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UnfairRepresent posted...

My reading of Death Note was that it was the Demons who actually did the killing.

I mean plenty of people have survived heart attacks but everyone who is written in the book dies. It's the demon's going and killing 'em on some level.

Otherwise what's the literal point of Ryuk?

And yeah I think Ryuk could kill Superman instantly if he wanted to.

the demons (shinigami) use the death notes to kill, and they mostly just do so to add to their life spans.

as far as Ryuk's purpose, it's to introduce a death note to a human because he was bored. like, each demon is assigned a death note and they use it to kill, but a demon isn't necessary for the killing, and the death note that Light uses doesn't belong to Ryuk - it's one that Ryuk stole from another demon.