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4'''Warning! Unmarked {{spoiler}}s ahead!'''
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8!Law Enforcement
9
10!!FBI
11
12[[folder:Naomi Misora]]
13[[quoteright:400:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/misoranaomi_259510.jpg]]
14->Voiced by: Creator/NaokoMatsui (JP), Creator/TabithaStGermain (EN), Creator/NicoleOliver (English dub of live-action films), Alicia Laorden (Spain), Claudia Contreras (Latin America), Asaka Seto (film)
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16Raye Penber's fiancee and former FBIAgent who worked under L in the L.A.B.B. murder case.
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18* ActionGirl: Of the DanceBattler variety, since she's well-versed in UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} and trains L in it.
19* AdaptationalIntelligence: She quickly works out that Light is Kira in the first live-action movie.
20* AdaptationalVillainy: In the first live-action movie, she's willing to take Light's girlfriend hostage, hold her at gunpoint, [[spoiler:and even kill her]] just to prove that Light is Kira. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it's revealed Light was manipulating the entire scenario by controlling Naomi with the death note.]]
21* AdaptedOut: She's nowhere to be seen in the live-action drama.
22* AloneWithThePsycho: Twice!
23* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Pale skin, dark hair, stunning good looks and a cool, collected personality.
24* AndIMustScream: Part of what makes her death so horrifying. Light puts her in a situation where she knows who Kira is... and she can't do a thing about it. Instead, she is essentially forced to watch from inside her own head as she kills herself, [[DyingAlone utterly alone]], deprived of free will and hope.
25* AscendedExtra: Both in the prequel novel and in the live-action movies.
26* BadassBiker: Rides a motorcycle and is one of the most competent characters in the entire series.
27* BettyAndVeronica: Though it's [[GenderBender gender swapped]] with Beyond Birthday as the Veronica and Raye Penber as the Betty.
28* BornUnlucky: Her "luck" rating is 1/10. Ouch.
29* UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}: She was actually the one who taught L how to fight with it.
30* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Official color seems to be blue.
31* CrusadingWidow: She is partly motivated to investigate Kira by Raye's death at his hands.
32* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Just when it seems like she'll be a major character in the story after she decides to pick up where Raye left off, she's taken out by Light to further elevate his villain status.]]
33* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: When she's DrivenToSuicide.
34* FairCop: Formerly, at least. She was an FBI agent prior to the beginning of the series and is very good looking.
35* FinalGirl: Of ''Literature/AnotherNote'' [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome but not in the main story.]]
36* HellBentForLeather: Wears a leather jacket and leather pants throughout most of her screen time.
37* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Well, Light seems trustworthy enough...
38* JustAKid: She's had... trouble with this. In the novel, it explains that [[BackStory she had a traumatic experience]] [[ShootTheDog with having faced down a gang member that was no more than a child.]] Then there's Light the mass murdering high school student...
39* InformedAbility: We hear and read about how competent she is. Seeing it on the other hand....
40* KickChick: She knows Capoiera, and taught L some moves.
41* LoveMakesYouDumb: Downplayed. She's clearly very fond of L, and lets her guard down to Light despite being rightly suspicious of him because [[YouRemindMeOfX he reminds her a little of L]].
42* MauveShirt: She ends up getting a few episodes worth of solid characterization before her abrupt death at Light's hands.
43* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Proves to be a much bigger threat to Light than Raye Penber ever was. She is the first one to deduce that Kira can kill in ways other than a heart attack and that Raye must have come into contact with him before he died. It takes Light pulling out ''all'' the stops just to keep up with her, (whereas he easily manipulates everyone besides L in the series), ''and'' [[BornUnlucky her being unlucky enough]] [[ContrivedCoincidence to run into Light when L was away from the station]], ''and'' getting handed the IdiotBall to [[TooDumbToLive ensure her early demise]]. The writers have admitted she was meant to last longer but proved so competent that would have been unrealistic if she ''hadn't'' caught Light within a few chapters, whereas Light and L's drawn out game of cat-and-mouse over the series [[spoiler:culminating in L's death]] is completely believable. In a physical sense, she was also the one who taught L Capoeira.
44* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: At the F.B.I. she was known as "Misora Massacre" for her badassery.
45* NeverFoundTheBody: [[PsychicAssistedSuicide When Light]] wrote her name in the Death Note, he stipulated that she would kill herself in such a way that her body would never be found, so she just walks off into the distance and is never seen again. L does eventually find out she was reported missing.
46* NoAccountingForTaste: Is engaged to Raye Penber, who (in no uncertain terms) tells her to StayInTheKitchen (despite being ''far'' less competent as an investigator than she is) and makes her promise that she'll [[QuittingToGetMarried quit her FBI job as a condition of marrying him]]. In spite of his lack of support for her career (and the fact that a photo of the two of them suggests that he is less-than-thrilled to be with her), she genuinely loves and cares for him.
47* NoodleIncident: Commits suicide in a way that prevents anyone from finding her body. Even Light shows a bit of morbid curiosity about how exactly she achieves that.
48* NothingIsScarier: How ''did'' she kill herself? Light stipulates in the Death Note that she kills herself in such a way that her body will never be found, and through DullEyesOfUnhappiness she simply walks away in the distance and is never seen or heard from again. Given her intelligence and resourcefulness, Light somewhat regrets that he'll never find out how she pulled it off. Brr!
49* NotSoStoic: In her literal final seconds as she learns that Light is Kira.
50* OhCrap: The sheer amount of terror on the poor girl's face after learning Light was Kira was just heartbreaking.
51* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Light uses the Note to make her kill herself.
52* ProperlyParanoid: She's instantly suspicious of Light, and for good reason.
53* QuittingToGetMarried: Naomi has agreed to do this because her fiance, Ray Penber, worries about her in her line of work.
54* ReadingYourRights: In ''Literature/AnotherNote'', she tells B he doesn't have the right to an attorney, trial, etc., because she is so distraught over him having [[spoiler:bludgeoned a 13-year-old girl to death.]] (Although in actuality, the law where B was arrested guarantees those to everyone, regardless of whether they are facing charges for heinous crimes like B's, or more...mundane ones.)
55* RealWomenDontWearDresses: According to the writer, she dislikes skirts.
56* {{Revenge}}: She wants to catch Kira to avenge Raye's death.
57* RiddleForTheAges: Again, exactly how did she end up killing herself in such a way that her body would never be found? Light admits some morbid curiosity about it to himself, given how intelligent and resourceful she is.
58* RightInFrontOfMe: In ''Literature/AnotherNote'' when L asks her if [[EvilTwin “Ryuuzaki”]] was cool:
59-->'''Naomi:''' No, absolutely not. He was creepy and pathetic, and so suspicious that if I weren't on leave, I'd move to arrest him the moment I laid eyes on him. If we divided everyone in the world into those that would be better off dead and those that wouldn't, there's no doubt in my mind that he'd be the former. [[SuicideAsComedy Such a complete freak that it amazes me he hasn't killed himself.]]
60* SacrificialLion: Her purpose in the series turned out to be built up just so she could prove that AnyoneCanDie.
61* ShipTease: It's a big stretch, but her few moments with L in ''Literature/AnotherNote'' have given shippers hope.
62* TheSmartGirl: IdiotBall aside, she came incredibly close to capturing Light just through her fiancé's stories, police reports, and her own deductive reasoning. She was so smart that the writers had to kill her early because it would be unrealistic for her to have not found out Light in a few chapters.
63* SmallRoleBigImpact: Even in her death, she helps point L towards suspecting Light, as her previous interactions with him informed him that she wouldn't be the type to just commit suicide as soon as a loved one died.
64* SnowMeansDeath: It starts snowing just as Naomi lets down her guard enough to reveal her real name to Light, who sentences her to suicide. The snow continues as she walks to her fate.
65* TheStoic: Her emotional strength rating is a full 10/10.
66* TooDumbToLive: On one hand, she doesn't seem to realize that a creepy kid following her around asking HaveYouToldAnyoneElse is a bit off, not to mention the IdiotBall. On the other hand, it was a ContrivedCoincidence that she went to the police station when Light was there and L wasn't, Light's trustworthiness is backed up by another person and he comes off as a genuine member of L's team. Regardless of what side you're on, nearly all fans agree her death was pretty cheap.
67** Subverted in the live action film, wherein her role is notably expanded from the manga. She still dies, but it's more plausible and makes Naomi seem less like an idiot.
68* {{Tsundere}}: This is {{Lampshaded}} in ''Literature/AnotherNote''.
69* VasquezAlwaysDies: One of the most badass female characters on the show, as well as the first to die.
70* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies too early in the manga to really establish her personality, but this was fixed in the prequel novel and the movies.
71* YouRemindMeOfX: Naomi says to Light that he reminds her of L, ({{Lampshading}} that they're {{Mirror Character}}s.
72[[/folder]]
73
74[[folder:Raye Penber]]
75[[quoteright:347:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ray_penbar_fbi_2_5712.jpg]]
76->Voiced by: Creator/HideoIshikawa (JP), Creator/MichaelAdamthwaite (EN), Pedro Molina (Spain), Creator/GerardoVasquez (Latin America), Shigeki Hosokawa (film)
77
78The FBIAgent who was tailing Light.
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80* AdaptationNameChange: Known as "Raye Iwamatsu" in the live-action movie, though pretty much everything else about the character is the same. Made into a plot point in the live-action TV series, where his real name is Mark Dwellton, with "Raye Penber" being an alias.
81* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the TV drama. Unlike in the manga and anime, he never gives his name out to Light during the bus jacking incident and only becomes more suspicious of Light. During Light's plan to kill him, he wiretaps their conversation in order to figure out how he kills people, catches on to Light's ploy with the FBI files, and comes dangerously close to killing him, only failing due to Misa's intervention with her own Death Note.
82* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the films, his StayInTheKitchen line to Misora is out of genuine concern for her well-being.
83* BadassLongcoat: Wears a nice-looking trench coat when out on the job.
84* ButNotTooForeign: Although American, his mother is Japanese. The writer states that this was done so he wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb.
85* ChristianityIsCatholic: Raye is a devout Catholic in the live-action movie.
86* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:After receiving a lot of focus and seemingly being set up as a main character, he's killed off by Light.]]
87* IncrediblyObviousTail: Ryuk is the first to mention, and bring the reader's attention, to Raye tailing Light, though Light admits he knew already that he was being tailed. Well, Raye does not blend in well in Japan with his longcoat.
88* ItsProbablyNothing: [[GenreBlindness His reaction to Naomi's concerns about the busjacking.]]
89* MauveShirt: Gets fleshed out quite a bit despite only appearing in a few episodes.
90* MortonsFork: Follow my instructions or I kill you and your girlfriend. Guess what happens anyway.
91* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the first live-action film, his sudden uncharacteristic behavior, courtesy of the instructions Light wrote in the notebook, tip Naomi Misora off that something is wrong, and leads her to further suspect Light of involvement.
92* {{Retirony}}: Light begins his plan to kill Raye the day he had decided would be his last day trailing Light, as he clearly could not be Kira.
93* SpannerInTheWorks: Completely unintentional on his end but Light's biggest mistake in the series was his murder of Penber. Had he allowed Ray Penber to live, all suspicion of Light would have been dropped. Even if he'd just quietly watched him die, rather than getting into his line of sight and ''gloating'', he would have been better off-- it was Raye's reaction to him in his death throes that gave L the clue to focus in on him.
94* StayInTheKitchen: To Naomi, telling her that her suspicions are obsolete now, since she quit her [=FBI=] job when they got engaged. Needless to say, [[GenreBlindness he should have listened to her]].
95* TallDarkAndHandsome: Fits the description perfectly.
96* TooDumbToLive: He makes Matsuda look like a genius in comparison. First he shows his ID ''to the suspect he's tailing,'' then blows off Naomi's perfectly valid concerns about the incident. This gets him, his coworkers, and fiancé killed.
97* UnwittingPawn: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark made you kill your coworkers.]]
98* ZombieInfectee: Rather than acting completely GenreBlind, Raye acts like this about showing his name to a Kira suspect in the live-action movie.
99[[/folder]]
100
101[[folder:Steve Mason]]
102[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/steve_mason.jpg]]
103-> Voiced By: Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese), John Novak (English)
104
105The Director of the [=FBI=]. He authorizes sending several agents to Japan at the beginning of the Kira case, but abandons the project after Light kills all of them. He later joins the [=SPK=] but is killed by Mello and Rod Ross via their Death Note.
106[[/folder]]
107
108!!National Police Agency
109
110[[folder:Kanichi Takimura]]
111[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kanichi_takimura.jpg]]
112-> Voiced By: Creator/MasaruIkeda (Japanese), Howard Siegel (English)
113
114The Director of the National Police Agency. He is kidnapped by the mafia as part of their gambit to acquire the Death Note and then commits suicide, presumably after Light writes his name down.
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116* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Light makes him hang himself with his tie.
117* ShootTheHostage: Light kills him to stop the trade from going through.
118[[/folder]]
119
120[[folder:Koreyoshi Kitamura]]
121[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/koreyoshi_kitamura.jpg]]
122-> Voiced By: Creator/MasaruIkeda (Japanese), Howard Siegel (English)
123
124The Deputy Director of the National Police Agency, and Soichiro's immediate boss. He and his family were among L's initial suspects suspected of being Kira, but despite his aggravation at his daughter being investigated, he still supported Soichiro. However, he was forced to call off the Kira investigation after being pressured by politicians who were threatened by Kira and bribed by Yotsuba executives.
125[[/folder]]
126
127[[folder:Yamamoto]]
128[[quoteright:273:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yamamotodn_8564.png]]
129
130Light's school pal.
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132* AdaptedOut: Nowhere to be seen in the anime, live-action films or TV drama.
133* BlackShirt: Light seems to see him as such when he and the other unnamed friend are talking about Kira with FanBoy-like enthusiasm. They suggest that Kira is a superhero and ''Light'' is the one to correct them when they argue that because of Kira the crime rate has gone down, pointing out that since the Kira killings are seen as homicides than the crime rate has actually gone up.
134%%* DeadpanSnarker
135* {{Fanboy}}: Either he or the other unnamed friend was a fan of the ''ComicBook/XMen''.
136* GayMoment: He and Light share an awkward moment when Light asks when he is going to give him a New Year's card and Yamamoto replies with: "Sorry Light, I only give cards to girls."
137* {{Irony}}: Tells Light, "Be good, dude!"
138* OneSteveLimit: It's unclear if the Yamamoto in the first volume and the Yamamoto in the ending are the same character or not.
139* PalsWithJesus: In the manga Light is always shown walking home with the [[ThoseTwoGuys same two guys]], Yamamoto and another unnamed friend.
140* RightInFrontOfMe: When he and another unnamed friend are talking about Kira in front of Light.
141-->'''Friend#2:''' I did some shoplifting back in grade school and I'm freaking out about it.
142-->'''Yamamoto:''' Hah, that's peanuts!
143* SatelliteCharacter: He gives Light and later Matsuda someone to interact with.
144* WhatTheHellHero: To Matsuda in the Japan-only bonus chapter:
145-->'''Yamamoto:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Mr. Matsuda, please stop talking like people dying is actually a good thing.]]
146* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: In the last chapter Yamamoto has joined the NPA and is Matsuda's drinking buddy.
147[[/folder]]
148
149[[folder:Ito Shiroba]]
150[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yukito_shiraba.jpg]]
151-> Voiced By: Ooki Sugiyama (Japanese), Ted Cole (English)
152
153A motorcycle cop who has the misfortune of encountering Higuchi, who kills Yukito via his Death Note.
154* StevenUlyssesPerhero: In the manga, his name is Ito Shiroba. Motorcycle cops in Japan are often called ''shirobai'' because of their white motorcycles (''shiro''=white, ''baiko''=motorbike).
155[[/folder]]
156
157!!SPK members
158
159[[folder:Anthony Rester[=/=]Anthony Carter]]
160[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rester_6794.jpg]]
161->Voiced by: Masaki Aizawa (JP), Creator/MichaelAdamthwaite (EN), Eduard Itchart (Spain), Luis Alfonso Padilla (Latin America)
162
163Commander of the SPK, Rester is an honest person who has Near's complete trust, so much so that he reveals some of his thoughts and plans to Rester only. He also helps Near with things he can't do for himself, such as booking a flight on a plane. Appears in the one-shot special in the manga along with Lidner.
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165* CommandingCoolness: Usually addressed as "Commander Rester".
166* TheConfidant: To Near.
167* {{Expy}}: In a certain way, he acts as a Soichiro to Near as Light or L.
168[[/folder]]
169
170[[folder:Halle Lidner[=/=]Halle Bullook]]
171[[quoteright:329:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Halle_9131.jpg]]
172->Voiced by: Creator/AkenoWatanabe (JP), Creator/LisaAnnBeley (EN), María Rosa Guillén (Spain), Queta Calderón (Latin America)
173
174A former Secret Service agent who works for Near as part of the SPK. She joined the SPK to avenge one of her relatives who had been killed by Higuchi at the time when he acted as Kira. She leaks information to Mello about the investigation, as she reasoned that Kira would be caught faster under their combined efforts. Later, she was chosen to infiltrate the bodyguard unit that protects Kiyomi Takada. In the one-shot chapter set three years after Light's death, it is revealed that she and Rester continue to work with Near.
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176* ActionGirl: She has the physical skills, and poses as Takada's bodyguard.
177* AdaptationDyeJob: Has platinum blonde hair and honey brown eyes in the anime, while the DS game gives her golden blonde hair and blue eyes.
178* AffirmativeActionGirl: She is introduced after the TimeSkip, making her the third action girl in the series and one of the few females in Death Note's predominantly male cast.
179* CynicismCatalyst: She lost one of her relatives to the third Kira.
180* DoubleAgent: Works for Near, but passes information to Mello. Near begins using her to feed Mello select information, since most of his deductions to that point are based on information generated by Mello's actions, and he assumes he'll find a way to take advantage of it if Mello works the same leads from different angles. She tells Mello that she's not taking sides between them, but she's more friendly and teasing to Mello, even though he's the one who holds a gun to her head. Near later has her infiltrate Takada's entourage as a bodyguard, making her a triple agent.
181* FairCop: Very attractive.
182* GoThroughMe: Pulls one of these when Mello threatens to shoot Near. "If you shoot Near, we'll shoot you, if you both die here, what's the point? Only Kira would be happy with that."
183* {{Revenge}}: She wants to catch Kira to avenge one of her relatives.
184* ShowerScene: She gets her own right before being forced to go back to the SPK headquarters, by Mello. There's a bit of difference between the anime and manga with this, too. In the manga, she was willfully hiding Mello in her apartment after his injury from the explosion, and the shower was plot-relevant; she was wearing a wire and used it as an excuse to tell Near that she was taking it off. If the wire continued to transmit even if she wasn't wearing it, the sound of the water would muffle hers and Mello's voices, allowing them to talk privately. In the anime, Mello simply barged in while she was showering.
185* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female member of the SPK.
186* SpannerInTheWorks: Her deciding to trust Mello in letting him kidnap Takada is what allows the SPK to eventually discover the real notebook Mikami had hidden.
187* SympathyForTheDevil: She's noticeably upset when she arrives at the abandoned church Mello drove to after kidnapping Takada only to find him dead.
188[[/folder]]
189
190[[folder:Stephen Gevanni[=/=]Stephen Loud]]
191[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gevanni_1825.jpg]]
192->Voiced by: Creator/HirokiTakahashi (JP), Creator/SamuelVincent (EN), Carlos Lladó (Spain), David Martínez (Latin America)
193
194A member of the SPK, Gevanni is a skilled lock-picker, stalker and counterfeiter. He tails Teru Mikami when Near suspects him to be X-Kira and plays a vital role in Near's plan to beat Light once and for all.
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196* TheAce: In How to Read, Ohba says he envisions him as the one who was invited to join the [=SPK=] for his talents and skills, while the others wanted to join for reasons of their own. His abilities seem to bear this out.
197* DeusExMachina: His convenient ability to perfectly replicate the Death Note in a single night is only revealed at the end of the story, where it ends up being the decisive move that allows Near to expose Light and Mikami.
198* ImpossibleGenius: From it's material texture, to each page's paper stains and all, down with the complete forge of ''each Kira's handwriting'' within the original book, Stephen manages to make a perfect fake copy of the Death Note Mikami was using with all the names written inside all in ''one single night''.
199* ProperlyParanoid: When he breaks into Mikami's locker and finds the Death Note, he's terrified of what would happen when he touched it and was worried that Mikami might have been there to catch him taking the notebook.
200* TallDarkAndHandsome: One of the tallest and most attractive members of the cast.
201[[/folder]]
202
203[[folder:John [=McEnroe=] [=/=] Larry Conners]]
204->Voiced by: Ooki Sugiyama (JP), Ted Cole (EN)
205
206An [=FBI=] and [=SPK=] agent sent to obtain the Japanese Death Note.
207[[/folder]]
208
209[[folder:Ill Ratt [=/=] Shawn Dunleavy]]
210[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ill_ratt_photograph.png]]
211->Voiced by: Alistair Abell (EN)
212
213Mello's mole in the SPK. Ratt feeds the mafia information on the SPK's activities, but is ultimately killed by them to cover Mello's trail.
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215* MeaningfulName: The guy named Ratt turns out to be the traitor.
216* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Betrays the SPK and is killed for it.
217[[/folder]]
218
219!Other Characters
220
221!!Independent Criminals
222
223[[folder:Kurou Otoharada]]
224[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/otoharada.png]]
225
226A man who took hostages inside an elementary school and who became Light's first victim.
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228* AdaptationOriginConnection: A minor criminal (and the first person Light kills when testing the notebook) in the manga, anime and live-action films, the TV drama sees him reimagined as a criminal who Soichiro himself brought to justice at the cost of not being by his wife's deathbed. Light later kills Otoharada in the first episode, saving Soichiro who's being held hostage.
229* AssholeVictim: A criminal who took hostages and threatened to kill children. Light doesn't feel much guilt over his death.
230[[/folder]]
231
232[[folder:Takuo Shibuimaru]]
233[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takuo_shibuimaru.jpg]]
234->Voiced by: Tomohiro Nishimura (JP), Lee Tockar (EN)
235
236A motorcyclist who harassed a woman in the street and who became Light's second victim.
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238* AdaptationalVillainy: He was already a lecherous jerk in the manga, but the anime made him an attempted rapist.
239* AssholeVictim: In the anime. In the manga, he's not as bad and Light feels that he went too far in killing him.
240[[/folder]]
241
242[[folder:Kiichiro Osoreda]]
243[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/311260.jpg]]
244->Voiced by: Katsuhisa Hōki (JP), Brian Dobson (EN)
245
246A man who was controlled by the Death Note into hijacking the bus carrying Light and Raye Penber, allowing Light to get Raye's name. Osoreda then inadvertently grabbed a fragment of the Death Note, saw Ryuk, and was terrified into fleeing the bus where he was run over by a car.
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248* AssholeVictim: He killed three people in a robbery before Light controlled him with the Death Note. He also gleefully threatens to shoot the passengers on the bus, which Light didn't specify he would do, so this is clearly how he acts on a regular basis.
249* VillainousBreakdown: When he sees Ryuk on the bus, and empties his gun trying to kill him.
250[[/folder]]
251
252[[folder:Lind L. Tailor]]
253[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lind_1.jpg]]
254->Voiced by: Yukitoshi Tokumoto (JP), Matt Lagan (EN)
255
256A man on Death Row who pretended to be L in a gambit to draw Light out. The gambit worked and Light killed Tailor, inadvertently revealing that he was in the Kanto region of Japan (the only place where Tailor's message was broadcast).
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258* AdaptationalNationality: In the first live-action movie, Lind L. Tailor is an American, and delivers his speech in English. Notably, he pronounces "Kira" as "Killer" during the speech.
259* AssholeVictim: Implied by the fact that he must have committed a serious enough crime to have already received the death sentence.
260* SmallRoleBigImpact: Light and L used his death to show the public, and each other, what they're really dealing with.
261[[/folder]]
262
263[[folder:Ginzo Kaneboshi]]
264A loan shark known for the cruel actions he will take to get his money.
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266* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Higuchi says he is one of these.
267* AssholeVictim: When Misa demands that Higuchi provide her with one of these to prove that she is Kira, Higuchi chooses Kaneboshi and Misa has Rem kill him.
268* BaldOfEvil: He is bald, and he does horrible things for money.
269[[/folder]]
270
271[[folder:Ryotaro Sakajo]]
272[[quoteright:246:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stalker_65.png]]
273
274Misa's [[StalkerWithACrush stalker]], [[NominalImportance given a name]] in the live action movies. Killed by Gelus.
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276* AlternateContinuity: In the manga and anime Misa's stalker is a crazed fan that she had never seen before. In the live action movies, he is the assistant director of her TV program Misa-Misa's Happy Sweets.
277* BaldOfEvil: in the live action movie
278* CollectorOfTheStrange: In the live action movie he retrieves Misa's used tissues from the trash.
279%%* CovertPervert
280%%* CrazyJealousGuy
281%%* DevilInPlainSight: In the live-action movie.
282%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: in the manga/anime.
283%%* FourEyesZeroSoul: in the anime.
284* IdenticalStranger: In the manga/anime he looks vaguely like Mikami.
285* IfICantHaveYou: Tries to kill Misa when she rejects his love.
286* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: He's killed by Gelus before he can finish killing Misa; [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished which causes Gelus to crumble to dust as he is punished for interfering in human affairs.]]
287%%* LoonyFan
288* MurderSuicide: Attempted when Misa rejects him.
289--> "I'LL KILL US BOTH!"
290* PsychoKnifeNut: When he's rejected by Misa (who is has a creepy, unhinged crush on), he tries to murder Misa with a knife.
291* StalkerWithACrush: He's been stalking Misa because of his crush on her.
292* {{Yandere}}: For Misa. He claims to be in love with her and planned to kill her and himself when she rejected him.
293[[/folder]]
294
295!!Mafia
296
297[[folder:Rod Ross [=/=] Dwight Gordon]]
298[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rod_8.jpg]]
299->Voiced by: Masaki Aizawa (JP), Brian Dobson (EN)
300
301The boss of TheMafia that works with Mello.
302-----
303* AlliterativeName: '''R'''od '''R'''oss.
304* BadBoss: Has two of his men executed, one for theft and one for failure.
305* BaldOfEvil: A bald guy who is a ruthless mob boss that ruthlessly slaughters his enemies and even his subordinates in order to advance his goals.
306* DragonInChief: He's the boss of TheMafia. But he defers to [[TheChessmaster Mello's]] plans because it's good business.
307* {{Gonk}}: Bears little resemblance to the rest of the cast.
308* KarmicDeath: He and most of the other mafiosi are killed by Kira when the Taskforce raids their hideout.
309* TheMafia: At least nominally, he's his particular faction's leader. He always defers to Mello, though, because it's good for business.
310* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He suggests that one of his subordinates get the Shinigami Eyes, offering to make him his right-hand man if he does and kill him if he doesn't.
311* PermaStubble : Always seems to miss something when he shaves.
312* WalkingShirtlessScene: Usually has his shirt open or off.
313* UnfazedEveryman: Even lampshades it when one of his men begins talking about shinigami.
314* VillainByDefault: Tsugumi Ohba once suggested that ''he'' is probably the most traditionally evil character in the story, just by virtue of being a mob boss.
315* VillainTeamUp: With Mello.
316* YouHaveFailedMe: He and Mello test the Notebook on their own henchmen. "That's what you get when you sell goods behind my back."
317* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kills off his subordinates once they can't help him anymore, as they might lead Kira to him.
318[[/folder]]
319
320[[folder:Jack Neylon [=/=] Kal Snydar]]
321A member of the mafia who retains physical possession of the Death Note on behalf of Rod Ross, and even trades half his life for the Shinigami Eyes.
322[[/folder]]
323
324[[folder:Zakk Irius]]
325A mafia member who acted as Soichiro's MissionControl during the first part of his mission to exchange a Death Note for Sayu Yagami. He was killed once the mafia obtained the Death Note.
326[[/folder]]
327
328[[folder:Kyle Block]]
329A pilot working for or with the mafia who landed Soichiro's plane in the desert, allowing Soichiro to exchange the Death Note for his daughter. He was killed once the mafia obtained the Death Note.
330[[/folder]]
331
332[[folder:Y462]]
333The codename of the mafia operative charged with actually making the exchange of the Death Note for Sayu Yagami. He successfully pulled off the exchange and killed off the other mafioso involved in the exchange, but was then killed in turn by Rod Ross after he arranged for the Death Note to be sent to where the mafia could pick it up.
334----
335* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Inverted. His terrifying presence dissipates when that scary mask comes off and he's revealed to be an expendable sycophant desperately trying to regain favour.
336* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Rod blows him up in his helicopter after he puts the Death Note on the missile.
337[[/folder]]
338
339[[folder:Jose]]
340A mafia member who played dead during the Task Force's raid on the mafia base. He is not killed by the Death Note instructions Light and Misa use to dispose of the other members, as only his alias was known.
341----
342* HeroKiller: Shot Soichiro Yagami in the back and directly contributed to his death.
343[[/folder]]
344
345!!Media
346
347[[folder:Kiyomi Takada]]
348[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_death_note___33mkv_snapshot_0746327.png]]
349->Voiced by: Creator/MaayaSakamoto (JP), Creator/HeatherDoerksen (EN), Graciela Molina (Spain), Creator/CarmenCalvell (Spain, movies), Toni Rodríguez (Latin America)
350
351A popular and pretty young woman whom Mikami chose to be Kira's spokesperson. She was the girl whom Light briefly dated once to hide his connections with Misa; the authors later "forgot" about her... and once they recalled her, they brought her back. Light gets in contact with her to gain access to Mikami, seducing her with a promise to make her the goddess of the New World. Eventually, Mello kidnaps her, and then Light kills her - Mikami ''would'' have killed her, if Light hadn't done it first - after she kills Mello to prevent any evidence from being gotten from her.
352-----
353* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the ''Relight 2'' special, Light's meetings with her and Mikami are moved to earlier than occurred in the manga.
354* AdaptedOut: Of the TV drama.
355* AffablyEvil: Kiyomi is genuinely a very charming and professional young woman as well as a dedicated and talented newsreader who hates social evils, she's also a willing follower of Kira. Though can steer into FauxAffablyEvil as she's extremely petty, rubbing her affair with Light in Misa's face.
356* AlasPoorVillain: Her final moments are truly disturbing and sad. She's stripped naked and trapped inside a truck, and reduced to tears in fear for her life. Having killed her kidnapper, she calls Light and begs him for his help. But unknowing to her, Light instead writes her name down and has her ''incinerate herself'' by setting everything around her on fire. To the very end she believed Light loved her, instead he betrayed her. Even the task force are horrified by the cruelty of her death.
357* AlphaBitch: "Refined Takada" is the mean girl to Misa.
358** Though technically, Misa herself started the whole fight by threatening to "break her knee" (leading to Halle having to restrain her). Later on, Takada manages to keep her cool in the restaurant while Misa immaturely and outlandishly (not to mention drunkenly) brags that Light will marry her, leaving Takada to feign being hurt and leave with her head high. This is toned down in the anime, which has both women keeping their composure at the table and Misa's bragging being less over-the-top and even having a shot of her looking concerned when it looks like Takada is feeling hurt, although Misa chugging down a bottle of wine afterwards is still kept (to portray the differences between the composed Takada and the wild Misa).
359** Still, Kiyomi seems to enjoy rubbing her affair with Light in Misa's face in her own subtle way. She is the one who approaches Misa with the dinner invitation just for that very purpose.
360* AlternateContinuity: In the live action movies she fulfills the same role as the Yotsuba group does in the manga / anime.
361* AmbitionIsEvil: While she is genuinely attracted to Light, she becomes '''''much''''' more interested in being close to him after learning that he's Kira, and after he promises to make her a goddess in his New World.
362* AssholeVictim: Downplayed. While her death was needlessly brutal and cruel, she was still a very willing henchwoman of Light's who not only spread his propaganda but also actively killed people, and while she was better at hiding it, she was just as fanatical as Mikami and Misa were in terms of her belief in Kira's ideals.
363* AxCrazy: In the live-action film adaptation.
364* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Misa's Betty for Light's Archie.
365* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Light writing her name in the Death Note makes her die via suicide as she sets the building on fire around her. The viewer doesn't see her burn up.
366* BitchInSheepsClothing: Definitely. She sleeps with an engaged man and invites his fiancee out to brag about it, while being presented to the world as the epitome of grace and class. Even her nickname is "Refined Takada".
367* BlatantLies: Her repeated referral to Misa as her "good friend", even after this exchange:
368-->'''Misa''': Are you going to get Kira to kill me?\
369'''Takada''': Of course not!
370** That line itself is ''another'' blatant [[MurderTheHypotenuse lie]].
371* BodyguardBetrayal: Directed by Halle into being kidnapped by Mello.
372* BreakTheHaughty: Her very last scene. The woman who spent all of her time being presented as superior, poised, and perfect dies naked, crying, and reaching out for comfort.
373* ChekhovsGunman: Shows up as a very minor character in the first arc, promptly vanishes, and is never mentioned again until far into the second arc.
374* DeadlyUpgrade: She makes the eye deal in the live action movie.
375* DiesWideOpen: In the live action film adaptation.
376* DitzyGenius: As lampshaded by Near, she gets very good grades in school but is lacking in the common sense department. Trusting Light is an example of her lacking common sense, for example.
377* DrivenToSuicide: After Light writes her name down in the Death Note. It wasn't a conscious choice on her part.
378%%* DropDeadGorgeous
379* DudeMagnet: Quite popular with the opposite sex.
380* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: She develops these when the Death Note possesses her to commit suicide.
381* EarlyBirdCameo: She's first seen bothering Light about how he's not acting like a proper boyfriend in their college class only to disappear for a long stretch of time before becoming a more prominent character in the second half of the series.
382* {{Foil}}: To Misa, at least in regards to how they view Light. They're both love interests (or, not really) to Light Yagami who are in love with his carnage and are so blinded by their affection for him that it drives them to do questionable and outright idiotic things. However, where they differ is that despite how she acts, Misa is fully aware that Light doesn't give a damn about her and is simply using her as a pawn to further his own goals. That said, she continues to chase him because she believes that by making herself useful to him and proving her devotion, Light will eventually grow to love her in return. Takada, on the other hand, fully believed that Light loved her and wanted to make her the queen of the new world. She looked down on Misa as someone who is desperate and tailed Light despite his blatant lack of interest, being woefully oblivious of the fact that she was also a pawn that would be discarded when her usefulness ran out. Takada's trust in Light would prove to be her undoing, and Misa would also go on to outlive her because she knew her place with him.
383* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the thirty-third episode of the Anime titled "Scorn", Misa told Takada what would become of her once Kira got caught; she would be "executed". Takada, in her arrogance and genuine belief that Light cared for her, dismisses her and leaves. Come episode thirty-five, Light carelessly writes Takada's name in the Death Note, killing her off in an exceptionally cruel way just to get rid of the evidence [[spoiler: that she killed Mello with scrap paper from the notebook, which could clue Near in that Mikami wasn't necessarily doing the killings himself anymore and that the notebook Gevanni saw him use and subsequently tampered with was a decoy]]. In the end, just as Misa thought, Takada was just a pawn to him.
384%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
385%%* HeroSecretService
386* HighSchoolSweethearts: College Sweethearts with Light.
387* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She trusts ''Light'', after he tells her that he is Kira - the same Kira who has murdered anyone who got or threatened to get in his way. She even expects him to save her.
388* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: As an educated young woman, rather than help protect society against the cult of Kira, she becomes one of its main propagandists. "We must teach our children that Kira is good."
389* {{Irony}}: The woman who wanted to be the center of attention as Kira's goddess is killed by Kira and is immediately forgotten by the media.
390* ItsAllAboutMe: She loves to be the center of attention.
391* TheFace: She becomes Kira's spokeswoman on the NHN TV station. Her beauty and poise make her very popular with viewers.
392* JackTheRipoff: Is allowed to act as Kira as part of a plan to throw the task force onto Mikami.
393* KnightTemplar: Blinded by ideals, check. Devoted, check.
394* LackOfEmpathy: She doesn't seem to care how much her affair with Light hurts Misa. She may enjoy it, "politely" pointing out that he's busy and asking if Misa has seen him lately, when they both know perfectly well that he's busy spending the night in hotel rooms with Takada.
395* LadyMacbeth: She urges Light to kill Misa at one point.
396* LoveMakesYouDumb: She's so blinded by her feelings for Kira that she really believes he'll save her when she's kidnapped, even though he's killed anyone who threatened to compromise him in any way.
397* LovesMyAlterEgo: Subverted; while she is very much more in love with Kira, she's still attracted to Light.
398* MeaningfulName: Takada = tall ricefield; Kiyomi = pure beauty. Notable in being the only character in the entire series to have a real-life name.
399* ModestyBedsheet: Wears one right after killing Mello, who had stripped her naked.
400* MonsterFangirl: She becomes even more devoted to Light when she learns that he's Kira.
401* MurderTheHypotenuse: She really dislikes Misa and tells Light at least once to kill her. That said, she at least put up a front of being a bigger person when face to face with Misa, and claimed that she wouldn't want to kill anyone [[PassiveAggressiveKombat regardless of how terrible they might be]].
402* {{Namedar}}: She makes the eye deal in the live action movie.
403* NoPlaceForMeThere: In the live action movies "There's so much filth in the world... and I am the worst of all."
404* TheOjou: She's nicknamed "Refined Takada".
405%%* PersonOfMassDestruction
406* PrinciplesZealot: More in the live action. In the anime, she's more interested in being Kira's goddess than in his ideals.
407* PsychoticLoveTriangle: She and Misa are rivals for Light's heart, which ends just as well as you'd think it would.
408%%* PsychoticSmirk
409* PsychoSupporter: She's fully behind Kira, and agrees with Mikami that those who do not adequately contribute to society should be punished.
410* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Light forced her to burn herself alive to cover up any evidence that might lead her back to him.
411%%* SecretKeeper
412* SerialKillerKiller: As Kira's "goddess".
413* ShipTease: With Light, to the point where one would start to believe that he genuinely had affection for her. Unfortunately for her, however, [[LackOfEmpathy it's Light Yagami]], meaning that she was just a means of furthering his goals and in true Light Yagami fashion, he gets rid of her once her continued existence proves to be a detriment to his plans.
414%%* TotalitarianUtilitarian
415* UnequalPairing: Considering Light's god complex, this is unavoidable.
416* UnwittingPawn: She entered a relationship with Light in full belief that he loved her and wanted to make her the queen of the new world he was creating. Little did she know she was just another pawn for him that was swiftly dealt with as soon as her usefulness ran out.
417* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Keeps a page of the Death Note in her bra.
418* VillainousBreakdown: She's absolutely terrified when Mello kidnaps her, more so after his death.
419%%* WhosLaughingNow: In the live action movie.
420* WickedCultured: In contrast to Misa, she presents herself as intelligent and refined. She's just as dumb when it comes to her love for Light, however.
421* {{Yandere}}: After Light assures Takada that his seeing Misa [[ItDoesntMeanAnything doesn't mean anything]] and "you're the only one for me":
422-->'''Takada''': If you're lying you're going to pay. I'll tell Kira, you know.\
423'''Light:''' Ha ha. Great joke Takada. \
424'''Takada:''' I'm not joking.\
425'''Ide:''' Whoa, women are scary.
426* WomanOnFire: How she ends up. Fortunately, she doesn't seem to be conscious for most of it, at least not in the Anime. Averted in the live action film adaptation. Instead of being burned to death, she dies of a heart attack.
427* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shortly after she kills Mello, Light tells her that before he lets her die in order to avoid having her picked up and questioned.
428[[/folder]]
429
430[[folder:Hitoshi Demegawa]]
431[[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hitoshi_Demegawa_7546.png]]
432->Voiced by: Creator/{{Chafurin}} (JP), Ward Perry (EN), Vicente Gil (Spain), J. Ignacio Latorre (Spain, movies), Leonardo García (Latin America)
433
434Demegawa is director of Sakura TV, a Japanese news channel that is notoriously unreliable and sensationalistic, and he shamelessly seeks to exploit the Kira case. He is first seen attempting to broadcast the video tapes Misa sends to his network to get Kira's attention, although Soichiro puts a stop to that. After the TimeSkip, he becomes Kira's supporter and self-appointed spokesman, creating and hosting the ShowWithinAShow ''Kira's Kingdom''.
435------
436* AdaptationNameChange: His name is Yuji in the second live-action film.
437* AdaptationalJerkass: He was already a scumbag in the manga, but in the live-action movie, he sexually harasses Takada and makes female employees sleep with him for promotions.
438* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Despite the addition of his sexual harassment characteristics (see above), he comes off as less single-mindedly selfish in the live-action films when he shows genuine shock at seeing Saeko die in front of him, and he willingly helps the Task Force in tricking Takada into an ambush at the news station.
439* AssholeVictim: He's a greedy JerkAss who calls himself a "spokesperson" of Kira to gain fame and publicity. When Mikami offs him, even the Kira Task Force don't hold it against Kira and unanimously agree that if anyone ever deserved such a fate, it was Demigawa.
440* AttentionWhore: Demigawa wants all eyes on him and is prepared to side with Kira to get it.
441* DidntThinkThisThrough: It apparently never occurred to him that Kira might look unfavorably on someone exploiting their name for profit. Sure enough, his greed eventually gets him killed by Mikami.
442* FatBastard: Overweight and a self-centered jackass.
443** Averted in the live-action film adaptation as he was at normal weight in that version. He's still a jerk, though.
444* GreedyTelevangelist: Hitoshi Demegawa is a sensationalist media personality whose primary motives are money and influence. After he began publishing Kira's demands to attract ratings, people began to openly worship Kira. He then appoints himself as Kira's spokesperson, hosting ''[[ShowWithinAShow Kira's Kingdom]]'' as a platform, but it soon becomes apparent that Demegawa is primarily acting to make himself rich on Kira's name instead of helping Kira beat the SPK. Demegawa and his hand-picked inner circle are soon dealt with by Light's new [[TheDragon Dragon]], Teru Mikami, once Light gets fed up with him.
445* HateSink: An arrogant, obnoxious, and greedy excuse of a human being who is only interested in making money out of the misery Kira causes. It's downright cathartic when Soichiro tells him to shut up and Mikami shuts him up for good.
446* IfItBleedsItLeads: A mindset he wholeheartedly subscribes to, and he even goes out of his way to mention this trope word-for-word in the English dub.
447* {{Jerkass}}: A scumbag TV executive who sees Light's killings as a chance to boost ratings, and eventually becomes the leader of Kira's cult and leads a riot against the SPK when he feels they're a threat to his new power.
448* KarmaHoudini: In the live-action movies, he does not get any retribution for his {{Jerkass}} attitude.
449* MouthOfSauron: Relays Light's messages to the public.
450* MeaningfulName: Actually a case of an ironic one; his given name is written with a kanji character meaning "benevolence."
451** His surname, on the other hand, is reminiscent of the English "demagogue", which describes him perfectly.
452* OnlyInItForTheMoney: All he cares about his profits.
453* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the second film, wherein he sexually harasses Takada.
454* SparedByTheAdaptation: He doesn't die in the second live-action film.
455* YouHaveFailedMe: In the manga and anime, he's killed by Mikami for falling for Near's money bait rather than pointing his cameras at Near so Misa could have killed the SPK members as Light wanted, and also because he was being too much of a loose cannon in general.
456[[/folder]]
457
458[[folder:Koki Tanakabara]]
459A news anchor for NHN. Seen in one scene in Episode 11, where he denounces Kira's actions on live television.
460----
461* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Calls out Kira's actions as a threat to the nation's constitution and praises the police for standing up to him, with his face on live TV. He then gives his full name, knowing full well that he's just given Kira the ability to kill him. Kira doesn't.
462* NervesOfSteel: Not a fighter, but he fits the "BrassBalls" version of the trope. He's one of the bravest characters in the show, and willing to lay down his life for a point of principle.
463[[/folder]]
464
465!!Misa's Associates
466
467[[folder:Nori]]
468Misa's friend.
469----
470* BodyDouble: Trades places with Misa so she can "go on a date."
471* UnwittingPawn: to Misa.
472* WigDressAccent: When doing the BodyDouble trick for Misa.
473[[/folder]]
474
475[[folder:Yoshi]]
476[[quoteright:98:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yoshidn_7198.png]]
477
478Misa's original manager.
479------
480%%* {{Bifauxnen}}
481* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Maybe. L allegedly has her arrested for [[DrugsAreBad drug possession]] offscreen in order to hide the fact that he's detaining Misa from the general public. The show never goes into detail on whether L planted the evidence or not or even if she was really arrested and not just paid off.
482* HorrifyingTheHorror: Misa, the Second Kira, is very intimidated by her and ''even L and Kira'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments seem a bit unnerved.]]
483* {{Jerkass}}: She comes off as cold and unpleasant in her one scene.
484* MeanBoss: Towards Misa. She is very scary, pushy, and controlling.
485* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She literally grabs Misa by the wrist and pulls her off to work.
486[[/folder]]
487
488!!United States Government and Military
489
490[[folder:David Hoope]]
491The President of the United States. He attempts to work with Light to take out the mafia, but their plans are foiled by the mafia's shinigami. Hoope then shoots himself, ostensibly in fear of being controlled by the mafia's Death Note into launching nuclear weapons, but it's heavily implied Light did this to cover his tracks.
492------
493* AdaptedOut: He's absent in the anime, with his replacement from the manga serving his role.
494[[/folder]]
495
496[[folder:George Sairas]]
497->Voiced by: Creator/ArunoTahara (Japanese), Creator/MichaelDobson (English)
498
499The Vice President of the United States, who ascends to the presidency once Hoope dies. Sairas surrenders to Kira and disbands the SPK rather than risk his own life.
500------
501* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the anime, he's [[CompositeCharacter merged]] with his predecessor and is the President from the start.
502* CastingGag: His Japanese voice actor, Aruno Tahara, previously dubbed UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush in ''Film/Fahrenheit911''.
503* DistinctionWithoutADifference: He says he won't accept Kira as righteous, but won't take any steps to capture him. A heckler points out that in practice, they're the same thing.
504* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His English voice is suspiciously similar to that of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.
505[[/folder]]
506
507[[folder:Joe Morton]]
508A military commander who leads a squad to attack the mafia's hideout. He is killed along with the rest of his men thanks to the mafia's Death Note and the shinigami Sidoh.
509[[/folder]]
510
511[[folder:Donald Trump]]
512The President of the United States who has assumed office a decade following the Kira case. When a new Kira surfaces and decides to auction off the notebook to the highest bidder, he becomes determined to buy it on behalf of the United States government.
513-----
514* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Ends up unwittingly playing one. [[spoiler:After the Shinigami King finds out that a Death Note was being auctioned off by a human, he was furious and imposed a new rule stating that if any human tried to buy or sell a notebook, they will die upon receiving their payment. This leaves him with the choice of the notebook or his life. He chooses the latter in order to maintain a front of power for the United States.]]
515* AchievementsInIgnorance: Considering the one-shot is the GrandFinale to the series, the Donald arguably becomes the one person to actually come out on top in the story. Given the sheer amount of blood, time, and schemes were spent over that notebook, it is certainly jarring that Donald Trump, of all people, becomes the closest thing to a final victor in the Death Note universe. Certainly he gets cheated out of actually being able to use the notebook, but he is still shrewd enough to maintain the public perception that he possesses it, which would doubtlessly give the United States a bargaining edge in international diplomacy. On the other hand, it is only a matter of time before other nations begin to call his bluff, and there is nothing stopping another Death Note from entering the human world, leaving the ultimate fate of their world uncertain.
516* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He’s the first real person to be seen in the ''Death Note'' universe.
517* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Once he learns that [[spoiler:he will die if he accepts the Death Note as a result of a newly-imposed rule]], he decides to [[spoiler:not accept ownership of it, but tell people that he did anyway]]. This is probably the most pragmatic thing he could’ve done in this situation; were he to reveal that [[spoiler:he doesn’t actually have the notebook, it’d be a PR disaster, especially considering the huge sum of money he’s paid for it. If people think he has it, but refuses to use it, it makes him look good.]] Were he to [[spoiler:accept the notebook and give his life to ensure it’s owned by the US government, there’s no telling who might end up getting their hands on it]].
518[[/folder]]
519
520!!Wammy's House
521
522[[folder:Matt[=/=]Mail Jeevas]]
523[[quoteright:400:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matt2_787720.jpg]]
524->Voiced by: Tomohiro Nishimura (JP), Creator/DrewNelson (EN), Miguel Ángel Ruíz (Latin America)
525
526Mello's assistant, longtime friend, and a fellow graduate of Wammy's House.
527-----
528* AdaptationDyeJob: His hair and eye colors were not defined in the manga for a ''very'' long time. The anime (and later a colorized manga publication) presented his hair as being brown (though it looked a bit green depending on the lighting), and his eye color as blue. In one of the video games, his hair was a light blue, and his eye color could not be discerned. And on a trading card, his hair was a straight-up green. (This possibly makes Matt the TropeCodifier.)
529* AdaptedOut: Because in the drama Mello is merely a SplitPersonality of Near or, alternatively, [[ObfuscatingInsanity does not actually exist]], Matt does not appear in the drama, as there was no reason for him to.
530* AmbiguouslyBi: Is very close with Mello and lives with him, but also [[HasAType takes notice of]] Misa.
531* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Easily distracted. See "idiot ball."
532* BadassBookworm: Like most of the Wammy's boys he's a scrawny geek who doesn't appear to be in very good shape. Also like them he proves a royal pain in the backside for Light. However, he attacks an armed convoy alone and nearly gets away.
533* BadassDriver: Matt leads Takada's guards on a merry chase through Tokyo.
534* BewareTheNiceOnes: Oh, yes. Special mention goes to the German manga translation, where it's implied that he beat up the delivery guy that helped Misa and Mogi sneak out, rather than just talking to him.
535* BrilliantButLazy: Would rather be playing video games than doing just about anything else. He doesn't even like to go outside!
536* CigaretteOfAnxiety: His habit in general, and in particular the cigarette he lights during the Takada mission, which turns out to be his last.
537* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: The writer states he has one in the form of Mello. However, given that Matt seems to be ''much'' more even-tempered and level-headed than Mello, it's likely that Matt is Mello's minder as well.
538* CoolCar: Drives a 1968 Chevy Camaro in the manga. (In the anime, it's been changed to a 1968 Plymouth Road Runner 383 with a taillight panel from a 1969 Dodge Coronet 440. In some fanworks, it's described as a 1970 Chevy Chevelle.)
539* {{Cyberpunk}}: Has this style in his clothes, and his sofa.
540* DarkAndTroubledPast: Like all successors, he's an orphan, making it not unlikely he [[HarmfulToMinors witnessed his family die]], with apparently no remaining family that could have (or wanted to) adopt him, and was [[LaserGuidedTykebomb groomed]] from an [[ChildSoldiers extremely young age]] (likely being confronted with [[HarmfulToMinors very graphic crime scene evidence]] during the process) to succeed the world's greatest detective, and actively being pushed to compete with his peers no matter the cost to his mental health. He doesn't seem to care much about that, however, regardless of his position of being third in line, making you wonder exactly ''how'' high in the rankings he'd be if he applied himself. See RefusalOfTheCall below.
541* DeadpanSnarker: His two canon lines in the anime are pretty snarky[[note]]he had slightly more dialogue in the manga[[/note]].
542* DrivesLikeCrazy: The ChaseScene was pretty much his only scene.
543* EarlyBirdCameo: In the manga, he appears at Wammy's, listening to L answer the kids' questions from his computer. In the Relight Special, he is replaced by someone who looks a lot like L, and is thought to be Beyond Birthday.
544* EasilyForgiven: When he accidentally loses track of Misa and Mogi, Mello isn't happy about it, but doesn't even so much as scream at Matt. As it's implied that others might have been killed for less, this says a lot about [[OnlyFriend their friendship]].
545* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Plays a game while spying on Misa, and monitors several screens (plus an audio feed) at once.
546* ExtremeDoormat: To Mello.
547** This is subverted, though. He calls Mello up to complain about being bored while spying on Misa and Mogi. Mello, for his part, tells him to get back to work, but doesn't yell at him or anything.
548* {{Everyman}}: Arguably one of the most normal characters, and one of the most relatable to the audience.
549* GogglesDoNothing: Is never seen without his goggles on, except in one tiny concept drawing in ''How to Read: 13''.
550* HackerCave: The dingy little apartment he shares with Mello.
551* HeterosexualLifePartners: Almost always portrayed this way with Mello by fandom.[[note]]Of course, fandom being fandom, the 'Heterosexual' part is sometimes left out.[[/note]]
552* ISurrenderSuckers: If you look very closely at his hand during his confrontation with Takada's guards, he was going for a gun when they fired at him.
553* IdiotBall: Loses his focus, and totally misses Misa and Mogi escaping.
554* InformedAbility: We're told he was number three at Wammy's, just behind Mello and Near, but we don't see it in action.
555* KilledMidSentence: "You won't shoot..."
556* MauveShirt: Gets just enough characterization for his death to be sad.
557* MenCantKeepHouse: Justified on the grounds that he cares ''far'' more about video games than cleaning. Mello, surprisingly, doesn't seem to mind ''too'' much.
558%%* MoralityPet: For Mello.
559* MustHaveNicotine: He's mentioned to be a chain-smoker and is never shown without one in his mouth.
560* NoKillLikeOverkill: Was shot approximately 50,000 times!
561* OddNameOut [=/=] SpecialPersonNormalName: Of the Wammy's boys. You got L, Beyond, Mello, Near, and... Matt.
562* OnlyFriend: The only person he ever ''really'' interacts with InUniverse is Mello.
563* OnlySaneMan: Is the only Wammy's kid (apart from [[TokenGirl Linda]]) with a relatively normal personality. Also, not surprisingly, he plays this role a lot in fanfictions to more...dysfunctional characters such as Mello.
564* OralFixation: ''Always'' has a cigarette in his mouth.
565* ParentalAbandonment: Like all the other kids at the house, he's an orphan.
566* ThePeepingTom: Enjoys getting to watch Misa 24/7, whom he calls "cute."
567* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: He plays video games and he smokes... a lot. Considering that Wammy's House seems to exclusively rear genius eccentrics, the odds are good that that's his particular eccentricity (or addiction, depending on what you view of what L's sweet-devouring, Near's toy-obsession, and Mello's chocolate-violence as).
568* RealMenWearPink: His shirt is sometimes portrayed as having pink and black stripes, though it could actually be just the way the light was hitting it.
569* RefusalOfTheCall: It's hinted that he ''could'' have surpassed both Mello and Near and become L's successor, but that he chose not to, preferring to stay in third place and work alongside Mello. [[note]] Maybe he recognized that the title of L is a crappy job, maybe it would cut too much into his gaming time for his liking, maybe he knew that being L was super-duper important to Mello and didn't want to take that from him, maybe he didn't want to compete against his best friend. [[/note]]
570* SatelliteCharacter: The writer says he was created 'so Mello wouldn't be lonely'.
571%%* {{Sidekick}}: To Mello.
572* SmokingIsCool: Is shown conspicuously lighting a cigarette (that would turn out to be his last) while driving a classic car into battle.
573%%* TheSlacker: Implied.
574* SunglassesAtNight: Wears his tinted goggles even while indoors, in a very poorly-lit room.
575* TalkingYourWayOut: Attempts this. It does not work.
576* TechnoWizard: He's apparently great with electronics, though we don't see much of that unless he's with a video game.
577* TeenGenius: He's the third most talented member of Wammy's House. Yes, Matt was third in line to be L after Near and Mello.
578* TemptingFate: His last words are "You won't shoot...". [[KilledMidSentence They very much would.]]
579* TrashOfTheTitans: His [[HackerCave apartment]] is littered with snack food wrappers and cereal boxes.
580%%* UndyingLoyalty: To Mello.
581* UnfazedEveryman: Knows nothing about Shinigami or killer notebooks, but goes along for the ride when Mello chases after Kira.
582* VideoGameCulture: One of his few appearances shows him playing a video game and it's mentioned on his character page in ''How to Read 13'' that he enjoys video games.
583* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: He is most likely employed ''somehow'' when we first see him [[note]] Unless either Mello is supporting both of them, or Matt is living off whatever his parents might have left him. [[/note]], since he's got food and a roof over his head, and has some luxury items, but we never see what he does for a living. He is thought to be a professional hacker (legal or otherwise), though this is not confirmed InUniverse. When we first see him, he's just sitting there playing video games, and in all his later appearances, he's doing recon work for Mello.
584* WeHardlyKnewYe: He only appeared in a few panels before getting killed.
585[[/folder]]
586
587[[folder:Linda]]
588An artist and another of the Wammy orphans. She draws the portraits of Near and Mello that are seen in both the manga and anime.
589-----
590* DarkAndTroubledPast: Like all successors, she's an orphan, making it not unlikely she [[HarmfulToMinors witnessed her family die]], with apparently no remaining family that could have (or wanted to) adopt her, and was [[LaserGuidedTykebomb groomed]] from an [[ChildSoldiers extremely young age]] (likely being confronted with [[HarmfulToMinors very graphic crime scene evidence]] during the process) to succeed the world's greatest detective, and actively being pushed to compete with her peers no matter the cost to her mental health. [[SarcasmMode No pressure.]] Despite all this--from what little we can tell from her sparse appearance in the manga, at least--she seems to have come out relatively sane.
591%%* GirlishPigtails
592* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only known female resident at Wammy's, or at least the only one with NominalImportance.
593[[/folder]]
594
595[[folder:Roger Ruvie]]
596->Voiced by: Hiroshi Otake (JP), Creator/RonHalder (EN), Francisco Alborch (Spain)
597[[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Death_Note_-_Episode_27_-_Eng_Dub_07_1428.jpg]]
598
599A friend of Watari's, and the caretaker at Wammy’s House. At the end of the series, he becomes the new Watari for Near.
600------
601%%* AlliterativeName
602* ChildHater: He hates kids. Or [[AllThereInTheManual so it says in How to Read.]] [[InformedAttribute Apart from this it is not mentioned or shown anywhere in the story proper.]]
603* CollectorOfTheStrange: He keeps an insect collection.
604* {{Expy}}: He takes Watari's place as the new handler for "L" (Near).
605* PastimesProvePersonality: He collects insects—that typically involves pinning down the little creatures and stabbing them with pins. Oh and he also hates kids.
606[[/folder]]
607
608!!Yagami family
609
610[[folder:Sayu Yagami]]
611[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_1death_note___02mkv_snapshot_0434815.png]]
612[[caption-width-right:350:Pre-Time Skip]]
613[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_death_note___27mkv_snapshot_0547314.png]]
614[[caption-width-right:350:Post-Time Skip]]
615->Voiced by: Creator/HarukaKudou (JP), Kelly Metzger (EN, Pre-Time Skip), Kristie Marsden (EN, Post-Time Skip), Roser Vilches (Spain), Mireya Mendoza (Latin America), Celine Rotard (FR), Hikari Mitsushima (films)
616
617Light's little sister, who has the bad luck of being a normal kid in this messed up environment. She's completely unaware of her brother's occupation as Kira. After her horrible kidnapping by Mello, she ends up catatonic and in a wheelchair. The writer says she's getting better at the end of the manga.
618------
619* AllWomenLoveShoes: [[AllThereInTheManual According to the Guidebook]], she has very many pairs.
620* AmbiguouslyBi: To recap: she first says that she "doesn't want a boyfriend." Then she exclaims that Misa is "my type!" And she smiles when leafing through one of Light's [[PornStash magazines]]. The ambiguity here is that she fangirls over Hideki Ryuga (the pop star) and proclaims him perfect. She also states that she might at least consider going out with Matsuda if he were closer to her age. Fanon is relatively divided on whether Sayu is a closeted LipstickLesbian or bisexual.
621* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: In the first half of the manga, in which she'd tease Light about Misa or generally poke fun at his lifestyle.
622* BigBrotherWorship: "My big brother's a genius!" Taken even further in TheMusical, where she says she disapproves of Kira's actions, and thinks [[{{Irony}} he could learn a thing or two by following Light's example]]. She even gets a song about it, appropriately titled, "My Hero."
623* BoundAndGagged: When kidnapped by Mello.
624* BreakTheCutie: The second part of the series is so damn ''cruel'' to her. Especially when she winds up practically catatonic and wheelchair-bound, due to her shock and depression after her being kidnapped. ''Then'' her father dies. She's last shown in a brief cameo in chapter 98, standing once more but vacantly smiling (the writer said she was "slowly" getting better). Then Light dies, and we never get to see how her and her mother react.
625* DamselInDistress: She spent several chapters in Mello's captivity.
626* EmptyShell: After she's rescued by her father, she becomes this. Her last cameo in the manga (omitted for the anime) features her standing once more and smiling for a holiday ceremony in Japan, although she still has an eerie vacant look to her face.
627* FanGirl: "HIDEKI RYUGA!!!"
628* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Sayu is the foolish sibling to Light's responsible - and frequently bugs him to help with homework. Subverted once Light becomes Kira.
629* GeniusDitz: Despite her rather dim disposition, her conceptualization power is apparently 9/10, the same as the genius who captured Kira, Near. Just look at the ease with which [[ManipulativeBastard she manipulates Light]] into doing her homework for her via ObfuscatingStupidity. [[LamarckWasRight It must run in the family.]]
630* TheIngenue: Sweet, caring, innocent, and doesn't seem very smart.
631* MoralityPet: She exists to give Light PetTheDog moments and to be kidnapped. Complete with LampshadeHanging:
632--> '''Ryuk''' (to Light): I guess even ''you'' have a soft spot for your sister.
633* NiceGirl: Sayu comes off as a sweet, friendly girl -- who got in ''way'' over her head.
634* ParentalFavoritism: A minor example. While Soichiro doesn't completely deny the possibility that Light could be Kira (and he is), he is adamant that Sayu couldn't possibly be the killer.
635* SheIsAllGrownUp: After the TimeSkip. You can't blame Matsuda for crushing on her.
636* ShipTease: Sayu drools over Misa and she says she might consider going out with Matsu if he wasn't so old.
637* SoleSurvivor: Of the Yagami family in the manga and the television drama.
638* SpoiledBrat: Particularly in the live-action drama, but to a lesser extent in the anime/manga series proper.
639* TheTeetotaler: The writer states that she dislikes alcohol.
640[[/folder]]
641
642[[folder:Sachiko Yagami]]
643[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sachiko_Yagami_2481.jpg]]
644->Voiced by: Ai Satou (JP), Creator/SaffronHenderson (EN), Azucena Díaz (Spain), Erika Rendón (Latin America), Claire Conty (FR), Michiko Godai (films)
645
646Soichiro's wife and Light and Sayu's mother. Like Sayu, she is completely unaware of Light's identity as Kira.
647------
648* BreakTheCutie: Near the end, her husband's dead and her daughter been traumatized from the kidnapping. We see her alone in the dining room which was once so full of life from her family now completely empty. After a moment, she breaks down and cries. [[FromBadToWorse And of course, she still doesn't know her son is an infamous serial killer and by the end of the day's events, she's going to lose him as well]].
649* DeathByAdaptation: In the TV drama, she's been dead for ten years when Light finds the notebook.
650* EducationMama: Quite possibly. In one of her few appearances she gushes over Light's report card while Light himself looks rather depressed and anxious.
651* HappilyMarried: To Soichiro.
652* NeatFreak: In the manga she's shown cleaning her spotless house in almost every scene. Probably where Light gets it from.
653* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In every incarnation to date bar the TV drama, she survives until the end while Light does not.
654* PosthumousCharacter: In the TV drama, Soichiro's absence during her death, combined with his long hours spent away from home due to work, puts a strain on his relationship with Light, which is amplified since Light must [[PromotedToParent look after Sayu]].
655* YamatoNadeshiko: She's a strong woman who does everything she can to keep the family from falling apart during the case.
656[[/folder]]
657
658!!Yotsuba
659
660[[folder:In General]]
661A group of businessmen working under the Yotsuba Corporation, they're brought together when they realize that, based on recent patterns in the new Kira's killings, he's actually among them. They meet once a week to discuss targets for Kira to kill. As the noose around the third Kira's neck begins to tighten, they are forced to react accordingly. Ultimately, once the third Kira is killed, they attempt to reform for better purposes, but are taken out by Light instead.
662-------
663* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Zigzagged. They're definitely framed as such at first glance, but they're also shown having second thoughts even early on, and ultimately help the investigation with arresting Higuchi, albeit not selflessly. That said, they are still pretty bad on the whole.
664* EveryoneHasStandards: Rem is flat-out ''disgusted'' by them when she attends one of their meetings. Even at his worst, Light never killed anyone purely out of greed, and these guys discuss it as if they're debating whether they should change the event schedule.
665* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Right when they seem to be turning things around, Light wipes out all the remaining members.
666* OpenSecret: Officially, nobody in the group ''knows'' who Kira is, but it's implied most of them at least suspected it was Higuchi long before anyone said it out aloud. When Reiji asks two of them who they think it is, they both agree he was their top candidate.
667* RedHerring: Though we're initially introduced to eight men, only one of them can be the new killer. Naturally, the story showers toys with who it is for a bit before letting the cat out of the bag. Not to mention half of them having fairly evil-looking designs. (Notably, Ohba had Obata draw up the designs ''before'' telling him which one would be the new Kira.)
668* ResignationsNotAccepted: They know that if one of them leaves the group, that person will most likely die, since he's now a loose end to the new Kira. It's the main thing holding the group together.
669* SparedByTheAdaptation: All but Higuchi survive in the TV drama.
670[[/folder]]
671
672[[folder:Kyosuke Higuchi/Yotsuba Kira]]
673[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higuchijpg.jpg]]
674->Voiced by: Creator/IsseiFutamata (JP), Creator/AndrewKavadas (EN), Ricky Coello (Spain), Oscar Gómez (Latin America), Patrick Borg (FR)
675
676The third Kira and the main antagonist of the Yotsuba arc. He's a member of the Yotsuba Group as the head of the technological development, but isn't as competent as his colleagues. He's obsessed with gaining social status, power, and wealth, which made him the perfect pawn for [[ManipulativeBastard Light's]] MemoryGambit to [[ThePlan clear himself and Misa of suspicion]]. After his arrest, Light kills him to regain control of the notebook.
677-------
678* AdaptedOut: Of the live-action films, though he does appear in the TV drama.
679* AmbitionIsEvil: He desires financial success and the power that comes with, and is all too willing to use the Death Note to kill his way to the top.
680* ArcVillain: Due to Light losing his memories of the Death Note and actively aiding the Task Force in their investigation, Higuchi's killings as the new Kira make him the stand-in villain of the Yotsuba arc.
681* AssholeVictim: Even Rem thinks this guy is a nasty piece of work, and she's met ''Light'' by the point. When Light kills him with a scrap of the Death Note, no one grieves for him.
682* AxCrazy: He certainly tries to hide it behind the mask of a professional businessman, but Higuchi is a ruthless murderer who only grows more unhinged as the arc goes on and the pressure begins to mount.
683* BigBadWannabe: He thinks himself a corporate mastermind whose use of the Death Note will put the business world at his mercy, but he's ultimately a pawn in Light's plan to throw suspicion off himself and Misa. He's shown to be nowhere near the {{Chessmaster}} Light is and the Task Force catches on to him much quicker. The moment Light regains his memories, he wastes no time disposing of Higuchi and reclaiming the BigBad mantle.
684* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sits on the Yotsuba board and has no problem committing murder to ascend the corporate ladder.
685* DeadlyUpgrade: The threat of Matsuda exposing him as the third Kira pushes Higuchi to desperately take the Shinigami Eye deal from Rem.
686* EvilIsNotWellLit: Lounges around his manor in the dark, both on "Kira" business and off.
687* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He often shows his arrogance despite not being as competent the majority of his colleagues. Namikawa, Mido and Shimura conclude from his bad personality that [[spoiler:he is the Kira among them. They're proven right]].
688* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was just an unpopular corporate drone before Rem handed him the Death Note and he became the third Kira.
689* {{Greed}}: Higuchi is mainly concerned with profit. This is actually one of the criteria he met for being Light's patsy.
690* HateSink: He's certainly no more evil than Light, but has neither Light's charm nor any WellIntentionedExtremist tendencies to make him sympathetic. His overbearing personality and overwhelming [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]] and greed serve to make the audience loathe him. In fact, Light specifically told Rem to find someone like him who was selfish and cruel enough to be willing to use the Death Note while also being dumb enough to not spread out his corporate killings, thus making it fairly obvious that Kira was a part of the Yotsuba Group.
691* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: He tries to force Misa to marry him when she was investigating his corporation.
692* InterimVillain: Light gives up his memory of the Death Note as part of an elaborate MemoryGambit, leaving Higuchi to stand in as the BigBad of the Yotsuba arc. When Light regains his memories, he takes back the title by killing off Higuchi.
693* JackTheRipoff: The Third "Kira" whose killings are more tied to corporate competitors, with the criminal M.O. being used to divert police suspicion.
694* {{Jerkass}}: He becomes the third Kira, not out of any sense of justice, but to boost his own standing within Yotsuba. He's also a creepy scumbag who sexually harasses Misa.
695* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: He acts as the third Kira as a part of Light's MemoryGambit, and was finally killed when Light regains his memories of the Death Note.
696* KnightTemplar: In the manga, he gives a MotiveRant where he says that in addition to using the Death Note to enrich himself, he genuinely also believes that Kira's work of killing criminals is necessary to make the world safe for business. Averted in the anime where he treats the work of punishing criminals as just a chore he puts up with so he can reap the side benefits.
697--> '''Higuchi''': Kira has already become something that is needed in our world. If the real one won't do it, then I will.
698* {{Namedar}}: When cornered, he makes the eye deal.
699* ProperlyParanoid: Even after "Matsui" took his [[DeathFakedForYou fatal tumble]], Higuchi wrote Matsuda's false name in the Death Note anyway. It had no effect, of course, but he was clever to make sure. He was also rightly suspicious about how easily Yoshida Productions gave him access to their offices, and Rem -- an impartial bystander as far as Higuchi knew -- had to push him to go.
700* QuickDraw: When confronted by Task Force members at Yotsuba headquarters, Higuchi pulls a pistol and hits Mr. Yagami, despite Wedy having her own gun trained on him the entire time.
701* SerialKiller: The third Kira, thanks to Light giving him the Death Note as part of a BatmanGambit. While he still kills criminals in line with Kira's traditional M.O., he also specifically targets corporate rivals of Yotsuba.
702* SlasherSmile: He has a few of this while writing names in the notebook, but the one he sports after taking the eye deal takes the cake, showing just how unhinged he's become.
703* SmugSnake: Enjoys insulting people despite his limited abilities.
704* StopOrIShootMyself: Tries to pull this when the Task Force is about to arrest him. Watari prevents it by shooting the pistol out of his hand.
705* TooDumbToLive: Was tricked by [[TheDitz Misa]] of all people into revealing himself as Kira.
706* UnwittingPawn: Only gets to become Kira as a part of Light's MemoryGambit. Light kills him when he's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]].
707* VillainousBreakdown: The entirety of the episode "Frenzy" is Higuchi completely losing all semblance of composure as the threat of exposure becomes inevitable, culminating in him desperately taking the Shinigami Eye deal to try and stop the broadcast.
708* VillainousWidowsPeak: He has a pretty prominent widows peak and is one of the Kiras.
709* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When he kills Hatori for trying to back out--and he coldly informs the poor guy beforehand that he's going to be killed.
710[[/folder]]
711
712[[folder:Reiji Namikawa]]
713[[quoteright:385:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reijinamikawa_7592.jpg]]
714->Voiced by: Creator/HirofumiNojima (JP), Creator/TedCole (EN), Xavier Fernández (Spain), Creator/LuisAlfonsoMendoza (Latin America)
715
716A member of the Yotsuba Eight.
717-----
718* BloodFromTheMouth: Pukes blood when Light kills him.
719* BoardToDeath: Like the rest of the Yotsuba group he's killed by Light.
720* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Official color seems to be purple.
721* CorruptCorporateExecutive: A member of the Yotsuba Group, and perfectly willing to profit from the deaths of others.
722* EvilGenius: He's the real brains of the Yotsuba Group, is smart enough to work out on his own which of his fellow board members is the Third Kira, and even successfully manipulates Light during a phone conversation. Even L and Light acknowledge how smart he is, deducing that he can't be the Third Kira because he wouldn't need the assistance of the rest of the board.
723* HazyFeelTurn: Which side he's really on at the time of his death is pretty ambiguous.
724* HeelFaceDoorSlam: He, along with two other members of the Yotsuba board, wanted out, but were killed by Light regardless.
725* ManipulativeBastard: Managed to manipulate ''Light'' of all people into revealing Higuchi as the third Kira--though he himself had already worked it out.
726* TheProudElite: He is cold, calculating, and very intelligent. He is also quite attractive.
727* SmartPeoplePlayChess: According to the profile of him in volume 5 of the manga, he's an expert shogi player.
728* TallDarkAndSnarky: Tall, black haired, and sarcastic.
729* UnwittingPawn: Averted. Namikawa knows full well that he's a pawn of whoever the real Kira is, and just wants out.
730* VillainousFriendship: With Midou and Shimura.
731* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Light kills him and the remaining members of the Yotsuba group when the whole ordeal with Higuchi is over.
732* YouJustToldMe: How he figures out that Higuchi is the third Kira.
733[[/folder]]
734
735[[folder:Shingo Mido]]
736Member of the Yotsuba 8.
737----
738* {{Irony}}: In How to Read, we learn he dislikes the business world...
739* HeelFaceDoorSlam: He is killed alongside all the other member of Yotsuba 8 just after they had decided to reform
740* HonestCorporateExecutive: He really disliked the agissement of Kira and he seems to devote body and soul to his job (according to How to Read).
741* VillainousFriendship: With Namikawa and Shimura.
742[[/folder]]
743
744[[folder:Eiichi Takahashi]]
745Member of the Yotsuba 8.
746----
747* DeliberatelyBadExample: InUniverse, he's on the board to make Higuchi look good.
748* TheDitz: He's prone to saying rather foolish things.
749
750[[/folder]]
751
752[[folder:Suguru Shimura]]
753Member of the Yotsuba 8.
754----
755* GrewASpine: A subtle version of this. Shimura is constantly portrayed as nervous and paranoid, and while he's morally opposed to the Yotsuba Kira and realizes how dangerous they are, he's too scared of Kira to act on it for the first part of the arc. However, after being repeatedly ignored by his coworkers and being forced to contribute to the deaths of innocent people (including Hatori, whose death Shimura outright protests in the manga), he takes matters into his own hands and seeks Mido out with the intention of convincing all the non-Kira meeting participants to help take down Kira. He's also notably more confident in expressing his own opinions during the scene in Mido's house. However, L catches Higuchi before Shimura has a chance to do much, and Light kills him months later.
756* HeelFaceTurn: Never really a "bad guy", since he is obviously opposed to the meetings from the start, but is scared enough of the consequences of taking action against Kira to remain complacent for the first part of the Yotsuba arc. Eventually, he decides to take direct action and attempts to get other members of the Yotsuba Eight on his side in order to take down Kira on their own... but L and the others get there before he can even finish proposing the idea to Mido and Namikawa.
757* ProperlyParanoid: He's the only member of the Yotsuba Eight who seems to realize how suspicious Coil and Matsui are, which even characters supposedly more intelligent than him totally overlook (Namikawa eventually catches on, but only due to Light contacting him). He repeatedly tries to bring this up, but all his coworkers brush him off even though he's actually right in all of his claims. Namikawa does eventually praise him for this however, and suggests it's probably why Higuchi wound up selecting him as one of the Yotsuba Eight, valuing his caution.
758* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Yotsuba 8, he's the one who's least motivated by greed and the most by simple fear for his life, and eventually he finds the courage to start fighting back in spite of that fear.
759[[/folder]]
760
761[[folder:Masahiko Kida]]
762Member of the Yotsuba 8.
763----
764[[/folder]]
765
766[[folder:Takeshi Ooi]]
767Member of the Yotsuba 8 and their de facto leader.
768----
769* BaldOfEvil: Completely bald, runs the Yotsuba 8...
770* CoolShades: Ones that make him look like [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]].
771* TheLeader: Of the Yotsuba 8's meetings.
772[[/folder]]
773
774[[folder:Arayoshi Hatori]]
775Member of the Yotsuba 8.
776----
777* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: [[AllThereInTheManual Volume 13]] states that he's the illegitimate son of the Yotsuba CEO, which is how he got his position.
778* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies much earlier than the rest of the Yotsuba 8; a careless outburst during one of their meetings causes his death via Higuchi.
779[[/folder]]
780
781!!Other
782
783[[folder:C-Kira]]
784A new Kira who appears in the bonus chapter. They use Midora's spare Death Note to kill the elderly that wish to die, but they eventually kill himself after Near bluntly dismisses them.
785----
786* BigBadWannabe: He takes up the Death Note three years after Light's death and seems ready to become the next Kira. However Near dismisses them as a cheap imitation of the real Kira and not even worth his time to track down. He even notes that the Japanese police by themselves should be able to apprehend C-Kira no problem and gives them a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, decrying them as nothing more than a murderer. This speech causes C-Kira to fall catatonic for three days and then kill himself, with Ryuk noting he likely didn't have the mental fortitude to become Kira.
787-->'''Near:''' The mass murderer is not Kira. I'll go as far as to say that much. If it was Kira I would fight, but I won't take part in what's happening right now. I have deduced all of Kira's killing methods. The criminal is probably using the same methods to kill his victims. However… [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction I have no interest in this criminal. I don't get involved in cases I'm not interested in]]. I think it's something the Japanese state police should take care of internally. However, "I won't get involved" is not reason enough to hijack the airwaves. Therefore, let me personally say one thing to the criminal. [[ShutUpHannibal You are an abominable murderer.]]
788* DarkMessiah: With Light's Cult of Kira still being prominent three years later, their members immediately start praising new Kira the moment their existence becomes apparent, even if it's not the same one. Their actions spark debates in the media, with many finding their methods merciful or beneficial to Japan. Later they respond to the demands on TV by killing cult members who expressed their will to no longer live, further boosting their popularity.
789* DirtyCoward: Out of respect to the original Kira and L, Near names the new killer "Cheap-Kira", as they only target weak prey without putting himself at risk, and only do what the public expects of them, likely not in Japan's best interest.
790* DrivenToSuicide: They commit suicide shortly after Near, as L, announces that he has no interest in pursuing a Kira's cheap imitation and gives C-Kira a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, ending their very short-lived reign. It's left unclear if they [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction desired being challenged by L]], had a HeelRealization from Near's insult or turned insane by the Note's ownership. Ryuk believes it was due to not having strong enough will for a Kira.
791* TheFaceless: Nothing about them is known besides their methods and a shot of their hand and desk.
792* {{Foil}}: As Ryuk points out, the reason this Kira commits suicide is essentially because they [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil were too mentally weak to handle the pressure of the power that comes with usage of a Death Note]]. It helps to highlight just how [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity psychotic]] someone like Light would have to have been to use it so consistently.
793* MercyKill: The mass deaths of the elderly are contributed to C-Kira (initially called Eco-Kira) and are considered graceful by the public, since the victims are terminally ill and openly express the will to die or their family request it, but nobody is willing to get their hands dirty. Later they switch targets to anyone with a public death wish. Near treats it like assisted suicide and just as illegal.
794* NoNameGiven: C-Kira is not named in the chapter (and given Near's lack of interest, is likely meant to denote his identity does not matter).
795* {{Otaku}}: Possibly, based on the many action figurines seen in a shot of his room.
796* PostFinalBoss: C-Kira shows up in a bonus chapter released two years after the end of the original publicized run of the Death Note series. Unlike the original Kira, or his eventually successor A-Kira, C-Kira is dismissed by Near as barely being worth his time with him deciding to not even bother tracking him down confident in the Japanese polices ability to find him. In the end, rather then being the next big threat to the world of Death Note, C-Kira serves as nothing more then a steeping stone for Near and the Japanese Police Force to find their own paths in a post L/Kira world, and C-Kira kills himself without ever even fighting the heroes.
797* TheUnfought: Near figures out the Death Note is involved in recent internet rumors, but decides it's not worth his involvement. Sure enough, C-Kira commits suicide after hearing L's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, stopping the incidents.
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799
800[[folder:Hideki Ryuuga]]
801A famous teen idol and pop star that Sayu fangirls over.
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803* BrainlessBeauty: It's remarked that he could never get into To-Oh university (a fictional version of the prestigious University of Tokyo).
804* ChekhovsGun: His name, not the character, which is used by L when he disguises himself as a student at Light's university.
805* IdenticalStranger: It was pointed out that in the manga he kinda looks like L.
806* IdolSinger: Basically the extent of his character, he is a famous pop icon.
807%%* SharpDressedMan
808* ShipTease: With Misa. Misa looks very stunned when they're acting out a romance scene together but then suddenly objects to kissing him informing all that she already has a boyfriend.
809%%* ShonenHair
810* UnwittingPawn: To L, [[FromACertainPointOfView in a way]]. L uses his name, "Hideki Ryuuga", as an alias when he disguises himself as a university student. Even if Light tries to kill his classmate Hideki Ryuuga, the pop idol is so famous that Light can't guarantee he won't accidentally picture ''his'' face instead, so if the real Ryuuga dies, then Light is definitely Kira. Light doesn't do it.
811[[/folder]]
812
813[[folder:Yuri]]
814->Voiced by: Creator/AmiKoshimizu (JP), Creator/LalainiaLindbjerg (EN), Elisa Beuter (Spain), Nallely Solís (Latin America)
815
816A girl that Light asks out on a date to Spaceland as part of his plan to get Raye Penber's name.
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818* ClingyJealousGirl: "I've got you all to myself!" Also, in the manga, she insists that she and Light still go to Spaceland [[SkewedPriorities after witnessing a gruesome death]].
819%%* DamselInDistress
820* IdenticalStranger: It's been pointed out that she looks like [[BrotherSisterIncest Sayu.]]
821* SatelliteLoveInterest: Light calls her up only because he needs her for his [[EvilPlan plan]] and he tries to ditch her immediately afterwards.
822* UnwittingPawn: She unknowingly participated in Light's plan to get Raye's name.
823* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the anime she is nowhere to be seen when Light and Raye get out of the bus.
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