Talk:Characters of Death Note

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Contents 1 Asperger's? 2 Real Name 3 Articls 4 Light and L have mental disorders? 5 Raito

[edit] Asperger's?

Is it really necessary to mention L and Asperger's? The section claims it's a popular theory, but I'd never heard it before, and it only cites that one page as a source. Demota 03:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

The fact is, he does act alot like one with that syndrome, so I think it should stay. MoChan 01:49, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

It's not stated by the creators or anything that he has any syndromes, so it seems like a lot of theory or opinion, which is not acceptable content for Wikipedia. Nique1287 01:57, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Real Name

Apparently, L's real name is something like "Elle Lawright". Pretty lame if I do say so myself. 169.237.214.145 18:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I put down L. Lawliet, But yours sounds better. Any link to a good translation? - Malomeat 11:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

L. Lawliet is the official name, according to How To Read 13. That is, the Special Edition thereof that includes things like, relevantly, the L True Name Card. It's got an illustration of L, with "L Lawliet" written across it. Any other romanizations are false, just like the many people that still call Light 'Raito'. It's like Homer Jay Simpson all over again, isn't it? ;) Nique1287 19:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articls

Shouldn't L, Light, and Misa Amane among others have their own articles? MoChan 18:04, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't know. I mean, if you got enough sources to go into character analysis of Light or L, you MIGHT be able to put together a fair-sized article, but most of them would just be stubs. There's not much worth saying that can't be said on this page, really. Death Note isn't precisely a short series, but a lot of the series is more action-based or consisting of exposition, and there's not all that much character development in comparison. The only characters that really change at all are Light, in his rather quick journey from innocent high school student to crazed Kira, and Misa, who goes from innocent girl to naive Kira and back again many times. Even L doesn't change significantly, he's the same person the first time you meet him as he is the *cough* last, except that he makes a couple of "friends" along the way. The only way you'd really get long articles on any of them would be either to have too much original research or opinion, or to put too much of what belongs on the Plot page on the character pages. Just my thoughts, though. Nique1287 18:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. If we did make articles for each character, we would be making all those AfD obsessed people happy =D SuperDT 07:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Light and L have mental disorders?

I am taking out that stuff saying Light has antisocial personality disorder and a god complex, and L has asperger's. Light's "diagnosis" is highly unverified and possibly original research, and L's source for his Asperger's actually says he probably doesn't have it(The guy/woman who made the page is in no way qualified to properly diagnose someone for AS anyways; he/she just has AS, nothing more, nothing less!). SuperDT 07:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Raito

How come ライト is transcribed as Light? Is that specific meaning mentioned somewhere in the manga or film adaption that I missed? It could just as well be Right, Wright, Write or even Lyte etc. --Himasaram 14:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Viz translated it as "Light" because it is "Light"; no buts about it.--(十八|talk) 15:31, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

The creator intended it to be based on the word "Light", hence it is "Light" not your other suggestions. I think it was explained by Light himself when he meets Misa in the manga, how his name means 'light' but is written with equivalent Japanese characters. I could be mistaken on that, but it WAS the creator's intention that it be Light. Nique1287 18:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

As a note, the equivalent Han character is that for moon. --Himasaram 09:12, 8 December 2006 (UTC)