Both drummer girls were the best, from Crash and the Boy’s to Kim (the drummer of Sex Bob-omb).

Kim is probably the one true friend Scott has. But reading the comic, she’s also one of his victims, which makes me more perplexed as to why she puts up with him. I guess with enough sarcasm, you can power through anything.

Actually, Tucci/Nigel does take your view as his response was that he still believed that Miranda would repay his loyalty someday, though we the audience are not meant to share his faith.

Well Knives is a little more fleshed out and independent from Scott.

Knives gets a much better ending in the comic that her goodbye speech in the film absolutely fails to convey. Her characterization in the film is my primary gripe about it, though I still love it.

I agree that this is part of the reason Andy quits - the straw that breaks her back - but the build up of why Miranda is awful and Andy is miserable is that basically they can’t keep their men/social lives and do their jobs. Andy breaks up with her boyfriend because he is pouty that she isn’t around to eat his…

Wasn’t the whole lesson of the movie that the two main characters where wrong about literally everything they thought at the beginning of the movie?
From everything to how they treated each other, to the girls not being who they idolized them as, who they’re friends as people really where(McLovin), hell even down to…

Agreed on both counts. Plus (not that Andy knew it when she accepted the trip to Paris), Emily turned out to be in no condition to go to Paris anyway. She was hit by a car and hospitalized right before she was set to go to Paris.

It drives me NUTS that Miranda tries to compare what she did to Nigel to what Andy did by accepting the Paris trip knowing it would screw over Emily. Um, Nigel is your loyal friend and colleague of like 20 years, and Emily is a snob who treated Andy like trash. Why on earth would Andy put her career at risk over…

She eventually comes to her own agency about not loving Scott despite all of his shit, helping Ramona come to the realization Scott cheated on both of them. After Ramona left him at the end of Volume 5, she outright tells Scott she isn’t in love with him anymore. The two kiss and realize they no longer have feelings…

YEESSS. Also I really hated her selfish, awful friends; right after she gives them fantastic, expensive gifts, they play keep away with her phone while her known-hardass boss (the source of those expensive gifts!) is calling.

YES! I agree with the original poster about Andy’s bf and friends being terribly unsupportive but Miranda was still not an awesome person. It had nothing to do with her being a divorced woman who excelled at her job.

I felt like the turning point was the bit in the limo where Miranda says “Everyone wants this”. Well, no, everyone doesn’t. And I think Andy realized that she didn’t want to live that life. She had her contacts, and experience, and it was time to move on.

There was the original ending too where Knives and Scott end up together and audiences didn’t like it.

Agreed. The characters were all more complex in the comic, and it made it clearer that Scott’s behaviour was problematic. I liked the movie, but I thought it focused too much on the fight scenes and not enough on the character development.

The movie doesn’t do as good a job of establishing Scott as being a complete asshole to Knives, and in general, as the comic does. He’s basically the villain of the comic, for many reasons. I think the movie really failed to express that.

Scott Pilgrim is one of my all time favourite movies, to the degree that when I was having a really bad few weeks about 5 years back, my lil sis and her boyfriend arranged a movie night for me with all of my friends (that are remaining in Ireland, fucking emigration). And then she asked me who my favourite character…

Comic Scott actually has an excuse or at the very least an explanation for a lot of his behavior that is hinted at once or twice but never explored on. The Comic leaves you feeling a bit better than the movie.

Guy in a band here, and I think it’s more on the dude to make sure it’s clear that she doesn’t have to come to every show to qualify as a supportive SO. My wife comes to about 1 out of 4 shows and that’s plenty. She’s heard us play it all before, I’m too busy to hang out with her much, it’s loud and takes forever, it…

Scott treats Knives like a lame hanger-on, but all she does is support him and go to his rock shows, which, if you’ve dated a musician, you know is the most boring thing a girlfriend could possibly have to do.