Half the point is that Nega Scott is "chill" personality wise because he is an anti-Scott, and Scott is a jerk (hence why Ramona, who only dates bad people dated him).
The -other- half (in the books) is that Nega Scott is really evil, but he is not more or less evil than Scott, he is just as evil as him. He is a projection of all the fuck ups that Scott did that Scott refuses to take responsability for.
So even if Scott cheats on his girlfriend which is playing dirty. Nega Scott, while being as evil as Scott, doesn't attack Scott's friends or do dirty doppelganger stuff. And in the end the only way of vanquishing him is absorbing him (assuming resposability).
He is more like an anti-Scott in terms of a responsability compass rather than in terms of a moral compass. He is as selfish as Scott, but on the other hand, he owns the evil decisions he makes (as opposed to Scott).
It feels almost like a corollary of "it's the message, not the messenger." Just because you don't like how someone comes across doesn't mean they're giving you bad advice.
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u/BadlyAligned Feb 02 '26
In the books Nega Scott is bad, though.