Death Note the Abridged Series (kpts4tv)
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Light: I am... |
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An Abridged Series by kpts4tv, mac_sly56 and Arkonid based upon Death Note. The 1st season consists of 14 episodes, including a parody music video. The 2nd season currently has 9 episodes. They also have had contests to encourage fan participation.
This series focuses on Light and how he is trying to get rid of any famous celebrities that he doesn't like, primarily teen idols. Like the original anime, he is also trying to become god of a new world. Light and L are pretty much the only smart ones in the series, but the side characters have quite a few memorable moments. Even the creators of the show have a power struggle throughout the series. Oh, and Matsuda is Australian.
- Abusive Parent: Souichiro Yagami seems really eager to get rid of his kids, he tries to crush Light's balls his ESP powers, and decides to rescue Sayu only because he believes that she's been impregnated with alien spawn and intends to sell her into medical experimentation.
- After the End: When Souichiro arrives in what is supposed to be L.A. but it looks like the Arizona desert, he can only conclude it had already been destroyed by aliens.
- Anal Probing: Mr. Yagami fears this happened to Sayu at the hands of the space aliens (a.k.a. The Mafia).
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Light at L's grave.
- Armored Closet Gay: Well, Mr. Yagami is a homophobic Jerkass obsessed with "manliness." At one point he dressed up as Sailor Moon... and he hits on Ryuk.
- Asian Gal with White Guy:
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Ryuk: ...now what you need to know about the Shinigami eye deal is... |
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- Axe Crazy: "innocent!Light" after he comes to believe that Higuchi slept with his girlfriend. Also:
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Souichiro: We're killing Watari too? BONUS! |
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Light: No one is listening to you, Ryuk. |
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- Higuchi is even worse. "What if say, hypothetically someone could kill another person with a diary..."
- Bad Bad Acting: Light when Higuchi dies. "Oh right, cover... Dad, you idiot! We needed him alive!" Made even more hilarious since he had been calling for his blood moments before.
- Big No: When L recovers a horrific repressed memory of getting socks for his birthday.
- Black Comedy:
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Ryuk: But you just slaughtered fifteen people, and then laughed about it! |
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- Black Comedy Rape: Ryuk was molesting Light.
- Brain Bleach: Light would really like some.
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Ryuk: But if you give up the notebook you'll forget all about me. |
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- Bratty Half-Pint: Near
- Brick Joke: "Wait a minute, I don't own a fridge."
- Light's sexuality during his Memory Gambit.
- "Here Ryuk, take back your dirty notebook."
- Bring My Brown Pants: Rem scares the crap out of the Taskforce... and Light scares the crap out of Rem.
- British Accents: Roger, Mello, and Near but esepcially Mello who would fit right into a Monty Python routine.
- Buffy-Speak: Light at times.
- Burn the Orphanage:
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Misa: That fire was pretty scary-the whole complex burned down! Those poor orphans! |
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- Butt Monkey: Matsuda, Light, Rem, Sayu, Sidoh.
- Camp Gay: Light, oh so much. And Namikawa.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: Near, as demonstrated when prank calling Light.
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Light: (*sighs*) Do yourself a favor. Hang up. Now. |
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- Caught with Your Pants Down: When L beams everyone up, Soichiro complains about this.
- Also, L informs Light that he has done this. Later, Light shouts out "You did not catch me with my pants down!" when meeting L.
- Chains of Love: L refers to the handcuffs as "our friendship bracelets"
- Cloudcuckoolander: L frequently has conversations with his snacks. Also Da Chief.
- Comically Missing the Point: Da Chief
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Matsuda: Chief, doesn't your son use a computer? |
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- Comically Small Bribe: Near offers to share the satellite feed if Light pays him in LEGOs.
- Continuity Nod: L mentions Beyond Birthday.
- Couldn't Find a Pen: When Light is killing Higuchi Hilarity Ensues:
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Light: First I gotta get my stupid watch open. Aw, there we go... |
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- Cower Power: Near after Mello kills most of his agents:
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Near: Light, everyone's dead... at my Clubhouse, everyone's dead. |
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- Crazy Jealous Guy: Ryuk towards Light
- Later Light towards L. Light happily resumes his plan to kill L after hearing that L "took Matsuda's innocence" after repeatedly rebuffing Light's advances.
- Light towards Misa after Misa returns from her job interview and informs them all that she met a God in the bathroom.
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L: Well Light, you're taking this rather well. |
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- Creepy Child: Near
- Creepy Crossdresser: Misa begs Light to let her wear his lolita maid costume.
- At one point Mr. Yagami dressed up as Sailor Moon.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: Naomi has an overly masculine voice. Later so does Wedy and Halle.
- Da Chief
- Depraved Bisexual: Ryuk. He was molesting Light and later he offers to join Misa when she goes to bed naked.
- Ditzy Genius: Light. "Oh my God I forgot my death note!"
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: When L's snacks "won't talk to him anymore" he mopes around headquarters like he's been through a bad breakup.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: in Da Chief's warped perceptions Ryuk is a trap. Upon meeting him Da Chief declares "goth girls are hot!"
- Enemy Mine: Averted when Kira calls up Da Chief "Hey Dad, it's Light..."
- Everybody Hates Mathematics: "No, it's not an Advanced Calculus book... it's far too merciful..."
- Everybody's Dead, Dave: After Mello has all of Near's agents killed right in front of him.
- Evil Laugh: Light of course.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Ryuk. He'll hit that be it Light, Misa, or a dirty apple. There's also an awkward moment between Ryuk and Light's dad.
- Filk Song: "It's a Dead World After All" and "Not Gay (They Just Wrote Me In That Way)"
- Fire-Forged Friends: Subverted (for obvious reasons):
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Light: Hmmm I have two notebooks now. I only need one. I think the choice is obvious. Ryuk... after everything we've been through together... I'm going to keep Rem's. |
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- Foreshadowing
- Freak-Out: Light at L's grave. "You died over nothing! You died because you told Matsuda Mickey isn't real. How STUPID is that!"
- Friendly Tickle Torture: apparently Light is very ticklish.
- The Fun in Funeral: "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pee on the grave of a man who died unloved and hated by everyone."
- Gangsterland: Light believes that this is all there is to Los Angeles.
- Gayngst: Light is hit with this hard.
- Get It Over With: Souichiro, on his death bed, calls Light a disgrace and tells him how he always hated him for being gay. Light is reduced to tears and begs his father to kill him, to write his name in the Death Note, but he won't do it.
- Giggling Villain: again, Light.
- Glad I Thought of It: Matsuda solves the Kira case. Everyone ignores him and Watari and L immediately repeat what he just said.
- Growing Up Sucks: L took Matsuda's innocence!
- Gun Nut: Da Chief. He's glad L's dead because now he gets his gun back.
- Harassing Phone Call: Near keeps prank calling Light. At one point asking for Amanda Hugankiss.
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: "I was only seven! Beyond Birthday NOOOOOOOOOO!"
- Horrifying the Horror: Light literally scares the crap out of Shinigami.
- Hypocritical Humor: when Light calls out Near for acting immature:
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Light: What are you, ten? |
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- I Ate What?: When Misa gives Ryuk an apple Ryuk offers Misa something in return... a dingleberry
- I Have No Son: Mr. Yagami "I have two daughters."
- I Have This Friend: Higuchi. "What if say, hypothetically someone could kill another person with a diary..."
- I Know Mortal Kombat:
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Light: Alright everyone, I've been playing a lot of Modern Warfare 3—we can do this! |
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- I'm Going to Disney World: "So L, you caught Kira, what are you going to do now?"
- I'm Standing Right Here: Mr. Yagami knows Light is listening in when he offers Light to Mello.
- I Meant to Do That: "Yeah... everything went exactly... acording to plan... listen..."
- I Shall Taunt You: Light objects to L's plan. L retorts that he's L and can do what he wants.
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L: Na na na na booboo, stick your head in doodoo. |
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- If You Want Something Done Right Do It Yourself: Mello says this when he gets fed up with his pathetic minions.
- Ignore the Fanservice:
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Light: I have a question-why is it that whenever we want to work on the Kira investigation we always meet at my apartment? |
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- Later when Misa snuggles up next to Light wearing nothing but a Black Bra and Panties:
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Light: Misa, stop that! That tickles! |
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- Implausible Deniability: L proves that Light is obviously Kira. (No one on the taskforce cares.)
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L: Seriously, you wrote your ransom note on Death Note paper? |
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- Insane Troll Logic: Light is worried about what might happen to his sister, having watched movies about what goes on in L.A. Mr. Yagami follows this train of "logic" and concludes that L.A. is going to get invaded by space aliens.
- Insistent Terminology:
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Light: Now Misa, we may be killers but we're not murderers. We're more like... custodians, cleaning up the filth of the world. |
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- Instant Cosplay Surprise: Misa borrows Light's maid costume.
- Insurance Fraud: When they find out how much money they could get for fire insurance the taskforce agrees they should burn the old HQ to the ground.
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Mr. Yagami: Good, because I already started the fire. |
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- It Amused Me: Near prank calling Light.
- Jerkass: Near, Da Chief
- Kaleidoscope Eyes: Misa's eyes: Blue, brown, blue, brown, blue, brown... RED!!!
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Light bemoans in his Inner Monologue about how all his relationships are based on secrets and lies!
- Kid with the Leash:
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L: Bad Light! No killing! |
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L: Light is Kira and Misa is the Second-- |
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- Latin Land: ... in Guatemala
- Love Dodecahedron: Ryuk is screwing Light, Light is in love with L, Misa stalks Light, Rem loves Misa and so did Gelus. Then during Light's Memory Gambit he went back into the closet and only worried about being a good boyfriend to Misa (who he is dating for other reasons that he can no longer remember) Misa then goes on to cheat on him with with Higuchi and Rem. Namikawa flirts with Light. L makes a passing mention of Beyond Birthday, Light suspected incorrectly that L was screwing Matsuda, and meanwhile L shows no interest in anyone except for maybe his snacks. Everyone but Light wants Misa (including Ryuk) and when Mello kidnaps Sayu, Mr. Yagami tries to get Mello to take Light as well. Ryuk was doing... something with an apple and Mr. Yagami flirts with Ryuk.
- Love Makes You Evil / Love Makes You Crazy: Misa for Light and Light for L.
- Luke, I Am Your Father:
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Souichiro: Light, I am your father. |
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L: If you think my death was complete bull then clap your hands and shout 'I believe in faeries.' Ha! I was just kidding! I'm dead but I can still manipulate you people. We have all the footage of you acting like an idiot in front of your webcam. I win. But on a serious note if the fans get a few hundred likes up before the next episode I will come back to life. |
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- Mind Over Matter: Da Chief has the ESP power to crush balls with his mind.
- Mistaken for Gay:
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Light (to L): You gave me a footrub. How more blatant can you get? |
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- Mistaken for Pedophile: The president has his people pick up Near by offering him candy and abducting him.
- Motor Mouth: Naomi. Later Misa, much to Light's dismay.
- Mr. Exposition: Aizawa called up Wammy's House and all he learned was Mello and Near's names, their faces, their motivations and their fears.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Light eating potato chips and Mello eating chocolate.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: the taskforce all agrees what needs to be done after "L took Matsuda's innocence."
- My Girl Is Not a Slut: Light gets real jealous and protective of Misa during his Memory Gambit when he thinks he's straight and he thinks that Misa had sex with Higuchi. Hilarity Ensues.
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Light: ...and then we can kill him, right? |
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- Negative Continuity: "I thought I got rid of you."
- The Nicknamer: Da Chief calls himself Master Chief, he takes to refering to Aizawa as "his son," and Light as his other daughter, and Mello is Lady Gaga.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever happened in Guatemala...
- Not a Date: L agrees to go out on a date with Light in order to get close to Sayu (his REAL Kira suspect).
- Not Helping Your Case
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Light: Hey guys, the Shinigami's dead! I totally killed it! With magic powers that I totally have! |
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- Not So Extinct: "Wow, a real live Shinigami! I thought they were all extinct!"
- Oh Crap: Higuchi when Namikawa suggests, hypothetically speaking, that he didn't spell the victim's name right.
- Ominous Latin Chanting
- One Curse Limit: Subverted. Light writes Higuchi's name, he's dying horribly and then... "Oh, that's right! I don't have a heart! I'm safe" and then he's killed by Da Chief's "fingerbanging".
- One of Us:
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Raye Penber: So far all I have is from TV Tropes. |
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- Orphanage of Fear: Wammy's House
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- Our Presidents Are Different: Of the President Buffoon variety. He sure does miss Cheney!
- Overprotective Dad: When Matsuda looks at Sayu wrong Mr. Yagami crushes Matsuda's balls with his ESP powers. Subverted later when Mr. Yagami begs Mello to take his kids.
- The Password Is Always Swordfish:
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Near: The passcode is 1-2-3-4-5. |
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- Pity the Kidnapper: Mr. Yagami begs Mello to take his kids.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: When Mello kidnaps Sayu, Mr. Yagami begs Mello to take his gay son as well.
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Mr. Yagami: How about this? I'll give you the death note and you can take my other daughter for free! |
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- Politically-Incorrect Villain: Mello
- Porn Stash: on Da Chief's computer
- Pyromaniac: Da Chief.
- Rape and Switch: After the aforementioned incident with Ryuk; Light comes out of the closet.
- Rapid-Fire "No": From the music video: "Denying's not enough / so you can copy Shia LaBeouf"
- Really Gets Around: Sayu. She reminisces with Matsuda about the time when he and Mogi were watching her while she was somehow doing sixteen guys at one time.
- Relationship Reveal: Subverted...
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Light: Well, we've been outside talking for awhile and we've decided to make it official. I LOVE L! AND HE LOVES ME! I'm going to dump Misa so I can be with L! |
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- Repressed Memories: L uncovers a horrific repressed memory about Beyond Birthday... or rather of getting socks for his birthday.
- Reused Character Design: Lampshaded how Aiber and Wedy look like Raye and Naomi bleached blonde.
- The Resenter:
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Mello: No Roger, I'm never going to work with him, ever! The first thing he did when he was born was he flipped me off! |
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- Running Gag: "Heh heh. Glitter." "Worst! Day! Ever!"
- Sadist Show: Well it's Death Note made into a Comedy...
- Sanity Slippage: Light after L's death. And Mello after L's death and he suggests they need an M now and Near suggests they need an N as well.
- Sarcasm Mode
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Da Chief when using his ESP power to crush Matsuda's balls.
- The Schizophrenia Conspiracy: L is really delusional, makes convoluted theories, and gets upset when his snacks stop talking to him. Later Da Chief seems to get this believing that the space aliens and the Death Eaters have teamed up with Lady Gaga to Take Over the World.
- Selective Obliviousness: When L tells the taskforce that Light is Kira. (With solid evidence to back it up this time!)
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Matsuda: La la la la la I'm not listening! |
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- Misa refuses to acknowledge that Light is gay.
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Light: Now I need a place to stay. |
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Light: Wait, L has successors? I thought we were done with him! Oh I hope I don't have to go against the entire alphabet. |
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Ryuk (to brooding Light): Did you want to talk about it? |
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- Shipper on Deck: Mr. Yagami offers Light to Mello.
- Shout-Out: to Pokémon , Shaman King, Fist of the North Star, The Lion King, Inspector Gadget, Star Trek, Twilight, Justice League, Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series, Battle: Los Angeles and the theme song is "I Can't Decide.", Light and the taskforce sing "Bohemian Rhapsody", Light tells Misa that "there can be only one", "Ooh Mad Libs!", "Your fridge is running." "Go Rem, fly! And do my bidding! Muwahahaha!", "Justice League Assemble!," Near asks for Amanda Hugankiss, the passcode is 1-2-3-4-5, and new rule of the Death Note: "Klaatu Barada Nikto" does not mean "we come in peace" especially when said by Keanu Reeves. Also the title of every episode is named ater a movie or pop culture reference. "Whatever happened to that missle?" *the Death Star explodes*, and the mafia guy in the gimp mask speaks like Kenny. The truth is out there, Master Chief, "Seek and destroy!", and then there's Da Chief's final words about MANLINESS and his theme song...
- Sissy Villain: Light, full stop. Mello takes this Up to Eleven.
- The Slacker: "Dude!" Aizawa sounds like he's perpetually high, man!
- The Snack Is More Interesting: L frequently talks to his snacks (and they talk back) while the rest of the taskforce are trying to talk to him about the Kira case.
- Stalker Without a Crush: Near towards Light "the fake L"... or maybe with a crush... Near keeps pestering Light with Harassing Phone Calls, asks him for "Amanda Hugankiss" and when Near is traumatized Light is the first person he calls.
- Strawman News Media: Apparently it was Demegawa not Murdoch that was behind the creation of Fox News.
- Stringy Haired Ghost Guy: L "I'm haunting you."
- Suddenly Sexuality: When Light relinquishes his Kira memories he abruptly goes back in the closet and when he regains his memories...
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Light: I've won! muwahahaha! Oh by the way L that outfit looks amazing on you! |
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Higuchi: What's the point of having minions if they don't do your work for you! I should be watching the Home Shopping Network in my underware but NO, I have to go out and commit a murder! |
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Light: L, why?! Why did you leave me?! Why did you leave me alone with these IDIOTS! *sobbing* And... yeah, I'm over it now. |
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- Also when Mello's mafia minions kidnap an old grey-haired guy...
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Mello: I asked you to bring me Sayu Yagami. A 17 year old girl. Does this look like a 17 year old girl to you? |
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- Suspiciously Apropos Music: "I Can't Decide / whether you should live or die..." "You think you can love me and leave me to die..." and "Don't Stop Me Now..."
- Take That, Audience!
- Inner Dialogue
- Television Geography: Lampshaded. Apparently Los Angeles is an empty desert with great mesas and canyons.
- Tempting Fate:
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Naomi: You really need to die at the end of this series. |
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Light: It's been five years and no sightings of L's ghost. I think I'm in the clear. |
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Light: I can just sit back and have the taskforce do my dirty work for me. There is no way this could possibly go wrong... |
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Roger: Wait, I thought of a great idea for a TV series! You two should work together! It would be like the Odd Couple except with kids chasing dangerous criminals! One of you will probably die though. |
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- Toilet Humor
- Too Much Information
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Mr. Yagami begs Mello to kidnap Light as well. Also Da Chief got kicked out of the Death Eaters because he insisted on using a gun.
- Took a Level In Dumbass: Light
- Transparent Closet: Light: "Raye Penber, I couldn't help but notice....* sniff* your hair smells like strawberries."
- And then there's the Music Video. (Warning: severe Auto-Tune ahoy)
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Light: *looking at porn* Oh, that girl's got a pretty ... face ... OH, check out that hot guy in the backgroun-uh, I mean, check out those classifed files in the background ... |
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- As L comments, "It's very creative how you dot your 'i's with hearts."
- Trouser Space:
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Light: As for Misa's Death Note, I'll keep it in the only place I know it will be safe—my pants. |
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- The Unfavorite: Mr. Yagami begs Mello to kidnap Light (his "other daughter") too.
- And then after Sayu is kidnapped Souichiro is considering cutting his loses.
- The Unintelligible: Ukita, but for the grace of subtitles. Also the mafia guy in the gimp mask that sounds like Kenny.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: During the raid on Mello's base, no one finds it odd that Light has a Shinigami. "Did my ugly assistant arrive yet?"
- Unrequited Love Lasts Forever
- Unusual Euphemism: Apples.
- The Vamp: Light's initial plan to "rescue Misa" was to seduce L.
- Victim Falls For Rapist: Light with Ryuk.
- Villainous Breakdown: Light after L dies.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Light with his father.
- What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: Light got busted by the Fashion Police.
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Da Chief, on his death bed, calls Light a disgrace and tells him how he always hated him for being gay.
- Why Didn't You Just Say So?: Misa doesn't understand "big words" like "yammering."
- Yandere: Light towards L.
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Light (Glowing Eyes of Doom): I loved you L and you smashed my heart into a million pieces. I will never love again. |
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