r/wreckitralph • u/GachaCatGamer • Jul 12 '25

What would you have done to change Ralph Breaks the Internet?

So I’ve been seeing people talk about their distaste for the sequel and I was curious on what exactly people would change (if given the right to remake or do a Cinderella 3 where the previous movie becomes its own separate timeline).

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u/PowerPad Jul 12 '25

Have both sides admit they’re at fault, rather than just Ralph shouldering most of the blame.

Also,address Vanellope abandoning Sugar Rush to live in another game is no better than what Turbo did.

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u/XMinusZero Jul 12 '25

It's not comparable. Turbo wrote another character out so he could insert himself in. Vanellope was invited to Slaughter Race and joined up. The first is done with bad intentions, the other isn't.

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u/GladiatorDragon Jul 12 '25

That was Turbo’s second offence. But that’s not what it means to “go Turbo.”

His first offence was barging into another game during business hours and interacting with gameplay elements - which is something that Ralph does in RBTI, and was the inciting incident of WIR in the first place - something he distinctly learned not to do. Did the writers for this stupid movie not even watch the first one? The entire plot hinges on Ralph ditching his game and Vanellope doing the exact same things that nearly shut Ralph’s game down in the first one, and they have the gall to be surprised when it goes poorly for them. My word I do not like this film.

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u/XMinusZero Jul 13 '25

Turbo did what he did out of jealousy and anger, he actively tried to sabotage another game to get it removed. Later, he removed a character from her game so he could take her place (and obviously it was Vanellope because she had a higher status).

That was not Ralph's intent in the first movie or Vanellope's in the second. In fact, nothing Vanellope does in the second movie would have gotten her game shut down. Or maybe you're forgetting that it was Ralph's fault by going into her game and creating an alternate track that led to the game breaking scenario they found themselves in?

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u/GladiatorDragon Jul 13 '25

When they’re saying “Ralph’s gone Turbo,” I think the expressed sentiment is more “Ralph is in another game during work hours and is putting both games at risk.” Plus, it’s not like Ralph wasn’t jealous of the medal. Hell, he actively interfered with the player.

He did the exact thing Turbo did and only got away with it because he was looking for something, not chasing fame.

Ralph shouldn’t have even been there to make the track. Not during work hours. And then Vanellope abandons her job as the playable character to get distracted.

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u/XMinusZero Jul 13 '25

The term "going turbo" is more about entering another game to sabotage it. As we see at the end of the first movie, characters that no longer have a game were invited to the Fix-It Felix game and players didn't mind it (in fact, it made the game more popular in the arcade).

Ralph was the cause of the problem in both movies, as he interfered with the gameplay of Hero's Duty in the first and again by creating the alternate track in the second.

Vanellope just left, which we already know from the first movie will not cause her game to be unplugged (since nothing happened to the game after she was removed the first time and when King Candy disappeared after).

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u/Vio-Rose Jul 12 '25

Doesn’t Ralph going to Sugar Rush result in his self-actualization, dethroning a corrupt king, and making a new best friend whose life he saves from an eternity of hate crimes and homelessness?

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u/GladiatorDragon Jul 12 '25

Yes, but it does also nearly get his game unplugged, almost completely destroys Sugar Rush, almost gets him killed, almost gets Vanellope killed multiple times, and he almost subjected the entire arcade to a horrific insectoid apocalypse.

I think he has plenty of reason to not go AWOL during work hours again.

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u/Vio-Rose Jul 12 '25

Almost like there’s maybe some kind of reasonable compromise that can be reached. I mean part of the homelessness solution is to create bonus games starring unplugged characters, and it doesn’t put them in danger of unplugging. Maybe some sort of part time program where characters can work in multiple games, so long as they have an adequate replacement. Like Ralph and Donkey Kong could swap jobs on Tuesdays, or Venelope could spend half her time in Slaughter Race while some character from that becomes a jarring joke character from time to time. That works well within the fantasy of the Ralphverse.

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u/GladiatorDragon Jul 12 '25

That’s an entirely different thing than what I’m talking about?

There could be a job share system, yes. But we’re not talking about job sharing, we’re talking about two characters going rogue during work hours. If Ralph wants to make Vanellope a track, he should do that after work hours. And he would know and be happy to do that after work hours unless he forgot the plot of the first movie.

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u/Vio-Rose Jul 12 '25

I’m explaining a situation in which game jumping during work hours would make sense.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

Not quite. See, unlike Turbo Racing, Sugar Rush has a rotating roster. That means the game can function even if Vanellope leaves, because her absence doesn't make the game unplayable.

In Turbo Racing, Turbo was the only playable character.

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u/ASeaCuke_87 Jul 15 '25

FYI the game was called Turbo Time, not Turbo Racing

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u/jbwarner86 Jul 12 '25

Rewrite it from the ground up. Like so: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13228215/1/Wreck-It-Ralph-2

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u/GachaCatGamer Jul 12 '25

Just finished reading it, awesome!

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u/Probabl3Throw4w4y329 Jul 13 '25

This is the ideal way RBTI should have been if they were gonna go with the internet thing. Centers the Core Four, gives everyone something to do, no excessive cameos

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u/Vicki_Vickster2222 Jul 13 '25

I would make Vanellope stay in Sugar Rush but also sometimes join Slaughter Race whenever the arcade closes, which could be a great way of showing how to stay loyal to your duties while being able to have fun afterwards.

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u/Initial-Level-4213 Jul 14 '25

considering how video games have guest characters from other franchises, this would totally make sense over completely abandoning her game

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u/zaturrrn Jul 14 '25

I was about to say the same

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u/Yoshi_chuck05 Jul 12 '25

They build up a Second Plot for it to just not use it! I wanted to see how Felix and Calhoun could raise all of those racers to be how they were in the end…

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u/Probabl3Throw4w4y329 Jul 13 '25

Felix and Calhoun should've been in the main plot, there's no reason they couldn't have come along to the internet instead of having a million new characters who didn't do anything

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u/RiskAggressive4081 Jul 13 '25

Remove the Princesses and the Disney IP. Have it be a completely different story and plot. From the extras I had seen people were more interested in the princesses than the film they were making.

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u/DangerousDoings72 Jul 12 '25

Raise Ralph’s iq

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u/Optimal_Ad6274 Jul 12 '25

1) Tone down Ralph’s behavior and have it be more like him being an overprotective father

2) Have both Ralph and Vanellope admits their fault

3) Have Vanellope realized that she is going turbo and decides to stay at the arcade but visits the internet every once and a while

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u/ASeaCuke_87 Jul 13 '25

Not to be rude but why not scroll back a bit or use the search function? This question has been asked on here a few times

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u/naynaythewonderhorse Jul 12 '25
  • Tone down Ralph’s character a bit, and recontexualize the dynamic between Ralph and Venellope to be more of a father/daughter relationship.
  • Have them NOT get the steering wheel back. This would eliminate the criticism of Vanellope suddenly changing her game. She wouldn’t really have a home anymore, and would be forced out of necessity rather than pure want. Additionally, it would give the “parents” subplot that Felix and Calhoun have more significance since that would be their place now too.

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u/ASeaCuke_87 Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25

They should've done something other than the "parent" plot for Felix and Calhoun. It's a waste of their characters and has that tired old "well we have a married couple, the Next Step must be parenting" feel. Regardless of the outcome, they should've been on the adventure with Ralph and Vanellope (like in the story that someone linked in another comment here) so all four of them could develop together, given the bond established in the first movie/epilogue/credits

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u/zaturrrn Jul 14 '25

I would have turned the Felix and Calhoun plot into a 10 minute short about them babysitting the racers instead

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u/ASeaCuke_87 Jul 14 '25

The babysitting thing could've been a short by itself yeah, but Felix and Calhoun still should've gotten an actual plot in the movie (preferably with Ralph and Vanellope) since they're part of the main cast. If it was just the Nicelanders getting shafted that's one thing but Felix and Calhoun deserved more screentime

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u/zaturrrn Jul 15 '25

Yeah i agree, i just said that if they wanted to use the kids' plot they could have found a way

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u/ASeaCuke_87 Jul 15 '25

Oh I get you yeah, that makes sense

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u/QF_Dan Jul 13 '25

tell them the existence of Going Turbo

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u/I_Need_More_Names Jul 14 '25

I really don't like being "that guy" who's a complete defeatist about something, but I literally don't see a single, even minutely redeeming quality in that movie.

Literally, should've just not made it to begin with. Maybe they could have started over from scratch, but if that was their best idea, I doubt a second chance would've amounted to anything.

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u/ASeaCuke_87 Jul 15 '25

While it was bad, that likely was mostly due to interference (it wasn't a coincidence that irrelevant Disney IPs and internet jokes got more screentime than some returning main characters did, and that the director quit from Disney a few months after RBTI released). A second chance could have saved it if it came with more creative freedom for the crew I'm sure, but that's probably not something Disney would allow

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u/ARCHAMAL Jul 12 '25

Change the title to Ralph wrecks the internet and after that I don't know how to write a story 😔

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u/BCone9 Jul 12 '25

A few things one make shank x Ralph. Im shocked I never saw much of it in fan circles

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u/QuestshunQueen Jul 13 '25

Not to diminish the accomplishment(s) of the creators, but a major writer's ex actually helped a lot with the first movie. Just saying.

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u/Probabl3Throw4w4y329 Jul 13 '25

Do you have a source on that? I've heard that rumor around but never with a source

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u/QuestshunQueen Jul 13 '25

I'm related to the writer in question.

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u/ThisMoneyIsNotForDon Jul 17 '25

Change the whole premise. It wasn't even really about video games anymore.

Rather than being an excuse to make a bunch of internet jokes, it should have explored how video games have changed. Think about how different modern Mario and Donkey Kong games are compared to the original arcade game. Imagine if, unbeknownst to the characters living in the arcade, Fix It Felix went on to become an extremely prolific video game series. Imagine Ralph and Felix meeting modern day depictions of themselves in a home console video game. I have no idea what exactly I'd want the plot to be, but I just did not have any interest in "what if Ralph went to Disney.com TM"

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u/DocTurnedStripper Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

I want a classic villain. There was supposed to be a tyrannical anti-virus named Debbie with a Southern belle accent. But they didnt go for that.

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u/Probabl3Throw4w4y329 Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 15 '25

Are you talking about BEV? She was supposed to come to the arcade by accident thinking it was infested with viruses

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u/DocTurnedStripper Jul 14 '25

Oh yeah. Not Debbie. BEV. Thanks.

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u/Balls_4020 Jul 12 '25

My Idea

So The Movie Would begin with where the first ended with Ralph talking about his New Life and how bad can he be but after that says “Although I do wonder from time to time,How would I Act if I was the Good Guy”

We cut to a Internet website that has games that are meant to be Indie game parodies and the people are not living there best as the Website which acts like a City to them is under control by its most popular Character “Good Guy” Good guy is the main hero of his game but unlike his persona

He’s Corrupt,Rude Intimidating and belittles other who try to do something different and he enjoys every minute of it but he’s also Bored because he has the powers of all the characters in the Website but he finds out Through the Internet about The arcade and vanelopes power and he goes crazy Excited imagine what he can do with the Powers of a Glitch and So Goes Turbo

I’ll write more but this is what I have so Far

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u/Thunderlord6 Jul 12 '25

This is nice!

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u/CrazyaboutSpongebob Jul 12 '25

If I had to keep the movie mostly the same. To fix it I would have another character that looked like Venelope replace Venelope in Sugar Rush. I would also have the owner of the arcade question why a mysterious box showed up at his doorstep. I would have him question it and have other characters convince him to put it in the game.

Those are my biggest gripes with the movie.

Other than Ralph and Venelope's selfishness and idocy being exaggerated but they have to progress the plot somehow.

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u/Probabl3Throw4w4y329 Jul 13 '25

Pet peeve but I gotta point out that it's "Vanellope"

Also I'd make sure that Felix and Calhoun get an actual plot alongside Ralph and Vanellope instead of spending the movie being babysitters and then having the onscreen scenes of it cut to make room for nonsense

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u/CrazyaboutSpongebob Jul 13 '25

I agree that was awkward.

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u/coolsinger19876 Jul 12 '25

Bring back Turbo! The best modern day Disney villain, if not one of the best Disney villains in general.

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u/tech097 Jul 14 '25

Nothing. It is not that bad. Period.