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Turbo (also known as King Candy within Sugar Rush) is the main antagonist of Wreck-It Ralph. He was the famous main character in an 8-bit racing game called, Turbo Time. His legacy in Litwak's Arcade had spawned the term "going Turbo" to describe the act of game-jumping, particularly if disastrous results ensue. Turbo Time was formerly the most popular game in the arcade, until another quickly usurped its spotlight in the form of RoadBlasters. Completely consumed with envy, Turbo decided to gain back attention by game-jumping into RoadBlasters with the intent on conquering it. This plan ended up getting both RoadBlasters and Turbo Time unplugged. He survived the incident and stayed around, apparently in hiding, until sometime during or after 1997; he then cleverly disguised himself as King Candy and entered Sugar Rush. Turbo wanted everyone to treat Vanellope so poorly so then he tried to delete her code, which resulted in her becoming a permanent glitch, so that he could become the rightful ruler of Sugar Rush.

As Turbo

Turbo was a short and stocky man with pale gray skin. He had bright yellow eyes with no irises, and tombstone-like yellow teeth. He also had what appears to be dark eye bags and laugh lines around his mouth, giving his face an overall skeletal look. His entire head was covered by a white racing helmet that was painted with a red signature "T" (for Turbo), and he wore a matching white and red jumpsuit. He's not bald, just his helmet covers his hair, which is a black mullet-shag. On the Turbo Time cabinet, he had a more cartoonish face, he had white eyes and teeth, and his helmet was painted with a red streak, in the center. During his struggle with Vanellope, there is a vague glance that he wears red sneakers.

PERSONALILITY

Turbo appears to have been an arrogant and conceited character in his own game even before assuming the role of king of Sugar Rush. Whether or not he was sadistic or disturbed before adopting the persona of King Candy is unknown. The hijacking of RoadBlasters was certainly a symptom of jealousy and spite, but malicious intent may ultimately have arisen out of fear and a desperate sense of self-preservation, not an innate evil. The reason for his uninviting attitude and craving of destruction is because of his attention seeking self, which was granted by the arcade gamers, giving him the attention. He is described by Calhoun as a "selfish man" and "a mangy dog chasing a cautionary tale".

Although the rest of his background at that time during the arcade's closing hours are unknown, Turbo appears to have (possibly) enjoyed belittling his two rivals, the Turbo Twins who looked annoyed at him when he is seen pushing them at the winners stands when the player wins.

He's extremely flirty and a little bit pervy, yet extremely validation centered. He has the confidence of someone much bigger than him, yet he still tries to be even more confident than that. It's like a little dog having the confidence of a pitbull.

Story

When Litwak's Arcade first opened, Turbo was the hero of a racing game known as TurboTime. It was the most popular game in the arcade, and Turbo loved the attention he received. However, when another game called RoadBlasters got plugged in and proved to be more popular due to superior graphics, Turbo was consumed by envy, so much so that he abandoned his own game and tried to invade the new one. He ended up crashing the new game by colliding with (and getting stuck to) the player car, causing everything to out. Conversely, Turbo's own game was without its protagonist, rendering it unplayable. As such, both games were immediately put out of order and removed from the arcade. Many believed this was the end of Turbo, and he became a cautionary tale for other video game characters who might wish to "go Turbo" and abandon their games.

Turbo's King Candy disguise design is said to have been inspired by the Mad Hatter, who in turn was inspired by the actor Ed Wynn. He may have also been designed after Willy Wonka (1971). At Disney's request, Turbo's/King Candy's voice actor Alan Tudyk deliberately modeled King Candy's voice after Wynn's.

• Turbo was the first character voiced by Alan Tudyk, who would later become a pigeonholed voice actor for all subsequent Disney Animation films after Wreck-It Ralph due to his popularity.

• His name and game is probably a nod to Turbo, an arcade game released by Sega in 1981, the same year, Sega's rival company Nintendo released Donkey Kong, the game Fix-it Felix Jr. is based on.

• His original form's character design appears to be inspired off the Driver from the Rally-X arcade game released by Namco in 1980 whose appearance appears to be based off Speed Racer. This all due to the fact that Turbo's original game was based off the latter game.

  • However, his two rivals the TurboTwins from his original game were apparently inspired by the Rally-X driver's in-game color palette of blue, while the enemies were all red (this is reversed in TurboTime).

• In the playable, browser-based game adaptation of Sugar Rush, one can unlock King Candy himself as a playable racer simply by typing in the code "KING CANDY". In the Japanese version, this code is "7eleven".

• In early stages of production, King Candy owned a Uni-candy-corn named Skittles.

• As King Candy, his fans were anthropomorphic popcorn.

• Turbo looks very different from his promotional art render of himself on the side of his game cabinet, with his render showing a much happier and cartoonier appearance. In his actual game, Turbo (and the twins) look much more fatigued and gaunt (alongside a look similar to a skeleton). Additionally, on the artwork, the sclera of his eyes and teeth are also white as opposed to yellow.

• Turbo was animated by Zach Parrish.

• He was the first animated Disney character voiced by Alan Tudyk, who has also gone on to voice a character in every movie since then.

• He and Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit: are similar in many ways:

  • Both tried to take over another dimension; for Judge Doom, it would be Toon Town while for Turbo, it would be the video game arcade.

  • Their true form is revealed at the climax of their respective films; Judge Doom's true form was revealed after getting flattened by a steam roller while Turbo's true form was revealed from Vanellope's glitching.

• He is also similar to Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear from Toy Story 3, getting angry about rejection/replacement and wanting revenge by taking over a particular place. He also is similar because he wasn't apparently evil until this event.

• He is also loosely similar to Chick Hicks from Disney Pixar's Cars, as both are arrogant and villanous racers who are obsessed with winning.

• He had two notable rivals in his original video game named the Turbo Twins who are presumed to have been wiped out when TurboTime got unplugged assuming that they didn't have thought to escape their game during Turbo's invasion of RoadBlasters. It's unknown if Turbo was friends with the two or not, as hinted when he is seen pushing them at the winners stands when the player wins causing them to look annoyed at him.

• The password he entered on the NES controller to get into the code room of Sugar Rush is the Konami Code.

• The kart in Sugar Rush that he is normally seen with used to be in Vanellope's possession, as Vanellope is seen driving it on the side of the game console.

• Despite the appearance of the kart he uses, no official name has been released and is the only kart in the game to have no name, but a widely-used fan-made name is the Royal Kart or Royal Racer. However, it is called the Royal Racer in Disney Infinity.

• It's indicated that Turbo drove his racecar through Game Central Station, hence he was traveling through the games' plugs so fast, and especially that he is seen in his car in the scene were he hijacks RoadBlasters. This also shows how enraged and obsessive he was when RoadBlasters stole his attention.

• His original race car from TurboTime which likely got wiped out/destroyed when escaping RoadBlasters since it was never seen physically, has the same design as the Turbo twins' (his rivals) race cars.

• Turbo is apparently the only racer known to have escaped TurboTime before it was unplugged.

• Turbo may have done some graffiti on the Sugar Rush walls at Game Central Station. To the right, there is a stamp that says "Turbo" with a picture of Turbo's face.

• When King Candy is accessing his code in the Sugar Rush code room, there are two code blocks that resemble Turbo's 8-bit face.

• Turbo's and King Candy's catchphrases both have 4 syllables, and are both trochaic.

• Despite the fact Turbo is the main antagonist of the movie, he did not originally have any promotional art or merchandise in his original form. This is perhaps due to the fact that Disney did not want anyone to know that Turbo was the main antagonist of the film until the audience watched the movie and found out for themselves. However, in late 2013, Funko released Turbo as a Pop Vinyl figure.

• He shares similarities to Napoleon in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm. Both characters believe that what they want is what everyone else wants. They both have a sidekick (Sour Bill with Turbo and Squealer with Napoleon). Also, they spread propaganda to their followers and they both had other henchmen (Sugar Rush racers with Turbo and the guard dogs with Napoleon).

• Throughout the movie, there are signs that King Candy was Turbo. Here are the following examples:

  • His made-up name was "King Candy", a simple and fairly obvious name for a character in a candy-themed setting, while all the other characters have clever plays on various kinds of candy for names.

  • He is a powerful racer with a huge dislike of losing.

  • He doesn't look like the other racers from Sugar Rush. While he has a rather American-styled cartoonish look, the racers have the appearance of chibi (Japanese small characters).

  • He was the only one from Sugar Rush that knew Ralph's name because when he was known as Turbo, his game was next to Ralph's game. Possibly knowing him before he became King Candy. It's unknown if he had any kind of relationship with any of the other videogame characters when he was in his original game.

  • During the scene where the racers insert their coins to be in the race, the announcer sounds different saying King Candy, as if Turbo tried voicing it himself, while the other racers he announced sounds the same for each of them. Vanellope's name also is in more of an excited voice; since she was originally the princess, she'd likely be the best racer in the game.

    King Candy's code block.

  • King Candy's code block is a different color and is also bigger (almost double size) than the other racers' blocks, and as opposed to 10 sides of the others, his only has 3 sides (2 flat and 1 curved), and the code is completely messed up unlike the other codes which are aligned in a loop. This is because he had to make it himself, and half is about Turbo's true identity and the second half is about the King Candy disguise, sweet voice, and more that gives him his Candy persona.

  • When King Candy is accessing his code in the Sugar Rush code room, there are some faces of Turbo that can be seen. This was foreshadowing that King Candy was Turbo.

  • Even before Ralph realises something odd going on with Sugar Rush by seeing Vanellope on the console, the latter can easily still be seen on the console at the beginning of the film.

  • When Ralph threatens King Candy about his medal, King Candy asks him if he's going Turbo despite Sugar Rush being younger than both RoadBlasters and Turbo Time (Though M. Bison, who made his debut in 1991, uses this phrase earlier in the film, so it may be assumed that he picked it up somewhere else).

• When "Going Turbo" is first mentioned by M. Bison, some viewers thought that he was making a Street Fighter reference, as that series has frequently released "Turbo" editions of existing games that are generally poorly received by the fanbase. This is likely a red herring.

  • The term "going Turbo" might be a possible reference to the term "going postal".

• Turbo is, to some extent, similar to Vathek from Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.

  • ​Both tried to destroy the former ruler to become king.

  • Both have a lisp.

  • Both end up being defeated in some way.

  • Both engage the main characters in a boss battle.

  • Both alter their surroundings to suit their needs (Turbo changed the racer's codes to make them think he was king, Vathek placed guards everywhere and fire breathing statues of himself).

  • Both can fly (Turbo can as a Cy-Bug).

• It could be likely that the other video game characters (including the ones who came after the unplugging of his game) know or have heard about Turbo himself, since M. Bison asks Ralph if he's going Turbo after Ralph claims he no longer wants to be a bad guy at the Bad-Anon meeting, since as said above, his legacy in Litwak's Arcade had spawned the term "going Turbo".

  • It's highly likely that Ralph and Felix met Turbo in person before he became King Candy, hence knowing eachother. If so, it's unknown what sort of relationship they had with each other.

• Vanellope is the only character from Sugar Rush to see in person King Candy's real identity as Turbo; however, she does not seem to know anything about Turbo's origin much less recognize him, whereas the majority of the inhabitants of the video game world do, which can be seen in the cases of Wreck-It Ralph and Fix-It Felix, Jr. Thus, it is unknown if Vanellope saw Turbo before he snatched her throne and locked her memories, though another possible theory suggests that Turbo supposedly disappeared years before the Sugar Rush game console was first plugged in at the arcade, explaining the girl's ignorance of the rogue racer.

  • And it's unknown how Turbo managed to be undiscovered alive for 10 years before Sugar Rush's arrival after escaping RoadBlasters and both the latter and his game getting removed from the arcade, although he may have been hiding in the other video games' areas as Game Central Station doesn't look like a good hiding place for anyone.

    • However, according to a 2013 Reddit AMA, Rich Moore (director of Wreck-it-Ralph) stated that, in regards to how Turbo survived the unplugging of his game and RoadBlasters, the filmmakers intended that Turbo escaped from the latter game prior to its unplugging and went on to live bitterly at Game Central Station's bowels, where he learned one or two things about coding, so when Sugar Rush got plugged in, Turbo immediately sneaked into the game, took it over and wiped the latter's inhabitants memories before any players had a chance to play it.[1]

• During the announcement of the first Disney Infinity game, one concept art showed a King Candy character in T-posed mode. For unknown reasons, King Candy was removed from the game at some point prior to release. However, in Disney Infinity 3.0, the player can unlock the King Candy Cy-Bug toy from Toy Box Speedway, and purchase his/Vanellope's Royal Racer as a rideable vehicle in the Toy Box.

• He is similar to The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz (1939).

• The concept art for him hints that he is bald (with the exception of having some lines of hair).

• Despite his on-screen death, some fans believe Turbo actually survived the explosion in the mountain. Their reasoning is that he, despite not being from the game, created his own code in Sugar Rush. This is similar to how Vanellope leaves her own game and has her own code created in her new home Slaughter Race in the second film, while claiming that she would regenerate for that reason. Even though Turbo's code was immediately deleted when Sugar Rush reset, there could have been enough time between Turbo's death and Vanellope crossing the finish line (causing the reset) for Turbo to regenerate after dissolving in the volcano.[2] If this theory is correct, then it's rather ambiguous as to what became of him after that as he was never seen or heard from again.

• Turbo (on a sign) makes an appearance on a concept art piece for Ralph Breaks the Internet.

• Turbo served as a dark mirror and parallel to Ralph; both were video game characters who game-jumped out of their games of origin. Also Ralph was programmed to be a "villain," but is truly benevolent and caring towards others, while Turbo, on the other hand, was programmed to be a "hero," but Turbo was instead an arrogant and mean-spirited egomaniac racer having no value for or interest in anyone besides himself. Turbo is additionally an example of what Ralph would have become if he had been too obsessed with getting what he wanted instead of doing the right thing.

  • Not only just that, he also serves a foil to Vanellope; both are determined racers who were the main characters of their respective games of origin (TurboTime for Turbo; Sugar Rush for Vanellope), and were popular with the gamers. However, Vanellope didn't necessarily want all the attention for herself; she just wanted to fit in, while Turbo wanted all the spotlight for himself. They also behaved rather selfishly, but Vanellope realizes her selfishness and makes up for it, unlike Turbo. He represents what kind of person Vanellope could've become if she let the fame and attention get to her head. Even if Vanellope did went out of the race alone and won thus gets her game restored back, she will permanently abandon her friendship with Ralph, thus they both would've never learned about the real truth that Turbo was actually trying to destroy their relationship, but luckily this failed. If Vanellope moves on with her life without her friendship with Ralph ever again, this leads her into egotism upon being the main protagonist in her game, which will make her choose popularity over intimacy, thus she will also end up like Turbo.

• It's unknown if Turbo was actually acting willingly at the end when he wanted to take over the whole arcade universe, or on the other hand, if the Cy-bugs were controlling him.

• Turbo loosely resembles Kick Buttowski from the show of the same name which was also made by Disney. It's unknown if this was intentional or not. Kick is a ten-year-old boy who wishes to be a world famous stunt daredevil and a hero, while Turbo is a little man who is a racecar driver and a villain.

• In Felix's flashback talking about Turbo, his voice sounds somehow a bit different than normal when he was saying his catchphrase ''Turbo Tastic!''. While the reason for that is uncertain, one can suggest that Turbo, when he transformed into King Candy, altered his voice.

• As King Candy, the design on his face had visibly become a more reddish color at the mention of “the guy who makes the donuts”, and had acted cheerful with giggles as if “the guy who makes the donuts” is someone, or something, great.