ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the Comics Forum 2012 conference, several people told us that they were not only unaware that Scott Pilgrim was a Canadian text but also that O'Malley was a "hyphenated" Korean-Canadian. Multiculturalism in Canada needs to be situated in its own particular cultural context within a larger trend towards multiculturalism in the late twentieth century. Indeed, this tension in Canadian identity, what we tell ourselves about racial tolerance and diversity versus what the reality is for nonwhite Canadians, makes it vitally important to understand Scott Pilgrim as a Canadian comic book character and within the pantheon of Canadian comic book super-heroes, for these superheroes are themselves emblematic of both Canadian notions of tolerance and racial construction. Meanwhile, the comic creates the possibility for a hybridized world that splices together local and global, creating a new definition of "Asian-Canadian" that gets us out of Scott Pilgrim's fobby little world.
