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* Vanellope's migrating and integration to Slaughter Race is HandWaved as something Shank casually pulls off off-screen. Online games are constantly patched and updated nowadays, so it really is that simple.
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* Yesss is introduced and built up as a possible villain for this movie...but never becomes one. She's an algorithm. She picks and chooses videos to feature on Buzzztube based on their content and popularity ratings. She doesn't have any higher aspirations than that. It also suits the running motif from ''Wreck-It Ralph'' of apparent villains actually being friendly, decent people.

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* Yesss is introduced and built up as a possible villain for this movie...but never becomes one. She's an algorithm. She picks and chooses videos to feature on Buzzztube based on their content and popularity ratings. She doesn't have any higher aspirations than that. It also suits the running motif from ''Wreck-It Ralph'' of apparent villains actually being friendly, decent people.
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** Which is the ''other'' reason Double Dan said not to let it get loose outside ''Slaughter Race''. He's in the business of selling viruses and malware on the black market. If one of his viruses is allowed to infect the greater internet, the greater internet will fight back and neutralize it, and Double Dan can't sell that virus anymore.

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** Which is the ''other'' reason Double Dan said not to let it get loose outside ''Slaughter Race''. He's in the business of selling viruses and malware on the black market. If one of his viruses is allowed to infect the greater internet, the greater internet it will fight back and neutralize it, be neutralized, and Double Dan can't sell that virus anymore.
* Yesss is introduced and built up as a possible villain for this movie...but never becomes one. She's an algorithm. She picks and chooses videos to feature on Buzzztube based on their content and popularity ratings. She doesn't have any higher aspirations than that. It also suits the running motif from ''Wreck-It Ralph'' of apparent villains actually being friendly, decent people.
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* As pointed out below as FridgeHorror, the insecurity virus Arthur disappears from the movie after generating the Ralph clones, so it's never shown getting destroyed or contained. Except what happens in real life when a virus that widespread attacks the internet? The internet hardens itself up against it immediately. Corporations turtle up and start upgrading their cybersecurity. People and companies start downloading security updates and patches. Computer hardware manufacturers start publishing lists of their products that are and are not affected by the virus so their consumers know if they need to upgrade. By the end of the day, the only systems Arthur will be able to infect will be those systems that didn't get hardened against it after the events of this movie.
** Which is the ''other'' reason Double Dan said not to let it get loose outside ''Slaughter Race''. If the virus is allowed to infect the greater internet, the greater internet will fight back and neutralize it, and Double Dan can't sell that virus anymore.

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* As pointed out below as FridgeHorror, the insecurity virus Arthur disappears from the movie after generating the Ralph clones, so it's never shown getting destroyed or contained. Except what happens in real life when a virus that widespread attacks the internet? The internet hardens itself shores up defenses against it immediately.it. Corporations turtle up and start upgrading their cybersecurity. People and smaller companies start downloading security updates and patches. Computer hardware manufacturers start publishing lists of their products that are and are not affected by the virus so their consumers know if they need to upgrade. By the end of the day, the only systems Arthur will be able to infect will be those systems that didn't get hardened weren't protected against it after the events of this movie.
** Which is the ''other'' reason Double Dan said not to let it get loose outside ''Slaughter Race''. If He's in the virus business of selling viruses and malware on the black market. If one of his viruses is allowed to infect the greater internet, the greater internet will fight back and neutralize it, and Double Dan can't sell that virus anymore.
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* When the wifi router is first plugged in, who gets to play MrExposition and explain what the internet is like to all the '80s and '90s video game characters present? Sonic the Hedgehog, the subject of and unofficial mascot for internet-based {{Loony Fan}}dom in general.

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* When the wifi router is first plugged in, who gets to play MrExposition and explain what the internet is like to all the '80s and '90s video game characters present? Sonic the Hedgehog, the subject of and unofficial mascot for internet-based {{Loony Fan}}dom one video game character in general.the crowd that has his own official Twitter account.

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* As pointed out below as FridgeHorror, the insecurity virus Arthur disappears from the movie after generating the Ralph clones, so it's never shown getting destroyed or contained. Except what happens in real life when a virus that widespread attacks the internet? The internet hardens itself up against it immediately. Corporations turtle up and start upgrading their cybersecurity. People and companies start downloading security updates and patches. Computer hardware manufacturers start publishing lists of their products that are and are not affected by the virus so their consumers know if they need to upgrade. By the end of the day, the only systems Arthur will be able to infect will be those systems that didn't get hardened against it after the events of this movie.
** Which is the ''other'' reason Double Dan said not to let it get loose outside ''Slaughter Race''. If the virus is allowed to infect the greater internet, the greater internet will fight back and neutralize it, and Double Dan can't sell that virus anymore.
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** There's also the simple fact that Shank is a ''boss'' racer. A lot of racing games give boss [=NPCs=] more aggressive RubberBandAI to give the player a harder race, no matter what car the boss or the player is driving.

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** There's also the simple fact that Shank is a ''boss'' racer. A lot of racing games give boss [=NPCs=] more aggressive RubberBandAI to give the player a harder race, no matter regardless of what car the boss or the player is driving.
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** There's also the simple fact that Shank is a ''boss'' racer. A lot of racing games give boss [=NPCs=] more aggressive RubberBandAI to give the player a harder race, no matter what car they drive.

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** There's also the simple fact that Shank is a ''boss'' racer. A lot of racing games give boss [=NPCs=] more aggressive RubberBandAI to give the player a harder race, no matter what car they drive.the boss or the player is driving.
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* Fridge TearJerker: When Shane and Vanellope are having a heart-to-heart, Shane says she wished she'd learned years ago that best friends don't necessarily have to like or want the same thing. Did she have a similar falling out as Vanellope and Ralph at some point? If so, which side of the conflict was she on, and was it ever resolved between her and the other party?
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** There's also the simple fact that Shank is a ''boss'' racer. A lot of racing games give boss NPCs more aggressive RubberBandAI to give the player a harder race.

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** There's also the simple fact that Shank is a ''boss'' racer. A lot of racing games give boss NPCs [=NPCs=] more aggressive RubberBandAI to give the player a harder race.race, no matter what car they drive.

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** There's also the simple fact that Shank is a ''boss'' racer. A lot of racing games give boss NPCs more aggressive RubberBandAI to give the player a harder race.




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* When the wifi router is first plugged in, who gets to play MrExposition and explain what the internet is like to all the '80s and '90s video game characters present? Sonic the Hedgehog, the subject of and unofficial mascot for internet-based {{Loony Fan}}dom in general.
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* Fridge TearJerker: When Shane and Vanellope are having a heart-to-heart, Shane says she wished she'd learned years ago that best friends don't necessarily have to like or want the same thing. Did she have a similar falling out as Vanellope and Ralph at some point? If so, which side of the conflict was she on, and was it ever resolved between her and the other party?
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* The script justifies Vanellope's abandoning Sugar Rush by having her claim that no one will notice she's missing, but what if somebody DOES and assumes that something is wrong with the game? There's a very good chance that Vanellope's subjects would probably be homeless again...
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* The script justifies Vanellope's abandoning Sugar Rush by having her claim that no one will notice she's missing, but what if somebody DOES and assumes that something is wrong with the game? There's a very good chance that Vanellope's subjects would probably be homeless again...

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*** Maybe even a helpful one--she was the most popular racer in Sugar Rush for 6 years, and those players, if they're not yet in Slaughter Race's target age group, will eventually be so, long after Vanellope seemingly vanished from the Sugar Rush roster. And her GameBreaker glitch-teleport is still shown to work in that game. If word gets out, that could be several new players attracted to the game by her presence, which means a lot of new revenue. With no threat of being hit with a copyright lawsuit, it'd be in the best interest of the game developers to let her stick around.

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*** Maybe even a helpful one--she was the most popular racer in Sugar Rush for 6 years, and those players, if they're not yet in Slaughter Race's target age group, will eventually be so, long after Vanellope seemingly vanished from the Sugar Rush roster. And her GameBreaker glitch-teleport is still shown to work in that game. If word gets out, that could be several new players attracted to the game by her presence, which means a lot of new additional revenue. With no threat of being hit with a copyright lawsuit, it'd be in the best interest of the game developers to let her stick around.around.
* The swarm of Ralph-viruses basically crashes the whole internet. Take a look at how much the modern world has grown increasingly reliant on the internet--beyond social media and gaming, to shopping and transportation, and even things like ''banking, medical info, and '''jobs'''''--and imagine a virus that can effortlessly shut all of that down. Something like that would likely cause [[ApocalypseHow Planetary Societal Disruption]] in our world if it was temporary, and ''Societal Collapse'' if it was long-term. The humans in this movie have no idea how big of a bullet they dodged.
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* The reason why Naveen is so happy to kiss Ralph in the climax, despite having no bisexual tendencies in his original film? It's the ''Internet version'' of Naveen, and characters in online fan fiction and fan art often go through AdaptationalSexuality compared to their canon version...
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* There are some Disney Princess films involving someone (often a strong male character) letting their loved one go to set off on a new adventure (e.g. [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] learning not to be an OverprotectiveDad to Ariel, [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] getting redeemed after he lets Belle go to see his father, and the Sultan letting her daughter choose who she wants to marry so she'll be happy). Ralph learns that he has to let Vanellope go to live her best life.

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* There are some Disney Princess films involving someone (often a strong male character) letting their loved one go to set off on a new adventure (e.g. [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] learning not to be an OverprotectiveDad to Ariel, [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] getting redeemed after he lets Belle go to see his father, and [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} the Sultan Sultan]] letting her his daughter choose who she wants to marry so she'll be happy). Ralph learns that he has to let Vanellope go to live her best life.

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* The difference between Ralph game-hopping in the first movie and Vanellope doing the same here is a good example of "The Bus Factor"--what's the minimum number of employees that can get hit by a bus before things go to hell in a handbasket in the workplace? The higher the number, the better. For "Fix-It-Felix Jr.", if it's not a generic Nicelander, it's one--if either Ralph or Felix leave, the game is toast. For "Sugar Rush", accounting for the random roster(meaning there have to be some extra characters to be swapped in and out so no-one suspects anything), it'd be around five--While some long-time players might miss the racer with the GameBreaker power, as long as nine racers are on the character selection screen, the game can still function, and unless someone goes to the arcade every single day for a while, players are likely to think they just keep missing Vanellope being an option. Bonus points for the fact that the game survived a long time without Vanellope before the events of the first movie, which could be another reason why Vanellope doesn't think twice about abandoning her game and Ralph doesn't think to use that to talk her out of it; it's been fine without her before, after all.



* What would happen if the game’s developers noticed Vanellope suddenly appearing in Slaugher Race and realized her being an unauthorized addition to the game? Could they leave her be or try forcibly deleting her from the game?
** Considering that the company behind Sugar Rush is bankrupt, Venelope is effectively abandonware and she'd probably shapeshift herself like Turbo did. As for now she's just a harmless Easter-egg.

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* What would happen if the game’s developers noticed Vanellope suddenly appearing in Slaugher Slaughter Race and realized her being an unauthorized addition to the game? Could they leave her be or try forcibly deleting her from the game?
** Considering that the company behind Sugar Rush is bankrupt, Venelope Vanellope is effectively abandonware and she'd probably shapeshift herself like Turbo did. As for now she's just a harmless Easter-egg.
*** Maybe even a helpful one--she was the most popular racer in Sugar Rush for 6 years, and those players, if they're not yet in Slaughter Race's target age group, will eventually be so, long after Vanellope seemingly vanished from the Sugar Rush roster. And her GameBreaker glitch-teleport is still shown to work in that game. If word gets out, that could be several new players attracted to the game by her presence, which means a lot of new revenue. With no threat of being hit with a copyright lawsuit, it'd be in the best interest of the game developers to let her stick around.
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** Considering that the company behind Sugar Rush is bankrupt, Venelope is effectively abandonware and she'd probably shapeshift herself like Turbo did. As for now she's just a harmless Easter-egg.
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* What would happen if the game’s developers noticed Vanellope suddenly appearing in Slaugher Race and realized her being an unauthorized addition to the game? Could they leave her be or try forcibly deleting her from the game?
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* There are some Disney Princess films involving someone (often a strong male character) letting their loved one go to set off on a new adventure (e.g. [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] learning not to be an OverprotectiveDad to Ariel, [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] getting redeemed after he lets Belle go to see his father, and [[Disney/Aladdin the Sultan]] letting her daughter choose who she wants to marry so she'll be happy). Ralph learns that he has to let Vanellope go to live her best life.

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* There are some Disney Princess films involving someone (often a strong male character) letting their loved one go to set off on a new adventure (e.g. [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] learning not to be an OverprotectiveDad to Ariel, [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] getting redeemed after he lets Belle go to see his father, and [[Disney/Aladdin the Sultan]] Sultan letting her daughter choose who she wants to marry so she'll be happy). Ralph learns that he has to let Vanellope go to live her best life.
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* There are some Disney Princess films involving someone (often a strong male character) letting their loved one go to set off on a new adventure (e.g. [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] learning not to be an OverprotectiveDad to Ariel, and [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] getting redeemed after he lets Belle go to see his father). Ralph learns that he has to let Vanellope go to live her best life.

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* There are some Disney Princess films involving someone (often a strong male character) letting their loved one go to set off on a new adventure (e.g. [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] learning not to be an OverprotectiveDad to Ariel, and [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] getting redeemed after he lets Belle go to see his father).father, and [[Disney/Aladdin the Sultan]] letting her daughter choose who she wants to marry so she'll be happy). Ralph learns that he has to let Vanellope go to live her best life.
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* Anyone else a little disturbed that the Franchise/{{Tron}} game not only has a virus, but Litwak has neither unplugged it or repaired it? In that universe, ''anything'' [[NightmareFuel/TronTwoPointOh virus]]-[[NightmareFuel/TronEvolution related]] turns out to be ''very'' ugly. It might be mitigated only slightly by it being a standalone console.
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** Not to mention emulation and {{Abandonware}} archives are very much a thing on the Internet with sites like Classic Reload archiving hundreds of old video games for free download.
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* YouTube savvy viewers will easily know that the "sneak peek" for Frozen 2 at the end of the credits is a fake, the title font is not the official one and instead one that is typical and easily made by fans on YouTube and fan arts.

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* YouTube Website/YouTube savvy viewers will easily know that the "sneak peek" for Frozen 2 at the end of the credits is a fake, the title font is not the official one and instead one that is typical and easily made by fans on YouTube Website/YouTube and fan arts.

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** The former theory may be supported by the fact that Merida actually doesn't say anything at all when the others are talking about songs.



** The fact that the Princesses don't know anything about modern fashion makes a lot of sense when you think about it. For as long as they've been around, the Princesses have embodied not only the ideals regarding the social roles of women at the time their movies were released, but also the fashion standards upheld in their respective films' time periods. Now that they've met a Princess who embodies the newer and more progressive ideals of women's roles and fashions, it only makes sense that they would follow suit.

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** The fact that the Princesses don't know anything about modern fashion makes a lot of sense when you think about it. For as long as they've been around, the Princesses have embodied not only the ideals regarding the social roles of women at the time their movies were released, but also the fashion standards upheld in the settings of their respective films' time periods.films. Now that they've met a Princess who embodies the newer and more progressive ideals of women's roles and fashions, it only makes sense that they would follow suit.
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* How was Shank able to keep up and pass Vanellope even though she was in the best car in Slaughter Race? The car Shank borrowed belonged to players with a high enough level to try what seems to be the final mission. Plus, said car was originally crewed by two players, opposed to just Shank. Meanwhile, Ralph is nine feet tall and six hundred and fourty three pounds. All that extra weight and drag is going to affect a racing vehicle's performance.

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* How was Shank able to keep up and pass Vanellope even though she was in the best car in Slaughter Race? The car Shank borrowed belonged to players with a high enough level to try what seems to be the final mission. Plus, said car was originally crewed by two players, opposed to just Shank. Meanwhile, Ralph is nine feet tall and six hundred and fourty three forty-three pounds. All that extra weight and drag is going to affect a racing vehicle's performance.




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* It's not just Ralph's insecurities Arthur takes advantage of. It's been established during the movie, even after taking control of it last movie, Vanellope's own insecurities cause her to glitch out. In addition, Vanellope's insecurity percentage is much lower than Ralph's because she was trying to keep it under control, whereas Ralph wasn't.
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* How was Shank able to keep up and pass Vanellope even though she was in the best car in Slaughter Race? The car Shank borrowed belonged to players with a high enough level to try what seems to be the final mission. Plus, said car was originally crewed by two players, opposed to just Shank. Meanwhile, Ralph is nine feet tall and six hundred and fourty three pounds. All that extra weight and drag is going to affect a racing vehicle's performance.
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* There are some Disney Princess films involving someone letting their loved one go to set off on a new adventure. Ralph learns that he has to let Vanellope go to live her best life.

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* There are some Disney Princess films involving someone (often a strong male character) letting their loved one go to set off on a new adventure.adventure (e.g. [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid King Triton]] learning not to be an OverprotectiveDad to Ariel, and [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] getting redeemed after he lets Belle go to see his father). Ralph learns that he has to let Vanellope go to live her best life.
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* The reason slaughter race NPCs act like real adults when not in game mode? It's a mature-rated game.

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* The reason slaughter race NPCs ''Slaughter Race'' [=NPCs=] act like real adults when not in game mode? It's a mature-rated game.
* Ralph is basically a human {{Expy}} of Franchise/DonkeyKong. Since the original Donkey Kong was practically a LighterAndSofter video game version of ''Film/KingKong'', it makes sense that Ralph's darker clone will act a bit like the titular ape of that movie.

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