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*** Vanellope most likely thought that Ralph told King Candy about the entrance to Diet Cola Mountain. With that information, King Candy could capture Vanellope easily, and she would never be able to race.
*** Vanellope most likely thought that Ralph told King Candy about the entrance to Diet Cola Mountain. With that information, King Candy could capture Vanellope easily, and she would never be able to race.
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** This conversation makes no sense to me, at least at the point it occurs. I understand she'd be disappointed that he just advised her not to race, but she's talking to him like they're allies in a war, and she just found out he's TheMole who's been giving secret information to the enemy. At this point, what horrible, unforgiveable, heartbreakingly devastating act of betrayal does she think he's committed? He didn't try to capture her or hand her over to anybody, he didn't hurt her or her cart, he didn't lure her into a trap... What is she accusing him of? What does she think he did?
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Turbo, in order to set up his own foot in the Sugar Rush game, created a new object as well as a new class to represent himself, modified the pointers originally intended for Vanellope to himself, and in order to write his own class, he trashed (overwritten) Vanellope's code for his own, making her the glitch. However his partial code trashing ended up generating valid code for Venellope as well, turning whatever superpower she had into this transporting. He also set up a piece of code to prevent Venellope from leaving the world.
Whenever a player crossed the finish line a code call is issued but it is illegal to call to an invalid location of code. During Turbo's trashing of Venellope's code he accidentally modified a call pointer to something invalid and when Venellope crossed the line the game process crashed and relaunched itself, resetting the entire game, leaving a memory dump behind.
After the game relaunch Vevellope looked into the memory dump and copied his old, half trashed transporting code back into this new image, retaining the new power while restoring the game.
Whenever a player crossed the finish line a code call is issued but it is illegal to call to an invalid location of code. During Turbo's trashing of Venellope's code he accidentally modified a call pointer to something invalid and when Venellope crossed the line the game process crashed and relaunched itself, resetting the entire game, leaving a memory dump behind.
After the game relaunch Vevellope looked into the memory dump and copied his old, half trashed transporting code back into this new image, retaining the new power while restoring the game.
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Turbo, in order to set up his own foot in the Sugar Rush game, created a new object as well as a new class to represent himself, modified the pointers originally intended for Vanellope to himself, and in order to write his own class, he trashed (overwritten) Vanellope's code for his own, making her the glitch. However his partial code trashing ended up generating valid code for Venellope Vanellope as well, turning whatever superpower she had into this transporting. He also set up a piece of code to prevent Venellope Vanellope from leaving the world.
Whenever a player crossed the finish line a code call is issued but it is illegal to call to an invalid location of code. During Turbo's trashing ofVenellope's Vanellope's code he accidentally modified a call pointer to something invalid and when Venellope Vanellope crossed the line the game process crashed and relaunched itself, resetting the entire game, leaving a memory dump behind.
After the game relaunchVevellope Vanellope looked into the memory dump and copied his old, half trashed transporting code back into this new image, retaining the new power while restoring the game.
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*** Which Felix would have fixed after they no longer had an apocalypse caused by a mass invasion of BigCreepyCrawlies to deal with.
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-->'''Vanellope:''' King Candy?!
-->'''Ralph:''' Yeah...
-->'''Vanellope:''' You sold me out?
-->'''Ralph:''' No, look, you don't understand...
-->'''Vanellope:''' No, I understand plenty, traitor!
-->'''Ralph:''' I'm not a traitor, listen...
-->'''Vanellope:''' You're a ''rat!''
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-->'''Vanellope:''' King Candy?!
-->'''Ralph:''' Yeah...
-->'''Vanellope:''' You sold me out?
-->'''Ralph:''' No, look, you don't understand...
-->'''Vanellope:''' No, I understand plenty, traitor!
-->'''Ralph:''' I'm not a traitor, listen...
-->'''Vanellope:''' You're a ''rat!''
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Well I am seeing lots and lots of head scratchers about her so-called glitch. I am a computer science major and I did some quick research regarding arcade machines at that time, and here is my theory answering most of the head scratchers above.
Arcades, in most cases, are just computer running specialized software, and hence general programming and debugging techniques apply. Arcade machines are also usually reasonably powerful as games are usually multimedia heavy programs and are power hungry, meanwhile programming tools are usually less demanding. This means that it is safe to assume that development tools of a certain arcade machine can run on itself. Also the existence of GNU development tools means that it is trivial to get a working copy of development tools to any arcade machine.
Those arcade machines are usually based on Motorola 68000 or Intel x86 processors, both CISC computers. This means that there exists a situation that with different starting point of execution on the same piece of code, the meaning can be different.
The scene that represented the code of a game is pretty accurate for a modern, well defined and modular game from the concept aspect. Every entity (jargon: object, unit of data) is shown as a box with its name and type (jargon: identifier and class of an object, class of object represented the piece of code that operate on it) marked and things inside it (jargon: state of an object) and connections (jargon: pointers) exist between them. This note will become jargon heavy up from this point.
Turbo, in order to set up his own foot in the Sugar Rush game, created a new object as well as a new class to represent himself, modified the pointers originally intended for Vanellope to himself, and in order to write his own class, he trashed (overwritten) Vanellope's code for his own, making her the glitch. However his partial code trashing ended up generating valid code for Venellope as well, turning whatever superpower she had into this transporting. He also set up a piece of code to prevent Venellope from leaving the world.
Whenever a player crossed the finish line a code call is issued but it is illegal to call to an invalid location of code. During Turbo's trashing of Venellope's code he accidentally modified a call pointer to something invalid and when Venellope crossed the line the game process crashed and relaunched itself, resetting the entire game, leaving a memory dump behind.
After the game relaunch Vevellope looked into the memory dump and copied his old, half trashed transporting code back into this new image, retaining the new power while restoring the game.
Well I am seeing lots and lots of head scratchers about her so-called glitch. I am a computer science major and I did some quick research regarding arcade machines at that time, and here is my theory answering most of the head scratchers above.
Arcades, in most cases, are just computer running specialized software, and hence general programming and debugging techniques apply. Arcade machines are also usually reasonably powerful as games are usually multimedia heavy programs and are power hungry, meanwhile programming tools are usually less demanding. This means that it is safe to assume that development tools of a certain arcade machine can run on itself. Also the existence of GNU development tools means that it is trivial to get a working copy of development tools to any arcade machine.
Those arcade machines are usually based on Motorola 68000 or Intel x86 processors, both CISC computers. This means that there exists a situation that with different starting point of execution on the same piece of code, the meaning can be different.
The scene that represented the code of a game is pretty accurate for a modern, well defined and modular game from the concept aspect. Every entity (jargon: object, unit of data) is shown as a box with its name and type (jargon: identifier and class of an object, class of object represented the piece of code that operate on it) marked and things inside it (jargon: state of an object) and connections (jargon: pointers) exist between them. This note will become jargon heavy up from this point.
Turbo, in order to set up his own foot in the Sugar Rush game, created a new object as well as a new class to represent himself, modified the pointers originally intended for Vanellope to himself, and in order to write his own class, he trashed (overwritten) Vanellope's code for his own, making her the glitch. However his partial code trashing ended up generating valid code for Venellope as well, turning whatever superpower she had into this transporting. He also set up a piece of code to prevent Venellope from leaving the world.
Whenever a player crossed the finish line a code call is issued but it is illegal to call to an invalid location of code. During Turbo's trashing of Venellope's code he accidentally modified a call pointer to something invalid and when Venellope crossed the line the game process crashed and relaunched itself, resetting the entire game, leaving a memory dump behind.
After the game relaunch Vevellope looked into the memory dump and copied his old, half trashed transporting code back into this new image, retaining the new power while restoring the game.
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*** I think her declaring herself President is a stepstone from an absolute monarchy to democracy, as this is a change of form of nation and requires lots of legal and governmental changes to pull off. Sugar Land don't even have a working parliament and legal system yet! Before the first election can be held laws have to be set up, and during which someone have to run the country. She is, in essence, still a sovereign princess claimed a different title for now, and her change of title showed her intention of reforming the nation into a real democracy.
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* Is the arcade the only place in which ''Sugar Rush'' exists? What I mean is, yes, Vanellope is DummiedOut of her own game in the arcade. But if gamers could get copies of the game for home play, would Vanellope then [[spoiler: be in her real role as ''Sugar Rush's'' rightful princess, because King Candy/Turbo couldn't possibly have infiltrated every incarnation of the game?]] And if that's the case, would the arcade's version be considered glitchy anyway, or would Vanellope have been seen simply as having a GoodBadBug? Furthermore, would home gamers then complain to Mr. Litwak that the arcade's version of ''Sugar Rush'' is inferior because where's Vanellope and who is this King Candy dude? Cue FridgeHorror.
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** Dummied out, glitchy characters have data like that in games all the time. Look at DummiedOut.
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** Alternately, the whole "glitches can't leave their own games" thing is bunk. When King Candy screwed with her code, he did something that kept her from leaving, and then claimed that it was the result of her being a glitch. He knows that if her code gets recovered, he'll get exposed as Turbo, so he keeps her from leaving the game, and therefore preventing her from getting help from anyone until Ralph comes in.
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*** [[spoiler: This makes the most sense to me. Near the end of the movie, it looks like Moppet Girl has to push a button on the console in order to teleport. There might be a timer associated with it too. So I'm thinking that the short teleport was her special ability and she lost control of it when Turbo messed with the code.]]
** Yep, teleporting is her ability. My guess is that it still looks "glitchy" because while Turbo was messing with the code, he permanently deleted/screwed up the texture for the teleporting effect. Also, crossing the finish line was more of a soft reset than "restoring to factory settings".
** Yep, teleporting is her ability. My guess is that it still looks "glitchy" because while Turbo was messing with the code, he permanently deleted/screwed up the texture for the teleporting effect. Also, crossing the finish line was more of a soft reset than "restoring to factory settings".
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** Yep, teleporting is her ability. My guess is that it still looks "glitchy" because while Turbo was messing with the code, he permanently deleted/screwed up the texture for the teleporting effect. Also, crossing the finish line was more of a soft reset than "restoring to factory settings".]]
** Yep, teleporting is her ability. My guess is that it still looks "glitchy" because while Turbo was messing with the code, he permanently deleted/screwed up the texture for the teleporting effect. Also, crossing the finish line was more of a soft reset than "restoring to factory settings".
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** Yep, teleporting is her ability. My guess is that it still looks "glitchy" because while Turbo was messing with the code, he permanently deleted/screwed up the texture for the teleporting effect. Also, crossing the finish line was more of a soft reset than "restoring to factory settings".
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*** Supporting this is that every racer has an alternate outfit for racing. If you look in the final race, they all have helmets and goggles on, and you even see King Candy changing into his racing outfit during the first attempt to race.
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* When Vanellope rescues Ralph in Diet Cola Mountain, her Kart has changed into the one that she drives as shown on the side of the Sugar Rush game console... but later on when Ralph pushes her over the finish line, her kart is now the same as the one she made with Ralph. Mistake?
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* Is Vanellope [[spoiler:a canon character (as princess) who was DummiedOut as a player character but still with a prominent role in the Sugar Rush game]] or [[spoiler:an actual legitimate racer to begin with]]? Normally I would think the latter, but the fact she had coherent [[spoiler:"civilian clothing"]] data and [[spoiler:there was an unfinished glitch level even King Candy/Turbo didn't know about]], plus the fact [[spoiler:she still has visible glitching that players can exploit]] by the end of the movie, I'm starting to consider the former.
** She probably has the regular outfit for racing since the other one wouldn't really fit in a racer. Or she somehow picked up bits of trash and fashioned them into an outfit, though that would imply she was naked for a while.
*** I'm assuming it's similar to that old rumor about Professor Oak in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', that is, originally supposed to be a playable character, got demoted to NPC but still had some data lurking about.
*** Her appearance [[spoiler:on the cabinet is that of a formal white-and-mint-green racing suit that we never see her wear, rather than her civvies.]] The outfit she has on for most of the movie is probably what was scrounged together [[spoiler:when she was turned into a 'glitch' (explaining how haphazard it is).]]
** On the arcade game cabinet, [[spoiler: she is seen with the other players, in her civilian clothes, which does imply that she was intended to be seen by the players in those clothes]]. It's also possible that her [[spoiler: teleporting was a legitimate game mechanic]].
*** King Candy has a special animation where he launches himself off of the royal reviewing stand down a slide ramp into his race car. [[spoiler:Princess Vanellope likely was supposed to have a similar special animation when she was selected to race, only also involving ditching her formal princess robes for her racing suit (i.e., the getup we see her wearing for most of the movie). We ''do'' see President Vanellope actually wearing her princess robes again for a formal occasion -- Calhoun's wedding.]]
*** Also, we see at least one example of a programmed-in special power that only one specific racer can activate; see below for the example re: Candlehead.
** To confirm this, one needs to look no further than the Art of Wreck-it Ralph book. There you can see (as noted above) Vanellope in her white racing suit- which also appears briefly when you see her on the game console. What seals it is that there is also a pic of her in that suit and driving her original kart [[spoiler: a rather familiar white kart... which during the movie's events, is in the hands of King Candy/Turbo]].
* So, at the end, is Vanellope [[spoiler: still unable to leave the game? Is she still a 'glitch,' or is what was supposed to make her a glitch (The random teleports) supposed to be a part of her character, and it's all fixed now that she crossed the finish line?]] It was somewhat unclear, at least to this troper.
** Seeing as how she attended Calhoun's wedding, which must be in a different game, the answer would be no.
*** I'd err on the side of saying no, she isn't... at least not anymore. With her crossing the finish line, her actual code was reconnected and everything was made better for her... and she just decided to keep the 'glitch-porting' because it was kind of her schtick now.
* Why is Vanellope unable to leave the game? She's not included in the game's code - neither would Ralph or Felix or any other game jumper be, so how come it's just "glitches?"
** She's in the code, [[spoiler: but her connections were broken by Turbo/King Candy.]]
** Even if she were [[spoiler: actually a glitch]], whereas a normal character is deliberately coded, a glitch is created by accident, through unexpected interactions of code. Without the game code, there is no glitch.
* So yes, it's nice that they subverted the whole EverythingIsBetterWithPrincesses trope and showed that little girls can be happy and have dreams without wanting to be the pretty princess. That said... am I the only one that found the whole "I'll be President instead of Princess" to be so out-of-nowhere and hamfisted? Like, here's some things:
** Are we suppose to really believe that they are changing the way the government is run in Sugar Rush? The game is programmed to be a monarchy, and if we are to believe the fake commercial, this game has been around for over a decade. Even if the change between King Candy and Vanellope doesn't cause a stir, won't people notice if there is a different leader every few years?
** Or, if she's only a President in name, then... why? Is this just a shameless pandering to an American audience because "nothin' better than democracy, even if it's in name only!"
*** It seems what Vanellope wanted was an excuse to race. To her, being "royal princess" would require her to adhere to the standards of being prim-and-proper princess with all of its stereotypes, but if she is "president" she can technically consider herself equal to the level of the other racers, just with a bit more government power. Other than that, it's probably just meant as a joke.
*** But King Candy raced with the other racers, and he certainly didn't consider himself equal to the others. Why should her being of a different class exclude her from participating? Isn't the whole point of her conflict/resolution is that she was always meant to be a character racer in the first place before King Candy came?
*** It could be that she didn't want the implication that she was now ruling over them as King Candy had. Certainly she didn't want anybody to kneel before Zod... before her especially given their bullying. While president still carries some of that authority and respect, it also implies that everyone else has some ability to make a difference and that she wants to hear everyone's thoughts on things - that she doesn't have absolute power.
*** But if nothing about the government has changed except her title, isn't it just a superficial title (like how dictator used to be a better way of saying tyrant before it became synonymous)? She could still be a Princess but create a system in which the people's concerns are more easily heard and processed. Hell, she could create a parliament if she really wanted!
*** Who's to say she didn't? We don't really see anything about the way ''Sugar Rush'' is run after that.
*** Then she could've remained a princess but still given the people more power. Taking the title of President and not going all the way with the implications of that title more or less says, again, that they did this just to pander to an American audience.
*** My impression is, it's less "meaningless title change to pander to Americans", and more "meaningless title change because her years in exile have left her even more tomboyish than before, and used to it, and as such unwilling to accept such a stereotypically girly title as princess". This IS Disney we're talking about, they've been using Princess for so long, I'm not sure why they'd stop for pandering ''NOW''.
*** It suits Vanellope's character to ditch the crown for the presidency, AND it also makes for a nice subversion. She wears the dress long enough for the audience to groan "Not ''another'' Princess!" and then glitches out of it, proving that the Disney writers are capable of envisioning girls in positions of power without making them royalty. Seriously, we have enough {{Disney Princess}}es by now. There's nothing wrong with one movie thumbing its nose at the franchise.
*** I won't be surprised if the game console literally advertises one racer as "flavor of the month" or "flavor of the week". Flavor of the month usually refers to a character or class that is OP until they get nerfed only for a different character or class to get buff to the same OP status.
*** Again, it's not the fact that she isn't a Princess anymore that I have a problem with (like I said above, it's great that they subverted the whole 'every girl wants to be a princess' thing). What bugs me is that she says that she's still the ruler, but wants to make a democracy and be President. That's not how that work. Either they all vote on who the new President is, or they could have a constitutional monarchy like Japan or United Kingdom. It's like they half-assed the whole subversion.
*** Perhaps because imaginary worlds where everyone's made of candy aren't completely and utterly accurate representations of real world political systems?
*** Because RealWomenNeverWearDresses. If they wanted her to be cool and fun and relatable, they couldn't possibly have her have a role that was explicitly feminine.
* One thing didn't sit right with me at the end of the movie. Vanellope's glitching; specifically, her ''keeping it'' after becoming a legit racer. Sure, some of the arcade gamers would like and appreciate this one character having ridiculously overpowered, unique abilities (Moppet Girl was having fun)... but what about those that don't? What about gamers like the two kids who didn't let MG play became they wanted to go through every single racer? What's stopping people like that (or just any slightly elitist gamer) taking an issue with this one character having buggy abilities (one character having a blue binary code-esque TeleportSpam ability is bound to stick out), and going to Litwak? Really, this is the hole in both Candy and Ralph's logic here: sure, not every gamer is going to have a low opinion on Vanellope's GameBreaker status, but not all of them are going to have high opinions either. All it would take is one kid finding it unfair that his friend just trounced him with this glitchy character, or a gamer who had played ''Sugar Rush'' in another arcade being confused that ''this'' arcade's Vanellope is glitching all over the place...
** Unless, as I believe has been suggested elsewhere, this is ''not'' a glitch at all and is a "special ability" for that character, and that ''all'' characters in ''Sugar Rush'' each have their own (which seems to be implied in the final race). [[spoiler: King Candy just took advantage of it after wiping the memories of the other characters as an excuse to keep her from racing and foiling his plans.]]
** In my experience, people who discover a GoodBadBug don't complain about it: they take the GoodBadBug character when they can and it evolves into an AscendedGlitch. It'd be different if the bug caused Vannelope's car to stop or drop 'through' the track. And although it's true that a gamer from another arcade might notice a glitch in the copy of ''Sugar Rush'' at Litvak's, they're more likely to start going to Litvak's to play the 'glitched' version - or to be thankful that their usual arcade has the unglitched version and go back there. A tantrum extreme enough to encourage Litvak to unplug one of his bigger money-makers doesn't seem very likely.
* Okay, what about this: The reason Vanellope glitches is because [[spoiler:her code was tampered with and all but destroyed... But when Vanellope crosses the finish line, she supposedly resets the game back to its factory settings. So how come she can STILL glitch? Did she master some cosmic, matrix-like force... or is it that the game not 100% better, and [[FridgeHorror Turbo is still hiding in the code somewhere]]...?]]
** [[spoiler: Because when she was "glitched", she was already aware of some of her dummied out programming. Teleporting was ''never'' a glitch, it was ''always'' her character ability. Ralph and Co. just continue to call it a glitch because that's what they're used to calling it.]]
*** [[spoiler: This makes the most sense to me. Near the end of the movie, it looks like Moppet Girl has to push a button on the console in order to teleport. There might be a timer associated with it too. So I'm thinking that the short teleport was her special ability and she lost control of it when Turbo messed with the code.]]
** Alternatively, reset or not, her code is still damaged. [[spoiler:Turbo rather forcefully tried to disconnect her. If the game had bounced back to factory settings completely, their memories would reset completely, Vanellope included. The default settings were restored, so Vanellope retains her glitching but the system rightfully treats her as the star racer.]]
*** My working theory is that her teleportation is a combination of an ability she's supposed to have in the game (like Candlehead lighting the cherry bombs) that she forgot about and slight remaining damage from being reduced to a glitch. It probably had some kind of pretty animation that made it work with the candy theme of the world (like she might disappear and reappear in a cloud of sparkles and sugar or something), but having [[spoiler:King Candy try to get rid of her resulted in ruining that animation. This left her teleporting in the form of blue pixilation instead. That's why Moppet Girl could activate her "glitch" with a button press at the end of the film and she could leave her game, but she could also still teleport around the place]]. Her ability remains, but the pretty animation is lost.
* If Vanellope was supposed to be a [[spoiler: [[BeautifulAllAlong Princess all along]], why is she in her track outfit on the side of the cabinet?]]
** As mentioned before, the programmers probably intended her to [[spoiler:wear the dress during royal duties in her castle, but she changed into a more tomboyish racing uniform whenever she raced. She probably used both outfits.]]
** Clothing alone does not make one [[spoiler:a princess]] anyway.
*** [[spoiler:By God... she's a ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething who actually does something!]]'']]
** [[spoiler:Her racing outfit is the one that players would actually see her in.]]
** Or maybe [[spoiler: she was ''always'' programmed to give up the monarchy for a constitutional democracy, and that's why her personality didn't change after the reset like the others did]].
*** Intersting but headache-inducing. With no story mode that we know of, why would Sugar Rush's devopers waste time and money on something that is not useful?
*** Lots of games with no 'story mode' have a backstory anyway. Probably the premise of Sugar Rush is that the princess is holding some kind of racing tournament for a prize.
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** She probably has the regular outfit for racing since the other one wouldn't really fit in a racer. Or she somehow picked up bits of trash and fashioned them into an outfit, though that would imply she was naked for a while.
*** I'm assuming it's similar to that old rumor about Professor Oak in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', that is, originally supposed to be a playable character, got demoted to NPC but still had some data lurking about.
*** Her appearance [[spoiler:on the cabinet is that of a formal white-and-mint-green racing suit that we never see her wear, rather than her civvies.]] The outfit she has on for most of the movie is probably what was scrounged together [[spoiler:when she was turned into a 'glitch' (explaining how haphazard it is).]]
** On the arcade game cabinet, [[spoiler: she is seen with the other players, in her civilian clothes, which does imply that she was intended to be seen by the players in those clothes]]. It's also possible that her [[spoiler: teleporting was a legitimate game mechanic]].
*** King Candy has a special animation where he launches himself off of the royal reviewing stand down a slide ramp into his race car. [[spoiler:Princess Vanellope likely was supposed to have a similar special animation when she was selected to race, only also involving ditching her formal princess robes for her racing suit (i.e., the getup we see her wearing for most of the movie). We ''do'' see President Vanellope actually wearing her princess robes again for a formal occasion -- Calhoun's wedding.]]
*** Also, we see at least one example of a programmed-in special power that only one specific racer can activate; see below for the example re: Candlehead.
** To confirm this, one needs to look no further than the Art of Wreck-it Ralph book. There you can see (as noted above) Vanellope in her white racing suit- which also appears briefly when you see her on the game console. What seals it is that there is also a pic of her in that suit and driving her original kart [[spoiler: a rather familiar white kart... which during the movie's events, is in the hands of King Candy/Turbo]].
* So, at the end, is Vanellope [[spoiler: still unable to leave the game? Is she still a 'glitch,' or is what was supposed to make her a glitch (The random teleports) supposed to be a part of her character, and it's all fixed now that she crossed the finish line?]] It was somewhat unclear, at least to this troper.
** Seeing as how she attended Calhoun's wedding, which must be in a different game, the answer would be no.
*** I'd err on the side of saying no, she isn't... at least not anymore. With her crossing the finish line, her actual code was reconnected and everything was made better for her... and she just decided to keep the 'glitch-porting' because it was kind of her schtick now.
* Why is Vanellope unable to leave the game? She's not included in the game's code - neither would Ralph or Felix or any other game jumper be, so how come it's just "glitches?"
** She's in the code, [[spoiler: but her connections were broken by Turbo/King Candy.]]
** Even if she were [[spoiler: actually a glitch]], whereas a normal character is deliberately coded, a glitch is created by accident, through unexpected interactions of code. Without the game code, there is no glitch.
* So yes, it's nice that they subverted the whole EverythingIsBetterWithPrincesses trope and showed that little girls can be happy and have dreams without wanting to be the pretty princess. That said... am I the only one that found the whole "I'll be President instead of Princess" to be so out-of-nowhere and hamfisted? Like, here's some things:
** Are we suppose to really believe that they are changing the way the government is run in Sugar Rush? The game is programmed to be a monarchy, and if we are to believe the fake commercial, this game has been around for over a decade. Even if the change between King Candy and Vanellope doesn't cause a stir, won't people notice if there is a different leader every few years?
** Or, if she's only a President in name, then... why? Is this just a shameless pandering to an American audience because "nothin' better than democracy, even if it's in name only!"
*** It seems what Vanellope wanted was an excuse to race. To her, being "royal princess" would require her to adhere to the standards of being prim-and-proper princess with all of its stereotypes, but if she is "president" she can technically consider herself equal to the level of the other racers, just with a bit more government power. Other than that, it's probably just meant as a joke.
*** But King Candy raced with the other racers, and he certainly didn't consider himself equal to the others. Why should her being of a different class exclude her from participating? Isn't the whole point of her conflict/resolution is that she was always meant to be a character racer in the first place before King Candy came?
*** It could be that she didn't want the implication that she was now ruling over them as King Candy had. Certainly she didn't want anybody to kneel before Zod... before her especially given their bullying. While president still carries some of that authority and respect, it also implies that everyone else has some ability to make a difference and that she wants to hear everyone's thoughts on things - that she doesn't have absolute power.
*** But if nothing about the government has changed except her title, isn't it just a superficial title (like how dictator used to be a better way of saying tyrant before it became synonymous)? She could still be a Princess but create a system in which the people's concerns are more easily heard and processed. Hell, she could create a parliament if she really wanted!
*** Who's to say she didn't? We don't really see anything about the way ''Sugar Rush'' is run after that.
*** Then she could've remained a princess but still given the people more power. Taking the title of President and not going all the way with the implications of that title more or less says, again, that they did this just to pander to an American audience.
*** My impression is, it's less "meaningless title change to pander to Americans", and more "meaningless title change because her years in exile have left her even more tomboyish than before, and used to it, and as such unwilling to accept such a stereotypically girly title as princess". This IS Disney we're talking about, they've been using Princess for so long, I'm not sure why they'd stop for pandering ''NOW''.
*** It suits Vanellope's character to ditch the crown for the presidency, AND it also makes for a nice subversion. She wears the dress long enough for the audience to groan "Not ''another'' Princess!" and then glitches out of it, proving that the Disney writers are capable of envisioning girls in positions of power without making them royalty. Seriously, we have enough {{Disney Princess}}es by now. There's nothing wrong with one movie thumbing its nose at the franchise.
*** I won't be surprised if the game console literally advertises one racer as "flavor of the month" or "flavor of the week". Flavor of the month usually refers to a character or class that is OP until they get nerfed only for a different character or class to get buff to the same OP status.
*** Again, it's not the fact that she isn't a Princess anymore that I have a problem with (like I said above, it's great that they subverted the whole 'every girl wants to be a princess' thing). What bugs me is that she says that she's still the ruler, but wants to make a democracy and be President. That's not how that work. Either they all vote on who the new President is, or they could have a constitutional monarchy like Japan or United Kingdom. It's like they half-assed the whole subversion.
*** Perhaps because imaginary worlds where everyone's made of candy aren't completely and utterly accurate representations of real world political systems?
*** Because RealWomenNeverWearDresses. If they wanted her to be cool and fun and relatable, they couldn't possibly have her have a role that was explicitly feminine.
* One thing didn't sit right with me at the end of the movie. Vanellope's glitching; specifically, her ''keeping it'' after becoming a legit racer. Sure, some of the arcade gamers would like and appreciate this one character having ridiculously overpowered, unique abilities (Moppet Girl was having fun)... but what about those that don't? What about gamers like the two kids who didn't let MG play became they wanted to go through every single racer? What's stopping people like that (or just any slightly elitist gamer) taking an issue with this one character having buggy abilities (one character having a blue binary code-esque TeleportSpam ability is bound to stick out), and going to Litwak? Really, this is the hole in both Candy and Ralph's logic here: sure, not every gamer is going to have a low opinion on Vanellope's GameBreaker status, but not all of them are going to have high opinions either. All it would take is one kid finding it unfair that his friend just trounced him with this glitchy character, or a gamer who had played ''Sugar Rush'' in another arcade being confused that ''this'' arcade's Vanellope is glitching all over the place...
** Unless, as I believe has been suggested elsewhere, this is ''not'' a glitch at all and is a "special ability" for that character, and that ''all'' characters in ''Sugar Rush'' each have their own (which seems to be implied in the final race). [[spoiler: King Candy just took advantage of it after wiping the memories of the other characters as an excuse to keep her from racing and foiling his plans.]]
** In my experience, people who discover a GoodBadBug don't complain about it: they take the GoodBadBug character when they can and it evolves into an AscendedGlitch. It'd be different if the bug caused Vannelope's car to stop or drop 'through' the track. And although it's true that a gamer from another arcade might notice a glitch in the copy of ''Sugar Rush'' at Litvak's, they're more likely to start going to Litvak's to play the 'glitched' version - or to be thankful that their usual arcade has the unglitched version and go back there. A tantrum extreme enough to encourage Litvak to unplug one of his bigger money-makers doesn't seem very likely.
* Okay, what about this: The reason Vanellope glitches is because [[spoiler:her code was tampered with and all but destroyed... But when Vanellope crosses the finish line, she supposedly resets the game back to its factory settings. So how come she can STILL glitch? Did she master some cosmic, matrix-like force... or is it that the game not 100% better, and [[FridgeHorror Turbo is still hiding in the code somewhere]]...?]]
** [[spoiler: Because when she was "glitched", she was already aware of some of her dummied out programming. Teleporting was ''never'' a glitch, it was ''always'' her character ability. Ralph and Co. just continue to call it a glitch because that's what they're used to calling it.]]
*** [[spoiler: This makes the most sense to me. Near the end of the movie, it looks like Moppet Girl has to push a button on the console in order to teleport. There might be a timer associated with it too. So I'm thinking that the short teleport was her special ability and she lost control of it when Turbo messed with the code.]]
** Alternatively, reset or not, her code is still damaged. [[spoiler:Turbo rather forcefully tried to disconnect her. If the game had bounced back to factory settings completely, their memories would reset completely, Vanellope included. The default settings were restored, so Vanellope retains her glitching but the system rightfully treats her as the star racer.]]
*** My working theory is that her teleportation is a combination of an ability she's supposed to have in the game (like Candlehead lighting the cherry bombs) that she forgot about and slight remaining damage from being reduced to a glitch. It probably had some kind of pretty animation that made it work with the candy theme of the world (like she might disappear and reappear in a cloud of sparkles and sugar or something), but having [[spoiler:King Candy try to get rid of her resulted in ruining that animation. This left her teleporting in the form of blue pixilation instead. That's why Moppet Girl could activate her "glitch" with a button press at the end of the film and she could leave her game, but she could also still teleport around the place]]. Her ability remains, but the pretty animation is lost.
* If Vanellope was supposed to be a [[spoiler: [[BeautifulAllAlong Princess all along]], why is she in her track outfit on the side of the cabinet?]]
** As mentioned before, the programmers probably intended her to [[spoiler:wear the dress during royal duties in her castle, but she changed into a more tomboyish racing uniform whenever she raced. She probably used both outfits.]]
** Clothing alone does not make one [[spoiler:a princess]] anyway.
*** [[spoiler:By God... she's a ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething who actually does something!]]'']]
** [[spoiler:Her racing outfit is the one that players would actually see her in.]]
** Or maybe [[spoiler: she was ''always'' programmed to give up the monarchy for a constitutional democracy, and that's why her personality didn't change after the reset like the others did]].
*** Intersting but headache-inducing. With no story mode that we know of, why would Sugar Rush's devopers waste time and money on something that is not useful?
*** Lots of games with no 'story mode' have a backstory anyway. Probably the premise of Sugar Rush is that the princess is holding some kind of racing tournament for a prize.
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