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WALL-E is a 2008 American CGI science-fiction romantic comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton.

The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future. He falls in love with another robot named EVE, who also has a programmed task, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity. Both robots exhibit an appearance of free will and emotions similar to humans, which develop further as the film progresses.

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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, although neither does the plant that has yet to…
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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 issued, declaring Earth a lost cause and setting…
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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 through rock, raises nuclear-like mushroom…
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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 referred to as functionally illiterate. And consider…
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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. We even see the Axiom itself keeps throwing…
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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, and it got me to thinking. What kind of plant is…
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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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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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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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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 to it for several generations by now. However,…
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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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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 to directive A113. Well then, why did Auto even…
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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 life been found on Earth again previously and…
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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 wiki page, the Axiom is located in the Kuiper…
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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 seconds. Can someone correct me on this?
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