Scott Pilgrim vs. Physics Outline

Introduction

• Feature Film: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (112 min)
• Edgar Wright’s vision of Toronto, Canada in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World harkens back to classic 16-bit video games to form an artistic and narrative foundation for the film.

Body Paragraphs

1. Either the people are incredibly strong and have superhuman abilities

• The members of the League of Evil Exes have superhuman abilities like flight, super strength, telekinesis, teleportation, and others
• Ramona Flowers is capable of lifting and swinging her hammer with ease
• Scott and the League of Evil Exes are capable of jumping great heights during their fights
• Scott is able to acquire an “extra life” and resurrects from death
• When Ramona roller-skates on snow, her trail melts the snow
• Todd Ingram puts a hole in the moon
• Todd Ingram punches the highlights out of Knives Chau’s hair (HE PUNCHES THE HIGHLIGHTS OUT OF KNIVES CHAU’S HAIR)
• Instead of using his abilities, Scott walks and pays for public transit

2. The locations of Toronto are malleable

• The opening scene with the band “Sex Bob-omb” takes place in a living room that stretches out in length
• Scott enters the bathroom of his home to then exit into the hallway of a high school
• Ramona uses the Subspace Highway in order to traverse Toronto and make her Amazon deliveries
• The locales found in the film are places in real life

3. Any villain or henchman that die burst into coins

• Matthew Patel is punched in the face and bursts into coins
• Lucas Lee accelerates too fast grinding down a series of icy hand rails and collides with the ground, bursting into coins
• Todd Ingram gets headbutted by Scott and bursts into coins
• Roxy Richter dies via orgasm and explodes into coins
• The Katayanagi Twins explode by the force of sound
• Gideon Graves’s henchmen all die via punch or kick by Scott
• Gideon Graves is punted in the chin and bursts into coins
• Lucas Lee’s stunt doubles don’t burst into coins as they die off screen

4. Counter Argument: The combatants of Toronto follow arcs and receive impact upon taking a physical blow

• Scott’s encounter with Lucas Lee and his stunt doubles shows Scott being mercilessly beaten and landing with forceful impact
• Roxy Richter’s bladed whip moves like a gymnastic ribbon twirler’s ribbon
• The pixelated effects of Gideon Grave’s sword moves about following the arcs of Gideon’s slashes
• The visual representations of the instruments’ sounds all radiate from the speakers or the source of the sound

Conclusion

• The world of Toronto is filled with super-capable people that engage in pugilistic fights to resolve their quarrels. Those fights spill into physically impossible feats of strength as the stakes become increasingly dire. For the sake of entertainment, murder is completely condoned, and accepted, in the world of Toronto, Canada.