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1Examples are not organized in chronological order. Sequel predictions have been moved to [[WMG/RalphBreaksTheInternet WMG/Ralph Breaks The Internet]]
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5[[folder: Post-release theories/world development. WARNING: UNMARKED SPOILERS!]]
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7[[WMG: Turbo will return…]]
8Someone with such familiarity to the source code ''can't'' not have thought of creating a backup of himself. Or several.
9* Rich Moore stated that King Candy will most likely remain deceased, but Alan Tudyk himself is hinted to return given the tradition to include him in every recent Disney film. So let's think about it further: Assuming King Candy was just a single character created by Turbo, he is probably dead. But there are very likely other ''Turbo Time'' games out there; and what if the other Turbos are just as egomaniacal as the Turbo from the first film?
10** Tudyk did return in the sequel, but not as a villain.
11
12[[WMG: The [[FinalBoss Final Boss]] of Hero's Duty is Dr. Brad Scott.]]
13
14Just think about it: The Cy-Bug that in the movie assimilated King Candy/Turbo became the leader of the swarm, and declared himself the FinalBoss, even fighting [[BossRoom in a classic boss arena]]. The cutscene with the Dr. memories that gets triggered with "Wow, you are one dynamite gal" is likely [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay something only he would have said to her.]] Considering that, it is incredibly likely that on the final level, you hear the phrase, said word-for-word by the Dr. Brad/Cy-Bug hybrid, sending Calhoun on a heroic BSOD, then it's up to the player alone to fight him. Likewise, the Widowed at the Wedding scene is likely to appear in-game, probably halfway the tower.
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16[[FridgeHorror That would mean Calhoun has seen her fiancé get possessed by the Cy-Bug and get killed over and over.]]
17
18[[WMG: Wreck-It Ralph shares the same universe as VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork and VideoGame/MegamanStarforce.]]
19
20It makes sense due to the EM-based entities in the games such as Gemini Spark, Omega-Xis and so on. Being a video game character is essentially like being another kind of sentient EM entity, like an early form of the Wizards or the Netnavis, which in this case are specifically man-made and serve a purpose -- in this case, being actors as part of a show for the players.
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22Surge Protector himself is a powerful Netnavi that controls Game Central Station. This also implies that things like [[TheCorruption Noise]] exist and present a daily problem to the video game characters, and then there's the whole "ripping through reality" effect demonstrated by [[EldritchLocation Noise Waves]] throughout Starforce 3... seeing as Megaman actually used Noise Waves to travel across different places in the Real World -- who's to say a [[OneWingedAngel Noised Cybug Turbo]] wouldn't escape into the real world then?
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24While this does imply the video game characters are real, it also implies that things like [[TheDragon Dread Joker]], [[BigBad the Crimson Dragon]], [[EldritchAbomination Le Mu]], and everything like that are just as real and aren't some ploy of a video game -- they're genuine threats to anything that lives on Earth.
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26[[WMG: Being a virus is like being a ghost.]]
27
28[[WMG: Surge Protector has powers based on his emotions.]]
29If he loses control he will hurt characters.
30
31[[WMG: "Wreck-It Ralph" takes place in the year 2012, on Earth...]]
32...in the [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Universe Gamma]].
33
34[[WMG: Turbo used Surge Protector to get the Konami Code.]]
35Surge kicked his own butt for that for a long time.
36
37[[WMG: Most of the characters' memories aren't coded.]]
3830 years of abuse take more memory than the average arcade games', doesn't it?
39
40[[WMG: The reason that arcade's characters come alive…]]
41…is that magic (not coded in-game magic, but bona fide real life magic) was involved in some ways. Maybe the arcade owner was very lonely and a fairy (maybe the Blue Fairy, even) gave life to his machines' characters, ''Pinocchio''-style. Which also explain why the arcade owner in question is the only human who seems aware of the characters' sentience.
42
43[[WMG: The Surge Protector was [[TheChessmaster the cause of everything that happened in the movie]].]]
44
45[[WMG: The Surge Protector always wears holiday-appropriate costumes on holidays.]]
46His dead-serious demeanor doesn’t change a bit, though.
47
48[[WMG: King Candy regenerated...Turbo didn't.]]
49So now [[CameBackWrong he's an]] EmptyShell.
50
51[[WMG: Power surges are every surge protector's EnemyWithout.]]
52
53[[WMG: If Turbo hadn't been killed, at some point he would've tried to take over the physical world.]]
54
55[[WMG: The Surge Protector is actually very loyal to the games and the characters.]]
56And that's because games are [[IOweYouMyLife the very reason for himself being plugged in]].
57
58[[WMG: ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' takes place in the same universe, because [[LightningCanDoAnything electricity is magic]].]]
59Pony magic looks like electricity (sometimes) and Surge Protector...I don't think he is coded. [[Main/WildMassGuessing I then concluded]] that magic/electricity is what makes character alive and that the whole movie is set loooong before ponies existed and took control of the rotation of the planet.
60
61[[WMG: "Wreck-It Ralph" is Ralph's informal name.]]
62His formal name is "Damage-It-Severely Ralph".
63* And Felix's formal name is "Inexplicably-Put-It-Back-The-Way-It-Was Felix".
64
65[[WMG: The Game Central Station as we see it in the movie is an illusion created by the Game Central Station itself (or Surge, [[Main/GeniusLoci since he's part of the illusion]]) because characters have still human-like minds and couldn't/wouldn't understand.]]
66The station inside is exactly like "real" people expect it to be.
67
68[[WMG: Surge Protector feels it when the Game Central Station gets touched.]]
69
70[[WMG: Turbo wasn't stopped by Surge when he went Turbo for the first time because at the time Surge existed only as the Game Central Station.]]
71He created the form we see in the movie after that.
72
73[[WMG: The creator of Turbo Time is going to reintroduce Turbo.]]
74It's not very rare for successful game designers to insert references from past glories into their later works. If Turbo Time used to be that popular, Turbo would be back legally in some new game or patch.
75* If this happens via a patch for ''Sugar Rush'', it should be very... interesting.
76
77[[WMG: Wynchel and Duncan [[ForTheEvulz tortured candies]] under the rule of Turbo. [[KarmaHoudini And they never got punished in any way for that]].]]
78The tortured candies never said anything because they were too scared of the two donut cops.
79
80[[WMG: Surge Protector is just like WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog]]
81
82[[WMG: [[InterspeciesRomance It...wasn't really normal for Surge Protector to stare at Chun-Li's butt]].]]
83
84[[WMG: Surge Protector is a shapeshifter and his true form is invisible and intangible]]
85He doesn't disappear, he turns back into his original form.
86
87[[WMG: Surge met a video game character version of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]]]]
88Surge is faster.
89
90[[WMG:Surge will team up with a ClassicalElementsEnsemble]]
91Earth, Air, Fire, and Water (all programmed, of course) with Surge representing Energy.
92
93[[WMG: Ralph and Surge are [[FriendlyEnemy frenemies]]]]
94
95[[WMG: Surge stops Ralph not because he‘s a Bad Guy, but because he reminds him of Turbo and Surge never liked Turbo.]]
96
97[[WMG: Surge Protector is connected to the physical surge protector, but the two aren‘t exactly the same]]
98Actually, Surge Protector is the life force that makes characters sentient and he wouldn‘t have chosen that surge protector if it had been used to power common appliances.
99
100[[WMG: Surge Protector is a HumanoidAbomination]]
101Or characteroid(?) abomination.
102
103[[WMG: Surge Protector will have a "ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight" moment.]]
104Technically, he's a rather [[GeniusLoci important]] [[AnthropomorphicPersonification entity]] in the arcade. Maybe in the sequel he'll have to choose between following protocol and doing something to help the main characters when the fate of one or all of the games are at stake.
105
106[[WMG: The Sugar Rush Racers did try to help Vanellope.]]
107At first. But Turbo found out, and erased all their memories of the event with ones of them hating her, and continued to do so whenever any of them seemed to feel sorry for her. Those memories were all brought back with the rest of their memories, and is a big part in why Vanellope forgives them.
108
109[[WMG: ''Wreck-it Ralph'' is in the same universe as ''Film/{{Tron}}''.]]
110I can't be the only one to notice the similarities.
111* Encom created the ''Hero's Duty'' games. The failed programming in the game was caused by the Master Control Program, thus the Cy-Bugs are the manifestations of the MCP.
112
113[[WMG: Turbo is related to or was friends with Evil Otto]]
114Otto is a giant smiley face, Turbo is practically one. They have both caused harm to others outside their game, Otto in the real world and Turbo within other games in the arcade. If Turbo Time is from the same year as the game it was influenced by, VideoGame/RallyX, then both VideoGame/{{Berzerk}} and Turbo Time were released in 1980.
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116
117[[WMG: Litwak's Turbo is and always was [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/ReBoot Megabyte]]]]]]
118At the end of the [[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ReBoot series, Megabyte could assume the form of anyone he wanted, had become a Trojan virus, and wanted to infect everything.]]
119* I thought he just wanted to get revenge on Bob and disguised as him [[ForTheEvulz just because he could.]]
120
121[[WMG: Ralph was previously in a relationship with [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]]]
122When he was using her name in response to the surge protector, he was not only making a joke -- he purposely made it at her expense. This would also explain why it was the first name he thought of. In addition, she also has something in her design that is [[BuxomBeautyStandard bigger]] than normal, and the two could probably relate to each other. The relationship most likely distracted him from his unhappiness with his job until a particularly nasty breakup.
123* WOOT WOOO
124* Someone make this into a fanfic. Please.
125** Was Franchise/TombRaider ever made into an arcade?!
126** http://blog.tombraiders.net/2011/04/signed-lara-croft-arcade-unit-to-be.html
127* Note that he was glancing at the cherries when he said this.
128* Alternately: It was a self-degrading dig at himself and how Lara Croft is conventionally attractive, while he's not so much. Although the fans certainly think he's cute!
129
130[[WMG: The Cy-Bugs are the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Changelings]] video game counterpart]]
131Both races are insectlike (the Cy-Bugs being insect-like robots and Changelings being insect-like ponies). Both are gluttonous in different regards (Cy-Bugs eating everything due to programming, Changelings eat emotion out of wanting to survive, but still cause chaos anyway), both are shapeshifters (Cy-Bugs turn into anything they eat, changelings can turn into anything they see), and both share a venomous green and black as their main coloration.
132* So, does this make [[spoiler:Turbo]] Chrysalis then?
133* [[spoiler:Turbo]] IS Chrysalis. I mean, he's an egotistical maniac who can't stand being ignored.
134** Who impersonates royalty and entrances the masses with deceit while entrapping real royalty.
135
136[[WMG: "Candle-Head" is not really her name, and [[spoiler:Turbo is to blame.]]]]
137As pointed out in the main page's OddNameOut entry, she was originally [[spoiler:Minty Zaki, and an unknown sour-apple-themed racer inexplicably took her name at the last minute]]. Why? When [[spoiler:Turbo did all his mangling of the code to lock-out Vanellope]], he must've pulled the wrong metaphorical lever while doing so, and [[spoiler:botched some name-listings, accidentally erasing that of the sour-apple themed girl and giving Minty Zaki's name to her instead.]] He made up the moniker "Candle-Head" and gave it to the cake-karted girl as part of covering his tracks, as a nameless racer would stand out too much.
138When [[spoiler:Vanellope's win rebooted all of Turbo's meddling]], it obviously would undo that error as well... [[spoiler:so "Candle Head" is again "Minty Zaki", and the renamed "Minty Zaki" now has her real name back, whatever it was.]]
139* May I suggest Midori Ringo?
140* '''Jossed''', Candlehead's name is on the cabinet in the racer listing.
141** Not necessarily -- the only screenshot we've seen so far of that part of the cabinet isn't clear enough to fully confirm the names.
142* The name change could be caused outside the game's coding -- characters are renamed from time to time. Maybe 'Candlehead' was a fan given nickname, which [[AscendedFanon was made canon]] by the game developers.
143
144[[WMG: Vanellope is an expy of [[VideoGame/SonicTheFighters Honey the Cat]]]]
145Think about it, they both have black hair, they are previewed in both games in some form, they both have errors in their code, and just aren't used because of said errors.
146
147[[WMG: ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' is actually the sequel to ''Fix-It Felix'' where Ralph was, in fact, the hero saving his forest from destruction by Fix-It Felix Sr. Ralph was in fact the hero of his franchise all along.]]
148This game is not an expy of ''Donkey Kong'', but instead an expy of ''Donkey Kong '''Junior''''', with all that entails! Ralph was a hero all along.
149* This would explain some lyrics from "Wreck-It, Wreck-It, Ralph" and why the song sang about him before Felix.
150** [-Wreck it, Wreck it Ralph as fast as you can. You know you can do it with your colossal hands-]
151
152[[WMG: There are copies and copies of Ralphs, Felixes, Calhouns and others in other arcade centers who all repeat the same adventure.]]
153This film only focuses on the innerworks of a single arcade center. Surely the characters from other arcade centers are also aware they are video game characters and are only doing their jobs.
154* Webcomic/KidRadd fan?
155
156[[WMG: The movie takes place in the same universe as ''Webcomic/KidRadd''.]]
157
158[[WMG: The "you can die forever outside your game" rule is why Q*Bert's game got unplugged.]]
159Apparently, someone in the game made a foolish decision to wander the arcade, and was killed. Because the game needed that character, they couldn't resume, and thus the game was considered "glitched" and unplugged, leaving Q*Bert and his enemies homeless.
160* Which might explain why Q*Bert risks entering ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' to tell them where Ralph is. Not only does he care about Ralph's safety because of the kindness he gave them by giving them a cherry from ''Pac-Man,'' but [[FridgeBrilliance he doesn't want another arcade machine to befall his machine's fate!]]
161* It would have to be Wrong Way who was killed. He's the only ''Q*Bert'' character ''not'' shown in the movie so far.
162** One of the green hairy things (Slick or Sam) was missing also.
163** For Wrong Way, it's still alive according to [[http://wreckitralph.wikia.com/wiki/Wrong-Way this linked webpage.]]
164
165[[WMG: Mighty the Armadillo died outside of a ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game]]
166This is why we haven't seen him in anything beyond a missing poster since 1995, and why it's Sonic giving the "you can die forever outside your game" PSA - he lost a friend that way, so he's personally invested in the cause.
167* This can be applied to any character in a franchise that was PutOnABus!
168** Just because he hasn't been used in a long time doesn't mean he's permanentally gone, he could reappear in a later game at anytime for nostalgia's sake. Super Smash Bros. proves that. Also, anyone remember Mach the Rabbit? He's been gone as long as Mighty, but a few years ago in the comics he resurfaced as a drummer in Mina Mongoose's Rock Band.
169
170[[WMG: Fix-it Felix Jr. considers Ralph as his friend]]
171Well, he knows it's his part to be the hero and Ralph's as the villain. He probably knew he wasn't a bad guy outside of the game. If you work with someone for over 30 years, chances are you'll start liking them in some way. However, Ralph never knew that Felix cared for him at all. If he did, he probably wouldn't have left.
172* Felix will tell him this around the climax of the film, giving Ralph some much needed confidence.
173
174[[WMG: Felix programmed ''Hero's Duty'' to recognize himself, Ralph, and Vanellope as characters.]]
175At the end of the film, we see Felix and Calhoun [[spoiler:getting married in the same church where Calhoun had her previous wedding, with Ralph and Vanellope as wedding party members]]. In the credits, we see Felix and Calhoun acting as a BattleCouple, shooting Cy-Bugs together. Given how dangerous Cy-Bugs are and how freaked out Calhoun is by her DarkAndTroubledPast late into the story, it seems unlikely that she would let Felix anywhere near a Cy-Bug if she thought he would get killed. Felix programmed the game to recognize his code (and that of the others)[[spoiler:, just like it's implied he might have done for Q*Bert and his friends.]] He may ''still'' get killed, but as soon as the game resets, he'll be there to reassure her.
176
177[[WMG: Candlehead is cousins with:]]
178* On one side, Minty Sakura. It ain't so far-fetched, considering the two's similar appearances. This would be more realistic InUniverse.
179* [[VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends Annie Hastur]] on her other side. It would be where she gets her pyromaniac attitude. Quite far-fetched.
180
181[[WMG: The characters are incapable of swearing]]
182The reason Ralph said "Oh... no" wasn't just because he's in a family film, he wasn't programmed to swear. Only characters in games with certain age ratings can.
183
184[[WMG: The Nicelanders are such jerks because they have the wrong idea about Ralph.]]
185A bit of AlternateCharacterInterpretation here: when Ralph returns to the penthouse [[spoiler:after destroying Vanellope’s kart]] only to find it empty, take a close look at how Gene addresses him; he’s not disappointed that Ralph won the bet, or surprised that he came back at all. He’s acting normal, for once, talking to Ralph on an equal level. You don’t talk to someone you hate like that, no matter what the circumstances are.
186
187Now think about how the Nicelanders know Ralph: in the game’s backstory, and during the actual game, he’s the guy who destroys their homes just because he doesn’t like that they built it on his spot (Anti-Environmentalistic subtexts aside here). That’s the only way they know Ralph, since they never socialize with him, never got to know him outside of work. Now think about that figurine of him on the cake, which looked like a stupid madman. That’s how they see him.
188
189The Nicelanders aren’t really mean people, they just have the same problem Felix had: they have a completely wrong image of Ralph. To them, he’s a selfish, arrogant bad guy, just like he appears to them in the game (and yes, I know that’s their own fault for not giving the guy a chance, but still).
190
191So when Gene and Ralph have this conversation:
192--> '''Ralph:''' Gene, wait… This isn’t what I wanted.
193--> '''Gene:''' Well, what ''did'' you want, Ralph?
194--> '''Ralph:''' I-I was just tired of living alone in the garbage!
195--> '''Gene:''' Well, now you can live alone in the penthouse.
196
197Gene isn’t telling Ralph to just go and die, he’s telling Ralph exactly what the scene is trying to point out: by abandoning his game for his own selfish reasons, Ralph has achieved absolutely nothing.
198The difference between us and Gene is that we know why Ralph thought he had no other choice. To Gene, Ralph being selfish was just Ralph being Ralph, and his antics putting the entire game at risk was nothing surprising. It’s just more proof to him that Ralph doesn’t care about anyone in his game other than himself.
199
200[[WMG: ''Sugar Rush'' is mostly aimed at female players]]
201Considering that out of the 15 playable characters (King Candy not included), only 3 are male.
202* [[PeripheryDemographic Yet, it has become popular with boys and adult males.]]
203
204[[WMG: Felix didn't help out Ralph before the movie because he misinterpreted Ralph's behavior.]]
205Felix is TheHero of a game whose inhabitants expect him to fix everything. Over time, Felix got used to this and so when Ralph didn't outright ask for help, Felix assumed he didn't need it. ("Y'know, I wonder why Ralph isn't bothered that he sleeps in a pile of bricks all the time. But, if he was really having trouble, he'd have told me -- everyone else does.")
206
207[[WMG: Video-game Creepypasta is what happens when characters in console and handheld games go rogue]]
208It seems safe to assume that if arcade characters can game-jump and even go rogue like [[spoiler:Turbo]], so can characters in games played at home. Sometimes a game's characters get bored with doing the same humdrum routine, so they decide to mess with their players a bit -- anything from BreakingTheFourthWall in order to make verbal threats or otherwise directly address the player to completely re-tooling their entire games into something horrifying with new maps and grotesque monsters. There's even the rare case where they aren't even being malevolent, simply seeking to shake things up and entertain themselves and their players with new in-game sequences and stories. These cases tend to be isolated incidents and entirely unique from one to the next (and, due to the individuality of each instance of each character in each copy of the game, impossible to reproduce), so when people share their stories on the 'Net, nobody believes them.
209
210[[WMG: There are other miserable Ralphs.]]
211The one in the movie is the only one who finds happiness.
212
213[[WMG: Presidential elections in ''Sugar Rush'' take the form of races]]
214And Vanellope ends up being perpetually president because she's the most popular character among the arcade-goers and her glitch powers help her win the most races.
215
216[[WMG: King Candy was the original ruler of Sugar Rush.]]
217The actual character of King Candy, not Turbo!King Candy. I don't understand why people say that his name and design are a clue that he's not actually part of the game. "King Candy" is the same name of the ruler of Candyland, after all, and as a king, it makes sense to have him be an old man rather than a young boy because at the time the game was made, it was common for kings to be portrayed as old in animated things, and since he's an old man, of course his design would be totally different. King Candy's name definitely fits in with the universe more than Candlehead. King Candy stepped down as ruler when he felt his daughter could rule over his kingdom, but he's still a racer (just not a very good one).
218** Or maybe he was an NPC; he was the one who signaled the start of the race, and just sat up in his booth, except for on the final level on Single Player mode, where he was the big boss.
219** Alternatively, he was planned to be a playable character and DummiedOut in-universe and Turbo took advantage of that by making his new identity out of the leftover code, which is why there's a specific section of the ''Sugar Rush'' coding labeled "King Candy".
220
221[[WMG: Nobody ever questioned about the raven-haired racer on the side of the game console.]]
222It's likely because of the nature of the "chews-ing", that though there are random racers each day, ones like Taffyta, King Candy, Candlehead, and Rancis were there ''every single day'', because Taffyta, Candlehead, Rancis, and King Candy were pretty bloody far ahead of the other racers and they're the four best racers. Everyone just assumed that the RandomNumberGod was tilted into statistically picking those four and only five others, who probably didn't change much outside Gloyd, Jubileena, Crumbelina, Adorabeezle, Swizzle, Snowanna, and Minty. Racers like Citrusella, Sticky, Nougetsia, and Torvald were probably rarities on the roster, but still gave the illusion that there COULD BE a racer like the mysterious raven-haired racer (it could just be presumed she was a very difficult character to get). When Vanellope began to show up and King Candy faded into the ether, it's plausible they thought the game had reset (since, well, it HAD), and it changed the RandomNumberGod choices around a little.
223
224[[WMG: ''Wreck it Ralph'' takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.]]
225Here's the [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130625020546/fairlyoddparents/en/images/archive/3/37/20130625030559!Wreck_it_Ralph_and_Vanellope.jpeg evidence]]. Didn't see it? Take a [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140323221651/disney/images/c/c1/RalphVanellope_FoP.jpg closer look]]...
226
227[[WMG: When Felix calls Ralph "brother", he wasn't being metaphorical.]]
228It's the classic tale: one sibling is well-liked and beloved by all, including their parents, the other is a black sheep and social outcast.
229
230[[WMG: Markowski is related to [[{{Film/Aliens}} Hudson]]]]
231
232[[WMG: Different consoles have Different Game Centrals.]]
233You know how you see those towers and cubes at the startup of the [=PS2=]? The Characters must reside in there. As they represent saved games. So there must be ''Local'' Game Centrals. And there is a Game Central Station found in each house that is the ''Main'' Game Central that looks like a Train Station or a Mall. So there are ''Local'' Game Centrals located inside the consoles, and ''Main'' Game Centrals located in the household power strips.
234
235* im guessing PC would have [[{{Platform/Steam}} Steam city ]]
236
237[[WMG: The internet in this world is based on the power grid instead of phone system.]]
238A technician from an arcade discovered 'tiny bits of data' (characters) running through the power grid and was able to create a small-scale network using adapters that 'spit' tiny packages of data. This would eventually lead to it gaining attention from a number of universities and quickly outsizing ARPANET due to its comparative ease and speed.
239
240[[WMG: When they're not actively being played or used, the characters (and the arcade world) run faster than real time.]]
241When a game gets unplugged, (as shown in King Candy's explanation scene for what would happen if Vanellope were to be in a race), it's shown to be unplugged extremely slowly, allowing time for all of the game's inhabitants to evacuate to Game Central Station. Of course, this raises the question of how the characters keep time with the arcade customers.
242
243[[WMG: Candlehead is not a real Sugar Rush Racer.]]
244Well, if we're going to use the simplicity of [[spoiler:King Candy]] as a way to say you can identify he doesn't belong, then surely Candlehead counts with her name sticking out even more than his does.
245* Birthday cakes tend to be portrayed with candles, and as far as I can see, none of the other racers have cake motifs.
246
247[[WMG: Litwak's Arcade has magical properties.]]
248Maybe it was built on an IndianBurialGround, maybe Litwak has magical powers he may or may not be aware of, but there's ''something'' uniquely supernatural about the arcade that turns the characters in the games into fully sentient beings. This makes being unplugged even more of a dire situation; even if the arcade game was plugged back in elsewhere, it wouldn't have that magical spark anymore, and the characters inside would become non-sentient again.
249
250[[WMG: Instead of Litwak's Arcade being magical, {{Magitek}} is naturally present in videogames]]
251With electricity being the source of said magic.
252
253[[WMG: In the Fix-It Felix Jr. cartoon, Ralph [[BreakingTheFourthWall wrecks the fourth wall]]]]
254Come on, guys.
255
256[[WMG: Turbo Time was an ObviousBeta.]]
257
258[[WMG: Dying outside your game being permanent is all [=AndrAIa=]'s fault]]
259Supposing that putting her backup on Enzo's Icon did not delete "the original", and instead backed up her data on Enzo when the game ended (which seems supported by the WesternAnimation/ReBoot wiki), she removed herself from her game's code. ''Treasures of Atlantis'' no longer has her data at all. Somehow the arcade characters learned of the escaped game sprite, but they don't know about her Icon upgrade.
260
261[[WMG: Locked characters are [[UnPerson not even known by the other characters until the moment they are unlocked.]]]]
262Memories of them are locked along with them in order not to make the other characters force their unlock.
263
264[[WMG: Fix it Felix Jr is a kids game]]
265It's easy for kids to play. That's why Ralph is always defeated in the end. Felix is an expy of ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder''.
266* No duh.
267** Well, they don't come out and say why Ralph never "wins", and bad guys usually do. He's ''always'' thrown off the building.
268*** Ralph doesn't get thrown off at the end of the ''game'', he gets thrown off at the end of the ''level''. Notice how it says "Level 1 complete" the first time we see him get thrown off? Ralph may eventually "win" as the player has to run out of lives sooner or later, but he still has to take at least a few falls during the early and presumably easy levels.
269
270[[WMG: The known Video Game characters in the movie were never in any real danger of being homeless if their games get removed from Litwak's Arcade.]]
271Characters from games such as Franchise/StreetFighter and VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog were never in any real danger of getting erased because if their games get pulled from Litwak's Arcade they have several other Arcades/Consoles to fall back to. However, the Fix-It Felix Jr game is openly referred to as an old Video Game in which it was quite possibly an Arcade-only game. Sadly because it's a 30 year old game that was probably Arcade only it is quite possible that Litwak's Arcade was probably the only place that still even has a working copy of the game anymore. So in other words if Litwak's copy of Fix-It Felix Jr was removed then the game's cast would most likely be really screwed.
272* Unless someone got the code running under MAME...
273* Fix-It Felix Jr. seems to be like Donkey Kong in this universe, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Pmy2bohAs apparently had]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_LJfwFsE4 the same massive popularity]], so I highly doubt it's rare enough that Litwak would have the only copy on Earth. In-universe it's probably one of those games that you can find in any arcade, like Pac-Man.
274
275[[WMG: The real reasons why Zangief is in the Bad-Anon meetings.]]
276He volunteers to be there to help support Video Game Characters who are supposed to play villains that dislike their jobs. While the Bad-Anon meetings normally don't allow good guys to be in the meetings he gets around this by bringing up how he was a Villain in most of the Franchise/StreetFighter adaptations in the 90s (except for the Animated Movie where he was just a Cameo with Blanka).
277
278The other reason is that he was appointed there to try to keep Bison out of trouble. Notice on how M. Bison is the only actual Franchise/StreetFighter villain in the meetings? I mean yes he is the most iconic villain but he was never a sympathetic villain there to begin with. We'll assume he is still a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk anyway as well and has probably gotten himself into trouble plenty of times. (Especially since Bison is not exactly the most prudent of Villains, so he is probably quite the Womanizer when he is not playing his role.) Bison had no intention of wanting to go to the Bad-Anon meetings but the other characters in Street Fighter want him to behave when he is not playing his role. (Predictably, Bison has tried to get out of going to the Bad-Anon meetings in the past but something made him a little more willing to cooperate). They probably designated Zangief as Bison's baby-sitter to make sure he goes to his Bad-Anon meetings on time (and Zangief is probably one of the only Franchise/StreetFighter heroes that would be willing to put up with Bison).
279* A third reason is that maybe he just views himself as a bad guy because he enjoys "crushing man's skull like sparrow's egg between thighs".
280* When you're depressed, you believe things that aren't true. Like, take it from me, that you're a bad person. How often did people pick the huge Cossack to play as in the Arcade? Zangief probably got depressed and started thinking it was because he was a bad guy, so he joined Bad-Anon, and while he still sometimes thinks he's a playable villain (which is why he still goes to prevent relapse) he feels much better about himself.
281
282[[WMG: Franchise/SpyroTheDragon has gone Turbo in real life.]]
283How else do you explain ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}''?
284* So was there that one random case where something was up with him and the programmers decided to [[ThrowItIn Throw It Out]]?
285
286[[WMG: Candlehead is a pyromaniac.]]
287I don't have a lot of evidence for this, aside from Taffyta telling Candlehead to "Light 'em up," like she does it all the time and Candlehead complying whilst giggling like a total maniac, but I find the idea oddly awesome.
288
289[[WMG: The video game characters are more than just code: they're all real.]]
290Watch the scene in which Ralph angrily throws his medal at the Fix-It-Felix screen, covered up by the Out Of Service poster. It makes an audible thunk upon impact, and at that exact moment, the poster loses its hold on one of the corners of the poster, which sets up a major plot point. In other words, Ralph was able to make a physical impact on the outside world, not just images on a screen. They are not just code, they are not just characters. They are as real as it gets, and with power enough to break out of their digital prison. ...Or at least knock on the glass, whatever.
291
292[[WMG: Sugar Rush has achievements.]]
293Or something like them. During the Random Roster Race one of the racers picks up an item that fires a giant scoop of ice cream. it hits a car and seems to turn the car into a slice of cherry pie with the ice cream on top while the announcer and the jumbotron both say "A La Mode!" That seemed odd to me, both that the item turns the car into cherry pie, and that they would have this special display for when it happens, but if you look closely, the car that the ice cream hits is already a cherry pie. It just loses its wheels. So maybe there are certain achievements for hitting certain racers or cars with certain items. I know this isn't an arcade game, but it could be like those things in Super Smash Bros Melee where you get extra points for doing certain things during the round.
294
295[[WMG: The whole thing was just a massive ImagineSpot...]]
296...resulting from a couple of games being out of order one day at Litwak's. A little kid, knowing nothing about how video games work, imagines some whole epic adventure as a result. Fix-It Felix Junior was out of order because Litwak was having it modded to include some old characters for the bonus levels, and was having Sugar Rush modded to replace King Candy with the DummiedOut Vanellope. He included the Turbo part because of a story his dad told about an old game glitching out (an early modding attempt by Litwak).
297* You mean Moppet Girl? What must have happened was that seeing the game fail to load Ralph freaked her out so much that she had a dream the following night where Ralph really did leave, the Niceland characters went looking for him, and he was the one who ruined her Hero's Duty game in place of Markowski. Then her mind began to translate her experience of getting shut out of playing Sugar Rush as the character from the game's side-art getting shut out of participating.
298
299[[WMG: This movie is set in the same universe as ''Anime/SummerWars''.]]
300Someone at the arcade discovered that the AI in the arcade have a mind of their own, and saw what was going on during the events of the movie. When he was designing OZ, he made the Avatars, as well as John and Yoko, the Guardian Whales, behave like the users in real life. Hence, because the whales, and Love Machine, and the user controlled avatars, had a mind of their own, they could directly fight one another, and technically, OZ was also a game, and a service, so the avatars, and by staying in their game, [[spoiler: Natsuki could free them with the Hanafuda Koi Koi game against Love Machine]], and since Love Machine itself was an outsider bot, [[spoiler: King Kazma could punch it out and kill/delete it completely and permanently]], like how [[spoiler: King Candy/Turbo was tricked into his own death by going into the light.]]
301
302[[WMG: "The Code" is more user-friendly in ''Sugar Rush'']]
303Old 8-bit games have simpler code, but when you go into it it's just a jumbled, tangly mess and hard to edit without screwing up the program. ''Sugar Rush'', being a more modern game had not only a better organized code, but also easier for Turbo to edit.
304
305[[WMG: The reason ''Sugar Rush'' has so much extra stuff other than simply race tracks (castles, etc)...]]
306...is because a certain number of racers are picked as avatars every day - this way the other characters have something to do on their off days.
307* Alternatively...
308
309[[WMG: The reason ''Sugar Rush'' has so much extra stuff other than simply race tracks (castles, candy canes, etc)...]]
310...is because there are minigames besides the main game. The double striped candy canes are part of a platformer minigame. The castle... maybe that's where the credits roll?
311
312[[WMG: It takes place in the same universe as ''Toy Story''.]]
313They even have the same rules. (no interaction around humans for example) only with video game charters rather then solid touchable toys.
314
315[[WMG: Turbo crossed the DespairEventHorizon after what happened to ''Road Blasters'' and ''Turbo Time''.]]
316Turbo was insanely jealous of [=Roadblasters=], so he game-jumped to wreck their time in the spotlight, [[spoiler:but that was all he intended to do -- he was so blinded by rage and envy he didn't think about what would happen to ''Turbo Time''. The two other racers we see 1- who are they? A popular Fanon is that they're twins. Turbo's older brothers, maybe? When he crashed ''[=Roadblasters=]'', he intended for ''[=Roadblasters=]'' to get taken away, but when ''Turbo Time'' got unplugged too, it not only took his home away, but ''his brothers died because of his actions''. So he spent his time drinking himself into a stupor in Tapper's, when he heard about ''another'' racing game being put into the arcade. So he grabbed the code and entered the game, thinking that maybe he could hide himself in his new persona and forget about his past, but Vanellope got in the way. After having done away with his own kin (even if he didn't intend to), what was another kid's life ruined to Turbo?]]
317
318[[WMG: The video games in ''Wreck-It Ralph'' are really real life [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universes]] that are part of TheMultiverse.]]
319
320[[WMG: Ralph has his own successful video game franchise of which he is the protagonist]]
321He IS based on Donkey Kong, after all. It naturally follows that his more recent in-universe appearances have him as being friends (or at least explicitly friendly enemies) with Felix.
322
323[[WMG: Mr. Litwak knows the video game characters are alive]]
324His euphoric reaction to Fix-It Felix Jr. being 'fixed' and his mournful reaction to losing two arcade games in the flashback, as well as his dialogue in general, it seems to suggest he knows more than he lets on. He's clearly worked at the arcade for a while, it figures he might've caught on somewhere along the road.
325
326[[WMG: Not only that, but he tells some of his customers for the sake of the characters]]
327Say someone vandalized a cabinet beyond functioning or repair, especially when Mr. Litwak can't just get a new one. Now you've got all these homeless characters with nothing to do but sit around Game Central Station and hope they get a break. Or how about those SmallNameBigEgo types [[spoiler:who would go Turbo if they went too long without getting quarters]][[note]]If they're not getting quarters, then the gamers are ignoring them, meaning they've been left in the dust, which would lead to them going Turbo[[/note]]? Wouldn't he need to keep them satisfied to avoid another incident like that? If he tells this to his clients, they'll probably know better than to allow these sorts of hypothetical situations. Obviously, though, not all of them would believe him, so he probably only tells the ones he think would -- like, say, the particularly young gamers and some long-time customers.
328
329[[WMG: Surge Protector is Game Central Station. Not that he would tell that to the video game characters.]]
330In fact, he was the one who named it "Game Central Station".
331* He vandalizes the station, and thus himself. Make of that what you will.
332** Always wanted a tattoo...
333*** He's actually...''painting his own insides'', you know.
334
335[[WMG: When video game characters die outside their games, they go to either [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario The Overthere or The Underwhere]].]]
336
337[[WMG: Video game characters that have died outside of their games can be brought back to life using the [[VideoGame/IkariWarriors ABBA code]].]]
338
339[[WMG: ''Wreck-It Ralph'' takes place in the same universe as the Game Boy comics published in ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem''.]]
340
341[[WMG: The Nicelanders had gotten the cake ingredients from ''Sugar Rush''.]]
342Makes sense, seeing as there seems to be no stores or bakeries in Fix-It Felix Jr. So the Nicelanders may have a sort of barter system with King Candy in which he would trade them ingredients for cakes and such. It's different with Tapper, because his game was built to have unlimited Root Beer, meaning they likely just magically appear.
343
344[[WMG: In-universe, ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is an arcade game.]]
345This is why the characters from the game look like they belong in a cartoon world.
346* Also, "Sugar Rush" is actually [[Characters/TeamFortress2Offense the Pyro's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I "Pyro Land."]]
347* Or maybe, VideoGame/GangGarrison2 is an actual arcade tie-in with VideoGame/TeamFortress2.
348
349[[WMG: Turbo has teamed up with Dreamworks to get revenge on Disney for ruining his image]]
350Turbo might have died in ''Sugar Rush'', but remember how people thought he was gone for good after ''Turbo Time''? Well, maybe Turbo somehow traveled through worlds and somehow ended up in our world through a disc, similar to how ''VideoGame/SonicExe'' communicates through his victims. Maybe Turbo manipulated a Dreamworks employee to put him in a film ... and Dreamworks [[WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}} made him into a snail]]. Turbo felt very humiliated about becoming a snail, but he still had his personality... wanting to become the best racer in the world. HE IS TURBO REINCARNATED. And being a snail is the best part... nobody will suspect that it's him!
351
352[[WMG: King Candy after [[spoiler:Turbo's death]] took over ''VideoGame/CandyCrushSaga'' because he wanted to scam customers.]]
353The "company" is called "King" and the game is about candy. King Candy knows about [[BribingYourWayToVictory how the game convinces you to buy boosters and lives]], and also wants to make Facebook people hate on each other as sending game requests is considered making you TheScrappy. He wanted to control more games than just the candy related ''VideoGame/CandyCrushSaga'', and after getting all of the money, he'd probably make a giant casino in real life (Controlling machines and manipulating people) just so he could gain all the money, which he would ultimately use to build a doomsday machine to destroy all the racing machines and games in the world, like ''Mario Kart'', along with destroying all the copies of Fix-It Felix Jr. and Sugar Rush so King Candy could get his revenge. After all of the racing games mysteriously disappear, King Candy would cause a racing game monopoly and force people to play Turbo Time so Turbo could be the greatest and only Racer of all time!
354
355[[WMG: ''Wreck-It Ralph'' is set in the ''VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork'' series.]]
356* However, the thing is that all the arcades lack the jack in plugs so no NetNavi can enter through any arcade console. However, with the movement of technology in that universe, this troper assumes that there will be NetNavi jacks in the console eventually.
357
358[[WMG: Calhoun fell in love with Felix because of their mutual sense of responsibility.]]
359When Felix first argues his case to her about coming with her, he says that it is his responsibility to fix what Ralph wrecks. After he finishes, she doesn't argue any further and silently gestures for him to get on. Granted, she also seems to like {{Nice Guy}}s, but it makes sense that a mutual feeling of duty wouldn't hurt.
360
361[[WMG: In the next movie, another racing game will be installed in the Arcade and Vanellope will have to deal with it.]]
362She'll have Ralph, Felix and Calhoun to help her through it, but it would be interesting to watch how Vanellope, a character who, up until the events of the movie, was ignored and cast aside, will handle having all this glory and attention that comes with being a princess, only for another came to arrive with new characters. Either she'll struggle not to become "the next Turbo", since she herself is quite a prideful person, or she'll take some of the new racers under her wing, so to speak, especially if one of them is an underdog character like she was.
363
364[[WMG: An alternate take on the above-mentioned scenario]]
365Kano from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is shown telling Ralph that [[YouCantFightFate "You can't mess with the program, Ralph."]], which may be a subtle way to say he's programmed to be the villain he is, which includes, of course, [[FinishingMove ripping people's hearts out.]] If the subtle interpretation is too subtle, then the movie might as well as say "[[RefugeInAudacity screw subtlety]]" and have Smoke - his fellow MK cameo in the same scene - reply with "That's YOUR excuse to rip my heart out every time!"; then, in true "derailed alcoholics anonymous session", the two are about to have a fight and, right before the other villains keep the two from beating the everloving lights out of each other, [[MythologyGag they're shown by the side as if they were in an actual MK match.]] [=-->=] theory by @/AlexSora89
366
367[[WMG: ''Wreck-It Ralph'' shares a universe with ''Franchise/ToyStory'']]
368After all, what are video games but modern electronic toys?
369* Plus, they seem to act in pretty much the same way. In the beginning, the characters are acting as we would see them. Then the arcade closes for the night, the girl on the DDR screen gives everyone the all clear, and everyone basically punches out and does their own thing. Just like how the toys act inanimate when there's no humans around, but act when they are all alone.
370
371[[WMG: Fix-It Felix will keep fixing it (the building) ...]]
372Until there's nothing left to fix. So the building starts to expand upward and outward until there's no room left in the game to move around.
373* And once that happens... cue the KillScreen?
374
375[[WMG: ''Tapper'' is a ROM-hacked version of ''Root Beer Tapper''.]]
376Perhaps the arcade owners liked the bartender more than the soda jerk?
377* Or perhaps it's an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], since the arcade cabinet is for the original Tapper. The arcade bought the original Tapper but had to get someone to modify it because of their underage clientele. That would also explain why the video game characters can get drunk on "root beer."
378
379[[WMG: There is a recursive reality where the Nicelanders and the ''Sugar Rush'' citizens are the put upon heroes dealing with jerk versions of Ralph and co.]]
380They have to play the unpleasant people in these movies to make the protagonists look good, and have to act that way to appeal to our distaste, like Ralph does in the game he's in. So, these characters end up becoming horrible people in our minds, making us (and the recursive reality actors playing the heroes) forget that they're supposed to be playing a role.
381* And the recursiveness continues ad-infinitum.
382
383[[WMG: In-universe Tobikomi is sued for copyright infringement.]]
384[[spoiler:The characters of ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' allowed Q*bert and other unplugged characters in bonus stages in their game, but they probably didn't know what copyright was. So having copyrighted characters in it, would cause legal issues for Tobikomi if the company that owns Q*bert found out.]]
385* Not sure if one arcade machine would be worth the money to sue. It's not like it makes millions of dollars in profits that would be worth all the legal fees involved in a lawsuit.
386** In real life, an arcade owner got away with hacking VideoGame/{{Tempest}} to make it more challenging, creating Tempest Tubes. The modified ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' cabinet could easily be construed by a human as a similar case.
387** Also a decent number of games (such as Ms. VideoGame/PacMan) were created via altering existing arcade boards. Remember that at the time, video games and electronic IP weren't a thing (at best, it was the hardware). It wasn't until some time later that such precedent was set and by then, some things had already been cloned too many times.
388
389[[WMG: Characters who are invited into other games by the natives are immortal.]]
390Via the "hacking" process that [[spoiler:King Candy/Turbo]] devised; however, the acceptance of "bonus stage" cameos means they have an accepted place. [[spoiler:King Candy/Turbo]] ''was'' immortal...until [[spoiler:Vanellope became a racer]]; then the position was put into limbo again because the game recognized it wasn't true acceptance.
391* Inviting characters still has the risk of a Turbo incident, though, so it requires a lot of trust.
392
393[[WMG: The same programmer worked on ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' and ''Hero's Duty'']]
394The way that [[spoiler:Felix reminded Calhoun of her dead husband, and the way he used his [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]] "Dynamite Gal", one of the original programmers of ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' ended up working on ''Hero's Duty'' and added in some of Felix's programming as an EasterEgg.]]
395
396[[WMG: The original Fix-It Felix is dead.]]
397Why is there a Fix-It Felix Jr. but no Fix-It Felix ever seen in the movie? The likely answer is Disney was saving him for an appearance in a sequel. However, it's possible that when ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' first came out, it became so much more popular than the original that all the ''Fix-It Felix'' cabinets were unplugged. The original Fix-It Felix may be somewhere in Game Central Station, or he may not have escaped his game before it was unplugged, effectively killing him.
398* Seeing as he's the hero of his game, it's likely that, if everyone was trying to escape, he would be one of the first out. However, what if he wasn't trying to escape? Maybe he accepted that his time as a hero was done and allowed himself to get unplugged with the game, safe in the knowledge that his son would carry on his legacy.
399* Or, given that he's ''[[ChronicHeroSyndrome Felix's]]'' father, perhaps he didn't get out in time because he was busy trying to evacuate the other characters.
400
401[[WMG: There are different measurement systems between games.]]
402[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit) There is historical precedence for it.]] A Fix-It Felix Jr. foot isn't the same as a ''Hero's Duty'' foot. That's why Calhoun can be six feet tall and be taller than the nine-foot tall Ralph.
403
404[[WMG: I got a theory on how the BigBad got into ''Sugar Rush'' and did what they did.]]
405[[spoiler:As soon as Turbo saw the "Out of Order" sign on [=Roadblasters=], he sped on out to Game Center Station, where he hit Tapper, and knocked out a Foot Soldier from ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame'' for a costume, but kept himself to Game Center Station. He kept a watch on any new possible game, including his own game -- but mostly he just saw new non-Racing games -- until 1997, when ''Sugar Rush'' come in. He was annoyed by Princess Vanellope von Schweetz and wanted her out of his way. So he, using his Foot Solider costume, knocked out a few people for a disguise -- and took the name of Carol Candy, and entered ''Sugar Rush'' game. Princess Vanellope started to get a crush on the new arrival and Turbo/Mr. Candy used it to his full advantage. By the end of 1997, via hints from the Princess, Turbo/Mr. Candy was able to find the code box for ''Sugar Rush'' and the code need to unlock the game -- allowing him to become King Candy and reprogrammed the memories of the other racer and make them think Vanellope von Schweetz is a Glitch.]]
406
407[[WMG: [[Film/TronLegacy Encom]] owns Tobikomi.]]
408Who knows? Maybe in the 80's Kevin Flynn purchases it and decides to make his own version of VideoGame/DonkeyKong thus creating the ''Fix-It Felix'' series.
409
410[[WMG: Fix-It Felix Jr. is a sequel to another arcade game.]]
411Ralph makes reference to Felix getting a magic hammer from his father, and then there's the fact that the game is called ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' This indicates that Fix-It Felix Jr., the game in the film, is a sequel to an older game simply titled ''Fix-It Felix''. However, the Jr. version became much more popular around the world, perhaps due to better gameplay, which is why it remains in the arcade.
412* It's been officially revealed that a sequel may feature Felix's dad, the original Fix-It Felix.
413
414[[WMG: There are other Game Central Stations. And they are just as awesome.]]
415We've seen how the Game Central Station in the movie is like. Now, think about some of the others out there. Not just arcade games, but home consoles (how do you think Bowser shows up despite him never really being in an arcade game and Sonic and Eggman being in their modern looks when ''Sonic The Fighters'' shows them in their classic looks). Nothing says "What the hell?" like when the Ryu of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' goes head to head with the Ryu of ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series.
416* They can travel between games via the power cord; it only makes sense that they could travel between power bars/stations via the electrical wiring, to other "central stations" in the building, or even other buildings worldwide, if they're willing to take such a long trip. Probably not a wise idea though, as they risk being late or getting stranded and not being present for their game.
417* Hate to burst your bubble re: Bowser, but he was in ''Vs. Super Mario Bros.'' and ''Mario Kart Arcade GP''.
418
419[[WMG: At least some of the characters believe in a deity named AAA.]]
420He must be important if he shows up on so many high score tables.
421* It's an entire Pantheon; AAA, CAP, ASS, and TKO
422* God Forbid they start worshiping [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Fry]] under the name ASS.
423
424[[WMG: Time in the video game worlds and in Game Central Station [[YearInsideHourOutside goes slower than in the real world]].]]
425It must take at least a few minutes to travel from one game to another and depending on the complexity of the game, it could take a while to reset everything before a new player restarts the game. During gameplay, however, time in their worlds and time in the real world progress at the same speed.
426* Correction: faster. If it were slower, there'd be ''less'' time in Game Central and the consoles for things to get set up after hours than if time just went at the same rate as in the real world (as in, 8 hours could pass in the real world and only ''one'' in [=GCS=] time, not nearly enough for the consoles to clean themselves up).
427
428[[WMG: Diet Cola/Mentos Mountain was recoded [[spoiler:just like Vanellope]].]]
429The boiling-hot diet cola hurt Ralph when some splashed him. If this was normal part of the rest of the game, one might expect the occasional racer to get doused, or worse, fall into the stuff. A regular racer has nothing to fear from this beyond falling behind, but it would kill an outsider [[spoiler:such as Turbo, who has already re-appropriated the game code to his own ends]]. While there's clearly motive to have it removed, we know it can't be erased entirely [[spoiler:otherwise Turbo would have erased Vanellope as well]], so the best that can be done is to remove it from normal play.
430** Except if [[spoiler:Turbo recoded Mentos Mountain himself, then why did he never think to look there when he was hunting for Vanellope?]]
431
432[[WMG: King Candy was a DummiedOut character in ''Sugar Rush''.]]
433However, characters who are DummiedOut in an arcade game aren't like the regular characters. Characters who are DummiedOut in the WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph universe simply exist as skins that are only in the coding and cannot exist as characters in the game unless [[spoiler:another character does what Turbo did and uses the skin to plug him- or herself into the game. So in theory, any DummiedOut character can be brought as playable into a game by a different character, even one from a different game]].
434
435[[WMG: In Mr. Litwak's world, Capcom went a different way with their ".VS." series starting at or near the end of the Platform/NintendoGameCube era to a few years after the launch of the Platform/{{Wii}}.]]
436* Sega Vs Capcom -- About a six month before the [=GameCube=]'s end. All systems and arcade. Justifying [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic's modern look.]]
437* Franchise/MortalKombat Vs Franchise/StreetFighter -- About six months after the launch of the Platform/{{Wii}}. All systems and arcade.
438* Nintendo Vs Capcom -- About four years after the Wii's launch. Only for the Platform/{{Wii}} and the arcade. Justifying [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser's modern look.]]
439
440[[WMG: Ralph has Developmental coordination disorder.]]
441This first occurred to me when I saw the comparison of writing on the car between him and Vanellope. DCD affects the subject's motor skills (both gross and fine). After re-watching the movie, it seems like this makes more sense. Ralph's general clumsiness (the cake scene), him constantly breaking things, and him not knowing at all what he is doing during ''Hero's Duty'' all seem to supplement this.
442* ...Ralph has oversized hands and his job is all about breaking things. He's just not used to precision-based tasks, and it was pretty clear that was his first time in the penthouse (and him smashing the cake was just a burst of temper). He was overwhelmed in ''Hero's Duty'' by the sensory overload.
443** Additionally, he's a giant in his own game and still a pretty big guy outside of it as well. It's inevitable that he'd bump into things when moving around in a small space that's not programmed to accommodate him, and that he'd need to exercise a great deal of fine motor control to write with a tiny frosting applicator or avoid stepping on people in a crowded room. If you observe him throughout the movie (especially towards the beginning) he often walks a little hunched over as well, aware of his size, though this may be partly due to his downtrodden attitude early on.
444
445[[WMG: Being Unplugged is Doomsday because Litwak's Arcade has a ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' effect going on]]
446The source of the game characters' lives is the Surge Protector. They all hate his guts, but he's what gives them life.
447
448And this may be because...
449
450[[WMG: Surge Protector is [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan]].]]
451They're both bald guys made of blue energy, right? What must have happened is that after attempts to create life in outer space proved too difficult, Jon returned to Earth and brought some video games to life instead, then got himself a job policing them. Best of all, now that he's surrounded by fellow energy-beings not of his own design, Jon can finally feel like a regular schmoe again.[[WMG: Video Game Characters temporarily lose their MediumAwareness during their games' production]]
452The developers take it away at some point (possibly when programming in their in-game personality, or maybe their backstories?) for some reason depending on when it happens. They get it back sometime after A) their data is uploaded into the memory bank of their console (I'm not a tech person, correct me if I'm wrong about that) or B) they get plugged in, though, and what they make of this recovered knowledge affects their out-of-game personalities and interactions with other Video Game Characters. It seems possible {{Player Character}}s and seriously important {{NPC}}s (especially the former since, well, they're Player Characters) tend to recover it sooner, since the less important {{NPC}}s' out-of-game personalities resemble their in-game personalities considerably more than, say, Ralph and Felix, who would probably catch on sooner than later under that scenario and would thus more easily develop personalities affected by their MediumAwareness rather than their in-game roles, seeing as the VGCs' out-of-game personalities develop independently of their in-game ones.
453
454But maybe I'm overthinking all of this, so on a less confusing note...
455
456[[WMG: Vanellope and her kart will appear in ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart8 Mario Kart U/8]]''.]]
457We know sooner or later that Platform/WiiU is going to get a ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' game, it would be SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} if one character from Disney's ''Mario Kart'' homage end up in a real ''Mario Kart'' game.
458** Oh god, imagine if ''Turbo'' had a cameo in ''Mario Kart''. He and Waluigi would Troll everyone nonstop.
459** Jossed. However, the track Sweet Sweet Canyon might be a {{ShoutOut}} to Sugar Rush.
460
461[[WMG: The reason non-Arcade game characters show up is because Litwak's has Wi-Fi.]]
462Hence, anybody who comes in with a portable, tablet, smartphone or laptop would allow for seemingly out-of-place characters to show up.
463
464[[WMG: The ''Sugar Rush'' characters who appear human are still sentient sweets]]
465Something about the glazed tone of Vanellope's skin makes it seem that she's made of marzipan.
466** Does that make Taffyta a cannibal?
467
468[[WMG: Lots of the characters in the arcade are bilingual]]
469Think about it: lots of video games, like Sonic, start their lives in Japan. Then they're translated to English. But maybe the characters retain their original language and are able to switch back and forth at will. Also, with Sonic being some kind of PSA for the Game Hub, it would make sense for him to know multiple languages.
470
471[[WMG: Litwak's Arcade is located in an alternate universe.]]
472In this universe, console gaming never took off like it did in our universe. Here, arcade gaming stayed the big thing. All the console games we're familiar with were developed for the arcade in Litwak's world.
473
474[[WMG: Vanellope is a Candymancer]]
475It seems like some of the double stripes weren't double stripes until she said "double stripe".
476* They are indeed all double-stripes from the moment we see them. They just don't all disappear immediately, particularly the one Ralph hangs onto before he falls in the mud.
477** That's right, if you look at the one Calhoun and Felix walk on, it's a Double-Stripe too.
478
479[[WMG: Litwak's Arcade also rents time on consoles.]]
480The other explanation for Dr. Eggman, Bowser, and other such console-based games.
481
482[[WMG: Turbo is also [[VideoGame/FZero The Skull]] in disguise.]]
483Both are undead racers and seems to want to continue their legacy, no matter the cost. Even if it means being dead.
484** When did it say Turbo was undead? Having pale skin doesn't immediately rule Zombie.
485
486[[WMG: Fix-It Felix exists but no one really remembers it]]
487It suffered from SequelDisplacement, similar to ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' compared to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''. Felix Jr. became an icon while his father faded from the public eye.
488
489[[WMG: History of the Fix-It-Felix games.]]
490The original Fix-It-Felix game (starring Fix-It-Felix Sr.) was a FollowTheLeader copycat of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' After it failed to catch on, Tobikomi completely reworked the game into Fix-It-Felix Jr.
491* Or a copycat of Donkey Kong, since ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' wasn't around until 1985, and was for a home console.
492
493[[WMG: Candlehead was the local Bad Girl....]]
494...but was modified into her present personality [[spoiler:by King Candy/Turbo]].
495* Why Candlehead in particular, out of curiosity?
496* Easy: OddNameOut
497
498[[WMG: Litwak's is the Last Stop for Arcade Games]]
499Mr. Litwak gets the games last, after they're unpopular everywhere else. That's why being unplugged at Litwak's spells death or homelessness. You don't make it at Litwak's, your machine gets disassembled.
500* But ''Hero's Duty'' is implied to, and appears to be, a brand new game, judging by the style and graphics. Games often get unplugged when they're deemed broken; if a game is broken, it gets thrown away. If the characters learn that their game is going to be unplugged, it could very well mean that Litwak thinks the game is broken and intends to throw it out.
501
502[[WMG: All the female Nicelanders have a crush on Felix.]]
503They probably still do despite the fact that [[spoiler:Felix is married.]]
504
505[[WMG: Using a handheld console and a charger cable plugged into the power bar...]]
506It is possible for Ralph, [[spoiler:Turbo]], or any character in the arcade to game jump into a Game Boy/GBC/GBA/DS/3DS/PSP/Vita/Whatever game, and characters from those games to game jump into the arcade. This could have potential for crossover funtimes (the cast of ''Sugar Rush'' racing on Rainbow Road) cheating (having a Level 100 Lugia win Street Fighter by spamming Extrasensory), or just plain evil (kidnapping characters from the Arcade, potentially dooming them to being unplugged).
507
508[[WMG: The Tapper bar is the same bar Dominic works at in WebVideo/VideoGameConfessions...]]
509...and the drawings in the hall of fame were drawn by him.
510* Jossed... Dominic's Bar is called "The Pixel Palace" while Tapper's Bar is just called "Tapper's" as well as Tapper is the only Bartender there.
511
512[[WMG: Litwak's arcade is also an arcade museum.]]
513That is, Mr. Litwak buys and collects arcade machines, especially ones that are old and rare. Perhaps the Fix-It Felix Jr. machine is one of his oldest machines and perhaps the oldest working copy.
514
515[[WMG: ''Sugar Rush'' will SpinOff from the movie]]
516In the same way that ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' spun off from ''Franchise/ToyStory'', perhaps ''Sugar Rush'' will do the same (although it'll probably go under a different title due to [[Series/SugarRush it already being a title for another show]]. Perhaps it could be Disney's answer to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''?
517* A TV show on the Creator/DisneyChannel aimed at preteens or for Creator/DisneyJunior aimed at preschoolers sounds AWESOME! It would be like ''WesternAnimation/JakeAndTheNeverlandPirates'', which is an interactive show like ''Dora'' that doesn't treat kids like they're dumb, and has a very irreverent villain for a ParentalBonus! Vanellope and her racer friends go on tasty adventures!
518* A preschool show seems likely but just to cater to a variety of audiences they might make a series like ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Or, better yet, give ''Wreck-It Ralph'' his own series.
519* More areas of the land of ''Sugar Rush'' will be explored like an urban area, seas, and smaller towns, Vanellope and friends would learn good morals for children, and Ralph himself will make a guest appearance in an hour-long special!
520* Heck, even the other two games in the film could be spin-off shows! Maybe Felix's show could resemble kind of a cheesy 80's cartoon but could actually be well-written and of course retain the same appealing characters, and ''Hero's Duty'' would be a CG show in the vein of either ''Buzz Lightyear'' or ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising''!
521* I would love to see an animated series of Wreck-It Ralph where Ralph, Felix, Vanellope, and Calhoun end up lost and travel from game world to game world trying to get home. In the same idea as Sliders, or more closer, Reboot Season 3.
522
523[[WMG: Cy-Bug behavior is the result of an unintentional memory leak.]]
524Memory leaks build up and up and up until they use up all the memory available. Often in doing so, they tend to take over and over-write memory. Usually by the time they become noticeable, the best/only way to get rid of them is to reset the computer.
525
526[[WMG: Surge Protector isn't a jerk, he's just doing his job.]]
527Just like Ralph, when he's on the clock, Surge has to be overly protective to avoid slipping up and allowing someone going Turbo to pass.
528* And in his defense, Ralph actually ''was'' stealing food from another game the first time he got stopped, and it's possible he's done it before. Now, if only the Surge had actually looked ''up...''
529
530[[WMG: A BeatEmUp fangame will be made featuring the characters from the movie in the same vein as VideoGame/CaptainCommando, VideoGame/FinalFight, and VideoGame/StreetsOfRage.]]
531Why not? The main cast can be easily be adapted to a BeatEmUp game, ala from the olden days of the ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' and ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'' and among others. Ralph would be the obvious MightyGlacier with a hint of LightningBruiser, using his incredible, fast wrecking ability. Calhoun would be either JackOfAllStats or a LightningBruiser, being tall and easy to maneuver. Felix and Vanellope would be something in lines of FragileSpeedster.
532
533[[WMG: Vanellope is [[spoiler:President-For-Life]]]]
534That is to say, [[spoiler:still princess in all but name. Note the lack of election making her president, the fact that while she mentioned being a constitutional democracy nobody did anything to make an actual constitution, as well as the fact that everybody is programmed to defer to her in any case. Chances are the "president" thing is just in-name-only.]]
535* I think the President thing allows for a chance for all the racers to be as GameBreaking as Vanellope. This phenomenon is usually referred to as FOTM, or flavor of the month.
536* It's not like any of the other racers would challenge her right after she just convincingly joked about executing everybody. It'll be quite some time before anyone is willing to challenge her, whether in an election or if they determine their leader by racing.
537** [[spoiler:Vanellope is seen in her Princess regalia at Calhoun and Felix's wedding, so this seems likely.]]
538* Well, there's the fact that it's a video game. Just look at every Mayor in every ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' game ever for how elected officials in video games generally are treated. Though really, you're not wrong, since [[spoiler:Vanellope only changed her title to President because she decided that she didn't want to be called Princess.]]
539
540[[WMG: Calhoun is the real protagonist of her game]]
541...or at least, the home edition. The arcade version is basically an interactive advert, where Calhoun is your instructor, while in home edition you get to play ''Hero's Duty'' from the first person perspective of Calhoun to fully use her tragic backstory.
542
543[[WMG: The old guy is the hacker, not Turbo. Vanellope glitches because parts of her code were deleted.]]
544In one scene, an old guy enters the arcade. Later, Ralph crashes into ''Sugar Rush'' and that part of the plot starts. The old guy (I'll name him Bob) was a big fan of Turbo's game, and when it was taken out of the arcade, Bob downloaded a copy of its ROM. Unable to find an emulator, he decompiled the game and ported Turbo so that he would work on the newest racing game owned by the arcade: ''Sugar Rush''.
545
546To insert Turbo's code into ''Sugar Rush'', Bob downloaded a copy of that game too and decompiled it. He put Turbo's AI into ''Sugar Rush'', updated his graphics to fit the game, and made him a racer. But, because Vanellope used the same ID as Turbo would, Bob made her an NPC and moved her from the race to a DummiedOut area of the map.
547
548Now that Vanellope no longer needed her racing AI, Bob DummiedOut those parts of the code. He also added new functionality, which would delete Vanellope's physics code from the machine's hard disk. Satisfied with the results of his hacking, Bob recompiled ''Sugar Rush'' and loaded it into the arcade machine's RAM.
549
550Vanellope crossing the finish line fixed the game purely because it didn't know how to handle such an event. This resulted in a crash and reboot, resetting the game and restoring most of Bob's changes. The glitchiness remained because her physics code was completely wiped.
551* This old guy managed to do all that, without getting caught? He would have had to have broken in overnight to do that, and I can't imagine he would risk going to prison to hack one arcade unit, just to glorify a character from 20 years ago. Either "Bob" has no life... or he knows the secret lives of videogame characters and deliberately knew what he was getting into.
552
553[[WMG: Candlehead was a DubNameChange.]]
554Compounded by a DubInducedPlotHole, no less -- when working on the English translation, some of the staff started jokingly calling her Candlehead, and found the nickname so amusing they made it official. However, her original name was retained, but accidentally attached to another racer: the green apple-themed racer, aka 'Minty Zaki'.
555
556[[WMG: ''Sugar Rush'' takes place within [[VideoGame/{{Mother}} Magicant]].]]
557Doughnut officers? Candy all over the place? Whimsical and SugarBowl-ish atmosphere? [[CrapsaccharineWorld At first.]] [[MindScrew It's kinda surprising when you think this could all take place in Ness's & Ninten's mind at some point.]]
558* Maybe it's what happens just past the edges of the ''{{TabletopGame/CandyLand}}'' board.
559
560[[WMG: Vanellope's glitch abilities will be "nerfed"]]
561Although many players love her glitch abilities, some players and the racers will be sick of her [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome being picked all the time]]. Vanellope will then decide to put limits on when she can pull off her glitch abilities while also giving the other racers character specific abilities to make it easier for them to compete. Her glitch abilities will still make her one of the better racers to choose, but the other racers will become viable choices.
562* Makes sense, given that she may well be able to teleport in succession with any restrictions. Balancing the game probably wouldn't require buffing the other racers so much as limiting Vanellope's "glitching," maybe by giving her just three "charges" per race or a cooldown time or something. It wouldn't be fun for her competitive nature, but it might be an issue that forces her to make a responsible/queenly decision instead of just having fun/trying to win.
563* Most likely, she just won't bother trying to really control the glitching while she's racing. So whenever she "glitches", she jumps to a random spot in the order. That would make it useful if you've messed up and are way back in the rear (because most or all of the places you could end up are further forward), but less useful if you're already doing well (because then there's a good chance it will move you ''backwards'').
564* Note that at least some of the characters already seem to have character-specific abilities (Candlehead being able to light the cherry bombs, for example).
565
566
567[[WMG: This video explains that game-jumping is real.]]
568[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaX_eMz3Qw&list=UL Explained here.]] Crossovers make sense!
569
570[[WMG: Magic is a common thing in ''Wreck-It Ralph'''s universe]]
571The humans are aware of it and they can use it for their goals. But only "unicorn people" can control it consciously and even for them is highly impractical. The only reason why they don't know that it also makes video game characters alive is because they never paid too much attention to them and because they thought that technology like video games couldn't be affected by something as unusable as magic.
572* '''''Disney''''' '''magic!''' * v *
573* Video game characters don't know anything about magic because programmers don't think it's useful for them to know about it. And if gamers don't talk about it, they'll never know.
574* Programming affects only the main trait of a character's personality (for example: Felix's fixing and Ralph's wrecking) and some of their memories. The rest is affected by magic.
575* [[spoiler:Turbo's jealousy let some "video game magic" possess him so that he could change the code of video games]]. He thought he did it all by himself, though.
576* "Video game magic" is just magic plus electricity.
577* Magic is the reason why characters can game-jump and keep their powers outside their own game. It's also the reason why they respawn with the same personality and memories in their own game.
578* "So, unplugging is not a big deal, right"?
579It would still be because magic affects characters in a different way every time. If you unplug and plug again a game, you get characters with different personalities (if you don't consider the main trait). It could happen that they are the same, but it's really rare.
580* Magic doesn't cause glitching.
581* Now that I think more about it, it's probable that magic can…"unleash its power" when it touches electricity and becomes "videogame magic".
582* Um, magic? I think AppliedPhlebotinum maybe the solution.
583
584[[WMG: The Sonic from ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'' is responsible for Turbo crashing ''[=RoadBlasters=]'']]
585* I know this would never happen (as ''Turbo Time'' was made sometime in the early 1980s, years before Sonic was born), but maybe Turbo wasn't motivated by jealousy. Maybe he was alright with being lonely. However, the WebAnimation/SonicForHire Sonic, who is an extreme Gamejumper, encouraged Turbo to break into [=RoadBlasters=] and jack it up. However, this Sonic thought that Turbo was dead, so he spread the word that people who die in their own games die for good.
586
587[[WMG: WesternAnimation/RegularShow also takes place with the same universe.]]
588* With anything unusal going on in that show it's perfectly logical that they are both in take place. Most specffically, Destroyer of Worlds as proof as it could.
589** Then we can say ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' do too, since they have similar themes.
590
591[[WMG: The staff of ''Hero's Duty'' were major fans of ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'']]
592Or maybe just a character designer, or even the creator him/herself. Notice how Calhoun's fiance Brad bears a strikingly similarity to Felix, if less stylized. Clearly they were fans of the original game, and when they had a chance for an inconsequential character, they fixed up a quick 'n' dirty design for him.
593* ''Hero's Duty'' is made by Wreck-It Studios. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that the company was started by an old Tobikomi employee.
594
595[[WMG: Surge Protector has a crush on Ralph.]]
596That's why he always stops him.
597* WOOT WOOO
598* Well, you can say he's tsundere.
599** [[SugarAndIcePersonality Kuudere]] would be more accurate.
600
601[[WMG: Tobi-Komi also developed home consoles as well as arcade games.]]
602Which would make sense as Tobi-Komi is an {{expy}} of Nintendo. Here is a list of the consoles they have developed and the year they were relesed.
603* 1985: Tobi-Com Fun System=[[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Nintendo Entertainment System]]
604* 1990: Mega Tobi-Com=[[Platform/SuperNintendo Super Nintendo]]
605* 1995: Tobi-Com 3D=Platform/{{Nintendo 64}}
606* 2001: Game Sphere=[[Platform/NintendoGameCube Game Cube]]
607** [[Series/DrakeandJosh IT'S SPHERICAL!]]
608* 2006: Tobi-ZOOM=[[Platform/NintendoWii Nintendo Wii]]
609* 2013: Tobi-ZOOM WE=[[Platform/WiiU Wii U]]
610** Nintendo still exists in this universe though, so it's unlikely that their consoles would be expies of Nintendo's. If they did have consoles, they would probably have their own identity.
611
612[[WMG:VideoGame/{{Tetris}} is a game that can be found in Litwak's arcade...]]
613...And the [[MemeticBadass L-block is the biggest, baddest mofo]] in the whole place!
614
615[[WMG: The first videogames in this universe were programmed by JustForFun/{{Time Lord}}s.]]
616Explaining:
617* Why it became the norm to have the characters [[DeathIsCheap regenerate into their original form indefinitely after death, no matter what shape their body is in when they die.]]
618* Why the games are BiggerOnTheInside.
619* Why they can't regenerate outside their own games-- Time Lords can't properly regenerate if they're not close to their own TARDIS.
620* How [[spoiler:the memories of ''Sugar Rush'' were really locked away]]: Sour Bill's ImagineSpot was inaccurate, what [[spoiler:King Candy]] actually locked [[spoiler:the subjects' memory]] in was a fob watch, opened when [[spoiler:Vanellope crossed the finish line.]]
621
622[[WMG: Surge Protector is omnipresent inside the Game Central Station]]
623He can feel what happens to the GCS, but he's blind until he takes a visible form.
624
625[[WMG: The reason why ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' has stayed free of errors for so long...]]
626* ...is because if something starts going wrong, Felix goes into the source code and hammers out anything that goes awry. That's how the game can continue to work for 30 years with seemingly no maintenance. It doesn't explain physical wear-and-tear, however.
627* I don't really think his hammer can do that...
628
629[[WMG: ''Sugar Rush'' is actually a spin-off of a video game series called, ''Sugar Land'']]
630It would make perfect sense for a [[VideoGame/MarioKart racing game]] to have spun off from [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros another game series]]. The game play and style of "Sugar Land" is a cross between [[Videogame/KirbysDreamland Kirby's Dreamland]] and VideoGame/{{Ristar}}. In "Sugar Land", you get to play as either Vanellope Von Schweetz or Rancis Fluggerbutter where you go through challenging levels to protect "Sugar Land" from evil-doers.
631* That would explain the PlatformGame mechanics outside the tracks like the disappearing branches.
632* Doesn't sound like a video game name!
633** The full title is ''Sugar Rush Speedway''; thus, ''Sugar Rush'' could have been the name of the original platform game, probably named for a basis in speed and momentum as was popular in early-90's 2D platformers. The candy spectators could have started as the {{Mooks}}, and the other racers could be the [[FightingYourFriend fight-your-friends]] bosses.
634*** Further WMG/alternate theory: It is against the rivals of the Von Schweetz house: the house of [[MeaningfulName Zu]] [[BilingualBonus Salzig]].
635
636[[WMG: The Surge Protector used to have some game consoles or a gaming PC plugged in]]
637We know he wrote the graffiti in Game Central Station, which includes such gems like "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aerith Lives]]" and "[[VideoGame/ZeroWing All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]." How else would he know about those particular subjects? It's likely he may have even met characters like Aerith and CATS.
638* It's either that or he can use the Internet because he can travel through the electrical grid.
639
640[[WMG: ''Wreck-It Ralph'' is what happened before [[Franchise/TheMatrix the machines enslaved the human race]].]]
641Interesting, I wasn't the only who thought about this. Maybe just before the robot war the Cy-Bugs used the same programing as the machines and were used.
642
643[[WMG: The movie takes place in the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' universe]]
644If you've ever played ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople 8-Bit Is Enough]]'', you'll realize that the video games in that game work a lot like the ones in this movie, having a central location that connects to a bunch of different games and allows travel between them. And in both series, the video games [[spoiler:can have some impact on the real world.]]
645* Interesting note: Strong Bad played poker with [[Franchise/SamAndMax Max]], [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Tycho]] and [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy]] over at [[VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory The Inventory]], a place where videogame characters hang out in when no one is playing their games. The Heavy would later race alongside Ralph in ''Sonic and All Stars Racing Transform''.
646
647[[WMG: How the video game world works for non-arcade games]]
648For games played through physical media like cartridges and discs that aren't installed on the system, the characters can't live in the game (because it can be taken out and put back in at any time) so when they're first put into the system, the system becomes their home while their game isn't being played. As a result, video game systems are more like cities than train stations. These characters, rather than fearing their game being unplugged, instead fear the system itself being unplugged, which would banish the characters to TheNothingAfterDeath until the next time their game is put in the system.
649Games that are installed on a system, or digital downloads, have it easier, since the game is always connected to the system, so they can live in their games all the time, and if the system is unplugged, as long as the files are still stored in the memory, they come back immediately when it's plugged back in.
650For handheld systems, the characters don't disappear until the battery runs out, rather than the system being unplugged.
651
652[[WMG: The setting of ''Sugar Rush'' is the same LevelAte land that appeared in ''[[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies The Cookie Carnival]]'']]
653Over 70-plus years, the anthropomorphic cookie folk evolved to appear more human, and among their people evolved many new types of living sweets and pastries. Vanellope is also a direct descendant of Miss Bonbon and the Gingerbread King.
654
655[[WMG: Video game characters consider real people like ancient Greeks considered gods]]
656Characters think real people are more powerful but no morally better than them.
657Their sacrifice to keep them calm is letting themselves be played with.
658But they don't really have a choice.
659
660[[WMG: Surge Protector was very lucky]]
661What if his job was protecting common household appliances?
662Unless he can travel through the power grid or unless appliances have something like him, [[FridgeHorror he would be completely alone]] until the day he gets unplugged or breaks.
663
664[[WMG: Calhoun is [[Film/{{Prometheus}} Meredith Vickers]] ancestor.]]
665Let's see: Tall. Likes to take the lead on things. Kinda of hard-as-nails-{{Jerkass}}-by-not-so-much personality? Would that mean she's related to Weyland? [[EpilepticTrees Or, that just leads to more questions?]] For ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''?
666
667[[WMG: Surge Protector and Zangief are fighting for Ralph's love]]
668And Ralph is pretending to be clueless to see where this is going.
669
670[[WMG: Felix's hammer is really just an AmplifierArtifact]]
671
672[[WMG: The reason why Turbo looked like an 8-bit character in a 16-bit world and Ralph was in HD in ''Hero's Duty''.]]
673[=Roadblasters=] crashed because [[spoiler:Turbo hacked the game]] to make himself look a 8-bit character, and he did it because he wanted to be recognised by the players.
674
675[[WMG: Litwak got some sort of mod for ''Hero's Duty''.]]
676What it does? It "cleans up" the language used in the game. In the original (home version?) of the game, there's profanity, however Litwak either got his hands on a manufacturer's mod, or a hack that changes the language used to make it more kid-friendly for his arcade. That's why Calhoun is constantly saying things ''like'' curses that are really actually very mild; because her game's data has been changed to modify the original language.
677
678[[WMG: Surge Protector is actually a BitchInSheepsClothing.]]
679And things will go Literature/NineteenEightyFour when he decides he's had enough.
680
681[[WMG: The games themselves are intelligent.]]
682It's the reason why [[spoiler:Turbo couldn't delete Vanellope for good]]: the game wouldn't allow it.
683* Actually, it's implied that the only thing video game characters cannot change is anything outside the confines of their cabinet. The painting of Vanellope is on the outside, so King Candy couldn't do anything about that.
684** Just because she's on the outside, it doesn't mean that she can't be deleted on the inside. I mean, why wouldn't he have deleted her code if he had been able to? [[spoiler:Unless Turbo held a grudge against Vanellope because of who knows what reasons.]]
685*** He'd still have to get rid of her image. Otherwise the gamers would question why the cabinet shows a character that supposedly doesn't exist [[spoiler:and Turbo's scheme would've been exposed much earlier]].
686*** [[spoiler:But...was her being a glitch exactly like her not existing to the players?]]
687*** Yes. But again, she'd still be on the cabinet. Why would the cabinet show a character that supposedly doesn't exist? And that is why they would ask.
688*** [[spoiler:It's implied that no video game character can alter anything beyond what's inside the cabinets. So no matter what, at least one gamer would notice that racer on the side of the game that they never seen before and ask about it. The code inside ''Sugar Rush'' is built so you can attach or detach wires, but not get rid of whole boxes all together. Otherwise, Vanellope's case wouldn't be left floating in the ether. King Candy's plan wouldn't be completely fool-proof no matter what he did.]]
689*** If they can't alter stuff outside the cabinet, how could Ralph dislodge the Out of Order sign when he threw the medal at the inside wall?
690*** There's a difference between altering the outside world from the inside world and going outside. King Candy, like the other characters, can't LEAVE the electronic universe. Wreck-It-Ralph just bumped the game when he threw the medal, but that doesn't mean King Candy could leave the game and [[spoiler: take Vanellope's picture off the cabinet.]]
691
692[[WMG: The game put Sour Bill in itself to counterbalance the sweetness of ''Sugar Rush'' and to be Vanellope's GuardianAngel.]]
693Thus making him the true EldritchAbomination of Litwak's Arcade and the reason why Vanellope wasn't treated even worse than she was, even though his memories were locked.
694
695[[WMG: Sour Bill has the Sourstare]]
696Yeah, like the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Flutterstare]], but more powerful.
697
698[[WMG: The Real World Environment is toxic to the video game worlders.]]
699That's why there's no real fear of video game characters escaping into the real world. One second of exposure and they go kaput.
700
701[[WMG: The reason why game character die permanently outside their game is...]]
702...their home game "thinks" they're still alive so it doesn't regenerate them, and the game they died in has no "image" of them to regenerate from. ''Does this count as "wild"''?
703
704
705[[WMG: Here is the premise of the original ''Fix-It Felix''.]]
706* You play as Wreck-It Ralph (Back then, he was known as Kid Wreck-It). Your objective is to stop Fix-It Felix from destroying the forest by smashing Felix's Construction Vehicles. Also, you must help Kid Wreck-It rescue his family from Felix.
707
708[[WMG: Turbo [[VoluntaryShapeshifting could change his appearance at will]].]]
709
710[[WMG: King Candy existed as a NPC before Turbo took over]]
711And he talked with TrrrillingRrrs.
712
713[[WMG: Surge Protector potentially can change games' code at will]]
714"Potentially" because he's [[Main/OrderVersusChaos Surge Protector]].
715
716[[WMG: Surge Protector doesn't come from the physical surge protector]]
717He's an [[EnergyBeings energy being]] who applied for the job.
718
719[[WMG: Electricity is air for game characters.]]
720From our point of view, electricity is what makes games work (and keeps characters alive). And what makes everything alive on Earth? The atmosphere. This means the surge protector (and Surge himself) is a WeatherControlMachine.
721
722[[WMG: If ever a franchise had an arcade game, their entire universe is accessible from GCS.]]
723My random explanation for why Modern Sonic and Eggman show up in the movie. The few Sonic arcade games allowed anything and anyone from the franchise to enter any of the Game Central Station areas around the world. It also goes the other way around, meaning that Ralph could enter the entire Sonicverse from ''Sonic The Fighters''.
724
725Also, it's not just for Sonic, in case that wasn't obvious.
726
727[[WMG: [[{{RuleThirtyFour}} Somewhere out there is a fan-video/parody where Ralph stumbles in to Custer's Revenge.]]]]
728Of course, you'd have to ignore the fact that it never had an arcade version. ([[SarcasmMode I can't imagine why]]).
729
730[[WMG:Calhoun isn't triggered by "dynamite gal" in particular.]]
731Her programming, just like it sets off memories of her backstory when it's mentioned, is set so she has memories of Brad complimenting her whenever ''any'' male she's attracted to compliments her, and the memories are always altered so Brad is saying the same compliment. I.E., had Felix said she was an amazing woman, she would've had flashbacks to Brad calling her an amazing woman instead.
732
733[[WMG:Turbo is ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}}''.]]
734When you think about it, they have a lot of similarities: MascotWithAttitude? Check! White and red clothing? Check! Near-perpetual CheshireCatGrin? Check! Reputation as TheScrappy? Check![[note]]Though Turbo is only a Scrappy InUniverse.[[/note]] Plus, it would explain why Bubsy hasn't had a game in years: [[spoiler:He's been too busy taking over other games, and now he's dead.]]
735
736[[WMG: Viewtiful Joe will gain MediumAwareness]]
737A movie that has a cameo where a game character that enters movies knowing full well that he is in a movie now knows he's actually part of a game just might be able to see that the events that occur in the plot are actually parts of a movie. [[CassandraTruth Of course no one believes him]].
738
739[[WMG: Ralph's leaving will cause his future rendition of himself ceasing to exist in Wreck-It Ralph Jr., where Fix-It Felix will most likely Travel back 'in time' to the original Wreck-It Ralph machine to conquer the video game Multiverse, or at least his games]]
740Think about it, the original plot of Donkey Kong was that Mario had a pet gorilla (DK) who he treated badly, so DK kidnapped Pauline/Lady so that he could protect her...but since Disney is known for making stories softer and less blatant, they concept some sort of storyline where Ralph was merely misunderstood with situations like tearing down his own home (and possibly squeezing in some sort of environmental impact).
741
742Ralph leaving his own game causes himself to not exist in WiR Jr, assuming that the film takes place in the present, thus actually a bunch of Ralphs hailing from games that was produced in the 80's and 90's, Felix goes mad with power, possibly stealing knowledge from other video game characters as he goes, possibly having Wreck-It Ralph Jr as a henchman.
743
744Ralph saves the day, becoming Fix-It Ralph in the progress, becoming friends with the original Felix, repairing whatever destruction the "Future" Felix had caused, and remembering that although he was once a villain, he should know that villains are characters too.
745* Possibly jossed. At the moment it seems implied that these are characters in individual cabinets, kind of like Kidd Radd. Of course, this now requires you to figure out why an arcade Sonic game with a modern Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik design, or possibly an arcade game with Bowser.
746* Well there's Mario Kart Arcade GP games, which I'm pretty sure feature Bowser as a playable character.
747* I've seen a Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing arcade machine...
748** In addition to the two Kart games mentioned above, Bowser also appears in Vs. Super Mario Bros. And that's not counting the console titles utilized by [=PlayChoice-10=] or the Nintendo Super System.
749
750[[WMG: Inversions of "I can fix it" and "Fix-It Felix" will appear.]]
751[[IKnewIt Calling it]] when Felix has a HeroicBSOD he will say "I can't fix it", and when Ralph fights the final boss, the by standing crowd will cheer "WRECK-IT RALPH!"
752* A HeroicBSOD looks very possible for Felix, judging from the trailer. He does get thrown into a prison cell at some point and [[PowerIncontinence literally cannot break himself out]], and just before Ralph shows up to rescue him, [[BreakTheCutie Felix looks rather depressed]]. [[{{Tearjerker}} Expect tears to ensue]].
753* Could also lead to a double team effort. The entire terrain, at last one map in ''Sugar Rush'', taken over by Cy-Bugs. Ralph can only wreck. Felix can only fix. Cue unison cries of "I'm gonna wreck it!"/"I can fix it!" with Ralph destroying the Cy-Bug infection and Felix fixing the ''Sugar Rush'' in his wake.
754
755[[WMG: Ralph and Co. will become canon immigrants and become actual video game characters in real life.]]
756After all, Ralph already makes an appearance in a Sonic Racer game. Not as a movie tie in but as a special character.
757
758[[WMG: Calhoun, Felix, Ralph, and Vanellope will be unlockable characters in sequels to the games they visited]]
759My idea works like this: although they will die for good if they die in a game that doesn't recognize them, they still left fragments of their code in the games they visited. [[spoiler:As King Candy!Turbo had hacked ''Sugar Rush'' to recognize him, it was his transformation into a Cy-Bug that did him in: ''Sugar Rush'' no longer recognized him]]. Now suppose a game is pulled for some kind of minor maintenance, and the programmer finds these code fragments. Rather than deleting what seems like dead code, he or she expands it. Possible ideas:
760* Ralph: Can level uneven terrain to overcome barriers in ''Sugar Rush II''. Is the climber character in ''Hero's Duty II''.
761* Felix: Repairs broken track in ''Sugar Rush II''.
762* Calhoun: Only unlockable on the Sour Patch difficulty level of ''Sugar Rush II''.
763* Vanellope: Will use her glitching to cause pieces of buildings to disintegrate in ''Hero's Duty II''.
764
765[[WMG: Sgt. Calhoun's backstory groom was already named Calhoun]]
766Specifically, [[spoiler:Barney Calhoun because he was Put On A Bus after ''Half-Life 2'' Episode 1]]
767* Jossed, her fiance, Brad, had brown hair and a LanternJawOfJustice. Maybe Barney is his brother?
768** His name's Brad Scott, so unless someone changed their name...
769
770[[WMG: The events of the movie will cause some political reforms in the arcade.]]
771Obviously the events of the movie were a serious incident that nearly led to two games being unplugged, so the characters will make some changes to avoid such a thing in the future. More than likely, we'll see the following things: 1. A council of representatives from each game to share information and discuss issues in each other's games. 2. A group of special ops forces consisted of characters from each game that investigates things like rogue characters (so someone like Turbo being able to infiltrate and take over Sugar Rush doesn't happen again). 3. A hidden beacon is installed in each game to prevent a Cybug infestation in the future. 4. A "bad guy awareness" campaign to encourage people to treat the bad guys of their games with respect and not to ostracize them, possibly also educating people that bad guys can't actually kill someone outside of their game just by touching them. 5. A system of helping characters from unplugged games find work and a place to live in games that can handle them.
772** I'd be interested in seeing what the beacon in ''Tapper'' would look like.
773
774[[WMG: Electricity is magic.]]
775That's why Surge Protector exists...and characters are alive.
776
777[[WMG: Felix didn't know that Q*Bert had been unplugged, and it wasn't for selfish reasons.]]
778You don't have to assume that Felix was unwilling to give up being the [[AHeroToHisHometown hero]] in order to explain this. It's pretty obvious from the film that the Nicelanders worship the ground that Felix walks on, and so it makes sense that they might continually have been asking him to social events. [[ExtremeDoormat Because Felix couldn't say no]], he found himself with no time to venture outside the game.
779
780[[WMG: If Felix and Calhoun got married at the end...]]
781...does that mean Felix's full name is now Felix Calhoun? Because I doubt Tamora would change her name (besides not being the type to do that, it'd mess with the game). Besides, did Felix even ''have'' a last name before?
782* It would seem that Fix-It is just a title and not a last name, similar to the "Super" in Super Mario (Tamora probably just called Ralph and Felix "Wreck-It" and "Fix-It" because they have no last names and she was on a formal basis with them at the time, so she went with the only non-first-name component of their full names that they had). Also, given that Felix has no last name and yet has a "Junior" at the end of his given name, that would make for a strange combination (Fix-It Felix Jr. Calhoun?). In any event, I think that Felix would either take her last name at least symbolically (he'd still technically be Fix-It Felix Jr. "from the game Fix-It Felix Jr.", but would call himself Felix Calhoun) or neither of the couple's names would change.
783
784[[WMG: [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Gill]] is the only character capable of bending the "if you die in another game, you can't respawn rule".]]
785Gill has the ability to resurrect when he is knocked out (but only once per round), so technically he could resurrect himself if he went Turbo and dies in the game he Turbo'd.
786
787[[WMG:Bad-Anon is for troubled Anti-Heroes too. And we'll see it in the Sequel.]]
788That is why we see Zangief in it - his games did tend to portray him as having a less sympathetic backstory. I mean seriously, how often do you choose to play AS Zangief in Street Fighter? A guy like VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog, for example, would be perfectly welcome to come if he was having trouble coping with being expected to be gloomy and feeling like he was always playing second fiddle to Sonic. Or Wario might come because he's sick of being the bad guy even when he's a good guy. They might not be actively the villains of their games, but you do NOT want those kinds of guys going Turbo.
789[[WMG: Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, BB and the Marionette will be in the villain convention in the sequel.]]
790And they will talk about how they are constantly being mistaken for bad guys, when they just want to play. They will also have a harder time being accepted than Ralph who decides to help them.
791
792[[WMG:The reason Minty Zaki is named such:]]
793The name is actually a handle that is passed on when the original bearer relinquishes it, a la the [[Film/ThePrincessBride Dread Pirate Roberts]].
794
795The original Minty Zaki was a legendary figure. When he (or she) retired, Minty Zaki then relinquished the title, and then passed it onto the current Minty Zaki, who was known as Emmareld back then. Original Minty Zaki's current location is unknown, of no fixed abode.
796
797It explains Minty Zaki's bio:
798
799-> Minty Zaki, the queen of the ice cream set in jewel, always has an ace up her tasty sleeve, especially when it comes to racing. Refreshing and full of resources, Minty Zaki is a defender of good causes, but for the wrong reasons.
800
801This, IMO, doesn't fit current Minty Zaki well, when gender-specific terminology is removed. An egregious example is the mention of ice cream. Current Minty is sour apple-themed.
802
803Also, another WMG with this character's appearance: He is essentially a caricature of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, nodding to Disney's statement about the name's origin, but with other Minty's general traits: green eyes, but ''not'' clad in pink or with green hair. His tunic might have been mint green.
804
805[[WMG:The reason Vanellope abolished her Princess title in favor of being President:]]
806...was just a convenient excuse for Disney not to have to add her to the Franchise/DisneyPrincess lineup.
807
808[[WMG:The end credits reference earlier, sprite-based games in the franchises of the more modern games, showcasing the past eras of each series.]]
809** Four zombies weilding hatchets chasing two hotdog sheriffs who wear hats is an early example of a game in the ''Undead Apocalypse'' series. This may be the first game of the series.
810** The sprite based military room briefing with alien eggs is an early entry in the ''Hero's Duty'' series.
811** The side-scrolling candy platformer is an early game in a candy themed platforming series of which ''Sugar Rush'' is a racing spinoff.
812** A pixelated depiction of ''Sugar Rush'' indicates ''Sugar Rush'' is the latest version of a spinoff series.
813** A pixelated first person shooter against aliens with alien eggs on the floor suggests this is another game in the ''Hero's Duty'' series; it is either the same game with the briefing room or it is a sequel that came out after that game.
814** The Tapper's bar in 3D may indicate a 3D spinoff of ''Tapper'' was created.
815** The 2D pixelated depiction of the tower the Cy-Bugs infest may be from a handheld spinoff of ''Hero's Duty'', perhaps a tie-in to the arcade game released around the same time as the game hit the arcades.
816** The achievement system from ''Sugar Rush'' is displayed in less developed 3D graphics. This may be the first entry in the ''Sugar Rush'' series going to 3D, after the success of the earlier 2D game.
817** A hallway opens with pixelated pre-rendered ''Hero's Duty'' characters. This is another ''Hero's Duty'' sequel, before the series moved to 3D.
818** An even older version of ''Hero's Duty'' appears as a classic arcade game, with alien eggs throughout the level. Probably the first ''Hero's Duty'' game. Ralph collects medals on the roof like a bonus area of the Fix-It Felix, Jr. game, but its has the same ''Hero's Duty'' palette. Maybe this is an infected game. No, this is the first entry in the series.
819** The Nicelanders dance with updated sprites, and there is an updated isometric view of the tower. This may be a later game in the Fix-It Felix, Jr. series, a handheld game, or an updated remake.
820** Fix-It Felix, Jr. building sprites, more colorful than the original arcade version's graphics, represent another port, remake or sequel.
821** Along with ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'', ''Undead Apocalypse'' and ''Hero's Duty'' had games in the early arcade era. The ''Sugar Rush'' platformer began the next era, followed by a ''Sugar Rush'' 2D racing game on consoles, a ''Hero's Duty'' PC adventure game with shooting sequences, and a ''Hero's Duty'' FPS. To catch up, ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'' had a 2D sequel with sprites on a graphics board that could support more colors. Just as everyone was getting used to more colorful sprites, developers began experimenting with 3D, despite the difficulty of displaying 3D on those systems, leading to a time of pixelated pre-rendered games, including a ''Sugar Rush'' game with a blocky achievements system that looked good for its time, and a ''Hero's Duty'' with pixelated pre-rendered cutscenes that would look dated years later. While full 3D was on the horizon, the handheld market began to release throwbacks to the 2D era, leading to a series of handheld sequels that were clearly 2D, but wanted to be 3D like their console counterparts, including a ''Hero's Duty'' 2D tie-in game to the fancy 3D arcade game that was about to be released, and an "updated" ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'' handheld game with isometric graphics as a throwback to the earlier eras. But then, the newest ''Hero's Duty'' hit the arcades, and everything changed.
822** The current ''Sugar Rush'' is the fourth ''Sugar Rush'' game, the current ''Hero's Duty'' is the fifth ''Hero's Duty'' game, and ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'' is a series of at least three games, plus the original ''Fix-It Felix''. ''Undead Apocalypse 2'' is unaccounted for.
823** When other game characters appeared in ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'', they were considered glitches, until spontaneous crossover games became an acceptable part of reality. In the credits, ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'' is now depicted with ''Sugar Rush'' and ''Hero's Duty'' characters, showing the game operating in its post-crossover-enabled state, and spontaneous crossovers show up in ''VideoGame/QBert'', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', the platformer ''Sugar Rush'' was based on, the classic arcade game ''Hero's Duty'' is based on, and a ''Fix-It Felix, Jr.'' game with a dancing sequence, or a spinoff Nicelanders dancing game. Unlike our own crossover games, where programmers would have to decide to put the characters in, these games just happen to have crossovers, as if by magic. The usual explanations are "it's a glitch," in which case it's a welcome glitch, or, "it's the electricity," creating a new definition of how electricity works. Soon, the world's scientists and engineers admit, "Yes, video game characters can appear anywhere, as long as they run on electricity. That's just how electricity works."
824
825[[WMG: The FinalBoss of Hero's Duty is Cy-Bug!Calhoun.]]
826In the cutscene leading up to the fight with the last Cy-Bug, Calhoun tries to use her most powerful weapon against it, but the Cy-Bug proves too quick for her and swallows her--and the weapon in question--alive, assimilating both and transforming Calhoun into a Cy-Bug hybrid that specializes in the kind of weapons she intended to use on the Cy-Bug. Once Cy-Bug!Calhoun is defeated, it triggers the death of all the other Cy-Bugs' deaths, and the player is awarded the Medal of Heroes by General Hologram.
827
828[[WMG: Turbo gained his hacking skills by experimenting on ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'']]
829The key to this idea is Felix's statement that Ralph "probably fell asleep in the washroom at Tappers '''again'''". This wasn't the first time Ralph went missing during game hours. [[AesopAmnesia You'd think they'd have figured out the error of their ways after the first time]]. They must've been programmed to hate Ralph no matter what. It would make sense that this game would've been Turbo's guinea pig for hacking, as a way of venting his anger about the game outlasting his own, and maybe even get it unplugged in revenge.
830
831[[WMG: Gene is the guy who contracted the Nicelander's penthouse to be built in-universe.]]
832Think about it, he puts in tons of money and investment on making the perfect home, but then Ralph keeps barging in and, [[FreudianExcuse not only abusing him every game]], but trashing his livelihood. Sure, it's just part of the game and if we want to get technical [[{{Hypocrite}} he's the one who kicked Ralph out of his home in the first place]], but what CorruptCorporateExecutive ''doesn't'' run on petty MoralMyopia? Like Gene said "There's no room for you up here" but Ralph continues to be an inconsiderate nobody who "selfishly" makes a joke of his work every game. May also count as FridgeBrilliance, since Gene is just stuck in the pace of his programming, it's in his nature to be a petty antagonistic aristocrat that tries to get Ralph out of the picture.
833
834[[WMG: The ''Sugar Rush'' palette swap racers (Nougetsia, Torvald, Sticky, and Citrusella) were also bullied.]]
835Just not as much as Vanellope. Since they were not glitched, they were allowed to race, but they were looked down upon by their fellow racers for being PaletteSwaps or "copycats". Notice how the announcer doesn't say their names at the beginning of the Random Roster Race, even though they have coins and are participating. They also don't have their own bleachers full of fans, or their own personal karts, but all the other racers do. So while they're not outright shunned, they don't get as much attention from the game, which the other racers picked on them for ("I'm the real deal, you're nothing but a cheap copy of me!"). KidsAreCruel, after all.
836
837Also, in the movie, when the other racers show up to destroy Vanellope's car at the junkyard, they are not present. While they might have sympathized with her as a fellow target of bullying, they couldn't help her get into a race or else they would risk their game getting unplugged. So they decided the least they could do was not be mean to her.
838
839[[WMG: UrbanLegendOfZelda in this universe are caused by characters in the games screwing around.]]
840Luigi in Mario 64? Luigi 'went Turbo' one day; and snuck into a copy of Super Mario 64. Nude codes? Well, one day one of the characters in a videogame showed up naked when the game was turned on. Secret unlockable characters that don't exist? Non-existent Pokemon evolutions? Characters in the game getting access to the code. Or pulling the same thing King Candy did to Sugar Rush.
841
842...though I'm actually not sure how this stuff works with game consoles. I assume leaving your game would be much harder with consoles; and near impossible with something like a Gameboy.
843
844[[WMG: Vannelope is a [[TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful Princess]].]]
845* Calling is probably as a Champion, given her competitiveness, physical skill, and direct approach to problems.
846* Court is probably Spades. She's a bit of a FragileSpeedster and her signature power is teleportation, both of which fit with Spades' emphasis on mobility and freedom. Similarly, she puts a fair amount of emphasis on autonomy, has a very puckish disposition and enjoys pranks, and when she is declared Queen she promptly decides to try and create a democracy, all of which is in line with Spades ethos.
847
848[[/folder]]
849
850[[folder: Pre-release guesses]]
851[[WMG: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=symahn3t-34 This is Ralph's theme song]].]]
852{{Jossed}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdM4iL3hK8 This is]]
853
854[[WMG: Ralph ends up winning against the villain, by taking advantage of the fact that the villain is operating as a ''video game villain'']]
855The villain will be completely locked into following the conventions of video game villains. It will be from the so-called 'glitch' that Ralph will learn that you can break the rules of the game, and it will be because of Ralph breaking them and thus cheating that the villain will ultimately be defeated.
856* Yes and no. [[spoiler:He doesn't really break the rules of the game, but takes advantage of a "unfinished level" to defeat the Big Bad.]]
857
858[[/folder]]
859
860[[folder: Meta]]
861[[WMG: ''Wreck-It Ralph'' was in DevelopmentHell because it was originally planned as an adaptation of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'']]
862The Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon has always been known for adaptations of other material, and of video games, ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is the best known. In addition, because Disney owns the rights to the [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 film adaptation]], Disney thought they still had the film rights to the franchise. However, Nintendo [[TitleDrop wrecked]] the idea at some point.
863* Dang, that would have been incredible. An animated, true-to-the-source Mario adaption by Disney would have rocked!
864* As much as I'd like to see a Disney Mario movie, I doubt it's the case. If they evidently have the rights to have Bowser appear, you'd think that they could do a Mario adaptation if they wanted to.
865** Unless Nintendo specifically objected to the ''way'' their characters were being used. Someone may have felt that making you feel bad about beating up Donkey Kong is probably not a good way to sell new games starring the guy who beats up Donkey Kong.
866*** Except that Nintendo's [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry already done that]], and most new Mario games aren't about beating up Donkey Kong anyway.
867** As far as the If they have the rights to Bowser et al, why not Mario, it's because the license rights for Mario and Luigi was too high for the film's budget.
868*** '''Untrue''' - WordOfGod is that the "too much for license rights" was a joke that got [[GodNeverSaidThat taken unintendedly seriously]] [[WordOfDante by the fanbase]].
869*** Also, the film makers apparently did want to include Mario but worried that such a high profile character would be really really difficult to put into the movie because 1) people would want to see him do something significant, 2) the film makers would want him to do something significant (interact with Felix for instance) but to do so would mean a prolonged appearance that might diminish the overall quality of both film and appearance. The same source also notes that even with the existing characters, there were nitpicking among companies - Capcom, Sega, and Nintendo all wanted their characters to be big(ger) such that at one point, they ended up looking bigger than Ralph! The producers had to find a compromise to appease them. Nintendo also nitpicked over whether Bowser was holding his coffee correctly. On the flip side, some companies were so enthused about the film in general that they allowed the film to include extra characters for no additional licensing.
870
871[[WMG: If there is a videogame of this movie made, it will have multiple endings.]]
872Based on choices made, Ralph can either learn to love his old job, become a hero in ''Hero's Duty'', become an unusual sort of racer in ''Sugar Rush'', or several other possible endings, the end result either way being that Ralph finds his happiness.
873* What about the [[BadEnding Bad Endings]]?
874
875[[WMG: Creator/NorioWakamoto, Creator/KentaMiyake, and Creator/JunichiKanemaru will reprise their respective roles as [[Franchise/StreetFighter M. Bison, Zangief]], and VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog in the film's Japanese dub.]]
876Since Gerald C. Rivers and Creator/RogerCraigSmith have done the same in the original English version, it's only matter of time before Wakamoto and Kanemaru return as Bison and Sonic in the Japanese version. As for Zangief, hopefully Disney will convince Anthony Landor to reprise his role, and Miyake will do the same.
877* At least the Sonic part is confirmed
878
879[[WMG: Q*Bert and Co will see a real life resurgence in popularity and start appearing in modern games, even [[FirstPersonShooter FPSs]].]]
880Or as close to it as lawyers will allow. Q*Bert is currently owned by Columbia Tristar, a subsidiary of Sony.
881* Sony makes games. Heck, if this film causes a resurgence in Q*Bert's popularity, he could become the mascot character for the Playstation 4![[note]]but probably not[[/note]]
882* Confirmed. Q*Bert did indeed return in Q*Bert Rebooted.
883
884[[WMG: Ralph will appear in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros 4'']]
885It's only a matter of time. Maybe as EasterEgg of sorts...
886* Does Sonic and All Stars Racing Transform do until then?
887
888[[WMG: Wreck-It Ralph showing up in ''Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed'' is because of his antics [[spoiler:and heroics.]]]]
889Let's face it - Sonic's always one to buck trends and follow his heart. He told [[VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight Merlina]] that he didn't care if he had to play the bad guy and he's told Eggman that [[VideoGame/SonicColors no sort of copyright law was going to stop him.]] Despite everything that happened, what better way to reward a man [[spoiler:that saved three video game worlds and so many more]] by giving him a spot in a new game?
890* Might be also why Honey the Cat will show up in the re-release of ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'' - after all [[spoiler:leaving a potential character out in the cold is ''no good'']].
891
892[[WMG: In the sequel, Fix-It Felix Sr. will be played by]]
893* [[Series/ThirtyRock Alec Baldwin]]
894* Creator/RonHoward would be a better choice in this troper's opinion. [[http://thatsitmommy.com/2012/11/wreck-it-ralph-junket-qa-director-rich-moore/ Rich Moore himself even claimed that he would like to have him voice the character.]]
895* Creator/AdamWest. His voice conveys a sense of grim determination that Junior struggles to live up to, and he's done similar cameos in Disney films of the past decade.
896
897[[WMG: Felix will become a FountainOfMemes]]
898'Cause I see memetic potential in more than one of his lines...
899-->''[[UnusualEuphemism Jimminy jamminy!]]''\
900''[[DeathIsCheap *dies and respawns*]] It's okay! ImOkay!''\
901''[[BlessedWithSuck WHY DO I FIX EVERYTHING I TOUCH?]]''
902* Oh, it's already happened. Trust me. Thanks to him, there are enough memes from this film as a whole to possibly warrant its own page on here (if the YMMV page doesn't reopen anytime soon).
903** ...Well then, I guess I can say IKnewIt.
904** I think "Felix struts/dances while I play fitting music" (not under that name) may already be one.
905
906[[WMG: This movie will boost the sales of games showcased in it]]
907Maybe certain games will be rebooted or get sequels. At the least it'll prove profitable for series that are already big.
908
909[[WMG: Dr. Wily wasn't in the movie because Mega Man wasn't either.]]
910Note how for almost any given villain, their hero is also in the movie (perhaps has a parallel to Felix and Ralph). Perhaps similar to Mario, they couldn't figure out how to get Wily in without Mega Man and Mega Man himself couldn't be fit in. Mega Man might not have fit in well because unlike Mario and Sonic, he's a pretty aggressive hero - he'd be able to take on Cy-Bugs pretty handily so including him might have induced FridgeLogic.
911* But Bowser is in it and Mario isn't.
912* Mario is in the universe, he just doesn't appear on-screen. He was invited to the Fix-It Felix Jr. 30th Anniversary.
913
914[[WMG: There will be [[{{Defictionalization}} actual]] ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'', ''Hero's Duty'', and ''Sugar Rush'' machines in real arcades at some point in the future.]]
915* And, to play with Vanellope, you'll have to use some special move to "activate" the "glitch." Come ON, Disney! That's too awesome not to happen. '''SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!'''
916** Doesn't anyone remember that Disney made actual arcade cabinets of ''Fix-It Felix Jr.''?? They were one of the first pieces of advertising for the film! It's just that they're in limited supply.
917
918[[WMG: ''Wreck-It Ralph'' is a Disney adaptation of ''VideoGame/BadDudes'']]
919Now hear me out! Ralph is a bad guy who learned that being bad is good and he likes to wreck stuff. Vanellope [[spoiler:is a princess (who becomes president) who]] has her position in the world taken by a mad man. Ralph is the one who saves the day.
920* Thus, [[spoiler:Ralph was a bad enough dude to save the president]]
921
922[[WMG: There ''will'' be a [[ActorAllusion Director Allusion]] for Creator/RichMoore at the Bad-Anon scene.]]
923Most of us thought that only [[Franchise/StreetFighter Zangief]] and [[VideoGame/PacMan Clyde]] would talk in that scene, but that was quickly proven wrong by later trailers in which [[Franchise/MortalKombat Kano]] delivers a line ([[YouCantFightFate "You can't mess with the program, Ralph."]][[note]] (which is a fancy way of saying "I'm PROGRAMMED to rip people's hearts out myself".))[[/note]]. So probably the same will happen for everyone... except for [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] (and Mario fans [[VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine sure as hell know why]]). How does a potentially-dialogue-heavy scene deal with this? Simply put: Bowser ''can'' talk, [[ButtMonkey but is constantly interrupted by the others]] (for example, he tries to say something but Eggman opens his mouth before he can). Now, where did this happen before? [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Teenager Maggie in "Lisa's Wedding", anyone?]] [=-->=] theory by @/AlexSora89
924* Actually, Bowser can be seen talking during the "bad guy affirmation" near the end of the Bad-Anon scene. You just can't hear him in the crowded speaking.
925** Since you can't hear what he's even saying he could just be mumbling growls for all we know.
926
927[[WMG:[[VideoGame/FZero Captain Falcon]] will make a cameo in the sequel.]]
928Only to serve as an inspiration for Vanellope during the races. And, yes. Giving his trademark [[MemeticMutation Falcon]] [[AscendedMeme Punch.]]
929
930[[WMG: Ralph will appear in a future ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' game]]
931Which will present an opportunity for plenty of lampshade hanging and meta humor.
932
933[[WMG: One of Surge Protector's duties is to make sure all older video game characters periodically receive 'patches' to allow them to enter newer games.]]
934The arcade's been around for 30 years, and technology has moved on a great deal since it first opened. In order to allow older characters to enter into the newer games without any chance of causing game-breaking glitches that might lead to an Out of Order and Unplugging, Surge took it upon himself to study the code of newer games and will periodically hold mandatory 'upgrade' meetings in which characters whose games were plugged in before a certain date will have new code patched into them to help keep everyone safe.
935
936The only reason Turbo never got caught out by this (being "dead" and all would have made it hard to appear at those meetings) is because in between his original takedown of two games and Sugar Rush being plugged in he invaded other games and learned how to access game code through them - as well as how to alter it to his own purposes. He began stealing code from other games and essentially frankensteining his own, which made him indirectly responsible for many Unpluggings. As the games got newer, the additional code also got newer and acted similar to Surge's own, much safer patches.
937
938[[WMG: The Sugar Candy Racers are adults too]]
939* There's nothing creepy about a Shipping between Ralph and Vanellope - the game is fifteen and Vanellope has 15 years of life experience. It's just her programming that makes her look like a kid, and the Candy Racers were programmed to be kid-like. They learn, it's just that they don't age like a human would.
940
941[[WMG: Unplugging isn't always bad]]
942A game being unplugged or turned off for the weekend doesn't destroy the world. The world can still be plugged back in again and usually is. But if somebody is missing when it's unplugged and ''still'' missing when plugged back in, that's when it's all destroyed. It's like when turning off and restarting ''doesn't'' fix the problem.
943
944[[/folder]]

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