Awesome New Female Character Week: Ramona Flowers

[sandoz_iscariot]

My pick for Awesome New Female Character Week is Ramona Flowers, the mysterious Amazon.ca delivery girl from Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series. Ramona travels through the subspace dimension to deliver packages and is never seen without her subspace suitcase (storage capacity: unknown). Both are put to good use when Ramona's Fourth Evil Ex, Roxie Richter, shows up and wants to cut Ramona's boyfriend's head off. A fight ensues! On rollerskates.

7 pages from the fourth volume, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together.

Comments

[bliumchik]

I loved this bit. It's what particularly irked me about Roxy's treatment in the movie - 1) Michael Cera's whiny head sticking out of a handbag would have been HILARIOUS, why go changing it to a lame puppet fight? and 2) transferring Ramona's sort of reasonable method of defeating someone she has had sex with to Scott's faintly creepy method for defeating a random lesbian SORT OF RUINED THAT PARTICULAR MOVE, GUYS. JUST SAYING.

[kagome654]

Wasn't the back of the knee thing Envy's weakness in the comic?

Regardless, transferring it to Roxie and having Scott take advantage of it was a little...ick.

[bliumchik]

Oh, was it? I should reread, I could have sworn it was how Ramona defeated Roxy the first time she showed up.

[auggie18]

Nope, it was how Ramona beat Envy.

I kinda liked that they used that as Scott's way to defeat Roxy in the movie. To me, it would've been creepy to see Micheal Cera cut Mae Whitman in half.

[bliumchik]

I... maybe, but really creepier than defeating her sexually?

[auggie18]

Sorta? I mean, all Scott did was poke her in the back of the knee. If it was somewhere more traditionally intimate, then yeah, it would've been a lot skeevier, but as it was he was just trying to peacefully stop a girl who was attempting to murder him.

[bliumchik]

I don't know, Ramona basically said that was a specifically sexual kink of Roxy's. Granted the back of the knee is somewhat more innocuous than most places, but I still found it a bit, irk... traditionally intimate doesn't mean anything to the individual. I mean, with Envy (or, as I originally thought, with Ramona and Roxy) it just feels better because that's their shared history in play. Whereas slicing in half isn't really more violent than exploding the skater guy.