One of the coolest things about sci-fi and fantasy is the worlds within worlds that our favorite stories create, and few do it more inventively than Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. The animated franchise features a video game villain in Ralph who wants to break out of his rut and literally walks out of his game into others, where he naturally finds adventure.

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The game Ralph walks out of is called Fix-It Felix Jr. Though Ralph leaves it behind as his ordinary world, there's nothing ordinary about it. Let's take a look at the game, and all the unique ways it works like real ones do.

10 They Paved Over Paradise

Ralph's role as the villain in the game is fairly straightforward. He's angry, and he wrecks things. The basic concept has him climbing brick buildings, smashing them, which necessitates Fix-It Felix to, well, fix them. The reason for this is fairly complicated, though. Ralph is angry because the forest he lives in has been cut down so an apartment building could go up. The object of the game is Felix defeating Ralph, and the tenants tossing him off the top into some mud, which sorts of makes you glad? Yay, progress!

9 The Magic Hammer

fix it felix jr game

The magical, golden hammer Fix-It Felix uses in the game comes in pretty handy. All Felix has to do is bang it against something Ralph smashed, and it instantly repairs all the damage Ralph has done. Not only that, the hammer works wonders on bodily harm, too. Which is good, because that is a thing in this game. Felix can repair bruises and other sundry injuries that Ralph or another busier, Sgt. Calhoun might inflict. The hammer is thought to have been a gift from Felix's father. In the game, the hammer floats in mid-air, waiting to be collected, a nod to a certain home video game.

8 Kong Connections

Ralph seems to be based on another famous 80s bruiser - Donkey Kong. In his game, Kong climbed a scaffolding-like structure and hurled barrels and worse at Mario, who tried to get to the top and stop him. Both 8-bit terrors were just misunderstood, it seems. The basic gameplay of Fix-It Felix Jr. mirrors Donkey Kong and its sequel - surprise - Donkey Kong Jr. pretty closely, in the way it employs characters, levels, and power-ups. Absent from the game is any sort of damsel in distress. In Donkey Kong, Mario has to overcome an increasingly complicated set of obstacles to get to Pauline, whom Kong has captured. Felix is primarily concerned with stopping Ralph and keeping Niceland's insurance rates down.

7 Niceland

The game takes place in the fictional city of Niceland, which is going through a bit of a boom period at the moment. Brand-new apartment buildings are going up all over, and something has to go, so away with the forests. The apartment building Ralph objects to appears to be, at least in the game (the movie sees some additions) the only residence in town, and all of the game's characters live there.

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Except for Ralph, who lives in a rundown part of town called The Dump, after losing his home in the forest. Niceland being a single apartment building does put extra emphasis on Felix keeping it in working order, so good thing he has that hammer.

6 120501

Walt Disney

A great little easter egg in the video game has to do with the man himself, Walt Disney. In the movie, Wreck-It Ralph, the high score of Fix-It Felix Jr. is 120501, a sly reference to the birthday of Walt Disney who was born December 5, 1901. Walt Disney Pictures released the film in 2012, part of a revival of their main animated line after years where Pixar was their primary and most successful animated venture. The film did so well, a sequel followed in 2018, Ralph Breaks The Internet.

5 Sgt. Calhoun

Sgt. Calhoun is the object of Felix's affection, which is something of a trick since she's from a different game entirely. We'll get to that in a second. Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun is, as the game says, 'one tough space marine,' hellbent on destroying the evil Cy-Bug invaders of Earth. This time, it's personal. Calhoun had been engaged to a doctor, but on the day of their wedding, a Cy-Bug got in the chapel and ate him. It happens. This is due to Calhoun not doing a perimeter sweep before the festivities, embittering her and closing her off to any connection until she meets Felix.

4 Hero's Duty

Hero's Duty is a bit more modern in concept than Fix-It Felix Jr. A first-person shooter game, it exists alongside Felix in Litwik's Arcade, which we'll get to. Ralph leaves his game in frustration, wanting to prove he's more than just a bad guy and joins the cause against the evil Cy-Bugs. He takes up the light gun and blasts away the bad guys. Lots and lots of bad guys. The game recalls a lot of other first-person shooters, including Call of Duty, and also Metroid. Calhoun herself resembles the character of Samus Aran from the Metroid series, with her armor and helmet.

3 Litwak's Arcade

The coolest concept within the Wreck-It Ralph universe is Litwak's Family Fun Center & Arcade. By day a normal arcade, it hides a fun secret: at night, all the characters of the video games come out. Well, kind of. They live within the cabinets of their own games, and exit through power cables into a power strip, that they call Game Central Station. Game Central looks a little bit like an electronic Grand Central Station, and here the characters socialize or in Ralph's case, ostracize.

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Ralph's run-ins with character from all sorts of other games - Frogger, Dig Dug, Tapper, and Burger Time just to name a few - drive him to prove to himself and the others that he's more than just the bully his game makes him out to be.

2 Q*bert

Not all of the video games in the arcade work. Some of them are old and have been unplugged, leaving their characters homeless. Such is the fate of classic 80s video game weirdo Q*bert. He and the other characters from his dormant cabinet now hang out in Game Central Station. Q*bert's luck doesn't improve when Ralph trips over him on his way to enter Hero's Duty. Q*bert turns this into an opportunity by alerting Felix of what's happening. By helping Felix track Ralph from game to game, Q*bert and his friends earn a new home in Niceland, as part of Fix-it Felix Jr.

1 Vanellope Von Schweetz

Vanellope is a character from another game, Sugar Rush. A 'glitch,' she's not allowed to race by King Candy, but like Ralph, isn't about to let that stop her. She steals the medal he won from Hero's Duty, intended to prove to the Nicelanders what a great guy he is, so she can use it to get back in the race. Ralph ends up working with her to get the medal back and win a race. King Candy tempts Ralph with what he really wants, which is acceptance, and he breaks Vanellope's heart. Then he realizes the truth - she's one of the main characters of the game. He helps her win the race, restoring her and revealing the fact she's a princess and unseating the imposter King Candy. Very Game of Thrones, but with candy.

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