If Light didn't get the Death Note, would he have led a fulfilling life? Would he have a future in politics and what would be his tax policy? Or would he instead become a prosecutor like Mikami?
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William Green
William Allen
He would have become a detective like his father.
Blake Campbell
I wonder if he could have ever been noticed by L or why Wammy's House didn't detect how smart he is.
Grayson Long
Judging by the favt that he was dangerously bored, we can deduce that he'd eventually become a school shooter. If he couldn't get his hands on a gun, he would create bombs and elaborate traps in order to kill as many people as possible.
Getting the Death Note was honestly the best thing for him.
Joseph Robinson
He would have become either a detective or attorney, and partnered with L and fought crime together.
Matthew Watson
I can also see that as an option, he seemed a bit depressed at the beginning and would certainly not achieve his full potential as just an attorney. Maybe as a freelancer detective who works with L.
Robert Lee
when he wipes his memory and starts working with L he comes across as a genuine moralfag and I don't recall any inner thoughts betraying that he felt Kira was in the right or anything like that. Maybe it was just an edgelord phase he'd grow out of
David Foster
He did mention how he felt Kira's ideology scarily similar to his own. But without memories he thought he would never actually kill unlike Kira. I'm surprised to find he and Tanya which are actually quite smart characters don't ever aim to rule and are quite content with being a middleman.
Landon Thompson
He would have became a corrupt cop or politician. Or maybe some type of intelligence agent
Owen Long
I wonder if he would have become as corrupted if given power by traditional means such as voters. So no chance he would have tried to improve the world?
Samuel Rivera
He would have become a vigilante cop with the help of his police background
Jose Diaz
I always assumed he would have been like Naomi and work as a detective and field agent under L, probably for multiple cases while never actually seeing his face.
Oliver Martin
If that was the case I bet he would become good friends with Mikami.
Samuel Ortiz
Even better, Light Yagami: serial killer. Like that Holmes guy who built a murder hotel with death traps and even made murder a thriving business.
Charles Cox
>Judging by the favt that he was dangerously bored,
I often see this being said and I didn't notice it that much in the beginning of the anime, was it more detailed in the manga?
Parker Cox
In the anime you can see how empty his eyes look, just going and going on empty days and repeating tasks monotonously.
Joseph Williams
He would have become a corrupt officer. Light was always a highly intelligent, highly driven, narcissistic, egotistical psychopath, it's giving him power that allows him to act on his desires. If you look at how he acts around other people, his inner monologs, and especially women, you'll understand what's in common with how he deals with them. He gets off on using women while having zero sexual interest in them. He doesn't care for a single human being other than a small degree of respect for his father that pops up when he's going to participate in that operation against Mello. Even his sister's kidnapping is treated as an inconvenience because he has to put on an act. The single time he ever compliments L is after his death, and it's immediately followed by him using that compliment to elevate himself for overcoming L.
Robert Ross
Yet he was also highly justice driven without memories of the Death Note. He refused to seduce Misa to get closer to Kira as L suggested. Its actually the fact he murdered someone and his inability to keep thinking of himself as good, that broke him. If anything he's just too perfectionistic and hard on himself. So he tried to resort to logic in order to find a way to consider himself as good once more.
David Garcia
When you look at it from a distance, L actually had a better and more fullfilled life than Light even though he lost.
Tyler Lopez
L was doing what he loved which was solving puzzles while Light was just overqualified but stuck in a path others had made for him and not knowing what to do. Without memories of the Death Note, he's quite excited to crack the Kira case and is also less lonely than L since he doesn't alienate others and can pretend to be human.
Isaac Wilson
I read the entire manga a few years ago when the Netflix movie was coming out, as I wanted to judge it with a fair opinion. I hadn't seen the anime since 2008 when I watched the English dub on TV.
When I read things where a character's intentions may be unclear, I pay a lot of attention. For example, I wanted to know how much of Griffith was genuine when reading Berserk. I remember thinking when watching the anime that Light could have become an upstanding guy if it wasn't for the Death Note falling back into his hands, but I didn't get that impression in the manga. While it didn't have him indulging in his narcissistic gravitation towards power (not that he really could given his situation), he still displayed some psychopathic traits, such as his total lack of interest in women. If left unchecked, I think Light would fall back into his normal ways. He loves himself and only himself, everything he does is for himself. Justice is not his motivation, it's simply an excuse he uses to rationalize his actions. It was always about becoming God, about reaching the top, about having people worship him. He even implies later on that he would eventually start killing for smaller and smaller things, because he needs to stay on top and keep people aware of him.
I actually found the Netflix movie to be fascinating in how it addressed certain things, and it did give me the impression that they did understand the manga and its weak points. But it shouldn't have been treated as an adaptation, but rather its own story.
Nolan Bailey
>I actually found the Netflix movie to be fascinating in how it addressed certain things, and it did give me the impression that they did understand the manga and its weak points. But it shouldn't have been treated as an adaptation, but rather its own story.
How did they handle the 2nd part, are Near and Mello in it?
David Young
Wait, wait, wait
Are you telling me they released a second part?
Noah Mitchell
>When I read things where a character's intentions may be unclear, I pay a lot of attention. For example, I wanted to know how much of Griffith was genuine when reading Berserk. I remember thinking when watching the anime that Light could have become an upstanding guy if it wasn't for the Death Note falling back into his hands, but I didn't get that impression in the manga. While it didn't have him indulging in his narcissistic gravitation towards power (not that he really could given his situation), he still displayed some psychopathic traits, such as his total lack of interest in women. If left unchecked, I think Light would fall back into his normal ways. He loves himself and only himself, everything he does is for himself. Justice is not his motivation, it's simply an excuse he uses to rationalize his actions. It was always about becoming God, about reaching the top, about having people worship him. He even implies later on that he would eventually start killing for smaller and smaller things, because he needs to stay on top and keep people aware of him.
But that was him under the Death Note's influence, also he has different interpretations in the anime, manga and even the theater plays where he is even more angry at crime and lack of justice in the world.