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Light Turner is the main protagonist of the 2017 Netflix original film Death Note, which is very loosely based on the Japanese manga and anime series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
He is a teenage student who finds a Death Note and decides to use it to kill criminals and appoint himself the god of a clean world, with the assistance of the Shinigami Ryuk. He is a loose adaptation of Light Light Yagami from the original works.
He was portrayed by Nat Wolff.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- After Light saw Kenny harassing a girl outside of school he killed Kenny's in a brutal way, and while he was originally shocked, he showed no remorse for this, not to mention that Kenny wasn't even an attempted rapist in the movie, so while he was a jerk he didn't really deserved to die.
- Used the Death Note to get revenge on the guy who murdered his mother,
- He killed many criminals and people he deemed bad and used the name Kira to be treated like a god alongside Mia.
- He tried to use L's partner Watari to find L's identity.
- He destroyed the ferris wheel, killing Mia and putting himself a coma for 48 hours. Then he has two criminals save him, with the first rescuing him and the other killing several criminals while he was in a coma and then both dying by commiting suicide.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He suffers from a tragic backstory that was suppose to be sympathized with, he lost his mother when he was young while the man who killed her never payed for his actions until he got the Death Note, this is why he decided to use the Death Note initially as he wanted to punish criminals who hurt people like the guy who killed Light's mother did to him.
- He truly loved Mia, giving her the Death Note, protecting her from Kenny, and even trying to save her from falling from the ferris wheel despite her trying to kill him before.
- He's an extremist, as he wanted to get rid the world by the criminals and make it better, and while he did get a bit of god complex, he never subverted his extremism.
- He care for his father as he refused to kill him even after he was in danger of getting caught and didn't listen to Mia when she tried to convince to write his father's name in the Death Note.
- He felt remorse for his actions, crying to his father and saying him he was right about saying the world wasn't as simple as "the bad guys loose and the good guys win". Although it's unknown if he redeemed himself at the end.
- Overall, unlike his mainstream counterpart who was a remorseless sociopath with a god complex, this version of Light is much more sympathetic and is a genuine extremist with several redeeming qualities.
Trivia[]
- Coincidentally, he and Ryuk essentially swapped moral ranking in the movie compared to the original series. Light's original counterpart is infamously Pure Evil and Light Turner is Inconsistently Heinous, while the Netflix version of Ryuk counts as Pure Evil due to goading Light into using the Note, while the manga counterpart of Ryuk is Inconsistently Heinous due multiple detracting factors.
External Links[]
- Light Turner on the Villains Wiki
- Light Turner on the Heroes Wiki
- Light Turner on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Light Turner on the Scrappy Wiki
- Light Turner on the VS Battles Wiki
- Light Turner on the Death Note Wiki
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 Inconsistently Heinous
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