If you haven’t heard already, Disney has a movie coming out this November called “Wreck-It Ralph.” It follows the journey of fictional video game villain (the aforementioned Ralph, voiced by John C. Reilly) who becomes jealous of the fame and love his hero nemesis Felix (Jack McBrayer) receives, and decides to try to turn over a new leaf and become good.

While not an entirely original idea, the video game setting definitely makes it somewhat novel. What makes the whole project genuinely exciting, though, is the news coming out of CinemaCon that the film will contain cameos from famous video game characters from various developers. Already the footage has shown Zangief and M. Bison, Clyde the “Pac-Man” ghost, Bowser, Kano from “Mortal Kombat”, Dr. Robotnik and others all pleading with Ralph, via a villian support group, that he should be proud to be a villain and not be ashamed of it. (Think the “fish are friends, not food” sharks from “Finding Nemo.”)

While that’s a pretty cool start, I hope they’ve only scratched the surface of what we can expect to see appearance wise. So in anticipation of the movie’s November opening, here are five video game characters that I hope make it to the big screen.
 

Dirk The Daring – The hero of the arcade hit “Dragon’s Lair” would fit right into this world. As “Dragon’s Lair” was essentially a movie that’s only interaction was some simple “choose your path” moments, I somehow always pictured Dirk to be a bit…dim. It’d be great if he were portrayed as a vacant movie star type, who’s all show and no daring. After all, this is the villain’s story.

Guybrush Threepwood – In a fair world, the awesome protagonist of the “Monkey Island “series would have had his own movie or TV series by now. In lieu of that, a cameo in “Wreck-It Ralph” would be incredible. Maybe he could appear as a trainer to Ralph as he learns the ways of good. It doesn’t really matter as long as we get some of that great Monty Python-style dialog like, “You fight like a dairy farmer!” (Followed by the classic retort, “How appropriate. You fight like a cow.”)

Link – Besides being an immortal gaming icon, he could shed some serious light on the downsides of heroics. I picture a bar scene where Zelda is nagging him to death before she walks away. Link could then explain to Ralph the troubles that come with having to constantly be the hero. Hell, he doesn’t even have his name in the title of his games! Then Zelda could be seen being kidnapped again, causing Link to look down in exhaustion, slowly gather his sword and slump away.

Sinistar – He made arcade gamers in the 80’s hide in fear by uttering the simple (and horribly recorded) words “Beware, I Live!” As maybe the essential arcade villain of that decade, he deserves a place in this movie, especially considering the wealth of dialog he’s already fleshed his character out with such as, “Run Coward!”, “Beware Coward!”, and “I hunger Coward!”

Apparently it was once quite the insult.

Goomba – For sheer perspective. Because hey, if you think it’s hard being a villain, try being a humble minion and knowing nothing but the bottom of Mario’s size 10 boot.

Of course, be sure to let us know which characters you want to see in the movie in our comments below.