8 Movies That Stupidly Scrapped Perfect Endings

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is already a pretty solid movie. In fact, it's easily knocked up a peg to a damn good movie on its quirky charm and comic book exaggeration alone, bringing all the best parts of the source material into wonderful reality with each new hair colour Ramona Flowers slaps on her head.

The ending is also a pretty solid one by any sort of filmic standard, where Scott has defeated the seven evil exes, gained his autonomy, told the truth to the two women he's been playing off each other, and everything ends happily ever after as he leaves with Ramona - but there's arguably a much better one that was done away with instead. Where Ramona doesn't seem to fit with Scott's nervous Michael Cera energy despite them leaving together in the film's proper finale, poor sweet Knives really does - and was actually originally intended as the partner that he'd end up with.

Scott realising that he'd been a big prick to Knives and letting Ramona leave on her own creates a far more palatable version of the story; where the manic pixie dream girl trope has been taken down and Scott's bad behaviour has actually been addressed and learned from. Him ending up with Ramona isn't bad - but Knives would have been a more nuanced and interesting note to end on.

Plus she just deserved way better.