There are many anime series that deliver characters who ultimately attain godlike power, however, the price they pay is not always worth the sacrifice. Light doesn’t gain omnipotent power like many other godlike anime characters and instead relies on his intellect and calculated use of the Death Note. The price he pays for his years-long crusade and godlike authority is his humanity as well as his very life. With this power, Lain finds she can completely warp reality and exist everywhere simultaneously, but at the cost of the reality she once knew. Her wish and ascension to godhood may have saved every magical girl, but Madoka paid the price for it with her own eternity, making her power the ultimate act of self-sacrifice.