tbh

Lol

Oh lemme tell you, I wouldn't target criminals.

I can see most CEmen writing their own names as the first ones just to test and see if it works.

Absolutely not.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

Oh lemme tell you, I wouldn't target criminals.

At least not the same ones Light did.

A_Good_Boy posted...

I can see most CEmen writing their own names as the first ones just to test and see if it works.

I'm mostly curious how it would deal with the fact that I am far from the only person with this first and last name.

I mean, Light lost so....yeah

DrizztLink posted...

I'm mostly curious how it would deal with the fact that I am far from the only person with this first and last name.

You need to picture the face of the person you want killed as well when you write it down otherwise it doesn't work.

_MorningStar posted...

I mean, Light lost so....yeah

yeah cuz hes dum lol

Light may have been book smart but he was driven by his ego to be known for killing criminals.

I feel like most people who are not looking for fame could easily utilize the death note without catching suspicion.

KajeI posted...

You need to picture the face of the person you want killed as well when you write it down otherwise it doesn't work.

What if you're one of those people that aren't capable of making a mental image?

Tmaster148 posted...

Light may have been book smart but he was driven by his ego to be known for killing criminals.

I feel like most people who are not looking for fame could easily utilize the death note without catching suspicion.

If all the people that are targeted are nefarious, infamous individuals instead of just tons of regular criminals, all that people will see is lots of people dying of heart attacks. No way to connect back to the Death Note with just that.

I could take out all the bad guys pretty easily.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/85469279.jpg

Remember when Light threw away a tiny TV with his bag of potato chips

Charged151 posted...

If all the people that are targeted are nefarious, infamous individuals instead of just tons of regular criminals, all that people will see is lots of people dying of heart attacks. No way to connect back to the Death Note with just that.

It would still be suspicious for a bunch of high profile people to suddenly die of heart attack. And there would likely be an investigation into the matter. The thing that sunk light was he believed himself to face of justice and went out of his way to kill L to stop the investigation when he could have done nothing and been fine.

Grab book
Put DT name down, in detail, involving others
Destroy book

All in 30 mins

Evolician posted...

Remember when Light threw away a tiny TV with his bag of potato chips

And it was epic.

On the one hand, I would think the average CEperson, assuming they're familiar with Death Note, would know what Light's undoing was and avoid making the same mistakes, so they should last longer on that alone.

On the other hand...well. Let's just say, if I got my hands on a death note, I'd be way too busy to even think about whether I'm being investigated. So I can imagine folks getting caught just because they never intended to "get away with it" in the first place.

L doesn't exist, it would be trivial to not get caught if you don't have light's ego

Absolutely. If the Death Note was real, it would actually be really hard to pinpoint who was doing it.

Better? No. Light had access to resources no average CEman has.

Though, since there are no super detectives like L IRL, they'd be successful in other ways.

PMarth2002 posted...

L doesn't exist,

Kaiser1one posted...

since there are no super detectives like L IRL,

How can you be so sure

I don't watch that Naruto crap

dattebayo

*Pulls up a list of the wealthiest bastards and has them all die carrying a Bible.*

If we're going to play God, we may as well aim for the top.

Depends on what you mean by his mission. Just killing criminals? Yeah id imagine the average person would have no desire to be particularly found out so wouldnt need the blunder of proving their existence to world by killing someone they believed to be innocent anyways. Theres certainly some egos here but Light's is in a different ballpark compared to the average.

I feel like in the real world the act of getting all the names and photos that you want online is data that could be tracked and made note of to put your name on what would likely be a short list so one might still lose based on that but i feel like the average person here would go undiscovered a bit longer than Light who actively sought out a meeting with the one trying to catch him.

In Death Note land where that doesn't appear to be the case though id say theres a chance one could succeed overall. Even with L and Near having basically supernatural ability i dont really see how you can track the Death Note down if you dont have something akin to that data and they arent going out of their way to give you the answer.

If you mean the whole god of the new world thing though no i dont think anyone in the world completes that mission.

Tmaster148 posted...

Light may have been book smart but he was driven by his ego to be known for killing criminals.

I feel like most people who are not looking for fame could easily utilize the death note without catching suspicion.

This is what people miss the point on. He wasn't trying to stealthily kill criminals, he was trying to instill fear. If he wasn't so focused on making Kira something to be feared, he probably would have never been caught, even with the Kanto revelation (which in an of itself was only discovered because he was an egotistical maniac that wanted to prove he could kill anyone at any time.)

what exactly was his mission? because i'm pretty sure it was just a power trip into psychosis.

monkmith posted...

what exactly was his mission? because i'm pretty sure it was just a power trip into psychosis.

To become god of the new world, so pretty accurate. He also wanted to get rid of all criminals and make humanity "better".

But it's ultimately just him wanting to be respected and feared because he quickly goes off the rails himself. Not to mention his longer term goals had nothing to do with criminals.

Kind of weird and unsettling how quick people ITT are to murdering a bunch of people. You are being asked the question, if you could murder people and get away with it would you?

Jiggy101011 posted...

Kind of weird and unsettling how quick people ITT are to murdering a bunch of people. You are being asked the question, if you could murder people and get away with it would you?

https://youtu.be/1W7c8QghPxk?si=ZP4wd5r_cC9e29H9
https://youtu.be/P3ALwKeSEYs?si=ZXwXAsMivWnr3KHd

Jiggy101011 posted...

Kind of weird and unsettling how quick people ITT are to murdering a bunch of people. You are being asked the question, if you could murder people and get away with it would you?

That's just an example of antisocial attitudes proliferating when the people running the world are such obviously criminal scum that nobody can possibly have any belief in the system.

Light Yagami broke his own rules, thus his mission was an utter failure. Anyone following in those footsteps, also already fail due to this

monkmith posted...

what exactly was his mission? because i'm pretty sure it was just a power trip into psychosis.

I guess it devolves into becoming a god, but in the beginning it starts out more like rid the world of criminals without getting caught.

Jiggy101011 posted...

Kind of weird and unsettling how quick people ITT are to murdering a bunch of people. You are being asked the question, if you could murder people and get away with it would you?

I mean the topic was more about: do you think you could avoid getting caught if you were Light. So you have to assume youre already killing peeps

Even if I'm being dropped into the Death Note world and thus L and Near exist, simply knowing how Light's own ego is what put him on L's radar in the first place should be enough.

It's not even just how Light got rage-baited into killing L's body double. There's also the fact that he was obsessed with making everyone know that "Kira" was responsible for all of the criminals' deaths. The Death Note is completely untraceable. Mix up the causes of death and there'd be no way to link them together. Whereas having so many criminals die in a short time in exactly the same way naturally leads to the suspicion that their deaths are connected somehow.

Light could've carried out his mission if he didn't become that egotistical. You have a magic murder book that can kill whoever you want, the only person that got in the way of his mission is himself in the end.

The hypothetical is: Would you be caught, and I... would likely never be if I were inserted into Lights role. I hate publicity and attention above the norm, and I'm already a security freak with documents less important than a magical murder tome.

Jiggy101011 posted...

Kind of weird and unsettling how quick people ITT are to murdering a bunch of people. You are being asked the question, if you could murder people and get away with it would you?

Some people just need to get got.

The only reason Light failed is because he let the default death of the Death Note kill all his targets, and even said he hoped people would notice the pattern as he wanted everyone to believe there really was a god out there punishing people.

Admittedly, if you were to make the deaths accidental somehow, I feel like people would notice a sudden surge in deaths that are, for all intents and purposes, accidental. People might think there's a god or some otherworldly force out there and everyone getting paranoid of every little thing they do somehow resulting in death might be even scarier than expecting a random heart attack.

NoxObscuras posted...

Absolutely. If the Death Note was real, it would actually be really hard to pinpoint who was doing it.

Especially if you take advantage of being able to specify a time of death (within a certain limit), so it's impossible to pin it down to a specific time somebody would be doing whatever resulted in the deaths. Space them out, do some during the day and some in the middle of the night, don't just go crazy writing a bunch down in succession at the exact same time. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

Kisai posted...

The only reason Light failed is because he let the default death of the Death Note kill all his targets, and even said he hoped people would notice the pattern as he wanted everyone to believe there really was a god out there punishing people.

Honestly, if Light wanted everyone to believe that it was divine judgement, he would've been better off using lightning as the cause of death. If criminals suddenly started getting struck by lightning all over the world, God smiting them really would be the more logical conclusion to draw than some random serial killer having the ability to summon lightning.

Whereas with it all being heart attacks, there are non-magical ways to do that. So a detective like L would naturally suspect a serial killer even before he became aware of the supernatural.

Jiggy101011 posted...

Kind of weird and unsettling how quick people ITT are to murdering a bunch of people. You are being asked the question, if you could murder people and get away with it would you?

Entertaining the hypothetical to the spirit is a lot more than a bunch of us going "Killing is wrong! I wouldn't do it!"

Like yeah no shit, most people don't want to kill people. But what if you were a anime villian?

Arcanine2009 posted...

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i'd delete that, even a vague reference to that subject gets you modded here.

Jiggy101011 posted...

Kind of weird and unsettling how quick people ITT are to murdering a bunch of people. You are being asked the question, if you could murder people and get away with it would you?

You are so boring

Jiggy101011 posted...

Kind of weird and unsettling how quick people ITT are to murdering a bunch of people. You are being asked the question, if you could murder people and get away with it would you?

Quick? We've all personally witnessed decades of the worst people on the planet abuse our systems to hoard all wealth and control to themselves. A few hundred years ago they would have already had their head on a pike somewhere

Red_XIV posted...

Honestly, if Light wanted everyone to believe that it was divine judgement, he would've been better off using lightning as the cause of death. If criminals suddenly started getting struck by lightning all over the world, God smiting them really would be the more logical conclusion to draw than some random serial killer having the ability to summon lightning.

Whereas with it all being heart attacks, there are non-magical ways to do that. So a detective like L would naturally suspect a serial killer even before he became aware of the supernatural.

i don't remember all the specifics, but i thought there were limits? so you couldn't just put down "and then X person was launched into space and died", so i guess lightning hitting them would be out of the question maybe

PMarth2002 posted...

L doesn't exist, it would be trivial to not get caught if you don't have light's ego

And that is why you would fail. Light didn't think someone like L existed either.

WingsOfGood posted...

And that is why you would fail. Light didn't think someone like L existed either.

someone would off musk and mechahitler grock would take up the case to find his supreme leaders killer.

KnightofShikari posted...

i don't remember all the specifics, but i thought there were limits? so you couldn't just put down "and then X person was launched into space and died", so i guess lightning hitting them would be out of the question maybe

Things you can't do with the death note. Cause more than the person written in the book to die or cause the person to enact something outside of their own ability. In these cases, it defaults to heart attack.

You can cause a person to die of a natural accident, so saying "struck by lightning" should be valid.

Evolician posted...

better than Light Yagami?

You might think that Light is waaay smarter than your average CEman, but that kid got rage baited within like a week, giving away which country he was in.

The Death Note leaves behind no evidence. Youd have to be a total dummy to get caught tbh

Light actively wanted to get caught. If his goal was actually about justice, He'd have just quietly killed criminals or politicians who disagreed with his worldview.

It was important to him that people knew of the wicked God who would guide the world. I feel like the average internet user. Even the dipshits in Twitter, could do better than full blown megalomania.

WingsOfGood posted...

And that is why you would fail. Light didn't think someone like L existed either.

I never said I would do it, I just said it would be easy to get away with it.