oh yeah true, it could also just simply him being attached to the machines since he well... obviously owns these and will get attached to them, so seeing them finally outliving their use would probably be a bit of a bummer. but meh what do i know lol.
With the power outage thing - there's an official Disney storybook (called Disney Bedtime Favorites) with a Wreck-It Ralph story that's about the power going out in the arcade. All of the characters have to leave their games and congregate in Game Central Station to wait it out, but they aren't in any danger as long as they do that. I think if they're unplugged it puts them in an unconscious state. The fear of being unplugged would be either (maybe?) losing memories if they are plugged back in, or just the thought of never being plugged in again (and therefore effectively dead).
That seems to make more sense. It's not like the characters are gone when you plug it back in, unless they are replaced by new versions, but that wouldn't make sense.
But they are in the ram. The equivalent or ram anyway . If the power goes out when they aren't in their game they will die. So maybe Mr. Litwak knows this and he has backup batteries and generators.
Even if you were passionate not unplugging a arcade game for like 30 years is just crazy, you could save thousands of dollars from power, it would make your job experience better @@TurtleCraftZ1
@@TurtleCraftZ1possible but I don't remember arcades lasting that long so clearly he has some sort of awareness the his arcades machines aren't normal
I think I got a more simple explanation for the whole King Candy replacing Vanaloppe thing In certain arcade games, there are timed unlockables. Which basically mean that a character will be unlocked on a specific day, and you'd be able to play as them when the day comes. Maybe he just assumed King Candy was a timed character and he replaced Vanaloppe for some reason, he probably didn't think much of it
Even more likely considering the movie itself confirms Sugar Rush is a game with a random roster that changes every day, it's a major plot point. Completely reasonable to see a character for the first time and not think much of it
that’s basically what the race shown in the movie was about. the roster shuffles every night, and the in-universe explanation is that they race to see who qualifies
The sugar rush roaster is randomized according to the movie, its very likely he just assumed the rng was just really unlucky for her and the roaster is big enough to realistically not see her a lot
Actually, we do have an explanation as to how he wouldn’t have noticed! In a Reddit ama hosted after the movie released, one of the producers shared that turbo actually hijacked the game just as it was plugged in, before anyone played it! This is how the players, Mr litwak, and the other arcade characters never noticed a change.
All power strips have surge protectors because... That's what they are. Surge protector is a more technical way to refer to what most would call a power strip.
Yeah was gonna say, Surge Protector is just the avatar of the power strip. I can't remember how it was worded in official material, but he's just part of the device and is made of pure electricity, so we even see him turn into a spark and zap away when he needs to move quickly. He'd be there for the same reason that characters just automatically populate the games when they're plugged in.
I don't think that unplugging the machines kills the characters in them, precisely because it is unrealistic to expect there to be no power outages for 30 years. I think when the power goes out the characters go into stasis and then come back when the machine is rebooted. When the characters say "unplugged" they mean unplugged *permanently* and removed from the arcade (which is how it is shown in the movie). Being put in stasis forever is basically the same as dying.
My theory for why Mr. Litwak didn’t do anything about Turbo impersonating King Candy despite Vanellope being the main character is that King Candy *is* a part of the game Remember, Vanellope is a princess, which means her father is the king Mr. Litwak didn’t do anything because King Candy was already part of the game so he thought that everything was going on smoothly
@@janelle9998 True, he has "King" in his name, but it's not out of the question that he could've just been a side character, another slot in the roster, kinda like King Boo in Mario Kart or something
I think he just uses a back up generator wonders, like gonna be like a lightning storm or something that can turn off his power or does automatically just turn on the power outage
That's what I believe. I have a theory that one night probably when the arcade was first opened, Mr. Litwak saw these characters crossing over into others games. He saw these characters have free will and at that point he realized that if he turns off the power or if there is ever a power failure than the characters in their games will die, so I think he got a back up generator so if there is ever a power failure the games will still be running thanks to the generator. At night I think before he closes the arcade he turns the generator on and the next day when he opens up the arcade for the day he turns the power on and turns off the generator. Mr. Litwak without a doubt must have a generator or characters from their games would've died years ago.
@@klemperwhitealright but what if when the power goes out time basically pauses.The games and everyone inside them just disappear because they are removed from the plug network. No games have been plugged back in before so the characters think they just died but the people still inside the games will remember
i feel that unplugging = death was a blackmail tactic by king candy to get ralph to help him. my theory is that the game might factory reset if power is lost for a long while so king candy might get erased or turbo would need to re frick up the code
Power strips themselves are surge protecters, that's their whole purpose, it protects the things that's plugged into the strip from power surges. Honestly it's really cool how they implemented the power strips actual purpose into another form of protector, security.
I don't think he instantly unplugged the machines when Turbo moved games. It's just how it was edited to show the important stuff. If it was instant, Turbo wouldn't have been able to escape before the game was unplugged
He probably unplugged both games on the same day, though, given that Turbo was posing a major threat, and he didn't want that threat to spread and put more games out of order
Turbo knew how to drive and he was in a car game Even if he caused a corruption he could've just stole a car which his absolutely would and pizza towered his way out of the game before it was unplugged because as we saw no one from those games aside turbo survived So it's likely turbo had a plan to take out his opponent and knew that the manager would try to stop him so he quickly jumped out of his car after the crash stole some ramdom's car and ran to the exit and meanwhile everyone else was taken by surprise so they just couldn't make it out in time
You say it's unusual for Litwack to be happy to see Ralph back. But it kinda isn't. You see, Litwack had taken care of Fix It Felix Jr. For 30 years. 9 times out of 10, he formed a connection with Ralph. So he must've wanted time to see if the game will go back to normal eventually. I play gta v. I have a connection with Franklin, to the point where I talk back to the character. So he might just have the same situation as me.
Given that the Sugar Rush roster rotates daily, Litwak probably just thought that King Candy was a racer that was winning more often and that Vanaloppe was struggling to make the roster
I think the fact that Mr Litwack is willing to unplug Sugar Rush in the sequel proves that the sequel isn’t cannon. What? Did you think I was gonna say that it proves that this theory wrong? No way! I’m gonna take any opportunity I can to say that Wreck It Ralph 2 isn’t cannon!
I think when he unplugged Sugar Rush, it was a similar situation with Turbo in which there was no way to save the game, with Turbo practically destroying TurboTime and RoadBlasters internally and with Sugar Rush having it's steering wheel broken and being too expensive to fix whereas if a character goes missing like with what happened to Fix-It Felix Jr, then he's probably gonna leave it plugged in in case the character returns
With the Sugar Rush King Candy thing, it does say that "New Racers Daily" so King Candy could just be assumed to be a new character, while Penelope (less believable) was removed to make space for other new characters, or they cycle her in and out.
I think the reason King Kandy was able to exist along with the disapperance of penillope is the roster of 9 character the arcade sugar rush has. He could've chopped it up to just "unlucky rotations".
Turbo apparently took over Sugar Rush the night it was installed so Mr. Litwak would have no idea about the 'true' roster. As for not realizing Vanellopw never appears despite being on the game cabinet, she could have been a dummies asset removed late in development (afyer the cabinet designs were already in production). Arcade developers also released different software updates and sometimes entire machines to small groups of arcades to test their market interest before spending the money to do a mass upgrade or distribution, so it's also conceivable to think the Sugar Rush cabinet on this particular arcade was a newer upgrade being market tested.
I love how this theory video has wholesome music whilst a bunch of other theory videos are like "the world is doomed because this so-and-so one character knows everything"
For Mr. Litwak to know this he would have to have seen something years ago and enough times to pick up on this. There's also the sequel to take into account.
while i do think the characters are extremely lucky to have Mr. Litwick as their arcade manager, i dont think he could've coded the surge protector. he has trouble just getting the internet router up for his computer. if he has trouble with that i doubt he could make near sentient code.
you ever think about how in the wreck it ralph universe there’s probably SO MANY urban legends about litwak’s arcade in specific just because of all the weird shit that has gone down with the games?
It’s definitely as interesting theory, but I personally think Mr. Litwak is just emotionally attached to the games. Especially since some of these games have been around for a WHILE (namely Fix-It-Felix Jr. It’s 30 years old so to say he’d be sad to see it go isn’t crazy). Some people just more sentimental than others and I think that’s what the directors wanted to communicate. But the idea of him knowing is neat (though if that were the case, I don’t know why he’d immediately assume they were alive and not something more logical).
Thank you for making me care about Mr. Litwak so much! I think I have a new favorite minor, possibly just main favorite WIR character in general. And if someone asks me why I will gladly send them this video! ❤❤❤
Also I saw another video theory that states that King Candy was a fully separate character from Turbo in the game. It would explain why Mr. Litwak doesn’t bat a eye towards King Candy and just assumed one of his customers unlocked him as a secret character similar to those “How to unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64” type videos. I don’t remember the exact channel I watched it from but maybe you should look into that.
For some reason, this theory makes Mr. Litwak seem like he's been in a video game, which makes it both cool and kind of scary. Perhaps that's why he is so knowledgeable.
This also means that hypothetically, within the Wreck-It-Ralph universe, the Polybius arcade machine exists (and because of the "curse", it presumably got unplugged permanently).
Mr. Litwack has a contract with some company or government agency to take in any anomalous arcade cabinets and watch over them. If there are any serious problems, they get unplugged and taken away to be destroyed. Minor glitches such as characters disappearing or swapping usually lead to termination depending on how broken the game becomes. He knows that the characters might be sentient, but he doesn't know they can get out of the game and into the power strip.
Plot twist, the arcade where the story takes place, is where arcade manufacturers send the prototype arcade machines for testing. And it's this decades long experiment to see if living AI would be marketable to the general public I mean, for all we know there's only 1 Fix it Felix JR. machine
Regarding the question about power outages- Maybe Mr. Litwak uses a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)? It seems highly unlikely that his Arcade has been running with 100% uptime for over 30 years...
It is said that ona reddit ama turbo hijacked sugar rush as soon as it was hooked in. Not even letting venelope attend a race once. So in his eyes candy king was a character in roster and venelope not being there was not a problem
I was in a mall when the mall almost close, i saw the workers in the arcade close all electricity including the arcades and still works fine other days later 😂
a surge protector is a built in feature of a power strip. it’s one of the main uses for having power strip. never plug your PC into the wall, always a power strip.
1:48 I'd argue that he probably had no idea at this point in time. Maybe he pondered at the thought after this. Like, maybe he didn't think much of it, then he went to bed that night, he was probably like "Wait a second, why was that character in that game for? Easter egg? Or...?" There could be a possibility that he had cameras in the building, and maybe he watched them a night after that, and saw characters such as Sonic, Mario, what not, inside games like Wreck It Ralph, and Sugar Rush. He probably didn't want to disturb anything, and kept his distance after that. I havent watched the rest of the video, so if you talked about this I'm sorry lol
Mh, it makes sense! If an issue arises with any electronic really most people would just "pull the plug and plug it in again" as one of the first trouble shooting attempt as that sometimes is enough to "reset" the game. That he didn't do that and just gives the characters time to fix the issue themselves or escape a broken game, already tells he knows *something.* - I feel like if the game is unplugged, the character don't actually "die" die, but they are completely reset. I suppose in a way it's like dying for the characters as they are brought back to "default settings" in a way. And he wouldn't want that, especially if the characters have been living their lives for 30 something years.
I feel that him just keeping the arcades on is just a mistake that the animators made so they have a setting because without it then like what’s the movie with them being off OR the arcades are off and still operate when the characters are in it but just die when the plug is pulled but idk
I really like this theory it's very interesting and has merit. But at the same time, he could just as easily not know but still have a close bond with each game, especially if they were there for a while, and it's clearly shown he's worked there for a long time. I say this as someone who "pack bonds" and treats inanimate or insentient things with care and respect as if they are sentient; such as plushies, smart devices, electronics, characters in my video games (like Litwak would be doing), etc. I even once had a water balloon with a face drawn on it for a long time that I named. Again, love the theory and the idea, and I'm not trying to dissuade anything, just point out another plausible alternative.
Ok one part about this is that older arcades leave there machines on because when u turn one of like one that has high scores it won’t save them if the machine is tired off, it’s manly newer arcades that turn off there machines
1:09 I mean.... no? From what the people see on the screen, it just looks like a glitch. THis could be caused by many things. Bad ram chips. Bad rom chips. Software bugs. Corrupted data. Heck, sometimes it's just due to the programers not putting in a limit to score or other variables since you're never supposed to get that far (Pac-Man famously has this). There was nothing there to indicate that Litwak saw anything about Turbo being in the new game, it was a mess of glitched out video when Litwak got there.
One thing that kind of debunks this theory is in the second movie Litwak goes and immediately unplugs sugar rush giving no time for the sugar rush Characters to escape
Wreck it Ralph is prob my second favorite Disney movie but I never thought about most of this besides the one where wreck it Ralph is gone like that just does not seem possible plus the characters are running around. Also all the Q*bert characters are basically going turbo and it is all normal. But also lastly nothing happen to Fix it Felix Jr. or Sugar Rush when Ralph and Vanellope went to the internet
cool tgeory and i loke the evidence but the focus on this specific place being special doesnt make sense, it seems all video game characters are like this, even online games
This is one of my favorite movies, your theory is good but one thing I noticed, how does he know that the characters are sentient in the first place, how did he find out abt it? Also, if vanelope is a glitch, why didn’t he get a new machine of the same game, I mean, yes he knows that she’s sentient, but that would mean everyone would pick vanolpe also, the power theory is weird because can’t he just turn off the machines? I feel like instead of just unplugging it, they could turn it off, and if that’s not possible… HOW MUCH MONEY DOES THIS GUY HAVE!? How can he afford all of this???
First I think venelope is not a glitch and instead that's just her character ability and that sugar rush has unique character abilities or items Second he does have a rich guy look so i think he just keeps the machines as a hobby after seeing they are sentient
Actually all arcades in the world well in that world. At least have sentient characters in them. This is proven in the second movie because they go into the cloud and all the characters in those games are sentient too. Also you said that when all the homeless characters came into Wreck-It Ralph's game, the manager would probably think it was a bug but when turbo went into the other game you said that arcade machine should not have malfunctions like that
I wanna straight up know what would happen if in the next movie they travelled to other things such as console games or console games travelling to their world. Such as Kratos, Doom guy, or heck even Gordon Freeman from the PS2.
I mean there's also the possibility that king candy was an existing character in suggestion that's why mr litwak didn't bat an eye at him being a playable character
Honesty now that game theory has no matpat you’re who I watch now. It’d be sick if you took a matpat like approach to it. lol you’d probably make it big
One thing that I like that may support the idea of this theory is that when machines are being taken out, he watches as if he’s attending a funeral.
Same
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That is right! He has his hands together
oh yeah true, it could also just simply him being attached to the machines since he well... obviously owns these and will get attached to them, so seeing them finally outliving their use would probably be a bit of a bummer.
but meh what do i know lol.
With the power outage thing - there's an official Disney storybook (called Disney Bedtime Favorites) with a Wreck-It Ralph story that's about the power going out in the arcade. All of the characters have to leave their games and congregate in Game Central Station to wait it out, but they aren't in any danger as long as they do that.
I think if they're unplugged it puts them in an unconscious state. The fear of being unplugged would be either (maybe?) losing memories if they are plugged back in, or just the thought of never being plugged in again (and therefore effectively dead).
That’s good thanks and no doubt there would be a warning if there’s going to be a power cut or if Mr Litwak is going to turn it off.
That seems to make more sense. It's not like the characters are gone when you plug it back in, unless they are replaced by new versions, but that wouldn't make sense.
But they are in the ram. The equivalent or ram anyway . If the power goes out when they aren't in their game they will die. So maybe Mr. Litwak knows this and he has backup batteries and generators.
I agree. bro is way too kind to the machines. if he didnt know the characters were sentient, he wouldnt care about it asmuch.
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Or he's just a guy that's passionate about his arcade machines, he'd have to like them to be running an arcade
Even if you were passionate not unplugging a arcade game for like 30 years is just crazy, you could save thousands of dollars from power, it would make your job experience better @@TurtleCraftZ1
Like, he's been doing it for 30 whole years. Local arcade locations never stay alive for NEARLY that long.
@@TurtleCraftZ1possible but I don't remember arcades lasting that long so clearly he has some sort of awareness the his arcades machines aren't normal
I think I got a more simple explanation for the whole King Candy replacing Vanaloppe thing
In certain arcade games, there are timed unlockables. Which basically mean that a character will be unlocked on a specific day, and you'd be able to play as them when the day comes. Maybe he just assumed King Candy was a timed character and he replaced Vanaloppe for some reason, he probably didn't think much of it
Even more likely considering the movie itself confirms Sugar Rush is a game with a random roster that changes every day, it's a major plot point. Completely reasonable to see a character for the first time and not think much of it
that’s basically what the race shown in the movie was about. the roster shuffles every night, and the in-universe explanation is that they race to see who qualifies
The sugar rush roaster is randomized according to the movie, its very likely he just assumed the rng was just really unlucky for her and the roaster is big enough to realistically not see her a lot
@@maverickdarkrath4780he at the end of the movie: Jesus Christ now the queen shows up? What kind of luck was that?
Maybe she is a rare character?
Actually, we do have an explanation as to how he wouldn’t have noticed! In a Reddit ama hosted after the movie released, one of the producers shared that turbo actually hijacked the game just as it was plugged in, before anyone played it! This is how the players, Mr litwak, and the other arcade characters never noticed a change.
‘Ralph is back’ his tone acts like he knew Ralph disappeared and thought he died
All power strips have surge protectors because... That's what they are. Surge protector is a more technical way to refer to what most would call a power strip.
Yeah was gonna say, Surge Protector is just the avatar of the power strip. I can't remember how it was worded in official material, but he's just part of the device and is made of pure electricity, so we even see him turn into a spark and zap away when he needs to move quickly. He'd be there for the same reason that characters just automatically populate the games when they're plugged in.
To be completely honest I just commented the same thing then saw yours
Not all power strips have surge protection.
This theory is cool but also kinda creepy for some reason its like if Mr. Litwak was once in a video game. Maybe thats why he knows everything..
Crippled Luigi he was 😂
"my life is like a video gam-"
That's a better idea for a sequel
Same
🥊🥊"Yay!"
I don't think that unplugging the machines kills the characters in them, precisely because it is unrealistic to expect there to be no power outages for 30 years. I think when the power goes out the characters go into stasis and then come back when the machine is rebooted. When the characters say "unplugged" they mean unplugged *permanently* and removed from the arcade (which is how it is shown in the movie). Being put in stasis forever is basically the same as dying.
Yeah he said that
There's no guarantee that they will be the same characters as they were when they get reset
My theory for why Mr. Litwak didn’t do anything about Turbo impersonating King Candy despite Vanellope being the main character is that King Candy *is* a part of the game
Remember, Vanellope is a princess, which means her father is the king
Mr. Litwak didn’t do anything because King Candy was already part of the game so he thought that everything was going on smoothly
Makes sense, thanks.
But Vanellope was supposed to be that main mascot, hence her picture being on the side of the arcade machine
@@janelle9998 Yeah. I’m not sure why he didn’t do anything or just let it run it’s course.
@@janelle9998 True, he has "King" in his name, but it's not out of the question that he could've just been a side character, another slot in the roster, kinda like King Boo in Mario Kart or something
I think he just uses a back up generator wonders, like gonna be like a lightning storm or something that can turn off his power or does automatically just turn on the power outage
That's what I believe. I have a theory that one night probably when the arcade was first opened, Mr. Litwak saw these characters crossing over into others games. He saw these characters have free will and at that point he realized that if he turns off the power or if there is ever a power failure than the characters in their games will die, so I think he got a back up generator so if there is ever a power failure the games will still be running thanks to the generator. At night I think before he closes the arcade he turns the generator on and the next day when he opens up the arcade for the day he turns the power on and turns off the generator. Mr. Litwak without a doubt must have a generator or characters from their games would've died years ago.
@@klemperwhitealright but what if when the power goes out time basically pauses.The games and everyone inside them just disappear because they are removed from the plug network. No games have been plugged back in before so the characters think they just died but the people still inside the games will remember
i feel that unplugging = death was a blackmail tactic by king candy to get ralph to help him. my theory is that the game might factory reset if power is lost for a long while so king candy might get erased or turbo would need to re frick up the code
There's a theory that the characters don't "die" their memories just factory reset
You’re forgetting to mention he is old and didn’t know what eBay was
Like my nana
Someone being old isn’t a valid reason for them not to know something
@@supleh5937 yes it is, im ageist
Let's not put Ralph 2 to hit on Ralph 1 cannon, please
Power strips themselves are surge protecters, that's their whole purpose, it protects the things that's plugged into the strip from power surges. Honestly it's really cool how they implemented the power strips actual purpose into another form of protector, security.
I don't think he instantly unplugged the machines when Turbo moved games. It's just how it was edited to show the important stuff. If it was instant, Turbo wouldn't have been able to escape before the game was unplugged
He probably unplugged both games on the same day, though, given that Turbo was posing a major threat, and he didn't want that threat to spread and put more games out of order
Turbo knew how to drive and he was in a car game
Even if he caused a corruption he could've just stole a car which his absolutely would and pizza towered his way out of the game before it was unplugged because as we saw no one from those games aside turbo survived
So it's likely turbo had a plan to take out his opponent and knew that the manager would try to stop him so he quickly jumped out of his car after the crash stole some ramdom's car and ran to the exit and meanwhile everyone else was taken by surprise so they just couldn't make it out in time
You say it's unusual for Litwack to be happy to see Ralph back. But it kinda isn't.
You see, Litwack had taken care of Fix It Felix Jr. For 30 years. 9 times out of 10, he formed a connection with Ralph. So he must've wanted time to see if the game will go back to normal eventually.
I play gta v. I have a connection with Franklin, to the point where I talk back to the character. So he might just have the same situation as me.
Given that the Sugar Rush roster rotates daily, Litwak probably just thought that King Candy was a racer that was winning more often and that Vanaloppe was struggling to make the roster
I think the fact that Mr Litwack is willing to unplug Sugar Rush in the sequel proves that the sequel isn’t cannon.
What? Did you think I was gonna say that it proves that this theory wrong? No way! I’m gonna take any opportunity I can to say that Wreck It Ralph 2 isn’t cannon!
okay but can you explain why Mr. L hasnt shown up in ANY other games except for SPM?
Canon
@@Kawn0he has, you just didn’t look hard enough.
I think when he unplugged Sugar Rush, it was a similar situation with Turbo in which there was no way to save the game, with Turbo practically destroying TurboTime and RoadBlasters internally and with Sugar Rush having it's steering wheel broken and being too expensive to fix whereas if a character goes missing like with what happened to Fix-It Felix Jr, then he's probably gonna leave it plugged in in case the character returns
@@Kawn0 great question.
With the Sugar Rush King Candy thing, it does say that "New Racers Daily" so King Candy could just be assumed to be a new character, while Penelope (less believable) was removed to make space for other new characters, or they cycle her in and out.
I think the reason King Kandy was able to exist along with the disapperance of penillope is the roster of 9 character the arcade sugar rush has. He could've chopped it up to just "unlucky rotations".
Oh yeah he definitely knows
"does he know?"
- the riddler
he knows everything... like my nana!
Turbo apparently took over Sugar Rush the night it was installed so Mr. Litwak would have no idea about the 'true' roster. As for not realizing Vanellopw never appears despite being on the game cabinet, she could have been a dummies asset removed late in development (afyer the cabinet designs were already in production). Arcade developers also released different software updates and sometimes entire machines to small groups of arcades to test their market interest before spending the money to do a mass upgrade or distribution, so it's also conceivable to think the Sugar Rush cabinet on this particular arcade was a newer upgrade being market tested.
I love how this theory video has wholesome music whilst a bunch of other theory videos are like "the world is doomed because this so-and-so one character knows everything"
Many power strips have Surge protectors
Thank you for this video because I was fighting for my life on the toilet and this brought me comfort in a personal crisis
For Mr. Litwak to know this he would have to have seen something years ago and enough times to pick up on this.
There's also the sequel to take into account.
while i do think the characters are extremely lucky to have Mr. Litwick as their arcade manager, i dont think he could've coded the surge protector. he has trouble just getting the internet router up for his computer. if he has trouble with that i doubt he could make near sentient code.
0:18 “tripping” lmao
you ever think about how in the wreck it ralph universe there’s probably SO MANY urban legends about litwak’s arcade in specific just because of all the weird shit that has gone down with the games?
It’s definitely as interesting theory, but I personally think Mr. Litwak is just emotionally attached to the games. Especially since some of these games have been around for a WHILE (namely Fix-It-Felix Jr. It’s 30 years old so to say he’d be sad to see it go isn’t crazy).
Some people just more sentimental than others and I think that’s what the directors wanted to communicate.
But the idea of him knowing is neat (though if that were the case, I don’t know why he’d immediately assume they were alive and not something more logical).
Thank you for making me care about Mr. Litwak so much! I think I have a new favorite minor, possibly just main favorite WIR character in general. And if someone asks me why I will gladly send them this video! ❤❤❤
Also I saw another video theory that states that King Candy was a fully separate character from Turbo in the game. It would explain why Mr. Litwak doesn’t bat a eye towards King Candy and just assumed one of his customers unlocked him as a secret character similar to those “How to unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64” type videos. I don’t remember the exact channel I watched it from but maybe you should look into that.
For some reason, this theory makes Mr. Litwak seem like he's been in a video game, which makes it both cool and kind of scary. Perhaps that's why he is so knowledgeable.
My theory is that King candy was an already pre existing character and Turbo replaced the original one, and posed as him.
This also means that hypothetically, within the Wreck-It-Ralph universe, the Polybius arcade machine exists (and because of the "curse", it presumably got unplugged permanently).
Ok that’s really interesting and could be true in my opinion
Mr. Litwack has a contract with some company or government agency to take in any anomalous arcade cabinets and watch over them. If there are any serious problems, they get unplugged and taken away to be destroyed. Minor glitches such as characters disappearing or swapping usually lead to termination depending on how broken the game becomes. He knows that the characters might be sentient, but he doesn't know they can get out of the game and into the power strip.
Must be owned by a company called Stephen’s Cabinet Place
I don’t think getting unplugged kills the characters, it probably just knocks them out the fear is never getting plugged in again (dying)
What do they do when there’s a power outage?😂 didn’t think of that when I was a kid
disney didn't either!
Everyone evacuates and they wait it out until it’s fixed
@@mr.lizard666 thought of it too but how do they have time to do that if no power 🤷🏻♂️ the left over a be used fairly quickly
@@Rykerz_ idk when yu unplug it doesn’t instantly shut down it takes a while for the wholegame to dissapear
@@mr.lizard666 sure but they won’t make it all out in a minute if we’re pushing it 🤷🏻♂️
Plot twist, the arcade where the story takes place, is where arcade manufacturers send the prototype arcade machines for testing. And it's this decades long experiment to see if living AI would be marketable to the general public
I mean, for all we know there's only 1 Fix it Felix JR. machine
Regarding the question about power outages- Maybe Mr. Litwak uses a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)? It seems highly unlikely that his Arcade has been running with 100% uptime for over 30 years...
It is said that ona reddit ama turbo hijacked sugar rush as soon as it was hooked in. Not even letting venelope attend a race once. So in his eyes candy king was a character in roster and venelope not being there was not a problem
It’s all over when Litwak unplugs the power strip that contains game central station
Then they escape into his arcade's power supply
Litwak: they are in the walls... THEY ARE IN THE GODAMN WALLS
I was in a mall when the mall almost close, i saw the workers in the arcade close all electricity including the arcades and still works fine other days later 😂
I like what you thought up, Mr. Litwak being sort of aware the characters are sentient sounds coolio.
a surge protector is a built in feature of a power strip. it’s one of the main uses for having power strip. never plug your PC into the wall, always a power strip.
Mr Litwak seems like he would be the type of teacher to never give you homework.
1:48 I'd argue that he probably had no idea at this point in time. Maybe he pondered at the thought after this. Like, maybe he didn't think much of it, then he went to bed that night, he was probably like "Wait a second, why was that character in that game for? Easter egg? Or...?" There could be a possibility that he had cameras in the building, and maybe he watched them a night after that, and saw characters such as Sonic, Mario, what not, inside games like Wreck It Ralph, and Sugar Rush.
He probably didn't want to disturb anything, and kept his distance after that.
I havent watched the rest of the video, so if you talked about this I'm sorry lol
Turning it off deletes high scores
Mh, it makes sense! If an issue arises with any electronic really most people would just "pull the plug and plug it in again" as one of the first trouble shooting attempt as that sometimes is enough to "reset" the game. That he didn't do that and just gives the characters time to fix the issue themselves or escape a broken game, already tells he knows *something.*
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I feel like if the game is unplugged, the character don't actually "die" die, but they are completely reset. I suppose in a way it's like dying for the characters as they are brought back to "default settings" in a way. And he wouldn't want that, especially if the characters have been living their lives for 30 something years.
There are 2 sugger rush machines. Which could imply that right next door is a normal functioning machine with vanaloppe as the rightful princess.
*p o w e r i n t h e a r c a d e g o e s o u t*
Surge protector + backup battery.
Maybe they don't die but "Reset", losing their memories.
7:49 I know man
I absolutely love Wreck it Ralph and have watched it tons of times, and this theory really makes a lot of sense!
Very intrseting
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I feel that him just keeping the arcades on is just a mistake that the animators made so they have a setting because without it then like what’s the movie with them being off OR the arcades are off and still operate when the characters are in it but just die when the plug is pulled but idk
I really like this theory it's very interesting and has merit. But at the same time, he could just as easily not know but still have a close bond with each game, especially if they were there for a while, and it's clearly shown he's worked there for a long time. I say this as someone who "pack bonds" and treats inanimate or insentient things with care and respect as if they are sentient; such as plushies, smart devices, electronics, characters in my video games (like Litwak would be doing), etc. I even once had a water balloon with a face drawn on it for a long time that I named.
Again, love the theory and the idea, and I'm not trying to dissuade anything, just point out another plausible alternative.
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Ok one part about this is that older arcades leave there machines on because when u turn one of like one that has high scores it won’t save them if the machine is tired off, it’s manly newer arcades that turn off there machines
Maybe the arcade's power hasnt turned off due to how mr Litwak has a generator somewhere
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I really like this theory~ Very well done! ^^b
1:09 I mean.... no? From what the people see on the screen, it just looks like a glitch. THis could be caused by many things. Bad ram chips. Bad rom chips. Software bugs. Corrupted data. Heck, sometimes it's just due to the programers not putting in a limit to score or other variables since you're never supposed to get that far (Pac-Man famously has this). There was nothing there to indicate that Litwak saw anything about Turbo being in the new game, it was a mess of glitched out video when Litwak got there.
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Did anyone else click on the video thinking it was William Afton from the Fnaf movie...? 💀
That was so nice and makes sense. Now that I think about it the Surge Protector does look like Mr Litwak.
One thing that kind of debunks this theory is in the second movie Litwak goes and immediately unplugs sugar rush giving no time for the sugar rush Characters to escape
Your Theories are Genuinly gold :O
he didnt know what “ebay” was so he probably doesn't know how to code in the surge protector
eBay is newer though.
Wreck it Ralph is prob my second favorite Disney movie but I never thought about most of this besides the one where wreck it Ralph is gone like that just does not seem possible plus the characters are running around. Also all the Q*bert characters are basically going turbo and it is all normal. But also lastly nothing happen to Fix it Felix Jr. or Sugar Rush when Ralph and Vanellope went to the internet
cool tgeory and i loke the evidence but the focus on this specific place being special doesnt make sense, it seems all video game characters are like this, even online games
This is one of my favorite movies, your theory is good but one thing I noticed, how does he know that the characters are sentient in the first place, how did he find out abt it? Also, if vanelope is a glitch, why didn’t he get a new machine of the same game, I mean, yes he knows that she’s sentient, but that would mean everyone would pick vanolpe also, the power theory is weird because can’t he just turn off the machines? I feel like instead of just unplugging it, they could turn it off, and if that’s not possible… HOW MUCH MONEY DOES THIS GUY HAVE!? How can he afford all of this???
First I think venelope is not a glitch and instead that's just her character ability and that sugar rush has unique character abilities or items
Second he does have a rich guy look so i think he just keeps the machines as a hobby after seeing they are sentient
This guy sounds like ryan renolds. Thought he was deadpool for a sec
Actually all arcades in the world well in that world. At least have sentient characters in them. This is proven in the second movie because they go into the cloud and all the characters in those games are sentient too. Also you said that when all the homeless characters came into Wreck-It Ralph's game, the manager would probably think it was a bug but when turbo went into the other game you said that arcade machine should not have malfunctions like that
Ed O'Neill (Litwak) is also known for the role of Al "4 touchdowns in 1 game" Bundy
His name sounds like {Nintendo} made it.
The whole Unplugged = Death thing never made much sense to me, simply because what if it was plugged back in again. What happens then?
Im just gonna try n point this out i might be wrong, but power strips are surge protectors its part of the device itself.
what if i just...
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I think it’s less like unplugging the machine kills them, it just makes them stop living, and plugging the machine back in brings them back
I never thought about this! Very interesting. Overall, great video my guy! Keep up the good work!
I wanna straight up know what would happen if in the next movie they travelled to other things such as console games or console games travelling to their world. Such as Kratos, Doom guy, or heck even Gordon Freeman from the PS2.
I need a fan animation that looks exactly like the movie doing that but Gordon just moves like a source character
hmm yeah this makes sense now, he cares so much about each arcade machine as if their his children, this is very interesting
why is he mewing in the thumbnail
I mean there's also the possibility that king candy was an existing character in suggestion that's why mr litwak didn't bat an eye at him being a playable character
Or maybe he did think something else like turbo was 2D 8bits but in sugar rush looks different 3D HD
Interesting detail.
you dont code a power strip my man
Honesty now that game theory has no matpat you’re who I watch now. It’d be sick if you took a matpat like approach to it. lol you’d probably make it big
I just realized he looks like the person
Okay, im pretty sure they dont actually die and mr litwak just uses it as a lesson by just getting rid of them instead of plugging it back in.
cool theory if we just stick to the first movie
1:41
1:55 he cares about them🥺
Bro looks like al jokes
Crazy
Cool thumbnail
thank you!
Am I crazy or does the surge protector look just like Mr litwack
Or it’s just movie logic
This theory is a entertaining concept but it has to many holes in it to be true
I wonder what he thinks when they weren’t there and went to the internet In the sequel
Another thing that’s weird is that between the two movies Mr Litwak’s name changes
In the first movie his name was Stan but in the second it’s Del