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• Sonic and Bowser. Neither accept appeared in an arcade game in decades. And then either the arcade still has Sonic the Fighters/an imported re-create of SegaSonic the Hedgehog and Vs. Super Mario Bros. or ???
  • Fanservice.
  • Sonic's game is seen equally beingness Sonic the Fighters in shots of the arcade. Bowser could also belong to a Mario Kart GP cabinet.
    • Simply that doesn't make sense. In Sonic Fighters, Sonic and Robotnik/Eggman appear in their Classic incarnations, and the Sonic and Eggman we encounter in this motion-picture show are the Modern ones (save for the Sonic 2 scene in the credits). Generations confirms that in the 1991-1997 games, they actually did look like how they do in them. Or maaaaaaaybeeeeee, the whole "Classic and Modernistic" affair was a prevarication that the devs lead the gamers to believe, and that the Sonic characters always looked similar how they practise at present.
  • Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing really came out for the arcade in 2011, a year after it was released. This featured the "Modern" incarnations of both Sonic and Eggman/Robotnik. Equally far as I know they did not show the arcade cabinet in the film.
    • Because we don't see the unabridged arcade, after all.
  • From what footling was shown of Mr. Litwak, he seems to like owning an arcade. He'southward not stingy (giving Moppet Girl a refund correct off the bat), is quite happy to see the kids and the old man when he opens information technology up, and was very joyful to see Set-Information technology Felix Jr. fix itself. And so it'due south not hard to call back he might enjoy playing some of the games himself, and has kept some of his favorites/onetime popular games to play or just have. Because otherwise, no modern-solar day arcade would keep an quondam 80's arcade game and an old '97 arcade game around, unless it was insanely popular (like Sugar Rush seem to be; the two boys were gonna play it all mean solar day).
    • The Grand Hotel arcade here (in 2014) has Frogger, the Jurassic Park game from 1997 and a bunch of other oldies, and then some modernistic arcades practise keep elderly games.
    • There could also be a modern Sonic game in the arcade; we just tin't run across information technology.
    • Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing, perhaps? (it got an arcade port) This could hateful that Beat, Ulala, Aiai, Samba de Amigo, and others hang out around Game Key Station too. Plus, Ralph is going to exist in All-Stars Racing Transformed, then...
  • Alternately, perhaps the Arcade has wi-fi, allowing characters in handheld games or something to drop in. Since it's probable that the arcade has regulars, this means that Bowser and Sonic could show up relatively regularly if the arcade's patrons come up in with DSes or 3DSes that accept Mario or Sonic games in them, or even a proficient smartphone that has games on it.
    • The sequel centers around Ralph and Vanellope venturing into the Internet after a modem is installed in the arcade, and it's set effectually half dozen years after the original film. It would seem unlikely they had Wi Fi before so.
  • This troper fondly remembers the Nintendo Super Organization of the '90s, which was basically a SNES in an arcade cabinet, and you had your choice of 1 of three SNES games when you put in a quarter. Unremarkably, Super Mario World was one of the three games, then it'southward not impossible that Mr. Litwak still has a Super System in his arcade, and that's where Bowser came from.
    • In that location was a Sega equivalent of this, the Mega-Tech, Which did indeed have a pair of Sonic games, so this would explicate Sonic & Eggman's presence perfectly.
  • The answer is actually uncomplicated. Litwak's Arcade has games in it at least xxx years old like Pac-Man and the in-universe Set up-It Felix Jr. It's not a large stretch that he'southward got older Arcade games featuring Bowser and Sonic. And to those who'll question Bowser'southward look, remember that Ralph's look outside the 8-chip style is different every bit well.
• In the arcade, we only see a Street Fighter II: The World Warrior car, so what's Cammy doing walking effectually?
  • In Real Life, some versions of SF2 had their software updated to SSF2 while the cabinet remained the aforementioned. Not difficult to believe that at some point Litwak either upgraded his SF2 box or bought ane that had been upgraded.
  • But the footage clearly shows Globe Warrior. Specifically, Ryu'southward orange-hued phase. It's nighttime in Championship Ed and Turbo and twilight during Super Turbo.
• How would a Metal Gear "!" symbol be in an arcade? There is a Metallic Gear Arcade, only it was never released exterior of Nippon.
  • Fanservice.
  • Mr. Litwak could accept had it imported. Given that he however has an old school 1982 game, he might very well attempt to appeal to the hardcore gamer crowd.
  • I of the arcade games was probably plugged in to the same circuit equally a console or PC at some indicate. Lots of possibilities for objects to wind upwards in weird places when they can be transferred over power cables. For all we know, Mr. Litwak hosts LAN parties every weekend.
  • There was a deleted sequence where Ralph would venture into a The Sims-type game on Litwak's laptop, and so panel/PC games tin can probably canonically be connected.
• Is the dark elf-esque daughter in the Bad Anon meeting a Shout-Out or just a generic villian character?
  • She's probably a placeholder. The concept art hints that she was originally intended to be Morrigan but they couldn't get the licensing to use her, and so they swapped her out for a generic 'bad girl' sprite.
  • She's Neifirst. Nighttime, shiny bluish hair, pale skin, elf ears, scarlet bustier, floats? Yep, she's not an arcade graphic symbol. Rule of Funny.
    • She's not Neifirst. Neifirst wears a bluish leotard and her skin is a darker shade of blueish.
• Considering Clyde'due south nickname (Pokey) and how he acts in the original Pac Homo game, should he come off as... slower?
  • Maybe it's another case of the villain just interim for the office? It would explicate why he's running the Bad Guys Anon meeting and none of the other ghosts are there.
• What game is Satan...er, Satine from?
  • The game of thrones?
  • Probably Ghosts N Goblins. It DID have an arcade version.
    • Unlikely, considering the principal villains of the franchise were almost always either naked or possessing a Abdomen Mouth. I'm fine with calling this guy an expy of that fashion of demonic adversary, though.
  • He could just exist from a game that simply exists in the Ralph universe.
    • Satan's Hollow.
• Why did they utilise Pac-Human being's Fanon designs instead of his actual i ◊? Was information technology likewise difficult to figure out what to do since Namco is redesigning him?
  • Considering Pac-Man the character does not have artillery, legs, or anything else. That image of Pac-Man is promotional art. Characters may look more detailed from within their ain globe, but their overall design doesn't modify.
  • Information technology's possible they (film makers) thought that his bodily advent which has optics, arms, legs, etc would be so radically different for those who didn't know the difference that said people wouldn't recognize Pac-Man as Pac-Man. That is, his game appearance is far more iconic than his promotional i.
  • But they likewise could have used his appearance from Pac-Land which was directly based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoons. However, who remembers the Pac-Land arcade?
• King Processed using the Konami Code I have no problem with, but within the arcade globe, why is there an NES controller?
  • Fanservice.
    • It too raises the bigger question of only where in the game King Processed goes to access the Code! We're never shown the route he takes to get to this back room, patently not fabricated of sweets, to get to information technology. I suppose there's this dependence on the characters' noesis that we're shown afterward (he reveals that he found a way to change the codes of other games through years of hiding underground) and I GET that, but why permit characters to accept control of their own games to begin with?
    • The descriptive video runway mentions King Candy boarding an elevator to go to the code room.
• Every bit a BurgerTime fan this troper wonders something, if the Nicelanders hate bad guys (especially Ralph) so why is the Egg from BurgerTime nowadays at Fix-It Felix Jr.'southward 30th anniversary party? Forth with hotdogs and pickles the eggs are also bad guys as well.
  • They're merely regular enemies. Far equally I can tell, regular enemies get more of a pass than the Large Bad. Or maybe Felix invited them, and the Nicelanders didn't have a say in it. Though if he did invite them, it'southward a wonder he didn't invite Ralph equally well.
    • He didn't know how Ralph felt about existence treated like crap until afterward on.
    • Perhaps it was Gene that sent the invitations.
  • Furthermore, the Egg is frequently seen in the company of a giant walking strip of bacon. Bacon isn't one of the BurgerTime baddies. Who is information technology?
    • Probably just a generic grapheme.
• Why is it that Clyde was capable of speaking perfect English, still Pac-Man was only talking in beeps?
  • He'south playing a character that doesn't speak.
    • Just he was at a party in another game. Why was he in-character?
    • He takes equally much pride in his role every bit Mr. Pricklepants.
  • Rule of Funny.
  • Maybe Clyde is merely bilingual to better run Bad-Anon, and Pac-Man isn't.
• We run across that the Bad-Anon meeting at the commencement of the movie is held in the middle of the Pac-Man maze and led past Clyde. Where are Inky, Pinky and Blinky?
  • When Ralph leaves the coming together and goes into Game Central Station, the other 3 ghosts can be seen floating around the concourse.
  • Moreover, and this is a little known fact, only Clyde actually had any sort of AI in Pac-Man. He was the only one programmed to chase the histrion. All the balance had pre-programmed behaviors they stuck to — turning randomly or trying to stay a sure distance away from the actor. Thus one could interpret this as Clyde being the only bodily villain while the others more NPC-ish.
    • Not so. All iv ghosts take specific AI routines: Blinky's AI is to target Pac-Homo (chasing him); Pinky's AI is to target a spot a few spaces in front of Pac-Man (trying to get alee of Pac-Homo and cut him off); Inky'due south AI involves cartoon a line betwixt Blinky and Pac-Man and targeting a point on the other side of Pac-Homo at the aforementioned altitude and angle (it's complicated, and gives Inky a very erratic movement design); Clyde'south AI is to target Pac-Man just like Blinky until he got within a certain altitude of Pac-Man, at which indicate his target changes to the lower-left corner of the maze (so he loses the trail). It'southward all in the Pac-Man Dossier, Affiliate 4.
  • They also simply might have no trouble with their job, then no reason to join the grouping.
• This is more than meta than anything, but in that location was a disturbing lack of Simpsons. They had an arcade game once, would information technology have killed for a cameo?
  • They might take not been able to get the rights to it. Also, the boilerplate person probably doesn't know the Simpsons even had an arcade game (I certainly didn't) and then why would they put that in there when there are enough of better-known video game characters to requite cameos?
  • Because when you think of the Simpsons, you're not thinking of video games. You lot're thinking of a TV show. They wanted characters that were primarily from and associated with video games.
  • Turbo erased them. What else would he have done to a game that might steal his thunder?
  • Well, what about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Turtles in Fourth dimension was originally an arcade game before it was ported to the Super NES.
    • The machine nosotros see in the movie is the original TMNT arcade game.
• How is Q*bert supposed to eat that cherry? I didn't run across any teeth in that snout of his, and that cherry was style too big to suck upwardly...
  • Perhaps his snout works similar a vacuum and he gets Coily to chew it into smaller pieces for him?
• How does the Kingdom Hearts series fit in to this? Is it a game earth that Ralph and company would be able to admission if they wanted to, or is Wreck-Information technology Ralph a Disney earth that Sora and company would exist able to access?
  • Ralph and the others could enter Kingdom Hearts as a game world in the movie universe where they are from several video games. In Real Life, all the same, they would exist considered a Disney world inside Kingdom Hearts.
    • Ralph can enter Kingdom Hearts. Inside Kingdom Hearts, in that location is a Wreck-it Ralph world. The Wreck-Information technology Ralph world contains a Kingdom Hearts department. Inside Kingdom Hearts, in that location is a Wreck-it Ralph world. The Wreck-Information technology Ralph world contains...
  • It would probably exist a Disney world like any other. In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Sora and Riku become to another world created past technology.
• At the starting time of the movie, when the arcade closes and the various characters become off of work, Ryu suggests to Ken that they both go drinks at Tapper'south, and they both speak English language with American accents, even though they are both supposed to be Japanese characters, but, a picayune afterward, at the Bad-Anon meeting, Zangief, from the same game, speaks with a Russian accent. Why don't Ken and Ryu accept Japanese accents?
  • Did Kyle and Reuben give them accents when voicing them in the games? If not, so it was for consistency. Zangief in this picture is voiced by the manager and so he was leap to have a different voice anyway.
    • What difference does it brand who voiced which grapheme? Why did they decide to give one Street Fighter an appropriate accent, only not two other characters from the same game?
    • Considering 1 has a major speaking function in an of import scene, and the other two accept a thou full of ane offhand line each.
    • More to the indicate, Ken is American. Ryu and Ken are friendly rivals, and probably know each other's languages well enough to not sound like they have an accent, at least with each other.
    • It may take also been considering giving them Japanese accents would accept reeked of Unfortunate Implications.
    • Simply put, that'southward how it works in the games equally well. Ken is an American, and Ryu, despite being Japanese, speaks with an American accent in the English versions of the games. Zangief, on the other hand, has a Russian accent in the games.
• How do Clyde and Surge (and voiceless characters by the histrion's point of view) have voices in the first identify? I thought characters' voices came from people who recorded them.
  • If that was true, then Wreck-Information technology Ralph would just be able to say three things throughout the whole moving-picture show: "Hey! You moved my stump!", "I'M GONNA WRECK It!", and his "thrown from the edifice" yell. Would kind of make the thread of the story difficult to follow. A better probability is that all video game characters tin can speak naturally, but they only don't when they're on the screen if they're not "supposed to". As in, if they're supposed to exist playing characters who don't talk, they don't when they're on the screen and when players are there to encounter them.
    • It could be possible that characters designated past their developers as, say, human, automatically come up with a suite of homo traits - speech, complex emotions, a want to swallow and potable - that don't have to exist specifically programmed into them, for instance.
    • Likewise, listen closely when Moppet Daughter tries to play Ready-It Felix Jr. Felix gasps, chuckles nervously, and says "Ralph!" repeatedly.
• How the heck did Skrillex make it the Fix-It Felix Jr. arcade game? Is there a machine that allows people to get inside video games? Or is that not the real Skrillex? If it is the real Skrillex, does that hateful he took the time out of all his other things to go to this random arcade cabinet to accept a party? If it isn't, why is there a digitized Skrillex in the arcade?
  • Maybe 1 of the arcade denizens dressed as Skrillex?
    • He looks like Surge Protector...
    • Skrillex could also be visiting from a Licensed Rhythm Game that exists merely in the movie.
  • Peradventure he performs the music for Hero's Duty live.
• Why is Zangief ^annotation who, in the Street Fighter canon, is NOT particularly villainous at the villain support grouping? He's not a bad guy; he merely plays i sometimes.
  • And then is the title character.
  • He was in the movie and the cartoon. The botch could've been in that location.
    • Going off of that, he might be a version of Zangief from the arcade game based on the pic, where he was evil.
  • Earlier and for a few years afterwards the Cold State of war, ANY Russian grapheme in American Media was depicted equally a villain. Zangief's in the support group as a victim of cultural racket.
  • A psychological issue: Statistically speaking, how many Street Fighter players actually play Zangief (and other Mighty Glacier grappler types similar him), compared to Ryu and Ken, Chun-Li, and other more balanced (or even attractive) characters? Technically speaking, Zangief isn't a Bad Guy. But if you spend 95% of the fourth dimension as an obstacle to the player rather than the Histrion Character himself, you lot might offset to feel like one.
    • There'due south also the fact that, sometimes depending on the iteration merely virtually always in the right hands (some other thespian or loftier-level A.I.), Zangief is notorious for giving players an extraordinarily hard time. And then, it could be less a instance of Zangief being erroneously labelled as villain because he's morally evil (unlike, say, M. Bison) and more the fact that he's seen as a barricade by players on the other side of the screen, as said above.
    • This ane'southward pretty much confirmed. When asked virtually this over Reddit, Rich Moore responded "he was bad to me."
  • Likewise, recollect what Zangief actually says to Ralph. "You are 'Bad Guy', just that does not hateful you are bad guy." Who better to explicate that concept than a guy who, despite not being particularly villainous in most of his incarnations, is nonetheless filed nether 'villain'?
  • Zangief isn't there because he's a villain, he'south there because he'due south the group leader helping them through their problems. It's why he gets all the deep and insightful lines. He'due south not a fellow member, he'south the therapist.
    • According to the manager, he had trouble defeating Zangief as a child, so he considers him "evil".
    • I thought Clyde was the leader? They meet at his place, he leads the word it seems...
  • I thought Zangief was just there for the free donuts.
    • They just exercise that on Thursdays.
  • Information technology's because the managing director, Rich Moore, e'er got his ass kicked by Zangief when he was playing single-actor in Street Fighter Two, and then Zangief became a "bad guy" for him.
  • Anyone else retrieve that is a incomparably dodgy reason regardless?
    • Nope. If lots of players (similar the manager) hating Zangief for being a strong opponent is plenty for Bad-Anon to include him in the therapy group, that'south their prerogative. Information technology's not similar we come across whatever rules nearly who is and who isn't immune in.
• The bartender from the game Tapper was seen in the new trailer, instead of the soda wiggle character from Root Beer Tapper. Does this mean that Disney volition accept to use the Budweiser logo?
  • Non necessarily. If y'all wait in the background of the scene, where the Budweiser logo would ordinarily exist is in fact the logo from Root Beer Tapper. The Bartender is definitely from Tapper though. I assume they simply mixed the two games, just if that were the case, why they didn't just apply the bartender from Root Beer Tapper remains a mystery.
    • Maybe information technology's to go along the bartender a traditional bartender instead of the soda jerk with the newspaper hat.
    • There were four versions of Tapper: Root Beer Tapper, (Budweiser) Tapper, a variant of Budweiser Tapper for Japan that used Suntory beer instead, and a generic beer Tapper for the rest of the world. The Tapper from the film is likely a mix of the get-go and the last, since no licenses to the beer companies would be involved.
    • Turns out, it's the Budweiser Tapper. They were happy to take him in the picture.
  • Plus, when Ralph returns to the GCS, you can clearly see the "Tapper" sign. Maybe they won't bear witness the Budweiser logo, merely will keep the bartender for the older gamers?
  • Fridge Brilliance: Information technology's non a legit copy of Root Beer Tapper, it's a hack of a (Budweiser) Tapper automobile to make information technology similar a Root Beer Tapper automobile!
  • Also, Tapper is pixelated, or in other words, the root beers are square. Squared Root Beer. Mathematically, the 2 cancel each-other out, and you're left with Beer.
    • Wow...
    • Listen = Blown
• What are characters from Mario and Sonic games doing here? They're not arcade games.
  • During the Time Passes Montage where nosotros encounter all the games that have been in the arcade over the by 30 years, the mildly obscure game Sonic the Fighters tin can be seen, then information technology's safe to presume it's still there. Bowser could potentially exist from the Vs. Super Mario Bros. arcade game.
    • There was a Mario Kart arcade game that came out a few years ago, and there are NES arcade machines.
  • Mario originally appears in Ass Kong (where he was called Jumpman), Ass Kong Jr. (where he was given the name Mario), Mario Bros. (sans Super), and Vs. Super Mario Bros. He was fifty-fifty in Vs. Wrecking Crew. Mario, non from an arcade game? Hmph.
• Sonic's credits scene has a fleck of a oddity: he rolls off a ramp and hits Dr. Eggman'due south Eggmobile from Angel Island. That machine isn't protected by spikes nor shoots its fireballs, and nevertheless it is Sonic, in rolling mode, who takes damage. Didn't people acquire anything from Sonic 2006?
  • Rule of Funny.
• But a minor little nitpicky problem, just if the game Sonic and Eggman come from is Sonic the Fighters... then why is Eggman wearing his Mail-Sonic Chance outfit?
  • They probably decided to describe him that way to brand him more recognizable to a newer audience. Sonic's also using his new design and voice actor, rather than the classic style Sonic from that game.
• Why is Smoke at the Bad-Anon meeting? He'south Face–Heel Revolving Door in Mortal Kombat, and he'south in his skillful guy grade.
  • Perchance he's from ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. He'southward a bad guy in that one but his good guy skin appears every bit an alternate skin.
    • Sort of the same deal Zangief is in the meeting despite being mostly a good guy. Maybe someone in production had trouble beating him.
• Here'south something that has been bugging me: characters can't die in their own games, right? And still nosotros still see graffitties of "Aerith Lives" around the station, as if she'southward notwithstanding dead, when given the universe'southward rules she should be live, even if killed as part of the game's plot. And so, she'due south actually programmed to die? Is she alive? Too, wouldn't hurt to see some KH and FF characters in the second movie.
  • Plotline deaths in Roleplaying Games are very different from mook or PC deaths in an arcade game, which past definition are intended to be repeated over and over.
    • But what about Kingdom Hearts Aerith? Is that a dissimilar Aerith, and so?
  • It'due south not that characters tin can't die in their own games. Characters die in their own games all the time. It'south just that if y'all die outside your game, you lot don't regenerate. E'er. Game over.
• Who was that small-scale yellow sunday in the blueish swimming trunks seen a couple times in Game Fundamental Station? I recognize him from somewhere, but can't place a name or title.
• Ralph knows the name Lara Croft and Vanellope mispronounces the proper name GLaDOS. When did GLaDOS and Lara Croft appeared in arcades and how does the characters such as Ralph and Vanellope know about them if just characters that appeared and referenced has an arcade platform appearance?

  Surge Protector: "I'm just a surge protector doing my job, sir. Proper noun?"

  Wreck-It Ralph: "Lara Croft."

  Vanellope Von Schweetz: "Well, it's time to step out of your comfort zone, Gladys (GLaDOS)..."

  • Almost likely, he or someone else heard the out-of-arcade references from the people playing their games, and spread it to others throughout Game Central Station.

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