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Is WALL-E really a girl?

by James on June 30th, 2009

WALL-E and EVE hold handsThere was some brouhaha (a great word) that coincided with the premier of the latest Pixar film “Up,” about the fact that Pixar has made ten awesome films but none of them have had a main character that is a female.


Let me put this to you, Linda Holmes and all the other presumptive bloggers that picked up on this: How do you know WALL-E is not a female?

I re-watched the film recently, and unless I am missing something, there is nothing in the film that explicitly details that WALL-E is a male robot. Eve is quite clearly female, yes, but WALL-E could easily be a girl.

So, if I am right about this, then Pixar has not only flipped the whole debate on its ear – since the people making the complaint are the ones who assumed him to be male, because what else could he be? – but they have introduced the first same-sex relationship in a Disney film.

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3 Comments
  1. Guhmi permalink

    how would you define gender in a robot…??
    To be honest, I don’t think either of them has gender. ;P

  2. hailey johnson permalink

    Wall-e is a boy and eva is a girl why do ppl
    Not understand that?! o_o

  3. Cst permalink

    Wall-e is a girl and eve-ah is a boy. In this movie, when both was sent to repair system, one robot machine drew lipstick to walle watch carefully. So it seems to be walle is a girl.

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