Ralph's 'Villain In Wreck It Ralph'

The manifest content, or main storyline of the movie, “Wreck it Ralph”, is about a arcade game character named Ralph, who is portrayed as the bad guy in his game. Ralph’s main goal in the game is destroy anything, and everything he sees in the game. People are scared of him in this game, and he is tired of that feeling. Ralph has had enough of losing to the good guy, Fix-it Felix, and decides that he doesn’t want to be a bad guy anymore. Ralph is a good guy at heart, and is not the same villain outside of the game. But all the characters treat him differently when the game is over, and he does not really like that. So, Ralph then decides to leave his game, and ‘game hop’ to different games to prove to the players, and characters that he is much more than a villain.

The latent content of Wreck it Ralph, is that doing what you love and enjoy, isn’t always about winning awards, becoming the so called “good guy”, or what society says is good.

It’s all about what you believe is the right thing, and not caring what people think of you, even if they think you’re a bad guy. Ralph has always hated being the bad guy, and villain in his game. He wanted to be the good guy, and get all the awards at the end of the game, and become the good guy. But when Ralph leaves his game, he realizes that, he had made a big mistake, because he has an important role in the game, and without him, there was no game. This is when he realizes that he actually enjoys being the bad guy. Even though people don’t think that he is good, he does not care what people

think.
Some prosocial learnings that this movie is teaching, is that it’s okay to be different than everyone else. It’s showing the importance of yourself, and to embrace that. It’s also showing kids not fear of others judgements or thoughts from other people. This can teach kids to love themselves, and not change because of what people think. Ralph experiences this on his own, when he realizes that his game would be shut down, due to him not being there. That is when he realizes that he is very important, and that being himself is the utterly most important thing. He also starts to love his job even more, and starts to love who he really is, a “good” villain.
Some antisocial learnings that this movie is teaching, is that you should try and change yourself, because of what others think. It’s also showing, that if you’re big, you are automatically bad, and people won’t like you. If people don’t like you, then your ultimate goal is to please them. So their promoting kids to change the way they are, and try to please others instead of themselves. This could teach kids, that other people’s opinion about them is important, and that they should change in accordance of what they want. This could lead to self-doubt, and make kids change the way they are. This is exactly what Ralph does. He realized that people didn’t really like him, because he was the villain, so he set out and tried to change his image to please, and change what people think.
Some arguments that I have about disney about how they’re changing kids ideas and thoughts in this movie, is the idea of changing oneself in order to please other people. So, they put a big guy, Ralph, and show that the big guy in the room is always bad, and that they should not socialize with people like him. They see that Ralph realizes that he isn’t liked by people, and so the kids will think to change themselves and prove to others that they are “good”, and should be liked. This isn’t really good, because kids will then keep trying to please others and not embrace themselves.