20 Things You Didn't Know About Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
17. The Bands Are All Named After Classic Nintendo Games
If it's not Canadian indie pop that's the source for names in Scott Pilgrim then you can be sure that it's old school console games instead.
Scott's band Sex Bob-omb of course takes its name from the cute little anthropomorphic wind-up bombs in various Mario games. But the other bands in the story have also borrowed some, slightly more obscure, Nintendo nomenclature.
Envy and Todd's next big thing act The Clash At Demonhead have a namesake in Dengeki Big Bang!, a 1989 demon-blasting platformer for the NES that was retitled Clash At Demonhead for its American release. Envy actress Brie Larson, herself a former pop singer, revealed that O'Malley had told her that Clash At Demonhead was the first game he ever owned.
Purveyors of the shortest tunes in rock, Crash And The Boys, are also named after a NES game. In their case it's 1992 multiplayer street sports title Crash 'n' The Boys: Street Challenge.
The final showdown with Gideon happening in the Chaos Theater is also a Nintendo reference as that's the name of a location in cult favourite SNES role playing game EarthBound.
The comics, meanwhile, further flash back to Scott's high school bands Sonic & Knuckles and Kid Chameleon, which mix up the Nintendo references by being named after games on the Sega Genesis.