History Film / ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld

** [[Lampshading Lampshaded]] by Scott: "Did you make some of those up?"

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Ramona listing the various types of tea - "We have blueberry, raspberry, ginseng, sleepy time, green tea, green tea with lemon, green tea with lemon and honey, '''liver disaster''', ginger with honey, ginger without honey, vanilla almond, white truffel, blueberry chamomile, vanilla walnut, constant comment and... earl grey.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Scott, as shown in his first round at the Chaos Theatre. Okay, so he isn't exactly a paragon of virtue, but if this movie teaches anything about him that the comic didn't, it's that if you cross the line twice with him, things will definitely not be pretty. He even displays hostility towards his old band.]]

* DarkReprise: Scott's love song to Ramona plays again when [[spoiler:Ramona leaves him.]]

* DarkReprise: Scott's terrible love song to Ramona plays again when [[spoiler:Ramona leaves him.]]

* StormingTheCastle[=/=]TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Chaos Theatre.

* BittersweetEnding: Particularly tricky example, since almost every element of the resolution has a good and bad interpretation, [[spoiler: The League are defeated and Scott and Ramona are free to pursue a relationship less hindered by the ghosts of the past, but YourMileageMayVary on whether they make a good couple to begin with and the continue screen suggests an intentionally ambiguous resolution. Our poor woobie Knives is left out in the cold, but viewers may well consider that she's probably better off in the long run without Scott. The band lost out on their big break, but then again, being contracted to a guy like Gideon probably wouldn't have ended well anyway (and besides, there's all those coins left over in the Chaos Theatre to be scooped up). What kind of ending we have is all in how you slice it. Though there ''is'' an alternate ending on the DVD that has Ramona and Scott go their separate ways and while Scott goes off with Knives instead. Does't make the end any less bittersweet, but at least the alternate ending exists.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: Many critics, [[WordOfGod cast members, and even creator Bryan Lee O'Malley]] have claimed that the film, to a certain degree, may be from Scott's point of view, explaining all the weird, video game stuff happening and why nobody seems to react to supernatural powers and people dying (because it didn't really happen.) O'Malley even told Jason Schwartzmann not to worry about crafting a realistic character, but instead playing Scott's [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] version of Gideon. Other possible effects of Scott's viewpoint perverting the film include InnocentInaccurate, in-universe {{Flanderization}} of the entire cast, to Scott (and the film) being oblivious of any CharacterDevelopment or HeroOfAnotherStory in those around him (turning everyone into a SatelliteCharacter who live only to worry about him), and, [[StockEpilepticTrees of course]], maybe it was AllJustADream.

* UnreliableNarrator: Many critics, [[WordOfGod cast members, and even creator Bryan Lee O'Malley]] have claimed that the film, to a certain degree, may be from Scott's point of view. O'Malley even told Jason Schwartzmann not to worry about crafting a realistic character, but instead playing Scott's [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] version of Gideon. Other possible effects of Scott's viewpoint perverting the film include InnocentInaccurate, in-universe {{Flanderization}} of the entire cast, to Scott (and the film) being oblivious of any CharacterDevelopment or HeroOfAnotherStory in those around him (turning everyone into a SatelliteCharacter who live only to worry about him), and, [[StockEpilepticTrees of course]], maybe it was AllJustADream.

** Kim is a much more traditional example when the trope is parodied in Volume 2’s flashback and the AdultSwim AnimatedAdaptation.

** Todd was second only to Ex #1, MATTHEW PATELL!

** "Do that again and I will END you" - Ramona gets tired of Evil Ex Roxy.

** "You punched me in the boob! Prepare to die, obviously!"

** "Do you know how long it took to get all the evil ex's contact information so I can form this stupid league? Like two hours. [[ChewingTheScenery TWO HOURS!!!]]

* PragmaticAdaptation: The supporting cast, especially the female characters (with the possible exception of Knives), don't get much of their character development from the books. But when you cram a six-volume graphic novel series into a two-hour movie, something's gotta give. Notably, one of the major themes of the books is Scott learning that other people have their own lives outside of his, while in the film, [[SatelliteCharacter everyone's moon orbits Planet Scott]] to such a degree that reviews and [[WordOfGod cast members]] have suggested the film [[UnreliableNarrator takes place entirely within his own head]].

* AdaptationDecay: Hilariously [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall described by the recurring Michael Comeau towards the end of the film.]]

** [[AllThereInTheManual Stephen Stills]]

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Some people seem to think that the point of the movie is that Scott is a really cool character and the movie is about rooting for him to "hit love where it hurts" as the UK poster put it (some of the advertising, particularly that poster, was responsible for this misconception).

* IKnowKungFu: The movie starts out as a hyper-stylized RomanticComedy until the first evil-ex arrives, and suddenly Scott is showing proficiency in martial arts and ImprovisedWeapons. It then returned to Romantic Comedy, then the action quotient finally takes hold with the second evil-ex and Scott realizing that this is going to be a constant battle.

* NotSoFastBucko: With 20 minutes left in the film, [[spoiler: Scott "defeats" Gideon... then Gideon gets back up and kills him. After he restarts at the checkpoint, he beats Gideon for good. ''Then'' Nega-Scott shows up.]]

* AskAStupidQuestion: Knives asks Julie if the music store has any Clash at Demonhead [=CDs=]. Julie's sarcastic response of "Did you check under the big sign saying 'Clash at Demonhead'?" is this trope.

* PlanetEris: Scott Pilgrim world is governed by rules of video games (specially from the Atari/coin up) with a very dose of subrealism and pure fantasy. Is also a [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting beyond]] [[CrapsaccharineWorld brutal]] [[WhatMeasureIsaMook world with a very jaded view of life and death]], where murder seems to be no worse that a school yard fight. [[MyFriendsandZoidberg And Vegan Police]].

-->'''0: Scott'''. Drinks Coke Zero and wears a shirt with [[SmashingPumpkins "Zero"]] on it. Gideon refers to him by saying "you're zero, you're nothing!" in the final fight.\\

''Scott Pilgrim vs. The World'' is a 2010 {{film}} directed by EdgarWright and based on the [[{{comics}} comic series]] ''ScottPilgrim'' by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film, like its source material, is about a twenty-something {{Toronto}} slacker named Scott Pilgrim who meets an American named Ramona Flowers, and must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her. In a universe that acts like a real-life version of ''RiverCityRansom'' where there are [[{{Combos}} combo meters]], {{written sound effect}}s spelled out in midair, [[ScoringPoints points]], and [[VideoGameLives extra lives]].

* [=~And That's Terrible~=]: When Gideon kicks Ramona, sending her falling down a set of stairs the announcer from "Ninja Ninja Revolution" repeatedly exclaims "Bad!"

* [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]: [[spoiler:The 1-up Scott obtains after he defeats the Katayanagi Twins allows him to "reload" from that point after Gideon kills him.]]

* [=~Chekhov's Skill~=]: Scott and Knives [[spoiler:playing Ninja Ninja Revolution]].

* [=~Me's A Crowd~=]: Lucas Lee's 'ability' is having a small army of stunt doubles.