History Quotes / MisaimedFandom

->'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]:''' Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}, with absolutely zero irony, used something that looked exactly like the ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' logo for their -- I dunno even what it is…\\

"Light is a mass murderer, yet in killing criminals he is arguably doing the "right thing" by punishing evil. As Light himself states, in being presented with a god which punishes all evil, people are made to become kinder and war, premeditated murder and organized crime are all but eradicated. Crucially, what these arguments do is press forward a single straightforward claim that the series provides no true answer to the core dilemma: if Light was truly right to perform his crusade, or if L and Near were right to have him stopped. What is justice is up for the reader to ultimately decide.\\

"From the very start of the manga, Light's murder spree as Kira is never shown as anything other than a negative. Never once in the series are we ever shown positive results from his murders-- indeed, it's explicitly noted that crime goes past the rate it was before Kira became a thing after the murders temporarily go away. Besides Misa, who is not meant to be seen as sympathetic in the slightest, no one is ever shown being benefited from Light's crimes, and the only one who suggests such-- Matsuda-- is repeatedly called out for it by other characters.\\

"Moreover, the idea that Light is anything but a {{villain|Protagonist}} is laughable. Even though [[KnightTemplar Light sincerely does believe he is doing the right thing]], his characterization is shown to be petty, unhinged, and remorseless insofar as the innocent lives he takes, and he displays [[TheSociopath an extraordinary absence of sympathetic and humanizing traits.]] Never once does the manga or creator ever portray him as a {{fallen hero}}, all it does is refer to him as childish, and quote, "{{pure|IsNotGood}}" (this is important). And indeed, he can't be, as everything he does by the end is stuff he was planning to do from the start. Even when he dies, the reader isn't invited to mourn him, but just think about the sort of person he was.\\

"This is all clinched in the most thematically crucial moment of the entire series, when after an extended six-page rant expressing all of his motives and worldview, Light's entire ideology is destroyed when Near bluntly tells him that, as he cannot dictate what is objectively right or wrong, Kira is therefore nothing more than a murderer. Seeing as L and Near openly state they are not fighting Kira for the reason of justice, but respectively personal interest and pride as the world's greatest detectives (and regarding Near, a desire to finish what L started), this actually gives a different message entirely: [[HardTruthAesop that justice does not exist as an objective concept, but only what one perceives in their own mind.]] Hence, forcing that justice onto the world as a god is wrong, not because of ethics, but due to that very contradiction itself."''

->''The playright(sic) and screenwriter Creator/DavidMamet, before he went all Creator/DennisMiller on us and [[FaceHeelTurn denounced his liberalism]], wrote a wonderful little play called Theatre/GlengarryGlenRoss. The film adaptation of this play contained a scene that Mamet intended as grotesque satire. In the scene, Creator/AlecBaldwin proceeds to slowly bleed the life out of a group of mostly ne'er do well real estate agents with a rocket balls lecture about success. Unfortunately, Mamet did such a wonderful job at writing this scene, and Baldwin such a marvelous job at playing it, that it ceased to be what it was intended to be. No longer was it a denunciation of the values espoused by Baldwin's character, but a celebration of those values. It took on a life of its own.''