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** Kim Pine is found captured by evil-doers twice. They are keeping her trapped, in shackles or otherwise, and waiting for a contender to show up. [[spoiler:Although the first time, she may not have been captured at all, considering she was dating the guy. Scott is just an UnreliableNarrator.]] Given the constant references to [[VideoGame video games]], it is natural that Scott Pilgrim has to SaveThePrincess.
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** Kim Pine is found captured by evil-doers twice. They are keeping her trapped, in shackles or otherwise, and waiting for a contender to show up. [[spoiler:Although the first time, she may not have been captured at all, considering she was dating the guy. Scott is just an UnreliableNarrator.]] Given the constant references to [[VideoGame video games]], {{video games}}, it is natural that Scott Pilgrim has to SaveThePrincess.
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* DropTheHammer: Ramona and Envy's fight in Volume 3.
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* GainaxEnding: Volume 6 features this in spades, what with Gideon's ultimate plan, his powers, Scott and Ramona's exit, etc.
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* GenreBusting: It's a comedic SliceOfLife FightingSeries as well as a romance story and even dips into full-on drama at times, making the overall genre of the comic hard to pin down,
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* DeathIsCheap: O'Malley has stated that Scott didn't actually kill the evil exes, but rather that they teleported back to their homes upon exploding. This is also why there aren't any police seen throughout the series. [[spoiler:Almost averted for Scott when Gideon kills him, but since he had an extra life on him this is played straight.]]
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* EldritchLocation: Honest Ed's, a real discount store in Toronto which was in operation from 1948 to 2016, is portrayed in this series as an "existential horror" and is shown to contain all kinds of creepy knick-knacks that drive anyone who goes inside insane. It causes a HeroicBSOD in Scott and a SuperpowerMeltdown in Todd.
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* EldritchLocation: Honest Ed's, a real discount store in Toronto which was in operation from 1948 to 2016, is portrayed in this series as an "existential horror" and is shown to contain all kinds of creepy knick-knacks that drive anyone who goes inside insane.insane from sensory overload. It causes a HeroicBSOD in Scott and a SuperpowerMeltdown in Todd.
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* EldritchLocation: Honest Ed's, described as an "existential horror" (it was a [[MundaneMadeAwesome dollar store]]). It causes a HeroicBSOD in Scott and a SuperpowerMeltdown in Todd.
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* EldritchLocation: Honest Ed's, described a real discount store in Toronto which was in operation from 1948 to 2016, is portrayed in this series as an "existential horror" (it was a [[MundaneMadeAwesome dollar store]]).and is shown to contain all kinds of creepy knick-knacks that drive anyone who goes inside insane. It causes a HeroicBSOD in Scott and a SuperpowerMeltdown in Todd.
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* JokeTitleRealRole: The Vegan Police, an enforcement unit responsible for patroling the vegans, who in the series' universe gain "vegan superpowers" from their vegan diet; the Vegan Police revokes these powers from any vegan who's caught cheating on their diet. They're named after the real-life "vegan police" slang, which is used to refer to hardline vegans who impose their standards on other vegans/vegetarians and berate them for not matching up.
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* JokeTitleRealRole: The Vegan Police, an enforcement unit responsible for patroling the vegans, who in vegans and revoking the series' universe gain "vegan superpowers" from their vegan diet; the Vegan Police revokes these powers from any vegan who's caught cheating on their diet. They're named after the real-life "vegan police" slang, which is used to refer to hardline vegans who impose their standards on other vegans/vegetarians and berate them for not matching up.
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* JokeTitleRealRole: The Vegan Police, who patrol other vegans to make sure that anyone who cheats on their diet has their vegan superpowers revoked. In real life, "vegan police" is used to describe hard-line vegans who impose their standards on others and berate them for not matching up.
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* JokeTitleRealRole: The Vegan Police, an enforcement unit responsible for patroling the vegans, who patrol other vegans to make sure that anyone who cheats on their diet has in the series' universe gain "vegan superpowers" from their vegan superpowers revoked. In real life, diet; the Vegan Police revokes these powers from any vegan who's caught cheating on their diet. They're named after the real-life "vegan police" slang, which is used to describe hard-line refer to hardline vegans who impose their standards on others other vegans/vegetarians and berate them for not matching up.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: ''The Wonderful World of Kim Pine'' is one for Kim.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Discussed.
-->'''Scott''': So, have you ever kissed a girl?
-->'''Ramona''': Yes.
-->'''Scott''': (shivering with delight)
** Scott's reaction when he learns Ramona and Roxie dated: "YOU HAD A SEXY PHASE?!"
** Subverted when Scott finds [[spoiler:Knives and Kim]] drunkenly making out. He's rather disturbed about it.
* GISSyndrome: The books proper don't contain this, but the Free Comic Book Day issue contains a [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] example.
--> "Okay, this background looks really hard to draw and I don't think I'm getting paid for this comic, so enjoy this stock photo."
-->'''Scott''': So, have you ever kissed a girl?
-->'''Ramona''': Yes.
-->'''Scott''': (shivering with delight)
** Scott's reaction when he learns Ramona and Roxie dated: "YOU HAD A SEXY PHASE?!"
** Subverted when Scott finds [[spoiler:Knives and Kim]] drunkenly making out. He's rather disturbed about it.
* GISSyndrome: The books proper don't contain this, but the Free Comic Book Day issue contains a [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] example.
--> "Okay, this background looks really hard to draw and I don't think I'm getting paid for this comic, so enjoy this stock photo."
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Discussed.
-->'''Scott''':The series makes a lot of discussions and references to lesbians being hot.
** Scott once owned a lame poster of two chicks kissing.
** This exchange:
--->'''Scott''': So, have you ever kissed agirl?
-->'''Ramona''': Yes.
-->'''Scott''':girl?\\
'''Ramona''': Yes.\\
'''Scott''': (shivering with delight)
** During Ramona and Envy's fight scene in Volume 3, an onlooker yells "Make out!"
** In ''Free Scott Pilgrim'', Scott'sreaction when first question at the Winifred Hailey poster characters coming alive to confront him is "Are they going to '''''make out?!?!'''''"
** In Volume 4:
*** Scott accidentally sees Kim and Knives making out while drunk, but it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] since helearns reacts with and leaves in shock. We can only guess listening to the two of them (who were both in love with him) complain about boys prior caused Scott some self-esteem issues.
*** When Scott finds Ramona and Roxiedated: casually chatting at his newfound restaurant workplace, he angrily walks up to the two and asks if Roxie is dating one of Ramona's "evil ex-boyfriends." He's initially puzzled when Ramona responds by correcting to him (in one of many times) that they're her "evil exes," until he ends up getting that Roxie is Ramona's fourth evil ex, at which he outright yells "YOU HAD A SEXY PHASE?!"
**Subverted when In Volume 5, Scott finds [[spoiler:Knives says "Make out!" when he sees a drunk Ramona and Kim]] drunkenly making out. He's rather disturbed about it.
Kim starting to cuddle.
* GISSyndrome: The main booksproper don't contain have this, but the Free Comic Book Day issue contains ''Free Scott Pilgrim'' features a [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] example.
--> "Okay, -->"Okay, this background looks really hard to draw and I don't think I'm getting paid for this comic, so enjoy this stock photo."
-->'''Scott''':
** Scott once owned a lame poster of two chicks kissing.
** This exchange:
--->'''Scott''': So, have you ever kissed a
-->'''Ramona''': Yes.
-->'''Scott''':
'''Ramona''': Yes.\\
'''Scott''': (shivering with delight)
** During Ramona and Envy's fight scene in Volume 3, an onlooker yells "Make out!"
** In ''Free Scott Pilgrim'', Scott's
** In Volume 4:
*** Scott accidentally sees Kim and Knives making out while drunk, but it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] since he
*** When Scott finds Ramona and Roxie
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* GISSyndrome: The main books
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* IkeaWeaponry: In Volume 3, Todd assembles an assault rifle out of household items to shoot Scott at Honest Ed's.
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* IncrediblyLamePun:
** "Chau down!" "Did you really just say that?"
** In Volume 5 at the Happy Avocado, Stephen Stills says that he only wants to discuss Knives and the band...only for him to then say that he's referring to the knives that he's currently using to chop onions.
** "Chau down!" "Did you really just say that?"
** In Volume 5 at the Happy Avocado, Stephen Stills says that he only wants to discuss Knives and the band...only for him to then say that he's referring to the knives that he's currently using to chop onions.
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* HeroicBSOD: Starting Volume 4, the development of Scott's relationship with Ramona turns him into a poster-boy of this trope as he suffers from this repeatedly with increasingly brutal aftermath every time. This is also what summons Nega-Scott. By the end of Volume 5, there are many hints of Scott turning clinically insane, and finally in Volume 6, the half of, if not, the entire storyline could be summed up as "Scott's quest to [[AchillesInHisTent get away from]] [[DarkestHour the increasing brink of]] DespairEventHorizon".
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* HeroicBSOD: Starting Volume 4, the development of Scott's relationship with Ramona turns him into a poster-boy poster boy of this trope as he suffers from this repeatedly with increasingly brutal aftermath every time. This is also what summons Nega-Scott. By the end of Volume 5, there are many hints of Scott turning clinically insane, and finally in Volume 6, the half of, if not, the entire storyline could be summed up as "Scott's quest to [[AchillesInHisTent get away from]] [[DarkestHour the increasing brink of]] DespairEventHorizon".
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* FreeHandedPerformer: The band Clash at the Demonhead is led by Envy Adams who only provides the singing.
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* {{Doppelmerger}}: Scott is accosted by [[EnemyWithout Nega-Scott]] in the run-up to his final confrontation with Gideon. Nega-Scott represents his personal flaws, insecurities, and repressed memories about his failed love life, so when Scott is finally able to overcome his dark side, he doesn't do so by overpowering Nega-Scott; he does so by accepting his flaws as a part of who he is. This results in Nega-Scott merging with Scott, leaving him at peace and itching for his fight with Gideon.
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* GlassesAreSexy: Save for Other Scott, Wallace only goes out with guys with glasses.
-->'''Knives''': Do you want to know who in my class is gay?\\
'''Wallace''': Yes. Does he wear glasses?
-->'''Knives''': Do you want to know who in my class is gay?\\
'''Wallace''': Yes. Does he wear glasses?
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* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: While we do see Wallace kissing [[AllGaysArePromiscuous quite a few guys]], some readers may get a little tired of him being referred to as Scott's "cool gay roommate" constantly. But that's the joke, and Scott's an idiot.
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* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: While we do see Wallace kissing [[AllGaysArePromiscuous quite a few guys]], some readers may can get a little tired of him being referred to as Scott's "cool gay roommate" constantly. But that's the joke, and Scott's an idiot.
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* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: While we do see Wallace kissing [[AllGaysArePromiscuous quite a few guys]], some readers got a little tired of him being referred to as Scott's "cool gay roommate" constantly. But that's the joke, and Scott's an idiot.
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* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: While we do see Wallace kissing [[AllGaysArePromiscuous quite a few guys]], some readers got may get a little tired of him being referred to as Scott's "cool gay roommate" constantly. But that's the joke, and Scott's an idiot.
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* JerkAssWoobie:
** Envy. Especially in Volume 6 after she reveals [[spoiler:that her and Scott's break-up was a mutual occurrence and Scott simply whitewashed his role in it out of the flashbacks seen by the reader in Volume 3]].
** And Scott himself.
** Envy. Especially in Volume 6 after she reveals [[spoiler:that her and Scott's break-up was a mutual occurrence and Scott simply whitewashed his role in it out of the flashbacks seen by the reader in Volume 3]].
** And Scott himself.
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** Scott Pilgrim himself, of course. Being charming and sweet in a dorky way doesn't hide the fact that he's shallow, self-centered, a shameless mooch to everyone of his acquaintance, and willfully oblivious to the damage his "precious little life" causes others. Through CharacterDevelopment, he... doesn't exactly rise above this, but undeniable that there's a little less Jerk and a little more Heart of Gold by the end. [[spoiler:Kim Pine turns out to be one in Volume 6 as well.]]
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** Scott Pilgrim himself, of course. Being charming and sweet in a dorky way doesn't hide the fact that he's shallow, self-centered, a shameless mooch to everyone of his acquaintance, and willfully oblivious to the damage his "precious little life" causes others. Through CharacterDevelopment, he... doesn't exactly rise above this, but undeniable that there's a little less Jerk and a little more Heart of Gold by the end. [[spoiler:Kim Pine turns out to be one in Volume 6 as well.]]
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** Todd Ingram is very insensitive towards people, claiming that he's better than other people because he's a rock star. He even [[spoiler:cheats on his girlfriend Envy Adams with the drummer of their band]]. To top it all off, he [[spoiler:telekinetically throws Envy across the room when she confronts and lashes out at him over his infidelity (although to be fair, she ''did'' successfully GroinAttack him immediately before he did that)]].
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** Todd Ingram is very insensitive towards people, claiming that he's better than other people because he's a rock star.rockstar. He even [[spoiler:cheats on his girlfriend Envy Adams with the drummer of their band]]. To top it all off, he [[spoiler:telekinetically throws Envy across the room when she confronts and lashes out at him over his infidelity (although to be fair, she ''did'' successfully GroinAttack him immediately before he did that)]].
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** Todd Ingram is very insensitive towards people, claiming that because he is a rock star, he is better than other people. He even cheats on his girlfriend Envy Adams with the drummer of their band. To top it all off, he telekinetically throws Envy across the room when she confronts and lashes out at him over his infidelity. (Although to be fair, she ''did'' successfully GroinAttack him immediately before he did that.)
** Todd Ingram is very insensitive towards people, claiming that because he is a rock star, he is better than other people. He even cheats on his girlfriend Envy Adams with the drummer of their band. To top it all off, he telekinetically throws Envy across the room when she confronts and lashes out at him over his infidelity. (Although to be fair, she ''did'' successfully GroinAttack him immediately before he did that.)
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** Todd Ingram is very insensitive towards people, claiming thatbecause he is a rock star, he is he's better than other people. people because he's a rock star. He even cheats [[spoiler:cheats on his girlfriend Envy Adams with the drummer of their band. band]]. To top it all off, he telekinetically [[spoiler:telekinetically throws Envy across the room when she confronts and lashes out at him over his infidelity. (Although infidelity (although to be fair, she ''did'' successfully GroinAttack him immediately before he did that.)that)]].
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** Julie Powers. Her main personality quirk is being an absolute bitch to everyone.
** Played with in the case of our almost JerkAss protagonist. Scott is undeniably likable and sympathetic, but a big part of the story is exposing and dealing with the fact that he's also kind of a dick.
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* DarkestHour: In Volume 6, ironically titled "Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour"; the entire first half of the story is devoted to the aftermath of Scott's breakup with Ramona and his attempt to forget about his past and move on. The finest hour comes at the end of the story.
* DarkIsEvil: Both Roxy and Envy dress in a dark, somewhat gothic-inspired style, the latter to accentuate her FemmeFatale persona.
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:Nega-Scott. He is the EnemyWithout personification of Scott's mistakes: he exists because Scott refuses to face up to them, obsessed with his narcissistic, NeverMyFault attitude. Every time Nega-Scott shows up prior to Volume 6, it's when Scott is being an absolute ass, serving as {{Foreshadowing}} of Scott's inability to learn from his past, and Scott never acknowledges it. He tries to ''destroy'' Nega-Scott in Volume 6, insisting that he's doing it to protect Kim (who is shouting at him to ''stop fighting and running away from his past'' and is in no danger), and only by accepting that he's ''not a good person'' is he able to realize that he's had a horrible negative impact on his friends and himself. He gets better as a result.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[WorldOfSnark Everyone]], but especially Kim Pine and, to a lesser extent, Wallace.
* DeathGlare:
** Everyone in The Clash at Demonhead gives one to Knives when she tells them what a huge fan she is of them.
** Ramona gives one to Kim in volume 4 when she brings up a poster of [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two girls kissing]]. It's even accompanied by "GLARE" being shown in big text, probably considering Ramona was wearing opaque glasses that obscured her eyes from the reader.
** Kim to Scott in Vol. 6 after Scott fails to continue to not be her mom.
* DefaceOfTheMoon: Todd Ingram punched two craters in the moon with his Vegan powers, one for Ramona and one for Envy.
* DelayedCausality: Roxanne takes a few seconds to fall apart after being cut up by Scott.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** Some of Scott's insults take the form of BreadEggsBreadedEggs.
** Volume 4's inside cover has a character guide to help readers potentially catch up to what's happening in the story. When it comes to Wallace, two of his characteristics are "the gay roommate" and "is gay".
* DesignatedGirlFight: Ramona's only female to male brawl [[spoiler: would be Gideon]]. That's okay though, since the chick fights are awesome.
* DeusExMachina:
** Parodied in the third volume (even more hilarious when you realize it was actually a ChekhovsGun):
--->'''Scott Pilgrim:''' I can't even get near him! I need some kind of... like... [[LampshadeHanging last minute, poorly-set-up Deus Ex Machina]]!!
--->[[spoiler:'''Vegan Policeman (to the villain):''' FREEZE! Vegan police. You were caught eating gelato this morning.]]
** The Boys and Crash, just moments before.
** Just as Envy is about to kill Ramona with her own hammer, Knives comes in with a flying kick.
* DiagonalCut:
** [[spoiler:Roxanne, after her battle with Scott]].
** [[spoiler:Both Scott and Gideon, in Volume 6]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: The League of Evil Exes consider controlling Ramona's love life by killing anyone who tries to date her is a justified response to her dumping them.
* DistressedDamsel:
** Kim Pine is found captured by evil-doers twice. They are keeping her trapped, in shackles or otherwise, and waiting for a contender to show up. [[spoiler:Although the first time, she may not have been captured at all, considering she was dating the guy. Scott is just an UnreliableNarrator.]] Given the constant references to [[VideoGame video games]], it is natural that Scott Pilgrim has to SaveThePrincess.
** This trope is subverted with Ramona. It's not often in a work of fiction that the girl being fought for is a more capable fighter than the guy fighting for her, but Ramona just might be. She's a true ActionGirl, at the very least, though this isn't really revealed until Volume 2.
* DontTryThisAtHome:
** Near the end of Volume 4:
--->'''Julie:''' Are we letting [Knives] drink beer again?\\
'''Stephen Stills:''' Hell yes we are, and it's ''hilarious''.\\
'''NOTE TO MINORS''': He is lying. Underage drinking is not at all hilarious.
** In the bonus comic ''Free Scott Pilgrim'':
--->'''Scott Pilgrim Says...'''\\
Just remember: in real life, you should never punch a girl. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Unless it's a serious emergency.]]
* DoubleStandard: Ramona chews out Scott for dating both her and Knives Chau at the beginning of their relationship, despite the fact that she cheated on several of her evil exes in the past, and [[spoiler:making out with Roxie while Ramona and Scott were going out in Volume 4 (not to mention her dating Kyle behind Ken's back ''and vice-versa'').]] Ramona is aware of the double standard, and everything that it implies about her, and most of her story arc is trying to distance herself from the bad stuff she's done in her past.
* DownerEnding: Volume 5. [[spoiler:Scott and Ramona's relationship shows signs of getting stale, Knives reveals to Ramona that Scott cheated on both of them, Ramona abandons Scott, Kim leaves Toronto, and Sex Bob-omb ends.]]
* DoYouWantToCopulate:
** After Scott is told by Wallace to [[YouNeedToGetLaid get with a girl]] at the start of Volume 6, he winds up [[LargeHam dramatically]] asking Knives for her hand in sex. It's pretty hilarious.
--> '''Scott''': Do you want to have ''sex''? I think we should have '''sex'''! '''''Casual sex!'''''
** He ends up re-attempting this on ''Envy''. While she turns him down, she doesn't seem ''completely'' put off by it.
** [[spoiler:He also attempts this on Kim, though it's more downplayed as he simply tries to make out with her. Kim initially goes along with it but quickly stops, and the two finally settle their otherwise unresolved feelings]].
* DramaticWind: When Scott goes to find Ramona in subspace in Volume 6, complete with tumbleweed.
* DropTheHammer: Ramona and Envy's fight in Volume 3.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: [[spoiler:PsychopathicManchild stalker Gideon keeps his ex-girlfriends locked away in PeopleJars. He spends the better part of the story trying to add Ramona to his [[LivingDollCollector Living Doll collection.]] [[FridgeHorror Think about it.]]]]
* DynamicEntry: Knives jumping down to fight Ramona in the library. With knives, appropriately enough.
* DysfunctionJunction: Scott's circle of friends is... not full of the healthiest people. Kim Pine has self-esteem issues masked behind her mildly misanthropic nature, and Stephen has lots of neurotic moments and a knack for entering unhealthy relationships with abrasive individuals. This isn't counting for lesser-known characters like Neil, who we know little about. We see glimpses of them when they're not around Scott and they're usually not happy. In fact, many of the happy moments tend to be when they are together with Scott. Even those like Wallace Wells could be considered as Wallace seems to drink alot and occasionally seen as a hedonist. To say nothing of Scott and Ramona themselves.
* EarlyBirdCameo:
** In Volume 3, Gideon slips in a cameo ([[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen shrouded in shadows]]) during Todd's flashback sequence at Honest Ed's and right after Scott defeats Todd. He also slips in another one in Volume 4 when Scott crashes Ramona's subconscious.
** The colour version sort-of confirms that [[spoiler:Envy]] has an EarlyBirdCameo in Vol. 1. [[spoiler:Scott writes a white-washed version of her into his dream of Sex Bob-Omb being an actual famous band. She's the redhead on the keyboard (the same instrument played by the real-life Envy)]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Scott and Ramona definitely do.
* EldritchLocation: Honest Ed's, described as an "existential horror" (it was a [[MundaneMadeAwesome dollar store]]). It causes a HeroicBSOD in Scott and a SuperpowerMeltdown in Todd.
-->'''Julie''': "[[MundaneMadeAwesome Stephen... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive?]]”
** Subspace, if you ''really'' think about it.
* EnemyMine: Wallace and Ramona become friends because of their shared hatred for Envy.
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Nega-Scott. Has the "fusion" resolution, as Kim points out that if Scott killed his darkness and forgot about it, he would just make the same mistakes over and over again.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:For all of her insults towards Scott & Ramona in the preceding five volumes, Julie is visibly shocked & horrified when Gideon kills Scott & runs Ramona through with a katana, a reaction shared by Envy. Averted with Joseph, as he simply doesn't seem to care.]]
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Everybody [[NonActionGuy except Wallace]].
* EveryoneIsASuper: An odd example. Subspace allows people to use superpowers, and it's implied that everyone can do it. The reason why not many people are shown using Subspace is because it isn't taught in Canada.
* EvilCounterpart:
** [[spoiler:Gideon for Scott. In the last volume, it is shown that he represses memories in the same fashion that Scott does, [[SelfServingMemory self-editing to favor himself]], and Scott recognizes the similarity, gaining the [[CoolSword Power of Understanding]] from it.]]
** To lesser degrees, Joel [=MacMillan=] [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/scottpilgrim/images/7/7c/Film_Joel_Info_Sheet.jpg/revision/latest ("sweat bands -- biting Scott's style?" "Note: Scott doesn't like him. Ask Scott about this [maybe]")]][[note]]though he's not actually evil[[/note]] and Todd Ingram, both bassists for other bands.
* EvilDiva: Envy Adams.
* EvilIsPetty:
** Possessiveness and jealousy are the main motivations driving the League of Evil Exes. Especially Gideon, who just happened to have founded the group in the pettiest of ways: [[spoiler:by posting an angry rant on the internet.]]
** And the reason why [[spoiler:Gideon had six girls in PeopleJars and wants Ramona to be the seventh? He wanted to go on a date with all of them at once.]]
* EvilSorcerer: Matthew Patel.
* ExpressiveShirt: Scott's ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' slime T-shirt changes its expression as he does.
* ExtradimensionalShortcut: Subspace is used this way ([[HyperspaceArsenal among other things]]). Ramona uses it [[MundaneUtility to make fast deliveries]].
* FaceNodAction: Envy to Lynette before she punches Knives.
* {{Facepalm}}: Kim Pine does several variations of this.
* FadeToWhite: When Scott [[spoiler:gets stabbed by Gideon]] in Volume 6. It goes on for three whole pages.
* FanGirl: Knives Chau towards Sex Bob-Omb and Scott, ''especially'' Scott.
--> '''Knives''': I'm a Scottaholic!
* {{Fanservice}}: A few to count, namely the saucy romantic sessions Scott has with some of the girls as well as some fanservice scenes. The rather hot and heavy moment in Volume 5 and not to mention the part where he jumped into Ramona's mind. Although pre-art change Scott Pilgrim had at least one sex scene per volume, relatively work-safe of course.
* FantasyKitchenSink: The evil exes have [[EvilSorcerer mystical powers]], PsychicPowers, {{Ninja}}s, and [[MechaMooks Robots]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Gideon. He calls Scott buddy, and compliments him on his shirt (both sarcastically). Also, when he kills Scott, he buys everyone a drink. Gideon's compliment on the shirt relates to the fact that it bears Gideon's initials: GGG.]]
* FemmeFatale: Parodied with Ramona, Envy and Knives. Scott seems to be a magnet for the type. Though it should be noted that Envy and Knives didn't fit the trope when they first started dating Scott and only became that way later.
-->"What kind of idiot would knowingly date a girl named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Knives]]?"
* {{Fetish}}:
** Wallace has a ''big'' fetish for guys wearing glasses.
** Gideon also tells Envy something along the lines of "you know putting you in those outfits is sexually fulfilling for me". Envy replies that that's ''all'' that he finds sexually fulfilling. See LivingDollCollector.
* FingerGun:
** The Vegan Police fire their de-veganizing beams out of them.
** Kim mimics shooting herself in the head whenever she's feeling bored or exasperated.
* FlamingSword: Of Love. [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena That comes out of the heart on Scott's shirt]].
* FlippingTheBird:
** In volume 1, when we are introduced to Crash and the Boys, Trasha flips off Wallace when he questions there being a female drummer.
** In volume 3, Scott flips off Stephen Stills while leaving the bathroom when he sees him vomiting into a toilet.
** Julie has a penchant for doing this.
* ForcefulKiss: Played with in volume 6. [[spoiler:Being the most emotionally vulnerable he's ever been, Scott kisses Kim in a desperate attempt to reconnect their lost relationship. Kim is clearly surprised by the kiss, but is initially receptive of it... But soon breaks it off. Kim's expression immediately after the fact indicates that she was scared of how effective it was, but the two finally resolve the lack of closure in their relationship soon after]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The free comic (released after Volume 2) features posters animated by ninja magic, presaging Roxie's appearance in Volume 4.
** In the same comic Ramona warns Scott that he'll have to learn to hit girls eventually.
** Scott asks Wallace where he got a certain shirt from in one volume. Said t-shirt has a Wild West theme to it... guess who comes out in Volume 6?
** Related to the above point, when Ramona bumps into Young Neil at a party, she asks him why Knives isn't with him. He says she left him to hang out with "Captain Homo". It seems mostly like just a jerk comment by Young Neil who is going through a dickish phase, but [[spoiler:then we learn that Steven Stills came out as gay offscreen sometime during Vol.5, so the comment isn't exactly wrong.]]
** Throughout the first few volumes, whenever Ramona is feeling jealous, her head starts to glow. When [[spoiler:Scott catches Ramona's ex-girlfriend at her house after they had an argument]], Scott's head starts glowing too. [[spoiler:This is one of the earliest signs that Scott and Ramona really aren't that different emotionally, despite outward appearances.]]
** Very ''subtle'' foreshadowing: "Scott, if your life had a face I would punch it". [[StealthPun Guess what he obtains in the third book?]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Gideon.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In volume 3, Michael Comeau is introduced as "knowing everyone ''including you''".
** Similarly, Knives and Scott's kiss in volume 6 is described as being "horrible for everyone, ''including you''".
* FreudianExcuse: One of the things that flashes through Todd's head during his SuperpowerMeltdown in Honest Ed's is his father's doubt of him. Papa Ingram, coincidentally, looks a lot like Dr. Freud.
* FullNameBasis: Stephen Stills.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Scott fighting Robot-01 at the MasqueradeBall in Volume 5 serves as this throughout two scenes, with the second culminating in the Robot-01 finally being bested.
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* GainaxEnding: Volume 6 features this in spades, what with Gideon's ultimate plan, his powers, Scott and Ramona's exit, etc.
* GeekyTurnOn: Possibly why Scott used to date Envy, as she started out as a nerdy chick who loved {{anime}} before she became a FemmeFatale.
* GenerationXerox: If you take WordOfGod in account, [[http://www.radiomaru.com/comics/short/monica/ Scott's dad has also fallen in love with enigmatic girls. His friend even looks quite like Stephen Stills.]]
* GetARoom: When Scott and Ramona kiss at the end of Volume 4.
* TheGhost:
** Scott's brother Lawrence and Wallace's psychic boyfriend Mobile until the end of Volume 5. [[spoiler:Both of whom are mistaken for Gideon by Scott]].
** Gideon himself in Volumes 1-5. He is mentioned quite often, but doesn't appear (except as a voice on the phone) until the final book.
* GirlOfMyDreams: Quite literally.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Discussed.
-->'''Scott''': So, have you ever kissed a girl?
-->'''Ramona''': Yes.
-->'''Scott''': (shivering with delight)
** Scott's reaction when he learns Ramona and Roxie dated: "YOU HAD A SEXY PHASE?!"
** Subverted when Scott finds [[spoiler:Knives and Kim]] drunkenly making out. He's rather disturbed about it.
* GISSyndrome: The books proper don't contain this, but the Free Comic Book Day issue contains a [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] example.
--> "Okay, this background looks really hard to draw and I don't think I'm getting paid for this comic, so enjoy this stock photo."
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: This happens at least once every volume, and each main character's probably done this at least once. It's even on the first volume's cover!
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Sex [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bob-Omb]]. The Clash at Demonhead. Crash and the Boys. [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic and Knuckles]]. Shatterband. Every band is named after a video game reference.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking:
** Parodied when two clubgoers remark "Oh my god, she's ''evil!''" when they see Lynette lighting up. [[spoiler:Though when Ramona's attitude starts changing, she starts smoking more than she used to...]]
** When Envy starts smoking, it's a sign of her StartOfDarkness.
** All the girls except Kim Pine smoke at some point in the book, but the one time Young Neil smokes, it represents his absolute low.
** When Lisa smokes in front of Scott, she offers him a puff but he refuses, saying that "smoking is evil".
* GoThroughMe: Parodied. One of the jocks holding Kim hostage says this to Scott, but he simply [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with him]] and continues on his way.
* GottaKillThemAll: The premise of the series. In order for Scott to start building a real relationship, he's got to deal with her seven exes -- and by "deal with", he means annihilate.
* GrandRomanticGesture: Todd (evil ex #3) proclaimed his love for Ramona by [[spoiler:punching a hole in the moon]]. He also does it for his current girlfriend Envy -- since she thought he'd only done it for her, this comes back to bite him in the ass.
* GratuitousFrench: It is Canada, of course.
* GroinAttack: Envy knees Todd in the crotch after finding out [[spoiler:he was cheating on her behind her back with Ramona and Lynette]].
-->'''Envy''': "Let's both be girls!!"
* GrumpyBear: Kim.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Parodied; Roxie is a "half-ninja".
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens in Volume 6 to [[spoiler:Scott while he's inside Ramona's mind.]]
* HalloweenEpisode: The beginning of the 5th book is at a Mexican Day of The Dead party with everyone dressed in some vague skeleton motif.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Wallace is a male version. Pun not intended.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: While we do see Wallace kissing [[AllGaysArePromiscuous quite a few guys]], some readers got a little tired of him being referred to as Scott's "cool gay roommate" constantly. But that's the joke, and Scott's an idiot.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower
* HeroicBSOD: Starting Volume 4, the development of Scott's relationship with Ramona turns him into a poster-boy of this trope as he suffers from this repeatedly with increasingly brutal aftermath every time. This is also what summons Nega-Scott. By the end of Volume 5, there are many hints of Scott turning clinically insane, and finally in Volume 6, the half of, if not, the entire storyline could be summed up as "Scott's quest to [[AchillesInHisTent get away from]] [[DarkestHour the increasing brink of]] DespairEventHorizon".
* HeroicResolve
* HeroicSecondWind: Scott catches his a few times, such as when he defeats the twins.
* HesBack: Essentially the general theme of Volume 6. Also explains the volume's subtitle.
* HeterosexualLifePartners[=/=]IncompatibleOrientation: Scott and Wallace; not only does Wallace jokingly flirt with Scott, he remembers his birthday, buys all of his things and ''[[ThereIsOnlyOneBed even shares a bed with him.]]'' Even Ramona [[LampshadeHanging points it out]] [[MistakenForGay on a few occasions.]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Gideon, at least until Volume 6.
* HeyYouHaymaker: Lynette punching Knives.
* HotbloodedSideburns: One of Ramona's many hairstyles invokes this. Obviously, she doesn't have actual sideburns.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** When Ramona gets annoyed about Scott staying with Lisa for a night, it turns out that [[spoiler:Roxanne]] stayed at her place for the night. She defends herself by saying that they didn't even make out that much.
** When Wallace is complaining about Scott calling him at work. You can see that he is playing solitaire on the computer.
* ICanNotSelfTerminate: ZigZagged. According to WordOfGod, [[https://radiomaru.tumblr.com/post/34254798677/if-i-existed-in-scott-pilgrim-canon-then-could-i there is no friendly-fire in the Scott Pilgrim canon.]]
* IJustWantToBeYou: Kim drunkenly says this to Ramona, however given Kim's self-esteem issues and her [[spoiler:love of Scott]], it's probably not far from the truth.
* IdiotHero
* IfICantHaveYou:
** This is the basic principle behind the League of Evil Exes.
** [[WordOfGod According to O'Malley]], Knives got her name because when a friend of his broke up with his girlfriend, said girlfriend pulled a knife on him.
* IkeaWeaponry: Todd assembles an assault rifle out of household items at Honest Ed's.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:One of Scott's dreams in Volume 6 has Ramona as an angel descending from the skies with the Power of Love to plunge it right through Scott's chest and simultaneously pin him to the ground.]]
* ImportantHaircut:
** Knives after getting dumped by Scott. Inverted with Ramona, who gets her hair done all the time and only lets it grow out when she and Scott start actually getting closer.
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Ramona in Volume 5.]] An entire page is used to further show the importance of the action.
** Scott also tried to pull something similar to this when things with Natalie were looking bad. He thought the new hair would bring them back together. [[spoiler:It didn't.]]
** Subverted with the haircut that Ramona gives Scott in Volume 3, since he doesn't look any different afterwards.
--->'''Scott:''' Check out my rad haircut! Totally ready for the show now!\\
'''Stephen Stills:''' Yeah... great.\\
'''Kim:''' That's a haircut? You got a haircut?
* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Scott's fairly ridiculous impression of Italy. For one thing, he seems to think the Leaning Tower of ''Pisa'' is in Rome.
* IncrediblyLamePun:
** "Chau down!" "Did you really just say that?"
** In Volume 5 at the Happy Avocado, Stephen Stills says that he only wants to discuss Knives and the band...only for him to then say that he's referring to the knives that he's currently using to chop onions.
* InformedAttractiveness: Scott and Ramona. Several characters have the hots for them - including each other - but due to the art style's GenericCuteness they don't look any different from everybody else in the comic.
* InsistentTerminology: Ramona corrects Scott each time he refers to her evil ex-boyfriends as "evil ''exes'', yes." [[ExperimentedInCollege There is a very good reason for that.]]
* InsultBackfire: In Volume 6, [[spoiler:Gideon]] tells Scott and Ramona they're their own worst enemies. They both conclude he's definitely worse.
--> '''Scott''': No, I'm pretty sure you're worse, dude.\\
'''Ramona''': You're definitely worse!
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Mr. Chau, a Chinese ninja who wields a katana. If it helps, the author is himself Asian, so Mr. Chau is probably a spoof of this trope. Or maybe he simply abides by the RuleOfCool, like everybody and everything else in the series. And to be fair, other characters (including Scott) use, if not actual katanas, then katana-esque swords.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Scott gives Gideon a variation of this before defeating him once and for all.
* InvincibilityPowerUp
* IronicEcho: Ken Katayanagi's "I don't think we've been properly...introduced" line in Volume 5 first appears at the MasqueradeBall when they first run into Ramona and Kim, [[spoiler:and then returns for much more sinister effect when the Katayanagis kidnap Kim.]]
* ItemGet: When Scott defeats Lucas Lee and gets a skateboard. [[spoiler:He can't use it though, because he never acquired a skateboard proficiency.]]
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Defeating enemies causes them to explode into coins. Also, being a vegan gives one telekinesis.
-->'''Stephen:''' Uh... Hey. How does not eating dairy products give you psychic powers, anyway? I've been wondering.
-->'''Todd:''' You know how you only use ten percent of your brain? Well, it's because the other 90 percent is filled up with curds and whey!
-->'''Scott:''' That's the stupidest thing I ever heard!!
-->'''Todd:''' Maybe if you knew the science...
* ItsAllAboutMe:
** Gideon ''lives'' this trope. His mania doesn't just stop at acquiring things (and people), it's all about injecting some aspect of himself into it like he's marking his territory. See: his triple-G inverted Triforce, dressing Envy in costumes according to his tastes, [[spoiler:implanting a fragment of himself in Ramona's head]], and in TheMovie, [[spoiler:retooling the newly-professional Sex Bob-Omb from a quirky garage rock band to a generic gothic Music/MyChemicalRomance-style punk band]].
** Scott himself is another good example; although he eventually grows out of it. [[spoiler: It adds a serious case of UnreliableNarrator to the preceeding five volumes when it's confirmed in Volume 6 that Scott has a self-serving memory and world view.]]
* ItsPersonal: Scott's HeroicSecondWind in Volume 6.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Knives claims to be this for Scott. Kim is possibly this for Scott as well.
* JackOfAllStats: In the Free Comics Day comic, Scott tries to select drinks based on their stat boosts being complimentary.
* JerkAss:
** Todd Ingram is very insensitive towards people, claiming that because he is a rock star, he is better than other people. He even cheats on his girlfriend Envy Adams with the drummer of their band. To top it all off, he telekinetically throws Envy across the room when she confronts and lashes out at him over his infidelity. (Although to be fair, she ''did'' successfully GroinAttack him immediately before he did that.)
** Gideon Graves. A manipulating, sexually domineering [[LivingDollCollector creep]]. His first subtitle is even "Gideon Graves (31 Years old) Occupation: Asshole".
---> Gideon stole [[spoiler:the Power of Love]]! What a dick!
** Played with in the case of our almost JerkAss protagonist. Scott is undeniably likable and sympathetic, but a big part of the story is exposing and dealing with the fact that he's also kind of a dick.
** Julie Powers. Her main personality quirk is being an absolute bitch to everyone.
** Minor character Monique is one too. Her behavior is kind of like what Julie would be if she were an extra.
* JerkAssWoobie:
** Envy. Especially in Volume 6 after she reveals [[spoiler:that her and Scott's break-up was a mutual occurrence and Scott simply whitewashed his role in it out of the flashbacks seen by the reader in Volume 3]].
** And Scott himself.
* JerkJock: Subverted with Lucas Lee, who turns out to be quite the decent fellow, and is easily the [[FriendlyEnemy nicest]] of Ramona's evil exes, going so far as to offer to throw the fight (for a fee) when it becomes clear that Scott is completely outclassed. However, played completely straight with Todd (who, if he isn't a jock, at least ''dresses'' like one...). Until Scott accidentally pressed Lucas' BerserkButton, that is...
--> '''Lucas (calm):''' Okay, look. Give me all your money, and I'll let you live. I'll tell Gideon you beat me up.\\
'''Scott:''' Wow. You really are a sellout.\\
'''Lucas (advancing threateningly):''' Kiss Ramona's sweet ass goodbye, Pilgrim.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Scott Pilgrim himself, of course. Being charming and sweet in a dorky way doesn't hide the fact that he's shallow, self-centered, a shameless mooch to everyone of his acquaintance, and willfully oblivious to the damage his "precious little life" causes others. Through CharacterDevelopment, he... doesn't exactly rise above this, but undeniable that there's a little less Jerk and a little more Heart of Gold by the end. [[spoiler:Kim Pine turns out to be one in Volume 6 as well.]]
** Also Ramona, who admits to being a bitch in the past and also tries to downplay her own responsibility in the failure of her relationships, but is actively trying to be better since moving to Toronto.
** [[spoiler:Envy too turns out to be one towards the end of the story, as she starts talking to Scott again and the events of their break-up are revealed not to be entirely her fault - at least, not so much as in it was Scott who started their argument. In the end, after realizing the kind of person Gideon was ("He was an asshole" - her words), she mends her fences with Scott for good.]]
* JuxtaposedHalvesShot: Used in Volume 5 twice:
** With the Katayanagi twins during their fight with Scott. Of course, it works perfectly.
** In the mirror with Scott and [[spoiler:Nega-Scott]].
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* DarkestHour: In Volume 6, ironically titled "Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour"; the entire first half of the story is devoted to the aftermath of Scott's breakup with Ramona and his attempt to forget about his past and move on. The finest hour comes at the end of the story.
* DarkIsEvil: Both Roxy and Envy dress in a dark, somewhat gothic-inspired style, the latter to accentuate her FemmeFatale persona.
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:Nega-Scott. He is the EnemyWithout personification of Scott's mistakes: he exists because Scott refuses to face up to them, obsessed with his narcissistic, NeverMyFault attitude. Every time Nega-Scott shows up prior to Volume 6, it's when Scott is being an absolute ass, serving as {{Foreshadowing}} of Scott's inability to learn from his past, and Scott never acknowledges it. He tries to ''destroy'' Nega-Scott in Volume 6, insisting that he's doing it to protect Kim (who is shouting at him to ''stop fighting and running away from his past'' and is in no danger), and only by accepting that he's ''not a good person'' is he able to realize that he's had a horrible negative impact on his friends and himself. He gets better as a result.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[WorldOfSnark Everyone]], but especially Kim Pine and, to a lesser extent, Wallace.
* DeathGlare:
** Everyone in The Clash at Demonhead gives one to Knives when she tells them what a huge fan she is of them.
** Ramona gives one to Kim in volume 4 when she brings up a poster of [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two girls kissing]]. It's even accompanied by "GLARE" being shown in big text, probably considering Ramona was wearing opaque glasses that obscured her eyes from the reader.
** Kim to Scott in Vol. 6 after Scott fails to continue to not be her mom.
* DefaceOfTheMoon: Todd Ingram punched two craters in the moon with his Vegan powers, one for Ramona and one for Envy.
* DelayedCausality: Roxanne takes a few seconds to fall apart after being cut up by Scott.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** Some of Scott's insults take the form of BreadEggsBreadedEggs.
** Volume 4's inside cover has a character guide to help readers potentially catch up to what's happening in the story. When it comes to Wallace, two of his characteristics are "the gay roommate" and "is gay".
* DesignatedGirlFight: Ramona's only female to male brawl [[spoiler: would be Gideon]]. That's okay though, since the chick fights are awesome.
* DeusExMachina:
** Parodied in the third volume (even more hilarious when you realize it was actually a ChekhovsGun):
--->'''Scott Pilgrim:''' I can't even get near him! I need some kind of... like... [[LampshadeHanging last minute, poorly-set-up Deus Ex Machina]]!!
--->[[spoiler:'''Vegan Policeman (to the villain):''' FREEZE! Vegan police. You were caught eating gelato this morning.]]
** The Boys and Crash, just moments before.
** Just as Envy is about to kill Ramona with her own hammer, Knives comes in with a flying kick.
* DiagonalCut:
** [[spoiler:Roxanne, after her battle with Scott]].
** [[spoiler:Both Scott and Gideon, in Volume 6]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: The League of Evil Exes consider controlling Ramona's love life by killing anyone who tries to date her is a justified response to her dumping them.
* DistressedDamsel:
** Kim Pine is found captured by evil-doers twice. They are keeping her trapped, in shackles or otherwise, and waiting for a contender to show up. [[spoiler:Although the first time, she may not have been captured at all, considering she was dating the guy. Scott is just an UnreliableNarrator.]] Given the constant references to [[VideoGame video games]], it is natural that Scott Pilgrim has to SaveThePrincess.
** This trope is subverted with Ramona. It's not often in a work of fiction that the girl being fought for is a more capable fighter than the guy fighting for her, but Ramona just might be. She's a true ActionGirl, at the very least, though this isn't really revealed until Volume 2.
* DontTryThisAtHome:
** Near the end of Volume 4:
--->'''Julie:''' Are we letting [Knives] drink beer again?\\
'''Stephen Stills:''' Hell yes we are, and it's ''hilarious''.\\
'''NOTE TO MINORS''': He is lying. Underage drinking is not at all hilarious.
** In the bonus comic ''Free Scott Pilgrim'':
--->'''Scott Pilgrim Says...'''\\
Just remember: in real life, you should never punch a girl. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Unless it's a serious emergency.]]
* DoubleStandard: Ramona chews out Scott for dating both her and Knives Chau at the beginning of their relationship, despite the fact that she cheated on several of her evil exes in the past, and [[spoiler:making out with Roxie while Ramona and Scott were going out in Volume 4 (not to mention her dating Kyle behind Ken's back ''and vice-versa'').]] Ramona is aware of the double standard, and everything that it implies about her, and most of her story arc is trying to distance herself from the bad stuff she's done in her past.
* DownerEnding: Volume 5. [[spoiler:Scott and Ramona's relationship shows signs of getting stale, Knives reveals to Ramona that Scott cheated on both of them, Ramona abandons Scott, Kim leaves Toronto, and Sex Bob-omb ends.]]
* DoYouWantToCopulate:
** After Scott is told by Wallace to [[YouNeedToGetLaid get with a girl]] at the start of Volume 6, he winds up [[LargeHam dramatically]] asking Knives for her hand in sex. It's pretty hilarious.
--> '''Scott''': Do you want to have ''sex''? I think we should have '''sex'''! '''''Casual sex!'''''
** He ends up re-attempting this on ''Envy''. While she turns him down, she doesn't seem ''completely'' put off by it.
** [[spoiler:He also attempts this on Kim, though it's more downplayed as he simply tries to make out with her. Kim initially goes along with it but quickly stops, and the two finally settle their otherwise unresolved feelings]].
* DramaticWind: When Scott goes to find Ramona in subspace in Volume 6, complete with tumbleweed.
* DropTheHammer: Ramona and Envy's fight in Volume 3.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: [[spoiler:PsychopathicManchild stalker Gideon keeps his ex-girlfriends locked away in PeopleJars. He spends the better part of the story trying to add Ramona to his [[LivingDollCollector Living Doll collection.]] [[FridgeHorror Think about it.]]]]
* DynamicEntry: Knives jumping down to fight Ramona in the library. With knives, appropriately enough.
* DysfunctionJunction: Scott's circle of friends is... not full of the healthiest people. Kim Pine has self-esteem issues masked behind her mildly misanthropic nature, and Stephen has lots of neurotic moments and a knack for entering unhealthy relationships with abrasive individuals. This isn't counting for lesser-known characters like Neil, who we know little about. We see glimpses of them when they're not around Scott and they're usually not happy. In fact, many of the happy moments tend to be when they are together with Scott. Even those like Wallace Wells could be considered as Wallace seems to drink alot and occasionally seen as a hedonist. To say nothing of Scott and Ramona themselves.
* EarlyBirdCameo:
** In Volume 3, Gideon slips in a cameo ([[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen shrouded in shadows]]) during Todd's flashback sequence at Honest Ed's and right after Scott defeats Todd. He also slips in another one in Volume 4 when Scott crashes Ramona's subconscious.
** The colour version sort-of confirms that [[spoiler:Envy]] has an EarlyBirdCameo in Vol. 1. [[spoiler:Scott writes a white-washed version of her into his dream of Sex Bob-Omb being an actual famous band. She's the redhead on the keyboard (the same instrument played by the real-life Envy)]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Scott and Ramona definitely do.
* EldritchLocation: Honest Ed's, described as an "existential horror" (it was a [[MundaneMadeAwesome dollar store]]). It causes a HeroicBSOD in Scott and a SuperpowerMeltdown in Todd.
-->'''Julie''': "[[MundaneMadeAwesome Stephen... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive?]]”
** Subspace, if you ''really'' think about it.
* EnemyMine: Wallace and Ramona become friends because of their shared hatred for Envy.
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Nega-Scott. Has the "fusion" resolution, as Kim points out that if Scott killed his darkness and forgot about it, he would just make the same mistakes over and over again.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:For all of her insults towards Scott & Ramona in the preceding five volumes, Julie is visibly shocked & horrified when Gideon kills Scott & runs Ramona through with a katana, a reaction shared by Envy. Averted with Joseph, as he simply doesn't seem to care.]]
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Everybody [[NonActionGuy except Wallace]].
* EveryoneIsASuper: An odd example. Subspace allows people to use superpowers, and it's implied that everyone can do it. The reason why not many people are shown using Subspace is because it isn't taught in Canada.
* EvilCounterpart:
** [[spoiler:Gideon for Scott. In the last volume, it is shown that he represses memories in the same fashion that Scott does, [[SelfServingMemory self-editing to favor himself]], and Scott recognizes the similarity, gaining the [[CoolSword Power of Understanding]] from it.]]
** To lesser degrees, Joel [=MacMillan=] [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/scottpilgrim/images/7/7c/Film_Joel_Info_Sheet.jpg/revision/latest ("sweat bands -- biting Scott's style?" "Note: Scott doesn't like him. Ask Scott about this [maybe]")]][[note]]though he's not actually evil[[/note]] and Todd Ingram, both bassists for other bands.
* EvilDiva: Envy Adams.
* EvilIsPetty:
** Possessiveness and jealousy are the main motivations driving the League of Evil Exes. Especially Gideon, who just happened to have founded the group in the pettiest of ways: [[spoiler:by posting an angry rant on the internet.]]
** And the reason why [[spoiler:Gideon had six girls in PeopleJars and wants Ramona to be the seventh? He wanted to go on a date with all of them at once.]]
* EvilSorcerer: Matthew Patel.
* ExpressiveShirt: Scott's ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' slime T-shirt changes its expression as he does.
* ExtradimensionalShortcut: Subspace is used this way ([[HyperspaceArsenal among other things]]). Ramona uses it [[MundaneUtility to make fast deliveries]].
* FaceNodAction: Envy to Lynette before she punches Knives.
* {{Facepalm}}: Kim Pine does several variations of this.
* FadeToWhite: When Scott [[spoiler:gets stabbed by Gideon]] in Volume 6. It goes on for three whole pages.
* FanGirl: Knives Chau towards Sex Bob-Omb and Scott, ''especially'' Scott.
--> '''Knives''': I'm a Scottaholic!
* {{Fanservice}}: A few to count, namely the saucy romantic sessions Scott has with some of the girls as well as some fanservice scenes. The rather hot and heavy moment in Volume 5 and not to mention the part where he jumped into Ramona's mind. Although pre-art change Scott Pilgrim had at least one sex scene per volume, relatively work-safe of course.
* FantasyKitchenSink: The evil exes have [[EvilSorcerer mystical powers]], PsychicPowers, {{Ninja}}s, and [[MechaMooks Robots]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Gideon. He calls Scott buddy, and compliments him on his shirt (both sarcastically). Also, when he kills Scott, he buys everyone a drink. Gideon's compliment on the shirt relates to the fact that it bears Gideon's initials: GGG.]]
* FemmeFatale: Parodied with Ramona, Envy and Knives. Scott seems to be a magnet for the type. Though it should be noted that Envy and Knives didn't fit the trope when they first started dating Scott and only became that way later.
-->"What kind of idiot would knowingly date a girl named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Knives]]?"
* {{Fetish}}:
** Wallace has a ''big'' fetish for guys wearing glasses.
** Gideon also tells Envy something along the lines of "you know putting you in those outfits is sexually fulfilling for me". Envy replies that that's ''all'' that he finds sexually fulfilling. See LivingDollCollector.
* FingerGun:
** The Vegan Police fire their de-veganizing beams out of them.
** Kim mimics shooting herself in the head whenever she's feeling bored or exasperated.
* FlamingSword: Of Love. [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena That comes out of the heart on Scott's shirt]].
* FlippingTheBird:
** In volume 1, when we are introduced to Crash and the Boys, Trasha flips off Wallace when he questions there being a female drummer.
** In volume 3, Scott flips off Stephen Stills while leaving the bathroom when he sees him vomiting into a toilet.
** Julie has a penchant for doing this.
* ForcefulKiss: Played with in volume 6. [[spoiler:Being the most emotionally vulnerable he's ever been, Scott kisses Kim in a desperate attempt to reconnect their lost relationship. Kim is clearly surprised by the kiss, but is initially receptive of it... But soon breaks it off. Kim's expression immediately after the fact indicates that she was scared of how effective it was, but the two finally resolve the lack of closure in their relationship soon after]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The free comic (released after Volume 2) features posters animated by ninja magic, presaging Roxie's appearance in Volume 4.
** In the same comic Ramona warns Scott that he'll have to learn to hit girls eventually.
** Scott asks Wallace where he got a certain shirt from in one volume. Said t-shirt has a Wild West theme to it... guess who comes out in Volume 6?
** Related to the above point, when Ramona bumps into Young Neil at a party, she asks him why Knives isn't with him. He says she left him to hang out with "Captain Homo". It seems mostly like just a jerk comment by Young Neil who is going through a dickish phase, but [[spoiler:then we learn that Steven Stills came out as gay offscreen sometime during Vol.5, so the comment isn't exactly wrong.]]
** Throughout the first few volumes, whenever Ramona is feeling jealous, her head starts to glow. When [[spoiler:Scott catches Ramona's ex-girlfriend at her house after they had an argument]], Scott's head starts glowing too. [[spoiler:This is one of the earliest signs that Scott and Ramona really aren't that different emotionally, despite outward appearances.]]
** Very ''subtle'' foreshadowing: "Scott, if your life had a face I would punch it". [[StealthPun Guess what he obtains in the third book?]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Gideon.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In volume 3, Michael Comeau is introduced as "knowing everyone ''including you''".
** Similarly, Knives and Scott's kiss in volume 6 is described as being "horrible for everyone, ''including you''".
* FreudianExcuse: One of the things that flashes through Todd's head during his SuperpowerMeltdown in Honest Ed's is his father's doubt of him. Papa Ingram, coincidentally, looks a lot like Dr. Freud.
* FullNameBasis: Stephen Stills.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Scott fighting Robot-01 at the MasqueradeBall in Volume 5 serves as this throughout two scenes, with the second culminating in the Robot-01 finally being bested.
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* GainaxEnding: Volume 6 features this in spades, what with Gideon's ultimate plan, his powers, Scott and Ramona's exit, etc.
* GeekyTurnOn: Possibly why Scott used to date Envy, as she started out as a nerdy chick who loved {{anime}} before she became a FemmeFatale.
* GenerationXerox: If you take WordOfGod in account, [[http://www.radiomaru.com/comics/short/monica/ Scott's dad has also fallen in love with enigmatic girls. His friend even looks quite like Stephen Stills.]]
* GetARoom: When Scott and Ramona kiss at the end of Volume 4.
* TheGhost:
** Scott's brother Lawrence and Wallace's psychic boyfriend Mobile until the end of Volume 5. [[spoiler:Both of whom are mistaken for Gideon by Scott]].
** Gideon himself in Volumes 1-5. He is mentioned quite often, but doesn't appear (except as a voice on the phone) until the final book.
* GirlOfMyDreams: Quite literally.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Discussed.
-->'''Scott''': So, have you ever kissed a girl?
-->'''Ramona''': Yes.
-->'''Scott''': (shivering with delight)
** Scott's reaction when he learns Ramona and Roxie dated: "YOU HAD A SEXY PHASE?!"
** Subverted when Scott finds [[spoiler:Knives and Kim]] drunkenly making out. He's rather disturbed about it.
* GISSyndrome: The books proper don't contain this, but the Free Comic Book Day issue contains a [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] example.
--> "Okay, this background looks really hard to draw and I don't think I'm getting paid for this comic, so enjoy this stock photo."
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: This happens at least once every volume, and each main character's probably done this at least once. It's even on the first volume's cover!
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Sex [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bob-Omb]]. The Clash at Demonhead. Crash and the Boys. [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic and Knuckles]]. Shatterband. Every band is named after a video game reference.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking:
** Parodied when two clubgoers remark "Oh my god, she's ''evil!''" when they see Lynette lighting up. [[spoiler:Though when Ramona's attitude starts changing, she starts smoking more than she used to...]]
** When Envy starts smoking, it's a sign of her StartOfDarkness.
** All the girls except Kim Pine smoke at some point in the book, but the one time Young Neil smokes, it represents his absolute low.
** When Lisa smokes in front of Scott, she offers him a puff but he refuses, saying that "smoking is evil".
* GoThroughMe: Parodied. One of the jocks holding Kim hostage says this to Scott, but he simply [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with him]] and continues on his way.
* GottaKillThemAll: The premise of the series. In order for Scott to start building a real relationship, he's got to deal with her seven exes -- and by "deal with", he means annihilate.
* GrandRomanticGesture: Todd (evil ex #3) proclaimed his love for Ramona by [[spoiler:punching a hole in the moon]]. He also does it for his current girlfriend Envy -- since she thought he'd only done it for her, this comes back to bite him in the ass.
* GratuitousFrench: It is Canada, of course.
* GroinAttack: Envy knees Todd in the crotch after finding out [[spoiler:he was cheating on her behind her back with Ramona and Lynette]].
-->'''Envy''': "Let's both be girls!!"
* GrumpyBear: Kim.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Parodied; Roxie is a "half-ninja".
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens in Volume 6 to [[spoiler:Scott while he's inside Ramona's mind.]]
* HalloweenEpisode: The beginning of the 5th book is at a Mexican Day of The Dead party with everyone dressed in some vague skeleton motif.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Wallace is a male version. Pun not intended.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: While we do see Wallace kissing [[AllGaysArePromiscuous quite a few guys]], some readers got a little tired of him being referred to as Scott's "cool gay roommate" constantly. But that's the joke, and Scott's an idiot.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower
* HeroicBSOD: Starting Volume 4, the development of Scott's relationship with Ramona turns him into a poster-boy of this trope as he suffers from this repeatedly with increasingly brutal aftermath every time. This is also what summons Nega-Scott. By the end of Volume 5, there are many hints of Scott turning clinically insane, and finally in Volume 6, the half of, if not, the entire storyline could be summed up as "Scott's quest to [[AchillesInHisTent get away from]] [[DarkestHour the increasing brink of]] DespairEventHorizon".
* HeroicResolve
* HeroicSecondWind: Scott catches his a few times, such as when he defeats the twins.
* HesBack: Essentially the general theme of Volume 6. Also explains the volume's subtitle.
* HeterosexualLifePartners[=/=]IncompatibleOrientation: Scott and Wallace; not only does Wallace jokingly flirt with Scott, he remembers his birthday, buys all of his things and ''[[ThereIsOnlyOneBed even shares a bed with him.]]'' Even Ramona [[LampshadeHanging points it out]] [[MistakenForGay on a few occasions.]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Gideon, at least until Volume 6.
* HeyYouHaymaker: Lynette punching Knives.
* HotbloodedSideburns: One of Ramona's many hairstyles invokes this. Obviously, she doesn't have actual sideburns.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** When Ramona gets annoyed about Scott staying with Lisa for a night, it turns out that [[spoiler:Roxanne]] stayed at her place for the night. She defends herself by saying that they didn't even make out that much.
** When Wallace is complaining about Scott calling him at work. You can see that he is playing solitaire on the computer.
* ICanNotSelfTerminate: ZigZagged. According to WordOfGod, [[https://radiomaru.tumblr.com/post/34254798677/if-i-existed-in-scott-pilgrim-canon-then-could-i there is no friendly-fire in the Scott Pilgrim canon.]]
* IJustWantToBeYou: Kim drunkenly says this to Ramona, however given Kim's self-esteem issues and her [[spoiler:love of Scott]], it's probably not far from the truth.
* IdiotHero
* IfICantHaveYou:
** This is the basic principle behind the League of Evil Exes.
** [[WordOfGod According to O'Malley]], Knives got her name because when a friend of his broke up with his girlfriend, said girlfriend pulled a knife on him.
* IkeaWeaponry: Todd assembles an assault rifle out of household items at Honest Ed's.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:One of Scott's dreams in Volume 6 has Ramona as an angel descending from the skies with the Power of Love to plunge it right through Scott's chest and simultaneously pin him to the ground.]]
* ImportantHaircut:
** Knives after getting dumped by Scott. Inverted with Ramona, who gets her hair done all the time and only lets it grow out when she and Scott start actually getting closer.
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Ramona in Volume 5.]] An entire page is used to further show the importance of the action.
** Scott also tried to pull something similar to this when things with Natalie were looking bad. He thought the new hair would bring them back together. [[spoiler:It didn't.]]
** Subverted with the haircut that Ramona gives Scott in Volume 3, since he doesn't look any different afterwards.
--->'''Scott:''' Check out my rad haircut! Totally ready for the show now!\\
'''Stephen Stills:''' Yeah... great.\\
'''Kim:''' That's a haircut? You got a haircut?
* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Scott's fairly ridiculous impression of Italy. For one thing, he seems to think the Leaning Tower of ''Pisa'' is in Rome.
* IncrediblyLamePun:
** "Chau down!" "Did you really just say that?"
** In Volume 5 at the Happy Avocado, Stephen Stills says that he only wants to discuss Knives and the band...only for him to then say that he's referring to the knives that he's currently using to chop onions.
* InformedAttractiveness: Scott and Ramona. Several characters have the hots for them - including each other - but due to the art style's GenericCuteness they don't look any different from everybody else in the comic.
* InsistentTerminology: Ramona corrects Scott each time he refers to her evil ex-boyfriends as "evil ''exes'', yes." [[ExperimentedInCollege There is a very good reason for that.]]
* InsultBackfire: In Volume 6, [[spoiler:Gideon]] tells Scott and Ramona they're their own worst enemies. They both conclude he's definitely worse.
--> '''Scott''': No, I'm pretty sure you're worse, dude.\\
'''Ramona''': You're definitely worse!
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Mr. Chau, a Chinese ninja who wields a katana. If it helps, the author is himself Asian, so Mr. Chau is probably a spoof of this trope. Or maybe he simply abides by the RuleOfCool, like everybody and everything else in the series. And to be fair, other characters (including Scott) use, if not actual katanas, then katana-esque swords.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Scott gives Gideon a variation of this before defeating him once and for all.
* InvincibilityPowerUp
* IronicEcho: Ken Katayanagi's "I don't think we've been properly...introduced" line in Volume 5 first appears at the MasqueradeBall when they first run into Ramona and Kim, [[spoiler:and then returns for much more sinister effect when the Katayanagis kidnap Kim.]]
* ItemGet: When Scott defeats Lucas Lee and gets a skateboard. [[spoiler:He can't use it though, because he never acquired a skateboard proficiency.]]
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Defeating enemies causes them to explode into coins. Also, being a vegan gives one telekinesis.
-->'''Stephen:''' Uh... Hey. How does not eating dairy products give you psychic powers, anyway? I've been wondering.
-->'''Todd:''' You know how you only use ten percent of your brain? Well, it's because the other 90 percent is filled up with curds and whey!
-->'''Scott:''' That's the stupidest thing I ever heard!!
-->'''Todd:''' Maybe if you knew the science...
* ItsAllAboutMe:
** Gideon ''lives'' this trope. His mania doesn't just stop at acquiring things (and people), it's all about injecting some aspect of himself into it like he's marking his territory. See: his triple-G inverted Triforce, dressing Envy in costumes according to his tastes, [[spoiler:implanting a fragment of himself in Ramona's head]], and in TheMovie, [[spoiler:retooling the newly-professional Sex Bob-Omb from a quirky garage rock band to a generic gothic Music/MyChemicalRomance-style punk band]].
** Scott himself is another good example; although he eventually grows out of it. [[spoiler: It adds a serious case of UnreliableNarrator to the preceeding five volumes when it's confirmed in Volume 6 that Scott has a self-serving memory and world view.]]
* ItsPersonal: Scott's HeroicSecondWind in Volume 6.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Knives claims to be this for Scott. Kim is possibly this for Scott as well.
* JackOfAllStats: In the Free Comics Day comic, Scott tries to select drinks based on their stat boosts being complimentary.
* JerkAss:
** Todd Ingram is very insensitive towards people, claiming that because he is a rock star, he is better than other people. He even cheats on his girlfriend Envy Adams with the drummer of their band. To top it all off, he telekinetically throws Envy across the room when she confronts and lashes out at him over his infidelity. (Although to be fair, she ''did'' successfully GroinAttack him immediately before he did that.)
** Gideon Graves. A manipulating, sexually domineering [[LivingDollCollector creep]]. His first subtitle is even "Gideon Graves (31 Years old) Occupation: Asshole".
---> Gideon stole [[spoiler:the Power of Love]]! What a dick!
** Played with in the case of our almost JerkAss protagonist. Scott is undeniably likable and sympathetic, but a big part of the story is exposing and dealing with the fact that he's also kind of a dick.
** Julie Powers. Her main personality quirk is being an absolute bitch to everyone.
** Minor character Monique is one too. Her behavior is kind of like what Julie would be if she were an extra.
* JerkAssWoobie:
** Envy. Especially in Volume 6 after she reveals [[spoiler:that her and Scott's break-up was a mutual occurrence and Scott simply whitewashed his role in it out of the flashbacks seen by the reader in Volume 3]].
** And Scott himself.
* JerkJock: Subverted with Lucas Lee, who turns out to be quite the decent fellow, and is easily the [[FriendlyEnemy nicest]] of Ramona's evil exes, going so far as to offer to throw the fight (for a fee) when it becomes clear that Scott is completely outclassed. However, played completely straight with Todd (who, if he isn't a jock, at least ''dresses'' like one...). Until Scott accidentally pressed Lucas' BerserkButton, that is...
--> '''Lucas (calm):''' Okay, look. Give me all your money, and I'll let you live. I'll tell Gideon you beat me up.\\
'''Scott:''' Wow. You really are a sellout.\\
'''Lucas (advancing threateningly):''' Kiss Ramona's sweet ass goodbye, Pilgrim.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Scott Pilgrim himself, of course. Being charming and sweet in a dorky way doesn't hide the fact that he's shallow, self-centered, a shameless mooch to everyone of his acquaintance, and willfully oblivious to the damage his "precious little life" causes others. Through CharacterDevelopment, he... doesn't exactly rise above this, but undeniable that there's a little less Jerk and a little more Heart of Gold by the end. [[spoiler:Kim Pine turns out to be one in Volume 6 as well.]]
** Also Ramona, who admits to being a bitch in the past and also tries to downplay her own responsibility in the failure of her relationships, but is actively trying to be better since moving to Toronto.
** [[spoiler:Envy too turns out to be one towards the end of the story, as she starts talking to Scott again and the events of their break-up are revealed not to be entirely her fault - at least, not so much as in it was Scott who started their argument. In the end, after realizing the kind of person Gideon was ("He was an asshole" - her words), she mends her fences with Scott for good.]]
* JuxtaposedHalvesShot: Used in Volume 5 twice:
** With the Katayanagi twins during their fight with Scott. Of course, it works perfectly.
** In the mirror with Scott and [[spoiler:Nega-Scott]].
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