Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Okay, so Scott didn’t actually die. But Scott Pilgrim Takes Off certainly had us, and its characters, thinking that way—we had a bit of an inkling that this radical re-imagining of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s seminal graphic novel series was really swinging for the fences. And even though Scott ultimately wasn’t slain in battle by Matthew Patel (it was simply an elaborate ruse by his bitter future self to convince his present self not to date the potential love of his life, of course), much of Takes Off is dedicated to the impact of a real possibility where he did, and how this particularly peculiar example of grief can affect people in different ways, reverberating out through Scott’s circle of friends.
