20 Things You Didn't Know About Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
6. Shots From The Film Made It Into The Comic
O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim comics were picked up for a film adaptation almost as soon as they appeared. This meant that only the first two volumes were actually publicly available when Wright and Bacall began working on the script for their adaptation. Even by the time the film was shooting, the sixth and final volume, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, hadn't even been fully written.
This meant that, while Scott Pilgrim the movie has its fair share of the traditional comic book movie trope of recreating scenes from the page directly onto the screen, it also provides a much rarer example of things going the other way.
With O'Malley consulting and feeding back on the script even as he finished the comic version, Wright has admitted that there are both lines that O'Malley came up with that were in the movie, but never actually made it into the comic, and lines that Wright and Bacall wrote for the movie and O'Malley then lifted for his version.
This is even the case with some of the visuals. For example, the shot in which Scott is defeated in his first fight with Gideon and there is a caption with an arrow pointing to him simply saying "dead" is a shot conceived by Wright for the movie, but O'Malley liked it so much that an identical panel shows up in the comic as well.