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* '''Light Yagami'''.
** What he ''becomes'' during the course of the series. He starts out as an seemingly innocent idealist (as seen in the Yotsuba Arc) and slowly becomes more and more ruthless, horrifying, megalomaniacal and generally evil, until he's reached the point where he's only barely recognizable as the same person he was.
** The worst part? Light is not all that different than other regular people in terms of moral decency when he starts out. But a combination of external and psychological factors beneath the surface pushed enough buttons to send him on his path. If he hadn't found the titular notebook, it's unlikely that he would have become Kira.
* The [[DeadlyBook Death Note]] itself. Once your name is written in it, ''you are dead''. And that notebook could have ended up in the hands of anyone, anywhere.
** Not only that, the Death Note user can decide ''how'' you die. Odds are you'll just succumb to a heart attack, but good luck if whoever's writing your name decides to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath get creative]].
** What he ''becomes'' during the course of the series. He starts out as an seemingly innocent idealist (as seen in the Yotsuba Arc) and slowly becomes more and more ruthless, horrifying, megalomaniacal and generally evil, until he's reached the point where he's only barely recognizable as the same person he was.
** The worst part? Light is not all that different than other regular people in terms of moral decency when he starts out. But a combination of external and psychological factors beneath the surface pushed enough buttons to send him on his path. If he hadn't found the titular notebook, it's unlikely that he would have become Kira.
* The [[DeadlyBook Death Note]] itself. Once your name is written in it, ''you are dead''. And that notebook could have ended up in the hands of anyone, anywhere.
** Not only that, the Death Note user can decide ''how'' you die. Odds are you'll just succumb to a heart attack, but good luck if whoever's writing your name decides to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath get creative]].
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* '''Light Yagami'''.
**What he Light Yagami ''becomes'' during the course of the series. He starts out as an seemingly innocent idealist (as seen in the Yotsuba Arc) and slowly becomes more and more ruthless, horrifying, megalomaniacal and generally evil, until he's reached the point where he's only barely recognizable as the same person he was.
**was. The worst part? Light is not all that different than other regular people in terms of moral decency when he starts out. But a combination of external and psychological factors beneath the surface pushed enough buttons to send him on his path. If he hadn't found the titular notebook, it's unlikely that he would have become Kira.
so deranged.
* The [[DeadlyBook Death Note]] itself. Once your name is written in it, ''you are dead''. And that notebook could have ended up in the hands of anyone,anywhere.
**anywhere. Not only that, the Death Note user can decide ''how'' you die. Odds are you'll just succumb to a heart attack, but good luck if whoever's writing your name decides to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath get creative]].
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* The [[DeadlyBook Death Note]] itself. Once your name is written in it, ''you are dead''. And that notebook could have ended up in the hands of anyone,
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* Basically every time Light goes into crazy Kira mode, with the maniacal laugh and the [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* Light and Misa in and of themselves... they're '''''[[CuteAndPsycho adorable]]'''''... (in some of the early manga artwork Light kind of looks like a Creator/{{Disney}} character) and well, you know...
* L may have looked a bit creepy with his big, baggy eyes... but Mello [[KubrickStare took]] [[SlasherSmile this]] up a notch.
* Ryuk can be this. Especially during the earlier chapters, when he's there to provide [[ExpositionFairy exposition]] on the nature of Death Notes and Shinigami. Those eyes...
** This is specifically played for all its worth during Light's death. He's usually drawn with normal eyes, which while still monstrous in appearance, giving some humanity to his appearance (especially when he's flustered or confused). But as he kills Light his eyes are [[BlankWhiteEyes completely white]] (in the anime [[RedEyesTakeWarning they're red]]) with zero traces of any humanity or mercy. No cornea, no pupils, nothing but sclera. WordOfGod says this was done on purpose to remind the audience, for all his quirkiness and simplistic, child-like desire to simply be entertained like a child with toys, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain he is still a Shinigami, a god of death, who can't be harmed and can kill anyone he wishes.]]
** Not to mention his [[EvilLaugh ghoulish cackle]].
* Teru Mikami -- or, how an otherwise decent person can go completely off the deep end. The part where he spins around in his chair and laughs is the worst. Good choice, Light.
* The anime's second TitleSequence. It's pure '''chaos'''. The entire sequence is nothing but [[MindScrew dark and twisted imagery bathed in harsh colors]], (for example, a [[http://media.tumblr.com/5ec11bc7470d96865aae3876c95e5c85/tumblr_inline_mwyqb2XRnr1qmpaz4.png screen covered with laughing, demented Light faces]]). The opening song, Music/MaximumTheHormone's "What's Up, People?!", only adds to the disturbing atmosphere, with lyrics such as "''Hey! Hey! A hymn to humanity/Love has gone, People, are you worried?''". (Watch it [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klmFfI5Cz-U here]]!)
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%% ** And from the live-action drama, his [[CreepyDoll Mello puppet]] that he talks to.
* In the beginning, it was implied that people who haven't used a death note, go to heaven or hell after death, while users of death note have some other fate. However, as Light realizes he is about to die, he remembers that Ryuk told him that he was joking about that and that all are equal in death, going to a place called Mu (nothingness) (May be NothingAfterDeath or CessationOfExistence).
** What is worse, this scene also shows that Light was aware of this since the beginning of the story, yet he still chose to murder innocent people for meager reasons.
* Light and Misa in and of themselves... they're '''''[[CuteAndPsycho adorable]]'''''... (in some of the early manga artwork Light kind of looks like a Creator/{{Disney}} character) and well, you know...
* L may have looked a bit creepy with his big, baggy eyes... but Mello [[KubrickStare took]] [[SlasherSmile this]] up a notch.
* Ryuk can be this. Especially during the earlier chapters, when he's there to provide [[ExpositionFairy exposition]] on the nature of Death Notes and Shinigami. Those eyes...
** This is specifically played for all its worth during Light's death. He's usually drawn with normal eyes, which while still monstrous in appearance, giving some humanity to his appearance (especially when he's flustered or confused). But as he kills Light his eyes are [[BlankWhiteEyes completely white]] (in the anime [[RedEyesTakeWarning they're red]]) with zero traces of any humanity or mercy. No cornea, no pupils, nothing but sclera. WordOfGod says this was done on purpose to remind the audience, for all his quirkiness and simplistic, child-like desire to simply be entertained like a child with toys, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain he is still a Shinigami, a god of death, who can't be harmed and can kill anyone he wishes.]]
** Not to mention his [[EvilLaugh ghoulish cackle]].
* Teru Mikami -- or, how an otherwise decent person can go completely off the deep end. The part where he spins around in his chair and laughs is the worst. Good choice, Light.
* The anime's second TitleSequence. It's pure '''chaos'''. The entire sequence is nothing but [[MindScrew dark and twisted imagery bathed in harsh colors]], (for example, a [[http://media.tumblr.com/5ec11bc7470d96865aae3876c95e5c85/tumblr_inline_mwyqb2XRnr1qmpaz4.png screen covered with laughing, demented Light faces]]). The opening song, Music/MaximumTheHormone's "What's Up, People?!", only adds to the disturbing atmosphere, with lyrics such as "''Hey! Hey! A hymn to humanity/Love has gone, People, are you worried?''". (Watch it [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klmFfI5Cz-U here]]!)
%% * Near's L-mask.
%% ** And from the live-action drama, his [[CreepyDoll Mello puppet]] that he talks to.
* In the beginning, it was implied that people who haven't used a death note, go to heaven or hell after death, while users of death note have some other fate. However, as Light realizes he is about to die, he remembers that Ryuk told him that he was joking about that and that all are equal in death, going to a place called Mu (nothingness) (May be NothingAfterDeath or CessationOfExistence).
** What is worse, this scene also shows that Light was aware of this since the beginning of the story, yet he still chose to murder innocent people for meager reasons.
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* Basically every time Light goes into crazy Kira mode, with the Light's mental breakdown after being outplayed by Near. His maniacal laugh and the [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* Light and Misa in and of themselves... they're '''''[[CuteAndPsycho adorable]]'''''... (in some of the early manga artwork Light kind of looks likeeyes]] are very clearly meant to invoke a Creator/{{Disney}} character) and well, you know...
* L may have looked a bit creepy with his big, baggy eyes... but Mello [[KubrickStare took]] [[SlasherSmile this]] up a notch.
demonic image.
* Ryukcan be this. Especially during the earlier chapters, when he's there to provide [[ExpositionFairy exposition]] on the nature of Death Notes and Shinigami. Those eyes...
** Thisis specifically played for all its worth during Light's death. He's usually drawn with normal eyes, which while still monstrous in appearance, giving give some humanity to his appearance (especially when he's flustered or confused). But as he kills Light his eyes are [[BlankWhiteEyes completely white]] (in the anime [[RedEyesTakeWarning they're red]]) with zero traces of any humanity or mercy. No cornea, no pupils, nothing but sclera. WordOfGod says this was done on purpose to remind the audience, for all his quirkiness and simplistic, child-like desire to simply be entertained like a child with toys, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain he is still a Shinigami, a god of death, who can't be harmed and can kill anyone he wishes.]]
** Not to mention his [[EvilLaugh ghoulish cackle]].
* Teru Mikami -- or, how an otherwise decent person can go completely off the deep end. The part where he spins around in his chair and laughs is the worst. Good choice, Light.
* The anime's second TitleSequence. It's TitleSequence is pure '''chaos'''. The entire sequence is nothing but [[MindScrew dark and twisted imagery bathed in harsh colors]], (for example, a [[http://media.tumblr.com/5ec11bc7470d96865aae3876c95e5c85/tumblr_inline_mwyqb2XRnr1qmpaz4.png screen covered with laughing, demented Light faces]]). The opening song, Music/MaximumTheHormone's "What's Up, People?!", only adds to the disturbing atmosphere, with lyrics such as "''Hey! Hey! A hymn to humanity/Love has gone, People, are you worried?''". (Watch it [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klmFfI5Cz-U here]]!)
%% * Near's L-mask.
%% ** And from the live-action drama, his [[CreepyDoll Mello puppet]] that he talks to.
* In the beginning, it was implied that people who haven't used a death note, go to heaven or hell after death, while users of death note have some other fate. However, as Light realizes he is about to die, he remembers that Ryuk told him that he was joking about that and that all are equal in death, going to a place called Mu (nothingness) (May be NothingAfterDeath or CessationOfExistence).
** What is worse, this scene also shows that Light was aware of this since the beginning of the story, yet he still chose to murder innocent people for meager reasons.here]]!)
* Light and Misa in and of themselves... they're '''''[[CuteAndPsycho adorable]]'''''... (in some of the early manga artwork Light kind of looks like
* L may have looked a bit creepy with his big, baggy eyes... but Mello [[KubrickStare took]] [[SlasherSmile this]] up a notch.
* Ryuk
** This
* Teru Mikami -- or, how an otherwise decent person can go completely off the deep end. The part where he spins around in his chair and laughs is the worst. Good choice, Light.
%% * Near's L-mask.
%% ** And from the live-action drama, his [[CreepyDoll Mello puppet]] that he talks to.
* In the beginning, it was implied that people who haven't used a death note, go to heaven or hell after death, while users of death note have some other fate. However, as Light realizes he is about to die, he remembers that Ryuk told him that he was joking about that and that all are equal in death, going to a place called Mu (nothingness) (May be NothingAfterDeath or CessationOfExistence).
** What is worse, this scene also shows that Light was aware of this since the beginning of the story, yet he still chose to murder innocent people for meager reasons.
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* Naomi's death, particularly if you hold to the theory that people under the control of the Death Note are still capable of thinking independently, effectively rendering them prisoner to their own bodies. [[AndIMustScream If that is true, she walked to her own suicide completely against her own will and could do nothing to stop it]].
** The anime makes it worse. When Naomi's convinced to give her real name to Light, the scene is in blood red and Ryuk goes into a hysteric, spine-chilling laughing fit knowing that Naomi's just signed her own death warrant.
** Then there's the extremely few, extremely ''gruesome'' ways of being able to kill oneself without a body being discovered. It'd take either the heat of a cremation chamber to reliably render all remains useless, or having the body eaten by animals. If Light was aware of these methods, it's even more frightening to think that's all he thought Naomi was in the end. The anime does imply that she merely hanged herself in a deserted room somewhere, but beyond that nothing is known.
** The anime makes it worse. When Naomi's convinced to give her real name to Light, the scene is in blood red and Ryuk goes into a hysteric, spine-chilling laughing fit knowing that Naomi's just signed her own death warrant.
** Then there's the extremely few, extremely ''gruesome'' ways of being able to kill oneself without a body being discovered. It'd take either the heat of a cremation chamber to reliably render all remains useless, or having the body eaten by animals. If Light was aware of these methods, it's even more frightening to think that's all he thought Naomi was in the end. The anime does imply that she merely hanged herself in a deserted room somewhere, but beyond that nothing is known.
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* Naomi's death, particularly if you hold to death;
** In thetheory that people under the control of the Death Note are still capable of thinking independently, effectively rendering them prisoner to their own bodies. [[AndIMustScream If that is true, she walked to her own suicide completely against her own will and could do nothing to stop it]].
** The anime makes it worse. Whenanime, when Naomi's convinced to give her real name to Light, the scene is in blood red and Ryuk goes into a hysteric, spine-chilling laughing fit knowing that Naomi's just signed her own death warrant.
** Then there's the extremely few, extremely ''gruesome'' ways of being able to kill oneself without a body being discovered. It'd take either the heat of a cremation chamber to reliably render all remains useless, or having the body eaten by animals. If Light was aware of these methods, it's even more frightening to think that's all he thought Naomi was in the end. The anime does imply that she merely hanged herself in a deserted room somewhere, but beyond that nothing is known.warrant.
** In the
** The anime makes it worse. When
** Then there's the extremely few, extremely ''gruesome'' ways of being able to kill oneself without a body being discovered. It'd take either the heat of a cremation chamber to reliably render all remains useless, or having the body eaten by animals. If Light was aware of these methods, it's even more frightening to think that's all he thought Naomi was in the end. The anime does imply that she merely hanged herself in a deserted room somewhere, but beyond that nothing is known.
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* The Yagami family. Sayu has a brother who's perfectly willing to kill her if he thinks she's getting too close to uncovering the truth. Light even suggests, early in the series, that he's willing to write down his junior-high-school aged sister's name in the notebook if she so much as ''sees'' it.
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* The Yagami family. Sayu has a brother who's perfectly willing to kill her if he thinks she's getting too close to uncovering the truth. Light even suggests, early in the series, that he's willing to write down his junior-high-school aged sister's name in the notebook if she so much as ''sees'' it.
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* L's death. The poor guy suddenly collapses from a heart attack by Rem's doing and the last thing he sees before he dies is Light staring at him while giving him a huge SlasherSmile.
** Even worse: the manga specifies L's last thoughts: realizing he was right all along.
** Even worse: the manga specifies L's last thoughts: realizing he was right all along.
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* L's death. The poor guy suddenly collapses from a heart attack by Rem's doing and the last thing he sees before he dies is Light staring at him while giving him a huge SlasherSmile.
**SlasherSmile. Even worse: worse, the manga specifies L's last thoughts: realizing he was right all along.
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** The death of the Yotsuba businessmen is somewhat unsettling. We only see it happen to Namikawa, AKA the one they wanted to use as a mole, but his eyes turn entirely black and he starts bleeding from the mouth before collapsing.
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* Seeing what Sayu goes through and how she ends up is chilling.
* [[NauseaFuel Light's death.]] In the manga, it's even worse. you see his dead face on a two-page panel, with a horrifying expression, which is worse upside-down.
* [[NauseaFuel Light's death.]] In the manga, it's even worse. you see his dead face on a two-page panel, with a horrifying expression, which is worse upside-down.
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* Light and Mikami's facial expressions in the last two episodes. They look absolutely [[NightmareFace demented]].
** Mikami goes fully insane in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv4E9175EOY this scene, where he goes into a delete-spree.]] For some that find his "Sakujo!" or "Delete!" tick hilarious, [[{{Narm}} however...]]
** The [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVq8ygJ_Ysc Italian dub's take]] on Kira's laughter. Why? At first, it sounds like ''sobbing''. This makes the LaughingMad spree even more unexpected and unhinged. Bonus points go for the fact that Creator/FlavioAquilone (who provides the demented cackling) ''admitted in an interview that he did it on '''FIRST''' take'' when he was ''18''. That's right, it was an 18-year-old who did this satanic laughter, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct and while this is awesome in terms of skill]], it's simply ''absolutely petrifying''.
** Mikami goes fully insane in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv4E9175EOY this scene, where he goes into a delete-spree.]] For some that find his "Sakujo!" or "Delete!" tick hilarious, [[{{Narm}} however...]]
** The [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVq8ygJ_Ysc Italian dub's take]] on Kira's laughter. Why? At first, it sounds like ''sobbing''. This makes the LaughingMad spree even more unexpected and unhinged. Bonus points go for the fact that Creator/FlavioAquilone (who provides the demented cackling) ''admitted in an interview that he did it on '''FIRST''' take'' when he was ''18''. That's right, it was an 18-year-old who did this satanic laughter, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct and while this is awesome in terms of skill]], it's simply ''absolutely petrifying''.
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* Light and Mikami's facial expressions in the last two episodes. They episodes, where they are at their most psychotic, are exaggerated to the point they look absolutely [[NightmareFace demented]].
** Mikami goes fully insane in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv4E9175EOY this scene, where he goes into a delete-spree.]] For some that find his "Sakujo!" or "Delete!" tick hilarious, [[{{Narm}} however...]]
*** The [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVq8ygJ_Ysc Italian dub's take]] on Kira's laughter. Why? At first, it sounds like ''sobbing''. This makes the LaughingMad spree even more unexpected and unhinged. Bonus points go for the fact that Creator/FlavioAquilone (who provides the demented cackling) ''admitted in an interview that he did it on '''FIRST''' take'' when he was ''18''. That's right, it was an 18-year-old who did this satanic laughter, [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct and while this is awesome in terms of skill]], it's simply ''absolutely petrifying''.
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* The disease from ''Film/LChangeTheWorld''. It's described as being an enhanced form of ebolavirus, able to spread through the air, and [[ArtisticLicenseBiology it kills in a matter of minutes]]. We are treated to a lovely scene of Dr. Nikaido injecting ''himself'' with the virus, and he dies in agony, bleeding from every orifice.
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''After they die, they place they go to is '''[[TheNothingAfterDeath MU]]''' ''
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->''"All humans will, without exception, [[WeAllDieSomeday eventually die.]]"''
-->-- Rule from Ch 107 in the ''Death Note'' manga
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->''"All humans will, without exception, [[WeAllDieSomeday eventually die.]]"''
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* Mattpat from [[WebVideo/GameTheory The Film Theorists]] did a video that estimated how many people died during Kira's reign of terror. Although the numbers aren't official he estimates in his calculations that all four of the characters who held the Death Note had killed a combined 280,000 people on a conservative estimate with Light contributing about 242,000 of those deaths himself. For perspective, this is equivalent to wiping out Japan's entire prison population 3.7 times over, about 60,000 more people than have died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and just shy of the number of American casualties suffered in World War I. ''And this a conservative estimate.'' In a period of a few years Light, Mikami, Higuchi, and Misa have become the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th (respectively) most prolific serial killers the world has ever known. And if nobody stopped them and they died with the notebooks in their possession it could have been a death toll in the millions ''putting a mere four people in the same range of genocide as entire despotic regimes like the Nazis''.
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* Mattpat from [[WebVideo/GameTheory The Film Theorists]] did a video that estimated how many people died during Kira's reign of terror. Although the numbers aren't official he estimates in his calculations that all four of the characters who held the Death Note had killed a combined 280,000 people on a conservative estimate with Light contributing about 242,000 of those deaths himself. For perspective, this is equivalent to wiping out Japan's entire prison population 3.7 times over, about 60,000 more people than have died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and just shy of the number of American casualties suffered in World War I. ''And this a conservative estimate.'' In a period of a few years Light, Mikami, Higuchi, and Misa have become the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th (respectively) most prolific serial killers the world has ever known. And if nobody stopped them and they died with the notebooks in their possession it could have been a death toll in the millions ''putting a mere four people in the same range of genocide mass murder as entire despotic regimes like the Nazis''.
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** Then there's the extremely few, extremely ''gruesome'' ways of being able to kill oneself without a body being discovered. It'd take either the heat of a cremation chamber to reliably render all remains useless, or having the body eaten by animals. If Light was aware of these methods, it's even more frightening to think that's all he thought Naomi was in the end.
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** Then there's the extremely few, extremely ''gruesome'' ways of being able to kill oneself without a body being discovered. It'd take either the heat of a cremation chamber to reliably render all remains useless, or having the body eaten by animals. If Light was aware of these methods, it's even more frightening to think that's all he thought Naomi was in the end. The anime does imply that she merely hanged herself in a deserted room somewhere, but beyond that nothing is known.
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* Mattpat from [[WebVideo/GameTheory The Film Theorists]] did a video that estimated how many people died during Kira's reign of terror. Although the numbers aren't official he estimates in his calculations that all four of the characters who held the Death Note had killed a combined 280,000 people on a conservative estimate with Light contributing about 242,000 of those deaths himself. For perspective, this is equivalent to wiping out Japan's entire prison population 3.7 times over, about 60,000 more people than have died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and just shy of the number of American casualties suffered in World War I. In a period of a few years Light, Mikami, Higuchi, and Misa have become the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th (respectively) most prolific serial killers the world has ever known. And if nobody stopped them and they died with the notebooks in their possession it could have been a death toll in the millions ''putting a mere four people in the same range of genocide as entire despotic regimes like the Nazis''.
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* Mattpat from [[WebVideo/GameTheory The Film Theorists]] did a video that estimated how many people died during Kira's reign of terror. Although the numbers aren't official he estimates in his calculations that all four of the characters who held the Death Note had killed a combined 280,000 people on a conservative estimate with Light contributing about 242,000 of those deaths himself. For perspective, this is equivalent to wiping out Japan's entire prison population 3.7 times over, about 60,000 more people than have died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and just shy of the number of American casualties suffered in World War I. ''And this a conservative estimate.'' In a period of a few years Light, Mikami, Higuchi, and Misa have become the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th (respectively) most prolific serial killers the world has ever known. And if nobody stopped them and they died with the notebooks in their possession it could have been a death toll in the millions ''putting a mere four people in the same range of genocide as entire despotic regimes like the Nazis''.
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* The anime has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqA0xZuaEuE a scene]] invented for the first Relight movie where Light attends L's funeral. After paying his respects and making sure everybody's gone, he drops the facade and starts [[LaughingMad cackling]], following by shouting "I WIN!" Then, in a matter of seconds, he composes himself and his distorted features return to normal in a way that's even creepier than the EvilGloating.
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* The anime has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqA0xZuaEuE a scene]] invented for the first Relight movie where Light attends L's funeral. After paying his respects and making sure everybody's gone, he drops the facade and starts [[LaughingMad cackling]], following by cackling]] and [[EvilGloating gloats about how perfect his victory is]]. His gloating soon works up to shouting and [[LastDisrespects getting on his hands and knees on top of L's grave as he rubs in the fact that L failed before screaming "I WIN!" Then, WIN!"]] A few moments of silence later, and in a matter of seconds, he seconds Light composes himself and his distorted features return to normal in a way that's even creepier ''even creepier'' than the EvilGloating.
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* Beyond Birthday; there's a reason he's on the quote page for CruelAndUnusualDeath. From the first paragraph of ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'':
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* Beyond Birthday; there's a reason he's on the quote page for CruelAndUnusualDeath. From the first paragraph of ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'': ''Literature/AnotherNote'':
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** The anime makes it worse. When Naomi's convinced to give their real name to Light, the scene is in blood red and Ryuk goes into a hysteric, spine-chilling laughing fit knowing that Naomi's just signed her own death warrant.
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** The anime makes it worse. When Naomi's convinced to give their her real name to Light, the scene is in blood red and Ryuk goes into a hysteric, spine-chilling laughing fit knowing that Naomi's just signed her own death warrant.
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** The anime makes it worse. When [[spoiler:Naomi's]] convinced to give their real name to Light, the scene is in blood red and Ryuk goes into a hysteric, spine-chilling laughing fit knowing that [[spoiler:Naomi's just signed her own death warrant]].
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** The anime makes it worse. When [[spoiler:Naomi's]] Naomi's convinced to give their real name to Light, the scene is in blood red and Ryuk goes into a hysteric, spine-chilling laughing fit knowing that [[spoiler:Naomi's Naomi's just signed her own death warrant]].warrant.
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** Not to mention afterwards, Light remembers [[spoiler:his father asking if he ever had a soul as Kira]]. Now, he can only respond with the most chilling thought, and one '''hell''' of a KubrickStare that is frozen on the screen and binarized as the last shot. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deathnoteserieskira.PNG For your viewing pleasure.]]
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** Not to mention afterwards, Light remembers [[spoiler:his his father asking if he ever had a soul as Kira]].Kira. Now, he can only respond with the most chilling thought, and one '''hell''' of a KubrickStare that is frozen on the screen and binarized as the last shot. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deathnoteserieskira.PNG For your viewing pleasure.]]
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Improved the link.
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* The anime has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJvZF3iC2Kc& a scene]] invented for the first Relight movie where Light attends L's funeral. After paying his respects and making sure everybody's gone, he drops the facade and starts [[LaughingMad cackling]], following by shouting "I WIN!" Then, in a matter of seconds, he composes himself and his distorted features return to normal in a way that's even creepier than the EvilGloating.
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* The anime has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJvZF3iC2Kc& com/watch?v=gqA0xZuaEuE a scene]] invented for the first Relight movie where Light attends L's funeral. After paying his respects and making sure everybody's gone, he drops the facade and starts [[LaughingMad cackling]], following by shouting "I WIN!" Then, in a matter of seconds, he composes himself and his distorted features return to normal in a way that's even creepier than the EvilGloating.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* Near's L-mask, from deep in the UncannyValley.
** And from the live-action drama, his [[CreepyDoll Mello puppet]] that he talks to.
** And from the live-action drama, his [[CreepyDoll Mello puppet]] that he talks to.
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%% * Near's L-mask, from deep in the UncannyValley.
L-mask.
%% ** And from the live-action drama, his [[CreepyDoll Mello puppet]] that he talks to.
%% ** And from the live-action drama, his [[CreepyDoll Mello puppet]] that he talks to.
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** There's an altered version of the scene where several SPK members get killed, except this time by Mikami instead of Mello. Here they put some really [[UncannyValley Uncanny-Valley-ish]] expressions. And one attempts to kill Near with his gun. The final shot shows Near staring silently to the screen, ''covered by the blood of the corpse that's right next to him''.
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** There's an altered version of the scene where several SPK members get killed, except this time by Mikami instead of Mello. Here they put some really [[UncannyValley Uncanny-Valley-ish]] creepy expressions. And one attempts to kill Near with his gun. The final shot shows Near staring silently to the screen, ''covered by the blood of the corpse that's right next to him''.
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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* L may have looked a bit creepy with his big, baggy eyes... but Mello [[KubrickStare took]] [[SlasherSmile this]] UpToEleven.
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* L may have looked a bit creepy with his big, baggy eyes... but Mello [[KubrickStare took]] [[SlasherSmile this]] UpToEleven.up a notch.
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* The scene where Mikami is introduced. He intervenes in a debate on TV about Kira by slaughtering the audience in various gruesome ways. ''[[NeckSnap One of them gets his neck twisted 180°]]''.
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* The scene where Mikami is introduced.Mikami's introduction in the Relight special. He intervenes in a debate on TV about Kira by slaughtering the audience in various gruesome ways. ''[[NeckSnap One of them gets his neck twisted 180°]]''.
