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EVE is rather easily angered and once she starts an objective, she doesn\'t give up until the job is done

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* HotBlooded: With that HairTriggerTemper and that much determination to complete an objective, she would definitely qualify.
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* ButtMonkey

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* ButtMonkeyButtMonkey:
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* BigGood
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* NonActionGuy: He's a garbage bot. The closest thing he would have to an offensive capability is a utility laser, but he never uses it as a weapon.

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* NonActionGuy: He's a garbage bot. The closest thing he would have to an offensive capability is a utility cutting laser, but he never uses it as a weapon.

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* {{Adorkable}}
* AllLovingHero

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* {{Adorkable}}
{{Adorkable}}: He loves musicals (well, one musical) and collects ''sporks''.
* AllLovingHeroAllLovingHero: Seems genuinely pleased to meet everyone he comes across, human or robot.



* BlitheSpirit
* ButtMonkey

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* BlitheSpirit
BlitheSpirit: Everyone he encounters starts thinking differently as a result of it--maybe because he wakes them up from their trance or because he's so filthy they break their programming to clean him.
* ButtMonkeyButtMonkey: Gets blasted at, crashed into, broken, and tossed into walls regularly.



* DesperatelyCravesAffection

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* DesperatelyCravesAffectionDesperatelyCravesAffection: Keeps a pet cockroach. When he meets another actual robot, he's so eager to make contact that he tries to befriend her despite her attempt to blast him.



* LastOfHisKind

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* LastOfHisKindLastOfHisKind: All the other WALL•E units have shut down. (He scavenges them for replacement parts.)



* NiceGuy
* NonActionGuy
* NotAMorningPerson

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* NiceGuy
NiceGuy: Granted, he does troll MO a bit.
* NonActionGuy
NonActionGuy: He's a garbage bot. The closest thing he would have to an offensive capability is a utility laser, but he never uses it as a weapon.
* NotAMorningPersonNotAMorningPerson: He drags himself around like a human needing a cup of coffee, bumping into things and unable to put his treads on until he gets his morning sunshine.



* PuppyDogEyes

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* PuppyDogEyesPuppyDogEyes: [[spoiler:When they're reset to factory standard, it's highly disturbing. The return to normal is what signals that he's back.]]



* StalkingIsLove

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* StalkingIsLoveStalkingIsLove: To EVE.



* ActionGirl
* ActionGirlfriend

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* ActionGirl
ActionGirl: With her arm cannon and a general willingness to rush into a fight.
* ActionGirlfriendActionGirlfriend: To WALL•E eventually. She defends him, carries him around, and rescues him when AUTO's minions start chasing them through the ship.



* ArmCannon
* DefrostingIceQueen

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* ArmCannon
ArmCannon: Her primary weapon. Also her main tool, it seems.
* DefrostingIceQueenDefrostingIceQueen: At first, she only cares about her directive. She starts defrosting after her frustrations with it make her more tolerant of talking to WALL•E.



* TriggerHappy

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* TriggerHappyTriggerHappy: Responds to any movement by blasting it when she first arrives on Earth.



* TheNapoleon
* NeatFreak

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* TheNapoleon
TheNapoleon: Smaller than most of the other robots.
* NeatFreakNeatFreak: So much so that he breaks his programming to follow WALL•E throughout the ship and clean him.



* [[spoiler:AntiMutiny]]

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* [[spoiler:AntiMutiny]][[spoiler:AntiMutiny: He is actually following his instructions by defying the Captain.]]



* KnightTemplar

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* KnightTemplarKnightTemplar: "On the ''Axiom'', humanity will survive."



* AscendedExtra

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* AscendedExtraAscendedExtra: Gets his own short.



** WordOfGod says this is because Fred Willard is like a cartoon anyway.



* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadassCrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He starts as just another blob-person going through mindless routine. The prospect of returning to Earth wakes him up.



* MeaningfulName

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* MeaningfulName
MeaningfulName: Gee, I wonder where that name comes from...



* MeaningfulName

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* MeaningfulNameMeaningfulName: John and ''Mary,'' huh?
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* [[spoiler: BiggerBad: He was the one who gave Auto the "never return to Earth" order that caused part of the main conflict later on.]]

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* RoboRomance: With EVE.



* RoboRomance: With EVE.
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* RoboRomance: With EVE.


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* RoboRomance: With WALL•E.
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* {{Determinator}}: ""I am the captain of the Axiom! '''''We are going home today!'''''
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* TheComputerIsYourFriend: He was given orders to safeguard humanity, and he will fulfill those orders whether the humans want him to or not.
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** ActionGirlfriend

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** * ActionGirlfriend

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* AllLovingHero



* [[ABoyAndHisX A Robot and His Cockroach]]



* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to EVE's Masculine Girl.
* TheMessiah

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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to EVE's Masculine Girl.
* TheMessiah
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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Robot and His Cockroach]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Angus MacLane

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->'''Voiced by:''' Angus MacLane[=MacLane=]

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* [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer When All You Have Is a Laser Cannon]]: Her problem solving tree is something like "blast it with my arm cannon. Does it still need to be blasted more? [Y/n]"

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* [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer When All You Have Is a Laser Cannon]]: Her problem solving tree is something like "blast it with my arm cannon. Does it still need to be blasted more? [Y/n]"[Y/N]"



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!Humans
!! Shelby Forthright
The CEO of Buy n Large as of the exodus from Earth to clean up the rampant trash everywhere.

-> '''Played by''': Fred Willard

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!Humans
!! Shelby Forthright
The CEO of Buy n Large as of
!!BURN-E (Basic Utility Repair Nano Engineer)
BURN-E is
the exodus from Earth to clean up robot that is seen repairing the rampant trash everywhere.

-> '''Played by''': Fred Willard
ship when WALL•E and EVE fly into the airlock and lock him outside. He's the focus of a short on the DVD with his name.

->'''Voiced by:''' Angus MacLane


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* AscendedExtra
* ButtMonkey: He's just trying to do his job and fix the ship, but the events of the film keep causing chaos for him.
* LowerDeckEpisode: His short shows how his work spans the entire film.
* ShaggyDogStory: By the time he finally gets it working, the light is destroyed again. And even if it wasn't destroyed, [[spoiler:they're back on Earth by that point so it doesn't matter much anymore.]]
* RuleOfThree: It takes him three trips to finally repair the light he's trying to fix.

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!Humans
!! Shelby Forthright
The CEO of Buy n Large as of the exodus from Earth to clean up the rampant trash everywhere.

-> '''Played by''': Fred Willard
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* {{Determinator}}: Did the same job for 700 years, held onto the ship back to the Axiom for no one knows how long simply because EVE was on it, and held up the holo detector even though [[spoiler: he had very recently been electrocuted by AUTO]] and was still recovering from that.




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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Even when M-O starts helping the heroes, he does this by cleaning, the only thing he ''can'' do, even when other things would be more useful.
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* AdamAndOrEve

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* CollectorOfTheStrange: He keeps a wide assortment of random trinkets that catch his fancy.

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* CollectorOfTheStrange: He keeps a wide assortment of random trinkets that catch his fancy. fancy.
* CriticalAnnoyance: A low-pitched BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP plays when he's about to run out of energy.
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* LoveAtFirstSight

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* LoveAtFirstSightLoveAtFirstSight: He falls in love with EVE the first time he sees her. Possibly justified in that EVE is the first living thing he's seen other than cockroaches.
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* NotSoAboveItAll

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* NotSoAboveItAllNotSoAboveItAll: At WALL•E's home, he hands her an egg-beater, and after figuring it out, she spins it so fast that it breaks. Her reaction? [[ActingUnnatural To quickly puts away the handle and try not to draw attention]]. She even starts to [[NotSoInnocentWhistling hum something]] while she waits.
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* ThePigPen: Not on purpose, but 700 years cleaning up garbage on a deserted wasteland hasn't left him in the best shape.
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A sleek robot who WALL•E meets during a day at work and has come to Earth looking for something. She moves using antigravity technology and is equipped with scanners, specimen storage and a plasma cannon in her arm, which she is quick to use. WALL•E falls in love with her the moment he sees her and eventually she warms up to him and falls in love with him.

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A sleek robot who WALL•E meets during a day at work and has come to Earth looking for something. She moves using antigravity technology and is equipped with scanners, specimen storage and a plasma cannon in her arm, which she is quick to use. WALL•E falls in love with her the moment he sees her and eventually her. Eventually, she warms up to him and falls in love with him.
him as well.



* ActionGirlfriend

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* ** ActionGirlfriend
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* CatchPhrase: "Foreign contaminant!"

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* CatchPhrase: "Foreign contaminant!""[FOREIGN CONTAMINANT]"

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* CatchPhrase: "[foreign contaminant!]"

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* CatchPhrase: "[foreign contaminant!]""Foreign contaminant!"



* PsychoElectro: [[spoiler:Shocks WALL•E with his taser to send him falling down the garbage chute.]]



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* MeaningfulName
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* BetaCouple: With John.

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* BetaCouple: With John.John.
* MeaningfulName
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* TheDanza
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* KnightTemplar
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The CEO of Buy N' Large as of the exodus from Earth to clean up the rampant trash everywhere.

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[[quoteright:210:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WOOB-E.jpg]]
!!WALL•E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class)

The title character. WALL•E is the only robot of his kind shown to be still functioning on Earth. Although working diligently to fulfill his directive to clean up the garbage, he is distracted by his curiosity, collecting trinkets of interest. One day during work, he meets EVE and his life changes forever.

->'''Voiced by:''' Ben Burtt
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* {{Adorkable}}
* TheAloner: In the beginning.
* [[ABoyAndHisX A Robot and His Cockroach]]
* BlitheSpirit
* ButtMonkey
* CollectorOfTheStrange: He keeps a wide assortment of random trinkets that catch his fancy.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection
* DoggedNiceGuy: To EVE.
* LastOfHisKind
* LoveAtFirstSight
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to EVE's Masculine Girl.
* TheMessiah
* NiceGuy
* NonActionGuy
* NotAMorningPerson
* OfficialCouple: With EVE.
* OppositesAttract: With EVE.
* PostKissCatatonia: WALL•E completely freezes the first time EVE "kisses" him.
* PuppyDogEyes
* StalkerWithACrush: Much nicer than most examples, but the trope still applies. They even brought it up on the Blu-Ray geek track. "He's got stalker charm!"
* StalkingIsLove
* UglyGuyHotWife: With EVE.

!!EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator)
A sleek robot who WALL•E meets during a day at work and has come to Earth looking for something. She moves using antigravity technology and is equipped with scanners, specimen storage and a plasma cannon in her arm, which she is quick to use. WALL•E falls in love with her the moment he sees her and eventually she warms up to him and falls in love with him.

->'''Voiced by:''' Elissa Knight
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* ActionGirl
* ActionGirlfriend
* ArmCannon
* DefrostingIceQueen
* DungeonBypass
* GaussianGirl
* HairTriggerTemper
* MacGuffinEscortMission: Her directive is [[spoiler:to safely bring plant life from Earth to the ''Axiom''[='s=] scanner]].
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to WALL•E's Feminine Boy.
* MeaningfulName: She is named after Eve, the first woman on Earth according to TheBible, because Andrew Stanton thought that WALL•E's loneliness reminded him of Adam, before God created his wife.
* NotSoAboveItAll
* OfficialCouple: With WALL•E.
* OppositesAttract: With WALL•E.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan
* TriggerHappy
* {{Tsundere}}
* UglyGuyHotWife: With WALL•E.
* TheUnpronounceable: To WALL•E.
* [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer When All You Have Is a Laser Cannon]]: Her problem solving tree is something like "blast it with my arm cannon. Does it still need to be blasted more? [Y/n]"
* WingdingEyes

!!M-O (Microbe Obliterator)
A tiny, obsessive-compulsive maintenance robot with rollers for hands who keeps ''Axiom'' clean. When M-O meets WALL•E and sees how filthy he is, he deviates from his normal routine and follows WALL•E, cleaning up behind him.

->'''Voiced by:''' Ben Burtt
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* ButtMonkey
* TheNapoleon
* NeatFreak

!!AUTO
AUTO is the autopilot. Shaped like a sailing ship's steering wheel, Auto units assist the ship's captain with his or her duties.

->'''Voiced by:''' [[SyntheticVoiceActor MacInTalk]]
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* [[spoiler:AntiMutiny]]
* [[spoiler:BigBad]]
* CreepyMonotone
* CyberCyclops
* [[spoiler:EvilSoundsDeep]]
* JustFollowingOrders: [[spoiler: He has the secret order (Directive A-113) to never return to Earth.]]
* [[spoiler:[[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eye, Take Warning]]]]
* [[spoiler:VillainousBreakdown: Starts when EVE and WALL•E break out of the trash pit. Exacerbated by Captain when he fakes out Auto with the plant backdrop. "Not possible" he says in monotone. Gets even worse when he starts sending significant numbers of Steward bots after EVE and WALL•E. Jumps off the slippery slope when he intentionally causes the ''Axiom'' to list, sending everyone tumbling about. Climaxes when he's using his taser to jam down the Holo-Detector retract button with excessive force.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist
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!Humans
!! Shelby Forthright
The CEO of Buy N' Large as of the exodus from Earth to clean up the rampant trash everywhere.

-> '''Played by''': Fred Willard
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Hey Pixar, you got some live-action in your CGI...
* PosthumousCharacter: The movie takes place nearly 700 years after his enactment of Protocol A-113, so it's safe to assume he's long dead.

!! Captain [=McCrea=]
The captain of the ''Axiom''. His daily duties are so droll that he doesn't take them seriously... at first.

-> '''Voiced by''': Jeff Garlin
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* TheCaptain: [[spoiler:"Auto... You are ''relieved of duty!''"]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* OnlySaneMan: Seems to be the only human on board that is aware of the ennui of their existence.

!! John
One of the passengers aboard the ''Axiom'', and the first human WALL•E has probably interacted with on-board. He was entranced by the ennui of life aboard the ''Axiom'' before a chance encounter with WALL•E.

-> '''Voiced by''': [[PixarRegulars John Ratzenberger]]
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* BetaCouple: With Mary.

!! Mary
Another passenger aboard the ''Axiom'', also broken out of her trance by a chance encounter with WALL•E.

-> '''Voiced by''': Kathy Najimy
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* BetaCouple: With John.

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