Vanellope von Schweetz

### Likes

Racing, candy, hanging out with Ralph, cynical jokes, dolls, baking karts, adventure, burgers, Shank, Slaughter Race, casual outfits, root beer

### Dislikes

Not being able to race, being bullied, being ostracized, being called a "glitch", betrayal, dresses, King Candy, the color pink, princess stereotypes, the fungeon, true love's kiss

### Paraphernelia

* Racing karts
* Medal (one half of it)

### Occupation

* Princess and president of Sugar Rush
* Racer

### Friends

Wreck It-Ralph (best friend)

**Vanellope von Schweetz** is the deuteragonist of Disney's Wreck-It Ralph and a character in Sugar Rush. Due to being a "glitch", Vanellope was forbidden to race by order of King Candy. She was nevertheless determined to become a real racer and sought to accomplish her goal by teaming up with a fellow misfit Wreck-It Ralph. Over the course of their adventure, Vanellope would unmask the truth behind her glitch, while also learning to use it as a "superpower" to overcome adversity.

## Bio

### Wreck-It Ralph

Vanellope von Schweetz: Hard Candy

Known as "The Glitch," Vanellope is a pixelating programming mistake in the candy-coated cart-racing game Sugar Rush. With a racer's spirit embedded in her coding, Vanellope is determined to earn her place in the starting lineup amongst the other racers. Only problem: the other racers don't want her or her glitching in the game. Years of rejection have left Vanellope with a wicked sense of humor and a razor-sharp tongue. However, somewhere beneath that hard shell is a sweet center just waiting to be revealed.

Diet Cola Mountain is the home of Vanellope von Schweetz, who lives in a secret un-programmed hideaway on the side of the hill. A lifetime of being excluded, bullied and belittled by other racers has made her fiercely independent. She's been teased and troubled for so long, she's given up trying to build relationships with the people she meets. For Vanellope, there's no such thing as friends- just strangers she hasn't met yet.

### Ralph Breaks the Internet

Vanellope von Schweetz still sports her wicked sense of humor, razor-sharp tongue and her best buddy Ralph. She also maintains her outcast-making glitch that once inhibited her racing ability but ultimately became her super power. Having overthrown King Candy and taken her rightful position as princess of Sugar Rush, Vanellope promptly ditched her royal gown in favor of her signature cozy style and joined the ranks of the Sugar Rush racers. Although she frequently tops the leaderboard these days, she finds herself getting a little bored of the same tracks and predictable competitors.

## Appearance

Vanellope is a young girl with fair skin, rosy cheeks, a pink nose, and hazel eyes. Her hair is black and pulled back into a ponytail; it's decorated with a various assortment of small candies, and the scrunchie appears to be made of red licorice. She wears a light mint-green hoodie with strawberry bootlace tassels, and two Reese's Cup wrappers for a skirt. Her mismatched leggings are striped with teal and white, and the left is additionally accented with purple "double stripes". She also wears black boots with red frosting scribbles on the soles.

## Personality

Vanellope is a mischievous and quirky nine-year-old (12 years old, according to John Lasseter but she's officially nine.) racer that is full of curiosity. Because of her status as *Sugar Rush'*s glitch, she is an outcast. She lives alone on the inside of Diet Cola Mountain, isolated from the other *Sugar Rush* racers. The denizens of her game won't let her race, even though she is determined to become a real racer. Due to a rule from King Candy that states that no glitches may enter the race, they believe their game will be rendered unplayable if she is allowed to race.

Sadly, years of bullying had left Vanellope with a sour outlook on life and people, meaning she was often prone to heavy insulting, sassy, and sarcastic remarks. Luckily, Vanellope was able to see the goodness in people through the friendship of Wreck-It Ralph. Though she was often bullied by the game's other young racers, Vanellope was apparently more than happy to attempt making amends, referring to the others as her "fellow racers". This shows that Vanellope is a very forgiving person. This is also seen during the scene where Ralph reunites with Vanellope after destroying her kart. It took no time at all for the young girl to forgive Ralph after the bad-guy admitted he was wrong for what he did. Another example is when Vanellope regains her throne and gladly accepts the citizens of *Sugar Rush'*s apology for tormenting the girl once their memories of her rule were restored.

Vanellope is also incredibly determined, strong-willed, and very loving. Even after fifteen years of torment and being told she could never race, the young girl always took the chance to live her dream should a chance come her way. Vanellope's loving ways are best expressed in the scene where *Sugar Rush* was invaded by Cy-Bugs, yet Vanellope was the only citizen unable to escape. Here, she calmly tells Ralph to go on without her, completely accepting the fact that she was about to die. However, Ralph's safety was far more important than her own in her eyes, as the bad-guy was the only person to ever show her kindness at that point, which meant the world to her. When Wreck-It Ralph caused a volcanic eruption to save Sugar Rush (and by extension Vanellope), she quickly used her glitching powers to rescue him in return.

Another example is displayed when Vanellope gives Ralph a gift for helping her create a real racing kart; a homemade medal that reads "You're my hero", given to the Bad Guy in case she didn't win his original hero's medal back at the end of the Random Roster Race, knowing how much earning a medal meant to him.

She also has a twisted sense of humor, notably shown when she kidded the racers into thinking she was going to have them executed.

She declined to be referred to as a “princess”, due to developing a feisty attitude, opting instead to be called a president “for democracy’s sake".

## Quotes

* "You're not from here, are you?" (to Ralph when she first meets him)
* "I bet you've really gotta watch your step in a game called Hero's Doody!" (to Ralph)
* "I'm not a glitch, Taffyta. Just got pixelexia, okay?" Vanellope speaking with Taffyta before the group of racers destroys the Lickety Split.
* "Stop! You're breaking it!" While the racers destroy her kart
* "Hey, are you a hobo?" (to Ralph)
* "Guess you'll be stepping out of your comfort zone then, Gladys!" (in the Kart Factory)
* "Uh, I wouldn't grab that branch if I were you. It's a double stripe. Double stripes break. Guh-doy!"
* "Hey, why are your hands so freakishly big?"
* "What's that? Didn't hear you! Your breath is so bad it made my ears numb!"
* "Whoa! What's with all the magic sparkles?!"
* "Tut-tut. As your merciful princess, I hereby decree that anyone who was ever mean to me shall be... executed."
* "Everyone here says I'm just a mistake and I wasn't even supposed to exist. What do you expect?"
* "Ralph, my man!" *(in Southern accent)* "My main man!"
* "Um. I don't know how to drive a real kart."
* "I told you, racing's in my code!"
* "President Vanellope von Schweetz! It has a nice ring to it, don't you think?"
* With Ralph: "They'll love you. You know why? Because you're a winner." Vanellope: "I'm a winner." Ralph: "And you are adorable." Vanellope: "I'm ADORABLE!" Ralph: "And everybody loves an adorable winner!"
* "I'm not listening to you! Get out of my way! I'm going to that race!"
* (To Ralph, sadly) "You really ARE a bad guy!"
* "Sweet mother of monkey milk! I did it!"
* "I'm gonna learn to drive! I'm gonna learn to drive! I'm gonna... Oh, wait. Do you know how to drive?"
* "Well, unless you've got a go-kart hidden in the fat folds of your neck, I can't help you!"
* "You know, you could just stay here and live in the castle, where no one would complain about your stench or treat you bad ever again; you can be happy."
* "Enjoy your little tantrum, diaper baby?"
* "I sleep in these candy wrappers. I bundle myself up like a little homeless lady."
* "All right, do your thing, knuckles. Bust it open."
* "Why did the hero flush the toilet? Say why. Because it was his doody!"
* "Hey, genius! It's a jawbreaker! You're never gonna break..."
* "A work of art like this must be signed."
* "You gotta watch out for the splash. That stuff is broiling hot."
* "You're a RAT! And I don't need you, and I can win the race on my own!"
* "Oh, no, I don't, y'see cause I paid my fee, and I'm on the board, so yeah, I'm definitely racing!"(to Taffyta)
* "I made it for you! Just in case we don't win. Not that I think there's even a remote chance we won't win!"
* "Thank you, Jeeves!"
* "I was here. I was there. I was glitchin' through the walls and I'm not giving that up!"
* "Au revoir, Admiral Underpants."
* "Come on, buddy! Let's shake on it!"
* "Welcome to my home!"
* "What is the big whoop about that crummy medal, anyway?"
* "Hello? Is Ralph in there? I'd like to speak to him, please!"
* "Glitch. That's it! Come on, Vanellope. I know you said you wouldn't do it again but you're gonna do it one more time! Just focus and concentrate... and ... GLITCH!"
* "Yippee! I'm in the race!"
* "Don't worry! I got it under control!"
* "You really don't know anything, do you?"
* "Now I think I'm gonna puke actually. I think I might puke. You know, like a VURP! Vomit and a burp together, and you can taste it, and you just feel it RISING up and... OH, THIS IS SOOO EXCITING!"
* "King Candy?! You sold me out?!"
* "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you the Internet!!!"
* "Jeez Loueez, this place is bonkers. WHOA! (...) Aw, come on! Princesses and cartoon characters? Lame. (Eeyore: Hey. Easy there.) Oh, I mean no offense or anything. Heh..." (upon her arrival at the OhMyDisney website, with Opinion on the Disney Princesses from her first sight on them)
* "Oh! Sorry, mister!" (bumping into Stan Lee on Accident, while being chased by Stormtroopers)
* "Whoa! Whoa! Ladies, I can explain! You see, um... I'm a princess too! (Anna: Wait, what?) Yeah! Princess Vanellope von Schweetz of the, uh... Sugar Rush, Von Schweetzes. I'm sure you've heard of us. It'd be embarrassing for you if you haven't. [chuckles nervously]" (when meeting the Disney Princesses)
* "If I'm not a racer, what am I?"
* "Yes, and he **is** Wreck-it Ralph."
* "YES! What is up with that?!"
* "Yeah but there was like music and the spotlight, and... You all saw it, too, right?" (Breaking the Fourth Wall)
* "What? Oh, no, no, no, no, it's not a metaphor, I just.. I literally want a Steering Wheel. I think the issue was I was a little pitchy."
* "Ralph? (Ralph: Yeah?) I don't think they fixed the game."
* "Wait, you're saying if I just stare at some water- (Ariel: Yeah... *important* water. [giggles]) Right, of course. Important water. I stare at the important water, and somehow, magically, I'll start singing about my dream? (Rapunzel: For sure.) Yeah, I don't think so ladies, but thanks."

## Trivia

* Vanellope's name literally means "Vanellope from [the city of] Schweetz." Her first name is most likely a combination of the female name Penelope and a flavoring used for sweet foods, vanilla. Her last name contains the German preposition "von," which originally indicated place of origin, but was later also used to indicate royalty. "Schweetz" is likely a play on the word "sweets" and the name "Scwitz". "Vanellope" was likely inspired by another famous animated racer, Penelope Pitstop from *Wacky Races*.
* Before she learns how to control her glitching, Vanellope is shown to glitch more often when excited or worked up.
* In the junior novelization, Vanellope describes the fictional disability, pixlexia, as "a code-reading disability that occurs when the corpus does not properly recognize certain symbols." This is a reference to the real-life disability, dyslexia.
	+ She references pixlexia briefly in the movie as well, in both instances claiming that she's not a glitch, just pixlexic.
* Her skirt is made out of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup's Wrappers.
* The "bow" she uses in her hair is actually red licorice.
* Her fans are anthropomorphic popcorn.
* Vanellope is the only racer in Sugar Rush wearing a hoodie rather than a jacket, and is the only one not to wear a helmet or cap on her head. However, she does sometimes wear her hood up and over hear head.
* Vanellope is the only Sugar Rush racer whose plush is not scented. However, she does have a scented eraser which has a spearmint starlight candy scent.
* Vanellope (along with Gloyd and Minty Sakura) are the only racers on Sugar Rush whose ears are shown, due to the others' helmets or their hairstyles which completely cover their ears. She is also the only one who had her forehead exposed due to the other racers' hair covering their foreheads.
* The kart that King Candy has is normally seen in Vanellope's possession, as Vanellope is seen driving it on the side of the game console.
* Vanellope is the only main character that (in the first film) never calls Ralph by his title 'Wreck-It'.
* Vanellope had no memory of being the Princess of *Sugar Rush* because Turbo locked up the memories of all the racers, including hers. However, some disagree with this due to the fact that in one of the scenes she calls Taffyta and the rest 'fellow racers'. This may be because the scene was soon after Vanellope enters the race using Ralph's medal.
* In one of the concept arts she is seen using her original kart and the actual racing attire.
* She is one of the only characters who doesn't trust King Candy.
* According to Rich Moore and Sarah Silverman, Vanellope is 9 years old. However, according to John Lasseter, she is 12 years old.
	+ However, it is hard to tell, as she could have been inspired by the Chibi style (see below).
* Vanellope, along with the other *Sugar Rush* racers, are partly based on the *Chibi* style; a style used in anime that depicts characters as small, cute and, at most times, childish.
* Throughout the whole movie, Ralph usually refers to Vanellope as "kid" instead of her real name. He only refers to her as "Vanellope" two times in the whole film.
* Despite having hazel eyes in the movie, posters, etc., Vanellope can clearly be seen with bright green eyes when she is shown on the side of the cabinet after Ralph throws away his medal.
	+ Vanellope has central heterochromia, meaning that her eyes have a different color at the center (brown) than towards the edges (green).
* Interestingly enough, Vanellope is never shown racing in her white tracksuit after she resets the game, nor is she seen racing in her original kart, which was stolen by King Candy. It's implied that the kart that she and Ralph created was eventually incorporated into the game and her supposed original (King Candy's) was presumably destroyed when King Candy transformed into a Cy-Bug and was killed.
* Vanellope's princess dress resembles the dresses worn by royal women during the 16th-17th century.
* Although it is stated that Vanellope is unable to leave her game due to her being a glitch, at the end she can be seen attending Felix and Calhoun's wedding as Calhoun's maid-of-honor. In fact during the credits she can be seen traveling with Ralph, Felix and Calhoun to different video games, this is due to her reintegration after the game reset, leaving her "glitchy" (i.e. capable of teleporting within the game) but no longer a glitch.
* She used Crumbelina Di Caramello's kart to save Ralph from plummeting into Diet Cola Hot Springs in Diet Cola Mountain.
* When creating Vanellope, animators and designers described her as having "a hint of Sarah (Silverman), a hint of Cindy Lou Who, combined with this grubby little Pippi Longstocking moppet kid."
* Originally, Vanellope was going to have grayish-green skin to show viewers that she was a glitch, but her animators eventually decided against it since they thought it would make her look too much like a zombie.
* Also, 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.
	+ The real-world *Road Blasters* game was released in 1987, hence the incident of Turbo invading the in-universe *Road Blasters* probably happened in 1987 or 1988. *Sugar Rush Speedway* is known to have been released 15 years before the events of the film (that is, in 1997), so naturally its characters are unlikely to know about Turbo or his game-jumping.
* Unlike the other main characters in the film, Vanellope's hands only have four fingers as opposed to five.
* In the video game, Vanellope's goggles have a red film over them instead of clear lenses as seen in the first film.
* Unlike the other Sugar Rush Racers, Vanellope doesn't have a particular candy theme.
* Her first meeting with Wreck-It Ralph shows that she is very courageous; Ralph is something like 3 times her height, and somewhat more than 27 times her weight due to his heavier build, but she's not scared (or doesn't show it).
* She can be a playable character in Disney Crossy Road.
* Vanellope's personality is similar to Mike Wazowski from *Monsters Inc*. They are both sarcastic, funny, and brave. And they both dreamed of doing something they love. Vanellope dreams of racing even though she is a glitch and Mike dreams of being a scarer.
* Vanellope and the recolors are the only racers who don’t appear in the online adaption of Sugar Rush.
* Her song is "A Place Called Slaughter Race" composed by Alan Menken.
* Her original theme might have been vanilla, hence her first name (Vanellope = Vanilla + Penelope) and colour scheme of her old outfit and the Royal Racer.