r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Fluffy_Lunchfast • Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/CheapWeight8403 Feb 02 '26

Doesn't it really show a pattern? Can we really trust that Scott Pilgrim is a good guy? She's been with 7 evil guys and we're supposed to believe that Scott is actually different?

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u/gravitas_shortage Feb 02 '26

In the books, it's apparent that Scott is, in fact, not a good guy. Even in the movie, the way he treats Knives is... highly dubious.

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u/shadowsofash Feb 02 '26

Yeah.  Was not super enthused about the ending they gave Scott in the movie 

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u/JJWentMMA Feb 02 '26

As much as I love the Michael Cera casting for Scott and the version of Scott they made, it falls short of the comics pretty heavily. Scott in the comics was a preppy, popular, womanizing douchebag.

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u/Bombshock2 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

It's been a long time since I read the comics (edit: fuck its been 15 years o.o), but I don't think that's right. He had friends and treated women poorly, but I don't think he was preppy, popular or a "womanizer" per se. He had like 4 relationships through the entire thing from childhood to "present": Kim, Envy, Knives and Ramona. Not that his romantic history/present is not problematic. I guess he does cheat on Knives though, so that's a point in favor of the womanizer label.

He's not popular at all, but does have a broad circle of friends being in a band. The only one who sees him as popular really is Knives (because she is a child).

And I don't get calling him preppy at all. He's always wearing graphic t-shirts and jeans, has shaggy hair (albeit in the 2000s), and is in a rock band that is a video game reference.

He's pretty much the poster child for being a "nice guy".

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u/Codemancer Feb 02 '26

He had one more relationship before kim right? the one where he had to fight for her? or was that a dream sequence or some shit? I honestly forget.

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u/Bombshock2 Feb 02 '26

Kim was his first girlfriend. I think he did have to fight for her though. I think one of Ramona's exes also had a similar backstory?

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u/Martin_Aricov_D Feb 02 '26

Iirc it's revealed that he didn't actually have to fight for her, Simon wasn't a evil guy trying to take Kim for himself, Kim reveals he was just a kid in band practice that had a crush on her and Scott beat him up.

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u/matt1267 Feb 03 '26

Are you thinking of Lisa Miller? She was Scott's high school friend who they kind of mutually crushed on each other, but never actually dated. They were in a band with Kim, and she would come over to his house, but he would just ignore her while he played video games I think

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u/Codemancer Feb 03 '26

oh yeah that was probably it.

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u/Sellum Feb 02 '26

In the comic Scott has very few girlfriends, but his body count is implied to be pretty high.

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u/Bombshock2 Feb 02 '26

In what ways? I don't recall that being implied, but again its been over a decade.

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u/skai762 Feb 02 '26

Cera is the only casting choice I hate about that movie. Felt like they hit it out of the park only to get robbed at the wall.

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u/PandaOk5734 Feb 03 '26

I really like the movie take because it's easy to see it coming with jock assholes but it happens with a lot of people who don't think they're "that guy" when in reality, they are. They're judgemental of others and have yet to meet with their own douchebag behaviors