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2nd annual DEG Japan Awards/Blu-ray Prizes

This won an award in the DEG; see http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-18/ponyo-bakemonogatari-conan-win-japanese-bd-prizes --Gwern (contribs) 15:02 20 February 2010 (GMT)

Also see: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-16/summer-wars-wins-tokyo-anime-fair-top-award-6-more --Gwern (contribs) 15:10 20 February 2010 (GMT)

Plot section: Victim of disinformation campaign (it's wrong in places)

I am having a ball watching this movie - WALL-E - for the first time; it's wonderful! Since there are some bad spots on my DVD, I decided to read about the plot here on Wikipedia (and also on IMDb) to fill in the gaps. As I was reading the plot, it became obvious that someone has been messing with this page in a negative way; the plot, as currently described, is revisionist: it is inaccurate in at least one instance that I know of (so far). It says: ' WALL-E enters the pod before it launches, retrieves the plant, and escapes unharmed before the pod explodes. He then reconciles with EVE, celebrating with a dance outside the Axiom.

If you've seen WALL-E, then you know this is not what went down; in the movie, WALL-E is jettisoned into space in a pod that self-destructs. I hope someone fixes it.

This information is true as of this writing: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 4:30pm CST (Nashville, TN). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.240.93.125 (talk) 21:36, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

not EVE but EVA

I'm sure its not just a coincidence that NASA uses EVA as an acronym for Extra Vehicular Activity. WALL•E clearly pronounces it EVA. Is it written anywhere in the movie? 75.159.31.148 (talk) 06:15, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The CEO of BnL calls EVE the Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator. This is also written in the article itself. 129.241.129.16 (talk) 13:06, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The lede

The lede currently reads that this is a "CGI science-fiction romantic comedy film." The attempts by various IPs to change it to only a "romance film" shows a lack of understanding of both genres. Since none of the IPs address this situation we may need to file a RFPP. MarnetteD | Talk 22:52, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Name that Robot

On the current version of the article [2013-05-25] it mentions in several places the name of the robot was WALL-E, but throughout it does not explain what it means. Acronym City.. In reviewing the film however, it opens with a bunch of other pieces of hardware that have been abandoned on unused Highway (Roadway -Autobahn) type structures, with the name "Waste Allocation Load Lifter" ,and a sub-lettering below that of "Earth-Class". Again, the article fails to mention this, that there are two parts to the WALL-E machine, the compactor part , and the sort and storage part, where WALL-E, the robot resides, while it's batteries are recharged from the sun.

Correction - Robot named

Actually, Robot is named , but not till further down in the article, (Cast of Characters), is the name given. Richard416282 (talk) 22:38, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gender

This article consistently refers to Wall-E as 'he' and EVE as 'she', but I recall no point in the film at which they were mentioned by gender. I question how two relatively non-anthropomorphized robots can even have a gender. Enigmocracy (talk) 15:25, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WALL-E naming convention

I moved the following statement from the article to the Talk page, it is inappropriate for it to be in the article itself.

The discussion where consensus was achieved can be found at the "Official Wikipedia naming?" thread in the first Archive on the talk page.

Please do not change the hyphens in the film or title character's name. Consensus and Wikipedia guidelines have determined that it should be kept as "WALL-E", and any edits changing the hyphen to an interpunct, bullet or other such character will be reverted. Thank you.

Please do not put this type of text into the article when it doesn't pertain to the topic itself.

Thanks, and hope we can help make these articles awesome! Alex (talk) 10:12, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]