Characters / Scott Pilgrim

Character page for the Scott Pilgrim comic books.

For the characters as portrayed in adaptations:

• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

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Main characters

Scott Pilgrim

Scott William Pilgrim

Scott Pilgrim
Sketchy-ass 24-year-old
Rating: Awesome

Our hero. Scott is a dull-witted, unemployed slacker and the bassist of a band called Sex Bob-omb. Despite a myriad of well-documented faults, he is generally a decent person with a good heart. He falls in love with Ramona Flowers, but is forced to fight and defeat her Seven Evil Exes in order to be with her. Thankfully, he just so happens to be the best fighter in the province.

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• Achilles in His Tent: For the first part of volume 6. His wilderness sabbatical allows him to recover.
• Audience Surrogate: Scott's ignorance conviently allows him to serve as the perfect reader proxy for the supporting cast to dole out exposition to. He also occasionally reacts to the stranger aspects of his world the same way that an ordinary person would while the rest of the cast treat them as if they were completely mundane, such as the save point in volume 3.
• Back from the Dead: He was killed by Gideon when he was stabbed with his own sword, but resurrected thanks to his extra life.
• Birds of a Feather: At the end of the story, Ramona reveals that what she did for the duration of their earlier break up was basically exactly what Scott did, which is to say bingewatch tv, dick around on the internet, and sleep. Their friends resignedly say that they really are perfect for each other.
• Born Lucky: He manages to be in a pretty good spot and with a close-knit (if fairly dysfunctional) group of friends despite being an unemployed and ambitionless loser. He's also inexplicably great at fighting, which allows him to hold his own against the Evil Exes. His luck runs out in Volume 5, though.
  Kim Pine: Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a slacker devoid of life-goals, a Manchild with a short-attention span, makes a terrible roommate, bandmate and boyfriend, but he is also the best fighter in the entire area.
• Cannot Spit It Out:
  • A specific variation; Scott has great difficulty and reluctance ending relationships with the women he is with (as in knowing when to call it quits and following through on it). In fact, whenever he is forced into potentially having to do so, he becomes very uncomfortable in doing so and the whole ordreal collaspes or blows up. The reasons why seems to vary by relationship, though they all seem rooted in Scott being nonconfrontational and not wanting to hurt anyone.
  • This is painfully deconstructed at his inability to initiate the end of a relationship leads to both sides getting hurt worse, which is what he was trying to avoid in the first place. When he is forced to break up with Kim because he is moving to Toronto back when they were in high school, he asks their mutual friend Lisa to do so for him. Kim understandably does not take it well and is pretty angry and hurt when she confronts Scott about it. Scott (from the limited reaction we see) just has an expression of embarassment and shame on his face. His inability to break up with Kim (his first girlfriend) on amicable terms means that there is some tension when they meet up, even as friends (it's all but explict that Kim has some remaining longing for him). It is finally cleared in the last book, where he kisses her out of realization on how she's always been there. She initially indulges in it, showing a desire to get back with him, but ultimately decides not to. This ends up triggering Negascott's return and after some words of encouragement, she helps Scott absorb Negascott.
  • While his relationship with Knives was genuinely caring, Knives' growing infatuation with Scott was going past his comfort zone and his inability to break up with her sooner or even confront her on this led to him accidentally cheating on her with Ramona. On the other hand, Ramona's intrusion into Scott's life by invading his dreams via the Subspace Highway was the main reason why Scott was even focused on Ramona so much in the first place that led to said relationship ending. Had Ramona not invaded Scott's dreams, Scott would've met her first at Julie's party rather than them meeting inside of his head and thus, he would probably still be with Knives (though her stronger feelings would still be a problem that Scott would have trouble facing). Even then, Knives' departure for college would've spelled the end for their relationship. However, from a more symbolic standpoint, her invasion into Scott's innermost thoughts served as a pivotal and even unorthodox intimate moment, which may explain why he formed a connection with her easier when they talked (along with them being too similar).
  • Played with regarding Envy, though. Initially, the ordeal was set up that the fallout was entirely her fault and the fact that his friends, who are more than willing to call him out on his mistakes, stand by him in defense is a pretty big reinforcement of that. Their break-up is later revealed in Book 6 to have been caused after Scott had a big fight with her at a New Years' party after getting drunk (though this was hinted earlier with Scott expresses doubt or at least confusion since thinks he doesn't drink. He also doesn't even remember the fight, though then again, he was drunk). Envy would soon break up with Scott afterwards. Interestingly enough, Envy's salty behavior toward Scott is later revealed from her own hurt feelings from the relationship collapsing from the fight.
• Cerebus Retcon: A downplayed example, but it becomes increasingly more apparent as the series goes on that Scott isn't as nice as he holds himself to be and his accidental insensitivity regarding certain aspects of relationships and communication hurts himself, his friends, and his loved ones. He owns up to these mistakes by the end.
• Character Development: He becomes progressively more mature and aware of his faults as the series goes on. He notably ends the series not finished with his development, though then again, when is anybody finished with their development anyway?
• Chekhov's Skill: In Volume 2, it's shown that Scott is an exceedingly good cook. When he gets a job at a restaurant in book four, he's relegated to a dishwasher. Played straight at the end of Volume 6. Scott Pilgrim, greatest prep chef in the world. He still messes up an order, but Stephen's comment implies it was an accident or just him succumbing to end-of-day fatigue.
  Stephen Stills: Whatever, they ordered at 10:55. They're getting a salad.
• Chick Magnet: Scott is unusually talented at attracting women, to the point where almost the entire female cast of the series show at least passing interest in him at one point or another. While he is a Nice Guy, his nonconfrontational nature means that if situations or changes are forcing him to break things off, he drags his feet and delays it until it leads to a fallout with both sides feeling hurt. While he's apparently considered attractive in-universe, he's also an awkward directionless loser with a lot of emotional baggage and can often be insensitive to the feelings of others (though not on purpose.) Does not stop him getting him a fair bit of attention and his girlfriends weren't without their issues as well.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He is a Deconstruction of one. He has trouble communicating his feelings, becomes awkward in tense situations and is a pretty flighty and impulsive person. This means that he tends to hurt himself and others, especially in his relationships. He often makes ill-thought out decisions, but he legitimately means no harm. However, he often struggles to confront and or own up to those issues (though he ultimately does the right thing when he realizes he does something wrong. Making him realize it is the harder task).
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Scott Pilgrim may not be bright, but he's also the "best fighter in the province".
• Dramatic Irony: Scott's biggest problem in relationships comes from the fact that he is very uncomfortable and thus unwilling to end the relationship when it's time to (though in Envy's case, it's him not doing it sooner). Because he doesn't do so, the relationship falls apart with both sides in pain, which was the last thing Scott wanted since that was the reason why he didn't want to do it in the first place.
• Dreaming the Truth: Scott's dreams are a variant in that they are symbolic representations for the reader and not necessarily for Scott himself. Here is the list of them:
  • His first one has him lament his isolation in a desert, indicating that despite his friends and relationship, he feels alone and emotionally vulnerable. This likely stems from the emotional pain after what happened between him and Envy. Ramona's intrusion and Scott's followup question on making out are likely signs that her interruption prompted a subconscious revelation within Scott. The exchange seems reveals a repressed desire for emotional intimacy and trust that he is not wanting to indulge, either out of fear or insecurity (as he and Knives were only casually dating at the time).
  • His second dream shows him playing in a band rocking out. This expresses his desire to play music just for the fun of it and reach success with his friends. However, of note is who the band consists of. Mainly of Kim, Envy, and Knives. Envy or rather Natalie's inclusion reflects Scott's longing for the past when she first joined with them while being in a happy relationship and they were enjoying being in a band for the fun of it. Additionally, Kim's subtle presence reflects how she is a constant presence in his life and the lingering feelings he has for her. Most notably however is Knives' presence. Not only is she in the dream, but she is on there on stage with him, even getting a panel of Scott looking at her affectionately while she plays the saxophone or a similar looking instrument. This shows that, contrary to what his friends (and a prominent portion of the fanbase) think or believe, Scott's relationship with Knives is genuine and real. He wants her to be at his side and their relationship is just as meaningful and important as the ones he had with Kim and Natalie. He genuinely sees her as an equal romantic partner and having a bond with her. However, he then notices Ramona there, making him realize he's dreaming which she confirms. This may represent that what Scott wants is not attainable and possibly foreshadowing the fate of his and Knives' relationship since Ramona's presence in the audience lets her see him in a different way.
  • While his first two dreams were in Book 1, it wouldn't be until Book 6 where we see another dream. This one has Ramona appear as an angel in the desert with Scott being vulnerable and trying to reach out to her before being attacked by demonic versions of Kim, Envy, and Knives. This seems to show his desire to want to move forward with her yet being held back by the hauntings of his past.
  • Defied, however, when he dreams of back when he was in high school with Kim. Scott's rescue of Kim from bullies from another school turns out to have been completly made up in Scott's own head, indicating how Scott keeps rewriting his own memories so he can keep pretending he's the good guy of the story without having to learn anything. The fact that Gideon may or may not have been messing with those memories indicates the influence the man is having in Scott's life, though also may hint at how similar they really are and partially how Scott sees himself.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite accidentally cheating on Knives because he was unable to break up with her, Knives still adores Scott albeit (eventually) platonically and holds him in higher esteem than most of their other friends do.
• Endearingly Dorky: He's an energetic colossal dork, which his friends find equally exasperating and endearing.
• Epiphany Therapy: Has two; one when he visits Kim Pine at her parents' home in the Wilderness and confronts Nega-Scott; and another when Gideon kills him and he remembers his extra life.
• Expressive Shirt: Downplayed. One of the shirts Scott wears in Volume 6 is a black T-shirt with blue borders and an identically-colored water drop with a smiling face at the center. The drop doesn't normally change its expression, but in a minor detail when Ramona flashes before Scott's eyes as Nega Scott is about to punch him, the drop gets a shocked face similar to Scott's at that moment.
• Fag Hag: A male version. Scott is really good at befriending gay guys. By the end of the story, Young Neil is revealed to be his only heterosexual male friend.
• Fake Memories: Scott had his memories tampered with by Gideon For the Evulz. This becomes even more problematic since Scott tends to suppress his less-than-pleasant memories, meaning he is operating on incomplete data that's been corrupted and/or false for most of the story.
• Fatal Flaw: Scott's inability to deal with difficult situations (such as breakups) head on has strained a number of relationships. It's all but directly stated that him asking Lisa to tell Kim he was moving away left a lasting scar that even years later hasn't fully healed. He also refuses to break up with Knives until after he started dating Ramona. Negascott is a formation of Scott's flaws and he always opts to ignore them or run away until it bites him in the ass. He starts to accept his flaws in the final volume and vows to become a more complete person worthy of love and respect, showing that he can change.
• The Final Temptation: Has his in the middle of Volume Six, during his wilderness sabbatical. Staying with Kim Pine, he impulsively kisses her while confessing that she has been one of the few constants in his life. The temptation comes in the potential return to some form of stability given their past relationship and both of them being familiar with how the other works. Kim convinces him not to and to fight for Ramona and in turn, fight to change. Notable because it's just as big a temptation if not more so for Kim.
• First Love: Was this for Knives. The two enjoyed a casual yet affectionate relationship. However, Knives' growing feelings and desire for intimacy would contrast against Scott not having fully healed from his relationship with Envy. His inabilty to end relationships when he needs to led to Scott cheating on Knives with Ramona. Despite this, she quickly forgives him and even when she does get over him romantically, cares deeply for him and says he'll always be her "Clash at Demonhead". Whatever that means.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Aside from Young Neil, his friend group by and large has an undisguised level of contempt for Scott in just about everything they say about him. It doesn't seem to bother him though, if he even notices it.
• Gasp of Life: After using his 1-Up when Gideon kills him, Scott comes back to life with a loud gasp.
• Genius Ditz: For the most part, he's a ditzy dork who needs his friends' help or advice on most matters. However, he is still the best fighter in the province and a talented cook. Ramona is surprised by the latter.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Zigzagged. For the most part he does think so, especially when it comes to Ramona and other girls. He also has a poster of two girls kissing, however when he finds Knives and Kim making out while drunk, he's rather put off by it.
  "You had a sexy phase?!"
• Guile Hero: He has a moment of this when he tricks Lucas Lee into pulling an impossible skateboarding trick to defeat him. He usually wins through brute force or luck, though.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: His hair was much longer in university, until he got an Important Haircut right before the relationship fallout with Envy.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Happens in Volume 6 to Scott while he's inside Ramona's mind.
• The Heart: While Scott can be insensitive, ditzy, and a flake, he is genuinely the most friendly and welcoming of the group. In fact, they all met one another through Scott and despite the snark, they call care about one another.
• Heroic BSoD: Had two big ones. He was recovering from one at the start, (due to his bad breakup with Envy and may have contributed to the decline of his and Knives' relationship). The second was Ramona leaving after Scott beat the twins at the end of Book 5 and ending up in a state of ennui and surprisingly growing mental instability.
• Idiot Hero: Scott is prone to plenty of mistakes as a result of not thinking things through and insensitivity, but he's still The Hero of the story and trying to improve.
• Ignored Epiphany: Intially played straight, but subverted seconds later in that he needs to accept NegaScott as a part of him rather than something to overcome and defeat.
  Kim: If you don't accept it, you'll keep making the same mistakes over and over again!!
  Scott: I DON'T CARE! IT'S BETTER THAN HAVING TO LIVE WITH MYSELF!
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Stabbed by Gideon in the Chaos Theatre.
• Inexplicably Awesome: Just how exactly did a directionless slacker like him become the best fighter in the province? And for that matter, what exactly did he do to be declared the best fighter in the province? Who cares! (According to Word of God, he won an officially sanctioned fighting tournament for the province, though that just raises its own questions)
• Ironic Name: His last name is Pilgrim, essentially someone that goes on a journey somewhere for a higher purpose, but is also a self-possessed slacker with a bad habit of avoiding the effort for personal growth.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. He's usually a Nice Guy, but he has some notable flaws that keep him from being completely clean-cut, such as his insensitivity to others' feelings and selfishness (though really, no more than his friends). When he realizes he's done wrong, though, he always tries to make up for it and he's ultimately a good person.
• Karma Houdini: Scott seems to get away pretty clean in regards to him cheating on Knives with Ramona. Until volume 5, that is.
• Ladykiller in Love: A flashback informs us that he used to be a successful casanova in college, with Julie calling him a ladykiller to his face while trying to warn her roommate against dating him - and providing examples. Said roommate was Envy, who ended up ending his casanova career.
• Lame Comeback:
  Scott: Envy Adams? Partying with mere mortals?
  Envy: *glare*
  Scott: Why don't you go back to... to... Montrealhalla.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • Downplayed and partially self-inflicted; he tends to repress the bad memories in regards to conflicts or misdeeds toward the people he cares about, especially his girlfriends. However, he never really forgot it; he knows he messed up, but does not recall the details.
  • Played straight when Gideon went and tampered with his memories For the Evulz. The purpose of his Epiphany Therapy in the wilderness is to confront his mistakes and thus fix his memories.
• Level-Up at Intimacy 5: He gains the Power of Love after finally saying the "L Word"^note "Love", not "Lesbian" to Ramona.
• Magikarp Power: The reason Scott didn't have a Skateboard Proficiency? He has a Sword Proficiency instead. Convenient when one actually shows up.
• Manchild: He's a video-game playing slacker who relies on his roommate for financial support while being content with doing nothing else besides playing in a band with his friends.
• Marry Them All: If you play as Scott in the game, his ending has Ramona ultimately leave him, but he appears to end up with a harem of his past girlfriends of Kim, Natalie and Knives. Though the question at the end suggests it may not make him ultimately happy.
• Megaton Punch: Scott once punched a person so hard that he went all the way around the world. Stephen Stills confirms this, as he was there. Apparently.
• NEET: Up until Volume 4, Scott was "in between jobs" (he had lost his "dream job" shortly before Volume 1). He did attend college, but he doesn't remember whether he graduated or not due to the psychological damage his breakup with Envy caused him.
• Never My Fault: Subverted. He knows he screws up a lot, but he doesn't understand the full ramifications of some of his screw ups toward his past girlfriends, and a major theme is him coming to terms with owning up to his fair share of the problems. Furthermore, he actually doesn't blame anyone else for what happened. He possesses a nonconfrontatonal approach and appears to blame more the circumstances of what happened. However, this does mean he is prone to making the same sort of mistakes because he is not confronting the issues at hand.
• Nice Guy: Downplayed. While he's genuinely a nice and friendly guy, it becomes clear over time that his tendency to think of himself before others, run from his problems, and make irrational or just plain stupid decisions on a whim make him not as good of a person as he thinks he is. Granted, none of those decisions are done out of malice and he ultimately works to overcoming those faults and becoming a better person, further playing the trope straight.
• Nobody Loves the Bassist: Which is why he got stuck with the role — no-one else wanted it.
• Nominal Hero: A slow revelation over the course of the story is that underneath his very friendly demeanor and charisma, Scott is kind of a selfish jackass who callously hurts those closest to him and has a highly selective memory that tends to portray himself in a positive light, especially when the truth puts him in a more negative light. The final volume is about him coming to terms about what a jerk he is and resolving to genuinely be a better man to those he cares about.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Scott is this with Gideon, at least when it comes to their relationships. At first glance, they're pretty darn apart, as Gideon is a larger-than-life media mogul compared to the directionless slacker Scott. However, both have been insensitive and not the best people with their romantic partners. Both also seem to show some form of social or emotional isolation; compare Scott feeling utterly alone in the first book in his head with Gideon admitting that he was trapped in his head since birth. Scott realizing this commonality between them supposedly gives him a moment of understanding Gideon, and thus resolving to change and unlocking the Power of Understanding.
  Scott: Gideon...I think I understand you, man....And now I have to kill you.
• Numerological Motif: Although not as prevalent as in the case of the Evil Exes, Scott had the number 0 attributed to him a few times.
  • One of his shirts seen in Volume 3 is a merchandising for the Smashing Pumpkins album Zero. He has two similar shirts in the movie, one with a "ZERO" text and another with a 0-like circle on a "4 1/2"^note The "4 1/2" also represents him defeating Roxie (the moment where he wore the shirt), the 4th Evil Ex, so he was already halfway in the process with the league..
  • His parka features a 0-like circle around the X patch, which looks even more like a 0 once he removes it in the movie.
  • In the movie, his favorite drink is named Coke Zero.
  • When he defeats Gideon in the movie, Gideon tells him that he's "zero and nothing".
• Obliviously Evil: Granted, it's more "hurtful" than outright "evil," but Scott seems to not fully understand when he is acting insensitive or not thinking things through. He doesn't meant to hurt anybody, but his bad decisions still hurts himself and others.
• On the Rebound: He quickly gets in a relationship with Knives at the first chance he gets before becoming obsessed with Ramona. While over a year had passed since his break up with Envy, he was still so into her that he dreamed when they were in a band together, and a phone call from her left him near comatose.
• Phallic Weapon: When he gets the Power of Love, a long katana, the way he holds it looks like he's grasping the shaft of his bait and tackle, especially since the pommel is tipped with a heart.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Wallace, who is his closest male friend, but also happens to be gay. Their relationship gets played for laughs a few times, with Ramona raising an eyebrow after learning that Scott shares a bed with a gay man, but is otherwise shown to be entirely platonic yet also incredibly strong.
• Poor Communication Kills: Scott's big problem is he has trouble communicating properly and openly. Besides having a tendency to stick his foot in his mouth, he has trouble saying what needs to be said during relationships, such as ending them, as previously stated above. This comes from a confrontation of not wanting ro rock the boat or hurt anyone's feelings along with just not wanting to be in such an uncomfortable position. Alot of his problems would've been made easier if he was more open with his thoughts (though part of his Character Development is actually figuring out what are his problems and hidden feelings to begin with.) Furthermore, some have taken his difficulty in properly communicating and expressing himself as part of a disorder.
• Pretty in Mink: He is often seen in parkas.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Pretty mild example. While Scott really doesn't have a mean bone in his body, he's got some emotional issues and troubles and his impulsive actions have hurt his loved ones. However, this only applies by Book 6 where he is undergoing a gradual mental breakdown due to Ramona leaving him and the psychological damage likely being caused by The Glow.
• Really Gets Around: He's slept with Kim, Envy, and Ramona. He has also made out with Knives (but it was an awful experience for everyone, including you), and has had a few implied incidents with Sandra and Monique. And apparently had a "really gay" experience with Wallace back in college, whatever that means.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: His outgoing and mercurial nature contrasts heavily with most of the relatively laid-back and sullen supporting cast, but is most pronounced whenever he appears with Ramona, Kim, Stephen, and Wallace.
• Repressed Memories: Multiple characters bring up Scott's rather convenient tendency to forget details of varying importance regarding various events, particularly pertaining to the role he played in his relationships straining. Part of it is on Gideon for messing with his head, but Volume 6 makes it clear that Scott has been on some level consciously repressing the parts of his memories that cast him in a bad light due to him not wanting to live with potentially being a bad person.
• Sanity Slippage: In Volume 6, a mix of Gideon meddling with his head and Ramona breaking up with him causes his Manchild tendencies and his bad memory to exacerbate to the point of short-term memory loss and self-destructive denial, all of his personal issues eventually coalescing into Nega-Scott. It is not until he beats Nega-Scott and merges with him (him accepting his faults instead of running from them) does he return to his old self.
• Shonen Hair: Scott's hair gets spikier and more unkempt with each installment. It still stays mostly flat for most of the story, but in Vol. 6 it gets spiky. This is implied to be mostly due to Scott letting himself go and not brushing it during his slump after Ramona left him.
• The Slacker: He's unemployed and is reliant on Wallace at the beginning of the series.
• The Teetotaler: He refuses to drink, to the point where it's treated like a big deal when he does. This is done to further his Manchild image rather than show any moral upstandingness. We're never given a reason for this, however.
  • One reason given that Scott refuses to drink is because he won't make peace with his past actions, including when drunk (though he likely would not have remembered stuff that happened accurately if he was doing them while drunk). After he's accepted those bad memories by absorbing Nega-Scott, that's no longer the case. In Volume 6, one of the first things he does when he arrives at the Chaos Theater to fight Gideon is down a "booze with ice." When Julie asks about it, Scott blurts out "SOMETIMES I DRINK", showing he's somewhat at peace with the concept (though he never seems comfortable really drinking.)
• Their First Time: A flashback late in the series reveals that he and Kim lost their virginity to each other in high school.
• The One That Got Away: Scott is this to many of his love interests:
  • He and Lisa Miller never dated, but when they meet again after six years she's still carrying a torch for him, and she tries to get with him when she sees his current problems with Ramona.
  • He and Kim were high school sweethearts, and lost their virginities to each other. She was heartbroken when he suddenly moved away to Toronto without even telling her (though he told it to Lisa, who was the one to tell Kim), and the experience is what turned her into The Cynic. She still has feelings for him as late as the sixth volume, though she cares too much for his happiness to act on them.
  • He was Knive's first love, and when he breaks up with her to date Ramona she doesn't get over him easily - and instead throws herself at Young Neil because he kinda looks like him. While she ends up getting over it by the end of the series, she still holds him dear to her.
  • Surprisingly enough, Envy was just as hurt by how their relationship imploded and got together with Todd apparently because he looks like a buff Scott and is a bassist like him but better. She still keeps one of his shirts, and it took her about as much time as Scott to get over their break-up.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He very much likes bread, especially garlic bread.
• Unreliable Narrator: The validity of his flashbacks is highly questionable thanks to Gideon's altering of Scott's memories and to a lesser extent, Scott's repression of his memories. Granted, this is mainly with his relationship with Kim. Given Wallace's and Stacey's views on what happened with Envy, it's clear that his memories of the incident are a lot more accurate.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Scott gets one with Envy in Volume 6. Becomes more apparent and embarrassing 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... Montrealhalla.
• White Male Lead: He's the definitive main character and also the only straight, white male out of the protagonist cast, aside from Neil, who is both the least developed character and is noted in-story for his close resemblance to Scott.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl:
  • Has an unexplained aversion to fighting women. Towards the end of Volume 4, he eventually comes to accept fighting Roxie, and manages to slice her with his newly-acquired Power of Love.
  • He has no such standard in the game, starting with directly attacking Matthew's Demon Hipster Chicks (all enemies before that point were men) and regularly fighting female mooks from there on.

Ramona Flowers

Ramona Victoria Flowers

Ramona Flowers
Age: 25 years old
American Delivery Ninja

The heroine of the story. An American who recently moved to Canada. A series of chance encounters leads to Scott asking her out on a date. She has a mysterious past which is slowly uncovered over the course of the series. She entered and ended a total of seven relationships, and not only did they all turn evil, but they formed a league together and now control her love life by fighting and killing off any potential suitor she starts dating.

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• Action Girl: Just as capable in a fight as Scott is.
• Ambiguously Bi: Had a relationship with Roxanne, which she refers to as "a phase" and had some moments with Kim Pine, including a few while being with Scott at the same time.
• Aroused by Idiocy: Early on, she's attracted to Scott for his simple-mindedness, but later grows to genuinely love him.
• Bag of Holding: Ramona's purse, elaborately lampshading the fact that it contains a hammer (+ 2 against girls), a titanium baseball bat (+ 1 against blondes), and even Scott himself. "Capacity: unknown." When it's destroyed during the fight against Gideon in Volume 6, thousands of objects come out from it. The bag's unlimited capacity is explained because it's an access point to the Subspace Highway, which Scott later uses to get inside Ramona's mind and eliminate the fragment of Gideon inside it.
• Batter Up!: Her choice of weapons includes a titanium baseball bat (+1 against blondes).
• Birds of a Feather: Near the end of volume 6, it's revealed that Ramona spent her time away from Scott the exact same way he did - by moping, slacking, and sleeping all day. Scott's friends declare them a perfect couple. She also has many of the same flaws as Scott, such as overlooking her own mistakes in her past relationships. At the end of the series, their friends agree it's less about them belonging together and more like they deserve each other.
• Boyish Short Hair:
  Scott: Have you seen a girl who has hair like *this*? (mimics the shape of her haircut)
• Carry a Big Stick: Her choice of weapons includes a hammer (+2 against girls) which carries over to the game, movie and anime (where it instead has +10 against elders).
• Character Tics: Her head tends to glow whenever she's frustrated, uncomfortable, or jealous. Gideon had something to do with that.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: When Lisa enters the scene, Ramona is initially friendly with her, but when Roxie starts putting ideas in her head that Scott is cheating on her with Lisa, she becomes very irritated and insecure about it. She does apologize when Scott defeats Roxie. She later shows signs of being jealous of both Kim and Wallace when Scott reveals he (platonically) bunked with both of them.
• Combat Medic: In the game, she's the only one who can heal all players at once by summoning Knives (the assist move having Knives bring coffee for everyone). Kim can also heal, but only herself.
• Convenient Color Change: According to Word of God, Ramona's purse changes colours.
• Deadpan Snarker: Snarks a lot at the ridiculous things that happen around her.
• Dude Magnet: She has SEVEN evil exes, and that's just the tip of the iceberg for Ramona. They're not all dudes, either.
• Even the Girls Want Her: She dated Roxie for starters, and there's hints that Kim likes her too.
• Experimented in College: With Roxanne.
• Femme Fatale: Parodied. The fact that she used to smoke (and still does on certain occasions) makes Scott think that she is evil. Many of her exes accuse her of ruining their lives and drawing them to villainy, but they are just using her as an excuse for their actions.
• Fragile Speedster: Has the fastest initial movement speed in the game, but slightly weaker attacks. The difference is marginal enough that it's barely noticeable, though.
• Genki Girl: In the game, her animations are quite a bit more chipper and energetic than her personality is conveyed to be in the books.
• Girl of My Dreams: Parodied, but also deconstructed. Scott did not know her at all beforehand and seeing her constantly within his dreams ends up unsettling him, especially when he finally sees her in the real world for the first time. While meant to be humorous, Scott's freaked-out and on-edge reactions is actually understandable from a realistic perspective. Ramona reveals she's been appearing there mainly for her job and regarded Scott and her invasion of his dream space with indifference and annoyance. She does become embarrassed about her behavior when he confronts her and she does explain about Subspace.
• Hot-Blooded Sideburns: She has them in one of her hairstyles, although she is not particularly Hot-Blooded.
• Humongous-Headed Hammer: Ramona Flowers's primary weapon is a hammer with a head that's at least two feet long and a foot wide. She's only able to carry it around because her bag act as Hammerspace (no pun intended).
• Hypocrite: Lampshaded a few times. She regularly gets angry at Scott for minor transgressions while she has either done or is doing worse. For example, she's a bit miffed at Scott for spending a platonic evening with Lisa, even though that same evening, Ramona was hanging out (and making out a little) with one of her exes (granted, it was only because of said ex sticking those ideas in her head in the first place.) She's angry when Scott goes inside her head, even though she regularly has fun teasing him when she goes inside his head. And she freaks out about Scott dating her before breaking things off with Knives, even though she cheated on several of her exes.
• Important Haircut: Inverted example. Ramona tends to change her hair color often and keep it short. Her letting it grow out is a big OOC alert. She cuts it for the first time in a while right before disappearing from Scott's life, representing her cutting her ties with Scott.
• Ironic Name: Her last name is Flowers, things that are rooted where they're planted in life, but she herself fears becoming "stuck" at any point in her life, leading her to constantly reinvent herself and distance herself from her past.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Yes, while she committed her fair share of mistakes, she is still a good person who wants to become a better person and do so hand-in-hand with Scott.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A Deconstructive Parody of one. Her introduction into the story (via intruding in Scott's dreams no less) is what starts the chain of events that lead to Scott's growth. However, her issues are the dominant force that drives the plot and it's pretty clear that she needs the Character Development even more than Scott.
• Mistaken for Dyed: Zigzagged and played for laughs. Not even Ramona knows if her hair color is her natural color when asked if it is dyed, which was a joke due to the comic being in black and white, rendering her hair looking black when color art has it blue. A colored picture does heavily hint that she's a brunette though.
• Ms. Fanservice: Conspicuously so. She likes to show off her legs and the audience sees her in her underwear fairly frequently. Wears a green bikini in the Beach Episode at the beginning of volume 4, also wears a black cropped sleeveless top on page 122 of volume 4.
• Mysterious Past: She never goes into too much detail on what she did in America. While the readers do learn of her relationships with her exes, other parts of her past remain a mystery.
• Never My Fault: Tying in with her Hypocrisy, she is a more clear-cut example of this than Scott. Ramona blames the Evil Exes for all of the troubles that she's experienced in life. While this is true in some aspects, it also completely overlooks her own role, which is frequently just as much to blame.
• Nonconformist Dyed Hair: She regularly dyes her hair different colors (even though the original comic is black and white, which is lampshaded at one point), showing how she doesn't follow the crowd. She later admits that she keeps changing her hair color in an effort not to feel "stuck" in life.
• Not So Above It All: She seems to be more mature than Scott at first glance, but she has just as much potential to be lazy and unproductive, spending her days off sleeping and moping. In regards to relationship problems, she is worse than Scott. Scott's relationship problems ironically came from his inability to break off the relationship due to circumstances, leading to both sides being hurt. However, they were all happy and caring relationships. Ramona meanwhile... well she dated a minority student for a week back in middle school because he stuck out, she dumped Lucas for Todd relatively quick and she two-timed the Katayanagi twins with each other. The only relatively good relationship she had was her "sexy phase" with Roxie and even then, she tried downplaying it. Heck, she tends to accuse of Scott of doing things while doing worse things (though the main instance was Roxie's influence).
• Phlebotinum Rebel: Her teleportation powers come from Gideon experimenting with "the Glow" on her, something that involves the manipulation of Subspace to trap people within their heads with their vices. She found a way to use it to access the Subspace without the need for the Subspace's doors.
• Portal Network: Convenient for an Amazon.ca employee.
• Really Gets Around: Apparently got a reputation for this when she was younger.
• Rollerblade Good: Her preferred method of transportation.
• Stocking Filler: Wears a pair in several of her outfits.
• Straw Hypocrite: It eventually becomes clear that Ramona also isn't great at confronting the mistakes that she made in her relationships, which she has no problem calling Scott out for. Hell, her mistakes are noticeably larger and the result of Jerkass behavior compared to Scott's insensitivity and not knowing.
• Sudden Eye Color: Her eyes, while black because of the artstyle, appear as blue in her◊ reflection.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She is cold at first glance, but once Scott gets to know her, it becomes apparent that she's actually a pretty decent person who has made her fair share of mistakes.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Downplayed. Initially Ramona revealed to Envy of Todd's cheating on her with no apology and to hurt her. However, after hearing Envy's genuine feelings and sentiment at what how she and Todd ended up together, including his display of devotion to her, Ramona becomes surprised and quiet before informing Envy that Todd's show of devotion was done for Ramona first, hence why the two lunar craters. She even notes it only gives her the tiniest bit of satisfaction in doing so. She still doesn't like Envy, but did feel legitimately bad for her in that regard.
  • Shortly afterwards, Todd attacks Envy with his Vegan powers and Ramona actually goes to her side to check if she's OK, and stays there even after Envy yells at her. After Todd is defeated, Ramona even tells Scott that Envy could use some comforting. Their mutual dislike of each other clearly isn't enough for Ramona to stop being an empathetic person.
• Took A Level In Jerk Ass: In Volume 4, she becomes more hostile to Scott. Lampshaded and she apologizes for it after Scott defeats Roxie.
• Traumatic Haircut: Before leaving Scott at the end of volume 5.
• Vague Age: At first. She's eventually revealed to be 24; a bit older than Scott.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Downplayed in that Scott is perfectly capable of handling himself, but she does still attack both Roxie and Gideon.
• Visual Pun: Her Bag of Holding. At the end of volume 6, Gideon destroys it and all her baggage spills all over the floor. She decides not to bother picking it up.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": Ramona's cat is named Gideon, which everyone, even Gideon, expresses surprise over. Ramona quickly reveals it to be a coping mechanism, but it still gets her weird looks.
• You Are Fat: Gets this constantly from Knives, when she goes ballistic for Scott's sake, and even Roxanne states that she put on a little weight since college. This is all debatable, but she definitely is curvier than the rest of the main female cast.

Kim Pine

Kimberly "Kim" Pine

Kim Pine
Age: 24 years old
Will eat your soul

Drummer of Sex Bob-omb. An ex-girlfriend of Scott's, and his close friend since their high school days. She is usually the lone voice of reason in all the madness going on around her. Since said voice of reason usually gets ignored, it doesn't matter all that much.

Years before Scott Pilgrim was created, Bryan Lee O'Malley used the name "Kim Pine" for a very different (or at least much less defined) character in his short-lived comic strip "Style".

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• Adaptational Badass: A non-combatant in the books, but just as tough as Scott and Ramona in the game and the only one with a projectile attack out of the core cast of four playable characters.
• Adaptational Sexuality: While she's merely Ambiguously Bi in the books, one of her primary moves in the video game is calling Knives out for a quick kiss. Her ending also has her walk off into the sunset with her, implying a Relationship Upgrade.
• All Drummers Are Animals: Although less wild than most examples and more vicious.
• Ambiguously Bi: Drunkenly made out with Knives once and appears to show some interest in Ramona during the fifth book, but is otherwise only shown to be interested in men.
• Amicable Exes: Though she wants people to forget she dated him in high school, she's one of Scott's closest friends. It's probably aided by the fact Kim still pines for him.
• Ass Kicks You: In the game.
• Back for the Finale: Returns to the city in the last moments of the story, after Scott defeated Gideon.
• Berserk Button: For some reason, other girl drummers really piss her off.
• Boyish Short Hair: Sports a similar hairstyle as Ramona.
• Damsel in Distress: Kim is found captured by evil-doers twice. They are keeping her trapped, in shackles or otherwise, and waiting for a contender to show up. Although the first time she may not have been captured at all, considering she was dating the guy. The kidnapping incident was due to Gideon tampering with Scott's memories for kicks. Given the constant references to video games, it is natural that Scott Pilgrim has to Save the Princess.
• A Day in the Limelight: The Wonderful World of Kim Pine (which can be seen here) is one for Kim.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her stage outfit in Book 3.
• The Final Temptation: Kim gets a subtle-yet-impactful one in Book 6 when Scott ends up staying with her during his wilderness sabbatical (since her folks have a cabin in the woods), and he impulsively kisses her while confessing that she has been one of the few constants in his life, the implications being that he wants to get back together with her. Kim actually indulges in the kiss before she pulls away and tells him to fight for Ramona. Her returning the kiss showed that she not only enjoyed the kiss, but was tempted to get back together for Scott, given how she still pined for him. However, she knew that it was better for him to continue trying to work things out with Ramona. It allows the lingering tension to disappear from their relationship.
• Formerly Fat: Downplayed and not drawn attention to, but she was noticeably pudgier when she dated Scott back in high school.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: While she doesn't hit him, it's her words that finally get Scott to come to terms with himself in Vol 6.
• The Heart: Ironically for such a morose character Kim is the one both Scott and eventually Ramona turn to with their relationship woes and who helps them stick together when pretty much everyone else is trying to tear them apart.
• Hypocrite: Thinks it's creepy that Scott is dating 17-year-old Knives Chau. She ends up making out with Knives in Vol 4 when they're both drunk.
• Informed Flaw: She's apparently less attractive than Ramona and Envy, though Generic Cuteness hides this. She does dress quite a bit more plainly than most of the female cast, which lessens this to a small degree. However, the phrasing implies that Kim just thinks of herself as less attractive.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: It's heavily implied that for all her snark, she still cares alot about Scott and more than just platonically. In volume 6, when Scott kisses her, she actually goes along with it at first before she breaks it off and tells him to fight for Ramona, since that's who he loves.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Snarky and very grouchy though she may be, she is a very good friend to Scott, using a combination of patience and Brutal Honesty to help him come to terms with his own flaws.
• Kissing Under the Influence: With Knives at the beginning of Volume 4.
• Motivational Lie: Cleverly uses one to raise Scott's morale when he's fighting the twins. Just after the twins have tried to break Scott mentally by telling him what a liar, cheater, and hypocrite Ramona is (weakening Scott's will and ability to fight), Kim's phone beeps because it's low on power. Kim tells Scott the beeping was actually her getting a message from Ramona, and furthermore says that Ramona is cheering for Scott and wants to patch things up. With his confidence restored, Scott thrashes the twins.
• Perpetual Frowner: Almost always looks either bored or annoyed.
• Put on a Bus: Literally during the fifth volume when she went to her parents' home. She was also absent during the battle against Gideon.
• The Reliable One: While everyone is reliable compared to Scott to some extent, she is one that stands out in particular because of how long they have known each other and Kim's loyalty to Scott. Scott even says as much at one point, saying that she's the one who's always there for him. It's also the reason why the Twins kidnapped her, as she is one of the people Scott is closest to.
• Slasher Smile: In the game. Give Kim Pine a weapon. Look at how her facial expression (normally bored) changes when she uses it. She has this same expression when stomping a fallen enemy.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Some of Kim's bitterness can be explained by her lingering strong feelings toward Scott, especially since their relationship ending was due to him moving away. However, the true problem was Scott's mishandling, having asked their mutual friend Lisa to tell her. Kim was pretty hurt by it and Scott's own expression was plainly guilty. Despite this, the relationship never received proper closure and her attitude toward him seems to mask the unresolved feelings between them. Hell, when he kissed her in Book 6, she initially went along with it, showing a great temptation to get back together with him.
• Spit Take: In the game, one of her moves involves spitting out something that resembles heavily condensed pure negativity.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Kim always comes off as super cold to everyone, especially Scott. But when he's at his most emotionally vulnerable, she gives him the encouragement he needs to press on.
• Their First Time: A flashback late in the series reveals that she and Scott lost their virginity to each other in high school.
• Tsundere: She's very snarky toward Scott, but is one of his closest friends and given their past relationship, her attitude masks that she stil cares about him.
• Tsurime Eyes: She has these.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: It's implied that at least some of her snakiness toward Scott was the lack of real closure in their relationship, leading to lingering feelings on her side (and perhaps on Scott's own as well). It's resolved by the sixth book, namely by both moving on after she helps him confront his mistakes. However, during Scott's time with her, he ends up kissing her in a moment of emotional vulnerability, noting that she was always there for him. Notably, when he kisses her, she initially returns it, showing her desire to resolve the tension by getting back with him.
• When She Smiles: Kim has a very sweet smile that rarely crops up. Scott earns points in the movie by apologizing to her, making her smile in earnest.
• White Magician Girl: In the game. Does she have a staff? No, but she substitutes it with drumsticks. She can also heal best and she is one of the only two characters who have a projectile move.
• Will They or Won't They?: Her and Scott. They ultimately don't, despite coming very close in Book Six.

Stephen Stills

Stephen Stills
Age: 24 years old
The Talent

Lead vocalist/guitarist and "the talent" of Sex Bob-omb, and another close friend of Scott's going back to their college days, to where they were dormmates. He works as a cook at a stir-fry restaurant and is Julie Powers' on-again-off-again boyfriend.

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• Adaptational Badass: A Non-Action Guy in the books, a Mighty Glacier who can take down all seven of the Evil Exes in the games.
• Alliterative Name: His first and last name both begin with "St".
• Beard of Sorrow: Not necessarily a beard, but Perma-Stubble. Also, his only known girlfriend and boyfriend is Julie and Joseph. The author even labelled him as kind of emo.
• Beta Couple: First with Julie, then with Kim's gay former roommate Joseph. However, given Stephen's type, his relationships have just as many issues, if not more, than Scott and Ramona's.
• Coming-Out Story: At the end of book 6; he says he came out of the closet in volume 5.
• Deadpan Snarker: Though he tends to emphasize the deadpan over the snark.
• Full-Name Basis: Scott always refers to him by full name. This comes off as weird because, not only is there no real justification for it since Scott's been friends with Stephen for years, he's the only one who refers to Stephen like this, and doesn't refer to anyone else but Stephen like this.
• Has a Type: According to the author on his Tumblr, it is not a coincidence that the two people he dated are snarky misanthropes who do not get along with the rest of the group. First off, we have Julie, who is, well, Julie. Then we have Joseph, who is worse than Julie. It may be tied to his personality.
• Henpecked Husband: Non-married example. He's been dating Julie on and off for years, and their relationship generally consists of her yelling at him while he stoically says "Yeah". Even after he comes out, he starts dating Joseph, who is perhaps the only character who's even more controlling and chiding than Julie.
• Hero of Another Story: While he's one of Scott's closest friends, he's only tangentially aware of his feud with the Seven Evil Exes and outside against the thing against Matthew Patel, he doesn't do much to help Scott (though perhaps he's aware there's little he can do.) Instead, he's much more preoccupied with advancing Sex Bob-omb's career, which Scott, despite being a member of the band, is only tangentially aware of (though given he has to deal with people going after his life... not unjustified).
• Mellow Fellow: He's pretty laid-back and chill, actually stoic most of the time. However, sometimes, his nerves fails him (often right before performances).
• Mighty Glacier: In the video games, he has the slowest initial movement speed, but hits slightly harder than the other characters.
• Mood-Swinger: Almost always incredibly chill about everything, but becomes a nervous, paranoid wreck whenever he's about to perform on stage. For some reason, this is actually one of the few things that can annoy Scott (though in the film, it's implied Scott got annoyed because Scott had to put his problems aside only for Stephen to nearly screw up).
• No Accounting for Taste: As noted above, he does not have good taste in partners. Stephen Stills and Julie have a pretty vitriolic relationship. By book five, they've broken up "for like the fiftieth time!" When he comes out as gay, we see that his new boyfriend is Joseph, a fiery catty man who is even bitchier than Julie.
• Not So Stoic: One of Stephen's defining traits is how laid-back he is for the most part, but this is punctuated by his various anxiety attacks throughout the series.
• Out of Focus: Not around much at all in book 5, as he's busy finishing editing Sex Bob-omb's album with Joseph. Conveniently, this allows the reveal that the two are dating to be held off until the final book.
• Ship Tease: With Knives until it is revealed he's gay.
• Shoryuken: Can pull one off in the game.
• The Stoic: He's an incredibly chill dude most of the time.
• Straight Gay: He really doesn't reveal anything about his homosexuality when it comes to be his behavior.
• Wrestler in All of Us: His moves have a distinct wrestler theme to them.
• Younger Than They Look: In the second volume, he is revealed to be 22 whereas Scott is 23. In the fourth volume, his 24th birthday happens before Scott's 24th birthday happens... Though whether this is a result of the story being told in Scott's point of view or O'Malley making a mistake isn't known.

Wallace Wells

Wallace Wells
Age: 26 years old
Pretty Darn Gay

Scott's cool gay roommate. Very snarky and blunt, but usually has Scott's best interests at heart. He serves as Mission Control (or something close to it) for Scott's fight against the League of Evil Exes. Bryan Lee O'Malley claims that Wallace is based on a former real-life roommate of his.

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• Adaptational Badass: Never displays any kind of fighting ability in the books, but is a fully playable character who can fight on par with Scott and Ramona in the game's DLC.
• The Alcoholic: He doesn't appear to be a full-blown alcoholic, but he has very few appearances in the comics where he isn't at least mildly buzzed.
• All Gays are Promiscuous: "I didn't make up the gay rulebook." Somewhat subverted, as Wallace is in a relationship with a psychic named Mobile from book 3 onwards.
• Alliterative Name: His first and last names start with the letter W.
• Barrier Maiden: Male version. He actually manages to tank for Ramona during the fight with Envy. Because Envy can't hit her as long as Wallace is giving her moral support. Wallace being Wallace, he doesn't seem to notice this at all and leaves to use the bathroom just when Ramona's about to win.
• Berserk Button: Wallace is usually very laid-back and only gets catty at most. This makes it surprising to see his visible contempt for Envy Adams. He makes it pretty clear that he disdains her for being quite a bitch and extensively for how she hurt Scott.
• Birds of a Feather: He bonds with Ramona over their mutual hatred of Envy Adams.
• Captain Obvious: Wallace is actually helpful most of the time, but once a fight actually starts, he devolves into criticizing the combatants' banter and yelling extremely unhelpful and obvious things at them.
  Wallace[clearly plastered]: Scott, watch out! I think that guy might be Gideon!"
  Scott[fighting Gideon, whom he knows is Gideon]: OKAY, THANK YOU WALLACE!
• The Charmer: Extremely talented at making a good first impression. His entire friendship with Scott basically only happened because Scott's parents found him so charming that they kept inviting him over to their house.
• Closet Key: Sorta. He makes out with and steals Stacey Pilgrim's date in the first volume. It's implied this isn't the first time it has happened.
• Cynical Mentor: A humorous example to Scott.
• Deadpan Snarker: But tends to lose the "deadpan" part when drunk.
• Ethical Slut: Not that he ever explains this to Scott, but there's an enormous difference between how Scott is dating Knives and Ramona without telling either, and how Wallace is sleeping with two men at the same time.
• Exposition Fairy: He usually has info on which ex Scott is fighting next and gives him advice from the sidelines during battle.
• Fetish: Wallace has a big fetish for guys wearing glasses; as evident by him asking Knives if the gay boy in her class has glasses, stealing Jimmy from Stacy (who wears glasses), and Mobile, his current boyfriend, wears glasses.
• The Gadfly: He seems to live for screwing around with Scott. This extends to other characters when he gets to speak with them.
  "You're my bitch forever, Scott!"
• Hate at First Sight: When Wallace first meets Envy, she's already on route to becoming an Alpha Bitch. After a few minutes with her, Wallace tells Scott that he needs to dump her. Scott probably should've listen given how the relationship later imploded with both of them being hurt.
• Hidden Depths: He is repeatedly shown to have an extensive life outside of Scott that we only catch glimpses of, having his own group of friends and a white collar day job that appears to be the only "adult" job of the cast. He's also shown to be surprisingly serious and task-oriented the few times Scott interrupts him while he's at work.
• Jerkass to One: He's pretty nice to everyone that isn't Envy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He loves to screw with Scott and can be a catty bitch pretty frequently, but he's a loyal and reliable friend who always has Scott's back in the end.
• Mighty Glacier: In the video game, his move set is a duplicate of Stephen Stills'.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's a well-dressed, handsome, and witty guy who likes to walk around his apartment without any pants on.
• Mundane Utility: His psychic boyfriend Mobile teaches him how to manipulate the chi flow through his body. Wallace only ever uses it to dry himself off without using a towel when he gets wet. When Scott asks him to teach him to use chi to help him fight on more equal ground against psychic vegan Todd Ingram, he bluntly refuses simply because it sounds like too much work.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: Retconned. As shown on the mailbox, Wallace's middle initial is P◊. This idea was scrapped in future books, as according to The Other Wiki, it was a mistake made by Bryan.
• Nice Guy: Despite screwing around with Scott here and there, he is easily the most supportive of Scott's friends and doesn't hold him in obvious contempt like Steven and Kim do most of the time. He also tends to make fast friends with everyone he meets.
• Non-Action Snarker: He never fights and can snark with the best of them. Averted in the game, where he is a playable DLC character.
• Not So Above It All: When Scott takes Wallace with him to pick up Knives from school, Wallace initially doesn't want anything to do with him, but sticks around upon learning the school has guys. He especially takes an interest when Knives tells him a guy in her class is gay.
  Knives: Oh, hi! I'm Knives! Do you want to know who in my class is gay?
  Wallace: Yes. Does he wear glasses?
• Older Sidekick: Two years Scott's senior but plays one of the most active support roles in fighting the Evil Exes out of Scott's entire friend group.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Wallace is jovial and playful around Scott for the majority of his screen time. When he finds Scott in a bad state, he starts teasing him about what's wrong with him. When Wallace finds out that Envy called Scott, he immediately stops teasing Scott and becomes very serious, even uttering the strongest swear in the entire series.

  Wallace: En... Envy? Envy called? Shit.

• Platonic Life-Partners: Wallace has let Scott live with him for years, and the two are close enough that Scott generally goes to Wallace as a mentor and confidant during difficult times in his life, but their relationship is entirely platonic.
• Promoted to Playable: Like Knives, he has his own DLC in the video game. Amazingly, he was added two whole years after the game was initially released. Much like how Knives was based off of Kim's playstyle, Wallace is based off of Stephen.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Scott's red, though he gets quite wild when drunk.
• The Reliable One: The main one for Scott. He has a good deal of faith in Scott and it doesn't waver. He's the one who helps Scott navigate through his problems and tends to be upfront with him.
• Satellite Character: To Scott at first. He is shown to lead a life outside of Scott and has no real connection with the rest of Sex Bob-omb. This is steadily removed over time as he becomes buddies with Ramona by Volume 3 and we learn about his past connection with Envy Adams. He still mostly remains separate from the characters affiliated with Sex Bob-omb, though, which accounts for a sizable chunk of the cast.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He's a very crisp dresser, and there's a minor running gag of pointing out how much nicer his things are than Scott's.
• Shipper on Deck: For Scott and Ramona.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Envy Adams. In a world where most conflicts are dealt with in large-scale Animesque battles, they limit their rivalry to petty name-calling. Fascinatingly enough, it's also one of the very few times we see Wallace genuinely pissed off. It's very clear he holds plenty of contempt toward Envy for how she hurt Scott in the past.
• Straight Gay: Though he's very capable of acting Camp Gay when he wants to.
• The Strategist: He helps Scott train for fights by researching his opponents and giving him tips for exploiting their weaknesses. It's pretty effective most of the time, but some of the time he says stupid things just to annoy Scott.
• Sudden Name Change: His name was Wallace Weldon in the first book.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's a tall and handsome fellow with plenty of snark to spare.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: He and Scott first met during a college lecture, where he randomly started asking Scott a series of questions and then followed him home. While Scott was more or less completely confused and uncomfortable with him the entire time, Wallace's charm won Scott's parents over, allowing him to regularly come over to his house to hang out whether Scott wanted him to or not.
• Token Adult: A weird case. Almost everybody is an adult, Scott included, but Wallace is the only one who seems to have fully grown up and matured in the traditional sense, holding down a steady white collar job and having little to no emotional baggage. Naturally, he's a sort of mentor figure to both Scott and Ramona.
• Undying Loyalty: A bit hidden under his cattiness, but Wallace is the one of the only characters who consistently shows unwavering trust and belief in Scott. This becomes most apparent when Scott dies in book 6, where Wallace, out of all of Scott's friends and acquaintances, looks the most horrified.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He pretty much constantly switches between mocking Scott about every aspect of his life and being his most loyal, helpful and understanding friend.
• What, Exactly, Is His Job?: We don't know what Wallace does for a living to provide for him and Scott though given his white collar dress and appearing in a cubicle, it appears to be some sort of IT job or related.

Knives Chau

Knives Chau
Age: 17 years old
Self-proclaimed Scottaholic

A 17-year-old-girl who Scott dated on a whim at the start of the series to ease his loneliness. She becomes obsessed with him and assimilates herself into his circle of friends. She ends up sticking around, even after Scott breaks up with her to date Ramona. Oh yeah, and she's a ninja and so is her father.

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• Adaptational Sexuality: Seemingly promoted from being Ambiguously Bi to full-on being bisexual in the game, where she and Kim kiss frequently and end up together in Kim's ending, much to the confusion of Scott and Stephen Stills.
• Ambiguously Bi: Drunkenly makes out with Kim at one point and has what resembles a Celeb Crush on Envy, but is otherwise only shown being interest in guys.
• Amicable Exes: Once Knives properly gets over Scott, they become this. However, even before hand, they were still quite friendly to each other. Scott wholly admits that she deserved better and she holds him in higher regard than most of his friends do.
• Assist Character: Every character can summon her for assistance in the game, and what she does to help out changes depending on which character calls her.
• The Beard: Implied Stephen was hanging on to the last threads of his heterosexuality by hanging around her in Volume 5. Neil isn't fooled.
• But Now I Must Go: She ends up leaving for university at the end of Book 6.
• Butt-Monkey: She gets tossed around constantly during fights, and Scott cheating on her with Ramona is one of the most important parts of the story early on. In general, most of the time she appears is devoted to making her look fairly pathetic.
• Character Development: Becomes more mature and savvy as the books go on, to the point of rejecting Scott's offer when he attempts to hook up with her on her 18th birthday in a moment of weakness. She does comfort him when he recovers from that mini-breakdown and confesses to feeling flattered. They settle on kissing, but both are grossly weirded out by it. Considering her almost crazed obsession with Scott for most of the series, this shows serious growth.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Hoo boy. After Scott breaks up with her, she continues to stalk him and attacks Ramona.
• Dual Wielding: Her weapon is a set of two... knives.
• Expy: According to O'Malley, of Cho Chang. They are both Asian characters who go out with the main character but aren't part of the Official Couple in the end.
• First Love: Scott was her first love and despite her moving on, still cares deeply about him. He in turn definitely shows a prominent fondness for her.
• Genki Girl: She's certainly a cheery and energetic girl.
• The Glomp: Every time she sees Scott.
• Important Haircut: She dyes her hair when Scott breaks up with her, which turns out bright red in the comics.
• Jerkass to One: While generally a Nice Girl, Knives' obsessive jealousy causes her to act horribly toward Ramona, to the point of attacking her physically and verbally (she is particularly fond of calling her fat.)
• Jobber: Despite legitimately having ninja abilities, Knives almost always gets knocked around rather pathetically during her fights and never so much as lands a real hit on her opponent. Though this could because she's still relatively inexperienced and the youngest of the cast.
• Kissing Under the Influence: Drunkenly makes out with Kim at one point. Scott accidentally witnesses it and is disturbed by the sight.
• Klatchian Coffee: She delivers this in the game as part of Ramona's assist. It restores a small amount of health to every active playable character.
• Little Miss Badass: She's young and small, but is a damn good fighter.
• Metaphorgotten: "You'll always be my Clash at Demonhead."
  (Whatever that means.)^note Brian explains what that means.
• Love Makes You Crazy: She was otherwise an ordinary girl before she met Scott. However, he was her First Love and she ended up becoming quite determined to get him back.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Her obsession with Scott makes her blind to his flaws and she refuses to believe that he cheated on her. She gets better when she gets over Scott.
• McNinja: A Chinese girl who happens to be a ninja.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: She eventually attempts to kill Ramona.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "What kind of idiot would knowingly date a girl named Knives?"
• Nice Girl: When she's not obsessing over Scott she tends to be super sweet, as shown at both the beginning and near the end of the series.
• No Name Given: Her real first name is never revealed. (Unless that is her real first name, of course.)
• Promoted to Love Interest: To Kim Pine in the game. And to Scott in the film, where she's portrayed as a more serious love interest.
• Promoted to Playable: Has her own DLC in the game.
• Running Gag: "Knives Chau: 17 years old."
• Ship Tease: With Stephen until it is revealed he's gay.
• Skintone Sclerae: She's drawn this way and this appears to be how O'Mally draws characters of Asian descent in general.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: Very much infatuated with Scott Pilgrim.
• Stalker with a Crush: Towards Scott after being dumped.
• Storm of Blades: In the game when Stills summons her.
• Token Minority: The only non-white member of the main cast. Her best friend and family and three of the evil exes are also minorities, but have limited screen time.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She becomes convinced that Ramona is a threat to Scott and attacks her.
• Waif-Fu: Her small size does not diminish her ability to kick ass.
• Yandere: After Scott breaks up with her, she... doesn't take it well.

Young Neil

(Young) Neil Nordegraf

Young Neil
Age: Not really young
Stephen's Roommate

Stephen Stills' roommate and Sex Bob-omb's #1 (and only) fan/roadie. He's very quiet and is mostly an observer/commentator on the events of the story. After Scott dumps her, Knives briefly dates Neil because he looks similar to Scott, but they later break up.

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• Accidental Misnaming: He never objected much to it, but when he is introduced simply as Neil, with the "young" part dropped, it's the best day of his life.
• Alliterative Name: His full name is Neil Nordegraf.
• Butt-Monkey: His friends don't really pay much attention to him and Knives only dates him to get back a Scott.
• Deconstruction: Of a Satellite Character and Mauve Shirt. He doesn't have much involvement in the story and his connection to his friends started out as being their bandmate's younger brother and later Stephen's roommate. As his friends become progressively more entangled into the plot, he feels more and more left out and begins to act out accordingly.
• Demoted to Extra: Slowly begins to fall into the background with each volume, though he regains a bit of prominence when Scott finally takes the "Young" out of his name.
• The Dog Bites Back: After several volumes of getting ignored by his friends he starts to become a Jerkass in retaliation.
• The Generic Guy: He doesn't have much of a personality besides liking Sex Bob-omb and looking like Scott.
• Inelegant Blubbering: When Kim calls Knives their biggest fan in volume 1, he bolts out of the room, with a comically exaggerated crying face saying "Boo-hoo-hoo!"
• Mauve Shirt: He's at least as prominent as anyone else connected to Sex Bob-omb in the film.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Volume 6: The greatest day of Young Neil's life was when Scott simply called him "Neil".
• Older Than They Look: Supposed to be 20, but looks about as young as Knives.
• Only Six Faces: He looks very similar to Scott, which is the only reason Knives goes out with him.
• The Quiet One: He doesn't say very much.
• Replacement Goldfish: Knives throws herself at him on the rebound from Scott because he looks more-or-less just like him. They break up rather quickly since he's not much like Scott in personality.
• The Roadie: For Sex Bob-omb.
• Satellite Character: He's Sex Bob-omb's fanboy and that's about it. Notably, he is friends with the band because his sister was a friend of theirs in college, making him one in-universe as well. It starts to really bug him.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the later volumes, once his college work and Sex Bob-ombs relocation to Joseph's "studio" for recording prevents him from hearing them perform. It's also implied to be a result of them hanging out less and him feeling isolated as a result.

Envy Adams

Natalie V. "Envy" Adams

Natalie V. Adams
Age: 24 years old?
Hair: Extra Large

The famous lead singer of the rising band, The Clash at Demonhead. She is also Scott's old girlfriend from their college days. They were in a band together, they broke up, she joined a new band, she got famous, Scott didn't. She was dating her bassist, Todd Ingram, but that relationship ended after he was caught cheating on her.

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• Achilles' Heel: The back of her knee is her pleasure spot, to the point that when touched, she is left curled up shaking on the floor.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Red hair in the comic but blonde in the movie.
• Alpha Bitch: Her newfound fame and talent turned her into this and became the primary factor that led to her and Scott's relationship ending. Wallace hates her cause she's this and Ramona quickly develops a disdain for her for this reason as well (As well as Envy being in the know about Ramona's past relationship with Gideon). She does get better though.
• Amicable Exes: Initially subverted. She enjoyed watching Scott squirm and rubbing her successes in his and the others' faces. However, the fallout of Todd cheating on her leaves it open to possibility. She does try and patch things up in the sixth book and manages to do so. It is also revealed that the non-amicable behavior was her way of lashing out at Scott because she was also hurt when the relationship broke.
• Armor-Piercing Question: She stops in her tracks while she's walking away and Scott calls her Natalie.
• Break the Haughty: Went along with Todd to meet up with Scott just to show off her success and enjoying watching Scott be uncomfortable at seeing her again. Her arrogant and provacative attitude earns her the ire of Scott's friends. Then things come crashing down when she discovers that her Victorious Childhood Friend and Ramona's 3rd ex Todd was cheating on her with the drummer Lynnette, along with the fact that the act of love he did for her, he did it for Ramona first and wasn’t even genuine love. By the end of the third book, her band is gone and she just has the clothes on her back (one being an old hoodie of Scott's).
• The Chanteuse: Some of her costumes invoke this trope.
• Childhood Friend Romance: She and Todd were quite close as kids according to her, and when Todd moved away, she ultimately couldn't fully get over her feelings for him even as she started dating other men. She believes she's fully graduated to this with Todd after they meet again as adults, but unfortunately, Todd had changed for the worst over that time and cheated on her behind her back.
• Combat Stilettos: Combat platform boots in her fight for Ramona. Despite her many outfit changes she is never seen in flat shoes in the series.
• Costume Porn: She wears a variety of elaborate costumes. Gideon mentions that he gets sexual pleasure from dressing her up in them.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": She is not happy when Scott calls her Natalie. This changes over time.
• Empathic Environment: It was raining the whole time she was in Toronto and in the game, after she loses, she melts away from a raincloud.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Well, Knives does.
• Evil Counterpart: Envy Used to Be a Sweet Kid until she signed with a major label. While Scott is Obliviously Hurtful at first, Envy Took a Level in Jerkass.
• Evil Diva: Well, not evil, but she has the mean attitude at first for sure.
• Femme Fatale: Plays up the image, but is not really one.
• Fingerpoke Of Doom: The back of her knees. Don't ask how Scott knows this.
• Hannibal Lecture: She gives one to Ramona crossed with "Not So Different" Remark. Ramona throws it back at her and calling her by her real name in response.
• Heel–Face Turn: CLOSURE! Also, earlier on she warns Scott that Gideon's going to attack from behind via her opening song.
• Her Boyfriend's Shirt: Well, her ex boyfriend's shirt, but she still has a shirt of Scott about a year after their break up and wears it after her relationship with Todd implodes, the first hint she hadn't got over Scott yet.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: The stage outfit Gideon puts her in. It's one Pimped-Out Dress over another.
• Ironic Echo: "Shut the (bleep) up, Julie".
• Irony: She went with her childhood friend Todd in pursuit of an earnest and genuine loving relationship. She would instead get her heart broken for his cheating ways since he became a tool and was never genuinely in love with her. She even expressed what she believed was their genuine affection between them in her fight with Ramona. This makes it sadder as Ramona reveals that beyond Todd being unfaithful, the action of punching a hole in the moon he did to prove his “devotion” to her... Todd did it for Ramona first. The irony comes in that she actually did have this sort of loving and caring relationship... back when she was with Scott. Given the parallels between Scott and Todd (especially how Todd looks like a beefed-up Scott with a similar-sounding name and being a better bassist), this may have been intentional.
• Jerkass: She's a diva who let fame go to her head and later returned to her old stomping grounds partially to rub her successes in Scott's face, all while he's still dealing with their messy breakup. In fact, Scott's friends, who are more than willing to call him out on his mistakes and shortcomings, wholeheartedly side with him on the matter and have no love for her. Of course, it later turns out Scott's an Unreliable Narrator who also broke Envy's heart and then forgot he did that, so her dickishness may have been more justifed than what was first thought.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She mellows out after the revelations with Todd. At the end of Volume 6, she hugs Scott while bringing both a sense of closure. And then says "PS. Get off my stage." Beforehand, her song also served to warn Scott of Gideon's sneak attack and she's as shocked and horrified as the others when Gideon kills him.
• Kick Chick:
  • Her preferred style during her fight with Ramona at Lee's Palace.
  • All her major attacks in the game involve high jump kicks.
• Lean and Mean: It's interesting to note that Envy is probably the skinniest character in the series. The way other female characters are drawn would suggest O'Malley has an appreciation for girls with healthy curves; even petite ones like Knives still have soft, rounded facial features in sharp contrast to Envy's narrow, vulpine looks.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Even though Envy was the one who dumped Scott, she still continues to send him mixed signals and seems to be envious of his relationship with Ramona. Possibly justified though since their breakup is told from Scott's perspective. However, given we see Wallace's thoughts on her, it's implied that she is doing this just to rub salt in Scott's wounds. Reinforced given how her infobox mentioned that she was dragging on the eventual fight of Scott and Todd. Volume 6 reveals the actual fight between her and Scott (which we never see) was caused by Scott, apparently under the influence of alcohol. Her behavior was her lashing out that she was hurt too by the end of the relationship and the fight.
• Ms. Fanservice: Whenever she's on screen expect her to be wearing an outfit that shows off her body, or at least makes her look very pretty.
• New Old Flame: Subverted. She and Scott never get back together.
• Noble Demon:
  • Subverted. In Volume 3, she allows Scott to walk away when he attacks Todd without knowing about his powers, but that's more because she wanted to draw Scott's suffering out.
  • Played straight in Volume 6, she warns Scott of a sneak attack by Gideon.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Emily Haines of Metric.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Spends most of Volume 3 tormenting Scott but having Todd and Lynette do the heavy lifting. Then Ramona gets angry enough at her to try and squash her with a hammer and Envy blocks it with a kick, much to Ramona's fear.
• On the Rebound: Heavily implied that her dating Todd was this, as she was heart broken after the break up with Scott.
• Personal Raincloud: In the game after she loses and after Todd was destroyed in the comic.
• Rain, Rain, Go Away: Right after she left in the 3rd book, the rain left as well.
• Rich Bitch: Her musical career has been good to her financially, helped by her selling plenty of her former possessions. Same can't be said for her attitude.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: It's easy to forget because of how she looks in the present, but she was rather plain when she first met Scott. One complete makeover later and she's arguably the most attractive character in the story.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Not immediately obvious in the black and white editions, but colored covers and reprints show that her eye color is green. Fitting for her nickname.
• Start of Darkness: Downplayed example. Envy's play 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 when they were becoming popular with their band. Things escalate with Envy becoming colder and more distant in her relationship with Scott, her taking over his band and leading it in a direction that the rest of the band weren't exactly comfortable with. It's even hinted that she might've started to cheat on him. Eventually, she breaks up with him and the band falls apart. However, the actual break-up resulted from Scott ending up drunk at the party and in his uninhibited state, started a big fight with her (presumably over everything that happened between them), which led to her breaking things off with him. He has no recollection of the fight and was only told about it by Stephen in a flashback.
• That Man Is Dead: Natalie is dead and remains so even after Envy's Heel–Face Turn, but Envy is happy that Scott is around to keep her memory alive.
• The One That Got Away: Scott was absolutely devastated by their break up.
• Took a Level in Kindness: When she first appears in volumes 2 and 3, Envy is every bit the diva that the characters say she is. When she reappears in volume 6 she's much nicer and seems to be trying to reach some reconciliation with Scott.
• Tsurime Eyes: She has these. Serves to highlight her "sharpness" and vulpine features compared to the softer aspects of the other girls.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Her legions of fans are oblivious to how flawed a person she is.
• Woman Scorned: How she ends up feeling after the fallout of her relationship with Scott, even though she began the decline with her own worsening attitude.

The League of Evil Exes

In General

• Evil Wears Black/Red and Black and Evil All Over/White and Red and Eerie All Over: All of them feature a color combination of red, black or white in at least one of their outfits.
• Jerkass: A common reason why Ramona broken up with them. Most of them are rather unpleasant, though it tends to vary greatly between each one of them. Lucas is barely this at all, while Todd and Gideon are complete assholes.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Subverted. Todd is by far the most powerful, but is fought third.
• Stupid Evil: Played with. Most of them have been given a dumber than dumb excuse for "being evil" (courtesy of Scott), and a not so logical reason for it, despite clearly only wanting to take over Ramona's love life. For example, Lucas is considered evil just because "he's a sellout". This becomes Subverted if you subscribe to the idea that all of the exes were under the influence of Gideon's powers and is the reason why they became evil or at least, joined the league.

Matthew Patel

Matthew Patel
Ramona's 1st Evil Ex-Boyfriend
Powers: Mystical

The first of Ramona's Evil Exes. He went to middle school with Ramona and was the only non-white, non-jock boy her age there. They teamed up and took over the school for a few weeks, and then she left him. He apparently never got over it. Also has mystical powers.

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• Camp Straight: Some of his mannerisms resemble gay stereotypes, but he's been pining after Ramona for most of his life.
• Dance Battler: Type four (completely nuts).
• Enemy Mine: This was more or less the basis of his and Ramona's original relationship. They were both outsiders who teamed up to defeat the more popular/normal/cool kids in their school. Afterwards Ramona apparently realized that they had little in common and she had no other interest in him.
• Evil Sorcerer: He fights with mystical powers.
• Flunky Boss: Summons Demon Hipster Chicks to the fray.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much for him to snap.
• Large Ham: He is MATTHEW PATEL! Ramona's FIRST... Evil... Ex... Boyfriend.
  If you wa-a-a-ant to fight me... Ha! You're not the bri-i-i-ightest-ah!
• Musical Episode: His fight with Scott is either a Shout-Out to Bollywood dance numbers or Space Channel 5. His song in the game could be considered both. That or a Bollywood Chiptune number at the very least. Either way, it's awesome.
• Mythical Motifs: Matthew Patel's mystical powers seem to have a Hindu god theme. In the video game, his Fireball is called "Agni Fist", and in the anime, Matthew gains the ability to summon multiple spectral arms wielding a trident, seemingly a reference to Shiva.
• Numerological Motif: Being the 1st evil ex, the number 1 is extensively seen with him:
  • His hairstyle makes him have only one visible eye. Both of his eyes, however, are visible in his appearance in the movie.
  • He constantly points one of his arms up in the air with one finger.
  • He openly states his title as "Ramona's first Evil Ex-Boyfriend".
  • He was "the one non-white and non-jock" in Ramona's middle school, as said by her.
  • Wallace calls him "that one guy".
  • Ramona claimed that they only kissed once.
  • His jacket has a single chevron on each sleeve. One of these chevrons is absent in his movie appearance, with the other appearing as a stylized "1" at the angle he holds his arm in his introduction.
  • His "Demon Hipster Chicks" feature a single star on their shirts.
  • In the movie, Scott earns 1000 points upon defeating him.
  • In the movie, Matthew warns Scott about the League once through e-mail, instead of twice as in the book where he appears.
• Pirate: He dresses like one. When asked about why he's dressed like that, he defensively claims that pirates are in style this year.
• Playing with Fire: He uses fireballs during his fight with Scott.
• Psychopathic Manchild: It seems that he hasn't matured since middle school.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Precisely why Scott Pilgrim ignores his "threatening" emails.
• Starter Villain: He's the most pathetic and least threatening of the exes. Perfect for the first "boss fight".
• Summon Backup Dancers: His Demon Hipster Chicks.
• This Cannot Be!:
  This is impossible! How can this be?
  Scott: Open your eyes, and maybe you'll see!
• Token Minority: As the "only non-white, non-jock" in Ramona's middle school, this trope was the only reason she truly bothered with him in the first place. It's also the primary basis for his "mystical powers," according to Ramona herself. Once they overpowered everyone else in their middle school, Ramona quickly found out that she had no real interest in him, and quickly ended the relationship.
• Warm-Up Boss: Word of God claims he was supposed to be rather pathetic, what with his letters and his one-sided fight with Scott. Not to mention that when he bursts into coins, the resulting pocket change isn't even enough for the bus ride home. This is probably related to the Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: His relationship with Ramona was entirely based on him being the "only non-white, non-jock" at the school and the fact that they could team up to defeat everybody that threatened them. Once all threats were taken care of, Ramona dumped him without any fanfare.

Lucas Lee

Lucas Lee
Ramona's 2nd Evil Ex-Boyfriend
Not really evil

The second Evil Ex. A former pro skate-boarder turned actor. He's in Toronto in Volume 2 to shoot a movie, so he invites Scott down to the set just to kick his ass. Despite being out to kill Scott, he's actually quite a decent guy.

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• Accidental Misnaming: Scott keeps getting him and Luke Wilson mixed up. Even after Lucas bites it, he still mistakes Luke Wilson as Lucas Lee.
• Adaptational Jerkass: He's more of a dick in the film than he was in the comic.
• Affably Evil: He's an Evil Ex, but unlike the other Exes, all that's really bad about him is that he wants to kill Scott. He doesn't even go out of his way for that, offering to let Scott live for a bribe. He's also the only Evil Ex who's gotten over Ramona, and is only really in the league because it's kind of a requirement.
• Alliterative Name: His first and last name start with the letter L.
• Anti-Villain: He's actually a fairly friendly guy when he's not trying to control his ex's love life. He even offers to let Scott go in exchange for a bribe.
• Badass Normal: Unless you count being famous as a power. Taken even further in the comic, where he only fights Scott with punches and a skateboard, and still has an easy time with him for most of the fight.
• Berserk Button: The gloves come off when Scott calls him a sellout.
• The Brute: He appears to be the physically strongest of the exes, taking Scott out in a single punch that sends him flying.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Whereas Matthew was a flashy tryhard fixated on what was essentially a non-relationship he had in middle school, Lucas is a low-key guy who has pretty much moved on with his life since his breakup with Ramona. This is further reflected in their move sets, as while Matthew used impressive-looking magic but was brought down easily, Lucas simply fought with his fists and proved to be a formidable opponent.
• Evil Counterpart: To Knives, in a sense, both being fairly lame high-schoolers whom their partners cheated on with a much cooler replacement. Wallace and Kim note the similarity.
• Flunky Boss: In the game, he brings skateboarders into the fray. Specifically so that you can knock them off their boards, allowing him to equip one and become more powerful. In the film, he calls out stunt doubles while he goes to get a cup of coffee.
• Friendly Enemy: To Scott. He is a genuinely nice guy and engages in small talk with the group. Apparently it's because being an ex of Ramona makes him an obligatory member of the League.
• He Is All Grown Up: He was a dweeby skate rat as a teen who Ramona immediately ditched after laying eyes on Todd. Now he's an A-list celebrity who is attractive, down to earth and freakishly strong. Subverted to a degree in that Ramona still has no interest in him and he has more or less moved on from her.
• Jerk Jock: Subverted in the comic. Despite having a jock's body, being inhumanly strong and being an "evil ex", he's ironically more of Friendly Enemy. Played more or less straight in the movie.
• Jobber: He's actually pretty uninterested in the whole "Evil Ex" thing, and doesn't really care for the League. He offers to throw the fight with Scott in exchange for loose change.
• Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: Double subverted. Lucas sees right through Scott's attempt to dare him into playing into a stupid and dangerous stunt... until Scott mentions there are females present.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Lucas Lee is Jason Lee.
• Numerological Motif: Continuing from Matthew, Lucas, as the 2nd evil ex, has the number 2 seen in him in a number of cases:
  • His name, as well as the logo of the brand from which his skateboard comes from, consist of two L's.
  • His trailer, caravan and car all have a "2" motif on them.
  • The Absurdly Long Stairway in which he does his trick upon is said to have 200 steps.
  • He and Ramona only dated for two months after he asked her out 92 times.
  • Ramona said that she was either in Math or Drama (two possible classes) with Lucas.
  • His first line when talking to Scott: "The only thing keeping me and her apart is the two minutes it's going to take to kick your ass".
  • He mentions two other Evil Exes (in this case, Matthew and Gideon).
  • In the movie, he has a "2" tattoo on his neck, and a belt with two X's on the buckle.
  • In the movie, he points with two fingers.
  • In the movie, Scott earns 2000 points upon defeating him.
  • Two characters (Wallace and Neil) appear as standby viewers during his fight in the game.
  • Buses with adverts of him (which have the number 2) appear twice in World 1 of the game.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Lucas Lee is a genuinely nice guy, engages in small talk with the group, and even offers Scott some baby carrots and Ritz crackers right after throwing him into Casa Loma's tallest tower. He's even considered evil by Scott just because "he's a sellout".
• Self-Disposing Villain: Kills himself taking up a dare to grind a rather gnarly railing.
• Super-Strength: Throws Scott five stories straight up into the top of a tower, which is demolished by the impact.
• Token Good Teammate: In the comics, and the film to a lesser extent. He's the only Ex who really seems to have gotten over Ramona and moved on with his life. Being part of the League is just a requirement for guys who dated Ramona.
• Wake-Up Call Boss:
  • After Scott easily took care of Matthew Patel, during which it was mentioned that Scott is the best fighter in the province, you might think that Scott will be able to take the entire League with just his own fighting abilities. Lucas Lee shows that not only are the other members of the League a bigger threat than Matthew, but that Scott's abilities alone won't carry him through his encounters with them.
  • In the game, he's this to a much further extent. He has much more health and damage per hit than Matthew, and summons skateboarders who are fast, also do a pretty large amount of damage, block more frequently, and will pick up skateboards (or other weapons) and use reach. Lucas himself has a nasty combo attack once he has a skateboard that hits three times. In addition, any time the player is knocked prone, there's a good chance anyone on a skateboard will run them over for more damage. However, all of these factors can be mitigated or avoided by players with a better idea of Lee's boss pattern or who have come in with inflated levels.

Todd Ingram

Todd Ingram
Ramona's 3rd Evil Ex-Boyfriend
Status: Incorrigible
(Doesn't know the meaning of the word)^note (He really doesn't)

Third Evil Ex and the bass player of the superband The Clash at Demonhead and was the boyfriend and basset of its lead singer Envy Adams. He possesses psychic powers because of his devotion to veganism, but he's not particularly faithful to being a vegan... or to Envy for that matter.

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• 90% of Your Brain: Played for Laughs. Well, if you knew the "science", you'd know he's right.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: The original color images from the comic and the video game have him with brown hair, while in the movie and the color reprints of the comic he's a bleached blonde.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: While still an arrogant prick in the movie, he doesn't cheat on Envy like he does in the comic.
• Advancing Wall of Doom: He fills this role in the video game.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: The reason Ramona immediately ditched the then lame Lucas for him.
• Always Someone Better: To Scott. He was dating The One That Got Away and is a talented and skilled bassist to a band rising in fame while Scott is a so-so bassist in a struggling local band. He also more or less looks like a taller, more muscular version of Scott. Yet ultimately, Scott proves to be the better person.
• Artistic License – Biology: The suggestion that a diet low in fat and protein (which FYI make up something like 90% of the brain) can improve brain function. Adding psychic powers as a benefit just takes it to the level of absurdity.
• Big "NO!": Gives this out after losing his vegan powers.
• Brought Down to Normal: Loses all of his powers when the vegan police catch up with his transgressions against veganism.
• Childhood Friend Romance: He and Envy grew up together as kids before he had to move away. While Envy swears by this as proof of their love for each other, Todd ended up changing for the worse.
• Conditional Powers: "No vegan diet? No vegan powers!"
• Deface of the Moon: He punched two craters in the moon with his Vegan powers, one for Ramona and one for Envy. The immense ecological damage this would cause is Played for Laughs as an afterthought.
• Deflector Shields: In the game he can create an AT Field.
• The Dragon:
  • While he is the Evil Ex of Volume 3, Envy is the real villain while Todd acts more as a minion to her, at least until the climax of the book.
  • He's also somewhat this to Gideon, as Todd is the only evil ex shown to have direct contact with him, and Gideon is the only member of the League who might be more powerful than Todd. Todd also gets more focus and screentime than any of the other Exes except for Gideon.
• Dumb Muscle: Freakishly powerful, but much dumber than he thinks he is.
• Evil Counterpart: Less pronounced than Gideon, but like Scott, Todd is a bass player. While Scott once dated Envy and now dates Ramona, Todd once dated Ramona and now dates Envy. Todd is also two-timing Envy, like Scott briefly was with Knives.
• Evil Is Petty: Unlike all the other Exes, Todd actually had a mutual breakup with Ramona. Not only that, but he's a serial cheater so his only motivation is for the sake of it.
• Evil Vegetarian: Justified, since his vegan diet somehow enhances his mental capabilities to the point where he develops Psychic Powers.
• Expy: He's basically an American, vegan Tetsuo. The game carries the Tetsuo references even further with Body Horror.
• The Ex's New Jerkass: The new boyfriend of Scott's ex Envy, and an utter jerkass.
• Flipping the Bird: He does this often, especially in the video game.
• Hate Sink: While Matthew was pathetic and Lucas was likable, Todd is shown to be a contemptible, selfish asshole in every conceivable way. Making him hated by most of the fan base. Thankfully, he is also shown to be Laughably Evil, keeping him from entering Knight of Cerebus territory.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Todd's defeat is caused by a variety of things he has done to himself; however, Scott takes advantage of his vegan weakness in the movie a lot more effectively.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: Scott's first few clashes with him are complete Curb Stomp Battles due to Todd's psychic shields preventing him from taking any damage.
• Ikea Weaponry: He assembles an assault rifle out of household items to shoot Scott at Honest Ed's. He ends up unable to use it, though.
• Insufferable Imbecile: Less "imbecile" and more "insufferable" than his movie counterpart, but it's still there.
• It Runs on Nonsensoleum: Telekinesis through veganism! "Because 90% of your brain is curds and whey..."
• Jerkass: Really is in the running with Gideon for the title of the biggest douche in the series. Played up even further in the game, where his default pose is a condescending and indifferent glare and his cut in portrait is him Flipping the Bird.
• The Juggernaut: When he's using his vegan powers, nothing can stop him.
• Karma Houdini: Todd thinks he should be one because in his own words, "I'm a rockstar!"
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He's clearly an idiot, but he believes every word out of his mouth to be pure genius, since he's a rock star.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He believes that he's above consequences simply because he's a rock star. The Vegan Police proved otherwise.
• Marathon Boss: It takes several Big Damn Heroes moments for him to finally go down, and that was only after three failed attempts at fighting him.
• Numerological Motif: Still with the trope, Todd has the number 3 seen with him:
  • One of his T-shirts has a "3" motif on it. This T-shirt also has 3 stripes on each sleeve in the movie.
  • Another of his T-shirts has a skull motif with 3 teeth.
  • He frequently flips the bird; the middle finger is the third digit on the hand.
  • He's part of a 3-member band.
  • Scott fails to fight him 3 times. The first one of these was immediately stopped by Todd himself because it was 3:30 AM.
  • He had 3 girlfriends: Ramona, Envy and Lynette.
  • He only lasts 3 minutes at Honest Ed's before losing control. At that moment, he has 3 flashbacks of 3 different characters (his father, Gideon and Lynette).
  • He committed 3 offenses before getting his vegan powers revoked.
  • In the movie, he throws Scott through 3 walls after the bass battle (where each of them performed 3 solos). Scott also hits a trash can covered in 3s in the process.
  • In the movie, Scott earns 3000 points upon defeating him. Kim comments that "a third of the band just went boom" afterwards.
• Power at a Price: His veganism gives him unbelievable psychic abilities at the cost of preventing him from ever eating meat or dairy products.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: He seems to be, if not the strongest of the exes, certainly in the top two at least. He's also dumb enough that he ultimately manages to more or less defeat himself.
• Power Glows: Both his eyes and body radiate with energy when he uses his powers.
• Psychic Powers: His veganism allows him to tap into the normally unused 90% of his brain, bestowing him with unbelievable psychic abilities. As long as he stays true to his diet, he gets to harness them. If he breaks it a certain amount of times, then the Vegan Police can revoke his powers.
• The Rock Star: Which in his mind means he can do anything.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!: Wears this trope on his sleeve because he's a rock star, and believes he has the right to do what he wants without consequence. Too bad he's not immune to the Vegan Police.
• Self-Disposing Villain: His breaking of veganism by eating gelato makes the Vegan Police take away his powers, allowing Scott to defeat him.
• Shadow Archetype: He's a more blunt and open one to Scott. Their names sound the same, Todd resembles Scott, but bigger and more muscular and is a more competent bassist. However, he has all of Scott's faults (and has them all worse than Scott does), while possessing none of Scott's nicer or redeeming qualities.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Manages to qualify as this despite practically having the powers of a Physical God. While he insists that he can do anything due to being "a rock star", The Clash At Demonhead had only recently started to get mainstream recognition by the time of his introduction, with their biggest claim to fame simply being that they opened for The Pixies. They were certainly on their way to becoming famous, but Todd kind of jumped the gun in declaring himself to be an untouchable celebrity.
• Smug Snake: He just wishes he could do anything and get away with everything. Unfortunately for him, the Vegan Police prove otherwise.
• Smug Straight Edge: He is convinced that his veganism makes him better than everyone. To be fair to him, it basically does.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: A subversion that completely throws the trope out the window. Despite only being the third Evil Ex of 7, Todd's veganism gives him a vast array of insanely powerful psychic abilities that border on god-like, to the point where only maybe Gideon puts up a better fight than he does.
• Squishy Wizard: It's revealed that once his powers get removed, he's weak enough to take out in a single headbutt.
• Straw Hypocrite: Claims that being a vegan makes him better than anyone else, but knowingly breaks his vegan diet very casually. In his mind, being a rock star makes him exempt from the rules followed by ordinary people.
• Superpower Lottery: Being a vegan gives him a ridiculous array of overpowered psychic abilities that make him hands down one of the most powerful characters save for maybe Gideon. Of course, the price of cheating his vegan diet proves to be very costly.
• Villainous Breakdown: Goes through two brief ones, the first during the competition at Honest Ed's in Chapter 14 and the second just before his defeat in the final chapter of Volume 3 (Chapter 18).
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Matthew was a warm up and Lucas took care of himself, but Todd brings his A-game, to the point where his fight with Scott takes up most of the 3rd book's plot.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: It's revealed during his first Villainous Breakdown that he has parental issues, and he appears to have originally become a vegan in part to impress his father and follow in his footsteps. As seen in a mental flashback of Todd's not long after, Todd's father responded by derisively snorting, saying that there was no way Todd would have the discipline to stay vegan. And he was right about Todd.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • In the comic, he tosses Envy with his vegan powers after she kneed him in the nuts for cheating on her (even though he deserved that), cause he's a rock-star, losers! .
  • In the movie, he does this to Knives instead.

Roxie Richter

Roxanne "Roxie" Richter

Roxanne Richter
Ramona's 4th Evil Ex-Boyfriend
Gender: Female

The fourth Evil Ex-Boyfriend (actually a girl). She was Ramona's college roommate and dated Ramona as part of a bi-curious "sexy phase" Ramona was going through at the time. She was Ramona's ninja mentor and is actually quite friendly with her despite being a member of the League.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Her being Amicable Exes with Ramona is removed from the movie, and she is just as hostile to Ramona as she is to Scott.
• Alliterative Name: Her first and last name start with the letter R.
• Amicable Exes: The only ex that is actually friendly with Ramona, even making out with her while she was dating Scott.
• Anti-Villain: She's on generally amicable terms with Ramona in the comic and is only going after Scott because she thinks (not entirely incorrectly) that Scott is too much of a coward to be a good boyfriend to Ramona.
• Art Attacker: Not in her debut, but in the Free Comic Book Day issue it's implied she used ninja magic to animate an actress from some movie posters to attack Scott.
• Attack Its Weak Point: The back of her knees in the movie. In the comics, this was Envy's weak point. Unlike with Envy, who was temporarily left quivering and blushing but otherwise fine, this causes her to explode into coins.
• Berserk Button: Roxie seems pretty sensitive about people doubting her abilities, probably due to only being half-ninja.
• The Corrupter: It turns out that she's the reason Ramona has been salty to Scott in the book regarding Lisa. Roxie assumed that Scott was cheating on Ramona with Lisa. Would explain why Ramona was willing to make out with her.
• Diagonal Cut: How her fight with Scott ends.
• Dream Walker: As someone who can use Subspace, she has the ability to enter dreams. She shows up in Scott's and cuts off his arm, nearly killing him before he wakes up.
• Dude, Where's My Reward?:
  • Unlike the other Evil Exes, Roxie turns into a bunch of cute woodland animals Sonic the Hedgehog-style as opposed to coins. Scott does gain The Power of Love though, so it's not like he walks away empty-handed.
  • Averted in the game, where the woodland creatures are worth money.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Has shades of this to Ramona, as they're both rollerskaters that use Subspace, and both are described as ninjas. (Half-ninja in Roxie's case.) Part of this is justified in that she's the one who taught Ramona about Subspace to begin with.
  • She's also closer in role to a spurned Knives. Both of them use a more ninja-flavored fighting style, and both of them are the victims to a downplayed relationship—Knives for Scott (dates her at seventeen but doesn't take the relationship seriously), Roxie to Ramona (treats the whole thing as a phase).
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: She has eye black under her eyes in every scene we see her in in the comic, and may even wear it while she's asleep.
• Fat Bastard: Female version, although thanks to Generic Cuteness the "fat" part isn't as visible. Ramona remarks that she almost didn't recognize Roxie, seeing how she had put on some weight since college. Roxanne replies that Ramona's gotten puffier too.
• Friendly Enemy: To Ramona in the comic. Not so much to Scott. Mostly because she's convinced that Scott is cheating on Ramona with Lisa.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Especially in the movie, although she is still quick to anger in the comics.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Parodied; she claims herself to be a "half-ninja".
• McNinja: She's a parody of this trope.
• Ninja Log: Utilized in the game.
• Numerological Motif: Still with the motifs, now we have the number 4, though it seems to be less frequent in Roxie's case:
  • She attacks Scott 4 times during their first encounter. They also fight 4 times before her defeat.
    • In the movie, the bar in the first encounter is named "4" as well, and has lights in groups of 4.
  • She and Ramona hadn't seen each other for 4 years prior to her introduction.
  • By the time of the book where she appears, Scott and Ramona have been dating for 4 months.
  • She explodes into 4 bunnies and 4 birds.
  • In the movie, Scott earns 4000 points upon defeating her.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: She is never once referred to as "Roxanne" in the film.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: Downplayed, as Scott was trying to fight back. As he unintentionally punched her in the boob, however, she gets more pissed and tells him to "Prepare to Die, obviously."
• Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: A lesbian version, specifically in the film, which removes her amiable interactions with Ramona.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: She plants ideas in Ramona's head that Scott is cheating on her with Lisa. She's half-right, in that Scott already cheated on Knives with Ramona.
• Samus Is a Girl: When menaced by an anonymous black blur in their first fight, Scott simply throws his fist up. Turns out he punched her in the boob, much to his disgust.
• Shout-Out: In the movie and game, she uses a Whip Sword. Now take a moment to remember her surname.
• Single-Stroke Battle: With Scott.
• The Smurfette Principle: The one female Evil Ex, which, in the comic, somehow is able to keep her from dying outright, getting her turned into several cute little animals instead.
• Spell My Name With An S: "Roxie" in the comic, "Roxy" in the movie.
• Starving Artist: Downplayed. She's certainly not starving, but Ramona joked about her being "poor" in Vol 4. This is later hinted at even more when she explodes into cute critters instead of coins.
• Tattooed Crook: You can just barely make it out, even when it's at its best visibility, but she has the Oni Press demon head logo tattooed on her left shoulder.
• Teleport Spam: Almost constantly teleports away.

Kyle and Ken Katayanagi

Kyle and Ken Katayanagi
Ramona's 6th and 5th Evil Ex-Boyfriends
Handsome Jerk and Perfect Asshat

Fifth and Sixth Evil Exes. A pair of Japanese twin DJs Ramona dated behind each other's backs. After she dumped them, they banded together to get back at her. They send their home-made robots out to battle Scott throughout Vol 5 before finally fighting him together.

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• Alliterative Name: Both of their names have similar sounds.
• Break Them by Talking: They attempt to break Scott by giving him a lecture on how Ramona is a hypocrite who will someday cheat on and abandon Scott just as she has done to others. It almost works, especially due to Scott and Ramona having just had some serious fights, but Kim's Motivational Lie gets Scott to disregard the attempt and shake their words off.
• Butt-Monkey: Apparently, being the subtle butt monkeys of the League is a running gag through the franchise, as while they're two exes for the price of one, they are not the main focus of the 5th book they are the villains of (the main plot of the book hinging on Ramona becoming more and more disatisfied with the normal relationship she has with Scott, while also learning about him two-timing on her and Knives, so regular drama), they show up in a VERY short time, with no dialogues and no backstories at all in the movie, in the game Ken is even called Kevin and instead of dressing differently, they're just palette swaps of each other (a reference to Double Dragon's tendency to change the names of their starring characters), and in the animated adaptation, they even up on Old Scott's loser band in the future, that can barely brings 100 views, something VERY sad compared to their successful robotics and industrial past.
• Dual Boss: They fight together.
• The Evil Genius: Two of them. They're great with robotics and while most of the Exes simply try to fight Scott, they try to psychologically break and undermine him as well.
• Filler Villain: They don't actually have much of a role in the book they appear in, with the plot instead focusing on Scott's falling out with Ramona. They're more or less only around to fill in the Evil Ex quota and to move things along to get to Gideon.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Mentioned to be award-winning roboticists and they sic robot Mooks on Scott before their actual "boss" fight. In the film, they become Musical Assassins.
• Jerkass: If their condescending attitude wasn't enough to convince you that they're just dicks, kidnapping Kim should put that argument to rest.
• Jerkass Has a Point: For all their dickishness, they're proven correct about Ramona after their defeat. Of course, Ramona does eventually change for the better.
• Numerological Motif: Now we have 5 and 6 combined:
  • In a combination with Punny Name, K (the first letter of their first names and surname) is the eleventh letter in the alphabet. 11 = 5 + 6
    • A second case with the sum happens in the movie, where they turn the volume of their music up to eleven.
  • Their surname has 5 syllables, and both of their first names consist of a single syllable, thus totalling to 6 syllables in their full names each.
  • The total reward Scott gets for defeating them is 156 dollars.
  • In the movie, Scott earns 5000 points upon defeating them, which then counts up to 6000 points.
• Palette Swap: In the game, which is strange, because their boss portrait shows them with different hairstyles and clothes like in the comic.
• Shout-Out: To Ryu and Ken/Billy and Jimmy Lee.
• Sibling Team: In every appearance they fight Scott simultaneously.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: In visual appearance. Kyle has white hair while Ken has black, and their outfits are of the same opposite tones.
• Single-Minded Twins: Deliberately. After they had a fight when they discovered that Ramona had been dating both of them, they made up and decided to always act together and let nothing divide them again.
• Smug Snake: They are competent, but they still have this kind of demeanor.
• Vacuum Hurricane Kick: One of their moves.

Gideon Gordon Graves

Gideon Gordon Graves
Ramona's 7th Evil Ex-Boyfriend
Occupation: Asshole

Seventh and final Evil Ex and leader of the League of Evil Exes. Gideon is a 31-year-old entertainment mogul from New York and Ramona was once both his girlfriend and his muse. He is a total asshole.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: His hair appears purple in the video game, while it's black in the comics and film.
• Alliterative Name: All three of his names start with the letter G.
• Big Bad: The leader of the League and also the ex with the greatest impact on Ramona.
• Black Bug Room: He designed The Glow to trap people into one of these as part of psychological warfare through military contracts. Upon The Glow being inflicted onto the target, they become stuck inside their own head as their vices are magnified and memories potentially tampered with, locked onto a path of self-destruction.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Gideon slips in a cameo in Todd's flashback in Volume 3, telling him to just use his Vegan abilities, and shrouded in shadows at the end of Volume 3 right after Scott defeats Todd. He also slips in another one in Volume 4 when Scott crashes Ramona's subconscious.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: It's tough to tell from the art style, but evidently Gideon's look was based in part on actor Jason Schwartzman, who ended up playing him in the film.
• Control Freak: His greatest strength, and also his greatest weakness. For all of his wealth, power, and intelligence, he uses it for petty things like forming the Evil Exes or cryogenically freezing his former girlfriends. He even admits to Envy's face that dressing her up just the way he wants turns him on. When things slip out of his control, he snaps. Even something as minor as Ramona naming her cat after him (which he didn't know) throws him off his guard.
• Crazy-Prepared: "Yes! I had a sword built into Envy's dress in case of emergency! THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF GUY I AM!"
• Domestic Abuse: His neglect of Ramona led him to become controlling and manipulative, with him literally getting into her head. He's also got all his other ex-girlfriends locked up in cryogenics.
• Evil Counterpart: To Scott. The two both wield katanas and are not that good to their partners in relationship, although Gideon is way worse than Scott is. However, Scott is willing to change and overcome his flaws. Gideon is not.
• Evil Plan: Control Ramona's love life and ultimately use her to complete his collection of ex-girlfriends.
• Evil Is Petty: Along with the above plan, he started all of this simply because Ramona dumped him when they were dating. The whole "league" only came about because he was drunk at the time, and probably didn't even know what he was doing or that he would even be taken seriously.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His pupils have a swirl shape to them. They are at least as horrifying as the Scary Shiny Glasses that usually obscure them.
• Expy: According to Jason Schwartzman, who plays him in the film version, Gideon is partly inspired by Mr. Swan from the '70s horror-musical Phantom of the Paradise, a devil-worshipping media mogul who ruins the title character's life and seduces his Love Interest with the intent of ultimately killing her.
• Faux Affably Evil: He may call Scott "buddy", offer drinks to everyone around, and generally act like a swell dude, but make no mistake, Gideon is easily the biggest monster of the series. The surface charm is just a method to make it easier to charm or manipulate people.
• Final Boss: In the book, the movie and the game. Justified as he is the most notorious of Ramona's Evil Exes.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Has glasses and is by far the most evil of the exes.
• Harem Seeker: A dark interpretation of this trope. He literally collected all of his exes and had them cryogenically frozen with the intention of unthawing and dating them at his choosing.
• Hate Sink: Gideon, behind his cool design and skilled swordfighting, is nothing but a controlling, abusive maniac who justifies himself at every turn, despite clearly not caring about Ramona, the evil exes, or generally anyone else. He is, in many ways, "the perfect asshole".
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: In the first five volumes, although he makes a few shadowed-out appearances in Volume 3.
• Jerkass: The subtitles lampshade this repeatedly.
• Knight of Cerebus: Most of Scott's previous enemies (except Lucas) were jerks, with only Todd really going beyond that line. Gideon, on the other hand, takes it to a whole new level even beyond Todd, as he's an abusive, controlling, manipulative asshole screwing around with the minds and lives of multiple people, in at least some cases purely For the Evulz. While the other exes simply fought Scott, Gideon is perfectly fine with flat-out murdering him, as well as anyone else who gets in his way, which he shows by stabbing both Scott and Ramona.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Count the letters in his name. Also, what number does G look like to you?
  • His last name is Graves. He manages to kill Scott. Fortunately for Scott, it didn't take.
  • "Gideon" means "feller" (of trees), "mighty warrior", and "destroyer" in Hebrew.
• Nothing Personal: When Scott rejects his offer to join the League, Gideon merely says "Alright, Holmes. No hard feelings." before stabbing and killing Scott.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • He and Scott are miles apart on a social level, but are much the same on a personal one. They both tend to live in their own heads, screwed over people who cared about them, and then re-wrote their own memories of doing that instead of trying to change for the better. Scott's realization of this, plus the fact that he is willing to try to change for the better while Gideon doesn't care and is a generally horrible person, is what eventually gives Scott the power to defeat him.
  • Him and Ramona also fit, as one could view Gideon's treatment of Ramona as similar (if worse) to how Ramona treated her previous lovers. Perhaps this was what drew them together.
• Numerological Motif:
  • For the last evil ex, we have the number 7:
    • "G" is the seventh letter in the alphabet.
    • Upon his defeat, he explodes into $ 7,777,777 in coins (a seven-digit number composed of 7s).
    • With him being 31 and Scott 24, he's 7 years older than Scott.
    • The book where he mainly appears (Volume 6) has 7 chapters.
    • His pixel sword in the film grants him "x7" to his stats.
    • Also in the film, when Knives makes him swallow his gum, he mentions it'll be in his digestive tract for 7 years.
    • He has 7 ex-girlfriends, with Ramona being the 7th one. He plans to lock her in with the rest of them.
    • Every hit against him is worth 700 points as seen in the game and the movie. In the movie, Scott also earns 7000 points upon defeating him, and each of his hipsters and the Chaos Theatre guards award Scott with 700 points.
    • In the movie, there are 7 other characters present at the time of his defeat (Scott, Ramona, Negascott, Young Neil, Stephen, Kim and Knives).
    • The moment where he and Scott first meet is followed by 7 panels of them staring at each other before Scott runs away. Similarly, the panel where he stabs Scott is followed by 7 panels showing horrified people.
    • He steals the Power of Love from Scott, which consists of +2 guts, +3 heart, +1 smarts and +1 will (2 + 3 + 1 + 1 = 7).
  • To a lesser extent, he also has a bit of a motif with the number 6.
    • He has six letters in his first, middle and last names, as in 666, the Number of the Beast. Tellingly, the letter G somewhat resembles the number 6 and each of his names start with a G, another 666 mark.
    • Without counting Roxie, Gideon is the sixth evil ex-boyfriend, and he's the ex fought in the sixth and final book.
• Obviously Evil: "What a dick." This subtitle comes after he stabs Ramona in the chest just before she can teleport away. In front of Scott.
• One-Winged Angel:
  • In Volume 6, when Scott goes after him in the Subspace, Gideon progressively transforms into a 60-foot tall, barely-clothed and brutishly muscular version of himself surrounded by his fawning (and brainwashed) ex-girlfriends, echoing Kefka's god form from Final Fantasy VI. Subverted in that Scott literally headbutts him back to normal one page after the transformation's done.
  • Played straight in the game, where his "Gigadeon" form looks like a cross between Safer Sephiroth and the Tyrant. His lower half is also composed of the heads of the other exes.
• Pride: He sees himself on top of everything because of his success and despite his outward charm, it's clear he looks down on everyone and views his girlfriends as there to fawn over him.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Yes, he may be a massively successful media mogul with potential ties to the military, but underneath it all is that he seems like a selfish brat who wants everything his way and with a frightening amount of money, influence, and power (including literal psychic powers) to enforce as such, all coated with a charismatic charm.
• Punny Name: Take a wild guess what the 7th letter of the alphabet is.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a short and amusing one to Ramona, saying that she's the one thing her evil exes have in common, and asking who dates seven evil people.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Happens quite often.
• Sequential Boss: Parodies this trope, particularly in the video game, where he just keeps on getting new forms.
• Shadow Archetype: He's one to Scott, though more subtle than Todd Ingram was. Scott is a likeable dork who has a tendency to be insensitive to the feelings of others and often causes pain to his loved ones without meaning to. Gideon meanwhile is a charismatic charmer who uses people and doesn't care about who he hurts for his own purposes.
  • One could make the argument that Gideon serves a closer approximate to Ramona as a Shadow Archetype. In a way, one can view his treatment of her to parallel how Ramona treated her past relationships. Given how Ramona and Scott are more similar than they seem this works quite well.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Never seen in anything but a suit and tie with vest.
• Smug Snake: He's a manipulative, arrogant, and all-around unlikeable person.
• The Sociopath: Textbook case, as he is highly socially capable, flexible, manipulative, ruthless, sadistic game-playing, superficially charming, self-directed, compassion-deprived, and calculating. Similarly to Scott, he is also mentally walled off, just less blatantly, and quite meticulous, but then so are a large part of sociopaths.
  • Possibly hinted at when Scott attempts to use the Glow against him, Gideon remarks it has no effect on him since he was trapped in his own mind since he was born. He is literally unable to see past himself or empathize with other people since he was very young.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He is to Todd as Raoh was to Shin: Another truly evil ex, a Shadow Archetype to Scott (Todd is a more successful bassist than Scott and two-times Envy the way Scott two-timed Knives, while Gideon contrasts Scott's insensitivity by just plain not caring about others' feelings), and both dated Envy at different points in the story.
• Token Evil Teammate: While one does not join the "League of Evil Exes" without being a little evil, every other member is more jerkish than full-on malicious, each of them with legitimate grievances with Ramona or at least have some redeeming qualities. Not Gideon though. While Ramona broke up with her other exes' due to a Lack of Empathy, she broke up with Gideon because he was genuinely abusive to her. He inflicts Ramona with the Glow because he thinks he's entitled to her, treats Envy as a prop to exercise his Control Freak tendencies on, turns a dance hall unto a Supervillain Lair where he keeps his ex-girlfriends cryogenically frozen as trophies and straight up murders Scott when he turns down his offer to join the League.
• Villainous Breakdown: Once Ramona starts standing up to him and helping Scott in their battle, as evidenced by pulling out a spare sword from Envy's dress, and his brush off of her when she shows concern for him. At the same time, showing how pathetic he truly is.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • While Scott and Ramona ultimately both rebuff his claim, his statement on how they'll be their own worst enemy is still not entirely wrong. After all, both have similar vices and could fall back into the same sort of mental traps.
    • At the same time, this case is also subverted. Scott and Ramona may have both damaged themselves, each other and their friends because of their vices, but they recognize them as such and are working to overcome them. Ramona herself mentions she wants to overcome them together with Scott.
  • Another example of playing with it is how when Ramona returns, Gideon tries to dissuade Scott from fighting him, on the assumptions they're not an item anymore and if Ramona left him, the two did have no reason to fight him. However, Scott fights Gideon for himself (after all, Gideon did still kill him when Scott admitted he and Ramona weren't really together and Scott refused to join the League), not to mention that Gideon did still sic the other exes on him and the whole imprison his ex-girlfriends plot was enough of a reason to get involved anyway.
  • He also does have a point regarding how Ramona managed to date a bunch of screwed-up individuals willing to go with his insane scheme (despite it being a drunken rant, though we don't know the actual contents of the message.)
• Villains Want Mercy: In the video game, he begs to the player character(s) after his third and final battle turned out to be against a robot in a holographic room. The player character(s) respond to that by taking him out in one hit.
• We Can Rule Together: This offer is made by Gideon to Scott, after he finds out that Ramona has left Scott. Granted, he was offering the chance to rule Ramona's future love life, rather than the world, but still...
• What the Hell, Hero?: When he formed the League, it was a drunken rant on Craigslist. He was legitimately surprised when six other people shared his sentiment. When this is brought up he asks Ramona "Who the hell dates six evil people?!"
• Would Hit a Girl: He impales Ramona in the comics, with the subtitles declaring him to be a dick for doing so.

Other characters

Julie Powers

Julie Powers
The Original and the Best
WARNING: Huge Bitch!

Stephen's on/off girlfriend and a quasi-main character. Known for her abrasive personality and razor-sharp criticisms of others.

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• Alpha Bitch: Kinda. She certainly has the personality, yet she still hangs around the others.
• Death Glare: Her default expression.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the first two volumes of the black and white release she doesn't wear glasses, but from Volume 3 onward they're a prominent part of her design. In the colored re-release, she has glasses from the start of the story.
• Everyone Has Standards: For all her complaints, she was quite visibly shocked when seeing Scott die by the hands of Gideon.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She wears glasses from volume 3 onwards, and she's very much a jerk to everyone despite how they still hang out with her.
• Jerkass: Though she MIGHT have a Hidden Heart of Gold, it would be really really deep down though.
• Jerkass Has a Point: She's a jerk who was vocally opposed to Scott trying to ask Ramona out, and even banned him from trying. Considering she was there for the entirety of Scott and Envy's love story and knows that both parties were at fault for how horribly it ended and realizes he's On the Rebound, it's hard to say she was wrong.
• Last Het Romance: Is this to Steven Stills. As Scott so tactfully put it, Julie's bitchiness turned Steven gay (though Steven's new boyfriend is possibly even more bitchy).
• No Accounting for Taste: She and Stephen have broken up and gotten back together so many times that nobody even questions why they're still dating anymore.
• Satellite Character: Though whose satellite depends on the volume.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Her Alpha Bitch attitude is the reason why and her only real connection to the group is through being Stephen's girlfriend.
• Tsundere Decidedly of the tsun-tsun type.

Stacey Pilgrim

Stacy Pilgrim
Age: A very mature 19 years old
The Only Sane Woman

Scott's younger, more mature sister. Rated "T" for Teen. She serves as Scott's moral support when Wallace is nowhere to be found. Works at the Second Cup coffee house and becomes good friends with Ramona. She is based on and shares the same first name as Bryan Lee O'Malley's real-life sister.

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• Deadpan Snarker: Snarks at Scott whenever possible.
• Fag Hag: In the 6th level of the video-game she is the only straight background character. Make of that what you will.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While she's often a jerk to her older brother, she often has a lot of valid points and just wants Scott to get his life together.
• Only Sane Man: She seems to be the only character without any major issues, and the only one to react like it's unusual to have fights to the death between total strangers.
• Out-of-Character Moment: In the final volume of the series, despite being shown as a perfectly nice and amiable woman before, she's suddenly acting like a jerkass to both Scott and Young Neil with absolutely no explanation given whatsoever.
• Satellite Character: For Scott. She's buddies with Wallace, but we don't get to see much of the two together, and she herself stays out of most of the action.
• Ship Tease: With Neil.
• Tough Love: A more positive way to interpret her more unpleasant moments with Scott; she does show to care about him and the first thing she does when he's killed is to call their folks.

Mr. Chau

Mr. Chau
Age: Adult
Even more dedicated than his daughter

Knives' father. Doesn't take kindly to hearing his daughter was dating a white guy. Serves as a mini-boss/double-blind Stealth Mentor to Scott in Vol 4.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Cuts right through a trolley like butter.
• All Asians Know Martial Arts: He's absurdly good with his samurai sword for no reason other than he's Chinese.
• Badass Longcoat: Wears one.
• Cuteness Proximity: After Roxie explodes into birds and bunnies, Mr. Chau can be seen in the background taking a few of them with him.
• Determinator: Doubles as a Shout-Out as well.
• Fun with Subtitles: He speaks only in Chinese characters. The other characters aren't privy to the translation subtitles—not even his own daughter. This becomes a Bilingual Bonus because what he says to her is not remotely related to the translation given.
• Implacable Man: Nothing can slow him down.
• Implausible Fencing Powers: Slices a bus in half without even flinching and overpowers Roxanne Richter during their brief skirmish before ending it early
• Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Wields a very Japanese looking blade despite being Chinese.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Uses a samurai sword. It's never elaborated on what kind of sword it is though.^note It is identical to that of a Ninjatō.
• Knight Templar Parent: Initially didn't like the prospect of Knives dating a white guy. He gets over it when he sees Scott defeat Roxy.
• The Quiet One: Speaks all of twice throughout his appearance.
• Roaming Enemy: He stalks Scott through the entirety of Vol. 4. Also applied to the Video game.
• Sinister Shades: Wears these.
• The Stoic: He has a constant look of quiet intensity on his face.
• Superboss: In the video game. He randomly spawns on the map and proves to be quite powerful when fought.
• Worthy Opponent: A very weird variation. After seeing Scott stand up to Roxie and unlock the Power of Love, he stops pursuing Scott. Scott seems to lampshade it. It seems to be seeing Scott go through his Character Development made him realize that Knives dating someone like Scott wouldn't be so bad after all.
• Would Hit a Girl: Attacked Ramona for being in the same breathing space as Scott, who later tricks him into attacking Roxy.

Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller
Guest-Star Party Member
The Old Best Friend

Scott's first friend from high school, she was once part of his group of friends alongside Kim, even forming a band together. They lost contact with he moved away, but they reconnect when she shows up in Vol 4. Years before Scott Pilgrim was created, Bryan Lee O'Malley used the name "Lisa Miller" for a different (or at least much less defined) character in his short-lived comic strip "Style".

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Whenever Paul Robertson draws her (i.e. for the game and the six-volume comic box set), she has pale pink hair instead of the blonde O'Malley uses. This could be a reference to Bryan Lee O'Malley's old web comic, Style◊, where she had pink hair.
• Boyish Short Hair: Sports a similar hairstyle as Ramona and Kim.
• Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Downplayed, but Lisa admits that after she met Scott again (and caught him looking at her), she started tramping herself up in order to get his attention because she really liked it. She even propositions guilt-free sex with him, knowing that Ramona would never find out.
• Just Friends: Despite the suspicions from Roxie and Ramona's jealousy to the otherwise, Lisa and Scott are this. However, Lisa has shown that she may want it to be more.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: One of the few girls that Scott never had any romantic feelings for, and while he certainly finds her attractive all grown up, he refuses to cheat on Ramona with her. It's hinted that Scott never even realized that she was in love with him.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: On Lisa's side at least there's a fair bit, but Scott can't bring himself to explore it because of his relationship with Ramona.

Lynette Guycott

Lynette Guycott
Dream Job: Awesome Ninja
Special Ability: Teleportation

The drummer of The Clash at Demonhead. She largely remains silent and expressionless and lets Envy and Todd do all the talking. She has a bionic arm and is capable of teleportation.

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• Artificial Limbs: She has a bionic arm.
• The Dragon: To Envy.
• Emotionless Girl: She never really shows any emotion.
• Opaque Lenses: It's subtly implied in the comics that they're just Scary Shiny Glasses, but they're outright reflective lenses in the movie.
• Punny Name: In French, lunettes means glasses. Her last name is also a reference to a recurring boss in the game her band is named after.
• The Quiet One: She hardly ever talks.
• Stoic Spectacles: Wears these.
• Tele-Frag: Envy tears her bionic arm off as she teleports away. Ramona later decides to have it mounted.
• Teleport Spam: Her fighting style in the game.
• The Vamp: A short scene in the comic shows her from Todd's P.O.V seducing him to cheat on Envy.

Nega Scott

Negascott
Age: -24 years old
Rating: Negative Awesome!

A manifestation of Scott's dark side, who makes his first appearance in Vol. 4 just before Scott's battle with Roxie Richter. He makes a second appearance after Ramona goes missing in action, and finally confronts Scott in one of his darker moments in Vol. 6.

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• Adaptational Villainy:
  • In the original comic, Nega Scott is simply Scott's faults taken form, not really evil. In the video game, he is as evil as he looks. He successfully takes over the world in his ending.
  • Inverted in the film, where he's appearently a really nice guy, and he and Scott quickly become friends.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite his overall look and sinister smile, Nega Scott isn't actually evil, but rather a manifestation of Scott's faults and mistakes that he's made in the past. Scott's initial rejection of those things simply drives Nega Scott away for the time being, but when he finally accepts that he's not as good as he thinks he is, Nega Scott is absorbed and becomes a part of Scott.
• Enemy Without: To Scott. He is everything Scott doesn't like about himself, and is made manifest by Scott's denial of these traits.
• Face Death with Dignity: During the fight between him and Scott in Volume 6, Scott murmurs Ramona's name when he sees flashbacks to her just as Nega Scott is about to punch him in the face. After that, Nega Scott has a dejected, yet resigned look on his face before they merge.
• Foreshadowing: The colored picture makes it clearer, but the fact that he first appears when Scott is glowing is a massive indication of The Glow's properties. Hell, given he hasn't appeared until Scott got the Glow from Ramona, one could say that Nega Scott came to be because of the Glow.
• The Heartless: He is the embodiment of Scott's negative emotions. Even provides the page image.
• Mirror Scare: He does this to Scott while the latter brushes his teeth in front of a mirror cupboard in Volume 5, namely via taking over Scott's reflection in the right door. Scott doesn't seem to react to this, however.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: In the comic's Color Edition reissues and the movie, Nega Scott has creepy glowing red eyes that replaced the standard ones he had in the comic's original version and the game, adding another visual detail to his seemingly threatening nature. It's subverted in the movie with his change to a nice person.
• Post-Final Boss: Nega Scott is dealt with before Gideon in the comic and game. In the movie, on the other hand, he shows up after Gideon's defeat and challenges Scott to "defeat himself". Hilariously subverted as no battle actually occurs, with the two Scotts then being seen leaving the Chaos Theatre while talking about plans for next week.
• Sheathe Your Sword: How Scott defeats him. Scott learns to stop running away from his problems and faults and accepts them for what they are.
• Slasher Smile: Dons one frequently.
• Smug Smiler: Just take a look at that picture.
• Split-Personality Merge: His ultimate fate. Once Scott accept his flaws and mistakes, rather than trying to deny and run from them, Negascott is absorbed by Scott.

Joseph

Joseph
Kim's Roommate
Status: Professional Dillhole

One of Kim's roommates when she moves into a new apartment. Quiet and not much of a talker, but is pretty insulting and abrasive when he does talk. Stephen notices he has a home music studio and coaxes Joseph into letting Sex Bob-omb use it to make a album.

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• Closet Key: For Stephen. Slowly becomes obvious over the course of the series. Joseph himself is openly gay.
• The Engineer: He's good enough with his music studio that he can actually make Sex Bob-omb sound good.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: This guy is such an asshole and it's clear the others dislike him as much as he dislikes them.
  Joseph: I don't like your friends. Seriously, get new ones.
• Jerkass: A bigger one than even Julie. He's usually pissed off looking all the time and described as the insensitive one, notably his expression remained unchanged when Scott and later Ramona were killed by Gideon.
• No Accounting for Taste: He's like a male version of Julie. Hell, he's apparently even bitchier based on the others' reactions. The fact he doesn't react to Scott getting stabbed says a lot about this guy... and nothing pleasant.
• The Quiet One: He doesn't often speak, and when he does the text in his word balloons are much smaller than everyone else's, indicating that he has a very quiet voice. Whenever he does say anything, though, it's almost always to insult someone.
• Perpetual Frowner: He is usually frowning in every situation, especially when he is talking about someone.
• Sorry, I Left the BGM On: It turns out he's responsible for all the broadcasting music going on in the game except for in the Katayanagis' lair and places like Leo's Place and Chaos Theater.
• Straight Gay: He doesn't meet any stereotypes.

Michael Comeau

Michael Comeau
The Mutual Friend
Knows everybody; including you!

A mutual friend of everyone (even you). He usually turns up once every other book, sometimes just in the background. Based on and named after an artist friend of the author's.

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• Artifact of Death: He has a freaky skull ring that came "from the future" and it whispers Scott's name as he shows it off to him. It's implied to be Made of Evil, but it's never followed up on.
• As Himself: Michael Comeau is quite literally just a friend of Bryan Lee O'Malley, personality and all, inserted into the graphic novel. As the story goes, Comeau gained his Mr. Exposition status in the mind of O'Malley because he knew Scott Ingram, the guy that the Plumtree song "Scott Pilgrim" which inspired the series was named after, in real life.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: He knows everyone. Even you.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In the guest comic focusing on him (drawn by the real Michael Comeau), he manages to put up a pretty good fight against Scott "Best fighter in the Province" Pilgrim. He still ends up losing, though.
• A Day in the Limelight: One of the extra-canonical guest comics is devoted entirely to him. Following that is a comic drawn by the real Michael Comeau, discussing his character's role in the comic and his relationship with the author.
• Nice Guy: He gets along with everybody, to the point that he knows just about everyone in the main characters' social circle and beyond.
• Perpetual Smiler: He's hardly ever seen without his trademark toothy grin.
• Satellite Character: Manages to somehow be this to every single person in existence. His whole gimmick is that he knows everyone, and he frequently provides exposition regarding whoever Scott wants to know more about.

Tamara Chen

Knives's best friend, and when you get right down to it her only friend. Usually turns up whenever Knives has to angst about her love for Scott.

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• Not So Above It All: At the Chaos Theatre, she seems to have become just as eager and wild about music as Knives has.
• Only Sane Man: At first, she keeps Knives in check.
• Satellite Character: For Knives.

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