Scott Pilgrim/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

 * Scott is terrible at comebacks; the only time we ever see him make a snappy comeback is when saving Kim from Simon Lee.
 * Along the same lines, Simon Lee's resemblance to Gideon can probably be explained by the same reasoning. The Animated Adaptation takes the similarity to the next level by having Gideon's film actor, Jason Schwartzmann, voice Lee.
 * This troper thought that, in Book 3, when Wallace mentions Scott wearing his shirt, the shirt in question looked a lot like the shirts that Stephen Stills usually wears. Meaning, Wallace would have exercised his amazing powers on Stephen and Stephen left his shirt behind, which would definitely cause Stephen to question his sexuality even before meeting Joseph. Though there's nothing between them to suggest that this actually happened, it would mean we get to see the aftermath of one of Wallace's legendary straight guy seductions.
 * After reading Book 6, re-read the series and and pay close attention to from the moment.
 * Knives' in early Volume 6 gains additional context, as she would obviously have known that.
 * There's also  - upon first seeing them, it looks as if   when rereading the books after the release of Volume 6.
 * There's also the scene in Volume 4 where Scott and Ramona  that only has extra meaning if you've read Book 6;
 * Bonus points for noticing  . Do the math.
 * However, someone with a hard case of Shipping Goggles could have caught all of these without having read Vol. 6.
 * The recurring Triforce in Volume 6 isn't just for show; Scott, Ramona, and Gideon each have an aspect of it..
 * And much as Link often ends up representing all three aspects of the Triforce, Scott does as well by the end of the series.
 * Ramona tells Scott he has a subspace highway through his head that is three miles in fifteen seconds, followed by a guess that they don't teach that, (subspace,) in Canadian schools. But the schools don't teach imperial measurements either.
 * I've wondered for a bit why the other exes besides Gideon would even bother going through with the League anyway. For a lot of them, it's been years since they last saw Ramona, and even though old wounds are hard to overcome, they all seemed to have their own lives to live. Some are even successful, such as the Twins being award-winning roboticists. However, in Volume 6,  This changes the meaning of Todd's Superpower Meltdown in Season 3. That image of Gideon isn't a flashback. He is there inside Todd's head, commanding him to do his bidding. And that is how he got all the exes to form the League. By meeting with them and infecting them so that they couldn't move on past Ramona.
 * Why did they replace  in the movie? Read...
 * Scott has to fight seven evil ex boyfriends. What is his favorite comic book? X Men.
 * In the Scott Pilgrim game, one of Todd Ingram's attacks is to stand at one side of the screen, use his vegan powers (Don't ask) to turn his arm into a mass of vegetation, and slam you with it as giant vegetables rain down upon the battle field. If you examine his arm during this attack, you can see some weird animal-like bits between all the flora. This isn't just some strange little detail. "You are what you eat", they say. The attack reveals his betrayal to veganism and why the vegan police come for him right after the attack.
 * In the video game, Scott fights and successfully defeats Nega-Scott, contrary to the outcomes in both the comic and movie. His ending in the game is also the only continuity in which he doesn't end up with Ramona . Coincidence? Nope; Nega-Scott represents Scott's mistake, so making peace with Nega-Scott represents Scott's reconciliation with the part of him that made those mistakes (an act that allows him to win back Ramona). By beating the crap out of Nega-Scott, though, Scott never learns his lesson, and therefore is never able to get back with Ramona.
 * When fighting Gigadeon Graves in his subspace, his One Winged Angel form has the bodies of the 6 other evil-exes merged into one giant pile underneath his torso. All of them have angry faces, except for Roxanne, who looks as if she's in a state of pleasure, which is strange considering she's a lesbian. Things make sense though when you remember that Gideon has an extremely large ego, and that these aren't really the other evil-exes. His ego is so huge that he believes that in his presence even those who would have no reason to be attracted to him would fall all over themselves just to be with him, (but not the guys because he doesn't swing that way.)
 * It could also be a reference to how they were when defeated.. Lucas looks scared, like he was before he eventually died skateboarding. Patel looks shocked, as well, when he died he was shocked that Scott could defeat him. The twins and Todd just look angry, and Roxy looks, well... yes.
 * It could also be a reference to how they were when defeated.. Lucas looks scared, like he was before he eventually died skateboarding. Patel looks shocked, as well, when he died he was shocked that Scott could defeat him. The twins and Todd just look angry, and Roxy looks, well... yes.

Fridge Horror

 * If Mr. Chau was willing to kill Scott over "Dishonoring" his daughter, Knives, think what may have happened if he got wind that he knew Stephen Stills gave Knives beer and she got so drunk she made out with equally drunken Kim?
 * A far more literal example:
 * The series appears to be taking place in a video game world, but Scott Pilgrim is the only character to gain experience, implying that he is a PC and everyone else is an NPC. This could be read as suggesting that he is living in some kind of solipsist universe in which he is the only sentient, and all everyone else is some sort of emotionless AI faking interaction with him.
 * Or it could be Fridge Brilliance, as everyone else already had jobs, compassion, and generally a life, and Scott was the only one who hadn't--thus, he was the only one who still had to level up.
 * Considering that, we have a rare case of third-person Unreliable Narrator. It's entirely possible Scott.
 * Film example: When Ramona is about to leave she says that "[she's] tired of people getting hurt because of [her]". Scott remarks that "[he's] pretty sure [he'll] get over it". 7 people, countless mooks, and Crash and The Boys died. Someone is going to have to explain to Trasha's parents why her daughter was killed by an errant fireball.
 * The world of Scott Pilgrim runs on video game logic. With one ups and save points! (save points may not exist in the movie) They could probably have popped back up later. Crash in the Boys played an awesome show after all, they probably earned enough points for an extra life.
 * Word of God suggests that death is just getting defeated and that dead characters - or the Exes at least - just respawn.
 * It's implied that there's little to no police officers or law force of any kind in the Scott Pilgrim universe. Does that mean people can go around murdering people by the dozens and and get off scott free?
 * Adding support to that implication, when  was murdered,   didn't call police or ambulance. She just called   to report his demise.
 * Here's some more:
 * Apparently, if you use Subspace in a special way,
 * Where do people go when they die? And when they materialize into coins, are they aware of this?
 * What happens when people who don't have one-ups or save points die?
 * What happens when people who don't have one-ups or save points die?

Fridge Logic

 * Scott has the chance to collect the coins left by the dead exes. While he actually does bother with it at one point, neither Scott nor any of the other characters bother to collect any of the seven-figure digits' worth of cash left by . Even scooping up a handful of Canadian currency (of which the largest denomination is $2) could be twenty bucks or so by itself. His pockets could probably hold, oh, a hundred bucks each, if not more. And if he had a bag, he could have walked away significantly richer, even if he had to leave most of the coins behind. Of course, trying to find all that money IN COINS on a crowded dance floor , would be too hard for a bunch of very drained characters. Still, talk about a missed Moment of Awesome in the course of a character's life.
 * This was actually fixed in the films alternate ending where Scott ends up with Knives. As they walk Scott asks if Knives wants to go to the arcade. She says that she doesn't have any quarters. Scott having just defeated points out that he does while rifling though his coat pocket.
 * Maybe his currency inventory was maxxed out, it's just unobtainable, or it's plain old Money for Nothing in play? That or they're hipsters, and Goodwill and Pizza Pizza is cheap enough that it's just not worth the effort.
 * Funnily, the movie averts this when Stephen Stills realizes that the band isn't getting paid after  They start scooping up as much loose change as possible.
 * You know, I just noticed that last night, and I couldn't work out why. Thank you.
 * A bit of Brillance for me, but, look at how Scott appears on the covers of each volume. It may seem to be Art Evolution at first, but, if you look a bit deeper, Scott found himself much more mature than he really was in the beginning. As the story goes on, and the comic looks more cartoony, You start to see him for the shallow man-child he is, and how he tries to change. It's as if he's come, in a way, into terms with his childishness, and now, he finally has a chance to start over and grow up.
 * In the video game, why are most of the main females dressed from the waist down in just their panties (or alternatively Japanese style gym shorts)? In the middle of winter. In Canada.
 * Crosses into Fridge Brilliance when you remember that Scott Pilgrim version of Toronto runs on video game logic. Just to pull from a recent example, it's entirely possible to strip down to your birthday suit in Skyrim and jump into arctic waters without suffering in the slightest. Unless it's a specific mechanic of the gameplay, temperature doesn't have any discernible effect on people in video games.