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== Light Yagami ==
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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Mamoru Miyano]] (JP), [[Brad Swaile]] (EN)}}
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Known aliases: Kira, {{spoiler|[[You Kill It, You Bought It|the second L]]}}.
* [[Allergic to Routine]]: Now if Light could have found some other intellectually engaging hobby the entire plot probably would not have happened.
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: To Sayu.
* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: Light's name is very unusual ([[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|as in what were his parents smoking]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20151218195518/http://silentpokefreak01.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Motivational-217376451
* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: [[Backstory|Before picking up the Death Note.]]
* {{spoiler|[[Amnesiacs Are Innocent]]}}: a deliberately [[Invoked Trope]] during Light's {{spoiler|[[Memory Gambit]]}}.
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* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: The cover art of Volume 12 of the manga, ([[Sarcasm Mode|being subtle]]).
** Also during the second ending theme song's animation, although if you blink you'll miss it.
* [[Cult of Personality]]: His followers are so devoted that they will commit murder for him.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Though]] ''[[Playing with a Trope|he]]'' [[Playing with a Trope|doesn't think of it as a curse.]]
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: Brown hair, brown eyes.
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Horror has never [[media:lightbedtimefanart.jpg|
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Light manages to avoid most major villain pitfalls... {{spoiler|until the end.}}
** [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Similar to how Misa seems to be under the impression she's living in a [[Thinks Like a Romance Novel|Romance Novel]], Light seems to think he's living in a [[Shonen Genre|Shonen Manga]] which, while technically true, he's an [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|idealist]] living in a [[Sliding Scale
* [[Dark Messiah]]: "The Savior, the Messenger from Hell."
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: When compared to Taro Kagami, the Kira from the pilot chapter.
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** Averted in the second live-action film, wherein he {{spoiler|writes Soichiro's name in the Death Note, [[Even Evil Has Standards|shocking even Misa to the point of tears]]. And just when we thought it couldn't get worse, it did: he dies in Soichiro's arms (who, by the way, survives here), begging him to believe that he [[Freudian Excuse|acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had taught him about since childhood, into effect]]}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: 1) He is initially dismayed when {{spoiler|Mikami's}} killing spree extends even to {{spoiler|relatively innocent people guilty of such minor acts as being lazy}}, but later thinks to himself only that it's "too early to be making statements like that," suggesting he may agree. Explicit in the manga when he actually toys with this very idea early on in the story. 2) Light set up matters in the second arc so that he couldn't kill his little sister without incriminating himself. Though that's after he considers actually doing it. 3) In the anime Light looks quite irritated when [[Jack the Ripoff|a second Kira]] appears and uses his name to kill innocent newscasters and police officers for "no good reason."
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Let's see, you've got like every background character in episode 1, Ryuk has to follow him around everywhere, Raye Penber The Stalker, L and his weird obsession and surveillance cameras, [[Yandere
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To L.
* [[Evil Gloating]]: He just can't resist it ...
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** A particular example is when he's just written Misora's name in the Death Note. The moment she realizes that he is Kira and the Death Note takes effect, he asks her what the matter is and casually turns his phone back on, telling Naomi she can speak to his father now.
* [[Fear Is the Appropriate Response]]: Light tends to panic when things don't go according to plan.
* [[Fluffy Tamer]]: "You shinigami are so cute!" ([[media:
* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: Sayu and Light, though subverted once Light becomes Kira.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: In the live action films, wherein he {{spoiler|dies in Soichiro's (who, by the way, [[Spared by the Adaptation|does not die here]] arms begging him to believe that he acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had taught him about since childhood, into effect.}}
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* [[I Have Come Too Far]]: He says this nearly word-for-word at one point.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Light Yagami, Kira (the Saviour, the Messenger from Hell, etc.), Light Asahi, "Mr. A an office worker", {{spoiler|L (number two)}}, God.
* [[I Meant to Do That]]: whenever L one-ups or humiliates him Light quickly recovers with "This is perfect. It's all according to plan." [https://web.archive.org/web/20120319130644/http://g0069.deviantart.com/art/DNF-Fifteen-HATE-95432389
* [[I Will Protect Her]]: Rem forces him, under direct threat of death, to adopt this mindset towards Misa in regards to his plans during the events that lead up to the Yotsuba arc.
** As a more genuine example, this is Light's attitude towards his little sister, Sayu. In the manga, though, he considers murdering her at one point, and only doesn't do so because he opts to gamble with her life- and their fathers- in order to find and kill Mello and get the second Death Note back.
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* {{spoiler|[[Implausible Deniability]]: Justified. As the [[Real Life]] section notes on the trope's page, clinical psychopaths have a tendency to never admit guilt even when faced with undeniable proof of their actions.}}
* [[Incriminating Indifference]]: Although he tries to avert this.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: [[Broken Ace|Light seems to be living his life under the assumption that he has to be]] ''[[Broken Ace|perfect]]''. Perfect student, perfect son... and then he kills two people by accident just to satisfy his curiosity and his boredom. That ruins everything. [[Go Mad
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: [[Believing Their Own Lies|This is how he deludes himself into thinking he's doing the right thing.]] He ''sincerely believes'' that if he kills off all the criminals [[Rousseau Was Right|no one will ever do anything evil again.]]
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: He doesn't let people in-universe let in on this fact til towards the end, though.
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* [[Living with the Villain]]: Light and Misa live together, although in this case Light himself is also a villain.
** Soichiro, Sayu, and Sachiko all live with Light in the first season (which makes for some ''really'' awkward family discussions).
* [[Lonely
* [[Looks Like She Is Enjoying It|Looks Like He Is Enjoying It]]: Light writing in the Death Note typically involves a lot of sweating, panting, [[Large Ham|shouting]], and giggling in sadistic glee. [[Fan Art]] [http://celesse.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Gasm-53647615 ensued.]
* [[Magnetic Hero|Magnetic Villain]]: His
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: In manipulating both Misa and {{spoiler|Higuchi}}; Mikami and Takada both count, too. He is the original Kira, functioning through a series of proxies and decoys throughout the series.
* [[Mangst]]: He does feel emotional pain for {{spoiler|his sister's kidnapping and his father's death. And maybe even for betraying his "good friend" L,}} it's just very subtle and well-hidden.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: ''Night god'', anyone? Also his first name is a name that real parents in Japan would never give to their child because the character for moon is written with [[Four Is Death|four strokes]] [[Prophetic Names|meaning his adult life would be dominated by death.]]
* [[Narcissist]]: Light grows completely divorced from humanity, and eventually percieves himself as a god, valuing other people according to their usefulness to him (like Misa, Takada, and Mikami) or his personal interest in them (like his family).
* [[Necessarily Evil]]: Starts out this way, determined to sacrifice himself for the greater good. However, [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|less than a week later]] he's [[
* [[Never Hurt an Innocent]]: Initially.
** ''He'' seems to think of himself that way, though.
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* [[Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught]]: "If Kira is caught, then Kira is evil. [[Written by the Winners|If he wins and rules the world, Kira is justice.]]"
* [[Not So Different]]: Frequently lampshaded. Both he and L are genius [[The Chessmaster|Chessmasters]] [[The Man Behind the Curtain|that hold vast power by remaining anonymous]]- L solves criminal cases behind his computer screen, Light judges humanity from the comfort of his bedroom. They're two sides of the same coin: [[Visionary Villain|Light has great ideals and no integrity.]] [[Honor Before Reason|L has great integrity and no ideals.]]
** Also with Matsuda: Both are [[New Meat|youthful]] [[Wide-Eyed Idealist
* {{spoiler|[[Nothing Can Stop Us Now]]: [[What an Idiot!|"Looks like I win."]]}}
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|What's that,]]'' '' {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Rem?]]}}'' ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I don't understand... could you explain to me]]'' '' {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the rules of ownership]]}}'' ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|again?]]''
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: He consistently views himself as a [[Dark Messiah]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] whose actions are [[Utopia Justifies the Means|justified]] and [[Necessarily Evil|necessary]]. As you can imagine, he's quite, quite mad.
* [[OC Stand
* [[Odd Name Out]]: Light is the only Yagami not to have a name that starts with "S" (Sochiro, Sachiko, Sayu)
* [[Offered the Crown]]: {{spoiler|L unexpectedly offers Light his title as the "Great Detective L" should he die. Light ([[Memory Gambit|who no longer remembers that he is Kira]] and at the moment genuinely likes L) refuses [[Literal Metaphor|for as comrades chained together by a common destiny]] [[Together in Death|they would die together anyway,]] but then he realizes it was just [[Secret Test of Character|another test.]]}}
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** In the film, {{spoiler|he collapses, and that's pretty much it}}.
* [[Real Men Hate Sugar]]: When L offers to share his cake. "Er... no thanks." In the manga during the second arc Takada remarks that Light takes his coffee black but will take one sugar cube in his tea.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Light does wear a pink shirt when hanging with Matsuda in Aoyama. Also, fear the God of the New World's mad sewing skills! [https://web.archive.org/web/20130318182427/http://songue.deviantart.com/art/Motivation-Yagami-Light-161024000
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: After he gains the Death Note, the anime makes a point of catching his eyes so that they have a red cast to them. This is made even more obvious when he is contemplating something particularly nasty, and the anime colors his eyes, metaphorically, bright red.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The red to L's blue. The anime makes this [[
** Weirdly, because it [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl|inverts]] the symbolism, Light is red against ''Misa's'' blue, as seen, for example, in the scene where she comes to the To-Oh campus.
* [[Red Pill, Blue Pill]]: [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|If you give up the notebook you'll lose all of your memories related to both it and the Shinigami, and have to deal with all of the questioning and self-doubt that comes alone with your inability to remember quite a lot]] OR [[Artifact of Doom|you can keep it and your life is guaranteed to suck.]]
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* [[Super OCD]]: His room is immaculately tidy for a teenager, so don't try to steal anything- least of all killer notebooks- from it. And definitely don't catch him by surprise.
* [[Take Over the World]]: Well, he wants to becomes its God, and that's pretty much the same thing.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: [[The Last Dance|In his first week as Kira, Light was expecting some sort of punishment for using the notebook]] but decided it's [[Worth It]] if he can [[Utopia Justifies the Means|make the world a better place by]] taking out as many bad guys as possible before he's killed or his soul is dragged off to [[Hell]]. Then Ryuk informs him there is no punishment, he wasn't [[The Chosen One|Chosen]] or anything, [[For the Evulz|and its all a joke.]] [[Go Mad
* [[Talking Your Way Out]]: With a high success rate.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|Tall,]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Light]] [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|and Snarky]]
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* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Kira's default mood.
* [[TV Genius]]: His [[The Chessmaster|cleverness]] at times reaches beyond the plausible. (Not as extreme as L's, though.)
* {{spoiler|[[Two Aliases, One Character]]: By the second arc, he's playing the role of both L and Kira.}}
* [[Ubermensch]]: One interpretation of his character. He certainly sets up his laws by which he lives.
* [[The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter|The Ugly Guys Hot Son]]: while Soichiro isn't ''ugly'' exactly the [[Bishonen]] Light looks nothing like his father.
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* [[You Just Told Me]]: Happens to [[Unwitting Pawn|Raye Penber]] and {{spoiler|(in the manga) [[Unwitting Pawn|the President of the United States.]]}}
* [[You Will Be Spared]]: {{spoiler|Provided someone is useful to him and/or doesn't get in his way. i.e Misa and Mikami. Also the Taskforce for most of season 2.}}
* [[Young and
* [[Young Conqueror]]: His is youthful idealism at its darkest.
* [[Zeroth Law Rebellion]]: [[My God, What Have I Done?|Light has a major conflict with his morals upon realizing the notebook is real.]] [[Ignored Epiphany|He resolves this conflict]] by coming to the [[Insane Troll Logic|logical conclusion]] that getting rid of evil people is righteous - the justice system punishes criminals and has them executed, it's okay for cops to shoot the bad guys. What he did was no different. [[Shoot the Dog|If he hadn't used the notebook]] [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|those school children would have been killed, that girl would have been raped.]] Therefore the murders that he committed were perfectly just and legal because he will BECOME ''JUSTICE''.
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== L ==
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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] (JP), Alessandro Juliani (EN)}}
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He is the opposing [[Deuteragonist]] of the series {{spoiler|until he dies at the hands of Rem, but he had created a deadman switch, which resulted in his fellow oddball Near taking over the Kira case.}} His real name, revealed in an encyclopedia of the series (How To Read 13), {{spoiler|is L Lawliet}}.
* [[20% More Awesome]]: He occasionally gives statistics about how right he is. The official guide claims that he makes these up to sound more credible, while another [[Word of God]] claims that whenever he mentions a statistic at all, he's always 99% sure. So all that "5%" or "47%" or whatever meant he was almost totally sure every time.
* [[Admiring the Abomination]]: L only takes on cases that interest him and though understated he finds [[Nightmare Fetishist|Kira/Light quite fascinating]] and regards him as a [[Worthy Opponent]]. L gets very annoyed at the appearance of a Second Kira because it's not ''HIS'' Kira and not [[Even Evil Has Standards|playing by the same rules.]] In the live action movies he has a clear [[Pass the Popcorn]] moment when watching Light manipulate Naomi Misora on the monitors.
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* [[Hero Antagonist]]: With Light as the [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: The public and the police don't trust L because he hides behind a computer screen.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: In the English dub, L is played by Alessandro Juliani, known to ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Hikikomori]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: He is almost certain it's Light from the very beginning but instead of say [[Unperson|nabbing him in the middle of the night]] or [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|just shooting him]] he insists on waiting until he has 100% proof before making an arrest. [[Justified Trope|Of course, killing him without evidence that he's right would pretty easily turn the police against him, especially since the police chief is Light's father]].
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* [[No Social Skills]]: He has very poor social skills.
* [[Not So Different]]: Frequently [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]], especially with {{spoiler|his true name: Lawliet, which is pronounced like "low light."}} The [[Great Detective]] L [[Nothing Is Scarier|is a nameless, anonymous force of justice / retribution]] that may strike down when your least expect it. Sound familiar? [[The Hunter Becomes the Hunted|Sucks to be you,]] [[Laser-Guided Karma|Light.]]
* [[OC Stand
* [[Older Than They Look]]: He's twenty-four at the start yet doesn't look much older then the 17 year old Light. If anything, he looks younger.
** Evoked in the Live-action movies, where L's actor is younger than Light's actor.
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* [[Trash of the Titans]]: L in [[L: Change the World|his movie]]. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that {{spoiler|[[Your Days Are Numbered|he's only got 23 days to live]] and he's not going to waste his remaining time cleaning.}}
* [[TV Genius]]: He often seems to deduce things almost out of thin air. As a general rule, he's never wrong about anything.
* {{spoiler|[[Two Aliases, One Character]]}}
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: L is an orphan raised to be the World's Greatest Detective. He doesn't consider anyone a friend.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: As far as Light (and the audience) knows L has no past, no name. [[Nothing Is Scarier|He simply is.]]
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* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]] one above being only his first in the series.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: He's a master of it, as shown when he {{spoiler|saves Matsuda from being discovered by the Yotsuba group by having him [[Faking the Dead|fake his own death]]}}.
* [[Young and
== Misa Amane ==
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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Aya Hirano]] (JP), Shannon Chan-Kent (EN)}}
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{{spoiler|In the manga, Misa is stated to have committed suicide a year after Light dies. In the anime, it is implied that she does the same: the last scene of her in the series has her on the other side of the railing at the edge of a building. In the movies, [[Spared by the Adaptation|she survives]]; due to the Death Notes being destroyed, she has lost her memory of being the second Kira, as well as Light being Kira. She remembers Light himself, and that she loves him, but knows that there is something missing that she cannot recall}}.
* [[A Boy and His X|A Girl And Her Shinigami]]
* [[Acceptable Feminine Goals]]: Misa is a model, actress, and singer. When Light tells her to quit her job because he's going to marry her, she cheers.
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* [[Caught in the Rain]]: During the opening sequence of the first season, Light offers Misa his hand as she walks through the rain towards him.
* [[Cleavage Window]]: In the shape of a heart, no less.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Light is ''hers''. [[Yandere
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Misa certainly does not live in the same world as most other people.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Her official color seems to be light blue.
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* [[Dissonant Laughter]]: When Rem agrees to {{spoiler|''murder L''}} at Light's request, Misa's reaction is to laugh and clap her hands. In the anime, she even hugs Rem.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Comes with the job of being the second Kira. When she {{spoiler|regains her Death Note and finds Light's note asking her to kill L, she gladly, even triumphantly, considers it. Her distress comes only when she realizes that she can't remember his name.}}
* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)]]: Light and Misa have a very unhealthy "relationship" if it can be called that at all. Misa [[Stalking Is Love|stalks Light]] and [[Yandere
** To be fair, this seems to be for a few reasons. Firstly, it doesn't seem too outrageous to think that Misa is just so childish and airheaded that she doesn't realize that that's not how a healthy relationship is supposed to work (if she knew how a healthy relationship was supposed to work, she probably wouldn't have stuck with Light). She is also fairly smart despite her airheadedness and may realize that Light doesn't really like her that much and would probably kill her if she didn't keep wrapped around her finger like that. We'll just say their "relationship" is really screwed up.
** And to be fair, Misa is 5' and 79 lbs, and not muscled or trained. Light is 5'10. He's slender, true, but he's also fully grown and has been proven to be athletic. This is a pretty significant difference in physical mass. Violence in a relationship is never right, but Misa striking Light is a different situation, physically speaking, than Light striking Misa.
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* [[The Unfettered]]: Her goal is to help Light. She will do anything to further that goal.
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: With Light; they are engaged in the second arc.
* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: After she was released from captivity, she spent her next scene in pj's, without makeup and with her hair down ([[media:
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: Had her parents not been killed when she was a little girl, she would've possibly grown into the same [[Idol Singer]]... without the [[Ax Crazy]] [[Yandere
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Villain Song]]: "Misa no Uta", sung while she's ''killing people'', no less.
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* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]]: Used to avoid attracting attention while tracking down Light and later Higuchi.
* [[Woman in Black]]
* [[Yandere
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: The Second Kira's standard uniform.
== Mello ==
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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Nozomu Sasaki]] (JP), David Hurwitz (EN)}}
Besides being in the manga and anime, Mello also appears in the spin-off prequel novel, ''[[Another Note]]'', where he acts as the [[Narrator]].
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In stark contrast to Near and L (the latter of which he worships), Mello is extremely dynamic, a ruthless mob boss, but just as brilliant as Near. Also, [[Sweet Tooth|he likes chocolate]]{{spoiler|- possibly as hearkening back to L's own sweet tooth to show that side of his personality (ruthlessness aside) as continuing in him}}.
* [[Always Second Best]]
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Let's review: [[Leather Man|he wears tight leather pants]] [[Camp Gay|and as pointed out by his English VA in an interview, "Is he wearing a feather boa?"]] Also in the manga he [[Ignore the Fanservice|Ignores the Fanservice]] when Halle [[Shower Scene|showers in front of him.]]
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* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: There are hints of this in the way he sympathizes with Beyond when telling ''[[Another Note]]''.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Does this to everyone directly involved in the [[Hostage for Macguffin|notebook exchange]] as well as his mole in the SPK.
* [[Young and
== Near ==
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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Noriko Hidaka]] (JP), [[Cathy Weseluck]] (EN)}}
The closest thing that the one-shot comic three years later has to a main character, {{spoiler|he drives C-Kira to suicide with words alone}}. It's worth noting, however, that the one-shot's canon status is debatable, as it appears to have had no involvement from Ohba or Obata.
* [[Adult Child]]
* [[Age-Inappropriate Dress]]
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** He gets a full list of his toys in the 'How To Read' book, complete with their price and how difficult they were to obtain.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: One of the '''very''' few (sort of) non-evil anime examples.
* [[Young and
* [[Young Conqueror]]
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