King Candy

Have some candy!

* Your Candyness, Your Puffiness, Nilly-Wafer, Pillow Pants, Candy (referred to by Ralph)
* Sire (by Duncan)

### Full Name

* Turbo (real name)
* King Candy

### Colors

* **White**
* **Red**
* **Pink**

### Personality

Eccentric, bubbly, nefarious, mysterious, power-hungry, egocentric, psychotic, cruel, ruthless, wicked, monstrous, devious, manipulative, murderous, sadistic, megalomaniacal

### Likes

Power, winning, praise, candy, puns, attention, racing, power, fame, popularity, winning, candy, confections, the color salmon, his fungeon, tormenting Ralph and Vanellope, trophies, gold coins

### Dislikes

Vanellope, outsiders, Ralph, being ignored, anyone more popular than he is, when the color salmon is mistaken for pink, being revealed as Turbo, being second-best, glitches (especially Vanellope when she accidentally became one), outsiders, losing a race, Ralph

### Occupation

* King of Sugar Rush (formerly)
* Racer
* Virus

### Special Abilities

Excellent racing skills, hacking skillsAs a Cy-Bug: Incredible strength, flight, can curl into a ball, and can assimilate anything he eats

### Enemies

Vanellope von Schweetz, Wreck-It Ralph, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse

**King Candy** is a character in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph who is the main antagonist. He is the self-proclaimed ruler of *Sugar Rush*, a kart-racing video game set in a candy-themed kingdom. Originating from *TurboTime*, Turbo was once the most beloved character in the arcade, until his popularity was superseded by newer games. Mad with jealousy, Turbo sought to reclaim the spotlight by “game-jumping” into other games and taking them over, coining the term “going Turbo”. He eventually seized control of *Sugar Rush* by reprogramming the world in his image and instilling himself as sovereign, under the guise of a kindly king.

## Bio

All hail King Candy, ruler of the race track, captain of confectionery, sovereign of sugar. Not surprisingly, the most powerful figure in the Sugar Rush game is also the best racer on the track. He may look noble enough, but don't be fooled. This mysterious monarch rules his kingdom with a sugary fist and he is determined to keep his kingdom safe from glitches, rabble-rousers, and outsiders. Don't expect him to go easy on Ralph and Vanellope. The King is ably assisted by his strong-arming security donuts, Wynnchel and Duncan, and his diminutive henchman Sour Bill, a tiny little ball of un-sweetness.

## Appearance

King Candy is a diminutive, elderly, half-bald man with a cartoonish design. He has gray hair styled into side-burns, thick, darker gray eyebrows, fair skin, brown eyes, rosy pink cheeks, slightly purple eyelids, and a cartoonishly large, bulbous nose. Like the other characters of *Sugar Rush*, Candy has four fingers as opposed to five.

King Candy wears a purple tailcoat with a white dress shirt and vest, covered in glitter. He also wears a matching white lace collar and cuffs, and there are two golden buttons on the back of the tailcoat. A notable feature is his large, red bow-tie, which resembles a candy wrapper. He also wears poofy golden-and-caramel striped pants and purple slippers with red gumdrops at the tips that jingle (possibly bells like jester shoes) whenever he moves frantically. The king's other notable feature is his tiny, golden crown that is usually slanted atop his large head. During the races, the king dons a racing outfit that consists of his prominent outfit, but with the addition of brown gloves, a large, golden helmet, which also has his tiny crown on top, and brown racing goggles with red lenses. He also owns a miniature, red-and-white striped cane tipped with velvet wrapping, resembling a candy-cane.

As Turbo, he is still short in stature, but has dull, grayish/white skin, giving him a ghoulish appearance. Turbo's bagged-eyes (as well as his teeth), are a gleaming yellow, reminiscent of the headlights of a car. They also don't reflect light, making them appear soulless. Unlike King Candy, Turbo's nose is small and more realistic. Turbo's outfit, meanwhile, is extremely simple. He wears a white and red jumpsuit and helmet with the letter "T" on its front and back and red and white sneakers.

As a Cy-Bug, King Candy is about 30 feet long, and his face repeatedly switches between King Candy and Turbo, though Candy is apparently the default face. He has an insectoid body structure akin to a silverfish and a mayfly that can curl into a ball for protection and has a neck that can expand in length, resembling that of a jack-in-the-box. His colors consist of mostly purple, orange, and pink, and the tip of his claws are a darker tone of purple. He also gains four orange striped legs, with two similarly-colored pincers located on his chest. His head also sports jagged purple markings, which were also seen under his mouth, similar the mechanical lower jaw of a ventriloquist dummy. Candy's crown also changes, now having a spiky appearance and apparently becoming a permanent part of his body. His hair become feral and unkempt, his purple eyelids and gray eyebrows darken more in color and hue, and his teeth form into large canines, adding to his menacing Cy-Bug complexion. With his transformation, he gains sugarcoated, hot pink wings for a flight that can fold in at will. Whenever his Cy-Bug programming occurred, King Candy's eyes turn blue and pixelated while the Turbo persona remains unchanged. Candy also retains his cuffs, lace collar, and red bow-tie with the transformation.

## Personality

From the beginning, Turbo was an arrogant and conceited character. He adored the attention that came with being the star of a popular console; so much so that he was unwilling to share the spotlight with his cohorts. Having adopted an inflated ego, Turbo became obsessed with preserving his popularity and was deathly determined to remain "the greatest racer ever"—even if it meant taking over another game and eliminating the innocent in the process.

Turbo spent the latter half of his life as King Candy—the exuberant ruler of *Sugar Rush*, whose over-the-top mannerisms are reminiscent of cartoon characters of the 1940s and 1950s. With a penchant for giggling and the color salmon, King Candy carried himself with a bubbly, yet posh conduct. He genuinely enjoyed his job as king, which gave off the impression that he was a benevolent, jolly, and fun-loving ruler (his favorite pastime—apart from racing—included throwing candy to his adoring fans while shouting, "Have some candy!").

Underneath his jovial front, however, King Candy remained vain and corrupt. He was extremely possessive of *Sugar Rush*—demanding that he be addressed as the "rightful ruler" when being introduced by Sour Bill—and flaunted his status as king by having his insignia and likeness plastered throughout the game. He was particularly fond of locking people in his "fungeon", which would initially appear that he was merciful towards troublemakers in his kingdom, but later reveal signs of sadism. When threatened, King Candy's normally cheerful demeanor would become ruthless and violent. This, coupled with his dangerously short temper, hinted at the king's underlying nature.

King Candy's most essential attributes were his intelligence and deception such as lying. By labeling Vanellope as a threat to the game, King Candy established an oppressive regime that turned all of *Sugar Rush* against the only person that could foil his plans and said she was a glitch (whether she was one or not) and would lie and manipulate the racers to bully her. This not only prevented Vanellope from racing, but also made King Candy out to be a good-hearted leader looking out for the well-being of his subjects (even if his lengths to do so came off as antagonistic). With this, King Candy was able to remain in power for a total of fifteen years.

King Candy developed throughout the film, both in appearance and motives. Having gone from a racer, to a king, to a virus, his motives elevated from a mere lust for fame and attention, to an additional lust for power and authority. After becoming a Cy-Bug, King Candy sought to not only rule *Sugar Rush*, but the entire arcade. Traits like these are what ultimately made King Candy a virus—what video game characters christen as dangerous threats that can spread and control. In relation to this, he proved to be a difficult force to defeat, having endured two supposed "deaths" prior to his final demise—each time he resurfaced, Candy was more powerful and sinister than his previous incarnation.

In the end, King Candy can be considered as a complete sociopath. Beneath the mirage of a pleasant comedic relief lies a wicked and psychopathic malefactor. With a total lack of boundaries or remorse for his enemies, King Candy would go to any length to satisfy his obsessions—a level of determination that ultimately led to his demise.

## Role in Movie

Many years before the movie's main events, Turbo was the star of a classic racing game called *TurboTime*. It was the most popular game in Litwak's Arcade, and Turbo loved the attention he got. When a new racing game called *RoadBlasters* got plugged in, *TurboTime*'s popularity dwindled and Turbo became extremely jealous; so much so that he abandoned his own game and tried to take over the new one, only to end up crashing it. As a result, both games were put out of order permanently, and Turbo was presumed to have been deleted along with the game. His actions spawned the popular terms "going Turbo" and "game jumping", and his story became a cautionary tale for video game characters to keep them from messing with the program.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Turbo survived the displacement of his game and remained in hiding for a long time. Some years later, *Sugar Rush*, a new racing game set in a candy-themed kingdom ruled by Princess Vanellope von Schweetz, was plugged in. Turbo invaded *Sugar Rush*, hacked into the game's codes and transformed himself into a figure known as King Candy. He then tried to destroy Princess Vanellope by deleting her code, but his attempt was unsuccessful, as his tampering only managed to turn her into a glitch. So King Candy manipulated the game's inhabitants into believing that he was the rightful sovereign and locked away all their memories of Princess Vanellope. But King Candy's control over the game was not secure. If Vanellope were to ever race and cross the finish line, the game would reset, and King Candy's machinations would be undone. To prevent this, King Candy forbade Vanellope from racing on account of being a glitch. He then came up with a story by saying that if she glitched during the game, people would think it was broken and the game would be unplugged. All the residents would be homeless and because Vanellope cannot leave the game, she would die with it.

As ruler of *Sugar Rush*, King Candy's domain was a sugar-coated castle guarded by strong-armed Oreo guardsmen. Beneath his castle lied a dungeon, which King Candy affectionately referred to as his "fungeon". King Candy's personal kart was the prized Royal Racer, which was equipped with powerful abilities and doubled as his throne. With the Royal Racer at his command, King Candy was renowned as the most popular racer in the game.

When governing the kingdom after hours, King Candy was ably assisted by a posse of edible henchmen, the most notable of which were his security doughnuts, Wynnchel and Duncan. The king's most trusted assistant was a doleful sour jawbreaker named Sour Bill, who aided King Candy in his schemes to keep Vanellope from racing.

## Trivia

* King Candy's castle, kart, and outfit were given a sugary white coating, as a joking way to allude to his true nature being covered in sugar coating.
* Despite not having a traditional Disney villain song, King Candy has a leitmotif, which can be found as "Messing with the Program" on the official *Wreck-It Ralph* soundtrack. The Turbo persona also has a motif, which can be found as "Turbo Flashback" on the soundtrack.
	+ Director Rich Moore stated that King Candy was actually meant to have a song in the film that explained how disputes were settled in *Sugar Rush*. It was written by Bobby and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and was to be in the style of the Sherman Brothers' music.
	+ Being a fan of Jerry Lewis and other vaudeville performers, Alan Tudyk has expressed interest in creating an album of vaudeville songs performed by King Candy. He claims that he pitched the idea to John Lasseter sometime after the release of *Wreck-It Ralph*, but was rejected.
* The *TurboTime* arcade cabinet looks like that of the Namco arcade game *Rally X*. Turbo also seems to be based on the artwork on the side.
* King Candy's kart originally belonged to Vanellope, as she is seen driving it on the *Sugar Rush* cabinet's artwork.
* His kart's honk in the throne room is the U.S. Presidential Anthem, "Hail to the Chief."
* A poster of Turbo is seen on the subway wall in the entrance to *Sugar Rush*. This could foreshadow King Candy's real identity.
* Some graffiti art of a crown with the initials K.C. below it can be seen on the subway wall when Ralph and the villains exit *Pac-Man*.
* When King Candy heads to *Sugar Rush*'s codes, he uses the Konami Code as a password to enter the realm in which the codes lie.
	+ The Konami Code is written on a napkin from *Tapper*'s.
* Turbo's story is a dark parallel to that of Ralph: Ralph is programmed to be a villain in his own game, but is kind-natured and selfless. Turbo, on the other hand, is programmed to be the hero of his game, but in truth is arrogant, selfish, and mean-spirited. They have different motives for game-jumping; Ralph game-jumped to get respect and recognition while Turbo did so for attention and popularity. Turbo serves as an example of what Ralph would have become had he become too obsessed with getting what he wanted instead of doing the right thing.
* While most video game characters change in their appearance upon leaving their own game and entering another (so that they resemble their destination game's art style upon entering), Turbo does not: upon arriving in *RoadBlasters*, he simply remains 8-bit.
* There are some subtle hints proving that King Candy is Turbo in disguise:
	+ He is the only character in *Sugar Rush* to know and recognize Wreck-It Ralph, due to their cabinets being next to each other in the past, meaning that they were neighbors.
	+ When he learns that Ralph has game-jumped, he begins to overreact and accuses Ralph of "going Turbo" and attempting to take over his game.
	+ He has access and knowledge of *Sugar Rush*'s code and used it to get the medal, even though he claimed no one could regain the medal, making his true motives questionable.
	+ He is a powerful racer with great intolerance to losing.
	+ In Felix's flashback, Turbo's voice sounds eerily similar to that of King Candy.
	+ He bears little resemblance to the other racers in terms of appearance (looking more like an American 1950s cartoon character in comparison to the others' anime-style looks) and name (sounding very generic in comparison to the others' whimsical, pun-inspired names), hinting he is not truly from *Sugar Rush*.
	+ King Candy's data box is noticeably larger than the other data boxes in the code room.
	+ Just before he lies to Ralph about Vanellope and her game causing Ralph to destroy her go-kart, King Candy can be seen panicking as Ralph tries to attack him, not out of cowardice, but rather because he is actually aware that he is not supposed to be in that game, and thus would actually die if he was killed.
* Even after his identity is revealed, the credits, closed captions, and subsequent media still refer to Turbo as King Candy, possibly due to spending the majority of the film in said form.
* Though there are some fans who have theorized that King Candy could have been a legitimate character in *Sugar Rush* before Turbo took over, Raymond S. Persi has officially stated on his Tumblr blog that the King Candy character was an identity fabricated by Turbo.
* Ironically, King Candy's line when he speaks to Ralph about Vanellope ("Heroes have to make the tough choices, don't they?") indirectly foreshadows Ralph's tough choice in sacrificing himself to save the arcade at the film's climax.
* During the scene where King Candy reveals himself to be Turbo, if one pauses the movie at the right time (particularly right after he says "I'm Turbo!" to Vanellope), they will find a split-second frame of Turbo looking at the camera, smiling while giving a thumbs-up.
* In the *Mickey Mouse* episode "Bad Ear Day", a sign with King Candy's name can be seen on one of the buildings.
* Since his role as King Candy, Alan Tudyk has voiced a character in every Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film.
	+ This is similar to John Ratzenberger voicing a character in nearly every Pixar film.
* In *Disney Magical World 2*, a treat called "King Candy's Sweet Tea" is available with the *Sugar Rush* party pack.
* The floral depiction of King Candy on the *Sugar Rush* speedway greatly resembles the floral arrangement of Mickey Mouse at the entrance to Main Street, U.S.A. in Disneyland.
* Concept art for the Dark Web area in *Ralph Breaks the Internet* has an advertisement for "Turbo Torrent" which features a foreboding depiction of Turbo's smiling face.
* In *Disney Heroes: Battle Mode*, King Candy is brought up in a conversation with Ralph and Vanellope while discussing who the villain of the game might be. Ralph comments, "I'm startin' to think there's some kind of evil genius — like King Candy — behind this." to which Vanellope responds with, "Yeah! Who else could manipulate the world like this?"
	+ At one point, Elastigirl compares Vanellope's glitching to a Super's power to teleport, to which Vanellope responds with, "Well, it's not exactly the same. See, there was this crazy racer named Turbo."
* The final showdown between Ralph and Cy-Bug King Candy was inspired by "boss battles" or "boss fights" in video games—the climax of a game where the hero must confront the villain in their most powerful form in order to proceed to the ending. This is made obvious by King Candy's line, "Welcome to the boss level!"