History Characters / WallE

* AntiVillain: He opposes WALL•E, EVE and [=McCrea=], but only on the basis he's fulfilling his directive not to return to Earth and can't deviate from it. It's the actions he takes in pursuit of that directive, such as electrocuting WALL•E, trying to attack the captain, and endangering the entire population of the Axiom, that ultimately make him a villain.

* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Throughout the film, it is revealed that the robots started to develop sentience and personalities of their own, despite only having been programmed to do things like compact garbage, search the Earth for vegetation, or clean the ship.

* CuteMachines: In general, they are cute, polite, sweet, and helpful, with endearing personalities. [[spoiler: Except for Auto whose face is pretty much a creepy glowing red eye with the most robotic personality of the bunch. No doubt foreshadowing…]]

* 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.

* ActOfTrueLove: If his efforts to repair EVE when he thought she was broken weren't this, [[spoiler:his devotion to fulfilling EVE's objective, even while ''he'' was broken, certainly was. He even refused what could have been his ''only'' chance to hold her hand, to retrieve the plant.]]

* BadassAdorable: Especially in the climax when he [[spoiler:holds up the holo-detector despite being damaged by Auto's taser]].

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

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from ''Film/HelloDolly'' serves as a symbol of WALL•E's emergent personality, and later becomes the rallying anthem of the malfunctioning robots. [[spoiler: The absence of this song on WALL•E's personal audio recorder is what convinces EVE that he CameBackWrong.]]
* LoadBearingHero: [[spoiler: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.

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

* MacGuffinEscortMission: Her directive is [[spoiler:to safely bring plant life from Earth to the ''Axiom''[='s=] scanner]].

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: To WALL•E eventually. She defends him, carries him around, and rescues him when [[spoiler:AUTO's minions start chasing them through the ship.]]

* ChekhovsSkill: He's the one to find the plant [[spoiler:amid all the confused passengers on the lido deck to save WALL•E]] because his optics are made to detect foreign contaminant, which stands out like a beacon to him.

* LeaveTheTwoLoveBirdsAlone: M•O chases away the other robots when [[spoiler:WALL•E regains his memories and shares a romantic moment with EVE.]]

* LegacyCharacter: He is this to [=BnL=]'s former CEO Shelby Forthright, as he continues to uphold Directive A-113.

* ManBehindTheMan: Quite literally. When Captain [=McCrea=] looks at the photos depicting his predecessors, he realizes that AUTO is ''always there'', right behind the shoulder of each one of them. It perfectly conveys the fact that all captains of ''Axiom'' were pretty much just figureheads and it was an evil A.I. who held the real power, ensuring that Directive A113 will be followed.

* ObviouslyEvil: 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.]]

* SyntheticVoiceActor: 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.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Suffers a messy one. [[spoiler:When Captain [=McCrea=] is struggling in a fight with AUTO, GO-4 attempts to help but is instead kicked out the window and is completely smashed (on-screen) upon impact.]]
* TheDragon: GO-4 is actually working for [[spoiler:AUTO]], and is the head of the sentry robots.
* DragonAscendant: In the tie-in game, he outlives [[spoiler:AUTO]] and continues to menace the humans on Earth. That said, he doesn't get to do much beyond attempting to steal the plant again, which WALL•E easily thwarts.

%%* OhCrap: When he sees [[spoiler:[=McCrea=] fighting AUTO]].
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the tie-in game, he doesn't [[spoiler:suffer a DisneyVillainDeath and is still alive by the epilogue.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: By the time he finally gets it working, the light is destroyed again. And even if it wasn't destroyed, [[spoiler:they're back on Earth by that point so it doesn't matter much anymore.]]

* AntiVillain: Despite being TheLeader of the MegaCorp that more or less destroyed Earth, [[spoiler:he's clearly not happy about it and seemingly shows genuine remorse for the damages he caused, as well as the fact that humanity must stay in space indefinitely.]]
* BrokenBird: A male example. Despite all the problems that happened, he tried his best to help. [[spoiler:But when [[ItIsBeyondSaving the toxicity of Earth reached a point of no return]], he TookALevelInCynic and crossed the DespairEventHorizon despite [[StepfordSmiler trying to maintain his upbeat attitude]].]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: 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.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: He tries to act casual and jovial as always when his last clip is shown, [[spoiler:but it's clear the fact that Earth is (apparently) unlivable and he has to keep humanity away from it has worn him down.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's not a "villain villain", but this trope still counts. He was the CEO of [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated Buy-N]][[IncompetenceInc -Large]], being a major force in Earth's doom. [[spoiler:He set out Directive A-113 to ensure nobody would return to Earth [[WellIntentionedExtremist because he believed there was no longer hope for organic life there]], bringing the main characters quite a bit of grief when AUTO refuses to let the ''Axiom'' return despite being proven wrong.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:A ForegoneConclusion by the time of his final message is that he feels guilty for (along with the rest of humanity) polluting the Earth.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: The movie takes place nearly 700 years after his enactment of Directive A-113, so it's safe to assume he's long dead. [[spoiler:However, his legacy still lives on in Directive A-113.]]

* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:He clearly attempted to stay confident even when things were starting to look bad, but once [[FromBadToWorse Operation Cleanup failed due to all but one of the WALL•E units breaking down and Operation Recolonize had to be canceled]], he dropped the facade for his ApocalypticLog.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[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 a 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.]]

* BigGood: He is leading the humans back to Earth, [[spoiler:and he is opposed to Auto trying to stop them]].

%%* TheCaptain: [[spoiler:"Auto... You are ''relieved of duty!''"]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He starts as just another blob-person going through mindless routine (albeit with [[OnlySaneMan more awareness]] of their ennui than most). The prospect of returning to Earth wakes him up [[spoiler:and when AUTO makes sure that Directive [=A113=] is still going, he begins fighting back for the fate of humanity. After he sees that the DarkestHour is over and WALL•E and EVE have escaped the refuse compartment with the [[MacGuffin Plant]] still in hand, he puts his technical knowledge to work to relay instructions to the robotic duo just in time before AUTO cuts him off, exploits AUTO's lack of depth perception in an attempt to lure down and seize AUTO, and is the first human on the Axiom to walk on his own two legs in ''centuries'' to continue the fight after the climax hits a crescendo with AUTO crushing WALL•E in the Holo Detector.]]

* EyeScream: A thankfully cartoony one, at the near end of the film, [[spoiler:he gets poked in the eye by one of the handles in Auto's steering wheel body after the Cap and the latter where fighting.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:He was completely unaware of Directive [=A113=], which kept the ships from returning to Earth.]]

* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's the highest-ranking (and perhaps only) officer aboard the Axiom, and manages to [[spoiler:take down AUTO in hand-to-hand fighting.]]

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* NoisyRobots: His eyes make loud noises when adjusting.

* CuteMachines: In general, they are cute, polite, sweet, and helpful, with endearing personalities. [[spoiler: Except for Auto who’s face is pretty much a creepy glowing red eye with the most robotic personality of the bunch. No doubt foreshadowing…]]

** EVE, whose laser arm is capable of destroying dedicated guard robots. Possibly justified considering she probably surveys planets which may have hostile life.

* AmazonChaser: WALL•E has a love for EVE, a explorer droid with incredible strength and a [[RayGun powerful blaster]] to boot.

* LastOfHisKind: 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.

* NonActionGuy: He's a garbage bot. The closest thing he would have to an offensive capability is a utility cutting laser, but he never uses it as a weapon. However he compensates this by his sheer determination and [[LetsGetDangerous when he thinks EVE is in danger...]]
* NotAMorningPerson: He drags himself around like a human needing a cup of coffee, bumping into things and unable to put his treads on until he gets his morning sunshine. Justified since he needs the sunshine to charge.

* ReflectiveEyes: The lens that make up WALL•E's eyes naturally do this.

* TankTreadMecha: He is a trash compactor robot who runs on tank treads.

* BiblicalMotifs: Two of them, actually. Her name comes from Eve, the first woman (with WALL•E being her Adam), and her white coloring and soft outline references the dove sent by Noah after the flood to find a plant and prove that the world was safe to live on again.

** She demonstrates her individuality from the start, before even meeting WALL•E. Once deployed, when she sees the rocket flying away, she stops scanning the ground and flies around at high speed, doing some nice loops, even. Kind of a sportsy gal. She also has a nice interaction with Hal (after blasting it, of course). And she has a... [[HairTriggerTemper low tolerance towards frustration]].

* EyeLightsOut: Her eye-lights go out when she sleeps or shuts down.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Her problem solving tree is something like "blast it with my arm cannon. Does it still need to be blasted more? [Y/N]"

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Shelby Forthright gave the order not to return to Earth because it couldn't sustain life. The current Captain points out that order no longer applies since the plant proves Earth can now do so again. AUTO's response? "Irrelevant." AUTO was given the order never to return, and will stay by that order even though the reason it was given has changed.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Suffers a messy one. [[spoiler:When Captain [=McCrea=] is struggling in a fight with AUTO, GO-4 attempts to help but is instead kicked out the window and is completely smashed (on screen) upon impact.]]

* DragonAscendant: In the tie-in game, he outlives [[spoiler:AUTO]] and continues to menace the humans on Earth. That said, he doesn't get to do much beyond attempt to steal the plant again, which WALL•E easily thwarts.
* TheNapoleon: He's small, but fierce.

* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: As if it's a parent trying to comfort its son, SUPPLY-R gives BURN-E a reassuring pat on the head after all the struggles BURN-E went through at trying to replace a broken light post.

* CharacterTics: Each one has a specific glitch or behaviour:

* CowardlyLion: He reacts with loud shock whenever he sees something unfamiliar, like a dirty robot from earth, or a voice-activation mic. But he is surprisingly capable in an actual crisis.

* UndyingLoyalty: To WALL•E. When WALL•E orders him to stay on Earth while he goes to space, Hal not only obeys, but is still sitting in the exact same spot when WALL•E returns to Earth.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The robots in general have very humanlike mannerisms and quirks.
* RobotNames: Most of their names are puns relating to their job, i.e. GO-4[[note]]Gofer[[/note]].

%%* TheAloner: In the beginning.

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

* CuteMachines: He and EVE are even the page image!
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: When he meets another actual robot, he's so eager to make contact that he tries to befriend her despite her attempt to blast him.

* DoggedNiceGuy: To EVE, initially. He doesn't stop trying to get close to her even though she attempted to blast him and kept ignoring him during their first interactions.

* FriendToBugs: Until he met EVE, his only companion was his pet cockroach.

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

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

* ActionGirl: With her arm cannon and a general willingness to rush into a fight.

* GaussianGirl: Her mostly white body gives her a very soft outline.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to WALL•E's Feminine Boy -- she has a gun, while he's shy and watches romcoms.

* WingdingEyes: All the emotions she goes through throughout the film are expressed entirely through her eyes, which are basically a big dot matrix screen.

* NeatFreak: So much so that he breaks his programming to follow WALL•E throughout the ship and clean him.

* TheComputerIsYourFriend: He was given orders to safeguard humanity, and he will fulfill those orders whether the humans want him to or not.
* CreepyMonotone: Combined with EvilSoundsDeep -- all the robots have computer voices, but his sounds the most unsettling because he's the villain.
* CyberCyclops: He is one big red eye on a steering wheel.

%%* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]].

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: While an AmbiguousSituation at best, [[spoiler:his belief that [[DeathWorld natural life can no longer exist]] on Earth [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation might be construed as something along these lines, especially once centuries have passed]].]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He put Directive A-113 into place because [[spoiler:Earth's environment had become generally unsafe, and he believed humans shouldn't and couldn't return due to its uninhabitable status. But he also robs them of the right to choose their own fate.]]

* CoatCape: Given that he's too fat to wear it properly, this is how he sports his captain's coat.

* OnlySaneMan: Seems to be the only human on board that is aware of the ennui of their existence.

* MadeOfIron: Like most of his kind, he can take surprising amounts of punishment. WALL•E runs over him twice and it doesn't even faze him.

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%%* MeaningfulName: John and ''Mary,'' huh?

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the highest-ranking (and perhaps only) officer aboard the Axiom, and manages to [[spoiler:take down AUTO in hand-to-hand fighting.]]

* TheDemiurge: Interestingly enough, AUTO takes several characteristics from the [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism)) Gnostic]] Demiurge; he controls and oversees an artificial world full of nascent humans, yet despite his efficiency, is not an all-powerful or omniscient being as he would like to believe, and his defeat is marked by humans gaining greater sentience and knowledge about themselves and their world.

* DisappointedInYou: By the time BURN-E returns to it again, SUPPLY-R is unable to believe that BURN-E somehow lost ''another'' spare light post. Not wanting to deal with it, SUPPLY-R just drops its remaining spare light post in front of BURN-E as if it's saying "Take it. Now get lost."

* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: As if it's a parent trying to comfort it's son, SUPPLY-R gives BURN-E a reassuring pat on the head after all the struggles BURN-E went through at trying to replace a broken light post.

[[folder:WALL•A]]
!!WALL•A (Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Axiom Class)
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The larger counterpart to WALL•E's type, the WALL•As spend their time compacting trash and loading it into Airlocks. While at first they seem to be rigidly following their programming, they're actually [[GentleGiant gentle giants]] who have a surprising amount of personality.

* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: Each of the Axiom Class robots follow their protocol to the letter. This nearly leads to WALL•E and EVE's demise when they almost get ejected from the airlock. Fortunately, the WALL•As are very attentive to their tasks as well.
* FunSize: Their reaction to WALL•E's attempt to get their attention by making a (from their perspective) tiny cube: "aaaaw" *patpat*
* GentleGiant: While in appearance, they are giant behemoths with very functional design choices, the WALL•As are actually very emotional and kind robots. In [[https://youtu.be/DP-ve8vI18E the original version of the scene in which they appear,]] they even look amused after WALL•E tries to demonstrate that EVE is in one of their cubes by making a cube of his own, and pat him on the head.

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!!Reject Bots
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: VAQ-M, PR-T, VN-GO, L-T, BRL-A, HAN-S, and D-FIB]]
A group of malfunctioning robots that WALL•E accidentally frees from the repair ward. They see WALL•E as their hero for freeing them and come back in the climax to help WALL•E, EVE, and M•O get the plant the Holo- Detector. The seven noteworthy reject bots include the following:

* TheAloner: In the beginning.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: A rare inverted example. After spending 7 centuries doing his own job with only a cockroach as a pet, Wall-E develops a “glitch” in his program, giving him a sentience and a personality of his own. Because of this, he likes collecting objects that catch his interest, and deeply longs for a connection and for something more beyond his directive.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to EVE's Masculine Girl, despite being a garbage robot.

* NotAMorningPerson: He drags himself around like a human needing a cup of coffee, bumping into things and unable to put his treads on until he gets his morning sunshine.
* OfficialCouple: With EVE.
* OppositesAttract: With EVE.

* TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks, and when he does, he just says short words. Justified, since he spent 7 centuries alone with a cockroach as a pet, with no one to talk to.
* RoboRomance: With EVE.

* BadassAdorable: Like WALL•E, but more so.

* CatchPhrase: "Directive."

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to WALL•E's Feminine Boy.

* OfficialCouple: With WALL•E.
* OppositesAttract: With WALL•E.

* RoboRomance: With WALL•E.

* TheUnpronounceable: To WALL•E.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: In a non-romantical way with WALL•E. WALL•E trolls M•O a bit and M•O dislikes WALL•E because of his dirtiness, but they overcome their differences and prove to be good friends as WALL•E shows concern for M•O in the garbage disposal and M•O shows nothing but extreme sadness at WALL•E's death at the climax. M•O even whimpers and cries, burying his head into his roller brush as he mourns.

* CatchPhrase: "[FOREIGN CONTAMINANT]".

* BigNo: AUTO says one when [=McCrea=] turns him off.
** LittleNo: AUTO utters this when he notices WALL•E trying to hold open the container for the plant, before promptly jamming the button to close the container down so it crushes his adversary.

* CreepyMonotone: Combined with EvilSoundsDeep.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]].

* NotSoStoic: When the Captain sets out to put the plant in the Holo-Detector himself, AUTO's MachineMonotone gives way to a ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness frighteningly stern]]'' voice.
-->'''AUTO:''' '''''[[WhamLine SIR. I INSIST YOU GIVE ME THE PLANT.]]'''''

* OhCrap: When he sees [[spoiler:[=McCrea=] fighting AUTO]].

** YankTheDogsChain: Only for the same light to get smashed by an escape-pod door coming down. Just when he had returned power to the light and completed his job.

* FunSize: Their reaction fo WALL•E's attempt to get their attention by making a (from their perspective) tiny cube: "aaaaw" *patpat*

* VAQ-M: A vaccum-bot.

* MistakenForInsane: Their behavior ''was'' the reason that they were contained, but after the captain manages to rebalance the ship, the robots who were previously seen to act erratically are seen gently tending to the humans' needs, implying that they were just experimenting with their features.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: They are this in spades. Yet, they are loyal friends to WALL•E.

* AirQuotes: He seems fond of these, and a newspaper in a FreezeFrameBonus even shows him doing this during a press conference.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: While an AmbiguousSituation at best, [[spoiler:his belief that [[DeathWorld natural life can no longer exist on Earth]] [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation might be construed as something along these lines, especially once centuries have passed]].]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:A ForegoneConclusion by the time of his final message.]]

* TheCaptain: [[spoiler:"Auto... You are ''relieved of duty!''"]]

* {{Determinator}}: "I am the captain of the Axiom! '''''We are going home today!'''''"

* OhCrap: When [[spoiler:AUTO]] stages a mutiny.

* BetaCouple: With Mary.

* BetaCouple: With John.

* InterspeciesFriendship: In a charming, endearing and ever so slightly repulsive way.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[ProductPlacement Kremies.]]

* SuperOCD: He does not tolerate dirt and would even cut through the other robots' designated paths to clean up WALL•E's tracks. Even more when dirt is ''on him'', as evidenced by his [[ScreamingAtSquick shriek]] when WALL•E brushes some on his face and he furiously scrubs it off.

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!Spoilers for the character below will be left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

* CuteMachines: In general, they are cute, polite, sweet, and helpful, with endearing personalities.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He starts as just another blob-person going through mindless routine (albeit with [[OnlySaneMan more awareness]] of their ennui than most). The prospect of returning to Earth wakes him up [[spoiler:and when AUTO makes sure that Directive [=A113=] is still going, he begins fighting back for the fate of humanity. After he sees that the DarkestHour is over and WALL•E and EVE have escaped the refuse compartment with the [[MacGuffin Plant]] still in hand, he puts his technical knowledge to work to relay instructions to the robotic duo just in time before AUTO cuts him off, exploits AUTO's lack of depth perception in an attempt to seize AUTO, and is the first human on the Axiom to walk on his own two legs in ''centuries'' after the climax hits a crescendo with AUTO crushing WALL•E in the Holo Detector.]]