History ShoutOut / ScottPilgrim

* The trophy[=/=]achievement you gain in the ''Complete Edition'' by achieving OneHundredPercentCompletion?, ''WebVideo/TheCompletionist''.

* For the majority of the beginning of the volume, Scott can be seen playing a game similar to ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' on a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP Go]]. Lampshaded by one of the behind-the-scenes pages in the color edition, where one of O'Malley's notes to himself is to stop playing ''Monster Hunter'' and start drawing a comic about a guy who won't stop playing ''Monster Hunter''.

** When you fight the robot; the city in the background is on fire, you're fighting it on a rooftop, and it sometimes retreats to the background, just like the third boss in the first stage of [[{{VideoGame/Contra}} Contra Hard Corps]].

* [[BonusBoss Mr. Chau]] is fought on an open field in the middle of a storm; it looks a lot like the place where you fight Shin Akuma in [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold]]. There is some sort of castle in the background, though.

!!''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld -- The Game''

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatterhand Shatterband]]

** [[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom Crash and the Boys]]

** Like Anthy, Ramona is seen as a prize to be won and Scott, like Utena, must frequently defeat unwanted opponents in order to keep her. Like the Student Council, the League of Evil Exes all have various reasons for wanting Ramona back, some still like her and others absolutely hate her, all the while relating to Scott that's she not so innocent. Scott, like Utena, is too naive to understand what they are trying to tell her.

* Several of the books' first page title logos are shout-outs to videogame title screens. The [[http://336events.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/scottpilgrim_vs_theworld.jpg logo to Book 2]] was done in the style of [[http://img.listal.com/image/49884/600full-bonk%27s-adventure-screenshot.jpg Bonk's Adventure]], Book 4 had a [[http://www.themoderndaypirates.com/pirates/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/04_pilgrim_2.jpg full-color take]] on [[http://www.digitalbattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/soniclogo.jpg the title screen]] of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', and Book 5's [[http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Features/2010/08/Scott%20Pilgrim%20videogame%20references/v5/v5-1-doubledragon1--article_image.jpg spoofed]] [[http://www.retrocpu.com/nes/images/games/d/double_dragon_iii_the_sacred_stones.cover.front.jpg the cover]] of ''[[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Double Dragon III]]''.

* The band The Clash At Demonhead gets its name from combining the band Music/TheClash and the obscure NES game ''VideoGame/ClashAtDemonhead''. Their drummer, Lynette Guycott, is named after Tom Guycot from that game.

** Also, when Scott is trying to remember the name of the Katayanagi Twins, he suggests "Randy and Andy VideoGame/{{Katamari|Damacy}}". Randy and Andy are bosses in River City High.
** The rumors that Simon would be Gideon (given their identical appearance) is likely a reference to RCR. The final boss, Slick, is a [[FromNobodyToNightmare nobody]] from the main character's past who was previously named Simon.
* Scott was also wearing ''[[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 MOTHER 2]]'' and ''Anime/AstroBoy'' t-shirts at some points.
* Several of the books' first page title logos are shout outs to videogame title screens. The [[http://336events.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/scottpilgrim_vs_theworld.jpg logo to Book 2]] was done in the style of [[http://img.listal.com/image/49884/600full-bonk%27s-adventure-screenshot.jpg Bonk's Adventure]], Book 4 had a [[http://www.themoderndaypirates.com/pirates/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/04_pilgrim_2.jpg full-color take]] on [[http://www.digitalbattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/soniclogo.jpg the title screen]] of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', and Book 5's [[http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Features/2010/08/Scott%20Pilgrim%20videogame%20references/v5/v5-1-doubledragon1--article_image.jpg spoofed]] [[http://www.retrocpu.com/nes/images/games/d/double_dragon_iii_the_sacred_stones.cover.front.jpg the cover]] of ''[[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Double Dragon III]]''.

Listing ''all'' of the references in the ComicBook/ScottPilgrim series/game and [[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld movie]] are starting to eat up their pages, so let's list them all here! Although considering the ''[[ShownTheirWork sheer]]'' number of [[ReferenceOverdosed references,]] it's gonna be one hell of a chore to keep track of them.

* When Scott tries to draw Ramona's shoes, Wallace points out they look like the shoes from ''MrMen''.

* [[spoiler: Roxy]]'s defeat involves her splitting apart much like Mecha [[Manga/DragonBall Frieza]], and then a much of small animals pop out like a Prison Egg capsule from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games.

* Scott wears a shirt with [[MrMen Mr. Happy]] on it.

* Also in Volume 6, at one point someone's playing ''[[VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto no Ken]]'' in an arcade. The machine next to that one has the characters for ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' (東方) on it.

* In Chapter37, when Ramona breaks free of her cuffs and confronts Gideon, there's a visual reference to the final fight between Tron and giant Sark in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(film) Tron]] (though the roles are reversed)

** Wallace's Mystery Shop sells "[[Franchise/FinalFantasy Never-ending Fantasy]]" and "[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Speedy the Porcupine]]" video games for stats. We can see a [[VideoGame/MarioKart blue turtle shell]] and the dwarf's axe from ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'' in the background.

** In fact, the music is FULL of Shout Outs in the names of the music. Lucas Lee's boss theme is called [[SkateOrDie Skate Or Live]], the twins' boss theme is called [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Twin Dragons]], the final stage music is called [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Techno Man]]. In addition, some of the songs feature concepts from the comics. The music for stage six, for example, is called Leave The Past Behind [[spoiler: which is exactly what Scott wants to do, but exactly what he ''shouldn't'' do]].

** The "Change coins into animals" code is not only a shoutout to [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] games, but the code Up, Up, Down, Down, Up, Up, Up, Up is the same as ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic The Hedgehog 3]]'''s insanely hard level select and sound test code.

* "Okay, let's start with [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Launchpad]] [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck McQuack."]]