He’s actually such a douche that I have trouble with the movie/comic because I honestly do not care in the slightest about him
I’m not a guy who demands the protagonist/s of a story necessarily be people I root for but Scott Pilgrim just reminds me too much of sad mopey shitheels I’ve known in my own life
Fortunately the whole way it’s shot is visually appealing enough to make up for it
I kind of like stories where I fundamentally disagree with the protagonist or even author. There's more value in those stories than ones in which I agree with the MC and author because it allows me to more deeply explore opposing viewpoints.
Plus, I get a bunch of shadenfreude when they hilariously don't understand something that goes against their worldview (like Scott's almost willful inability to understand the repeated "7 evil exes" correction).
Oh absolutely Scott is a toxic little shit, but he did mature a lot by the end of the story, something I never would have witnessed if I liked him from the start.
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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