Trivia / Wreck-It Ralph

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: The game characters are shown to travel between games via the electrical wires. This means, essentially, that data is being transferred through the power cord. While this may seem unrealistic to anyone moderately computer-savvy, even disregarding the nature of the "data" in question, it is actually very possible for electronics to communicate with each other through the electrical wiring, and there are real devices that do this; the most well-known application is "Powerline" adapters, which extend a computer network over existing electrical wiring instead of running Ethernet cables or using less-reliable Wi-Fi.
• Accent Depundent: The scene where Vanellope hears "Hero's Duty" as "Hero's "Doody''" relies on the actors' American accents. In English dialects that don't exhibit flapping, "duty" and "doody" are nonhomophonous and the pun doesn't work.
• Actor-Shared Background: Ralph and his pursuits to shed off the bad guy cred can draws parallels to his voice actor John C. Reilly's acting career as like Ralph, Reilly similarly initially garnered recognition by playing Mook henchmen in Casualties of War and The River Wild, but later on underwent Leslie Nielsen Syndrome in order to branch his ability to do other roles besides being just remembered for his initial roles, also what Ralph is trying to do.
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch are among the featured voices, though Jack and Jane have done a good amount of voice work before.
  • Vanellope is voiced in the Mexican dub by a talented and versatile actress who has been involved in radio, film, television and voice acting in Mexico since the '60s. Latin American audiences probably know her: María Antonieta de las Nieves; that's right, Vanellope is La freakin' Chilindrina.
  • In Brazil, the main four aside from Calhoun, with actor Thiago Abravanel as Ralph, comedian Rafael Cortez as Felix, and MTV VJ Marimoon as Vanellope.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Though most of the video game references in the movie are completely accurate, Zangief's the one exception. His name is pronounced incorrectly (Zan-gi-ev, not Zan-Geef), and putting him in with the villains almost caused a counterattack, as outside of some adaptations, Zangief is one of the series' heroes. Screenwriter Phil Johnston says it's entirely his fault — not because of not doing the research, but because Zangief was a High-Tier Scrappy to Johnston during his Street Fighter II-playing days. "I don't care what anybody says, he was bad to me."
• Dawson Casting: 42 year-old Sarah Silverman as 9 year-old Vanellope.
• Defictionalization:
  • Disney designed, programmed, and constructed a working arcade machine of Fix-It Felix Jr. for the 2011 D23 Expo (and yes, it does look like it was made in 1982)! You can even play the game at Disneyland's Starcade in Tomorrowland, no quarters needed!^note It was also available at DisneyQuest at Walt Disney World in Florida, but that required separate paid admission.
  • You can play Fix-It Felix Jr. via the movie's website, and on the iPad and mobile phones. However, there was once a "beta code" version on the movie website, so the Disney.com Games version and, by extension, the Facebook version was made more faithful to that in the movie.
  • Hero's Duty and Sugar Rush were also made playable as Unity 3D-based games in the Disney UK website.
  • Ralph himself made his "game jump" into Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. So yes, game jumping is being defictionalized, too. The presence of the Wreck-It Ralph characters in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, Disney Magic Kingdoms, and Disney Dreamlight Valley are contextualized as game-jumping as well, and Disney Speedstorm adds Sugar Rush as a track.
  • Taking cues from Pixar, Disney made a series of TV commercials for Litwak's Arcade, each set in a different year. The first, set in 1982 and featuring the Fix-It Felix Jr. arcade game, is also made to look like it's ripped from a 1980s VHS tape, poor quality and all! The other two commercials feature Sugar Rush Speedway (circa 1997) and Hero's Duty (circa 2012), with a bit of Serial Escalation involving birthday giveaways.
  • Someone ported Fix-It Felix Jr to the Genesis. Someone else ported it to the Commodore 64.
  • A New Jersey based arcade chain called Yestercades also has a physical, functioning Fix-It Felix Jr. arcade game, and its out-of-order signs are the same as the ones from the movie.
• Development Gag:
  • Vanellope was originally designed with a grayish-green skin tone to make her look more "glitchy", but was instead given a human skin tone. In the film proper, an image of her face with green skin appears on the "No Glitches" sign on the kart bakery's door.
  • One of the pieces of graffiti that can be seen in Game Central Station says "Extreme EZ Livin'", which was the name of a game planned to appear in the film before being scrapped
• Dueling Movies: In a manner with DreamWorks Animation's Turbo thanks to that film taking cues from Sonic the Hedgehog, who appears in Wreck It-Ralph, and because that film and the title character share a name with a character in this film that turned out to be the Big Bad. Also, DWA's film, too, was scored by Henry Jackman. Wreck-It Ralph won since it did well while Turbo bombed and got DWA and former Disney boss Jeffrey Katzenberg sued by his stockholders (this helped towards a sale to Comcast that takes Katzenberg out of the picture on a heavy basis). Both franchises, however, are still alive, with an online show from DreamWorks Animation's Turbo and Wreck It-Ralph getting a sequel (said sequel is set to duel another video game film from Katzenberg's DreamWorks founding partner, Steven Spielberg, who also directed Disney's The BFG).
• Edited for Syndication: The Freeform print takes a hack-saw to the movie and either shortens or out-right cuts out many scenes and gags (even plot-important ones) to fit the run-time, such as Ralph teaching Vanellope to drive at the Diet Cola Hot Springs, Ralph's dislike of chocolate, Felix in the castle prison in Sugar Rush, and Ralph's apology to Vanellope. It's especially noticeable with the scene wherein Ralph and Vanellope make Vanellope's kart, as the scene awkwardly cuts to the completed kart being revealed after the base of the kart is baked in the oven, leaving out the next two steps in the process (and thus leaving out the explanation for why it is so wildly decorated and why it comes out in an avalanche of candy).
• Fan Community Nickname: "Wrecklings" or "Wreckers".
• God Never Said That: Many people on the Internet insist that Mario didn't get a cameo because Nintendo's price was too high. In a video interview (around 15:30) with FirstShowing.net, director Rich Moore clearly states this is false. He thinks the rumor grew out of a joke John C. Reilly made at the San Diego Comic-Con, saying "Luigi wants more money than Mario," which the rumor mill morphed into an "official" statement by Moore himself.
• Hey, It's That Sound!: Too many to list. The movie's like a pop quiz for gamers if they can recognize all the classic video game sound effects.
• Kids' Meal Toy: Subway had a set of six tote bags, each one featuring at least one of the film's characters; Ralph, Sgt. Calhoun, Vanellope Von Schweetz, Ralph in his Hero's Duty suit, Taffyta Muttonfudge, and Ralph, Vanellope, Sgt. Calhoun, and Fix-it Felix Jr. together. Each bag included two collectible coins featuring the characters, as well as codes that could unlock bonus content in the Disney.com game Hero's Duty.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.":
  • Some of the video game characters cameos are from a series that has never been released to a particular state or country.
  • In the UK, Ralph himself debuted in Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed (released November 2012) rather than the movie itself (released February 2013).
• The Merch: Excluding the palette-swaps and Minty Sakura, all of the Sugar Rush racers are available in plushie form.
• Missing Trailer Scene:
  • There's a scene in which Ralph is chased by a swarm of Cy-Bugs while he is riding on Calhoun's cruiser to Diet Cola Mountain. In actuality, while riding to the mountain, he's not chased at all. The clip was most likely cut because it comes across as lightheartedly humorous (with Ralph flailing around and screaming), which would've been out of place in what is otherwise a serious climactic scene.
  • Another missing trailer scene; there's a clip from Hero's Duty where one of the soldiers tells to Ralph "Get outta this game, buddy!" in the midst of the Cy-Bug attack.
  • A third missing scene depicts Ralph, with no armor, hiding behind a wall in Hero's Duty and saying "Everything changes, now."
• Orphaned Reference: Ralph and Vanellope break into the kart bakery through a door with a "No Glitches" sign, showing Vanellope's face on it with grayish-green skin. She was originally designed to look like that before her design was changed to give her a more human skin tone.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Zangief here is voiced by director Rich Moore rather than Anthony Landor, his current official voice actor since Street Fighter IV.
  • On the subject of international releases, the United Kingdom release dubs Brad with Never Mind the Buzzcocks's and The BBC's Nick Grimshaw.
  • In the Japanese dub, no characters from the Japanese-developed games keep their original voice actors except Sonic The Hedgehog. Funnily enough, instead of Hiroki Takahashi, Ryu is voiced by Taketora, who voices Akuma in Street Fighter.
  • While Roger and Jun'ichi reprise Sonic in English and Japanese, Sonic's then-recent official German, Italian, French, and Spanish voice actors are replaced.
  • In video games, Brian T. Delaney fills in for John C. Reily as the voice of Ralph.
• Playing Against Type:
  • All of the main cast are well known for appearing in films and TV shows that no self-respecting parent would let their kids watch until they reach at least 13 years old (The Sarah Silverman Program, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Chicago, Modern Family, Married... with Children, Glee, etc.).
  • The villainous King Candy/Turbo is a far cry from Alan Tudyk's usual heroic/anti-heroic roles. Funnily enough, he would end up getting Typecast as that type of character in the following Disney movies after this one along with one TV show (and then came Moana, where he voiced a dumb chicken sidekick; said movie came out just before his heroic role in Lucasfilm's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).
• Playing with Character Type: Foul-mouthed comedienne Sarah Silverman playing a snarky, Bratty Half-Pint? Not out of the ordinary. And then we find out that said half-pint is an Iron Woobie demonized by the other characters of her game because she was nearly Ret-Gone out of it. Then the kart breaking strips away the Iron...
• Referenced by...:
  • Knights of Buena Vista is a Campaign Comic for Disney works, and this film is the second one covered (after Frozen (2013)).
  • In The Duff, Wesley tells Bianca, "You need to start dressing more like you, and less like Wreck-It Ralph."
• Release Date Change: Originally Scheduled for March 22, 2013, the production proved so smooth that Disney decided to shift the release to November 2, 2012 because it was done ahead of schedule, with DreamWorks Animation's The Croods occupying Wreck-It Ralph's previous release date.
• Role Reprise:
  • Gerald C. Rivers once again voices M. Bison in his cameo appearance.
  • Also, Roger Craig Smith returns as Sonic the Hedgehog in his cameo.
  • Kyle Hebert and Reuben Langdon return as Ryu and Ken as well.
  • In the Mexican dub, Sonic is voiced by Yamil Atala, reprising his role from the Mexican dub of Sonic Underground.
  • In the European French dub, Sonic is voiced by Olivier Korol, reprising his role from the European French dub of all three American cartoons from the 90's.
  • In the Japanese dub, Sonic is voiced by Jun'ichi Kanemaru, reprising his role from the video games.
• Saved from Development Hell: The first traces of the premise appeared as early as the late 1980s (during Katzenberg and Frank Wells' careers at Disney) when it had the Working Title High Score. Then it was revived in the 1990s, dropped again, and re-revived in the early 21st century into what it is now. It was supposed to be screened before Tangled, and then after it, and then it was Cancelled, and then Un-Cancelled and so on. Once production finally started, it zipped as fast as Sonic to get ahead of a 2013 release date (DWA and Katzenberg took the release date Wreck-It Ralph vacated for The Croods).
• Throw It In!: All of the actors, many of whom were experienced with improv, were recorded together, resulting in a lot of ad-libbing.
• Typecasting: Personality-wise, Calhoun is a somewhat more intense version of Glee's Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch's Star-Making Role), albeit with a PG-rated vocabulary and a fondness for similes.
• What Could Have Been: Has its own page.
• Word of God: Achieving the Nicelanders' deliberately choppy animations was much harder than it looked, as the animators, who were trained to make graphics and animation as smooth and cutting edge as possible, were suddenly asked to downgrade the quality of their work in order to achieve the retro-looking effect.
• Wordof Saint Paul: According to Sarah Silverman, Vanellope is Jewish.
• Working Title: Was originally called High Score, Reboot Ralph and Joe Jump. (Though it should be noted that those versions of the film, other than involving video game characters, had somewhat different premises).

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