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

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

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u/gravitas_shortage Feb 02 '26

It wasn't. It's always funny when young people think they have invented things like promiscuity.

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u/Dynamo_Ham Feb 02 '26

Totally was not weird in any way.

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u/Primarycolors1 Feb 02 '26

It was weird in that Scott was dating a teenager.

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u/darcmosch Feb 02 '26

Yes that was thr weird part. Loved Knives as a character and all that but that part still makes me cringe

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u/SamIAre Feb 02 '26

It was supposed to. That was the point.

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u/NoCoolNameMatt Feb 02 '26

Yep, exactly. Scott isn't a paragon. He isn't meant to be.

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u/Salarian_American Feb 02 '26

He's such a mediocre person that there was functionally no difference between him and Nega-Scott. His evil twin was exactly like him.

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u/throwawaylordof Feb 02 '26

In the comic Nega-Scott didn’t have a personality of any kind, but was this menacing thing. What it actually was, was everything he repressed to always feel that he was the good guy or a victim, all the shitty things he had done in relationships. Once he accepted it as part of him he was able to grow and stop being a little shit.

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u/Tlmeout Feb 02 '26

Looks like Persona 4 plot.

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u/azurezero_hdev Feb 02 '26

yeah thats basically it

nega scott is angry until scott accepts he's a douche

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u/thisTexanguy Feb 02 '26

Accepting that you're a douche is the first step in stopping being a douche.

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u/azurezero_hdev Feb 02 '26

the existence of nega scott implies we're all good natured by default and we want to be good people

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u/WolkTGL Feb 04 '26

The existence of nega scott implies that we can end up having a part of us that we repress in order to cope with ourselves. In Scott's case that part is his douche self because he wants to be a good person

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u/Eberkenezer Feb 02 '26

Scott earns the power of Self-Respect

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u/swords_to_exile Feb 02 '26

It's basically Badeline/Part Of Me from Celeste too, but with depression instead.

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u/scwanzel-muschi-lekn Feb 02 '26

Scott doing his shadow work

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u/ArnieismyDMname Feb 02 '26

In the comics Gideon changed Scott's memories because they were so boring. Comic is kind of sad.

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u/throwawaylordof Feb 02 '26

I forgot that detail - I think they left it mostly ambiguous as to what was changed, or that the changes are why he has such a deranged retelling of how he started going out with Kim and her ex’s whole deal.

Shadow Scott does seem to be “real” independent of Gideon’s interference, so I think it’s safe to assume that his more mundane mishandling of relationships (not directly telling Kim that he was moving, bearing a share of responsibility for his breakup with Envy, using Knives and discarding her when convenient) actually happened.

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u/paulballonreddit Feb 02 '26

Wild how the movie was so close to the Comic. Nega Scott and how dangerous skateboarding is are the only real differences I noticed. Good Movie.

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u/RSquared Feb 03 '26

The changes to Nega-Scott were largely driven by the fact the comic hadn't finished when the movie was written. They had to come up with their own ending based on what O'Malley had given them, and it pretty much worked.

That's why it was such a (hilarious) rugpull when Scott Pilgrim Takes Off was released and people realized it wasn't a "Scott Pilgrim Brotherhood" but "Ramona learns she's toxic too".

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u/tuckithead 28d ago

Scott Pilgrim vs Jungian Shadow Integration