The Wreck It Ralph Plug Theory

[@CassiusStelar]

top comment already pointed it out and you did respond adequately but for anyone who didnt check the replies there WIR doesnt take place in the 80s, it takes place in the 2010s, what he meant to say was the *hardware* for Ralph's game was from the 80s. It has no bearing on the theory and was just meant as a segway into talking about modern home console games

[@picivyvortac2641]

Also the Internet in the sequel.

[@TheDuckHasAGun]

​@@picivyvortac2641The internet existed back in the 90's, it was just way too weak

[@picivyvortac2641]

@@TheDuckHasAGun right but not wifi, which is in the movie. Also not Merida or Elsa.

[@Route115Productions]

Yeah, it takes place in the same year it came out, which is 2012

[@Puppet_Channel]

Sugar rush actually came out in the 90 according to this 1997 to be exact so yah that's why its three dee

[@shelbybayer200]

The cameo of Sonic actually revealed the Death of characters outside their own Games He literally says "Don't die outside your game"

[@lasercraft32]

I find it really hard to believe that the arcade that houses these games has never experienced a power outage... Like, SURELY the power must have been shut off every now and then. But based on the intro, the arcade has been up and running for at least a decade and all the characters still have their memories of those times. My guess is they probably just misunderstand what unplugging the game actually does, and just assume that everyone still in the game dies when it happens because none of the games have ever been plugged back in after going out of commission for them to find out.

[@SgtSalamander]

That's true, There's always the possibility that they'll come back after being plugged in

[@MadContendery]

*coughs in power generator*

[@lasercraft32]

@@MadContendery Okay I don't know much about how to run arcades, but I highly doubt they have generators operating at all times... They probably do have generators but they would only use them for emergencies (if the power goes off, generators don't magically start up, meaning the games would lose power at least momentarily). And the arcade we see in the movie isn't a huge business, its run mostly by the one old guy. I doubt he has the money to maintain a constant running generator.

[@Sivanot]

I imagine that an arcade that actually cares about keeping player scores intact before the machines could preserve data through being powered off would have something in place to help mitigate that. Like a bunch of large batteries used as a buffer to give time to start up generators or something.

[@SuperDestroyerFox]

Yeah they still think unplugged=death because everyone losing power is like if time stopped, it would still feel the same and no one would notice the difference because no one was unaffected.

[@linkthehero8431]

One thing I've always loved is the attention to detail WIR has, like how the cake splatter in the apartment building is mostly in a blocky pixel aesthetic just like the actual game.

[@maximoesco]

honestly rewatching this movie for this theory made me realize that as well. This movie is so amazing and a love letter to gamers, its such a beautiful and amazing world.

[@JamesTDG]

Indeed, just a shame of the sequel forgot about all that. That first film, I'm pretty sure there were people who actually studied the medium of pixel art properly. That's rare, like incredibly rare.

[@dylanwillmon5672]

Who is to say there hasnt been a point the arcade lost power? Turbos code takeover shows just how easy it is to actually manipulate characters and change things. Its fully possible that situations like his have occurred and characters relationships have changed completely. Maybe Ralph's game has been reset by unplugging before and in another one he got along great with the other characters. Maybe the arcade had renovations done at some point. In reality, unplugging is a simple fact of their existence. My question is why they couldnt travel outside the arcade on the power strip?

[@greenstarlover1]

Maybe it's forbidden territory, like the wifi plug was at first.

[@FriskDrinksBrisk]

New sequel idea: Ralph breaks consoles.

[@CassiusStelar]

They do in the sequel but it's bad.

[@CombustibleLemon77]

They actually DO access the internet, remember? Then they could live even if the entire grid went out...

[@MrTony-rx7tk]

I mean they probably could, but where would they even go? They’d end up inside the outlet in the wall, but then what?

[@eb2k445]

This is what Wreck it Ralph 2 should have been about

[@SergioLopez-eb6fz]

Or just the rise of video game consoles

[@tacopizzasandwich621]

@@SergioLopez-eb6fzor pc gaming

[@adaninurs]

YESS! not about Vanellope that LITERALLY went turbo and ppl are happy about it😑 im still so pissed about it lol

[@Aimai.37]

​@@adaninurssame, shit bugged me compared to what the movie's plot could've been

[@SunYat-sen]

Owner: trips over cable Everyone in WIR: 💀

[@shibainu2528]

If I had to take a wild guess as to how the world works with my limited experience using Godot, every entity that essentially needs its own code (moving platforms, enemies, the player, etc) is it's own "puzzle block" that you can throw together into the main scene. So if a spaceman or something were to enter another game, they would still maintain their low gravity because it's a coded value inside of them. Or if you were to put two player characters inside of the same game (like the replug theory) the player would control both of them at the same time since they are both receiving actions from the controller. However, they can't respawn because they are no longer inside their main scene, so when their code looks for a checkpoint or a place to respawn, they can't find it because the new game's code wasn't made the same. Some games may use "plyr_checkpoint" while others use "plr_chkpnt", you know? Sorta like what happens if you straight up delete the player in Minecraft or something, the game doesn't know where to put you anymore, and they can't respawn you because your "ghost" doesn't exist, causing the game to kick you back to the title screen. Good news is that in rare circumstances, someone may be able to respawn outside of their own game if the code is made similarly, probably because the game was made by the same developers. (An example would be Chell from Portal inside of the world of Half Life 2, both are made by Valve in the Source engine)

[@NatetheNintendofan]

This is the best thing that means if terrarian lures Minecraft Steve do the game that means Minecraft Steve dies forever I can finally tell them Minecraft Terraria terrarian wins

[@TheGenericPerson]

@@NatetheNintendofan cringe

[@PizzerGames]

Well, in these old games, none really used a standart engine. You just had a few registers and a specific number of sprites. Most games will reserve the first few slots for the player, and if the player update is run 2 times, they will just overwrite each other. Another thing is that Arcade machines often used hardware designed for the game that they were running.

[@amog8202]

​@@NatetheNintendofanif you really need the fucking wreck-it-ralph movie to prove how the Terrarian beats Steve, then maybe you should plain quit internet arguments

[@Sivanot]

@@amog8202 They're probably a child, just leave them be lol

[@supermemoluigi]

My theory on why everyone didn't die because of a blackout: the Power Strip cable plug is actually a Uninterruptible Power Supply, which provides backup power to equipment when the main power source fails. preventing them from damage caused by power failures, electrical surges, sags, and spikes, while also keeping them on running for a certain time.

[@midorithefestivegardevoir6727]

Don't they run just enough so that you can safely turn off your equipment without digital damage? At least that's how my dad's UPS is, it runs for about 10-20 minutes before shutting off.

[@supermemoluigi]

@@midorithefestivegardevoir6727 true, although, i saw some that can last for 4 hours and even 8 hours

[@maxstirnersego]

​@supermemoluigi my work has a similar battery pack which can survive for up to 24 hours without direct power. So my headcannon remains that the cable is just a very strange battery pack

[@wooblydooblygod3857]

I'm gonna say that if it gets plugged back in then it just recreates the characters, but they're no the same people, so two Ralphs could exist at once because they're technically different people.

[@Aldenfenris]

I assume that is what happens yes, like resetting everything to whatever 'saved' state the game had, but since most are arcade games, there is no real 'save' info other than perhaps high scores. So they just begin from scratch.

[@bloodystatic4156]

Fun fact: Doom was programmed in the programming language C. Thus, that is why Doom can run on anything! At least, that runs on this kind of code anyway.

[@xanderyanez-qn2hk]

Well, time to play doom on my smart fridge

[@bellaclark4420]

⁠I’ve seen people make Doom run in high tech pregnancy tests

[@S0meb0dy728]

@@bellaclark4420"So, what are the results of the pregnancy test, Honey?" "Doom"

[@AverageBoombox-yq3oj]

Even my toaster?!

[@bloodystatic4156]

@@AverageBoombox-yq3oj If it has a computer, then yes!

[@connorbeith3232]

I know this may ruffle some feathers, but if we take the sequel into consideration, while the event of a power outage would wipe the memories of the arcade residents, it may not affect Vanellope the same way since she lives on the internet now, and a lot of current computers are wireless, so her game, Slaughter Race, would just effectively be on stand-by. Perhaps Vanellope uses this as an opportunity to check on her friends only to find that everyone, outside of Sugar Rush, doesn't remember who she is.

[@maximoesco]

oh wow thats so sad to think about from that perspective.. thank you for sharing! I didn’t even think about that 🤯

[@floofgoodra2017]

Imagine WIR 3, where Litwak's gets a power outage and when Venelope comes back to visit, she sees that everything was factory-reset, save for games like Sugar Rush and Heroes' Duty. All the trauma she has to process while battling with the fact that the Ralph she remembers isn't there anymore.

[@miss.dannitiger]

Omg 😭😭

[@mayclarque4123]

2:12 There isn’t an afterlife for code, but there is for variables. Depending on how things are setup up and how future instances, if any, are compiled, there’s a chance the original variable is never cleared from memory.

[@thef1rst1]

Pretty sure when the power strip gets unplugged, those in the hub will just experience darkness while those in their games would just die

[@maximoesco]

sounds scary

[@wyslanniknewworldorder9525]

Creepypasta

[@rchaelk2319]

Technically if the power strip gets unplugged, no code is being processed without the needed electricity and like the dude in video said, it basically means everyone would die. So everything gets reseted back to 0 including the arcades connected to it. Lol imagine the "new" version of the videogame characters rediscovering the powerstrip xd Now that I think about it all the "homeless" would disappear completely too...

[@barneyjuniorYT]

Well actually, if the game took place in the 80s how is a high tech 3D game like Sugar Rush exist?

[@maximoesco]

I honestly had a really hard time finding the time period this movie was set in. I know wreck it ralphs game was from around the 80s so everything I said would probably apply to him and his characters. Aside from that though, honestly you’re right about sugar rush. I know in the beginning it said 30 years later which could mean if Fix it Felix was from the 80s, sugar rush could be from the 2000s. I honestly wish I would’ve realized that when filming. But if this game has saved files and saved code I think if the game was to get unplugged and plugged back in they would probably be the same. It’s still hard to know though because of the fact they can leave the game and make memories away from the code. What do you think would happen if sugar rush got unplugged and then re-plugged back in?

[@otterdaffyproductions6646]

It takes place in 2012

[@horsepowermultimedia]

​@@maximoescoI would think that the characters would only lose their most recent memories and would still have the memories that were saved as data.

[@yummynubs3646]

@@otterdaffyproductions6646 no that's the movies release date, also friendly reminder that the movie is a decade old and your also old

[@chocov1233]

​@@yummynubs3646 But if Fix-It Felix Jr. is 30-ish years old by the time the Wreck-It Ralph movie takes place. and the Fix-It Felix Jr./Wreck-It Ralph game was released in the 1980s (like Donkey Kong, the game it is based on), then the game would have to take place in he 2010s. As the movie was released in the 2010s, it's reasonable to assume that it takes place the year the movie released in 2012. I didn't even have to bring up evidence from the (absolutely horrible, besides Sonic's appearance) sequel. Since Mr. Litwak the arcade manager doesn't seemed to have aged much by the time of Ralph Breaks the Internet and the 2018 release date of the movie, it's safe to assume it also takes place in the 2010s, most likely in 2018. Pretty impressive that the single power strip in Litwak's Family Fun Center & Arcade not ever getting unplugged or powered off in 30-40 years.

[@4ngiel0ver]

0:48 this isnt actually the first time its mentioned, after Walph leaves Bad-Anon theres screens where Sonic says "If you leave your game, stay safe, stay alert and whatever you do, dont die, because if you die outside your own game, you dont regenerate. ever. game over"

[@maximoesco]

ah dang i didn’t even notice that, thanks for correcting me on that!

[@mif_sovremennosty]

5:53 well... This brings a question - do you really believe, that for all of the freaking 30 years power NEVER was off? That's impossible. Blackouts happen. What if all of them did have a reset of all of their memories and lives? They just don't know, because they can't remember it...

[@maximoesco]

Honestly that definitely could’ve happened. It’s hard to know though because Ralph is aware he’s been alive for 30 years. But yea i don’t know how there could NEVER be a power outage or something haha. They had to have been unplugged on accident at least once..

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

I mean, in real life it's impossible, but that's pretty explicitly what the movies tells us happened. Like in Superman I, moving the Earth backwards 100% does not affect time, but that's what happens... learn how fiction works.

[@OttoMatson]

There is a story book made for WIR, in which the building goes in a blackout. Everyone piles into the power strip, and does a sleepover. So my guess is if the power strip gets unplugged, nothing really happens, but they would need to pile into the power strip

[@FuimoFilms]

I just realized something. What if two of the same arcade games were in one arcade. Would there be two Ralphs that could interact with each other? What if they swapped games and died? Would they respawn because it's "their game" or would they not because it's a different console?

[@maximoesco]

woah i didn’t even think of that, that’s actually so interesting to think about

[@griddmeirax]

well the old one will respawn as the "factory reset ralph" clone

[@A.Singularity]

what if they also traveled to the power strip then the game gets unplugged then plugged back in causing a third one to appear, then they just multiply until their is an army of Ralphs

[@Robot_972]

I just realized how kind of screwed up it is that Ralph and Felix brought the homeless characters into their game. Felix dies when he gets hit by debris, so that just means that eventually these guys are all gonna die out because a player screwed up

if it's the same logic as Vanellope and Turbo, every resident should be able to integrate their own code into any game they want, just as Vanellope did in Slaughter race and Turbo in Candy Crush

[@Robot_972]

@ Fair enough. Forgot they new how to do that with Vanellope

[@daindreska8206]

Unplugging probably doesn't kill the characters. The chance that the arcade never lost power in over 30 years of operation is astronomically low. They almost certainly do die when the arcade machine is destroyed, which would be the fate of many of the machines after their unplugging.

[@aidanaldrich7795]

But then they respawn if plugged in

[@radoslavl921]

@@aidanaldrich7795 Exactly!

[@thealpacaofsupport258]

It's funny to think that, since unplgging and replugging an arcade probably resets the game, if sugar rush was unplugged bc of glitching penelope, she'd be totally healed if she's plugged again in that or another arcade, like, the game would run as usual and she'd no longer be glitching Although of course the story wouldn't take that route bc the Penelope we know would die and we'd get a new one

[@maximoesco]

yoo that's crazy to think about! I wonder if turbo would leave to another game or just return back once it's plugged back in too (of course if the plug got unplugged in the middle of the movie)

[@AuuuuuuuuuuuA]

My theory is that when they get unplugged they just go unconcious, but since no one has ever been plugged back in, everyone thinks you just died. So whenever a power outage occurs, its like if time stopped, so they don't notice.

[@radoslavl921]

This is my theory too! It's honestly so intuitive to think about, I have no idea why people aren't adopting it as the main theory.

[@gothnerd887]

This reminds me of Meta Runner and makes me wonder. The premise of the show is that the main character is a cyborg with an AI download into her brain which gives her the ability to astral project into video games although the AI has an unusual glitch; it somehow caused a video game character to gain sentience. There are other characters from other games that get the astral projection treatment and it's not made clear if they've been infected with sentience too or if they're just doing a great job of faking it.

[@maxthompson7107]

This makes me glad video game characters haven't become as self aware as the ones in Wreck-It-Ralph. Being unplugged is kind of like their version of the Big Bang, and the version of the character you're so used to seeing doesn't recognize you as easily as you recognize them. Plus, much like some of the space time continuum tropes found in some sci-fi movies, should two identical versions of the same character come in contact with each other, or find a way to be on screen with each other, things could get out of hand quickly. Watching this video all the way through made me unironically wish this was used in its sequel rather than the internet shenanigans Disney actually used. I'm sure given if Disney decided to give Wreck-It Ralph a third movie, something like that could be possible. I wouldn't know though. Disney's been a bit trigger happy with its movies.

[@OP5-]

I actually want to note that Ralph isn’t actually the bad guy. He’s seen as the bad guy but the entire time he has been fighting to get his home back. Ralph lived happily in a forest on his stump. But the towns people kinda destroyed everything and pushed Ralph to the side. If you think about it Ralph is just a misunderstood guy who wants his home back while the towns people are the villains who took his home.

[@A.Singularity]

y'know this is kinda like how the british invaded native ameri- nevermind.

[@ItsAubreeyy]

I believe they'd go more into some sort of stasis and will come back when plugged back in. King Candy was only saying this to scare Ralph.

[@sideways_chip_eater6420]

Exactly, i mean who knows maybe the games that get unplugged are perfeftly fine they just cannot leave or be entered cause theres no connection

[@Thy-Chu]

the perma death happens because there is no comand for the game to respawn the character when he gets deleted because isn't supposed to go to another video game

[@spongeboi2021]

the movie takes place in 2012, its just that the game ralph is in was made in 1982. so i kinda get where youre coming from

[@dragonridley]

I guess one way of seeing it, if character dies from their game being unplugged and "comes back" it would be more like a clone of that character, just as a clone of a real person would be starting tabula rasa.

[@StaysSuave]

Your channel popped up in my recommended with your spongebob license theory this morning and I’ve binged just about every video you’ve posted bro. Love the the editing, commentary, etc. you’re Fosho gonna blow up no doubt

[@maximoesco]

Whaat no way!! That’s so unreal for me to hear that! Thank you so much dude, i’m so glad you’re enjoying the videos! I really cant tell u how much hearing that means to me!

[@usopp9961]

Same thing happened to me today@@maximoesco

[@ThatNoobKing]

@@maximoesco same here! Seems like youtube's starting to like you

[@MDAnthony434]

Same. Lol 😂

[@venomfan2020]

0:44 Sonic literally pointed that out after Ralph left Bad-Anon

[@TylerMcNamer]

*Now that would be an amazing story idea!* A video game character discovers who he or she was in a previous life. Perhaps he or she knows about being unplugged and accepts it awaiting for the next life in the next arcade.

[@mikeburkhart8336]

In 1980s Arcade games death only lasted until the next quarter is used.

[@supermegabenji1026]

There's been this Plug Theory. It's not even a Plug Theory but... When the ending shows Old characters like Q-Bert. The people looked surprised and Happy. But what if Some got Confused of saying "It Could be a Bug or a Glitch thinking the Machine is Q-Bert." Like the Arcade game 'Fix it Felix jr.' Used to be a Converted version of Q-Bert. Like they changed the Game Code from Q-Bert to Fix it Felix, But somehow it decides to Re-code itself to Re-add the Characters Back. Kinda like seeing a Random Cameo character in the Video game, But he's not suppose to be there. Like the Game was a Modded version of that Old game.

[@Imjak47]

Honestly if Wreck it ralph 2 would’ve explored these ideas i would’ve been just as loved as the first

[@antonberkbigler5759]

I’d just like to point out that logically speaking game designers would *have* to know that the game characters are alive and their worlds are more real than they should be, and there’s actual evidence that this is the case. The beacon on… shit I forgot the name of the shooter game. The one with the cybugs. Their behavior to shut down normal behavioral patterns in the presence of a beacon, and to subsequently fly into that beacon in order to incinerate itself, does not happen during normal gameplay. It is an intentional safety feature to inhibit the spread of what could otherwise become a quickly spreading computer virus, like what happened to Sugar Rush. Now that I think about it, the graphics quality of the arcade games is likely not determined by software, but by hardware. Specifically the screen. If the screen from the Wreck It Ralph cabinet was taken out and replaced with a modern one, there’s a chance that it would be displaying their full 3D forms. I haven’t watched the sequel, but it’s a real shame that this aspect of the lore was not explored. Because making another extrapolation, if the game industry knows that video games are alive but the consumer base does not, then that categorically makes it a conspiracy. Something that would probably be hard to keep a lid on once the indie game scene began to explode in popularity. But considering what did happen in the sequel, computers as a whole and potentially electricity itself work differently in their world than it does in our world.

[@maximoesco]

yo you’re onto something, i honestly wish too they would’ve went more that route with the second movie. Thanks for sharing ur thoughts it was very interesting to read.

[@kathywhitehead6856]

Kinda like the animator vs animation videos Alan becker creates

[@antonberkbigler5759]

@@maximoesco And I thank you for giving me a starting point to spur my mind into making this comment, I like making things like this. :)

[@antonberkbigler5759]

@@kathywhitehead6856 Those might be canon to the wreck it Ralph universe lol

[@PotheadPat]

a power outage would be like the absolute worst

[@codaman127]

Think about all those adopted characters at the end of wreck it Ralph, one of them was actually a bomb that exploded on the side of the building, I don't think he's coming back from that one chief.

[@TheJestr]

imagine that this guys place hasnt had an outage for 30 years atleast.

[@papyrussemi2848]

so in a nutshell, if the power strip is unplugged, Ragnarok.

[@indigofenix00]

My interpretation of "being unplugged" wasn't that losing power causes game characters to die, but that it would put them into a kind of stasis or limbo until the game came back online (the idea that an arcade could run for years without ever losing power seems unlikely). When they say "being unplugged" they mean being unplugged *permanently*, which would be analogous to death if they were still inside.

[@ChickenNEO]

This is pretty unsettling the more you think about it

[@Yipper64]

2:54 i'd say its more like... the ship of Theseus almost? Basically Ralph has been replaced with a factory default copy, that is identical in every way, down to the way his brain works. But without any memories because it is a new "entity" if you will. Since the game doesnt save anything its basically just running the same code as it boots up. That does make me wonder what happens if a game is unplugged, the characters leave before that happens, and then its plugged in again. The characters where never deleted but now there is an identical copy.

[@Bukki13]

You know how there is a “Citizen’s Memories” Block in Sugar Rush? My theory is that such a block comes by default in any game in this universe

[@zarktyark7312]

Not gonna lie the concept of being reset back to factory settings and then having people know who you were in the past despite not personally knowing any of them should've been a movie in itself

[@antoniomantovani4983]

>be me >be a kid in the 80s >go to arcade >accidentally step on arcade power strip wire >freaking kill everyone in the wreck it Ralph universe

[@lachlanevans5013]

There’s also the possibility that if a game is unplugged with the character outside the game then it is plugged back in that character could still return without reprocessing because the space where his code used to be in the game is absent and can be filled back in with his presence returning to the game, thus there is no duplicates or reprocessing for that character

[@ZazzelTheGamer]

This is what i never understood. I know some Bratty kid at one point must have unplugged the Arcade machines at one point, or there must have been a very terrible storm. There is no way Ralph existed for 30 years with no power shortages. The only thing I can think off, is that when a storm was about to come (Since news let you know) The owner didn't open the arcade for that day. The game characters also know about the storm, so when the arcade is closed, they all leave their game and heads over to Station until the storm passes.

[@stolenalt]

"Wreck it wralph is set in the 80s" Sonic: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@-NetworX-]

Me waking up and wanting a little chaos so I go to the nearest arcade and unplug all the games

[@Princess_Jade64]

1:42, Wanna correct you real quick, the movie actually takes place in the early to mid 2000s, as shown by Ralph, Felix and the Nicelander's blockier looks as apposed to everyone else in sugar rush and hero's duty.

[@chriwochi218]

This makes me wonder. The arcade manager treats the characters like family. Does he KNOW that their alive ? "We will have to send ralph and his friends to retirement" is for example such a line that indicates he knows. He SAW turbo moving from one game to another and unplugged both games as if he knew turbo was alive and wanted to wipe him out too cause hes such a threat to other games. I mean in ALL the years he NEVER saw the characters be alive? Not likely. And what if: he is the one who made theese sentient maschines

[@maximoesco]

this is a very interesting theory, i honestly just thought he was unaware of what was going on or stupid. But honestly he definitely could know more then he makes us think he does. It would be fun to dive deeper on the arcade manager. You might’ve gave me a new video idea…

[@GabrielLevi-p5p]

Or the game developers made the characters alive and litwak found out when turbo went to another game

[@tjman4616]

Imagine if the third movie is about them having a power outage and all the games get reset while the arcade is closed. Then when everyone goes back to the game theres clones of everyody cause every game was reset

[@TORTILLA_DOG_STUDIOS]

you know what I'm going to say it... I THINK RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET IS BETTER THEN THE ORIGINAL WRECK IT RALPH!!!!!!!!

[@treygavino]

Is anyone wondering what happens if there was a power outage

[@maximoesco]

💀☠️

[@Woodyandbuzzworld6308]

Characters holding a lamp in their games if the arcade,s power goes out

[@brem-]

I think that if the main power strip that lets everybody visit each other were to be unplugged or lost power, that the characters would still be "alive" but just stuck. As shown in the movie it's like a train station, when the power goes out the trains don't run anymore, when the power returns the trains run like normal again. I also think that there has to have been moments where the arcade machines are shut down, I don't believe this guy just lets the machines run day and night, imagine the electric bill. Either the arcade is so successful that he doesn't have to worry about that, or the machines actually shut down and we don't see it because we are inside the machine most of the movie.

[@Invalid-user13k]

Hmmm, interesting take. These are beautiful ways to also go dark.

[@ashlyncook5234]

What I noticed from watching this movie so much is that I don’t think anyone would die when the game gets unplugged, if they did then how did turbo live after he got unplugged? Which gives us a theory that you don’t die, your in pause, but since they take the arcade games away for repairs, maybe that’s when turbo was able to escape to sugar crush,(that’s how my theory goes since turbo was glitched in the other game and when it got unplugged, he was able to leave the game while it was being repaired, maybe sugar crush was being developed or in testing in the same plugin and he went there to take control before anyone noticed) and the reason why everyone is scared that when they get unplugged is because if a game is forever broken then what’s the point of ever plugging it back in? Which will mean that the characters in the game will be in a forever pause most likely what they think means they will die, but that’s just my theory on this movie and overall I love it!

[@Cazma_]

Wreck-It Ralph = You MUST follow the rules And NOT go turbo Ralph breaks the internet = f**k the rules you do can go turbo

[@jdogmcfly1712]

Dude i think these movies just take place in the year they were released. Thats a no brainer

[@PotsicallyCool]

Btw the first movie is set in 2012 and the second one is set in 2018

[@SpectrumMoonwaves]

0:51: Didn't Sonic say that first???

[@maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337]

Don’t forget, they can always circumvent this by using the manager’s computer to go into the internet, since that’s an option apparently

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

Excellent video I've often wondered the same things

[@maximoesco]

really means a lot, thank you so much! I always wondered too when I was a kid

[@calamaria9221]

I was about to say "I wonder what will happen if the arcade has a power outage" before you did lol.

[@KnightEclipser]

There's an official Wreck-It Ralph book that depicts a power outage, with Ralph and many other video game characters in the Game Central Station.

[@joshclark756]

so im not the only one that thought about what would happen if the arcade lost power

[@madmonkeeeeez6591]

Wait if ralph was there for 30 years and it is the 80s then wouldn’t that mean that it was made in the 50s😂🤔

[@airconditionedstudios1011]

this has to be the most braindead theory I've ever seen, the first 4 minutes I figured out when I saw the movie in theaters at 3 years old

[@CaptainGaming69]

wreck in ralph doesn't take place in the 80s it takes place in the arcade

[@programmer489]

So unplugging and getting plugged in is kinda like what happened to latso in Toy Story?

[@chocov1233]

Getting replaced by a factory reset, but withe the possibility of the new and old versions co-existing. They did the same thing with the other Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 2.

[@fivenightsatfives]

FUN FACT: I am making a WIR AU called "Closedown" where There is A WHOLE HELL LOT more games and (Such as custom ones I thought of E.G: Murder drones: the videogame) And the Arcade is closing down and everyone dies except for Ralph, Felix, And Vannellope so if you want to make a theory using this AU feel free! BUT give me credit or else I will unsubscribe.

[@qmacaulay69]

Do you have a link?

[@fivenightsatfives]

Sadly no because I just made It @@qmacaulay69

[@kainaris]

Yeah this is a plot hole. I mean you're telling me that in 30 years the power hasn't been accidentally (or intentionally for repair reasons or whatever) cut off? It's not realistic at all but like it's whatever, it's just one of those plot holes that you have to accept because there are so many ways in which they could be more realistic, and if they wanted to be 100% realistic then the movie wouldn't even exist because videogame characters aren't alive lol

[@Yayo30007]

kid proceeds to trip over the powercable, millions killed

[@AngelRodriguez64.]

How does this video not have more Likes like what the freaking banana is this

[@maximoesco]

i appreciate ur kind words angel :D 🍌

[@thef1rst1]

Well actually the first time they reference the you die outside of your game thing, is whwn ralph exits pac-man and sonic on some sort of screen says it

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

He deliberately skips the "Sonic Says" portion so he can claim the movie takes place in the 80's.

[@SANSTHEPUNMASTER-x5j]

Man really called him mister Litwok😂😂

[@LeonidJP92]

But that's just a theory... A GAME THEORY!!!

[@Seamed]

The film is not set in the 80s, the mere existence of the sonic the fighters cabinet debunks this, the owner probably just keeps the old machines around since people still play them and work fine

[@125scratch2]

it's set in 2012, the year of the film's release, as fix-it felix was released in 1982 and the game celebrates its 30th anniversary in the events of the film

[@qewdascz1839]

4:20 i think it’s also possible that the arcade machine, if unplugged and replugged, could tell that the character was inside the powerstrip so it might not generate another one of them since they’re already there

[@knellycornnan5132]

This kind of reminds me of what happens in Soma. In Soma you are playing as a character that has been cloned using the blueprint of previous person. The technology is advanced enough that you can have sapient clones of humans living in virtual worlds. Eventually you come to a part of the game where you have to bring these sapient clones to life then delete them to run simulations that could get you information.

[@SonicJrandSarah]

If the memory reset theory was true, then in Ralph Breaks the Internet, we would have two of every Sugar Rush character at the end, but we don't. If it wasn't for RBTI, I would go along with that theory.

[@torterratortellini6641]

0:50 I’m pretty sure Sonic mentioned that first.

[@dubriks9627]

This now has me wondering, has Litwak's arcade not have a single power outage over the course of 30 years? That's some good electrical service there.

[@maximoesco]

lmaoo for real

[@Greysmdl]

I like your analysis. You earned a sub.

[@clownzinaround12]

yo, what happens if a blackout happens and knocks out their power???

[@maximoesco]

💀☠️

[@Malnxxty]

if this movie takes place in the 80s, and ralph has been in the game for 30 years, then does that mean that he has been in a game since the 50s, before video games existed?

[@maximoesco]

movie takes place in the 2000s , that was my mistake, wreck it ralphs game was created in the 80s.

[@PigBoy99]

All I have to say is, if Sugar Rush was unplugged and plugged back in, King Candy would have a lot of work to do when a new Penelope appears calling herself the kingdom's Princess

[@scottbernetich4104]

Love the videos brother! Keep up the great work!

[@maximoesco]

thanks Scotf! Makes me really happy to hear that !

[@yellowwinner1]

On the topic of what unplugging does, theoretically if the characters moved to a game like Sugar Rush they might have a chance of surviving an outage. Since as you said Wreck it Ralph most likely doesn't have any kind of saving being from the 80's, Sugar Rush most almost definitely has some kind of Flash storage built into it meaning it would something like a nuclear shelter.

[@qmacaulay69]

Tho some arcade machines have battery’s that run internal clocks and stuff so who knows

[@yellowwinner1]

@@qmacaulay69 This is actually a fair point considering that's how games like Pokemon saved before affordable storage.

[@PizzaTimeFanatic]

0:50 Sonic's entire purpose in the movie was explaining this one concept and you just glossed over him.

[@maximoesco]

i'm sorry!!!

[@turboprint3d]

Imagen if the thing in controle of our universe being completly oblivious to our existence

[@ColonelA287]

This really reminds me of what Ryan George said “what would happen if something other than a video game was plugged in like if the janitor plugged a vacuum cleaner in”

[@emmitt0ther297]

This feels Ai generated somehow

[@maximoesco]

im a robot 🤖

[@metalclawsteelheart]

Fun fact, there is actually a precedent for this crossover type existence thatcall the arcade characters live. In every valve game that runs on the source engine, you're actually able to summon in items from half-life via console commands, and if you want, you can actually port over maps, weapons, even characters into other source games by simply transferring the files. We even have a version of game central station, with Gmod, which is the source engine in it's most basic form, you get 2 maps base, all the weapons from half-life, and no objective at all, and if you have other source games, you can actually import models, characters, weapons, maps, etc. Into Gmod, making Gmod a sort of hub world, allowing all of valve catalogue to band up and join together.

[@SPAnComCat]

Now I've Noticed that this Theory Might be True, Or at Least Plausible. Even though I haven't seen this Movie in Years; That Theory MADE ME T H I N K R E A L H A R D !

[@deathbrine-ht9rf]

Theres one thing you forgot: how is it possible that in 30 years, the power never ran out

[@hanro50]

My personal headcannon is that a lot of the things characters in the universe know are based on older arcade machines that rely on rom and ram. Turbo infected a more modern game (suger rush) that probably contains some amount of flash storage onboard. So, even if it is unplugged, the state gets saved. I assume, as for the main arcade. If characters don't enter a machine during the initial boot of the machine. Then they're essentially cloned, but if they do, then they essentially take the place of their original selves.

[@SonicTheBlueFastBoi]

1:46 Wait, but Sonic The Fighters came out in ‘96, and STF is one of the Arcade Games

[@rogermaio5361]

In the first movie is say sugar rush was made 1997 so by now it should by in 2006

[@macaemeia146]

This makes me realise that if this theory is true, the arcade manager must have one heck of a power bill

[@RadTroppy]

If the power strip cable was unplugged, there is one certain consequence- the arcade's fire hazard would lower tremendously.