Post-modernism in Scott Pilgrim.

George Ritzer suggested that PM culture is signified by:

• Breakdown of the distinction between high and mass culture: in Scott Pilgrim this is the mixture of niche "geek" culture with reference to relatively unknown games like Clash at Demonhead for NES with more mainstream "geek" culture with references to Superman with Todd's character - played by Brandon Routh who played Superman in the recent remake.
• Breakdown of barriers between genres and styles: Mixing a wide range of intertextual references - from action games (ninja, Zelda, Super Mario Bros, pokemon, Tony Hawk) comic book characters, Harry Potter reference with "She who shall not be named", Bollywood, Seinfield an American sitcom, major Hollywood films - (the action movie being shot within the movie, Lucas Lee a famous movie star played by a famous movie star and reference to Universal tune)
• Mixing up of time, space and narrative: The narrative structure doesn't flow completely with dream scenes occurring randomly in between action and will cut suddenly back to reality in a different location with either Scott waking up or opening a door.
• Emphasis on style rather than content: The content of the plot is fairly typical of most action films with hero fighting for a girl, its the intertextual references and little details of pop culture that make it different and more interesting to the audience which gives it a different look to other films that have been adapted from comic books.
• Blurring of the distinction between representation and reality: The text enhancing the action which is typical of comic books but not usually used in film as the director wants to make it as believable and as "realistic" as possible by enhancing action with visual and sound effects rather than text which does not happen in reality. (Hyper-reality)