[ SECRET POST #2221 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2221 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #317.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[pengychan]

Aside from the fact I'm not sure what the "he isn't even good-looking" bit is about (to be honest, it was a bit of fresh air seeing a bad guy who's definitely not hot stuff being so popular among fans), I tend to divide between fics set before and after the unplugging of Turbo Time and the subsequent Sugar Rush takeover.

By the time the movie happens, the guy is pretty fucked up. I was amused by how he didn't go and try to kill Vanellope right away and how he chose to trick Ralph into destroying her cart instead - but he still made her life a living hell, and as the cherry on top once he was cornered he did not hesitate trying to kill her. By the time he became a Cybug he was pretty out of control. So yeah, while I like the character, he gets no justification. I'll give a chance to any fic about him right after Turbo Time was unplugged - it cannot be fun knowing your game was unplugged and (likely) all characters in it died because you fucked up - because if handled well it can be interesting (and where the hell had he stayed hidden all the years between the Road Blasters incident and the arrival of Sugar Rush?), but I'll backbutton the moment it's some angstfest used as an excuse for what he did to Vanellope.

On the other hand, we know little to nothing of the guy back in his glory days. Just that he loved to win, loved attention and definitely had an ego the size of Canada, but nothing else. So I see nothing wrong with making him a somewhat decent guy back in the day, when he was the main character of the most pupolar game in the arcade and all was fine in his world. Not say he was the best guy ever (likely was not) but maybe he could be alright to hang out with. As long as the others didn't mind the giant ego too much.

[morieris]

Did we ever get a definite timeline? Since his debacle took both racing games out of the arcade, Sugar Rush might've been hauled in shortly to fill the niche. Yeah, they seemed old to be in the arcade still, but so was Fix it Felix Jr.

[(Anonymous)]

Sugar Rush was released in 1997, according to the viral marketing Litwak's ads. Roadblasters, the actual arcade game that made Turbo jealous, was made in 1987. So, no, definitely not 'shortly'. XD

[morieris]

Ooh, there's a gap. Thanks Anon!

[(Anonymous)]

No prob. I've been an arcade buff since I was a wee kid in second grade. XD I pegged Roadblasters immediately, one of the movies more obscure cameos (But not its most complex- that would be Peter Pepper from Burgertime, for convoluted inside-joke reasons). I walked into this movie hyped and have seen it three times in theaters. (The only movies I've seen more than that are Toy Story 2 and Galaxy Quest, both of which, hilariously coincidental, came out during my year of second grade. XD)

[pengychan]

I can't for my life remember where I read it, but there is one. Or at least there were some official statements regaring the "release date" for each video game the characters were from, which someone put together to get a timeline. I didn't pay much attention, but I'm sure there was a several years gap between Turbo going, well, Turbo, and Sugar Rush being plugged in.

EDIT: never mind, anon beat me to it. XD