

Not trying to kill L or any other potential enemy of Light using pictures
using Misa's eye is a plothole?

I kind of forgotten if the anime or in the manga (I haven't read the manga),
has a scene where they wrote someone's name in the Death Note by means of
pictures or photos. And if they did, how could Light never thought about using
this tactic?


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Can you kill people using photos?


Yes, he could've killed L if he did have an image of him. But L was too
cautious, he didn't reveal his own or Watari's face(unless absolutely
necessary). It wasn't like Light could've found pictures of L lying around in
his father's computer.

Also he couldn't have taken them himself as every person entering the
headquarters was supposed to enter without any electronic gadgets(if I
remember correctly.)

The only plot hole in my opinion is that he could've obtained an image from
the bystanders that witnessed his tennis match against L. Obviously, the
students would've recorded and/or taken photos of the match.


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You can kill people using photo or video. But getting L picture is not that
easy. (Pictures taken from chapter 30)

[![chapter
30](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dU2THm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dU2THm.jpg)[![chapter
30](https://i.stack.imgur.com/piGZOm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/piGZOm.jpg)

Later Misa met Light and L together and she knew L real name. Light could ask
Misa to kill him or ask her his real name but Misa was arrested short after
they parted. But even if Light know his real name he didn't want to do that
immediately because Light was very cautious about killing L. (Pictures taken
from chapter 19)

[![page 9 chapter
19](https://i.stack.imgur.com/htMjQ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/htMjQ.jpg)

He was in deep thought about it but he conclude he couldn't kill L without
getting suspected by the police. (click to enlarge picture)

[![page 15 chapter
19](https://i.stack.imgur.com/O4MJym.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/O4MJy.jpg)
[![page 16 chapter
19](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ydNEKm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ydNEK.jpg)
[![page 17 chapter
19](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dpCXlm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dpCXl.jpg)

Later when he learn that he's the real L. He still didn't want to kill him and
just want to take it slow and find out about everything before taking any
action.


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