

If you have access to a Death Note, know the rule that four unintentional
misspellings result in immunity to the Death Note, and are hunting someone
with a Death Note, couldn't you trick someone you gave the Death Note to
misspell the names of everyone in your task force four times?

I know nobody got a chance to do this in the anime, and probably not the manga
either, but this still seems the obvious method of setting up a Kira task
force: make the members immune to the Death Note without telling anyone,
putting Kira in the dark in a way that gives you a significant advantage.


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Could you trick a user of a Death Note into misspelling the names of the Kira task force four times?


Yes, you could, and having people be mistaken about the names and faces of
investigators was one of L's main strategies.


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It depends. Rule XXXV explicitly says "the owner" and after Light still was
the owner, they could not just hand it to anyone. Rule IX however does not
specify that fact. Maybe IX was simplified and it has to be the owner, maybe
XXXV is wrong.

The next problem is that the person has to really try to write the names. Who
knows what happens if one is to copy a name four times and has the wrong
spelling. Maybe the tricked one die, maybe the tricker.


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In the anime, the task force did not know about this rule. They only knew what
was written on the notebook's inside cover. The additional information that
Light pried out of Ryuk or discovered through experimentation are known only
to him, not the taskforce. He would not reveal to them the things he learned,
for obvious reasons (he doesn't actually want to make them immune to the Death
Note, and also doesn't want to make himself look suspicious). Since the
taskforce members didn't use the Death Note to kill people, they would not
have discovered this rule. L, who was the only one willing to experiment with
the Death Note, died before he got the chance. (I don't remember if this was
true for the manga, so not speaking for that.)

Also, keep in mind that the rule you are referring to (rule XXXV) gives a
person definite immunity to the particular Death Note where their name was
misspelled. They might still be vulnerable to all other Death Notes out there,
it's really not that clear.


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