108 Fun Facts About Wreck-It Ralph

The fictional arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr. is modelled chiefly on which real 1980s classic?

Donkey Kong: like its ape, Ralph wrecks from the top of a building while a small hero with a hammer climbs after him, and the film's twist is that the brute is only misunderstood.

Who voices Ralph?

John C. Reilly recorded his scenes in the same room as his co-stars, rare in animation, which let them improvise their way to new lines.

Who voices Vanellope von Schweetz?

Sarah Silverman plays a 'glitch' the other characters shun, yet the flicker they mock becomes her winning move once she learns to control it.

In Wreck-It Ralph, where do Ralph and Vanellope make her a real racing kart?

A bakery: Ralph breaks down its door and the pair play its kart-baking mini-game, turning out a messy kart smothered in frosting that Vanellope loves anyway.

Which game does Ralph sneak into to win a medal?

Hero's Duty, a shooter spoofing Halo and Call of Duty, gives Ralph his medal, but he blunders into an escape pod and crash-lands in a racing game.

What are the insect monsters that Ralph faces to win his medal called?

Cy-Bugs become whatever they eat, and outside their own game they breed like a virus, which is how one stowaway nearly destroys Sugar Rush.

How do arcade characters travel between cabinets after hours?

Through a power strip called Game Central Station, laid out like a railway station; in the sequel a Wi-Fi router plugged into it opens a road to the internet.

Who voices Fix-It Felix?

Jack McBrayer's Felix sets out only to fetch Ralph home, and ends the film marrying the tough sergeant he meets on the way, with Ralph as best man.

Who voices Sergeant Calhoun?

Jane Lynch's Calhoun lost her fiancé at their own wedding, which is why she throws Felix out of her ship when he calls her a 'dynamite gal', the dead man's pet name for her.

King Candy is secretly which character?

Turbo invaded a rival racing game out of jealousy and got both games unplugged.

Which newer racing game did the jealous star of an older racing cabinet invade, getting both unplugged?

RoadBlasters was stealing his players, so he drove into it mid-game; both cabinets looked broken and were unplugged, a cautionary tale every arcade character knows.

Who voices King Candy?

Alan Tudyk's turn as the giggling king began a long run: Disney Animation has cast him again and again since, starting with Frozen's scheming Duke of Weselton.

King Candy's lisping voice imitates which comedian, Disney's Mad Hatter in 1951?

Ed Wynn's giggling lisp was the brief: the actor's agent told Disney he could 'definitely' imitate it, then rang him to ask, 'Can you do it, by the way?'

What is the name of the arcade where the games live?

Litwak's owner wears a striped referee shirt in tribute to Walter Day, the real-life arcade scorekeeper who founded Twin Galaxies.

Who voices the arcade's owner?

Ed O'Neill's arcade owner nearly scraps one of his games in the sequel, because a replacement part costs more than the machine earns in a year.

Which member of the crew voices Sour Bill, King Candy's assistant?

Rich Moore, the film's director, voices the sour ball that Ralph licks and then pops into his mouth until it confesses King Candy's secret.

Which Sugar Rush character, ringleader of Vanellope's bullies, does Mindy Kaling voice in Wreck-It Ralph?

Taffyta Muttonfudge leads the pack that smashes up the car Vanellope built for herself; Melissa Villaseñor took over the voice for the sequel.

Where does Ralph teach Vanellope to drive?

Inside Diet Cola Mountain, an unfinished bonus track where Vanellope lives; Ralph later smashes its Mentos roof into the cola, and the eruption saves the game.

What do Felix and Calhoun fall into in Sugar Rush?

Nesquik-sand, a pun on the drink mix: climbing out together starts their romance, though Felix later wails that he almost drowned in chocolate milk mix.

Which real video-game villains attend Ralph's Bad-Anon support group?

Bowser, Doctor Eggman and Clyde from Pac-Man all sit in the circle; Nintendo sent a note that Bowser was holding his teacup the wrong way, and the animators changed it.

Why was Mario left out of Wreck-It Ralph?

No scene used him without distracting from the story, the director said: Nintendo was open to a cameo if the right moment could be found, and he chose to save Mario for a sequel.

Which Mega Man villain was cut from Wreck-It Ralph before release?

Dr. Wily sat among the villains in an early version of the support-group scene, but the finished film puts a ninja in his seat.

What famous cheat sequence does King Candy enter to access Sugar Rush's programming?

The Konami Code, tapped out on an NES controller, opens the vault of Sugar Rush's code, where King Candy fishes out Ralph's medal to buy him off.

The top score shown on the Fix-It Felix Jr. screen, 120501, refers to what?

Walt Disney's birthdate, December 5, 1901. Disney also made the fictional game real, commissioning a handful of working Fix-It Felix Jr. arcade cabinets to promote the film.

Which musician appears as a character DJ-ing the Fix-It Felix Jr. anniversary party?

Skrillex was sent his animated model to approve and asked for one change: the sneakers had to be black, though the DJ booth hides them on screen.

What does Vanellope's home-made cookie medal for Ralph say on the back?

You're My Hero, with 'To Stinkbrain' on the front; Ralph wears it from then on, and its cracking in two marks the low point of the sequel.

Which animated short accompanied Wreck-It Ralph in cinemas?

Paperman out-did the feature it opened for: it won the Oscar for animated short on the night Ralph lost Best Animated Feature to Pixar's Brave.

Which homeless arcade character tells Felix that Ralph has left his game?

Q*bert, begging in the arcade's hub since his own cabinet was unplugged, raises the alarm in his symbol-speak, and the film ends with him hired for Felix's bonus levels.

Which film knocked Wreck-It Ralph off the top of the box office in its second weekend?

Skyfall, the new Bond film, opened that weekend, so Ralph slipped to second even though it kept about two-thirds of its first-weekend takings.

Which prize did Wreck-It Ralph win for Best Animated Feature?

The Annie went to Ralph, along with Annies for its director and its writers, but the Oscar and the Golden Globe both went to Pixar's Brave.

Who composed the score for Wreck-It Ralph?

Henry Jackman wrote the score, while a song by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez was cut, a year before the couple's Frozen songs made them famous.

In Ralph Breaks the Internet, what does Yesss call the first rule of the internet?

Do not read the comments, Yesss says, a moment too late: Ralph has already wandered into the comment section and found strangers sneering at the videos that made him a star.

What breaks, sending Ralph and Vanellope to the internet?

The Sugar Rush cabinet's steering wheel snaps when Vanellope fights the player for control; the maker is out of business, so the owner prepares to scrap the game.

Who voices Shank, the tough street racer Vanellope befriends in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Gal Gadot joined the cast only three months before release, and still got to sing a duet with Vanellope in the film's big musical number.

What is the name of the gritty online game Vanellope falls in love with?

Slaughter Race wins her over because nothing in it is predictable, and she ends the film leaving the arcade to live there.

Who voices Yesss, the trend-setting algorithm at BuzzzTube?

Taraji P. Henson's Yesss borrows her walk and the swing of her coat from Cruella de Vil, because the designers saw both as queens of fashion.

What is the name of the search engine character with an over-eager autofill?

KnowsMore had a far bigger part in an early script, in which Ralph met him in jail and the two broke out together.

Who voices Double Dan, the dark-web virus maker?

Alfred Molina's Double Dan hands Ralph the virus that nearly wrecks the internet, and Molina also voices Little Dan, the twin growing out of his neck.

The virus Ralph releases in Ralph Breaks the Internet scans for and copies what?

Insecurities: meant only to spoil Vanellope's new favourite game, the virus finds Ralph's neediness instead and floods the internet with clingy copies of him.

On which Disney fan website does Vanellope meet the princesses in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Oh My Disney is where Vanellope, chased by Stormtroopers for unauthorised pop-up advertising, glitches her way into the princesses' dressing room.

Which three princesses needed new voice actresses in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora were recast because two of their original actresses had died and the third had retired; Snow White went to a writer whose scratch track was simply kept.

Which Star Wars character gives the princesses their five-minute call in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

C-3PO, voiced as ever by Anthony Daniels, plays stage manager for their next quiz; a gag in which the princesses kept calling him R2-D2 and BB-8 was cut.

Lucasfilm asked Disney to cut a Ralph Breaks the Internet joke that called which Star Wars villain a 'spoiled child'?

Kylo Ren: Lucasfilm told the directors, 'he is our villain, and we'd prefer you don't do that', so the gag came out.

Which band's song 'Zero' plays over the end credits of Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Imagine Dragons wrote it for the film: frontman Dan Reynolds said it speaks to the loneliness and identity worries of the internet generation, Ralph's included.

Who composed Vanellope's 'I Want' song in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Alan Menken, the composer behind The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, wrote it as an earnest princess ballad, even though the lyrics celebrate a violent street-racing game.

The title Ralph Breaks the Internet is a reference to whose 2014 magazine photoshoot?

Kim Kardashian's Paper magazine cover ran under the line 'Break the Internet'; Disney borrowed it, then dropped the 'Wreck-It Ralph 2' subtitle four months before release.

Which Marvel hero is holding a fan Q&A when Vanellope reaches Disney's fan site in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Groot takes the fans' questions, voiced by Vin Diesel; in the same crowd Stan Lee makes one of his last screen cameos, having died nine days before the film opened.

Which classic sitcom's characters were written into Ralph Breaks the Internet, then cut as too confusing?

The Golden Girls kept turning up in quizzes on Disney's fan site, so the directors wrote them a cameo, cut it as confusing, and one later called that his deathbed regret.

After the credits of Ralph Breaks the Internet, a fake Frozen II teaser cuts to Ralph singing which singer's hit?

Rick Astley: the audience is rickrolled with 'Never Gonna Give You Up', an idea the filmmakers had early on and nicknamed the 'Wreck Roll'.

One Wilshire, the telecom hub that inspired the internet city of Ralph Breaks the Internet, stands in which US city?

Los Angeles: One Wilshire was built as an ordinary office tower, but when the film's directors toured it, one found it 'filled from top to bottom with wires and boxes'.

In the mid-credits scene of Ralph Breaks the Internet, Ralph overfeeds a bunny in a children's game with what?

Pancakes: the gag starred in the first teaser, was cut from the story, and was put back mid-credits with a joke about scenes that only appear in trailers.

Which film did the Ralph director make between the two Ralph movies?

Zootopia, which he co-directed: its success with a touchy theme, prejudice, emboldened the team to take on online bullying in the Ralph sequel.

Wreck-It Ralph's director was one of the original directors of which animated sitcom?

The Simpsons: he directed early classics such as 'Marge vs. the Monorail', then left to help launch The Critic and Futurama.

After meeting Vanellope in Ralph Breaks the Internet, what do the Disney princesses change into?

Comfy casual clothes: each princess gets a T-shirt joking about her own film, an idea from the scene's writer, who called herself the princess 'in the hoodie'.

What becomes of Ralph's broken cookie medal at the end of Ralph Breaks the Internet?

He gives Vanellope half: each keeps a piece when she stays behind in the online racing game she loves, and the two friends say goodbye.

In which Sega game does Ralph appear as a playable guest?

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed completed a two-way swap: Sonic and other Sega characters cameo in the film, so Ralph turned up as a guest driver in Sega's racer.

What is Vanellope's true role in Sugar Rush once its code resets?

She is its rightful ruler, a princess King Candy erased from everyone's memory; restored, she drops the royal title and declares herself president instead.

What are the two doughnut police officers of Sugar Rush called?

Wynnchel and Duncan work for King Candy, so they spend the film hunting Ralph, who dodges them by hiding in a river of chocolate; Adam Carolla and Horatio Sanz voice the pair.

In which country was Wreck-It Ralph released as Sugar Rush, after its candy racing game?

Japan dropped Ralph's name from the title altogether, and the sequel followed suit there as Sugar Rush: Online.

Which film beat Wreck-It Ralph to both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature?

Brave, Pixar's tale of a Scottish archer princess, took both statuettes. Ralph went home with the Critics' Choice and Producers Guild prizes instead.

In Wreck-It Ralph, which real mint sweets form the roof Ralph smashes in the film's climax?

Mentos make up the volcano's ceiling, and when Ralph punches them loose the eruption lures the invading swarm, and the film's villain, to destruction.

What sign is stuck on the Fix-It Felix Jr. cabinet when Ralph goes missing in Wreck-It Ralph?

Out of Order is a death sentence in the arcade, because a broken cabinet gets unplugged. That threat is what sends Felix out to bring Ralph home.

What reason does King Candy give for barring Vanellope from the Sugar Rush kart races in Wreck-It Ralph?

She is a glitch, a flickering fault in the code, or so he says. He damaged her programming himself to keep her off the track.

What tragedy on her wedding day is written into Sergeant Calhoun's backstory in Wreck-It Ralph?

Her groom was eaten by one of the giant insects her own game is built around. A chance remark from Felix later reminds her of him, and she walks out.

In Ralph Breaks the Internet, which newly installed gadget lets Ralph and Vanellope leave the arcade?

A Wi-Fi router is the arcade owner's latest purchase. The pair ride it into a sprawling metropolis where every website is a building and every user an avatar.

How do Ralph and Vanellope raise the money for their eBay bid in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Making viral videos works because every view earns money: Yesss, head algorithm of a video-sharing site, turns Ralph's antics into trending clips.

Which online game's battle bus and floss dance appear briefly in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Fortnite returned the favour: an outdoor cinema screen inside the game showed Ralph, and a dance emote tied to the film was offered for a limited time.

What carries Ralph, with an insect stowaway aboard, from the shooter game into Sugar Rush in Wreck-It Ralph?

An escape pod launches by accident with one of the game's monsters still inside. It crash-lands among the candy karts, where the stowaway starts to multiply.

What does Vanellope do with the medal she steals from Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph?

Pays her race entry fee, which leaves Ralph no choice but to strike a deal: he helps her win, and she gets his prize back for him.

What must Vanellope do to make Sugar Rush reset and wipe King Candy's tampering in Wreck-It Ralph?

To cross the finish line is all it takes, win or lose. That is why the villain tries to ram her kart off the track rather than simply outrun her.

What does Ralph notice on the side of the Sugar Rush cabinet that exposes King Candy's lie in Wreck-It Ralph?

Vanellope's picture is part of the cabinet artwork, proof that she was always meant to be a racer. Ralph spots it only after going home to find his own game deserted.

What do Felix and Calhoun do for the homeless Sugar Rush racers in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Adopt them is the couple's rash offer once the candy game is unplugged. Until then the arcade's security guard could only find the racers a short-term refuge.

Why can't the arcade owner buy a spare part from the firm behind Sugar Rush in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

The company went bust years earlier, so the only spare is a pricey online listing. He would sooner scrap the machine than pay for it.

Which pop star's hit Shut Up and Drive features on the Wreck-It Ralph soundtrack album?

Rihanna's hit shares the album with Kool & the Gang's Celebration, another older song, alongside tracks written specially for the film.

Sergeant Calhoun's shooter in Wreck-It Ralph nods to two hit series: a modern military one and which other?

Halo was on the composer's mind too: he adapted his themes to recall famous game franchises, that one and Mario Kart among them.

Under which project name did Adam Young record the song When Can I See You Again for Wreck-It Ralph?

Owl City is his one-man electronica project. He wrote and produced the track, and its video shows him singing in front of an arcade machine.

Under which working title did Disney first develop the idea for Wreck-It Ralph back in the late 1980s?

High Score was only the first label. The project resurfaced as Joe Jump in the late 1990s and as Reboot Ralph in the mid-2000s before today's title stuck.

The cyborg at the villains' support group in Wreck-It Ralph is modelled on Kano from which fighting series?

Mortal Kombat's Kano is credited only as a cyborg. He shares the meeting with a zombie and a devil-like villain named Saitine.

Graffiti in Wreck-It Ralph's arcade hub insists that Aerith is alive, a nod to which role-playing series?

Final Fantasy VII is her game, and the same walls carry other in-jokes, among them a nod to World of Warcraft's Leeroy Jenkins meme.

Which prop did Nintendo ask Wreck-It Ralph's makers to show its turtle-king villain holding in a certain way?

A teacup, of all things: the games giant gladly lent its villain to the support-group scene, then sent notes on exactly how he should grip it.

A game world cut from Wreck-It Ralph, Extreme Easy Living 2, blended Grand Theft Auto with which life simulator?

The Sims supplied the social side of a party world where a gloomy Ralph would have collected Like It buttons. It went because it was too much to explain late in the film.

Which Wreck-It Ralph screenwriter went on to become chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios?

Jennifer Lee was brought in by a former Columbia classmate to help write the script. She took the studio's top creative job in 2018 and held it until 2024.

Which princess did Disney redraw for Ralph Breaks the Internet after consulting her voice actress and Color of Change?

Tiana had looked lighter-skinned and narrower-nosed in early images than in her own film, The Princess and the Frog, so the studio reanimated her scenes before release.

Which Disney villain's sense of style helped shape the look of Yesss in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Cruella de Vil lent the algorithm her eye for fashion, though Yesss spends hers deciding which clips trend rather than chasing puppies.

Ralph and Vanellope race inside which classic arcade game at the very start of Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Tron was on the director's wish list years ahead: he named it while floating sequel ideas, long before the film was even announced.

The arcade owner's striped referee shirt in Wreck-It Ralph honours Walter Day, founder of which gaming scorekeeper?

Twin Galaxies began as his arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1981 and grew into the trusted database of gaming world records.

Which duo, known for a 1980s novelty hit about arcade fever, recorded a new theme for Wreck-It Ralph's credits?

Buckner & Garcia made their name in 1981 with a novelty single about a certain yellow dot-muncher. Three decades on, Jerry Buckner co-wrote the new tune.

Which singer recorded In This Place, the pop version of Vanellope's song, for Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Julia Michaels sang the pop cut for the album. In the film itself the number belongs to Vanellope and the racer who befriends her.

Wreck-It Ralph's closing studio logo breaks up into garbled graphics, mimicking which arcade phenomenon?

The kill screen is the garbled dead end found in many early arcade games. The film's opening logo gets a different treatment, redrawn in chunky 8-bit pixels.

Which idol group sang the Sugar Rush theme that plays over the closing credits of Wreck-It Ralph?

AKB48 sang words by Yasushi Akimoto, and the song's music video had its first showing at the film's world premiere.

In which Square Enix game can players summon Wreck-It Ralph to stack and detonate explosive blocks?

Kingdom Hearts III treats him as a Link, a helper called in mid-battle. A mobile spin-off later added a whole world that retells the first film.

Which comedian voiced the pop-up ad salesman J.P. Spamley, without a credit, in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Bill Hader plays him as clickbait made flesh: a desperate hawker who can never close a sale.

Searching a lost-and-found box in Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph pulls out an exclamation mark from which stealth series?

Metal Gear's alert symbol even arrives with its sound effect from the games. Just before it, he fishes out a Super Mushroom.

Why do the Nicelanders of Fix-It Felix Jr. move in stiff, jerky steps throughout Wreck-It Ralph?

To echo old sprites, which had only a handful of frames for each movement. A bartender borrowed from a real arcade game twitches the same way.

Which other Street Fighter character joins M. Bison at the villains' support group in Wreck-It Ralph?

Zangief came back for the sequel as well. Elsewhere in the first film, Chun-Li, Cammy and Blanka can be spotted in the crowd.

Which real 1980s arcade character's lost-and-found does Ralph search for a medal in Wreck-It Ralph?

Tapper comes from a cabinet first sponsored by a beer brand. A root beer edition followed once the original was accused of advertising alcohol to minors.

Which Wreck-It Ralph character, security guard at the candy-kart factory, shares a name with a real cream-puff chain?

Beard Papa's is a chain of cream-puff shops that began in Osaka in 1999. His voice actor, John DiMaggio, returned in the sequel as a computer virus.

Which character, voiced by co-writer Phil Johnston, polices the arcade's travel hub in Wreck-It Ralph?

The Surge Protector returns in the sequel, where he finds the stranded Sugar Rush citizens a short-term refuge. Johnston voiced him again, this time as co-director.

Which soldier, voiced by Joe Lo Truglio, does Ralph meet in the bar before chasing a medal in Wreck-It Ralph?

Markowski serves in the arcade's modern first-person shooter. Hearing that the game awards medals is all the prompting Ralph needs to sneak in.

Which Nicelander, one of Ralph's unfriendly neighbours in Wreck-It Ralph, holds the title of mayor?

Gene shares his voice actor with the zombie at the villains' support group: both are played by Raymond S. Persi.

What name does the dark-web virus that Ralph unleashes go by in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Arthur is supplied by a dark-web dealer, and the plan is merely to draw Vanellope out of an online racing game and back home.

Which Winnie the Pooh character has a cameo in Ralph Breaks the Internet, voiced by Brad Garrett?

Eeyore is one of several guests who kept their usual voices, alongside Tim Allen's Buzz Lightyear and Grumpy of the Seven Dwarfs.

What is the conjoined brother of the dark-web virus dealer called in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Little Dan is joined to a half-worm dealer who lives on the dark web, and a single actor voices both brothers.

What is the name of the assistant algorithm who works for Yesss in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

Maybe is voiced by Flula Borg, and his name plays off his boss's, the algorithm who decides which clips trend.

Which children's network's awards show named Wreck-It Ralph its Favorite Animated Movie?

Nickelodeon handed Ralph a Kids' Choice Award in a season that also brought prizes from the Producers Guild and the National Board of Review.

What nickname did the makers of Ralph Breaks the Internet give the giant monster formed from Ralph clones?

Ralphzilla was the crew's nod to Godzilla. The monster forms when a legion of clones of Ralph pile together and seize both him and Vanellope.

What does Ralph build inside Sugar Rush to cure Vanellope's boredom in Ralph Breaks the Internet?

A secret road is his surprise gift. When she swerves on to it against the player's wishes, a vital part of the arcade machine snaps.

In Wreck-It Ralph, what kind of signal draws the swarm of insect monsters to its destruction?

A beacon ends every round of the creatures' home game by luring them in, a rule Ralph remembers and copies on a far bigger scale.