In the faraway world of Toronto, Canada... Scott Pilgrim is dating a high schooler.

Welcome to my Scott Pilgrim shrine! Scott Pilgrim is a character created by Canadian artist Bryan Lee O'Malley whose story has taken many forms, including a comic series, a movie, an Adult Swim short, an xbox 360 game, an anime, and an upcoming PC game! I've loved the Scott Pilgrim comics since middle school, but the 2023 Netflix anime sparked a more intense special interest that's persisted to this day.

What is Scott Pilgrim about?

Each version of Scott Pilgrim media offers a slightly different take on the characters and storyline, but at its core, the story follows Scott Pilgrim, a 23-year old loser, winning the heart of Ramona Flowers, the girl of his dreams, by defeating her seven evil exes. Meanwhile, Scott must also confront his past mistakes, such as breaking the heart of 17-year old Knives Chau. The setting is a blend of realism and scifi, with supernatural video game inspired elements being casually incorporated into the universe as a whole. It's a fun, heartwarming story about less than perfect people working to improve themselves and find love!

Character Profiles

Comics

Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

The comic opens with Scott talking to Kim Pine, Stephen and Neil about his new girlfriend, a 17 year old high school student named Knives Chau. Kim disapproves. We then meet Wallace, Scott's roommate, who owns most of the stuff in their basement apartment. Knives tags along to band practice with Scott, and becomes a superfan of Sex Bob-Omb, which consists of Scott on bass, Kim on drums, and Stephen on guitar and vocals. Scott gets a call from his sister, Stacey, who questions him on why he's in a relationship with a high schooler and hints at a bad breakup in his past. Scott has a weird dream where he's alone in the desert, when a girl with pink hair rollerblades by. He's rattled by this, especially when, on a library date with Knives, the girl appears in real life. Scott, Kim, Neil and Stephen go to a party hosted by Julie, Stephen's on-again off-again girlfriend. Scott asks around about the pink-haired girl, who he learns is named Ramona. He sees her from across the room and starts talking to her, which goes very poorly. He strikes out badly and instead resorts to watching her from afar and asking the other partygoers about her. We meet Comeau, who knows everyone and Sandra and Monique, who are friends of Julie's. We learn that Ramona is new in town, is originally from New York, recently had a big breakup, she's befriended Julie, and that she works as a delivery girl for Amazon. Julie tells Scott not to go after Ramona, since he's a total jerk. Scott ignores this and orders a CD on Amazon as a way to talk to Ramona more. He also gets a mysterious email, which he ignores and deletes.

Ramona's presence in Scott's mind starts to impact his relationship with Knives, and he begins to grow more distant as she grows more attached. Ramona delivers Scott's package to his door, and he awkwardly asks her out, which she accepts. She also explains that she's been using his mind as a subspace highway to get to her delivery locations faster. They go on a brief date during which they walk around a park, but it starts snowing. Ramona pulls Scott through a strange door and takes him back to her place to warm up. They make out, he stays the night, and then invites her to Sex Bob-Omb's show with another local Toronto band, Crash and the Boys. Wallace tells Scott that he should break up with Knives, but he can't bring himself to do it. He also gets a mysterious letter, which he ignores.

The night of the show arrives. The people who show up are Scott, Kim, Stephen, Neil, Stacey, her boyfriend Jimmy, Knives, and Ramona. Knives and Ramona don't know about each other, leading to an awkward situation that Scott literally runs away from. Crash and the Boys play a song that knocks out most of the audience, while Stacey and Ramona become friends in the bathroom. When they get back, they find Wallace and Jimmy making out, much to Stacey's dismay. Sex Bob-Omb start their set, when a man breaks through the fourth wall and starts attacking Scott. He identifies himself as Matthew Patel, and we learn that Scott is apparently the best fighter in the province, as he starts kicking Matthew's ass. It turns out that Matthew was the one sending Scott emails and letters, in which he explained that he is Ramona's first evil ex-boyfriend, and that if Scott wants to date her, he'll have to defeat all of them. Ramona tells everyone that her and Matthew dated all the way back in seventh grade, for a week after they joined forces to defeat the jocks at their school. Matthew is revealed to have magic powers, as he summons four Demon Hipster Chicks to help him fight Scott. Scott's friends team up with him and the two groups face off with a rhyming musical number that ends in Matthew's defeat. He explodes into a couple of coins, which Scott and Ramona use to take the bus home.

On the ride back, they make their relationship official. Scott asks about a person that Ramona mentioned previously, Gideon, which seems to annoy her, as he head starts to glow slightly. The comic ends on a To Be Continued... as Scott nervously stares out the window.

Volume 2: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

The second comic opens with a flashback to a teenage Scott, when he went to St Joel's Catholic school. He gets beat up by a group of guys and gets sent to the principal's office, where he meets a girl named Lisa. We see various vignettes of their friendship, including them starting a band called Sonic and Knuckles with Kim. Kim gets kidnapped by a guy named Simon Lee, who Scott defeats, and the two start dating. Then Scott moves away to Toronto, leaving Kim and Lisa behind.

We exit the flashback to the present day. Wallace gives Scott an ultimatum: that he has to break up with Knives, or else he'll tell Ramona about her. Scott meets up with Knives. She tells him that she's in love, and he breaks up with her. This doesn't seem to affect Scott very much, as he gleefully tells Sex Bob-Omb about his new girlfriend, and invites her over for dinner at his apartment. We then switch to Kim's POV, who is dreaming about Scott dying. She wakes up, argues with her shitty roommates, and heads to work at No Account Video with her coworker, Hollie. Scott comes in to rent a movie featuring the actor and alleged sellout Lucas Lee, who Wallace told him is Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend. Wallace and Scott "train," which consists of watching Lucas Lee movies, playing Tony Hawk, and doing pushups. We learn about the indie band The Clash at Demonhead, who are starting to get more recognition, which Scott hates. Scott and Ramona watch a Lucas Lee movie together, and her head glows some more. We learn that he's also a skater, and Ramona stays the night. Stephen, Neil and Kim meet Ramona and have dinner with her and Scott, where we learn that Knives has started stalking Scott. She angrily dyes a red streak in her hair with the help of her much more level-headed friend, Tamara, and vows to steal Scott back from Ramona. Scott and Ramona talk about her relationship with Lucas, which seems to have been pretty normal teenage stuff, though it's hinted at that Ramona might have cheated on Lucas with a "cocky pretty boy."

Wallace and Scott go to a location where Lucas is filming a movie so they can fight. Lucas beats the shit out of Scott, though he seems to be a fairly nice guy, since he then offers Scott carrot sticks and water. The two talk a little, where Lucas reveals that Ramona did cheat on him, and that the evil exes are a part of an organized league together, apparently run by Gideon. Since Scott knows that he can't beat Lucas in a proper fight, he goads him into doing a dangerous grind on a really long rail, which makes him pick up too much speed and explode into coins. Scott runs into Julie, who tells him that Stacey and Ramona are hanging out, and that Scott's ex-girlfriend is back in town.

We cut to Ramona and Stacey at the library together, where Knives attacks Ramona. She realizes that Scott was cheating on her during their relationship, and the two fight, though Knives runs off before Ramona can actually defeat her. Scott gets a call from Envy Adams, his aforementioned ex-girlfriend, who we learn is in The Clash at Demonhead and is playing a show in Toronto. She invites Scott and asks his band to play a show with them, which leaves him in a catatonic depressive state. We learn more about Scott and Envy's relationship, which ended because Envy got back with her childhood sweetheart, Todd. We also learn that Scott has almost no memories of college, or of his past jobs.

The gang goes to a (different) Clash at Demonhead concert, where we learn that Knives has started dating Neil, and that she's a huge Envy Adams fan. We meet Hollie's roommate, Joseph, who has a celebrity crush on the bassist in The Clash at Demonhead. The band goes on, and the comic ends with the revalation that Todd, the bassist/Envy's boyfriend, is actually Ramona's third evil ex.

Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim And The Infinite Sadness

We pick up after the concert, where Envy invites the gang (Scott, Ramona, Kim, Stephen, Neil, Knives, and Julie) backstage to hang out. It's incredibly awkward. Julie is trying to act buddy-buddy with Envy, who's not really having it, and Knives is acting like a total fangirl. This culminates in her blurting out "I've kissed the lips that kissed you!" Lynette, the drummer, uses her bionic arm to punch the red highlights out of Knives' hair, and Envy kicks her and Neil out. The awkward vibes continue as Envy tries to antagonize Ramona, until Scott snaps and tries to punch Todd. Todd stops him with what seems to be magic and throws Scott through the wall. It's revealed that Todd is vegan, meaning he gets supernatural powers.

We get a flashback to college, when Envy was a nerdy otaku who went by Nat, and Julie's roommate. Her and Scott start dating, and start a band with Stephen. As time passes, Envy sheds her nerdy persona and becomes more obsessed with being cool. Scott says he loves her, and she doesn't say it back. This flashback is interspersed with Todd beating Scott up in the present day.

They decide to reschedule their fight, and Scott and Ramona go out for pizza with Wallace and Other Scott, who's Wallace's gay friend. We learn that Wallace has started dating a psychic guy named Mobile, and that he hates Envy Adams with a passion. Scott spends the night with Ramona and we learn that the way Wallace and Scott became friends was that Wallace forcibly inserted himself into Scott's life in college.

The next day, Envy, Todd, Ramona, Scott, Wallace, Stephen, Julie and Lynette show up at Honest Ed's so that Scott and Todd can fight. The existential horror of Honest Ed's agressive consumerism takes such a toll on Todd that his powers activate and make the entire store collapse. We also see shots of Todd's father, who doubts him, Lynette, who Todd seems to be sleeping with behind Envy's back, and a mysterious guy with glasses, telling Todd to use his vegan powers. Scott and Ramona ditch everyone else and go back to her apartment, where she talks about her relationship with Todd. It turns out, Todd was the one that she cheated on Lucas with, and that Todd punched a hole in the moon to prove his love for her. They broke up when Todd went to Vegan Academy for college. We see The Clash at Demonhead getting lunch together, where it's revealed that Todd is cheating on both Envy (with Lynette) and his vegan diet (with gelato). Ramona dyes her hair blue, and gives Scott a haircut.

The Boys and Crash (formerly known as Crash and the Boys) open for The Clash at Demonhead. Envy and Scott have an awkward conversation, and Ramona talks to Kim about her past relationship with Scott. Knives also shows up. She's been having a hard time following the breakup with Scott and her rejection by Envy, and despite working through it a little bit, she's still totally in love with Scott. Envy antagonizes Ramona, bringing up Gideon, and the two start fighting, Ramona with a giant hammer, and Envy with her fancy boots. Knives shows up to help Ramona, and Sex Bob-Omb start to go on, only for Scott to have to defeat Envy by touching the back of her knee (her weak point).

We then see more flashbacks of their relationship as it started to go downhill, culminating with Envy telling Scott to "get out of her life." Envy learns that Todd is cheating on her with Lynette, that Todd punched two holes in the moon, for her and Ramona, and that her happy childhood relationship isn't actually that great. Her and Todd fight, Scott and Todd fight, The Boys and Crash and Todd fight, and finally, the Vegan Police show up to strip Todd of his vegan powers, since he wasn't actually keeping up with the diet. Scott headbutts him, and he explodes into coins. Sex Bob-Omb plays a set, which is seen by a mysterious man with glasses. Envy leaves for the airport, and the comic ends.

Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

We open on the gang having a beach day for Julie's birthday. They get drunk together, and Knives and Kim end up drunkenly making out, which only Scott sees. Scott and Stephen help Kim move in with Hollie and Joseph, who Stephen realizes is a music producer. Joseph agrees to record Sex Bob-Omb, but only because he thinks Stephen is hot.

Scott goes to the mall, where he runs into Lisa from high school. Scott ends up getting a job at the vegetarian restaurant that Stephen works at. Meanwhile, a mysterious man with spikey hair, sunglasses, and a sword starts following him around, and even attacks Scott and Kim. Sex Bob-Omb starts recording with Joseph, and Stephen starts becoming better friends with Knives (much to Julie's annoyance). Lisa also starts hanging out with the gang, and starts to befriend Ramona. Scott and Wallace's landlord tells them that their lease is up.

On the way back from work, Scott gets attacked by a mysterious ninja girl, who he accidentally punches in the boob. She then disappears. She shows up at Scott's work the next day, with Ramona. The girl is revealed to be Roxie Richter, Ramona's former college roommate, and her fourth evil ex. She's convinced that Scott is cheating on Ramona with Lisa, and tries to fight him, to which he climbs inside Ramona's bag. Roxie chases the two of them into subspace, where she fights Ramona briefly.

Scott and Ramona decide to move in together, though that night they have an argument about Lisa. Scott insists that there's nothing going on between them, but Ramona doesn't believe him, and she leaves with her head glowing. Wallace kicks him out of the apartment, so he has to stay with Lisa for the night. Lisa basically confesses that she liked Scott back in high school, and that she's been a little bit into him since they reconnected, too. He stays the night, but nothing happens between them, since Scott's in love with Ramona.

Scott runs into Knives, and we find out that the guy who's been chasing Scott is actually her dad, who found out about Scott dating his daughter and is seeking out revenge. Mr Chau chases Scott into subspace, where he ends up in Ramona's head. She's in a weird purple fantasy next to a mysterious shadowy man on a throne. She gets mad and chases him back into reality, where we learn that Roxie spent the night with Ramona and the two made out. Scott's head starts glowing, and he sees a vision of an evil, Nega version of himself.

Mr Chau follows Scott through Ramona's head, where he clashes briefly with Roxie. This leads Scott to confess his love to Ramona, unlocking The Power of Love, which is a sword. He defeats Roxie, who explodes into woodland critters, then explains himself to Mr Chau, who apparently forgives him. Ramona confesses her love to Scott and the two move in together, which is good, because Wallace signed a lease with his boyfriend, Mobile.

The whole gang gives Lisa a sending-off party, where Julie and Stephen make up. it's implied that Julie thought Stephen was cheating on her with Knives. The volume ends with a romantic moment between Ramona and Scott sitting on a bench together.

Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim Vs The Universe

The comic opens on Scott's 24th birthday. It then moves to a Day of the Dead themed party at Julie's house, where Scott, Ramona, and Kim run into Ken and Kyle Katayanagi, who are twins, and Ramona's fifth and sixth evil ex-boyfriends. Instead of fighting Scott themselves, they summon a robot they built to do it for them. While Robot-01 kicks Scott's ass, Kim and Ramona bond over dating assholes, and Stephen tells Knives the truth about her relationship with Scott: that he dated her because it was easy, and that he cheated on her with Ramona. Scott eventually beats the robot.

He goes home to Ramona, where he finds a letter addressed to Gideon in a drawer in her desk. Sex Bob-Omb gets a gig for the first time in months, while Knives swears revenge on Ramona, who she blames for the way Scott handled their relationship. She attacks Ramona in the bathroom of the Sex Bob-Omb, and tells her that Scott cheated on both of them. Meanwhile, Scott's fends off another one of the twins' robots. Ramona kicks Scott out for the night, so he stays over with Wallace, who's been doing research on Gideon.

Scott asks Kim to help him reconcile with Ramona, and the three meet at a cafe. We learn that Kim was dating a guy named Jason, who ended up sleeping with Hollie behind her back. Ramona's head starts glowing, and Kim finally asks about it. Ramona's shocked and a little horrified. Julie has another party, where we learn that Neil's kind of an asshole now, Knives is "obsessed" with "Captain Homo" (aka Stephen) and that Julie is friends with the Katayanagi twins. Another robot starts beating Scott up while Ramona smokes on the balcony. Kim goes out to see her, and is able to capture her glowing head on camera. After defeating the robot, Scott, Kim and Ramona all get drunk together. On the way home, Kim gets kidnapped by the twins.

Ramona finally confronts Scott about cheating on her with Knives, and they have an argument. In the morning, Ramona cuts her hair, while Scott has to go rescue Kim from the twins. They reveal that Ramona cheated on them with each other, and that since then, they vowed to never let anyone come between their relationship as brothers. Kim keeps trying to get Scott to fight for her, but he's completely focused on Ramona, so she lies and says that Ramona texted and said that she believes in Scott. This shocks the twins, who don't believe that Ramona can change, which gives Scott the opportunity to defeat them.

Scott runs back home to Ramona, whose head is glowing more than ever. He apologizes and says that he believes people can change, but she ends up disappearing into the glow. Scott's left alone in their house with Ramona's cat (also named Gideon), who promptly runs away, and he gets locked out. While Scott couch surfs and tries to find Ramona's cat, he meets Wallace's boyfriend, Mobile for the first time, and since he wears glasses, he's convinced he's Gideon. Kim gets on a bus back to her parents' place, which Scott helps her board, with an apology for everything he's done to her, which she accepts. Some time later, Scott's parents help him move into an apartment of his own. He mistankenly attacks his own brother, Lawrence, thinking he's Gideon. Scott finally reads the letter that Ramona wrote, but never sent, to Gideon. It reads "Gideon- don't wait up for me, cause i'm not coming back. it's over. -ramona." The comic ends with Scott getting a mysterious phone call: "This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die?"

Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

In his dream, Scott chases after Ramona, but she's replaced with a shadowy figure of Gideon, who tells Scott that he's waiting for him. In real life, Scott does nothing but sit on the couch and play video games. Wallace tells him that he should sleep with someone, Stephen tells him about a new band he's in, without Scott.

Scott goes to see them play, where he hears about Gideon's new club, the Chaos Theatre, and meets a newly 18 year old Knives. He proposes that they have "casual sex," which she refuses, saying that she's moved on, and that Scott kind of sucked, in retrospect. They awkwardly kiss, and it's terrible. Scott goes to a random party, where he sees Envy and totally embarasses himself. Gideon, the cat, finally returns to Scott's apartment. Scott and Envy have a conversation about their past relationship. We hear more of Envy's side to the story, where we learn that she also got her heart broken by Scott, and that their relationship ended because of a fight that he started. (He, of course, remembers none of this.) We also learn that Envy is coming out with a solo album, and is working together with Gideon. Gideon appears, and Scott runs away.

He then gets on a bus to visit Kim, who's been staying with her parents in the North. He randomly kisses her, saying that she's been there for him this whole time, which she rejects, and we see more of her side of their relationship in high school. We learn that he never told Kmi that he was moving away, and that Simon Lee wasn't actually a villain who kidnapped her, but was just some nerdy kid that Scott beat up. Scott's head starts glowing, and the evil version of himself, Nega Scott, appears. He fights Nega Scott, trying to forget his past mistakes, but Kim tells him that he can't keep running away from everything, and that if he keeps forgetting his mistakes, he'll never learn from them. Scott thinks about Ramona, realizing how much he loves her and how much he doesn't want to lose her, and accepts Nega Scott into his body. The two merge, and all of Scott's memories come back to him. With a new lease on life, Scott decides that he must fight to earn Ramona back, and be worthy of love.

We cut to Envy, who is getting dressed up in new outfits for her solo debut. Gideon vetoes the outfits and the two talk, apparently in a relationship (that Envy clearly cares more about than Gideon). Scott storms into the Chaos Theatre and meets up with his friends, searching desperately for Ramona. As Envy takes to the stage, Gideon attacks Scott and the two start fighting. It quickly becomes clear that Ramona actually didn't go back to Gideon, since she's not with either of them. Gideon reaches into Scott's chest and steals his sword, The Power of Love. He offers Scott a place in the League, but when Scott refuses, Gideon stabs him through the chest, killing him.

Scott and Ramona meet in the desert of his mind, and finally talk about why she left. She says that she felt messed up and didn't want that to hurt Scott, but that, for the first time ever, she actually came back to apologize. They kiss and make up, and Scott realizes that he picked up and extra life back when he fought Todd. He gets revived, and Ramona bursts out of his head to fight Gideon herself. Gideon reveals a huge cryogenic freezer, where six of his own ex-girlfriends lie in stasis. He describes them as "the ones that got away" and says that he'll eventually wake them up so they can all date him, and that Ramona is the next in line to join them. He shoots a glowing beam at everyone, which makes their heads glow, and makes Scott and Ramona start to fight and turn against each other. We learn that the glowing that they've been experiencing throughout the series is an invention of Gideon's, made to bring out a person's worst qualities and trap them inside their head. We learn that Gideon started the League by posting a drunk rant on Craigslist, to which he was surprised that six other people actually responded.

Ramona attempts to use the Glow to escape to Subspace, the same way she left Scott, but as she does, Gideon stabs her through the chest. We see a flashback of Ramona and Gideon meeting at a party, then of her leaving him the same way she left Scott, by harnessing the Glow to her advantage. Scott uses Ramona's bag to jump into subspace to fight Gideon, who's much more powerful in Ramona's head. Scott headbutts Gideon, infecting him with the Glow, though it doesn't have much of an effect on him, since he's "been trapped in his own head since the day he was born." Though Scott isn't able to stop Gideon, Ramona ends up breaking free of his restraints and kicks Gideon out of her head, using her bag to block his sword. Her bag explodes, and all three of them are transported back to the real world. Ramona herself earns the Power of Love, and is fully healed. Miffed, Gideon brushes off Envy as she tries to help him, an action that reminds Scott of himself, and his relationships with Envy, Knives, Kim and Ramona.

As Scott realizes what Gideon represents-the parts of himself that he needs to shed-he earns a new sword, The Power of Understanding. Gideon, Ramona and Scott have a swordfight, where we learn that Gideon's been spying on the two of them through Scott's head, and is responsible for his random lost/embellished memories. Scott and Ramona defeat Gideon, who explodes into coins, and Envy performs her solo debut, freeing Gideon's ex-girlfriends and getting closure with Scott.

We learn that when Ramona left, she just went and stayed at her dad's place and watched X-Files, and that she never went back to Gideon or anything. Scott and Ramona have a heart-to-heart in the elevator, and the two decide that for once, they're not going to run away when things get hard. Scott goes back to his job with Stephen, who we learn recently came out as gay, and is in a relationship with Joseph. Kim and Scott start a two-piece called Shatterband, which Knives and Neil hate, and Knives hugs Scott before moving away to college. The series ends with Scott and Ramona holding hands as they jump through a subspace door, vowing to "try again."

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (2010)

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: The Game

The Scott Pilgrim game plot is fairly straightforward-- it's a pretty standard beat-em-up in which the bosses you encounter are the seven evil exes, plus Envy, Lynette, and Mr Chau. You can play as Scott, Ramona, Stephen, or Kim, thought Nega Scott is also unlockable, and DLC lets you play as Wallace or Knives.

Scott Pilgrim Vs The Animation

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Episode 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

Episode 2: A League of Their Own

Episode 3: Ramona Rents A Video

Episode 4: Whatever

Episode 5: Lights, Camera, Sparks?!

Episode 6: Whodidit

Episode 7: 2 Scott 2 Pilgrim

Episode 8: The World Vs Scott Pilgrim

Scott Pilgrim EX

This game isn't out yet! But the premise seems to be that Scott's bandmates have been kidnapped, and that you play as one of 7 chracters fighting against 3 rival gangs in Toronto: Vegans, Robots, and Demons. It has a page on Steam, and is set to release in 2026. This page will update when the game releases!