Scott Pilgrim (original)

Scott William Pilgrim is the titular main protagonist of the franchise of the same name. He is a 23 year old (24 in Volume 5 & 6) slacker living with his gay roommate, Wallace Wells in the mysterious land of Toronto, Canada. He is the bassist for the indie rock band, Sex Bob-Omb alongside his friend Stephen Stills and Kim Pine.
He falls in love with mysterious rollerblader Ramona Flowers, but has to defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her, led by her most recent ex-boyfriend and his archenemy, Gideon Graves.
In the 2010 live-action film adaptation and Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation, he was portrayed and voiced by respectively, who also played Allan Sherwood in Barbie, and also voiced Robin in The Lego Batman Movie, Barry in Sausage Party, Brother Bear in The Berenstain Bears, Hank in Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank and Armen in Under the Boardwalk. 
==Appearance==
Scott is an average-built young man with short tawny hair, thick black eyebrows, and black eyes. He has fair skin and stands at an average male height.
==Personality==
Scott is a cheerful and laid-back individual who is pretty open and friendly to most people. He is quite content with his current situation in life and while he does not show much motivation to better himself unless need be, he also is seemingly unburdened by the same sort of neuroses or issues that his friends have. Furthermore, he does possess an odd form of charisma; despite the complaints and issues of his friends with his faults, they do generally enjoy spending time with him and being his friend, even the stoic Stephen and dour Kim, showing that he serves as something of a bright spot in their lives. However, beneath his cheerful exterior, he has his problems. His dreams show him feeling alone and craving emotional intimacy, but also seems afraid of being able to approach people for it. Beyond this though, he is lackadaisical and even a bit naïve on certain matters. He has a bad tendency to stick his foot in his mouth and not consider the consequences of his words or choices. Ultimately, it's a childlike sensibility, which reflects his good nature, but also naivety and the need to further grow up. This includes being more assertive to confront certain issues he would not want to.
When it comes to romantic relationships, Scott is ultimately a well-intentioned, supportive and caring partner, but not without his problems. He enjoys spending time with his girlfriend and is usually filled with smiles and jokes. He legitimately cares about each one of his girlfriends and views them as all equal to one another. Best noted in his second dream where he is in a band alongside Envy, Kim and most notably Knives, which show that despite the jabs of him dating her as a rebound, he saw her and their relationship just as valid and real as his relationships with Kim and Envy. From first glance, he doesn't appear to do anything wrong in his relationships and seems to be supported by seeing the interactions with others. It's likely why he considered himself a "paragon of virtue."
However, he is still human and thus prone to self-centered or selfish behavior. This has been the main reason for the failure in his romantic relationships. However, this behavior manifests in such a certain and discreet manner that it would not be noticed at first glance. All of Scott's romantic relationships (at least those shown in the novels) have failed as they did because Scott wasn't the one to instigate the break-up. Scott shows great reluctance and discomfort at being confronted with the thought of having to break-up with a girl (this is not explained why though given his proclamation on not fighting girls, it may be a possible extension of how he was raised as such or just plain fear of confrontation.) As such, he will avoid the issue or try to sidestep it until the external factors that have been pushing him to do so instead cause the relationship to collapse.
With him and Kim, it was because he got Lisa to say so rather than he tell her himself. With Knives, it was because he did not break up with her soon after his "hook-up" with Ramona (though that in it of itself is a complicated situation.) This is a reflection of his naivety and selfishness of not wanting to confront unpleasant aspects of relationships and do what is to be needed. His fallout with Envy is a variation of this as we eventually learn that the breakup was instigated from a big fight he had with Envy after he got drunk (presumably based on all the frustrations and problems that were formed from her changes in behavior and decisions on the band over the choices of the others). However, given how Wallace would recommend to Scott he dump her upon first meeting her, the implications are it went as bad as it did because he did not end his relationship with Envy sooner (instead it built up until he ends up drunk and the fight happens.)
Additionally, Scott failed to notice this fault because of its subtle and counterintuitive manifestation. When he is forced to speak on his and Kim's relationship, he doesn't blame either one of them. Regarding him and Envy, he seems to somewhat blame her for it ending (though this is the consensus shared by his friends.) With him and Knives though, he does admit that he was not a good boyfriend to her in that regard He would be forced to confront the issue in the form of the Nega Scott. He seems heavily reluctant to, lending more to the non-confrontational aspect of him. Furthermore, it's likely because it carries the shame that he ended up doing what he was trying to avoid doing. With Kim's encouragement though, he does fuse with NegaScott, as a form of accepting his mistakes, which makes him regain his memory of all past events of his failed relationships. This makes his confrontation with Gideon more meaningful as when it comes to relationships, Gideon is a dark reflection of Scott. Both are rooted in selfishness, but while Scott's is unintentional, roundabout and ultimately to accept his shortcomings, Gideon's is intentional, bluntly straightforward and he does not acknowledge it as a flaw. Additionally, Scott genuinely cared for each one of his girlfriends as individuals, Gideon saw them as extensions of himself to fawn over him. 
Apparently, Scott used to be a frequent drinker, even though he repeatedly says that he doesn't drink at all. He stopped drinking after his break-up with Envy Adams (thus, what Stephen Stills said about Scott having been drunk the night Envy broke up with him was true), after which he always denies his history as a drinker whenever it comes up. This is why everyone always says "Oh right" when Scott says he doesn't drink. While he does come to admit that he sometimes drinks, he is never seen to be enjoying it.
Scott has a set of "moral high-grounds". One is that he doesn't like to (or see other people) smoke cigarettes. Aside from smoking being bad for your health, he considers smoking to be an act of "evil". He was shocked to learn that Ramona smoked through her high school years, before quitting in college. This shock was seen again, when it's revealed that she does still smoke, just on special occasions or if she is drinking. He was also shocked to learn that Lisa is also a smoker. The other moral high grounds is that does not like to hit girls. When asked about this issue by Roxie, she and Ramona told him that refusing to hit girls doesn't give Scott the moral high-ground. Scott was forced to break this high ground when he accidentally hit Roxie in the boob (attempting to puke after realizing what he had done) and had to fight her at the end of Volume 4.
The events in the book and movie are mostly seen through Scott's worldview. This is clear from Volume 1 with his presentation tag: "Scott Pilgrim... Rating: Awesome". In addition, this places the accuracy of the flashbacks, and even the entire series, into question, as Scott can be considered an unreliable narrator.
==Biography==
===Story===
Scott Pilgrim has fallen in love with the newcomer, American ninja delivery girl, Ramona Flowers. But in order to win her affections and the right to date Ramona he must defeat her seven evil exes, a.k.a the League of Evil Exes.
===History===
====Novels====
=====Years Prior=====
Scott's family moved to Ontario, where he got into a fight on his first day at St. Joel's Catholic High School. While sitting outside the principal's office, he meets Lisa Miller, who becomes friends after constantly bothering him. Scott also meets Kim Pine here, and they become friends too. Lisa starts a band with Scott, but then he points out that there are only two of them, and they need a drummer, so when Scott sees Kim playing drums at a school event, he begs her to join their band.
One day, Scott came to school and saw everyone unconscious, and Lisa came out and told him that a group from Benvie Tech High School, known as the Benvie Tech Boys, came and beat everyone up, then kidnapped Kim. Scott then fights his way through Benvie Tech High School, until he has a showdown with the Benvie Tech Boys, leader, Simon Lee, on the roof. After defeating Simon, he rescues Kim and he asks her to go out with him and to join their band. She says yes to both.
This was actually later revealed to be a false memory implanted into Scott's mind by Gideon Graves. Scott's family later moved to Toronto, Canada, leaving Kim behind.
Scott went to the University of Toronto, where he met his friends, Stephen Stills and his soon-to-be gay roommate, Wallace Wells. While there, Stephen dated Julie Powers, and Scott dated her nerdy roommate Natalie Adams. After forming a band with Scott and Stephen, Natalie began to change. She threw out her nerdy stuff in favor of "CDs and boots" and asked everyone to call her "Envy". She then took control of their band, adding in three extra members. Then on New Year's one year, Scott and Envy had a fight and broke up, this made Scott extremely sad.
=====Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life =====
During the next years, Scott finished up college and formed Sex Bob-omb with Stephen Stills and Kim, who moved to Toronto. Some time soon after that, he met Knives Chau, a 17-year-old who he started dating after they met on a bus. Despite the fact that Scott explained he liked their relationship, he still felt lonely. He had a dream about a girl on roller skates one night, and he then became distracted when on dates with Knives. He then saw her at the library, and again at a party, where he just embarrassed himself and promised to never talk to her again.
At the party, he learned her name was Ramona Flowers, and that she was a delivery girl for Amazon. He then orders CDs and waits at the door for the weekend. When she comes, he asks her out and she says yes, to make up for the fact that she used the Subspace Highway to deliver packages quickly, explaining why she was in his dream. The two are caught in a snow storm while on a date and have to go back to Ramona's apartment. He spend the night and invited Ramona to Sex Bob-omb's concert the next day, forgetting he'd also invited Knives too.
Whilst there, a mysterious man bursts through the club ceiling and fights Scott, claiming to be one of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends, going by the name Matthew Patel. After defeating him, (explained below) Scott and Ramona ride the train back home, and she explains that in order to date her, Scott will have to fight her seven evil ex-boyfriends, also known as the League of Evil Exes.
====Anime====
Main Article: Scott Pilgrim (anime)
==Powers & Abilites==
*Expert Fighting Skills: Despite his stupidty, Scott is an expert fighter, considered the best fighter in the province and being able to beat other experts in fighting.
*Durabilty: Scott has survived many attacks that will kill a normal person, like taking blows from Lucas or psychic attacks from Todd Ingram.
*Swordsmanship: Scott is an expert with the sword and is able to rival and surpass Roxy Richter.
*Power of Love: Scott can manifest a sword with the power of love.
*Power of Understanding: Scott can manifest a sword with the power of understanding. (Book Only)
*Power of Self-Respect: Scott can manifest a sword with the power of self-respect. (Film Only)
==Trivia==
*The character was created by Brian Lee O'Malley, and was named after the Plumtree song, "Scott Pilgrim". Many of his hobbies include playing video games and music, all which O'Malley liked as well.
*The character has numerous references to the number 0, for example:
**He sometimes wears a Zero t-shirt from the Smashing Pumpkins album of the same name.
**Scott's patch on his parka is an X with a circle (or 0) around it.
**His favorite drink is Coca-Cola Zero.
**In the movie, when Gideon starts glitching, he starts criticizing Scott, telling him that he's zero and nothing.
**He is an example of a classic trope called "From Zero to Hero".
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