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.”)

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