Death Note.

i'm reading my first manga. it's called DeathNote. it's about this guy Light who finds a Death Notebook which gives him the power to kill people. he decides to use this power to rid the world of bad people. enter L, the ultra-detective out to catch the person who is killing criminals from afar.

my thought is there's gotta be a backfire to all this. potentially, Light can abuse his power. the twist could be that eventually, he'd have to kill himself to escape a mess he's made. or he backs himself into a corner and makes a bigger cosmic mess than this world has made for itself. or that his righteous mentality that he is ridding the world of scum isn't righteous after all. after all, is it fair that he is judge, jury and executioner? what if those criminals weren't guilty after all? statistics say that many prisoners aren't even guilty of the crimes they've been sentenced for. and what gives him the right to finish people off at his own discretion? it's like a Twilight Zone episode.

the bigger question is, why the hell haven't i found a Death Note?

i'm not sure whose name(s) i'd put in that notebook. but i'd say at least half the world's population needs to go in there.