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 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
"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.
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*
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 :)
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
DUDE. Just finished watching the whole video yesterday and I can only say: You didn't need to go that HARD on the "Into the light" segment. The fact you did is so awesome and emphasized how Turbo got his fitting end. A man driven by avarice and ego getting the spotlight he always wanted. And one he could never leave. Your entire video is GOLD. The humor, the psychoanalysis, and the PRESENTATION! Even if it had its tangents, they were used to add context to the video and don't take away from it. This is one of the greatest character analysis videos on the internet, hands down. Hats off to you and your hard work!
Just checking in to make sure you saw the hardest part of the whole video, that ENDING... I almost clicked off the video since it was sorta post-credits and seemed unsettling-it's 5 am and I am susceptible to nightmares-but I am *so* glad I stuck around
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.
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.
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’
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 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
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.
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
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
I will not understand why they didn't have the duke of welston be the main villian considering he was already trying to kill elsa and to make it worse he didn't get any punishment for it
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).
Another little bit of foreshadowing was that the citizens cheering for king candy are popcorn, the only citizens that aren’t some form of sweet, just like him, he’s not sweet and he doesn’t belong with the sugary characters of sugar rush being salty just like popcorn
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.
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 😅
1:26:05 She's doing the exact opposite of going turbo, actually. Rather than destruction, sabotage and hijacking, she made this life without stealing from anyone, simply being herself and existing.
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)
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.
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
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.
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)
@@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?
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.
21:33 He’s also projecting. It’s the same thing that happens when cheaters accuse their partner of cheating, because they can’t imagine a mindset where someone would be faithful. They themselves always think about cheating, so their partner HAS to ALSO be doing that. Projecting their cheating mindset and cheating thoughts onto their partner. Turbo himself can only think about taking control of the kingdom. He needs a game where he’s the star. In his mind, Ralph can only be there for this reason. Therefore, he accuses as such, projecting his own mindset onto Ralph.
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.
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
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.
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
This is genuinely, no hyperbole, one of the best video essays I've ever seen. The editing, the analysis, the script, all of the little gags, every single aspect really came together here and I can tell that you poured every ounce of passion you have into this! This video is SO good that it made me appreciate and love Wreck-It Ralph (which was ALREADY my favorite Disney movie) is ways I didn't even know were POSSIBLE. Despite the fact that this video was over TWO HOURS LONG I might just watch it AGAIN just to catch all of the minor gags and edits that I missed. You should be really proud of this! ^^
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)
Woahwoahwoah, a video essay? That isn't just a plot summary? And actually goes into indepth aspects of the movie and development of it to bring something new to the table? Impossible...
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
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
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!
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…
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
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.
So here’s I 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.
Honestly the scene where Turbo attacks Vanellope on the track and she learns to "control" the glitch is honestly kind of a perfect moment for her. Discovery of a glitch in a game followed by slowly learning how to recreate it and eventually using it to your advantage is an essential part of the collective experience of playing games, especially in the case of speedrunning. It's a well considered little detail that ties the movie back to gaming culture as well as a very nice character moment for a super competitive-minded person like Vanellope. I never really thought too much about that part of the scene until now, thanks for the great video that got me thinking!
AHAHA That's such a cool connection! Seriously it is A TRAVESTY that the sequel didn't play around with the idea of speedrunning, or anything new and gaming-related at all. But thank you so much for sharing :))
Honestly, it would have made so much sense that Vanellope would have been like a speedster, or like Link from the N64 games in that she is basically able to solve any game by specific movements to glitch how she wants. It would have given her a bunch of cool scenes.
8:12 THANK you for pointing this out. You’re to tell me, that Disney didn’t look into Ballinger’s gross language and “skits” and see that as a red flag, but they canned a show like “The Owl House” early for pissing off their conservatorship?! Which one is a really threat to kids guys? Spotlighting a homage of a creep on RU-vid, or the show about being more inclusive of queer people? Pisses me off 😤
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
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
1:20:07 “Ralph races back to Sugar rush and finds Sour Bill sweeping up the mess (of Vanellope’s cart), but he’s not fessing up. VORE.” Had me cackling with laughter
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
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😆
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.
it is utterly disgusting and tragic when you realize that Vanelope has always been mistreated since she was plugged in and NEVER got to race for THE 15 YEARS she and her game was plugged in…15 YEARS…
nah when i watched that movie for the first time as a 2nd grader I got heebie jeebies lookin at turbo's face during the reveal, analog horror/ creepypasta turbo would slap incredibly hard man
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!!!!!!
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.
The scariest part is how in his final Cybug form, Turbo/King Candy's head is emerging from the bug's broken exoskeleton. It ATE him and he took over the darn thing like a parasite. And while the sequel was meh, the idea that video game characters could escape into the internet? Imagine Cybug Turbo making it into the net, free to cause havoc worldwide.
I ADORE the use of cursed King Candy merch photos in the editing!!! Everytime a new unholy gremlin crawls out of the void it hits like a ton of bricks. Also I love how the tone oscillates between moments of comedy gold to what feel like god damned true crime and back again at the drop of a hat. Unhinged, which is fitting for a rancid elf like this man.
I just finished the video and NEIL CICIEREGA?!? I THOUGHT HE WAS TAS ONLY?!?! Seriously though, fantastic video! I always loved Wreck It Ralph as a kid, and think of it often, but had no clue just how throughly integrated all the themes and threads into every piece of this movie. Every single moment is so well set up and always earned. I think the best media analysis can do is show us how much more there is to love in our favorite stuff, and how much care and love the artists all put into it. And you highlighted all that so well! Amazing work! (And now to the detriment of everyone I am going to reblogging all the Turbo fanart I can on tumblr…) Also, even if you didn’t reference The Bite, I probably would have guessed you had a history with FNAF. No one does arcade glitch horror better than the FNAF fandom. (Seriously though the ending was straight up fantastic, or should I say, TURBOTASTIC!!! Thank you so much for making this!)
1:10:57 - i feel like this scene is even more heartbreaking in the polish dub. basically before running off she tells him "you don't deserve that medal" which can mean both the hero medal from heroes duty but also the one she made him (which i always interpreted it as) meaning yk hes not deserving to be a "hero" and neither her friend because of that betrayal
Amazing vocal expressions in this!!! It's so rare someone actually feels alive and does fun things with their voice when talking, especially on video essays lmao.
Hey um thank you for making this. When this movie came out, i was a young undiagnosed autistic kid. I hyperfixated on this movie SO HARD. My previous fixation was sonic the hedgehog, and although i got bullied for it, people still respected it as an interest. But when i tried talking about Wreck it Ralph, i was met with sneers of "You watched a movie made for babies?!" aaaand you can imagine the infantilization that spiraled from there. My brain pretty much bottled my emotions on the film, stuck a cork in it and threw them away. Your video essay popped that cork and showered my brain in all sorts of dopamine. So uh. Thanks for opening me back up to exploring my facination with animated film.
That is so incredibly touching to me, thank you for sharing❤️❤️ I know it can be overwhelming when you repress something you feel so strongly about and it returns out of nowhere (that same phenomenon sparked this entire video honestly) But i am more than glad this silly video was able to respark your interest in the movie❤️ I hope you've been able to rediscover the joy :')
NO YOU'RE RIGHT I noticed Wrong Way was gone, but for some reason I never thought that maybe that was because he didn't make it out... As for the balls I didn't consider them alive
26:10 "And now it's 1987! Which was also the year of an incident at some random pizza chain nearby-" Me, who was currently in the middle of drawing Michael Afton while watching this: "..."
Something I noticed while watching this, the talk of the cybugs representing "Envy"....they glow green. "Green with envy" anyone? Also this video was awesome. I need to rewatch this movie. Man it'd be nice if it got a sequel. Too bad it never did.
44:20 turbo making himself *King* Candy is also such like, incredible and subtle character writing. if he had inserted himself as like, just another character nobody likely would have even noticed and he would have been fine, but no, he had to have ALL the power. he couldn't just be like, a guy, or maybe a champion racer from outside the candy kingdom, but he had to be THE KING, and he had to completely screw over Vanellope to do it, which ultimately led to his downfall
I NEVER saw that frame of him looking at us, that is actually insane. He's so well written. Also the game's name being 'Sugar Rush' is so clever as to why Turbo was first intrigued to go into SR in the first place. He never saw the game itself, he saw the title. Sugar Rush was his Adrenaline Rush.
You have a very small likelihood of seeing this. But I just wanted to say how OBSESSED I am with this entire video. You can tell how much you adore this movie with how it shines through your narration and editing and just the script itself. The visuals are perfectly timed with what you’re saying and your line delivery has me CACKLING (especially on rewatch) (I’ve seen this about three times now) Everything flows so mind-bending-ly well and your storytelling skills are INSANE that I literally cannot stop thinking about this. thank you so much for sharing this masterpiece with the world
“Your best nightmare” is the perfect music choice for the Bug King Candy scene. It is the theme of a manipulative flower who became a Eldridge abomination and was trying to kill and torture a little kid, the only difference is that the flower has had a lot of things happen to him and Turbo is just a sociopath.
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.
Man, I love unhinged ramblings from fans of movies, books, and shows. Now since you mentioned Meet the Robinsons, I want to talk about the relationship dynamics between Louis and Wilbur and how criminally underrated the movie is as a whole. In this essay, I will-
I can't even put in words how much this essay is sick, I swear. You can see the amount of love put in here, is so fun and satsfying to watch. The way you paid attention to so many detials and gave the time to talk about them I'm in love with the quality of this video. AND THE MINI AMV AT THE END WITH THE CABINET MAN???? DUDE!!! It fits so well😌you and all of the people involved did such a great job, I'm in love.
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?"
Instantly my favorite video essay ever. Im so neurotypical about wreck it ralph and you've managed to make me love this film even mor- IS THAT LEMON DEMON?!?!?!?!?@@@??@
King Turbo when he transforms into a Candy-Turbo-Cybug Hybrid: “At last! My semblance matches my Inner-Beauty!” Also anyone notice when he first talks to Ralph in his new 3rd form, he says *”Because of You, Ralph,* I’m now the most Powerful Virus in the Arcade!” How did he know Ralph brought that Cybug to Sugar Rush? THEY FUSED MINDS! That’s how he could control them and how he could be affected by their Light weakness.
I just found out that on TOP of all this. There’s a theory about king candy being a character who WAS originally part of the game and as Vanellope’s father. And turbo FREAKIN KILLED HIM.
@@DoctorPhileasFragg We cannot underestimate how f’d up turbo can get, he might have coded himself into the game and MERGED himself with king candy, which killed is conciousness. It also fits with the “turbo is a parasite” thing. A parasite needs a host to survive. Since king candy was eaten by the cybug he was no longer a viable host so turbo jumped to the cy bug.
10/10 still find Vanellope princess joke to be the best “As princess you shall be…. Executed.” 😂 Edit: I auto spelt her name as Penelope so corrected that
@@Annonimous1000 Here's the genuine question though. Why is her outfit like that? What I mean is, her outfit on the Arcade machine is white with green. But when she reverts back to 'normal' her outfit is super pink and frilly. And both designs don't 'match' her character like how all the other characters are, with the colors and accessories being themed around their 'dessert'. I presume Venellope is based of a 'Party Mix' with her Licorish hair and the varied candies scattered through it, and being the benevolent ruler of Sugar Rush it makes sense for her to be more encompassing in her theme. But there's just... none of that outside of her casual/'glitch' wear. Her Racing uniform is a stereotypical streamlined racing uniform with no accessories, and her princess outfit is a stereotypical frilly pink dress (which is especially weird with the prominent green in the other two designs). It's always peeved me as a background detail.
@@ForgottenFafnir The dress was definitely just for the bit. “Oh it would be funny to put her in typical princess wear because its not her style.” Sort of joke. As for her og design being different I can only say she probably had a completely different food theme originally. Something plane like maybe gum or something before her being disconnected caused her to glitch and turn into a party mix. Like its not official information i can’t provide that, but feels like a reasonable theory.
@@ForgottenFafnir A lame explanation (what I’m about to say not what you said) but it could simply be them keeping the bow cause its a key feature to her design. Sometimes things are done to make it harder for a character to be mistaken as another character. Also not me trying to be mean but just curious why you chose my comment to ask this question on. All i said was I liked the execution joke so I wasn’t expecting a design analysis.
my friend developed a crush on king candys insect form because of this video and has dragged me down with them so thank you? absolutely amazing video btw, mwah mwah
Honestly, since I saw this movie the thing that most interested me and confused me about Turbo's story is not just how in the world did he infect the cybug, but the strange simbolism of how he manages to use someones nature against themselves. Turbo didn't really survive the attack, but at the same time the cybug saved him from actually dying, somehow abusing the fact that it's copy ability is only used on inanimates to make the cybug copy a person instead of an item, forcing the cybug to replicate his will and consciousness. He found an oversight, a weakness on the cybugs nature and abused it to make the cybug counter itself, strangely similar to how he used Ralph's or Vanellope's nature against themselves
Btw, now that I read my coment again I just noticed how badly I wrote it, I'm glad you managed to understand it, but I literally fell asleep as I was finishing to write it XDDD
The subtle character design and character elements in this movie are amazing. I love how simple the older game worlds are, pacman and fix it Felix's world is so small compared to the sugar rush and heros duty worlds. And the character design and personality are more complex the younger their game is. You can see how the code gets more and more complex in the newer games, the zombie in the first scene is supposed to be a mindless killer but he expresses personality, wants, and opinions, compare that with the bugs in heros duty who are mindless killers in the game and in personality. It's so subtle but I love it.
Oh shit you’re right, it’s like with how much more fleshed out and immersive their games are, it’s harder for them to just “clock out” from their roles.
Editing my 2 hour analysis video on why Randomalistic is from Tumblr, she has even more clues and foreshadowing than Turbo does. (Affectionate) I have NOT seen the cunts fucked and Peace and love on planet earth in any other website.
So I already said this a bit in the vanellope/calhoun video comment section, but KIng Candy/Turbo is the perfect representation of corporations aiming to profit off serious problems and fuel negative memes about disabilites, one of the most popular, or, infamous examples of this being Autism, which I have. king Candy's discrimination against Vanellope because she's a "Glitch" and therefore "cannot be able to race" is what many people with disabilites have to deal with, which all derives form the same Negative meme of Abelism. Your analysis of Turbo helped me realize that my love for this movie is because of it's relateability to me I resonate with Vanellope by sharing a similar problem, instead of a glitch, it's autism. This is a tale of identity at it's core, but Sugar Rush shows a cautionary tale of discrimination against people that are different, a tale so many are unfortunately familiar with. Thanks for making this vid, was a great watch, and Sorry for going on a bit fo a rant about memes and identity, if I went on any longer I would start sounding like Monsoon.
A fan theory/headcanon/au thing/concept I always enjoyed was the idea that King Candy was an actual character in Sugar Rush pre-Turbo (maybe like for a hint or tutorial system?), and even Venellope’s father because of whole King and Princess thing. The idea that Turbo either murdered the previous King Candy or maybe even fused his code with him, taking him down with him, works well for the whole parasite thing Turbo’s got going on (Also, imagine the angst possibilities for Venellope). Either way, thanks for re sparking my love for this movie, King Candy now consumes my every waking thought, lol.
Extra seasoning to add on that headcanon - could it then be assumed that the King Candy bits of the bug fusion at the end were the last remnants of the original's code taking control to protect his daughter and kingdom, making sure Turbo couldn't regain control and escape the light (and perhaps put the original's own nightmare to an end, if the King was still aware to some extent while Turbo puppeted around his code/body for the past few decades).
@@DBArtsCreators YEAHHHHH, YOU GET IT :D That’s exactly what I was thinking :) To also add onto that, I’ve always thought “Hey, why didn’t Turbo just…kill Vanellope? Like, he had access to the code, why just disconnect her box rather than deleting it entirely?” A more fun explanation that just “He can’t” could be that the remaining King Candy code (like you spoke of) just wouldn’t let him. Like, if you were being puppeted around by a mad-man trying to take over your kingdom and he even then went to kill your daughter? You’d do whatever you could to stop it, right? I have many thoughts about this concept, so thanks for sharing and fuelling me further onwards with it, lol
I have theory maybe he was a character for secret bonus level in Cola volcano but since that part wasn’t finished his character was also scrapped and hidden somewhere in the code. So when Turbo decided to go to this game he was looking for disguise and found this not finished concept and yeah took its form. So I guess this is why he wasn’t rejected by game’s code
@@Michiko458 Yeah, maybe like the Cola Volcano was gunna be a tutorial level and he’d teach you how to race? Probably scrapped because it took to much time and they could just put the controls on the box or something….Either way, I’m pretty sure King Candy had to have existed in some capacity pre-Turbo, as where else would he have gotten the assets and textured and stuff for the character? Like, how would he even make the model and race picture from within the game, you know?
@@pokepuff2988 thats what I was thinking too because I doubt that he could create whole new character look and stuff because how messy he deleted Vanillopa. If he was that capable of controlling game and coding he would have removed her more effectively than he did. And also maybe thats is why his panel in code room looks so big. Because he added himself so already existing panel making it heavier than others
I offer a headcanon that is 100% not canon and only appeals to my specific tastes in horror CyBug King Candy/Turbo is not King Candy/Turbo. King Candy/Turbo died when he was eaten. The creature that fights Ralph is a CyBug that thinks it’s King Candy/Turbo because it absorbed all his memories and personality, a la SOMA or Fern The Human. He’s spend so long wearing someone else’s skin, but now something is wearing his skin, whether it realizes or not. (Loved this video! Glad someone appreciates Wreck it Ralph and Turbo as much as I do)
My take on the whole ‘unplugging a game, kills it’ thing is that it’s not the electricity / power not being run through to the game anymore, it’s the act of unplugging the cord to the game while is still being powered. This kind of explains that if electricity shuts down everyone is still ok, while being unplugged from the power strip while still being on kills everyone in the game. Just something I came up with on the spot after you mentioned the power outage story in the video. Love the video btw. Added note: When I came up with this, I though of USBs corrupting if they were taken out of the computer before being properly ejected.
There is a chance that inside the cabinet, everything runs as it would if it were plugged in. But no cabinet has ever been plugged back in after being unplugged; at the very least not without being repaired, which usually involves a hard reset of the software/hardware, which may mean in this universe erasing all the memories of the denizens inside the cabinet back to as they were when they were first plugged in.
also a small little detail is that the cybugs general design and their ability to copy items and/or people are a homage to most bug like creatures (alien, the flood, the zerg etc), but I believe that the cybugs in the game were inspired by warhammer 40k's tyranids. the idea that the bugs could eat and multiply so long as they had food is the same idea as the tyranids being an unstoppable force that uses food to create more bugs
Blizzard was supposed to make a Warhammer 40k game, but the deal fell through. So Blizzard rehashed the Tyranids into the Zerg. You got space margines also and the Protoss are the Eldar.
@@AntipaladinPedigri "Alien Bug Swarm" as an antagonistic seemingly unstoppable force predates WH40k by quite a bit. In fact, there's very little original in WH40k. In the case of both Tyrranids and Space Marines the origination for those was likely the novel "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein, though there were also 1950s horror/action movies that involved giant bugs attacking places that likely also inspired the tropes around those. Eldar and Dark Eldar are just Elves and Dark Elves from DnD with the series numbers filed off... and in that case goes back to the idea of Seelie and Unseelie Fae in Celtic Folklore. The God Emperor and Navigators are both are pretty much cribbed from Dune.
@@peregry I mean, yes, you're right. But I meant the biggest similatities like bugs and their shapeshifting. I do know of the Bugs in Starship troopers, but I'm not sure if they were shapeshifters.
