Light Yagami

“	This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die. Someone has to do it, so why not me? Even if it means sacrificing my own mind and soul, it's worth it. Because the world... can't go on like this. I wonder... what if someone else had picked up this notebook? Is there anyone out there other than me who'd be willing to eliminate the vermin from the world? If I don't do it, then who will? That's just it: there's no one. But I can do it. In fact, I'm the only one who can. I'll do it. Using the Death Note, I'll change the world.	„
	~ Light Yagami on why he goes on his mass murder spree.

“	The way the original Kira acted is disturbingly close to my ideals.	„
	~ Amnesiac Light's internal monologue about questioning his true identity.

“	Where are you Misa!?! Where's Takada!?! Someone... What am I to do now?	„
	~ Light whimpering over his defeat.

Summary

Light Yagami is the villainous protagonist of Death Note. He started out as a well-intentioned teenager who was sick of seeing the world be so ridden of crime that once he found the Death Note (he wanted the world to have justice), he became power-hungry and thirsty for the position of a god known to the public as Kira. Though he killed numerous criminals, he also killed many innocents who were just trying to stop him from killing people. By the end, he lost almost if not every redeeming quality that he once had.

Moral Statistics

Moral Ranking: 0 to 3 + (Before using the Death Note/Amnesiac), 1 - (Kira). - Manga | 2 - (Kira) - Anime

Origin: Death Note

Classification: Delusional God Wannabe (Kira), Amnesiac Detective (Amnesiac)

• Sub-Classifications
• Status: Deceased.
• Occupations: Student (graduated), Detective, Serial Killer, Member of the Kira Special Task Force.
• Hobbies: Playing Tennis, Reading, Studying, Writing people's names in the Death Note, Eating Potato Chips, Taking part in the Kira Special Task Force.

Gender: Male.

Size:

• Height: 5'10.5"
• Weight: 136 lbs (Before using the Death Note, said he was 15 pounds more weight before using the Death Note, but the stress of killing criminals made him lose interest in eating for days.), 119 lbs (After using the Death Note)

Age: 17 to 18 in Part I | 23 years old in Part II Only reaches to 24 on the English translation of his official stats.

Life Involvement:

• Lives saved: 8 (At least)
• Lives taken: 130,000+.

Primary Motive: Casual when he's wasn't Kira, Victory by his will as Amnesiac Light, Ambition As Kira (He has a very big God complex which overrides any of his other normal moral goals.)

Alignment: Lawful Good (Initially and during amnesiac, stands by his father's ideals of bringing justice to criminals.), Lawful Evil (Kira, believes that the only way to make true justice is to take the law into his own hands.)

Allies: Ryuk (formerly), Misa Amane (deceased), Teru Mikami (deceased), Kiyomi Takada (formerly), Japanese Task Force (formerly), L Lawliet (During amnesiac), Special Provision for Kira.

Enemies: L Lawliet (Archenemy), Near (Archenemy), Mello, the Japanese Task Force, the Special Provision for Kira.

Morality Standard: Frequent Common Hostility (The heinous standard is commonly bad, that it provoked Light to go on a killing spree on the vast majority of criminals in the world, and quickly goes back up when he stops using the Death Note.)

Accomplishments: Atrocious (killing Lind L. Taylor out of pride, murdering Raye Penber and the FBI agents, forcing Naomi Misora to commit suicide, manipulating Rem into killing herself to falsely save Misa via killing L and Watari, killing hundreds of thousands of people, many who were not criminals, some who may have been framed to be, all for his means to an end. He was plotting a mass murder on the police.He goes his way on murdering Takada by forcing her to commit suicide through burning herself to death.) Neither to Nobel as Non-Kira (Was a normal yet exceptional High School student, convinced Namikawa, who is considered to be the smartest Yotsuba member to be a mole to capture Kyosuke Higuchi.)

Resourceful Capability: Skilled

• Intellect: (Light has genius intelligence, with his academics scores first place more than once on the national practice college entrance exams, he, alongside L, had the highest scores on the Japanese entrance exam in To-Oh University, based on one of the hardest schools in the world.His official knowledge stat, that is read as intelligence in English, is a bar higher than L's, and has canonical top tier social skills, acting manipulative performance and creativity, each of which greatly surpasses most of the characters in the story.) On further detail of these three subjects, mastery of manipulation, he hides his identity within the Police without suspicion that he is Kira from 2004/2007 to November 4th to 2009/2013, October 8th, his creative routes as a tactician has gone on lengths on making some bold unexpected move to work brilliantly in his favor, as he made an explosive hiding of his Death Note, and utilized a lock security onto his door to find out if anyone had been checking what he does in there. Stated by Near that if he and Mello not had worked together to outsmart Light, they would have lost, and Near and Mello are considered to be the chosen successors to L.
• Physic: Light is gifted in athleticism, involving stamina and coordination (Examples: His excellent Tennis record that he beat L, who was the British junior champion of the sport, has a two champion tennis record, is a football/soccer player and can fight L, who is a martial artist of Capoeira), in the anime after he got shot by Matsuda with four extra bullets in him, and was he still able to stand up and run for a while, and even though in the manga Light wasn't as skilled, Matsuda shooting Light deep into his wrist, was in total three bullets, making it still have minor impressive human feat that Light managed to pull off of when Ryuk was writing his name on the Death Note, as he made a crouched stand in trying to stop him. He was stated to have a strong spiritual will and convinction, hence why C-Kira was a failed successor to him, unable to handle the pressure on what it takes to be a Death Note user, and perhaps some of its dark elements.)
• Superpowered with the Death Note (Can kill any human when writing their names as long as he knows their real name and face, just as long as it goes by the rules.)

Competency: Partially Successful (Despite Light's peak human intellect in solving tough situations that could soon end his life, he has huge luck and arguably plot convenience to get his way, such as in supposedly just happening to see and use a Death Note, Naomi arriving at the right place and time for him to manipulate and kill her, with Aizawa just happened to barely miss contact with them by using his umbrella, and by Part II, his luck runs out. The Task Force having a lot of doubt that Light is Kira, despite the evidence, Misa willing to do anything for him, and Rem who just so happened to be the second Shinigami willing to sacrifice herself for Misa in favor of Light's success, managed to get a bold move of an opportunity in regaining his memories of the Death Note, when that could have easily have been prevented by L not letting him touch it, and convinced Rem to kill both Watari and L, was able to keep his suspicion clear for over five years within the task force, still maintained his success in Part II, by killing one of the L's successor, Mello, and nearly murdered Near. Light's biggest flaws is his egotistical arrogance that became a huge factor to his downfall, such as when he killed L Lin Tailor, in thinking he was the real L detective, made direct traces of him being Kira by killing numerous FBI agents, and flat out told Near on the last second that he is victor.)

Tone Presence: Game Changer (Mostly internal monologues as Kira, many thoughts Light has are devious on how he's going to plot a murder on his next victim.), Pleasant (By his acting, and Before using the Death Note/Amnesiac)

Moral Prevention Severity:

• Nasty Prevention (Fell from someone with genuinely good intentions to an egotistical god-wannabe who is seeking power, even putting innocents at high risk, and with his Kira memories gone for the time being, he can be quite aggression to L's suggestion on him being the mass murderer.)
• Sadden Initially in the manga, regained at the end of the anime. (Light did not have a well home social life, as his dad was so busy with the large crime rate, that he couldn't be there with his family, which raises Light's concerning of the world's heinous standard and when he was about to mention how his day turned out to his mother, she only asked for his grades to see how good his dedicated success was, making his social connection with his family limited, and in the anime he is less social, having no friends he talks to on the first episode, which is a contrast to the first chapter of the manga. Before Lights outweighs this prevention with his heinousness, Ryuk gives him a false-pretense that he forever can't go to Heaven or Hell after using the Death Note, this makes Light startled and disturbed over Ryuk's statement, leading him to believe that he has nothing else to live for except with what that notebook got him into, and before Ryuk told him, he truly thought that a major reason for using the Death Note as much he could was to make sure the Shinigami didn't take his soul before he was done with his work, going all or none at all with what is left with his limited life, though he soon accepts that the two realms never existed in the first place, with the last image of the manga stating once he's dead, he will never be alive again, though the timing of when he came to this conclusion was too late as the Kira investigation was searching for him, so there was no going back. However in the anime it doesn't give an answer outside of Ryuk's statement on if that's true or not for non-Death Note users, making Light's situation possibly more alone, like when the ending songs portrays this symbolically, where is he is the only human character seen in the songs, with Ryuk looking at him, and Misa strictly briefly being in the background of a screen, and in Ending 2, it's just him, the reason why this alludes to his sympathy, especially with how he is presented on Ending 3, is because of how it's supposed to show that he's willing to take the curse of being Kira upon himself, at the cost of literally everything, though this wouldn't be a strong one, given his willingness to even murder his allies to win, and he does not see his actions as sacrificial remorse either, as he takes some sadistic pleasure in killing his allies.)
• Total Amoral (Lost his memories as Kira, and shows that he strongly has moral agency issues, due to how his Kira personality is automatic in taking over his good personality when his memories are regained.)
• Positive Prevention Free In the Manga (Became full psychopathic when using the Death Note, and squandered any minor redeeming factors about himself, with his sadistic enjoyment over Takada's death and insult to his father being his corrupting nail in the coffin.)
• Minor Positive Prevention In the Anime (Because of his death being presented in some tragic light over the loss of the normal life he had lost, that also weighs in possibility that he might have had some care for Misa, and it is implied he might have felt some internal conflict over his father's death and remorse for killing L, this remorse was implied over the months he spent with him during the Yotsuba arc, the washing of his feet as a representation of some mutual respect they had for each other, and the last imagination was seeing an image of him at the very end of his life.)

Note: Although the manga and anime do have differences with how Light is handled in the continuities, the reason why they are not separate profiles is because their storylines don't diverge from each other, while other adaptations such as the original film franchise, TV Drama and Netflix movie drastically change the narrative.

External Links

• Light Yagami on the Death Note Wiki
• Light Yagami on the Villains Wiki
• Light Yagami on the Pure Evil Wiki
• Light Yagami on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
• Light Yagami on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
• Light Yagami on the Base Breaking Characters Wiki
• Light Yagami on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
• Light Yagami on the Vs Battles Wiki