Light Yagami

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Light Yagami is the titular main protagonist in the Death Note franchise.

What makes him heroic?

 * He has established that he wanted to fix the Justice system and chooses to kill criminals which makes crime rates lower and was initially a somewhat good and reasonable cause as it stopped some criminals and saved innocents along the way.

What has made him villainous?

 * Whether or not it truly helped to the Justice system doesn't matter. As later on, Light's usage of the Death Note gets out of hand as it kills not just criminals but innocents along the way.
 * He even acknowledges losing his own sense humanity and greatly shows himself slowly becoming what he believed could happen when being in possession of the Death Note.
 * He blackmails a FBI Agent getting them to unknowingly kill there other FBI Agents and then drives his wife to suicide.
 * He gets another Death Note user to be Kira only to eventually get killed by Light when he "checks the names".
 * Although, he tries to get his father to use the Death Note to kill Mello. This was likely due to him at least trying to get an opportunity to kill Mello who was trying to hunt down and take down Kira.
 * He gets one of his signicant others to kill Mello and then caused her to kill herself as as Misa's Shinigami Rem to kill L and Watari which would cost Rem's life.
 * He gives another Death Note user an opportunity to kill criminals and eventually try to kill Near and still relies on him when being gunned down by the Kira investigators.
 * He insults his father calling him a fool.
 * If Light is the unnamed Shinigami he likely plans on trying to do the same thing Light did with trying to be a god killing off criminals or already knows the story. Likely implying he might return to the overworked with a Death Note to kill off people to gain life spans or trying to rule the world and kill since it was part of Light's plan. The only issue likely is if he uses the Death Note he could die if he kills out of love to save someone's life. Although, if he is the same from the unnamed Shinigami than it is far away likely that Light can ever fall for anyone due to his actions and how he progressed and never really truly loved anyone enough to kill anyone upon the requests of anyone who he could seem to "fall in love with" like with what Rem does to kill Watari and L while Light kills to enforce order through his own delusional sense of "justice" killing whoever he wants whether or not they are a criminal, are simply lazy, or even praises him as Kira, or are simply innocent, etc.
 * He shows zero redeeming traits within the end of the story.

Trivia

 * He is so far one of the only Fallen Heroes to be Pure Evil asides from Dream.
 * He is the only Death Note Fallen Hero to be considered Pure Evil.