Today I wish to put out a new theory I just developed two days ago after watching Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (awesome movie, really it is.)
Could Ramona Flowers be the descendent of Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite?
And could Violent J be Professor Pyg's fifth cousin thrice removed?
Now it may or may not be conceivable (or probable for that matter) since Scott Pilgrim was made quite a long time before Infinite was even thought up, but I realized this could actually be possible upon finishing the movie.Now granted, the movie was great, that I won't argue for a sec. But it had one problem...it didn't delve into Scott's backstory like the comics.
Now if you haven't seen the movie or the comic...Turn tail like Blackadder did when it was his turn to go over the top, I hate spoiling plots for people (unless they insist on it) so unless you've either seen or read Scott Pilgrim, and haven't had the good fortune to either play, watch, or drink beer and lazily watch somebody else play Bioshock Infinite...READ A DIFFERENT POST!
NOW WITH THAT WARNING OUT OF...WAIT A MINUTE.
There, the damn caps button was stuck. Now on with the show.
Smoke if you got 'em.
First off, let's discuss one of the most obvious parallels between the two. Ramona and Elizabeth both possess powers that allow them to bend space and time, but in different ways. Elizabeth's uses them to take things from alternate universes (and vice versa) and create gateways between universes. Ramona can do something similar, except unlike Elizabeth she can just teleport with it, though it probably also explains why her bag's so motherfucking big.Secondly, both had their powers put into them. Granted that's not entirely special, but if it was so easy to gain nigh omnipotent power then how come Elizabeth was the only person with the powers she got from losing her little finger? There had to be something special about her that caused this, or at least made her more susceptable to it, so perhaps if Ramona possessed the same gene she could grow up into this teleporting supergirl (though granted her powers are a diluted and very weak version of her possible ancestor's power.)
Thirdly, she's kind of in her own Bioshock situation.
Unlike Haruko, who'd sooner drive both Rapture and Columbia crazy.
Consider Elizabeth's words about there being "Always a lighthouse, always a man, and always a city", Scott's head contains a subspace shortcut Ramona used when she needed to, this caused he and Scott to meet, this could be the lighthouse.Gideon is The Man, having formed the League of Evil Exes out of an extreme principle he had, which in this case was that only he could control Ramona's love life.
Toronto is The City, I mean seriously. Do you think normal cities have that much off the wall weirdness? Not unles it's in New Jersey anyways.
And it was then that Scott Pilgrim realized he should probably get his lunch elsewhere.
The final point is how Scott's messed up memories work, they remind me all too much of how Booker Dewitt couldn't recall his own past. Of course, there's abut a difference between the two cases equivalent to that of an elephant with to a rhino with herpes. They're very much different, yet very much the same (or a similar species at least.)Booker DeWitt forgot (mostly at least) about how he sold his daughter to pay off gambling debts, while Scott's mind was altered so he remembered various details of his past very differently (and forgot he was a schoolyard bully who beat someone up to steal their girlfriend.)
So anyways, there might be more to explain this further but that'd wait for a later post at least. For now I have to bring up another idea, could a relative of Ramona's (and by extension, another of Elizabeth's descendents) be Haruko from FLCL? This'd be more likely due to the resemblance...but if they were together, who'd be sane girl in this type of situation?


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