Death Note/Characters/Novel Pilot and Movies

Beyond Birthday
The villain in the Prequel novel Death Note: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Case.


 * Alliterative Name
 * Always Second Best
 * Axe Crazy
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Batman Gambit:
 * Because Destiny Says So:
 * Beta Test Baddie
 * Big Bad: Of Another Note.
 * Bloodier and Gorier
 * Calling Card: The wara ningyo.
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Can't Catch Up:
 * Carry a Big Stick: clubbed to death, knifed to death, beaten to death- he's not too picky as long as he carries out his objective of making his target dead.
 * Cast of Snowflakes: Played straight in the book. BB is only supposed to bear a vague resemblance to L.
 * Averted in most fan-art, where he looks almost exactly like L.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Cold-Blooded Torture
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Create Your Own Villain
 * Creepy Monotone
 * Criminal Mind Games: Among other games and codes BB sends a Crossword Puzzle indicating who he's going to kill next to the police.
 * Cruel and Unusual Death: For his victims if the state of the corpses is anything to go by.
 * Cute and Psycho: Well he's a psycho and
 * Dark and Troubled Past
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Subverted.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Deceptive Disciple:
 * Defiant to the End: "I have never once been submissive even to a traffic light."
 * The Determinator / Determined Defeatist:
 * Does Not Like Shoes
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Embarrassing Nickname: Backup
 * Evil Counterpart: To L. Indeed B goes out of his way to be this. Also to Mello (L shares B's story with Mello perhaps because he is afraid that that Mello would turn out like his predecessor) and Light (though Kira kills far more people; B is more sadistic and his brand of villainy is more immediately terrifying and has a much more personal touch.)
 * Evil Eye
 * Evil Is Petty
 * Evil Laugh: If Shinigami could breed you'd think he was related to Ryuk - he has his laugh.
 * Evil Sounds Deep
 * Eye Scream
 * Fan Boy: he's an Otaku as well as being L's deranged fanboy.
 * The Fatalist: It comes with knowing when
 * Fingore
 * Foe Yay: Mainly with L and Naomi Misora. Also frequently with Light who he's never met.
 * Freudian Excuse:
 * Full-Body Disguise:
 * A Glass of Chianti: Or rather A Jar Of Strawberry Jam used to the same effect (is it jam or is it blood?) with the added bonus that some fans find it cute.
 * Gorn
 * The Hyena: He practices his Evil Laugh.
 * I Just Want to Be You
 * Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
 * : As  points out, "how humiliating for him"...
 * Knife Nut
 * Laughably Evil
 * Looks Like Cesare
 * Loony Fan
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Master of Disguise: As part of his creepy obsession with L.
 * Mysterious Past
 * Named Like My Name:
 * Neat Freak: Justified, as he needs to meticulously clean his victims' houses to avoid leaving any trace evidence behind.
 * Amusingly in most Fan Art he's depicted as splattered in blood to show that it is Beyond and not L.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe
 * Nightmare Fetishist
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot:  He's not a typical DN OC Mary Sue but a very scary Big Bad.
 * No Sense of Personal Space
 * No Social Skills
 * Obfuscating Stupidity
 * OC Stand-In: He is a very mysterious figure in canon, and like Matt, much of his characterization comes from Fanon.
 * Oral Fixation Fixation
 * Otaku:
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Primal Stance
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * The Resenter
 * Returning to the Scene:  but it's all part of the plan.
 * The Rival
 * Running on All Fours: He frequently crawls around in a freaky way.
 * Seme: Self-described as "an aggressive top".
 * Serial Killer
 * The Sociopath
 * Stringy Haired Ghost Guy: He has this look.
 * Suck Sessor
 * Superpowerful Genetics:
 * Sweet Tooth: B must surpass L at everything, even sugar consumption. "It's sweet dirt."
 * Teen Genius
 * Things That Go Bump in the Night: When he's introduced
 * Thirteen Is Unlucky
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Strawberry jam.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * The Unfettered:
 * Voodoo Doll: Or rather wara ningyo left at every crime scene.
 * Villain Protagonist
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy:
 * Wild Hair
 * Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Rather horribly averted.
 * Teen Genius
 * Things That Go Bump in the Night: When he's introduced
 * Thirteen Is Unlucky
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Strawberry jam.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * The Unfettered:
 * Voodoo Doll: Or rather wara ningyo left at every crime scene.
 * Villain Protagonist
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy:
 * Wild Hair
 * Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Rather horribly averted.

A
A student at Wammy's House in the Prequel novel Death Note: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Case.


 * Mad Mathematician
 * Morality Pet:
 * Morality Chain:
 * OC Stand-In
 * The Rival:
 * Tyke Bomb
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy
 * Tyke Bomb
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy

Taro Kagami


The 13-year-old protagonist of the Death Note Pilot chapter (which takes place in a different continuity than that of the main series). Technically, this makes him the first of the Kiras.

Mikami's appearance, but not his personality, was based on Taro's.


 * Action Survivor
 * Alternate Continuity
 * Bad Dreams: His victims haunt him in his dreams. Had he been the protagonist of the main series, it's doubtful that he could have gone as far as Light did.
 * Being Evil Sucks
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Death Is Cheap: The Death Eraser.
 * Diary: Not knowing what it was, he intially used the death note as a diary. Unlike Light, Taro can't read English (he knew what "note" meant, but not "death").
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: Seemingly insignificant and unpopular kid who eventually has the entire student body scared out of their wits
 * Halfway Plot Switch:
 * When you compare it to the main series, it feels like a condensed version of everything Light went through from the first chapter all the way to.
 * I Wrote Our Story: Cue Epileptic Trees.
 * It Got Worse:
 * Kid Detective
 * Kid Hero
 * Kids Are Cruel: Taro is a favorite target for the school bullies.
 * Lighter and Softer: When compared to Light. However, since he actually came first, you could say that Light is a Darker and Edgier replacement for him.
 * My God, What Have I Done?
 * Not So Different:
 * Person of Mass Destruction: Potentially, though he isn't shown using the notebook this way.
 * Properly Paranoid
 * Thirteen Is Unlucky: Our 13-year-old Woobie Protagonist.
 * Where Are They Now? Epilogue
 * Who's Laughing Now?
 * Person of Mass Destruction: Potentially, though he isn't shown using the notebook this way.
 * Properly Paranoid
 * Thirteen Is Unlucky: Our 13-year-old Woobie Protagonist.
 * Where Are They Now? Epilogue
 * Who's Laughing Now?

Shiori Akino
Light's girlfriend in the live action movie.

"Light: IF I were Kira I'd probably do the exact same thing... Shiori: No you wouldn't - that's not like you at all!"
 * Alternate Continuity
 * Always Save the Girl: Subverted.
 * The "B" Grade: She's annoyed that Light keeps effortlessly outdoing her in school.
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Composite Character: She's the smart girl on campus like Takada and also fulfiles the same role as Yuri, aka the Girl from the Bus.
 * Damsel in Distress
 * Foil: To Light, especially when he's in gloating Kira-mode.
 * Hello, Attorney!: She's studying to become a prosecutor.
 * Horrible Judge of Character
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness: "One day Shiori is going to understand..." (that KIRA IS JUSTICE!!!) Sure, buddy. This is the same girl that gets ticked off at you for making bets on sporting events and you think she's going to be cool with mass homicide?
 * The Ingenue
 * Love Martyr
 * Morality Pet
 * Oblivious Guilt Slinging
 * Only Sane Man
 * Plucky Girl
 * Satellite Character
 * Selective Obliviousness: She seemingly refuses to see what (in the film) is blindingly obvious.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Satellite Character
 * Selective Obliviousness: She seemingly refuses to see what (in the film) is blindingly obvious.


 * Token Romance
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Even if she’s not aware of Light’s double-life, she’s the one to call him on it.
 * "Stop it, Anakin. THIS ISN'T YOUR JUSTICE!!!"
 * "Stop it, Anakin. THIS ISN'T YOUR JUSTICE!!!"

K
The Big Bad of L: Change the World.


 * A Pupil Of Mine Until She Turned To Evil: "Watari had such high hopes for you."
 * Animal Wrongs Group
 * Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: She and her henchmen feel very complimented when one of their victims calls them "no better than Kira."
 * Beta Test Baddie
 * Big Bad: Of L: Change the World
 * Bond Villain Stupidity
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Card-Carrying Villain: She and her gang go around kicking orphans and threatening to kill babies just to show the audience how evil they are.
 * The Chessmaster: Well, she wants to be.
 * Create Your Own Villain:  What a surprise.
 * Eviler Than Thou: At least Light cares about the human race.
 * Kick the Dog
 * Kill All Humans
 * Knight Templar: Little Miss Captain Planet wants to Kill All Humans to save the earth.
 * Misanthrope Supreme: Humans Are the Real Monsters that are destroying the planet so the Perfect Solution is to release The Plague Depopulation Bomb, killing them all!
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
 * Nietzsche Wannabe
 * Power Hair
 * Stepford Smiler
 * Theme Naming: K is an associate of L's who wants to kill a bunch of people in order to build a new perfect utopia. Sound familiar? Well prepare to be disappointed because it's not K as in Kira.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * Utopia Justifies the Means
 * The War On Straw: No, this is not the argument of the Green movement... Nor is this why anyone supported Kira. The Author Tract is taken Up to Eleven in the Novelization.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 * To  in the light novel.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 * To  in the light novel.

Daisuke Matoba
The Dragon to K in L: Change the World


 * Canon Foreigner
 * The Dragon: To K.
 * Dragon-in-Chief
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars: Making Bond villains everywhere proud.
 * Greed
 * Jerkass
 * Not in This For Your Revolution
 * Obviously Evil
 * Only in It For the Money
 * Red Right Hand: See above about the scar.
 * Take Over the World
 * Take Over the World

Hideaki Suruga
The FBI Agent in L: Change The World.


 * The Ace: "Hideaki Suruga F.B.I.! Here to protect you!"
 * But Not Too Foreign: Lampshaded when no one will believe he's an F.B.I. agent beacause he's Japanese.
 * Butt Monkey: "Why do I always have to be the decoy?!"
 * Canon Foreigner
 * : He's here because
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Plucky Comic Relief

Sanami
A token female member of the Kira Taskforce added in the Live Action movies.


 * Affirmative Action Girl
 * Canon Foreigner
 * The Chick
 * Commander Contrarian
 * Gender Flip: She's basically the movie-verse's version of Ide.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: She calls L out on the cruel and unusual treatment of the Kira suspects.

F
Another graduate of Wammy’s house that shows up in L: Change The World.


 * Badass Driver
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Chase Scene
 * Fail O'Suckyname: Seriously!
 * Papa Wolf
 * West Coast Team: One of L and Watari's agents working a case in a remote jungle village in Thailand when
 * Papa Wolf
 * West Coast Team: One of L and Watari's agents working a case in a remote jungle village in Thailand when
 * West Coast Team: One of L and Watari's agents working a case in a remote jungle village in Thailand when
 * West Coast Team: One of L and Watari's agents working a case in a remote jungle village in Thailand when

Dr. Nikaido
An immunologist and the father of Maki Nikaido in L: Change The World.


 * Bat Deduction: The Da Vinci Code type clues he left require astounding leaps of "logic".
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Good Doc Bad Doc: The good doctor.

Maki Nikaido
Daughter of Dr. Nikakido. She's also one of the kids that L has to protect in L: Change The World.


 * Canon Foreigner
 * Cheerful Child
 * Children Raise You
 * Damsel in Distress
 * Or Damsel Scrappy.
 * Ill Girl
 * Indy Ploy
 * Revenge Before Reason
 * Security Blanket: Maki's teddy bear.
 * Spanner in the Works
 * Taking You with Me:
 * Too Dumb to Live