JeezyMiyagi posted...
Light Yagami is definitely a villain, even if you consider him killing criminals/suspected criminals as good, once he starts killing FBI agents there's no illusion that he's evil.
He is an antihero by definition, A central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes.
Sure, his morals are, well, evil, so I could see why you'd call him a villain, but he's the, well, off kilter "hero" of his own story. I was certainly rooting for him. Though I know lots of fans were rooting for L. Ha, morals. =P
But yeah, there is enough "shades of grey" stuff in fiction today and untraditional storytelling that not every character can really be classified as a hero of villain. Personally I don't think Light should be classified as either.
Like, aside from his cold will to kill all "evil" (which many heroes have), his truly corrupt and well evil stuff is when he's worried about self preservation and doesn't want to be caught. Which, if going by that we could throw most film noir and crime protagonists in here, but I don't think they'd really fit in.
Hell, we could throw Rorschach and Batman in here, they're facist vigilantes who have fought the police. Though of course, they're more honorable than Light.
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