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{{quote|''[[Better Than It Sounds|An employee at a garbage dump abandons his job to pursue a woman he's just met.]]''
|'''[http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2010/11/accurate-but-misleading-movie-synopses/ John Scalzi]'''}}
'''''WALL-E''''', [[Pixar]]'s
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]].
''WALL-E'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2021.
For information about the DVD short, ''BURN-E'', check the [[Pixar Shorts]] page.
{{tropelist}}
* [[Acme Products]]
** A BnL logo appears ''after the Disney/Pixar logos in the ending credits'', hinting that the film could very well be one of their products as well.
*** [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?
* [[
* [[Adam and or Eve]]: The latter.
* [[Advert-Overloaded Future]]: BnL adverts are everywhere, from the screens on the dead Earth to the nurseries on the Axiom. And, as mentioned above, they own and license '''north'''. There also appears to be an ad in the Sea of Tranquility. You know, the site of the first ''Moon landing''.
* [[After the End]]
* [[
** Its not so much that
** The robots in the repair ward however... most of them are crazy and some are violent.
** Actually ''played straight'' with WALL-E and the various robots he recruits to his cause: They save the day because they are ''not'' operating as intended. [[Tropes Are Flexible]].
* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]
** A little more information is covered on the DVD. For example, Buy N Large started out as two companies. The BUY part sold frozen yogurts. The LARGE part sold Tall and Large clothing. They combined forces after realizing eating one made you need to buy the other.
* [[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]
* [[Alternate Animal Affection|Alternate Robot Affection]]
* [[Amusing Injuries]]
* [[Anti-Mutiny]]
* [[Apocalypse How]]
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]
* [[The Ark]]
* [[Arm Cannon]]
* [[Artificial Gravity]]
** "''We have a jogging track?''" -The Captain, upon listening to the instructional video on how to return to Earth.
* [[Art Shift]]
** 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.
*** The 8-bit sprites could be how the robots remember the story - the sequence of events that awakened them to self awareness would probably be very special to them, and what's one way an intelligent computer could record historical events?
*** Alternately ... the 8-bit sprites would be the ''next'' art style.
*** Which means that the humans would have re-discovered technology and could be heading down the same path as before. This turns into a huge [[Mind Screw]] when you start to wonder how many times the human race has failed before....
**** That assumes that humans abandoned technology at some point, which they clearly haven't since they ''work alongside robots''.
* [[Astronomic Zoom]]: ''Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers...''
* [[Badass]]: The ''Axiom's'' captain, [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|although it takes a while for it to shine through]].
** WALL-E himself is pretty awesome, considering his size and general run-down nature compared to the Axiom robots.
* [[Berserk Button]]: M-O: '''Foreign Contaminant'''.
* [[Beta Couple]]: John and Mary.
* [[Big Bad]]: Auto, though he is actually just doing his job.
* [[The Big Board]]: Sigourney Weaver.
* [[Big Fat Future]]: ''All'' of the passengers of the ''Axiom'' are obese.
** This is explained by the differences in gravity from the cruise ship and earth. Plus people being lazy.
* [[Big No]]
** And again later when
** Also when WALL-E accidentally fires her [[Arm Cannon]] in the repair ward.
**
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Both Wall-E and EVE were built for a similar purpose, though EVE acts as if she is the older one of the two.
* [[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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20100721064939/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]]
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]
** The Axiom's docking port, which WALL-E rolls past at the very beginning and onto which the Axiom lands at the very end. Stanton quotes Chekhov directly in the commentary when mentioning it.
** Also, WALL-E's [[Verbal Tic|little hand gesture]].
** When
** '''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
** 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
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]
** 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.}}
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]
** Also, {{spoiler|WALL-E swapping his worn-out treads with newer ones, showing he doesn't have a problem scavenging for parts to repair himself with.}} First referenced
** Not to mention {{spoiler|the electric power of [[True Love's Kiss|EVE's kiss]] is demonstrated in the space dancing sequence}}.
** M-O's ability to identify "foreign contaminants"
* [[Coat Cape]]: The Captain wears his coat like this, presumably because he's too out of shape to wear it normally.
* [[The Collector of the Strange]]
** They all tend toward the "interesting," though. Things he wouldn't interact with every day, things that aren't usually considered trash. Rubik's cubes, shoes, cutlery, other things like that.
*** Although, in this instance, "Interesting" is a definition we never see, as it's entirely without pattern within WALL-E's head (
**** That one's not that hard to comprehend if you think about it. WALL-E has no concept of value or wealth, so while the ring might just be some sparkly thing, the box would be infinitely more interesting to him (since it opens, closes, and makes a clicking noise when it shuts) once he got done giving the ring a once-over. Most of the stuff he finds interesting would probably be the sort of thing you'd find a young child collecting before they pick up on concepts like money and value.
**** Also, diamond and gold in a relatively pure form is something unextraordinary (it's a rock that had value because we give it value) where as the ring box demonstrates skill and intelligence. Those are things Wall-e seems to enjoy.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]
** Also humans who switch their clothing from blue back to red are the ones who have been "awakened." See [[Shout-Out]].
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]
** And now, there is a [[Wall-E: The Human Touch|fan-made one]], only with the [[Moe Anthropomorphism|robots as]] [[Recycled in Space|humans]].
* [[Computer Voice]]
* [[Context Sensitive Button]]
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
** {{spoiler|Earth was completely uninhabitable, and he had no reason to believe that it would ever be able to support life again.}}
** Forthright didn't even ''have'' to make a secret conspiracy of it, but he did anyway, to keep the [[Muggles]] placated.
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**** Although from all indications (and more importantly all exterior shots of the ship and navigational maps) the Axiom is the ONLY SHIP left of the BnL fleet. Which depressingly means that all that is left of humanity now resides there.
***** The end credits prove that this, at least, is untrue. One of the images is of other lifepods arriving on Earth to join the Axiom's passengers, suggesting that there are other humans out there and that they do eventually come home.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]
* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]
* [[Creepy Monotone]]:
{{quote|''"A" is for ''Axiom'', your home sweet home. "B" is for Buy 'N' Large, your very best friend...''}}
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]
* [[Cue the Sun]]
* [[Cute Machines]]
* [[Cyber Cyclops]]
* [[Death Glare]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]
* [[Desolation Shot]]
* [[Disney Death]]
** A straighter version happens when {{spoiler|WALL-E's escape pod self-destructs}}. EVE thinks he's dead for a few moments, until {{spoiler|he drifts into view, having escaped at the last second by using a fire extinguisher as a jetpack}}.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]
** Even more of a subversion because some people might think {{spoiler|he'll land in the pool that's shown just before he smashes into the ground ''right in front of it.''}}
*** Either way,
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]
* [[Dojikko]]
* [[Downer Beginning]]
* [[The Dragon]]
* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]
* [[Dying Like Animals]]
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]
* [[Earth-That-Was]]
* [[Emotional Torque]]
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]
* [[Eternal English]]
* [[Eureka Moment]]:
** --> ''{{spoiler|You just needed someone to take care of you, that's all.}}''
* [[Everything Is an iPod In The Future]]: See [[Product Placement]] below.
* [[Eye Lights Out]]
* [[Fake-Out Opening]]
* [[False Camera Effects]]
** The DVD commentary points out here that legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins was brought in to teach the animators how to make the camera act more like a real camera instead of a virtual one, and to deliberately insert anomalies like this. Who was amused that Pixar would spend loads of money and time trying to create effects that cinematographers have spent loads of money and time trying to get rid of.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]
* [[Finger-Twitching Revival]]
*
* [[Food Pills]]
** [[Word of God]] is that BnL was originally ''a yogurt company''.
* [[The Fool]]
* [[Fictional Counterpart]]
* [[Flaw Exploitation]]
* [[Friend to All Living Things|Friend To All (Remaining) Living Things]]
** [[Friend to Bugs]]: WALL-E regards said cockroach as a pet, but most people in real-life consider them disgusting pests.
* [[Gaussian Girl]]
** On close inspection she seems to ''emit'' a diffuse white light from her (shiny, white) skin, essentially making her a self-generating, in-universe [[Gaussian Girl]].
* [[Genre Busting]]
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: {{spoiler|1=The crazy massage robot, HAN-S. Try to say you don't see it.}}
* [[He's a Friend]]: EVE, don't blast that roach!
* [[Holding Hands]]
* [[Hope Sprouts Eternal]]
* [[Humans Are Special]]
* [[Indestructible Edible]]
* [[Initialism Title]]
* [[Inspector Javert]]: M-O, who relentlessly hunts the one who would tarnish his germ-free domain. Then makes friends with him.
* [[Intertwined Fingers]]: Several times between WALL-E and EVE. The first time it happens, it's an awkward moment.
* [[In the Future We Still Have Roombas]]: Practically all the non-human characters.
* [[Kids Prefer Boxes]]: WALL-E is captivated by a jewelry box, but doesn't care for the diamond ring inside it.
* [[
* [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone]]: {{spoiler|M-O shooing away the other robots from WALL-E and EVE having a moment at the end of the movie.}}
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: The Captain and also John and Mary.
{{quote|'''Mary''': Get ready for some kids!}}
* [[Little No]]
**
* [[Load-Bearing Hero]]
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: The human spend their lives in a Lotus Eater Spaceship... sort of. Unlike most examples of this trope they're perfectly aware of the fact.
* [[Love At First Sight]]
** For a mostly non-anthropomorphic robot, she ''is'' beautiful.
** John and Mary too, though substitute "love at first physical contact with a human being in their entire lives."
* [[Lucky Charms Title]]
* [[MacGuffin Escort Mission]]
* [[Made of Iron]]
** WALL-E himself takes a heck of a lot of punishment during the movie (and surviving his backstory is no mean feat either).
*** Well, he ''is'' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|made of iron]].
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: "Directive".
* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|EVE]]; Shelby ''[[Hypocritical Humor|Forthright]]''.
** Axiom: a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true. By this point in time, people have stopped questioning their situation and accepted their lives as they are.
** John and Mary, who get a lot of kids from nowhere.
** Also, WALL-E's pronunciation of EVE ("Eevuh") could be discerned as Eva, the name for the Biblical Eve in certain other languages.
* [[Medium Blending]]: The live-action segments.
* [[Mega Corp]]
* [[The Messiah]]: WALL-E. Check the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] page for more.
* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]: {{spoiler|1=When WALL-E, EVE, the defective robots, and the Captain work together to return the plant to the Holo-Detector.}}
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: Nearly every robot in the movie has a piece of humanization fanart lurking on deviantArt somewhere.
** M-O, whose name should already be a direct indication about this. Andrew Stanton even admitted that they "turned up the cute dial too much" with this character.
* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]
* [[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
* [[Mood Whiplash]]
** 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.}}
* [[Neat Freak]]
** Note that before he shakes WALL-E's hand, he cleans it.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]
* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Granted, there isn't a lot in this film that ''does'' flow.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: WALL-E.
* [[Not a Morning Person]]: WALL-E himself, by virtue of being low on solar charge in the morning.
* [[No Waterproofing in the Future]]: The robot that ''supervises the swimming pool'' is not waterproof. Note that John and Mary were the only two people actually ''using'' the pool. And it doesn't seem to do much besides say rules.
* [[Off the Rails]]: After a mustering of willpower, M-O jumps off the floor guideline to chase after WALL-E and his trail of foreign contaminants.
* [[Oh Crap]]:
{{quote|'''AUTO:''' "Not. Possible."}}
* [[One-Wheeled Wonder]]: M-O
* [[Only Sane Man]]: The Captain seems to be the only one aware of the pointlessness of this existence at first.
* [[Open Sesame]]
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: WALL-E and EVE. The romance delivered by the trope is as strong despite the leads being ''robots''. WALL-E, living on a deserted, trashed Earth for several hundred years, is more than happy to have some sort of companionship in the form of EVE. When EVE is shut down remotely and taken away, WALL-E follows, where the little guy attaches to a spaceship and goes to the Axiom, living with the rest of humans on the ship. It's a testament to how far the trope can be pushed and its applicability, as well as to [[Pixar]]'s storytelling ability.
* [[Opposites Attract]]: While Wall-E and Eve have many things in common (they both want the humans to set up a colony on Earth, so that not everyone will have to live on the Axiom, for example), Wall-E is undoubtedly the more naive of the two.
* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: Some how, an 830-year-old Pong console has survived the apocalypse. The humans on the Axiom are seen playing tennis with robots controlled by a variation of Pong, although it might have made more sense if they used a more [[Wii|current device]] made for the [[Wii Sports|purpose of sports]]. Then again, that would take more physical effort on the part of the humans.
* [[Post-Kiss Catatonia]]: WALL-E completely freezes the first time EVE "kisses" him. {{spoiler|Inverted in the ending: a kiss is what wakes him up}}.
* [[Power Glows]]: Not only does EVE glow very faintly (the better to invoke a [[Gaussian Girl]]), her presence and touch cause electrical lights to glow as well.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]
* [[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.
** WALL-E's Boot-Up noise is also the noise a Mac makes when you turn it on.
**
** In-universe, Buy 'n' Large itself. Their logo even appears after the film credits alongside the Disney and Pixar logos, implying that the film itself is partly theirs.
* [[Punny Name]]
** And [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wally "Wally"] (definition 2 is probably the most apt).
** All the robot's names are puns:
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: AUTO has a red eye. And he's the villain.
* [[Reflective Eyes]]: The lens that make up WALL-E's eyes naturally do this.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: WALL-E teaches other robots human traits, and learned them himself from old recordings, but they all seem to have a really strong baseline to begin with.
* [[Robo Cam]]
* [[Robo Speak]]: The only one really guilty of this is AUTO, as the other robots can only say a few words, or use voice samples. They mostly communicate through beeps, hums, etc.
** 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:
** WALL-E = '''W'''aste '''A'''llocation '''L'''oad '''L'''ifter -- '''E'''arth Class, a global Earth-cleaning bot. He later meets his larger cousin, WALL-A, which of course, is '''A'''xiom Class.
** EVE = '''E'''xtraterrestrial '''V'''egetation '''E'''valuator.
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** Many others. BRL-A (umbrella-bot), D-FIB (defibrillator-bot), M-O ("Moe"), PR-T ("pretty"), HAN-S (the massage bot), VAQ-M (vacuum-bot), VN-GO (the painter bot)...
*** M-O is stated in the DVD bonus material to stand for '''M'''icrobe '''O'''bliterator.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The main reason for the 700 years.
* [[
* [[Saharan Shipwreck]]
* [[Say My Name]]
* [[Say My Name Trailer]]
* [[Scenery Gorn]]
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]
* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: In the escape pods, for some strange reason.
** "Save The Last Bullet For Yourself"; in some situations, it would be wiser to kill oneself in an escape pod than have it captured by enemies for interrogation or whatever. But this really only means anything for military duty... And the Axiom isn't a battleship...
*** Possibly an option if rescue or recovery is an impossibility. Though both dying in a fiery explosion and starvation are both rather painful ways to die, explosions are at least ''quick''...
* [[Short Distance Phone Call]]: The first two humans WALL-E meets.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Tons, see [[WALL-E/Shout Out|WALL-E Shout Outs]].
* [[Slow Electricity]]: The [[Hard Light]] barriers in the holding cells fail sequentially instead of all at once.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Oh yeah. In the very first minute, {{spoiler|"Put On Your Sunday Clothes", a bright, cheery song, matches well with the opening shots of the galaxy...not so much with the revelation of what Earth has become that follows.}}
** {{spoiler|At the moment the song breaks into "There's lots of world out there", we get our first glimpse of Earth's barren wasteland surface.}}
* [[Space Clothes]]
** Subverted with the Captain, as his nonelastic jacket is shown hanging off his shoulders, impossible to close.
** The PR-Ts are said to help with hygiene as well as beautification.
* [[Space Clouds]]: The ''Axiom'' is parked next to a nebula which initially hides its presence as the Earth-ship approaches.
* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]
* [[Space Is an Ocean]]
** To be fair, we have no idea ''how'' the artificial gravity works. It's possible that there is some kind of gyroscopic effect that causes the force to be exerted in a constant direction, regardless of the orientation of the ship.
*** AUTO was also doing this intentionally to prevent the plant from getting to the Holo-Detector. Since he controls the whole ship, presumably he controls the gravity.
* [[Space Is Cold]]: Averted. The robots function perfectly well in space, and the plant is unharmed from a brief stint in the vacuum before being sealed back into EVE's presumably airtight compartment.
* [[Space Is Noisy]]: ...yeah, we'll repeat it again, [[Rule of Cool|who cares?]]
* [[Space Sailing]]
** Turning the steering wheel too sharply even [[Space Is an Ocean|causes the ship to list]].
* [[Spanner in the Works]]
* [[Stalker with a Crush]] / [[Stalking Is Love]]
** While we're on the subject, [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]. (Although nothing really happens. They're robots.)
* [[Stand in Portrait]]
* [[Stealth Pun]]
* [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids|Super Powered Robot Vegetation Scout]]: EVE, whose laser arm is capable of destroying dedicated guard robots. Possibly justified considering she probably surveys planets which may have hostile life.
**
** But the prize goes to HAN-S. This massage robot [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomps]] an entire squad of guard robots.
* [[Synthetic Voice Actor]]:
* [[Technology Porn]]: In addition to all the robots and gadgets on the Axiom, there's the various loading/unloading/folding/rotating arms and waldos during EVE's expedition.
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: A slight aversion, since there's true "theme music", but, if you listen closely during the titular robot's first appearance, you can hear
* [[They Should Have Sent a Poet]]
* [[This Cannot Be!]]
* [[Time Passes Montage]]
** 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
* [[Tinman Typist]]
** SUPPLY-R from the BURN-E short does this for the one thing that seems to be his ''entire function''.
* [[Trash of the Titans]]
* [[Trigger Happy]]: Upon arriving on Earth, EVE shoots pretty much anything that moves. She does learn to calm down.
* [[True Love's Kiss]]: {{spoiler|When WALL-E is essentially killed and then rebuilt by EVE, his memory is lost and EVE tries everything she can think of to bring him back. Nothing works, and she, giving up, finally sadly "kisses" him and the electric spark jolts his memory.}}
* [[Tsundere]]
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Well, a worn, rusted trash compactor and a sleek, futuristic robot, anyway.
** [[Invoked Trope]].
* [[Understatement]]: "We're having a slight malfunction -- '''[SLAM!]''' -- with {{spoiler|the autopilot!}}"
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: In the future, even advanced robots like COM-T will use keyboards and the hunt and peck method of typing... but the buttons will be nothing but [[Zeroes and Ones]].
** AUTO even uses the standard human approach of "If it doesn't work, press harder."
*** In his defense, it would have worked, {{spoiler|If WALL-E wasn't in the way.}}
*** Counter to that, applying pressure enough to break the button while giving it a massive electric shock should have just shorted out the button's attached circuit completely and caused it to stop functioning.
* [[Used Future]]: Played as straight as it gets with Earth, but adverted aboard the ''Axiom'', which looks just as clean and shiny as when it was launched 700 years ago.
* [[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.
* [[White and Grey Morality]]
* [[Wiki Walk]]: The
* [[Wingding Eyes]]
* [[Wiper Start]]
* [[A World Half Full]]
* [[The World Is Just Awesome]]: The humans' reaction when they first actually notice their surroundings, having been so immersed in their luxuries that they failed to notice ''everything around them''.
* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]
** Reiterated in the 2009 Oscar's Animation Yearbook montage, where WALL-E finds an Oscar statue and a battered tape of said montage inside the plant's fridge. He naturally tosses the statue and takes the tape back home to watch. Ironic in that ''WALL-E'' had just won Best Animated Feature.
* [[X Meets Y]]:
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