History Headscratchers / WreckItRalph

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** I can't think of a specific example to list, but I'd really love to see the gang jump into the local Skyrim or Fallout knockoff and find out the player is running a Disney/WreckItRalph total conversion.

*** This would also explain why the King is so surprised about Ralph game-jumping. It's most likely a written rule for any video game character.
*** [[spoiler: This is also the point where he realizes he's not alone and Ralph may actually pose a threat to him.]]

*** It's unlikely that it's a written rule. They call game-jumping going Turbo. Surely Turbo wasn't the first character to do it but he's the first to get his game and another game unplugged. They certainly don't seem to be concerned at all about Q*bert and the gang deciding to take up residence in Fix-It Felix Jr. at the end of the film. I suspect that in the Wreck-It Ralph universe cross overs like Capcom vs whatever and Battletoads and Double Dragon started off as a couple of guys who simply forgot to get home before the arcade opened.
*** Game-jumping is only "going Turbo" when it's done during arcade hours or for the purpose of commandeering/sabotaging another game. Q*bert and friends were integrated into Fix-It Felix Jr. for the purpose of gameplay, so they belong there now and are treated as native characters, plus they were homeless before and had no intention of hurting anyone. As for crossovers, the crossed-over characters may not historically originate from the series whose game they are appearing in, but within the world of that individual game, they belong there because they were programmed to be there.

** According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBzNSMdcm2w the fake TV spot for Hero's Duty]], it's "Wreck-It Studios". It's hinted that this is a development team working for Tobikomi, likely with the specialty of making more modern, "gritty" types of games. The name is probably intended to be a reference to the game ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' and Ralph himself; perhaps he's one of the most popular characters in Tobikomi's library of games.

* If Q*bert and his enemies/friends want food, why didn't they just go into Sugar Rush?

** King Candy seems pretty hostile to outsiders, hence the use of the Fungeon. It seems likely that Q*bert and co would just be booted out upon discovery.

** Markowski seems to be the local idiot - since him not being there obviously didn't affect the game play the way Ralph's absence does, Calhoun and the Marines probably treated it as, "Markowski's gone, but they can still play the game, we'll finish the day and deal with finding him later."

** Given that another game was about to begin right after Calhoun chews out Ralph, and the latter could not have scaled the tower unmolested by cybugs and/or unseen by the other Marines, the likely explanation is that Ralph found somewhere to hide until the end of the day and no one cared about Markowski's absence.

* When building that race track for Vanellope, Ralph made a smooth and clean track with the camera zooming out to show what he accomplished in creating. But then, Vanellope's race track consists of peanut brittle stalagmites sticking out of the ground?

* When building that race track for Vanellope, Ralph made a smooth and clean track with the camera zooming out to show what he accomplished in creating. But then, Vanellope's race track consists of caramel stalagmites sticking out of the ground?

* How would laserdisc games with live actors (like Mad Dog McCree) exist in this universe? Do they inhabit GCS with the other characters?

*** Maybe, maybe not- all of the games exist on the computer's hard drive, but only one can be loaded for the player at any given time- maybe they just have craploads of free time? Personally I feel like consoles and computers might be ''safer'' for game-jumpers, assuming the owner is arguably aware of their "subjects" like the arcade owner seems to be. Just keep a bank of backup copies on a protected hard drive- personified in-universe by some sort of Clone Bank with BrainUploading. HilarityEnsues when the characters vacation in a DarkSouls expy, with a full minute of the same character popping out of the backup drive nonstop.

** Considering that the only glitch character we see is a result of someone else tampering with the game's source code, whose to say that there ''are'' other glitch characters? At least, ones that are as fully formed and intelligent as Vanellope? Ralph certainly hasn't met one since the details have to be spelled out for him by King Candy (who, it must be said, is lying through his teeth) and he's been around for thirty years.

** I can't think of a specific example to list, but I'd really love to see the gang jump into the local Skyrim or Fallout knockoff and find out the player is running a WreckitRalph total conversion.

** [[TvTropes TvTropes']] WMG pages are much more busy in that universe.

* I think it can be argued that at the beginning of the film, Vanellope's problem that she has to overcome is a bit heavier than Ralph's is, as she lacks a proper role in her game and even mentions how its other characters refer to her as "just a mistake," which is a pretty deep and emotional concept for a kids' movie. But in the end, Vanellope doesn't really do anything to change the minds of the other characters or change the way they see her - she just turns out to not have been a glitch all along, and was actually the lead role before Turbo sabotaged her code. I realize that this kind of issue may have been the film's intention, but it still never addresses the moral implications of treating glitchy "mistakes" like that, or why it's wrong, or how they can be treated different, so what does that say about the lives of ''other'' glitch characters that exist in other games in the arcade?

What are the implications of PC-modding in this universe?
* I can't think of a specific example to list, but I'd really love to see the gang jump into the local Skyrim or Fallout knockoff and find out the player is running a WreckitRalph total conversion.