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[[Pixar]]'s 9th film is a [[Science Fiction]] love story.
Around seven hundred years in the future, humans abandon the [[Earth-That-Was|now-inhospitable Earth]] so it can be cleaned up by a small army of "Waste Allocation Load Lifter" robots ([[Fun with Acronyms|WALL-Es - the E stands for Earth]]) whilst they enjoy a five-year vacation cruise in space. The plan doesn't really work; seven centuries later, the last of those robots to still be running -- the titular WALL-E -- is still collecting junk and living with his pet cockroach. One day, WALL-E is going about his business as usual when a spaceship carrying a much more modern robot arrives to drop her off. Her name is EVE, and WALL-E is smitten at first sight. When the ship comes back and picks her up, he stows away.
Oh, and it's got ''[[Awesome Art]]'' [[Visual Effects of Awesome|CGI]].
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*** [http://buynlarge.com/NewsCenter.html?storyId=34 North], the direction, is a brand of theirs. They call it [[A Worldwide Punomenon|"Directional Marketing"]]. Has the [[Carmen Sandiego]] company been absorbed so they ''can'' actually do that?
* [[Action Girlfriend]]: EVE.
* [[Adam and or Eve]]: The latter.
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* [[After the End]]
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** Its not so much that AUTO is crazy. He is following orders to the letter, as that last order is what drives him {{spoiler|to keep them all in space}}. He's just doing his job like the rest of them.
** The robots in the repair ward however... most of them are crazy and some are violent.
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* [[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]: See [[Theme Music Power-Up]] below.
* [[Alternate Animal Affection|Alternate Robot Affection]]
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: WALL-E during the first half of the movie, {{spoiler|up until AUTO almost kills him, ''twice''.}}
* [[Anti-Mutiny]]: {{spoiler|AUTO does just this.}}
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Subverted in one sense, played straight in another. Earth appears to be barren at the start of the film, but in reality, the humans simply left the planet. Class 1, though the evacuation of humans makes it a technical Class 4.
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* [[Arm Cannon]]: EVE.
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: It's mentioned that the Axiom's artificial gravity is weaker than the Earth's, [[Truth in Television|which caused the humans to lose bone mass]] (the excessive blubber, though, was obviously the result of them lounging on flying couches for 7 centuries).
** "''We have a jogging track?''" -The Captain, upon listening to the instructional video on how to return to Earth.
* [[Art Shift]]: The humans of the past, such as the BnL CEO, Shelby Forthworth, are live-action. The humans of the future are computer-generated. [[Word of God]] is that redoing all the "Hello Dolly" scenes in CGI would've been too much trouble, so they just went with this route. This is later [[Lampshade|lampshaded]] in the scene of the portraits of the various ''Axiom'' captains, which shows the captains shifting from photo-realistic to cartoonish over time.
** The credits also use this trope, showing a series of vignettes in progressively more recent artistic styles, going from cave-paintings and hieroglyphics to straight-up imitations of Seurat and Van Gogh. This is to show how humans relearned the skills they had lost on the ''Axiom'', such as artistry. And then? It goes to not-quite 8-bit sprites.
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** AUTO gets one {{spoiler|in the fading variety when the Captain 'relieved him of duty'}}.
* [[Blithe Spirit]]: WALL-E, albeit [[The Fool|inadvertently]], towards all the other robots and humanity itself.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: M-O, unintentionally caused by WALL-E. WALL-E himself could count as well, especially in the first half of the movie.
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: {{spoiler|WALL-E}} after being repaired. {{spoiler|He gets better}}.
* [[Character Development]]: EVE learns to embrace her "defects" by the end of the film. While she had sentience at the beginning, she was forced to keep it hidden because of her directive. Her voice also evolves into something more feminine and emotional when it was originally robotic and distant. There's a very interesting interpretation of her emotional development [http://walleforum.com/index.php?topic=1188.0 here].
** Also, upon planetfall she is somewhat trigger-happy, blasting anything with her Arm Cannon if it offers the slightest sign of threat to herself. By the end of the movie she uses it only to help or defend others.
** Even a minor encounter with WALL-E seems to cause this in everyone. John and Mary break out of their normal routines and discover each other after meeting him once each, the Captain starts the [[Wiki Walk]] that leads to his determination to return home after scanning some dirt WALL-E got on his hand, M-O stops following his designated lit up paths on the ground in frustration so he can clean up the mess WALL-E leaves behind, and even a robot receptionist starts enthusiastically waving to people after witnessing WALL-E do it once. See [[Blithe Spirit]], above.
* [[Chatty Hairdresser]]: Any of the PR-Ts (beautician robot). Even if the person they're working on is silent, or asleep.
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** '''FOREIGN CONTAMINANT'''. At first, it causes M-O much consternation as WALL-E leaves a trail of it throughout the Axiom. But in the end, it {{spoiler|allows M-O to instantly spot the plant, a proverbial needle in a haystack, amongst the commotion near the end of the movie.}}
*** Also subverted, in that Wall-E never ends up using the wedding ring box (which seems like an obvious way to go for a romance).
** At the beginning of the movie, before we really get a scope of how developed WALL-E's has become; he makes an innocuous distinction when deciding whether to place a spork with his collection of spoons or knifes, to place it in between both. Computers are incapable of recognizing anything between a distinct On/Off parameter (that's how they're coded), WALL-E comprehending a state in between two options demonstrates how he's advanced beyond his programming.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|Not only are Shelby Forthright and AUTO both shown in the ad for the ''Axiom'' cruise, but so are most of the bots WALL-E winds up meeting in the repair ward.}}
** There's also {{spoiler|M-O, who at first seems like comic relief, but stops WALL-E and EVE from getting thrown out the garbage airlock, and recovers the plant later.}}
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{{quote|''"A" is for ''Axiom'', your home sweet home. "B" is for Buy 'N' Large, your very best friend...''}}
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: The Captain and, more subtly, Wall-E.
* [[Cue the Sun]]: Literally aboard the ''Axiom'': when the captain awakens somewhere around afternoon he rewinds ''everything'', including the sun of course, back to morning so he can give his morning speech.
* [[Cute Machines]]: The title character as well as most of the other robots in this movie.
* [[Cyber Cyclops]]: Yet another thing that makes AUTO an Expy for the HAL 9000...
* [[Death Glare]]: "That's an order!" *hesitation* *[[Death Glare]]* *cue video*
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: EVE.
* [[Desolation Shot]]: The first five minutes of the film.
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** [[Word of God]] is that BnL was originally ''a yogurt company''.
* [[The Fool]]: All WALL-E wants to do is hold hands with a girl-bot and groove to the old-time ''Hello Dolly''. Without being the slightest bit aware of it, every human (and most robots) he meets (even if it's just a [[Crash Into Hello]]) gets knocked out of their hum-drum daily existence maintaining the status quo and learns how to not just "survive, but to live," and he gets really, really lucky regarding survival.
* [[Fictional Counterpart]]: Buy n Large to Wal-Mart, though on a much more massive scale.
* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: The Captain to AUTO's lack of depth perception. First he uses an image of the plant to pretend he has it, and then he hides in front of a picture of himself
* [[Friend to All Living Things|Friend To All (Remaining) Living Things]]: WALL-E. That cockroach didn't ''have'' to follow him.
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* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: Surprisingly hard, right up until the moment EVE shows up with her internal anti-gravity drive.
* [[Monochrome Casting]]: Try and find a non-white character with a speaking role. Go ahead, try. And let's not be obtuse and use the robots as examples.
** In their defense, find anybody other than Mary, John, Captain, and the live-action Buy n' Large guy that actually talks. There is one black guy talking on the inter-person communication screens, and he gets the same amount of talking as pretty much anybody other than those four mentioned.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: {{spoiler|When AUTO tries to take the plant from WALL-E, the resulting "keep-away" is rather humorous, even having WALL-E smack Auto with the door to his garbage compartment. Moments after, however, Auto electrocutes him.}}
** After {{spoiler|Wall-E's body falls out of the Holo-Detector and the ship goes into Hyper Jump. We're in tears because Wall-E's dead, then we cut to the Captain making one of the goofiest faces as he's pushed backwards from the speed of the ship and we laugh...And two seconds later we cut to EVE desperately calling WALL-E's name and we start crying again.}}
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* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: "{{spoiler|AUTO}}, you... are relieved of duty!"
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: BURN-E delivers one of these (albeit in a mechanical tone) in the bonus features when he realizes he's cut through the new light he's supposed to be installing after being shocked by WALL-E and EVE flying by.
** The transcript lists BURN-E's reaction to being locked outside the ship as "Crap."
* [[Product Placement]]: WALL-E's makeshift television is an iPod with a magnifier in front of it.
** EVE was designed by Jonathan Ive - product designer for Apple responsible for the design of the iMac, their laptops, the iPod and iPhone. Not coincidentally, Steve Jobs used to be both CEO of Apple and CEO of Pixar, until they merged with Disney, when he became the single largest shareholder of Disney/Pixar.
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** This fact allows for a few cases of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - EVE seems to be the primary offender here. For example, when {{spoiler|GO-4 throws the plant down the garbage chute}} she makes a sound that is suspiciously similar to "crap!" Later, when she {{spoiler|tries unsuccessfully to replace the badly damaged WALL-E's circuit board in the Axiom's garbage disposal area}}, it sounds rather like she sets off a literal [[Precision F-Strike]] (she makes a noise that sounds like 'Faaaah!').
*** There is another good example of this earlier when WALL-E is chasing EVE through the ship, on the way to the bridge. One of the robots he cuts off beeps something sounding very much like "Asshole".
** The above examples may not count as getting anything past the radar. Robot speech is meant to sound completely random, so when these sounds were used, the people behind them probably weren't even thinking about how they sound a little like profanity. What matters is if the people MEANT for them to sound that way, so [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether it's coincidence or not since only those people know.
** According to the closed captions, WALL-E says "pathetic" while he's hiding behind the towel cart.
* [[Robot Names]]: Of the [[Fun with Acronyms|backronym]] variety:
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* [[Time Passes Montage]]: Several, some more subtle than others. WALL-E's initial courtship with EVE, EVE's hibernation upon finding the plant, WALL-E's trip through space, and the credit sequence. Interestingly, none of these montages provide ''any'' cues as to how much time is passing. They could take place over anything from a number of days, to many years or even centuries. Because the robots are functionally immortal, there's just no way to tell.
** Although the plant that EVE is carrying doesn't grow at all, and between her picking it up and arriving on the AXIOM it is only just starting to dehydrate. In real life that would take less than a week, but the film implies that several seasons have passed just waiting for EVE's dropship to return... probably a built-in stasis field.
* [[Tinman Typist]]: The Axiom is full of them. Especially notable is AUTO. Whereas the others could ''maybe'' be excused by being separate mobile units, AUTO is ''built into the bridge itself''.
** SUPPLY-R from the BURN-E short does this for the one thing that seems to be his ''entire function''.
* [[Trash of the Titans]]: Earth is covered with garbage, including a layer of defunct satellites in the upper atmosphere which spaceships have to plow through.
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Upon realizing that WALL-E and EVE are very close to {{spoiler|sending everyone home}},{{spoiler|AUTO}} begins to subtly lose his cold, logical demeanor, sending {{spoiler|waves of stewards to pursue them throughout the ''Axiom''}}. When WALL-E tries to prevent the platform from descending, a clearly-panicked {{spoiler|AUTO}} jabs the button increasingly rapidly. Then presses it ''so hard the glass cracks''. Then ''tasers it''.
* [[Visual Pun]]: When EVE wakes up in the bowels of the Axiom, she's covered in strange oval machines that scamper away, clicking. Yeah, they're mice.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: AUTO, arguably. Either that or he was afraid of becoming obsolete upon returning to Earth.
** He was probably just aggressively following his program.
*** A program ordered by another [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], the CEO of Buy-N-Large, Shelby Forthworth. {{spoiler|Sure, he ordered the Autopilots to keep the liners from returning to Earth, but for around ''seven hundred years'', it was the accurate decision.}}
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