Questions tagged [wall-e]
WALL-E is a 2008 American CGI science-fiction romantic comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton.
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Why can't EVE get out of uncompressed garbage?
At the start of the clip below, EVE appears to be struggling to come out of uncompressed garbage (e.g. before she gets 'cubed').
Why can't she just fly out of the pile?
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How did the Wall-As exit the Axiom after landing?
We see in the film that the Wall-A robots move along grooved tracks.
However, we see at least one outside the ship in the end credits.
Since they travel on rails, how did they exit The Axiom?
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When EVE is flying, why does her blue trails only appear in space?
Notice that when EVE is flying on Earth and in the Axiom, she doesn't leave blue trails. In space, she leaves blue trails. Why is this so?
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What "motor" revs up just before EVE takes the plant?
When Wall-E shows EVE the plant, it sounds like some sort of motor revs up, then EVE opens her chest, takes the plant, shuts down, then turns off Wall-E's electronics. What is the "motor" ...
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Why does EVE try to shoot Billy Bass?
In Wall-E's home, once Billy Bass starts singing, EVE points her gun at it. Since it's not living, it's harmless. Why does EVE try to shoot Billy Bass anyway?
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When EVE shut down, how did Wall-E's electronics turn off?
When EVE got the plant in Wall-E and shut down, everything in Wall-E's home turned off. How?
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How will each of Axiom's robots in Wall•E (besides AUTO, EVE, and WALL•E) be used on Earth?
I am wondering what happens to The Axiom and its robots after the humans inhabited Earth again. Wall•E and EVE will love each other forever, while AUTO is useless on Earth.
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How did Wall-E keep his memory of Eve when he was rebuilt?
Wall-E suffered some pretty severe injuries and needed a large chunk of his circuitry replaced. How did he retain (or regain) his memory of Eve after he had been rebuilt, and was her 'kiss' somehow ...
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What is the code that appears during AUTO's analysis?
In a deleted scene of WALL-E, ("Secret Files"), when AUTO analyses the plant, a code appears on the screen before a pop up saying "ORIGIN-EARTH".
What does this code say, and what ...
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What is the inspiration for the name of directive A-113 on the BNL Starliner?
I recently came across some questions about WALL-E and Space Odyssey (featuring HAL9000), and I thought that directive A-113 (which I admit I misremembered as AE-134) and the faulty component AE-35 ...
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Was "Eve" setup for literal destruction by Auto, but Wall-E saved her?
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I was watching Wall-E with my daughters (again) and there was a part where the Storm came upon them both, and Eve was caught up badly. I thought "how would she have survived without ...
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Is WALL•E responsible for the trash designs?
In the movie, WALL•E, we see that he has compacted the trash, then he builds a "building" out of the blocks.
Is that WALL•E's own doing, or is that part of his programming?
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Why didn’t EVE recognize the little cockroach as a living organism?
Why didn’t EVE recognize the little cockroach as a living organism just like the plant? The cockroach possesses all characteristics sustainable in life as the plant with the exception of reproduction, ...
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How Did the Space Junk Stay in Orbit in Wall-E? [closed]
In the Disney/Pixar film Wall-E, we see space junk practically covering Earth's atmosphere in orbit... how? If it had been years, generations even, since man had been to Earth, shouldn't all of that ...
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Why do the robots on the Axiom keep the humans alive? [closed]
Okay, the obvious answer is "the robots were programmed to keep the people alive" but hear me out here.
Buy N Large is a profit-making company. One of the central themes of the film is wasteful ...
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Why did the hover-chairs deploy oxygen masks when the captain activated the Holo-Detector and the passengers went to the Lido Deck?
Why did the hover-chairs deploy oxygen masks when the captain activated the Holo-Detector and the passengers went to the Lido Deck?
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What languages does EVE speak?
In Wall-E there is a scene where E.V.E asks Wall-E what his "directive" is, but she first asks it in three different languages; what are those languages that E.V.E speaks?
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Why is EVE heavily armed and trigger-happy?
EVE robots are probes looking for fragile signs of returning life. Earth conditions are unknown but there is little reason to expect anyone hostile.
Why equip her with such a strong weapon (melts ...
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Where do babies come from (on the Axiom)?
Seeing this excerpt from Wall•E
in Richard's answer to another Wall•E question I wondered how the kids came into being.
Surely they must have been conceived on the Axiom as humans have been confined ...
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What kind of plant did EVE find?
In WALL•E, EVE found a plant when visiting Earth for a routine check. When reading this question about the plant, it is called a pea plant. However, it does not actually look much like a pea plant, ...
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Were people in Wall•E illiterate?
It seems like all interfaces are video and using pictographs. The very little text we see is things like RED or BnL which perhaps are more recognized as symbols than really read — I think that's ...
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Was the pea plant the first plant found in Wall-E?
We know that Wall-E finds the pea plant and Auto goes out of his way to destroy the evidence. But it looks a bit like those procedures had already been formed in the past.
This begs the question: had ...
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Why was the Axiom located so far away from Earth?
Axiom's (and the other cruise spacecrafts') function was to safeguard humanity for generations as it cruised through space until the EVE probes returned promising results from Earth.
According to the ...
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Why does Auto wake up the ship's captain when EVE returns?
When EVE returns to the ship, Auto is notified of the findings. He then proceeds to wake up the captain to let him know of the plant. Then they open EVE and don't find anything: Auto got rid of it due ...
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Are there other cruise ships in WALL•E universe?
In the beginning an advertisement said ships are leaving every day. But we only see one ship in the movie.
As the title says;
Are there other cruise ships in WALL•E universe?
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Why does Wall•E have recording equipment?
I can't see how being able to record sound would be useful to a portable rubbish compactor.
Bonus points for explaining why it seems to be analogue!
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How can the people in the Axiom survive for 700 years?
In WALL•E, it's established that the 5-year spaceship has been keeping people alive for 700 years. Also, it's clear that (at least before they all left the Earth), the garbage problem was never solved....
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Was the hyperdrive in WALL-E faster than the norm?
In WALL-E, the Axiom entered hyperspace incredibly fast, and it looked identical to Star Wars. If I didn't know, I would assume the Axiom was very far from Earth and entered the solar system within ...
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In WALL•E, what kind of economy was used on the Axiom?
We never see any human do any kind of job on the Axiom, except for the Captain. However, on the 700th anniversary, the passengers all receive a free drink. Does that imply that they have to pay for ...
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Was Earth the only planet used as a garbage dump by the Buy & Large corporation?
In the movie WALL-E, the Earth is made a garbage dump, Why are no other planets used as garbage dumps?
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What kind of battery does WALL•E run on?
WALL•E has been working for several hundred years and one of the keys to this is his ability to use parts of broken robots to replace his own broken parts.
Now this won't work with the electrical ...
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In WALL•E, why does everyone get thrown when the Axiom suddenly lists?
In WALL•E when Captain McCrea is fighting for control of the Axiom, he ends up forcing the ship to abruptly list when he's thrown off of Auto. This, of course, has the undesirable side effect of ...
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Why was Wall•E the only remaining Wall•E unit?
In the movie WALL•E the Buy n Large company intiates the five year plan "Operation Clean-Up" to clean Earth and make it habitable again. Eventually the plan is deemed a failure and directive A113 is ...
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