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The League of Evil Exes

Six of Ramona's ex-boyfriends (and one ex-girlfriend), heartbroken by the way she treated them, team up and conspire to defeat Scott Pilgrim and get back with her.

In General

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: Due to Matthew Patel seemingly defeating Scott, all 7 of them are summoned in the second episode instead of Scott defeating them one by one.
• Adaptation Expansion: We actually see how Ramona met and got together with all of them through flashbacks in the anime, while only Matthew, Todd, and Gideon got dedicated flashbacks in the original graphic novel. And being that they're able to live beyond what their introductions would be, their personalities and current lives are fleshed out even further (sans the twins). Ironically enough however, the actual league itself is disbanded offscreen shortly after Gideon loses control of it.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Along with being overall less villainous in this timeline, each ex's history and conflict with Ramona is treated with a lot more weight, giving more depth to their "evilness" and how the relationship made them the way they are.
• Amicable Exes: All of them end on better terms with Ramona by the end of the series. Lucas and Roxie manage to reconcile with her and make peace. Todd and Gideon have lost interest in dating Ramona, and have fallen in love with Wallace and Julie respectively, (although only the latter blossomed into a stable relationship). Thanks to his confidence boost, Matthew has started to focus on himself and his Broadway career, and moved on from Ramona. Although they never find closure with Ramona face-to-face, the Twins seem no longer interested in revenge, as the knowledge that they end being friends with Ramona's current partner, Scott, is enough for them to give up on villainy. Zigzagged with Gideon, in that he still wants to destroy her and Scott, but it's just because he is an evil villain, he is happy with Julie and seems no longer interested in controlling Ramona's love life like other incarnations of the character.
• And Then What?: All of them initially assumed Ramona would just naturally want to get back with whichever Evil Ex managed to kill off Scott. Even Gideon is surprised when Matthew reports that Ramona simply blew him off rather than hear him out, prompting Matthew to stage his own personal coup d'etat against Gideon, much to the approval of the rest of the League.
• Breaking the Fellowship: Due to things going wildly off-script the moment Matthew seemingly kills Scott and Ramona still rejects him, Matthew Patel realizes the whole group is built around an "idiot concept" and confronts Gideon about the truth straight in front of everyone, which causes everyone to turn on the idea of the League and go their separate ways once Matthew defeats Gideon and steals his empire away from him. Though in the finale, they all do at least reconcile and become genuine friends in the wake of their respective closures with Ramona and Character Development.
• Heel–Face Turn: Though they were never really evil, just jerks at best, the anime ends with all of them patching things up with Ramona and becoming better and nicer people. Played With in Gideon's case, as while he got over his hang-ups about Ramona and his possessive nature, he's still legitimately evil, was totally planning to kill innocent people to get back at Ramona and Matthew, and still plots to ruin Scott and Ramona in the future.
• Not So Above It All: Whilst the League all make their peace with Scott and Ramona, they still take the opportunity to troll the couple by encouraging them to kiss, knowing full well that there's a forcefield preventing them from doing specifically that.
• Shipper on Deck: By the end of the series, they're actually supportive of Scott and Ramona's relationship, as they have either moved, got into new relationships, or both.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • In this continuity, they lead much happier lives, having made amends with Ramona and never losing their fights to Scott.
  • The anime also reveals that their original timeline counterparts (or at least Katayanagis) never died, and simply respawned after losing to Scott.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: We see them directly interact with each other after Matthew summons them for a meeting. They don't seem to get along all that well, with Lucas and Todd making passive-aggressive comments about each other's careers, the twins getting angered after Matthew beheads their robot, and Gideon admitting to having little respect for Matthew as the lowest-ranked evil ex.
• The Unfought: Played with. Due to Adaptation Deviation, although every one of them gets a fight scene somewhere, none besides Matthew ever fights Scott. They do, however, get at least a few hits against the true Big Bad, Even Older Scott, during the final battle.
• Villain Cred: After Matthew defeats Gideon in combat, they accept him as their new leader, although the League falls apart shortly after.
  Matthew: "This is my league now, I'm the main character!"
  Lucas: "Here's to the new boss."
  Todd: "O captain, my captain!"
  Ken and Kyle: (Approving grunt)
• Villain Has a Point: Despite their method, the League (sans Gideon and Todd) has a legitimate grievance with Ramona because of how she broke with each of them and didn't respect them as romantic partners. Ramona only dated Matthew to get the jocks off her back and vulgarly dumped him after the fact, she unceremoniously dumped Lucas because she found Todd more of a bad boy than him, she casually left Roxie made her feel worthless, and she cheated on the Katayanagi twins with each other to spite their playboy attitudes. In the end, Ramona does make peace with a majority of The League, accepting that she was being selfish and she wasn't entirely blameless in her cycle of bad relationships due to her own commitment issues and preference of leaving her problems behind without trying to fix them.

Matthew Patel/Demon Hipster Chicks

Matthew Patel

Voiced by: Satya Bhabha (English); Shinji Saito (Japanese)

"Correct. His name was Scott Pilgrim, and I punched him into the next life!"

^{Click here to see his classic fit} "What are you doing? I won! That means we're free to get back together... Right?"

Ramona's first evil ex, whom she dated in middle school. He first fights Scott Pilgrim during Sex Bob-omb's first gig, and to his surprise, ends up winning; he then usurps control over Gideon's empire and becomes a billionaire.

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• Adaptational Badass: After his fake victory against Scott, Matthew challenges Gideon to a fight and wins, showing an evolution in his mystical powers and martial arts thanks to the confidence boost he got.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Matthew Patel's fireballs work differently in the anime. In the comic/movie, he would shoot bursts of flame from his hands. In Takes Off, they are instead glowing balls of energy that can be used to make energy constructs like shields, and instead cause fiery explosions upon impact.
• Amicable Exes: Downplayed. Initially Matthew Patel is very hostile towards Scott and Ramona. By the next time they meet, Matthew is much more civil (if condescending), clearly having gotten over her and losing all interest in fighting Scott.
• Ascended Extra: He didn't last beyond his introduction in either the source material or the movie. Here, he lives on to be a major supporting character.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: When he becomes a CEO, Matthew dons a black and red suit. He also has very potent mystical powers that allowed him to defeat Gideon Graves in single combat.
• Character Development: Matthew starts as a character who seems to derive his self-worth on getting Ramona back as a girlfriend. After the confidence boost he gains from "defeating" Scott (and Ramona rejects him anyway), Matthew gains a lot of self-esteem and grows as a person, his powers becoming much stronger in the process. He then takes over the League of Evil Exes as well as Gideon's companies. He quickly moves on from Ramona and learns to live for himself, pursuing his dream to be a Broadway star.
• Cruel Mercy: Why he left Gideon alive after defeating him. To Matthew, it'd be more satisfying to see Gideon live with nothing. It ended up paying off for him, since he never wanted to be a CEO, and with Gideon alive he could take his company back.
• Dark Horse Victory: No one was holding out for the weakest evil ex to hold a candle to Gideon Graves, supposedly the strongest among them and the founder of the League... then he won. Nobody was holding out for him to defeat Scott either, but that one was not exactly a victory.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • He (or any of the other evil exes, for that matter) never stopped to consider that killing Scott Pilgrim doesn't automatically entitle him to get back together with Ramona. There is no actual mechanism behind the League to make Ramona get back together with one of them, and he apparently didn't think that "violently attacking a woman's current boyfriend" is kind of the opposite of endearing.
  • Sure, defeating Gideon skyrocketed him to having all of his wealth and glories, but Matthew shows no affinity of actually being a successful corporate CEO and he eventually reveals he actually hates it immensely after losing billions trying to upkeep it—ultimately, alongside his increasing interest in reviving his Broadway career, Matthew just ends up giving it all back to Gideon in full once they confront each other in the finale.
• Dreadful Musician: The reason his attempt at a Broadway career didn't take off is because his singing voice borders on being Hollywood Tone-Deaf, though he's oblivious to this. Subverted at the Scott Pilgrim musical, as it is implied that his new confidence improved his singing abilities, leading to him starting a successful Broadway career.
• Dude, Where's My Reward?: It apparently didn't occur to Matthew nor the other Evil Exes that Ramona isn't obligated to date them just because Scott got killed off in his first encounter against an Evil Ex. Ramona literally and metaphorically shuts a door on Matthew while he's in the middle of declaring that defeating Scott earns him exclusive dating rights to her. It later turns out that Gideon never intended the other members of the League to be able to date Ramona anyway; he recruited them as disposable muscle to get her back to Gideon instead.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After being a Memetic Loser in and out of universe who's also Hollywood Tone-Deaf at that, he finally gets some respect after using his newly acquired fortune and confidence to fund a Broadway adaption of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, which is beloved by the main characters, the exes, and even the movie staff he personally fired.
• Easily Forgiven: By Gideon for his successful coup of the League of Evil Exes and his empire at the end of the series, after Character Development from both encourages them to set aside their prior animosity and Matthew just gives him back everything he took from Gideon due to dissatisfaction with being a CEO, becoming fast friends in the process as they hug each other. Although given the evil laugh afterward, it's implied Matthew is using Gideon to help him keep his fame that he would have lost thanks to his inability to be a CEO.
• Enlightenment Superpowers: He develops a new ability to project ethereal arms in a fashion directly inspired from Hinduist iconography. Since this ability is never shown in any other version of the story, it can be presumed it's a direct result of his confidence being boosted by his "victory" against Scott.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He is genuniley shocked when Gideon informs him that Scott is dating Knives, who is a 17-year-old high school girl, while also simultaneously dating Ramona, without informing either of them.
  Matthew: "Wow, and I thought we were evil."
• Evil Is Petty: He shuts down the film production of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life and fires everyone on set, just for the sole premise of it being an alternate scenario where Scott defeats him.
• Evil Is Hammy: Loves to ramble whenever he is on-screen.
• Formerly Fat: Just like his other incarnations, Matthew was overweight in his youth.
• Frivolous Summoning: It speaks volumes that even his Demon Hipster Chicks, now serving as his personal secretaries, can't offset how hard it is to work as the CEO of the assets he wrenched out of Gideon.
• Full-Name Basis: He is rarely referred to as just "Matthew."
• Goth Girls Know Magic: Gender-flipped. When fighting Gideon Matthew dons a goth outfit complete with black spikes and he has very potent mystical powers.
• Hard Light: Matthew Patel is seen using his Fireballs to create energy barriers to defend against Gideon's swords.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: While he gives up being the leader of the League and a CEO afterwards, he still laughs evilly alongside Gideon and Julie, suggesting that he is taking advantage of Gideon so he would face the consequences for all of his failures as a CEO. Nevertheless, he is now focused on his Broadway career and seems completely uninterested in returning to supervillainy.
• The Heavy: Downplayed. While he may have not killed Scott, it gave him the confidence to defeat Gideon, of all people, in a one-on-one, taking over his organization. After that, the main plot regarding the film production of Scott's life, later a musical production (where the final battle fittingly takes place) is all driven by his funding, resulting in the chain of events that lead to the Exes gaining closure with Ramona.
• Hidden Depths: While implied with his singing in the comic and movie, Matthew displays an affinity for the arts, more specifically Broadway theater. He majored in theater in college and he successfully sings at the Scott Pilgrim musical.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: He had a one-man show that was a failure, with Stephen being disgusted at Matthew's poor singing. However, Matthew's confidence allows him to improve his singing by the time of the musical.
• It Was with You All Along: Despite having the most impressive-sounding power of all the evil exes, he had always been the weakest among them, easily surpassed even by several Badass Normals. After his fakeout victory against Scott, though, he manages to defeat Gideon. He also goes from a terrible singer to a fantastic one whose performance as Scott is lauded by the masses. It's strongly implied this is all because "defeating" Scott was the Magic Feather he needed to unlock his true potential.
• Kick the Dog: He beheads Robot-01 during the meeting of the evil exes just because the robot wasn't specifically invited.
• Large Ham: He speaks and conducts himself in a grandiose manner except when he's taken off guard. It's to be expected, considering he comes from a theater background.
• Leitmotif: A jingle that mixes Bollywood Music with video game music.
• Magic Feather: His defeat of Scott ends up being this, as it makes him skyrocket in confidence to the point of immensely boosting his capabilities, both in his sorcery and his singing. When Ramona gives him the news that he didn't defeat Scott and that he was actually kidnapped just as he was throwing the winning punch, he's not incredibly excited about the prospect, but during his fight with Even Older Scott he shows he's gotten even stronger since he fought Scott despite the revelation dragging his hype down a bit.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He manifests an extra pair of mystical arms from his back in his battle against Gideon, an ability he never had in previous adaptations, seemingly a reference to the Hindu god Shiva. This is what allowed him to turn the tide of a fairly even fight completely in his favor. He later manifests even more of these while fighting Even Older Scott.
• Oh, Crap!: His confidence starts to falter when Ramona tells him Scott is still alive. Naturally of course, since he thinks he may just lose every bit of good fortune he earned because of his victory.
  Matthew: "I didn't win?"
  Ramona: "No."
  Matthew: "He's not dead?"
  Ramona: "Nope."
  Matthew: "..Is he mad at me?"
  Ramona: "I don't know, dude!"
• Orcus on His Throne: After taking over the League of Evil Exes, he... doesn't really do anything evil with it, actually. This is of course a Justified Trope, since the very premise of the League was flawed from the very start, on multiple levels, something Matthew himself was very well aware of.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: A brief example that is Played for Laughs. Even compared to the other characters in the series, Matthew often speaks and acts as exaggerated and over the top as possible, but for just a moment, he drops the act and sounds genuinely horrified when Gideon informs him about Scott's relationship with Knives.
  "I'm sorry, did you say he's dating a high schooler...?!"
• Race Lift: An in-universe example. He is convinced by Stephen and Knives to make a Broadway adaptation of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life with him, an Indian American, starring as Scott, a white Canadian.
• Serious Business: He's always dreamed of having a Broadway musical, even willing to portray Scott despite the musical showing him being defeated easily. He also refuses to fight Scott to damage his vocal cords, scolds his girls for using the word "bomb" at the musical, and ultimately gives Gideon his empire back as long as he keeps the musical.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After defeating Scott and overthrowing Gideon, Matthew switches his regular outfit for a business suit.
• The Starscream: Defeating Scott in their battle gives Matthew enough of a confidence boost to overthrow Gideon as leader of the Evil Exes. He ends up regretting this as he's terrible at being the CEO of all of Gideon's properties and company, so he gives it all back so long as he can keep the musical.
• Starter Villain: Subverted this time actually. The biggest flag that the series has gone wildly off-script alongside the supposed death of its lead is the fact that Matthew Patel wins his fight against Scott Pilgrim he's supposed to laughably be stomped in, which leads to him becoming not just an Ascended Extra but a significantly more badass character as a result enough to usurp Gideon, the original Final Boss of the comic and movie, rather quickly.
• Took a Level in Badass: His victory against Scott gives him a confidence boost that improves his martial arts skills to keep up with Gideon. And he later evolves his mystical powers to ultimately win the fight.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: He still has the demonic powers he has in other versions of the story - casting fireballs and summoning demons - but he also shows the ability to project ethereal spiritual arms in a way that seems clearly inspired by Hindu religious imagery, implying some kind of Enlightenment Superpowers. He is able to use both at the same time just fine, even though you'd think these two types of magic represent two completely different religions.

Demon Hipster Chicks

Demons 1 & 3 Voiced By: Courtney Lin (English)

Demons 2 & 4 Voiced By: Angie Sarkisyan (English)

"Go go, Matthew go!"

^{Click here to see them as secretaries} "They tried to bomb the theater, sir!"

A group of demon girls dressed like hipsters that Matthew Patel uses as background dancers and summons. After Matthew defeats Gideon and takes his fortune, they become his secretaries and bodyguards.

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• Adaptational Badass: They don't do much but be background dancers and shoot fireballs in the other adaptations. Their fighting skills are shown a bit more here.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: They were grey-blue in the comics, grey in the film, and red in the video game. Here they adopt a similar color scheme to their original comic counterparts, although it's a brighter shade of blue.
• Adaptation Expansion: They get this due to Matthew's own expansion, although ironically they don't appear during Matthew's fight with Scott.
• Adaptational Modesty: After becoming Matthew's secretaries/bodyguards, they lose the skimpy hipster clothes and wear dark suits and Cool Shades.
• Dance Battler: Like Matthew, they pose and do Namaste dances while fighting.
• Death Is Cheap: All four of them get destroyed by Gideon, but later, they are right back by Matthew's side. Though, because they're identical to one another, it's unclear whether these are the same girls resurrected, or completely new ones he summoned.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Apart from giving Gideon a run for his money, they also foil his and Julie's plan to blow up Matthew's play with dynamite.
• The Medic: They seem to have to power to heal Matthew by collectively shooting an energy beam at him.
• Sexy Secretary: Doubles as Cute Monster Girl.
• Speak in Unison: They do this in almost all their dialogue.
• Succubi and Incubi: They have the looks, at least, and they do fawn over Matthew, although they don't partake in anything overtly sexual.

Lucas Lee

Lucas Lee

Voiced by: Chris Evans (English); Yūichi Nakamura (Japanese)

"Whatever."

"I don't even read the scripts anymore, I just say the first thing that pops into my head. It's called 'being in the moment'.''

Ramona's second evil ex. She briefly dated him in high school, before dumping him for Todd Ingram. Now, Lucas Lee is a legendary film star, and briefly plays Scott Pilgrim in the movie that Young Neil claims to have written.

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• Abandonment-Induced Animosity: Downplayed, but the reason he transformed from being a Nice Guy to a Jerk Jock in the present was primarily due to the fact that Ramona dumping him for Todd was entirely because she decided to fall for a "bad boy", which encouraged him to shut off his more humble and compassionate side and become a massive blowhard in response—but despite this, he has no real hatred for Ramona and doesn't actively seek punishment against her for ruining their relationship. He just retaliated against her by becoming a caricature of the thing she fell in love with at one point in hopes of getting her back.
• Adaptational Badass: In the original story he's stronger than Scott but ends up losing their fight after fumbling a skateboard trick. Here he holds off an army of ninja paparazzi while skating.
• Adaptational Curves: He has a much beefier physique than either of his previous counterparts, effectively making him The Brute of the League.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In the original novel, he was basically just a Punch-Clock Villain who had no real beef with Scott and was otherwise completely reasonable, while his movie counterpart (who himself was subject to this trope) still showed himself to be friendly with his stunt doubles and fans. Here, he's portrayed as an obnoxious celebrity who regularly causes chaos in the streets with his bad-boy antics and is impossible to work with on set. Though flashbacks implied he used to be a lot nicer before Ramona broke his heart.
• Adaptational Job Change: In the epilogue, he takes up a job at the Second Cup, after losing his job as a film star.
• Adaptational Name Change: Downplayed and Played for Laughs. He claims that Lucas isn't his actual name, and that it's actually "Luke".
• Age-Gap Romance: He was apparently dating Knives Chau's actress, who is 31 (but unfortunately looked 17), while Lucas is 24-25.
• Ascended Extra: Much like Matthew, he becomes more of a supporting character instead of just showing up, getting himself killed while grinding, and never showing up again like in the comic and movie.
• Ambiguous Innocence: It's never clarified if Lucas really knew he was dating a 17-year-old actress or if he was dating a 31-year-old actress playing a 17-year-old character. Either way, Lucas loses his job over it because of how creepy it looks.
• Amicable Exes: Despite his persona being changed to that of a toxic Hollywood asshole, he's still rather friendly with Ramona and, unlike the rest of the League, holds no animosity against her. In fact, he actively thanks her for breaking his heart since it lead him to adopt his badass skateboarder persona and his current lifestyle.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Although he retains his pompous skater boy persona from the film, he is still the ex with the most stable relationship with Ramona after their breakup, and ends up forming an Odd Friendship with Gideon/Gordon. A flashback also shows a teenage Lucas blushing when Ramona puts a bandage on him after he injures himself in a skating stunt.
• The Brute: In past adaptations he was a relatively big guy who could beat down Scott in a fist-fight but it's doubled down in this series as he is now much larger than all the other exes and he's still a physical powerhouse capable of taking out a large number of paparazzi ninjas with only a skateboard.
• Character Catchphrase: "Whatever", in reference to seemingly his favorite song, "United States of Whatever" by Liam Lynch. In-universe, however, it's "Let's party", which according to Roxie, made up half of his dialogue in his last movie. Although apparently it's completely unintentional, and it's just the first thing that pops into his head because he didn't bother to read the script.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Ramona tries to question him about Scott, she just so happens to do so while he's cast as Scott, so he responds with "I'm Scott Pilgrim."
• Composite Character: He has the design of his graphic novel version, but his overtly boisterous personality is clearly based off of his portrayal in the movie.
• Dumbass Has a Point: After actually sitting down and reading the movie script based on Scott Pilgrim's life from the actual comic's events, Lucas immediately recognizes all of the red flags in Ramona and Scott's relationship and calls out the script's ending right away for being improbable as Ramona's Fatal Flaw of being afraid of commitment makes any possibility of resembling a happy ending a laughable joke... Which, seeing how events actually play out in one possible future, is objectively correct criticism as her poor communication ends up turning a Future Scott into an Evil Ex in his own right.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite imploring Matthew to finish Gideon off after the latter gets defeated in combat, he goes to Gideon for advice after losing his fortune himself. Gideon forgives him and invites him over to form a friendship, and they wind up playing games, cooking, and binging anime all in the span of 90 minutes.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While he's not exactly "evil" as he is a colossal blowhard and develops a surprising bond with Gideon after he loses his acting career he still calls him out on trying to blow up Matthew's show with high-grade explosives as that's just "not cool". Also played for laughs with his Role-Ending Misdemeanor below (especially if he's telling the truth).
• Fake Nationality: In-Universe. He, an American actor, gets cast as the Canadian Scott Pilgrim for Neil's movie, at least until he lost his job in Hollywood.
• Freudian Excuse: According to him, he only became an impulsive bad boy because that was the type of boy Ramona left him for.
• Happiness in Minimum Wage: After losing his celebrity status, he actually gets a job in the coffee shop and is shown to be enjoying the experience as he still gets attention from fans, which benefits the business.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite his blowhard devil-may-care attitude, he's clearly well-read enough in people to understand that as long as Ramona remains the same person she is deep down, her relationship with Scott will never work out in the long run and he's doomed to become just another Evil Ex in the long line of them.
  • Also, while he is unapologetically ego-centric, it is heavily implied from his backstory with Ramona that during their relationship, he was closer to his more Nice Guy personality he displayed in the comic, but seeing Ramona break off with him to date more a "bad boy"-type, he took this as a lesson in that All Girls Want Bad Boys and suppressed his more compassionate side to be a prick in response and even blows off Ramona the first time they meet as he's focused more on his career than reconciling. However, when push comes to shove, he does still care enough about Ramona that he actively defends her from the paparazzi attack later.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Even as a high schooler he was huge, making him and Ramona this when they were dating. Exaggerated when he briefly went out with Knives' actress, who looks just as petite as Knives herself.
• I Know Madden Kombat: His skateboarding prowess doubles as a martial art of sorts, using the momentum of his skating to blast through opponents.
• Insufferable Imbecile: While he is a Jerk With A Heartof Gold, his carefree bad-boy attitude has let him to be highly unprofessional in his acting career, much to the annoyance of his manager.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a showboating d-bag with a massive ego, but he gets along well with his fellow skater bros and some of the evil exes and protects Ramona from the paparazzi.
• Jerkass to One: The "Crueler to One"-type, his egotism kinda puts him at odds with a lot of people, but he specifically singles out Todd Ingram in the few scenes they share and interact with one another, even targeting his interests to get into acting compared to his later support of Matthew's pursuits into Broadway. Which makes sense as Todd Ingram was the "Bad Boy" Ex that Ramona left him for, thus he has major beef with him on principle.
• Large Ham: He says basically every line with an overdramatic, grave seriousness but doesn't take his life seriously.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: After losing his role in the movie based on Scott's life, he claims the only roles he can get are in voice-over.
• Lonely at the Top: It's suggested that Lucas doesn't have any real friends in Hollywood as his agent calls his behavior toxic and Lucas is constantly shown to be alone while everyone parties around him, suggesting they are more of an entourage than genuine friends. After losing his celebrity status, it's worth noting that nobody offered to help him get back to the United States and have, more or less, left him stranded in Canada to make his own way back to Los Angeles. In the end, he seems to be much happier in Toronto as a barista, using his flashy moves to impress customers.
• Love Triangle: While it is never touched upon in the comics or the other adaptations, this continuity makes it clear that Lucas is well aware that Ramona dumped him for Todd. This informs a subtle one-sided rivalry between the two that Todd never picks up on.
• ManChild: Lucas behaves like he did in high school after Ramona left him for Todd because he genuinely believes that all girls love a bad boy.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: He's fired from Hollywood after being caught dating Knives Chau's actress, who was 31 but unfortunately looked 17, while Lucas is in his early-to-mid twenties.
• Mr. Fanservice: A tall, ripped, and chiseled movie star that several characters in-universe find hot. Quite a few shots focus on his body, like him hanging around a pool or Stacey talking about his butt on the phone.
• Never My Fault: He completely brushes off his agent's "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and when he and Gordon end up trashing Julie's house, he tries to place the blame solely on him.
• Odd Friendship: He ends up bonding with Gideon after he loses his job as an actor. Also, while not called attention to, he also gets along well enough with Matthew to try and build him up in his Broadway show during the finale as the next big thing despite his prior animosity with Todd for trying similarly to muscle his way into acting at the start.
• One-Man Army: He clears out an army's worth of paparazzi with his skateboarding.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Just like his comic counterpart, he expresses no real animosity against Ramona beyond the lack of address towards how their relationship ended and could care even less about Scott Pilgrim's involvement with her beyond playing him in a film; this is what convinces Ramona that he had nothing to do with Scott's disappearance as despite his dickishness, he's just not a bad enough person to want to wish harm on either of them.
• Riches to Rags: Went from having his own personal skating manor in Los Angeles to basically being homeless and having to bunk with others in Toronto due to a string of flops and a Role-Ending Misdemeanor.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: In-universe, he loses his role as the lead of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life and gets dropped by his agent after the news circulates photos of him dating Knives' actress, who looks 17 (even though Lucas claims she's actually 31).
• Ship Tease: The ending epilogue shows him becoming a little smitten with Kim after she shows the same "whatever" attitude he has.
• Shipper on Deck: Once Scott returns from the future and Lucas reconciles with Ramona, he supports the relationship between the two and encourages them to kiss.
• Token Good Teammate: Of The League of Evil Exes. It's implied that he only joined the guild out of obligation rather than out of any active malice or vindictiveness. Out of all the exes, Lucas seems to be one of the most well-adjusted members and he seems to have to come to terms with what happened between him and Ramona (even though he's shown to be spiteful towards Todd). Although he's still bitter about the ways things ended between him and Ramona, he protects her from the paparazzi.
• Top-Heavy Guy: This adaptation gives Lucas a larger and more muscular upper body than he did in the comic. Wallace even points out how he's got the "best chest in the business".
• Tragic Keepsake: He keeps a broken skateboard framed on a wall in his massive skateboard collection. It's revealed to be the one he had in high school when he was with Ramona, which he broke in anger after seeing her with Todd.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Flashbacks to their time in high school imply that Lucas was a very sensitive kid while dating Ramona, judging by how hard he's blushing when she patches up a skateboard injury on him. Ramona cheating on him with Todd makes Lucas repress all of that goodness for the sake his bad boy attitude.
• Virtue Is Weakness: It's implied that his bad-boy persona was a result of Ramona leaving him for Todd, who was seen by Ramona as a genuine bad-boy. Something Lucas internalized and misinterpreted as "being nice and good won't allow you to get what you want", hence why he tailored his image into a bad boy persona who does anything he wants because he doesn't care. This does eventually bite him in the ass because his reckless behavior causes him to be on the verge of getting fired if he gets into another altercation. He's eventually fired when the paparazzi get footage of him dating Knives's actress, who looks 17 but was actually 31 (according to Lucas). After losing his stardom and reconciling with Ramona, he's much happier working in a coffee shop and he actually supports Ramona and Scott's relationship.
• Vocal Dissonance: Chris Evans still voices him with the raspy, laid-back voice he usually provides Lucas, even during more expressive scenes.
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough?:
  • After reading the script based on the proper events of the Scott Pilgrim comic, Lucas specifically calls out the fact of him having fallen for the ruse Scott pulled on himself by egging him into grinding himself to death on an impossibly gnarly railtrack and says how he would never have fallen for such an obvious trick... which was the point of it, as Scott deliberately played to his ego to make him do something so deliberately reckless to begin with. And sure enough, because his "bad boy" persona demands him to be so needlessly reckless, he nearly gets himself killed again when fighting the Paparazzi ninjas when he could have easily escaped in the interim, losing his board in the process.
  • He also gives Ramona some flak for wanting to be with Scott even though he dated a 17-year-old, saying that he himself would never do anything that stupid or his career would be over. Immediately after saying this pictures of him going out with and kissing Knives' actress go on the news which gets him canceled and his acting career ruined, though he claims she is actually 31 in real life.
• Would Hurt a Child: Played for Laughs, as after his board is broken from escaping the paparazzi with Ramona, he nonchalantly smacks a skateboarding kid off theirs to take it for himself. And the child perfectly somersaults onto a nearby car to break his fall.

Todd Ingram (Unmarked Spoilers)

Todd Ingram

Voiced by: Brandon Routh (English); Wataru Hatano (Japanese)

"Vegans never waver. That's true."

Ramona's third evil ex. He is a vegan, and uses his vegan powers to create portals and move objects with his mind. He dated Scott's ex-girlfriend, Envy Adams, with a tendency to cheat on her. He is cast as Scott Pilgrim's actor for Young Neil's film after Lucas Lee loses the role (and his entire career).

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• Adaptational Context Change: He doesn't lose his vegan powers to the Vegan Police (who are Adapted Out of this version) due to secretly cheating on his diet. He instead basically willingly gives them up by gorging himself in one go on non-vegan food after Wallace breaks his heart. It's also revealed at the end that he can actually gain his powers back if he recommits to the vegan diet.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Very downplayed, but he comes across as the least intentionally malicious iteration of the character. While previous versions hurt other people because they thought they could get away with it, as well as being dumb as rocks, this version seems to just be incredibly impulsive and insensitive at worst. He even has the decency to come clean to Envy when he reveals he's fallen in love with Wallace.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Due to Lynette Guycott being Adapted Out save for a brief cameo, he doesn't cheat on Envy with her. Doesn't stop him from having an affair with Wallace though.
• Adaptational Sexuality: He develops feelings for Wallace while filming the Scott Pilgrim movie, even making out with him and having sex despite being straight in previous adaptations. Justified, as Wallace has been stated to turn straight men gay as a special ability in the comics.
• Always Someone Better: While Todd is capable of summoning vegan portals and does it constantly, Envy points out that he's not good enough at it to kidnap Scott, eliminating him as a suspect.
• Asshole Victim: Due to his Adaptational Nice Guy characterization, this trope is downplayed. But given how he only viewed his relationship with Envy and Ramona as meaningless "living in the moment" flings, it's easier to laugh at him than to pity him when Wallace subjects this treatment onto him.
• Bad Liar: During an on-set interview, Todd says "Vegans never waver." When someone brings into question how true this is later on, he tries claiming he said "Vegans never wafer. We don't eat wafers."
• Break the Badass: After Todd feels true love for the first time in his life being with Wallace, the latter callously tosses him aside, completely destroying Todd's confidence and self-worth. Ramona and Envy find him gorging on poutine in his trailer, breaking his vegan diet in the process.
• Comically Missing the Point: Just like Lucas, when Ramona tries to question him about Scott, she just so happens to do so while he's cast as Scott, so he responds with "I'm Scott Pilgrim."
• Crush Blush: Blushes a lot around Wallace after a kiss scene makes him feel that there were sparks.
• The Ditz: Just like in the other versions of the story, Todd is not very bright and will make very simple-minded comments and observations about everything.
• Food-Based Superpowers: His vegan diet gives him super strength, the ability to project blasts of energy and create portals, which is why Romana thinks he's a suspect.
• Handsome Lech: While other adaptions made it clear that Todd was a shamelessly lustful hedonist, this series solidifies it with Todd full on confessing to Envy that Wallace is the first and only person he had genuinely fallen in love with.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: While he does show a more sensitive, human side when he is around Wallace, he never actually reconciles with Ramona like Lucas and Roxie did, nor does he seem interested in redemption like the Twins. While no longer a villain, he ends up as a more neutral character like Matthew Patel who no longer cares about Ramona. He does seem civil enough to be happy for Ramona when she kisses Scott.
• Humiliation Conga: Todd gets hit hard with this. He becomes Wallace's boy-toy and gets his heart broken when Wallace didn't think anything of their fling, gorges his feelings away in massive quantities, gets dumped by Envy who then takes the time to make snide comments about him, and also gets his bucket of excessively buttered popcorn knocked out of his hands by Scott.
• Ladykiller in Love: According to Todd, Wallace was the first time he felt genuine love for someone else. Every other relationship prior was just him living in the moment. Considering Envy actually took her and Todd's relationship very seriously, she is far from pleased to hear this.
• LGBT Awakening: Undergoes a hilarious and tragic one thanks to Wallace. His dialogue would suggest he's never felt anything romantic before in his heterosexual relationships, which makes his feelings for Wallace hit that much harder.
• Mundane Utility: He uses his vegan powers to telekinetically summon a invitation card towards him and later to act as an umbrella.
• Never Gets Fat: Despite the amount of junk food he consumes after Wallace dumps him, he never gains a single pound.
• Off the Wagon: He amusingly gorges on non-vegan food out of depression after being rejected by Wallace. First it's an entire bucket of poutine, then it's a bucket of popcorn drowned in butter and topped with a bar of butter.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Ramona and Envy realize just how much Wallace broke Todd emotionally when they find him in his trailer willingly gorging himself on poutine.
• Pink Is Erotic: After Wallace convinces the director to have Todd kiss him instead of Envy, Todd's sexual awakening is symbolised by pink fireworks in his eyes as he realizes he's attracted to Wallace. After the kiss, it cuts to the outside of a rocking trailer after Wallace suggests they go there together.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Roxie Richter. His final scene has Todd training under her to recover his vegan powers.
• Post-Stress Overeating: Following Wallace telling him they were just a fling, Todd's shown stuffing his face with non-vegan food in almost every scene he's in.
• Romance on the Set: In-Universe with Envy on the set of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life. To Edgar Wrong's dismay, the two of them can't stop making out when they're supposed to be acting. And then he falls for Wallace...
• Thinking Up Portals: He has the ability to make portals to go wherever he wants. This makes Ramona suspect that Todd had something to do with the vegan portal that kidnapped Scott. Turns out that he wasn't.
• Walking Spoiler: As can be seen with this entry having unmarked spoilers, it's near impossible to talk about this adaptation of Todd without mentioning the very different turn his character takes.
• What Is This Feeling?: Todd claims he's all about "living in the moment" and doesn't take any of the flings he has with any seriousness. That changes when he falls in love with Wallace and realizes that genuine love feels totally different that what he's experienced, even with Envy.

Roxie Richter

Roxanne "Roxie" Richter

Voiced by: Mae Whitman (English); Naomi Ozora (Japanese)

"So, here I am! Rox you like a hurricane!"

Ramona's fourth evil ex, whom she dated during her "sexy phase;" Roxie was Ramona's college roommate, until she dumped her for both The Twins, leaving her heartbroken and at a lust for revenge and nothing else. She is a half-ninja.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While she's Amicable Exes with Ramona from the start in the source material and more of a stereotypical Psycho Lesbian in the movie, in this series it's made clear that Ramona seriously hurt her by moving out without saying anything.
• Adaptational Badass: In the comics and movies, Roxie is more bark than bite and it's Scott's reluctance to fight her that prolongs the battles. Here while she does take a pretty one-sided beating from Ramona she at least shows a lot of tenacity and determination she never had before. When she fights the Paparazzi ninja she takes them out in a single stroke and much faster than Lucas ever did.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Although she's the fourth Evil Ex, she appears second here. This is lampshaded by Kim, who asks Roxie what happened to the second and third exes.
  "Four ain't nothin' but a number, baby!"
• Adaptational Sexuality: All that we knew about Roxie's sexuality was that she had a romantic relationship with Ramona, and a Badass Boast from the film implying that she was bisexual, or at the very least, bi-furious. This version of Roxie however seems to portray her as being a solid lesbian, as she's only ever shown interest in women, and tries to get with Kim and Hollie after she makes peace with Ramona.
• Badass Boast: Spits these constantly during her standoff with Ramona.
• Big Damn Kiss: She has one with Kim after Ramona makes it clear that will not be Friends with Benefits. Unfortunately for her, both fail to feel any sort of chemistry for each other.
• Cool Mask: This version of Roxie has a red ninja mask with a demon snarl printed on. During her fight with Ramona however, it gets knocked off by her Large Hammer, and it remains off for the rest of the series, indicating Roxie finding peace with Ramona and becoming a happier person because of.
• Composite Character: In the graphic novels, she was one of the more grounded evil exes, being civil with Ramona and only going after Scott because she thought he was a poor fit for her. This Roxie initially takes more after her movie version in personality, being more overtly bitter over Ramona treating what they had together as just a phase in her life, but becomes more like her graphic novel version after she and Ramona resolve things.
• Deadpan Snarker: During the League of Evil Exes' meeting, she makes snarky remarks about the other exes, like Lucas's lazy movie dialogue and Todd's bragging about his relationship with Envy.
• Did You Think I Can't Feel?: Her fight with Ramona showcases how badly she was hurt by their breakup, specifically because Ramona left her without even saying goodbye and visibly treating her more like an afterthought as she moved out of their room. Roxie calls Ramona out on her insensitivity, and Ramona in turn apologizes for the pain she caused.
• Food-Based Superpowers: She doesn't have any powers, but it's implied that she's gone vegan in the epilogue, as she had previously mentioned that she should and is seen helping Todd regain his powers.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: After her fight with Ramona and they resolve their feelings with one another; Roxie's first thoughts are immediately onto trying to get some with her, even suggesting to be Friends with Benefits when Ramona emphasizes they are Just Friends. When it's clear she won't get anything sexually gratifying from Ramona, she pivots right over to Kim... only for there to be no chemistry between them when they give it a shot at a kiss due to the lack of sparks. Even after that loss, Roxie still asks if Kim's coworker Hollie will be back to clearly try with her before Ramona insists she head out.
• Mad Eye: Right before her fight with Ramona (when she says the given quote above) her pupils turn from the black circles that the art style is known for, to black rings with a white center, making her look very unstable.
• Made of Iron: Roxie takes a lot of abuse during her fight with Ramona that actually leaves visible bloody wounds on her, but she keeps going regardless, which is especially noteworthy as Roxie is the only one of the Evil Exes that is directly fought at any point by the protagonists beyond Matthew Patel's opener.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Todd Ingram. Her last scene has her training Todd to help him recover his vegan powers.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: She's incredibly temperamental and one of the most vitriolic among the league, but it's clear most of it stems from the pain she feels from being abandoned by Ramona. Once the two find some closure together, Roxie's quick to ease up and be on civil terms.
• Women Are Wiser: Subverted. She claims to be better than the male Evil Exes because as a girl she has "emotional intelligence", but when Ramona actually gives her the chance to open up about her feelings Roxie opts to fight them out instead.

Ken and Kyle Katayanagi

Ken and Kyle Katayanagi

Voiced by: Julian Cihi (English); Shunsuke Takeuchi (Japanese)

Ken: "Ramona has a new boyfriend?"

Kyle: "Sounds like she had a new boyfriend."

^{Click here to see their other appearance. (SPOILERS)} "Sure. Time travel. Kids stuff. Easy"

Ramona's fifth and sixth evil exes. Known as "The Twins," Ramona dated both of them in college behind the other's backs; They own Robot-01, whom they treat as though it's their child. Not much has changed for them here.

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• Accent Relapse: Despite being presumably American, they gain thick Japanese accents when they attempt to Rocket Punch Even Older Scott.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Ramona still cheats on them with each other like the comics, although this time we get to see both of their reactions to the fact. While they obviously made up and placed their blame on Ramona, flashbacks reveal that the brothers had a rough patch in their relationship when the truth came out, as they are shown getting into an ugly argument when Ramona recalls how she left her exes.
• Adaptational Nationality: In the comics, Ken claims that English isn't their first language, implying that both were born and raised in Japan. However, Julian Cihi provides both of them with American accents, implying that the twins are Japanese-American in this continuity.
• Adaptational Wimp: They don't even try to use their martial arts training that they use in the comics, or bring another kind of robot, to fight against Even Older Scott, they just send Robot-01 to launch rocket punches in his face that do nothing and then brace for his attack. However, Ken at least is athletic enough to jump a great distance to catch Knives after she's punched by Even Older Scott.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Old Scott befriends them sometime in the future. They start a band together and they help him bring his younger self to the future. When their present selves learn about this, they decline Present Scott's challenge to battle since they know they'll be friends in the future.
• Age Lift: Downplayed as they didn't have a canon age to begin with, but Ken is described as being the older twin by 30 seconds.
• Co-Dragons: Zigzagged. Their future selves are directly in cohorts not with Gideon, but Old/Even Older Scott in helping his plan to ruin his relationship with Ramona by Make Wrong What Once Went Right by helping him orchestrate his time travel plot simply because he suggested it to them; but their present selves are made Accomplice by Inaction as they are made aware and did nothing to notify the situation because they prefer the idea of being friends with Scott Pilgrim in the future. Of course, this doesn't save them when Even Older Scott arrives and has undergone massive Sanity Slippage and attacks them anyway for simply being involved with Scott Pilgrim's life.
• Composite Character: Personality wise they seem to be a middle ground between their condescending, arrogant comic incarnations and their silent, serious movie incarnations. They are overall quiet and reserved, but the few times they speak they come across as prideful and intellectual.
  • Just like the film, their order in the LOEE was switched with Ken being the 5th ex and Kyle being the 6th, when they were the other way around in the comics.
• Costume Evolution: Ken's sleeveless Rising Sun shirt has been changed to be a shirt with a large X pattern on it. Given how the Rising Sun pattern is usually associated with Imperial Japan, this change is probably for the best.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: Apparently, sometime in the future of the original timeline, they ended up meeting with Scott again and becoming friends, in spite of being enemies in the past. In the present day of the new timeline, they refuse to fight Scott on the grounds they know they'll become friends in the future.
• Heel–Face Turn: Parodied. Despite never getting a chance to reconcile with Ramona, learning that they become friends with Scott in the future is all it takes for them to completely drop all animosity and treat him like a bro. In the ending, they are seen reading books to learn "how to become good".
• Easily Forgiven: They, alongside Roxie, arguably had the most justifiable reason to hold a vendetta against Ramona, that being her cheating on them with each other behind their backs for no reason other than to spite their Casanova attitude. In fact, Ramona cites her history with them as a possible motive for them kidnapping Scott. Unlike Roxie however, they don't hash out their feelings with her, and instead drop all animosity towards them because Robot-01 informed them of their future friendship with Scott.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In the English and Japanese dubs, Ken's voice is much more deeper and commanding than his brother's.
• Fatherly Scientist: They show great pride in Robot-01 right down to giving him a gender and referring to him as their "special little guy", and they are outraged when Matthew beheads him for occupying an extra seat during the convening of the evil exes.
• Future Loser: Not as bad as Scott in that regard, but their musical career seems to have faltered as according to Old Scott, their music video they created only hit a mere 105 views.
• Handsome Lech: Both of them in college were apparently this, hitting on every new girl on campus.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Ramona knew them to be brazen playboys back in college, and inevitably had quite the ego boost inadvertently dating them both behind the other's back until they eventually found out they were being two-timed by the same woman.
• Informed Attribute: Although they have limited screen time and are mostly presented as nearly identical characters, Ramona refers to Kyle as the hothead of the two. Ironically in the poster for the movie, despite their very limited characterization, Ken is the one who flashes a cocky grin while Kyle has a serious frown.
• Laser-Guided Karma: According to Ramona, they were womanizers in college who freely moved from one new girl to the next. She would proceed to date the two of them at the same time with neither being wise to it until they discovered it themselves the hard way.
• Out of Focus: While they play much bigger roles here than in the film adaptation, they still get the least amount of focus out of all the exes.
• Palette Swap: They were this in college with both being identical other than different shirts and hair color.
• Pet the Dog: When Knives gets the highlights punched out of her hair by Even Older Scott, Ken is the one who catches and saves her.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Like their other adaptions, they occupy this trope at least visually. However, although they are mostly portrayed as The Stoic, Ramona describing Kyle as the hothead implies that Ken is a bit more stoic than his brother, playing this trope a bit straighter.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Old Scott explains that they "respawned" at their home sometime after he defeated him.
• The Stoic: They are mostly quiet and deadpan, which can enter into Comically Serious.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Downplayed; the twins were Ramona's TAs (Graduate Teaching Assistants) in her robotics class.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Their future selves help out Older Scott travel back into the past because they see it as a request from a friend but didn’t know just how bad things would get, especially when Even Older Scott ends up trying to murder present day Kyle and Ken along with everyone else in Scott's life.
• Voice Grunting: They grunt quite a lot when they decide not to speak.

Gideon Gordon Graves

Gideon Gordon Graves / Gordon "Fearless" Goose

Voiced by: Jason Schwartzman (English); Tomokazu Seki (Japanese)

"You've reached the adult formerly known as Gideon Graves."

^{Click here to see Gordon Goose in high school} "They call me fearless, I have no fear of the sting of rejection."

The former leader of The League, Gideon was Ramona's seventh and final evil ex. However, after Matthew Patel supposedly defeats Scott Pilgrim during their fight and usurps control over the League from him, he soon devolves into a broke loser who Julie Powers has to look after.

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• 0% Approval Rating: It's revealed at the end of the second episode that he was only considered the leader of the League due to his power and wealth, rather than any kind of mutual fellowship. When Matthew beats him and he tries to actually play to their loyalty, it fails miserably. In fact, once he's separated from his empire, none of his former contacts or allies are willing to bail him out or even lend him sanctuary, with the sole exception being Julie Powers, who hasn't seen him since high school.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Downplayed. In the original source material, Gideon is portrayed as very successful, wealthy, and intelligent. The movie even shows him with the means of accessing mind control technology (either by funding it or making it outright by himself).
  • In the anime, however, his plans are stopped by Matthew Patel after he had defeated Scott by pointing out that The League's existence is pointless because they can't force Ramona to love any of them, no matter how many times they beat up her boyfriend. Once he loses his position in The League, he is left homeless, ambitionless, and found living with his girlfriend, Julie. This ultimately suggests that The League's existence was more a result of Gideon's vast wealth and lack of common sense as he had no idea what to do with his life after losing his home and business.
  • He's also foolish enough to tell the rest of the Evil Exes that the League is only for his benefit, which needless to say doesn't make them want to keep following his orders.
  • He's so out of touch with people that he actually believes that you need to make a reservation to go to McDonalds (although given the wackiness of the Scott Pilgrim universe there might be some validity to his claim).
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Before the twist at the end of the first episode signaling the very different direction the anime was taking, Gideon appears relatively early in the story, spying on Ramona and Scott, and ordering Matthew to kill him.
• Adaptational Name Change: In the source material and movie, "Gideon Graves" was by all accounts his real name. In this series, it's revealed that he had his name changed during his rise to wealth and stardom. His middle name "Gordon" is actually his real first name, while his last name was the significantly less impressive "Goose".
• Adaptational Nationality: He was actually born in Ontario and only moved to America later in his life in this continuity, meaning he's actually Canadian like much of the cast.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He's still a narcissistic Control Freak at the start, but he never trapped Ramona with her own negative thoughts using the Glow like he did in the source material (due to the Glow as a concept being Adapted Out) or kept her enslaved with a mind control chip like in the movie. He doesn't seem to have six other ex girlfriends of his trapped in cryosleep and he also gets substantial Character Development that pushes him out of purely being The Sociopath. While he was known only for being a purely toxic partner to Ramona in other versions, here he learns to be a legitimately good partner to Julie. That being said, he doesn't become a good guy like the other exes (Matthew and Todd excluded), considering he still tries to kill a lot of people with a bomb during the Scott Pilgrim musical in a desperate bid to get his corporate empire back, and the Sequel Hook implies that he hasn't given up on going after Scott and Ramona (or at least being a villain in general).
• Adaptational Origin Connection: He and Julie are old high school friends in this version, while Julie by all accounts only knew him as well as any other celebrity in the original.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, the Glow was a psychological attack that resembled an energy beam but actually trapped anyone hit by it in their own mind. In the anime, it seems like a more standard energy beam.
• Adaptational Sympathy: As far as we know, Gideon in the source material and movie was just a rich douchebag who wanted to control everyone in his life. In this series, Gideon, or rather Gordon, is given a Freudian Excuse that explains though not necessarily justifies his desire for control and respect. The sorry state he finds himself in after Matthew Patel takes all of his assets also makes him pitiable at points even after it comes to light that he has no intentions of turning good.
• Adaptational Wimp: He gets defeated by Matthew Patel in the second episode. While Matthew is an Adaptational Badass in this adaptation, Gideon doesn't use the abilities that he used against Scott in their final battles or even The Glow despite using it on Even Older Scott later. It is suggested that either Gideon underestimated Matthew, or he didn't get a chance to use it due to fast-paced nature of their duel (it seems like it takes a bit to charge up). He also lacks the ability to wield The Power of Love due to never stealing it from Scott.
• Age Lift: Gideon is 31 years old in previous adaptations. Here, he attended the same school at Julie, who is 23 years old, implying that he is the same age as her.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Gideon wears a white suit as befitting his status as CEO and is a capable fighter, able to nearly beat Matthew Patel in single combat despite not using his Glow powers.
• Bad Boss: He has no respect towards any of the other Evil Exes and is just using them to get Ramona for himself - something he ends up outright admitting. This ends up biting him when Matthew defeats him, as once it becomes clear he's no longer the strongest among them, there is nothing to keep the Evil Exes loyal to him. It also doesn't help that he doesn't even know the Katayangi twins' names, and refers to them as "twin" and "other twin".
• Bait the Dog: Despite Gideon being absurdly evil in the original comic, the anime deals him the three-hit combo of a humiliating fall from grace, a sympathetic backstory, and a cute, silly segment where he befriends Lucas. Does that mean even this total asshole might turn over a new leaf? Ha ha, nah, he's planning to blow up Matthew's theatre debut and everybody who attended it.
• Beauty Is Bad: Exaggerated. Whenever Gideon flaunts an evil scheme, his hair becomes more styled and he looks more refined and badass. This instantly wears off the second Julie bosses him around and he returns to a softer artstyle and Geek Physique state.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He tries to reclaim his canonical spot as the Big Bad in the final act by attempting to bomb the Scott Pilgrim musical, only for Old Scott to arrive and completely steal his thunder. To add insult to injury, his evil plan is subsequently effortlessly foiled by Matthew's Demon Hipster Chicks.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Ultimately, despite his Character Development making him a far more sympathetic character and even moving on from having a prospect of a relationship with Ramona as he's much happier and more fulfilled with Julie with a sincere apology, he still loves being a bad guy and was planning to bomb Matthew's play and potentially kill dozens of innocents just because of his desire for revenge, and despite moving on from Ramona romantically, he's still attempting to target both Scott and Ramona in the Sequel Hook as he is just inherently an asshole.
• Character Development: Shockingly for a character defined in previous iterations for being the only evil ex to be legitimately evil, he gets plenty of this after losing to Matthew, learning to shed his toxic, controlling nature, and striking up a few genuine friendships with some of the evil exes while becoming a legitimately good romantic partner to Julie. Of course, he doesn't ever undergo a full Heel–Face Turn like the other evil exes sans Matthew and Todd. He was still willing to bomb the Scott Pilgrim musical in a desperate bid to get his empire back, and the Sequel Hook has him continuing to plot against Scott.
• Comically Missing the Point: After becoming broke, he claims that he couldn't even get reservations at McDonalds. Although given this is a Scott Pilgrim series, he could be actually telling the truth as a show of how pathetically penniless he has become.
• Embarrassing Last Name: His real last name is Goose. It's no wonder why he got it changed after he moved to America.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even when he reveals he was plotting his revenge on Matthew Patel despite appearing like he had just lost all ambition, he's still very much smitten with Julie. The two even plot together.
• Forgot About His Powers: He fails to use The Glow on Matthew Patel during their fight despite later using it against Even Older Scott.
• For the Evulz: Compared to the books and the movie at least; his villainous ways in the source material and its adaptation was often on account of being a control freak who thought he could rule Ramona's love life. By contrast in this show, he still yearns to regain his empire back after the collapse of the League and having lost everything he owns to Matthew Patel. Even after he's finally regained it and even gained a true romantic partner by his side, he admits that he's likely just inherently evil and The Stinger shows him plotting against Ramona and Scott.
• Freudian Excuse: He was a socially awkward otaku in high school who was unaware of how little his classmates respected him until he got coldly rejected and publicly humiliated by a girl he tried to ask out. After that, he moved to America, changed his name, and reinvented his image into one that he believed could command respect.
• Geek Physique: As a high schooler, Gideon, or Gordon as he was known by, had Nerd Glasses that were too big for his face, and Pubescent Braces. His hair was also described by Julie as "looking wrong."
• He Is All Grown Up: He was the epitome of a geek in high school. In the current day he's glowed up significantly, wearing nice suits, sporting a stylish haircut, and losing the braces. Julie needs a long moment before identifying him as Gordon Goose rather than Gideon Graves and despite his terrible state when she encounters him, is attracted enough to him to let him stay at her place.
• Henpecked Husband: Well, more like boyfriend, which is hilariously ironic given how he attempted to control Ramona in canon. It's pretty obvious that Julie is the one who wears the pants in their relationship despite him never giving up his evil scheming.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: The former megalomaniacal businessman is reduced to a depressed couch dweller who does nothing but eat chips and watch anime all day after Matthew takes away his corporate empire. He tries to reclaim his villainous thunder at the end only to be upstaged by Old Scott.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: During his period of moping at Julie's house, Lucas Lee calls him in an attempt to get back into his good graces after losing his acting career. Gideon's price? Lucas being his friend to hang out with during the day.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Ironically given Gideon's Control Freak nature, he seems to be happy with Julie because she is overbearing and he can't intimidate her, unlike in his past relationships where he tried to control every aspect of his exes' lives.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Gideon is seen using the Glow as a Shinku Hadouken like energy beam.
• Laughably Evil: His attempt to return to villainy is played for Black Comedy with just how over-the-top and cartoonish it is. Compared to the disturbing scheming his canon self has done, strapping a bunch of dynamite and a sea mine to a stage during a musical production sounds like something straight out of a Looney Tunes cartoon.
• Meaningful Name: While Goose is a pretty silly name, Canadian geese are notorious for being aggressive and attacking people during mating season, which is analogous to how Gideon's still a right bastard underneath all his loserly qualities.
• No Social Skills: As a teenager. He thought the mocking nickname his classmates gave him was genuine praise and attempted to ask a popular girl out by making a file folder containing a list of the benefits of getting into a relationship with him. Her rejecting him led to him becoming a megalomaniacal Control Freak.
• Odd Friendship: Forms one with Lucas Lee of all people after Lucas's career as an actor goes kaput.
• Otaku: As a teenager he was a stereotypical nerd, and even after becoming more attractive as an adult he has a noticeable Geek Physique and spends a bunch of his time watching anime.
• Pride Before a Fall: He gloats and mocks Matthew Patel right before getting his ass handed to him and losing everything.
• Psychopathic Manchild: After he shacks up with Julie, he really leans into the manchild part, becoming a lazy and depressed bum who spends his days watching anime. He also invites Lucas over so the two could skate, have paintball shootouts, play video games, and do other fun boyish activities. At least until it turns out that he never lost the psychopathic part, and planned to retake his fortune from Matthew by killing him.
• Punny Name: "Gordon Goose" sounds a lot like "golden goose". Fittingly so, considering how he had built up a gigantic corporate empire only for Matthew to lose him billions the moment he took over.
• Riches to Rags: Goes from a billionaire to penniless in a single night thanks to Matthew defeating him and taking all of his assets. Matthew does give the company back to him at the end out of lack of interest, but only after it's lost billions.
• Smug Snake: He thinks he's a Magnificent Bastard, but he's actually this. He always acts superior and smirking, believing himself to be the smartest person and best fighter in any given room, an arrogance that bites him in the ass as early as episode 2. When he dismissively tells Matthew that only the highest-ranked ex—Gideon himself, naturally—is ever meant to get a second shot with Ramona, he clearly expects Matthew and all the other exes to just go along with it simply because he's Gideon Graves and they're not. Instead Matthew beats him like a rug and takes not only leadership of the League but everything Gideon owns, while none of the other exes will stand with him. His later plans, despite his Scary Shiny Glasses and his evil monologing, go off just as poorly, easily defeated by Matthew's demonic assistants.
• Token Evil Teammate: Gideon is clearly shown to be this for his own league, despite the "Evil Exes" moniker. The rest of them are shown to be either decent people still having difficulty moving on from a difficult breakup or, in Todd's case, just a stupid impulsive Jerkass who isn't necessarily malicious. He, meanwhile, ineffectual though he still is, is still the same resentful egomaniac. Even after moving on from Ramona to be with Julie and genuinely apologizing to her for their prior relationship, he still remains objectively evil, albeit more straight-laced evil instead of pining to have Ramona all to himself.
  • Played doubly straight in the finale where the entire cast teams for the final showdown with Even Older Scott. The other six Evil Exes have been fully redeemed or at least no longer interested in villainy... except for Gideon. He's still an asshole, no matter what timeline it is.
• Unholy Matrimony: He and Julie end up getting into a relationship after he arrives at her doorstep following his loss against Matthew. They're surprisingly happy together, with Gideon being a much better partner to her than he was to Ramona. The Sequel Hook even shows them plotting to destroy Scott, Ramona and their friends together as equals.
• Villain Decay: Compared to his appearances in other continuities, Gideon here is far less threatening. While he talks a big game, he is immediately ousted out of his own league by Matthew Patel of all people, and even his subsequent attempt at revenge is nowhere near as intricately vile as any of his plans from the comics or the movie, and goes hilariously poorly.