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I don't think we've been properly introduced.
~ Kyle Katayanagi to Kim Pines before kidnapping her along with Ken
Ha! Cheating is why we joined the guild in the first place.
~ Ken Katayanagi mentioning the League to Scott.

Kyle and Ken Katayanagi (also known as the The Katayanagi Twins) are major antagonists in the Scott Pilgrim franchise. They are identical twin brothers of Japanese descent and Ramona Flowers's fifth (Kyle) and sixth (Ken) ex-boyfriends, They are also members of the League of Evil Exes seeking revenge.

They were portrayed by Shota Saito and Keita Saito in the movie adaptation. In Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, they were both voiced by Julian Cihi who also voices their future counterparts.

Biography[]

Comics[]

Not much of the twins' past are known, but it is stated that they were the ones to dump Ramona due to her cheating on them with each other, they realise this deception and agreed to work together to bring her down. They share an almost symbiotic relation, constantly completing each other's phrases. They begin sending their robots against Scott Pilgrim, which the latter manages to defeat, but is annoyed at the lack of reward for beating up their first robot. The twins appear again following Scott at Sneaky Dee's bar which the twins activate their second Blue Robot, interrupting the performance of Sex Bo-ombs as Scott destroys it with a Guitar. Kyle and Ken then arrived to challenge Scott at Julia Power's apartment during a party and activated their third robot which was much bigger and stronger than it's predecessors, it then began to toss around Scott while Kyle gave Ramona outside a tequila intentionally to give in to her "Glow". Later Scott manages to dismantle the third Robot while both Ramona and Kim were drunk and the guests left, The Katayanagi twins next follow Kim Pines at the subway station as she was about to depart, and held her hostage in a cage at the Queen and Bathurst building, where they beat up Scott again after the latter followed Kim's text and tries hard to defeat them but both kept taunting him about Ramona and the Glow, which they use their powerful tag-team moves to overwhelm Scott. Kim decides to break the struggle and lie to Scott by telling him that Ramona is waiting for him, giving him the courage to overpower and defeat the Katayanagi Twins into coins, which earns him an achievement.

Movie[]

In the movie, the twins' role is slightly reduced. After Ramona storms out of the night club where Roxie was defeated and leaves behind a list of her exes, Scott learns that the twins are the next opponents of the Sex Bob-omb, but learns only ten minutes before the show that it is an amp battle, and is shocked to see a whole wall of amplifiers in their front. They attempt to defeat the twins in a music battle, but are literally thrown against a wall when the twins use their music to summon two giant snow dragons. Scott then sights Ramona amongst the crowd with G-Man Graves, revealed to be her final ex Gideon Gordon Graves, who is leading the twins against the Sex Bob-omb. The band rises up and fights back by summoning a giant Yeti to fight the dragons, and end up victorious when the dragons fall over the twins, crushing them and earning Scott 5000 to 6000 points and an extra life.

Videogame[]

In the game, Ken (called "Kevin" in this appearance) and Kyle (now brown-haired) are dual bosses from World 5. They are fought twice in the game. The first time is at the top of a building, where the twins use a colossal robot to fight Scott. In the second time, the twins fight Scott themselves, where they use some standard melee attacks combined with deadly co-op attacks (the most dangerous being their trademark Double Hurricane Kick). The battle can be hard, as the player must knock both out to win. But once again, their attacks are useless, and Scott ends up victorious as they dissolve into small dragons that fly away, "Kevin" leaving $17.95 and Kyle leaving $14.95 in coins, plus a small $2.00 bonus.

Anime[]

Both Katayanagi Twins appear as supporting antagonists of the anime series Scott Pilgrim Takes off: Where their future counterparts help Older Scott travel back in time twenty-years with their Robot-01 and kidnap past Scott and framing his death, They were founded by Scott following their defeat and formed an electronic band in Wallace's garage. Their past selves were invited by Matthew Patel over the new rulings of The Evil League but were frustrated after the latter punched their robot for refusing Plus ones in their group. after Gideon's exile, They eventually accept their new leader among the other league without a word, They later became suspects over Scott's death, which happens that their Robot-01 played an important role in Scott's disappearance, Their future selves Helped Older Scott with his plan of breaking up his past self with Ramona, Deliberately responsible for sending their Robot back in time to kidnap Scott during his first fight with Matthew Patel, while secretly following Ramona and developing the A-K Nano-machines to keep Scott and Ramona from sharing a kiss, until the final battle when Super Ramona undid the barriers. The Katayanagi Twins mentioned by Ramona after Todd revealed them, showing a bit more detail as they were both once Teaching assistants from Roxanne's Robotics Class as each began dating Roxanne with great interest outside of class unknowingly behind each others backs, until Ken found out about Kyle's relationship while he walked with Roxanne, this incident resulted in the Katayanagi Twins begin a heated Exchange, leaving Roxanne to leave them both along with her following boyfriend Gideon. The Katayanagi Twins participate in the final battle against Even Older Scott where Kyle catches Knives from falling, they both gestured their Robot to release both rocketed hands to attack the charged Scott, but the action did little harm, as they witness Older Scott ruptures the ground, The Katayanagi Twins along with everyone were quickly transported back to the Theatre by Super Ramona. The Twins were last seen at Second Cup waiting for their order after the League's disbandment.

Personality[]

In the books and in the game, the twins are tactical and almost symbiotic, often finishing each other's sentences and walking together. But in the movie, the twins are quiet andcunning, focused on fighting through music and gaining the battle of the bands, also seeking to destroy Scott by Gideon's orders, which does not give them enough time to speak.

Powers and Abilities[]

Their powers are not too vast in the books and in the game, their primary ability is their gifted talent of creating complex and superior kinds of Fighting Robots no matter the size as each iteration becoming stronger from one after the next. They are also fluent in speaking both English and Japanese together.

But in the movie, the twins can use their music to summon giant dragons to fight for them, as well as to create massive shockwaves to send their opponents flying.

But in Combat, The Twins are a skilled Tag-Team of Martial Artists and make use of a number of techniques utilized through a “Twin Link”. They can use effective moves such as the “Double Hurricane Kick” and “Simul-Punch”, which their moveset is a reference to Double Dragon and Street Fighter.

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Trivia[]

  • The twins and most of their attacks are a reference to Billy and Jimmy from the "Double Dragon" series.
    • Ken being called "Kevin" in the game is an another nod to the video game series most notably in the NES version, where Jimmy's (the protagonist of the series) name was misspelled as "Bimmy".
  • The characters have numerous references to the numbers 5 and 6, for example:
    • Both of them have 5 syllables in their last names and 6 syllables if you add a single syllable in their first names.
    • The reward Scott receives for defeating them is 156 dollars.
    • In the movie, they turn the volume of their music up to 11 (5 + 6), also the number 11 contains two identical numbers which may be a reference that they're identical twins.
    • Ken is 30 seconds older than Kyle (5 × 6).
  • Roxie's dying remark that Scott will never beat the Twins may indicate that the Twins are highly respected by the other members of the League.
  • Alongside Matthew Patel, The Katayanagi Twins are the only members of the League of Evil Exes to have the most Plus-Ones as they created three robots in the novel.
  • The twins' "versus" symbol ("VS"), much like Roxie's, has a different color pattern than the others (the "V" is white while the "S" remains blue).
  • The Katayanagi Twins are shown to finish each other's sentences.
  • In the movie, the twins don't speak, this is because their actors do not speak English and their dialogue had to be cut to spare time.
  • Julian Cihi and Will Forte (who voiced Older Scott) are the only main cast members to not have been in the movie.

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League of Evil Exes
Gideon Gordon Graves (Film) (Anime) | Matthew Patel (Anime) | Lucas Lee (Anime) | Todd Ingram | Roxie Richter (Anime) | Kyle Katayanagi | Ken Katayanagi

The Clash at Demonhead
Envy Adams | Todd Ingram | Lynette Guycott

Scott Pilgrim
Older Scott | Nega Scott

Others
Knives Chau | Mr. Chau | Robot-01 | Katayanagi Twins' other Robots | Julie Powers

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