Sergeant Calhoun

Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun is a character from Disney's 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph. She is the lead character in the "Hero's Duty" game and is voiced by Jane Lynch.

Official Disney Bio
In the sci-fi battle zone of Hero’s Duty, Sergeant Calhoun is more than just a pretty face—she is the tough-as-nails, take-charge leader who fights for humanity’s freedom. When she’s not offering in-game intel, she’s training her troops for the next attack wave. This unrelenting commander is driven by a personal vendetta and will stop at nothing to protect the player and the arcade from a virulent Cy-Bug invasion.

Personality
Sergeant Calhoun serves as the lead character in her first-person shooter arcade game Hero's Duty, the newest arcade game in Litwak's. Calhoun is hardcore, tough, and incredibly strict. The reason for her being this way is explained by one of her cohorts who tells Felix that she was programmed with the most tragic back story; she and her true love, Dr. Brad Scott, were prepared to have their wedding. On the day of their wedding, Calhoun was too distracted by her ceremony to complete one of her highly important perimeter checks. The neglect caused one of the Cy-Bugs to break into the wedding chapel and devour Brad, killing him. The story left Calhoun with a hard heart until Felix came into her life and showed her the brighter side of things. Although she tends to be very strict and high-strung for most of the film, she apparently had a large enough heart to put her original plans of destroying the Sugar Rush entrance aside in order to protect Vanellope when the Cy-bugs invaded, as glitches are unable to leave their games.

Wreck-It Ralph
In Hero's Duty, Sergeant Calhoun and the soldiers are ready for another day of eradicating the deadly Cy-Bugs. Unbeknown to Calhoun, video game bad guy Wreck-It Ralph has game jumped into her game. When the game is over due to Ralph's carelessness, Calhoun reprimands Ralph for interfering with a first-person shooter before ordering her troopers back to their start positions.

After the arcade is closed for the day, Calhoun and her troopers hear a strange noise and immediately fire away when they spot a figure. The figure turns out to be Fix-It Felix, Jr. from the game of the same name. Calhoun demands to know why Felix has arrived, and the bashful hero tells her that his cohort Ralph has entered her game. Calhoun brushes it off as nonsense until an escape shuttle flies by with Ralph and a baby Cy-Bug aboard. Calhoun and Felix head to the Game Central Station to find him. The Surge Protector tells them that Ralph went firing into Sugar Rush. Calhoun is immediately worried for the game as Cy-Bugs cannot tell when the game is over, meaning they're truly villainous.

Calhoun prepares to enter Sugar Rush, and Felix asks to join. However, Calhoun tells Felix to stand down, but the handy man refuses to do so, telling her it is his job to fix what Ralph wrecks. Calhoun eventually allows him to join and the duo enter the game. Following a path made by shuttle, Calhoun and Felix find the shuttle that Ralph has crashed, only to find both Ralph and the Cy-Bug absent. Calhoun then uses her Cy-Bug tracking device to find the bug, but the sugar and candy in the world interferes with the connection. During the search, Calhoun asks Felix why Ralph's gone AWOL, to which Felix reveals to have no clue, but hopes Ralph isn't going Turbo. Since Calhoun's game has been recently plugged in, she is unaware of the story of Turbo. So Felix tells her the story of Turbo: Turbo was a character from the racing game TurboTime. When a new racing game RoadBlasters arrived and stole Turbo's thunder, Turbo game-jumped into the other game and tried to take it over. He instead caused both of the games, and himself, to be shutdown forever.

Calhoun reassures Felix that they'll find Ralph, but then the branch on which the two are standing on disappears, and they fall into a Nesquiksand. Felix goes into panic, only for Calhoun to punch him calm. Just then, the living rope-like laffy taffys above them begin to laugh, and the more they laugh, the more they lower. So Calhoun repeatedly punches Felix's face, which Felix in turn repeatedly repairs with his magic hammer, until the taffys are within reach. Felix then takes hold of Calhoun and one of the taffys that lifts the two into the air, and Calhoun is briefly taken away by Felix's heroism during their escape as the taffys sing around them, but then Calhoun, who had enough, immediately fires her gun to shoo away the taffys to get back on track with the mission. Felix repairs the shuttle, and he and Calhoun fly in the shuttle to search for Ralph and the bug through the air. During this time, Felix becomes smitten with Calhoun, calling her "one dynamite gal."

The compliment reminds Calhoun of her fiance that was killed by a Cy-Bug on their wedding day. He, too, had called Calhoun "dynamite gal," and the memory nearly drove Calhoun to tears. Enraged, she lowers the shuttle in front of the gates to the castle of King Candy, ruler of Sugar Rush, where she orders Felix out of the shuttle, rejecting Felix's affections and leaving him to be captured by King Candy's minion, Sour Bill. Later on, Calhoun stumbles upon an underground Cy-Bug nest, which holds thousands of eggs to hatch. The eggs eventually do and the Cy-Bugs begin to ravage through Sugar Rush. Calhoun finds Ralph on the Sugar Rush Speedway and blames him for causing the game to go down. She then evacuates the game's citizens and prepares to destroy the entrance. However, a little girl named Vanellope who has befriended Ralph is unable leave her game because she is a glitch. After the citizens desert the game, due to Vanellope's inability to evacuate, Calhoun hesitates to destroy the portal, but without a beacon, the Cy-Bugs cannot be stopped.



Ralph formulates an idea to erupt the Diet Cola Mountain, hoping to have the lava act as a beacon. He borrows Calhoun's hoverboard to fly to the mountain, where he begins to smash its roof of mentos, but King Candy (who has become a Cy-Bug after being eaten by one) attacks him. Calhoun and Felix protect Vanellope from the Cy-Bugs that begin to corner them. Fortunately, Ralph breaks free from King Candy and smashes the mountain's roof, causing massive amounts of mentos to fall into the lava. The eruption produces a lava beacon that attracts and vaporizes all the Cy-Bugs, including King Candy. As Felix congratulates Ralph for saving Sugar Rush, he kisses Calhoun on the cheek. Calhoun becomes surprised, and as she yanks Felix up, she initially appears to be enraged, but then she kisses him back. After Sugar Rush is reset, Calhoun calls for Felix and Ralph that is arcade is about to open. So Calhoun, Felix and Ralph return to their respective games, just in time to save Fix-It Felix, Jr.. Afterwards, Felix and Calhoun marry with Ralph being Felix's best man and Vanellope as the maid of honor. During the end credits, Calhoun is shown to continually join Felix, Ralph, and Vanellope on a series of game jumping adventures.

Trivia

 * According to director Rich Moore, the character of Sergeant Calhoun was originally planned to be a male. However, as he thought the character being male would be boring, the character's gender was changed to female. Another reason for Calhoun being female may be due to the fact that Moore actually wanted Fix-it Felix Jr. to have a love interest.
 * Her attitude is similar to that of Mortal Kombat character Sonya Blade's, specifically the version of her from Mortal Kombat 2011.
 * Sergeant Calhoun is the second female Disney character to be strict and not be the villain, the first being Captain Amelia of Treasure Planet. Her strictness is the result of something bad happening to her, however Sergeant Calhoun shares other characteristics with Captain Amelia as well:
 * Both hold a military rank, and are in charge of an intimidating group.
 * Both loose/lost someone important to them because of their line of work. (Calhoun's fiance is eaten by a Cybug, and Amelia's first mate Mr.Arrow falls overboard into a blackhole.)
 * Both fall in love with and marry a secondary protagonist at the end of their movies, both of whom being kind and well-mannered, but bashful.
 * Calhoun shares some similarities to Helga Sinclair, as the two are both portrayed as strict, female blond-haired military leaders. However, Helga is a villain while Calhoun is a heroine.
 * She looks a lot like her voice actress, Jane Lynch.
 * Jane Lynch also voiced Queen Neptuna, the leader of the Discarded Fun Meal toy support group in the Toy Story short Small Fry.
 * Her outfit strongly resembles Commander Shepard's N7 armor from Mass Effect.
 * She was likely inspired by such characters as Samus Aran of Metroid fame and the female version of the aforementioned Commander Shepard.
 * Sergeant Calhoun's name is not mentioned on camera till the epilogue told by Ralph. She's only referred to by "she" or "her' by her soldiers and "Ma'am" or "one dynamite gal" by Felix.
 * Calhoun's first name, Tamora, was only mentioned on her bio on the official website for the film.
 * Calhoun's name could be a reference to Barney Calhoun from Half-LIfe.
 * Calhoun's decision to marry Felix must have been for her own good, since Felix was actually trying to "fix' her broken heart.
 * In early drafts Calhoun was going to have skin camouflage. This was cut out because the creators felt the audience would have a hard time relating to her.
 * A scene with Felix is that when they fell into the Nesquiksand, they stepped on a double-stripped branch since Vanellope mentioned that "double-stripes break".