History Film / ScottPilgrimvstheworld

While the critics and audiences loved the film, its extremely niche humor and style made it a difficult sell, and it didn't recoup its budget. [[VindicatedByHistory However]], it fared far better in the home market and went on to become one of the biggest {{cult classic}}s of its time due to factors including Wright's style of visual comedy, RetroactiveRecognition aplenty, and the film's script making for a FountainOfMemes.

Now with its own [[ShoutOut/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Shout Out]] page, [[ReferenceOverdosed as it was starting to take up a lot of room.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment An epic of]] [[YouKeepUsingThatWord epic]] [[BuffySpeak epicness]].]]

''Scott Pilgrim vs. The World'' is a 2010 film adaptation of the comic book series ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' by Bryan Lee O'Malley, and is the first American film directed by Creator/EdgarWright.
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The film, like its source material, is about a twenty-something UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} slacker named Scott Pilgrim (Creator/MichaelCera) who meets an American named Ramona Flowers (Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead), and must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her... in a universe that acts like a real-life version of ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'', where there are [[{{Combos}} combo meters]], {{written sound effect}}s spelled out in midair, [[ScoringPoints points]], and [[VideoGameLives extra lives]].
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[[OvertookTheManga Since the comic was as yet unfinished during filming]], the film moves in a slightly different direction to the comic, though core elements remain the same.
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While the critics and audiences loved the film, its extremely niche humor and style made it a difficult sell and it didn't recoup its budget. However, it fared far better in the home market.
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* DeathBySex: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Roxy. Scott defeats her by hitting her weak point, which happens to be the inside of her knee. Apparently, this is an erogenous zone for Roxy, and results in an intense orgasm before she explodes into coins.

* FamousLastWords:
** "This is impossible. How can this be?" [[spoiler:Matthew Patel]]
** "Why wouldn't you be?"[[note]]in response to Wallace saying that he's a big fan[[/note]] [[spoiler:Lucas Lee]]
** "Vegone?" [[spoiler:Todd Ingram]]
** "You'll never be able to do this to her!" [[spoiler:Roxy Richter]]
** Averted by [[spoiler:the Katayanagi Twins,]] who don't have any lines at all.
** "You can defeat me Scott. But can you defeat yourself?" [[spoiler:Gideon Graves]]

* HeelRealization: Scott realizes that his relationship issues come from his own personal ones. [[spoiler: When Remona tells him in the "afterlife" that she may not be the person that Scott should be fighting for, he remembers and uses his 1-Up to confront Gideon again, and later makes amends with Ramona and Knives. This also allows him to replace his Power of Love Sword with one symbolizing his Self-Respect]].

* RealityEnsues:
** Scott knocks Gideon away, then stops to have a chat. [[spoiler: [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice He is then stabbed through the chest by Gideon.]] Clearly [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking Is]] [[DeconstructedTrope NOT]] [[TalkingIsAFreeAction A Free Action]].]]
** When Gideon [[spoiler: is defeated]], $7 billion in coins falls all over the characters and their equipment. It appears to be painful.
*** After Sex-Bob-Omb realized they aren't getting paid now that [[spoiler: their boss is dead]], they scoop up as many coins as possible.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Several reviews and summaries of the movie refer to Scott as a "hipster," despite the fact that he's a foil for the actual hipster Gideon. The part of the score where Scott beats up the guys who ask for the password outside of Gideon's club is even called "Death to All Hipsters."

* AdaptedOut: Mr. Chau (Knives' deadly father who hunts down Scott in Volume 4) never appears in the film, as his entire subplot was omitted. Knives' mother was originally going to appear in a flashback just like the comic, but the scene was cut out of the final film.

* RuleOfThree: Scott's relationship with Knives was mocked by his friends because she's [[JailBait 17]], [[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow Asian]] ''and'' a [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Catholic schoolgirl]].

* ScoreMultiplier: After [[spoilers: getting a 1UP and respawning, Scott gains a X2 bonus for every action he took.]]

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Scott gives one in the deleted scenes. This is basically an outline of TheHerosJourney.
--> '''Scott''': "Wallace, when my journey began, I was living in an ordinary world. Ramona skated through my dreams and it was like a CallToAdventure, [[RefusalOfTheCall a call I considered refusing]]. But my mentor, that’s you, told me if I want something bad enough, I have to fight for it. So I did. There were tests, allies, enemies. I approached a deep cave and went through a crazy ordeal, during which [[spoiler:I totally seized the sword. Sadly, I died. Then I resurrected!]] Now I realize what I should have been fighting for all along."

* AdaptationDistillation: The movie pares down many subplots and extraneous characters (for example, the relegation of Lisa to the animation allows them to get rid of a lot of Volume 4 without impacting the plot too much), and compresses the time-frame to somewhere around four and a half weeks (Ramona re-dyes her hair every week and a half, and goes through three dye-jobs over the course of the movie), rather than the year-ish of the comic.

** [[{{YMMV}} Maybe]] Scott himself. The movie version of Scott lacks the sunny outgoing nature that comic Scott has that largely helps him skate around the fact that he's kind of a douchebag. The movie version is more awkward and comes across as more of an outright loser (who is surprisingly good at fighting) whose friends barely tolerate him (and indeed quickly replace him with Young Neil after he refuses to sign a music contract with Gideon).

* LaserGuidedKarma: Stacey, [[{{Troll}} with a big smirk]], tries to manipulate the conversation so that Ramona and Knives discover that Scott is dating them both. A moment later, Wallace steals her boyfriend.

** [[{{YMMV}} Arguably]] Scott himself. The movie version of Scott lacks the sunny outgoing nature that comic Scott has that largely helps him skate around the fact that he's kind of a douchebag. The movie version is more awkward and comes across as more of an outright loser (who is surprisingly good at fighting) whose friends barely tolerate him (and indeed quickly replace him with Young Neil after he refuses to sign a music contract with Gideon).

* ThemeTuneCameo: The full orchestrated Universal theme plays when Lucas Lee first steps out of his trailer. (Complete with synchronised neck cracks!) [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic And it is glorious.]]

** [[YMMV Arguably]] Scott himself. The movie version of Scott lacks the sunny outgoing nature that comic Scott has that largely helps him skate around the fact that he's kind of a douchebag. The movie version is more awkward and comes across as more of an outright loser (who is surprisingly good at fighting) whose friends barely tolerate him (and indeed quickly replace him with Young Neil after he refuses to sign a music contract with Gideon).

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler:Nega-Scott. It was thinly foreshadowed earlier in the movie when Scott faced the Nega-Ninja boss in the arcade game he was playing with Knives.]] There are several deleted scenes with [[spoiler: Nega-Scott showing up in a mirror whenever Scott is being a particularly horrible person, which tends to shock him out of his asshole-ness.]] Edgar Wright says in the commentaries of these outtakes that they were cut because they distract too much from scenes that already have a lot up in the air.

* InsistentTerminology: Every time Scott refers to her "evil ex-boyfriends", Ramona corrects him with "exes". [ChekhovsGag This is later revealed to be because]] [[spoiler:one of her exes was a girl]].

** Played with: Ramona stores her HyperspaceMallet in a BagOfHolding.

* ZettaiRyouiki:
** Ramona's skirt and stocking combo in the "changing scene."
** Knives's Ninja Ninja Revolution avatar.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the novel, Lucas Lee was a PunchClockVillain who took a break in a middle of a fight with Scott to shoot the shit and share his snacks. In the movie, [[EvilIsHammy he's as evilly hammy]] as all the other evil exes (although he's likely just acting and is not actually evil. Still ''as'' hammy, though).
** The novel has Envy's motivations eventually be revealed as a desire for acceptance that grew out of control, and she dumped Scott because he had no ambition and didn't want to leave Toronto. They eventually reconciled. The movie retains Envy's concern for Scott's wellbeing (as she tried to talk him out of fighting Todd), but she mostly ends up being a jealous, [[MeaningfulName envious]] bitch from start to finish.

* SympatheticAdulterer: Scott cheats on [[RomanticRunnerUp Knives]] when he starts dating Ramona. See YourCheatingHeart below.

* YourCheatingHeart: Scott on both Knives and Ramona, or more specifically, Scott cheated ''on'' Knives ''with'' Ramona ("What's the difference?" "You weren't wronged?"). Scott got off the hook relatively easy ([[spoiler:considering he was killed before either Ramona or Knives could really chew him out for it]]), unlike in the books...