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| NOTE: This is only about his Netflix version, as his manga and anime versions were not voted Pure Evil, and thus only information about what he did in the Netflix film should be put here. |
| “ | Ohhh yes! A dream! I like that. Dreams are places you can have fun, right? It's all in your mind, so why not enjoy it? | „ |
| ~ Ryuk. |
| “ | You Humans are so... interesting. | „ |
| ~ Ryuk's last words, also the final line in the movie. |
Ryuk is the overarching antagonist of the 2017 Netflix original supernatural crime thriller film Death Note, very loosely based on the Japanese manga and anime series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
He is a Shinigami death god who seeks to deliver the Death Note to a new owner, then stay to watch what happens, as in the case of Light Turner, who comes into possession of the Death Note during the film.
He was portrayed by Willem Dafoe, who also played Lord Cob in Tales from Earthsea and Clement Hoately in Nightmare Alley.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- For centuries, he manipulated several people into using the Death Note to commit mass murder (possibly even carrying out the murders himself) for his own entertainment, as evidenced by previously written notes, scoring likely hundreds, as well as a mythology book about the Shinigami Light Turner looked on.
- Once he was bored, he would kill the owner and repeat the process with a new owner.
- Giving the Death Note to Light, he goaded him to use it on the school bully Kenny.
- While Kenny deserved it to some extent as he was sexually harassing a girl, Ryuk wanted this purely out of sadism, not to deliver justice.
- He would later be complicit to some extent as Light murdered over 400 criminals.
- He suggested Light to kill all of L's agents hunting him down. When he refused, he teamed up with Mia Sutton instead to kill twelve FBI agents.
- In order to kill Light and Mia, he began to tear apart the Ferris Wheel they are on, also potentially endangering nearby citizens and soldiers.
- This ended up killing Mia (who arguably deserved it) and putting Light in the hospital due to his injuries.
- He suffered no consequences for his actions and presumably would continue to observe humans for his own entertainment.
- Unlike his original counterpart, he lacked any comedic moments or positive qualities and was played dead seriously, followed by having zero moral agency issues as the film lacked the explicit description of Shinigami and Ryuk was seemingly the only Shinigami to exist in the film.
- Unlike his original self, who had impaired agency at best, this iteration of Ryuk was explicitly sadistic and relished in the pain and death he caused, whereas the original was simply apathetic to human life.
External Links[]
- Ryuk on the Villains Wiki
- Ryuk on the Death Note Wiki
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