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* CanadaEh: Written by a Canadian, so it averts most stereotypes, but has the occasional "eh?"
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* ArtisticLicenceChemistry: The series' RuleOfCool aside, constantly redyeing your hair like Ramona does will by all rights make you ''bald'' eventually due to the constant bleaching it would take to do that.
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** Scott is slowly -- ''very'' slowly -- growing from a complete slacker to a quasi-functional person. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, he comes to accept the fact that he's been a narcissistic jerk throughout much of his life, and now strives to change for the better]].
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** Kind of the crux and the main point of the entire series. The biggest takeaway is accepting your past mistakes and working to do and be better while not letting them define you. Scott is slowly -- ''very'' slowly -- growing from a complete slacker to a quasi-functional person. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, he comes to accept the fact that he's been a narcissistic jerk throughout much of his life, and now strives to change for the better]].
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* {{Animesque}}: The comic takes on this look after a while thanks to ArtEvolution.
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* ArtEvolution: Over the course of the series, O'Malley's style became streamlined, much more rounded and even more {{Animesque}}. [[https://theprettybooks.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/scottpilgrim.png Compare]] the cover for Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life to the new art O'Malley did for the hardcover re-release of the book.
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* ArtEvolution: Over the course of the series, O'Malley's style became streamlined, much more rounded and even more {{Animesque}}. [[https://theprettybooks.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/scottpilgrim.png Compare]] For instance, compare the cover for Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Volume 1 to the new art O'Malley did for the hardcover re-release of the book.
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* BareYourMidriff: A few girls throughout the series.
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* ChristmasCake: Played straight in a bizarre fashion. In Vol. 4, Scott is sitting on a bench looking for some drink money right before he meets Lisa. Two girls walk by, one remarking that Scott is kind of cute, and the other responds, "Ew, he's like 25."
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The end of Vol. 6 kinda gives you this feeling.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The end of Vol. 6 kinda gives you this feeling.the series is like this. [[spoiler:What's next for Scott and Ramona? Where will they go and what will they do? What does "trying again" mean to them? Will they get married, like Wallace and Stacey hinted at? The ending is unconcerned with all these questions, and lets the couple drift off into Subspace, embracing]].
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* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Scott and Wallace's "hole in concrete" apartment fosters much confusion in viewers/readers. Also, Honest Ed's was a real place (closed in 2016).
** Think it's strange that a hardcore vegan would be so willing to secretly eat meat, magical powers nonwithstanding? Google "recovering vegans" and you'll find many stories involving vegans who realized they lacked the resolve to sustain their diet, and to avoid backlash from the vegan community, started eating meat in secret. Whether or not O'Malley was aware of this though, is up for debate; Todd Ingram's hypocrisy fits a little too well into his personality for it to be a coincidence.
** Scott and Wallace's "hole in concrete" apartment fosters much confusion in viewers/readers. Also, Honest Ed's was a real place (closed in 2016).
** Think it's strange that a hardcore vegan would be so willing to secretly eat meat, magical powers nonwithstanding? Google "recovering vegans" and you'll find many stories involving vegans who realized they lacked the resolve to sustain their diet, and to avoid backlash from the vegan community, started eating meat in secret. Whether or not O'Malley was aware of this though, is up for debate; Todd Ingram's hypocrisy fits a little too well into his personality for it to be a coincidence.
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* AlcoholInducedBisexuality: In volume 4, Scott accidentally catches Knives and Kim drunkenly making out with each other. This is the only time in the comic either character explicitly shows any interest in the same sex. Their relationship is more consistently romantic in [[VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVSTheWorldTheGame the video game]], however.
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* CastHerd: The LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters are more or less divided into two camps: Sex Bob-omb and the League of Evil Exes, and their assorted hangers-on.
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* CastHerd: The LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters numerous characters are more or less divided into two camps: Sex Bob-omb and the League of Evil Exes, and their assorted hangers-on.
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* BastardBoyfriend:
** Gideon. And Todd.
** Scott may have been more of this than he previously thought, [[spoiler:due to Gideon tampering with his memories. Especially in the case of Kim, when he beat up her current meek Asian boyfriend in order to go out with her back in high school]]. Scott is also like this toward Knives, [[spoiler:with him dating her for very shallow reasons, then becoming emotionally unavailable for her the moment Ramona skates into his life, and then finally cheating on her and dumping her in a pretty dickish way]].
** Gideon. And Todd.
** Scott may have been more of this than he previously thought, [[spoiler:due to Gideon tampering with his memories. Especially in the case of Kim, when he beat up her current meek Asian boyfriend in order to go out with her back in high school]]. Scott is also like this toward Knives, [[spoiler:with him dating her for very shallow reasons, then becoming emotionally unavailable for her the moment Ramona skates into his life, and then finally cheating on her and dumping her in a pretty dickish way]].
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* ArtistAndTheBand: Crash And The Boys.
--> '''Crash''': Good Evening. I am Crash, and these are The Boys.
--> '''Wallace''': [[OneOfTheBoys Is that girl]] a boy too?
--> '''Crash''': Yes.
--> '''Crash''': Good Evening. I am Crash, and these are The Boys.
--> '''Wallace''': [[OneOfTheBoys Is that girl]] a boy too?
--> '''Crash''': Yes.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: [[http://www.adultswim.com/videos/promos/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-animation Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation]] is a four-minute short adapting the opening of Volume 2, featuring Scott's relationship with Lisa Miller and Kim Pine in his high-school days. Michael Cera and Creator/AllisonPill reprise their roles as Scott and Kim, with Lisa Miller and Simon Lee (neither of whom appear in the film) being played by Creator/MaeWhitman and Creator/JasonSchwartzman (who play Roxy and Gideon in the film), respectively.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: [[http://www.adultswim.com/videos/promos/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-animation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BitByGeWGxU Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation]] is a four-minute short adapting the opening of Volume 2, featuring Scott's relationship with Lisa Miller and Kim Pine in his high-school days. Michael Cera and Creator/AllisonPill reprise their roles as Scott and Kim, with Lisa Miller and Simon Lee (neither of whom appear in the film) being played by Creator/MaeWhitman and Creator/JasonSchwartzman (who play Roxy and Gideon in the film), respectively.
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** Volume 5 has a dream that puts Scott in the same desert he found himself in back in the first volume, once again lamenting that he is "so alone".
** When Wallace is first telling Scott about Lucas Lee, Scott confuses him first with Luke Wilson (the actor), and then with a guy who was in a band that Sex Bob-Omb played with (also named Luke Wilson). Some time later, Scott runs into the latter Luke Wilson, and asks if he is Lucas Lee (mind you, this is after Scott had met, fought, and defeated Lee).
** When Wallace is first telling Scott about Lucas Lee, Scott confuses him first with Luke Wilson (the actor), and then with a guy who was in a band that Sex Bob-Omb played with (also named Luke Wilson). Some time later, Scott runs into the latter Luke Wilson, and asks if he is Lucas Lee (mind you, this is after Scott had met, fought, and defeated Lee).
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** Volume 5 has a dream that puts Scott in the same desert he found himself in back in the first volume, Volume 1, once again lamenting that he is "so alone".
** When Wallace is first telling Scott about Lucas Lee, Scott confuses him first with Luke Wilson (the actor), and then with a guy who was in a band that Sex Bob-Omb played with (also named Luke Wilson). Some time later, Scott runs into the latter Luke Wilson, and asks if he is LucasLee (mind you, this is after Scott had met, fought, and defeated Lee).Lucas).
** When Wallace is first telling Scott about Lucas Lee, Scott confuses him first with Luke Wilson (the actor), and then with a guy who was in a band that Sex Bob-Omb played with (also named Luke Wilson). Some time later, Scott runs into the latter Luke Wilson, and asks if he is Lucas
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* {{Crossover}}: Scott makes a one panel cameo in another Creator/OniPress graphic novel entitled PENG (which is NOT by Bryan Lee O'Malley, but rather by Corey Lewis, who also did the graphic novel series Sharknife, which takes place in the same continuity as PENG).
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* {{Crossover}}: Scott makes a one panel one-panel cameo in another Creator/OniPress graphic novel entitled PENG ''PENG'' (which is NOT by Bryan Lee O'Malley, but rather by Corey Lewis, who also did the graphic novel series Sharknife, which takes place in the same continuity as PENG).
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* AbsurdlyLongStairway: Scott defeats Lucas Lee by convincing him to rail grind a huge stairway on his skateboard. After [[ImplausibleBoardingSkills exceeding speeds of 309 kph]], he wipes out and explodes on impact.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: At one point, Knives Chau's father cuts through a ''streetcar'' with his katana. Called back to in the 4th level of the game, with Roxy cutting through another streetcar, ''twice''.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Everyone calls Neil Nordegraf 'Young Neil'. He doesn't actually gripe about it, but when Scott introduces him as just 'Neil', it is the best day of his life.
* AchillesInHisTent: Scott in Volume 6.
* ActionGirl: Ramona, Knives, and Roxanne to name a few. [[spoiler:Ramona even battled and defeated Gideon alongside Scott]].
* AdultsAreUseless: ThereAreNoTherapists. [[ThereAreNoPolice Or police,]] beyond the Vegan Police. Professors have long since faded into the background. [[AdultsAreUseless Parents]] are useless, except for a vigilante ninja dad obsessed with "avenging" his daughter. Any sign of law, order, or stability is ''completely'' absent... which makes for a pretty entertaining WorldOfHam, until you consider its [[FridgeHorror nightmarish implications]]... which manifest themselves on-page, several times over.
** Well, during the fight with Scott and Knives, one guy does say he's going to call the cops, so there is at least SOME branch of police force in this world. Though a remarkably absent one, nonetheless.
* AnAesop: The main lesson of the comic is that if you've made mistakes in the past, you shouldn't run away from them, but rather accept those flaws to become a better person and avoid making the same mistakes all over again. Scott learns this by admitting his mistakes in his relationship with his exes and Ramona does the same.
* AffablyEvil:
** Lucas Lee (he ''caters'' his fight with Scott!), but not so in the movie. There he just offers to get coffee for his mooks while they beat up Scott, though not before telling Ramona that Scott 'seems nice'.
** Gideon Graves can come off as this as long as you ignore the fact that his invitation to Scott was mostly to gloat.
** Matthew Patel sent a nice email letting Scott know in advance that he was coming, and explaining the situation.
* AlliterativeName: Gideon Gordon Graves, Stephen Stills, Wallace Wells, Neil Nordegraf, Lucas Lee, Roxanne Richter, Ken and Kyle Katayanagi. It helps that Scott seems to enjoy saying their full names.
* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Scott and Wallace's "hole in concrete" apartment fosters much confusion in viewers/readers. Also, Honest Ed's was a real place (closed in 2016).
** Think it's strange that a hardcore vegan would be so willing to secretly eat meat, magical powers nonwithstanding? Google "recovering vegans" and you'll find many stories involving vegans who realized they lacked the resolve to sustain their diet, and to avoid backlash from the vegan community, started eating meat in secret. Whether or not O'Malley was aware of this though, is up for debate; Todd Ingram's hypocrisy fits a little too well into his personality for it to be a coincidence.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kim Pine feels this way about her parents.
* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield:
** [[spoiler:Scott's face-off against Gideon within Ramona's mind in Volume 6 is a parody of this trope]].
** [[spoiler:Ramona's fight with Roxanne in Subspace]] in Volume 4 also has elements of this trope.
* AnachronismStew: Minor example, likely a result of ComicBookTime: For exactly one panel in the fifth volume, released in 2009, Scott wears a shirt with the bassist icon from ''VideoGame/RockBand'', which came out in 2007, despite the series taking place in 2004 and 2005.
* AndThatsTerrible: "Gideon [[spoiler:stole the [[PowerOfLove power of love]]!]] What a dick!"
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The end of Vol. 6 kinda gives you this feeling.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: In Volume 6, Scott unlocks a new T-Shirt by leveling up. This actually works out pretty well, since he spilled booze all over the shirt he arrived in, and reluctantly put on a replacement shirt emblazoned with Gideon's logo right before his fight with Gideon. It was also [[spoiler:covered in his own blood and had a hole in it from when Gideon stabbed him to death]].
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Knives gives one to Scott. His response is that he thinks they should break up.
* AnimatedAdaptation: [[http://www.adultswim.com/videos/promos/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-animation Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation]] is a four-minute short adapting the opening of Volume 2, featuring Scott's relationship with Lisa Miller and Kim Pine in his high-school days. Michael Cera and Creator/AllisonPill reprise their roles as Scott and Kim, with Lisa Miller and Simon Lee (neither of whom appear in the film) being played by Creator/MaeWhitman and Creator/JasonSchwartzman (who play Roxy and Gideon in the film), respectively.
* {{Animesque}}: The comic takes on this look after a while thanks to ArtEvolution.
* TheAntichrist: Gideon's logo is an inverted, stylized [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda triforce]] made out of G's. Yep.
* AntiVillain: The Evil Exes are mostly this (except for Gideon of course, and Todd), bordering between Type II and Type IV.
* AppropriatedTitle: The adaptations take their name from ''Scott Pilgrim vs. The World'', the second book in the series.
* ArcNumber:
** 7. It becomes a little more obvious in Volume 6 (ironically) when [[spoiler:Gideon is revealed to have 7 exes of his own -- six of them innocent victims [[PeopleJars sealed away in tubes]] (Ramona being the seventh), but anyway... And when Gideon is finally defeated he explodes into $7,777,777.00 CAD (that's seven sevens)]].
** Gideon's initials are also all [=Gs=] -- G is the seventh letter of the alphabet. (Though co-incidentially all three of his names are [[NumberOfTheBeast six letters long]].)
** Rotate Gideon's Triforce clockwise and it becomes three 7s instead of three [=Gs=].
* ArcWords: Many variations of the phrase "precious little x". Starting from Volume 1, there are Precious Little Life, Precious Little Ho-Bag, Precious Little Wallace, Precious Little Nickname, and many more. It may be just a catchphrase between all the characters, but the phrase appears in at least one instance of every volume.
* ArtEvolution: Over the course of the series, O'Malley's style became streamlined, much more rounded and even more {{Animesque}}. [[https://theprettybooks.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/scottpilgrim.png Compare]] the cover for Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life to the new art O'Malley did for the hardcover re-release of the book.
* ArtificialLimbs: Lynette ''[[MegatonPunch punches]]'' the highlights out of Knives' hair with her bionic arm. It's also the only thing left behind when she teleports away at the end of Vol. 3.
* ArtShift: The story of how Todd and Envy grew up with each other in volume 3 is shown with the characters being drawn normally but with everything else being drawn in crayon.
* AstralCheckerboardDecor: One room in subspace [[spoiler:where Scott sees Ramona as Gideon's slave]] has this.
* AutoErotica: It's revealed in Volume 2 that Scott lost his virginity to Kim in the back of a car.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Near the end of Volume 6, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ramona spent her time away from Scott the exact same way he did -- by moping, slacking, and sleeping all day. Scott's friends declare them a perfect couple]].
* BagOfHolding: Ramona's purse, elaborately [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the fact that it [[HammerSpace contains]] a [[HyperspaceMallet hammer]] (+2 against girls), a titanium baseball bat (+1 against blondes), and even ''Scott himself''. "Capacity: unknown." [[spoiler:It also serves as a passage to Ramona's head in subspace, which contains a giant Gideon Graves, whom Scott Pilgrim battles.]]
* BanisterSlide: Scott does it and knocks out his brother, mistaking him for Gideon.
* BasementDweller:
** Sort of. Scott and Wallace's apartment is actually the basement of some house O'Malley was using as a model. [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Comic Books]] in the real Toronto's college burbs.
** Scott begins playing this straight for a bit in Volume 6.
* BastardBoyfriend:
** Gideon. And Todd.
** Scott may have been more of this than he previously thought, [[spoiler:due to Gideon tampering with his memories. Especially in the case of Kim, when he beat up her current meek Asian boyfriend in order to go out with her back in high school]]. Scott is also like this toward Knives, [[spoiler:with him dating her for very shallow reasons, then becoming emotionally unavailable for her the moment Ramona skates into his life, and then finally cheating on her and dumping her in a pretty dickish way]].
* BattleCouple:
** Scott and Ramona, particularly [[spoiler:in Volume 6 with the defeat of Gideon]].
** It's shown in a flashback that Ramona and Matthew Patel beat up all the jocks at their school together when they were dating.
* BattleDiscretionShot: When Scott battles the Katayanagi Twins' killer robots, nobody really seems to care for his well-being and just ignores it. He's later seen standing over one [[OffWithHisHead which he's just beheaded]].
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:Part of the climax in Vol 6, with the fight moving to Ramona's head]].
* BareYourMidriff: A few girls throughout the series.
* BeachEpisode: The intro of Volume 4, which is also the only event in the series that is illustrated in full color.
* {{BFS}}: [[spoiler:The Power of Understanding]].
* BigBad: Gideon Graves, who is the leader of Ramona's exes that Scott must defeat in order to get her heart.
* BigDamnHeroes: The Boys and Crash show up to help out Scott in his fight with Todd Ingram using ThePowerOfRock.
* TheBigDamnKiss:
** The first between Scott and Ramona in Volume 4 after their RelationshipUpgrade. Totally epic.
** Scott and Ramona's kiss after [[spoiler:Scott gets killed by Gideon]] in Volume 6.
** Knives gives Scott one, but it's for naught in that he's already met Ramona and doesn't want to date her anymore. Awkward.
** Not to mention Scott and Knives' experimental kiss in Volume 6. It goes on for two pages. It may be ''horrible '''for everyone INCLUDING YOU''''', but it's the biggest kiss in the series.
** A very out-of-nowhere one with Scott and Kim in Volume 6 that ''takes up two whole pages.''
* BigNo:
** Scott gets one in after being informed by Wallace that his package will not be shipped until Monday.
** Also Todd Ingram [[spoiler:right after being deveganized and right before Scott headbutts him to oblivion]].
** Scott in Volume 4 after Ramona leaves him at a restaurant to drink with Kim.
* BigYes:
** Scott in Volume 4 after Dominique gives him a job at the Happy Avocado (a vegetarian restaurant where Stephen Stills works), although the job is being a dishwasher. In fact, Scott lets out ''two'', and the second one is given something of a DistantReactionShot.
** Scott lets out another one when Dominique re-hires him after he got fired for some commotion he sparked when he saw Ramona and Roxy eating together.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: It's pretty obvious from day one that Scott is kind of an asshole, but you still root for him, seeing as how his enemies, with one or two possible exceptions, are way more unpleasant than he is, and because the the trials he faces make him gradually grow out of being an asshole.
* BlackBugRoom: [[spoiler: This is the true power of the Glow and how Gideon made his fortune (having mentioned as psychological warfare and working with the ''military''). Anyone with the Glow have their memories tainted and distorted while their vices are amplified to self-destructive tendencies. In fact, it's described as being trapped inside one's own head, thus literally keeping people from connecting with one another and only able to obsess over their own actions and problems. Ramona has it and it's implied she learned to use Subspace from it while Scott himself ends up getting it. In fact, it's implied that this is how the Negascott came to be in the first place.]]
%%* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: In Volume 6.
* BlandNameProduct: Mostly averted since real Canadian brands are frequently mentioned, but there are exceptions.
** The LG billboard in Dundas Square reads "LC".
** In Volume 5, Knives is seen picking up a soda from a "Choke" vending machine.
** Kim Pine's "Samsnug" cellphone.
** The "Time Critics" arcade Neil Nordegraf is seen playing in Volume 6.
* BlatantLies: Ehhh possibly. Scott's often mentions he doesn't drink despite sometimes drinking. Granted, he is never seeing enjoying it and could be interpreting as only drinking become he's pressued. Granted, after some CharacterDevelopment, he does admit that he does sometimes drink, but even the one time he does so willingly, he doesn't really enjoy it.
* BloodierAndGorier: Oh boy, Volume 6.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Killing people is okay, but if you're a graduate of the Vegan Academy and consume gelato... well, you know the theme song to ''Series/{{COPS}}''. Then again, maybe Vegan Police lack juristication in that.
* BluntYes: Crash and the Boys aren't having any of Wallace's heckling.
-->'''Crash:''' I'm Crash, and these are the Boys.\\
'''Wallace:''' Is that ''[[TheSmurfettePrinciple girl]]'' a boy too?\\
'''Crash:''' ''Yes.''
* BondageIsBad: Ramona's desire to get back together with Gideon is represented as an image of her kneeling next to him, wearing a leash and handcuffs.
* BossSubtitles: For Ramona's Exes.
* ButNotTooBi: Despite the seemingly straight characters having same-sex relationships, all the characters are explicitly proclaimed to either be straight ("it was a phase") or gay, with no in-between.
* BrainBleach:
** When Scott walks in on Wallace in bed with another guy, apparently he cannot unsee what he saw. [[spoiler:It was his junk]].
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with [[spoiler:Scott and Knives']] kiss in Volume 6. [[AndThatsTerrible It was horrible for everyone involved.]] [[FanDisservice Including you.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** Whenever someone asks how he and Ramona met, Scott usually says some variation of "it's a long story, go read Volume 1." Whenever a ChekhovsGun from a previous book gets used, someone will usually refer to that book by its number. Scott has also referred to certain friends as "secondary characters."
** During Scott's battle in book 3 when he's losing against Todd, [[spoiler:Scott remarks that only a poorly set up DeusExMachina plot can save him. It does]].
** In the opening of one of the books, two background characters are making comments about the titles.
** After Todd [[WouldHitAGirl psychically throws Envy into a wall]] in volume 3, Scott remarks, "I think it's time to end this volume."
** When Stephen Stills sees that Joseph has a home studio in volume 4, he immediately asks if he can help Sex Bob-omb record an album, stating that Joseph saw them play "in volume 3".
** After [[spoiler:defeating Roxy]] in Volume 4, Scott notes to Ramona that Roxy had mentioned a pair of twins [[spoiler:right before dying]]. After Ramona admits that she had dated twins at one point, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Scott realizes that he will eventually have to fight them]], and says this:
--->"Aww, man...am I gonna have to fight two at once in volume 5? [-Can this just be the last book?-]
** At the end of Volume 4 at a Korean restaurant, Scott notes to Wallace that he can't believe Wallace has been secretly dating Mobile since volume 3.
* BrickJoke:
** Scott is walking somewhere at night in Volume 2, and in one panel we see the moon. But it doesn't look right; there seem to be two big holes in it. It just seems weird on the first read, and nobody in the book says anything about it at the time. Near the end of Volume 3, however, we find out why it looks like that and what it has to do with the story.
** In the last volume, Scott asks Knives if she likes Stephen Stills, and she bursts out laughing for no real apparent reason. [[spoiler:At the end of that book it is revealed that he came out as gay offscreen in Vol. 5.]]
** In Vol. 5, Ramona asks for Scott to charge her phone. Later in the volume, she checks her phone to see that it's still at low battery.
* BrownNote: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Last Song Kills Audience]]."
-->"[[SubvertedTrope Actually,]] it only knocks most people unconscious for, like, twenty to thirty minutes..."
** "BABY, I WAS BORN TO DESTROY YOU!!"
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* CallBack:
** Volume 5 has a dream that puts Scott in the same desert he found himself in back in the first volume, once again lamenting that he is "so alone".
** When Wallace is first telling Scott about Lucas Lee, Scott confuses him first with Luke Wilson (the actor), and then with a guy who was in a band that Sex Bob-Omb played with (also named Luke Wilson). Some time later, Scott runs into the latter Luke Wilson, and asks if he is Lucas Lee (mind you, this is after Scott had met, fought, and defeated Lee).
* CanadaEh: Written by a Canadian, so it averts most stereotypes, but has the occasional "eh?"
* CaptainObvious: Wallace is actually helpful most of the time, but once a fight actually starts..."Scott, watch out! I think that guy might be Gideon!"
-->"[[UnwantedAssistance OKAY, THANK YOU WALLACE!]]"
%%* TheCasanova: Scott and Ramona of course.
* CastFullOfGay: Wallace Wells (and his various friends and sexual conquests), his boyfriend Mobile, Roxanne Richter, "Other Scott," Joseph, [[spoiler:Stephen Stills]]...
* CastHerd: The LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters are more or less divided into two camps: Sex Bob-omb and the League of Evil Exes, and their assorted hangers-on.
* CatapultNightmare: Scott wakes up from one in Volume 2.
* CatFight:
** When Scott hears about Ramona's fight with Knives in the library, he's in his bed and gets so excited he spills his cocoa everywhere. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Uhh.]]
** In Vol. 3, Ramona and Envy get into this kind of fight when their conversation goes south.
* CerebusRetcon: Scott's quirky high-school flashbacks turn quite glum with the revelation Kim gives Scott in the final book. [[spoiler:Turns out the boy that kidnapped her was just someone she was friends with that Scott beat up when he saw the two together. There was no major confrontation or epic fight that was earlier described. It's later revealed Gideon "spruced up" the memory when he went inside Scott's mind]].
* CerebusSyndrome: The fifth book starts dipping into some pretty heavy territory (such as fidelity), compared to the lightheartedness of the earlier volumes. This is around the same time that Scott realizes he has to grow the hell up and stop being such a {{manchild}} in order to save his relationships with Ramona and the rest of his friends. Even more so in the sixth book, especially with scenes like [[spoiler:Scott being killed with his own sword ''halfway through the book'']].
* CharacterDevelopment:
** Scott is slowly -- ''very'' slowly -- growing from a complete slacker to a quasi-functional person. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, he comes to accept the fact that he's been a narcissistic jerk throughout much of his life, and now strives to change for the better]].
** Also applies to Ramona Flowers and Knives Chau (especially in the last volume), and the secondary characters: Wallace is noticeably more care-free after he starts dating Mobile, Stephen Stills is somewhat more neurotic and self-conscious, and Kim is becoming less cold towards Scott.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The Boys [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Crash]]'s constant rehearsing finally pays off in the form of an advanced technique:
-->''We now have the ability to manipulate pure sound waves [[{{Determinator}} through hard work and willpower alone]]!!''
** Scott has superhuman speed and strength and insane martial arts skills without any justification other than he's the main character of a video game.
* ChekhovsGun:
** [[spoiler:The extra life Scott gained in book 3 brings him back to life after Gideon runs him through. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Scott's mom, pointing out the extra life after Stacey notes that Scott just came back.]]
** It always seemed odd how the Lucas Lee movie Scott and Ramona watch in Volume 2 was curiously similar to Scott's rescuing of Kim back in high school... [[spoiler:until Vol. 6]].
* ChekhovsGunman:
** [[spoiler:Nega-Scott, Scott's mysterious doppleganger from Volume 4, reappears in Volume 6, turning out to be a personification of all the problems Scott wants to get away from.]]
** The Boys and Crash in Volume 3, along with their ChekhovsSkill (manipulating sound waves), which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Kim.
** In the movie, Roxie attacks Scott for the first time before he meets Todd.
** [[spoiler:Gideon Graves]] at the end of Volume 3.
* ChekhovsSkill:
** In book 2, it's shown that Scott is an exceedingly good cook. When he gets a job at a restaurant in book four, [[AvertedTrope he's relegated to a dishwasher.]]
** Played straight at the end of Volume 6. [[spoiler:Scott Pilgrim, greatest prep chef in the world. And he still botches the order.]]
--->'''Stephen Stills''': Whatever, they ordered dinner at 10:55. They're getting a salad.
** Played straight with Stephen Stills, who had his cooking moment with the vegan shepherd's pie scene in book 2, and is seen later working at the same restaurant as Scott and being complimented by customers for his cooking.
** After Scott earns the Power of Love and goes up to fight Roxy, he says, "Now I'm glad I picked that longsword proficiency in grade five!"
*** This was actually foreshadowed in Vol 2, when Scott said that he didn't take the skateboard proficiency.
** Headbutting. [[spoiler:Scott uses it to kill Todd in Volume 3, and then uses it in Volume 6 with the Glow to break Gideon out of his giant, twisted, godly form.]]
* ChristmasCake: Played straight in a bizarre fashion. In Vol. 4, Scott is sitting on a bench looking for some drink money right before he meets Lisa. Two girls walk by, one remarking that Scott is kind of cute, and the other responds, "Ew, he's like 25."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Scott has shades of this from time to time.
--> '''Wallace''': Can you be serious for ''one'' second?\\
'''Scott (drooling)''': I like elevators.
* CombinationAttack: How Scott and Ramona [[spoiler:[[FinishHim finish off]] Gideon]]. It's a slash in the shape of an "X". An [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger X-Slash]] if you will. The twins Kyle and Ken also do this with techniques like the Double Hurricane Kick, and Simul-Punch. Also known as the "Ex-slash" if it's possible not to notice.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The Vegan Police rush in to remove Todd Ingram's vegan superpowers for eating gelato. Envy notes that Todd also ate chicken parmesan, but the police aren't sure whether parmesan is an animal or not, so they don't punish him for that one.
* ComicBookTime: Lampshaded and mocked in the fifth volume, as the Real world and the Scott Pilgrim world take on the last Sex Bob-Omb show collide with hilarious results.
--> '''Sandra''': A whole generation of bands have come and gone since you guys opened for the Demonheads in '05!\\
'''Scott''': That was ''this May!''
* ContinuityNod: Scott's love of the ComicBook/XMen, shown in Volume 1, is shown again in Volume 5 in full force. He tells Ramona the storylines of the demon Belasco kidnapping Colossus' sister Illyana and the time the X-Men set up base in Australia.
* ContinuityPorn: The series is loaded with little details, some of which speak to each other over separate books.
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Knives leaps and attacks Envy right before she's about to finish Ramona. Subverted in that it doesn't accomplish much and Knives ends up hitting the wall.
* CosmeticAward:
** Scott unlocks an achievement for defeating the Katayanagi twins at the same time.
** They also give a $2.00 "twin bonus"... no, wait, that's likely independent of the achievement.
** Gets a ShoutOut in the video game, where defeating both of them at once earns you the 'Twin Dragons' Achievement/Trophy.
* CrankyLandlord: Scott and Wallace's landlord is a {{jerkass}} of the highest order. Considering the boys don't seem to actually ''pay him rent'' and he still lets them stay until their contract lapses, at which point he offers a per month deal...
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The entire WorldOfHam looks playful and fun ''at first'', until you realize just how [[BlackAndGrayMorality selfish, violent, and lawless]] most of the main cast actually is. [[HeroicComedicSociopath Even the heroes.]] Lampshaded several times. For example in Volume 2, when Ramona rips a metal pole off the ground to fight Knives, Stacey exclaims, "Are you crazy? You can't just tear up giant metal art objects like that!"
* CrazyPrepared: Gideon: "Yes! I had a sword built into Envy's dress in case of emergency! [[InvokedTrope THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF GUY I AM!]]"
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Scott gets thrown through brick walls, beaten up by a giant robot, etc. and manages to come out relatively unscathed.
* {{Crossover}}: Scott makes a one panel cameo in another Creator/OniPress graphic novel entitled PENG (which is NOT by Bryan Lee O'Malley, but rather by Corey Lewis, who also did the graphic novel series Sharknife, which takes place in the same continuity as PENG).
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Scott Pilgrim may be an idiot, but he's also the "best fighter in the province".
* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: Ramona's "three or five evil exes".[[note]]not ex-boyfriends[[/note]]
* CueTheSun: At the end of Volume 3.
* CutawayGag: In Volume 5.
-->'''Scott''': Well, we've got something like 48 hours, dude [Stephen Stills]...what's our plan?\\
'''SOMETHING LIKE 48 HOURS LATER''' [-'''AT SNEAKY DEE'S'''-]
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: At one point, Knives Chau's father cuts through a ''streetcar'' with his katana. Called back to in the 4th level of the game, with Roxy cutting through another streetcar, ''twice''.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Everyone calls Neil Nordegraf 'Young Neil'. He doesn't actually gripe about it, but when Scott introduces him as just 'Neil', it is the best day of his life.
* AchillesInHisTent: Scott in Volume 6.
* ActionGirl: Ramona, Knives, and Roxanne to name a few. [[spoiler:Ramona even battled and defeated Gideon alongside Scott]].
* AdultsAreUseless: ThereAreNoTherapists. [[ThereAreNoPolice Or police,]] beyond the Vegan Police. Professors have long since faded into the background. [[AdultsAreUseless Parents]] are useless, except for a vigilante ninja dad obsessed with "avenging" his daughter. Any sign of law, order, or stability is ''completely'' absent... which makes for a pretty entertaining WorldOfHam, until you consider its [[FridgeHorror nightmarish implications]]... which manifest themselves on-page, several times over.
** Well, during the fight with Scott and Knives, one guy does say he's going to call the cops, so there is at least SOME branch of police force in this world. Though a remarkably absent one, nonetheless.
* AnAesop: The main lesson of the comic is that if you've made mistakes in the past, you shouldn't run away from them, but rather accept those flaws to become a better person and avoid making the same mistakes all over again. Scott learns this by admitting his mistakes in his relationship with his exes and Ramona does the same.
* AffablyEvil:
** Lucas Lee (he ''caters'' his fight with Scott!), but not so in the movie. There he just offers to get coffee for his mooks while they beat up Scott, though not before telling Ramona that Scott 'seems nice'.
** Gideon Graves can come off as this as long as you ignore the fact that his invitation to Scott was mostly to gloat.
** Matthew Patel sent a nice email letting Scott know in advance that he was coming, and explaining the situation.
* AlliterativeName: Gideon Gordon Graves, Stephen Stills, Wallace Wells, Neil Nordegraf, Lucas Lee, Roxanne Richter, Ken and Kyle Katayanagi. It helps that Scott seems to enjoy saying their full names.
* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Scott and Wallace's "hole in concrete" apartment fosters much confusion in viewers/readers. Also, Honest Ed's was a real place (closed in 2016).
** Think it's strange that a hardcore vegan would be so willing to secretly eat meat, magical powers nonwithstanding? Google "recovering vegans" and you'll find many stories involving vegans who realized they lacked the resolve to sustain their diet, and to avoid backlash from the vegan community, started eating meat in secret. Whether or not O'Malley was aware of this though, is up for debate; Todd Ingram's hypocrisy fits a little too well into his personality for it to be a coincidence.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kim Pine feels this way about her parents.
* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield:
** [[spoiler:Scott's face-off against Gideon within Ramona's mind in Volume 6 is a parody of this trope]].
** [[spoiler:Ramona's fight with Roxanne in Subspace]] in Volume 4 also has elements of this trope.
* AnachronismStew: Minor example, likely a result of ComicBookTime: For exactly one panel in the fifth volume, released in 2009, Scott wears a shirt with the bassist icon from ''VideoGame/RockBand'', which came out in 2007, despite the series taking place in 2004 and 2005.
* AndThatsTerrible: "Gideon [[spoiler:stole the [[PowerOfLove power of love]]!]] What a dick!"
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The end of Vol. 6 kinda gives you this feeling.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: In Volume 6, Scott unlocks a new T-Shirt by leveling up. This actually works out pretty well, since he spilled booze all over the shirt he arrived in, and reluctantly put on a replacement shirt emblazoned with Gideon's logo right before his fight with Gideon. It was also [[spoiler:covered in his own blood and had a hole in it from when Gideon stabbed him to death]].
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Knives gives one to Scott. His response is that he thinks they should break up.
* AnimatedAdaptation: [[http://www.adultswim.com/videos/promos/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-animation Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation]] is a four-minute short adapting the opening of Volume 2, featuring Scott's relationship with Lisa Miller and Kim Pine in his high-school days. Michael Cera and Creator/AllisonPill reprise their roles as Scott and Kim, with Lisa Miller and Simon Lee (neither of whom appear in the film) being played by Creator/MaeWhitman and Creator/JasonSchwartzman (who play Roxy and Gideon in the film), respectively.
* {{Animesque}}: The comic takes on this look after a while thanks to ArtEvolution.
* TheAntichrist: Gideon's logo is an inverted, stylized [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda triforce]] made out of G's. Yep.
* AntiVillain: The Evil Exes are mostly this (except for Gideon of course, and Todd), bordering between Type II and Type IV.
* AppropriatedTitle: The adaptations take their name from ''Scott Pilgrim vs. The World'', the second book in the series.
* ArcNumber:
** 7. It becomes a little more obvious in Volume 6 (ironically) when [[spoiler:Gideon is revealed to have 7 exes of his own -- six of them innocent victims [[PeopleJars sealed away in tubes]] (Ramona being the seventh), but anyway... And when Gideon is finally defeated he explodes into $7,777,777.00 CAD (that's seven sevens)]].
** Gideon's initials are also all [=Gs=] -- G is the seventh letter of the alphabet. (Though co-incidentially all three of his names are [[NumberOfTheBeast six letters long]].)
** Rotate Gideon's Triforce clockwise and it becomes three 7s instead of three [=Gs=].
* ArcWords: Many variations of the phrase "precious little x". Starting from Volume 1, there are Precious Little Life, Precious Little Ho-Bag, Precious Little Wallace, Precious Little Nickname, and many more. It may be just a catchphrase between all the characters, but the phrase appears in at least one instance of every volume.
* ArtEvolution: Over the course of the series, O'Malley's style became streamlined, much more rounded and even more {{Animesque}}. [[https://theprettybooks.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/scottpilgrim.png Compare]] the cover for Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life to the new art O'Malley did for the hardcover re-release of the book.
* ArtificialLimbs: Lynette ''[[MegatonPunch punches]]'' the highlights out of Knives' hair with her bionic arm. It's also the only thing left behind when she teleports away at the end of Vol. 3.
* ArtShift: The story of how Todd and Envy grew up with each other in volume 3 is shown with the characters being drawn normally but with everything else being drawn in crayon.
* AstralCheckerboardDecor: One room in subspace [[spoiler:where Scott sees Ramona as Gideon's slave]] has this.
* AutoErotica: It's revealed in Volume 2 that Scott lost his virginity to Kim in the back of a car.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Near the end of Volume 6, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ramona spent her time away from Scott the exact same way he did -- by moping, slacking, and sleeping all day. Scott's friends declare them a perfect couple]].
* BagOfHolding: Ramona's purse, elaborately [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the fact that it [[HammerSpace contains]] a [[HyperspaceMallet hammer]] (+2 against girls), a titanium baseball bat (+1 against blondes), and even ''Scott himself''. "Capacity: unknown." [[spoiler:It also serves as a passage to Ramona's head in subspace, which contains a giant Gideon Graves, whom Scott Pilgrim battles.]]
* BanisterSlide: Scott does it and knocks out his brother, mistaking him for Gideon.
* BasementDweller:
** Sort of. Scott and Wallace's apartment is actually the basement of some house O'Malley was using as a model. [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Comic Books]] in the real Toronto's college burbs.
** Scott begins playing this straight for a bit in Volume 6.
* BastardBoyfriend:
** Gideon. And Todd.
** Scott may have been more of this than he previously thought, [[spoiler:due to Gideon tampering with his memories. Especially in the case of Kim, when he beat up her current meek Asian boyfriend in order to go out with her back in high school]]. Scott is also like this toward Knives, [[spoiler:with him dating her for very shallow reasons, then becoming emotionally unavailable for her the moment Ramona skates into his life, and then finally cheating on her and dumping her in a pretty dickish way]].
* BattleCouple:
** Scott and Ramona, particularly [[spoiler:in Volume 6 with the defeat of Gideon]].
** It's shown in a flashback that Ramona and Matthew Patel beat up all the jocks at their school together when they were dating.
* BattleDiscretionShot: When Scott battles the Katayanagi Twins' killer robots, nobody really seems to care for his well-being and just ignores it. He's later seen standing over one [[OffWithHisHead which he's just beheaded]].
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:Part of the climax in Vol 6, with the fight moving to Ramona's head]].
* BareYourMidriff: A few girls throughout the series.
* BeachEpisode: The intro of Volume 4, which is also the only event in the series that is illustrated in full color.
* {{BFS}}: [[spoiler:The Power of Understanding]].
* BigBad: Gideon Graves, who is the leader of Ramona's exes that Scott must defeat in order to get her heart.
* BigDamnHeroes: The Boys and Crash show up to help out Scott in his fight with Todd Ingram using ThePowerOfRock.
* TheBigDamnKiss:
** The first between Scott and Ramona in Volume 4 after their RelationshipUpgrade. Totally epic.
** Scott and Ramona's kiss after [[spoiler:Scott gets killed by Gideon]] in Volume 6.
** Knives gives Scott one, but it's for naught in that he's already met Ramona and doesn't want to date her anymore. Awkward.
** Not to mention Scott and Knives' experimental kiss in Volume 6. It goes on for two pages. It may be ''horrible '''for everyone INCLUDING YOU''''', but it's the biggest kiss in the series.
** A very out-of-nowhere one with Scott and Kim in Volume 6 that ''takes up two whole pages.''
* BigNo:
** Scott gets one in after being informed by Wallace that his package will not be shipped until Monday.
** Also Todd Ingram [[spoiler:right after being deveganized and right before Scott headbutts him to oblivion]].
** Scott in Volume 4 after Ramona leaves him at a restaurant to drink with Kim.
* BigYes:
** Scott in Volume 4 after Dominique gives him a job at the Happy Avocado (a vegetarian restaurant where Stephen Stills works), although the job is being a dishwasher. In fact, Scott lets out ''two'', and the second one is given something of a DistantReactionShot.
** Scott lets out another one when Dominique re-hires him after he got fired for some commotion he sparked when he saw Ramona and Roxy eating together.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: It's pretty obvious from day one that Scott is kind of an asshole, but you still root for him, seeing as how his enemies, with one or two possible exceptions, are way more unpleasant than he is, and because the the trials he faces make him gradually grow out of being an asshole.
* BlackBugRoom: [[spoiler: This is the true power of the Glow and how Gideon made his fortune (having mentioned as psychological warfare and working with the ''military''). Anyone with the Glow have their memories tainted and distorted while their vices are amplified to self-destructive tendencies. In fact, it's described as being trapped inside one's own head, thus literally keeping people from connecting with one another and only able to obsess over their own actions and problems. Ramona has it and it's implied she learned to use Subspace from it while Scott himself ends up getting it. In fact, it's implied that this is how the Negascott came to be in the first place.]]
%%* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: In Volume 6.
* BlandNameProduct: Mostly averted since real Canadian brands are frequently mentioned, but there are exceptions.
** The LG billboard in Dundas Square reads "LC".
** In Volume 5, Knives is seen picking up a soda from a "Choke" vending machine.
** Kim Pine's "Samsnug" cellphone.
** The "Time Critics" arcade Neil Nordegraf is seen playing in Volume 6.
* BlatantLies: Ehhh possibly. Scott's often mentions he doesn't drink despite sometimes drinking. Granted, he is never seeing enjoying it and could be interpreting as only drinking become he's pressued. Granted, after some CharacterDevelopment, he does admit that he does sometimes drink, but even the one time he does so willingly, he doesn't really enjoy it.
* BloodierAndGorier: Oh boy, Volume 6.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Killing people is okay, but if you're a graduate of the Vegan Academy and consume gelato... well, you know the theme song to ''Series/{{COPS}}''. Then again, maybe Vegan Police lack juristication in that.
* BluntYes: Crash and the Boys aren't having any of Wallace's heckling.
-->'''Crash:''' I'm Crash, and these are the Boys.\\
'''Wallace:''' Is that ''[[TheSmurfettePrinciple girl]]'' a boy too?\\
'''Crash:''' ''Yes.''
* BondageIsBad: Ramona's desire to get back together with Gideon is represented as an image of her kneeling next to him, wearing a leash and handcuffs.
* BossSubtitles: For Ramona's Exes.
* ButNotTooBi: Despite the seemingly straight characters having same-sex relationships, all the characters are explicitly proclaimed to either be straight ("it was a phase") or gay, with no in-between.
* BrainBleach:
** When Scott walks in on Wallace in bed with another guy, apparently he cannot unsee what he saw. [[spoiler:It was his junk]].
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with [[spoiler:Scott and Knives']] kiss in Volume 6. [[AndThatsTerrible It was horrible for everyone involved.]] [[FanDisservice Including you.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** Whenever someone asks how he and Ramona met, Scott usually says some variation of "it's a long story, go read Volume 1." Whenever a ChekhovsGun from a previous book gets used, someone will usually refer to that book by its number. Scott has also referred to certain friends as "secondary characters."
** During Scott's battle in book 3 when he's losing against Todd, [[spoiler:Scott remarks that only a poorly set up DeusExMachina plot can save him. It does]].
** In the opening of one of the books, two background characters are making comments about the titles.
** After Todd [[WouldHitAGirl psychically throws Envy into a wall]] in volume 3, Scott remarks, "I think it's time to end this volume."
** When Stephen Stills sees that Joseph has a home studio in volume 4, he immediately asks if he can help Sex Bob-omb record an album, stating that Joseph saw them play "in volume 3".
** After [[spoiler:defeating Roxy]] in Volume 4, Scott notes to Ramona that Roxy had mentioned a pair of twins [[spoiler:right before dying]]. After Ramona admits that she had dated twins at one point, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Scott realizes that he will eventually have to fight them]], and says this:
--->"Aww, man...am I gonna have to fight two at once in volume 5? [-Can this just be the last book?-]
** At the end of Volume 4 at a Korean restaurant, Scott notes to Wallace that he can't believe Wallace has been secretly dating Mobile since volume 3.
* BrickJoke:
** Scott is walking somewhere at night in Volume 2, and in one panel we see the moon. But it doesn't look right; there seem to be two big holes in it. It just seems weird on the first read, and nobody in the book says anything about it at the time. Near the end of Volume 3, however, we find out why it looks like that and what it has to do with the story.
** In the last volume, Scott asks Knives if she likes Stephen Stills, and she bursts out laughing for no real apparent reason. [[spoiler:At the end of that book it is revealed that he came out as gay offscreen in Vol. 5.]]
** In Vol. 5, Ramona asks for Scott to charge her phone. Later in the volume, she checks her phone to see that it's still at low battery.
* BrownNote: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Last Song Kills Audience]]."
-->"[[SubvertedTrope Actually,]] it only knocks most people unconscious for, like, twenty to thirty minutes..."
** "BABY, I WAS BORN TO DESTROY YOU!!"
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* CallBack:
** Volume 5 has a dream that puts Scott in the same desert he found himself in back in the first volume, once again lamenting that he is "so alone".
** When Wallace is first telling Scott about Lucas Lee, Scott confuses him first with Luke Wilson (the actor), and then with a guy who was in a band that Sex Bob-Omb played with (also named Luke Wilson). Some time later, Scott runs into the latter Luke Wilson, and asks if he is Lucas Lee (mind you, this is after Scott had met, fought, and defeated Lee).
* CanadaEh: Written by a Canadian, so it averts most stereotypes, but has the occasional "eh?"
* CaptainObvious: Wallace is actually helpful most of the time, but once a fight actually starts..."Scott, watch out! I think that guy might be Gideon!"
-->"[[UnwantedAssistance OKAY, THANK YOU WALLACE!]]"
%%* TheCasanova: Scott and Ramona of course.
* CastFullOfGay: Wallace Wells (and his various friends and sexual conquests), his boyfriend Mobile, Roxanne Richter, "Other Scott," Joseph, [[spoiler:Stephen Stills]]...
* CastHerd: The LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters are more or less divided into two camps: Sex Bob-omb and the League of Evil Exes, and their assorted hangers-on.
* CatapultNightmare: Scott wakes up from one in Volume 2.
* CatFight:
** When Scott hears about Ramona's fight with Knives in the library, he's in his bed and gets so excited he spills his cocoa everywhere. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Uhh.]]
** In Vol. 3, Ramona and Envy get into this kind of fight when their conversation goes south.
* CerebusRetcon: Scott's quirky high-school flashbacks turn quite glum with the revelation Kim gives Scott in the final book. [[spoiler:Turns out the boy that kidnapped her was just someone she was friends with that Scott beat up when he saw the two together. There was no major confrontation or epic fight that was earlier described. It's later revealed Gideon "spruced up" the memory when he went inside Scott's mind]].
* CerebusSyndrome: The fifth book starts dipping into some pretty heavy territory (such as fidelity), compared to the lightheartedness of the earlier volumes. This is around the same time that Scott realizes he has to grow the hell up and stop being such a {{manchild}} in order to save his relationships with Ramona and the rest of his friends. Even more so in the sixth book, especially with scenes like [[spoiler:Scott being killed with his own sword ''halfway through the book'']].
* CharacterDevelopment:
** Scott is slowly -- ''very'' slowly -- growing from a complete slacker to a quasi-functional person. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, he comes to accept the fact that he's been a narcissistic jerk throughout much of his life, and now strives to change for the better]].
** Also applies to Ramona Flowers and Knives Chau (especially in the last volume), and the secondary characters: Wallace is noticeably more care-free after he starts dating Mobile, Stephen Stills is somewhat more neurotic and self-conscious, and Kim is becoming less cold towards Scott.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The Boys [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Crash]]'s constant rehearsing finally pays off in the form of an advanced technique:
-->''We now have the ability to manipulate pure sound waves [[{{Determinator}} through hard work and willpower alone]]!!''
** Scott has superhuman speed and strength and insane martial arts skills without any justification other than he's the main character of a video game.
* ChekhovsGun:
** [[spoiler:The extra life Scott gained in book 3 brings him back to life after Gideon runs him through. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Scott's mom, pointing out the extra life after Stacey notes that Scott just came back.]]
** It always seemed odd how the Lucas Lee movie Scott and Ramona watch in Volume 2 was curiously similar to Scott's rescuing of Kim back in high school... [[spoiler:until Vol. 6]].
* ChekhovsGunman:
** [[spoiler:Nega-Scott, Scott's mysterious doppleganger from Volume 4, reappears in Volume 6, turning out to be a personification of all the problems Scott wants to get away from.]]
** The Boys and Crash in Volume 3, along with their ChekhovsSkill (manipulating sound waves), which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Kim.
** In the movie, Roxie attacks Scott for the first time before he meets Todd.
** [[spoiler:Gideon Graves]] at the end of Volume 3.
* ChekhovsSkill:
** In book 2, it's shown that Scott is an exceedingly good cook. When he gets a job at a restaurant in book four, [[AvertedTrope he's relegated to a dishwasher.]]
** Played straight at the end of Volume 6. [[spoiler:Scott Pilgrim, greatest prep chef in the world. And he still botches the order.]]
--->'''Stephen Stills''': Whatever, they ordered dinner at 10:55. They're getting a salad.
** Played straight with Stephen Stills, who had his cooking moment with the vegan shepherd's pie scene in book 2, and is seen later working at the same restaurant as Scott and being complimented by customers for his cooking.
** After Scott earns the Power of Love and goes up to fight Roxy, he says, "Now I'm glad I picked that longsword proficiency in grade five!"
*** This was actually foreshadowed in Vol 2, when Scott said that he didn't take the skateboard proficiency.
** Headbutting. [[spoiler:Scott uses it to kill Todd in Volume 3, and then uses it in Volume 6 with the Glow to break Gideon out of his giant, twisted, godly form.]]
* ChristmasCake: Played straight in a bizarre fashion. In Vol. 4, Scott is sitting on a bench looking for some drink money right before he meets Lisa. Two girls walk by, one remarking that Scott is kind of cute, and the other responds, "Ew, he's like 25."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Scott has shades of this from time to time.
--> '''Wallace''': Can you be serious for ''one'' second?\\
'''Scott (drooling)''': I like elevators.
* CombinationAttack: How Scott and Ramona [[spoiler:[[FinishHim finish off]] Gideon]]. It's a slash in the shape of an "X". An [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger X-Slash]] if you will. The twins Kyle and Ken also do this with techniques like the Double Hurricane Kick, and Simul-Punch. Also known as the "Ex-slash" if it's possible not to notice.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The Vegan Police rush in to remove Todd Ingram's vegan superpowers for eating gelato. Envy notes that Todd also ate chicken parmesan, but the police aren't sure whether parmesan is an animal or not, so they don't punish him for that one.
* ComicBookTime: Lampshaded and mocked in the fifth volume, as the Real world and the Scott Pilgrim world take on the last Sex Bob-Omb show collide with hilarious results.
--> '''Sandra''': A whole generation of bands have come and gone since you guys opened for the Demonheads in '05!\\
'''Scott''': That was ''this May!''
* ContinuityNod: Scott's love of the ComicBook/XMen, shown in Volume 1, is shown again in Volume 5 in full force. He tells Ramona the storylines of the demon Belasco kidnapping Colossus' sister Illyana and the time the X-Men set up base in Australia.
* ContinuityPorn: The series is loaded with little details, some of which speak to each other over separate books.
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Knives leaps and attacks Envy right before she's about to finish Ramona. Subverted in that it doesn't accomplish much and Knives ends up hitting the wall.
* CosmeticAward:
** Scott unlocks an achievement for defeating the Katayanagi twins at the same time.
** They also give a $2.00 "twin bonus"... no, wait, that's likely independent of the achievement.
** Gets a ShoutOut in the video game, where defeating both of them at once earns you the 'Twin Dragons' Achievement/Trophy.
* CrankyLandlord: Scott and Wallace's landlord is a {{jerkass}} of the highest order. Considering the boys don't seem to actually ''pay him rent'' and he still lets them stay until their contract lapses, at which point he offers a per month deal...
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The entire WorldOfHam looks playful and fun ''at first'', until you realize just how [[BlackAndGrayMorality selfish, violent, and lawless]] most of the main cast actually is. [[HeroicComedicSociopath Even the heroes.]] Lampshaded several times. For example in Volume 2, when Ramona rips a metal pole off the ground to fight Knives, Stacey exclaims, "Are you crazy? You can't just tear up giant metal art objects like that!"
* CrazyPrepared: Gideon: "Yes! I had a sword built into Envy's dress in case of emergency! [[InvokedTrope THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF GUY I AM!]]"
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Scott gets thrown through brick walls, beaten up by a giant robot, etc. and manages to come out relatively unscathed.
* {{Crossover}}: Scott makes a one panel cameo in another Creator/OniPress graphic novel entitled PENG (which is NOT by Bryan Lee O'Malley, but rather by Corey Lewis, who also did the graphic novel series Sharknife, which takes place in the same continuity as PENG).
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Scott Pilgrim may be an idiot, but he's also the "best fighter in the province".
* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: Ramona's "three or five evil exes".[[note]]not ex-boyfriends[[/note]]
* CueTheSun: At the end of Volume 3.
* CutawayGag: In Volume 5.
-->'''Scott''': Well, we've got something like 48 hours, dude [Stephen Stills]...what's our plan?\\
'''SOMETHING LIKE 48 HOURS LATER''' [-'''AT SNEAKY DEE'S'''-]
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