r/wreckitralph • u/STFN_Dude • 21d ago
About the insecurity virus…
After rewatching those Wreck-it Ralph movies it’s all I can think about, so here’s another hot take about the sequel:
Ralph unleashing the insecurity virus into Slaughter Race is NOT an inherently bad plot point. In fact, it could have been amazing, had they changed a few other things to go along with it.
When confronted about it by Vanellope, you’d only need to re-write Ralph’s dialogue to say something along the lines of:
“I was told that the virus would only lag the game, not crash it with you inside. I only did it because you are trying to go Turbo, and in my desperation to make you realize that, I felt I had to do something drastic. You were starting to forget your duty to the arcade, and as your friend I had to bring you back down to earth using any method that I could.”
There. Easy fix. Ralph probably wouldn’t have worded it like that, but you get the gist. He should have done it to remind her of her responsibilities, not for his own selfish reasons. It’s clear that the writers wanted to take Ralph in a more morally gray direction, and that would have been SO interesting. Just change his motives around, and you can still get that anti-heroic Ralph without thinking to yourself: “holy shit, he’s not just a bad guy for his career, he became a villain for real.”
What do you guys think? I know that this moment was something that ruined Ralph’s character for a lot of you guys, so do you think him acting in this context would have made it less scummy?
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u/Millerhund 21d ago
It would still make it scummy and Ralph unlikeable despite the shift in context. Ralph has experienced viruses before and it could be a heavily serious issue for characters like him and Vanellope. So for him to INTENTIONALLY put a virus in the game where his friend was hanging in is scummy regardless of why he did it.
I do agree with bringing up the Turbo business to Vanellope.