The Wreck It Ralph Plug Theory

top comment already pointed it out and you did respond adequately but for anyone who didnt check the replies there WIR doesnt take place in the 80s, it takes place in the 2010s, what he meant to say was the hardware for Ralph's game was from the 80s. It has no bearing on the theory and was just meant as a segway into talking about modern home console games

The cameo of Sonic actually revealed the Death of characters outside their own Games He literally says "Don't die outside your game"

One thing I've always loved is the attention to detail WIR has, like how the cake splatter in the apartment building is mostly in a blocky pixel aesthetic just like the actual game.

I find it really hard to believe that the arcade that houses these games has never experienced a power outage... Like, SURELY the power must have been shut off every now and then. But based on the intro, the arcade has been up and running for at least a decade and all the characters still have their memories of those times. My guess is they probably just misunderstand what unplugging the game actually does, and just assume that everyone still in the game dies when it happens because none of the games have ever been plugged back in after going out of commission for them to find out.

Who is to say there hasnt been a point the arcade lost power? Turbos code takeover shows just how easy it is to actually manipulate characters and change things. Its fully possible that situations like his have occurred and characters relationships have changed completely. Maybe Ralph's game has been reset by unplugging before and in another one he got along great with the other characters. Maybe the arcade had renovations done at some point. In reality, unplugging is a simple fact of their existence. My question is why they couldnt travel outside the arcade on the power strip?

This is what Wreck it Ralph 2 should have been about

If I had to take a wild guess as to how the world works with my limited experience using Godot, every entity that essentially needs its own code (moving platforms, enemies, the player, etc) is it's own "puzzle block" that you can throw together into the main scene. So if a spaceman or something were to enter another game, they would still maintain their low gravity because it's a coded value inside of them. Or if you were to put two player characters inside of the same game (like the replug theory) the player would control both of them at the same time since they are both receiving actions from the controller. However, they can't respawn because they are no longer inside their main scene, so when their code looks for a checkpoint or a place to respawn, they can't find it because the new game's code wasn't made the same. Some games may use "plyr_checkpoint" while others use "plr_chkpnt", you know? Sorta like what happens if you straight up delete the player in Minecraft or something, the game doesn't know where to put you anymore, and they can't respawn you because your "ghost" doesn't exist, causing the game to kick you back to the title screen. Good news is that in rare circumstances, someone may be able to respawn outside of their own game if the code is made similarly, probably because the game was made by the same developers. (An example would be Chell from Portal inside of the world of Half Life 2, both are made by Valve in the Source engine)

My theory on why everyone didn't die because of a blackout: the Power Strip cable plug is actually a Uninterruptible Power Supply, which provides backup power to equipment when the main power source fails. preventing them from damage caused by power failures, electrical surges, sags, and spikes, while also keeping them on running for a certain time.

Fun fact: Doom was programmed in the programming language C. Thus, that is why Doom can run on anything! At least, that runs on this kind of code anyway.

I'm gonna say that if it gets plugged back in then it just recreates the characters, but they're no the same people, so two Ralphs could exist at once because they're technically different people.

Well actually, if the game took place in the 80s how is a high tech 3D game like Sugar Rush exist?

I know this may ruffle some feathers, but if we take the sequel into consideration, while the event of a power outage would wipe the memories of the arcade residents, it may not affect Vanellope the same way since she lives on the internet now, and a lot of current computers are wireless, so her game, Slaughter Race, would just effectively be on stand-by. Perhaps Vanellope uses this as an opportunity to check on her friends only to find that everyone, outside of Sugar Rush, doesn't remember who she is.

Pretty sure when the power strip gets unplugged, those in the hub will just experience darkness while those in their games would just die

0:48 this isnt actually the first time its mentioned, after Walph leaves Bad-Anon theres screens where Sonic says "If you leave your game, stay safe, stay alert and whatever you do, dont die, because if you die outside your own game, you dont regenerate. ever. game over"

I just realized how kind of screwed up it is that Ralph and Felix brought the homeless characters into their game. Felix dies when he gets hit by debris, so that just means that eventually these guys are all gonna die out because a player screwed up

2:12 There isn’t an afterlife for code, but there is for variables. Depending on how things are setup up and how future instances, if any, are compiled, there’s a chance the original variable is never cleared from memory.

5:53 well... This brings a question - do you really believe, that for all of the freaking 30 years power NEVER was off? That's impossible. Blackouts happen. What if all of them did have a reset of all of their memories and lives? They just don't know, because they can't remember it...

I just realized something. What if two of the same arcade games were in one arcade. Would there be two Ralphs that could interact with each other? What if they swapped games and died? Would they respawn because it's "their game" or would they not because it's a different console?

Unplugging probably doesn't kill the characters. The chance that the arcade never lost power in over 30 years of operation is astronomically low. They almost certainly do die when the arcade machine is destroyed, which would be the fate of many of the machines after their unplugging.

My theory is that when they get unplugged they just go unconcious, but since no one has ever been plugged back in, everyone thinks you just died. So whenever a power outage occurs, its like if time stopped, so they don't notice.