Top 10 Wreck-It Ralph Characters That Shouldn't Be In the Sequel
Her character development from the first movie went right out the window so we would agree with Vanellope's decision to run off to that awful GTA ripoff. Also Mindy Kaling did not come back to voice her despite doing other roles for Disney (Disgust in "Inside Out", Val in "Monsters at Work") in the meantime.
Villain was taken out, so leave him out.
Like the other racers, any development and potential she had was jettisoned so Ralph would be Vanellope's literal only friend, we would fully support Vanellope's decision to go Turbo, and so Felix and Sergeant Calhoun would be sidelined.
I was hoping maybe we'd see more of the close friendship he and Vanellope had in the tie-in children's book "One Sweet Race". Nope, any character development from that and the end of the first movie were scrapped so we would cheer Vanellope's creepy closeness to Gal Gadot as a violent gangster.
He might as well not have been in the movie at all. His newfound closeness with Ralph (remember how he went from referring to Ralph as "colleague", then "friend", then "brother") was ignored so as to establish Ralph's creepy co-dependency with Vanellope. Also reduced to keeping the other Sugar Rush racers in line so neither they nor he has any further involvement with the product placement and radical feminist preaching.