History Fridge / WreckitRalph

* Nine-year-old Vanellope's glitching is a metaphor for ''epilepsy'', and many ''real'' epileptics die in their ''teens''. Thus if she glitches(seizures) outside of her name, Ralph may be attending a ''funeral'' in the near future.

* Nine-year-old Vanellope's glitching is a metaphor for ''epilepsy'', and many ''real'' epileptics die in their ''teens''.

** There's also his character in the Street Fighter movie to think on -- upon finally finding out that Bison is bad guy, he switched sides, especially since he wasn't paid.

* It fits with an unspoken theme about [[BeYourself being yourself]] when you consider King Candy is Turbo in disguise. This marks how he and Ralph [[NotSoDifferent aren't so different]]. Turbo disguised himself as King Candy so he could keep winning racing games. Ralph disguised himself as one of the Hero's Duty soldiers (Markowski) so he could sneak into the game and earn himself a medal. But what sets them apart is how they relate with Vanellope, and how it teaches them to embrace themselves. Ralph empathizes with how Vanellope is an outcast who "lives in the garbage", and it teaches him to help this kindred soul. Turbo relates with Vanellope because they are both essentially glitches in their own ways, but instead of invoking empathy, seeing Vanellope as an outcast (something ''[[{{Irony}} he]]'' could become if she crosses the finish line) only enforces his motivation to keep an iron grip on the throne he so usurped.

* 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 essentially distributing malware, and let's not get started on [[FromBadToWorse if a Cybug somehow wound up in the internet]]...

* 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 developer would probably be hit with a massive lawsuit for essentially distributing malware to arcades around the world, and let's not get started on [[FromBadToWorse if a Cybug somehow wound up in the internet]]...

* 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 and other soldiers rendered homeless and out of a job), and let's not get started on [[FromBadToWorse if a Cybug somehow wound up in the internet]]...

* Due to faulty/lazy programming, the Cybugs are essentially little more than a computer virus powerful enough to essentially 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 the 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 and other soldiers rendered homeless and out of a job), and let's not get started on [[FromBadToWorse if a Cybug somehow wound up in the internet]]...

* Vanellope's [[SpoilerAlert: royal heritage]] is foreshadowed by her German and aristocratic-sounding surname ''Von Schweetz.''

* 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 the 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]].

* What happens to ''[[TheMissingno actual]]'' [[TheMissingno glitches]] in arcade games? Are they all doomed to live lives of isolation in DummiedOut levels as long as their game is plugged in? And worse, not have anyone to call out to because glitches cannot leave their home game?

* The scene where Ralph interrogates Sour Bill is funny... but when you stop to think about it, Ralph really was hurting Sour Bill quite badly. Bill himself comments being licked feels like sand-paper. Try taking a card of sand-paper and running your finger over it (higher grit for more fun). Press in hard and rub. Now imagine that getting forcibly rubbed across your face, possibly repeatedly. Not so funny, is it? If Sour Bill weren't a piece of hard candy, the whole scene probably would've been a lot more ugly.

* With regards to the other game characters in ''[=TurboTime=]'' after Turbo bailed out to destroy ''[=RoadBlasters=]'' just for stealing his [[AttentionWhore "thunder,"]] [[UncertainDoom it's left vague as to what happened to them]] after the game was unplugged. It is possible they were either rendered homeless like Q*bert and stranded in Game Central Station, or worse, they were all killed when they all couldn't evacuate their game in time. Since no one sees them in Game Central Station, it's very likely they were killed.

* Q*Bert and co. are homeless not because of lack of popularity or anything but because it's a ShoutOut to the video game crash which, among other things, caused a lot of arcades to fall on hard times and/or go out of business.

** Also look very carefully at [[ShrineToSelf the decor of the apartment]] the party is held in. It's Gene's home, and within seconds, Ralph accidentally caves in the ceiling and smashes the glass staircase, and then insists he's entitled to be there without so much as an apology for trashing the place. Granted with Fix-It-Felix around, it's a tad moot point, but one can see why Gene thinks Ralph is unwelcome there.

* Why does Ralph appear normal in Hero's Duty? He "replaces" Markowski in the game so the game is able to render him with modern graphics instead of his 8-bit version. If you pay attention every time a character jumps games and appears correctly it is either because the games are similar graphics like when Q*bert becomes a bonus level in Fix-It Felix Jr. or because they replaced an existing character. This also explains why Turbo appears as his 8-bit form in ''Road Blasters''. He just tried racing in the game as an extra character and so showed up as his 8-bit self which wasn't compatible and crashed the game. This also explains why he took the time to replace Vanellope because if he didn't he would show up as an 8-bit character again and create problems in Sugar Rush. By booting Vanellope out of the game as a glitch he was able to take her place and be rendered in a way that the game could handle as instead of showing up as a 2D sprite again. In addition to that, consider that an early draft had Turbo and King Candy as separate characters. Meaning KC was originally a harmless NPC in the game (he and Vannelope might have switched roles sitting in the throne). Turbo didn't just "replace" Vannelope when he took on the King Candy persona, he outright ''killed a man and wore his face'' to do it.

* Why would Sugar Rush have double-stripe candy cane branches and Nesquick-sand, plus a minigame where you make your own kart? Wouldn't those be more at home in a platforming game? Well, sometimes full games are ported into arcade machines. Maybe there's a home version of the game which has platforming aspects, and the game was exported to arcade format, but the original code was left in.

** Wreck-it Ralph and Turbo Time are created in the late 70s to early 80s. 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.
*** This explains why game characters hailed from 80s have the ability to modify a game's code. Their games require such on-the-fly patching to work properly.
** Sugar Rush is created in the boring age of computing, where the old storage restrictions have been lifted by the invention of [=CD-ROMs=] and gigabyte-sized hard disk drives. This means that a modern-style game engines can be used with interesting new features like hypervisors and virtual machines are largely nonexistent.

** Hero's Duty is created in modern times where all kinds of interesting technologies exist, like hypervisors or virtual machines that is capable of making sure the game is operating within specs. Also in the modern age we have MAME, the emulator that allows modern [=PCs=] to simulate older arcades.

* King Candy's role as a traitor who didn't belong in his game is made more obvious by his design: all the other characters in ''Sugar Rush'' have a chibi-like design more commonly associated with Japanese cartoons, whereas King Candy has a more Western/Disney-esque design similar to the Mad Hatter from Disney's ''Disney/AliceInWonderland''.

* After successfully entering her first race, Vanellope takes a moment to duck behind a cart 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 the 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]].