I barely remember 2010, but I remember Scott Pilgrim being to hipsters like Fight Club and American Psycho are to incels; They totally missed the point of the movie, thought it was aspirational, and the results in dive bars and shitty venues across America (maybe just the midwest?) were disastrous.
Was this real? Did I mandela effect it from the negative zone or something? Am I just getting old?
I largely forgot what it was about, what was the point again?
The point of the comic was basically Scott was kind of an asshole and really failed at communicating with the women in his life and treating them like people with agency.
Life is like a bibeo bame and if the feeemale won't fuck you, you have to fight everyone who might fuck her instead because you're the Main Character.
It's about toxic masculinity? I can sort of see that.
Except at the very end of the story (that is often ignored or downplayed anyway) the implication throughout is that sufficient fighting and aggression should win sex trophies, and that feeemale agency and choice doesn't really compute.
EDIT: I didn't pay that much attention to the franchise when it was briefly a big deal, but as an outside observer I didn't like what I saw. If the "the protagonist is actually an asshole" message actually reached most of its audience for a change, great.
eeeeeeeeeeehhhh I feel weird being the scott pilgrim defender in this thread but I think a lot of people here are reading a little too hard into a fairly dopy comic movie. I dont think youre supposed to watch it and think "oh yeah, obviously the movie endorses the fighting of everyones exes". I think its just a boilerplate to get some goofy characters on screen, through which you learn chunks of backstory about the main girl character.
In the comics I think I remember Ramona telling Scott in vol. 6 that he wasn't fighting her "evil-ex's" for her sake but his own and he has a big depression-funk after realizing this and talks to his friends and high school crush about it to get their views and their criticisms of him start to land. He ultimately grows as a person with some video game thematics interwoven into this.l with a happy ending. Maybe it's less obvious in the movie but the comics make it extremely clear.
Oh, that sucks.