Ralph lived in the woods peacefully. Then some big corporation comes and demolishes the trees to create an apartment complex. Does Ralph get compensated? No, his stump gets moved and he lives in the dump.
Ralph has every reason to be upset and want to wreck the building.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. -Michael Corleone
Very observant!
shareLook at the lyrics to the song "Wreck it, Wreck-It Ralph":
Wreck-It Ralph is a giant of a man
Nine feet tall with really big hands
Living in a stump on his very own land
Until his world went crazy
He was minding his own business on the day they came
They showed a piece of paper saying “Eminent domain”
They built an apartment building saying progress was to blame
So he got mad
And he turned bad
Brick by brick, he’s gonna take his land back!
A lot of people have observed the basic gameplay and characters are inspired by Donkey Kong, but a lot of people don't realize Ralph's backstory (him having a legitimate problem) is also inspired by DK. For those unaware, Donkey Kong was Mario's pet, who Mario abused, so DK snapped one day and kidnapped Mario's girlfriend in retaliation for the abuse he'd suffered.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. -Michael Corleone
Although Ralph has some cause for being upset, I don't think he gets a complete pass like you're implying.
This lyric: They showed a piece of paper saying "Eminent domain." The government always pays a market price for the land when they take it. Ralph did get money for his land.
It doesn't sound to me like he got paid.. he goes and lives in the dump after they move his stump! Yeah, maybe he could have tried talking it over, but when you're 9 feet tall you don't have to talk to anyone if you don't want to, I suppose.
Fix-it Felix on the other hand actually has no personal reason to oppose Ralph and is unambiguously a good guy. Felix is just the building's superintendent and had no personal politics. His job is just to fix the building and that's what he did. Notice it's the Nicelanders who throw Ralph off the building and not Felix himself. He's too nice a guy.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. -Michael Corleone
Maybe he gambled it all away...
shareThe story seems simple to many of us, because back in the day, backstories for characters were usually very simple: black-and-white, good-vs-evil.
These days, we find so much grey-area in character/world-building, that we start to see that a lot of the simplicity is almost from a different time.
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