History ShoutOut / WreckItRalph

** In one shot in Game Central Station, you can see [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] and two [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach and Daisy]] look-alikes walking by.

* The owner of the arcade, Mr. Litwak, appears to be based off of Walter Day, the owner of famous video arcade Twin Galaxies of TheKingOfKong fame.

* The owner of the arcade, Mr. Litwak, appears to be based off of Walter Day, the owner of famous video arcade Twin Galaxies of KingOfKong fame.

** At one point when Calhoun draws her gun, it makes the charging sound effect that [[MegaManX X's]] buster makes when he charges it from ''X4'' onwards.

** [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear's]] laser can be heard during [[spoiler: the wedding between Felix and Calhoun, when the squad of Hero's Duty fires away]].

* The ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'' machine resembles a Donkey Kong machine.
* Ralph's game is ''Fix-It Felix '''Jr'''''. ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' was the game in which [[PerspectiveFlip DK was a good guy and Mario was the]] BigBad.

* During the Bad Anon meeting, one villain explains to Ralph "[[DespicableMe Just because you're a badguy, this does not mean you're]] ''[[DespicableMe bad guy]]''."

** In one shot in Game Central Station, you can see [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] and two [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach and Daisy]] look-a-likes walking by.
** As Ralph makes a break for the tower in Hero's Duty, he faintly shouts, [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"]]
* Tons of shout outs in the graffiti at Game Central Station:

* Between this and ''[[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Scott Pilgrim]]'', "[[CompleteWorldKnowledge bullroar]]" is on its way to becoming the premiere [[GoshDangItToHeck swear substitute]].
* Hero's Duty was a big shout-out to StarshipTroopers (and many derived works with a BugWar premise), CallOfDuty, {{Halo}}, and MetroidPrime.
* Ralph accidentally stepping on a bug egg, causing it to hatch, attempting to escape in a shuttle, having it [[FaceHugger attach to his face]] and then escape the pod to go propagate before finally assaulting the new world it finds itself in seems eerily similar to the {{Alien}} franchise. The Cy-Bug eggs also glow from within with the same sickly glow as Xenomorph eggs.

** And in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shout-out to the "They're in the room!" scene from Aliens, Calhoun's tracker shows her completely surrounded by Cy-Bugs while standing in an empty field in Sugar Rush. Then the [[OhCrap ground caves in and she falls into their nest]].
* This is probably unintentional but Hero's ''Doody''? [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Sounds familiar doesn't it?]]
* Ralph, [[TheIncredibleHulk covered in green candy goo]], goes on a rampage through the stadium in Sugar Rush.

* At one point when King Candy demands to know if Ralph knows who he is, Ralph sarcastically responds, "I don't know, the guy who makes the donuts?" This is a reference to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZtMfMWONI a famous Dunkin' Donuts commercial]] back in TheEighties.
* Auto racing girl named Vanellope. [[WackyRaces What does that remind you of]]?

* There's also a non-video game shout out as after Ralph chases off the racers of Sugar Rush who were destroying Vanellope's kart, he refers to them as "the [[ChildrenOfTheCorn Children Of The Candy Corn]]".
* When King Candy digs around in the game's code, he says "End of the Line!", an almost word-for-word quote of [[Film/{{Tron}} MCP.]]
** He also sings "[[SesameStreet One of these things is not like the others...]]"
* When Ralph picks up Sour Bill and forces him to [[spoiler: tell him the truth about Vanellope]], he licks him. Then he smiles and says "I wonder how many licks it'll take to get to ''your'' center?", a nod to the Tootsie Pop commercials.
* Several in the Sugar Rush race track, to MarioKart. There's a cannon segment that looks suspiciously similar to the one from DK Mountain, an ice track similar to Frappe Snowland/Sherbet Land, and of course, a Rainbow Road near the end. Also, if you watch closely at the start of the race, one of the racers spins back and forth in place [[ShownTheirWork like when you hold the accelerator too long trying to get a boost at the start of the race in the Mario Kart series...]]

* [[spoiler: King Candy[=/=]Turbo]] becoming a bug hybrid after seemingly being lost to the bugs, kinda like [[spoiler: Xander in RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles]]
** Also reminiscent of Dr. Smith's transformation [[spoiler: into the Spider Smith]] from LostInSpace.
* Ralph's HeroicSacrifice near the end is similar to the scene in TheIronGiant where the eponymous Giant saves a city from a missile.

* Another Disney one; the scene where [[spoiler:Vanellope]] turns into [[spoiler:a princess]] at the climax and automatically resets Sugar Rush, is a lot like the finale of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
* The PoliceBrutality scene with Ralph and the cops Wynchel and Duncan. [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Wouldn't look]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} out place somewhere.]]
* The 'power cards' Litwak's Arcade uses are similar to the real-life arcade chain of Dave and Buster's, who use electronic cards instead of coins (though Litwak's Arcade utilizes both change and power cards).

* "Going Turbo" is first spoken by M. Bison, in a nod to Super Street Fighter II: Turbo.
* At the very end of the film the right half of the screen glitches with random sprites and numbers just like the "kill-screen" in the original PacMan.
* The candy-fed Cy-Bugs bear a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/EpicMickey the Beetleworks from Epic Mickey]]. This is re-enforced when [[spoiler: King Candy is assimilated.]]
* It seems that the TastesLikeDiabetes world of ''Sugar Rush'' has an entire series of tunnels and caverns underneath it, along with a few hidden entrances to restricted/under construction areas. [[DisneyThemeParks Sounds a bit familiar ...]]

* During the Bad Anon meeting, one villain explains to Ralph "[[DespicableMe Just because you're a bad guy, this does not mean you're bad guy.]]"

* Several in the Sugar Rush race track, to MarioKart (particularly MarioKart64). There's a cannon segment that looks suspiciously similar to the one from Jungle Parkway, an ice track similar to Frappe Snowland/Sherbet Land, and of course, a Rainbow Road near the end. Also, if you watch closely at the start of the race, one of the racers spins back and forth in place [[ShownTheirWork like when you hold the accelerator too long trying to get a boost at the start of the race in the Mario Kart series...]]

** When Felix gets hit with a piece of ceiling and 'dies', it's very similar to the death sequence in VideoGame/DonkeyKong.

* The candy-fed Cy-Bugs bear a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/EpicMickey the Beetleworks from Epic Mickey]]. This is re-enforced when [[spoiler: King Candy is assimilated.]]

* During the Bad Anon meeting, one villain tells Ralph "[[DespicableMe Just because you're a bad guy, this does not mean you're bad guy.]]"

* The 'power cards' Litwik's Arcade uses are similar to the real-life arcade chain of Dave and Buster's, who use electronic cards instead of coins (though Litwik's Arcade utilizes both change and power cards).
* The arcade owner may be modelled after Walter Day, the president of Twin Galaxies, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Galaxies record-keeping organization for Video Game records]]. Both are older, thin gentlemen who wear iconic referee shorts.

* At the very end of the film the right half of the screen glitches with random sprites and numbers just like the "kill-screen" in the original PacMan.

* Might just be a coincidence, but [[TeamFortress2 Felix, the fixer/builder, dresses in bluish colors while Ralph, the wrecker/demolition guy, dresses in reddish ones]].

* "Going Turbo" is first spoken by M. Bison, in a nod to Super Street Fighter II: Turbo.

* The arcade owner may be modelled after Walter Day, the president of Twin Galaxies, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Galaxies record-keeping organization for Video Game records]]. Both are older, thin gentlemen who wear iconic referee shorts.

* The arcade owner may be modelled after Walter Day, the president of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Galaxies record-keeping organization for Video Game records]]. Both are older, thin gentlemen who wear iconic referee shorts.

* Might just be a coincidence, but [[TeamFortress2 Felix, the fixer/builder, dresses in bluish colors while Ralph, the wrecker/demolition guy, dresses in reddish ones]].

* The PoliceBrutality scene with Ralph and the cops Wynchel and Duncan. [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Wouldn't look]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} out place somewhere.]]

** The port to Sugar Rush has "No camping" (in the context of a FirstPersonShooter) and [[LeeroyJenkins "Jenkins"]].
** Also in the port to Sugar Rush is "[[StreetFighterII Sheng]] [[UrbanLegendOfZelda Long]] was here.Of

* The PoliceBrutality scene with Ralph and the cops Wynchel and Duncan. [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Wouldn't look]] [[WesternAnimation/Futurama out place somewhere.]]

* Another Disney one; the scene where [[spoiler:Vanellope]] turns into [[spoiler:a princess]] at the climax and automatically resets Sugar Rush, is a lot like the finale of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.

* Game Central Station, located in the powerstrip which supplies all the arcade machines, is obviously one to [[BigApplesauce Grand Central Station]].
** The ''VideoGame/{{Pac-Man}}'' font is used on the Litwak's Family Fun Center sign.
** Several sound effects:
*** When Felix lifts the magic hammer the familiar ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' coin sound effect is heard.
*** Another audio Shout Out that's easier to miss; the sound effect that plays when Felix gets a pie is the same sound effect used when Mega Man gets an enemy ability from ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' onwards.
*** At one point when Calhoun draws her gun, it makes the charging sound effect that [[MegaManX X's]] buster makes when he charges it from ''X4'' onwards.
*** Yet another nostalgic sound can be caught in the second trailer where Felix, trying to escape from the jail by hitting the window bars (but fixing them unintentionally instead): It's the Start Up-sound from ''{{Gradius}}''!
*** When Ralph is searching through a box and finds an exclamation point, the sound that accompanies it is the "alerted" sound effect from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.
*** As Ralph hides in chocolate and breathes through a straw, he makes [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader's]] [[VaderBreath breathing noise]].
** Ralph punching out one of the windows in the in-universe version of ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' looks like something out of ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}''.

** The graffiti by the port to Sugar Rush has a few, like "No camping" (in the context of a FirstPersonShooter) and [[LeeroyJenkins "Jenkins"]].
*** Also in the port to Sugar Rush is "[[StreetFighterII Sheng]] [[UrbanLegendOfZelda Long]] was here.Of

** Auto racing girl named Vanellope. [[WackyRaces What does that remind you of]]?
*** And that one named [[HayaoMiyazaki Minty Zaki?]]
** When King Candy digs around in the game's code, he says "End of the Line!", an almost word-for-word quote of [[Film/{{Tron}} MCP.]]
*** He also sings "[[SesameStreet One of these things is not like the others...]]"
** Ralph's game is ''Fix-It Felix '''Jr'''''. ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' was the game in which [[PerspectiveFlip DK was a good guy and Mario was the]] BigBad.
** Between this and ''[[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Scott Pilgrim]]'', "[[CompleteWorldKnowledge bullroar]]" is on its way to becoming the premiere [[GoshDangItToHeck swear substitute]].
** Hero's Duty was a big shout-out to StarshipTroopers (and many derived works with a BugWar premise), CallOfDuty, {{Halo}}, and MetroidPrime.
** Ralph accidentally stepping on a bug egg, causing it to hatch, attempting to escape in a shuttle, having it [[FaceHugger attach to his face]] and then escape the pod to go propagate before finally assaulting the new world it finds itself in seems eerily similar to the {{Alien}} franchise. The Cy-Bug eggs also glow from within with the same sickly glow as Xenomorph eggs.
** [[spoiler: King Candy[=/=]Turbo]] becoming a bug hybrid after seemingly being lost to the bugs, kinda like [[spoiler: Xander in RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles]]
*** Also reminiscent of Dr. Smith's transformation [[spoiler: into the Spider Smith]] from LostInSpace.
** Ralph's HeroicSacrifice near the end is similar to the scene in TheIronGiant where the eponymous Giant saves a city from a missile.
** Several in the Sugar Rush race track, to MarioKart (particularly MarioKart64). There's a cannon segment that looks suspiciously similar to the one from Jungle Parkway, an ice track similar to Frappe Snowland/Sherbet Land, and of course, a Rainbow Road near the end. Also, if you watch closely at the start of the race, one of the racers spins back and forth in place [[ShownTheirWork like when you hold the accelerator too long trying to get a boost at the start of the race in the Mario Kart series...]]
*** In the scene where Vanellope and King Candy are racing on the Rainbow Road-esque track, King Candy jumps onto the road in his cart... just like the famous cheat where if you jump off at a certain point in Rainbow Road, you can land on a lower portion of the track ahead of other racers.
** There's also a non-video game shout out as after Ralph chases off the racers of Sugar Rush who were destroying Vanellope's kart, he refers to them as "the [[ChildrenOfTheCorn Children Of The Candy Corn]]".
** The ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'' machine resembles a Donkey Kong machine.
** The Oreo cookie guards in ''Sugar Rush'' are chanting "March of the Winkies" (slightly modified, of course) from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** The scene where the other racers destroy Vanellope's kart is played very much like the stepsisters destroying the dress in ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}''.
** Another Disney one; the scene where [[spoiler:Vanellope]] turns into [[spoiler:a princess]] at the climax and automatically resets Sugar Rush, is a lot like the finale of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
** During the Bad Anon meeting, one villain tells Ralph "[[DespicableMe Just because you're a bad guy, this does not mean you're bad guy.]]"
** [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear's]] laser can be heard during [[spoiler: the wedding between Felix and Calhoun, when the squad of Hero's Duty fires away]].
** When Ralph picks up Sour Bill and forces him to [[spoiler: tell him the truth about Vanellope]], he licks him. Then he smiles and says "I wonder how many licks it'll take to get to ''your'' center?", a nod to the Tootsie Pop commercials.
** Ralph, [[TheIncredibleHulk covered in green candy goo]], goes on a rampage through the stadium in Sugar Rush.
** Ralph sarcastically says his name is [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] when the Surge Protector stops him at Game Central Station at the beginning of the movie.
** This is probably unintentional but Hero's ''Doody''? [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Sounds familiar doesn't it?]]
** In one shot in Game Central Station, you can see [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] and two [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach and Daisy]] look-a-likes walking by.
** As Ralph makes a break for the tower in Hero's Duty, he faintly shouts, [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"]]

*** Also in the port to Sugar Rush is "[[StreetFighterII Sheng]] [[UrbanLegendOfZelda Long]] was here."

Game Central Station, located in the powerstrip which supplies all the arcade machines, is obviously one to [[BigApplesauce Grand Central Station]].