Summary
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off differs from the original story and focuses more on character development, delivering a unique and engaging story. The true villain is revealed to be future Scott Pilgrim, who kidnapped his younger self to prevent the heartbreak caused by Ramona. The ending opens up the potential for a sequel, with footage showing the characters’ lives progressing and hinting at a new evil plot to explore in the future.
Warning: Contains spoilers for Scott Pilgrim Takes OffScott Pilgrim takes off was finally released, and it turned out to be a very different story than what people expected, including its ending. Instead of being a more realistic animated adaptation of the original comics, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in 2010, the series immediately diverged from the original story with Scott seemingly dying in battle with Matthew Patel rather than defeating him and the rest. Alliance of Evil Exes.
Following the big twist of that first episode, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off tells a story that focuses more on the characters than the movie or even the original comic. Ramona becomes the hero of the anime through the exploration of her relationship issues and her quest to find Scott after discovering that he is alive.
Characters like Knives, Julie, and the League of Evil Exes are given different roles that provide plenty of fun for fans both old and new. It all makes for a unique story, even without the context of the original, and it leads to an ending that both completely recreates the premise of Scott Pilgrim and brilliantly sets up much more to come. will appear in the series.
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off The real villain is Scott Pilgrim
Scott Pilgrim has truly become his own worst enemy
In Scott Pilgrim Takes Off episode #6, “WHODIDIT”, as Ramona and Sex Bob-omb prepare to confront the alleged perpetrator, the Katayanagi twins, Scott Pilgrim returns and reveals the identity of the mastermind actually: the future Scott Pilgrim. Episode #7, “2 Scott 2 Pilgrim” reveals that with help from the Katayanagi twins, future Scott pulled young Scott 14 years into the future, where he regressed to become more selfish and petty. even my younger self. Future Scott blames it all on Ramona divorcing him, and the truth comes out Future Scott Pilgrim kidnapped young Scott to make him never date Ramona so he wouldn’t get his heart broken.
As Scott contemplates his future self’s motives, he meets future Ramona, who reveals that she wrote Young Neil’s script about Scott’s life in an attempt to save their relationship. While future Ramona felt her efforts were pointless, Scott, who had been monitoring Ramona’s efforts to find him through the Katayanagi twins’ robots, reassured her of her actions and her situation. their love, and on that note, future Ramona brought Scott back to the present to be with her younger self. Scott, after explaining everything, apologizes to Knives for deceiving her and leading her on, and with all well between them, he and Ramona can finally begin their relationship on the right foot. serious.
Scott & Ramona have their final battle before they can be together
World Vs. Scott’s pilgrimage
Unfortunately, things are not that simple, Every time Scott and Ramona try to kiss, a force field appears that prevents their lips from touching each other.. They are immediately suspicious of the League of Evil Exes, so in the series finale, “The World Vs Scott Pilgrim,” they go to confront them at the premiere of Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, but it turns out none of them are responsible as they’ve all moved on from Ramona. The only remaining threat is Gideon and Julie trying to kill Matthew, but before that can happen, everyone is pulled onto the subspace highway by none other than even future versions of themselves. Even older than Scott Pilgrim’s.
It is soon revealed that The even older future Scott Pilgrim is in charge of the force field and is now determined to kill Scott to finally keep Ramona out of his life. Everyone comes together to fight the even older future Scott, but he is too powerful for them to handle and drives everyone except Scott and Ramona off the subspace highway. Ramona begins to question whether they should really be together, even as Scott resolves not to become his future self, and before they can return to fighting, a future Ramona The even older shows up and berates the even older future Scott for letting their relationship fall apart. .
Scott Pilgrim takes off helping Ramona learn to love herself
Ramona is done running away from love
As Ramona feels disappointed that her even older future self has given up on Scott, she finally realizes how much of a problem her fear of commitment has been and resolves to loves herself, which is signified by her merging with her even older future self to become. Super Ramona. Super Ramona sent an even older future Scott home so he could try to fix his life, and soon after, Super Ramona broke through the force field to kiss Scott. Super Ramona took Scott and her back to Matthew’s play, but not before telling Scott that she loved him and would try to stop running from love.
Where Everyone Is in Scott Pilgrim is about the film’s ending and how it sets up the sequel
An ending and a possible new beginning
The epilogue of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off presents a montage of how everyone’s lives have progressed after the events of the story. Ramona has become a stuntwoman, Knives and Stephen are producing music with Envy Adams, young Neil is still writing movies, Matthew is a famous actor, Lucas is working at Stacy’s coffee shop, Roxie is helps Todd return to a vegetarian diet, the Katayanagi twins are learning to be better, and Wallace has a crush on Paris. Scott is still largely in the same place, but he has learned to be a better person, and he and Ramona will learn lessons to improve both their relationship and themselves.
Even though the anime ends with a largely conclusive conclusion, it could still spawn a sequel. After Gideon fails to kill Matthew in revenge for stealing his company, Matthew decides to return it to Gideon because he finds being a CEO too stressful and wants to focus on acting. That particular scene makes it clear that Matthew, Gideon, and Julie all have evil intentions, and although it’s unknown what Matthew is planning, final scene of Scott Pilgrim takes off shows Gideon and Julie using Gideon’s company to orchestrate another evil ploteven though the show ends without explaining anything.
Gideon’s mysterious new plot may not be a revival of the League of Evil Exes since the League has moved on from Ramona, and given how much the anime differs from Scott Pilgrim’s original story, it’s hard to tell. say which direction it might go. Any form of continuation would have been more than welcome though, as the ending perfectly encapsulates the story’s self-improvement theme in a more modern form and see what else Could be done with that would be great. There’s no way to know where Scott Pilgrim takes off starts here, but either way, the ending keeps things on a high.
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