History Characters / DeathNoteMainCharacters

* TheHero: He's the one who starts the chase against Kira.

* TheHero: [[spoiler:After L's death]], he's the first in line to succeed L and the mastermind behind the S.P.K.

* BatmanGambit: The DoNotAdjustYourSet one being only his first in the series. He was counting on Kira's ego being bigger than his reason.

* {{Expy}}: Shares quite a few similarities with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Harley Quinn]].

* TheDragon: Thinks of himself as "the Hand of Kira", being given a Death Note to ''DELETE'' anyone who stands in Light's way while Light tries to evade suspicion from Near.

* TheDragon: "The Hand of Kira."

** To Light Yagami. The fact that [[spoiler:both are killed by Ryuk]] certainly cements this status. In terms of sheer intellect, Minoru lacks TheAce aspects of Light, being unable to translate his intelligence into his academics while Light excelled at everything he put his mind to. However, in many ways, the entire purpose of his character seems to be an answer to everything Light aspired to be throughout the course of the series: careful, meticulous, cunning, successful, and altruistic. Ironically, in his short period, he achieved what Light could never achieve: [[spoiler:defeat Near and being praised for thousands of people in his country]]. Another purpose of his character seems to be an answer to all the praise that Light has received by fans for more than ten years and to everything his [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype archetype]] represents, letting Minoru himself to carry out much more cunning and altruistic plans for his country. All these attributes show that, by the end of the day, Minoru is a far better person than Light, which is cruelly ironic considering that Minoru [[spoiler:did not seek to be praised and ended up being much more praised and loved than Light himself. One wonders what Light himself would think if he saw that another Kira managed to be much more loved than he ever tried to be...]]

* ElegantGothicLolita: She dresses like this when she becomes more famous - and in the anime, when she's about to jump to her death after Light dies.

** How he met and became friends with Matt.
*** Considering they were both raised at Wammy's, where they met seems clear. How they became friends can be speculated on, but the fact that Matt was third in line probably helped: he was smart enough to keep up with Mello, but not a threat to his rank due to his laziness. Their personalities seem to [[RedOniBlueOni mesh quite well]], too, as far as we can tell: Mello is ambitious and fiery, while Matt is far more calm and laid-back, and appears more than capable to take whatever Mello dishes out.

->'''Voiced by:''' Shido Nakamura (JP, anime, movies), Creator/JunFukuyama (Japanese, TV drama), Creator/BrianDrummond (EN), Jorge Varela (Spain), Alfonso Vallés (Spain, movies), Rolando De Castro (Latin America), Jorge Vasconcellos (BR), Emmanuel Karsen (FR)

* KickTheSonOfABitch: L only reserves his justice for people he sees as evil, and to be fair, his accusations are ''always'' correct (Light, Misa). Moreover, while L does order the deaths of a few criminals to help further the investigation, these criminals were [[PragmaticHero on death row anyway]].

* BeatItByCompulsion[=/=]{{Idiosyncrazy}}: Near uses this strategy with Mikami, who neatly and precisely writes a certain amount of names down in the Death Note per day, to calculate which pages of the notebook to replace and which to leave.

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