John McEnroe

Muscular in build, McEnroe wears his dark blond hair parted to the side, set above small eyes. For dress he favors a black tie and suit layered over a white shirt.

The narrative shows him chiefly as a cool-headed negotiator. He talks Soichiro Yagami down from his distrust of the Bureau and nudges the American and Japanese sides into working together instead of clashing.

McEnroe turns up early in Part II, sent to Japan's National Police Agency to demand that its Death Note be surrendered to the US government and, by extension, the SPK. Soichiro Yagami, the NPA's deputy director, blames the Bureau for the abduction of agency head Kanichi Takimura; McEnroe convinces him otherwise, and the two camps agree to mount a rescue together. Once Takimura is reported dead and Mello seizes Soichiro's daughter Sayu, her father has no real option but to fly to America and surrender the notebook to the gang. With the swap complete, McEnroe airlifts the Yagamis to Los Angeles, and there Near grills them over what they know of the captors. He is presumed killed when the Mafia turns a Death Note loose on the SPK. His last name looks borrowed from a famed American tennis star, and the anime compounds the joke by misspelling his real name on screen as Rally Connors, another nod to a tennis legend.