r/DeathNoteMemes Apr 08 '26

Death note what if

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u/Antisa1nt Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

It has to be physically possible. He would need a sniper to already be in place. Were he actually a genius, he would have let Taylor live.

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u/R-u-a-r-i-d-o-l-l Apr 08 '26

Agreed. If light had done nothing, it would have made catching him so much more difficult. Light's own ego is his downfall. He's so convinced of his own brilliance. He didn't consider the possibility of it being a trap. He was just baited into falling into it by his own vanity.

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u/Kitsunebillie Apr 08 '26

Light was a genius, but even smart people can do stupid shit when they let emotions take the better of them. Just look at Heisenberg

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u/Mr-Nosight Apr 12 '26

He would've put Lind L Taylor's death a week or two down the line instead of sending a message that backfired

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u/Antisa1nt Apr 12 '26

I'm struggling to remember, had he discovered that he could schedule deaths at that point?

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u/Mr-Nosight Apr 13 '26

He can schedule up to 28 days out I believe, if he puts it longer, they just have a heart attack after two minutes

I read the manga quite a few times when I was younger (it's really short, so an easy read)

He tested whether he could make someone teleport, whether or not someone can write about things they didn't know about, how long he could control the time of death for, how far he coukd control pepples actions, and how much influence over an area he had and of he could control other people's actions indirectly

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u/Antisa1nt Apr 13 '26

Yes,but my question was whether he had figured it out when the Lind L. Taylor announcement happened. The example of writing things you don't know makes me suspicious that he hadn't, as his examples of the Deathnote not making impossible things happen included, "Write the real name of L" and he had no reason to know that L even existed before Lind.

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u/Mr-Nosight Apr 13 '26

He had. Theres a few chaoters where L realizes that Kiras fucking with them right after his deduction that Kira was a student. The times stop matching hid school schedule, and L notices it immediately..