History Characters / DeathNoteShinigami

* {{Bishonen}}: In the live-action films, she's male but still keeps her [[https://i.imgur.com/FKuA4rS.png feminine design.]]

%% * DarkChick

* TreacherousAdvisor: To Higuchi. She enables his killing spree for Light and Misa's sake, and intentionally gives him poor counsel when the hour of his downfall arrives.

* GenderFlip: She is portrayed as a male Shinigami in the live action films.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only shows up for a few episodes before leaving again once he gets his notebook, but Ryuk managing to steal it from him to then give to Light is what kickstarts the entire plot.

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* DarkIsNotEvil: While amoral herself, she genuinely cares about Misa and is disgusted by Higuchi. WordOfGod states that she's "a good person."

%%* UltimateEvil: If the Shinigami can be regarded as truly evil.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: They basically all have cool-sounding names, varying from the one-syllable "Rem" to the highly ornate "Armonia Justin Beyondormason."

* NiceHat: He wears an [[CaptainEthnic Indian Headdress.]]

* WasOnceAMan: If the speculation about the Unnamed Shinigami from ''Relight'' is correct then it suggests ''all'' the Shinigami [[EvilMakesYouUgly were once human]] [[TheCorruption Death Note owners.]]

An unnamed Shinigami who appeared in the movie ''Relight: Visions of a God'', where he was searching the Shinigami Realm for Ryuk. He is violent and impetuous, making demands of the other Shinigami. He is very interested in the human world and '''''bored''''' with the Shinigami realm. He bribes Ryuk with apples to hear his story of the time he spent in the human world but leaves before he finishes it. Physically the Shinigami is a skeleton with spiky brown hair and wears a tattered suit, a red tie headband and a grey bookbag, and he walks with a limp. This and [[http://youtu.be/cAhE1RtVZME?t=2h7m36s the dialogue at the end of the movie]] strongly hints that he is a {{Reincarnation}} [[DeathActivatedSuperpower of Light Yagami.]]

%% * CanonForeigner

%% * DemBones

* DeadlyUpgrade: Any Shinigami on Earth can offer a human the [[PowerAtAPrice Shinigami Eyes]], at the price of half of the human's lifespan.

%% * BandageBabe

* DealWithTheDevil: Any deal made by a human with a Shinigami is going to end badly for the human every time. Is the death god offering you a Death Note to play with? You can be sure that the death god will write your name in his own notebook and steal your remaining years [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once he gets bored with you]]. Is he offering you Shinigami eyes so that you can use your death note without needing to find out your victims' names? Say goodbye to [[CastFromLifespan half your remaining lifespan]]. Hell, just finding a Death Note and giving it up without ever using it may well earn you an immediate death by the Shinigami just because you're boring for not playing his game. If you encounter a Death God at all, your only chance of not dying young is to be so impossibly beautiful that the Shinigami falls in love with you. At the very least, Shinigami are honest and up front about the price of what they offer.

* OverarchingVillain: They are by far the most recurring villains in the entire franchise. While they have a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality bizarre morality]], they are a race of extra-dimensional beings who survive by killing humans to extend their own lives. They are gods of death who are the reason why the Kiras are rampant in the Death Note universe, the last of them being C-Kira from the ''Death Note One-Shot Special''; why the notebooks titled [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] exists, and why [[KnightTemplar Light Yagami]] is, well... Kira. Their influence is so powerful that even [[AxCrazy Beyond Birthday]], the BigBad of the {{prequel}} novel ''Death Note: LightNovel/AnotherNote: The Los Angeles BB Murder Case'', owns the eyes of these creatures.

* PunchClockVillain: It really is only their duty to take humans' lives, and they only truly qualify as "evil" insofar as the occasional decision to kill a human earlier than intended - and doing so to save another will sponatenously cause their deaths.

->Voiced by: Hideyuki Umezu (JP), Creator/MichaelDobson (EN), Luis Alfonso Padilla (Latin America, 1st voice), Dafnis Fernández (Latin America, 2nd voice)

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Combined with MysticalWhiteHair. She's got like anime style purple-white hair and is a magical Death God.

* HereWeGoAgain: The Shinigami heads down to the human world to alleviate his boredom for a while.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She greatly resembles [[Franchise/StarWars Jabba the Hutt]].

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* CuteMonsterGirl: Averted: all of the female Shinigami are just as grotesque in appearance as the males.

* {{Intangibility}}: One of the ways that Shinigami on Earth stay incognito. (During the bus hijacking sequence, we see Raye Penber run ''through'' Ryuk!) Hoever, they can temporarily become solid to manipulate objects.

* {{Intangibility}}: Although a Shinigami on Earth can temporarily become solid to manipulate objects.

%% * ALoadOfBull

* AlternativeNumberSystem: The lifespan humans can see with Shinigami Eyes only appears in a number system recognisable to Shinigami and just looks like random numbers to a human.