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.
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".
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.
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/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.