History Headscratchers / WreckItRalphEnding

** Was anyone else wondering why her having such a game breaking power made her MORE popular instead of building a Hatedom for her? After all we've seen what happens to characters in other competitive games like fighting games who have [[TierInducedScrappy too many advantages]]. [[MarvelVsCapcom3 Wesker in MvC3 anyone?]]

* I can understand if they weren't going to see each other for a long time after that, if the circustances had been different, but as it stood...why did Vanellope request that Ralph stay with her in Sugar Rush when he realized he had to go? I know it's because she would miss him...but they're within viewing distance of each other from their respective games, and Vanellope's first appearance on the roster pretty much guarantees she's going to be chosen to race. Not only that, but they can see each other again as soon as the arcade closes the next day, and I'm going to presume she knows that if Ralph stayed with her, his game would be unplugged and everyone in it would be homeless.

**** As a matter of fact, Ralph does pace back and forth across the front of the penthouse and its balcony on the last stage of every round in the arcade version of ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' We don't know for sure if the movie's version of the game plays out the same way, though, and the whole point may be moot due to a caveat mentioned below.
*** Maybe it's similar to passing your friend in the hallway at work or school. You don't have time to stop and chat, but just being able to smile and wave at each other at a time when you normally wouldn't see them can make you feel good.
*** Also, it's that their relationship has evolved from big brother/little sister to father/daughter. Ralph is OK with still being in the same blue-collar job he's worked all his life because now his little girl has grown up to be [[spoiler:President]], and he's happy just by being able to watch her succeed at life. On top of that, his co-workers like him now and he's got a comfortable new house, so, life is good.

* Why does ''Fix-it Felix Jr.'' suddenly having a bonus level not tip anyone off? Ralph messing up in Hero's Duty, I could write that off as that one girl thinking it was an Easter Egg and no one else saw, Vanellope teleporting would just be viewed as a cool glitch, but all the Q*bert characters showing up... Nerds would be all over that. The internet would go crazy, people would know something is up.

** As it's shown that some characters know how to [[spoiler:access the game's source code]], it's quite likely that they played around with it and added a message along the lines of "Congratulations, secret bonus level unlocked!" when a player reached a certain level. Q*bert and his friends could be passed off as a special 30-year anniversary sort of thing.

** Also remember that Sugar Rush's gimmick is that it changes its roster daily. It wouldn't be unbelievable for a game like that to include a GameBreaker character who only appears rarely among the randomly selected roster. For most kids at the arcade, going in to play Sugar Rush one day and seeing Venellope on the character select screen would be a pretty nice treat.

*** In the same vein, there's also nothing saying that virtual child creation in the WIR universe has to be analogous to actual human reproduction. If characters can even have kids, perhaps it's by some method that we couldn't conceptualize of. Maybe, for instance, unborn children are just raw code without a physical form until they're born, so ''if'' they do grow inside their mothers (rather than just being phased into existence through hacking), the pregnancy isn't visible. Of course that still leaves the question of how their parents, both with the equivalent of full-time jobs, would have time to care for them, assuming that the children are helpless at birth.

*** In the same vein, there's also nothing saying that virtual child creation in the WIR universe has to be analogous to actual human reproduction. If characters can even have kids, perhaps it's by some method that we'd couldn't conceptualize of. Maybe, for instance, unborn children are just raw code without a physical form until they're born, so ''if'' they do grow inside their mothers (rather than just being phased into existence through hacking), the pregnancy isn't visible. Of course that still leaves the question of how their parents, both with the equivalent of full-time jobs, would have time to care for them, assuming that the children are helpless at birth.

** They were the best man and flower girl, respectively.

** [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9273514/1/Wrecking-Limits Just gonna leave this here...]]

** He did ressurect for a few seconds, but when the code changes, he dissapears.
** Or, if it works like Webcomic/KidRadd, Turbo's not dead, but he's set to his sprite's "Dead" mode. He's basically a ghost, invisible, intangiable, and completely unable to interact with the rest of the world. But... If he wanders back into another Turbo Time game, he'll re-spawn again. (Oooh! Oooh! Sequel hook!)

* Wait, so is [[spoiler: King Candy/Turbo dead?]] I literally just remembered the resurrection rule... I assume he got a free pass on death during his years in Sugar Rush since he [[spoiler: re-wrote the code to become a character in the game, so did he come back after being zapped, or did getting eaten by that Cybug and glitched back into Turbo wreck his position?]]
** I think the latter is more likely given that [[spoiler:King Candy wasn't supposed to be in ''Sugar Rush'' in the first place, and only got to be because he rewrote both the game's code and his own, so the Cybug rewriting his code ''again'' rendered him vulnerable to the ''you die permanently if you die outside of your game'' rule.]]

** [[spoiler:All Turbo did was "mod" himself with Sugar Rush skins and properties, but he was still an "alien" character. When the Cybug ate him, it killed him, and the Sugar Rush game didn't know how to respawn him. The Cy-bug then ''copied'' all his data (personality, appearance, etc) and adapted itself with these new values. Cybugs ARE actually programmed to burst and die when hit by the beam of a beacon, and apparently the Diet Cola eruption was a similar enough substitute to work. So yeah, they're dead.]]

** [[spoiler:All Turbo did was "mod" himself with Sugar Rush skins and properties, but he was still an "alien" character. When the Cybug ate him, it killed him, and the Sugar Rush game didn't know how to respawn him. The Cybug then ''copied'' all his data (personality, appearance, etc) and adapted itself with these new values. Cybugs ARE actually programmed to burst and die when hit by the beam of a beacon, and apparently the Diet Cola eruption was a similar enough substitute to work. So yeah, they're dead.]]

*** In the same vein, there's also nothing saying that virtual child creation in the WIR universe has to be analogous to actual human reproduction. If they can even have kids, perhaps it's by some method that we'd couldn't conceptualize of. Maybe, for instance, unborn children are just raw code without a physical form until they're born, so ''if'' they do grow inside their mothers (rather than just being phased into existence through hacking), the pregnancy isn't visible. Of course that still leaves the question of how their parents, both with the equivalent of full-time jobs, would have time to care for them, assuming that the children are helpless at birth.

*** Going turbo in another sense?

** Many real-life arcade games contain DIP switches or secret menus that allow the owner to customize certain settings to their liking. Most of these settings are related to difficulty, in the form of number of lives, coins per play, or points to an extra life, but some games allow changes to graphics modes, sound effects, or even whole characters or levels. Gamers may have assumed that when he had maintenance done on the faulty games, Litwak started adjusting the DIP switches enough to change the experience, unlocking the bonus rounds of Fix-It Felix, Jr., and switching from a "localization" of Sugar Rush's monarch back to the original Japanese version's character model and powerset which had been left in there.

**** As a matter of fact, Ralph does pace back and forth across the front of the penthouse and its balcony on the last stage of every round in the arcade version of Fix-It Felix, Jr. We don't know for sure if the movie's version of the game plays out the same way, though, and the whole point may be moot due to a caveat mentioned below.

** Also, and this applies to a lot of the glitch comments not just this one, is that glitches formed the foundation for a lot of developments in video games. For instance, the idea of combos in fighting games came about because of a glitch - players discovered you could combo one attack into another an attack by initiating another attack during a few specific frames of animation in the Street Fighter game.

** Maybe, as part of the edits made to add the bonus level, there's a new line of text prominently featured at some point before the bonus level starts indicating that this particular copy of Fix-it Felix Jr. is a "30th Anniversary Edition"?
** There was a bit of a sub-culture of hacking and reprogramming arcade games in the 1980s to play around with them, make new levels for them, etc; conversion kits and enhancements were floating around a lot (Ms. Pac-Man actually has her origins partly in a couple of college kids who bought a Pac-Man machine and tinkered around with it for a bit to make new levels for it). Could be explained as Litwak having bought a Fix-it Felix Jr. machine that had been tinkered with and given a few enhancements to include little cameos of this nature, but hadn't realized it until now because no one had got to the level where it would become apparent.

* So Q*bert & Co. get a spot in the Fix-It Felix Jr. game. But since they're outside their original games, does that mean that if they die in Fix-It Felix Jr. they die permanently?

** On a related note, what about the new bonus round for Fix-It-Felix Jr. just appearing? And with characters from unrelated games? Won't anyone get suspicious how that was just added? They also might be curious how no other Fix-It-Felix Jr. game in the world has it.

*** Yup! That particular Fix-It-Felix Jr. machine, the only one in the world with the new bonus level? It's going to be considered ''awesome'' and make that machine a collectible. Litwak is probably refusing offers for it because it's drawing people to his arcade like nobody's business. Heck, in the last scene with Moppet Girl playing Fix-It-Felix Jr., we see that almost everyone else in the arcade has crowded around to gape over her shoulders at the 'new bonus level'.

** Who says nerds ''aren't'' all over it in the real-world? We only know about it from within then game-world's perspective.

** There was a bit of a sub-culture of hacking and reprogramming arcade games in the 1980s to play around with them, make new levels for them, etc; conversion kits and enhancements were floating around a lot (Ms. Pacman actually has her origins partly in a couple of college kids who bought a Pacman machine and tinkered around with it for a bit to make new levels for it). Could be explained as Litwak having bought a Fix-it Felix machine that had been tinkered with and given a few enhancements to include little cameos of this nature, but hadn't realized it until now because no one had got to the level where it would become apparent.

* So Q*Bert & Co. get a spot in the Fix-It Felix game. But since they're outside their original games, does that mean that if they die in Fix-It Felix they die permanently?

*** All the Q*Bert bad guys helping Ralph are perfectly safe; remember, all Felix has is a magic hammer that fixes stuff. He can't heal anyone to death. Q*Bert himself I'm not so sure about.