History WesternAnimation / WallE

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:WALL•E]] after being repaired. He powers up just fine but has been restored to factory settings. [[spoiler:He doesn't remember EVE and returns to his directive of gathering and compressing trash. This time, however, he starts compressing the knick-knacks and meaningful junk he's been collecting in his "home" for 700 years showing that WALL•E is no longer there]]. [[spoiler:Don't worry, the combined forces of ThePowerOfLove and TrueLovesKiss bring him back]].

* RuleOfCool: The main reason for the 700 years.

* SayMyNameTrailer: The trailers ends with a cut of all the times people say "WALL•E" in the movie

* 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.

* DeathByIrony: WALL•E, [[spoiler:a robot designed to collect and compact garbage into a cube, is dumped down a garbage chute, collected by the ship's WALL•A robot and compacted into a garbage cube. Subverted when he barely escapes being flushed into space.]]

-->''We'll see the shows at Delmonicos''\\

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

* {{Irony}}:
** A robot who crushes trash into manageable cubes, is at one point [[spoiler:found in a trash cube that was made by a larger trash-compactor bot]].
** Also, towards the end, he is [[spoiler: crushed to DisneyDeath by a machine whose purpose has nothing to do with crushing.]]
** The scene where WALL-E and EVE are about to be ThrownOutTheAirlock is clearly played for drama and tension with dark, ominous lighting, giant robots, and alarms warning of eventual decompression. However, by this point in the story we have been shown that this "dire" situation actually poses no real threat to the protagonists. We know the robots can survive the vacuum of space, we know that EVE can fly, we see that the garbage cubes are just tossed out to drift slowly away, and we see that EVE frees herself from the cube in minutes. Had they been ejected, the worst case is that they would have been delayed a few minutes as EVE and WALL-E try to find their way back into the ship and with EVE's plasma blaster, she could always make her own entrance if needed.

* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture: The aesthetics of the ship, and its robots, are sleek and smooth, with lots of bright colors. EVE herself is the trope image.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:WALL•E]] after being repaired. He powers up just fine but has been restored to factory settings. [[spoiler:He doesn't remember EVE and returns to his directive of gathering and compressing trash. This time, however, he starts compressing the knick-knacks and meaningful junk he's been collecting in his "home" for 700 years showing that WALL•E is no longer there]]. [[spoiler:Don't worry, the combined forces of DisneyDeath and ThePowerOfLove bring him back]].
* CharacterDevelopment: 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.

** There are [[ShownTheirWork moments of scientific accuracy]] such as when WALL•E and EVE are flying in space. First, the gas in the fire extinguisher crystallizes as it would in a vacuum, and second, WALL•E holds the nozzle at his center of mass when he wants to move forward. Also the plant is shown surviving a short time in hard vacuum, which is TruthInTelevision.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: When the entire ship rolls to one side, everyone slides and falls to that side as if they were on a normal boat, and once the tilt is corrected they are able to right themselves once more. This shouldn't happen because the ''Axiom'' isn't a ship on water tilting relative to a planetary center of gravity; it is a starship with its own center of gravity. Basically, gravity should be oriented downwards at all times and the ship could rotate 180 degrees and everything and everyone would stay in place.

* AdvertOverloadedFuture: [=BnL=] adverts are everywhere, from the screens on the dead Earth to the nurseries on the ''Axiom''. There also appears to be an ad in what looks to be Hadley Plain, the site of Apollo 15's landing.

** This world apparently has advanced technology like anti-gravity, starships, artificial gravity, working A.I., and regenerative food buffets, all of which indicate the likelihood of stronger and more durable building materials. However, we see items like a VCR, a VCR tape, an iPod, and an Atari 2600 all still functioning after 700 years which is extremely unlikely.

* ActionGirl: EVE doesn't like things getting in her way. When in doubt, she will shoot it. With the plasma gun built into her arm.

* 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''.
* AlmightyJanitor: '''[[{{Determinator}} M-O]]''', who ''stops the closing airlock doors of the ship with his body.''

* ArmCannon: EVE has one, which she uses liberally.

* BlitheSpirit: WALL•E, albeit [[TheDitz inadvertently]], towards all the other robots and humanity itself.

* 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. 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.

* 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.

* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Played with. AUTO, the autopilot program, was designed to be an assistant to the captain, but as time went by, human beings became complacent and sedentary, so he's been left to control more and more of the Axiom. However, he's never actually the villain, as his attempts to stop the re-colonization of Earth were the result of him being issued directive ''A113'' which instructed him to keep humanity forever "safe" in space, rather than return them to a more-polluted-than-anyone-believed Earth. The problem is that ''A113'' was issued 700 years ago and things have actually changed on Earth but the directive does not account for that possibility.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The [=BnL=] CEO orders all the [[spoiler:autopilots to take full control and never return to Earth. While he honestly believes that the cleanup effort has failed and had no reason to believe that it would ever be able to support life again, he also kept that information from the passengers so they never knew that they'd never be returning home. Essentially taking away their right to choose any other course of action.]]

* 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.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The captain and, more subtly, WALL•E.

* CuteMachines: The title character as well as most of the other robots in this movie.
* CyberCyclops: AUTO is shaped like a modern version of a ship's steering wheel with a single, ominous, red eye lens directly in the center, a clear homage to the HAL 9000.

* DefrostingIceQueen: EVE ignores or destroys anything and anyone not related to her mission on Earth. As the movie goes on, she begins signs of humor, concern and even affection as her relationship with WALL*E blooms.

* DesperatelyCravesAffection: WALL•E longingly watches romance movies and wants little more than for someone to hold his hand. This is evident in his relationship with EVE.

* TheDitz: Definitely towards the quirky end of the spectrum. WALL•E is by no means stupid but he has been without any type of human/robot companionship for 700 years and is rather naive and awkward now that he finds himself in social settings.

* DoggedNiceGuy: WALL•E's initial attempts to woo EVE are met with total indifference. The moment she starts to reciprocate his advances, she shuts down. All of WALL•E's attempts to get her back online are sweet, but ultimately unsuccessful.

* {{Expy}}: AUTO is obviously one of HAL from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''. Made even more obvious by the fact that the two central pieces of the ''2001'' soundtrack play during scenes in the Captain's quarters - Johann Strauss II's "Blue Danube" Waltz when the Captain is asking the computer for a status report as AUTO tries to get his attention, and "Sunrise" from Richard Strauss' ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' when he stands on his own two feet for the first time during the climactic battle with AUTO.
* EyeLightsOut: EVE’s eye-lights go out when she sleeps or shuts down.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:AUTO is stopping the ''Axiom'' from returning to Earth, but turns out he's actually just obeying the command of [=BnL=]'s CEO, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Shelby Forthright.]]]]

* GrowBeyondTheirProgramming: WALL•E, EVE, and several other robots they come in contact with.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: BURN•E just has to replace one broken running light. How hard could it be?
* HeroicComedicSociopath: The crazy massage robot, HAN-S, slashes apart the antangionitic security robots in such an excessive way that you can't help but laugh.

* InspectorJavert: M-O, who relentlessly hunts the one who would tarnish his germ-free domain. Then makes friends with him.

* LastOfHisKind: WALL•E appears to be the only functional robot left. Andrew Stanton has said that the original story premise revolved around the idea that humanity left Earth but forgot to turn off the last robot. This premise is supported in the opening of the film where we see dozens of other wall•e class robots frozen mid-action as if a global signal was sent to shut-down and WALL•E somehow missed it.
* LaughOfLove: EVE has a cute electronic giggle while bonding with WALL•E.

* 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.

* MadeOfIron:
** The cockroach survives being shot by EVE's ArmCannon and stomped flat twice, and outruns WALL•E. A lot.
** WALL•E himself survives for 700 years by repairing himself and takes a heck of a lot of punishment during the movie.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: WALL•E is a shy, lonely, curious little robot, while EVE is determined, forceful and all-around forward.

* MayorOfAGhostTown: WALL•E is the only sapient thing wandering around on Earth.

* NatureLovingRobot: {{Downplayed}} in that there's very little nature left with roaches seeming to be only life left on Earth, but WALL•E has a roach he's both attached to and who is attached to him. When WALL•E finds a living plant, he decides it is something of value and takes it to be part of his collection.
* NeatFreak: M-O. Before he shakes WALL•E's hand, he cleans it. Note that literally seconds before this, he had just gotten confirmation that WALL•E was all clean.

* NonActionGuy: WALL•E. However he compensates this by his sheer determination and [[LetsGetDangerous when he thinks EVE is in danger...]]

* NotAMorningPerson: WALL•E himself, by virtue of being low on solar charge in the morning.

* ObviouslyEvil: [[UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot AUTO.]] He's got that [[CyberCyclops single glowing red eye]], he hangs from the ceiling and skitters around like a big mechanical spider, and he's the only robot character to be voiced by [[SyntheticVoiceActor an actual machine.]] It's downplayed in that while AUTO is an antagonist, he's not actually the villain. [[spoiler:He is simply following the last command given to him by his creators, directive A113 which authorizes him to take full control of the ship and keep humanity safe by never returning to Earth. The main problem is that the directive did not include any exceptions for re-evaluating the situation after 700 years to see if the directive still applies.]]

* OnlySaneMan: The Captain seems to be the only one aware of the pointlessness of this existence at first, probably because he's the only person on the ship who seems to have any kind of job or responsibility (even though it's almost purely ceremonial).

* PokemonSpeak: All of the robots except for Auto, can only say a few words besides their own names.

* 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.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits:
** The main robot cast is made of a [[Really700YearsOld 700 year old]] trash compactor, a vegetation probe with an ArmCannon, and a tiny yet [[{{Determinator}} determined]] cleaning bot. Later on they are joined by more robots that include a painter, a vacuum, a defibrillator, a massager, a flashlight, an umbrella, and a hairdresser/beautician, all of whom are malfunctioning in some way.
** Really, all the malfunctioning robots from the repair ward are this by definition.
* Really700YearsOld: The title character has been collecting trash for more than 700 years, yet still acts like a curious child.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: AUTO has a single red eye that the creators intended to be an homage to the HAL-9000. Wonder if he's going to be the good guy? [[spoiler:Answer: Not really but he's not actually a villain either.]]
* ReflectiveEyes: The lens that make up WALL•E's eyes naturally do this.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The film does this to a ''cockroach'' of all things. The cockroach that follows WALL•E around on Earth is pretty adorable.
* 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.

* 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 [[WesternAnimation/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), [[Creator/VincentVanGogh VN-GO]] (the painter bot)...
** M-O is stated in the DVD bonus material to stand for '''M'''icrobe '''O'''bliterator.

* 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 ParentheticalSwearing -- 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.

* 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 a 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.

* SyntheticVoiceActor: AUTO being voiced by [=MacInTALK=]. He's the only robot whose "voice" clips aren't provided by an actual human actor, and fittingly, he's the antagonist.

* TankTreadMecha: The titular character is a trash compactor robot who runs on tank treads.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: EVE is sleeker, more slender, has a lighter color scheme and larger eyes then the more masculine WALL•E.

* 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''. Possibly justified, as it's implied AUTO had taken over functions intended to be performed by a human captain.
** SUPPLY-R from the BURN-E short does this for the one thing that seems to be his ''entire function''.
** Justified with EVE/her canister. While the keypad is dialed exclusively by robots in the film, it's made clear that she would need to interface with humans at some point during her function.

* {{Tsundere}}: EVE's a girl with a temper that falls in love, anyway.

* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** AUTO. He was just aggressively following his program.
** Downplayed with the CEO of Buy n Large, Shelby Forthright. [[spoiler:When Operation Cleanup fails, his activation of Directive A113 does insure that the human race will continue to survive, but he also takes away the passengers right to choose their own future and condemns them to life of "just existing". He doesn't seem to be particularly malicious with his order but it's also clear he has no planned endgame for the passengers under his care either.]]

* WingdingEyes: EVE's eyes are two electronic lights that change change shapes to fit her mood, such as turning into two curved lines (as if she were closing her eyes) when she laughs or turning into thin, angular lines when she's mad.

->''"In the summer of 1994, there was a lunch. Me, John Lasseter, Pete Docter and the late Joe Ranft all sat down. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' was almost complete, and we thought, 'Well, jeez. If we're gonna make another movie, we gotta get started ''now''!' So at that lunch, we knocked around a bunch of ideas that eventually became ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. The last one we talked about that day was the story of a robot...named WALL•E."''

!!''WALL•E'' provides examples of the following tropes:

->''"In the summer of 1994, there was a lunch. Me, John Lasseter, Pete Docter and the late Joe Ranft all sat down. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' was almost complete, and we thought, "Well, jeez. If we're gonna make another movie, we gotta get started ''now''!" So at that lunch, we knocked around a bunch of ideas that eventually became ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. The last one we talked about that day was the story of a robot...named WALL•E."''
-->-- '''Andrew Stanton in the teaser trailer'''

* AnAesop: LivingIsMoreThanSurviving

->"In the summer of 1994, there was a lunch. Me, John Lasseter, Pete Docter and the late Joe Ranft all sat down. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' was almost complete, and we thought, "Well, jeez. If we're gonna make another movie, we gotta get started ''now''!" So at that lunch, we knocked around a bunch of ideas that eventually became ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. The last one we talked about that day was the story of a robot...named WALL•E."

->''"In the summer of 1994, there was a lunch. Me, John Lasseter, Pete Docter and the late Joe Ranft all sat down. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' was almost complete, and we thought, "Well, jeez. If we're gonna make another movie, we gotta get started now!" So at that lunch, we knocked around a bunch of ideas that eventually became ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. The last one we talked about that day was the story of a robot...named WALL•E."''

->''"In the summer of 1994, there was a lunch. Me, John Lasseter, Pete Docter and the late Joe Ranft all sat down. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' was almost complete, and we thought, "Well, jeez. If we're gonna make another movie, we gotta get started now!" So at that lunch, we knocked around a bunch of ideas that eventually became A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo. The last one we talked about that day was the story of a robot...named WALL•E."''

->''"In the summer of 1994, there was a lunch. Me, John Lasseter, Pete Docter and the late Joe Ranft all sat down. Toy Story was almost complete, and we thought, "Well, jeez. If we're gonna make another movie, we gotta get started now!" So at that lunch, we knocked around a bunch of ideas that eventually became A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo. The last one we talked about that day was the story of a robot...named WALL•E."''

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Film/HelloDolly Put on your Sunday clothes, there's lots of world out there...]]'']]

->''"After 700 years of doing what he was built for, he'll discover what he was meant for."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''

* {{Megacorp}}: Buy n Large. They're in fact so enormous that by the time the Earth was evacuated, they had replaced the government of every single country on the planet as the sole decision-maker.

* LongLived: Judging from the captains' portraits, the average human lifespan is around 140-ish years.

** 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.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: When the entire ship rolls to one side, everyone slides and falls to that side as if they were on a normal boat, and once the tilt is corrected they are able to right themselves once more. This shouldn't happen because the ''Axiom'' isn't a ship on water tilting relative to a planetary center of gravity; it is a starship with its own center of gravity. Basically, gravity should be oriented downwards at all times and the ship could rotate 180 degrees and everything and everyone would stay in place. However, [[spoiler:AUTO wanted a distraction, it's unclear if he didn't adjust the center of the ship's artificial gravity to create the slide.]]

* 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.

** Subverted with AUTO. Despite being a bit cold, mechanical and omnious, he never "goes evil" and intentional tries to kill humans. He was simply following his orders to the letter and those orders didn't account for the Axiom sitting in space for 700 years.

* FictionalCounterpart: Buy n Large to Wal-Mart, though on a much more massive scale.

** The steward bots that try to prevent WALL•E's group from getting to the holo detector. One of them gets blasted by EVE, one gets defibulated to death, and the rest get smashed into scrap metal after WALL•E cuts the restraints on the massage bot.

* EverybodyHelpsOutDenouement: After the action-packed finale, all the humans work together to clean up Earth and rebuild society.

* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Captain [=McCrea=]'s taunt to AUTO during the second step of his response to [[spoiler:AUTO's mutiny]].
-->'''Captain''': Ha-ha, look what I've got, AUTO! That's right, the [[FakinMacGuffin plant]]! Oh... you want it? '''Come and get it, Blinky.'''

* BattleDiscretionShot: After encountering the SECUR-T bots yet again, WALL•E breaks [[spoiler:HAN-S]] free of the restraints. Cue a close-up shot of EVE and WALL•E as [[spoiler:HAN-S beats the crap out of the SECUR-T bots]].

-->'''Captain''': Hoho, look what I've got, AUTO! That's right, the [[FakinMacGuffin plant]]! Oh... you want it? Well, '''come and get it, Blinky.'''