History Fridge / WreckitRalph

* Turbo was actually TemptingFate when he drove into ''[=RoadBlasters=]''. One of the special weapons that can be obtained in the actual game is the [[SmartBomb Cruise Missile]], which fires off into the horizon and [[YouNukeEm sets off a mushroom cloud as all enemies vaporize in thermonuclear fire]]. ForWantOfANail, if the kid playing at the time had gotten the Cruise Missile and fired one off as Turbo was being an ass, he would have gone up a screaming charcoal like [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Sarah Conner's nuclear nightmare]].

* At the end, Vanellope is restored as the main character of ''Sugar Rush'' and her "glitching" ends up making her popular due to how powerful of an ability it is. But what if it turns out to be ''too'' powerful, and she ends up getting pegged as a GameBreaker who ruins the balance of the game, thus likely reducing the game's popularity?

* Thankfully, ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' IS nothing more than an UrbanLegendOfZelda. Otherwise, we would have had the ultimate DisneyAcidSequence.

* Continued on the FridgeHorror article about every game having sentient beings. Say about war, horror, eroge, VillainProtagonist, morality system and PlayerPunch games like VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine, VideoGame/SilentHill2, {{VideoGame/Undertale}}, {{VideoGame/The Walking Dead}}, {{VideoGame/LISA}}, {{VideoGame/imscared}}, {{VisualNovel/Saya No Uta}}, {{VideoGame/Drakengard}}, {{VideoGame/Nier}}, VideoGame/TheLastOfUs, VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale, VideoGame/{{Scorn}}, VideoGame/Agony2018, VideoGame/{{Doom}}, VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac, VideoGame/BioShock, and other games of this type. Chances are, [[AndIMustScream they]] [[CosmicPlaything are]] [[DespairEventHorizon in]] [[CosmicHorrorStory a]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption state of suffering]] caused by [[YouBastard the]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters human]] [[HumansAreCthulhu players]].

* Continued on the FridgeHorror article about every game having sentient beings. Say about war, horror, eroge, VillainProtagonist,morality system and PlayerPunch games like VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine, VideoGame/SilentHill2, {{VideoGame/Undertale}}, {{VideoGame/The Walking Dead}}, {{VideoGame/LISA}}, {{VideoGame/imscared}}, {{VisualNovel/Saya No Uta}}, {{VideoGame/Drakengard}}, {{VideoGame/Nier}} and other games of this type. Chances are, [[AndIMustScream they]] [[CosmicPlaything are]] [[DespairEventHorizon in]] [[CosmicHorrorStory a]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption state of suffering]] caused by [[YouBastard the]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters human]] [[HumansAreCthulhu players]].

* As bad as Ralph has it, depending on whether the MeanCharacterNiceActor rule applies to him, [[VideoGame/{{Hatred}} The Antagonist]] probably has it even worse.

* Turbo gives a quick freeze-frame thumbs up to the audience. He's doing this while glitching out of his King Candy persona. What pose does he make when he says his CatchPhrase? A thumbs up. He's briefly glitching into his "Turbotastic" pose!
** King Candy's and Turbo's {{Catch Phrase}}s are the same number of syllables. Not only that, but the emphasis is on the same syllable ("Have some '''can'''dy!" and "Turbo'''tas'''tic!")

* "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang was released in 1980, so it makes sense the early 80's arcade games would pick it.

* When Vanellope says "I bet you really gotta watch where you step in a game called Hero's Duty", she's actually right. Remember the Cy-Bug eggs? And there's no doubt that Ralph really [[JustForPun stepped in it]] when he was in that game.

* After successfully entering her first race, Vanellope takes a moment to duck behind a kart in order to hide from both Sugar Rush's very dismayed citizens as well as Ralph (who is still trying to get his medal back). You would think that she'd choose her own homemade kart or even just the physically closest kart to hide behind, but she doesn't. She instead runs straight to King Candy's kart, [[spoiler: probably because some part of her code subconsciously remembers that this was the exact car the developers intended for her to race in]].

* How would the characters in a racing game that depicts cars but no human racers (like [=RoadBlasters=]) be rendered? Pixar has already released a [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} certain other movie]] starring sentient cars.

* Some have questioned Sonic's cameo considering that he has little presence in Arcade gaming short of one game (Sonic the Fighters, which to be fair can be seen in the arcade.) However, he is the mascot of SEGA, who in turn has had one of the strongest run of Arcade games in history.

** Additionally, WordOfGod is that Zangief was put in there because he was ThatOneBoss for the writer. Which makes sense. In a fighting game, each fighter is effectively a boss fight. If the players in your local arcade tend to hit a wall when fighting you, they'll probably ''treat'' you like a bad guy.
** There's also his character in the Street Fighter movie to think on -- upon finally finding out that Bison is a bad guy, he switched sides, especially since he wasn't paid.

* People think the Nicelanders, Gene especially, are stupid for messing with Ralph because [[BullyingADragon Ralph can really wreck them]]. However, only Gene really antagonizes him, the rest are just very wary and insensitive. Now you might think Gene is still a massive idiot for provoking Ralph, but Gene is supposedly the guy Ralph throws at the beginning of the game. Given that, not only does Gene hate Ralph and has an excuse for it, but there's no harm Ralph can threaten Gene with that he doesn't already do ''every time the game boots up''.

* King Candy's AsYouKnow speech is just exposition until you remember that Turbo messed with the characters memories.

** The fancy names also highlight King Candy's name as the OddNameOut for being so plain and straightforward. It not only serves as a clue that he's a foreign element in the game, but also what sort of game he did come from (his original name was just as straightforward, Turbo)

* When Ralph throws the medal far away, [[HeelRealization ashamed of himself]] and trying to fix things, he ''partially knocks the Out of Order sign away''. This is a subtle way of showing that he actually ''is'' making progress, but he still has some work to do to save his game.

* People think the Nicelanders, Gene especially, are stupid for messing with Ralph because [[BullyingADragon Ralph can really wreck them]]. However, only Gene really antagonizes him, the rest are just very wary and insensitive. Now you might think Gene is still a massive idiot for provoking Ralph, but Gene is supposedly the guy Ralph throws at the beginning of the game. Given that, not only does Gene hate Ralph, but there's no harm Ralph can threaten Gene with that he doesn't already do ''every time the game boots up''.

** Which would make sense when Felix calls Calhoun a "Dynamite Gal" and triggers a flashback to her late fiance Brad, who also uses the phrase - possibly as an in-universe in-joke to reference the fact that the character of Felix, one of the company's oldest characters, might have said the line at some point.

* Zangief isn't really a villain. But when the game first came into arcade, the Russian Communist was hardly the most popular character. Even his backstory (Let's promote Communism!) wasn't too altruistic. Not being played must have really sent him on a downward spiral and left him ''feeling'' like the bad guy. Now he's doing very well at the Bad-Anon! And people don't really think of him as a villain and play him more! This thought is based on how just because Alcoholics stop drinking doesn't mean they quit AA - they go to AA to share their experiences and prevent relapse! Or even to become sponsors.

* If double stripes break, why would the gate to the candy car factory be made of a double stripes candy cane? Two reasons- the meta reason is that gates almost ''always'' get crashed in movies and TV shows, and the in-universe reason is that the only one they'd want to keep out of the factory is Vanellope (who would never have even gotten close to getting inside without Ralph).

** The Cy-Bugs are breeding in a hidden underground cave of Sugar Rush that doesn't appear to have any entrances - a sort of MinusWorld, perhaps.

** Glitches can't leave their games, because technically, they don't exist at all - they're only a side effect of the programming, that isn't present in other games with different programs.

* When the other kids bully Vanellope, Ralph is just standing by and is disgusted, but when does he get really mad and intervene? When Taffyta shoves Vanellope into a puddle of mud (well, chocolate) - naturally that would be a sore spot with him, considering what happens at the end of each level for him!

* Glitch- false ''electronic'' signal caused by a brief power ''surge''. Epilepsy- Neurological illness caused by an ''electric surge'' in the brain. Video games are operated by electricity, but living things ''also'' have electric pulses which travel along ''wire''-like nerves and neurons. Therefore Vanellope's "pixlexia", although named after "dyslexia", has nothing to do with ''writing'', but rather the video game version of ''seizures''.

** And the way that she'll [[spoiler: reject the trappings of royalty]] is foreshadowed by the look of [[spoiler: her portrait on the side of the ''Sugar Rush'' machine. Her clothes aren't really visible, but she still has ''candy in her hair'' in the picture.]]

** Which leads us to realize another thing - the "New Racers Daily" rule, once you think about it, works pretty much like presidential terms: different people get to do it eventually, as they switch places with each other. Which is further enforced by King Candy's "I'll get a head start anyway", which is implied to be the rule and as such is another arrow pointing at how, while respecting the "New Racers Daily" rule, the sharp contrast with it is a sign that King Candy forced his way into the game, therefore playing royalty - a recurring theme in Disney movies - [[{{Deconstruction}} much like a dictatorship]].

* Vanellope may have offered a subtle bit of foreshadowing when she asks Ralph if he means "the royal we". She is a princess, after all.

** Adding to this, there's the part where he hops up and kisses her on the cheek at the end of the movie after ''Sugar Rush'' is saved. Mary does this to him at the end of his own game after he is victorious. It wasn't just an impulsive reaction — he was rewarding her victory as a Nicelander would.

* The arcade is one of those that keep the machines on continuously 24/7. No wonder things like Bad-Anon have to be formed, or that Turbo is able to take over ''Sugar Rush'' - '''the games are never reset'''. Old arcade game characters are aware for years - in the case of the oldest games like ''VideoGame/PacMan'' and ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'', over 30 years. No wonder they get neurotic (it only took 2 or 3 years for Turbo to, well, "go Turbo") and that would explain how bugs happen on arcade machines that run too long.

* Gene being the last one in FIFJ to pack up and leave. Yeah, story wise it's a good call over all. But think about what it implies/suggests. Gene - resident JerkAss and biggest hater of Ralph - held out the longest that Ralph would come home. Whether because he was worried about Ralph, worried about the Nicelanders, Ralph coming home a failure would prove him right, or even Ralph coming home meaning he could be rid of Ralph, Gene nevertheless had the greatest hope that Ralph would come home, somehow.

* The "Made by Vanellope and Ralph" writing on Vanellope's kart should be a strange sight to the players racing as Vanellope, but it could have easily been rationalized as a simple ShoutOut to one of Tobikomi's most enduring characters - after all, the two games are made by the same company.

** There's also the manner that he talks - it comes off as calm and collected, but it might also be seen as very aloof and apathetic-sounding in tone. You can easily imagine how Clyde might act the same way during having to chase Pac-Man with other Ghosts.

* Skrillex's cameo ''does'' make sense- the arcade plays Skrillex music, and the stereo is plugged into the same surge protector. He came over from the stereo!

* Notice how in the one opportunity that Surge Protector actually has to prevent a disaster (when Ralph carries the dangerous cybug out of the safe confinement of it's own game and into Sugar Rush), he is powerless to do anything? Most computer store owners will attest that typical surge protectors - like the kind built in to common powerboards - are useless and that only the high-end models ($200 and up) offer any reliable protection to people's electronic devices.

** This also could be the explanation why Markowski is so traumatized despite ''Hero's Duty'' only having been at the arcade for a week - it's entirely possible that Cybug!Markowski is the first BossBattle of Hero's Duty. In fact, every single Boss in that game might be one of the party being assimilated by a Cybug to implement the DwindlingParty trope, with Cybug!Calhoun serving as the FinalBoss.

* Due to faulty/lazy programming, the Cybugs are essentially a computer virus powerful enough to completely destroy games overnight - just one Cybug got out of ''Hero's Duty'', and by the end of the movie it almost destroyed the entire arcade via Cybug infestation. Imagine if people in the real world realized how dangerous having a ''Hero's Duty'' cabinet in their arcade was; there'd be recalls all around the world (with a ton of Calhouns, Markowskis and other soldiers rendered homeless and out of a job), the developers would probably be hit with a massive lawsuit for distributing what amounts to malware, and let's not get started on ...

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* When/if a game gets unplugged, what happens to characters who cant/barely can move? like, are [[VideoGame/SuperMario thwomps just screwed?]]

* The threat of the Cy-Bugs wasn't due to buggy code, but lazy code. Instead of properly cleaning up the characters at the end of the game, they simply create a situation that destroys them all.
* When the Cy-Bugs reproduce in ''Sugar Rush'', they change their shape to resemble silverfish, which are notorious for eating carbohydrates or sugars. Guess what the entire world is made out of?

* FridgeSadness: Look closely at Vanellope and Ralph's first interaction with each other; Vanellope wasn't rude to Ralph until he tells her to "go home". A few scenes later, we find out that Vanellope's "home" isn't really a home for her. The same could be said on Ralph's part. When Vanellope asks if Ralph is a hobo, he gets a bit annoyed since he is also homeless. Their rough start isn't just because they're rough around the edges, but because they [[InnocentlyInsensitive unintentionally]] pushed each others' buttons.

* So why do the Bad-Guys Anonymous meetings take place in the ghost pen of ''VideoGame/PacMan''? ''Pac-Man'' was the first game to have actual characters as villains as opposed to just enemies à la ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'' and ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' and this pen was where they would seek shelter and heal. In essence, the pen was where ''the very first villains gathered!''

** The other probable reason that Clyde is the ''only'' Pac-Man ghost in Bad Anon is that he's suffering from AllOfTheOtherReindeer syndrome within his own game. Not only does Clyde's name mark him as an outcast in the American version of Pac-Man[[note]]In which the names of the other three ghosts are Blinky, Inky, and Pinky[[/note]], he was literally named "Stupid" in the original version. It figures that the designated ButtMonkey ghost would be the one most interested in a support group.

* Why do the Bad Guys meet in ''VideoGame/PacMan'''s Ghost Pen? Nobody can die in it. Good Guys can't even enter it.

** Fix-It Felix Jr. and Turbo Time were created in the late '70s to early '80s, with the former confirmed to be from 1982. At this period games were usually stored in either mask ROM or battery-backed SRAM, both of which makes storage at an extreme premium. Games at that era often have to employ [[NecessaryWeasel tricks]] like metaprogramming and self-modifying code just to make the game's code and resources fit into the limited storage space.

* Fridge TearJerker: Look closely at Vanellope and Ralph's first interaction with each other; Vanellope wasn't rude to Ralph until he tells her to "go home". A few scenes later, we find out that Vanellope's "home" isn't really a home for her. The same could be said on Ralph's part. When Vanellope asks if Ralph is a hobo, he gets a bit annoyed since he is also homeless. Their rough start isn't just because they're rough around the edges, but because they [[InnocentlyInsensitive unintentionally]] pushed each others' buttons.