#Wreck-It ralph

[scurviesdisneyblog]

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴠɪᴠᴀʟ (2009 - 2016)

[gimmeabraig]

okaY SO i was rewatching wreck-it ralph thanks to a certain video, and i got to king candy's introduction and talk with ralph and yadayda. and then. well.

fucking media player crashed. RIGHT. WHERE HE SAYS. YOU'RE NOT GOING TURBO ARE YOU

this is the fkcucking frame it crashed on

coincidences exist but i'm no less terrified

@king-crawler

[elitadream]

Wishing you all a very happy New Year!! 🥳 With lots of cheer, memorable moments and new encounters! 💖

Also, big thanks to Drones for helping me pick a suit color for Mario! ;D The man wears fashion like a King. 👏

[pigeon-scratches]

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squashes him under my shoe

[rottenracer]

accumulation of turbo bullshit i've made over the span of 3 years of brainrot. enjoy

[ivyloveheart]

TURBO CHARMS ARE OFFICIALLY HERE!

THAT’S RIGHT! THEY’RE AVAILABLE! RIGHT NOW!! GO GO GO!!!

[march-harrigan]

When Litwak plugs in a new racing game.

[crosspunzel]

[jefpoo421]

I Unofficially Colored a Storyboard picture What Do you think

[badbugbotblood]

Mini conspiracy to do with lrt actually because this has been rotting my brain. The timeline doesn't necessarily make sense because there is like a small ocean of time between the unplugging of TurboTime and Turbo's incursion into Sugar Rush, BUT HEAR ME OUT!

So we know that the visual design, vocal flair and body language of King Candy is HEAVILY inspired by Disney's Mad Hatter from their original animated Alice in Wonderland (1951). The resemblance is extremely deliberate. The hair, the high collar, the iconic lisp, the presentation.

But if we look at King Candy's visual design when compared to the other human avatars of SUGAR RUSH, our little faux monarch here does NOT STYLISTICALLY MATCH UP!

The racers of Sugar Rush are very clearly emulating a typical cutesy Japanese 'chibi' style. Round heads, big eyes, little noses, and legs that (while not so long as to be anatomically realistic) fit the proportions of their bodies. Their outfits are sleek and their silhouettes are quite thin.

King Candy does not follow this same design philosophy at all (and it's for this reason that I also personally believe that King Candy's appearance as a whole was a fabrication of Turbo's, rather than an unfinished NPC character whose model he commandeered).

I think an interesting in-universe explanation for King Candy's appearance could come from another game. One which Turbo would have known well.

After all, TurboTime had had a neighbor in Fix-It Felix Jr.

While their design language definitely does not line up 1:1, I see more of Felix in King Candy's appearance than I do the likeness of any Sugar Rush avatar. There are some commonalities in the facial proportions of King Candy and Fix-It Felix. Their heads are taller, eyes are smaller, and their mouths are wider. And then there is the nose, which is to me and my delulu brain the most obvious visual similarity between these two.

So. Say you're a societal pariah after doing something seriously taboo, and you need to blend in with a group of newly-arrived strangers in order to avoid being caught and punished for your misdeeds. There's not much time, and you need to get your affairs in order before anyone realizes what you're doing.

I think that, with his take-over of Sugar Rush being an extremely time-sensitive ordeal, Turbo had very little chance to devise the perfect disguise. So he cheated just a bit, took inspiration from a place that was familiar to him.

His own appearance, ghoulish and grey, dressed in blazing red over stark white, that would never fly in such a whimsical world. But he once knew a cast of characters with designs that all the Players found appealing at that time, and he fell back on that knowledge to craft his royal façade. All he knew for sure was that his avatar had to be cute, colorful and coherent.

The end result definitely doesn't scream Sugar Rush when you really scrutinize it, but it held up for fifteen years. Fifteen wonderful years full of racing and ruling and winning to his heart's content. Turbo was satisfied, maybe even truly happy.

I wonder if part of his apparent surprise during the Big Twist Villain Reveal(tm) came from him not immediately recognizing the ashy grey skin beneath the mask he'd built more than a decade ago. After all, he'd spent right around half of his entire life as the one and only King Candy, the benevolent monarch and best racer of Sugar Rush.

He would have been more than happy to leave his loathsome original avatar behind with the rest of the eight-bit era. It had done him no favors even when he wasn't old news just yet.

How unfortunate for him that the pesky Glitch had different ideas.

[kingabezka]

When the character's name is also the name of the movie so there's no fanart of them under their own tag

[markerofthemidnight]

Turbo (vs) Time

(THIS PALE SHITLORD HAS INVADED MY MIND LIKE ITS NAME IS SUGAR RUSH PLEASE HELP)

Okay but we need to start talking about just how interesting Turbo is as a concept.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about an old 80s video game character whose game was fun enough to be considered popular in its heyday, but quickly aged terribly as more complex competitors came along, to the point where nowadays he’s willing to go to all kinds of lengths just to stay relevant.

We are talking about the indignant wrath of an outdated media character who refuses to accept that the world is done with him.

And you know what? Of course he does. Because, not only is that a difficult thing to come to terms with, but he’s the protagonist of a racing game. He’s programmed to want to be the best, no matter what happens.

But still, no matter how fast he goes, eventually he’ll always lose at the most important race of all: the race against time.

…With that in mind, the name ‘Turbo Time’ is actually pretty poetic. Because Turbo time comes… and then it goes, never to be seen again. Like a certain arcade cabinet.

That’s his real enemy here. It was never Vanellope, it was never RoadBlasters: it was what both of them meant for him. That times are changing, and he’s not fast enough to keep up.

And that’s not fair for him: of course it’s not! What is a racer who can’t keep up? Who is Turbo, if he isn’t the best? And how is it that games like Fix-It Felix Jr. and PacMan have stayed in the arcade this whole time, but he is one of the first to go?! What do they have that he doesn’t?!

There’s… there’s not really an answer to that question. More engaging gameplay that would stand the test of time and wouldn’t be replaced so easily, perhaps.

And… god, with all this in mind, the (lack of) treatment he gets in Ralph Breaks the Internet is actually poetic too, as stupid as it is. The second his rule is successfully toppled by a competitor… the world just forgets about him, like that fateful day all those years ago.

Also, headcanon time: I like to think Turbo Time was made by a pretty big company with other popular games, that had no reason to try and save it once competition started rolling in and the game became less and less popular.

Why? Because, if this were true, it’d be very likely that, out of all the Turbos in all the Turbo Times in the world… he’s the last one left.

And I dread to think how he’d react if he ever found that out.

[happypengirl]

King Candy/Turbo and Vanellope

Monster-House-Fan92 By Deviantart

[odd-chips]

Full body King Candy(bug) commission for @appelsiinilight!

Don’t quote me on this, but I think I like King Candy and I think they also like King Candy, I’m just saying. (Coughs to the [other] [three] [commissions] I did for them)

[pigeon-scratches]

Turbotastic!

[rottenracer]