Scott Pilgrim

Few properties cross media as cleanly as Scott Pilgrim, because the source already thought in remix. Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novels filtered slacker romance through video-game logic, and the adaptations each reinterpret that idea rather than copy it. Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World turned it into a hyperkinetic live-action comic, the tie-in beat-em-up paired pixel art with an Anamanaguchi chiptune soundtrack, and the 2023 Netflix series Takes Off rewrote the plot from the inside.

That refusal to retread is the franchise's defining trait. The books supply the canon, the film supplies the iconography, the game and its original soundtrack supply the arcade energy, and the anime supplies a genuine twist. Comics, film, games, music and animation rarely talk to each other this fluently.

The Scott Pilgrim franchise spans 1 series, 3 books, 1 games, 2 films, 1 music in the CrossBinge catalog.