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Kaleidoscope Hair: Ramona dyes her hair every two weeks, causing Scott to freak out.
Karma Houdini: Two subversions.
- Scott seems to get away pretty clean in regards to him dating Knives Chau and Ramona at the same time, until Volume 5.
- Todd thinks he should be one because, in his own words, "I'm a rockstar!"
Katanas Are Just Better: Can be combined with Rule of Cool when Knives' dad uses one to slice through a streetcar.
Kissing Under the Influence: Kim and Knives at the start of the fourth book, to Scott's amazement.

Lame Comeback: Scott is a master of this trope.
- "I... but... it's... not... it's totally... it's... y...you're not the boss of... me?"
  Scott: At least I... wait... something... you... insult...
  Ramona: Scott, that was not a good comeback.
  Stephen Stills: That was actually not bad for Scott.
- And then in Volume 6:
  Scott (to Gideon): Shut up, you... guy!
  Wallace: Better comebacks, Scott!
Lap Pillow: Scott does this with Ramona.
Late-Arrival Spoiler:
- The Reveal that one of Ramona's ex-boyfriends is actually a girl is rather obvious to anyone who has seen any promos for the movie.
- Later issues begin with recaps of the plot, which would completely spoil the previous issues for anyone who hadn't read them yet.
Let's Dance: Said by Roxy to Scott before their big battle near the end of Volume 4.
Let's Wait a While: The love scene in Volume 1.
Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Quoted, word-for-word, after Scott accidentally walked in on Knives and Kim drunkenly making out unnoticed at the beginning of Volume 4.
Light Is Not Good:
- Gideon is glitzy, glamorous, and wears a snow white suit jacket. He's also a major dick.
- Todd exudes white Vegan energy.
Limited Social Circle: Highly averted, as the characters have a subclique of main characters and then they each have their own little circle of friends, and you've got friends and friends of friends — most of which add some realism, but don't really contribute anything aside from confusion. Because of the black and white art, it can be hard to tell all the characters apart. Luckily, we get little captions reminding us of names on a regular basis, and in the front of the third book, there is a helpful graph explaining the characters' relations to each other. Lampshaded a number of times: Some minor characters have captions like "I don't know this girl" or "Who cares?" In Volume 4, when Scott walks into Wallace's apartment, he finds Wallace in the company of two friends - a male and female - neither of whom are named and instead have giant Question Marks floating over their heads.
List of Transgressions:
- "Things That Are Not Cool About Scott's Apartment."
  Scott: What does "Not girl-friendly" mean?
  Ramona: It means it's a sucky little hole in the ground, Scott.
- The Vegan Police listing Todd's crimes against veganism.
  Todd: Gelato isn't vegan?
  Vegan Cop: It's milk and eggs, bitch.
Literal Metaphor: Scott first sees Ramona in one of his dreams as she makes runs through Subspace. Because he's unemployed for a while, he often sleeps through the day, while Ramona's work regularly takes her through Subspace and thus through his dreams. She is literally the girl of his dreams that runs through his head all day.
Living Doll Collector: Gideon keeps all of his ex-girlfriends in People Jars and plans for Ramona to be next. A big part of the reason the reader is still cheering for Scott in spite of his occasionally dysfunctional personality.
Logic Bomb: Joseph to Scott in volume 6: "I'm just saying if we die out there, I'll murder you."
Long List: Ramona rattling off tea blends.
Look Behind You: When Scott is on a pay phone and gets creeped out when Knives starts describing his outfit to him. Turns out she happens to be standing nearby.
Love Chart: The third book opens with one.
Love Dodecahedron: Let's just say it would take more than half the page to properly explain everything.
Love Hurts: With all the cheating and broken hearts that go on in this series, it's a given. Scott, Ramona, Kim, Knives and others have all gone through it at some point.
Love Makes You Evil:
- As evidenced by Ramona's seven evil exes. This almost happens to Scott as well, but was averted through some Epiphany Therapy in Vol. 6.
- Subverted with Knives, who in Volume 2 appears to make a Face–Heel Turn by ambushing Ramona in a jealous rage, but she later settles down and goes back to being simply a little bit Yandere.
- Also, it might be hinted that Ramona's other six exes weren't really evil so much as Gideon manipulated them into singling her out as the sole culprit of their failed relationships (though the episode with Kyle and Ken was a dick move on her part, if we're to believe them).
Love Redeems: The reason Scott undergoes Character Development at all is because of his newly discovered love for Ramona, and his journey- dare I say "pilgrimage?"- to attain her love, and Ramona develops once she reciprocates these feelings too. By the series end, although both are still far from perfect, they resolve to be better people to each other and to their friends.

Magic by Any Other Name: Todd Ingram has psychic powers but they are rarely termed as such. Instead, he is simply referred as a "Vegan" because vegans in that world gain these powers thanks to a strict vegan diet. They can have their powers revoked easily by the Vegan Police if they ever break from said diet a certain amount of times, as Todd learns the hard way.
Magic Skirt: Averted. Ramona's skirt flies up and reveals her tights in one panel.
Made of Evil: Comeau's skull ring, which he apparently got "from the future".
Magical Realism: All over the place.
Magikarp Power: The reason Scott didn't have a Skateboard Proficiency? He has a Sword Proficiency instead. Convenient when one actually shows up.
The Main Characters Do Everything: A disproportionate number of events of worldwide importance seem to involve the core cast of characters in some way. For example, the reason why there are two large holes in the moon is because Todd Ingram punched them into it with his bare fists to impress Ramona and Envy (respectively for each hole).
Manchild: This is Scott's principle character flaw. While the first few books seem to embrace and even flatter his childishness, it's only upon looking back after reading the whole series and witnessing his entire character arc that you realize how harshly it was actually mocking his immaturity.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl: There is a debate on whether Ramona is a straight example, deconstruction, or subversion. See this blog post, which lists Ramona as being similar to Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which is one of the more famous subversions of the concept.
Masquerade Ball: The party at Julie's apartment in Volume 5.
Meaningful Name:
- Kim Pine is pining for Scott. In the appendix of volume 1's color edition, Bryan Lee O'Malley also states that he chose "Pine" as in "porcupine" due to her prickly personality. (O'Malley originally conceived her as a character for a different series, an X-Men-style comic where she literally developed spikes when people got too close to her.)
- Knives Chau fights with knives.
- Scott Pilgrim is another: the book is all about his pilgrimage from self serving slacker to... well, someone approaching a responsible adult, anyway.
Mecha-Mooks: The first two robots the Twins deploy against Scott.
Mechanical Monster: The third robot the Twins send after Scott.
Medium Awareness: Scott apparently learns that Knives has turned 18 the same way that the reader does: by reading the caption above her head. He also refers to Ramona's caption listing her age as "unknown." Also, Scott will often tell another character to read a previous volume when they express confusion about something that happened earlier, and at one point Envy comments that an event has lasted for "a quarter of this book."
Miniscule Rocking: Crash and the Boys' forte
Wallace: It's not a race, guys!
Minus World: Spoofed in the video game.
Mirror Match: Scott versus Nega-Scott.
Missing Steps Plan: The "Vegan Shepherd's Pie" scene in Volume 2 has a variation:
Stephen Stills: Five! Add the fake meat stuff! Six! Add the gravy stuff! Eight! Add some soymilk and stir so everything's a bit saucy!
Mistaken for Cheating: Zigzagged. Thanks to Roxie, Ramona becomes increasingly suspicious that Scott is cheating on her with Lisa. She's only half-right, he cheated on her with Knives (and vice versa), not Lisa. When Scott spends the night in Lisa's apartment, he mistakes himself for cheating the following morning. Despite Lisa offering him the chance to do so, she tells him that he refused.
Mistaken for Gay: When Ramona first visits Scott's house, she notes that he and Wallace sleep in the same bed. He's quick to note that only because There Is Only One Bed.
Mistaken Identity:
- Mr. Chau goes after Scott because Knives' aunt mentioned that she saw Knives dating a white guy (Young Neil) and he drew the wrong conclusion from her Stalker Shrine.
- Scott keeps mistaking various people, even his own brother, for Gideon and attacking them.
Money Spider: The villains explode in a shower of coins, for no apparent reason other than that's what happens when someone gets killed. Lampshaded when people comment on how it ends up being barely enough to handle cab fare, a coffee, etc. But only for Patel. The other ex-boyfriends give out much more after defeat. Gideon's death rewards $7,777,777. Still spoofed, as the characters lament on how it's all in coins. Gideon's coin shower actually hurts the audience due to sheer volume and the height from which they drop.
"That guy left behind like 30 bucks in coins!" "What a dick!"
Mook Chivalry: Discussed.
Motivational Lie: Kim tells Scott one to help him beat the twins.
Mundane Fantastic: The story is a pretty normal, funny comic about relationships, until someone busts out the mystical powers or implausible kung-fu skills, or uses your dreams as a travel shortcut.
Mundane MacGuffin Person: Ramona Flowers. The protagonist must go through several obstacles to be with her, but we are shown very little about the relationship, or even Ramona herself, except that we are assured of her awesomeness.
My Friends... and Zoidberg: The Boys and Crash. Used to be Crash and The Boys. The band went through a bit of a hostile takeover, apparently.
My Hair Came Out Green: When Knives dyes her hair after breaking up with Scott, it turns bright red.
Knives: It looks like my head is bleeding!
Tamara: Your head is bleeding?
Mysterious Past:
- Ramona, though each volume fills us in on things, she never really explains exactly what happened between her and Gideon in New York. In a way her mysteriousness makes sense in light of what she reveals in Volume 6, how she's afraid of becoming "stuck" in her life, so she constantly reinvents herself and keeps her past at arm's-length in order to try and outrun her fears. Her past is a mystery because even she would prefer it that way.
- Interestingly, Scott is the same way, though in his case, it's less about being stuck than simply not liking his past self, so he constantly reinvents himself in an effort to be a better person. Except he's actually kind of a terrible person, which he eventually comes to realize and deal with.

Named After Somebody Famous:
- The real life Stephen Stills is a famous guitarist, and the S in the famous band CSNY. The Y is for Neil Young, for whom Young Neil is named.
- Most of the characters are named after a famous song or band, as the bonus materials at the end of Volume 3 show. Scott's name is taken from a song by the band Plumtree (which was the inspiration for O'Malley to write the series in general).
Names to Run Away from Really Fast:
- As Ramona herself puts it: "What kind of idiot would knowingly date a girl named Knives?"
- Possibly Envy Adams as well, but in her case it's only a nickname, though a self-applied one... which might make it worse). Her real first name is Natalie and her middle initial is V. N-V Adams. Ramona Victoria Flowers jokes that she should change her name to RV for the same reason.
NEET: For the first few volumes, Scott Pilgrim meanders through life with no job and no effort to get the training or experience for a job, to the ever decreasing patience of the friends on whose generosity he depends.
Nightmare Sequence: Scott's had several throughout the series, but his scariest one was in Volume 6 when he got impaled through the chest with the Power of Love by an angelic Ramona, pinning him to the ground and leaving him alone and stuck in the middle of a desert. Sharp-toothed monsters start circling around him, which are revealed to be Envy, Knives, and Kim. They then proceed to eat his limbs while he is completely unable to do anything.
90% of Your Brain: Filled with curds and whey, which is why Todd's veganism allows him psychic powers.
Nintendo Hard: The Tie-In game. Even on the easiest mode. Try to pass the whole game without saving and without continuing on single player. Unless, of course, you actually purchase some stat upgrades at (un)reasonable costs.
No Accounting for Taste: Stephen Stills and Julie have a pretty vitriolic relationship. By book five, they've broken up "for like the fiftieth time!" Stephen Stills continues to be an example of this even after he comes out as gay — his new boyfriend, Joseph, is, if possible, even more bitchy than Julie.
No Bisexuals: Ramona's relationship with her ex Roxy is described as a "phase", Kim and Knives make out when they're drunk with no further teasing or resolution, and Stephen dates Julie in a tumultuous off-and-on relationship before dating Joseph. Scott declares Julie turned Stephen gay, with the possibility of bisexuality not even considered.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Lucas Lee is based on Jason Lee.
No Endor Holocaust: Averted. Punching those holes in the moon did cause about 30 pages' worth of tidal waves and chaos.
No Social Skills: Scott, initially.
Not Helping Your Case: When Ramona confronts Scott after finding out that he's been double-timing between her and Knives, she asks if he's been cheating on her with Knives. He immediately replies, as if it would help things, that he's been cheating on Knives with her. And that's the straw that breaks the camel's back. Good going, Scott.
"Not So Different" Remark:
- Scott realizing he shares a lot of the petty qualities (such as infidelity) that Ramona's Evil Is Petty exes had. Comes to a head in Volume 6 when he finally fights Gideon, and realizes that he does a lot of the things that Gideon does (self-serving memory, Never My Fault-isms, and Protagonist-Centered Morality). Scott thankfully comes to realize he doesn't like it, and that he doesn't want to be that way anymore because of how it has hurt his friends.
  Scott: Gideon...I think I understand you, man...And now I have to kill you.
- It doesn't really hit home until the end but Scott and Ramona are very alike. They both casually dumped their girl/boyfriendss when they were done with them, they both have jealousy issues (represented by their head glowing whenever they feel jealousy), and they both run away from their issues and flaws rather than confront and deal with them. And to top it off, after Ramona left Scott at the end of Vol. 5, we later learn that she spent her time afterwards the exact same way Scott did: by spending all her time moping and watching TV. As one character states, they deserve each other.
- Knives dates Young Neil for shallow reasons and then dumps him abruptly, just like Scott did with her, and Ramona did with almost all of her exes.
- Hinted at with Scott and Mr. Chau. After finding out that his daughter has been going out with a white guy, Knives said that his mind cracked open into a machine of mechanical revenge. This same visual metaphor is used for Scott after he realized that Ramona had a sexy phase.
Not What It Looks Like:
- Scott tries this multiple times when his past transgressions with other girls are brought up. He lies every time.
- Todd tries to claim this when he and Lynette come out of the bathroom, but it doesn't work (first of all, he has her panties on his head).
N-Word Privileges: Knives casually mentions that the Asians at her school are "fobbish".^note

Obviously Evil: The Big Bad appears in silhouette in the first four volumes, and his last name is, of all things, Graves. His 'emblem' is also the video game equivalent of an inverted cross, and his three names each have six letters. Yep.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The "Knives Chau: 17 Years Old" joke lead many to believe that something important had to occur when her eighteenth birthday finally happened. Turns out, it happened a week before Volume 6 started.
Older Than They Look:
- Young Neil is the biggest offender of this, and the Running Gag makes a huge deal out of the fact that Scott finally acknowledged him as simply Neil in Volume 6; however, thanks to the art style, every single character in the series can be mistaken for mid-to-late teens unless you've read the comics or their bios. The Art Evolution doesn't help this.
- Even more noticeable is when we finally meet Scott's parents, late in Volume 5. We only know Scott's dad is supposed to be older because his hair is receding a little and he has some lines on his forehead; otherwise, he'd be nearly indistinguishable from Stephen Stills.
Old Maid: Played straight in a bizarre fashion. In Vol. 4, Scott is sitting on a bench looking for some drink money right before he meets Lisa. Two girls walk by, one remarking that Scott is kind of cute, and the other responds, "Ew, he's like 25."
One Cast Member per Cover: The color editions of the series have a different character adorning each of the six volumes—Scott, Knives, Envy, Wallace, Kim, & Ramona, respectively. There's also the "Evil Editions" that have each volume adorned by its respective evil ex(es).
One-Steve Limit: Averted. Lucas Lee/Lucas Wilson/Luke Wilson, much to Scott's confusion. There's also "Other Scott" and Ramona's cat Gideon, although his name is not a coincidence.
1-Up: Shaped like Scott's head, which creeps him out immensely.
One-Winged Angel:
- Echoing the end of Final Fantasy VI, Gideon transforms into a sixty foot tall barely-clothed and brutishly muscular version of himself surrounded by his fawning (and brainwashed) ex-girlfriends. Scott literally headbutts him back to normal one page later.
- Also happens in the game, with the girls replaced with the heads of the other Evil Exes (or at least some of them).
Onion Tears: Near the end of Volume 5, Scott is shown solemnly chopping onions with a completely stoic face while his eyes have turned into Ocular Gushers. A fellow worker comes and comforts him, to which he retorts by stating that it's the onions, not him.
Only Six Faces: Many characters look very similar. Possibly lampshaded by Knives when she says she only went out with Young Neil because he looks exactly like Scott. This gets confusing when Ramona cuts/dyes her hair every so often (the book were originally published in black and white before a remaster colored them).
On the Rebound: We have a triple threat:
- After the devastating break-up with Envy, Scott briefly gets with Knives at the first chance, before becoming obsessed with Ramona (at least he didn't take advantage of her). While over a year has passed since the break-up, Scott is still hurting so much that he's still dreaming the early days of their relationship and a phone call from Envy left him near-comatose.
- After being dumped by Scott, Knives dates Young Neil, as he looks kind of like him.
- When the full story about her break-up with Scott becomes known in volume 6 it becomes clear that Envy is on the rebound and dated Todd only because of this (he does look like a buff Scott) and thought their long friendship would help. After Todd is revealed to have been cheating on her she tries it again with Gideon, who shares many of Scott's character flaws, and only gets closure after his death.
Orcus on His Throne: Gideon spends the first five volumes of the series doing very little. He only appears briefly in a few scenes, until he contacts Scott at the end of the fifth book.

People Jars: Gideon has kept his ex-girlfriends cryogenically frozen and hooked up to some sort of ominous-looking machine that he draws his power from. There are seven tubes attached to the machine. Six are occupied, one stands empty and waiting for Ramona.
Phrase Catcher:
- "Gideon Graves: What A Dick."
- "I don't have to answer [to] that!"
Player Inventory: What Subspace bags are supposed to be the equivalent of, considering that the world of Scott Pilgrim runs on video game logic.
Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation: At one point, Wallace shows a blurry photograph of Gideon to Scott, although this is meant more to hide Gideon's appearance from Scott himself.
The Power of Friendship: Scott defeats Matthew Patel with help from his band, while stating:
Scott: You think you're so great, but you're missing the point. You gotta have friendship and courage and whatever!
Matthew: That doesn't even rhyme!
Scott: Shut up!
The Power of Love:
- In volume 4, the "Power of Love" manifests In the form of a flaming sword... but the trope is Subverted because loving Romona isn't enough to surmount the last Evil Ex-Boyfriend. That requires the far more important Power of Understanding, which allows Scott to see how similar he is to Gideon, and how that is a very bad thing.
- In volume 1, this protects Wallace, Jimmy, and those in the immediate vicinity from the effects of "Last Song Kills Audience", although they weren't in as much danger as the name implies.
Power-Up Food: For one, eating vegan grants strong psychic powers. For two, this trope is spoofed in the Free Comic Book Day issue, where Scott is deciding on which drink to get by looking at which stat they boost on the back like one would check nutritional information.
Precision F-Strike: Perhaps surprisingly for a series about the relationships of a group of twentysomethings, there's almost no swearing in the series. When somebody does swear, you know that things are serious.
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Scott dishes a pretty badass one before defeating the twins.
"I've a message for Gideon, you identical turds...he's next."
Prepare to Die: Roxy to Scott in Volume 4 after she gets punched by him in the boob. However, her presentation of the phrase is a bit...unconvincing.
"Prepare to...*cough* die."
Product Placement:
- Scott Pilgrim's three months of depression, brought to you by the PSP Go◊.
- Amazon.ca.
- Let me offer you a drink. Coke Zero, right?
- Pizza Pizza, Second Cup, Shoppers Drug Mart, CIBC, Honest Ed's, and many other well-known Canadian brands. Note that these companies didn't actually pay to be advertised in the book; O'Malley included them to add local color to the story.
- A Flight Centre storefront also shows up in The Movie. The "l" in flight quickly flickers out turning it into a Fight Centre.
- Jose Cuervo tequila.
Prolonged Prologue: Not so much in the books as in the movie, where books 2-6 took between 10-25 minutes apiece of screentime, whereas book 1 was a good 45 minutes.
Property of Love: Gideon keeping Ramona as his bondage slave.
Protagonist-Centered Morality: This actually becomes a plot point around Volume 5.
Psycho Ex-Girlfriend:
- The League of Evil Exes, the antagonists of the series, are male versions of this trope (Except for one girl!). Gideon in particular seems to take rejection really badly, what with the whole plot to cryogenically freeze his ex-girlfriends so that he can date them at his leisure later.
- Knives gets a little psychotic for a while after Scott breaks up with her.
Psychopathic Manchild:
- Matthew Patel doesn't appear to have matured ever since Ramona left him back in middle school. He's very melodramatic during his fight with Scott, and immediately lashes his anger out on Ramona when the latter explains the history of their relationship, saying that she's gonna pay it with Scott.
- Gideon is an even bigger example. Initially, his psychopath and manchild sides are quite firmly divided, and it's only near the end, after he reveals his ex-girlfriend-containing People Jars, that they start to bleed together.
Punch-Clock Villain: Lucas Lee. He seems like a genuinely nice guy, engages in small talk with the group, and even offers Scott some baby carrots and Ritz. Right after throwing him into Casa Loma's tallest tower.^note
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Scott to Gideon in Volume 6, spread across 4 pages.
"Would you LOOK AT YOURSELF?!"
Pyrrhic Victory: At the end of Volume 5, Scott defeats the Twins, but Ramona still leaves him.

Real Life Writes the Plot: Bryan Lee O'Malley was dating an American woman (cartoonist/comic book creator Hope Larson, to whom he was married from 2004-2014) and in a garage band when he started the series.
Really Gets Around: Scott is actually Ramona's ninth boyfriend. Aside from the evil exes, she once dated a guy called Doug, who wasn't evil, but a jerk, so she dumped him.
Recycled Title: The first chapter of Volume 5 ("Precious Little Life") reuses part of the first volume's title (Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life).
Red Herring:
- In Volume 2, Wallace shows Scott that Mobile taught him some psychic skills, making Scott think he could learn them as well to help him against Todd. Turns out he never does. Instead the vegan police show up to strip Todd of his powers.
- In Volume 6, the final battle has a reveal that didn't happen in the way Scott assumed. Hilarity Ensues:
  Gideon: I've watched you guys do stuff!
  Scott: (realization) You were the cat!
  Gideon: I was not the cat!
  Scott: THEN WHY WAS IT NAMED GIDEON?!
  Gideon: YOU NAMED YOUR CAT GIDEON?!
  Ramona: I- I have my own way of working things out!
Reference Overdosed: The comic, the film, and the video game all embody this trope magnificently.
Refusal of the Call: Scott deletes all the messages that Matthew Patel sends him. Big mistake.
Relationship Upgrade: The source of the page image; Scott and Ramona near the end of Volume 4, when the two confess their love to each other.
Retcon: Simon Lee looks remarkably like Gideon in Volume 2. Later, this is explained away as Gideon messing with Scott's memories... except that he looks exactly the same in Kim's dream in the same volume, which never gets explained. Looks like the author's original intention was to make Simon and Gideon the same person, but he later changed his mind.
- A very slight example, but in the first volume, Ramona tells Scott that he has to defeat all of her evil ex-boyfriends to date her, yet one of them turns out to be a woman. Notably, in the movie she always refers to them as just "exes", even repeating it whenever Scott says "ex-boyfriends". Presumably the author hadn't fully decided who all the exes would be during volume one.
Retraux: The video game, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is a curious case. It's about as old-school beat'-em-up as you can get. Featuring chiptunes (by Anamanaguchi), 8-bit spriting, and so on. So much so that it's frequently likened to River City Ransom, and/or Streets of Rage/Final Fight, almost to the point of looking like a Spiritual Successor of them. This on a PS3 (and Xbox 360)... only. As a downloadable game. With none of the annoyances of a NES/SNES-era games. There is good reason to why a lot of people are interested in this one game. It's very much an old-school gamer's love letter.
- And now it's gotten a retail release with all DLC packaged on the Nintendo Switch!
Revealing Continuity Lapse: Scott himself is notoriously unable to remember things that happen from issue to issue (and even further back), and since we see everything through his eyes, things that are easy to look up in a past volume clash with whatever Scott says about what happened back then. At first, this is thought to be because of his rather selfish personality and Self-Serving Memory, but it actually turns out that Gideon has been in his head pretty much since the moment Scott started dating Ramona, and has been "spicing up" Scott's memories this whole time.
Rewatch Bonus: Early in volume 1 Scott dreams of playing in a band with Knives, Stephen Stills, an unseen drummer, and a so far unknown and plain-looking girl (with red hair in the color edition) that sings and plays the keyboard, leaving the reader wondering why she's playing with Sex Bob-omb. Upon rereading, it's clear that the girl is Envy Adams in the early days of her relationship with Scott (before her makeover, the band is Kid Chameleon, and this is actually the first hint that Scott is nowhere near over his break-up with Envy.
Rockers Smash Guitars: At the end of Sex Bob-omb's performance at Sneaky Dee's (although we barely get to see any of it), Scott smashes his bass guitar.
Roommate Com: It opens as a fairly traditional version, being about Scott and his cool gay roommate Wallace as Scott has a comic love life and hangs out with the people in his band. However, things swiftly take a turn for the surreal every time a fight breaks out and Scott has to battle his love interest's evil exes in order to date her.
RPG Mechanics 'Verse: Zig-zagged, as it's never quite made exactly clear what specific genre the video game mechanics in Scott Pilgrim belong to, but references are made to "experience" and "proficiency". Overall, the series appears to follow the rules of some kind of Fighting Game/side-scrolling Beat 'em Up hybrid with RPG Elements.

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