History YMMV / ScottPilgrimvsTheWorld

* HilariousInHindsight: The script describes Scott hurling one of Kim's cymbals at Matthew Patel, defeating him, as "ComicBook/CaptainAmerica style". The next Evil Ex, Lucas Lee, is played by Creator/ChrisEvans, who would not a year later become the official movie face of Captain America himself. This coincidence is actually commented on by the cast (Evans included) during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKqKLnsmoK4&ab_channel=EntertainmentWeekly 10 year anniversary table read]].

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Nega-Scott.]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Not that that's a bad thing.]]

** The allusions to video games and pop culture from the 1980's and early 1990's pushed away the cohort of those born in the late 1990's and early 2000's who were ''under'' the age of 20 and were either not born yet or were too young to have any memory of those subjects.

** Even though he was a big deal in the graphic novel, the [[spoiler:Nega-Scott]] came completely out of nowhere in the film, except for an incredibly brief moment of probably the vaguest foreshadowing you could do. The deleted scenes on the DVD show Scott seeing [[spoiler: Nega-Scott's]] reflection in the mirror twice, so it looks like there was more foreshadowing planned, it just got cut--which would have probably made the eventual punchline ([[spoiler:they're exactly the same]]) even funnier.

* EndingFatigue: Scott goes to Gideon's club, getting past the bouncers with impromptu passwords. He goes inside and makes amends with his band before beating up Gideon's mooks. Then he has to gain the Power of Love and fight Gideon. After that, Knives and Ramona briefly fight so Scott has to break them up and apologize for being a JerkAss. Then Gideon comes back [[spoiler: and kills him. He goes through Sub-space, learns of Ramona's control chip, and uses the one-up he earned earlier to come back.]] He then has to do everything all over again. He gets past the bouncers (this time by punching them instead of going through the passwords), fights off the mooks again, makes amends with his band again, gets the Power of Self Respect, defeats Gideon's demon cheerleaders, beats Gideon, stops a fight between Knives and Ramona again, apologizes for being a JerkAss, frees Ramona from Gideon's control, and the three of them beat Gideon again. ''[deep breath]'' Then Gideon sends Nega-Scott after him but that "fight" is at least off-camera. After all that, he goes outside to Knives and Ramona and chooses which one he wants to be with. ''Whew''. And all of this takes more than a quarter of the whole film.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:

* EvilIsSexy:
** Roxy Richter.
** Matthew Patel would be pleased to know some people dig the goth-hipster-pirate look.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MichaelCera as Scott Pilgrim. Sure, they're both dorky, but Scott is an overly-dramatic, outgoing idiot while Michael Cera is known for playing meek whiny intellectuals, two very different kinds of dork. Bizarrely enough, this decision was made by the author himself.