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Ralph Breaks the Internet

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Ralph Breaks the Internet is a 2018 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is the sequel to the 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph.
Six years after they first met, Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz have stayed best friends, hanging out after work in Litwak's Arcade. Ralph is content with their life, but Vanellope longs for excitement and expresses how bored she has become of Sugar Rush's tracks. One night, Ralph sneaks into her game and makes a new track for her. The next day, when Vanellope fights the arcade player's control to test the track, the cabinet's steering wheel breaks. As the company that made Sugar Rush is defunct, and the cost of a replacement wheel on eBay is too high, Litwak decides to scrap Sugar Rush, and unplugs the game. With Fix-It Felix and Calhoun's help, the Surge Protector finds homes for all Sugar Rush's citizens as a short-term measure as they figure out how to save the game. Ralph and Vanellope travel to the Internet via Litwak's new Wi-Fi router. Inside the Internet, depicted as a place where websites are buildings in a sprawling city, avatars represent users and programs are people.
They go to the search engine KnowsMore to find eBay, where they end up winning the auction for the steering wheel by unintentionally spiking the price to $27,001; they have just 24 hours to come up with the funds, or they will lose the bid and lose the wheel. On the way out, they run into clickbait salesman J.P. Spamley, who offers them a lucrative job of stealing a car from Shank, the lead character in the popular Slaughter Race. They steal Shank's car, but she stops them before they can leave the game with it.
Shank says that there are better ways than stealing to make money on the Internet, makes a viral video of Ralph, and uploads it to video sharing site BuzzzTube. She directs them to BuzzzTube's head algorithm, Yesss, about earning money for the video. At BuzzzTube, Yesss elates on Ralph's video popularity, and they come up with the idea of making more videos, which will earn them the money for the wheel in no time if given enough views. Vanellope offers to help advertise the videos, and Ralph has Yesss send her to Oh My Disney. There, while escaping from Stormtroopers, Vanellope befriends the Disney Princesses, being encouraged by them to discuss her sense of un-fulfillment and reaching a musical epiphany.
Ralph makes enough money to buy the wheel but finds Vanellope talking with Shank about staying in Slaughter Race, having found her epiphany there due to its relative novelty compared to Sugar Rush. Ralph asks Spamley for a way to draw Vanellope out of the game, and brought to the deep web vendor Double Dan. Dan provides Ralph with a virus, Arthur, that feeds off insecurities and replicates them. When Ralph unleashes Arthur into Slaughter Race, it replicates Vanellope's glitch, triggering a server reboot. Shank and the others help Vanellope escape before the game resets. Ralph confesses to her that the crash was his fault; the outraged Vanellope ends her friendship with Ralph and throws away his hero cookie medal, causing it to break in half.
Arthur copies Ralph's insecurities and starts making duplicates of Ralph. The clones soon overrun the internet in a DOS attack, all chasing after Vanellope to keep her for themselves. Ralph saves her and attempts to lure the clones into a firewall, but they form a giant Ralph monster that seizes them both. Ralph comes to accept that Vanellope can make her own choices, letting go of his insecurities, and causing the giant Ralph monster and the clones to disappear. Ralph gives half of the broken medal to Vanellope and they bid each other a tearful farewell as Shank has arranged for Vanellope to respawn in Slaughter Race. Back in the arcade, Sugar Rush gets repaired, and Ralph partakes in social activities with the other arcade characters as he stays in touch with Vanellope over video chat, feeling content with his ability to be independent.