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#4 Light x Misa (Death Note)

Vile.
Vile. Screenshot: Madhouse / Kotaku

Hoo boy, what isn’t there to say about how abusive Light Yagami is toward his fellow Death Note user, Misa Amane? Death Note follows Light Yagami, a high school student who finds a cursed notebook that gives him the power to kill anyone whose name he writes in it, so long as he knows their names and faces.

While on the one hand this anime equivalent to the Joker and Harley Quinn is a cautionary tale for never meeting your heroes, these two willingly tango with each other in order to achieve their lofty goals. While Light’s goal is to cleanse the world of criminals by any means necessary, Misa just wants to be the woman by his side as he does it. And boy howdy, does Light take advantage of Misa’s affections. Outside of following the basic tenets of internet misogynist Andrew Tate’s playbook by routinely belittling and verbally abusing Misa, Light goes the extra supernatural mile by having Misa shorten her lifespan repeatedly in order to get the one-up on the cunning detective L and his proteges, Near and Mello.

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