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** The first time watching WALL-E, I thought that his {{spoiler|reawakening by EVE's kiss at the end}} was pure [[Deus Ex Machina]], as I didn't see how {{spoiler|that little spark could do all that}}. Then, rewatching {{spoiler|their first kiss}}, I realized that you could interpret {{spoiler|his [[Post-Kiss Catatonia|reaction]] as a system reboot}}. As such, the whole thing makes perfect sense: when {{spoiler|EVE repairs him after his fatal system crash, he boots up in safe mode, with just the base operating system running. One clean reboot later, and all user customization is restored, including 700 years of learned personality.}}
** I realized what [[Beta Couple]] Mary and John represented after seeing their names next to each other. They represent mankind, plus they are two of the three humans who actually meet WALL-E. Do their names remind you of anyone? Hint: Think Mary and Joseph. The ending of WALL-E is {{spoiler|mankind creating a new beginning on Earth,}} it could be a way of saying their sins were being purged. Not sure if this was intentional, but it sure fits! -Gallows
*** I figured (thanks to the entry directly above) that is was Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist- The two most commonly-recalled Apostles. They helped spread the word to which WALL-E had opened their eyes, even after WALL-E got [[The Messiah|taken down]] in a [[Hoist by His Own Petard|self-defeating]] plan to keep the status quo from shifting.
**** The names always seemed significant to me until I read that they are also the two most common names in English, showing how humans stopped thinking about things such as names or prehaps showing they were named by a robot that woud only know really common names. - bookworm389
**** [[Critical Research Failure|Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist were not Apostles.]]
*** Or - or maybe they chose the common names deliberately to say "There is nothing special about these people except luck! Anyone can break the mold like this! You don't have to be [[Gary Stu|Garimathian Ordinald Sturrian de Verinald]], any regular <s> Joe</s> John could do this."
**** And this interpretation fits nicely with WALL-E's story, since he more or less puts humankind back on the right track by falling in love.
** The captain fools Auto twice with holograms. Auto only has one eye, and thus lacks depth perception. "Come and get it, Blinky" indeed.
* In ''WALL-E'', after much thought, is that this could actually be considered Pixar's first live-action feature! The humans presented in the video of the BNL's starships were real humans, not CGIed ones. As was Fred Willard's role as the CEO of BNL, Shelby Forthright and the previous captains of the main starcruiser. The reasoning is that since the people got so fat, their bodies bacame more misshapen and too puffy, it would look cartoony so they could get away saying it was CGI. The robots could have been either way since they're robots and would look good either way.
* I had a moment of [[Fridge Brilliance]] when reading the page for [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]. A lot of people griped that it was unrealistic for the humans to survive on Earth after coming back. I thought about the distances involved... and then I realized, for Wall-E and EVE making the journey to the Axiom and back, time has no meaning. They're robots! As for the humans returning at the end of the film, they blast into what looks like a [[Star Trek]] style faster-than-light warp and come straight back to Earth in what seems like a few seconds. However, according to relativity, more time than what they experienced would pass on Earth. Hence, we see Earth going from having one small, limp-looking plant, to having entire fields covered in greenery in the last scene. Keep in mind that at no point does the captain or anyone else mention how long it has been since the EVE probes were sent to Earth, only that "no probe's ever come back positive before." It's quite possible that EVE was launched a long, long, time before the events of the movie. After all, they've been out there for 700 years.
** Actually, Auto does refer to EVE as 'Annual Probe 1', suggesting they are sent (or return) exactly once a year. Going by the montage of Wall-E caring for EVE's dormant body (after EVE acquires the plant), it does seem that EVE was on Earth for at least a few seasons, so this makes sense.
* [[Fridge Horror]] -- One might expect at the beginning that all humanity was evacuated onto the spacecraft. But near the end, the entire populace aboard the ship is visible; the population of a small town. Now one might ask: Did they really abandon more than 99% of the earth's population on the earth (which, at that point of time would have been much bigger than 7.000.000.000). And, if yes, where are the remains? There must be remains (well, at least skeletons) or at least survivors on earth. If there are any of both, they are never shown. Then again, one might think that the ship once held all of earth's population on board (and that it naturally decreased over the dozens of dozens of generations in those 700 years), but in the aforementioned final shot, it is apparent, that it never could have held anymore people than were presently on board (the aforementioned small town). So, what happened to the other people that possibly made it on board. Well, [[Wild Mass Guessing|any answer and conclusion that we come to]] could easily pass as rather disturbing.
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** Plus, we see him take off his treads when he enters his "house"... maybe those sorts of things are more like clothes. It's still a bit creepy to take clothes off of corpses, but not ''that'' creepy.
*** Frankenwoobie!
* [[Fridge Horror]]: It's presumed that all Pixar movies so far take place in the same universe. In pretty much all of the Pixar movies, one can find a reference to another Pixar movie. In Wall-E, the Pizza Planet truck can be seen, just briefly, in the garbage pile. In [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3, it's even shown that Buzz Lightyear runs on Buy 'n Large batteries. Seeing the other Pixar movies making references to each other implies that they're all linked together. (such as [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] references in [[Finding Nemo]], Cars, and [[Monsters, Inc.]].) That means in WALL-E, a film taking place in the future, all the characters from the other movies may be dead. Seeing how polluted the earth is, [[Finding Nemo|clownfish may even be extinct.]] If the toys from [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] haven't died yet, it means they just wander the wasteland forever, no one to play with them and only waiting for death...
** Well, yeah, but that's not to say they all didn't live long, happy lives. It's like if they made a movie about dinosaurs. Unless it ends with a meteor flying through the sky, it's not confirmed they died immediately. But still, by the time the other movies take place [[Foregone Conclusion|dinosaurs have gone extinct.]] The lovable characters have died by then, but life goes on. It's not that bad.
** Actually, all of a sudden, ''[[Cars]]'' [[Fridge Brilliance|makes perfect sense]]. The automobiles are all the super-advanced AI-controlled automobiles that everybody left behind when they abandoned Earth.
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* [[Fridge Horror]]: It is implied that at one point the captains {{spoiler|want to return to earth to fix things}} that Auto {{spoiler|has killed every generation leading to the plot's timeline, slowly getting more and more control}}. It is likely he would've been running the show by the next generation, [[Spanner in the Works|Wall-E didn't mess everything up.]]
** Probably not EVERY captain. Least, not the ones that listened to AUTO anyway.
* Near the beginning of the movie, Eve's fondness of her [[
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