Watching Death Note with my partner and they asked "How do you know which Death Note is yours?" And the obvious answer seemed potentially fatal.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
86 points (95.7% liked)
memes
22436 readers
3002 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
My interpretation is that "the" and "a" is doing a lot of work there. Maybe a translation quirk? It reads like, if it's misspelt 4 times in THE death note (the one you're holding), but later on it clarifies that it doesn't make you immune from ANY death note. So it's not so much complete immortality as limited exclusion to prevent abuse, which makes sense if you imagine some Eldritch death God being spammed with junk assassination requests. Your specific death note got a filter applied because you were being dumb
It's complete immortality if Ryuk's rule about writing his name in THE deathnote was true, because even if Ryuk wanted to he can't.