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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]].

 

For information about the DVD short, ''BURN-E'', check the [[Pixar Shorts]] page.

 

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** 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?

** AUTO gets one {{spoiler|in the fading variety when the Captain 'relieved him of duty'}}.

* [[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.

* [[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}}.

** 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.

* [[Food Pills]]: It's actually more like Food Smoothies than pills. "Sep-tu-a-cen-tennial cupcake in a cup!

** [[Word of God]] is that BnL was originally ''a yogurt company''.

* [[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

* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: Purposefully invoked to avert the previously mentioned [[Inferred Holocaust]] of test audience invention.

* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Granted, there isn't a lot in this film that ''does'' flow.

* [[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.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: The Captain seems to be the only one aware of the pointlessness of this existence at first.

* [[Open Sesame]]: A machine requires voice authorization from the Captain (parodied when all he can say is "uhh" and the machine accepts it).

* [[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}}.

 

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