6 Pixar Films Whose Endings Had Awful Consequences You Hadn't Considered

3. WALL-E

WALL-E Humans WALL-E is awesome, I€™ll just make that clear right off the bat. WALL-E himself(?) is great, his romance with EVE is touching and the plot itself about a spaceship returning to colonise Earth is very well done. By the end of the film, it appears as if that is exactly what€™s going to happen €“ because the planet is once again capable of growing plants, colonisation can actually happen. All is well, and heralds a bright new dawn in the future. But let me ask you, does it actually? The humans have based their decision to come back to Earth entirely off the fact that one plant grew, which is itself a massive gamble. What if it only grew in that particular bit of soil, and the rest of the planet is infertile? They would have grounded their ship for no reason but to grow one giant tree. The fact of the matter is that this new dawn is always going to be extremely painful to humanity, no matter what. While they€™ve got an army of robots to help them with life aboard the Axiom very few of them are adaptable to what needs to be done on Earth, save for WALL-E himself, and he can€™t take on the mammoth task of clearing a living area by himself. It€™s not like the humans can do it either €“ having spent their entire existence living sedentary lives in low gravity, they€™ve become fat and weak-boned, and adapting back to Earth will be excruciatingly painful if it€™s at all possible. Any way you look at it, this is hardly a happy ending for the humans of WALL-E €“ they€™d have been much better off remaining on their paradise ship and slowly weaning themselves off robotic help before attempting anything so grandiose. If they wanted to look after the plant in the meantime, they could€™ve just dropped off our lovebird robots to care for it while they got their act together. In fact, that seems like a much more sensible plan.
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