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Rewatching Wreck-It Ralph, one of my favorite movies of all time. "This isn't what I wanted." "Well what did you want, Ralph?" "I don't know... I was just tired of living alone in the garbage!" "Well now you can live alone in the penthouse."
Ralph's journey is such a fantastic, succinct, powerful story. He starts out being ostracized, and gets attached to the idea of a medal winning him approval from the toxic, ignorant people he lives with. He really just wants to be loved, and the medal symbolizes that to him.
In the pursuit of that medal, he meets Vanellope in Sugar Rush. Initially, she's an annoyance who interrupts his medal-quest. But a long the way he discovers that she's like him - even worse off, in fact, because she's a glitch. She's family, which he's never had before.
So the universe puts him in a bind: what will he choose? The medal, or family? Ralph initially chooses the medal- which is what he thought he wanted in the beginning, after all. His neighbours will have to respect him. And he's a bad guy, right? A lone wolf?
Nope! He goes back to Sugar Rush to save Felix and Vanellope. He rescues Felix, begs him to help Vanellope, helps her, and sacrifices himself to protect her. In that sacrificial moment, he disregards the gold medal and holds on to the one Vanellope made him instead. Family.