I'm In Lesbians With You: Left Leaning Values In Scott Pilgrim vs The World

In Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Michael Cera's character, Scott Pilgrim, leads the comedy about a garage band bassist who falls in love with a girl named Ramona Flowers, while he is dating a high school girl named Knives. The situation gets messy because Scott doesn't break things off with Knives when he loses interest in her, but pursues Ramona while avoiding Knives. Scott is posed with battling Ramona's 7 evil exes, in order to win her over. Scott Pilgrim vs the World is a left-leaning film, but also reinforces the status quo and promotes nostalgia. The film is left of center by its normalization of homosexual and bisexual relationships and breaks gender stereotypes of male and female characters. This hipster and witty comedy aims to reach hipsters, comic book fans, nerds, and comedy fans.

Although the movie reinforces the common plot of a man winning over the prize girl, Ramona is depicted as independent and not reliant on Scott to fulfill her needs. The film breaks the status quo by having Scott's roommate, Wallace, be gay. Even though people could interpret scenes with Wallace as a mockery of homosexual men, it is portraying a minority in an unusual living situation, and normalizing it. Characters don’t bat an eye at Wallace’s sexuality, or that Scott lives with him. The film simultaneously uses common tropes for humor while challenging the status quo of traditional romantic relationships and friendships.

Roxy Richter is another character in Scott Pilgrim vs The World that challenges social norms, as a female who is one of Ramona’s evil exes. Roxy is Ramona's only female ex, and even though it surprises Scott that she had a romantic relationship with a female, he accepts it. This character breaks the stereotype that lesbian women are tomboys, but instead portrays Roxy as feminine in the fight scene with Scott. 

 There are scenes that reinforce stereotypes and social norms. For example, Lucas Lee, plays a typical hot shot actor who just wants to impress women. By using scenes like this, and ironically reinforcing the status quo, Scott Pilgrim is poking fun at the common tropes and things our society accepts as normal.

            Scott Pilgrim vs The World fans most-likely pick up on the left-leaning ideals, particularly challenging relationship dynamics, normalizing the LGBT community, and its  portrayal of female characters as independent. Fans understand the dry and witty humor, which makes it easy for them to know which societal norms they are challenging and which norms they are reinforcing. The movie is effective at reaching the comedy fans, nerds, and comic book fans, but also reaches hipsters who are participating in nerd culture.