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** Kim Pine started out as a character in series of comic strips that started years before ''Scott Pilgrim'' debuted. Bryan Lee O'Malley did three short comic strips called "Style" which featured characters named Kim Pine and Lisa Miller. You can read them at his site under "Best of My Online Comics" [[http://radiomaru.com/ here]]. The Kim Pine and Lisa Miller in the "Style" strips look NOTHING like their Scott Pilgrim namesakes, and aren't really given distinct personalities, so they are probably better classified as Proto-Kim and Proto-Lisa, much like rabbits from Warner Bros. cartoons from the late 1930s predating the 1940 Creator/TexAvery directorial effort "A Wild Hare" are considered prototypes for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
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** Kim Pine started out as a character in series of comic strips that started years before ''Scott Pilgrim'' debuted. Bryan Lee O'Malley did three short comic strips called "Style" which featured characters named Kim Pine and Lisa Miller. You can read them at his site under "Best of My Online Comics" [[http://radiomaru.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20120205102821/http://radiomaru.com/ here]]. The Kim Pine and Lisa Miller in the "Style" strips look NOTHING like their Scott Pilgrim namesakes, and aren't really given distinct personalities, so they are probably better classified as Proto-Kim and Proto-Lisa, much like rabbits from Warner Bros. cartoons from the late 1930s predating the 1940 Creator/TexAvery directorial effort "A Wild Hare" are considered prototypes for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
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* SourOutsideSadInside: Sex-o-bomb's drummer, Kim, is misanthropic and [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]]. This attitude masks her [[GreenEyeMonster inferiority complex]].
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* SourOutsideSadInside: Sex-o-bomb's drummer, Kim, is misanthropic and [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]]. This attitude masks her [[GreenEyeMonster [[GreenEyedMonster inferiority complex]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The RuleOfCool moment of Gideon's defeat [[spoiler:where he explodes into 7 7/9th million dollars worth of Canadian coins]] is quickly derailed when [[spoiler:...7 7/9th million dollars worth of Canadian coins come raining down on everyone's heads]] and mass panic ensues.
** Ramona alludes a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome moment in Vol. 3 when telling Scott about the time Todd [[spoiler:punched a hole in the moon for her]].
--->'''Scott''': And then what happened?\\
'''Ramona''': Uhhh... [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall About thirty pages]] of [[spoiler:explosions and tidal waves.]]
** The RuleOfCool moment of Gideon's defeat [[spoiler:where he explodes into 7 7/9th million dollars worth of Canadian coins]] is quickly derailed when [[spoiler:...7 7/9th million dollars worth of Canadian coins come raining down on everyone's heads]] and mass panic ensues.
** Ramona alludes a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome moment in Vol. 3 when telling Scott about the time Todd [[spoiler:punched a hole in the moon for her]].
--->'''Scott''': And then what happened?\\
'''Ramona''': Uhhh... [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall About thirty pages]] of [[spoiler:explosions and tidal waves.]]
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* WidgetSeries: Never before has Canada's most populated city been this quirky.
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* YouNeedToGetLaid: Wallace says this to Scott when he's moping around [[YouWatchTooMuchX playing too many video games]] at the start of Volume 6. HilarityEnsues when Scott tries to take his advice.
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* YouNeedToGetLaid: Wallace says this to Scott when he's moping around [[YouWatchTooMuchX playing too many video games]] at the start of Volume 6. HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues when Scott tries to take his advice.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Bryan Lee O'Malley has joked about this, since he (Canadian) met his now ex-wife Hope Larson (American) when she was living in Canada, like how Scott meeting Ramona.
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Played straight with Scott.
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* TrainingFromHell: PlayedForLaughs. Before Scott goes to fight Lucas Lee, he studies up on his moves by watching his movies and does push-ups on the floor while Wallace sits in an armchair playing video games.
* TrainStationGoodbye: Scott and Envy do this.
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* TrainingFromHell: PlayedForLaughs. PlayedForLaughs in Volume 2. Before Scott goes to fight Lucas Lee, he studies up on his moves by watching his movies movies, and does Wallace orders him to do push-ups on the floor floor, all while Wallace himself sits in an armchair playing video games.
* TrainStationGoodbye: Scott and Envy dothis.this at the end of Volume 3.
* TrainStationGoodbye: Scott and Envy do
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* SourOutsideSadInside: Sex-o-bomb's drummer, Kim, is misanthropic and [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]]. This attitude masks her [[GreenEyeMonster inferiority complex]].
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* TheSlacker: Most of the characters, but especially Scott [[UpToEleven a slacker amongst slackers]]. He starts to change his ways, though, particularly in Volume 4, "Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together".
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* ThereAreNoPolice: Even though Scott’s battles take place in public—with a bystander saying he’s calling the police—cops are nowhere to be seen. Even Todd Ingram’s confrontation with the Vegan Police is only due to breaking his vegan diet.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: It's Volume 6. [[spoiler:Scott is devastated from Ramona leaving without an explanation. He is moping around, playing videogames, goofing off on the internet, staying isolated, and trying to forget he has a life to live. What does he do? Go into a wilderness sabbatical and fight Nega-Scott!]]
** [[spoiler:And Ramona's time apart was not very different.]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: It's Volume 6. [[spoiler:Scott is devastated from Ramona leaving without an explanation. He is moping around, playing videogames, goofing off on the internet, staying isolated, and trying to forget he has a life to live. What does he do? Go into a wilderness sabbatical and fight Nega-Scott!]]
** [[spoiler:And Ramona's time apart was not very different.]]
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** [[spoiler:And Ramona's time apart was not very different.]]
** [[spoiler:And Ramona's time apart was not very different.]]
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* WouldHitAGirl: Todd [[MoralEventHorizon shows his true colors]] in volume 3 when he psychically throws Envy into a wall, and then retorts that he's not afraid to hit girls because he's a rock star, losers.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Todd [[MoralEventHorizon shows his true colors]] in volume 3 when he psychically throws Envy into a wall, and then retorts claims that he's not afraid to hit girls because he's a rock star, losers.star.
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** Volume 5 ends with Scott getting a call from someone, and Scott asks who's on the other end..
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Played with in Ramona's case. Her regular changes of dye and hairstyle hint at [[spoiler:her constant drive to run from herself.]]
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* SexySpectacles: InUniverse; save for Other Scott, Wallace only goes out with guys with glasses.
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'''Wallace''': Yes. Does he wear glasses?
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'''Wallace''': Yes. Does he wear glasses?
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* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Scott defeats Lucas by tricking him into skateboarding down a dangerous stairway. In fact, Scott never actually directly harms Lucas in their fight.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Scott himself. We find that most of his flashbacks are a mixture of [[SelfServingMemory his own repression]], to avoid his mistakes and past pain, and [[spoiler:Gideon "spicing up" his boring highschool memories. The big fight where he "rescued" Kim Pine in high school and won her heart? Scott beating up her current wussy boyfriend]]. Envy also implies that Scott may not have been as blameless in their breakup as his flashbacks made it seem.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: This offer is made by Gideon to Scott when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Scott qualifies to join the League of Evil Exes, on account of no longer being with Ramona. Scott declines vigorously... and is dead three pages later]].
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* WeCanRuleTogether: This offer is made by Gideon makes this offer to Scott when it's revealed it turns out that [[spoiler:Scott qualifies to join the League of Evil Exes, on account of no longer being with Ramona. Scott declines vigorously... and is dead three pages later]].
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* SayMyName
* SecretTestOfCharacter
* SelfDeprecation: Scott performs one during the early records of the disc ("I know a guy who owns a car?") and the author managed to do it, with Ramona's "It's official, nothing cool ever happens in Canada." Remember, the author is Canadian, so he broke the fourth wall and did some self depriciation humour very subtly.
* SelfDisposingVillain: Some of the evil exes end up doing themselves in rather than Scott actually defeating them. For example: [[spoiler:Scott challenges Lucas Lee to perform an impossible skateboard trick in the middle of their fight. Lucas would rather take on the challenge than lose face. The trick ends up killing him, as he goes too fast and bursts into coins.]] Another example is when [[spoiler:Todd Ingram is about to defeat Scott (who acknowledges that he could only win via some DeusExMachina), and right on cue, the Vegan Police shows up to take away Todd's powers for eating gelato the day before]]. Could also be a KarmicDeath in the second case.
* SelfServingMemory: Scott's memories are not accurate thanks to [[spoiler: Gideon mucking around with them]].
* SevenDeadlySins: All the characters showcase signs of these throughout the series. Special mention goes to [[JerkassWoobie Natalie (also known as Envy)]].
* SexSlave: [[spoiler:Gideon's ex-girlfriends, by implication. The fact that [[DateRape they're imprisoned and brainwashed]] doesn't help.]]
* SexySpectacles: InUniverse; 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?
* ShadowDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Scott and Ramona's sex scene]] in Volume 5. And even then, only two panels of it is shown.
* ShapedLikeItself: Issue 4 has Wallace introduced as:
-->'''Wallace Wells'''\\
• [Scott's] gay roommate.\\
• Lives with '''Scott'''.\\
• Is '''gay'''.
* SheatheYourSword: Scott's battle with [[spoiler:The Negascott]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: "L is for... [[spoiler:Lisa]]?".
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Scott insists this about Knives after breaking up with her.
* ShipperOnDeck: In Ramona and Envy's battle in volume 3, the crowd that gathers starts yelling out various things cheering on Envy. One of these things happens to be "MAKE OUT!!"
* ShipTease:
** Here and there, what with Scott's previous exes never having proper closure until about the last volume.
** Knives also probably had a short crush on Stephen Stills, seeing how he usually doesn't treat her like crap and even lets her drink with the folks. Young Neil even says "she's obsessed with Captain Homo these days".
** This exchange from Volume 4:
--->'''Ramona''': ''(drunkenly)'' Where'd Kim go? She seemed pretty wasted...\\
'''Scott''': Why are you always so interested in Kim?\\
'''Ramona''': I like Kim.\\
'''Julie''': Are you gonna marry her??\\
'''Ramona''': Tooooooootally.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/ScottPilgrim Now with its own page.]]
* {{Shoryuken}}: Scott to Matthew Patel.
* ShutUpHannibal: Gideon attempts a very short HannibalLecture just before [[spoiler:Scott and Ramona defeat him:]]
-->'''Gideon''': Getting rid of me... won't save you. You're your ''own'' worst enemies! ''Both'' of you!\\
''(BeatPanel, with Ramona and Scott looking at each other)''\\
'''Ramona''': [[InsultBackfire No, I'm pretty sure you're worse, dude]].\\
'''Scott''': You're definitely worse.
* ShutUpKiss: Ramona gives one to Scott on more than one occasion.
* SickeningSweethearts: Scott and Ramona can be this at times, at least to the other characters.
* SigilSpam: Gideon's triple G inverted Triforce logo appears all over the place in Volume 6. Scott even ends up sporting a triple G shirt (much to his chagrin) for the first round of his fight with Gideon.
* SingleMindedTwins: Kyle and Ken. A deliberate choice on their part; Ramona played them against each other, and they vowed to work in tandem forever after that.
* SingleStrokeBattle: At the end of the fourth book.
* SkyFace: The part in ''6'' where Kim's face shows up magically from a distance in the final scene. It's signifying that she's in there in spirit, and it's sort of related.
* TheSlacker: Most of the characters, but especially Scott [[UpToEleven a slacker amongst slackers]]. He starts to change his ways, though, particularly in Volume 4, "Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together".
* SlasherSmile: Near the end of Volume 5, Scott's reflection in the mirror while brushing his teeth at Stephen Stills's place is split into a normal, tired-looking Scott, then this... Even better, that half is [[spoiler:Negascott, an embodiment of Scott's tendency to repress painful memories instead of learning from his mistakes]].
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Messed with, severely. It slides back and forth all over the place throughout the course of the series.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: One of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends [[spoiler: is actually a girl. Justified by the fact Ramona is mostly heterosexual and only became bisexual during her "phase", so it's actually a surprise the group even includes a girl to begin with.]]
* SnowMeansLove: Scott and Ramona are caught out in a sudden snowstorm (it is Toronto, after all) in the middle of deciding to date each other. This also has the convenient side effect of forcing Scott to crash at Ramona's place...
* SpiritualSuccessor: The video game adaptation could be considered as a love letter to Technos Japan Corp's [[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom Kunio-Kun]] games.
* SpitTake: Scott does it after chugging an (alcoholic) drink at the Chaos Theatre when he sees Julie, Sandra, and Monique staring at him.
* SplashOfColor: Volume 4's intro at the beach is in full color, although it quickly shifts back to regular monochrome once the actual story begins.
* StalkerShrine: Knives has one for Scott.
* StalkerWithACrush: A very common theme in this series.
** Most prominently displayed by Knives "I'm a Scottoholic!!!" Chau.
** And Scott.
--->''AND THEN HE STALKED HER UNTIL SHE LEFT THE PARTY''.
* StarCrossedLovers: In order to date Ramona, Scott must battle her seven evil exes. At the climax, they defeat [[PsychoExBoyfriend Gideon]] with "Power Of Love".
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* StartOfDarkness:
** Envy's plays out through flashbacks in Vol. 3. It begins with her selling all her Anime paraphernalia and culminates with her asking Scott to start calling her "Envy" rather than Natalie. Then she breaks up with him and turns completely evil, showing the reader the exact moment she crossed the MoralEventHorizon that she'd been living on the other side of since she first appeared in the comic. Though she wasn't as bad as Scott made her to be. In Volume 6, it is implied that Scott "wasn't a paragon of virtue either" and the big fight on New Year's Eve was a fight that he started rather than her just dumping him. It's true that she sold out and didn't return Scott's affections when he said he loved her, it's not clear that she was pure evil after Volume 6.
** The part in Volume 4 when [[spoiler:Scott sees Nega-Scott, a darker, more malevolent version of himself, after he learns that Roxanne, Ramona's evil ex-girlfriend, had been staying over at Ramona's apartment could have been this, but gets subverted as he quickly disperses it and goes back. He confronts it again in Vol 6, realizing it's his own repression working against him and trying to fight it only makes it worse. After he comes to terms with himself and decides to stop running from painful memories, it stops attacking him.]]
** [[spoiler:Gideon]]'s is exposited near the end of Volume 6. [[spoiler:He always was a bit of a brilliant but psychologically-stunted prick, but when Ramona dumped him, he went right out of his mind. He then went on a bender and posted a drunken ranting ad on Craigslist, which was then discovered by the other six exes.]]
* StealthPun:
** How can one describe Scott's fight with Matthew Patel? [[spoiler:An Indian versus a Pilgrim.]]
** Ramona's mental subspace is a ''sub''space, [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} as in a room where she wears black leather and Gideon keeps a chain around her neck]]]].
** Ramona's BagOfHolding. Gee, you think this girl's got a lot of baggage? [[spoiler:It's destroyed in the climactic showdown with Gideon, showering its contents everywhere. Afterwards, Ramona isn't interested in gathering up her old stuff. It's hard not to interpret it as a good sign for her relationship with Scott.]]
* StoppedReadingTooSoon: Matthew Patel sends Scott an email explaining the basic plot of the series. Scott skims it before declaring it boring and deletes it, thus Scott is completely blindsided when the first fight over Ramona starts.
* StraightGay: Wallace (who is the most prominent gay character shown) but also his boyfriend Mobile, his friend "Other Scott", Hollie's roommate Joseph, and his new boyfriend [[spoiler:Stephen Stills]].
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike:
** Ramona going on a "wilderness sabbatical." [[spoiler:Though in truth, Ramona spent most of her time at her dad's house, watching old ''Series/TheXFiles'' episodes on the internet.]]
---> '''Wallace:''' You see, Scott? WILDERNESS!
** The entire gang of evil exes all agreeing to the idea of killing Scott so that they can have Ramona is a darker version of this trope. This could be the result of Gideon's manipulations, though.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The RuleOfCool moment of Gideon's defeat [[spoiler:where he explodes into 7 7/9th million dollars worth of Canadian coins]] is quickly derailed when [[spoiler:...7 7/9th million dollars worth of Canadian coins come raining down on everyone's heads]] and mass panic ensues.
** Ramona alludes a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome moment in Vol. 3 when telling Scott about the time Todd [[spoiler:punched a hole in the moon for her]].
--->'''Scott''': And then what happened?\\
'''Ramona''': Uhhh... [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall About thirty pages]] of [[spoiler:explosions and tidal waves.]]
* StylisticSuck: Scott's terrible song that he writes for Ramona and sings for her on the bus. Most of the lyrics are ... "Ramona".
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: Subspace is some kind of realm that connects different locations in the world as well as providing pathways into peoples' dreams. They don't teach it in Canadian schools.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion:
-->'''Matthew Patel''': [[LampshadeHanging That doesn't even rhyme!]]
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Vol 4 has this when [[spoiler:Scott earns the Power of Love, before exclaiming "Now I'm glad I picked that longsword proficiency in grade 5!"]]
** This could have been foreshadowed in Vol 2, as when Scott tried to get Lucas' item drop, [[ChekhovsSkill he said that he didn't have the skateboard proficiency]].
* SuddenMusicalEnding: Volume 6 ends with [[spoiler:Shatterband]] playing "I'm a Believer" by Music/TheMonkees.
* SummonBackupDancers: The Demon Hipster Chicks that Matthew Patel can call on.
* SuperDeformed: In some background panels, the characters are drawn in a cutesy {{animesque}} style.
* SuperpowerMeltdown: The sheer volume of cheap, random crap in Honest Ed's causes Todd to have a VillainousBreakdown to the point where he ends up ''imploding'' the store with his Vegan powers.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Ramona "didn't even string [Lucas Lee] along or cheat on him with any cocky pretty boys."
* SwordOverHead: Envy does it to Ramona with her hammer.
* TakeOurWordForIt: In Volume 6, Scott's trying to woo Envy at a party gets so [[CringeComedy cringey]] that in the middle of his wooing a text prompt appears that states that the reader has been spared the ugly sight of the rest of Scott's feeble attempts.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Every single fight in the series.
* TaxidermyTerror: The evil-looking stuffed moose head mounted to a clock at Honest Ed's. It really freaks Scott out, especially when it seems to hiss, "Ssscottt..."
* TerribleTrio: The Clash at Demonhead: Envy, Todd, and Lynette.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed:
** Scott and Wallace [[HoYay share a bed]] because they can't afford another.
** Scott does this to his friends a lot in Volume 5, particularly when [[spoiler:when Ramona disappears and he bedhops at Stephen Stills's and then Kim's.]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: It's Volume 6. [[spoiler:Scott is devastated from Ramona leaving without an explanation. He is moping around, playing videogames, goofing off on the internet, staying isolated, and trying to forget he has a life to live. What does he do? Go into a wilderness sabbatical and fight Nega-Scott!]]
** [[spoiler:And Ramona's time apart was not very different.]]
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch:
** Played straight at the end of Volume 3.
---> "No vegan diet, no vegan powers, bitch."
** A hilarious example at the end of Volume 6.
--->'''Stephen Stills''': You got my green beans?\\
'''Scott''': Word, bitches!\\
(''flips green beans into air, they fall onto floor'')\\
'''Stephen Stills''': ...Whatever. They ordered dinner at 10:55. They're getting a salad.\\
'''Scott''': W-word, bitches!
* ThoseTwoGuys: Julie's friends, Sandra and Monique. Lampshaded in that they're not nearly as popular or cool as they seem to think they are.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Very much averted, as Scott has absolutely no issues with causing humans to explode into coins, even ones who are at his mercy. Considering that Scott Pilgrim runs on video game logic, it makes perfect sense. Has Mario ever felt guilty about stomping on Goombas?
* ThreesomeSubtext: In Volume 5, while Kim, Ramona, and Scott are all drunk together, Kim says she loves them and Ramona wonders where Kim has been all her life, kissing her on the head. [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Scott encourages them to make out]]. Then, as all three leave, Ramona encourages Kim to come sleep in their bed, but she declines.
* TookALevelInBadass: Scott does this literally, gaining a new level, new stats, and a new sword each time.
** First he does it in Volume 4, when he mans up and confesses his feelings.
** Then, after he is [[spoiler:killed]] in the middle of Volume 6.
* TrainingFromHell: PlayedForLaughs. Before Scott goes to fight Lucas Lee, he studies up on his moves by watching his movies and does push-ups on the floor while Wallace sits in an armchair playing video games.
* TrainStationGoodbye: Scott and Envy do this.
* TheUnfairSex: Ramona becomes incensed when she learns that Scott was [[spoiler:dating her behind Knives' back when she herself dated the Katayanagi Twins behind each others' backs]]. Not to mention the fact that got angry at Scott for [[spoiler:staying at Lisa's sister's place when she let Roxie stay the night at her place. (And actually ''made out'' with her, unlike Scott, who remained totally faithful)]].
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler:Scott Pilgrim. We find that most of his flashbacks are a mixture of [[SelfServingMemory his own repression]], to avoid his mistakes and past pain, and Gideon 'spicing up' his boring highschool memories. The big fight where he 'rescued' Kim Pine in high school and won her heart? Scott beating up her current wussy boyfriend. Envy also implies that Scott may not have been as blameless in their breakup as his flashbacks made it seem.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension:
** Between Kim and Scott. It's pretty subtle at first, but starts becoming more visible by the third volume and comes to a head by the end of the fifth. [[spoiler:In volume 6, Scott attempts to reconcile his relationship with Kim, and Kim is initially receptive to it, but breaks it off because Ramona is who he loves, not her]].
** Lisa and Scott. [[spoiler:They almost hook up after Lisa questions why they never did. Scott puts a stop to it because he realizes that he's in love with Ramona.]]
* UnseenNoMore: There's a RunningGag of Mobile and Lawrence barely being off-screen but often mentioned. Both of them finally appear in-person at the end of Volume 5, and Scott briefly confuses them both for Gideon.
* UnsoundEffect: All over the place, like '''STARE!''' and '''CLUTCH!''' and '''NOD. NOD.'''
** ''~pause''
** ''~unpause''
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Scott has shades of this when you first read the series, due to his extreme {{manchild}} tendencies. FridgeBrilliance sets in when you realize that this is actually Scott's main character flaw, and [[spoiler:him realizing this is essential to his character development]].
* TheVamp: Inverted. Envy Adams seems to prefer dating evil guys rather than corrupting good ones.
* VerbalTic:
** ...or whatever.
** None of the characters have verbal tics when they're in denial. [-Yes they do.-]
* VerbThis: Envy while fighting Ramona.
-->(''Wallace has just left after continously cheering on Ramona'')\\
'''Ramona''': But...but I'm enjoying your company!\\
'''Envy''': ENJOY '''''THIS!''''' (''kicks Ramona in the chin, launching her upward'')
* TheVerse:
** Kim Pine started out as a character in series of comic strips that started years before ''Scott Pilgrim'' debuted. Bryan Lee O'Malley did three short comic strips called "Style" which featured characters named Kim Pine and Lisa Miller. You can read them at his site under "Best of My Online Comics" [[http://radiomaru.com/ here]]. The Kim Pine and Lisa Miller in the "Style" strips look NOTHING like their Scott Pilgrim namesakes, and aren't really given distinct personalities, so they are probably better classified as Proto-Kim and Proto-Lisa, much like rabbits from Warner Bros. cartoons from the late 1930s predating the 1940 Creator/TexAvery directorial effort "A Wild Hare" are considered prototypes for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
** Also, Scott made a cameo in Corey Lewis's graphic novel PENG, which is in continuity with Lewis's series Sharknife.
* VillainSong: Matthew Patel gets to sing one when facing off against Scott, complete with his fireballs and demon hipster chicks. S-L-ICK!
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Lucas, Envy, and Gideon.
-->'''Ramona''': What the hell is this?! Why are they all rooting for you when you're ''obviously'' a huge bitch?\\
'''Random Guy''': '''''You're''''' a huge bitch!!\\
'''Envy''': Ramona, sweetie, I'm ''famous''.
* VisibleInvisibility: Roxie appears as blurred lines when teleporting. She is only ''half'' ninja, after all.
* VisibleSilence: On occasion.
* WallJump: Ramona does one to chase after Knives during their fight.
* WarpZone: Subspace.
* WaxingLyrical: Scott's quoting of the Music/BackstreetBoys at the end of Volume 5.
* WeCanRuleTogether: This offer is made by Gideon to Scott when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Scott qualifies to join the League of Evil Exes, on account of no longer being with Ramona. Scott declines vigorously... and is dead three pages later]].
* WeirdTradeUnion: Of Ramona's evil exes.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Ramona's cat is named Gideon. [[spoiler:A fact that shocks even Gideon.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** ''Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together'': Scott and Ramona have a RelationshipUpgrade after confessing their love to one another.
** ''Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe'': After the previous volume ended on such a happy note, [[spoiler:Scott and Ramona's relationship shows signs of getting stale, [[WhamLine Knives reveals to Ramona that Scott cheated on both of them]], [[TearJerker Ramona abandons Scott, and Kim leaves Toronto]]. Also, Sex Bob-omb ends]].
** ''[[GrandFinale Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour]]'': Considering it has the final standoff between Scott and Ramona's final evil ex, this is a given. [[spoiler:Scott has to defeat Gideon by means of physical, emotional, and mental warfare; also, for the first time in the series, there's ''blood'', and [[BloodierAndGorier a lot of it]], especially when people get run through with the Power of Love.]]
* WhamLine:
** In Volume 5.
--->[[spoiler:'''Knives''': He cheated on us, Ramona. ''Both of us.'']]
** Volume 5 ends with Scott getting a call from someone, and Scott asks who's on the other end..
--->[[spoiler:'''Gideon''': This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die?]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Gideon stabbing Scott with the Power of Love in Volume 6, complete with a very nasty blood splatter on the page]].
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Various DeadpanSnarker characters question how Scott attracts these girls. Honestly, it's a good question. He's ''hot'', that's what they see. Only [[GenericCuteness ''we'' don't get to see it in the comic]] and in the film the character was played by Michael Cera; but it's [[InformedAttractiveness explicitly stated]], mostly by Wallace.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Averted with Scott gaining a flaming sword from the power of love and [[spoiler:the power of understanding, a frigging big Manga/{{Bleach}}-like sword]].
* WhatTheHellHero:
-->'''Scott''': Are you okay now?\\
'''Envy''': Am I...? You just headbutted my best friend so hard he ''burst,'' Scott.
** Scott gets another one with Envy in Volume 6. Becomes more apparent and embarassing when he breaks it down in front of a thousand quiet fans staring at Envy in awe.
-->'''Scott''': Envy Adams? Partying with ''mere mortals''?\\
'''Envy''': *glare* \\
'''Scott''': Why don't you go back to... to... ''[[LameComeback Montrealhalla]]''.
* WhiteVoidRoom: When Ramona gives Scott a haircut in chapter 16, they are depicted in a completely blank-white room as a text prompt reads "'''time passed'''".
* WhyDontYouMarryIt
* WidgetSeries: Never before has Canada's most populated city been this quirky.
* WingdingEyes: In book 3, Scott's pupils turn into starry asterisks when Ramona offers to cut his hair in chapter 16.
* WorldOfHam: So many tasty, delicious moments of ultra-ham.
* WorldOfWeirdness: The best example of this is that learning that a character is psychic is no more shocking than learning that someone is vegan--in fact, in this world, it's often the same thing.
* WouldHitAGirl: Todd [[MoralEventHorizon shows his true colors]] in volume 3 when he psychically throws Envy into a wall, and then retorts that he's not afraid to hit girls because he's a rock star, losers.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Played straight with Scott.
-->'''Roxie''': Is that a moral high ground thing, or are you just a pussy?
** [[spoiler:If she's one of Ramona's evil exes and trying to cut him to pieces, he ''will'' [[DiagonalCut use a sword]] on her, though. Well, after leveling up.]]
* {{Yandere}}:
** Knives Chau is a TropeCodifier of this for Western audiences, developing into this after she started JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
** Scott himself in flashbacks can be interpreted as this for Kim, ignoring the parts where UnreliableNarrator is in play.
** [[BigBad Gideon Graves]] is a darker version, having his first six ex-girlfriends as [[HumanPopsicle human popsicles]] (he wants Ramona to be the [[ArcNumber seventh]]).
** The rest of the League of Evil Exes are this towards Ramona to some degree.
* YouAreFat: Knives to Ramona, [[RunningGag multiple times.]]
* YouFightLikeACow: Ramona says the line, [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland verbatim,]] in a fight with Knives.
-->'''Knives''': But look at your face! I totally [[StealthPun grazed]] you!\\
'''Ramona''': How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Played with in Ramona's case. Her regular changes of dye and hairstyle hint at [[spoiler:her constant drive to run from herself.]]
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Wallace says this to Scott when he's moping around [[YouWatchTooMuchX playing too many video games]] at the start of Volume 6. HilarityEnsues when Scott tries to take his advice.
* YourMom: Scott uses insults like these a few times, since he's terrible at comebacks.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter
* SelfDeprecation: Scott performs one during the early records of the disc ("I know a guy who owns a car?") and the author managed to do it, with Ramona's "It's official, nothing cool ever happens in Canada." Remember, the author is Canadian, so he broke the fourth wall and did some self depriciation humour very subtly.
* SelfDisposingVillain: Some of the evil exes end up doing themselves in rather than Scott actually defeating them. For example: [[spoiler:Scott challenges Lucas Lee to perform an impossible skateboard trick in the middle of their fight. Lucas would rather take on the challenge than lose face. The trick ends up killing him, as he goes too fast and bursts into coins.]] Another example is when [[spoiler:Todd Ingram is about to defeat Scott (who acknowledges that he could only win via some DeusExMachina), and right on cue, the Vegan Police shows up to take away Todd's powers for eating gelato the day before]]. Could also be a KarmicDeath in the second case.
* SelfServingMemory: Scott's memories are not accurate thanks to [[spoiler: Gideon mucking around with them]].
* SevenDeadlySins: All the characters showcase signs of these throughout the series. Special mention goes to [[JerkassWoobie Natalie (also known as Envy)]].
* SexSlave: [[spoiler:Gideon's ex-girlfriends, by implication. The fact that [[DateRape they're imprisoned and brainwashed]] doesn't help.]]
* SexySpectacles: InUniverse; 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?
* ShadowDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Scott and Ramona's sex scene]] in Volume 5. And even then, only two panels of it is shown.
* ShapedLikeItself: Issue 4 has Wallace introduced as:
-->'''Wallace Wells'''\\
• [Scott's] gay roommate.\\
• Lives with '''Scott'''.\\
• Is '''gay'''.
* SheatheYourSword: Scott's battle with [[spoiler:The Negascott]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: "L is for... [[spoiler:Lisa]]?".
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Scott insists this about Knives after breaking up with her.
* ShipperOnDeck: In Ramona and Envy's battle in volume 3, the crowd that gathers starts yelling out various things cheering on Envy. One of these things happens to be "MAKE OUT!!"
* ShipTease:
** Here and there, what with Scott's previous exes never having proper closure until about the last volume.
** Knives also probably had a short crush on Stephen Stills, seeing how he usually doesn't treat her like crap and even lets her drink with the folks. Young Neil even says "she's obsessed with Captain Homo these days".
** This exchange from Volume 4:
--->'''Ramona''': ''(drunkenly)'' Where'd Kim go? She seemed pretty wasted...\\
'''Scott''': Why are you always so interested in Kim?\\
'''Ramona''': I like Kim.\\
'''Julie''': Are you gonna marry her??\\
'''Ramona''': Tooooooootally.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/ScottPilgrim Now with its own page.]]
* {{Shoryuken}}: Scott to Matthew Patel.
* ShutUpHannibal: Gideon attempts a very short HannibalLecture just before [[spoiler:Scott and Ramona defeat him:]]
-->'''Gideon''': Getting rid of me... won't save you. You're your ''own'' worst enemies! ''Both'' of you!\\
''(BeatPanel, with Ramona and Scott looking at each other)''\\
'''Ramona''': [[InsultBackfire No, I'm pretty sure you're worse, dude]].\\
'''Scott''': You're definitely worse.
* ShutUpKiss: Ramona gives one to Scott on more than one occasion.
* SickeningSweethearts: Scott and Ramona can be this at times, at least to the other characters.
* SigilSpam: Gideon's triple G inverted Triforce logo appears all over the place in Volume 6. Scott even ends up sporting a triple G shirt (much to his chagrin) for the first round of his fight with Gideon.
* SingleMindedTwins: Kyle and Ken. A deliberate choice on their part; Ramona played them against each other, and they vowed to work in tandem forever after that.
* SingleStrokeBattle: At the end of the fourth book.
* SkyFace: The part in ''6'' where Kim's face shows up magically from a distance in the final scene. It's signifying that she's in there in spirit, and it's sort of related.
* TheSlacker: Most of the characters, but especially Scott [[UpToEleven a slacker amongst slackers]]. He starts to change his ways, though, particularly in Volume 4, "Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together".
* SlasherSmile: Near the end of Volume 5, Scott's reflection in the mirror while brushing his teeth at Stephen Stills's place is split into a normal, tired-looking Scott, then this... Even better, that half is [[spoiler:Negascott, an embodiment of Scott's tendency to repress painful memories instead of learning from his mistakes]].
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Messed with, severely. It slides back and forth all over the place throughout the course of the series.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: One of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends [[spoiler: is actually a girl. Justified by the fact Ramona is mostly heterosexual and only became bisexual during her "phase", so it's actually a surprise the group even includes a girl to begin with.]]
* SnowMeansLove: Scott and Ramona are caught out in a sudden snowstorm (it is Toronto, after all) in the middle of deciding to date each other. This also has the convenient side effect of forcing Scott to crash at Ramona's place...
* SpiritualSuccessor: The video game adaptation could be considered as a love letter to Technos Japan Corp's [[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom Kunio-Kun]] games.
* SpitTake: Scott does it after chugging an (alcoholic) drink at the Chaos Theatre when he sees Julie, Sandra, and Monique staring at him.
* SplashOfColor: Volume 4's intro at the beach is in full color, although it quickly shifts back to regular monochrome once the actual story begins.
* StalkerShrine: Knives has one for Scott.
* StalkerWithACrush: A very common theme in this series.
** Most prominently displayed by Knives "I'm a Scottoholic!!!" Chau.
** And Scott.
--->''AND THEN HE STALKED HER UNTIL SHE LEFT THE PARTY''.
* StarCrossedLovers: In order to date Ramona, Scott must battle her seven evil exes. At the climax, they defeat [[PsychoExBoyfriend Gideon]] with "Power Of Love".
%%** Parodied with Scott and Knives %%Needs more context%%
* StartOfDarkness:
** Envy's plays out through flashbacks in Vol. 3. It begins with her selling all her Anime paraphernalia and culminates with her asking Scott to start calling her "Envy" rather than Natalie. Then she breaks up with him and turns completely evil, showing the reader the exact moment she crossed the MoralEventHorizon that she'd been living on the other side of since she first appeared in the comic. Though she wasn't as bad as Scott made her to be. In Volume 6, it is implied that Scott "wasn't a paragon of virtue either" and the big fight on New Year's Eve was a fight that he started rather than her just dumping him. It's true that she sold out and didn't return Scott's affections when he said he loved her, it's not clear that she was pure evil after Volume 6.
** The part in Volume 4 when [[spoiler:Scott sees Nega-Scott, a darker, more malevolent version of himself, after he learns that Roxanne, Ramona's evil ex-girlfriend, had been staying over at Ramona's apartment could have been this, but gets subverted as he quickly disperses it and goes back. He confronts it again in Vol 6, realizing it's his own repression working against him and trying to fight it only makes it worse. After he comes to terms with himself and decides to stop running from painful memories, it stops attacking him.]]
** [[spoiler:Gideon]]'s is exposited near the end of Volume 6. [[spoiler:He always was a bit of a brilliant but psychologically-stunted prick, but when Ramona dumped him, he went right out of his mind. He then went on a bender and posted a drunken ranting ad on Craigslist, which was then discovered by the other six exes.]]
* StealthPun:
** How can one describe Scott's fight with Matthew Patel? [[spoiler:An Indian versus a Pilgrim.]]
** Ramona's mental subspace is a ''sub''space, [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} as in a room where she wears black leather and Gideon keeps a chain around her neck]]]].
** Ramona's BagOfHolding. Gee, you think this girl's got a lot of baggage? [[spoiler:It's destroyed in the climactic showdown with Gideon, showering its contents everywhere. Afterwards, Ramona isn't interested in gathering up her old stuff. It's hard not to interpret it as a good sign for her relationship with Scott.]]
* StoppedReadingTooSoon: Matthew Patel sends Scott an email explaining the basic plot of the series. Scott skims it before declaring it boring and deletes it, thus Scott is completely blindsided when the first fight over Ramona starts.
* StraightGay: Wallace (who is the most prominent gay character shown) but also his boyfriend Mobile, his friend "Other Scott", Hollie's roommate Joseph, and his new boyfriend [[spoiler:Stephen Stills]].
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike:
** Ramona going on a "wilderness sabbatical." [[spoiler:Though in truth, Ramona spent most of her time at her dad's house, watching old ''Series/TheXFiles'' episodes on the internet.]]
---> '''Wallace:''' You see, Scott? WILDERNESS!
** The entire gang of evil exes all agreeing to the idea of killing Scott so that they can have Ramona is a darker version of this trope. This could be the result of Gideon's manipulations, though.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The RuleOfCool moment of Gideon's defeat [[spoiler:where he explodes into 7 7/9th million dollars worth of Canadian coins]] is quickly derailed when [[spoiler:...7 7/9th million dollars worth of Canadian coins come raining down on everyone's heads]] and mass panic ensues.
** Ramona alludes a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome moment in Vol. 3 when telling Scott about the time Todd [[spoiler:punched a hole in the moon for her]].
--->'''Scott''': And then what happened?\\
'''Ramona''': Uhhh... [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall About thirty pages]] of [[spoiler:explosions and tidal waves.]]
* StylisticSuck: Scott's terrible song that he writes for Ramona and sings for her on the bus. Most of the lyrics are ... "Ramona".
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: Subspace is some kind of realm that connects different locations in the world as well as providing pathways into peoples' dreams. They don't teach it in Canadian schools.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion:
-->'''Matthew Patel''': [[LampshadeHanging That doesn't even rhyme!]]
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Vol 4 has this when [[spoiler:Scott earns the Power of Love, before exclaiming "Now I'm glad I picked that longsword proficiency in grade 5!"]]
** This could have been foreshadowed in Vol 2, as when Scott tried to get Lucas' item drop, [[ChekhovsSkill he said that he didn't have the skateboard proficiency]].
* SuddenMusicalEnding: Volume 6 ends with [[spoiler:Shatterband]] playing "I'm a Believer" by Music/TheMonkees.
* SummonBackupDancers: The Demon Hipster Chicks that Matthew Patel can call on.
* SuperDeformed: In some background panels, the characters are drawn in a cutesy {{animesque}} style.
* SuperpowerMeltdown: The sheer volume of cheap, random crap in Honest Ed's causes Todd to have a VillainousBreakdown to the point where he ends up ''imploding'' the store with his Vegan powers.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Ramona "didn't even string [Lucas Lee] along or cheat on him with any cocky pretty boys."
* SwordOverHead: Envy does it to Ramona with her hammer.
* TakeOurWordForIt: In Volume 6, Scott's trying to woo Envy at a party gets so [[CringeComedy cringey]] that in the middle of his wooing a text prompt appears that states that the reader has been spared the ugly sight of the rest of Scott's feeble attempts.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Every single fight in the series.
* TaxidermyTerror: The evil-looking stuffed moose head mounted to a clock at Honest Ed's. It really freaks Scott out, especially when it seems to hiss, "Ssscottt..."
* TerribleTrio: The Clash at Demonhead: Envy, Todd, and Lynette.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed:
** Scott and Wallace [[HoYay share a bed]] because they can't afford another.
** Scott does this to his friends a lot in Volume 5, particularly when [[spoiler:when Ramona disappears and he bedhops at Stephen Stills's and then Kim's.]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: It's Volume 6. [[spoiler:Scott is devastated from Ramona leaving without an explanation. He is moping around, playing videogames, goofing off on the internet, staying isolated, and trying to forget he has a life to live. What does he do? Go into a wilderness sabbatical and fight Nega-Scott!]]
** [[spoiler:And Ramona's time apart was not very different.]]
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch:
** Played straight at the end of Volume 3.
---> "No vegan diet, no vegan powers, bitch."
** A hilarious example at the end of Volume 6.
--->'''Stephen Stills''': You got my green beans?\\
'''Scott''': Word, bitches!\\
(''flips green beans into air, they fall onto floor'')\\
'''Stephen Stills''': ...Whatever. They ordered dinner at 10:55. They're getting a salad.\\
'''Scott''': W-word, bitches!
* ThoseTwoGuys: Julie's friends, Sandra and Monique. Lampshaded in that they're not nearly as popular or cool as they seem to think they are.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Very much averted, as Scott has absolutely no issues with causing humans to explode into coins, even ones who are at his mercy. Considering that Scott Pilgrim runs on video game logic, it makes perfect sense. Has Mario ever felt guilty about stomping on Goombas?
* ThreesomeSubtext: In Volume 5, while Kim, Ramona, and Scott are all drunk together, Kim says she loves them and Ramona wonders where Kim has been all her life, kissing her on the head. [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Scott encourages them to make out]]. Then, as all three leave, Ramona encourages Kim to come sleep in their bed, but she declines.
* TookALevelInBadass: Scott does this literally, gaining a new level, new stats, and a new sword each time.
** First he does it in Volume 4, when he mans up and confesses his feelings.
** Then, after he is [[spoiler:killed]] in the middle of Volume 6.
* TrainingFromHell: PlayedForLaughs. Before Scott goes to fight Lucas Lee, he studies up on his moves by watching his movies and does push-ups on the floor while Wallace sits in an armchair playing video games.
* TrainStationGoodbye: Scott and Envy do this.
* TheUnfairSex: Ramona becomes incensed when she learns that Scott was [[spoiler:dating her behind Knives' back when she herself dated the Katayanagi Twins behind each others' backs]]. Not to mention the fact that got angry at Scott for [[spoiler:staying at Lisa's sister's place when she let Roxie stay the night at her place. (And actually ''made out'' with her, unlike Scott, who remained totally faithful)]].
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler:Scott Pilgrim. We find that most of his flashbacks are a mixture of [[SelfServingMemory his own repression]], to avoid his mistakes and past pain, and Gideon 'spicing up' his boring highschool memories. The big fight where he 'rescued' Kim Pine in high school and won her heart? Scott beating up her current wussy boyfriend. Envy also implies that Scott may not have been as blameless in their breakup as his flashbacks made it seem.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension:
** Between Kim and Scott. It's pretty subtle at first, but starts becoming more visible by the third volume and comes to a head by the end of the fifth. [[spoiler:In volume 6, Scott attempts to reconcile his relationship with Kim, and Kim is initially receptive to it, but breaks it off because Ramona is who he loves, not her]].
** Lisa and Scott. [[spoiler:They almost hook up after Lisa questions why they never did. Scott puts a stop to it because he realizes that he's in love with Ramona.]]
* UnseenNoMore: There's a RunningGag of Mobile and Lawrence barely being off-screen but often mentioned. Both of them finally appear in-person at the end of Volume 5, and Scott briefly confuses them both for Gideon.
* UnsoundEffect: All over the place, like '''STARE!''' and '''CLUTCH!''' and '''NOD. NOD.'''
** ''~pause''
** ''~unpause''
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Scott has shades of this when you first read the series, due to his extreme {{manchild}} tendencies. FridgeBrilliance sets in when you realize that this is actually Scott's main character flaw, and [[spoiler:him realizing this is essential to his character development]].
* TheVamp: Inverted. Envy Adams seems to prefer dating evil guys rather than corrupting good ones.
* VerbalTic:
** ...or whatever.
** None of the characters have verbal tics when they're in denial. [-Yes they do.-]
* VerbThis: Envy while fighting Ramona.
-->(''Wallace has just left after continously cheering on Ramona'')\\
'''Ramona''': But...but I'm enjoying your company!\\
'''Envy''': ENJOY '''''THIS!''''' (''kicks Ramona in the chin, launching her upward'')
* TheVerse:
** Kim Pine started out as a character in series of comic strips that started years before ''Scott Pilgrim'' debuted. Bryan Lee O'Malley did three short comic strips called "Style" which featured characters named Kim Pine and Lisa Miller. You can read them at his site under "Best of My Online Comics" [[http://radiomaru.com/ here]]. The Kim Pine and Lisa Miller in the "Style" strips look NOTHING like their Scott Pilgrim namesakes, and aren't really given distinct personalities, so they are probably better classified as Proto-Kim and Proto-Lisa, much like rabbits from Warner Bros. cartoons from the late 1930s predating the 1940 Creator/TexAvery directorial effort "A Wild Hare" are considered prototypes for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
** Also, Scott made a cameo in Corey Lewis's graphic novel PENG, which is in continuity with Lewis's series Sharknife.
* VillainSong: Matthew Patel gets to sing one when facing off against Scott, complete with his fireballs and demon hipster chicks. S-L-ICK!
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Lucas, Envy, and Gideon.
-->'''Ramona''': What the hell is this?! Why are they all rooting for you when you're ''obviously'' a huge bitch?\\
'''Random Guy''': '''''You're''''' a huge bitch!!\\
'''Envy''': Ramona, sweetie, I'm ''famous''.
* VisibleInvisibility: Roxie appears as blurred lines when teleporting. She is only ''half'' ninja, after all.
* VisibleSilence: On occasion.
* WallJump: Ramona does one to chase after Knives during their fight.
* WarpZone: Subspace.
* WaxingLyrical: Scott's quoting of the Music/BackstreetBoys at the end of Volume 5.
* WeCanRuleTogether: This offer is made by Gideon to Scott when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Scott qualifies to join the League of Evil Exes, on account of no longer being with Ramona. Scott declines vigorously... and is dead three pages later]].
* WeirdTradeUnion: Of Ramona's evil exes.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Ramona's cat is named Gideon. [[spoiler:A fact that shocks even Gideon.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** ''Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together'': Scott and Ramona have a RelationshipUpgrade after confessing their love to one another.
** ''Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe'': After the previous volume ended on such a happy note, [[spoiler:Scott and Ramona's relationship shows signs of getting stale, [[WhamLine Knives reveals to Ramona that Scott cheated on both of them]], [[TearJerker Ramona abandons Scott, and Kim leaves Toronto]]. Also, Sex Bob-omb ends]].
** ''[[GrandFinale Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour]]'': Considering it has the final standoff between Scott and Ramona's final evil ex, this is a given. [[spoiler:Scott has to defeat Gideon by means of physical, emotional, and mental warfare; also, for the first time in the series, there's ''blood'', and [[BloodierAndGorier a lot of it]], especially when people get run through with the Power of Love.]]
* WhamLine:
** In Volume 5.
--->[[spoiler:'''Knives''': He cheated on us, Ramona. ''Both of us.'']]
** Volume 5 ends with Scott getting a call from someone, and Scott asks who's on the other end..
--->[[spoiler:'''Gideon''': This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die?]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Gideon stabbing Scott with the Power of Love in Volume 6, complete with a very nasty blood splatter on the page]].
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Various DeadpanSnarker characters question how Scott attracts these girls. Honestly, it's a good question. He's ''hot'', that's what they see. Only [[GenericCuteness ''we'' don't get to see it in the comic]] and in the film the character was played by Michael Cera; but it's [[InformedAttractiveness explicitly stated]], mostly by Wallace.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Averted with Scott gaining a flaming sword from the power of love and [[spoiler:the power of understanding, a frigging big Manga/{{Bleach}}-like sword]].
* WhatTheHellHero:
-->'''Scott''': Are you okay now?\\
'''Envy''': Am I...? You just headbutted my best friend so hard he ''burst,'' Scott.
** Scott gets another one with Envy in Volume 6. Becomes more apparent and embarassing when he breaks it down in front of a thousand quiet fans staring at Envy in awe.
-->'''Scott''': Envy Adams? Partying with ''mere mortals''?\\
'''Envy''': *glare* \\
'''Scott''': Why don't you go back to... to... ''[[LameComeback Montrealhalla]]''.
* WhiteVoidRoom: When Ramona gives Scott a haircut in chapter 16, they are depicted in a completely blank-white room as a text prompt reads "'''time passed'''".
* WhyDontYouMarryIt
* WidgetSeries: Never before has Canada's most populated city been this quirky.
* WingdingEyes: In book 3, Scott's pupils turn into starry asterisks when Ramona offers to cut his hair in chapter 16.
* WorldOfHam: So many tasty, delicious moments of ultra-ham.
* WorldOfWeirdness: The best example of this is that learning that a character is psychic is no more shocking than learning that someone is vegan--in fact, in this world, it's often the same thing.
* WouldHitAGirl: Todd [[MoralEventHorizon shows his true colors]] in volume 3 when he psychically throws Envy into a wall, and then retorts that he's not afraid to hit girls because he's a rock star, losers.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Played straight with Scott.
-->'''Roxie''': Is that a moral high ground thing, or are you just a pussy?
** [[spoiler:If she's one of Ramona's evil exes and trying to cut him to pieces, he ''will'' [[DiagonalCut use a sword]] on her, though. Well, after leveling up.]]
* {{Yandere}}:
** Knives Chau is a TropeCodifier of this for Western audiences, developing into this after she started JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
** Scott himself in flashbacks can be interpreted as this for Kim, ignoring the parts where UnreliableNarrator is in play.
** [[BigBad Gideon Graves]] is a darker version, having his first six ex-girlfriends as [[HumanPopsicle human popsicles]] (he wants Ramona to be the [[ArcNumber seventh]]).
** The rest of the League of Evil Exes are this towards Ramona to some degree.
* YouAreFat: Knives to Ramona, [[RunningGag multiple times.]]
* YouFightLikeACow: Ramona says the line, [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland verbatim,]] in a fight with Knives.
-->'''Knives''': But look at your face! I totally [[StealthPun grazed]] you!\\
'''Ramona''': How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Played with in Ramona's case. Her regular changes of dye and hairstyle hint at [[spoiler:her constant drive to run from herself.]]
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Wallace says this to Scott when he's moping around [[YouWatchTooMuchX playing too many video games]] at the start of Volume 6. HilarityEnsues when Scott tries to take his advice.
* YourMom: Scott uses insults like these a few times, since he's terrible at comebacks.
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