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** 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.
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** 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 Funny in that ''WALL•E'' had just won Best Animated Feature.
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* HomeworldEvacuation: Humanity relocates to ships like the Axiom for 700 years.
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* AdvertOverloadedFuture: [=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''.
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* AdvertOverloadedFuture: [=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'''.'''north'''(as in, the cardinal direction). 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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** Though as LifeAfterPeople showed, most structural damage is caused by vegetation. On barren Earth, that's not a problem. The electromagnetic properties of tapes and hard drives, however...
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* PaperThinDisguise: WALL•E disguises himself after EVE's ship lands by tranforming into his box form and putting a rock on his head.
** Later, EVE disguises him by placing towels on his head.
** Later, EVE disguises him by placing towels on his head.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Captain. Although his quarters reveal that his last name is O'Shea.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Captain. Although his quarters reveal that his last name is O'Shea.McRea.
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** Maybe the weapon has verious power settings. Also, it seems possible that the ship (an oil tanker) held some explosive fumes.
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** Maybe the weapon has verious various power settings. Also, it seems possible that the ship (an oil tanker) held some explosive fumes.
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** And missile counter-measures, braking parachute, emergency raft and periscope!
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* AdamAndOrEve: The latter.
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* ActionGirlfriend: EVE
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* XMeetsY: ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' meets ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' meets ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', if Aperture Science was owned by [[AppleMacintosh Steve Jobs]].
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Although EVE manages to repair and reactivate WALL-E, his memory and personality seemed to have disappeared for good... until EVE kisses him.]]
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Although EVE manages to repair and reactivate WALL-E, WALL•E, his memory and personality seemed to have disappeared for good... until EVE kisses him.]]
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* SquareCubeLaw: The Wall•A's on the Axiom are far different from our title character to make up for their much greater size. They sit on tracks, not treads, their hands have scoops instead of "fingers", and they don't have Wall•E's movable telescoping eyes but a set of five lights.
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* SquareCubeLaw: The Wall•A's WALL•A's on the Axiom ''Axiom'' are far different from our title character to make up for their much greater size. They sit on tracks, not treads, their hands have scoops instead of "fingers", and they don't have Wall•E's WALL•E's movable telescoping eyes but a set of five lights.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:GO-4]]
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:GO-4]][[spoiler:When struggling with AUTO, the Captain accidentally kicks GO-4 out the window and he/it gets smashed to pieces on the pool deck.]]
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* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture: 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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* NotSoAboveItAll: EVE mostly ignores/tolerates WALL•E's attention, but becomes amused by WALL•E's [[{{Adorkable}} demeanor]] upon their first true meeting. Then, at his 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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* NotSoAboveItAll: EVE mostly ignores/tolerates WALL•E's attention, but becomes amused by WALL•E's [[{{Adorkable}} demeanor]] upon their first true meeting. Then, at his home, he hands her an egg-beater, and after figuring it out, she spins it so fast that it breaks. Her reaction? [[ActingUnnatural to 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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* SquareCubeLaw: The Wall•A's on the Axiom are far different from our title character to make up for their much greater size. They sit on tracks, not treads, their hands do not have "fingers," their just giant clawed shovels, and they don't have Wall•E's movable telescoping eyes but a set of five lights.
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* SquareCubeLaw: The Wall•A's on the Axiom are far different from our title character to make up for their much greater size. They sit on tracks, not treads, their hands do not have "fingers," their just giant clawed shovels, scoops instead of "fingers", and they don't have Wall•E's movable telescoping eyes but a set of five lights.
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* SquareCubeLaw: The Wall•A's on the Axiom are far different from our title character to make up for their much greater size. They sit on tracks, not treads, their hands do not have "fingers," their just giant clawed shovels, and they don't have Wall•E's movable telescoping eyes but a set of five lights.
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** [[http://buynlarge.com/NewsCenter.html?storyId=34 North]], the direction, [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope is a brand of theirs]]. They call it [[{{Pun}} "Directional Marketing"]]. Has the Franchise/CarmenSandiego company been absorbed so they ''can'' actually do that?
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** [[http://buynlarge.com/NewsCenter.html?storyId=34 North]], the direction, ''direction'', [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope is a brand of theirs]]. They call it [[{{Pun}} "Directional Marketing"]]. Has the Franchise/CarmenSandiego company been absorbed so they ''can'' actually do that?
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* BedlamHouse: The robot repair ward seems to be a more lighthearted version of this.
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* ArcSymbol: The plant.
* ArcWords: ''"Directive."''
* ArcWords: ''"Directive."''
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Although EVE manages to repair and reactivate WALL-E, his memory and personality seemed to have disappeared for good... until EVE kisses him.]]
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* AlsoSprachZarathustra: See ThemeMusicPowerUp.
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* AlsoSprachZarathustra: Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra: See ThemeMusicPowerUp.
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* StealthPun: [[spoiler:WALL•E (with the E standing for Earth-class) eventually runs into an ''Axiom''-class version of himself named WALL•A.
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* StealthPun: [[spoiler:WALL•E (with the E standing for Earth-class) eventually runs into an ''Axiom''-class version of himself named WALL•A.]]
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For information about the DVD short, ''BURN-E'', check the ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts'' page.
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For information about the DVD {{DVD}} short, ''BURN-E'', check the ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts'' page.
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** A significant amount of the backstory is provided by the ''[[Website/TheOnion Onion]]''-esque [[http://buynlarge.com/bnl.swf Buy 'N' Large website]].
** 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.
** 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.
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** A significant amount of the backstory is provided by the ''[[Website/TheOnion Onion]]''-esque [[http://buynlarge.com/bnl.swf Buy 'N' n Large website]].
** A little more information is covered on the DVD. For example, BuyN' 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.
** A little more information is covered on the DVD. For example, Buy
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* BrandNameTakeover: In a very literal sense, Buy N' Large has taken over the entire world.
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* BrandNameTakeover: In a very literal sense, Buy N' n Large has taken over the entire world.
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-->''"A" is for ''Axiom'', your home sweet home. "B" is for Buy 'N' Large, your very best friend...''
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-->''"A" is for ''Axiom'', your home sweet home. "B" is for Buy 'N' n Large, your very best friend...''
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* FictionalCounterpart: Buy N' Large to Wal-Mart, though on a much more massive scale.
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* FictionalCounterpart: Buy N' n Large to Wal-Mart, though on a much more massive scale.
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* MonochromeCasting: 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 defence, find anybody other than Mary, John, Captain, and the live-action Buy N' Large guy that actually talks. There is one black guy talking on the inter-person communication screens, and he gets the same amount of talking as pretty much anybody other than those four mentionned.
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* MonochromeCasting: 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 defence, find anybody other than Mary, John, Captain, and the live-action Buy N' n Large guy that actually talks. There is one black guy talking on the inter-person communication screens, and he gets the same amount of talking as pretty much anybody other than those four mentionned.
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** 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.
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** In-universe, Buy N' 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.
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* RagnarokProofing: While Earth does look like a run-down mess, it's pretty clear that Buy N' Large ''really'' built things to last. Functioning VCRS, advertisement boards, mostly-intact buildings. Really, it looks as though 70 years, rather than ''700'' had passed.
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* RagnarokProofing: While Earth does look like a run-down mess, it's pretty clear that Buy N' n Large ''really'' built things to last. Functioning VCRS, advertisement boards, mostly-intact buildings. Really, it looks as though 70 years, rather than ''700'' had passed.
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** A program ordered by another WellIntentionedExtremist, the CEO of Buy N' Large, Shelby Forthright. [[spoiler:Sure, he ordered the Autopilots to keep the liners from returning to Earth, but for around ''seven hundred years'', it was the appropriate decision.]]
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: There are no clear villains in WALL•E. [[spoiler:AUTO simply does as he's programmed to do, as do any other "evil" robots.]] The humans of the story, once jolted out of their reverie, [[spoiler:proceed to repair the earth with new found love for nature and life. The CEO of Buy N' Large is more panicked and shortsighted than anything.]]
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: There are no clear villains in WALL•E. [[spoiler:AUTO simply does as he's programmed to do, as do any other "evil" robots.]] The humans of the story, once jolted out of their reverie, [[spoiler:proceed to repair the earth with new found love for nature and life. The CEO of Buy N' Large is more panicked and shortsighted than anything.]]
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** A program ordered by another WellIntentionedExtremist, the CEO of Buy N' n Large, Shelby Forthright. [[spoiler:Sure, he ordered the Autopilots to keep the liners from returning to Earth, but for around ''seven hundred years'', it was the appropriate decision.]]
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: There are no clear villains in WALL•E. [[spoiler:AUTO simply does as he's programmed to do, as do any other "evil" robots.]] The humans of the story, once jolted out of their reverie, [[spoiler:proceed to repair the earth with new found love for nature and life. The CEO of BuyN' n Large is more panicked and shortsighted than anything.]]
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: There are no clear villains in WALL•E. [[spoiler:AUTO simply does as he's programmed to do, as do any other "evil" robots.]] The humans of the story, once jolted out of their reverie, [[spoiler:proceed to repair the earth with new found love for nature and life. The CEO of Buy
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* HeroicComedicSociopath: [[spoiler:The crazy massage robot, [=HAN-S=]. Try to say you don't see it.]]
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* HeroicComedicSociopath: [[spoiler:The crazy massage robot, [=HAN-S=].HAN-S. Try to say you don't see it.]]
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* AcmeProduct
** : [=BnL=] makes ''everything'' humanity uses (and makes it to last, apparently). 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.
** : [=BnL=] makes ''everything'' humanity uses (and makes it to last, apparently). 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.
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* AcmeProduct
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**: [=BnL=] makes ''everything'' humanity uses (and makes it to last, apparently). 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.
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* ShoutOut: Tons, see [[ShoutOut/{{WALL-E}} WALL•E Shout Outs]].
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->''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''''', Creator/{{Pixar}}'s 9th film, is a ScienceFiction love story.
In 2105, humans abandon the [[EarthThatWas now-inhospitable Earth]] so it can be cleaned up by a small army of "[[FunWithAcronyms Waste Allocation Load Lifter]]" robots (WALL•E -- 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 WALL•E in the title -- is still collecting junk and living with his pet cockroach. One day, WALL•E is going about his business as usual when a spaceship drops off a much more modern robot. Her name is EVE, and WALL•E is smitten at first sight. When the ship comes back and picks her up, he stows away. The return trip brings him back to the remnants of humanity, and that's when things get ''really'' complicated...
Known for its excellent [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome CGI]] and sound design, the film hearkens back to the silent film days of yore, with no dialogue for almost the whole first half.
For information about the DVD short, ''BURN-E'', check the ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts'' page.
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!!''WALL•E'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AcmeProduct
**: [=BnL=] makes ''everything'' humanity uses (and makes it to last, apparently). 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, [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope is a brand of theirs]]. They call it [[{{Pun}} "Directional Marketing"]]. Has the Franchise/CarmenSandiego company been absorbed so they ''can'' actually do that?
* AdamAndOrEve: The latter.
* AdvertOverloadedFuture: [=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''.
* ActionGirlfriend: EVE
* AfterTheEnd
* AIIsACrapshoot
** AUTO the autopilot program. It's not so much that AUTO is crazy: he is following orders to the letter, as that last order is what drives him [[spoiler:to keep them all in space]]. He's just doing his job like the rest of them.
** 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, while AUTO ends up as the villain because he ''is'' operating as intended. TropesAreFlexible.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: A ''cockroach'' is made adorable. WALL•E even commands it to sit in one scene. It doesn't work. Though he does it a second time and it DOES work. For the ''rest of the film''.
* AllThereInTheManual
** A significant amount of the backstory is provided by the ''[[Website/TheOnion Onion]]''-esque [[http://buynlarge.com/bnl.swf Buy 'N' Large website]].
** 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.
** One of the Flash games created to go with the film mentions that the cockroach is named [[TheLittleRascals Hal Roach.]]
* AlsoSprachZarathustra: See ThemeMusicPowerUp.
* [[AlternateAnimalAffection Alternate Robot Affection]]
* AmusingInjuries: WALL•E during the first half of the movie, [[spoiler:up until AUTO almost kills him, ''twice''.]]
* AntiMutiny: [[spoiler:AUTO does just this.]]
* ApocalypseHow: Subverted in one sense, played straight in another. Earth appears to be barren at the start of the film, but in reality, the humans simply left the planet. Class 1, though the evacuation of humans makes it a technical Class 4.
* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:Override Directive A113.]]
* TheArk: The ''Axiom'' and all the other ships that left Earth. Although they're pretty depressing Arks.
* ArmCannon: EVE
* ArtificialGravity: It's mentioned that the ''Axiom''[='s=] artificial gravity is weaker than the Earth's, [[TruthInTelevision which caused the humans to lose bone mass]] (the excessive blubber, though, was obviously the result of them lounging on flying couches for 7 centuries while drinking liquid fast food).
* ArtShift: The credits 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.
* AstronomicZoom: ''Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers...''
* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter: John and Mary.]]
* BerserkButton: M-O: '''Foreign Contaminant'''
* BetaCouple: John and Mary.
* BigBad: AUTO, though he is actually just doing his job.
* TheBigBoard: With Sigourney Weaver's voice.
* BigFatFuture: ''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.
-->'''The Captain:''' We have a jogging track?
* BigNo
** EVE gets one of these when [[spoiler:WALL•E gets a shock to the circuits from AUTO]].
** And again later when [[spoiler: WALL•E gets crushed beneath the Holo-Detector.]]
** Also when WALL•E accidentally fires her ArmCannon in the repair ward.
** AUTO has one in the midst of [[spoiler:his VillainousBreakdown as he's deploying huge waves of Steward bots to try and stop EVE and WALL•E from reaching the holo-detector.]]. It's not max volume or very long (it's a rather terse utterance), but it is the first time AUTO has a non-monotone, exclamatory tone of voice.
** AUTO gets another [[spoiler:in the fading variety when the Captain "relieves him of duty"]].
* BlitheSpirit: WALL•E, albeit [[TheFool inadvertently]], towards all the other robots and humanity itself.
* BrandNameTakeover: In a very literal sense, Buy N' Large has taken over the entire world.
* ButtMonkey: M-O, unintentionally caused by WALL•E. WALL•E himself could count as well, especially in the first half of the movie.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:WALL•E]] after being repaired. [[spoiler:He gets better]].
* CharacterDevelopment
** 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 [[http://walleforum.com/index.php?topic=1188.0 on a forum dedicated to the movie]]. 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 WikiWalk 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 BlitheSpirit, above.
* ChattyHairdresser: Any of the PR-Ts (beautician robot), even if the person they're working on isn't saying anything.
* ChekhovsGun
** [[spoiler:The plant, the tape, the parts replacement/cannibalization, the lighter, the fire extinguisher, heck, even the lawn gnomes, somewhat.]] Andrew Stanton even talks about the concept of this trope, without naming it, during the DVDCommentary.
** 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 [[VerbalTic little hand gesture]].
** When AUTO makes his first appearance and scans EVE, [[spoiler:A113]] appears over his eye. Additionally, WALL•E uses a laser to cut open a wall and find the plant. He later uses this laser to [[spoiler:break free in the Repair Ward]]. For one more, when the Captain is waking up, he accidentally hits WALL•E instead of his alarm clock, and it starts playing music from Hello Dolly. He later hears the same song while watching EVE's video footage of Earth, and [[spoiler:this starts a short chain of events that motivates him to return to Earth.]]
** '''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. (Which seems like an obvious way to go for a romance.)
** At the beginning of the movie, before we've really gotten a feel for how developed WALL•E has become, he makes an innocuous distinction when deciding whether to place a spork with his collection of spoons or forks; he ends up placing it in between both. Computers are incapable of recognizing anything between a distinct On/Off parameter (that's how they're coded), so WALL•E comprehending a state in between two options demonstrates how he's advanced beyond his programming.
* ChekhovsGunman
** Not only are [[spoiler:Shelby Forthright and AUTO both shown in the ad for the ''Axiom'' cruise, but so are most of the bots WALL•E winds up meeting in the repair ward.]]
** 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.]]
* ChekhovsSkill
** WALL•E [[spoiler:using a fire extinguisher to jet-propel himself.]]
** 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 [[spoiler:when he was knocked into the wall by EVE, which transfers the skill to ''her'', so she can bring it up later on her own.]]
** Not to mention [[spoiler:the electric power of [[TrueLovesKiss EVE's kiss]] is demonstrated in the space dancing sequence]].
** M-O's ability to identify "foreign contaminants" [[spoiler: lets him find the plant easily in a crowd of people.]]
** The laser between WALL•E's eyes. He first uses it [[spoiler: to open the abandoned fridge that holds the plant]], then later [[spoiler: to break out of his cell when EVE is in the repair ward]], and once again [[spoiler: to free the malfunctioned massage bot who then takes it out on all those service bots]].
* CoatCape: The Captain wears his coat like this, presumably because he's too out of shape to wear it normally.
* TheCollectorOfTheStrange: WALL•E keeps a wide assortment of random trinkets that catch his fancy. The items he collects don't seem to have any particular theme, other than having some quality about them that caught his attention beyond the regular garbage.
* ComputerVoice: The filmmakers deliberately sought out Sigourney Weaver to voice the ''Axiom''[='s=] computer as a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''
* ContextSensitiveButton: The amount of damage EVE's ArmCannon does varies, mostly in inverse proportion to the distance of the target. In one scene, she fires at an electromagnet holding her, which only deactivates it, then immediately fires at the ship below, causing an enormous explosion.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Well, technically "no radiant heat". WALL•E has no problem on the outside of a ship while it's buzzing ''the sun''. In fact, he just takes the opportunity to charge his solar-cells pretty much instantly. He apparently was able to endure very high temperatures, as evidenced when EVE's ship lands on top of him.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The [=BnL=] CEO, especially once it's revealed that he ordered all the [[spoiler:autopilots to never return to Earth,]] and to never tell anyone about said order. [[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.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The ''Axiom''. The humans seem to lead a cheerful and carefree life, albeit an incredibly confused and often boring one, but the utter disregard for responsibility on the part of the humans and the history regarding Earth's decay and the plans behind the ''Axiom'' is depressing.
* CrapsackWorld: Earth, though thanks to WALL•E and his ilk it's become a crap-cube world.
* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits start with a series of vignettes depicting the ''Axiom''[='s=] passengers readjusting to Earth life represented by evolving art styles (cave paintings -> Egyptian -> Greek -> mosaic -> Da Vinci-style sketches -> Monet-style Impressionism -> Pointillism -> Van Gogh-style), then shifts to various scenes of the characters running around with ''faux'' 8-bit video game graphics.
* CreepyMonotone: AUTO, who speaks using the old [=MacInTALK=] "Ralph" voice. While M-O also has a monotone voice to announce the presence of "Foreign Contaminants", he primarily communicates with cute beeps and hums, as do the other nice robots.
-->''"A" is for ''Axiom'', your home sweet home. "B" is for Buy 'N' Large, your very best friend...''
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The captain and, more subtly, WALL•E.
* CueTheSun: Literally aboard the ''Axiom'': when the captain awakens somewhere around afternoon, he rewinds ''everything'' -- including the simulated sun -- back to morning so he can give his morning speech.
* CuteMachines: The title character as well as most of the other robots in this movie.
* CyberCyclops: Yet another thing that makes AUTO an Expy for the HAL 9000...
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:WALL•E, a robot designed to collect and compact garbage, is dumped down a garbage chute and crushed to death. Almost.]]
* DeathGlare: "That's an order!" *hesitation* *DeathGlare* *cue video*
* DefrostingIceQueen: EVE
* DesolationShot: The first five minutes of the film.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: WALL•E. Evident in his relationship with EVE.
* DisneyDeath
** [[spoiler:Clever variation -- WALL•E is almost crushed to bits in the climax, but EVE knows how to fix him; the ''real'' tension is that once she has, he doesn't remember anything about the 700 years of his life, including her. His acquired sentience appears lost. He then gets it back a few minutes later...o nly after [[TrueLovesKiss she "kisses" him]], of course.]]
** 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]].
* DisneyOwnsThisTrope: As mentioned above, [=BnL=] has trademarked North (as in the direction).
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:GO-4]] gets kicked out a window and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath smashes on to the deck]], but they do show the impact, making this an aversion -- maybe even a subversion, since it had such a clear setup. Even more so 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, [[spoiler:he was gonna die, be it the floor or the water.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: WALL•E
* DownerBeginning: We open to a vision of Earth as an apocalyptic wasteland.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:GO-4 to AUTO]].
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Sorta. Like other examples, it's only creepy if you overthink it. And WALL•E probably doesn't understand what's going on, and definitely has just had his only chance to ever have a friend suddenly disappear. In any case, WALL•E doesn't do anything particularly inappropriate (not that he really could), which turns out to be a good thing since EVE was recording everything and recalls it later.
* DyingLikeAnimals: The people of Earth blissfully allowed their own destruction.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EarthThatWas: The premise of the film, as humanity departed Earth 700 years before the film began. Emphasized by the Captain suddenly [[WikiWalk spending hours and hours bringing up articles]] about the earth of the past and later relating his glee over planting pizza.
* EmotionalTorque: The whole damn film.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Humans destroyed the future Earth with rampant consumerism and incompetence.
* EternalEnglish: Well, the whole issue with the ''Axiom'' crew is stagnation, anyway..
* EurekaMoment: ([[spoiler:EARTH!]])
-->''[[spoiler:You just needed someone to take care of you, that's all.]]''
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Captain. Although his quarters reveal that his last name is O'Shea.
* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture: See ProductPlacement below.
* EyeLightsOut
* FakeOutOpening: For the first 30 seconds or so, it appears to be a typically optimistic Disney flick. Then you see Earth.
* FalseCameraEffects
** What seems to be a focus pull error, when WALL•E is trying to escape an avalanche of shopping carts.
** 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. He 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.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:GO-4]]
* FingerTwitchingRevival: [[spoiler:When WALL•E regains his memories and his personality, the first thing to move is his fingers, and they twitch downwards slightly before [[TearJerker fully closing]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming around EVE's hand.]]]]
* FirstTimeInTheSun: The ending, though the moment is somewhat diffused by [[spoiler:WALL•E's peril]].
* FoodPills: It's actually more like Food Smoothies than pills. "Sep-tu-a-cen-tennial cupcake in a cup!) WordOfGod is that the "Buy" part of [=BnL=] was originally ''a yogurt company''.
* TheFool: All WALL•E wants to do is hold hands with a girl-bot and groove to the old-time "Hello Dolly". Without being the slightest bit aware of it, every human (and most robots) he meets (even if it's just a CrashIntoHello) gets knocked out of their hum-drum daily existence maintaining the status quo and learns how to not just "survive, but to live," and he gets really, really lucky regarding survival.
* FictionalCounterpart: Buy N' Large to Wal-Mart, though on a much more massive scale.
* FlawExploitation: 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
* [[FriendToAllLivingThings Friend to All (Remaining) Living Things]]: WALL•E. That cockroach didn't ''have'' to follow him.
* FriendToBugs: WALL•E regards said cockroach as a pet, but most people in real-life consider them disgusting pests.
* FutureSpandex: All the human characters wear brightly-colored, stretchy jumpsuits, which look like baby clothes and make them seem infantile and dependent.
* GaussianGirl: Played straight with EVE, and her sleek shiny design seems to exist to make this happen as much as possible. On close inspection she seems to ''emit'' a diffuse white light from her (shiny, white) skin, essentially making her a self-generating, in-universe GaussianGirl.
* GenerationShip: The ''Axiom'' and the other Arks.
* GenreBusting: [=IMDb=] has this movie listed as an Animation-Adventure-Comedy-Drama-Family-Romance-Sci-Fi.
* GentleGiant: The WALL•A robots. Though they accidentally compact EVE and WALL•E with a load of trash and almost eject them into space, they're actually very friendly.
* GoodColorEvilColor
** Heroine EVE and BattleButler [[spoiler:GO-4]] both have tractor beams of sorts; EVE's is blue and [[spoiler:GO-4's]] is red.
** Also, humans who switch their clothing from blue-back to red are the ones who have been "awakened". See ShoutOut.
* GrowBeyondTheirProgramming: WALL•E, EVE, and several other robots they come in contact with.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: [[spoiler:The crazy massage robot, [=HAN-S=]. Try to say you don't see it.]]
* HesAFriend: EVE, don't blast that roach!
* HoldingHands: How WALL•E and EVE express their love for one another.
* HopeSproutsEternal
* HumansAreSpecial: 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.]]
* IndestructibleEdible: 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.
* InitialismTitle
* InspectorJavert: M-O, who relentlessly hunts the one who would tarnish his germ-free domain. Then makes friends with him.
* IntertwinedFingers: Several times between WALL•E and EVE. The first time it happens, it's an awkward moment.
* InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas: Practically all the non-human characters.
* KidsPreferBoxes: WALL•E is captivated by a jewelry box, but doesn't care for the diamond ring inside it.
* LastOfHisKind: WALL•E has outlasted every one of the other robots in his series; WordOfGod says it was because [[spoiler:someone forgot to turn him off.]]
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: [[spoiler:M-O shooing away the other robots from WALL•E and EVE having a moment at the end of the movie.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: The Captain and also John and Mary
-->'''Mary:''' Get ready for some kids!
* LittleNo
** EVE whispers "No...no..." after the escape pod WALL•E is in self-destructs. [[spoiler:She utters another one while cradling his crushed, dead body after he falls out of the Holo-Detector.]]
** AUTO has a flat, but firm "No." as well.
* LoadBearingHero: [[spoiler:WALL•E is crushed holding up the holodetector, though EVE is [[DisneyDeath able to repair him]].]] A much more justified use of the trope than most heroes, though, since WALL•E would have been designed with at least as much load-bearing capacity as an automobile jack.
* LogoJoke: WALL•E joins Luxo Jr. in the Pixar VanityPlate following the closing credits.
* LotusEaterMachine: 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.
* LoveAtFirstSight
** WALL•E for EVE. The pickings have been pretty slim for him. 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."
* LuckyCharmsTitle: Situated by the interpunct WALL•E.
* MacGuffinEscortMission: EVE's mission is [[spoiler:to safely bring plant life from Earth to the ''Axiom'''s scanner, while fighting off the opposition from AUTO]].
* MadeOfIron
** The cockroach survives being shot by EVE's ArmCannon and stomped flat twice, and outruns WALL•E. A lot.
** 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'' [[IncrediblyLamePun made of iron]].
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: WALL•E is a shy, lonely, curious little robot, while EVE is determined, forceful and all-around forward.
* MediumBlending: The humans of the past, such as the [=BnL=] CEO, Shelby Forthright, are live-action. The humans of the future are computer-generated. WordOfGod is that redoing all the "Hello Dolly" scenes in CGI would've been too much trouble, so they just went with this route. This is later {{lampshade}}d in the scene of the portraits of the various ''Axiom'' captains, which shows the captains shifting from photo-realistic to cartoonish over time.
* MeaningfulEcho: "Directive"
* MeaningfulName
** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic EVE]]
** Shelby ''[[HypocriticalHumor 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.
* {{Megacorp}}: Buy N' Large
* TheMessiah: WALL•E. Check the WildMassGuessing page for more.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: [[spoiler:When WALL•E, EVE, the defective robots, and the Captain work together to return the plant to the holo-detector.]]
* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Surprisingly hard, right up until the moment EVE shows up with her internal antigravity drive.
* MonochromeCasting: 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 defence, find anybody other than Mary, John, Captain, and the live-action Buy N' Large guy that actually talks. There is one black guy talking on the inter-person communication screens, and he gets the same amount of talking as pretty much anybody other than those four mentionned.
* MoodWhiplash
** [[spoiler:When AUTO tries to take the plant from WALL•E, the resulting "keep-away" is rather humorous, even having WALL•E smack AUTO with the door to his garbage compartment. Moments after, however, AUTO electrocutes him.]]
** 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.]]
* NeatFreak: M-O. Note that before he shakes WALL•E's hand, he cleans it.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Anyone else remember [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIq_wG9FNk the trailers]] presenting this as "WALL•E vs. humanity for EVE?" Among other things, it makes the captain look like the antagonist.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Purposefully invoked to avert the previously mentioned InferredHolocaust of test audience invention.
* NoFlowInCGI: Granted, there isn't a lot in this film that ''does'' flow.
* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture: 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.
* NonActionGuy: WALL•E
* NonIndicativeName: The "Extraterrestrial" in EVE's name implies she is meant to search for plant life anywhere ''except'' where she actually does: Earth.
* NotAMorningPerson: WALL•E himself, by virtue of being low on solar charge in the morning.
* NotSoAboveItAll: EVE mostly ignores/tolerates WALL•E's attention, but becomes amused by WALL•E's [[{{Adorkable}} demeanor]] upon their first true meeting. Then, at his 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.
* OhCrap:
-->'''AUTO:''' Not. Possible.
* OffTheRails: After a mustering of willpower, M-O jumps off the floor guideline to chase after WALL•E and his trail of foreign contaminants.
* OnlySaneMan: The Captain seems to be the only one aware of the pointlessness of this existence at first.
* OpenSesame: A machine requires voice authorization from the Captain. (Parodied when all he can say is "uhh" and the machine accepts it.)
* PacManFever: Somehow, 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 [[WiiSports purpose of sports]]. Then again, that would take more physical effort on the part of the humans.
* PostKissCatatonia: WALL•E completely freezes the first time EVE "kisses" him. [[spoiler: Inverted in the ending: a kiss is what wakes him up]].
* PowerGlows: Not only does EVE glow very faintly (the better to invoke a GaussianGirl), her presence and touch cause electrical lights to glow as well.
* PrecisionFStrike: 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."
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: "You want it? Come and get it blinky."
* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[spoiler:AUTO]], you... are relieved of duty!"
* ProductPlacement
** 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.
** AUTO is voiced by [=MacInTalk=], the voice read-back program of Macintosh.
** 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.
* PunnyName
** Buy N' Large = By and large, also Buying large (amounts of products)
** [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wally "Wally"]] (definition 2 is probably the most apt).
** All the robot's names are puns: Eve (obviously), Otto, Bernie...
* RagnarokProofing: While Earth does look like a run-down mess, it's pretty clear that Buy N' Large ''really'' built things to last. Functioning VCRS, advertisement boards, mostly-intact buildings. Really, it looks as though 70 years, rather than ''700'' had passed.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The malfunctioning robots from the repair ward.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: 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.
* RoboCam
* RobotNames: Of the [[FunWithAcronyms acrostic]] 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.
** BURN-E the repair-bot locked outside the ''Axiom'' gets his own [[PixarShorts DVD bonus feature]].
** 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.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: AUTO has a red eye. And he's the villain.
* ReflectiveEyes: The lens that make up WALL•E's eyes naturally do this.
* RevivalByCommercialization: The use of ''Theatre/HelloDolly'' songs generated massive publicity and sparked some talk of a revival.
* RoboSpeak: 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 GettingCrapPastTheRadar -- 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 PrecisionFStrike (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". According to the closed captions, WALL•E says "pathetic" while he's hiding behind the towel cart.
* RuleOfCool: The main reason for the 700 years.
* RunningGag: M-O's never-ending quest to clean WALL•E. (Or, failing that, to clean up ''after'' him.)
* SaharanShipwreck
* SayMyName: Most of the robots' dialogue.
* SayMyNameTrailer: Following naturally from the above.
* SceneryGorn: Many loving shots of the ruined, abandoned, and frankly extremely bleak-looking megacity at the beginning of the film.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The first space sequence. In the DVD commentary, one of the creators admits (in reference to the nebula where the ''Axiom'' is found) that there are no nebulae within realistic "cruising distance" of Earth... but between its uses for TheReveal of the ''Axiom'' and its beauty, they decided to allow the RuleOfCool to take priority.
* ShoutOut: Tons, see [[ShoutOut/{{WALL-E}} WALL•E Shout Outs]].
* ShortDistancePhoneCall: The first two humans WALL•E meets.
* SelfDestructMechanism: In the escape pods, for some strange reason.
* SlowElectricity: The HardLight barriers in the holding cells fail sequentially instead of all at once.
* SoundtrackDissonance: 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. 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.]]
* SpaceClothes: Mostly monochromatic jumpsuits and no shoes. When people want to wear another outfit (to wit: "blue is the new red") the clothes change without being taken off. This is apparently an attribute of the chairs they ride in, as the suits quickly change back to red once the chair's functions are disabled or the person gets out of it. [[spoiler:The suits are also very elastic, as a the humans go from obese to fit during the closing credits and never change clothes or create new ones.]] Since the humans are never shown off their chairs we can also assume the jumpsuits are very... hygienic. The PR-Ts are said to help with hygiene as well as beautification. Subverted with the Captain, as his nonelastic jacket is shown hanging off his shoulders, impossible to close.
* SpaceClouds: The ''Axiom'' is parked next to a nebula which initially hides its presence as the Earth-ship approaches.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Again, the first space sequence. But who cares, it [[RuleOfCool looks really friggin' cool]].
* SpaceIsAnOcean: The part of the climactic sequence when the ''Axiom'' tilts in space and everybody slides to one side. This would make sense if the ''Axiom'' was a ship listing in the ocean, but it's in space. There is no external gravitational field. So there's no reason for everybody to slide to the side when the ship tilts, since the ArtificialGravity inside the ship is working fine. How the ship is oriented in space doesn't matter. 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.
* SpaceIsCold: 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.
* SpaceIsNoisy: ...Yeah, we'll repeat it again, [[RuleOfCool who cares?]]
* SpaceSailing: The ''Axiom'' was definitely reminiscent of a sea-going cruise ship. Turning the steering wheel too sharply even [[SpaceIsAnOcean causes the ship to list]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Now let's see what happens to this perfectly planned community in space when we add one robot not built for the community's function...
* StalkerWithACrush / StalkingIsLove: WALL•E. You don't even have to think about it. They brought it up on the Blu-Ray geek track. "He's got stalker charm!" While we're on the subject, DudeShesLikeInAComa. (Although since they're robots, all he does is hold her hand. Or [[ButtMonkey tries to]] anyway.)
* StandInPortrait: How the Captain is able to hide from AUTO, as well as convince him that he has the plant. Makes sense, though, since we briefly see through AUTO's one eye and he has little depth perception.
* StealthPun: [[spoiler:WALL•E (with the E standing for Earth-class) eventually runs into an ''Axiom''-class version of himself named WALL•A.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids
** EVE, whose laser arm is capable of destroying dedicated guard robots. Possibly justified considering she probably surveys planets which may have hostile life.
** WALL•E himself. He's amazingly heat resistant, capable of enduring buzzing the sun and EVE's ship's thrusters to no ill effects. He's also equipped with cutting laser (for cutting pieces too big for him to compact) and a music player (God only knows why). Not bad for a trash compactor.
** But the prize goes to HAN-S. This massage robot [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] an entire squad of guard robots.
* SweetieGraffiti: WALL•E etches a heart with "WALL•E + EVE" on a trash can.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: AUTO being voiced by [=MacinTALK=], as noted above.
* TakeThat: When admitting in a long-lost video that the Earth has been ruined and humanity can't go back, Shelby Forthright tells people to "stay the course", a catchphrase associated with GeorgeWBush.
* TechnologyPorn: 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.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: EVE is sleeker, more slender, has a lighter color scheme and larger eyes then the more masculine WALL•E.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: When the ''Axiom''[='s=] captain gets out of his hover-chair in order to turn off AUTO. This is accompanied by the theme from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' (the opening for "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss).
* ThemeTuneCameo: A slight aversion, since there's true "theme music", but, if you listen closely during the title robot's first appearance, you can hear WALL•E whistle and chirp the tune of "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" as the camera focuses closer and closer on the devastated Earth, and as the first couple verses of "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" fade away.
* ThereWasADoor: After [[spoiler:repairing WALL•E back on Earth]] EVE decides the door is too far away and blows a hole in WALL•E's ceiling to get him some sunlight.
* TheyShouldHaveSentAPoet: Once WALL•E boards the space craft. Or when he's viewing the universe. [[CatchPhrase Woah]] indeed.
* ThisCanNotBe: "Not Possible!"
* TimePassesMontage: Several, some more subtle than others. WALL•E's initial courtship with EVE, EVE's hibernation upon finding the plant, WALL•E's trip through space, and the credit sequence. Interestingly, none of these montages provide ''any'' cues as to how much time is passing. They could take place over anything from a number of days, to many years or even centuries. Because the robots are functionally immortal, there's just no way to tell.\\\
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'd take less than a week, but the film implies that several seasons have passed just waiting for EVE's dropship to return... probably a built-in stasis field.\\\
Since the cockroach lives through the events of the movie, the maximum possible length of the story as viewed from an Earthly perspective cannot exceed that of the cockroach's adult lifespan, which is not much more than 400 days assuming it's an American Cockroach. The space sequences, such as the transit montage, are considerably more difficult to measure given the relative flow of time and could possibly extend well beyond that limit if the ''Axiom'' was at a great enough distance.
* TinmanTypist
** The ''Axiom'' is full of them. Especially notable is AUTO. Whereas the others could ''maybe'' be excused by being separate mobile units, AUTO is ''built into the bridge itself''.
** SUPPLY-R from the BURN-E short does this for the one thing that seems to be his ''entire function''.
** Somewhat justified with AUTO. He's the autopilot, built into the ship's steering wheel. Only makes sense he would be built into the bridge.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Earth is covered with garbage, including a layer of defunct satellites in the upper atmosphere which spaceships have to plow through.
* TriggerHappy: Upon arriving on Earth, EVE shoots pretty much anything that moves. She does learn to calm down.
* TroubleFromThePast: The people who return to Earth still have to clean up their ancestors' mess of garbage.
* TrueLovesKiss: [[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.
* {{Understatement}}: "We're having a slight malfunction -- '''[SLAM!]''' -- with [[spoiler:the autopilot!]]"
* TheUnpronounceable: EVE, to WALL•E.
* UnusualUserInterface
** 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 ZeroesAndOnes.
** 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.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Well, a worn, rusted trash compactor and a sleek, futuristic robot, anyway. InvokedTrope.
* UsedFuture: Played as straight as it gets with Earth, but averted aboard the ''Axiom'', which looks just as clean and shiny as when it was launched 700 years ago.
* VillainousBreakdown: 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''.
* VisualPun: 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.
* WellIntentionedExtremist
** AUTO. He was just aggressively following his program.
** A program ordered by another WellIntentionedExtremist, the CEO of Buy N' Large, Shelby Forthright. [[spoiler:Sure, he ordered the Autopilots to keep the liners from returning to Earth, but for around ''seven hundred years'', it was the appropriate decision.]]
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: There are no clear villains in WALL•E. [[spoiler:AUTO simply does as he's programmed to do, as do any other "evil" robots.]] The humans of the story, once jolted out of their reverie, [[spoiler:proceed to repair the earth with new found love for nature and life. The CEO of Buy N' Large is more panicked and shortsighted than anything.]]
* WikiWalk: The captain becomes entranced by the encyclopedia of Earth life. We leave him at the entry for "Sea" and come back at the entry for "Hoedown".
* WingdingEyes: EVE. Full stop.
* WiperStart: WALL•E's attempts to cancel the escape pod's self-destruct sequence activate just about every other gadget it has, including, yes, wipers.
* AWorldHalfFull
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: 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''.
* WorthlessYellowRocks
** WALL•E finds a diamond ring in a box, and tosses the ring aside to play with the box. And walks on a carpet of dollar, er, B&L bills.
** 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.
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->''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''''', Creator/{{Pixar}}'s 9th film, is a ScienceFiction love story.
In 2105, humans abandon the [[EarthThatWas now-inhospitable Earth]] so it can be cleaned up by a small army of "[[FunWithAcronyms Waste Allocation Load Lifter]]" robots (WALL•E -- 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 WALL•E in the title -- is still collecting junk and living with his pet cockroach. One day, WALL•E is going about his business as usual when a spaceship drops off a much more modern robot. Her name is EVE, and WALL•E is smitten at first sight. When the ship comes back and picks her up, he stows away. The return trip brings him back to the remnants of humanity, and that's when things get ''really'' complicated...
Known for its excellent [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome CGI]] and sound design, the film hearkens back to the silent film days of yore, with no dialogue for almost the whole first half.
For information about the DVD short, ''BURN-E'', check the ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts'' page.
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!!''WALL•E'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AcmeProduct
**: [=BnL=] makes ''everything'' humanity uses (and makes it to last, apparently). 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, [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope is a brand of theirs]]. They call it [[{{Pun}} "Directional Marketing"]]. Has the Franchise/CarmenSandiego company been absorbed so they ''can'' actually do that?
* AdamAndOrEve: The latter.
* AdvertOverloadedFuture: [=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''.
* ActionGirlfriend: EVE
* AfterTheEnd
* AIIsACrapshoot
** AUTO the autopilot program. It's not so much that AUTO is crazy: he is following orders to the letter, as that last order is what drives him [[spoiler:to keep them all in space]]. He's just doing his job like the rest of them.
** 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, while AUTO ends up as the villain because he ''is'' operating as intended. TropesAreFlexible.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: A ''cockroach'' is made adorable. WALL•E even commands it to sit in one scene. It doesn't work. Though he does it a second time and it DOES work. For the ''rest of the film''.
* AllThereInTheManual
** A significant amount of the backstory is provided by the ''[[Website/TheOnion Onion]]''-esque [[http://buynlarge.com/bnl.swf Buy 'N' Large website]].
** 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.
** One of the Flash games created to go with the film mentions that the cockroach is named [[TheLittleRascals Hal Roach.]]
* AlsoSprachZarathustra: See ThemeMusicPowerUp.
* [[AlternateAnimalAffection Alternate Robot Affection]]
* AmusingInjuries: WALL•E during the first half of the movie, [[spoiler:up until AUTO almost kills him, ''twice''.]]
* AntiMutiny: [[spoiler:AUTO does just this.]]
* ApocalypseHow: Subverted in one sense, played straight in another. Earth appears to be barren at the start of the film, but in reality, the humans simply left the planet. Class 1, though the evacuation of humans makes it a technical Class 4.
* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:Override Directive A113.]]
* TheArk: The ''Axiom'' and all the other ships that left Earth. Although they're pretty depressing Arks.
* ArmCannon: EVE
* ArtificialGravity: It's mentioned that the ''Axiom''[='s=] artificial gravity is weaker than the Earth's, [[TruthInTelevision which caused the humans to lose bone mass]] (the excessive blubber, though, was obviously the result of them lounging on flying couches for 7 centuries while drinking liquid fast food).
* ArtShift: The credits 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.
* AstronomicZoom: ''Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers...''
* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter: John and Mary.]]
* BerserkButton: M-O: '''Foreign Contaminant'''
* BetaCouple: John and Mary.
* BigBad: AUTO, though he is actually just doing his job.
* TheBigBoard: With Sigourney Weaver's voice.
* BigFatFuture: ''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.
-->'''The Captain:''' We have a jogging track?
* BigNo
** EVE gets one of these when [[spoiler:WALL•E gets a shock to the circuits from AUTO]].
** And again later when [[spoiler: WALL•E gets crushed beneath the Holo-Detector.]]
** Also when WALL•E accidentally fires her ArmCannon in the repair ward.
** AUTO has one in the midst of [[spoiler:his VillainousBreakdown as he's deploying huge waves of Steward bots to try and stop EVE and WALL•E from reaching the holo-detector.]]. It's not max volume or very long (it's a rather terse utterance), but it is the first time AUTO has a non-monotone, exclamatory tone of voice.
** AUTO gets another [[spoiler:in the fading variety when the Captain "relieves him of duty"]].
* BlitheSpirit: WALL•E, albeit [[TheFool inadvertently]], towards all the other robots and humanity itself.
* BrandNameTakeover: In a very literal sense, Buy N' Large has taken over the entire world.
* ButtMonkey: M-O, unintentionally caused by WALL•E. WALL•E himself could count as well, especially in the first half of the movie.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:WALL•E]] after being repaired. [[spoiler:He gets better]].
* CharacterDevelopment
** 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 [[http://walleforum.com/index.php?topic=1188.0 on a forum dedicated to the movie]]. 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 WikiWalk 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 BlitheSpirit, above.
* ChattyHairdresser: Any of the PR-Ts (beautician robot), even if the person they're working on isn't saying anything.
* ChekhovsGun
** [[spoiler:The plant, the tape, the parts replacement/cannibalization, the lighter, the fire extinguisher, heck, even the lawn gnomes, somewhat.]] Andrew Stanton even talks about the concept of this trope, without naming it, during the DVDCommentary.
** 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 [[VerbalTic little hand gesture]].
** When AUTO makes his first appearance and scans EVE, [[spoiler:A113]] appears over his eye. Additionally, WALL•E uses a laser to cut open a wall and find the plant. He later uses this laser to [[spoiler:break free in the Repair Ward]]. For one more, when the Captain is waking up, he accidentally hits WALL•E instead of his alarm clock, and it starts playing music from Hello Dolly. He later hears the same song while watching EVE's video footage of Earth, and [[spoiler:this starts a short chain of events that motivates him to return to Earth.]]
** '''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. (Which seems like an obvious way to go for a romance.)
** At the beginning of the movie, before we've really gotten a feel for how developed WALL•E has become, he makes an innocuous distinction when deciding whether to place a spork with his collection of spoons or forks; he ends up placing it in between both. Computers are incapable of recognizing anything between a distinct On/Off parameter (that's how they're coded), so WALL•E comprehending a state in between two options demonstrates how he's advanced beyond his programming.
* ChekhovsGunman
** Not only are [[spoiler:Shelby Forthright and AUTO both shown in the ad for the ''Axiom'' cruise, but so are most of the bots WALL•E winds up meeting in the repair ward.]]
** 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.]]
* ChekhovsSkill
** WALL•E [[spoiler:using a fire extinguisher to jet-propel himself.]]
** 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 [[spoiler:when he was knocked into the wall by EVE, which transfers the skill to ''her'', so she can bring it up later on her own.]]
** Not to mention [[spoiler:the electric power of [[TrueLovesKiss EVE's kiss]] is demonstrated in the space dancing sequence]].
** M-O's ability to identify "foreign contaminants" [[spoiler: lets him find the plant easily in a crowd of people.]]
** The laser between WALL•E's eyes. He first uses it [[spoiler: to open the abandoned fridge that holds the plant]], then later [[spoiler: to break out of his cell when EVE is in the repair ward]], and once again [[spoiler: to free the malfunctioned massage bot who then takes it out on all those service bots]].
* CoatCape: The Captain wears his coat like this, presumably because he's too out of shape to wear it normally.
* TheCollectorOfTheStrange: WALL•E keeps a wide assortment of random trinkets that catch his fancy. The items he collects don't seem to have any particular theme, other than having some quality about them that caught his attention beyond the regular garbage.
* ComputerVoice: The filmmakers deliberately sought out Sigourney Weaver to voice the ''Axiom''[='s=] computer as a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''
* ContextSensitiveButton: The amount of damage EVE's ArmCannon does varies, mostly in inverse proportion to the distance of the target. In one scene, she fires at an electromagnet holding her, which only deactivates it, then immediately fires at the ship below, causing an enormous explosion.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Well, technically "no radiant heat". WALL•E has no problem on the outside of a ship while it's buzzing ''the sun''. In fact, he just takes the opportunity to charge his solar-cells pretty much instantly. He apparently was able to endure very high temperatures, as evidenced when EVE's ship lands on top of him.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The [=BnL=] CEO, especially once it's revealed that he ordered all the [[spoiler:autopilots to never return to Earth,]] and to never tell anyone about said order. [[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.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The ''Axiom''. The humans seem to lead a cheerful and carefree life, albeit an incredibly confused and often boring one, but the utter disregard for responsibility on the part of the humans and the history regarding Earth's decay and the plans behind the ''Axiom'' is depressing.
* CrapsackWorld: Earth, though thanks to WALL•E and his ilk it's become a crap-cube world.
* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits start with a series of vignettes depicting the ''Axiom''[='s=] passengers readjusting to Earth life represented by evolving art styles (cave paintings -> Egyptian -> Greek -> mosaic -> Da Vinci-style sketches -> Monet-style Impressionism -> Pointillism -> Van Gogh-style), then shifts to various scenes of the characters running around with ''faux'' 8-bit video game graphics.
* CreepyMonotone: AUTO, who speaks using the old [=MacInTALK=] "Ralph" voice. While M-O also has a monotone voice to announce the presence of "Foreign Contaminants", he primarily communicates with cute beeps and hums, as do the other nice robots.
-->''"A" is for ''Axiom'', your home sweet home. "B" is for Buy 'N' Large, your very best friend...''
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The captain and, more subtly, WALL•E.
* CueTheSun: Literally aboard the ''Axiom'': when the captain awakens somewhere around afternoon, he rewinds ''everything'' -- including the simulated sun -- back to morning so he can give his morning speech.
* CuteMachines: The title character as well as most of the other robots in this movie.
* CyberCyclops: Yet another thing that makes AUTO an Expy for the HAL 9000...
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:WALL•E, a robot designed to collect and compact garbage, is dumped down a garbage chute and crushed to death. Almost.]]
* DeathGlare: "That's an order!" *hesitation* *DeathGlare* *cue video*
* DefrostingIceQueen: EVE
* DesolationShot: The first five minutes of the film.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: WALL•E. Evident in his relationship with EVE.
* DisneyDeath
** [[spoiler:Clever variation -- WALL•E is almost crushed to bits in the climax, but EVE knows how to fix him; the ''real'' tension is that once she has, he doesn't remember anything about the 700 years of his life, including her. His acquired sentience appears lost. He then gets it back a few minutes later...o nly after [[TrueLovesKiss she "kisses" him]], of course.]]
** 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]].
* DisneyOwnsThisTrope: As mentioned above, [=BnL=] has trademarked North (as in the direction).
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:GO-4]] gets kicked out a window and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath smashes on to the deck]], but they do show the impact, making this an aversion -- maybe even a subversion, since it had such a clear setup. Even more so 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, [[spoiler:he was gonna die, be it the floor or the water.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: WALL•E
* DownerBeginning: We open to a vision of Earth as an apocalyptic wasteland.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:GO-4 to AUTO]].
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Sorta. Like other examples, it's only creepy if you overthink it. And WALL•E probably doesn't understand what's going on, and definitely has just had his only chance to ever have a friend suddenly disappear. In any case, WALL•E doesn't do anything particularly inappropriate (not that he really could), which turns out to be a good thing since EVE was recording everything and recalls it later.
* DyingLikeAnimals: The people of Earth blissfully allowed their own destruction.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EarthThatWas: The premise of the film, as humanity departed Earth 700 years before the film began. Emphasized by the Captain suddenly [[WikiWalk spending hours and hours bringing up articles]] about the earth of the past and later relating his glee over planting pizza.
* EmotionalTorque: The whole damn film.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Humans destroyed the future Earth with rampant consumerism and incompetence.
* EternalEnglish: Well, the whole issue with the ''Axiom'' crew is stagnation, anyway..
* EurekaMoment: ([[spoiler:EARTH!]])
-->''[[spoiler:You just needed someone to take care of you, that's all.]]''
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Captain. Although his quarters reveal that his last name is O'Shea.
* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture: See ProductPlacement below.
* EyeLightsOut
* FakeOutOpening: For the first 30 seconds or so, it appears to be a typically optimistic Disney flick. Then you see Earth.
* FalseCameraEffects
** What seems to be a focus pull error, when WALL•E is trying to escape an avalanche of shopping carts.
** 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. He 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.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:GO-4]]
* FingerTwitchingRevival: [[spoiler:When WALL•E regains his memories and his personality, the first thing to move is his fingers, and they twitch downwards slightly before [[TearJerker fully closing]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming around EVE's hand.]]]]
* FirstTimeInTheSun: The ending, though the moment is somewhat diffused by [[spoiler:WALL•E's peril]].
* FoodPills: It's actually more like Food Smoothies than pills. "Sep-tu-a-cen-tennial cupcake in a cup!) WordOfGod is that the "Buy" part of [=BnL=] was originally ''a yogurt company''.
* TheFool: All WALL•E wants to do is hold hands with a girl-bot and groove to the old-time "Hello Dolly". Without being the slightest bit aware of it, every human (and most robots) he meets (even if it's just a CrashIntoHello) gets knocked out of their hum-drum daily existence maintaining the status quo and learns how to not just "survive, but to live," and he gets really, really lucky regarding survival.
* FictionalCounterpart: Buy N' Large to Wal-Mart, though on a much more massive scale.
* FlawExploitation: 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
* [[FriendToAllLivingThings Friend to All (Remaining) Living Things]]: WALL•E. That cockroach didn't ''have'' to follow him.
* FriendToBugs: WALL•E regards said cockroach as a pet, but most people in real-life consider them disgusting pests.
* FutureSpandex: All the human characters wear brightly-colored, stretchy jumpsuits, which look like baby clothes and make them seem infantile and dependent.
* GaussianGirl: Played straight with EVE, and her sleek shiny design seems to exist to make this happen as much as possible. On close inspection she seems to ''emit'' a diffuse white light from her (shiny, white) skin, essentially making her a self-generating, in-universe GaussianGirl.
* GenerationShip: The ''Axiom'' and the other Arks.
* GenreBusting: [=IMDb=] has this movie listed as an Animation-Adventure-Comedy-Drama-Family-Romance-Sci-Fi.
* GentleGiant: The WALL•A robots. Though they accidentally compact EVE and WALL•E with a load of trash and almost eject them into space, they're actually very friendly.
* GoodColorEvilColor
** Heroine EVE and BattleButler [[spoiler:GO-4]] both have tractor beams of sorts; EVE's is blue and [[spoiler:GO-4's]] is red.
** Also, humans who switch their clothing from blue-back to red are the ones who have been "awakened". See ShoutOut.
* GrowBeyondTheirProgramming: WALL•E, EVE, and several other robots they come in contact with.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: [[spoiler:The crazy massage robot, [=HAN-S=]. Try to say you don't see it.]]
* HesAFriend: EVE, don't blast that roach!
* HoldingHands: How WALL•E and EVE express their love for one another.
* HopeSproutsEternal
* HumansAreSpecial: 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.]]
* IndestructibleEdible: 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.
* InitialismTitle
* InspectorJavert: M-O, who relentlessly hunts the one who would tarnish his germ-free domain. Then makes friends with him.
* IntertwinedFingers: Several times between WALL•E and EVE. The first time it happens, it's an awkward moment.
* InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas: Practically all the non-human characters.
* KidsPreferBoxes: WALL•E is captivated by a jewelry box, but doesn't care for the diamond ring inside it.
* LastOfHisKind: WALL•E has outlasted every one of the other robots in his series; WordOfGod says it was because [[spoiler:someone forgot to turn him off.]]
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: [[spoiler:M-O shooing away the other robots from WALL•E and EVE having a moment at the end of the movie.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: The Captain and also John and Mary
-->'''Mary:''' Get ready for some kids!
* LittleNo
** EVE whispers "No...no..." after the escape pod WALL•E is in self-destructs. [[spoiler:She utters another one while cradling his crushed, dead body after he falls out of the Holo-Detector.]]
** AUTO has a flat, but firm "No." as well.
* LoadBearingHero: [[spoiler:WALL•E is crushed holding up the holodetector, though EVE is [[DisneyDeath able to repair him]].]] A much more justified use of the trope than most heroes, though, since WALL•E would have been designed with at least as much load-bearing capacity as an automobile jack.
* LogoJoke: WALL•E joins Luxo Jr. in the Pixar VanityPlate following the closing credits.
* LotusEaterMachine: 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.
* LoveAtFirstSight
** WALL•E for EVE. The pickings have been pretty slim for him. 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."
* LuckyCharmsTitle: Situated by the interpunct WALL•E.
* MacGuffinEscortMission: EVE's mission is [[spoiler:to safely bring plant life from Earth to the ''Axiom'''s scanner, while fighting off the opposition from AUTO]].
* MadeOfIron
** The cockroach survives being shot by EVE's ArmCannon and stomped flat twice, and outruns WALL•E. A lot.
** 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'' [[IncrediblyLamePun made of iron]].
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: WALL•E is a shy, lonely, curious little robot, while EVE is determined, forceful and all-around forward.
* MediumBlending: The humans of the past, such as the [=BnL=] CEO, Shelby Forthright, are live-action. The humans of the future are computer-generated. WordOfGod is that redoing all the "Hello Dolly" scenes in CGI would've been too much trouble, so they just went with this route. This is later {{lampshade}}d in the scene of the portraits of the various ''Axiom'' captains, which shows the captains shifting from photo-realistic to cartoonish over time.
* MeaningfulEcho: "Directive"
* MeaningfulName
** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic EVE]]
** Shelby ''[[HypocriticalHumor 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.
* {{Megacorp}}: Buy N' Large
* TheMessiah: WALL•E. Check the WildMassGuessing page for more.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: [[spoiler:When WALL•E, EVE, the defective robots, and the Captain work together to return the plant to the holo-detector.]]
* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Surprisingly hard, right up until the moment EVE shows up with her internal antigravity drive.
* MonochromeCasting: 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 defence, find anybody other than Mary, John, Captain, and the live-action Buy N' Large guy that actually talks. There is one black guy talking on the inter-person communication screens, and he gets the same amount of talking as pretty much anybody other than those four mentionned.
* MoodWhiplash
** [[spoiler:When AUTO tries to take the plant from WALL•E, the resulting "keep-away" is rather humorous, even having WALL•E smack AUTO with the door to his garbage compartment. Moments after, however, AUTO electrocutes him.]]
** 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.]]
* NeatFreak: M-O. Note that before he shakes WALL•E's hand, he cleans it.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Anyone else remember [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIq_wG9FNk the trailers]] presenting this as "WALL•E vs. humanity for EVE?" Among other things, it makes the captain look like the antagonist.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Purposefully invoked to avert the previously mentioned InferredHolocaust of test audience invention.
* NoFlowInCGI: Granted, there isn't a lot in this film that ''does'' flow.
* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture: 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.
* NonActionGuy: WALL•E
* NonIndicativeName: The "Extraterrestrial" in EVE's name implies she is meant to search for plant life anywhere ''except'' where she actually does: Earth.
* NotAMorningPerson: WALL•E himself, by virtue of being low on solar charge in the morning.
* NotSoAboveItAll: EVE mostly ignores/tolerates WALL•E's attention, but becomes amused by WALL•E's [[{{Adorkable}} demeanor]] upon their first true meeting. Then, at his 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.
* OhCrap:
-->'''AUTO:''' Not. Possible.
* OffTheRails: After a mustering of willpower, M-O jumps off the floor guideline to chase after WALL•E and his trail of foreign contaminants.
* OnlySaneMan: The Captain seems to be the only one aware of the pointlessness of this existence at first.
* OpenSesame: A machine requires voice authorization from the Captain. (Parodied when all he can say is "uhh" and the machine accepts it.)
* PacManFever: Somehow, 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 [[WiiSports purpose of sports]]. Then again, that would take more physical effort on the part of the humans.
* PostKissCatatonia: WALL•E completely freezes the first time EVE "kisses" him. [[spoiler: Inverted in the ending: a kiss is what wakes him up]].
* PowerGlows: Not only does EVE glow very faintly (the better to invoke a GaussianGirl), her presence and touch cause electrical lights to glow as well.
* PrecisionFStrike: 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."
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: "You want it? Come and get it blinky."
* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[spoiler:AUTO]], you... are relieved of duty!"
* ProductPlacement
** 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.
** AUTO is voiced by [=MacInTalk=], the voice read-back program of Macintosh.
** 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.
* PunnyName
** Buy N' Large = By and large, also Buying large (amounts of products)
** [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wally "Wally"]] (definition 2 is probably the most apt).
** All the robot's names are puns: Eve (obviously), Otto, Bernie...
* RagnarokProofing: While Earth does look like a run-down mess, it's pretty clear that Buy N' Large ''really'' built things to last. Functioning VCRS, advertisement boards, mostly-intact buildings. Really, it looks as though 70 years, rather than ''700'' had passed.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The malfunctioning robots from the repair ward.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: 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.
* RoboCam
* RobotNames: Of the [[FunWithAcronyms acrostic]] 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.
** BURN-E the repair-bot locked outside the ''Axiom'' gets his own [[PixarShorts DVD bonus feature]].
** 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.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: AUTO has a red eye. And he's the villain.
* ReflectiveEyes: The lens that make up WALL•E's eyes naturally do this.
* RevivalByCommercialization: The use of ''Theatre/HelloDolly'' songs generated massive publicity and sparked some talk of a revival.
* RoboSpeak: 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 GettingCrapPastTheRadar -- 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 PrecisionFStrike (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". According to the closed captions, WALL•E says "pathetic" while he's hiding behind the towel cart.
* RuleOfCool: The main reason for the 700 years.
* RunningGag: M-O's never-ending quest to clean WALL•E. (Or, failing that, to clean up ''after'' him.)
* SaharanShipwreck
* SayMyName: Most of the robots' dialogue.
* SayMyNameTrailer: Following naturally from the above.
* SceneryGorn: Many loving shots of the ruined, abandoned, and frankly extremely bleak-looking megacity at the beginning of the film.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The first space sequence. In the DVD commentary, one of the creators admits (in reference to the nebula where the ''Axiom'' is found) that there are no nebulae within realistic "cruising distance" of Earth... but between its uses for TheReveal of the ''Axiom'' and its beauty, they decided to allow the RuleOfCool to take priority.
* ShoutOut: Tons, see [[ShoutOut/{{WALL-E}} WALL•E Shout Outs]].
* ShortDistancePhoneCall: The first two humans WALL•E meets.
* SelfDestructMechanism: In the escape pods, for some strange reason.
* SlowElectricity: The HardLight barriers in the holding cells fail sequentially instead of all at once.
* SoundtrackDissonance: 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. 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.]]
* SpaceClothes: Mostly monochromatic jumpsuits and no shoes. When people want to wear another outfit (to wit: "blue is the new red") the clothes change without being taken off. This is apparently an attribute of the chairs they ride in, as the suits quickly change back to red once the chair's functions are disabled or the person gets out of it. [[spoiler:The suits are also very elastic, as a the humans go from obese to fit during the closing credits and never change clothes or create new ones.]] Since the humans are never shown off their chairs we can also assume the jumpsuits are very... hygienic. The PR-Ts are said to help with hygiene as well as beautification. Subverted with the Captain, as his nonelastic jacket is shown hanging off his shoulders, impossible to close.
* SpaceClouds: The ''Axiom'' is parked next to a nebula which initially hides its presence as the Earth-ship approaches.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Again, the first space sequence. But who cares, it [[RuleOfCool looks really friggin' cool]].
* SpaceIsAnOcean: The part of the climactic sequence when the ''Axiom'' tilts in space and everybody slides to one side. This would make sense if the ''Axiom'' was a ship listing in the ocean, but it's in space. There is no external gravitational field. So there's no reason for everybody to slide to the side when the ship tilts, since the ArtificialGravity inside the ship is working fine. How the ship is oriented in space doesn't matter. 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.
* SpaceIsCold: 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.
* SpaceIsNoisy: ...Yeah, we'll repeat it again, [[RuleOfCool who cares?]]
* SpaceSailing: The ''Axiom'' was definitely reminiscent of a sea-going cruise ship. Turning the steering wheel too sharply even [[SpaceIsAnOcean causes the ship to list]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Now let's see what happens to this perfectly planned community in space when we add one robot not built for the community's function...
* StalkerWithACrush / StalkingIsLove: WALL•E. You don't even have to think about it. They brought it up on the Blu-Ray geek track. "He's got stalker charm!" While we're on the subject, DudeShesLikeInAComa. (Although since they're robots, all he does is hold her hand. Or [[ButtMonkey tries to]] anyway.)
* StandInPortrait: How the Captain is able to hide from AUTO, as well as convince him that he has the plant. Makes sense, though, since we briefly see through AUTO's one eye and he has little depth perception.
* StealthPun: [[spoiler:WALL•E (with the E standing for Earth-class) eventually runs into an ''Axiom''-class version of himself named WALL•A.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids
** EVE, whose laser arm is capable of destroying dedicated guard robots. Possibly justified considering she probably surveys planets which may have hostile life.
** WALL•E himself. He's amazingly heat resistant, capable of enduring buzzing the sun and EVE's ship's thrusters to no ill effects. He's also equipped with cutting laser (for cutting pieces too big for him to compact) and a music player (God only knows why). Not bad for a trash compactor.
** But the prize goes to HAN-S. This massage robot [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] an entire squad of guard robots.
* SweetieGraffiti: WALL•E etches a heart with "WALL•E + EVE" on a trash can.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: AUTO being voiced by [=MacinTALK=], as noted above.
* TakeThat: When admitting in a long-lost video that the Earth has been ruined and humanity can't go back, Shelby Forthright tells people to "stay the course", a catchphrase associated with GeorgeWBush.
* TechnologyPorn: 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.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: EVE is sleeker, more slender, has a lighter color scheme and larger eyes then the more masculine WALL•E.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: When the ''Axiom''[='s=] captain gets out of his hover-chair in order to turn off AUTO. This is accompanied by the theme from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' (the opening for "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss).
* ThemeTuneCameo: A slight aversion, since there's true "theme music", but, if you listen closely during the title robot's first appearance, you can hear WALL•E whistle and chirp the tune of "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" as the camera focuses closer and closer on the devastated Earth, and as the first couple verses of "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" fade away.
* ThereWasADoor: After [[spoiler:repairing WALL•E back on Earth]] EVE decides the door is too far away and blows a hole in WALL•E's ceiling to get him some sunlight.
* TheyShouldHaveSentAPoet: Once WALL•E boards the space craft. Or when he's viewing the universe. [[CatchPhrase Woah]] indeed.
* ThisCanNotBe: "Not Possible!"
* TimePassesMontage: Several, some more subtle than others. WALL•E's initial courtship with EVE, EVE's hibernation upon finding the plant, WALL•E's trip through space, and the credit sequence. Interestingly, none of these montages provide ''any'' cues as to how much time is passing. They could take place over anything from a number of days, to many years or even centuries. Because the robots are functionally immortal, there's just no way to tell.\\\
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'd take less than a week, but the film implies that several seasons have passed just waiting for EVE's dropship to return... probably a built-in stasis field.\\\
Since the cockroach lives through the events of the movie, the maximum possible length of the story as viewed from an Earthly perspective cannot exceed that of the cockroach's adult lifespan, which is not much more than 400 days assuming it's an American Cockroach. The space sequences, such as the transit montage, are considerably more difficult to measure given the relative flow of time and could possibly extend well beyond that limit if the ''Axiom'' was at a great enough distance.
* TinmanTypist
** The ''Axiom'' is full of them. Especially notable is AUTO. Whereas the others could ''maybe'' be excused by being separate mobile units, AUTO is ''built into the bridge itself''.
** SUPPLY-R from the BURN-E short does this for the one thing that seems to be his ''entire function''.
** Somewhat justified with AUTO. He's the autopilot, built into the ship's steering wheel. Only makes sense he would be built into the bridge.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Earth is covered with garbage, including a layer of defunct satellites in the upper atmosphere which spaceships have to plow through.
* TriggerHappy: Upon arriving on Earth, EVE shoots pretty much anything that moves. She does learn to calm down.
* TroubleFromThePast: The people who return to Earth still have to clean up their ancestors' mess of garbage.
* TrueLovesKiss: [[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.
* {{Understatement}}: "We're having a slight malfunction -- '''[SLAM!]''' -- with [[spoiler:the autopilot!]]"
* TheUnpronounceable: EVE, to WALL•E.
* UnusualUserInterface
** 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 ZeroesAndOnes.
** 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.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Well, a worn, rusted trash compactor and a sleek, futuristic robot, anyway. InvokedTrope.
* UsedFuture: Played as straight as it gets with Earth, but averted aboard the ''Axiom'', which looks just as clean and shiny as when it was launched 700 years ago.
* VillainousBreakdown: 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''.
* VisualPun: 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.
* WellIntentionedExtremist
** AUTO. He was just aggressively following his program.
** A program ordered by another WellIntentionedExtremist, the CEO of Buy N' Large, Shelby Forthright. [[spoiler:Sure, he ordered the Autopilots to keep the liners from returning to Earth, but for around ''seven hundred years'', it was the appropriate decision.]]
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: There are no clear villains in WALL•E. [[spoiler:AUTO simply does as he's programmed to do, as do any other "evil" robots.]] The humans of the story, once jolted out of their reverie, [[spoiler:proceed to repair the earth with new found love for nature and life. The CEO of Buy N' Large is more panicked and shortsighted than anything.]]
* WikiWalk: The captain becomes entranced by the encyclopedia of Earth life. We leave him at the entry for "Sea" and come back at the entry for "Hoedown".
* WingdingEyes: EVE. Full stop.
* WiperStart: WALL•E's attempts to cancel the escape pod's self-destruct sequence activate just about every other gadget it has, including, yes, wipers.
* AWorldHalfFull
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: 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''.
* WorthlessYellowRocks
** WALL•E finds a diamond ring in a box, and tosses the ring aside to play with the box. And walks on a carpet of dollar, er, B&L bills.
** 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.
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