Shortly before going to bed last night, I saw
a thread on Story-Games about cobbling together an RPG based on
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim comics.
Result: Last night, I dreamed that I was reading the sixth Scott Pilgrim book, and there was a bit where one character says of another, “She decided not to show up since she’s already got two minor consequences.”
Though now that I’ve run the idea through my mostly-awake brain, I suppose
Teenagers from Outer Space would make a good starting point. On the other hand, the video game aspects of the books would work pretty well with a leveling-up system like d20 or
Microlite20.