Every Video Game Reference in "Scott Pilgrim vs the World"

• The twin brother's dragon symbol looks like a number five,there are six stripes on one of their shirts an Gideon "G" is the seventh letter in the alphabet.

• Reference with the music to the opening of super punch out when Scott and Lucas Lee start running at each other.

• one thing that is wrong is that scott got 1-up after defeating todd ingram, not the twins

• what's funny is that Todd was played by Brandon Routh who is most well known for playing Superman/Clark Kent in the latest installment of the superman movies Superman Returns.  and one of the vegan policemen to take away his powers was Thomas Jane who also protrayed comic book hero The Punisher/Frank Castle in the previous Punisher movie. something to think about.

• 3oThe magptthew patel battle wallace yells "watch out" i think he represents navi from ocarina of time cause hes a fairy lol no offense to anyones

• The fight with lee and his stunt team. What game and music was referenced with them? Not the tony hawk part but before that? It's not any matrix reference at all. I remember playing a game like this but it bugs me that I can't remember it :-p

• Or the three sacred stones acquired in the games. The Zora Sapphire, the Kokiri Emerald, the Goron Ruby. And she dyes them in reverse order they are found in-game.

• Its not Kirby's hammer, or it might be, but thats taken directly from the manga I believe.

• also to how a lot of bosses in 90's video games were just the same characters colored in silver cause that was cheaper :)

• Nobody pointed out all the 8-bit gaming music references, to classic 8 bit gaming, i.e. the opening Universal sequence, and the ending 8-bit version of the song "Threshold" by Sex Bob-Omb. You people are looking so hard your passing all the obvious references! :)

• Or simply that he is the 3rd evil ex, don't try so hard to find things that don't exist, because last I checked in DBZ, the vegeta saga, there's Radditz, Napa, Vegeta, and Goku, then only half blood, but Gohan. So that makes 4, possibly 5 how you look at it. And any saga beyond that is just plain asinine to say only 3 sayians exist. Nice try. 

• I hate when people use the word obvious when its obvious they don't know what they are talking about. All your lame references are post NES generation, which shows how inexperienced of a gamer you are, or simply the fact that you didn't read the comics. The writer is an avid and nostalgic gamer, so any modern game references or pure coincidence or far and few in-between. Don't waste so much time a reference post when your an idiot!

• The song "Under my Thumb" by the Rolling Stones is played when Gman's limo comes.

• Did anyone else notice the earthbound reference with the gay guy and the guy with glasses

• After watching the movie I actually said, "Isn't Gideon's symbol just a tri-force with G's in the triangles?"

• Forgot to mention The Clash at Head Demon which was the title of the NES game and also the name of the band Envy Adams. <a href ="http://www.xxxtruthordare.net/">Adult Board Game</a>

• Did any one else notice the reference of Todd Ingram to Mewtew from the pokemon series I mean smoking whites eyes and minds powers also levetaion

• I thought someone would have noticed the Mortal Kombat Arcade Mode reference with the Toronto International Battle of the Bands.

• its a standard BlackBerry message tone

• Also crash and the boys the name of sex bob omb's rival band is an old nintendo game.

• oh wait.  Wrong kick, sorry yeah knives not SP gf.  sorry lol  I just presumed Nina low blow then thought "what" turns out I should have read the post properly.  Excuse me ;-)

• uhr nope, she gets her ass handed to her for that kick and it isnt ninas low kick or twisted mind move.  Go home.

• Crash and boys, crash bandicoot? maybe

• there are so many appearances of the number 7 with gideon's battle, Matthew Patel points his finger a lot indicating the number 1, and with lucas lee (no.2) He cracks his neck 2 time, juggles his skateboard 2 times, he does a lot of stuff in the sequence before the actual fight. Roxy has 4 lines drawn on her face, they're kinda drawn closely into eachother, Todd's back members, there's only 3 of them. The shirt. There is a lot of stuff hidden in the movie

• I thought roxy's whip looked like the sand version of prince of persia's daggertail

• Actually, in the movie he wears a rock band tee shirt. The red one with the bass logo.

• When the set of Lucas Lee is getting closed off, the director announces morning to come soon, in the fashion of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.

• Ramona's hair colors in the movie are red, blue, and green. This could be consistent to the 3 fairies in the Zelda series.

• Basically remove all your references for games made before 2002, replace them with references from games during that time frame and you've got it right. Its pretty much a reference to old 90's geek culture, not this generations geek culture.

• The end reminded me of the witch hunt DLC for dragon age

• Ramona Flowers- Uses a large hammer as a weapon. short punky hair (Pink at first) Amy Rose: (Female name, a rose is a flower) uses a hammer. short quills made to look like hair, and she's pink. Kyle and Ken are obvious double dragon references. Scotts shirt during the fight with Lucas Lee is a space invaders reference. Whenever characters take a hard hit (Scott or evil Ex) their cry echoes in a similar fashion to street fighter games. Scott's "pee bar" is a reference to The Sims "Bladder" The Zelda "obtained new item" tune plays when Knives is spying through Young Niel's window at Scott and Ramona. Todd's Vegan powers are similar to M. Bison's powers. Enemies not only exploding into coins, but adding to a 'point' total. When Ramona draws her hammer, the Sonic the Hedgehog 'enter special stage' tune plays. When Scott leaves for the chaos theater the second time, his 2X bonus is accented with a Space Invaders tune. When Scott is appologizing to Kim, her 'raised eyebrow' plays a sour note i.e. Rockband and Guitar Hero. When she smiles, the score plays a pac-man sound. just a few more

• what about crash and the boys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_%27n_the_Boys:_Street_Challenge

• This is exactly what I thought.

• mmmm I feel like you are all finding references in whatever happened in the movie while I think most references were quite generic, like things that are common to many videogames, not precise ones. The bob-omb, zelda, street fighter and some other games might be accurate, but the rest sound like something made up by fans of the movie. In my opinion it had more to do with indie culture than it had to do with videogames. I wouldn´t say this is geeky full of video game references movie. Most hardcore gamers I know didn´t really love it, they expected more references.

• It's Launchpad McQuack from 'Ducktales'

• Nothin related to video game reference on what I'm abot to say but the retired skater Lucas lee which is an actor is similar to the real retired skater now actor Jason Lee ha

• The bass line Scott plays is definitely from FF2's battle theme. That is the REAL FF2, so not the US FF2 (ie. FF4). Look up some YouTube videos of that theme and it's instantly recognizable. Most FF battle themes have that same opening, but the way he continues after that is definitely based on FF2.

• Is another reference form "Jet Set Radio Future" or JSRF when Scott dream Ramona in rollerblades in the desert, she was moving like the characters in JSRF

• In the final battle when certain hurt characters are blinking red, it reminds me of the bosses in the second Ninja Turtles NES game.

• The logo of the twins, it's a 5 split in two. There you go.

• Obvious one, but at the beginning when Young Neil says he plays Zelda and Tetris x3

• When Scott stops Matthew Patel in their fight, the Street Fighter pause/unpause sound happens just before they start fighting again.

• Actually, those hand seals are Taoist prayers known as "Kuji-in" that originated in China in 280 AD. In fact, the vast majority of mystical techniques depicted in Naruto, (along with a few of the characters) were taken from ancient kabuki plays and classical ninja lore.

• What about When Knives asks when they are playing their gig and she does the Zelda gasp from OoT when you fight Ganon

• Ok. Gideon is primarily one big Ganon and half-life reference. G Man is the name of the creepy dude in half-life responsible for just about everything. It is final fantasy II that he plays the baseline to. Knives resembles Hope from Mirrors Edge after dying her hair. Double dragon reference with jap twins. Also note that most of the exes feature their number in the environment or on themselves. Most notablely, Lucas Lee has a two tattooed on his neck when you first see him on the spike commercial. This one is also kinda stretching it, but Roxy is 4th ex. IV = Roman numeral 4. IV = Ivy = Soul Caliber.

• The seven exs represent Bowser's seven castles.

• He has a Rock Band bassist shirt.

• wallace has Nintendo in the apartment. Of course, now on the dvd you can see all the references, including Tekken.

• I might be wrong but i believe that "Nega Scott" isn't a really a reference to any one game but rather the cliche event in which the hero must battle a dark version of themselves. In Zelda OoT I distinctly remember Link fighting a shadow Link in the water temple as well as in Zelda the second game in the series Mario fights Metal Mario in Super smash bros etc

• Yeah! I was pumped to see the chaos theatre, earthbound was the best game!

• The smoke shadow quality of Roxy Richter just yelled ICO

• There are alot that I noticed... Matthew Patel was Dhalsim from Street Fighter.In the end when Knives is battling Ramona she is very much like Kitana from Mortal Combat...she then adopts the fighting style of Chun Li from Street Fighter and Nina from tekken wth the kick in the end that really almost kills Gideon. Todd(Envy's bf) looks like some character from Tekken...not sure the name...but he looked completely familiar.

• Am I the only one who noticed that when they were showing the stuff in the apartment that it was a reference to paper boy?

• roxy is also a mortal combat reference because scorpion is a disrespected ninja who uses a pocket dimension to pop up and attack foes.

• gideons upside down triforce is also an antichrist reference from the omen movie saga.

• todd's shirt has a on it because of the 3 vegetable named sayans in dbz. @Matthew Fabb the 1 up is a mario reference that was in the book.

• Thanks for putting this list together. Very awesome to look over. Whether you liked it or not, it's amazing how much attention to detail was given in SPVtW.

• also just pointing this out scotts shirt has a 4 and a half on it 4 plus 1 is 5 and 4 plus 2 is 6

• OMG I GOT 5 AND 6 ITS ON SCOTTS LIST AND ITS GOT A BRACKET AROUND IT!!!

• ok the 5 is the two dragon heads together

• oh wait its kat and ana so katiana twins and kat ana get it!

• Omg i just noticed somthing ok so think katiana twins now think wario ware katana twins kat and kate i think it was

• the door could have been a reference to either to Super Mario 2 or Kirby's Dreamland

• Anyone else think of Ninja Gaiden, the old NES game? Those scenes where the opponents are running toward each other in split screen....perhaps my favorite reference of all! I loved that game! And the whole scene where they are fighting the twins is like a Final Fantasy RPG, where you can conjure up creatures to attack, etc.

• I'm the only one who thought that the fight with the twins reminds King Goron and the Dragon on Ocarina Of Time?

• There is indeed a Kirby reference hidden in the fight between Ramona and Roxy Richter. When Ramona takes out the hammer, the camera will close up on her bag. The side of her bag is round and brownish with a big blue star on it, referring to King Dedede's mallet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy-fmXCAAr4 at 1:06 of the video you will see what I mean. The hammer itself is not the reference (not to Kirby at least).

• I don't know if this was mentioned, but in Final Fantasy 9, Dagger (similar to Knives) cut her hair to a bob type cut, very similarly to Knives in the film.

• what about the street fighter reference??? when lucas lee fights scott they both do jump attacks and a jumping kick always beats a jumping punch. or when scott uppercuts roxy when shes kicking at him, an uppercut can beat a jumping kick

• continuing on James Collura's point that every battle's number appears somewhere on screen before it occurs, he could not find the numbers 5 & 6 for the twins this may just be me reading too much into it, but the twin dragon symbol made in the middle of the twin's keyboards when they join as one looks quite like a 5 although I could not find a 6 :( also, when scott is in the phone booth and Knives describes exactly what he is wearing it reminded me of the film Phone Booth

• Dude! At the very very end after the credits, pixel-scott punches out "The End" Then he teleports away with the same sound and graphics as Mega-Man!

• "Another reference that was forgotten was Knives!! That character, her name is from Final Fantasy 9! A princess who decides to change her name to knives." Garnet actually changes her name to Dagger - not Knives. It was a nice idea but Knives doesn't seem close enough for me to make that connection.

• No one noticed that when he "punches the moon" for Ramona, it resembles the Death Star??

• During the amp-to-amp battle with the twins, Scott hits his pedal to activate the monster. Star Power from Guitar Hero much?

• During the bass battle with Brandon Routh, Brandon lifts his bass in the air then a blue light starts to glow around it. This is probably a referance to Guitar Hero.

• There's also a 3 hidden in among the pictures in the background which you can see when Todd first uses his vegan powers against Scott.

• The keys were "E" (which could be "5" if you started at A), and G# (which throws the whole theory in the toilet, lol).

• QUOTE: Niskratus says: "I hope im not wrong in this.. but is there a referance in Ramonas' hair colour? I have a strange de-ja-vu of an old arcade game with 3 girls who looked identical, but each with different colour hair, Pink, Blue, Green. but i just cant remember a name?" Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup? lol. the Powerpuff Girls. I agree that it's the Zelda colors, though, but nice catch. ex #1 flew through the wall, pointing in a number one. That's really all I saw. ex #2 was everywhere. There were two x's on street signs (before seven were shown, when Scott was on his way to fight Lucas Lee.) Lee's trailer had a "2" on it, his stunt car had a "2" on it, and of course, he had stunt "doubles". ex #3 most obviously had the "3" shirt. Someone mentioned above that the trashcans outside had "3" on them. ex #4 entered a club with a large "4" on it. Between ex #4 and Ex's #5 and 6, Scott was wearing a Fantastic Four 1/2 shirt. ex's #5 and #6 - the reference to 11 on the volume is all I can think of. What keys were they pressing when they started the battle? A and B would be 5 and 6. ex #7 - Gideon's stats all went to Level 7.

• I thought that the fight with Lucas lee's doubles looked a lot like in the matrix when neo has to fight the agent clones.

• Todd seemed like a reference to Saiyans from DBZ, but also the shoulder pads on Envy's jacket during the fight scene reminded me of Saiyan Armor.

• The twins used 2 dragons to fight. Double Dragon?!

• Another reference that was forgotten was Knives!! That character, her name is from Final Fantasy 9! A princess who decides to change her name to knives.

• Another reference that was forgotten was Knives!! That character, her name is from Final Fantasy 9! A princess who decides to change her name to knives.

• Did anyone catch the Myst reference? At the end, when Gideon is distorting and fading in and out while he's talking... That seemed like such an obvious Myst reference to me, when you would talk to the creators through the books. Maybe it's just me.

• Seven ex boyfriends...seven maidens...A Zelda Link to the Past reference...you have to face 7 monsters to get to seven maidens...

• I thought the Richter GF moves like Smoke from Mortal Combat

• I can't believe I'm the only one who noticed this. The part where Scott and Gideon first attack eachother during their 2nd fight (before Knives attacks Ramona) is the opening cutscene from Ninja Gaiden.

• What about the vegan, who looks like a super sayan? I thought that was a reference to vegeta.

• Does anyone know what the alert sound was called when lucas lee got a txt? you can hear it throughout the movie a few times?? what phone or ringtone whats it called?

• The nega Scott wasn't only from Zelda there is a nega Mario and even a nega Rayman

• this movie was terrible and should be banned for misuse of music

• Speaking of the door, it has a star on it which is probably a reference to mario64.

• The first thing I thought of when I watched the scene of both Scott and Ramona gliding up to the door was maybe a reference to Kingdom Hearts? I could be wrong though.

• Ramona looks like Frieda from El Tigre XD i know, off topic

• This movie sucked!

• Hand seals arnt from naruto douchebag they are a part of anything that has to do with ninjitsu get your head out of your ass

• there is many Triforce to do with gideon there is his t-shirt he has a small one on his jecket a tie pin one the chip on ramona's head the shutter door to the choas theater that i can think of off the top of my head also to show more that he is the 7th the 2nd time round scott gets 700 form he person but the band in which he gets 100 for steven and neil 350 for kim and 50 for each of the things he says to gideon making it 700

• Scott performs an air combo against Matthew Patel like in Darkstalkers, but also does the shoryuken so its kinda like Marvel vs Capcom 2 since the street fighter characters are in it.

• I dont know if ANYONE noticed this but when the vegan police turn up I could swear they were a ref to Resident Evil 1 with the really bad acting and the high five when jumping through the wall at the end of there little scene, I LOL'd so much at that moment. Anyone else get that ref there? I went with a non-gamer friend and he LOVED it too. I didnt realise how much of a gamer I am when I noticed all the Zelda mario sonic street fighter etc ref in the film lol. This is a complete CULT film when its released on dvd.

• im a little disappointed that only one other person on this thread picked this one up, during the fight with the twins they summon dragons, which would be a double dragons refference, i didnt read the novel and was able to pick up on it.

• i didnt read all the comments, so what i'm about to say may already have been covered, but here we go anyway... ZELDA REFERENCES At the end of the "zelda dream sequence" Scott has of Ramona, he yells out "Hey!" multiple times, an obvious reference to Navi from Ocarina of Time. the "7 evil exes" could be a reference to the "7 sages" from ocarina of time. All three parts of G-Man's full name (gideon gordon graves) seem to bear some phonetic resemblence to "ganon" or "ganondorf" ("gideon" sounds similar to ganon, "gordon graves" sounds similar to "ganondorf", etc). In the chaos theater, Scott is shown charging at Gideon up a dramatically long flight of red stairs. This can be a reference to either the long stair case leading up to Ganon in both Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, or the "endless staircase" leading up to Bowser in Super Mario 64. The 2nd to last evil exes are The Katayanagi twins, who look nearly identical minus their hair color. Koume and Kotak, aka Twinrova, from Ocarina of Time similarly are twins, look nearly the same minus their colors, and are the second to last boss in the game. GENERAL GAME REFERENCES Ramona's hammer can be a reference to many things, including King Dedede's hammer in Kirby, Amy Rose's hammer in Sonic the Hedgehog, and even the general anime/video game archetype of female characters fighting with huge hammers that they seem to pull out of nowhere. I'm almost CERTAINLY reading too much in to this, but the scene where Scott walks in on Ramona when she's changing seemed like a homage to the special ending of Metroid, where Samus is similarly shown clothed in a bra, boots, and hair that almost looked pink. OTHER REFERENCES Evil Ex Todd Ingram is an obvious ripoff of Goku from Dragon Ball Z, featuring similar dress style, characterization, and expressions. He also similarly has unusual superpowers (being vegan seems to be the equivalent of being a super saiyan) and has trademark "gravity defying hair" like Goku. Evil Ex Lucas Lee seems to be a complete ripoff of Hugh Jackman's portrayal of Wolverine from X-Men, including a similar voice, facial hair, expressions, and even Wolverine's trademark "neck crick".

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