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Category page J Jimmy (Scott Pilgrim) Joseph (Scott Pilgrim) K Kim Pine Knives Chau M Mobile O Other Scott R Ramona Flowers Roxie Richter S Stephen Stills T Todd Ingram W Wallace Wells Categories. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off - an animated series on Netflix is out now! I was thinking the other day about Wallace and if he's actually a good character. After all there is a ton of emphasis on how cool and or gay he is at all times.

It’s a far cry from Scott showing up, punching Roxy’s boob and calling it a day. Time is taken to give both these queer women agency, leaving them in places where a friendship can slowly be rebuilt in the ruins of romance. So while Ramona investigates Scott’s death, her ex Todd, a psychic-powered bass player fueled by veganism, begins an affair with Scott’s gay friend and roommate, Wallace (Kieran Culkin) and discovers he’s bisexual.

In Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Todd finds himself in a relationship with Wallace through self-discovery, which gives him a whole new dimension and bisexual representation.

Scott Pilgrim has always had queer characters, but whether it managed to efficiently develop or respect them is another matter. Ramona Flowers dating Roxy Richter is brushed off with awkward embarrassment as little more than a bisexual experiment. Not really He has a love for sassy jokes and subtle fashion, but it took the comics so long to respect his queer identity while the film never really bothered.

Times have changed since then though, and the new animated Netflix series is a clear sign that its creators have understood what Pilgrim got wrong in the past, and exactly how to make things right. Roxy is one of the first ones we see her deal with, as the two duke it out in a video rental store in a storm of dazzling fight scenes and appropriate melodrama. Roxy was left behind without a word after catching real feelings for Ramona, her roommate-turned-girlfriend whom she depended on for everything.

Ramona walked away like she was nothing, too afraid to face Roxy, either due to her own immaturity or inability to accept her queer identity. Being left behind by someone you fell in love with and treated like nothing in the years that followed without so much as an explanation was always going to end like this. So they can't avoid the problem, their encounter turning into violence long before the weapons are cast aside and words are shared.

Roxy has a reason to be angry, and Ramona is forced into a position where she acknowledges the error of her ways and apologies. Time is taken to give both these queer women agency, leaving them in places where a friendship can slowly be rebuilt in the ruins of romance.

Stephen Stills (b. July

Roxy is also the only woman out of all Ramona's exes, and could have quickly become a fun little sapphic joke on the side, but Takes Off wants to put her on equal footing to everyone else, a character with valid feelings and motivations that no longer paint her as a stubborn, out of turn bad guy. This episode ends with an adorable bout of bisexual experimentation as Ramona turns down a joking offer from Roxy to become friends with benefits, only for her to turn to Kim Pines who suddenly kisses Roxy to test the waters.

It's framed as a silly prank, but I didn't expect two other women to kiss in the same scene as it was nothing, showing how quickly Roxy was willing to change and be herself again after gaining closure she so desperately needed. She's a cheeky and promiscuous character anyway, so it doesn't feel like a greedy bisexual or her getting over Ramona in second, since they haven't been together since college. It's surprisingly deep and passionate, a string of saliva connecting them as they pull apart.

But neither of them are into it, so they laugh it off and move on. Queer experimentation is so valuable, especially in a series that used to treat queer people like outsiders. Roxy is able to confront her trauma of losing Ramona, but never lets go of it, able to remain a confident queer woman with the world at her feet and newfound friends made out of scorned lovers. Love in Scott Pilgrim is emphasised by the presence of sparks that appear when two people kiss, like a visual acknowledgment of true love.

Wallace was looking for little more than a playful fling with a hot bass player, while Todd came to terms with his sexuality and became borderline obsessed with Wallace to a point where I kinda felt sorry for him. The show also sets up a future romantic interest for Wallace that we only catch a glimpse of here, and he sure looks like Mobile from the comics.