Line #79 Fridge/WallE


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3	* The future humans in ''WALL•E'' are portrayed as morbidly obese, lazy to the point of helplessness, and entirely self-absorbed. While this can easily be seen as a slam against fat people, it's more likely a ploy to liken the humans to infants. They all wear one-piece jumpsuits (rather like layettes), consume only liquids, and even their obesity has kind of a cuddly appeal, like the chubbiness of well-fed babies. It's not that they're all gluttonous, disgusting slobs--it's that too much luxury and not enough challenge has robbed them of their independence, reverting them to childlike
4	** A throwaway line about the effects of [[GeniusBonus microgravity on bone formation]] suggests that it was a serious attempt to represent the effects of hundreds of years in space. That said, the "babies" metaphor fits perfectly with the scene at the end where [[spoiler:the Captain learns to walk for the first time.]]
5	*** WordOfGod confirms the infant explanation if you watch the DVD commentary.
6	** Likewise, the infant explanation is referenced in Peter Gabriel's song Down to Earth, written for the movie, in the line "Coming down to Earth/Like babies at birth".
7	** WALL•E obviously pays a lot of homage to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', which is another movie that likened humanity to infants in the grand scheme of space—in ''2001'', the first space-faring humans the audience sees need to learn how to walk, feed themselves, and use the restroom in space, evoking the same things toddlers learn.
8	* The scene where [[spoiler:WALL•E is reawakened by EVE's kiss]] makes sense beyond the power of TrueLovesKiss: it can also be interpreted as a system reboot. When [[spoiler:EVE repairs WALL•E after his fatal system crash]], he boots up in safe mode, with just the base operating system running. One clean reboot later, and all user customization is restored, including 700 years of learned personality.
9	** It's also possible that the spark is actually an exchange of information. [[spoiler:During their first kiss, a part of WALL•E was transferred over to EVE. So when EVE kissed him at the end, the information was copied back into his system]].
10	** Another possibility: Motherboards are distinct pieces of hardware from data storage. If it was only his motherboard that shorted out, it's possible that his hard drive (or whatever data storage device he uses) was still intact. And when he was given a new one, it was simply a matter of his old memories being accessed by a new processor. That's why it took so long for him to recall his memories. They were still "installing" while EVE was trying to revive him.
11	** If you [[FreezeFrameBonus pay close attention]] to WALL•E's power display when he gets struck by lightning during the montage of him looking after EVE while she's in standby mode, the lightning actually recharges him. And later on, when he enters PostKissCatatonia after EVE kisses him the first time, his power display can be heard beeping--and as shown with the light bulb, EVE is positively ''brimming'' with power. While a regular recharge with his solar panels was enough to revive WALL•E physically, that extra jolt to his systems from such a strong energy source might have given his software the boost it needed to reboot his memories.
12	* [[BetaCouple Mary and John's]] names. "Mary" and "John" are also the two most common names in English, showing how humans stopped thinking about things such as names (or perhaps were named by a robot that would only know really common names).
13	** It's also possible the writers chose common names deliberately to say "There is nothing special about these people except luck! Anyone can break the mold!"
14	** [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Mary_(film) John and Mary]] is the name of a romantic drama from 1969. It's a shout out to that movie and their implied romantic plot.
15	* The captain fools Auto twice with holograms. Auto only has one eye, and thus lacks depth perception. Naturally he would have trouble discerning whether something in front of him is holographic or not.
16	** The camera which would be fooled as it is the one relaying the image, but since all modern cameras should have a focusing function (especially one on a high-tech space cruiser), [[Headscratchers/WallE why did the camera not perceive depth perception with its focusing function]]? Well, it probably does, but given that most of the robots on the ship don't interface directly (like the typing robot or the release capsule in EVE's introductory scene), Auto probably only sees what would be displayed on the monitor. Plus, he's not terribly bright to begin with--he doesn't even ''think'' to check whether any of the holographic displays were on, or to send GO-4 in instead of addressing it himself, and a good portion of the plot has to do with him overlooking the span of time since his "do not return to Earth" order, so the image being a little blurry or transparent isn't going to make it any harder to fool him.
17	* In ''WALL•E'', after much thought, is that this could actually be considered Pixar's first live-action feature! The humans presented in the video of the BNL's star ships were real humans, not [=CGIed=] ones. As was Fred Willard's role as the ADO of BNL, Shelby Forthright and the previous captains of the main star cruiser. The reasoning is that since the people got so fat, their bodies became more misshapen and too puffy, it would look cartoony so they could get away saying it was CGI. The robots could have been either way since they're robots and would look good either way.
18	* I had a moment of FridgeBrilliance when reading the page for SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. A lot of people griped that it was unrealistic for the humans to survive on Earth after coming back. I thought about the distances involved... and then I realized, for WALL•E and EVE making the journey to the Axiom and back, time has no meaning. They're robots! As for the humans returning at the end of the film, they blast into what looks like a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' style faster-than-light warp and come straight back to Earth in what seems like a few seconds. However, according to relativity, more time than what they experienced would pass on Earth. Hence, we see Earth going from having one small, limp-looking plant, to having entire fields covered in greenery in the last scene. Keep in mind that at no point does the captain or anyone else mention how long it has been since the EVE probes were sent to Earth, only that "no probe's ever come back positive before." It's quite possible that EVE was launched a long, long, time before the events of the movie. After all, they've been out there for 700 years. -nitrokitty
19	** Actually, Auto does refer to EVE as 'Annual Probe 1', suggesting they are sent (or return) exactly once a year. Going by the montage of WALL•E caring for EVE's dormant body (after EVE acquires the plant), it does seem that EVE was on Earth for at least a few seasons, so this makes sense.
20	*** If EVE probes are sent to the earth annually, then they must have landed at random points around the world. The WALL•E robots might have been worldwide, but they could all be limited in how far they could go to clean up the earth. The one WALL•E that never shut down and developed sentience just so happened to be in the one place an EVE probe was randomly placed in. It took almost 700 tries for one EVE probe to interact with a working, sentient robot on Earth. The odds of that happening have to be astronomically high to the point it was a miracle (in context) that they even met at all.
21	** WALL•E's trip on the EVE ship through space is clearly happening at sub-light speeds, meaning it must take several centuries at least to reach the Axiom (the ship is seen within a nebula, and the closest nebula to earth is around 400 light years away; if the shuttle were travelling at near light-speed, space would appear distorted, so it must be travelling much slower than that). The return trip in the Axiom is clearly at warp speed. If it's a light drive, then it takes another 400 or so years for humanity to get back to Earth; if it's a hyper-light drive or a wormhole system, it could take as little time the few seconds it looks like in the film. Either way, there's plenty of time for the plants to flourish on Earth since the beginning of the film.
22	*** This is kind of thrown off by WALL•E's pet cockroach still being around and waiting for him, meaning it couldn't have taken that long for him to go and get back.
23	* Disobeying directives. At first, EVE thinks of nothing ''but'' her directive, but as she increasingly gains human emotions thanks to her contact with WALL•E, it becomes less important to her, until she has to make a choice between [[spoiler:staying with the broken WALL•E and continuing to try to repair him or delivering the plant to the captain. She chooses to [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight try to fix WALL•E]]]]. In contrast, AUTO never, ever strays from ''his'' directive, no matter what extreme measures he has to take to obey it. ([[spoiler:such as throwing WALL•E down the garbage can after shocking him, confining the captain to headquarters, or forcing EVE to watch WALL•E get seriously hurt and nearly killed.]]) It's essentially what makes him a ShadowArchetype to EVE.
24	* The robots display subtle signs of already existing sentience just as WALL•E did. We might initially pass off EVE's behaviour as being a more advanced model for scouting, but the robots on the Axiom show these signs even before WALL•E inspires them to be more, such as the easily missed glancing gesture that the alarm bot makes when a fallen John begs for help. Until WALL•E came along, they stuck to their directive.
25	** There is implied fridge horror, however, that the malfunctioning bots are simply the natural tendency of sentient beings to mentally snap under the burden of such a restricted existence.
26	** As an alternative, the "Malfunctioning" bots were NEVER defective or malfunctioning. They were asserting independent thought outside of their directives, and thus DEEMED "malfunctioning". A real world parallel would be societies where those who didn't conform were tossed into asylums and deemed "mad" because they didn't follow what the society thought of as "right". (As an example, people used to be committed to asylums for "Hysteria", simply because they were outspoken, or chose not to marry, or had a temper).
27	* Near the beginning of the movie, Eve's fondness of her {{BFG}} and general trigger-happy tendencies seem a little brash for a well programmed, professional piece of equipment. Of course, that's just the point- Eve was programmed to think of Earth as wild and dangerous for living things, just like Auto. To her, Earth is the land of EverythingTryingToKillYou.
28	** Not only that, but remember who's ''really'' in control here: Auto. Auto is the one who's actually running the show, Auto is the one controlling everything. It's entirely possible Eve was sent to Earth with the directive of 'recover living sample', only for Auto to slightly change it on her way there to 'DESTROY living sample'. It's only when she stopped instinctively following her orders and got to know Wall-E, when he showed her the plant and she actually ''saw what it was'' that she went back to following her original directive.
29	* Buy n Large never learned. It's ''still'' compacting its trash into cubes and throwing it out, even on the Axiom.
30	** Which leads to another question: where is the Axiom getting its raw materials for the products that it uses and throws away?
31	*** The nebula that they're hanging out in contains raw elements for lifetimes. They've surely got the technology to handle that. The question is why don't they recycle? Do the robots self-replicate? Who made those mice???
32	*** Maybe the mice were made to gather any recyclable material.
33	*** Maybe there was a trailing ship that collects the cubes for processing (WALL-Ps, if you will). The Axiom was a liner, not a factory.
34	*** While the Captain was doing the system check, he asked the computer about "regenerating food stores" or something along those lines. It's possible that there's replicator-like technology (ala Star Trek) that produces more of the same food, again and again.
35	* All the robots having to interact with machines by pushing buttons seems dumb, but when you look at how AIs work, it makes perfect sense. The easiest way to get an out-of-control AI is to let a bunch of them network together and share information and processing power without human oversight. By making sure the only way they can interact with each other is through buttons and switches, you can keep the robots from evolving into something uncontrollable.
36	* Assuming that the closing image of plants growing outside the city is real-time, and not a glimpse of Earth's future recovery, the cockroach's survival and presence of WALL•E's plant make more sense. They're ''not'' lone survivors of their respective species; they're organisms that just happen to have wandered (as wind-blown seed in the plant's case) out of the already-vegetated areas. The only reason that WALL•E hadn't realized that life was thriving outside the city's fringe is that he'd not yet run out of trash to scoop and compact in the city, so never left the area which had been most heavily-polluted and thus took longest to recover. Likewise, the only reason that the ''Axiom'' hadn't returned to Earth centuries ago was that all previous [=EVE=]-probes were eliminated by AUTO before they could activate the green-leaf signal, not having a stowaway around to disrupt the landing-bay area and prevent this [=EVE=] from being disposed of quietly, too.
37	** Or perhaps, the city was just where WALL•E stockpiled the trash (e.g. his personal landfill). Given how much trash there was, he was probably spending as much time maintaining the city and his roadways as he was getting new trash. The plant might have caught his attention for its unusual nature rather than its uniqueness, e.g. he found it odd that a plant would be growing in the trash rather than with the rest of the plants.
38	* Whether it happens in RealLife is for us to find out, but of course EternalEnglish is present on the Axiom! Everything is recorded, so the sound never degenerates or distorts, and so all humans born and raised have an audio guide to speaking a language that, due to in-universe DiedDuringProduction, cannot be changed or reprogrammed.
39	* Various "the world after humanity" documentaries show the world returning to a near-pristine condition in less than a century of total human abandonment. Even our tallest skyscrapers would crumble to dust within 100 years, petroleum products (oil, gasoline, plastics, etc.) break down in mere years, metals corrode, etc. By 700 years there would be no sign humanity had ever stood on this world's surface. However, the denuded, waterless, dust-storm-swept Earth that [=BnL=] left behind would take much longer to recover-- certainly not just a century. That plant life was starting to reappear in sheltered places was a small miracle in itself, which brings us to the start of the movie!
40	* MeaningfulName: The first E in EVE stands for Extraterrestrial, suggesting that her model was originally for searching for plant life on other planetary bodies, on Mars or some kind of Exosolar Planet. Once things were looking bad for the Earth, those models could just as easily be sent to it, without much change to the function or design, and therefore to the name.
41	* The ''Axiom'' is a literal ark that people use to escape an uninhabitable Earth until it's recovered enough for them to return. EVE's sleek white design is no accident: [[spoiler:she's the [[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+8:6-8:12 dove]] who brings back a living plant as proof that it's safe to disembark.]]
42	** She also closely resembles an egg, especially in her dormant form. Eggs, which hatch into young animals, have long been used as symbols of renewing life.
43	* Why would the WALL•As stop what they're doing and give EVE a lit space to fix WALL•E in? Because he's probably their predecessor and they can recognize that.
44	* At the beginning of WALL•E, the song playing has the lyrics "And we won't come home until we kissed a girl!" And what's one of the things that helps bring WALL•E back to his senses? A kiss from Eve.
45	** Another lyric from the song is “Girls in white”, guess what color EVE is.
46	* WALL•E's boot-up sound is an Apple Macintosh sound. Of course, RuleOfFunny and a cute reference to Pixar's parent company. But specifically it's the boot-up sound of a Performa desktop computer. The Performa was Apple's workhorse computer of the 1990s: a simple and durable machine produced in large quantities, nothing fancy or super-powerful, but capable and reliable. This sums up WALL•E as well.
47	* Another thing that could make sense about the religious parallels: When this troper was watching the movie, they realized something; before WALL•E broke the communication device on her chair, Mary was wearing blue clothes. Guess what color is prominently featured (besides white) in most representations of the Virgin Mary?
48	* A comment on a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwTbIZen8IY video]] states that when WALL•E disturbs Mary's speaker, she loses connection and her previously blue outfit (which was recently recommended by the computer) changes back to red and she notices the reality of the world around her. It is quite similar to ''Franchise/TheMatrix''. Take the blue pill, and you stay in the virtual world, take the red pill, and you will see the reality of the world.
49	* Captain [=McCrea=] is surprisingly capable for someone who has spent their whole life in a banal, meaningless existence-- He's able to quickly adapt to changing situations, organize large groups of people to accomplish goals, and outsmart his opponent multiple times by exploiting subtle flaws to achieve his objectives. He's also extremely driven, motivated, and willing to change course when given new evidence, unlike the inflexible AUTO. Then again, of course he is. Possessing these qualities is probably what got him appointed Captain in the first place, because they're all qualities of a ''good leader.''
50	* The idea of the Autopilot being the film's antagonist can be interpreted in two ways. The first is the literal interpretation, with AUTO controlling everything aboard the Axiom and refusing to return to Earth. But there's another way of thinking about this. The Axiom's human passengers have been doing the same thing day in and day out for centuries. They've never had to make any decisions for themselves until WALL•E comes along. In other words, the humans are all stuck on autopilot!
51	* The ''Axiom'' was clearly outside our solar system - possibly outside the Milky Way, going by the throwaway shot of WALL•E seeing it. Why bother sending ships meant to temporarily relocate the population out that far? Chances are that was never the intention, but with Directive A113, AUTO may have subtly steered the vessel farther out to keep people from even thinking about Earth.
52	* According to [[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/axiom#:~:text=In%20mathematics%20or%20logic%2C%20an,an%20example%20of%20an%20axiom Merriam-Webster]], an ''axiom'' is an unprovable rule or first principle accepted as true because it is self-evident or particularly useful. All the inhabitants of the ''Axiom'' (at least until [[BlitheSpirit WALL•E]] shows up) live out the constructed "directive" of their lives as though that were the self-evident and/or unquestionable thing to do.
53	* It likely isn't a coincidence that WALL•E, EVE, and MO have eyes that express emotion, but AUTO and GO-4 do not.
54	* Why does M-O, the obsessive cleaning robot, only recognise WALL•E as "[[CharacterCatchphrase FOREIGN CONTAMINANT]]" when the entire dump is filled with garbage that he should have logically picked up on? Because technically, the garbage in the dump was created aboard the Axiom and thus isn't "foreign" to the Axiom the same way WALL•E is.
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57	* One might expect at the beginning that all humanity was evacuated onto the spacecraft. But near the end, the entire populace aboard the ship is visible; the population of a small town. Now one might ask: Did they really abandon more than 99% of the Earth's population on the planet (which, at that point of time would have been much bigger than 8.000.000.000)? And, if yes, where are the remains? There must be remains (well, at least skeletons) or at least survivors on Earth. If there are any of both, they are never shown. Then again, one might think that the ship once held all of earth's population on board (and that it naturally decreased over the dozens of dozens of generations in those 700 years), but in the aforementioned final shot, it is apparent, that it never could have held any more people than were presently on board (the aforementioned small town). So, what happened to the other people that possibly made it on board? Well, [[WildMassGuessing any answer and conclusion that we come to]] could easily pass as rather disturbing.
58	** You're forgetting something, though, there were other ships. The one that the movie takes place on was the flagship, or the main one leading the others. Of course, it does beg the question of whatever happened to the other ships. Did the signal to go back to Earth reach them? Did they die out and AUTO never told anyone? Did AUTO possibly disable the other ships as a big "screw you" before his deactivation?
59	*** Watch the credits closely-- one of the shots is of escape pods landing and more humans coming out. So they got back, eventually.
60	*** You also have to consider that any people left behind would have disintegrated by the time of the movie. We know it's been at least 700 years, and the planet was so toxic that you required a gas mask/oxygen tank. And the soil couldn't support plant life for that entire time. So, we know that the air and ground were toxic, and we can surmise that the water was as well. No living thing could survive for long without radical adaptation or suffering horrific respiratory issues. Also, if the world was that toxic, it was probably capable of breaking down flesh and bone faster than normal.
61	** The [[spoiler:Directive A113]] recording implies that there were people left behind, such as ADO Shelby Forthright and some [=BnL=] personnel, presumably to oversee the clean-up work while everyone else was off in space. On the other hand, Forthright's ragged appearance and the sirens blaring in the video suggest that what's left of civilization was falling apart from all the toxicity. One has to wonder what became of all of them...
62	*** Shelby's final "let's get the heck out of here" implies that he has someplace to '''go'''. He may have just meant another building in some miserable company compound, but if you want to be optimistic, perhaps [=BnL=] had saved one last ship.
63	** In the "Operation Recolonize" message that [=McCrea=] gets when EVE comes back positive, if you listen closely when Shelby says "And the Axiom will immediately navigate your return to Earth!", it sounds a lot like "Axiom" was inserted there later. This implies that there were other ships and the one base message was edited accordingly, otherwise "Axiom" wouldn't have such a different tone and inflection compared to the rest of the sentence.
64	*** WordOfGod in the movie script confirms this, noting it as sounding like a bad edit.
65	** The existence of other ships doesn't necessarily imply the existence of enough to house earth's entire population. It would seem out of character for a ruthless, greedy megacorporation like Buy n' Large to undertake such a monumental humanitarian task as that. Most likely they built a limited number of ships, sold tickets to those who could afford them, and left everyone else behind. Probably only the very wealthy were saved.
66	** In the scene in the store where WALL•E gets chased by carts, you can briefly see a banner advertising an "Evacuation Sale" (70% off), so we may presume that whomever was initially left evacuated later.
67	* WALL•E takes pieces of his fallen friends and comrades for himself so that he can stay alive. Cannibalism, anyone?
68	** More like donating organs, really. He's not eating them or even using them as fuel, he's replacing broken parts of his body.
69	** Plus, we see him take off his treads when he enters his "house"... maybe those sorts of things are more like clothes. It's still a bit creepy to take clothes off of corpses, but not ''that'' creepy.
70	** Also, he's a trash compactor. He probably wasn't programmed with a respect for the dead, since his life's purpose is to compress chunks of unmoving metal.
71	* Let's see... [=BnL=] is the government and owns every business. Communism?
72	** You got it backwards, dude. [=BnL=] is a business and owns every government. Capitalism.
73	** No, communism is the elimination of private property ''entirely''. If the government owns all the means of production, that's closer to socialism, not communism. Communism would be if the means of production were owned by ''nobody'', but instead were treated as though they were owned by everybody and could be used according to need instead of possession.
74	** And then we have an interesting point; since [=BnL=] is a business that owns every single government, it may have effectively become ''the Government'' itself. Like Capitalism and Communism combined.
75	*** Which would be Mercantilism: Everything devoted to production, manufacture and labor, aiming for the highest return on the lowest investment while making sure that customers can still buy the product. Classic mercantilism emphasizes domestic production over more expensive importation, so [=BnL=] made everything theirs, and thus "domestic".
76	* It's presumed that all Pixar movies so far take place in the same universe. In pretty much all of the Pixar movies, one can find a reference to another Pixar movie. In WALL•E, the Pizza Planet truck can be seen, just briefly, in the garbage pile. In WesternAnimation/ToyStory3, it's even shown that Buzz Lightyear runs on Buy n Large batteries. Seeing the other Pixar movies making references to each other implies that they're all linked together (such as ''Franchise/ToyStory'' references in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', ''Cars'', and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1''.). That means that in ''WALL•E'', a film taking place in the future, all the characters from the other movies may be dead. Seeing how polluted the earth is, [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo clownfish may even be extinct.]] If the toys from ''Franchise/ToyStory'' haven't died yet, it means that they just wander the wasteland forever, no one to play with them and only waiting for death...
77	** Well, yeah, but that's not to say they all didn't live long, happy lives. It's like if they made a movie about dinosaurs. Unless it ends with a meteor flying through the sky, it's not confirmed that they died immediately. But still, by the time the other movies take place, [[ForegoneConclusion dinosaurs have gone extinct.]] The lovable characters have died by then, but life goes on. It's not that bad.
78	** Actually, all of a sudden, ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' [[FridgeBrilliance makes perfect sense]]. The automobiles are all the super-advanced AI-controlled automobiles that everybody left behind when they abandoned Earth.
79	** If I recall correctly, there was a man named Andy in the prequel comic, ''Out There''...
80	** Now that I think about it, we've seen how "built to last" B&L products are. Assuming Woody etc. are B&L products or at least repaired with B&L parts, who’s to say Andy's family and friends haven't been passing the gang down to other kids for 700 years? Just because we don't see toys doesn't mean there aren't any.
81	** Of course, given how passive and disconnected everybody seems to be, if Woody and the gang are on the Axiom, they're probably hanging out in a storage room somewhere. [[FridgeHorror or they were compacted and dumped by the WALL-As.]]
82	*** If that was the case, at least Buzz would be alright, since he's a spaceman.
83	*** '''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 YOU.]] [[SuddenlyShouting ARE.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis A.]] [[BerserkButton TOY!!!]]'''
84	** The monster world in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' likely had a massive energy crisis as the human population dwindled. If they didn't find a new energy source that isn't human dependent, things may have went full apocalypse.
85	* One of the robots in the repair ward is defibrillating everything in sight. WALL•E lets her loose. Where was she between being released and when we next see her? The residential quarters? The daycare? Where??
86	** The D-FIB in question is introduced shocking a test dummy and setting it on fire. That could just mean that her paddles have too much charge and would electrocute the patient she was trying to save, not that she was going out of her way to shock anything and everything.
87	* As noted by another troper above, Pixar loves referencing its own canon in each new film. WALL•E collects things that he finds while compacting trash, and one of the items briefly glimpsed in his home is Rex the dinosaur from the Toy Story trilogy, in good condition! Assuming that toys are indefinitely sentient, this Rex has quietly witnessed the centuries of self-indulgent destruction of everything he once knew back in Andy's room. By the time the events of this movie take place, he's likely consigned himself to just remain on WALL•E's shelf for the rest of eternity.
88	** Of course, Rex could be up and about while WALL•E is off at work, which could make for a pretty interesting (albeit creepy) spin-off short... are you reading this, Pixar and/or Wallace Shawn?
89	*** Who says this is the same Rex from Toy Story? This Rex could have an entirely different personality and backstory, which could make said spin off much more interesting..
90	* Somewhere on that ship is a cute robot system for disposal of dead bodies.
91	** And that is more horrifying than the kind of body disposal that we engage in now because...?
92	*** Did anyone else wonder what's in the slurpee-goo they "eat"?
93	** Oh God, are you saying its the equivalent of Soylent Green?
94	*** Buy N' Large[[TradeSnark ™]] Cupcake-In-A-Cup[[TradeSnark ™]] is people!
95	* One has to wonder why there is such thing as a self-destruct button in the escape pods. Imagine if said pod got somehow damaged, misguided, or any rescuer failed to retrieve it. Instead of a slow, painful, death by starvation or thirst, the self-destruct would be almost a blessing.
96	* There seems to be a strikingly small number of young children shown, given the massive number of passengers on the ship. Many ads that we're getting even today (seven centuries prior, by default) go out of their way to mention that one's heart has to be in a certain level of health for sexual activity. If the humans did stay in space like Auto wanted, they might have eventually fizzled out because no one was healthy enough to reproduce.
97	** Unless the reproductive organs were to shut down or there are robots designed to help with sexual activity (dating may have been more of an online thing, but people were still dating on the Axiom), artificial insemination may have been commonplace.
98	* One of the defective robots appears to be incredibly violent and erratic, being able to destroy every single robot-guard by his own, but if you realize, that kind of robot is supposed to be a massage robot... so, probably someone was beaten really hard by this robot before they sent it to repair.
99	** We see the massage robot messaging a human, so we can assume the the robot fixed itself automatically or was just simply overcharged.
100	* The film depicts WALL•E as the last functioning cleaner-robot on earth, without any explicit reason for his survival compared to all other WALL•E's. But during the first moments of the movie we see WALL•E come across a non-functioning WALL•E, with the next scene showing us that he stole the dead WALL•E's tires. WALL•E survived when everyone else broke down because he recycled.
101	* While it's up for debate whether the field of green plants that we see at the end of the film were there all along, or are a glimpse of the Earth's future, consider what the former could mean in the context of how we see AUTO handle a positive result of an EVE pod. Maybe in the past another EVE also came back positive, but AUTO managed to get rid of the plant before the Captain saw it. After all, there's been many Captains already, who's to say that the previous one before Captain [=McCrea=] didn't also get a "false alarm" call once or twice, or any Captain before that? It's entirely possible that AUTO's been secretly getting rid of retrieved plants for '''years''', and the only reason he didn't succeed this time is because of an unplanned for variable (i.e. WALL•E).
102	* It's never explained how the humans on the Axiom use the restroom, especially since they're too fat to move on their own. Then you remember the above-mentioned FridgeBrilliance of them being based on infants, and you realize that most likely they wear adult diapers of some sort. Which means... [[{{Squick}} yeah]].

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