Twenty-Two Reasons Why L is as Evil as Light
for all the people who love slandering light while praising L:)
-disclaimer: L is my favorite character-
1. In the beginning, L sacrificed a criminal, Lind L. Tailor, just like what Light did, except L did it for his own benefit and to solve the investigation.
2. Later on in the story, L was about to let another criminal die just to test a rule in the Death Note (the 13 days rule).
3. When L caught Misa for suspecting her of being the second Kira, he interrogated her for extremely long periods of time that consumed much of Misa’s mentality (torture).
4. He also deprived Misa of sleep (torture).
5. He repeatedly disallowed Misa of basic necessities, including being able to go to the bathroom and having water (torture).
6. He deprived Misa of many of her senses (strapping her blindfolded: torture).
7. He strapped her to a metal contraption for hours on end (torture).
8. He definitely left an imprint on Misa’s mentality during this interrogation, even going so far as to tell Watari to do “whatever it takes to make her talk” (torture).
9. Misa even screamed, “Just kill me!” which shows that she was being forced into such a stressful situation by L (torture).
10. After the Misa interrogation, L even had a mock execution set up for Light, which can also be considered torture for Light as well as Misa, who was a bystander.
11. L was always condescending towards Misa, while Light never actually called her “stupid” in front of her face.
12. L manipulated Misa into helping him with the investigation.
13. Even Light himself thought that it was wrong to manipulate Misa into helping them:
14. L lied about Light being his first friend, which shows that he is capable of manipulation.
15. Over sixty-four surveillance cameras were placed in Light’s room alone by L, not to mention more in Light’s household and the household of the deputy director. Note that none of the households were aware of this (except for Soichiro) and, at this time, L doesn’t even have any concrete evidence to even have a permit to do this.
16. In fact, L does anything he can do to solve the case, which is described above.
17. This scene:
18. L repeatedly calls Matsuda stupid, while Light never does to anyone.
19. In fact, L pretty much deems the entire task force (except for Light) as stupider as he is. In chapter 13 of the manga, L investigates the current task force to see if they are Kira, who he has previously said as extremely smart, but determines they aren’t. You can see how the task force reacts to this subtle condescension:
20. L only takes on cases that he finds interesting. He is not the “hero” that saves the world from “all evil” but instead he is just pursuing his personal hobby: solving cases.
21. That being said, he even called himself evil by saying, “If you measured good and evil deeds by current laws, I would be responsible for many crimes.” and “That is why I only take on cases that pique my interest. It’s not justice at all. And if it means being able to clear a case, I don’t play fair. I’m a dishonest, cheating human being who hates losing.”
22. Whereas Near simply calls Light “a murderer”, L actually never does. In fact, if we were to call the second death note movie as canon, L calls himself the worst type of monster (a lying monster).
sources: 3-9. eyecicles on tumblr, 14. 13eyond13 on tumblr, 21. death note one-shot special
