@adequatelyprepared: To be fair: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (the film) was made before Bryan Lee O'Malley had finished the series with Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (the last book). In the book Ramona doesn't go back to Gideon, Scott just thinks she does. She goes back to The Sates to live with her dad and spend some time alone while her and Scott work out their own problems. She comes back to Toronto to help Scott fight Gideon, and (like Scott) almost ends up dead in the process. They go into Ramona's head through her Subspace Handbag and defeat her obsession with Gideon, basically, allowing Ramona and Scott to defeat Gideon together. The book ends with Scott and Ramona holding hands, and jumping through the Subspace Door in the park where they had their first date in order to "start again" in a world without the evil exes, allowing them to actually get to know one another.
Gideon's motivations are a little different. He starts the League of Evil Exes on a lark (through a drunken Craig's List rant after Ramona left him), and the actual reason he wants Ramona back is so he can put her in this giant cryostasis machine that he puts all his ex girlfriends in so that they'll never leave him.
There's no Nega-Scott fight while Scott's fighting Gideon, that happens earlier in the book and is what allows Scott to face himself and go get Ramona back.
The nature of The Glow is also different. In the film it was a device (like a literal microchip in the back of Ramona's head) that Gideon was using to control Ramona, whereas in the books Gideon was the inventor/discoverer of Subspace Highways, and hes using them to spy on Ramona and Scott and to influence Ramona's thoughts, feeding her obsession with him. "The Glow" is a light that's emitted from someone's head while their mind is being used as a Subspace Highway, and the only character you see that happen to while they're awake is Ramona.
I also didn't like the ending to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, for the record. Also not the title they should have chose. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life is much better.
I dislike the ending of the final Harry Potter film for different reasons than people have stated in this thread already. I love those books to death, and recognize their problems, but I felt like the film fucked up the final scenes of that series royally.
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