This article is about the character. For the film, see here.
- “Working to Dig You Out”
- ―Buy n Large's WALL-E sponsor slogan
WALL- E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-Class, with the formal designation N. 62675) is the titular protagonist of the 2008 Disney/Pixar animated feature film of the same name. He is the last active unit of a line of waste-collector drones created by the Buy n Large corporation initially programmed to haul the garbage plaguing Earth in the distant future. Unexpectedly, his years of loneliness and unending work allowed him to gain a consciousness of his own, and a wish for something else in life to come. One day, his world is turned upside-down when he meets another robot from outer space.
Background[]
Physical appearance[]
WALL-E has twin, extending, hydraulic arm shovels with articulated fingers mounted on U-shaped tracks to his sides. His locomotion is achieved with treads sporting four independently actuated sprockets for stability. The tracks on his treads can be removed by unclipping the hinge pins on a single joint. His front opens up his body cavity in which he gathers and compresses trash. His head contains his audio-visual sensors mounted on a long, articulated neck, enabling him to see in any direction. All his extremities — arms, treads, and head — retract back into his cube-shaped body for easier storage, referred to as "boxing" in the movie script. He reverts to this shape whenever sleeping (or hiding). A hook on his back served some unknown purpose (perhaps for self-storage aboard the transport). He now uses it to carry his BnL Igloo-style cooler to work, which holds a pair of hand tools and a can of spray lubricant, likely for self-maintenance on the job site, but also fills it full of interesting bits of trash he picks up at work so he can take them home. His chassis is reinforced, mostly to give him the strength necessary to compact trash in his body cavity. As such, he is able to survive most environmental dangers, including long falls, extreme heat, the vacuum of space, and being trapped in a hydraulic actuator much larger than himself.
While it is clear that WALL-E could have been made with more sophisticated technology (such as the LED eyes of EVE and several other kinds of robots aboard the Axiom), the design choices made for WALL-E favor durability and most importantly, the easy replacement of parts. This allowed WALL-E to keep himself fully functional over his seven centuries of service.
His main coloring is the same shade of yellow that is used for construction vehicles.
Personality[]
Because WALL-E has been alone for 700 years, he has developed a "glitch": sentience and a personality. He has become very curious and he keeps anything interesting he can find. Even though he still obediently follows his directive, WALL•E can get distracted, collecting the trash rather than compacting it. His most prized possession, "Hello, Dolly!", teaches him how to hold hands, which he considers the way to say, "I love you."
He has become very lonely, having nobody but Hal the cockroach as his company, and is beginning to wonder whether there is more to life than his directive. So when he meets EVE, he quickly falls in love with her. WALL•E is very protective of EVE. When she shuts down after getting the plant, WALL-E places her on top of his transport (thinking she is charged by solar energy just as he is) and protects her from the weather waiting for her to "recharge". At the repair center, he mistakes the equipment there as trying to torture her and rushes to her aid. When EVE is frustrated and discomforted by his interventions, he quickly remorses about it and knows when to back out in dangerous situations and let EVE handle the dealing, but still insists to follow and help her complete her directive.
When he first learns about love, WALL-E is fascinated and wants to find someone he loves for himself. When around EVE, he attempts to demonstrate his love for her in the best way he can, even when she didn't reciprocate his feelings at first. As the film progresses, however, WALL-E is able to understand the importance of how love isn't just about holding hands, but taking time to know each other, trusting people, and accepting who they are and what they are meant for.
WALL•E's friendly demeanor has an effect on the other robots and humans he meets. For instance, he causes M-O to act on his own, leaving his pre-set travel path to follow WALL-E trying to clean him, and he teaches TYP-E how to wave good-bye. He also breaks John and Mary out of the technology-induced reverie that consumed the lives of all the other passengers aboard the Axiom, wherein they learn how to enjoy the world and each other's company for the first time in their lives. Even the dirt on his chassis provided Captain B. McCrea the impetus necessary to become interested in the history of and subsequent return to Earth. Most importantly, he is instrumental in EVE's growth and development, from rigidly following her programming to learning how to love him in return.
WALL-E can also show a little bit of bravery, as such when he proceeds to continue forward, even in the most serious situations or when he is hurt or damaged. As such, when he followed EVE to the Axiom out to space, he didn't have the slightest concern of what space would appear to him and instead admired them, as far as charging himself upon the sun. He also demonstrated this when attempting to hold the holo-detector from closing for the plant to be placed in. He can also be willing to put others before his wish, as such when he had the chance to hold EVE's hand when she finally returned his feelings, but declined them in the process, instead telling her to complete her directive to return to Earth in order for him to be fixed.
While he may make some sort of mistake and be blamed for it, WALL-E holds no grudge toward anybody (even EVE) for their mistreatment towards him. Additionally, WALL-E is very forgiving and determined to set things right, as he helped EVE save the plant that was stolen from her despite how rigorous she was to him. Afterwards, EVE was grateful for WALL-E aiding her and was apologetic for how frustrated she was with him, for which WALL-E forgives EVE and accepts her friendship. It shows that even though WALL-E knows someone will be upset (whether at him or not), he'll own up and try to improve of his actions.
Possibly due to centuries of living alone, WALL-E used to have a desperate need to please others. This was most likely out of fear of losing the new friend he had made in EVE. This is shown when he brought EVE back to his home in the middle of a sandstorm and he showed her all of the knick-knacks he had collected throughout the years. When EVE had deactivated after collecting the plant he had found, WALL-E not only protected her from the environmental harms that had occurred while she was offline, but took her sightseeing and out on dates, which was what caused EVE to become even more infatuated with him when learning about this.
Even though WALL-E may seem to be naive and clumsy, he is exceptionally resourceful as evidenced by his knowledge of using car batteries for powering up the lights in his truck, used a lens to expand the small screen on his iPod to watch Hello Dolly, collected spare parts from his counterparts in case he needed to repair himself, dug himself in the ground to protect himself from the afterburners of the transport ship that dropped off EVE, used a fire extinguisher as a thruster to fly around in space, and played his built-in recorder as a call for help in which the malfunctioning robots responded.
Abilities[]
- Construction: He has twin, extending, hydraulic arm shovels with articulated fingers mounted on U-shaped tracks to his sides. His locomotion is achieved with treads sporting four independently-actuated sprockets for stability. The tracks on his treads can be removed by unclipping the hinge pins on a single joint. His front opens up his body cavity in which he gathers and compresses trash. His head contains his audio-visual sensors mounted on a long, articulated neck, enabling him to see in any direction. All his extremities - arms, treads, and head - retract back into his cube-shaped body for easier storage, referred to as "boxing" in the movie script. He reverts to this shape whenever sleeping (or hiding). A hook on his back served some unknown purpose (perhaps for self-storage aboard the transport). He now uses it to carry around his BnL Igloo-style cooler full of interesting bits of trash he picks up at work. His hull is reinforced, mostly to give him the strength necessary to compact trash in his body cavity. As such, he is able to survive most environmental dangers, including long falls, extreme heat, the vacuum of space, and being trapped in a hydraulic actuator much larger than himself.
- While it is clear that WALL-E could have been made with more sophisticated technology (such as the LED eyes of EVE and several other kinds of robots aboard the Axiom), the design choices made for WALL-E favor durability and most importantly, the easy replacement of parts. This allowed WALL-E to keep himself fully functional over his seven centuries of service.
- Regeneration Unit: He has a solar-powered regeneration unit as his power source. Super-high-efficiency solar panels unfold from the top of his chest and recharge the batteries contained adjacent to his control system. These batteries are capable of powering him for upwards of a day's hard work. A read-out on his chest gives his current charge level and beeps an alarm when his power level has drained dangerously low. The panels can be removed to expose auxiliary battery leads that can be used to jump-start WALL-E, or for him to jump-start some other electric mechanism.
- Control System: All of WALL-E's control electronics are contained within the cavity in the front of his chest. All of his systems are controlled through a central motherboard. WALL-E's eyes are camera lenses, indicating that visual recognition is his primary means of navigation. They can magnify and resolve images at a distance, even independently if necessary. In addition to visual, he appears to have audio and some rudimentary tactile sense, given that he can detect things that his hands or treads touch. He also contains an alert system, warning him when dust storms are approaching on Earth's surface. Speakers mounted to his chest allow him to communicate audibly. He possesses a recorder with external controls - stop, record, play - which he uses to record songs from the Hello, Dolly!. What function it originally served is unknown (perhaps to play and record Buy n Large jingles and slogans to humans before they left Earth).
- Trash Disposal: Two powerful hydraulic presses on his back operate his compactor function, compressing trash in his body cavity into neat cubes that can be easily stacked and carted away. His strong, dexterous arms enable him to create stacks of trash blocks hundreds of feet high with incredible precision. Between his eyes is a high-power laser, which he typically uses to cut large pieces of trash into manageable pieces. He has a fine degree of control over the device, as he is able to use it to carefully engrave his and EVE's names on a metal trash can.
Appearances[]
WALL-E[]
WALL-E holding his own hands for the first time.
In the year 2110, rising toxicity levels make life unsustainable on Earth. After all the humans leave Earth aboard giant spaceships, millions of WALL-E robots and a lesser amount of mobile incinerators are left behind to clean up the dirty planet. But after 700 years, the incinerators and all but one WALL-E robot have failed. This last operational WALL-E (N. 62675) is still hard at work, blissfully unaware of the futility of his situation. During this time, he befriends a cockroach (whom he names Hal). Though he continues obeying his directive to compact trash, as he develops curiosity, he begins saving odds and ends that fascinate him. He hides out from sandstorms and rain in his truck, spending his time sorting his collection, the pride of which is an old VHS copy of the musical "Hello, Dolly!". To keep himself going, he has taken to salvaging parts from his inoperative counterparts.
WALL-E meets EVE
One day after work, he finds a mysterious red dot that zips away from him. He follows, not noticing that there are several others behind him. Once the red thing stops, he tries to grab it, but it turns out to be a light from a massive ship coming down on him. He narrowly escapes by digging a hole into the ground to hide in. Once the ship lands, it deposits EVE, a robot sent back to Earth to evaluate the soil to check for signs of ongoing photosynthesis, proof that life is sustainable again. WALL-E is fascinated with this new robot and is excited to see someone else besides himself for the first time in hundreds of years, and soon falls in love with her, wishing to hold her hand like he'd seen done in his favorite movie. He attempts to impress her many times, but due to EVE dedicated to her mission, he fails but refuses to give up. Despite their hostile encounter, EVE soon begins to befriend WALL-E when they formally introduced each other and their directives, and when WALL-E saves her from a sandstorm. He shows her a plant he had found earlier, which she immediately takes and stores in her chest cavity before going into standby mode. Alarmed, WALL-E tries to wake her inert body but fails, so for the next several days, he protects EVE, taking her out on "dates". Eventually, he gives up on her awakening and attempts to return to work, but finds he cannot focus on his directive; EVE is all he cares about.
WALL-E and EVE at the repair ward.
When he sees her ship return to pick her up, WALL-E races to get back to EVE. Making sure Hal stays put, he clings to its hull as it travels through space to the Axiom. WALL-E is amazed to see the wonders of space for the first time, also taking the chance to recharge while in range of the sun. Once at the Axiom, he encounters the cleaner bot M-O, who tries to clean him and the other EVE probes up, only for WALL-E to make things difficult with his dirty body and in the process caused M-O to move off the path alerting a pair of SECUR-Ts and GO-4, who check on the EVE probes (scanning WALL-E in the process, though he managed to hide before GO-4 could check again) until EVE was scanned, which initiated the Recolonization protocol and called a MVR-A to take them and EVE to the bridge, with WALL-E following. WALL-E engages in a cat-and-mouse chase, pursuing the cart robot carrying EVE throughout the Axiom to the bridge, not realizing that M-O is following his trail to clean up the dirt his treads left behind. Along the way, he encounters multiple other robots as well as humans such as John (who he helped back into his hover chair after falling off when he tried to give WALL-E due to mistaking him for a drink bot) and Mary (who he opens her eyes to the world around her when he accidentally disabled her hoverchair's hologram telecommunications in an attempt to get to EVE). On reaching the bridge, WALL-E watches as the ship's wheel/autopilot AUTO scan EVE and communicate with GO-4 before accidentally getting dropped into the quarters of Captain McCrea where AUTO informs the sleeping captain that he's needed on the bridge. As WALL-E looks around the quarters, McCrea accidentally activated the his music player in an attempt to turn of his clock alarm, waking him up as a PR-T and HAN-S help him prepare for the day, with WALL-E helping by massaging the captain's toes. Afterwards, McCrea's hoverchair moved him to the elevator to the bridge to check on the ship. moving WALL-E with him in the process without his knowledge. As McCrea check on the protocol, WALL-E hides from sight, but eventually gets discovered by EVE, then Captain McCrea. EVE, who discovers the plant to be missing, presumes WALL-E to be the thief, but after failing to find the plant on him, has WALL-E help her find it. They are then both sent to maintenance. WALL-E mistakes the diagnostics to be hurting her and breaks out to try and help her, accidentally blasting the power console with her blaster and freeing other malfunctioning robots.
WALL-E and EVE dancing in space.
After a chase through the Axiom's halls evading security, EVE tries to send WALL-E home in an escape pod, but he refuses to leave her. They hide when GO-4 arrives and places the missing plant in the pod, which clears EVE's suspicions of the plant. WALL-E tries to retrieve it only for the pod to be jettisoned into space, set to self-destruct. Storing the plant in his chest and grabbing a fire extinguisher, he escapes the pod just before it explodes. EVE is so grateful he saved the plant that she kisses him, much to his surprise, then they share a space dance before re-entering the Axiom.
WALL-E getting electrocuted by AUTO
Once inside, they had to find a way to the bridge while avoiding the SECUI-Ts still looking for them. WALL-E offers to help EVE, but she tells him to stay put near the pool while she goes up the garbage chute to deliver the plant to Captain McCrea. Soon, WALL-E becomes anxious with waiting and climbs up the chute, in the process saving the plant from falling. After a fight with the plant, he is electrocuted by AUTO and sent down to the garbage depot, along with EVE. They are compacted with other garbage by WALL-E's bigger counterparts, the WALL-As (with the "A" standing for "Axiom-Class"). EVE struggles to free him before they are sucked in the vacuum of space. However, they are prevented from being sucked into the vacuum, thanks to M-O getting stuck in the inner airlock doors and the WALL-As shutting the outer doors. EVE, who had witnessed her security files of WALL-E protecting her, changes her directive to caring for him.
A weak and broken WALL-E carrying the plant to give to EVE.
WALL-E then shows his motherboard that is damaged beyond repair to EVE and tells her that his replacements are halfway across the galaxy. This finally makes EVE agree to fulfill her original directive if only to get him home so he can get repaired. With the Captain's guidance, they make their way to the holo-detector, which, when inserted with a plant, will send the Axiom back to Earth. But AUTO, still obeying a 700-year-old directive issued by Buy n Large CEO Shelby Forthright, is determined to stop them by tilting the ship. WALL-E drops the plant when he sideswipes the holo-detector, and AUTO proceeds to close the holo-detector for good. WALL-E wedges himself underneath the holo-detector to keep it from shutting and gets crushed while EVE is occupied with saving the humans from being crushed by a train. The Captain finally relieves AUTO of duty by switching him to Manual mode, shutting him down. After AUTO is defeated and the Captain rights the Axiom, EVE rushes over to the holo-detector and attempts to pry it open to free WALL-E, but to no avail. She quickly calls to the other robots and humans to retrieve the plant. M-O finds the plant, and with help from the humans and robots lined up, EVE catches the plant and places it into the holo-detector, activating the device. EVE pulls a severely damaged WALL-E out as the Axiom initiates a hyperjump straight to Earth.
WALL-E and EVE, happily reunited, share a tender moment.
As soon as they land, EVE rushes WALL-E back to his truck, where she repairs him and recharges him. WALL-E wakes back up, but his memory is wiped clean and he reverts to his original programming and directive, oblivious to EVE, Hal, and his collection. EVE attempts to help him remember, but when all her efforts fail, she becomes heartbroken and sadly holds his hand like he had wanted and gives him a farewell "kiss". As EVE prepares to leave in sorrow, WALL-E's grip on her hand tightens. His eyes then adjust, and he calls her name, making her overjoyed. The kiss has rebooted his memory. WALL-E is surprised upon waking up to see that they are holding hands. WALL-E and EVE help the Captain and Axiom passengers start a new life on Earth, and they spend the rest of their lives together.
WALL-E and EVE during the credits looking up at the tree formed by the plant.
Several years later, WALL-E is still together with EVE, holding hands as the two observe a large tree, which has grown from the same plant that WALL-E had discovered at the beginning of the film.
Other appearances[]
WALL-E makes a brief cameo in the short film, Your Friend the Rat. He is seen driving a vehicle on Mars, with several humans and rats riding in it. Ironically, this short film was released a year before WALL-E's titular film was released.
WALL-E is one of the many Pixar characters that appears in Pixar: In Real Life. He appears in two episodes: "WALL-E: Lost and Found" and "WALL-E: BnL Pop-up Shop".
A glass capsule of WALL-E (along with glass capsules of EVE and AUTO) can be seen inside one of the glass displays at Second Chance Antiques in Toy Story 4.
WALL-E makes a cameo in The Simpsons in Plusaversary, as one of the many Disney-owned characters celebrating Disney+ Day at Moe's Tavern.
A crate resembling WALL-E in his cube-shaped form appears in Lightyear, first outside the abandoned space hanger where Buzz Lightyear and Sox try to look for a new ship to use, and later inside the deck of the mining facilities as it breaks off.
Disney Parks[]
Wall-E at one of the Disney parks.
WALL-E has made appearances at some special events as an interactive audio-animatronic. The animatronic, created under the Living Character Initiative, was planned to make appearances at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom, but this was canceled over concerns that the animatronic, which is rather heavy, could run over guests' feet and cause injuries (and lawsuits), as well as reports it was constantly breaking down during backstage testing at Disneyland (one such breakdown occurred at a D23 expo meet-and-greet).
Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom[]
WALL-E has his own spell card called WALL-E's Trash Crunch.
Star Tours: The Adventures Continue[]
WALL-E makes a cameo in Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. He appears on G2-9T's luggage scanner in the queue, alongside several other Disney and Star Wars characters, apparently being smuggled onto a flight by a Star Tours passenger. A separate piece of luggage which passes by the Goose Droid is filled with objects from WALL-E's collection, including the boot with the plant growing from it.
World of Color[]
WALL-E and EVE play major roles in the show, where they fly through space to the "Define Dancing" tune from the film's score.
Disney's Harmony In Color! Parade[]
Although not physically appearing, he appears on a large, yellow petal on the finale float. He may be hard to see, as his outline could be difficult to see.
Video games[]
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]
WALL-E in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode.
WALL-E is a playable character in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode. WALL-E is a Mid-Line Control role hero. WALL-E's skills are:
- Fire Extinguisher to freeze and damage enemies
- Using Solar panel to grant to allies energy
- Creating garbage box and pushing it towards nearest enemy to damage them
WALL-E friendship campaigns are with Dash Parr and Kevin Flynn. He also has friendship campaigns with EVE, Baymax, and Animal.
In the main story of the game, EVE and WALL-E created community garden which are taking care of, together with help of other heroes in the City.
He is called by Darkwing Duck cute for a trash compactor.
LEGO The Incredibles[]
WALL-E is the Pixar Build character for his franchise in the game.
Disney Dreamlight Valley[]
WALL-E appears in this game, having retreated to his home realm through the door in the Dream Castle when The Forgetting happened. After opening it either for free once the Dream Castle was opened up, or for 3,000 Dreamlight later, WALL-E needs some help regarding some of the directives he was working on in his home realm, such as finding a spare tread for him as he has a broken one, clearing away the debris and crafting it into junk cubes, and also planting and growing some plants. Once that is finished, he agrees to return to the Valley, but first needs his transport truck that serves as his home placed somewhere in the Valley and built by Scrooge McDuck's construction firm before he emerges from the Dream Well.
After getting accustomed to the Valley, WALL-E finds a derelict garden that he would like to renovate as a way to grow crops in the Valley. Once the garden is renovated after gathering the seeds from Goofy's market stalls around the Valley, along with some trellis and burlap bags, WALL-E can use it to grow crops for free to help save the player the trouble of growing the crops themselves, with upgrading the garden reducing the energy cost the player consumes when planting crops or using their Royal Shovel to dig. A fully-leveled up garden provides 30 spaces for growing crops, which combined with Moana's canoe she uses for fishing, can really help boost the economy of the Valley.
WALL-E will be joined by EVE in the upcoming "Rift In Time" expansion to the game as EVE can be found on the new biomes alongside Gaston and Rapunzel as the player helps them deal with the effects of Jafar's sorcery on the area.
Gallery[]
Relationships[]
Trivia[]
- WALL-E is Pixar's second titular character, the first one being Nemo from Finding Nemo.
- WALL-E is also Pixar's first titular character to ever be a protagonist.
- In the WALL-E script available online, his name is spelled "Wally" (slang for a foolish or naïve person). It is also pronounced this way when referenced in the directors' commentaries.
- The sound that is heard when WALL-E's power is regenerated is the same sound that is heard when an Apple computer is turned on (specifically an iMac G3) or when Video Treasures Presents (1997) is played. Similarly, the icon of the Sun on his Solar Charge Level readout is the same as the Brightness icon on a Macintosh. These are likely references to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' involvement in the formation of Pixar Animation Studios.
- The sounds of WALL-E's treads were created by a hand-cranked electric generator when he moves around and an automobile self-starter for when he goes fast.
- The sound that WALL-E's alert system makes was later used as an alarm for both The Underminer's machine in Incredibles 2 and the Venture Ship in Strange World.
- Outside of Disney, it was also used for that of the LarryMobile in The VeggieTales Show episode "LarryBoy and the Angry Eyebrows Trouble".
- WALL-E was painted yellow to resemble a Caterpillar Inc. tractor. As a result, the garbage-strewn Earth had to have most of its color drained away so as to make him stand out.
- WALL-E shares many traits (including appearance) with another personality-prone movie robot, Johnny-5, from the 1986 sci-fi comedy movie Short Circuit. Director Andrew Stanton states this is a mere coincidence, as WALL-E's appearance is based on the character Lenny from Toy Story, and his behavior is based on Luxo Jr.
- WALL-E was seen in the short film Your Friend the Rat (during the "Plan B" sequence) that came with the Ratatouille DVD release.
- Some pictures floating around the internet have shown WALL-E making cameo appearances in every Pixar movie since Toy Story. However, all of these pictures are fake.
- WALL-E is also shown to be a great digger, which is shown when he rapidly digs a hole to hide in when the probe ship was landing, and later digs another one when the probe ship was taking off. He may have developed this ability from his years of compacting trash.
- WALL-E greatly resembles Nintendo's Robotic Operating Buddy or R.O.B. for short.
- According to Disneystrology, his birthday is September 10.
- WALL-E has eyebrow-like mechanisms that pop up from his eyes to express surprise and sometimes intrigue.
- Although WALL-E commonly mispronounces EVE's name, there are some rare instances of him pronouncing her name correctly, that being 'Eve', instead of 'Eva'.
- To date, he is the only Pixar main protagonist to die, even though he still gets revived at the end.
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