Death Note/Characters/Supporting Characters

Touta Matsuda
"Voiced by: Ryo Naitou (JP), Vincent Tong (EN)"

The youngest and most inexperienced member of the Japanese Task Force, Matsuda was Soichiro Yagami's protege before the series started and is the only member of the force to both consistently believe in Light's innocence and even show some sympathy towards Kira's cause. Unlike his teammates, he prefers not to do things 'by the book', instead taking risks -which is often heavily criticized by his colleagues.

Along with Mogi, he is.

-- Tropes associated with Matsuda:
 * Adorkable
 * Ascended Extra
 * Audience Surrogate: He's the character most unsure about Kira's morality. Less centrally, in several scenes he is also the one to express annoyance or confusion over things such as L's odd behavior (the cell phone scene comes to mind) and L's and Light's rather obscure back-and-forths.
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 * Berserk Button:
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 * Berserker Tears: He weeps openly
 * Beware the Honest Ones
 * Beware the Nice Ones/Beware the Silly Ones: He's the one that stops
 * Black Shirt: Interestingly, Light sees him this way. When he, Light is flabbergasted. Out of everyone, he expected Matsuda to side with him.
 * Break the Cutie: He might be kinda dumb, but is more or less a nice person who tries his best even if it doesn't work. Then, the poor guy has his idealism, mentors, and self-esteem slowly demolished throughout the series.
 * Brown Eyes
 * Butt Monkey: The other characters - Aizawa, L, Light - tend to make disparaging comments about Matsuda.
 * Captain Obvious
 * Chekhov's Gun:
 * Cloudcuckoolander: He has his moments.
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Official color seems to be yellow.
 * Cowardly Lion
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: But you gotta wait a long time for him to become un-hidden.
 * A Day in the Limelight: He gets an episode to himself during the Yotsuba arc.
 * Distress Ball: During the Yotsuba arc.
 * The Ditz: Matsuda is a normal guy, if a little goofy and impressionable; his contrast with the likes of L and Light is very obvious.
 * Dumbass Has a Point: His theory
 * Exact Eavesdropping: During the Yotsuba arc.
 * Faking the Dead: In order to continue the investigation against.
 * Fearless Fool: Matsuda just kind of assumes that things will work out well.
 * Foil: To Light and L.
 * Greek Chorus
 * Horrible Judge of Character: He adores Misa and, later, Kiyomi, and supports Light completely, even when the rest of the task force begins to turn against him.
 * Somewhat. The only one that he believes is innocent is Light, and that's mostly rooted in three things: the fact that they're similar, the fact that they're friends, and Soichiro Yagami being like a father to him. Like Aizawa said, it's not that it was impossible, but that they didn't want to believe it when they thought of the Chief. It was even worse with Matsuda because they were even closer friends.
 * I Am Spartacus:
 * Idiot Hero: While not the protagonist, he certainly fits this.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills: He's shown more than once over the course of the series to be something of a crack shot
 * Just Trying to Help: The poor guy...
 * Leeroy Jenkins: During the Yotsuba arc L warns the others, "Be sure not to act impulsively out of panic or haste." Matsuda didn't get the memo. His "unpredictability" rating is 10/10.
 * Let's Get Dangerous:
 * Other instances count as well; during Light's and Misa's confinement, Sayu's kidnapping, and the task force's raid on Mello's hideout, Matsuda demonstrates an ability to get down to business.
 * Loony Fan: Towards L, Light, Misa, and, from afar, Kiyomi.
 * The Matchmaker: He always seemed to want Misa and Light to be together; later, when Light "investigates" Kiyomi Takada, he's quite enthusiastic about it.
 * The McCoy: To L and Light.
 * My God, What Have I Done?:
 * Nepotism: The manga explains that this is why he has a job despite being more or less incompetent at it.
 * Nice Guy
 * No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gives one to
 * Not So Different: Among the most honest characters, in that he admits that he "can think like Kira, too."
 * Phrase Catcher: "Matsuda, you idiot."
 * Plucky Comic Relief: Matsuda is one of the characters who eagerly engages in joking and teasing.
 * Revenge: When Near offers to write Mello's name in the notebook, he's the only one who says to go for it, since Mello.
 * He didn't  for being Kira. He did it because.
 * Ship Tease: With Sayu. Also for some reason he gets really excited about Light dating Misa and Takada.
 * The Slacker: "All you ever do is watch TV." The thirteenth volume explains that he dislikes slow and steady work.
 * Suicidal Gotcha: He falls off of a building for L's plan.
 * This Loser Is You
 * True Companions: To the Yagami family. He's a family friend and Souichiro has him over at their house before the events of the Kira case. Souichiro is his Mentor, he crushes on Sayu, and he is enthusiastic (almost to an unhealthy degree) about everything Light does
 * Unstoppable Rage: At the end. Considering the living hell Light Yagami put the poor guy through, some would rate this as Matsuda's finest moment.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: with Aizawa, who's always yelling at him.
 * The Watson
 * Why Are You Looking At Me Like That?: During the Yotsuba arc when L mentions that they need someone who Kira will think he can kill easily.
 * Who's Laughing Now?
 * You Get Me Coffee: Poor guy.

Soichiro Yagami
"Voiced by: Naoya Uchida (JP), Chris Britton (EN)"

Light's father and the police chief initially in charge of the Kira investigation team operating under L. When L begins to suspect Light of being Kira, Soichiro is unwilling to believe his son would be capable of such a thing. He was originally envisioned as an "honest police officer with a strong sense of justice" so that the reader "would have to feel sorry for everything he has to go through", and according to Word of God, he is the only truly "pure" character. Over the course of the series, he changes visibly by losing weight and aging poorly, particularly during his and Light's confinement.

-- Tropes associated with Soichiro Yagami:


 * Badass Mustache: In the manga and anime; in the live action films, he's clean-shaven.
 * Benevolent Boss
 * Captain Ersatz: Of Commissioner Gordon from Batman
 * Car Fu: Ramming a TRUCK into a building.
 * The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: He admits that he has trouble looking at the case objectively when his own son becomes the main suspect.
 * Cool Old Guy: Well, sort of. He's not even as old as fifty when the story starts, but he has a heart attack quite early on in the Kira investigation while his son is a suspect and never recovers fully after that point, though he is repeatedly prevented from resigning from the Task Force either by L or his own stubbornness, depending on the context. Hence, he comes to look "old" even when speaking strictly he isn't.
 * He's certainly got the coolness covered, though. What do you do when the Second Kira is lurking outside killing anyone who tries to get into Sakura TV to prevent the airing of a message on the news that threatens the innocent? Smash through the studio's door with your van and threaten the producer at gunpoint, of course! And he does all of it after leaving the hospital where he had been admitted for a heart attack just days prior.
 * Da Chief
 * Daddy Didn't Raise No Criminal: His reaction to the suggestion that Light may be Kira.
 * Deadly Upgrade:
 * Earn Your Happy Ending: It's certainly no coincidence that the most noble character arguably gets the happiest ending.
 * Fan Nickname: Iron Chief.
 * A Father to His Men
 * The Fettered
 * Good Is Not Nice: He pulls a gun on both Demegawa and Light.
 * Later still he
 * Happily Married: To Sachiko. Not the lovey-dovey kind, but the strength of their marriage is extremely moving.
 * : While he didn't know
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Played by Takeshi Kaga of Iron Chef fame in the movie.
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness: A rare adult version of the Trope. Moral, upstanding, and never giving sway to any temptation. In How To Read, his strongest attribute was his integrity.
 * Leeroy Jenkins: When  "Plan? There's no time for that!"
 * The McCoy: In contrast to L's Spock and 's Kirk during the Yotsuba arc.
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Not a Game: Da Chief is fond of this Catch Phrase. He scolds Matsuda for his enthusiasm a few times, expresses disgust at how Kira is "playing with people's lives as if it were just a game!" and he says this word for word in the live action movie to L.
 * The Obi-Wan: To Matsuda's Idiot Hero, From a Certain Point of View.
 * Oblivious Guilt Slinging: All of the time spent with his son, Light.
 * Only Sane Man: During the Yotsuba arc, in a group that includes L's utter lack of social skills, Aizawa's temper, Matsuda's kookiness, the uncertainty of Light's might-be-a-serial-killer status, Mogi's silence, and Misa's flirtatious childishness, Soichiro seems to be the only one keeping everything sane.
 * Overprotective Dad: You all saw his face when Matsuda asked if Sayu had a boyfriend.
 * Papa Wolf: Towards Light and Sayu, all the way.
 * Parents as People: He has his flaws, and expresses worry about how these may have affected his two kids.
 * Principles Zealot
 * Scary Shiny Glasses
 * The Live-Action Movies
 * The 2nd Relight Special.
 * Stupid Good: At least as far as Light is- or pretends to be- concerned when he refers to him as the sort of person that is "made to be a fool" of when trying to persuade Matsuda to see things from his angle.
 * Tame His Anger
 * Technical Pacifist: He "has never actually taken a life before" despite having risen all the way to the top of Japan's police force (Truth in Television as the NPA are the Desk Jockeys of Japan's police force.)
 * Tame His Anger
 * Technical Pacifist: He "has never actually taken a life before" despite having risen all the way to the top of Japan's police force (Truth in Television as the NPA are the Desk Jockeys of Japan's police force.)

Watari
"Voiced by: Kiyoshi Kobayashi (JP), French Tickner (EN)"

L's guardian/butler/servant that contacts the police organizations of the world on his behalf. Real name is. -- Tropes associated with Watari:
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Badass Grandpa
 * Battle Butler
 * Conspicuous Trenchcoat: In his first appearance.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Owns/Runs a Tyke Bomb producing institution.
 * It's hinted in the light novel that he experimented on children.
 * Expy: Of Alfred Pennyworth. Fitting, since L bears notable similarities to Batman.
 * Friendly Sniper
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * The Handler
 * Improbable Aiming Skills
 * Mysterious Past: Something about a world war and being a famous inventor?
 * Nice Hat: Wears one along with his Conspicuous Trenchcoat.
 * Parental Substitute: For L.
 * Unflappable Guardian: Nothing L does seems to surprise him.
 * We Have Reserves: This is the implication to some of the fans of
 * We Have Reserves: This is the implication to some of the fans of

Shuichi Aizawa
"Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Trevor Devall (EN)"

Another member of the Japanese task force  He quits for a while when he wants to put his family first, but he eventually comes back. He's basically the smartest of the non-geniuses (Light, L, Near, etc.) and after

-- Tropes associated with Aizawa:
 * Ascended Extra
 * Audience Surrogate: By virtue of not being a super genius yet also being smart enough to realize Light's Kira, he's the character who comes closest to being in the audience's position.
 * Badass Longcoat: Begins wearing one in the second half.
 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * Changed My Mind, Kid
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Official color seems to be green.
 * Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): Aizawa comes into work one day with a bandaged head. When asked about it, he says he and his wife were in a fight, and the other men barely register that he's been physically injured by his wife.
 * Failed a Spot Check: JUST misses seeing Light and Naomi Misora together.
 * Fan Nickname: AfroCop
 * Funny Afro
 * Greek Chorus
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: And rather highly strung.
 * I Have a Family: He does honestly care about catching Kira, but ultimately puts the well-being of his family first.
 * Important Haircut: He loses the afro in the second arc.
 * Inspector Lestrade
 * My God, What Have I Done?:
 * Tame His Anger: To deal with Misa Amane. It didn't work.
 * Unwitting Pawn:
 * What the Hell, Hero?: He's the one willing to call out and walk out on L's extreme methods, unlike Soichiro, who whilst objecting always stays for the sake of defeating Kira.
 * You Are Grounded: He sends Misa to her room, much to the relief of everyone (both in the show and in the audience.)
 * You Are Grounded: He sends Misa to her room, much to the relief of everyone (both in the show and in the audience.)

Kanzo Mogi
"Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (JP), John Murphy (EN)"

A member of the Kira Taskforce. He and Matsuda are the only two task force members who see the case through to the end with no breaks, -- Tropes associated with Mogi:
 * The Big Guy
 * Comedic Sociopathy: Enjoys himself a little too much when screwing with Yotsuba Kira.
 * : In the live-action movies.
 * Death Faked for You: In the manga;
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Whenever he's babysitting Misa.
 * Large Ham: As Mochi the Manager.
 * Odd Friendship: With Aiber and Misa.
 * The Quiet One: Near finds this out.
 * The Reliable One
 * The Stoic: According to Word of God, Mogi dislikes expressing himself.
 * What Could Have Been: There were plans for him to have a larger role, but Ohba couldn't decide how to do it.
 * What Could Have Been: There were plans for him to have a larger role, but Ohba couldn't decide how to do it.

Hideki Ide
"Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa (JP), Brian Dobson (EN)"

Another member of the Kira Taskforce. He leaves early on and later returns for season 2.

-- Tropes associated with Ide:


 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * Commander Contrarian
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: He joins the Kira task force to work with Aizawa.
 * Ineffectual Loner
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He leaves the Taskforce prior to meeting L in person.
 * The Sixth Ranger
 * Unlucky Everydude
 * Unlucky Everydude

Hirokazu Ukita
"Voiced by: Hidenobu Kiuchi (JP), Jeremy From (EN)"

Another member of the Kira Taskforce. -- Tropes associated with Ukita:
 * Leeroy Jenkins: Drawing a gun and pointing it at the security officer at Sakura TV with the Second Kira in the area?
 * Plucky Comic Relief: In the manga.

Wedy
"Voiced by: Miki Nagasawa (JP), Venus Terzo (EN)"

A thief L hires to assist in infiltrating Yotsuba. Her real name is.

--- Tropes associated with Wedy:
 * Action Girl
 * Anti-Hero: Type III
 * Badass Biker
 * Classy Cat Burglar
 * Cool Shades
 * Hell-Bent for Leather
 * Highly-Visible Ninja: Bright PINK!
 * Loveable Rogue
 * Spell My Name with an "S": In the anime, when we see her real name written down
 * Spy Catsuit

Aiber
"Voiced by: Takuya Kirimoto (JP), David Orth (EN)"

A Con Man L hires to assist in infiltrating Yotsuba. His real name is.

--- Tropes associated with Aiber:
 * Alternate Continuity:
 * Anti-Hero: Type III
 * Blond Guys Are Anti-Heroes
 * Boxed Crook: According to the manga, he works for L because he has enough on him to send him away for life.
 * Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive
 * Con Man
 * Consummate Liar
 * Doesn't Like Guns
 * Loveable Rogue
 * Odd Friendship: With Mogi.
 * Perma Stubble
 * Pet the Dog:

Teru Mikami
"Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze (JP), Kirby Morrow (EN)"

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- Tropes associated with Mikami:
 * Adjusting Your Glasses: he adjusts his Scary Shiny Glasses by the bridge.
 * Adorkable
 * Alternate Continuity:
 * Amoral Attorney: Somewhat subverted; he works as a prosecutor during the day, but there are no hints that he acts like one of these, aside from Hanging Judge quirks.
 * Ascended Fanboy: Or more specifically, ascended Kira worshiper.
 * Axe Crazy: Say it with me: "DELETE."
 * Some added scenes in Relight 2 makes this even worse.
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Beat It by Compulsion/Idiosyncrazy: Near uses this strategy with Mikami, who neatly and precisely writes a certain amount of names down in the Death Note per day, to calculate which pages of the notebook to replace and which to leave.
 * Bishonen: Up until the Yellow Box scene, very much so.
 * Black and White Insanity: Even more so than Light. While Light falls slowly but surely into this, Mikami has always had it.
 * Brown Eyes
 * Bully Hunter: According to his Backstory.
 * Bumbling Sidekick: His screw-up costs Light dearly.
 * Calling Your Attacks: Overlaps with Madness Mantra: "Delete. Delete. Delete."
 * Catch Phrase: "Delete. Delete. Delete." And to a lesser extent: "GOD!!!"
 * Class Representative: In his Backstory.
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Official color seems to be purple. Wardrobe tends towards black, white, and blood red.
 * Cool Shades
 * Creature of Habit: He follows a daily schedule down to the minute.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: He was ruthlessly bullied throughout his childhood, and he felt that his mother, the only person he had, didn't support his crusade or his ideals.
 * Deadly Upgrade: "Shinigami...I thank you for these eyes."
 * The Dragon: "The Hand of Kira."
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: The emphasis here is on "eerie."
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: A notable subversion - as he sees his mother as someone who tolerates the bullies of the world rather than opposing them, he is ecstatic when she dies, taking it as a sign that God is looking out for him.
 * Evil Overlord List:
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 * Four Is Death:
 * Harmful to Minors: He was around the same age as Light (when Light first got the Death Note) when after years of abuse he began to think the world would be better off without certain people in it. Then all the people he secretly wanted dead died, explaining why they are messed up in the same way.
 * Hello, Attorney!
 * I Just Want to Be Special: When people kept coincidentally dying around him he came to believe he possessed the power to delete evil, even before gaining those powers via the Death Note.
 * I Wished You Were Dead: To his mother.
 * Identical Stranger: He bears a resemblance to L, both being Eerie Pale Skinned Brunettes with longish hair. Makes you wonder what was thinking...
 * He'd found a follower with two brain cells to bang together who'd do what he was told and do it well?
 * Intelligence Equals Isolation: He's frequently shown alone; in one scene in his introduction, he's drinking coffee by himself in the corner of the recreation yard.
 * Jack the Ripoff: His killings are attributed to Kira.
 * Kids Are Cruel: Backstory again.
 * Kingpin in His Gym
 * Knight Templar: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Blinded by extreme ideals, zealous, devoted, and insane.
 * Large Ham: He rivals even Light here.
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Looks Like He Is Enjoying It: He really likes deleting (spoilers).
 * Megane
 * NameDar: He makes the eye deal.
 * Nightmare Face: Several of them at the warehouse.
 * Parental Abandonment: His mother was a single mom, indicating that his father either abandoned them, or died. And then, of course, his mother dies as well.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: As a Kira, he kills many.
 * Poisonous Friend: Worshipping Light as God does not help Light's problems.
 * Principles Zealot
 * Protagonist Secret Service
 * Pure Is Not Good: "Evil should be deleted."
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Religion of Evil: He worships Light as God.
 * The Renfield
 * Right-Hand-Cat: He has one in the manga.
 * Samaritan Syndrome: This + Who's Laughing Now? = his Start of Darkness.
 * Schedule Fanatic: Sticks to it religiously.
 * Secret Keeper: For Light.
 * Serial Killer Killer
 * Ship Tease: His literal devotion to Light. Also he and Takada seem awfully close. Some of the dialogue in Relight 2 indicates that Takada is seeing both Mikami and Light.
 * Slasher Smile: Often.
 * Soft Spoken Sadist: In his early appearances, he is a very quiet and understated man, but listening to him describe his past during his introductory monologue as the new Kira you can tell he's a man so far in Black and White Insanity that he quietly snapped some time in high school and is waiting for an outlet to explode through. Which he does. With great aplomb.
 * Spear Counterpart: Can be considered one of Misa.
 * The Stoic
 * Not So Stoic: When he's killing and in the Yellow Warehouse.
 * Straight Edge Evil: Murder? Sure - it's for the good of the new world, and evil deserves only deletion. But drink or drugs? No way.
 * Strange Minds Think Alike: One of the main reasons  Perhaps the two are too similar:
 * Super OCD
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Some consider him to be this given his resemblence to Light and that his name is basically Light's backwards.
 * Totalitarian Utilitarian
 * Unequal Pairing: He is often shipped with Light, whom he literally worships.
 * Unreliable Narrator: In the anime he himself, rather than an omniscient narrator, narrates the flashbacks to his youth. He thus has an unfavorable view of his mother's advice to stop fighting against the bullies, whereas the manga's narrator noted that she was motivated by genuine concern for his welfare that was largely lost on him.
 * Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Played tragically straight.
 * Vigilante Man
 * Villainous Breakdown: So, so much.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: Just look at how he kills Kira's "supporters" and Demegawa, especially in the anime.
 * Sakujo! SAKUJO!! SAKUJO!!!
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: (see Right-Hand-Cat above) What happened to Mikami's kitty?
 * Who's Laughing Now?
 * Wicked Cultured
 * Wild Hair
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His childhood sucked. It's no surprise when he received the Death Note that he would gleefully "delete evil."
 * Wicked Cultured
 * Wild Hair
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His childhood sucked. It's no surprise when he received the Death Note that he would gleefully "delete evil."

Kiyomi Takada
"Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto (JP), Heather Doerksen (EN)"

A popular and pretty young woman whom Mikami chose to be Kira's spokesperson. She was the girl whom Light briefly dated once to hide his connections with Misa; the authors later "forgot" about her... and once they recalled her, they brought her back. Light gets in contact with her to gain access to Mikami, seducing her with a promise to make her the goddess of the New World. Eventually,

- Tropes associated with Takada: "Misa: Are you going to get Kira to kill me?
 * Alpha Bitch: "Refined Takada" is the mean girl to Misa.
 * Alternate Continuity: In the live action movies she fulfills the same role as the Yotsuba group does in the manga / anime.
 * Ambition Is Evil: While she is genuinely attracted to Light, she becomes much more interested in being close to him after learning that he's Kira.
 * The Beard: Light sets it up so that he "dates" her. His excuse for the Taskforce is that Kira will not kill Takada's boyfriend and that this will keep him safe while he investigates Kiyomi, but the real reason he does it is because he is Kira and he needs Takada to access Mikami.
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Definitely. She sleeps with a man and invites his fiancee out to brag about it, while being presented to the world as the epitome of grace and class. Even her nickname is "Refined Takada".
 * Blatant Lies: Her repeated referral to Misa as her "good friend", even after this exchange:

Takada: Of course not!"

"Takada: If you're lying you're going to pay. I'll tell Kira, you know.
 * That line itself is another blatant lie.
 * Break the Haughty: Her very last scene. The woman who spent all of her time being presented as superior, poised, and perfect.
 * Chekhov's Gunman: Shows up as a very minor character in the first arc, promptly vanishes, and is never mentioned again until far into the second arc.
 * College Sweethearts: With Light.
 * The Dark Chick: On Team Kira.
 * Deadly Upgrade:
 * Ditzy Genius: She gets very good grades in school but is lacking in the common sense department.
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Evil Eye:
 * Expy: She's like a murderous Lois Lane.
 * Hello, Nurse!: Quite popular with the opposite sex.
 * Horrible Judge of Character: She trusts Light, after he tells her that he is Kira - the same Kira who has murdered anyone who got or threatened to get in his way. She even expects him to save her.
 * Hot Scoop
 * Intellectually Supported Tyranny: As an educated young woman, rather than help protect society against the cult of Kira, she becomes one of its main propagandists. "We must teach our children that Kira is good."
 * It's All About Me: She loves to be the center of attention.
 * Knight Templar: Blinded by ideals, check. Devoted, check.
 * Lady Macbeth: She urges Light to kill Misa at one point.
 * Loves My Alter Ego: Subverted; while she is very much more in love with Kira, she's still attracted to Light.
 * Maaya Sakamoto
 * Meaningful Name: Takada = tall ricefield; Kiyomi = pure beauty. Notable in being the only character in the entire series to have a real-life name.
 * Modesty Bedsheet: Wears one right after
 * Murder the Hypotenuse: Really dislikes Misa and tells Light at least once to kill her.
 * No Place for Me There: In the live action movies "There's so much filth in the world... and I am the worst of all."
 * The Ojou: She's nicknamed "Refined Takada".
 * Poisonous Friend
 * Principles Zealot: More in the live action. In the anime, she's more interested in being Kira's goddess than in his ideals.
 * Psychotic Love Triangle: She and Misa are rivals for Light's heart, which ends just as well as you'd think it would.
 * Protagonist Secret Service
 * Secret Keeper
 * Ship Tease: With Light and Mikami. The dialogue in the Relight 2 special seemed to suggest she is dating both of them.
 * Totalitarian Utilitarian
 * Unequal Pairing: Considering Light's god complex, this is pretty much unavoidable.
 * Victoria's Secret Compartment: Keeps a page of the Death Note in her bra.
 * Who's Laughing Now?: In the live action movie.
 * Wicked Cultured
 * Yandere: After Light assures Takada that his seeing Misa doesn't mean anything and "you're the only one for me":
 * Ship Tease: With Light and Mikami. The dialogue in the Relight 2 special seemed to suggest she is dating both of them.
 * Totalitarian Utilitarian
 * Unequal Pairing: Considering Light's god complex, this is pretty much unavoidable.
 * Victoria's Secret Compartment: Keeps a page of the Death Note in her bra.
 * Who's Laughing Now?: In the live action movie.
 * Wicked Cultured
 * Yandere: After Light assures Takada that his seeing Misa doesn't mean anything and "you're the only one for me":
 * Wicked Cultured
 * Yandere: After Light assures Takada that his seeing Misa doesn't mean anything and "you're the only one for me":

Light: Ha ha. Great joke Takada.

Takada: I'm not joking.

Ide: Whoa, women are scary."