Scott Pilgrim is a comic book series by Bryan Lee O'Malley, intended to eventually consist of six digest size black-and-white volumes. The first volume was released in 2004 and, as of 2009, five have been released, all published by Portland, Oregon-based independent comic book publisher Oni Press. The name "Scott Pilgrim" originates from a song by the all-girls 90's band Plumtree.
The series is about 24-year-old Canadian Scott Pilgrim, a slacker, hero, and part-time bassist who is living in Toronto and plays bass guitar in the band "Sex Bob-Omb." He falls in love with American delivery girl Ramona V. Flowers, but must defeat her seven "evil exes " in order to date her.
A film adaptation of the series entitled Scott Pilgrim vs. the World starring actor Michael Cera in the titular role is underway and while currently in post production, is set for release in June/July 2010.
A game based upon the Scott Pilgrim world was announced at ComicCon on July 25, 2009, by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The game will be developed and published by Ubisoft Montreal and released with the film in 2010.
Plot summary
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
The series begins by introducing Scott Pilgrim, a 23-year-old Canadian slacker living in Toronto with his sarcastic gay roommate Wallace Wells. He has recently started "dating" a Chinese-Canadian high-schooler, Knives Chau. Although his friends think it's scandalous, Scott doesn't consider it a big deal as all they do is chat about her school-life. He is bass player in the band Sex Bob-omb, along with his friends Stephen Stills (guitar) and Kim Pine (drums), but Stephen is the only member who is recognised as being "the talent" and they rarely take the endeavor very seriously.
One night, Scott begins dreaming about a girl he's never met before on rollerblades, whom he later glimpses delivering a package to the library. Her repeated presence in his dreams, and a coincidental meeting at a party thrown by Stephen's on-off girlfriend Julie Powers, prompts him to become obsessed with finding out more about her. He discovers that she is Ramona Flowers, a girl who works for Amazon.ca and has recently come to Toronto from New York after a rumored messy break-up with someone named Gideon.
Scott orders CDs on Amazon as a pretext to meet her again, and receives an email from an unknown party (later revealed to be Matthew Patel) challenging him to battle, but Scott pays it little heed and promptly deletes it. After another dream about Ramona, in which she is carrying his package, Scott wakes to find her at his door. She explains that she uses subspace portals as part of her job to cross long distances in seconds; one such route passes through Scott's brain, hence his dreams. Having convinced her he isn't a weirdo after their previous encounters, they spend the evening together and go back to her house during a heavy snowstorm. After blundering into her bedroom while she is changing, Scott and Ramona kiss and sleep together, but don't have sex.
The next day, Scott goes home. Wallace informs him that he needs to break up with Knives if he plans to pursue a serious relationship with Ramona, but when he meets her later in preparation for their gig at the Rockit club, Knives is considerably more forward than usual, and Scott fails to tell her. He also receives a letter from Matthew, which he again disregards.
After an opening performance by rival band Crash and the Boys, which features one song that is 0.4 seconds long and another that leaves the audience comatose, Sex Bob-omb prepare to begin their set when Matthew descends upon the stage and engages Scott in a video game-style duel. He is revealed as one of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends, and has mystical powers that allow him to summon "demonic hipster chicks". However, Scott prevails, his final attack obliterating Matthew and leaving behind a handful of coins. On the subway home, Scott and Ramona decide to become a couple, on the proviso that Scott agree to defeat her other evil-exes. When Scott asks if Gideon is one of them, Ramona's head glows sharply.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
vs. The World opens with a flashback to Scott Pilgrim as a transfer student to "St. Joel's Catholic High School" in Northern Ontario, seven years before the series began. As soon as Scott arrives on campus, he is faced with three hoodlums, whom he fights and ultimately loses to. Outside the principal's office, Scott meets a girl named Lisa who immediately befriends him. Scott and Lisa attempt to start a band, only to realize that they are missing a drummer.
Meanwhile, Scott meets Kimberly (Kim) Pine in his geography class (he draws a sheep for her), only to find out later at a school performance that she plays the drums. Lisa and Scott scheme to ask Kim to join the band, but when Scott shows up to school the following Monday, he finds out she has been kidnapped by students from the rival Benvie Tech High School. Another game-esque battle ensues and Scott defeats all the evil Benvie Tech Boys, including the final boss, Simon Lee, and rescues Kim Pine. The two start dating and Kim joins the band until Scott moves to Toronto. Ramona then steps into Scott's dream/flashback to wake him up.
Scott and Wallace ride the bus together, and Wallace tells him that ex-skateboarder/actor Lucas Lee, Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend, is filming a new movie in Toronto. Wallace also issues Scott one of his "famous ultimatums", telling him he must break up with Knives. Scott goes to meet Knives and awkwardly breaks it off, but is cheered by thoughts of Ramona.
The next day, Scott shows up at the video store Kim works at to rent several of Lucas Lee's films to prepare for his next battle. While preparing for Lucas Lee, Scott and his friends make vegan shepherd's pie. The recipe is dictated step-by-step by Stephen Stills. Scott goes to meet Lucas at his filming location, the Casa Loma. Lucas immediately beats Scott up, after which they take a lunch break and Lucas tells Scott about how Ramona broke his heart, and how there is a League of Ramona's Evil Ex-Boyfriends who have organized themselves to come after Scott. Scott then challenges Lucas Lee to a skateboard competition; Lucas at first claims that riding down the rails at the castle is "impossible", but would rather take on the challenge than lose face. He starts out well, but reaches 309 kph and bursts into coins. Scott gets an item (a Mithril Skateboard), but can't use it because he didn't take "skateboard proficiency" back in Grade 5.
Meanwhile, Knives Chau begins to stalk Scott incessantly, and finds out that he is dating Ramona Flowers. Knives shows up and attacks Ramona at the Toronto Reference Library, but escapes after repeatedly insulting Ramona.
As the fight is taking place, Scott gets a call from Envy Adams, who asks him to open for her band, The Clash at Demonhead that weekend. The conversation implies that they once had a relationship, and after the phone call, Wallace arrives at the apartment to find Scott in a near-coma-like state. Scott and his friends show up to see Envy's band on Friday, only to discover that Knives is now dating Young Neil, Stephen Stills' roommate. The book ends with an epic opening by Clash at Demonhead, and introduces Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend, Todd Ingram, who is the bassist.
Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
The Infinite Sadness continues the night that Envy Adams's band, Clash at Demonhead, performs. After the venue clears out, Scott Pilgrim spots a save point by the back door and attempts to run to it before Envy approaches him, but is too late. She invites Scott, Ramona, Kim Pine, Stephen Stills, Julie Powers, Knives, and Young Neil backstage with them to "chat". Knives announces to Envy that she has "kissed the lips that kissed you", and has the highlights punched out of her hair by Clash at Demonhead's drummer, Lynette Guycott, who has a bionic arm. Knives and Young Neil leave. Scott then tries to punch Todd Ingram, but is stopped by Todd's telekinetic powers. Envy (who is dating Todd) explains that Todd is a vegan, and graduated top of his class in "Vegan Academy". Todd explains that he gains his powers from using the extra 90% percent of his brain, whereas non-vegans use only 10% of their brain and that the rest is "filled up with curds and whey."
The story then unfolds with a series of flashbacks detailing the beginning of Scott and Natalie's (pre-"Envy") relationship. After the flashback, Envy tells Scott and the others that they will meet up at Honest Ed's the following day for a "surprise". Flashbacks continue, detailing Natalie's change into Envy, her break-up with Scott once their band started to get noticed, and how Scott and Wallace came to be friends.
The next day Scott and the others show up at Honest Ed's. Envy tells Scott that he and Todd are going to have to fight to the death inside, and that whoever reaches the end of the store first wins. Scott and Todd dash through the store, the contents of which are reminiscent of a haunted house, and Todd is mentally tormented by his past until he berserks and causes Honest Ed's to implode. Neither Scott nor Todd win the challenge, but instead are supposed to fight again the following night. Ramona convinces Scott to ditch the challenge and they return to Ramona's apartment. After an unsuccessful make-out session, Ramona begins to fill Scott in about her relationship with Todd. In a flashback to their college years, Todd proves his love to Ramona by using his newly-gained vegan powers to blow a crater in the moon.
Chapter 16 opens with Envy,
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