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Get to know your Wreck-It Ralph characters! (Level 1: Game Central Station)
By InCinemas / 01 Oct 2012 (Monday)
You know you had a pretty good childhood when you can recognise some of the game characters in Disney's upcoming animated movie, Wreck-It Ralph, slated to open in Singapore theatres on 20 December 2012.
And for us to better understand some of the characters in the movie, Disney has released a list of character images and descriptions from the different gamer worlds seen in the film! Hit the jump and begin the adventure, 'One Game at a Time'!
Your choice of Games featured in Wreck-It Ralph
Level 1: Game Central Station (Below)
Level 2: Fix-It Felix, Jr (Game Jump)
Level 3: Hero's Duty (Game Jump)
Level 4: Sugar Rush (Game Jump)
Can't wait to watch Wreck-It Ralph after watching its movie trailer #2! My favourite part is when all the 'bad guys' recite their creed around the 1:56 min mark. Share with us which is your favourite quotes/moments under the comments below!
"I am bad. And that's good.
I will never be good, and that's not bad.
There's no one I rather be, than me."
The message seems to be telling us that despite our differences, it is important that we accept and love who we are. Find out more about Wreck-It Ralph below!
LEVEL 1: GAME CENTRAL STATION
Wreck-It Ralph: Bad Guys Finish Last
Ralph is a heavy-handed wrecking’ riot with a heart. For 30 years—day in, day out—he’s been doing his job as “The Bad Guy” in the arcade game Fix-it Felix Jr. But it’s getting harder and harder to love his job when no one seems to like him for doing it. Suffering from a classic case of Bad-Guy fatigue and hungry for a little wreck-ognition, Ralph embarks on a wild adventure across an incredible arcade-game universe to prove that just because he’s a Bad Guy, it doesn’t mean he’s a bad guy.
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Surge Protector: The One with the Clipboard
With the duties of a high school hall monitor and the officiousness of a mall rent-a-cop, this straight-laced civil servant is more hassle than help. But electrical voltage spikes are no laughing matter.
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Q*Bert: Unplugged
Q*Bert, whose game was long ago unplugged, spends most of his time in Game Central Station, the travel hub for all arcade-game characters—and the unfortunate “home” to those whose games are over.
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Coily: Bouncing Purple Snake
Once the bouncing purple villain in the Q*Bert arcade game, Coily finds himself hanging with his former adversary in Game Central Station after their game is unplugged.
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Neff: Purple’s the New Black
As “Altered Beast’s” resident evil wizard, Neff is a natural for the Bad-Anon meeting roster.
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M. Bison: The Eyes Have It
A uniformed villain from “Street Fighter,” M. Bison tames his bad-guy habits at Bad-Anon.
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Zangief: Not a Bad Guy
Zangief, the muscle-bound, hairy-chested, Mohawked wrestler from “Street Fighter,” is a regular at the Bad-Anon meetings.
Do You Know?
The game companies were specific in the way how their characters were being used in the movie, Wreck-It Ralph.
In an interview with Total Film, producer Clark Spencer points out that there was lots of conversation about which character would be the
biggest character in that Bad Anon scene, even to the specifics of
centimetres and that he was fascinated that all of the companies know how tall their characters are.
"We had a scene where we wanted the rings to come out of Sonic, and SEGA
said the only way that happens is if he falls over, and we didn't have
him fall over in the scene, so we actually went back and re-animated
it." says the producer.
Also according to Disney wikia's List of cameos in Wreck-It Ralph, we have:
- Nintendo: Bowser from Super Mario Bros.
- Sega: Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Robotnik (Eggman) from Sonic the Hedgehog,
Neff from Altered Beast, and Cyril the Zombie from House of the Dead
- Capcom: Zangief, Chun-Li, Cammy, Ken, Ryu and M. Bison from Street Fighter II; Dr. Wily from Mega Man
- Namco Bandai: Clyde from Pac-Man, Dig-Dug from Dig-Dug
- Gottlieb: Q*bert, Coily, Slick and Ugg from Q*bert
- Midway: Kano and Smoke from Mortal Kombat. Paperboy from Paperboy, and Bartender from Tapper.
- Konami: Frogger from Frogger