Will Christopher Nolan's Cute Walking Monolith Be the Next Groot or Nah?

We think we found the next Groot.

Image via Legendary Pictures/Marvel

Giant mountain-sized waves aside, there was really only one thing worth noting when the final trailer for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar dropped today, what we're calling the walking monolith robot thing:

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Look at how cute that thing is! It's so adorably boxy and composed entirely of legs. Now the big question is: Is this the next semi-animated object to blow up in American culture like Groot of Guardians of the Galaxy? Groot was a human-like tree voiced by Vin Diesel that had one word of dialogue and literally everyone became obsessed with it. No one saw that coming. So can walking monolith robot thing have the same sort of breakout success?

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Our prediction? If walking monolith robot thing has any semblance of an interaction with Rust Cohle Matthew McConaughey, its popularity will be bigger than Groot and Wall-E combined.

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