History Headscratchers / WreckItRalphVanellope

* Since glitches are incapable of leaving their games, what would have happened if Vanellope were already somewhere in Game Central Station when [[spoiler: Turbo]] sabotaged her code? Would she have been forcibly dragged back to ''Sugar Rush'' and been unable to leave then, or would she have had the opportunity to return there on her own before becoming trapped inside?

** There's evidence for the "special ability" theory in the film. It's pointed out [[http://turbo-the-ghost-boy.tumblr.com/post/51914168225/ooc-so-im-starting-to-think-that-we-were-all here]]. If this theory is true, then Vanellope's teleportation ability may not be a bug at all!

** 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, unforgivable, 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?

** She can steal someone else's cart if she really wanted to. And Ralph has his medal and went home. King Candy doesn't have any reason to suspect he's going to come back, let alone come back soon enough to make a difference.

** Okay, I know perfectly well ''why'' he locked her up - I'm just wondering what he would've told Ralph had Ralph come looking for her on any given day. No matter how mad Vanellope was with him, I ''know'' Ralph wouldn't have just left her to such a miserable existence and never once thought to go back and check on her. That'd be...horribly cruel, not to mention hypocritical. "Oh, I'm tired of livin' alone in the garbage, so I went and got (stole, but that's beside the point) this medal so the people who once ostracized me will like me...even though I left a helpless little girl in an even worse set of circumtances that she can do nothing to control and I don't intend on checking up on her."

*** [[spoiler:By God... she's a ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething who actually does something!]]'']]

** I don't think glitches are exempt from the regeneration rule...Otherwise, King Candy could've just let Ralph know about that detail, instead of making up the lie that he did about the game being unplugged if she were added to the roster. As in, "Listen, Ralph, if you let Vanellope race, the other racers will go to town on her, she won't have any items she can use to fend them off since her code is (supposedly) incomplete, and if she dies at any point during the race, or ''any'' race, if she ends up winning this one, then she won't be able to regenerate and will be gone forever."

** He probably just couldn't. Just because he can get into the code doesn't mean he can do ''anything'' with it. Locking away memories is nowhere near the same as completely redoing an existing character.

** But her kart was in pieces at that point, and the bakery I'm hoping was back under lockdown to keep her out. Plus, as the question states, doesn't King Candy know that Ralph could just as easily bust her out of the fungeon, even if he's unwilling to let her race?

** Okay, I know perfectly well ''why'' he locked her up - I'm just wondering what he would've told Ralph had Ralph come looking for her on any given day. No matter how mad Vanellope was with him, I ''know'' Ralph wouldn't have just left her to such a miserable existence and never once thought to go back and check on her. That'd be...horribly cruel, not to mention hypocritical. "Oh, I'm tired of livin' alone in the garbage, so I went and got (stole, but that's beside the point) this medal so the people who once ostracized me will like me...even though I left a helpless little girl in an even worse set of circumtances that she can do nothing to control and I don't intend on checking up on her."/

After the game relaunch 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.

*** 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'm going to just come out and say this...Unless he was literally able to mess with the other characters' ''code'' to make them specifically fear and hate Vanellope, I don't care what King Candy told them personally about her or what memories of theirs he managed to lock up - there has to be at least ''one person'' in Sugar Rush who would've been willing to at least approach Vanellope and try to get to know her. That's not something that requires some insanely high level of kindness or sweetness; as far as I know, it's just plain decency, and if this movie is trying to tell me that there's no half-descent people in Sugar Rush besides the main character, then that doesn't make it a good representation at all of the real world. Not to mention, how does that make the other racers any more likeable in the end after King Candy is gone?

* I'm going to just come out and say this...Unless he was literally able to mess with the other characters' ''code'' to make them specifically fear and hate Vanellope, I don't care what King Candy told them personally about her or what memories of theirs he managed to lock up - there has to be at least ''one person'' in Sugar Rush who would've been willing to at least approach Vanellope and try to get to know her. That's not something that requires some insanely high level of kindness or sweetness; as far as I know, it's just plain decency, and if this movie is trying to tell me that there's no half-descent people in Sugar Rush besides the main character, then I don't think it's a very good thing for kids to see. Not to mention, how does that make the other racers any more likeable in the end after King Candy is gone?

** Okay, I know perfectly well ''why'' he locked her up - I'm just wondering what he would've told Ralph had Ralph come looking for her on any given day. No matter how mad Vanellope was with him, I ''know'' Ralph wouldn't have just left her to such a miserable existence and never once thought to go back and check on her. That'd be...horribly cruel, not to mention hypocritical. "Oh, I'm tired of livin' alone in the garbage, so I went and got (stole, but that's beside the point) this medal so the people who once ostracized me will like me...even though I left a helpless little girl in an even worse set of circumtances that she can do nothing to control and I don't intend on checking up on her."

** Okay, I know perfectly well ''why'' he locked her up - I'm just wondering what he would've told Ralph had Ralph come looking for her on any given day. No matter how mad Vanellope was with him, I ''know'' Ralph wouldn't have just left her to such a miserable existence and never once thought to go back and check on her. That'd be...horribly cruel.

** I'm not so sure Vanellope ditching her princess persona had as much to do with Turbo as it did with ''Ralph''. After she crosses the finish line and everyone apologizes to her, Ralph approaches her and says, "So this is the real you...a princess..." After 30 years of being without any friends and all of the "good guys" looking down on him for doing what he had to do, Ralph thought he had finally come across someone who understood what he was going through and went through someone similar - naturally, he'd be upset upon finding out she was originally practically the ''hero'' of her game, and may have been afraid she'd be as stuck-up as a lot of the other "good guys" he'd met so far. So Vanellope decided to focus on racing instead of being an arrogant princess so the two of them could still be friends.

*** 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.

** FridgeBrilliance: Vanellope wanted to be president instead of princess so she wouldn't be seen as better than any other racer. She didn't want to put herself above everyone else like King Candy/Turbo did.

** FridgeBrilliance: Vanellope wanted to be [[spoiler:president instead of princess]] so she wouldn't be seen as better than any other racer. She didn't want to put herself above everyone else like [[spoiler:King Candy/Turbo]] did.