WALL-E: Difference between revisions

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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?

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* [[Action Girlfriend]] -- EVE

* [[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 abouve, 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''.

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* [[Action Girlfriend]] -- EVE

* [[After the End]]

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]] -- Auto the autopilot program. Averted with ... well, every other robot in the movie. Though outside of the main robot cast, most of the other robots are mostly content with doing their job and so don't really display much personality.

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* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]] -- {{spoiler|GO-4}}

* [[Finger-Twitching Revival]] -- {{spoiler|When WALL-E regains his memories and his personality, the first thing to move is his fingers, and they twitch downwards slightly before [[Tear Jerker|fully closing]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|around EVE's hand.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[First Time in the Sun]]}} -- The ending, though the moment is somewhat diffused by {{spoiler|WALL-E's peril}}.

* [[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''.

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** 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]] -- IMDb has this movie listed as an Animation-Adventure-Comedy-Drama-Family-Romance-Sci-Fi.

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* [[He's a Friend]]: Eve, don't blast that roach!

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]] -- {{spoiler|1=The crazy massage robot, HAN-S. Try to say you don't see it.}}

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* [[He's a Friend]]: Eve, don't blast that roach!

* [[Holding Hands]] -- How WALL-E and EVE express their love for one another.

* [[Hope Sprouts Eternal]]

* [[Humans Are Special]] -- Humanity was fully responsible for Earth's sad state, and aboard the Axiom, they live a very confusing but often boring life of endless consumerism and reliance on high-technology. {{spoiler|But they also fully repair their societies and the environment with the help of their robot companions.}}

* [[Indestructible Edible]] -- WALL-E's pet cockroach can still eat a 700-year-old Twinkie, though that's more of an homage of the traditional post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland: Nothing left but the cockroaches and twinkies.

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* [[Inspector Javert]] -- M-O, who relentlessly hunts the one who would tarnish his germ-free domain. Then makes friends with him.

* [[Initialism Title]]

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* [[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.

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*** Well, he ''is'' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|made of iron]].

* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]] -- WALL-E is a shy, lonely, curious little robot, while EVE is determined, forceful and all-around forward.

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* [[Medium Blending]] -- The live-action segments.

* [[Meaningful Echo]] -- "Directive"

* [[Meaningful Name]] -- [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|EVE]]; Shelby ''[[Hypocritical Humor|Forthright]]''.

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** 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.

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* [[Medium Blending]] -- The live-action segments.

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* [[The Messiah]] -- WALL-E. Check the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] page for more.

* [[Mega Corp]] -- Buy-N-Large

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* [[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.

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* [[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.

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* [[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.

* [[Non-Action Guy]] -- WALL-E

* [[Not a Morning Person]] -- WALL-E himself, by virtue of being low on solar charge in the morning.

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* [[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.

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* [[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]]

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* [[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.

* [[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.)

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* [[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.

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* [[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.

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** The transcript lists BURN-E's reaction to being locked outside the ship as "Crap."

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] -- "You want it? Come and get it blinky."

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]] -- "{{spoiler|Auto}}, you... are relieved of duty!"

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* [[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.

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** 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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** All the robot's names are puns: Eve (obviously), Otto, Bernie...

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] -- The malfunctioning robots from the repair ward.

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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] -- Auto has a red eye. And he's the villain.

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* [[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]]

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* [[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.

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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!').

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*** Thgere 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"

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** 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.

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** 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.

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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.

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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] -- Auto has a red eye. And he's the villain.

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* [[Reflective Eyes]] -- The lens that make up WALL-E's eyes naturally do this.

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* [[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.

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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!').

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*** Thgere 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"

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** 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.

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** According to the closed captions, WALL-E says "pathetic" while he's hiding behind the towel cart.

* [[Rule of Cool]] -- The main reason for the 700 years.

* [[Running Gag]] -- M-O's never-ending quest to clean WALL-E. (Or, failing that, to clean up ''after'' him.)

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* [[Scenery Gorn]] -- Many loving shots of the ruined, abandoned, and frankly extremely bleak-looking megacity at the beginning of the film.

* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] -- The first space sequence.

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* [[Shout-Out]] --Tons, see [[WALL-E/Shout Out|WALL-E Shout Outs]].

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* [[Short Distance Phone Call]] -- The first two humans WALL-E meets.

* [[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''...

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* [[Short Distance Phone Call]] -- The first two humans WALL-E meets.

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* [[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.}}

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** 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.

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* [[Space Is Noisy]] -- ...Yeah, we'll repeat it again, [[Rule of Cool|who cares?]]

* [[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.

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* [[Space Is Noisy]] -- ...Yeah, we'll repeat it again, [[Rule of Cool|who cares?]]

* [[Space Sailing]] -- The ''Axiom'' was definitely reminiscent of a sea-going cruise ship.

** Turning the steering wheel too sharply even [[Space Is an Ocean|causes the ship to list]].

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** 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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* [[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.}}

* [[Trigger Happy]] -- Upon arriving on Earth, EVE shoots pretty much anything that moves. She does learn to calm down.

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* [[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]] -- EVE. Well, she's a girl with a temper that falls in love, anyway.

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* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] -- Well, a worn, rusted trash compactor and a sleek, futuristic robot, anyway.

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** [[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]].

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*** 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.

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* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] -- Well, a worn, rusted trash compactor and a sleek, futuristic robot, anyway.

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** [[Invoked Trope]].

* [[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''.