Their own best friend or worst enemy?
Just as Scott had begun his fight with Matthew Patel, a stranger pulled him into a Vegan-powered portal, over a decade into a future Toronto. While hanging out with the stranger, revealed to be a future version of himself, he learns about his relationship with Ramona in another timeline, as well as what happened in his own timeline at the height of his "death".But what will happen when he returns home?
- Bad Future: Subverted. Future Toronto is a bit desolate but not any worse for wear, and nothing serious seemed to have led to this state. The only real downer was the end of Scott and Ramona's relationship.
- Call-Back:
- Future Ramona is still delivering mail, but still unable to convert MPH to KPH.
- "Don't mention Sonic the Hedgehog."
- Cliffhanger: After his experience in the future, Scott returns to his present and reunites with Ramona, but something in the form of a barrier is holding them back from resuming their relationship. Believing that Scott still has to fight the entire League of Evil Exes, Knives comes up with a plan to bring them all together for the premiere of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Musical. The gang heads there for the "big finale" in their adventure.
- Death Equals Redemption. Literally. Future Scott, portrayed as "Old Scott", says that the Katayanagi Twins "respawned" after their defeat and redeemed themselves, implying that Death Is Cheap for the rest of the League and have improved since. They had formed a new band with Future Scott after Sex Bob-omb seemingly broke up.
- Double Meaning: Future Scott and the Katayanagi had formed a band called "Pop'n TwinBee". It's both named after video games and that the Twins make up 2/3s of the band.
- Easily Forgiven: Knives is glad that Scott came back and forgives him despite learning that he cheated on her with Ramona. She claims that the solace of his "death" is that it at least allowed her to grow into a better person, so she's not that upset.
- Future Me Scares Me: Downplayed. Future Scott isn't another Evil Ex of Ramona's following their divorce/separation, but it did understandably hit him even harder than his breakup with Envy, having him return to Wallace. Present Scott asks Future Scott about what he might have done wrong so he can avoid history from repeating itself when he gets back, but he becomes defensive. Scott then has Future Wallace take him to Future Ramona to find out the truth.
- Happy Ending Override: In an In-Universe sense. Future Scott shows his Present self a Virtual Boy-style abridged slideshow of the original graphic novel story, and even reveals Scott and Ramona getting married sometime after defeating the League of Evil Exes... then a shot of an angry Ramona with the word "DIVORCE" pops up, hinting that their happy ending didn't last, though it was as long as "13-odd" years, according to Future Scott.
- Here We Go Again!: An unknown force prevents Scott and Ramona from kissing again, leading to them believing that they may have to face Matthew again, as well as the rest of the League of Evil Exes, to settle any "emotional business".
- How We Got Here: Most of the episode reveals what happened with Scott after being pulled into the Vegan Portal, as well as how he eventually got back home.
- Internal Reveal: Through Robot-01, Scott learns how everyone's lives in the present continued without him from the past episodes. He tells Future Ramona that he was able to see a different side of her while she was trying to rescue him.
- Jerkass Realization: Scott meets up with Knives again after returning to the present, apologizing for cheating on her with Ramona... and the fact that he was dating Knives in the first place since she is just a year shy of legal age for someone like him.Scott: Apparently, a 23-year old dating a highschooler is frowned upon by society.
- My Future Self and Me: The episode explains Scott's claim that he "kidnapped" himself. He hangs out with his future self before Future Ramona helps bring him back to the present, where she meets her past self. Kim snapping a few pictures with them together is awkward at best, but otherwise there is no consequence of the pairs interacting with one another.
- Non-Linear Character: How Old Scott traveled to the past; The Twins theorized that if their Robot-01 disconnects himself from the space-time continuum, he would experience his entire existence simultaneously. Scott manages to make this happen, even though Old Wallace says that can't be possible yet.
- Present-Day Past: The show is set in the 2000s, but Scott mentions Detective Pikachu in Episode 7. The original Detective Pikachu game came out in 2016, and didn't even release worldwide until two years later. (Though it's possible he could've learned about it while he was with Old Scott in the future, the context of the scene makes it unlikely.)
- The Reveal:
- Future Scott pulled Present Scott from his timeline with the help of Robot-01, hoping to convince him to never date Ramona and their lives can be restored somehow.
- Future Ramona was the so-called "sleep paralysis demon" who wrote Young Neil's script, which is coincidentally based off a memoir by a Future/Old Young Neil. She had hoped it would be made into a movie so Scott would understand what happened in her original timeline and what led to their relationship being over. If nothing else, it was meant to be a counterplan against Future Scott's breakup plan and to save their present selves' relationship. Unfortunately, the movie project shut down thanks to Matthew Patel.
- Tragic Keepsake: The slideshow presentation of Future Scott's relationship with Ramona, which he had commissioned, is revealed to be an anniversary gift on the second to last slide. After they broke up he seemingly added a new slide of far lower quality detailing the apparent divorce.
- Shout-Out:
- Future Ramona's method of time travel was to modify her skates out of parts from an old DeLorean and go 88 miles per hour.
- Future Scott teamed up with the Future Katayanagi Twins to form a new band. Future Scott shows Scott one of their music videos, a cover of the song "Konya wa Hurricane" from Bubblegum Crisis.
- The code to Future Scott's VR room is forward, down, down-forward, punch: the command for a Shoryuken in Street Fighter.
- Some Kind of Force Field: is preventing Scott and Ramona from kissing.
- Stylistic Suck: Old Scott and the Katayanagi twins' cover of "Konya wa Hurricane" doesn't do the original justice. First and foremost, Old Scott's singing voice comes out as a booming monotone. The music video is also an incoherent mess in terms of mood and pacing with an overreliance on computer effects that are amateur-level.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: The VR slideshow, upon revealing that Scott and Ramona got divorced, shows a very clear Art Shift to a sketchy, less detailed style than the professional-looking pixel art of the earlier slides (which were explicitly made by hiring a guy online). Old Scott then starts claiming that there's no difference, and if anything it looks better, with a heavy defensiveness to his tone, all but outright stating that he made the last slide.
- The Unreveal: Present Scott learns that Future Wallace married a man who works at Nintendo, though it is never shown who it is. Future Scott believes that they can get free games as a benefit, but Wallace denies it.
- Wham Shot: Scott and Ramona reunite but something prevents them from kissing again.
- Wham Episode: With this episode, it is revealed that the graphic novel storyline is still canon, at least in Future Scott's timeline, which makes this series a "sequel" of sorts, or a New Game Plus.
