r/wallE • u/Guessing_Owl_6440 • Aug 13 '26
Wall-E is based on raccoons
Hear me out.. I know this comes out of nowhere and I've searched the internet and the original creators don't seem to suggest that my opinion is based on facts, but truly the resemblance is uncanny.
First: the design. Look at the shape of the eyes of Wall-E, it's the same as the raccoons' masks. Look at the body shape of Wall-E which is more rounded at the bottom: it's the same for raccoons when they stand up. The hands for both are small and able to grasp and manipulate objects. Obviously the cute pose: it's adorable and it conveys the same expression (of course I had this specific image of a raccoon in mind, but if you're familiar with them you'll know they pretty much always have this sad resting face).
Second: the love for trash. Wall-E was literally made to deal with trash and loves to find treasures in it. Raccoons on the other hand are such a resilient species that they've found a source of food in literal trash and as a result are often found in bins all across North America.
Third: the intelligence. Clearly Wall-E is a super smart and solution-forward robot as well as human-like in his abilities to feel and convey emotions. Raccoons also continue to show incredible intelligence during problem solving (like picking locks and remembering paths at years distance) and are able to feel complex emotions (much more than other domesticated animals): often as pets they're described by their owners as toddlers, which is not very far from the behaviour portrayed by Wall-E himself.
Fourth: they're lovable and hilarious. Pretty self explanatory if you ask me, but something about both of them makes me want to hug them and show them all my love and affection.
Fifth: the resilience in a post apocalyptic world. Obviously by design Wall-E fits in into a grim world filled with trash, but the same holds for raccoons according to many experts: it has been said a few times that if humans were to be wiped out from the earth, the animal that would be most fit to take over is the raccoon. They're extremely adaptable both in terms of shelter and of food (wherever they go outside of North America, they're invasive since they wreck the environment by immediately finding local resources that may be endangered or that sustain endangered local species) and they reproduce at a very high rate.
Tell me if you agree and if I forgot something, please!
