rancher of monsters said:
So I was watching Scott Pilgrim vs. The World the other day with the commentary and they were discussing how Scott had this potential to be an evil-ex all the time. Yet when you watch the end of the movie (Spoiler Alert)Scott really does come off as kind of evil anyway. So let's look at the first battle ast the Chaos Theatre. Scott rushes in kills like twenty guys and then tries to kill Gideon. But at the time the whole evil-exes thing was over and Ramona had supposedly gone with Gideon of her own free will. The next time he goes back he says that he isn't even fighting for Ramona, he's fighting for himself, this time killing four more people than he did before. So what if he learned how to be a better boyfriend if he got transformed into a murderer? So is Scott Pilgrim evil?
The thing is, The league of evil exes was a construction of Gideon's. He was the evil one - Scott was just pissed off.
In his first attack, he was still trying to win Ramona over and defeat Gideon out of a feeling of obligation and anger - that was the point of why he lost.
On his second attempt he was doing it for himeslf in the sense that he was bringing closure to that chapret of his life - Defeating Gideon wasn't about winning Ramona back at that point, it was about conquoring the demons that had been plaguing him - and freeing Ramona from him. The whole movie (and comic series) was about Scott learning how to be an adult, and how he should take responsibility and find a place of his own in the world, instead fo just coasting along.
That final scene represented him finally coming to terms with that - It wasn't just about him. It was about setting ramona free, accepting that he'd been holding Sex Bob-omb back, and about becoming a hero in his own way. It represented his changing priorites, and the culmination of his change in character, from schmuck loser inde kid to adult.
-m
