The Axiom's captain gets one when he gets out of his hover-chair in order to turn off AUTO. This is accompanied by the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Let that sink in for a minute: the directors of WALL-E managed to turn standing up into a Crowning Moment Of Awesome, complete with Also Sprach Zarathustra.

EVE desperately trying to fix WALL-E at the end of the movie, which consists of her flying him back to his home, frantically scavenging through his collection for the parts necessary, eventually starting to move at supersonic speed to install his new parts, and then tops things off by opening up his solar panels and blasting a hole in his roof so the sun could get in. Because moving him outside just would've been too slow.

"I don't want to survive, I wanna live!"

Hell, the entire movie is easily a CMOA for Pixar.

WALL-E for keeping the holo detector from going back down.... with his body.

Another one for Captain B. McCrea, but this requires some setup. Right after he cries "I don't want to survive, I want to LIVE!", he sees the portraits of the previous Captains - all of whom have AUTO, the corrupt 'power behind the throne' behind them. He gets serious, rights his hat, turns to AUTO, and says "I'm the Captain of the Axiom. We are going home today!"

At this very moment, the blob becomes the man he was meant to be, and humanity (with several assists from Wall*E and Eve) gets control of their own future. Yeah!

WALL-E handing the plant to EVE. "Directive." Long pause. EVE dumps the plant and flies over to him. She has her priorities, and the plant comes second. Yeah, I know, it's nothing special, but that's the moment that really got me.

• WALL-E then goes past her, picks up the plant, and hands it back to her. I took it as duty at any cost.

Mary gets a small one when she flings John across the isle to save the falling babies. Let me say this again: A woman who has lived her life with little need to make use of any musculature she might have flings a man of roughly equivalent weight across an aisle against gravity to save a group of babies.

WALL-E: The most romantic movie of 2008 according to The Academy Awards (or at least the director of the Romance Yearbook Montage).

EVE, a few minutes after her introduction, when she blows up a series of huge ships (ending in a mushroom cloud) for no reason other than that she's frustrated PISSED.

M-O leaving the safety of his line in the pursuit of his duty.

• And just how far he goes in the pursuit of his duty afterwords.

The gambit that the Captain pulls on AUTO where he pretends to hold the plant, drawing AUTO's attention from Wall-E and EVE and allowing them to reach the holo detector. He may not be the most physically imposing specimen of this trope but dammit he's The Captain, born and bred.

Three words: Defective Massage Robot.

All the defective robots that WALL-E inadvertently "recruits" from the repair ward start using the song from Hello Dolly as a rallying cry.

Here's one: WALL-E's in the repair ward, just sitting in his cell, okay it's a bit weird but hey OH MY GOD THEY'RE TORTURING EVE! Instant breakout, rushes through the dazed nurses, crashes through glass, rips EVE's stolen limb from the intern, and points a menacing gun at them. Granted, he's pointing it backwards, and it's comically obvious he's making this up on the fly, but still! He performed badass acts to save the one he loved!

How about when EVE is protecting WALL-E near the end of the movie after he's injured, and she threatens the steward bot with her ion cannon? She's just like... the ultimate heroine who protects her man! Woo!

Perfection of soundtrack+dialogue+action in another setting: The captain hearing the wiki television define dance, and cutting to Wall E and Eva twirling in the air, matching the beautiful description and the film of the dancing in the television!

"AUTO, you are relieved of duty."

M-O, when he shoos everybody away at the end of the movie, realizing that WALL-E and EVE are having a moment.

M-O, when he charges into battle against the stewards and tries to clean them into submission, knowing full well that there is nothing more he can do.

In general, everything the captain does following his realization that EVE and WALL-E are roaming free about the ship with the plant.

The end credits. (NOT a diss at the movie.)

When Mary sees WALL-E and EVE dancing outside the window, and moves to tell the first person she can about it, and it happens to be John. And then their hands touch, and something beautiful is awakened within the human race for the first time in seven centuries.

When the captain is pretending to hold the plant, he says to AUTO, "You want the plant? Come and get it, blinky."

The opening sequence up to the appearance of the title. Never ceases to amaze me.

And the Captain gets yet another one in the end, when he steers the Axiom back to Earth at hyperspeed with a look of pure joy on his face.

When the robot threw himself (along with the plant) down the garbage disposal, EVE and Captain are shocked, and Wall-e comes up from around a hundred feet down with his bare strength. Plant on his head.

While it was kinda an accident, M-O saving WALL-E and EVE from going out the airlock.

The Defective Robots (and M-O) use their functions to get the plant to Wall-E.