since sonic movies came out (and I fell in love with them) I was ashamed to admit the same thing - that I only discovered sonic through Wreck it Ralph xd I was really into mlp as a kid so my hyperfixation went there xd
One thing I noticed: "What are you, the guy that makes the donuts?" might take him off-guard because... the turbotime track is one loop. Turbo DID make donuts, or at least perform them. He WAS the guy that did the donuts.
Also, a common victory celebration in racing is to do donuts while burning out. Since Turbo was all about winning, and from his game, it seems like he was routinely the winner, he must've done an awful lot of donuts.
Also, the fact that the cops are donuts may add to this, because he did (symbolically) make the donuts. Lemme explain: He took away all source of memory for all the characters in sugar rush, and since King Candy was the only source of power and information, he was able to make the donuts into his loyal henchman without the donut cops suspecting a thing. Thus, this now not only has a double meaning, but a TRIPPLE MEANING: Ralph just being mad at King Candy and insulting him, a reference to the donut track from Turbo’s original game, AND the fact that King Candy did, in fact, figuratively “make the donuts”, because he molded them into being what he wanted them to be - and therefore “making the donuts” into something else. Also, another foreshadowing reference in plain sight :)
imagine how horrifying it would be thinking king candy is a real character and the NEXT DAY.hes gone.and you figure out by social media that bro wasnt even a character in the main game
And also Vanellope is there again, like, you talk to your friends about this weird character named King Candy that is so out of place for Sugar Rush because he is a bald grown man while all the other characters are children and mostly girls and they are like "what are you talking about? the leader of Sugar Rush is Princess Vanellope Von Schweetz, everyone knows this" and then the next day they go to the arcade and Vanellope is finally in the roster with King Candy nowhere to be seen and you are treated like crazy. Also Vanellope has a different appearance, but this is maybe a secret skin someone activated and now is there permanently.
@@nickrustyson8124Except that, Polybius was ALSO present in the Wreck-It-Ralph universe! In the intro sequence, when the yeas pass by until present day, you can see the Polybius arcade cabinet there at one point
omg and the fact that when they throw their coins in, for literally everyone it’s some unseen announcer voice, except for king candy, who’s name is read out in his voice, and he’s the only person that this happens with, like he had to add the voice line in himself
I would theorise that King Candy's enlarged code box isn't just to represent ego but because it's full of spaghetti-code: it's hugely ineffecient and runs badly because he is not a programmer.
Or, that since he was programmed on a older system, with different specifications (those old cabinets have boards bigger than modern laptops), there was a need for an emulator to be added.
I thought it was also enlarged because he put so much stuff in it. like it's "bloated" because he keeps taking things from other places and putting it in his own code so he can have it for himself
It's perceived as comical until you see the bigger picture....he resents her for being a younger character who has everything before she begins her life since she's a princess of a kingdom with her own race track that's a thousand times bigger than his race track ever was It's really no different than Scar from "The Lion King" wanting to kill off Simba so he can take over the throne He resents this pure child for having everything he's strived for
It might seem a bit obvious, but i just realized the reason Ralph dislikes chocolate is probably because it reminds him of the mud he was thrown in day after day.
It’s funny, this kinda comes around at the end of the movie too. Ralph says he loves chocolate when he lands in it at the end, by the time he’s come to terms with his role and to love himself for who he is.
One thing I always think about when rewatching the movie is that if Turbo had only like, even pretended to care about Venelope, he might've never lost. Like if he had just given her a home, and told her "You cannot race due to being a glitch, but here, have a comfortable house, your own side track to race on" and told the citizens to treat her with respect, he would've won. All he had to do is not be a prick!
@@iceheap9422 I mean, there is no reason she couldn't race with the other racers off the clock for fun. He just needed to keep her off the roster while the arcade is open, like a curfew.
Could've even made her "princess" thus created loyalty through paternal love of his poor disabled daughter who only races on special after hours events. It'd been hard for her to turn to Ralph against her own dad.
PLUS: he could've just done what Q'bert did at the end of the movie and be included on Vanellope's behalf. He could've just ASKED to be included! But no, he didn't his narcissism had the better of him and he had to make himself king.
It's better when you realize Turbo only did this to the one Sugar Rush unit. Meaning, there is exactly one unit that had a character, King Candy, who exists in no other copies of the game, cannot be found by rom-hacking, and the developers have zero notes about this character. King Candy is a living creepypasta in this setting and should be bringing in more business of people who just want to see the character who doesn't exist.
I really love this, and I never thought of it that way. I kinda wish this was a little more of a concept in the movie. Even if it was just a passing comment by the two kids shown playing it at one point.
I had a start on this thought but didn't think through it fully, that's actually fucking amazing to think about. Imagine someone hacked a arcade unit do add oddities like this, to freak people out and get rumors spreading. If it didn't happen, this might as well inspire someone.
that's what i kept thinking about too! the devs obviously didn't add him so i would love to see their point of view on it. cause by 2012 idk how they wouldn't have heard about it
As a passionate game modder, King Candy is one of my favorite villains of all time because he is both a game modder and a modded game character. -Often when a new character is modded into a game, they feel out of place, like King Candy in the pink throne room or being an old guy among a lot of young characters. -Code in game mods are often excessive and inefficient compared to the main game, which would explain his massive code box -Modded characters are generally modified versions of existing characters and if the mod breaks, the character reverts to its vanilla counterpart. Such as King Candy reverting to Turbo when he touches Vanelope -Many racing games have limited character slots, so modded characters have to replace an existing character. Like what King Candy did to Vanelope
I rewatched this movie with my partner and sitting there listening Venelope SOB HER EYES OUT at Ralph for destroying her cart was STOMACH CHURNING?? This movie is honestly super peak and one of the best movies disney’s released in a hot minute besides Encanto.
It’s like a living creepy pasta, imagin being a player and telling you friends like “you played sugar rush yet? king candy is the absolute best character.” Only for someone who never played it before to play after the fix and go “..:you mean Vanillapea??? Cus there’s no king candy-“ Then you go back and play and it’s as if he NEVER existed.
"Ralph... You're not going Turbo, are you?" You ever notice how he holds back a smile when he says that? You can see the dimples start to form at multiple points in that sentence and there are a few frames where the corners of his mouth are turned upwards.
@@GayAnnabeth You could think of it that way. Or he's secretly proud that someone else is following in his footsteps, even if he's wary of those footsteps leading to where the game he's in now. Notice how King Candy only commented on the game jumping after Ralph mentioned Hero's Duty, not with the fact that he's in Sugar Rush. Might lend some credence to this.
something i've always loved about this movie is how "going turbo" is such a normalised phrase in this universe that turbo himself says his own name like it's a slur. the way that the man who started the entire thing is using it as a shield to hide behind when ralph finally does it is such a great choice imo. he pretends to hate the concept when in reality he is the sole reason it even exists
it reminds me of the term "going postal" which originates from a series of mass murders by United States Postal Service (USPS) workers in the 1980s and is now associated with being angry in the workplace.
@kribby…if that’s true then the title of the Discworld book makes a lot more sense now…though the postal service workers were the ones being murdered, not the ones doing the murdering. At least from what I’ve heard.
@kribby wasnt it based off of the game postal?? the one that was controversial for going on a mass shooting spree in game and iirc even included school kids in the first iteration??
This video has single-handedly made me realize I DONT have to be incredibly formal in a video essay and that the one thing holding me back (struggling to express myself without being unserious) isn’t actually holding me back and I CAN make that Folly regretevator analysis video. Thank you random TH-camr for giving me 2 hours of interesting content a new appreciation and a new hobby now that I know I am allowed to
I think what scares me most about the reveal of Turbo's Cybug form is the fact that he's laughing and giggling throughout the ENTIRE FIGHT. He's absolutely *ECSTATIC* to be in a form where he could truly be the perfect virus he always wanted to be, and all he can do is just laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
I had an awful fear of this movie because of Cybug King Candy. Watching the end of the movie for the first time horrified little me beyond belief. That smug bastard
The best part was when he gets defeated by the Cybug's own nature. His laughter stops, warning the Cybugs to not go to the light, only to then fall into it while part of him tries to resist... and then he dies screaming.
I also like to think he’s he happy that he gets to push Ralph around, when throughout the movie he was always intimidated by Ralph’s size. Also excited with his new form because it means that if can bully Ralph, he can bully anyone in the arcade
We need more twist villains where the twist isn’t that they're a villain, the twist is that their motives are different. Like, Turbo is so great just because you think he's just a silly guy who wants to be the best racer in a candythemed game. But then you find out he wants to be the best racer, period, and he'll hurt/kill anyone to do it. I will forever be tormented by the fact that Hans from Frozen would be a better villain if we knew he wanted power from the start. We think he's a sleazy dude, but then we find out hes willing to kill to get what he wants
DOR-15 from Meet the Robinsons is also another good example of what you are talking about (as at first she seems to be just a villainous sidekick for Bowler Hat Guy when in actuality she was just using him as a pawn to brainwash and enslave the city).
Something else I'd like to add is that: If you actually go through his monologue scene frame by frame, you can actually see his King Candy disguise have SQUARE EYES in some frames, as if in the heat of the moment, he forget where his disguise ends and his real self begins. anyway YAYYYYY GREAT VIDEO
"The kart Vanellope stole was left behind by.... uh...." Me who memorised all the Sugar Rush racers when I was 12: "I am ten parallel universes ahead of you"
naming all the Sugar Rush racers by heart is my party trick, and by "party trick" i mean "proof i'm not neurotypical and never was, even at age 12." i wanted Sugar Rush to be a real game SO BAD.
@@TheWayOfTheWott Literally. I used to be obsessed with wreck it ralph because of sugar rush. Disney dropped the ball when it comes to the official sugar rush games and other wreck it ralph games they released. We should've gotten sugar rush on the 3ds
The most terrifying part of King Candy’s deception isn’t that he fooled an entire game but that he fooled an entire arcade for 15 years when the main character of the game is on the side of the machine in the same car he drives. Any player could have gone to another arcade with the machine in it and have a very real chance to find Vanellope playable in that arcade with no King Candy in sight. Players would be digging around majorly about this mysterious character. One more side note notice how Turbo’s alias also does not fit in with the other racers’ elaborate names based off of candy, it’s just one more tiny detail to point out this massive lie.
Maybe they thought it was an arg meant for the played to figure out why there’s only one king candy character or they thought it was a bug and liked it
I think the whole "new racers daily" gimmick of sugar rush and the rotating roster of characters did a lot to cover king candy's tracks. You'd have to have played two different consoles multiple times each over different days to notice anything was amiss
How dumb IS turbo to not realise he still exists in other arcades though? He knows how to code he can hack his own consciousness into a different turbo, but NO he chooses the ‘ruin a 9 year old girls life for 15 years because she cant code like you’
My favorite part about the king candy manipulation scene, is that the logic he's using is actually good logic, which hides the lies more. Sure, we know the gamers end up loving her, but the idea that they would hate the glitching and the game would get unplugged is a very real possibility, maybe even the more likely one. And we know that Vanelope really can't leave, even if her glitching is artificially created by him. It's all things that are, pretty much true, and lies close to the truth are always more believable.
I love this because they could've gone with the whole "Ralph is a dumb meathead who can be easily manipulated" thing (cough cough Wreck it Ralph 2) but they didn't. It makes total sense that Ralph would believe what King Candy said in that scene and be so fearful of it that he would sabotage his best friend
I believed King Candy when I first saw that scene. And when I rewatch Wreck it Ralph I skip both the manipulation scene and the cart break scene because it hurts to much. 😭
one subtle thing that you also dont notice unless you're really paying attention to his whole speech about her being a glitch and shutting the game down, king candy calls the other characters and npcs in sugar rush his "subjects", when referring to the machine being unplugged and everyone going homeless. it's at around 1:04:19
I just realized the 'The guy who makes donuts' line from Ralph was a double entendre, because Donut, the sweet, and Donut, the driving Maneuver that's usually done to show off, which Turbo/King Candy does in fact do a lot of.
saw someone describe this video as “your friend infodumping to you on a random night about a hyper specific topic” and i literally cannot get it out of my head because that IS what it feels like and im living for it
@@mariogirl8100 aight boys, girls, and everyone who knows better, share your topic of hyperfixation that you can talk about for hours! mine is the Ace Attorney franchise!
@@mistdoesstuff for more stupid that It may be 2 Years Ago i created a ttrpg campaign doing my own take on tokusatsus (having never truly watched one and knowing only The classic cliches) and even sounding like a recipe for disaster. me and my friends managed to create a story Full of Lore and even a freaking enemy's to lovers arcs and cosmic beings with family issues. (Not joking) And It was when i noticed that This was my creation i learned: "I might be cringe, but i'm free" Is it even possible having a autistic hyperfixation on your own creation?
@@mistdoesstuff oof i feel It. I'm gaining courage to learn Art exclusively to make these characters come to life. Years i said: "my medic told me i had bad physical coordenation, Theres no way i can learn to Draw or-" **And then i discovered my favorite artist suffer from a brain disability that makes then with extreme difficulties and pain To use their arms yet they have godtier drawing skills...** I basically got a slap in The face and decided to stop being a massive coward XD
FUN FACT: As king candy he talks with a lisp, but when he goes back to turbo and when his secret is revealed, he losses the lisp. I think that’s cool little detail, and it shows just how thought out his plan was where he even put on a new voice.
omg I just listened to the voices back to back. Its true. Although he loses it its not a complete loss. From what I hear, he has a subtle lisp left with the rest of his speech being rather normal for the most part.
@@RandomDragonEXEprobably a bit of a remnant from the time he spent in the voice. Although I’m guessing the voice actor might just have a bit of a lisp himself
I just gotta point out something i noticed. King Candy's nose in comparison to Turbo is humongous, and as a result, after watching the whole movie and seeing him with it over and over, the sudden shift to Turbo's more comparatively normal looking nose, it genuinely makes Turbo's face look even more like a skull, as if his nose is missing entirely despite it being there.
One detail that has haunted me from this movie, even back from when I watched it as a kid, is actually the flashback to calhoun's wedding, which actually foreshadows Turbo's transformation. In Calhoun's flashback, her husband isn't just killed by the bugs, but EATEN by them, which can imply that he transformed into a bug, even further horrifically implying that Calhoun was forced to kill her own husband (or whatever was left of him). The idea of having to see someone you love get changed into something almost entirely unrecognizable - a monster you are trained to fight and kill, and ultimately have no option but kill them for survival, or even as an act mercy for the other person by freeing them from this change -actually just broke my 10-year old brain Of course, this hinges entirely on the assumption that the bugs' "change into what they eat" nature applies to people, and Turbo isn't the exception but the rather the rule, but this has always been my assumption. idk just a terrifying detail that often gets overlooked
@@IsaacRondina best part is how the fact the bug isn't shown after eating the guy both works to leaving that thought for imagination, which can do much more terrifying visuals than any horrible transformation in a family movie, AND how it doesn't give spoilers about how king candy would come back later after being eaten Just the doubt of "wait, the monsters transform into what they eat… will he…?" is already perfect enough
This basically gives the whole, "Dynamite Gal" a new meaning because Calhoun had her gun out for awhile as she shot at the CyBug, meaning that her now Cybug Husband probably said that to her in that monstrous form adding to her trauma with such a phrase and that's just disturbing to imagine....😃👌
What's worse is that in this interactive Hero's Duty comic app, we learn that Brad Scott (Calhoun's dead husband) was the creator of the cy-bugs, and he didn't intend for them to be modified for violent/military use (they were supposed to be sort of like robotic pets)
Also:The argument the King Candy constructed bears *uncanny resemblance* to the story *HE* went through: When he started racing (in Roadblaster), players saw him (along with entire game) glitching out, umplugging the game forever. He used his own experience to construct the skeleton of the argument.
Uhm...HELLO THERE BIRD CREATURE??? The video is amazing, and am moreso very excited by amount of details other commenters point out bringing even more attention and detail to this amazing analysis. EDIT:I also realized him talking about glitches not being able to leave can come from his interaction with Roadblaster...likely seeing characters from the game being unable to leave. *Much like someone else we know*
I believe it's implied Felix absolutely knew Turbo personally in the past because he makes subtle indications when explaining to Calhoun. When he says that Turbo loved the attention, you can hear him stress/draw out the "loved" part in a disgusted and exasperated tone since you can imagine how much Turbo would brag constantly. And then again when he mentioned Turbo's jealousy, he specifically remarks "oh boy was he jealous" in a low whisper as if he witnessed first-hand his friend's fury towards Road Blasters. I can imagine that Felix and Turbo became acquaintances at first but it slowly became a one-sided relationship because of Turbo's egotistical personality. Turbo would be that one person who just goes on and on about himself, making the conversation about him, or rant about his life while the handyman would just politely endure it all. Felix likely grew increasingly frustrated at Turbo's pride and self-centered ego that he distanced himself or broke it off. Maybe that could have sparked the racer's downfall... who knows. I hope they made a tragic backstory for these two, it's clear Felix knows a lot more than he seems.
Hi I've been autistic about this movie since I was a kid and now I can't stop coming back to your video every couple days (Actually rewatching it right now while I'm making a Turbo plushie) and I love. everything about your dissection of him. This vulgar little goblin has been making himself comfy in my brain for god knows how long and your analysis brings everything I love about him to light. His skull motif/connections to death, how he's been hiding out as a little parasite in a game so different to his own for 15 years with somehow no one clocking him, and so many other factors are things I hadn't even /considered/ during my first hyperfix on the movie, so I'm gonna pay it forward and give something /I/ noticed on my most recent rewatch with my boyfriend In the Kart-baking minigame, Vanellope chooses a base model that's incredibly similar in both design and colour scheme to Turbo's original cart. It's small and thin, the back wheels are significantly larger than the front, there's a spoiler on the back, and its pattern is horizontally striped red and white. I love to speculate that Turbo actually coded his own cart into the game himself, because like you said, he just can't let things go. He probably thought it was a little too risky to drive it around himself, though- So he hid it as more of an easter egg for himself, with the potential that other Players could choose his own cart to race with even if he wasn't chosen or hadn't made it onto the rosta that day The fact that Vanellope chose that cart in particular is honestly just another layer of icing on the irony cake (heheheheh) in my eyes because my mans was overtaken by Vanellope while driving a messy, disorganized version of the very cart he dragged back from the grave with him.. Also some more foreshadowing to Turbo being King Candy COMPLETE speculation on my end, I just enjoy thinking about how this terrible old man stole a 9 year old's cart only for her to steal his old cart and competitively wreck his shit with it
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WAIT ALSO MY OWN THING I NOTICED that turbo graffiti in the station for sugar rush, while it looks skeletal and absolutely unsettling, is actually a negative image!!!! if you flip the shades, turns out it literally is turbo's face as a drawing, but inverted for some reason?? i found that so fascinating that its like a little neat decal too compared to the low effort or messy graffiti surrounding it... i like to think he made it, but a better question is if he drew it himself or made it out of a singular asset he managed to save from the roadblasters incident? considering he does literally have icon art for KC in sugar rush's minimap (its very on style!) and the code node has its own little icon too, maybe turbo actually was pretty damn good at drawing, and both drew the graffiti itself, then later improved when emulating sugar rush's internal art style!! its really fun to think about
You know what I hate about the sequel? They had such a great opportunity to confront a fact from the first movie: there are millions of versions of all of these characters, as there are arcades everywhere around the world. There is no way Ralph wouldn't have come across iterations of himself, or Vanellope, having an identity crisis. Doesn't that sound like a better conflict than the weird obsessive thing we got?
Would've been interesting to see if there are versions of Ralph who relishes in being the bad guy, versions of Felix who is the one tired of the same routine, or perhaps the excessive praise, and versions of Vanellope that are what the programming meant for her to be at first aka a regular princess
@@DuskoolOooh imagine the jealousy especially that last point would produce, Venellope seeing another version of her live the life she never got to live, the life that was SUPPOSED to be her's. I would've loved to see something like that being explored
Maybe the small arcade could have been bought out, and the arcade games are brought to another larger arcade with multiple copies of games. Perhaps they could have a copy of Turbo’s game, and this copy of turbo has to wrestle not with only with the fact that there are copies of him, but what that copy did.
@anonomooose Imagine being some alternate Turbo who's fairly well adjusted and then these new games get brought in and you find out that their slang for game-jumping is literally your name
1:33:30 No, no cut that out TURBO IS A CREEPYPASTA, he literally breaks games and lives, and has split frames where he breaks the fourth wall and tricks the audience, players, characters and the mechanics of the games! He's creepy, ghostly, sickly unlike his arcade painted design and associated with skulls and red colors. He's a living urban legend in the arcade! Turbo is an official disney creepypasta story! You're onto It!
1:58:26 Ayo they got kurene calcium's hatsune miku infection bug eye ball game going on here. Even the bone jaw and the mandibles are there! Horror vocaloid King Candy when? Ending sequence was hype.
Some other scary stuff in my mind about King Candy/Turbo and what ifs: He didn't really die. (In the end) He's code, he's bound to return. He'll truly become the most powerful virus, that we'll never get rid off. Him being trapped won't do anything. He'll break out. Even if he's trapped in an USB. He'll become a digital spirit like entity. Even possessing scrap and electronics. His essence will live on. (Why he might be the perfect digimon antagonist?:) He'll maybe become an eater-like entity (eaters are from digimon cyber sleuth), or even like Diaboromon (a powerful virus digimon of free type, who rose back from the dead, like Myotismon). Not even the power of Omnimon and Alphamon and other Royal Knights would stop him. (Although Beelzemon Blast Mode has Corona Blaster, which disintegrates anything and Omnimon X has "All Delete") Struggle, victory, but a false sense of safety, since he'll always come back! He might even become a prime soul! Is it his determination or adaptability? It's just my fear from him from my alternate thoughts. Sorry for long comment.
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As an artist who loves obscure game info, I've always wondered HOW Turbo was able to change his appearance. My closest guess is that he found the King Candy character deep within the games files, like a husk because he's a deleted character with no important code attached to him. A looooot of games have a bunch of unused assets, from characters to whole ass world maps. It'd also explain why Candy has a codeable node in the game to begin with. Which would make Turbo even more of a parasite, because he didn't even make his own disguise, he's wearing a dead body. A dead body filled with spaghetti code. ...maybe I'm just overthinking it.
Could Turbo have taken bits and pieces of the appearances of other characters in Sugar Rush to build his new appearance? Venelope created a new outfit for her, did she not? So, Turbo could have done the same(ish).
Has to be that way. His code box is named "King Candy" and not "Turbo," and if Turbo could port his code from his home game, then he would likely be able to respawn in Sugar Rush. I definitely believe Turbo just heavily modified an existing node, whatever it was.
@@Randomalistic i love how everyone talks about turbo like he’s herobrine except felix who’s like the only person who told the story more like a sad tragedy cause he knew him better than most people being his cabinet neighbor. The way he tells the story is a lot more sympathetic and despite the visuals on screen he never describes him with any truly terrible traits, saying that he “loved the attention” rather than just saying he was egotistical, prefacing that he was upset and jealous as a reason for why he game jumped rather than just skipping to the part where he committed this unforgivable sin or whatever. And the cherry on top is he’s the only one to acknowledge that it was sad that (they thought) he died. It’s been so long since turbo was around that his story was just stripped down to a cautionary fable about a bad man who did a bad thing. It’s sweet that felix still saw him as a person, even if he doesn’t really deserve it. felix is too good for this world bro 😭😭😭
@@Randomalistic oh but i have more mweheheheh……. bc i think felix might have actually understood more than anybody why turbo did that. Turbo time and fix it felix were theoretically plugged in at roughly the same time, since they were both there when the arcade first opened. felix said specifically that when the arcade *first* opened, turbo time was the most popular game. on opening, turbo time was immediately the best game and the talk of the town. now. think about this. some characters like calhoun are programmed in with intricate backstories and previous life experiences from before they were plugged in. but lets be honest here, those characters in the earlier games that didn’t really have lore definitely didnt have anything that complicated. felix’s backstory for example is that he got a magic hammer from his dad and now he helps fix this building. thats it. he never lived anywhere else, he’s never known anyone else. thats it. its why he’s calling ralph “brother” by the end of the movie. these people who were created with him in the game are far more tangible than his “real,” programmed in family. or just. hypothetical dad really. the vast majority of his identity comes from the real life he lived after the game was plugged in. so now (get ready) consider: what happens when you take a character with virtually no pre-programmed identity other than being a racer, and then the literal moment the game is played for the first time, the first thing he ever does, he gets told that he’s #1. the main character. the winner. the BEST game in the arcade is the one with his name in it and his pictures (and his pictures ONLY) plastered on every side. its really no surprise he’d base his self worth off of attention and superiority because that *is* his self. its all he ever was from the moment he began existing, and if he isn’t that, then what is he? god forbid he isnt racing either if his games not being played. turbo time going out of fashion completely undermines turbo as a person, and since hes the type of person who gets angry instead of sad, seeing another game essentially usurp his place and his identity as “the best” would completely engulf him with jealous rage. this isnt like going up to someone and telling them youre better at something they do, its like going up to someone and telling them that youre better at *being them* and that theyre obsolete because of it. THATS why turbo was driven to such extents as trying to take over the other game. (side note: you could also use this point to argue that turbo does to other people what he thinks was done to him: having your very place in existence usurped, and replaced by an intruder) now think about this from felix or ralphs perspective, but especially felix, since turbo apparently frequented the penthouse and got invited over by. presumably felix. felix is a nice guy who genuinely tries his best to empathize with people. i wouldn’t be surprised if he saw this happening and deliberately tried to make friends with turbo to try and get him to form some kind of sense of self outside of the popularity of his game. however, this (obviously) didnt work. i know this is like reaching now but like hear me out cause why would felix keep inviting turbo back when he had a presumably bad rap with the nicelanders due to his lack of manners and egotistical personality. why else would felix deliberately hang out with someone like that?? felix is an upstanding citizen he knows rudeness when he sees it. i think felix was trying to help before it was too late. and failed. perchance. 😼 (oh also edit, i think felix would’ve seen this coming the fastest and understood the most because he too like turbo is the protagonist and sole playable character of his game. the only difference is that felix’s goal in the game is helping others to win, while turbos is beating others to win. its shown in the movie that felix is definitely no stranger to receiving excessive praise and even he sometimes fails to see past his own ego at times, like in the fungeon scene where he was so appalled having a tiny taste of how ralph is treated all the time. but hes more emotionally intelligent than turbo and can identify when when he does it once hes called out, and can probably recognize it in other ppl too.) (edit again sorry lol: ALSO UH. one last thing maybe turbos lack of a stable identity could be why he was so easily able to slip into a new persona as king candy. okay thats all thays my film theory)
I need a sequel/short/show exploring what would happen to a game that was a victim of "going Turbo!" Or a character/npc dying outside their game. Like what happens when a Retro Game reseller restores a game? Videogame Necromancy? Would factory resetting the gaming system restore the actual NPC? Or a clone that has no memories? Hacking the broken game to restore the missing characters?
57:29 I think this scene will live rent-free in my mind for the rest of my life. Because King Candy got child-me overwhelmingly convinced that he truly had everyone's best interest in mind. And his othering of Vanellope was regrettable but necessary for the safety of Sugar Rush. It was such an impactful moment to me, cause it really FELT like this story had no way of ending with a happily ever after.
The fact that his manipulation worked even on the audience (he also fooled me when I was a kid) speaks volumes about the quality of the writing, it is so great.
Same, obviously King Candy (Turbo) was doing something nefarious and manipulative but his hypothetical scenario was not unlikely and carried a high possibility of death. I think Ralph trying to discourage vanellope was not unreasonable.
One thing I always found interesting is how cybug King Candy is utterly manic and insane, like, far more than he was before, even though it wouldn’t bring him anything in the long term. He talks about taking over the arcade and so on, despite the fact that, if he did, he probably would have just died when they get rid of every machine. Best case scenario he escapes, but he would eventually just have no where to go and no game to rule over. We often talk about how King Candy took over the cybug, but what if he didn’t really? What if the cybug had more of an influence on him than simply being drawn to the beacon, what if it was having him mindlessly pursue a goal that, really, would most likely just result in him being worse off? I imagine that, when he was eaten, King Candy didn’t just take over the cybug, heck, another commenter pointed out that he might be dead and the cybug was simply absorbing his memories and personalities, but, assuming they actually fused or something, then perhaps the cybug stripped King Candy of his calculating tendencies and replaced them with a hunger and instinct.
Fun fact: back in sixth grade, I had such a huge hyper fixation with this movie, that I even memorized all the names of the sugar rush racers and their cars. I can still recount most of them today. Turbo really went and isolated/tortured a little girl for a whole 15 YEARS. Like at least Ralph could leave his game to go mingle with his other bad guy friends. Vanellope literally had NO ONE. It’s a miracle she didn’t end up going insane
@@WobblesandBeanThere were parts of the movie that felt like it was a genuine promo for a rollercoaster, (including one part where it intentionally makes the 'clk clk clk' sound before going down fast a bit of road) i really wish it existed.
The ways youtubers describe their video essays are always so funny. ”I know you can’t BARE to listen to me talk about niche subjects for a long period of time, so I sincerely apologize for FORCING you to watch this much” like, no. That’s my favorite thing, please do more.
In his last moments, he tried to shed his stolen skin in order to save himself, but at that point, being a fraud had become so entrenched in his persona that he couldn't.
My mom worked on this movie and decided to not tell me the twist the whole time and I was so flabbergasted. THATS a good twist villain if I could see so much of the movie for over a year and he STILL GOT ME. Yeah. I was nine lol.
Bonus* when making this they had arcade machines for tapper, wreck it Ralph, and Qbert in the studio, as well as piles of candy (that I wasn’t allowed to eat) and I played Qbert A LOT while spending time at moms job whenever I got sick. I got pretty good. Best part of it is when he falls off the screen, the arcade machine has an actual ball inside that it drops. All this to say, your Qbert edit hit very hard for me.
@@aggiemoon3208 ❤ WOW!!!! It must’ve been so cool watching the movie knowing your mom worked on it!!! They probably didn’t want you eating the candy because they were using it as reference for sugar rush and using it to make dioramas !! That is BEYOND cool I’m so jealous LOL
@@Randomalistic also thanks for the pin! this video is amazingly edited and made me actually laugh out loud with the memes and get very excited at your analysis! great work! (I especially liked the alphys music when you explained the parasite vs virus part, she would)
“Because playing god does not come without consequences” is an absolutely hard as fuck line and I cannot believe that it comes from a over 2 hour king candy video essay
I'd also like to add how ironic it is how King Candy is killed off. The whole point of his character is that he goes against his programming, making himself into something he is not supposed to be by becoming King Candy. He does this again when he is turned into a sci-bug, rejecting his original programming further. But it is the programming of the sci-bug, their instictive need to go towards light, he fuses with that causes him to die, having him killed off by the very thing he had been running from for 15 years. His programming. He had rejected and changed his programming so much over his life, and he finally went over the limit with the sci-bug transformation.
The thing I find the most horrorfying about Turbo/King Candy's transformation into a Cy-Bug is this... Cy-Bugs mimic what they eat. That isn't Turbo/King Candy in the body of a Cy-Bug. That's a copy of Turbo/King Candy in the body of a Cy-Bug. The Cy-Bug mimicked Turbo/King Candy's mind and personality, but the real Turbo/King Candy died inside the maw of a Cy-Bug. . . . That being said that does mean that Turbo/King Candy died twice both in pretty fucked up ways so... Yippie!
This reminds me of the theory of how a theoretical teleporter might rip you apart atom by atom, then reassemble you on the other side. Would that teleported person still be you? Or would it be a soulless yet exact copy of you, so no one would ever know the difference?
@@flounderingfish2480 I personally find the idea of being torn apart piece-by-piece, one limb at a time, ever so slowly over days, weeks, months, years, to be more terrifying than teleporters. Teleporters are instant, right? Or they appear near-instant with only a second's delay. A ship of theseus situation takes place over years. I mean, at least with the teleporter it's easy to tell what was destroyed and what was new. To have your body picked apart and replaced ship of Theseus style is to ask to wonder when you stopped being "you."
@@Teagan04 Not to give you an existential crisis but that's how humans work normally. Besides a few things, all the cells in your body are continually replaced over time.
I also remember hearing someone (don't remember who, but credit goes to them, sorry) point out that King Candy's design doesn't really fit the art style of the rest of Sugar Rush. Most character designs seem more anime inspired, for lack of a better term, whereas King Candy is pretty much straight from 1940s-50s western Disney.
That would also fit because Turbo is from an older game, meaning he probably has an older idea of what is "cute" so he's basically trying to blend into the game as best as HE can
Another bit of foreshadowing is that Vanellope's full name is Vanellope Von Schweetz, not only "Schweetz" sounds like "Sweets" which would be appropriate for the leader of a candy themed kingdom, but that "Von" in between is literally used on monarch and noble families to signify their status.
Maybe the reason why King Candy’s memory card is so large compared to everyone else’s is because he’s from an older game and his memory isn’t compatible with the new, modern format, taking up more space as it isn’t optimized for Sugar Rush.
I personally like that idea! While I think it was probably intended to showcase how he was the “leader” of the game and thereby needed more space for his memory, it would make sense that it could also be due to him having an older format. The game Turbo is from looks a lot like it’s from the 80’s with its 8-bit design, and we all know how giant those hard drives were lol
I love how Calhoun invited her men to her wedding, and they showed up arms bared because they knew what happened to her last time. Shows they care for each other.
2:02:15 Dude, I needed to hear that, especially from someone in my generation (i think?). I am losing my passion for TH-cam but finding your movie reviews has rekindled that spark again and made me want to share my random opinions in the most over-edited ways again. Thank you for reminding me why AI can never replace us.
I think that's where most of our alien invasion fears come from in real life. We're horrified that if we found intelligent life elsewhere, they'd be like us.
@lizziex6447 absolutely, that's a great insight actually. Like yeah, if they were like us of course we'd be scared of being hurt or taken over, we do that to eachother constantly.
So here’s a thought I had after rewatching this for the upteenth time. Turbo’s selfish “all about me” behavior could be an effect of how his own game worked. From the look of things, he was the only playable character in Turbotime, with two blue drivers that he seemed to push down and belittle. So from the moment he was plugged in, Turbo was always the center of attention, and he ate it up. Also I just realized that his car in TurboTime had eyes…it was alive…and he rammed it into the RoadBlasters car.
His car was his side kick and he sidelined it in the name of fame ? Gee. Darker. Much darker. And it was in the other game too, so you know It didn't came back.
What i appreciate most about Turbo is how early they revealed him being evil He’s the one twist villain that the audience knows is evil before the main characters do for a good bit of the movie but meanwhile the twist for the audience was that King Candy was Turbo
This film is a great example of one of the best ways to set up a twist! By setting up and revealing a more minor twist, the audience believes that they’ve worked out/been shown the twist already and are far more likely to relax and stop looking for any more twists 😅
This is deadass one of the best video essays I have ever had the chance of watching, using your tone to depict the severity of scenes and the editing and the way you told it really did convey the evil and gruesome and sinister parts of King candy/turbo. Keep up the amazing work! 💯💯💯
I have spent two hours listening to a bird trying to convince me that Turbo isn't only a great villain- but to also push the idea that he's gay and i completely agree now Peak video
I love how Veneloppe probably never even knew who Turbo was. Like who would have told her? The other racers? They hate her. King Candy? Lol no. Ralph never does so on screen so probably never did. After the movie, Vaneloppe was probably like "Sooooo who was the Turbo guy?"
@RootOfAllEvil-666 True but Ralph, Felix and everyone in the arcade at least knew Turbo existed at some point. Everyone except Veneloppe. The one person who went toe-to-toe with Turbo was the one person who never knew who he was.
@@dolcethesmorse1890 Any new game after Turbo didn’t know the saying, so idk if it’s safe to say that EVERYONE knew it except for Vanellope. Who’s to say that the people in Call’s game know the saying?
@RootOfAllEvil-666 The first thing we learn about Hero's Duty is that it's only a week old. So it makes sense that the new kids on the block wouldn't know the phrase. But at Ralph's villains meeting, no one questions M. Bison when he name drops Turbo. In fact everyone reacts with shock as if they know the Turbo story. Surely not ALL of them are old enough to see the Turbo story happen, right? Also, King Candy uses the phrase "You're not going Turbo" and there's Turbo references on walls and wires, so the phrase must have used enough after Turbo's disappearance to still be present enough for any new game (and Turbo himself) to learn the phrase. With the exception of people who brand new, everyone knows the phrase... except Veneloppe, who has no friends and can't even learnt it from people outside her game.
I don't cry when watching the movie, but every time I watch this video, when you describe the scene where Ralph destroys the cart, I'm nearly sobbing. Like, bruh, that was excellent prose.
This is it bro. This is THE video about Turbo. Nothing's gonna beat this. You won. SUMMONING 10 BILLION PEOPLE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO NOW!!!!! GET THEIR ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@Randomalistic With all the unseen storyboards and stuff just NOW getting released combined with the nostalgia for the movie which is now… What? 11 years old?? There’s hope for more videos to be made about this wet-eyed freak, THERE’S HOPE!!!!!!
Fun fact: The cybug was not seen by anyone until it’s eggs hatched after crashing into chocolate That means it was mating in chocolate, lived in chocolate, had it’s babies born in chocolate, probably copied the attributes of chocolate with it’s powers, then decided to try other sweets later when it could suddenly swarm Sugar Rush It really liked chocolate…
2:12:16 OH MY GOD ENDING THIS WITH A FUCKED UP, CREEPYPASTA COVER OF CABINET MAN IS SOOOOOO COOL. I already had sk much respect for you and the efforts you/your team put into this video but that is such a cool cherry on top.
Oh my GOD this is top tier writing, video editing, and structure. I love this movie beyond belief and I've ALWAYS thought that Turbo was a PERFECT villain. Gonna be rewatching this forever
28:05 I love this because you gloss over the fact that Felix then, presumably, heard of Turbo’s death, mourned him and used him as a sort of ghost story for the newer games, and then saw him seemingly COME BACK TO LIFE to kill a little girl! Like, Felix was living an actual horror movie at that point, NOTHING was going right for that poor man.
When King Candy first meets Ralph he laps two doughnuts around him. Turbotime's course is a doughnut course. There's just so many hints and yet when I saw this in theatres it comPLETELY surprised me. I was DELIGHTED to FINALLY not predict a villain being someone else.
I so badly wanted wreck it Ralph 2 to be like a thing where they learn even if you get unplugged and don't make it out you can eventually make it back to gcs and it's all fun and games until they realize Turbo was setting up a distraction, helping the lost game characters get back so he has a diversion while he goes on to attempt to take over every game starting with every racing game, even figuring out how to restrict access to the games for all those who are problematic to him, Ralph makes it into one by disguising himself like in the first movie, so I was really disappointed to not get something similar
Something even more heartbreaking in the For Your Own Good scene is when Vanellope gives Ralph her handmade medal she says "in case WE don't win... not that i think there's even a remote chance WE'RE not gonna win" - she considers her and Ralph a unit, even when she's the one that's going to be racing... waaaa this movie
The scariest part of King Candy's manipulation is that from Ralph's perspective, it actually could have happened. Ralph did not know that Vanellope was actually supposed to be the ruler of Sugar Rush, or that she was on the side of the game. For all he knew, Vanellope's glitch actually COULD have caused the game to be unplugged. Its absolutely devious.
Even better, it did actually cause her to be locked to Sugar Rush. And Turbo may or may have not know that. So he really took a chance revealing that considering he reprogrammed the game, but Turbo really knew that Ralph would do anything for Vanellope.
@@iantaakalla8180 I think it's likely that Turbo knew that, because Vanellope knew that. I can believe that in at some point in the 15 years that Sugar Rush was plugged in, Vanellope tried to leave at least once, and was observed by Turbo or his subjects. Or he tried to kick her out himself.
The first bit of foreshadowing is actually the moment we see him, because he's not designed like any of the other racers His head is shaped more balloon like and is larger than the other racers. His legs are thinner and so are his arms. His nose is larger and his eyes are smaller. He's stylistically different, as if he belongs to a different game entirely. Which is just brilliant on behalf of the designers
'Since the movie lacks a director's commentary' wait, does it? I could have sworn I had it on Blu ray and they had a commentary. I remember them talking about their initial plans to redeem King Candy, and Turbo being an unrelated character in the beginning.
I am just glad at least one other person out there appreciates how phenomenal Cybug King Candy's scenes were, along with his design being amazing too! Love me this kinda villain discourse!!
OOOO FUN FACTTTT. I don't think the Cybugs reproduce the "classic" way, they multiply through parthenogenesis, which is why they can multiply from a single individual. Parthenogenesis is the ability to clone yourself through non-fertilised egg laying. So they really are just little guys :) and I agree with you, they're so cute. Anyway, thank you for sparking a filth-based love in my heart for such a vile character. Absolutely one of the best Disney movie villains I've ever seen. I understand why you have such a complicated relationship with this character. He doomed himself from the very beginning. He was the protagonist and that wasn't enough for him. If he had shown a single ounce of selflessness, he would have succeeded.
I never thought the video of me asking Rich Moore about Turbo would surface like this! I was very lucky and excited to be called on. Only THREE people got picked for questions, I was number 2. It was one of the best moments of my life. I was just a super happy Wreck It Ralph fan and a big King Candy/Turbo fan!
OH MY GOD, IT'S YOU!!!! First of all that is such an AWESOME life experience to have, and I'm so glad you were able to see this video :)) and second of all, THANK YOU FOR ASKING ABOUT TURBO ALL THOSE YEARS AGO. YOU WERE OUT ON THE FRONT LINES!!!!!!!!
@@RandomalisticI really was!! I asked because I was really disappointed with the lack of information on Turbo in both the art book (other than the last page of the art book showing some concept art) and lack of Turbo in deleted scenes, but there was tons of King Candy, so I really wanted to know what lead to his creation and the choice to merge him with King Candy. I got my answer, and a bonus answer from Big Gene😆
What’s even worse about King Candy’s manipulation of Ralph is that it also works really well on the audience. When I had watched the movie for the first time, I thought that what King Candy was saying was his genuine fear of what would happen. I trusted that he had pure intentions and that he was a good guy. But he was not. And that’s what make his manipulation even more scary. Is that it is so plausible. And that is what is so interesting and amazing about his character.
I extremely appreciate the effort you put into the glitching and creep factor (ESP AT THE END LIKE THAT WAS SO COOL) and your dramatic readings being full of clear passion you have for this movie is so awesome to listen to
My personal head canon for the reason king candy had a huge code box is because king candy (not turbo king candy) was an unused character or asset that didn't make it to the final version and was just lingering around in the code. It always seemed weird that turbo was able to make a relatively faithful "model" to disguise himself from scratch. I know Ralph and other characters can switch to 3d/2d depending on the game but they are actual people so I assumed that's how games operate in this world. Turbo took on an entirely different appearance from scratch which is a larger step so there had to have been some model in the files that he used to help his appearance. He also probably isn't the best coder so his way of changing his model is probably extremely inefficient and "spaghetti code".
Could also be why Vanellope's glitch was enough to unravel his disguise, at least while it was active. The code to make it was rather fragile, and prone to falling apart if tampered with.
Imagine if the sequel had done something like shown us a new game set in the series of Sugar Rush, and King Candy was not only a real person, but a genuinely kindly and caring man. Possibly even Vannellope’s father! (I mean if she’s the Princess it stands to reason her father is the King)
They don't switch between 2D and 3D, that's just how they look when viewed from outside the cabinet through that game's screen. In the world of Wreck-It Ralph, every game is actually 3D under the hood.
I really wish Wreck-It Ralph 2 was about Felix and Ralph going on an adventure and realizing they still have baggage with each other, that would've been so much better. Maybe that hypothetical movie would have two antagonists who are threatening to put the arcade out of business just by fighting each other across games.
it still could've been about the internet too!! maybe it's just because i'm a sucker for old web shit, but there's a well of potential with internet stuff that nobody really played on. give us some Y2K crash shit
well, I feel like a sequal overall is just a bad idea. ralph and felix never ACTUALLY had problems with each other as individuals, the problem was their societal position. Ralph wasn't envious of felix the person, he was envious of felix the hero. the same could be said vice versa
39:41 I think Turbo also made countless alterations to the game, because Turbo wasn’t really the best racer. Remember, all his game required him to do was drive in a single loop, while Sugar Rush has plenty of different terrain to tread. He probably made changes like “King Candy’s cart doesn’t lose traction on ice” or “King Candy’s cart does not lose speed on oil slicks”, “King Candy’s cart will always clear this gap”, stuff like that. He probably would’ve written these amendments in as failsafes before a race, so when the time came for him to actually race, it would go as smoothly as possible. That’s why they’re all haphazardly there. It’s him brainstorming, “what could go wrong in a race and jeopardize my control? Oh, this! Better add it to the code.” Hell, with how ruthless he gets ramming into Vanellope’s cart in the final act, I’d argue he’s also got “King Candy’s cart is immune to collision damage with other racers” in there too, so there’s no concern of his breaking as he decimates her cart.
i think its interesting that turbo has the code for the door written on a tappers napkin meaning in the 10 years of creeping around waiting for sugar rush hes just loitering in the tappers bar eavesdropping on other game characters to find out more abt programming
I love the symbolism of King Candy's/Turbo's transformation. He literally parasitized a parasite, he is *that* much of a leech to everything and everyone.
Regarding the notion that the portrayal of Turbo possibly contradicts the film's message about being yourself and accepting who you are, I actually disagree. To me, the visual design of turbo is more meant to evoke the idea of him being a corpse. Aside from your mention of references to skeletons evoked not only by the other characters but also his helmet, there are also a few other things there. For one, his skin is pale, to the point where it looks way too much like a freshly deceased person without any circulation. Secondly, his eyes almost look rotted [and his teeth certainly are], again playing into that corpse motif. And of course, there's also that see-through aspect of him, with the ghost imagery you brought up. In my opinion, Turbo's design is more meant to emphasize the fact that Turbo as a concept is dead. Nobody remembers him outside of ghost stories and a few turns of phrase, and thus he visually reflects that. Sure he always looked like that, but that never caused him any trouble, it was his endless desire for more that put him into a world where his appearance would take on that meaning. Otherwise, Turbo just looked like a normal person back in his home game. Also I think they may have rejected the idea of final form turbo because his final form being based on king candy adds even more to that theme of wanting to be something you're not. It's literally a bug mimicking a man mimicking another man, it is quite literally symbolism squared [Yes I know Turbo is technically in control but I also like the idea that King Candy is the Cybug and Turbo is the only part that is still himself].
Let’s not forget the obvious fact that Turbo refused to let Vanellope be herself, and he’s also a fraud as well as an illegitimate ruler. 18:00 Also nice use of the Deltarune Chapter 1 Castle songs. 22:51 Nice visual pun. Always thought of it when I first watched Turbo, the movie. 45:00 Deltarune Chapter 2 Mansion music. 1:38:07 That has to be sarcasm. 1:39:25 Metroid Prime Second Phase Theme. Also, Cy-Bugs are about as depraved as xenomorphs. Fuck them hoes, too.
This is about the fifth time I’ve rewatched this video and I wanted to leave a little fun fact. My mother went to school with Jack (the guy who plays fix it Felix) and still is good friends with him, I remember her telling me how he said how much of a joy it was to voice act in this especially cause he formed some genuine friendships with the other voice actors! :)
You have single handedly created an entire fanbase for turbo. I went on tumblr after watching this and the spike in turbo fanart, AU's etc has spiked since this video came out. Genuinely insane how it takes one well made video to spark so much interest in a underrated villain. Turbotastic 👍
47:55 The darkest shade that salmon meat can be is orange and the lightest shade that salmon meat can be is ivory. Saying his castle is "salmon" is the closest he can get to representing his true colours (red and white) without giving himself away (I could also be grasping at straws here)
Eh... frankly I think that's a stretch, it was always pink because the throne room isn't FOR him, it's for Princess Vanellope. He's just saying "salmon!" cuz he's a fragile little manlet whose masculinity is threatened by something as innocuous as pink.
This is what I love about video essays. I liked Wreck-It-Ralph just fine when I first saw it in the theaters on opening weekend, but I haven’t really thought about it after I saw it. Watching the video essay really made me re-evaluate my opinion of the movie. I didn’t think about how Turbo was the patient zero for twist villains, but you’ve demonstrated why his twist not only works but enhances his character. How it recontextulizes everything we’ve learned about the established status quo. I also loved how you pointed out all the Easter eggs and background details about Turbo. How he felt like a ghost haunting every game at the arcade and all the characters. You’ve done such an amazing job with the video essay, and I hope your channel continues to grow so more people can appreciate it. ❤
When I was younger, I'd cry because of Turbos bug design so much that i needed to sleep with my Weeping Angel toy next to me, but now I cry because of Ralphs "it's okay to be bad" speech
The scene in which Ralph breaks the kart hurts me more than a lot of actual character deaths in a lot of other animated works. It makes me cry literally every time, you didn’t even play the whole clip together and i still cried. Just genuinely one of the most heartbreaking scenes in a movie I think.
Oh my gosh absolutely. The kart itself is like its own character by that point, and the fact it’s left running as Ralph crushes it is like it was alive💔AND YEAH I CRIED WHILE WRITING THAT SECTION
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I like how much you seem to enjoy drawing your little parrot thingy on the screen with how many doodles of them there are
Was not expecting the semi-anthropomorphic parrot rantsona.
2:54 Nice use of that horror sound effect for Oncie.
But being nice simply isn't enough! I must be lovely and delightful. Curse you, you wonderful rainbow chicken!
@@DanialTarkiITS A GREAT SOUND EFFECT
@@zealotoftheorchard9853the mspaint doodles were my favorite :)c and also a late addition
Hearing that there was a neurodivergent kid out there who *only* discovered Sonic the hedgehog through WRECK IT RALPH is WILD
I think I was the 1 in one million
Either that or it was sonic.exe or Son of a Glitch
I didn't now quebert existed until this movie and now I have been trying to track down a phiscal copy
since sonic movies came out (and I fell in love with them) I was ashamed to admit the same thing - that I only discovered sonic through Wreck it Ralph xd
I was really into mlp as a kid so my hyperfixation went there xd
@@Randomalisticyou’re one in a krillion
One thing I noticed: "What are you, the guy that makes the donuts?" might take him off-guard because... the turbotime track is one loop. Turbo DID make donuts, or at least perform them. He WAS the guy that did the donuts.
Also, a common victory celebration in racing is to do donuts while burning out. Since Turbo was all about winning, and from his game, it seems like he was routinely the winner, he must've done an awful lot of donuts.
Also, the fact that the cops are donuts may add to this, because he did (symbolically) make the donuts. Lemme explain:
He took away all source of memory for all the characters in sugar rush, and since King Candy was the only source of power and information, he was able to make the donuts into his loyal henchman without the donut cops suspecting a thing.
Thus, this now not only has a double meaning, but a TRIPPLE MEANING: Ralph just being mad at King Candy and insulting him, a reference to the donut track from Turbo’s original game, AND the fact that King Candy did, in fact, figuratively “make the donuts”, because he molded them into being what he wanted them to be - and therefore “making the donuts” into something else.
Also, another foreshadowing reference in plain sight :)
omg
I had a similar idea, but instead because racers will do donuts to show off.
Also, he did donuts literally 20 seconds before that.
imagine how horrifying it would be thinking king candy is a real character and the NEXT DAY.hes gone.and you figure out by social media that bro wasnt even a character in the main game
And also Vanellope is there again, like, you talk to your friends about this weird character named King Candy that is so out of place for Sugar Rush because he is a bald grown man while all the other characters are children and mostly girls and they are like "what are you talking about? the leader of Sugar Rush is Princess Vanellope Von Schweetz, everyone knows this" and then the next day they go to the arcade and Vanellope is finally in the roster with King Candy nowhere to be seen and you are treated like crazy.
Also Vanellope has a different appearance, but this is maybe a secret skin someone activated and now is there permanently.
@Mortimer_RS So basically Sugar Rush is the Polybius of this universe
@@nickrustyson8124Except that, Polybius was ALSO present in the Wreck-It-Ralph universe! In the intro sequence, when the yeas pass by until present day, you can see the Polybius arcade cabinet there at one point
Bird camera 😍❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is how lost media starts😭
omg and the fact that when they throw their coins in, for literally everyone it’s some unseen announcer voice, except for king candy, who’s name is read out in his voice, and he’s the only person that this happens with, like he had to add the voice line in himself
Wait that’s so cool
😮😮😮
"And bumblebee!!" Ahh king candy
So your saying ganondorf went turns and broke into smash bros because that announcer says his name differently
"Lets watch her die together, shall we?" Is such a hardcore fucking line, I legitimately can't understand how it got greenlit.
@@LuznoLindo Cars did a lot of questionable things LMAOOO
@@Randomalistic disney has balls of steel
@@Third7Plays *HAD balls of steel
You should have seen the plans for the original zootopia movie
I love villains, dude
I would theorise that King Candy's enlarged code box isn't just to represent ego but because it's full of spaghetti-code: it's hugely ineffecient and runs badly because he is not a programmer.
It could also be that his original Turbo code is the same size as everyone else's but he had to add more code making it larger than the rest.
Or, that since he was programmed on a older system, with different specifications (those old cabinets have boards bigger than modern laptops), there was a need for an emulator to be added.
I thought it was also enlarged because he put so much stuff in it. like it's "bloated" because he keeps taking things from other places and putting it in his own code so he can have it for himself
turbo worked on tf2 confirmed
He got that yandere dev coding
It’s almost comical how much this full grown man hates this 9 year old
Like bro is balding yet also willing to beat up a preteen
It's perceived as comical until you see the bigger picture....he resents her for being a younger character who has everything before she begins her life since she's a princess of a kingdom with her own race track that's a thousand times bigger than his race track ever was
It's really no different than Scar from "The Lion King" wanting to kill off Simba so he can take over the throne
He resents this pure child for having everything he's strived for
Reminds me of some gravity falls fans lol
@@D3viant517 a bit older than 9 but close enough, unless your not talking about the character i think you are
@@Geckoreo I think we’re on the same wavelength
Sounds like the "ok boomer" thing lol
It might seem a bit obvious, but i just realized the reason Ralph dislikes chocolate is probably because it reminds him of the mud he was thrown in day after day.
It’s funny, this kinda comes around at the end of the movie too. Ralph says he loves chocolate when he lands in it at the end, by the time he’s come to terms with his role and to love himself for who he is.
One thing I always think about when rewatching the movie is that if Turbo had only like, even pretended to care about Venelope, he might've never lost. Like if he had just given her a home, and told her "You cannot race due to being a glitch, but here, have a comfortable house, your own side track to race on" and told the citizens to treat her with respect, he would've won. All he had to do is not be a prick!
Idk about this, bc I think Penelope would have always wanted to race no matter what. It's in her programming.
Besides, its assuming Turbo is even capable of thinking this way for more than manipulation tactics
@@iceheap9422 I mean, there is no reason she couldn't race with the other racers off the clock for fun. He just needed to keep her off the roster while the arcade is open, like a curfew.
Could've even made her "princess" thus created loyalty through paternal love of his poor disabled daughter who only races on special after hours events. It'd been hard for her to turn to Ralph against her own dad.
PLUS: he could've just done what Q'bert did at the end of the movie and be included on Vanellope's behalf. He could've just ASKED to be included! But no, he didn't his narcissism had the better of him and he had to make himself king.
It's better when you realize Turbo only did this to the one Sugar Rush unit. Meaning, there is exactly one unit that had a character, King Candy, who exists in no other copies of the game, cannot be found by rom-hacking, and the developers have zero notes about this character. King Candy is a living creepypasta in this setting and should be bringing in more business of people who just want to see the character who doesn't exist.
I really love this, and I never thought of it that way. I kinda wish this was a little more of a concept in the movie. Even if it was just a passing comment by the two kids shown playing it at one point.
@@kaithompson2876 babe wake up, new creepypasta material just dropped
Every copy of Sugar Rush is personalized 💀
I had a start on this thought but didn't think through it fully, that's actually fucking amazing to think about. Imagine someone hacked a arcade unit do add oddities like this, to freak people out and get rumors spreading. If it didn't happen, this might as well inspire someone.
that's what i kept thinking about too! the devs obviously didn't add him so i would love to see their point of view on it. cause by 2012 idk how they wouldn't have heard about it
As a passionate game modder, King Candy is one of my favorite villains of all time because he is both a game modder and a modded game character.
-Often when a new character is modded into a game, they feel out of place, like King Candy in the pink throne room or being an old guy among a lot of young characters.
-Code in game mods are often excessive and inefficient compared to the main game, which would explain his massive code box
-Modded characters are generally modified versions of existing characters and if the mod breaks, the character reverts to its vanilla counterpart. Such as King Candy reverting to Turbo when he touches Vanelope
-Many racing games have limited character slots, so modded characters have to replace an existing character. Like what King Candy did to Vanelope
wait I love that smmm
Now I wonder how the heck did Turbo learn to mod...
@@alachedelmictlan648 youtube indian coding tutorials
he is literally his own self insert oc
@@GrinceMaster73 his candysona if you will
I rewatched this movie with my partner and sitting there listening Venelope SOB HER EYES OUT at Ralph for destroying her cart was STOMACH CHURNING?? This movie is honestly super peak and one of the best movies disney’s released in a hot minute besides Encanto.
It’s like a living creepy pasta, imagin being a player and telling you friends like “you played sugar rush yet? king candy is the absolute best character.” Only for someone who never played it before to play after the fix and go “..:you mean Vanillapea??? Cus there’s no king candy-“ Then you go back and play and it’s as if he NEVER existed.
The Mandela Effect gaslight goes CRAZY
"vanillapea" brother please.
@@waffler-yz3gwthey probably did misspell it but it somewhat works better for the "candy" theming of Sugar Rush since VANILLLApea
@UltraNPvanilla + “sweet pea”, even
would be perfect if it didn’t look so goofy
I'm so sorry but Vanillapea😭😭😭
"Ralph... You're not going Turbo, are you?"
You ever notice how he holds back a smile when he says that? You can see the dimples start to form at multiple points in that sentence and there are a few frames where the corners of his mouth are turned upwards.
AHHH
Naaaawwee
there's a part of him that feels joy at having something named after him like that
@@GayAnnabeth You could think of it that way. Or he's secretly proud that someone else is following in his footsteps, even if he's wary of those footsteps leading to where the game he's in now. Notice how King Candy only commented on the game jumping after Ralph mentioned Hero's Duty, not with the fact that he's in Sugar Rush. Might lend some credence to this.
@@ShTHfan1 honestly, I think Ralph being in sugar rush is the only reason king turbo candy cares. otherwise, he'd prob be proud of ralph's actions
something i've always loved about this movie is how "going turbo" is such a normalised phrase in this universe that turbo himself says his own name like it's a slur. the way that the man who started the entire thing is using it as a shield to hide behind when ralph finally does it is such a great choice imo. he pretends to hate the concept when in reality he is the sole reason it even exists
it reminds me of the term "going postal" which originates from a series of mass murders by United States Postal Service (USPS) workers in the 1980s and is now associated with being angry in the workplace.
@kribby I thought it was based on the movie Postal
@kribby…if that’s true then the title of the Discworld book makes a lot more sense now…though the postal service workers were the ones being murdered, not the ones doing the murdering. At least from what I’ve heard.
@kribby wasnt it based off of the game postal?? the one that was controversial for going on a mass shooting spree in game and iirc even included school kids in the first iteration??
@@kichikitsuOh my God really?
This video has single-handedly made me realize I DONT have to be incredibly formal in a video essay and that the one thing holding me back (struggling to express myself without being unserious) isn’t actually holding me back and I CAN make that Folly regretevator analysis video. Thank you random TH-camr for giving me 2 hours of interesting content a new appreciation and a new hobby now that I know I am allowed to
“Wreck it Ralph came out 12 years ago” I’m withering, my bones are turning black and my skin is melting off. I scream. For I am 26 years old.
ITS OKAY YOU'RE STILL YOUNG
@@Randomalisticit be too late, for they are wither skeleton now... they embrace the rattly bones
@@gh0ul2559hand em the stone sword
Same
I feel this comment in what’s left of my rotting bones.
I think what scares me most about the reveal of Turbo's Cybug form is the fact that he's laughing and giggling throughout the ENTIRE FIGHT. He's absolutely *ECSTATIC* to be in a form where he could truly be the perfect virus he always wanted to be, and all he can do is just laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
I had an awful fear of this movie because of Cybug King Candy. Watching the end of the movie for the first time horrified little me beyond belief. That smug bastard
The best part was when he gets defeated by the Cybug's own nature. His laughter stops, warning the Cybugs to not go to the light, only to then fall into it while part of him tries to resist... and then he dies screaming.
Also he's not actually the bug so much as a worm thing bursting out of its neck and using it as a puppet. He's literally a parasite at this point.
@@beastwarsFTW Kinda fitting due to what he's done.
I also like to think he’s he happy that he gets to push Ralph around, when throughout the movie he was always intimidated by Ralph’s size.
Also excited with his new form because it means that if can bully Ralph, he can bully anyone in the arcade
We need more twist villains where the twist isn’t that they're a villain, the twist is that their motives are different.
Like, Turbo is so great just because you think he's just a silly guy who wants to be the best racer in a candythemed game.
But then you find out he wants to be the best racer, period, and he'll hurt/kill anyone to do it.
I will forever be tormented by the fact that Hans from Frozen would be a better villain if we knew he wanted power from the start. We think he's a sleazy dude, but then we find out hes willing to kill to get what he wants
Seriously they fumbled Hans so bad. Although its hard to fumble if they never had a grip on him 😭
@@james656-k8e I think Hans and the Duke should've been a scheming duo. Hans betrays the Duke, plot twist, then be betrays Anna, double twist
@@james656-k8eAll we got was “we won’t be trading with you”
DOR-15 from Meet the Robinsons is also another good example of what you are talking about (as at first she seems to be just a villainous sidekick for Bowler Hat Guy when in actuality she was just using him as a pawn to brainwash and enslave the city).
@@MontyMoleLoreMaster bowler hat guy? i think you mean MICHEAL GOOB YAGOOBIAN!
Something else I'd like to add is that: If you actually go through his monologue scene frame by frame, you can actually see his King Candy disguise have SQUARE EYES in some frames, as if in the heat of the moment, he forget where his disguise ends and his real self begins. anyway YAYYYYY GREAT VIDEO
"The kart Vanellope stole was left behind by.... uh...."
Me who memorised all the Sugar Rush racers when I was 12: "I am ten parallel universes ahead of you"
I'M NOT WORTHY
It’s Crumbelina’s kart!
naming all the Sugar Rush racers by heart is my party trick, and by "party trick" i mean "proof i'm not neurotypical and never was, even at age 12." i wanted Sugar Rush to be a real game SO BAD.
@@TheWayOfTheWott Literally. I used to be obsessed with wreck it ralph because of sugar rush. Disney dropped the ball when it comes to the official sugar rush games and other wreck it ralph games they released. We should've gotten sugar rush on the 3ds
I'm actually 12! I don't expect it into a hyperfix cuz I already have 1 rn but it's cool
The most terrifying part of King Candy’s deception isn’t that he fooled an entire game but that he fooled an entire arcade for 15 years when the main character of the game is on the side of the machine in the same car he drives. Any player could have gone to another arcade with the machine in it and have a very real chance to find Vanellope playable in that arcade with no King Candy in sight. Players would be digging around majorly about this mysterious character.
One more side note notice how Turbo’s alias also does not fit in with the other racers’ elaborate names based off of candy, it’s just one more tiny detail to point out this massive lie.
Maybe they thought it was an arg meant for the played to figure out why there’s only one king candy character or they thought it was a bug and liked it
I think the whole "new racers daily" gimmick of sugar rush and the rotating roster of characters did a lot to cover king candy's tracks. You'd have to have played two different consoles multiple times each over different days to notice anything was amiss
On your point about Turbo's alias - what about Candlehead? I find that to be an equally unelaborate name.
It's like he asked himself "what's a candy-themed name" and just said fuck-it, King Candy.
How dumb IS turbo to not realise he still exists in other arcades though? He knows how to code he can hack his own consciousness into a different turbo, but NO he chooses the ‘ruin a 9 year old girls life for 15 years because she cant code like you’
My favorite part about the king candy manipulation scene, is that the logic he's using is actually good logic, which hides the lies more. Sure, we know the gamers end up loving her, but the idea that they would hate the glitching and the game would get unplugged is a very real possibility, maybe even the more likely one. And we know that Vanelope really can't leave, even if her glitching is artificially created by him. It's all things that are, pretty much true, and lies close to the truth are always more believable.
ABSOLUTELY. This is one scene that just blew me away with how nuanced it was
I love this because they could've gone with the whole "Ralph is a dumb meathead who can be easily manipulated" thing (cough cough Wreck it Ralph 2) but they didn't. It makes total sense that Ralph would believe what King Candy said in that scene and be so fearful of it that he would sabotage his best friend
I believed King Candy when I first saw that scene. And when I rewatch Wreck it Ralph I skip both the manipulation scene and the cart break scene because it hurts to much. 😭
Yess. It sounds so believable. It's understandable why Ralph fell for it.
one subtle thing that you also dont notice unless you're really paying attention to his whole speech about her being a glitch and shutting the game down, king candy calls the other characters and npcs in sugar rush his "subjects", when referring to the machine being unplugged and everyone going homeless. it's at around 1:04:19
56:45 here's something i noticed: here he is terrified of ralph, because if he did kill him he would be dead forever, because he isn't from sugar rush
I just realized the 'The guy who makes donuts' line from Ralph was a double entendre, because Donut, the sweet, and Donut, the driving Maneuver that's usually done to show off, which Turbo/King Candy does in fact do a lot of.
MY GOD... THIS MOVIE....
He even does a donut around Ralph before he leaves.
Holy heck...
😧
@@aquafox_x And when he enters.
saw someone describe this video as “your friend infodumping to you on a random night about a hyper specific topic” and i literally cannot get it out of my head because that IS what it feels like and im living for it
I'm like that too, but with Final Fantasy VII instead of Wreck-It-Ralph. (Still a really good movie though)
@@mariogirl8100 aight boys, girls, and everyone who knows better, share your topic of hyperfixation that you can talk about for hours! mine is the Ace Attorney franchise!
@@mistdoesstuff for more stupid that It may be 2 Years Ago i created a ttrpg campaign doing my own take on tokusatsus (having never truly watched one and knowing only The classic cliches) and even sounding like a recipe for disaster. me and my friends managed to create a story Full of Lore and even a freaking enemy's to lovers arcs and
cosmic beings with family issues. (Not joking)
And It was when i noticed that This was my creation i learned:
"I might be cringe, but i'm free"
Is it even possible having a autistic hyperfixation on your own creation?
@ oh, most definitely. i had (and kinda still do, but not as strongly) a hyperfixation on my own OCs for years 😭
@@mistdoesstuff oof i feel It.
I'm gaining courage to learn Art exclusively to make these characters come to life.
Years i said: "my medic told me i had bad physical coordenation, Theres no way i can learn to Draw or-"
**And then i discovered my favorite artist suffer from a brain disability that makes then with extreme difficulties and pain To use their arms yet they have godtier drawing skills...**
I basically got a slap in The face and decided to stop being a massive coward XD
FUN FACT: As king candy he talks with a lisp, but when he goes back to turbo and when his secret is revealed, he losses the lisp. I think that’s cool little detail, and it shows just how thought out his plan was where he even put on a new voice.
NOT THE FAKE WHIMSY
omg I just listened to the voices back to back. Its true. Although he loses it its not a complete loss. From what I hear, he has a subtle lisp left with the rest of his speech being rather normal for the most part.
@@RandomDragonEXEprobably a bit of a remnant from the time he spent in the voice. Although I’m guessing the voice actor might just have a bit of a lisp himself
@@Upbreaker he doesn't
@@rattyeely Ah, I see.
I just gotta point out something i noticed. King Candy's nose in comparison to Turbo is humongous, and as a result, after watching the whole movie and seeing him with it over and over, the sudden shift to Turbo's more comparatively normal looking nose, it genuinely makes Turbo's face look even more like a skull, as if his nose is missing entirely despite it being there.
One detail that has haunted me from this movie, even back from when I watched it as a kid, is actually the flashback to calhoun's wedding, which actually foreshadows Turbo's transformation. In Calhoun's flashback, her husband isn't just killed by the bugs, but EATEN by them, which can imply that he transformed into a bug, even further horrifically implying that Calhoun was forced to kill her own husband (or whatever was left of him). The idea of having to see someone you love get changed into something almost entirely unrecognizable - a monster you are trained to fight and kill, and ultimately have no option but kill them for survival, or even as an act mercy for the other person by freeing them from this change -actually just broke my 10-year old brain
Of course, this hinges entirely on the assumption that the bugs' "change into what they eat" nature applies to people, and Turbo isn't the exception but the rather the rule, but this has always been my assumption. idk just a terrifying detail that often gets overlooked
YEAH THAT MOMENT HAS SOME REALLY DARK IMPLICATIONS
@@IsaacRondina best part is how the fact the bug isn't shown after eating the guy both works to leaving that thought for imagination, which can do much more terrifying visuals than any horrible transformation in a family movie, AND how it doesn't give spoilers about how king candy would come back later after being eaten
Just the doubt of "wait, the monsters transform into what they eat… will he…?" is already perfect enough
This basically gives the whole, "Dynamite Gal" a new meaning because Calhoun had her gun out for awhile as she shot at the CyBug, meaning that her now Cybug Husband probably said that to her in that monstrous form adding to her trauma with such a phrase and that's just disturbing to imagine....😃👌
What's worse is that in this interactive Hero's Duty comic app, we learn that Brad Scott (Calhoun's dead husband) was the creator of the cy-bugs, and he didn't intend for them to be modified for violent/military use (they were supposed to be sort of like robotic pets)
@@fishdude2954:(
Also:The argument the King Candy constructed bears *uncanny resemblance* to the story *HE* went through:
When he started racing (in Roadblaster), players saw him (along with entire game) glitching out, umplugging the game forever.
He used his own experience to construct the skeleton of the argument.
OHHHHHHHHHHHH
Uhm...HELLO THERE BIRD CREATURE???
The video is amazing, and am moreso very excited by amount of details other commenters point out bringing even more attention and detail to this amazing analysis.
EDIT:I also realized him talking about glitches not being able to leave can come from his interaction with Roadblaster...likely seeing characters from the game being unable to leave.
*Much like someone else we know*
@@36jbf-as031lb OH MY GOD. OHHH MY GOD this is making me Unwell
@@Madisongs Hi there
@@36jbf-as031lb Thank you for writing this I will be rotating it in my mind forever
I believe it's implied Felix absolutely knew Turbo personally in the past because he makes subtle indications when explaining to Calhoun. When he says that Turbo loved the attention, you can hear him stress/draw out the "loved" part in a disgusted and exasperated tone since you can imagine how much Turbo would brag constantly. And then again when he mentioned Turbo's jealousy, he specifically remarks "oh boy was he jealous" in a low whisper as if he witnessed first-hand his friend's fury towards Road Blasters. I can imagine that Felix and Turbo became acquaintances at first but it slowly became a one-sided relationship because of Turbo's egotistical personality. Turbo would be that one person who just goes on and on about himself, making the conversation about him, or rant about his life while the handyman would just politely endure it all. Felix likely grew increasingly frustrated at Turbo's pride and self-centered ego that he distanced himself or broke it off. Maybe that could have sparked the racer's downfall... who knows. I hope they made a tragic backstory for these two, it's clear Felix knows a lot more than he seems.
i’m inventing yaoi in my mind😊
Felix is a bi-con?
Okay so now im cooking yaoi fanart
@someone-pe3yt Will you post once done?
that’d be crazy to see something similar like that in a short lol
Hi I've been autistic about this movie since I was a kid and now I can't stop coming back to your video every couple days (Actually rewatching it right now while I'm making a Turbo plushie) and I love. everything about your dissection of him. This vulgar little goblin has been making himself comfy in my brain for god knows how long and your analysis brings everything I love about him to light.
His skull motif/connections to death, how he's been hiding out as a little parasite in a game so different to his own for 15 years with somehow no one clocking him, and so many other factors are things I hadn't even /considered/ during my first hyperfix on the movie, so I'm gonna pay it forward and give something /I/ noticed on my most recent rewatch with my boyfriend
In the Kart-baking minigame, Vanellope chooses a base model that's incredibly similar in both design and colour scheme to Turbo's original cart. It's small and thin, the back wheels are significantly larger than the front, there's a spoiler on the back, and its pattern is horizontally striped red and white. I love to speculate that Turbo actually coded his own cart into the game himself, because like you said, he just can't let things go. He probably thought it was a little too risky to drive it around himself, though- So he hid it as more of an easter egg for himself, with the potential that other Players could choose his own cart to race with even if he wasn't chosen or hadn't made it onto the rosta that day
The fact that Vanellope chose that cart in particular is honestly just another layer of icing on the irony cake (heheheheh) in my eyes because my mans was overtaken by Vanellope while driving a messy, disorganized version of the very cart he dragged back from the grave with him.. Also some more foreshadowing to Turbo being King Candy
COMPLETE speculation on my end, I just enjoy thinking about how this terrible old man stole a 9 year old's cart only for her to steal his old cart and competitively wreck his shit with it
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WAIT ALSO MY OWN THING I NOTICED that turbo graffiti in the station for sugar rush, while it looks skeletal and absolutely unsettling, is actually a negative image!!!! if you flip the shades, turns out it literally is turbo's face as a drawing, but inverted for some reason?? i found that so fascinating that its like a little neat decal too compared to the low effort or messy graffiti surrounding it... i like to think he made it, but a better question is if he drew it himself or made it out of a singular asset he managed to save from the roadblasters incident?
considering he does literally have icon art for KC in sugar rush's minimap (its very on style!) and the code node has its own little icon too, maybe turbo actually was pretty damn good at drawing, and both drew the graffiti itself, then later improved when emulating sugar rush's internal art style!! its really fun to think about
You know what I hate about the sequel? They had such a great opportunity to confront a fact from the first movie: there are millions of versions of all of these characters, as there are arcades everywhere around the world. There is no way Ralph wouldn't have come across iterations of himself, or Vanellope, having an identity crisis. Doesn't that sound like a better conflict than the weird obsessive thing we got?
Would've been interesting to see if there are versions of Ralph who relishes in being the bad guy, versions of Felix who is the one tired of the same routine, or perhaps the excessive praise, and versions of Vanellope that are what the programming meant for her to be at first aka a regular princess
Omg YES
@@DuskoolOooh imagine the jealousy especially that last point would produce, Venellope seeing another version of her live the life she never got to live, the life that was SUPPOSED to be her's.
I would've loved to see something like that being explored
Maybe the small arcade could have been bought out, and the arcade games are brought to another larger arcade with multiple copies of games. Perhaps they could have a copy of Turbo’s game, and this copy of turbo has to wrestle not with only with the fact that there are copies of him, but what that copy did.
@anonomooose Imagine being some alternate Turbo who's fairly well adjusted and then these new games get brought in and you find out that their slang for game-jumping is literally your name
“It’s like Kirby, but with a horrendous and lovecraftian twist…
Actually that’s just regular Kirby.”
Truer words have never been spoken
the difference is that kirby is the bad guy here,
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@@Rustylorde So the Void from Star Allies.
1:33:30 No, no cut that out TURBO IS A CREEPYPASTA, he literally breaks games and lives, and has split frames where he breaks the fourth wall and tricks the audience, players, characters and the mechanics of the games! He's creepy, ghostly, sickly unlike his arcade painted design and associated with skulls and red colors. He's a living urban legend in the arcade! Turbo is an official disney creepypasta story! You're onto It!
1:58:26 Ayo they got kurene calcium's hatsune miku infection bug eye ball game going on here. Even the bone jaw and the mandibles are there! Horror vocaloid King Candy when?
Ending sequence was hype.
So technically speaking. Turbo is a exe but he more friendly looking
As someone with a creepypasta fixation I second this
@@flyingstonemon3564 I have remembered that miku for the longest time but I never knew her name, thank you.
Some other scary stuff in my mind about King Candy/Turbo and what ifs:
He didn't really die. (In the end)
He's code, he's bound to return. He'll truly become the most powerful virus, that we'll never get rid off. Him being trapped won't do anything. He'll break out. Even if he's trapped in an USB. He'll become a digital spirit like entity. Even possessing scrap and electronics. His essence will live on.
(Why he might be the perfect digimon antagonist?:)
He'll maybe become an eater-like entity (eaters are from digimon cyber sleuth), or even like Diaboromon (a powerful virus digimon of free type, who rose back from the dead, like Myotismon). Not even the power of Omnimon and Alphamon and other Royal Knights would stop him. (Although Beelzemon Blast Mode has Corona Blaster, which disintegrates anything and Omnimon X has "All Delete") Struggle, victory, but a false sense of safety, since he'll always come back!
He might even become a prime soul!
Is it his determination or adaptability?
It's just my fear from him from my alternate thoughts.
Sorry for long comment.
I unironically believe that this might be the perfect video essay.
It’s long as fuck, the editing is really good, you seamlessly incorporated your humor, its really well researched, its not just a recap it actually delves deep into the source material, it goes on really good (totally necessary) side tangents, and it relentlessly bullies Ralph Breaks the Internet.
I hope someday you get 1 million subscribers, you deserve it.
“Because playing god did not come without consequences.”, is an INSANELY hard line for what it’s worth.
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Its metal asf
2:06:46 for those who wanna see it, cuz i also suffer from reading comments that talk about a moment in the video without the timestamp
@@ghosty_waaa thx :)
As an artist who loves obscure game info, I've always wondered HOW Turbo was able to change his appearance.
My closest guess is that he found the King Candy character deep within the games files, like a husk because he's a deleted character with no important code attached to him. A looooot of games have a bunch of unused assets, from characters to whole ass world maps.
It'd also explain why Candy has a codeable node in the game to begin with. Which would make Turbo even more of a parasite, because he didn't even make his own disguise, he's wearing a dead body. A dead body filled with spaghetti code.
...maybe I'm just overthinking it.
Could Turbo have taken bits and pieces of the appearances of other characters in Sugar Rush to build his new appearance? Venelope created a new outfit for her, did she not? So, Turbo could have done the same(ish).
King Candy could have been from somewhere else, he kind of looks like Tiny Wario from the end of Mario Land 2.
corpsewalker would definitely fit the MO
Has to be that way. His code box is named "King Candy" and not "Turbo," and if Turbo could port his code from his home game, then he would likely be able to respawn in Sugar Rush. I definitely believe Turbo just heavily modified an existing node, whatever it was.
@@drbuni Or Vanellope *found* a new outfit.
Turbo does feel ahead of its time, in his unique horror. almost like he's an analog horror ghost
I KNOW ❤️❤️he’s so captivating for that reason alone. God
@@Randomalistic i love how everyone talks about turbo like he’s herobrine except felix who’s like the only person who told the story more like a sad tragedy cause he knew him better than most people being his cabinet neighbor. The way he tells the story is a lot more sympathetic and despite the visuals on screen he never describes him with any truly terrible traits, saying that he “loved the attention” rather than just saying he was egotistical, prefacing that he was upset and jealous as a reason for why he game jumped rather than just skipping to the part where he committed this unforgivable sin or whatever. And the cherry on top is he’s the only one to acknowledge that it was sad that (they thought) he died. It’s been so long since turbo was around that his story was just stripped down to a cautionary fable about a bad man who did a bad thing. It’s sweet that felix still saw him as a person, even if he doesn’t really deserve it. felix is too good for this world bro 😭😭😭
@@penntopaper9305 Oh my god that is a great observation and NOW YOU'RE MAKING MY HEART ACHE MORE... FELIX CARED SO MUCH
@@Randomalistic oh but i have more mweheheheh……. bc i think felix might have actually understood more than anybody why turbo did that. Turbo time and fix it felix were theoretically plugged in at roughly the same time, since they were both there when the arcade first opened. felix said specifically that when the arcade *first* opened, turbo time was the most popular game. on opening, turbo time was immediately the best game and the talk of the town. now. think about this. some characters like calhoun are programmed in with intricate backstories and previous life experiences from before they were plugged in. but lets be honest here, those characters in the earlier games that didn’t really have lore definitely didnt have anything that complicated. felix’s backstory for example is that he got a magic hammer from his dad and now he helps fix this building. thats it. he never lived anywhere else, he’s never known anyone else. thats it. its why he’s calling ralph “brother” by the end of the movie. these people who were created with him in the game are far more tangible than his “real,” programmed in family. or just. hypothetical dad really. the vast majority of his identity comes from the real life he lived after the game was plugged in.
so now (get ready) consider: what happens when you take a character with virtually no pre-programmed identity other than being a racer, and then the literal moment the game is played for the first time, the first thing he ever does, he gets told that he’s #1. the main character. the winner. the BEST game in the arcade is the one with his name in it and his pictures (and his pictures ONLY) plastered on every side. its really no surprise he’d base his self worth off of attention and superiority because that *is* his self. its all he ever was from the moment he began existing, and if he isn’t that, then what is he? god forbid he isnt racing either if his games not being played. turbo time going out of fashion completely undermines turbo as a person, and since hes the type of person who gets angry instead of sad, seeing another game essentially usurp his place and his identity as “the best” would completely engulf him with jealous rage. this isnt like going up to someone and telling them youre better at something they do, its like going up to someone and telling them that youre better at *being them* and that theyre obsolete because of it. THATS why turbo was driven to such extents as trying to take over the other game. (side note: you could also use this point to argue that turbo does to other people what he thinks was done to him: having your very place in existence usurped, and replaced by an intruder)
now think about this from felix or ralphs perspective, but especially felix, since turbo apparently frequented the penthouse and got invited over by. presumably felix. felix is a nice guy who genuinely tries his best to empathize with people. i wouldn’t be surprised if he saw this happening and deliberately tried to make friends with turbo to try and get him to form some kind of sense of self outside of the popularity of his game. however, this (obviously) didnt work. i know this is like reaching now but like hear me out cause why would felix keep inviting turbo back when he had a presumably bad rap with the nicelanders due to his lack of manners and egotistical personality. why else would felix deliberately hang out with someone like that?? felix is an upstanding citizen he knows rudeness when he sees it. i think felix was trying to help before it was too late. and failed. perchance. 😼
(oh also edit, i think felix would’ve seen this coming the fastest and understood the most because he too like turbo is the protagonist and sole playable character of his game. the only difference is that felix’s goal in the game is helping others to win, while turbos is beating others to win. its shown in the movie that felix is definitely no stranger to receiving excessive praise and even he sometimes fails to see past his own ego at times, like in the fungeon scene where he was so appalled having a tiny taste of how ralph is treated all the time. but hes more emotionally intelligent than turbo and can identify when when he does it once hes called out, and can probably recognize it in other ppl too.)
(edit again sorry lol: ALSO UH. one last thing maybe turbos lack of a stable identity could be why he was so easily able to slip into a new persona as king candy. okay thats all thays my film theory)
I need a sequel/short/show exploring what would happen to a game that was a victim of "going Turbo!" Or a character/npc dying outside their game. Like what happens when a Retro Game reseller restores a game?
Videogame Necromancy? Would factory resetting the gaming system restore the actual NPC? Or a clone that has no memories?
Hacking the broken game to restore the missing characters?
57:29 I think this scene will live rent-free in my mind for the rest of my life. Because King Candy got child-me overwhelmingly convinced that he truly had everyone's best interest in mind. And his othering of Vanellope was regrettable but necessary for the safety of Sugar Rush.
It was such an impactful moment to me, cause it really FELT like this story had no way of ending with a happily ever after.
The fact that his manipulation worked even on the audience (he also fooled me when I was a kid) speaks volumes about the quality of the writing, it is so great.
Same, obviously King Candy (Turbo) was doing something nefarious and manipulative but his hypothetical scenario was not unlikely and carried a high possibility of death. I think Ralph trying to discourage vanellope was not unreasonable.
One thing I always found interesting is how cybug King Candy is utterly manic and insane, like, far more than he was before, even though it wouldn’t bring him anything in the long term.
He talks about taking over the arcade and so on, despite the fact that, if he did, he probably would have just died when they get rid of every machine. Best case scenario he escapes, but he would eventually just have no where to go and no game to rule over.
We often talk about how King Candy took over the cybug, but what if he didn’t really? What if the cybug had more of an influence on him than simply being drawn to the beacon, what if it was having him mindlessly pursue a goal that, really, would most likely just result in him being worse off?
I imagine that, when he was eaten, King Candy didn’t just take over the cybug, heck, another commenter pointed out that he might be dead and the cybug was simply absorbing his memories and personalities, but, assuming they actually fused or something, then perhaps the cybug stripped King Candy of his calculating tendencies and replaced them with a hunger and instinct.
OH MY GOD YOUR LAST SENTENCE. THAT IS SO REAL
I think he amalgamation of cybug and candy king, our personality is our memories and cybug became turbo after he ate him
Baldurs gate mindflayers moment
holy shit this colors everything so much differently, that's hardcore as hell
Omg a giant virus/bug using a CADAVER absorbing his memories and personality and just increasing his instints and desire of Power?????? Amazing
The way “glitch” is throw around like a slur in Cracker Barrel is crazy
LOL
A cranky old man won't let go of the dame curse words...lol
I'm using that.
Exactly 666 likes..... Perfect vibes on this comment, Satan approves.
Gligga💀
Fun fact: back in sixth grade, I had such a huge hyper fixation with this movie, that I even memorized all the names of the sugar rush racers and their cars. I can still recount most of them today.
Turbo really went and isolated/tortured a little girl for a whole 15 YEARS. Like at least Ralph could leave his game to go mingle with his other bad guy friends. Vanellope literally had NO ONE. It’s a miracle she didn’t end up going insane
AUGHH IKR… Vanellope’s sheer tenacity is mind boggling. AND YOURE A REAL ONE FOR MEMORIZING THE SUGAR RUSH RACERS
@@Prototype-357 Right? I wish they had, although I doubt Nintendo would play nice on that.
@@WobblesandBeanThere were parts of the movie that felt like it was a genuine promo for a rollercoaster, (including one part where it intentionally makes the 'clk clk clk' sound before going down fast a bit of road) i really wish it existed.
Fun fact indeed
Tell me all the names!!
The ways youtubers describe their video essays are always so funny. ”I know you can’t BARE to listen to me talk about niche subjects for a long period of time, so I sincerely apologize for FORCING you to watch this much” like, no. That’s my favorite thing, please do more.
My favourite part of the beacon scene is how he flashes to his original Turbo form to resist, and always swaps to the King Candy form when entranced.
YES!!!!!!!!! THE ALTERED SELF CANNOT RESIST ITS FATE
In his last moments, he tried to shed his stolen skin in order to save himself, but at that point, being a fraud had become so entrenched in his persona that he couldn't.
@@WobblesandBeanDANG 👏POETRY
@@quirkyc “no-! Yes-! No-! Yes-! Noyesss…no! …dooo…go into the L-i-*i-i-AAAAGHT!”*
@@Randomalisticnot to mention the one thing he wanted was attention, and he dies by paying attention to the entrancing light of the diet cola.
My mom worked on this movie and decided to not tell me the twist the whole time and I was so flabbergasted. THATS a good twist villain if I could see so much of the movie for over a year and he STILL GOT ME. Yeah. I was nine lol.
Bonus* when making this they had arcade machines for tapper, wreck it Ralph, and Qbert in the studio, as well as piles of candy (that I wasn’t allowed to eat) and I played Qbert A LOT while spending time at moms job whenever I got sick. I got pretty good. Best part of it is when he falls off the screen, the arcade machine has an actual ball inside that it drops. All this to say, your Qbert edit hit very hard for me.
@@aggiemoon3208 ❤ WOW!!!! It must’ve been so cool watching the movie knowing your mom worked on it!!! They probably didn’t want you eating the candy because they were using it as reference for sugar rush and using it to make dioramas !! That is BEYOND cool I’m so jealous LOL
@@Randomalistic she said that and that it had been sitting there for at least a couple years hahah
@@Randomalistic also thanks for the pin! this video is amazingly edited and made me actually laugh out loud with the memes and get very excited at your analysis! great work! (I especially liked the alphys music when you explained the parasite vs virus part, she would)
Out of curiosity, do you know what she worked on?
"i strongly encourage you to minimise your support of disney" HELLO BASED DEPARTMENT lets get into this
HELL YEAH-
What do you mean "get into this"? You want to talk about it?
@@anonymouslucario285probably into the video
I want to agree, but I'm skeptical of this women's reasoning.
@@lordmew5woman's
“Because playing god does not come without consequences” is an absolutely hard as fuck line and I cannot believe that it comes from a over 2 hour king candy video essay
I'd also like to add how ironic it is how King Candy is killed off. The whole point of his character is that he goes against his programming, making himself into something he is not supposed to be by becoming King Candy. He does this again when he is turned into a sci-bug, rejecting his original programming further. But it is the programming of the sci-bug, their instictive need to go towards light, he fuses with that causes him to die, having him killed off by the very thing he had been running from for 15 years. His programming. He had rejected and changed his programming so much over his life, and he finally went over the limit with the sci-bug transformation.
And at the very same time he always chased the spotlight. Until it killed him. P:
@@sollyraptor6421 good one on that, lol!
The thing I find the most horrorfying about Turbo/King Candy's transformation into a Cy-Bug is this... Cy-Bugs mimic what they eat. That isn't Turbo/King Candy in the body of a Cy-Bug. That's a copy of Turbo/King Candy in the body of a Cy-Bug. The Cy-Bug mimicked Turbo/King Candy's mind and personality, but the real Turbo/King Candy died inside the maw of a Cy-Bug. . . .
That being said that does mean that Turbo/King Candy died twice both in pretty fucked up ways so... Yippie!
This reminds me of the theory of how a theoretical teleporter might rip you apart atom by atom, then reassemble you on the other side. Would that teleported person still be you? Or would it be a soulless yet exact copy of you, so no one would ever know the difference?
@@seththeblue3321Ah! Ship of Theseus conundrum!! Very interesting, but honestly the teleporter way of looking at it sounds way more terrifying.
@@flounderingfish2480 I personally find the idea of being torn apart piece-by-piece, one limb at a time, ever so slowly over days, weeks, months, years, to be more terrifying than teleporters. Teleporters are instant, right? Or they appear near-instant with only a second's delay. A ship of theseus situation takes place over years. I mean, at least with the teleporter it's easy to tell what was destroyed and what was new. To have your body picked apart and replaced ship of Theseus style is to ask to wonder when you stopped being "you."
@@Teagan04 Not to give you an existential crisis but that's how humans work normally. Besides a few things, all the cells in your body are continually replaced over time.
@@accelleratiiincredibus446 that excludes the brain btw, brain cells don't regenerate as you age
Which brings the question, are we our brain?
I also remember hearing someone (don't remember who, but credit goes to them, sorry) point out that King Candy's design doesn't really fit the art style of the rest of Sugar Rush. Most character designs seem more anime inspired, for lack of a better term, whereas King Candy is pretty much straight from 1940s-50s western Disney.
@@Damon_Blue OOOH THATS A GOOD POINT
And don’t forget the fact king candy’s name sounds very basic & uninspired while the other racers have clever & creative names
@@AgentsofPRIDE Yep, that too!
That would also fit because Turbo is from an older game, meaning he probably has an older idea of what is "cute" so he's basically trying to blend into the game as best as HE can
@@chrisbacon1275 He's an out of touch old man who doesn't quite understand anime.
Another bit of foreshadowing is that Vanellope's full name is Vanellope Von Schweetz, not only "Schweetz" sounds like "Sweets" which would be appropriate for the leader of a candy themed kingdom, but that "Von" in between is literally used on monarch and noble families to signify their status.
Maybe the reason why King Candy’s memory card is so large compared to everyone else’s is because he’s from an older game and his memory isn’t compatible with the new, modern format, taking up more space as it isn’t optimized for Sugar Rush.
Or maybe he just codes like Yandere Dev
@@Em-bq3gs😂
@@Em-bq3gs THAT'S FOWL
(DuckTales 2017 reference)
I think the opposite would be the case if data from an old game was put into a new game. Old games were much much smaller
I personally like that idea! While I think it was probably intended to showcase how he was the “leader” of the game and thereby needed more space for his memory, it would make sense that it could also be due to him having an older format. The game Turbo is from looks a lot like it’s from the 80’s with its 8-bit design, and we all know how giant those hard drives were lol
I love how Calhoun invited her men to her wedding, and they showed up arms bared because they knew what happened to her last time. Shows they care for each other.
I am a simple woman, I see a two hour video about a Disney villian I've never cared about, I click.
You will care. Soon ❤️
@@Randomalistic is that a threat
@@purplecobra52a nice one
YOU DIDN'T CARE ABOUT KING CANDY?
@@genericname2747 I didn't care about Wreck It Ralph period.
2:02:15
Dude, I needed to hear that, especially from someone in my generation (i think?). I am losing my passion for TH-cam but finding your movie reviews has rekindled that spark again and made me want to share my random opinions in the most over-edited ways again. Thank you for reminding me why AI can never replace us.
Ough the fact that he assumes Ralph was there to come and take over his game at first because thats EXACTLY what turbo did himself.
I think that's where most of our alien invasion fears come from in real life. We're horrified that if we found intelligent life elsewhere, they'd be like us.
@lizziex6447 absolutely, that's a great insight actually. Like yeah, if they were like us of course we'd be scared of being hurt or taken over, we do that to eachother constantly.
So here’s a thought I had after rewatching this for the upteenth time. Turbo’s selfish “all about me” behavior could be an effect of how his own game worked. From the look of things, he was the only playable character in Turbotime, with two blue drivers that he seemed to push down and belittle.
So from the moment he was plugged in, Turbo was always the center of attention, and he ate it up.
Also I just realized that his car in TurboTime had eyes…it was alive…and he rammed it into the RoadBlasters car.
OH THAT POOR CAR WHAT
His car was his side kick and he sidelined it in the name of fame ? Gee. Darker. Much darker. And it was in the other game too, so you know It didn't came back.
Ur telling me he m*rdered a car who his side kick..... I know the movie is dark and all that but holy crap this way too deeper and scarier
The player probably even played as the car, and not Turbo himself. He was born to take credit not his.
Rip thyme the turbotime car.
What i appreciate most about Turbo is how early they revealed him being evil
He’s the one twist villain that the audience knows is evil before the main characters do for a good bit of the movie but meanwhile the twist for the audience was that King Candy was Turbo
This film is a great example of one of the best ways to set up a twist! By setting up and revealing a more minor twist, the audience believes that they’ve worked out/been shown the twist already and are far more likely to relax and stop looking for any more twists 😅
This is deadass one of the best video essays I have ever had the chance of watching, using your tone to depict the severity of scenes and the editing and the way you told it really did convey the evil and gruesome and sinister parts of King candy/turbo. Keep up the amazing work! 💯💯💯
"and no, I'm not neurotypical!" Honey, no one would dare accuse you of such. You're among friends here. 💜
The title and length of the video told me everything I needed to know 😭💗
@@Woahufoundmenot to mention the amount of amazing enthusiasm
@@The-Busy-Beeeee right? One of my special interests is listening to other people hyperfixate on theirs 😆
As someone not neurotypical I sensed it by the length and topic of the video, and I love it anyway.
Oh my god ALL OF YOU 🥹🥹❤️❤️ STAAWUUUPPPP
I have spent two hours listening to a bird trying to convince me that Turbo isn't only a great villain- but to also push the idea that he's gay and i completely agree now
Peak video
REAL 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love how Veneloppe probably never even knew who Turbo was. Like who would have told her? The other racers? They hate her. King Candy? Lol no. Ralph never does so on screen so probably never did.
After the movie, Vaneloppe was probably like "Sooooo who was the Turbo guy?"
“Oh, so that’s why he was glitching like me! What a hypocrite.”
Nobody knew it was Turbo until they saw him glitching and fighting Vanellope on the tracks
@RootOfAllEvil-666 True but Ralph, Felix and everyone in the arcade at least knew Turbo existed at some point. Everyone except Veneloppe. The one person who went toe-to-toe with Turbo was the one person who never knew who he was.
@@dolcethesmorse1890 Any new game after Turbo didn’t know the saying, so idk if it’s safe to say that EVERYONE knew it except for Vanellope. Who’s to say that the people in Call’s game know the saying?
@RootOfAllEvil-666 The first thing we learn about Hero's Duty is that it's only a week old. So it makes sense that the new kids on the block wouldn't know the phrase. But at Ralph's villains meeting, no one questions M. Bison when he name drops Turbo. In fact everyone reacts with shock as if they know the Turbo story. Surely not ALL of them are old enough to see the Turbo story happen, right? Also, King Candy uses the phrase "You're not going Turbo" and there's Turbo references on walls and wires, so the phrase must have used enough after Turbo's disappearance to still be present enough for any new game (and Turbo himself) to learn the phrase.
With the exception of people who brand new, everyone knows the phrase... except Veneloppe, who has no friends and can't even learnt it from people outside her game.
I don't cry when watching the movie, but every time I watch this video, when you describe the scene where Ralph destroys the cart, I'm nearly sobbing. Like, bruh, that was excellent prose.
1:13:53 The fact that on a two-hour video, not only were MANUAL subtitles DONE, but they also are CREATIVE and DISTINCT… I applaud that
Wow that’s just insane. I can’t believe how much effort went into this video
"You're not gonna imprison a nine year old, are you Candy?"
"Yeah, in the fungeon, why?"
This killed me! 😂
This is it bro. This is THE video about Turbo. Nothing's gonna beat this. You won.
SUMMONING 10 BILLION PEOPLE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO NOW!!!!! GET THEIR ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@Qephyr I hope this video sparks 100,000 MORE TURBO VIDEOS
@@Randomalistic With all the unseen storyboards and stuff just NOW getting released combined with the nostalgia for the movie which is now… What? 11 years old?? There’s hope for more videos to be made about this wet-eyed freak, THERE’S HOPE!!!!!!
@@RandomalisticNo you just covered the whole topic
I guess it's time to fire up the cloning machine.
@@stellviahohenheim Nuh uh! More than just the topic can be covered! Anything is possible!! >:]
1:29:20 OMG PERFECT SONG CHOICE I love u for including GHOST the ref is immaculate
This video about ONE CHARACTER is somehow longer than the movie itself.
I love finding unhinged movie analysis youtubers, arguably the best genre there is
Yeah, gotta be one of my favorite genders
Yesss
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Fun fact: The cybug was not seen by anyone until it’s eggs hatched after crashing into chocolate
That means it was mating in chocolate, lived in chocolate, had it’s babies born in chocolate, probably copied the attributes of chocolate with it’s powers, then decided to try other sweets later when it could suddenly swarm Sugar Rush
It really liked chocolate…
This sounds like a description of an e621 video
@@JonathanNormandyYou like sincastermon don't you?
@@Toast_The_Rabbit guilty as charged...
@@Toast_The_Rabbitwho is sincastermon again?
@@bestboisoupsoupit involves the cursed numbers so I’m pretty sure you DONT want to know
2:12:16 OH MY GOD ENDING THIS WITH A FUCKED UP, CREEPYPASTA COVER OF CABINET MAN IS SOOOOOO COOL. I already had sk much respect for you and the efforts you/your team put into this video but that is such a cool cherry on top.
Oh my GOD this is top tier writing, video editing, and structure. I love this movie beyond belief and I've ALWAYS thought that Turbo was a PERFECT villain. Gonna be rewatching this forever
THANK YOUU!! 🥹🥹❤️HE IS AMAZING
@@Randomalistic
I can’t wait for more of your videos because this is absolutely stellar stuff that I’m watching so far!
@@chai.tealeaves oh 100% I wish I could be this funny 😆
You might even say he’s… turbotastic-
@@corpsenymph4644your reply has filled me with life.
28:05 I love this because you gloss over the fact that Felix then, presumably, heard of Turbo’s death, mourned him and used him as a sort of ghost story for the newer games, and then saw him seemingly COME BACK TO LIFE to kill a little girl! Like, Felix was living an actual horror movie at that point, NOTHING was going right for that poor man.
When King Candy first meets Ralph he laps two doughnuts around him. Turbotime's course is a doughnut course. There's just so many hints and yet when I saw this in theatres it comPLETELY surprised me. I was DELIGHTED to FINALLY not predict a villain being someone else.
I so badly wanted wreck it Ralph 2 to be like a thing where they learn even if you get unplugged and don't make it out you can eventually make it back to gcs and it's all fun and games until they realize Turbo was setting up a distraction, helping the lost game characters get back so he has a diversion while he goes on to attempt to take over every game starting with every racing game, even figuring out how to restrict access to the games for all those who are problematic to him, Ralph makes it into one by disguising himself like in the first movie, so I was really disappointed to not get something similar
Something even more heartbreaking in the For Your Own Good scene is when Vanellope gives Ralph her handmade medal she says "in case WE don't win... not that i think there's even a remote chance WE'RE not gonna win" - she considers her and Ralph a unit, even when she's the one that's going to be racing... waaaa this movie
tears in my eyes
The scariest part of King Candy's manipulation is that from Ralph's perspective, it actually could have happened. Ralph did not know that Vanellope was actually supposed to be the ruler of Sugar Rush, or that she was on the side of the game. For all he knew, Vanellope's glitch actually COULD have caused the game to be unplugged. Its absolutely devious.
@@lasercraft32 the best way to lie to someone is by telling the truth
Even better, it did actually cause her to be locked to Sugar Rush. And Turbo may or may have not know that. So he really took a chance revealing that considering he reprogrammed the game, but Turbo really knew that Ralph would do anything for Vanellope.
@@iantaakalla8180 I think it's likely that Turbo knew that, because Vanellope knew that. I can believe that in at some point in the 15 years that Sugar Rush was plugged in, Vanellope tried to leave at least once, and was observed by Turbo or his subjects.
Or he tried to kick her out himself.
I like that at the end of the day, every single attribute of Vanellope is exploited to make sure he wins the Sugar Time races.
Say what you want about King Candy/Turbo, but he’s got some brains and god, is he good at using them
The first bit of foreshadowing is actually the moment we see him, because he's not designed like any of the other racers
His head is shaped more balloon like and is larger than the other racers. His legs are thinner and so are his arms. His nose is larger and his eyes are smaller. He's stylistically different, as if he belongs to a different game entirely. Which is just brilliant on behalf of the designers
Oh, which reminds me: he looks more stylistically like Ralph and Felix, hinting that he comes from an 8-bit game originally
He's also not named like them, the other racers have obnoxiously specific pun-based names, and their ruler is just "King Candy"?
Exactly and the fact that the movie is in CG hides it to an extent.
@@redtailarts101 Or an older game
'Since the movie lacks a director's commentary' wait, does it? I could have sworn I had it on Blu ray and they had a commentary. I remember them talking about their initial plans to redeem King Candy, and Turbo being an unrelated character in the beginning.
I am just glad at least one other person out there appreciates how phenomenal Cybug King Candy's scenes were, along with his design being amazing too! Love me this kinda villain discourse!!
OOOO FUN FACTTTT. I don't think the Cybugs reproduce the "classic" way, they multiply through parthenogenesis, which is why they can multiply from a single individual. Parthenogenesis is the ability to clone yourself through non-fertilised egg laying. So they really are just little guys :) and I agree with you, they're so cute.
Anyway, thank you for sparking a filth-based love in my heart for such a vile character. Absolutely one of the best Disney movie villains I've ever seen. I understand why you have such a complicated relationship with this character. He doomed himself from the very beginning. He was the protagonist and that wasn't enough for him. If he had shown a single ounce of selflessness, he would have succeeded.
I never thought the video of me asking Rich Moore about Turbo would surface like this! I was very lucky and excited to be called on. Only THREE people got picked for questions, I was number 2. It was one of the best moments of my life. I was just a super happy Wreck It Ralph fan and a big King Candy/Turbo fan!
OH MY GOD, IT'S YOU!!!! First of all that is such an AWESOME life experience to have, and I'm so glad you were able to see this video :)) and second of all, THANK YOU FOR ASKING ABOUT TURBO ALL THOSE YEARS AGO. YOU WERE OUT ON THE FRONT LINES!!!!!!!!
@@RandomalisticI really was!! I asked because I was really disappointed with the lack of information on Turbo in both the art book (other than the last page of the art book showing some concept art) and lack of Turbo in deleted scenes, but there was tons of King Candy, so I really wanted to know what lead to his creation and the choice to merge him with King Candy. I got my answer, and a bonus answer from Big Gene😆
WINGS OF FIREE
The moment you were mentioned in the video I was hoping you'd have left a comment here too.
What’s even worse about King Candy’s manipulation of Ralph is that it also works really well on the audience. When I had watched the movie for the first time, I thought that what King Candy was saying was his genuine fear of what would happen. I trusted that he had pure intentions and that he was a good guy. But he was not. And that’s what make his manipulation even more scary. Is that it is so plausible. And that is what is so interesting and amazing about his character.
I extremely appreciate the effort you put into the glitching and creep factor (ESP AT THE END LIKE THAT WAS SO COOL) and your dramatic readings being full of clear passion you have for this movie is so awesome to listen to
My personal head canon for the reason king candy had a huge code box is because king candy (not turbo king candy) was an unused character or asset that didn't make it to the final version and was just lingering around in the code. It always seemed weird that turbo was able to make a relatively faithful "model" to disguise himself from scratch. I know Ralph and other characters can switch to 3d/2d depending on the game but they are actual people so I assumed that's how games operate in this world. Turbo took on an entirely different appearance from scratch which is a larger step so there had to have been some model in the files that he used to help his appearance. He also probably isn't the best coder so his way of changing his model is probably extremely inefficient and "spaghetti code".
Could also be why Vanellope's glitch was enough to unravel his disguise, at least while it was active.
The code to make it was rather fragile, and prone to falling apart if tampered with.
Especially because in the flashback when Turbo breaks into Roadblasters, he still remains as an 8bit sprite despite the game being 16 bit
oh i love this but thats horrifying to realize hes wearing skinsuit essentially.
Imagine if the sequel had done something like shown us a new game set in the series of Sugar Rush, and King Candy was not only a real person, but a genuinely kindly and caring man. Possibly even Vannellope’s father! (I mean if she’s the Princess it stands to reason her father is the King)
They don't switch between 2D and 3D, that's just how they look when viewed from outside the cabinet through that game's screen. In the world of Wreck-It Ralph, every game is actually 3D under the hood.
I really wish Wreck-It Ralph 2 was about Felix and Ralph going on an adventure and realizing they still have baggage with each other, that would've been so much better. Maybe that hypothetical movie would have two antagonists who are threatening to put the arcade out of business just by fighting each other across games.
But if they did that where could Disney put in all those scenes jacking themselves off?
it still could've been about the internet too!! maybe it's just because i'm a sucker for old web shit, but there's a well of potential with internet stuff that nobody really played on. give us some Y2K crash shit
@@gardenagnostic wreck it ralph has to escape club penguin as the servers are finally shut down.
well, I feel like a sequal overall is just a bad idea. ralph and felix never ACTUALLY had problems with each other as individuals, the problem was their societal position. Ralph wasn't envious of felix the person, he was envious of felix the hero. the same could be said vice versa
@@ItsNothingRichy Well, what I'm saying is that 30 years of Felix the Hero and Ralph the Villian might not go away overnight
39:41 I think Turbo also made countless alterations to the game, because Turbo wasn’t really the best racer. Remember, all his game required him to do was drive in a single loop, while Sugar Rush has plenty of different terrain to tread. He probably made changes like “King Candy’s cart doesn’t lose traction on ice” or “King Candy’s cart does not lose speed on oil slicks”, “King Candy’s cart will always clear this gap”, stuff like that. He probably would’ve written these amendments in as failsafes before a race, so when the time came for him to actually race, it would go as smoothly as possible. That’s why they’re all haphazardly there. It’s him brainstorming, “what could go wrong in a race and jeopardize my control? Oh, this! Better add it to the code.” Hell, with how ruthless he gets ramming into Vanellope’s cart in the final act, I’d argue he’s also got “King Candy’s cart is immune to collision damage with other racers” in there too, so there’s no concern of his breaking as he decimates her cart.
This is so in character and would actually do a lot to explain the code bloat
@@migaud7789right?! It’s failsafes and damage control, just haphazardly thrown together.
i think its interesting that turbo has the code for the door written on a tappers napkin meaning in the 10 years of creeping around waiting for sugar rush hes just loitering in the tappers bar eavesdropping on other game characters to find out more abt programming
I love the symbolism of King Candy's/Turbo's transformation. He literally parasitized a parasite, he is *that* much of a leech to everything and everyone.
Regarding the notion that the portrayal of Turbo possibly contradicts the film's message about being yourself and accepting who you are, I actually disagree. To me, the visual design of turbo is more meant to evoke the idea of him being a corpse. Aside from your mention of references to skeletons evoked not only by the other characters but also his helmet, there are also a few other things there. For one, his skin is pale, to the point where it looks way too much like a freshly deceased person without any circulation. Secondly, his eyes almost look rotted [and his teeth certainly are], again playing into that corpse motif. And of course, there's also that see-through aspect of him, with the ghost imagery you brought up.
In my opinion, Turbo's design is more meant to emphasize the fact that Turbo as a concept is dead. Nobody remembers him outside of ghost stories and a few turns of phrase, and thus he visually reflects that. Sure he always looked like that, but that never caused him any trouble, it was his endless desire for more that put him into a world where his appearance would take on that meaning. Otherwise, Turbo just looked like a normal person back in his home game.
Also I think they may have rejected the idea of final form turbo because his final form being based on king candy adds even more to that theme of wanting to be something you're not. It's literally a bug mimicking a man mimicking another man, it is quite literally symbolism squared [Yes I know Turbo is technically in control but I also like the idea that King Candy is the Cybug and Turbo is the only part that is still himself].
@@the8626 Ooh ur right!! This is a great addition, thank you!! >:)c
Is it okay if I pin this for a short while?
@@Randomalistic I'm cool with that if you want to.
When I was a kid I used to think turbo is a Ghost
Let’s not forget the obvious fact that Turbo refused to let Vanellope be herself, and he’s also a fraud as well as an illegitimate ruler.
18:00 Also nice use of the Deltarune Chapter 1 Castle songs.
22:51 Nice visual pun. Always thought of it when I first watched Turbo, the movie.
45:00 Deltarune Chapter 2 Mansion music.
1:38:07 That has to be sarcasm.
1:39:25 Metroid Prime Second Phase Theme.
Also, Cy-Bugs are about as depraved as xenomorphs. Fuck them hoes, too.
It's almost like he's HAUNTING THE NARRATIVE
This is about the fifth time I’ve rewatched this video and I wanted to leave a little fun fact. My mother went to school with Jack (the guy who plays fix it Felix) and still is good friends with him, I remember her telling me how he said how much of a joy it was to voice act in this especially cause he formed some genuine friendships with the other voice actors! :)
@@lilslicelive WHAAAT?? THATS SO COOL LOL
@@Randomalistic I know right!!! I’ve met him and he is genuinely so sweet like omg he is the same type if silly little guy irl
That is so crazy cool! I love jack his voice sounds so happy and sweet cool to know he’s just like that
It has come to my attention that Sour Bill is my spirit animal and I’m not complaining about it.
Slay
I also hope you have the best life ever
You have single handedly created an entire fanbase for turbo. I went on tumblr after watching this and the spike in turbo fanart, AU's etc has spiked since this video came out. Genuinely insane how it takes one well made video to spark so much interest in a underrated villain. Turbotastic 👍
Less created and more awakened from the dead with fresh faces now, im so glad we can all thirst over this gremlin together again lol
I got thr idea to write wreck it ralph fanfiction does this count
@ yup! The more the merrier!
47:55 The darkest shade that salmon meat can be is orange and the lightest shade that salmon meat can be is ivory. Saying his castle is "salmon" is the closest he can get to representing his true colours (red and white) without giving himself away (I could also be grasping at straws here)
Alsooo, red and white mix to be pink/salmon! So his turbo colors were always there but hidden!!! 🤯
Probably grasping at straws, but I like those straws... keep graspin
No yeah they definitely didnt think that deep into it.
Feesh meat.
Eh... frankly I think that's a stretch, it was always pink because the throne room isn't FOR him, it's for Princess Vanellope. He's just saying "salmon!" cuz he's a fragile little manlet whose masculinity is threatened by something as innocuous as pink.
Autistic hyperfixations are the lifeblood of true creativity. Needless to say the work you put into this was absolutely turbotastic. Bravo!
This is what I love about video essays. I liked Wreck-It-Ralph just fine when I first saw it in the theaters on opening weekend, but I haven’t really thought about it after I saw it. Watching the video essay really made me re-evaluate my opinion of the movie. I didn’t think about how Turbo was the patient zero for twist villains, but you’ve demonstrated why his twist not only works but enhances his character. How it recontextulizes everything we’ve learned about the established status quo. I also loved how you pointed out all the Easter eggs and background details about Turbo. How he felt like a ghost haunting every game at the arcade and all the characters. You’ve done such an amazing job with the video essay, and I hope your channel continues to grow so more people can appreciate it. ❤
When I was younger, I'd cry because of Turbos bug design so much that i needed to sleep with my Weeping Angel toy next to me, but now I cry because of Ralphs "it's okay to be bad" speech
You being scared of Turbo while simultaneously having a WEEPING ANGEL plushie is paradoxical to me. Good on you
A Weeping Angel sleep guardian no less.
Extra information. I got terrified of the Ralph amalgamation from the second movie
+ I haven't watched it since
The scene in which Ralph breaks the kart hurts me more than a lot of actual character deaths in a lot of other animated works. It makes me cry literally every time, you didn’t even play the whole clip together and i still cried. Just genuinely one of the most heartbreaking scenes in a movie I think.
Oh my gosh absolutely. The kart itself is like its own character by that point, and the fact it’s left running as Ralph crushes it is like it was alive💔AND YEAH I CRIED WHILE WRITING THAT SECTION
He's not just breaking the kart, he's breaking their friendship
I wince before the scene happens every single time I rewatch the movie
Sarah Silverman’s voice acting really sells the scene, it just rips your heart out
I remember from somewhere that the way the shots are, it's reminiscent of how off-screen deaths are shot
Ralph calling Penelope a *guttersnipe* with the definition popping up made me laugh out loud