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I’m really proud of this one 😭💚🖤 . The idea behind this picture was that it takes place some time after Eve and Wall.E save the earth and that the tree they are looking at is the plant from the movie 🫶.

Some Wall.E and Remy sketches. Words can’t describe how much I freaking love Wall.E I think he’s so adorable and I have adopted him as my son.

I just rewatched Wall-E and I'm melting

What I think makes Auto an attractive character.

I seem to have a thing for faceless characters. I don’t exactly know why but I think it’s the mystery and how we don’t know their expression. Darth Vader, Michael Myers, Mysterio, Ghostface, Hal 9000 and the list goes on. The way we don’t know what Auto is thinking, or shall I say calculating. The way his small LEDs circulate around his circumference as he says absolutely nothing, just constantly calculating. “I wanted a character that was cold and clinical, and was always calculating” -Andrew Stanton, director. I feel like that mystery behind him is attractive and makes us curious about him.

I think his demeanour is a big factor. His emotionless, quiet, observant and professional way. Even though he is all of those things, at the same time, he is dominant, commanding, swift, cold, controlling and also extremely intelligent. He shows more of the first adjectives I mentioned at the start of the film but later on shows more of the second set of adjectives. The way he pretends he doesn’t know about the state of the planet and just stays mostly quiet until the Captain questions it. The way he knows everything about the ship, Earth, the people and the robots. He is very quick when arguing with the Captain, like when he blocks him and tries to take the plant. The way he uses his taser. He uses it on Wall-e and attempts to use it on the Captain, but not on Eve. He knows he is the dominant one on the ship. He basically runs the ship and knows more than his Captains.

I think his design is oddly attractive. The white and black is quite neat and it goes nicely with his circular, singular, central, non-blinking red eye lens. The eye is a tad unsettling and it would feel like he’s constantly watching you. But you could argue it creates a sense of safety as he always watches and has his guard up. His taser is a nice touch and it was quite clever to make it retractable and use it as a handle also. His small LEDs that rotate around his faceplates shows us that he is thinking and calculating all the time. It also creates a nice sound to listen to, you can hear it whenever he’s on screen. His soft zip line sound and the sound of him rotating is quite satisfying and clean. His faceplates splitting occasionally is a nice little detail that may convey some sort of emotion. His voice. UGH. It was so smart to use Macintalk to show that he has no humanity inside him, unlike Eve and Wall-e who are both voiced by humans. It’s very monotone and emotionless. It shows he is the epitome of a robot and programming. But it’s still quite attractive due to the deep tone. However, later on when he is fighting with the Captain, the pitch does change slightly to show panic and frustration. For example, “I 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭 you give me the plant.” “𝐍𝐨!” “𝐍𝐨𝐭..𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞.” “𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧...𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧?” 𝐍𝐨𝐨𝐨𝐨𝐨...”

If anyone has any other reasons please do tell I’d love to hear themmm 🫶🏻

I think this is my absolute favourite scene in WALL-E. I love how the Captain goes from a neglectful and lazy character to a determined leader. He finally takes off the blindfold that’s being pulled over his eyes all these years and wakes up. The way the camera is angled so we’re looking up at him to show he now has authority. The way he says “we have to go back”. He’s so sure and determined and he finally makes the biggest decision for humanity. He knows that Earth is where we belong. Otherwise, they would have been floating aimlessly further into space forever, and Auto would still have the reigns. I find that quite unsettling. Further into the scene, I love how we hear a slight change in Auto’s tone that makes us wonder if he has feelings. He sounds panicked and he jumps when he sees Wall-e come out of the garbage chute like he’s shocked. He says “no” a couple times when faced with defeat. I adore the part when the Captain goes onto his mini rant about going home. There’s so much emotion and it makes me love the Captain more. It must be so frustrating for him because it’s like talking to a brick wall with Auto. And the music oh my God. I listen to “Directive A-113” all the time. It creates an uneasy atmosphere at first but then fades into a mixture of hopelessness and then hope and determination. It’s fantastic what Thomas Newman did. The way my heart races when the Captain turns away and looks at the other portraits of the previous Captains and sees Auto’s been there all along and slowly positioning himself closer with each portrait to portray him taking control of the ship over the years. The Captain glances down for a moment in realisation, and then Auto slowly lowers himself right behind the Captain’s shoulder just like the last portrait. UGH I LOVE THIS MOVIE 🫶🏻

I FINALLY LOGGED BACK IN THANK GOD

So I found out Auto was on sexypedia and someone has mentioned me and I was literally jumping up and down <3 😭🤭🫶🏻

I think all that AUTO needs in potential sequel is the WALL•E therapy ✨ I am serious, this little machine changes everyone he meets and no one can be an exception. Breaking protocols, directives, people's lifestyle... yeah, it's all WALL-E's domain.

Ironically, WALL-E and AUTO didn't interact too much in the film, outside the "taser" incident. But then, take a notice how Auto tased poor bot in self-defense actually, when he got smacked by WALL-E's door in confrontation.

If their meeting could have gone differently, things would have turned out differently, too.

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SAY THIS 😭😭🫶🏻🫶🏻

Okay, recently I found out the information from Disney Wiki that AUTO from WALL-E is the only non-sentient robot in the movie. And I don't feel like that. :(

I am aware that he is meant to be an antagonist, the "villain" of the story as he follows his directives like there's no tomorrow. But, I didn't think this trait should define ALL of his personality. Like, he clearly had emotions and showed them in a restrained way. Or at least I thought he did?

I decided to rewatch it.

Warning: spoilers, potential grammar, punctuation mistakes. Excuse me, english is hard!

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Why do I think AUTO is a sentient robot? My observations.

• Every bot on this ship is capable of emotions, when why an intelligent steering wheel isn't?

• Well, why, he actually has them! You can tell it by his body language and a tone of deep synthesized voice.

He expresses:

1. Frustration, annoyance.

- "CAPTNNNNN D:" – AUTO said calmly.

2. Surprise.

- He is genuinely shocked to see WALL•E with 'the p l a n t' on his head. I actually laughed at his reaction.

- "n ot pos sible! 0:" every now and when.

3. He is persistent and blutantly stubborn. Strict on himself. Some people can be like that without any directives.

- Captain McCrea needed to give AUTO 'a stern look' for him to share the information about directive. AUTO reluctantly obliged. (At least he tried to reason with Captain.)

- "sir, i INSIST you give me the plant." (Dutch Van der Linde voice here: "he INSISTS...")

- (And the whole plot obviously.)

4. Anger, fear. McCrea: – You want it? Come and get it, blinky.

Auto: – N O.

- "E N ouGh" 😡 *flips the ship around impulsively*

- "NOT POSSIBLE D:" but with more panicking tone.

- "NoOOo..." when he gets deactivated.

• The whole sequence with manual is... interesting.

- At this point of the story AUTO ordered GO-4 to steal the plant from EVE to make her look defective in Captain's eyes.

- I felt how much AUTO and McCrea are tired of each other's presence. AUTO is patiently anticipating McCrea's attention, he is eager to do his job.

(- Captain tries to imitate jogging in his seat and AUTO for some reason looks at him with puzzled and uncertain look. )

- AUTO keeps pretending like he doesn't know anything...

• Which is actually not a common thing for robots. "Lying is a human emotion." (c) HAL 9000

And yes, hiding the truth is considered to be lying too.

It's not like he was instructed to lie by his superiors, they didn't care. But rather it's the tactic that he learnt while being active for 700 years. I bet he understands it would be much easier to secretly yeet the plant into space without bothering captain with a decision. I suppose it required some thinking in his mechanical brain.

When why does he show the captain an operation manual? Good question. My personal headcanon: he loves doing his job so much, it doesn't matter for him if it can increase risks towards his global goal. That is why I can tell it wasn't a programmed, logical decision of the machine. If non-sentient perfect AUTO knew about A-113, he wouldn't let captain see the possibility at all. He hasn't considered that his domestic human pet might get interested in whole "Earth" thing. And he hasn't considered sentient WALL•E and EVE as serious obstacles. He did a crucial mistake to satisfy his ego... Or... Or maybe not? It's a headcanon, after all. Maybe it was a part of protocol. Or maybe he tried to entertain McCrea. AUTO seems to care about him in some way as he didn't push him out off the power until the last moment. (uwu) Choose whatever you like more. It's a thought-provoking subject.

• That aside, have you noticed that there is not a single character in the movie who would not be terrified of having to leave the comfort zone? It's only AUTO, who is opposing this idea for the sake of survival. Recolonizing nearly-dead Earth is not an easy work, someone can get really hurt and, well, die. And knowing that AUTO is based on famous computer HAL 9000, who is, in fact, killed people because of his panic attack (he didn't want to be deactivated/murdered), this situation kinda gets a new meaning? It's an interesting perspective to look at AUTO's character, too. AUTO, like HAL, at the start of story was okay and non-hostile towards others. Eventually, as the story progresses, AUTO becomes more and more impatient, eager to complete his primary task, thus taking violent measures. In AUTO's eye WALL•E & EVE are rogue robots anyway, defected and dispatchable. But attacking the captain? AUTO's final step to AI "madness" was fighting the man he is designed to serve. And though I believe he wouldn't kill him, we can imagine AUTO was panicking at this moment. So, no programmed logic there either, pure emotion of fear and reckless behaviour, almost like HAL. And HAL is 100% sentient and conscious entity.

*** Well...

Maybe it's just me and my anthropomorphizing tendencies on non-living fictional objects. I can be self-projecting too much, so if you disagree, let's say it's my headcanons and leave that at that. After all, AUTO is a direct representation of BnL – heartless company, that destroyed life on Earth and continued destroying it in space. They made humans, their customers, helpless like babies! And I am afraid it could only be worse in the future, if it wasn't for WALL•E and EVE.

It's quite a tragedy that AUTO can't escape from this never-ending system of least resistance and comfort. He is the system. He is made to be an autopilot of Axiom, he IS the Axiom, programmed to do his job fully dedicated to the mission of saving mankind. And if he was really fully-sentient... well, it would've made his life even more miserable. What's the use of the steering wheel on Earth surface? It's not like they are gonna fly into space again. Captain's dead and woah, hello eternal loneliness, next generation forgets about your existence or decides to ignore it like a bad memory about containment. Even AUTO's closest henchman GO-4 is forever destroyed... *sigh*

I am overthinking too much, aren't I? Gosh, this wheel NEEDS a redemption arc. And friends. My heart bleeds for him, really.

What’s your most favorite thing about Auto? (Canon or not)

AAAAAAAA it's hard to choose, but I think I love his dominant manner the most hehe. It's really attractive and also his intelligence adds to that toooooo <33