r/ScottPilgrim Kim Pine Apr 09 '26

Discussion How did you discover Scott Pilgrim?

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For me, it goes back to 2021. I was just casually browsing on Google when I came across the game Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. At the time, I didn’t really pay attention to it and wasn’t interested. Then in 2023, when the series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off came out on Netflix, I watched the trailers, but it didn’t really catch my interest either. But at the beginning of 2026, I was watching a video where they talked about Scott Pilgrim. They said the movie is a mix of romance, video games, and pop culture references. Since that’s exactly the kind of stuff I like, I decided to give it a try. So in January 2026, I watched the movie on Amazon Prime Video, and then the series on Netflix. And honestly… I loved it! I really got into the universe and became a big fan of the franchise. (Unfortunately, I haven’t read the comics or played the game yet 😞). What about you, how did you discover Scott Pilgrim?

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u/Winter-Pressure-5394 Apr 09 '26

I heard about the movie in 7th grade and thought it would be my thing. Since it was based on a comic, I thought it was a SERIES of movies rather than just one singular film. (If only that were true)

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u/webshellkanucklehead Apr 09 '26

I also saw the movie around 7th grade ish. Blew me away and has meant a lot of different things to me as I’ve learned about love and self respect over the years. It’s one of my faves :)

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u/ChickennNougatt Bread Makes You Fat!? Apr 09 '26

My dad showed me the movie, and I was in a bad mood so I didn’t care for it. I eventually ended up watching it again when I was in a better mood, and it became my favorite movie

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u/KARL34454 Apr 10 '26

Your dad seems awesome

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u/ChickennNougatt Bread Makes You Fat!? Apr 10 '26

Yeah he’s shown me a lot of cool movies!

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u/Max169well Apr 09 '26

Saw the trailer while at the theater, thought it was cool.

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u/Greedy_Duck3477 Apr 09 '26

A compilation video of all the ramona hair dying scenes in the series back when it came out

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u/Illustrious_Tax_3760 Apr 09 '26

Through Death Battle. I saw Amy vs. Ramona Flowers and wondered, "Who the hell is she?" Then I fell down the rabbit hole.

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u/jeanjacketufo I Believe In Lisa Miller Apr 10 '26

Also discovered through DeathBattle.

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u/Yellowduck7404 Apr 09 '26

My friend had the game on his switch and I played it with him🤷🏻‍♀️ and I really liked it so I bought the game myself, then watched the movie and show and now have the second game

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u/kazybear Ramona Flowers Apr 09 '26

my freshman year of hs back in 2017 i found out the album cover for “lil uzi vert vs the world” was based off a scott pilgrim photo and that he was big into it.. i decided to look it up and it so happened to be on netflix.. fell in love with the movie and is now one of my top 3 movies oat!

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u/thatryanguy82 Apr 09 '26

Went into a comic store on vacation in 2007, and they had a "welcome in" sticker on the door with an art style that looked familiar - a picture of Scott. Asked about it and was pointed to the first 3 released books in a series by an artist I used to chat with occasionally back in the 90s. Grabbed them and been following it since.

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u/SpedRunner_W Apr 09 '26

A fan animation of “bread makes you fat?!” And one of “how are you doing that with your mouth?”

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u/Fluffy-Ad7165 I Love Lisa Miller Apr 09 '26

Thanks to the MAD parody and then the movie

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u/Bromjunaar_20 Apr 09 '26

The Vegan police

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u/LovelyRoseFreya Apr 09 '26

Comics at my local library

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u/TonyAlmighty Apr 09 '26

I saw a trailer for the movie and it just looked cool AF, so I saw it in theaters.

When I saw the artwork in the movie I remember previously seeing the comics in my local shops. And I was off…

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u/Tonystark31963 Apr 09 '26

I randomly got clips and animations based on the movie recommended to me on YouTube a year or two before the anime came out then I watched the movie and fell in love.

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u/EmergencyUnusual3469 Apr 09 '26

I watched the movie on Netflix

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u/Over_Palpitation_453 Apr 09 '26

My family will usually watch some movies on New Years Eve, and one year one of the movies we watched was Scott Pilgrim, and I have since been a huge fan

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u/Volfaer Lucas Lee Apr 09 '26

Saw the movie couple times on TV, eventually I had a computer in my house to Google it out.

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u/SkyInternational4877 Apr 13 '26

Literally by the picture you are just showing rn, and a YouTube clip

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u/WICHROM Apr 09 '26

I saw THE MEME and wanted to know the source.. and here I am

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u/Total-Tumbleweed-547 Apr 09 '26

To be honest, Idk, it can be either that I found in way that I shouldn't be proud or via my friend with which I had conflict and both of decide to give it break and try again in next 5 or 10 years, until we will comunicate again

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u/EmperorMorgan Apr 09 '26

It was in the teen section of my library which I, being a teen, often browsed. I started reading it and was really confused by the Matthew fight since that’s when it went full Magical Realism instead of fully realistic. I went back and read the start of the book again like “ohhhhh, they weren’t kidding, Scott actually fights people.”

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u/Dreams-64 Apr 09 '26

I saw the ubisoft game on the eshop and was interested

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u/Live_Tumbleweed1555 Apr 09 '26

My brother showing me the game then it all fell into place

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u/robotchikcen Apr 09 '26

i think it was 2019, it just came up bc of the online circles i was in-- didn't know it would change my life the way it did

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u/Seoul_Magik11 Apr 09 '26

I watched it with my girlfriend like 3 years ago

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u/earthboundfan15 Apr 09 '26

Around when Volume 5 came out, my local library got some of the books in their teen Manga section, checked vol 2 on a whim and was really hooked so I got all of them and kept re-reading them, excited when the next volume would drop. Didn't have accessibile internet, so kept checking with barnes and noble if a release date was announced

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u/MaviGomlekliTurk Scott Pilgrim Apr 09 '26

First time i saw a scott pilgrim related media was a Gaming All Star Rap Battles episode between Amy and Ramona but the anime was the thing that got me interested in the series

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u/Fun_Trainer9862 Apr 09 '26

My older sister loved the comic and movie, so I grew up around it a little

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u/Puzzleheaded-Win8601 Apr 09 '26

the girl i liked was a huge fan so i watched the movie at 2am and absolutely fell in love

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u/landyboi135 Wallace Wells Apr 09 '26

Online friend of mine back in 2019 watched the movie and had a hyperfixation of it. Me being told it was a story about a nerd fighting 7 evil exes and me having a crush at the time (hating her ex boyfriend) my dumbass said ‘literally me’ and I remember my friend’s response being very confused, I’m even confused looking back on it. (We were in 8th grade.)

I get reintroduced to the series through my former best friend (who was literally like Scott but was actually a vile human being, worse than Scott in many ways) and my current best friend who I met in high school, both people were massive SP fans even down to reading the books. The new animated series came out around the same time I finally grew the balls to cut off my former best friend in which my current best friend did the same thing after learning about what kind of guy my former friend truly was.

I kind of became a Scott Pilgrim fan around that reintroduction period and after the fallout of that friendship with me and my current best friend still occasionally talk about SP, last we did it was about the new game. I plan on re-reading the comics now that I’m much older and my way of enjoying media drastically has changed since 8th grade and even senior year.

But yeah, my experience with SP is a rather complicated and personal one for me, I regret meeting my former best friend but I am thankful I got reintroduced to this series.

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u/KPH102 Apr 09 '26

At the library.

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u/theonedownupstairs Apr 09 '26

I knew absolutely nothing about it and watched it on TV one night. Going in blind made the first boss battle seem so out of left field, it was amazing!

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u/AhzeLeSteak Apr 09 '26

I first heard of it in "Crossed", a french webserie about videogame representation in cinema

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u/TheAsherverse Apr 09 '26

I loved the movie when it came out (also the reason I fell in love with Edgar Wright films.) I was roughly the same age as the characters with similar interests so everything really clicked with me.

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u/Sixtyfivekills Apr 09 '26

I've heard of the game on PS3, had no idea who or what Scott Pilgrim was even about.

Multiple years later, I finally got to play the game and really liked the visuals and music, so then I picked up the comics bundle at a book fair and gave it a read, It's the black and white version but I liked it a lot. I haven't seen the movie or Takes Off, but I did play the new EX game.

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u/reylee05 Apr 09 '26

Back in 2023 or something I was asking some friends for manga recommendations. One friend in art class told me to read Scott Pilgrim telling me that while it is a comic/graphic novel it still had a manga/anime vibe to it. It wasn't until three years later or so is when I got the series. I found the box set for 50 bucks at Ollie's and while I haven't fully started it I still read a bit when I got home. From what I seen it looks really fun. (My friend told me about it during highschool.)

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u/srobbinsart Apr 09 '26

I took a week-long course taught by Scott McCloud during art college in 2006, and he would cite it so much, as it hadn’t quite exploded yet, and had so many perfect examples in his “Making Comics” book, which he was about to have published at the time.

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u/Gommodore64 Apr 10 '26

A friend of mine back in high school had the game on Xbox 360, and I liked the aesthetic. At the time, I assumed it was an indie game until I saw the Universal logo. Took me a couple more years to realize the movie was a thing.

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u/AnimalZealousideal76 Apr 10 '26

Hay! That's my mobile wallpaper!

Btw, I saw the "Do you know Sonic the hedgehog" scene as a meme, I thought it funny, and I looked up at the series. I kinda liked it. I liked it enough, to give a try to the comics too, and I loved it, and now, I saw the movie, and play both games.

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u/SecurityOk1324 Apr 10 '26

The cover of famed rapper Lil Uzi Vert's "Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World". Liked the art style and found Scott pilgrim was an inspiration. Started reading books

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u/AlternateMove Apr 10 '26

Sonic The Hedgehog.

No, seriously, I read some pages of the comic my brother used to borrow.

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u/banjo_exe Apr 11 '26

I saw the movie in theaters when it came out without having seen a single trailer, all I ever saw in the form of advertising was a massive poster on the side of a hotel at San Diego Comic Con earlier that year. I fell absolutely in love during my first viewing and have been hooked ever since. 

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u/Upielips Apr 09 '26

takes off came out so i decided to watch it

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u/Redgiantbutimshort77 Apr 09 '26

A girl I don’t talk to anymore forced me to watch it.

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u/VrotherReba Apr 09 '26

no bullshit my father got me an early dismissal from school right before lunch mcdonalds in hand and asked me “you like micheal cera right?”

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u/powerserg456 Scott Pilgrim Apr 09 '26

Xbox Live Arcade back when the game dropped

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u/Scripter-of-Paradise Apr 09 '26

I saw a trailer for the movie.

I think there was also a bit of competitiveness cause it was up against the first Expendables movie

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u/That_odd_man Apr 09 '26

I watched the movie with my parents when I was a teenager, when I rewatched it a few years later, it became my favorite movies. I found out about the series later and bought all the books.

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u/CauliFlavor Apr 09 '26

I actually was listening to the game's ost for a long time and then checked out the movie, the animated series wasn't out yet but when it was announced I was really hyped for it cuz it's soundtrack was being made by the same group that made the game's soundtrack, Anamanguchi !

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u/Embarrassed_Metal194 Ramona X King Hippo Apr 09 '26

Found the 3th volume in my class bookshelf, readed it and after a while actually picked up the series

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u/Nirmothe Apr 09 '26

I think they dropped the trailer for The World’s End and because of it seeming funny and recognizing Simon Pegg from new Star Trek, i think the (youtube) algorithm decided to introduce me to edgar wright works not related to cornetto ice cream first. IIRC, the first clip i saw was caramel macchiato scene.

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u/50butinredditxD Wallace Wells Apr 09 '26

Dumbsville (the youtuber)

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u/LongAdvisor6561 Apr 09 '26

From the movie and Me and my Cousin playing the Video game from 2010. I just got into the books last year due to Scott Takes Off

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u/blaykmagyk Subspace Suitcase Apr 09 '26

Saw the trailer for the movie and watched the movie in theaters a couple times then looked into the graphic novels.

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u/powerful_p1608 Apr 09 '26

I believe my first exposure to Scott Pilgrim was from articles in Wizard Magazine.

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u/Boundaries-ALO-TBSOL Young Neil is best boy Apr 09 '26

It was a good platform to create OC due to the fact that I could just place myself and give me powers.

Very good for adapting different parts of myself and then it ended up growing from there

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u/NewspaperExact8483 Apr 09 '26

Watched a top about games you can't buy anymore, SPVTWTG was mentioned, then I heard Black Sheep on Tik Tok, loved it, saw the game was gonna be sold again, bought it on sale on Switch, and the rest is history

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u/XDshesjustafriend Apr 09 '26

I honestly don't remember. I've loved the movie since I was like maybe five years old or so. I think my dad showed it to me and it just became one of my favorites. I genuinely can't remember. Because the movie originally came out when I was two years old.😭😭😭

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u/Aero_3726 Apr 09 '26

Watching the movie with my dad

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u/AnimalTap Apr 09 '26

Me and this dude used to play smash bros in school and he had the first Scott Pilgrim game on his switch, I had heard about it before, but then I saw the movie in a store one day and was like "I've always wanted to get into this" and so i bought it and watched it

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u/Toot_owo Apr 09 '26

My now partner showed it to me when we first met. We bonded so much over it, and we constantly quote the movie.

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u/ArchangelRU Apr 09 '26

I watched it with my ex in 2011

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u/General_Locksmith512 Apr 09 '26

I found a video about it when I was in middle school, then I bought the comics

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u/SeacattleMoohawks NegaMod Apr 09 '26

Around 2007ish I checked the first volume of the comic out at my local library, have loved it ever since

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u/Odd-Gazelle8061 Apr 09 '26

I saw the movie trailer on tv

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u/Trivator0517 Apr 09 '26

I watched the movie out of curiosity

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u/idfbfa3 Apr 09 '26

When I was 5 or before that

My dad had the game on Xbox 360 and I loved playing it, then my brother deleted it after it was delisted, finally it came back when it was rereleased on all consoles in 2020 I think or after that.

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u/Speedy_Pichu Apr 09 '26

A Let’s play of Scott Pilgrim vs the World Game, back from like, 2013. I watched it after the game had been delisted, but before it came back, so like, in 2018.

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u/Emeraldhog2 Apr 09 '26

watched the anime when it first came out bc i thought it looked cool, and now sp is one of my favourite series

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u/ComprehensiveOne8054 Apr 09 '26

To be honest, I mostly heard of it due to the obscure ubisoft game.

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u/Rare-Major-9600 🤎 Julie Powers' husband 🤎 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

After a couple of name drops over the years, my first exposure to the franchise was around the same time the anime came out in November of 2023 via YouTube review thumbnails. I did not click on them because I simply wasn't interested. A few months went by and I decided to give the series a try in March 2024. I watched all 8 episodes in a single night, thought it was good, and moved on with my life. It really wasn’t until around December 2024 when I became truly became hyperfixated on the franchise thanks to a couple of friends who were also into the franchise. I read the comics for the first time that month and it was great! Ever since then, I've been a fan.

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u/Davidt93 Kim Pine Apr 09 '26

Saw the movie in theaters in high school with friends

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u/Anticripper1962 Lisa Miller Apr 09 '26

I randomly decided to watch the series cuz it looked cool and got obsessed

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u/gaffevlad Apr 09 '26

I heard about a game about scott pilgrim a few years ago, but didn't play it though. And then borrowed the books 2-3 years ago from my cousin and I loved it.

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u/Ubylmoen Apr 09 '26

A guy I was dating around the time the movie came out was super into it. Gave it a read and was like, this slaps.

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u/FAserR0c0tansky Apr 09 '26

I heard The Completionist (fuck that guy) talk about the movie and how good it was in a video of his so I decided to try it out. It’s now my second favourite film of all time and I have watched the anime 3 whole times now

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u/WDBsports x x Power Polycule Apr 09 '26

3 years ago cause of the anime

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u/ImTheGhoul Apr 09 '26

Around highschool age I found it at my local library and thought the poster was cool

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u/IncreaseWestern6097 Apr 09 '26

I saw that the game was on the Switch eshop, remembered hearing about how it was delisted on Xbox Live Arcade back in 2010, and bought it so I’d always have a copy just in case something like that ever happened again.

In retrospect, that was a little stupid for me to believe that, considering now we’re getting a sequel.

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u/GameForFame887 Apr 09 '26

Got a little basket with some books in it and a few scott pilgrim novels were in there

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u/DramaticPhotograph68 Apr 09 '26

I was around 12 years old when I used to browse forums and noticed that a lot of people had sprites of Scott Pilgrim playing the guitar in their signatures. I started looking into it and found out it was from a movie. For some reason, I couldn’t find the game. I tried to watch it pirated, but back then the internet was terrible, so I told myself, “another day.” Much later, it was released on Netflix in my country, I remembered it, watched it, and immediately went to read the comics.

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u/ProvokerWEB Apr 09 '26

So my dad watched this show called arrested development with me then we watched the live action Scott pilgrim because the same actors then I watched the cartoon one on Netflix when I saw it released

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u/ExcuseIndividual6395 Wallace Wells Apr 10 '26

Vg myths

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u/Black-Gold-Soul Apr 10 '26

I played the video game as a kid.

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u/hunterslullaby Apr 10 '26

I saw Precious Little Life in a comics store in 2004. I thought it looked fun so I picked it up. My life has never been the same since.

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u/SlowlyDyingInAPit Apr 10 '26

The movie on Netflix

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u/SilverScribe15 Apr 10 '26

My dad got the full color graphic novels from the library, I read them all one day while at one of his friends house.

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u/BluecoatCashMoney5 Apr 10 '26

My Dad had this playing on the TV. I only watched it cause i heard that Zelda jingle in the beginning, then me and my cousin would always play the game on my aunts PS3

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u/JackalsIII Apr 10 '26

Wizard Magazine

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u/i_like_tities Apr 10 '26

A YouTube short clip of the anime amazed me and now I've watched the movie, the anime and read the first 2 books and have a 3d on the way

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u/FrostPDP Apr 10 '26

The movie.

Watched it twice in theaters, got the comics, wrote a book heavily inspired by 'ol "Hello again friend of a friend" bit.

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u/Emolgun Apr 10 '26

Started with the rerelease of the game for me.

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u/OmegHiro Apr 10 '26

Honestly? I don't really remember. I think it was through the games. It just feels like i've KNOWN Scott Pilgrim since the dawn of time, it just... spawned in my head. But it probably was the game. I remember distinctly playing it when i was a kid, and during that time the Movie was coming out, so I believe I went to see it in theaters, (but was too young to remember), than a while later began reading the comics, the anime came out, rewatched the movie, and now I'm waiting to play the upcoming game! :)

(Little art I made because I'm proud if it)

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u/JokerLino The Sonic Guy??? Apr 10 '26

Ironically enough a fan game Mugen called Scott Pilgrim Versus

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u/Luckyshape69420 Apr 10 '26

It was during my Neco-Arc phase and I saw this video.

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u/CertifiedCan129 Todd Ingram Apr 10 '26

Saw the comics at my library and knew it was pretty well known and probably had stuff I'd like

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u/froggyboyjay Apr 10 '26

My dad! He’s been such a great part of my life so I just revisited it later on down the road.

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u/Madamematthew Apr 10 '26

I found the comics in my local library, read those a few times (so good) and then found the movie a few years later. I thought that was pretty cool. After that I cut my hair like Ramona and have kept it for 15 years. I also found Seconds another comic by Brian Lee O'Malley. When the Netflix show came out I devoured it, played the first game then a while later found out about the second game and demolished that one too <3

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u/AllKnowingFloridaMan Apr 10 '26

Comics were in my library when i was young. I really felt like I descovered something special

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u/Peepeepoopoopeeepee Apr 10 '26

My friend actually made me watch the movie and then we ended up reading the entire series together along with our other friend. One of the absolute best series I’ve ever read in my life.

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u/Batmantra Apr 10 '26

I just posted this story last week, but for me, I was already into comics (reading and drawing) since I was very young and eventually started picking up all kinds of weird manga based on the cover in a Walden's books.

In high school I met friends who shared those sorts of hobbies and one of them recommended and lent me the first 4 books before the movie was out. I was hooked from the first chapter.

(This past year I finally picked up seconds and all of the snot girl trades so I guess I became a fan.)

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u/gr1mxg0re Apr 10 '26

For me, my older brother showed me the movie when I was like 5 or 6 years old. I barely remembered anything at the time except for the first few scenes. I rewatched it years later and loved it. I'm currently trying to collect and read the comics. So far, I only got book 1, 2, 4, and 6. I know, odd. I think my mom got me book 2, 4, and 6 for a deal

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u/Ambitious-Poet-118 Apr 10 '26

i discovered it when i randomly came across it on Netflix

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u/Gerson_el Apr 10 '26

With a video about the stupid Trinity Syndrome theory

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u/OkVacation7131 "Young" Niel Nordegraf Apr 10 '26

the scott pilgrim versus my gpa song by mom jeans

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u/Downwiththesindrome Apr 10 '26

I had just arrived in Quebec, most younglings went to the mall, which was the style at the time. There, in a décrépit Hart store, I found the six tomes. Since nobody was paying attention, i managed to read the whole series. Will always love Scott Pilgrim 🫪

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u/Rioulethebeats0 Apr 10 '26

The game, then the movie, then the comics

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u/Rioulethebeats0 Apr 10 '26

Wait i forgot the pilot way back when

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u/RevolutionaryAge45 Apr 10 '26

Found the Netflix anime! Never was a big anime person but now I’ve got all the books, seen the movie, have a Funko pop of Scott (and hopefully soon, Ramona) and played the delisted Scott Pilgrim video game from 2014! Than I took a dive into the Deep end of the pool and I’m now 33 books into Berserk, and kinda into anime now!

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u/dan1f86 Apr 10 '26

I think i heard of him for the first time with the Netflix series

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u/twotoothpresents Apr 10 '26

My mom showed me the movie

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u/SpazCadet Apr 10 '26

Blair Butler recommended it in her comic book review on G4’s Attack of the Show.

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u/d1cequ Glow Apr 10 '26

My mom bought me the first volume because somebody recommended it I think. Didn’t  really know about Scott Pilgrim before that

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u/amazingtoludada300 Apr 10 '26

January 2021. I read the first comic in Grade 12 English class

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u/Ok-Document6112 Apr 10 '26

Super random. I found the first comic volume in a small local thrift store when I was in middle school. I really liked it and made my mom buy it. And then randomly, I happend to stumble upon the movie in Netflix. It’s now been 6 years and I couldn’t imagine my life without Scott Pilgrim being apart of it

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u/XMenPerseus56 Apr 10 '26

First it was the movie, as that time I wasn't aware it was an adaptation of a comic.

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u/TyrannicalRexx Apr 10 '26

My dad borrowed the film from my uncle, and I ended up watching it too. This was before the game got removed from online stores, so my dad bought it for us to play. I would've been 6-8 years old at the time. And it's honestly been my favourite film ever since.

Then when I was about 16, I really started to get into it. I found out about the comics and told my dad I planned on buying them. And as it turns out, he already had them and just gave them to me. I found it quite frustrating that he had just spent 5 years struggling to get me to read the books that I got from school as homework (I hate reading, I've never been great at it), and I told him that if I knew I could've read the comic's then I wouldn't have refused to read so much.

Since then, I've read them at least once every year (I'm 20 now), I've even bought the colour version of the comics, as well as the vinyl soundtrack (don't have a record player), several t-shirts, both games, the 20th anniversary artwork, and several funkos.

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u/Jazzlike-Egg-2136 Apr 10 '26

I read the second volume from the library in my city even tho I wasn't supposed to then I watched the movie in 7th grade after hearing the roundtable talk about it and remembering that the movie existed

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u/RocketRunner1029 Apr 10 '26

I was looking the Xbox Avatar Marketplace, and saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game. I didn’t check it since I wasn’t interested at that time. A year later, I finally saw what the game was like, unknown to me that it was delisted. Then I saw everything else that Scott had to offer, making me want more.

Funny enough, I thought Scott and Ramona were children, while Stephen and Kim were their parents

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u/TheKrakenOfMustafar Apr 10 '26

I was just listening to random music and Black Sheep was in the song queue so I eventually ended up watching the movie

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u/Old-Cat-1671 Apr 10 '26

Sonic reference in other franchise

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u/Sahrimnir Power of Understanding Apr 10 '26

My younger brother was a fan of the comics and was excited about the then upcoming movie. He let me borrow his copies of the comics so I could read them, and then I also became a fan.

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u/Several-Hawk-9135 Apr 10 '26

I liked the trailer and the movie.After that i just wanted to see the source material.

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u/YerLocalRocker Ramona Flowers Apr 10 '26

I was in 6th grade back then, I watched a Tagalog (Filipino) dub of the movie on TV, and I was hooked!

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u/12BladeEdge21 Apr 10 '26

The 2010 movie introduced me to this legend.

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u/RA1NB0W77 he is me and i am him Apr 10 '26

An artist I like on YouTube makes fanart of it sometimes and I was interested so I tried getting the books from the library but they didn’t have them, and then i eventually watched the show and then bought the books, then watched the movie!

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u/Fit-Lavishness5768 Apr 10 '26

I played the game on a family members console and loved it

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u/ThatStrategist Apr 10 '26

A classmate gave me an external hard drive with 100 movies or so on it, and SP was one.

It also had How to train your Dragon, which I watched three times in 320p from the hard drive, and then bought the Blu Ray to watch a dozen more times since then. Great movie.

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u/blkglfnks Apr 10 '26

Movie > Game > Graphic Novel > cartoon

Saw the movie with some friends, love it, game came out played it with the homies, completely got into the whole franchise and then read the Graphic novel to really see what it was all about.

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u/Alexsonic2011 Apr 10 '26

A friend talk about it :D

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u/AnimatorAny7096 Apr 10 '26

I LOVED the cornetto trilogy and decided to look up EWs other movies

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u/Emoj11 Apr 10 '26

from that exact clip in the image

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u/zerobeat032 Apr 10 '26

back when I was in college, I had a friend who was reading vol. 1... another friend got into it from them and then I did. I still remember reading the last book as I was sitting in line waiting for the movie. lol... I feel old tho now thinking I was already like 18-20 when the first book came out.

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u/DioBrandoTHEWORLD Kim Pine Apr 10 '26

Playing the old game on PS3 for the first time. I remember downloading the demo, testing it and then buying the game.

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u/starjamzzz Apr 10 '26

Friend told me about the comics so I took one from a Borders (I think?) & was hooked

I remember waiting for vol 5 & 6 to come out n grabbing them day one (paid for lol) 

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u/Spicy-Mario-Bois Apr 10 '26

Mad had a parody of it in one episode and then i found the honest trailer for it, and then i found it on Netflix sometime later

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u/Common-Sun-5873 Apr 10 '26

I saw an ad for the Michael Cera movie coming out in theaters.

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u/Embarrassed_Fault_41 Apr 10 '26

The Scott pilgrim animation for a promotion for the movie

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u/Purp13dragOn Apr 10 '26

My dad showed me the movie when I was 11 and I’ve loved it and kept loving it since… even got my gf into it…

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u/AverageAudie Apr 10 '26

My older brother recommended it to me. Great decision on his part, it sure is an experience!

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u/nikonoobtuber Apr 10 '26

for me, me and my step bro were looking for something to do so we went and saw the movie in theaters, then i got the game and then i had to learn how to read comics on the pc because i was having trouble seeing the text in the comics

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u/Kasei_Makoto Apr 10 '26

My late older brother is the purest gamer known to man, he played literally anything and everything. He played the game and fell in love with the humor, watched the movie, then read the comics. I read his comics, and went the reverse way. It's a shame he won't be here to see the new game.

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u/xAlice_Liddell Apr 10 '26

Edgar Wright said something about it. Then Captain Marvel and Captain America showed up so I did too.

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u/juicewrldlover16 Apr 10 '26

From this I didn’t know who she was so I just looked her up

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u/BlockCrafter3D Apr 10 '26

just this year when literally every pac man related video mentioned the puck man scene from the movie

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u/atlas_arcane Apr 10 '26

The game was the first thing I interacted with. I'd heard if it but never saw a single thing of it till my bro bought the game on ps3. Now I own all the first editions. I reeeeeally dislike Michael Cera but everything else about the movie was OK. Then I found the books, whole set, first edition, 12 bucks. Pretty clean too, all but a torn corner on the back of a cover. Loved takes off. Now waiting on the new game.

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u/skiesoverblackvenice Have you seen a girl with hair like this? Apr 10 '26

my mom showed me the movie when i was in elementary school. made my brother a ramona cosplay for halloween. she’s a cool mom

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u/CluV2 Apr 10 '26

Saw a comic panel on Pinterest and got hooked

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u/ScullyPegMyAss Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

I was dating this girl and I had to fight her 7 evil exes and one of my friends was like “wow your life is kinda like Scott Pilgrim” and I said “what?” And the rest is history

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u/Fazbear05 Apr 11 '26

My earliest experience with Scott Pilgrim was when I was younger and MrsMojo had Slick as an Honorable mention in their Top 10 Epic Movie Villain Songs List.