Light’s face when he can’t use the Death Note because his opponent went on a bender so bad he can’t even remember his own name.
Furiously writing “Tequila Sunset” in the Death Note after asking one of Harry’s drinking buddies for his name and nothing happens
6 episode mini-arc of Light abusing every authority at his disposal to find out his opponent’s true name, “Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau”
“You can’t kill me. Only reaching for this necktie can kill me!”
Steve from Blue’s Clues
He’s a detective !!!
Does he have his dog and a crowd of helpful preschoolers with him on the case?
top left columbo is peak
Nardwuar right next to him, too
oh shit, i couldn’t tell that was nardwuar up there, that’s so accurate. “how’d you know that?”
Nardwuar would pull out his own death note and write one letter of light’s name for every question he dodges because of course he knows light’s name
you’re light yagami, we have to know!!
if folks like Columbo, definitely should check out Poker Face - it’s basically a spiritual successor
I’m imagining Courage the Cowardly Dog babbling and morphing into Ryuk and a notebook to try and explain the situation to a clueless Muriel.
Ironically Dirty Harry is perfectly placed. Would probably kill Light with 0 evidence and “solve” the case without any proof.
no he wouldn’t, he’d be a huge kira supporter. plus light isn’t a hippie, light would live 100% of the time if dirty harry lead the investigation
They can attend their swimming lessons together in the end
Want to believe in this outcome
Is that Dirty Harry? The picture was so small that I thought it looked like Frank Drebin from The Naked Gun and I was so confused about how sure they were that he could solve the case.
Yeah i accidentally copied the small version of the image. You can zoom in if you follow the link to the tweet. Sorry
I was going to argue that Francis York Morgan could solve that case easily, but he does like to tell absolutely everyone his full name, maybe that would be a critical weakness
Honestly I bet this is why Twitter OP put him there.
I apologize if this is a stupid question, or if there’s something in DP2 or extended materials I don’t know, but would this actually work? Would the Death Note consider it York’s body?
Cause if not, Kira is going to be very confused when all that happens is sudden white hair, heterochromia, and aggressive C-PTSD.
On the other hand, York is also Zach, so that might keep his head on
Unless I’m blind, I’m disappointed in Detective Cuno’s exclusion.
Cuno doesn’t fucking care
I feel like Edgeworth would immediately be able to catch on to the ‘the killer is active during a Japanifornia school student’s schedule’ => ‘the killer suddenly switched up their behavior so they have access to the police force somehow’ tells but he would need help from Phoenix and Maya in order to catch Kira before he gets got because he would be distracted looking for a rational and non-magical cause of death from there.
So yeah I agree with his positioning in the chart.
“Hi Light-san! It’s a pleasure to meet you! Do you mind introducing us to your friend standing behind you? I love his gothic getup!”
Edgeworth is properly placed, but I would argue Phoenix should be in the top left corner.
He has regular encounters with the supernatural, and his specialty is bullshitting his way to what must be true regardless of how outlandish it sounds.
Though, I guess it depends on what qualifies as “intuiting the mechanics of the death note.” Phoenix will definitely stumble his way into something close to the truth even if by accident, but whether he actually believes what he’s saying is true because he arrived at the conclusion logically or if he believes it’s true because he believes so deeply in the innocence of his client that the supernatural explanation must be true is up in the air.
If “using the wrong equation to get the right answer” doesn’t count as intuiting the mechanics of the death note, then I could see the argument for putting Phoenix in the bottom left. But he would absolutely stumble into accidentally describing how the Death Note works, and confidently use it in his defense because you can’t prove that it’s not true, even if he doesn’t fully understand why what he’s saying is true.
I used to think Light was a genius as a child, but now I come to realize that Light would fall for QAnon, someone’s personal grievances, and other fake news and just end up killing a random guy because he sells hotdogs at a store that’s connected to the Reunification Church via numerology
Also no Shawn and Gus from Psych?
Columbo like “Death notes? My wife loves those things. Always talking about those boys down in the underworld. Anyway, let me get out of your hair Light-san. Oh, one more thing-”
Cooper’d come within an inch of bagging Kira but his tendency to go the extra mile even when it’s not needed or wanted would fuck him over horribly at the last second as he gets trapped in some godforsaken nightmare realm or whatever a third time.
cooper would use divination to figure out the neighborhood kira lived in and how the shinigami were involved but would get distracted investigating the yakuza long enough for light to get him
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This chart is Jessica Fletcher and Chief Inspector Barnaby erasure.
Jessica would solve the mystery by getting
to talk about himself while playing ignorant and being neighborly and warm.
Monk is like One Punch Man. The only case he can’t solve is his wife’s murder. It’s the whole character.
