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So long, boys! I'll send you a postcard from Paradise Falls!
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~ Carl when he sets off for Paradise Falls.
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Russell, for Assisting the Elderly and for performing above and beyond the call of duty, I would like to award you the highest honor I can bestow. The Ellie badge.
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~ Carl awarding Russell for assisting him throught out the adventure.
Carl Fredricksen is the main protagonist of the Disney/Pixar's Up franchise.
Carl has been an aspiring explorer since he was younger, when he used to idolize Charles F. Muntz, having been wanted to go to Paradise Falls as a way to experience such matter. He is also the childhood friend and husband-turned-widower of Ellie Fredricksen (who also shared the same goal of being in Paradise Falls).
During his plans on going to Paradise Falls with his and Ellie's house, he met and befriended Russell, a boy scout, Dug, one of Muntz's hunting dogs, and Kevin the bird, Muntz's target throughout the film.
As an old man, he was voiced by the late Ed Asner, who also voiced Santa Claus in the 2003 film Elf, and Hudson in Gargoyles, while in the Italian version, he was voiced by Giancarlo Giannini. As a child, he is voiced by Jeremy Leary, while in the Italian version, he is voiced by Arturo Valli.
In the Japanese dub, Carl was voiced by the late Shōzō Iizuka, who also voiced Dr. Neo Cortex in Crash Bandicoot, Android 8 in Dragon Ball Z, Jumba Jookiba in Lilo & Stitch, and Dr. Thomas Light in Mega Man. As a child, he is voiced by Takuto Yoshinaga, who also voiced Flint Lockwood as a child in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Nemo in Kinect Disneyland Adventures.
Carl was born in 1929, the same year as Ellie. At 8 years old, when Carl watches a movie about Charles Muntz, he gets disgusted that he lost his license for not capturing a legendary bird.
As Carl walks home, he goes inside an abandoned house after hearing a voice inside, which turns out to be a girl his age. The little girl scares Carl by accident, making him drop his helium balloon. She then removes her helmet and introduces herself as Ellie, before accepting Carl into her "club".
After a brief discussion, Ellie takes Carl upstairs to retrieve his balloon, but Carl falls off the plank and his arm is injured. That night, Carl is in bed when his balloon floats into his room through his window, before Ellie climbs inside, scaring him again.
Ellie talks about Charles Muntz and the adventures that she wants to have in the future. After a short stay, Ellie leaves Carl's room through the window, after proclaiming that she likes him.
Adulthood[]
Carl and Ellie get married at age 19. At the ceremony, Ellie's family cheer loudly, whilst Carl's family give polite applause.
The next day, Carl and Ellie rebuild the abandoned house in which they first met. They spend their life in the park, in the zoo, and saving tips for Paradise Falls.
One day, Ellie found that she was pregnant, and the couple built a nursery room. However, a few days later, they go into the doctor's office to discover that Ellie had a miscarriage, and the doctor knows that Ellie is now sterile.
Years later, their hair turns gray, and they start to slow down. Unfortunately, after they finally get a ticket for the Paradise Falls, Ellie, due to her old age, falls sick and dies in the hospital. In the aftermath, with the funeral flowers next to him, Carl returns to his house without Ellie.
Sometime later, Carl looks at a construction site in the background. Construction worker Tom says to him that it is a good day. He tells the worker's boss that he can have his house when he's dead.
Carl then meets Russell, who is reading about being a wilderness explorer. Later, Steve almost broke Carl and Ellie's mailbox. Enraged, Carl hits his forehead with his cane. While Carl watches TV, he is bleeding and taken to the hospital. Carl is taken to the courtroom for mistreating Steve. Officer Edith says that his new home will be in the retirement village.
The next day, George and A.J meet Carl and ask him if he is ready to go. However, being determined to keep his promise to Ellie go to Paradise Falls, he's revealed to have turned his house into a makeshift airship using thousands of balloons. The house floats away and all appears to be going to plan until he discovers that Russell happened to be on his porch when the house lifted off the ground, and has become an accidental stowaway, which forces him to take him with him.
When Russell stows away on board, Carl gradually learns from his new friend that adventure is not from the places you go, but from the friends you make and the everyday experiences you have with them.
When the movie was first pitched, some thought that the movie's target audience (children) may have trouble relating to Carl, due to his old age. However, the director believed that children might think of him as similar to their grandparents.
He shares similarities to how Horace Nebbercracker in Monster House. Although Nebbercracker doesn't yell at someone to get them off his lawn, he and Carl are both elderly friends to Russell and DJ Walters, who say to them, “Sorry about the house”.
Despite when Carl passed away upon his own old age, it made him avert to the afterlife and become a saved soul himself alongside with Ellie, and he went thoroughly after his own adventurous life which he never yet realizes until he reads Ellie's final heartwarming message. Also it all matters he was a pure good hero since he was alive.
Carl’s voice actor, Ed Asner, died the same year as Muntz’s voice actor, Christopher Plummer, only six months apart from each other.
Ed Asner died on August 29, 2021, at age of 91, just only three days before the series, Dug Days, was released on September 1, 2021.
Carl is similar to Flint Lockwood from the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise. They are both pure good heroes, have childhood idols and are biggest fans of them, and they realize that their idols are evil, and stand up against them.
Carl was originally "Near Pure Good" ever since the movie. However fortunately it was shown that he became so firstly after he reads Ellie's final message that comforts him and this was before the film's climax. He sacrificed his house to rescue Kevin but fortunately the house indirectly landed back to Paradise Falls thus successfully fulfils Ellie's wish and can always hold her in his heart instead of the house, attending Russell's Senior Explorer ceremony during his father's absence in becoming his son-figure, and purely subverting his jerkish attitude towards Dug of becoming his pet dog until Dug Days. Because Dug Days happened, Thus he is subsequently approved as "Pure Good".
Carl is similar to Marlin from the Finding Nemo franchise. Both men have experienced the loss of their lovers (Ellie to Carl; Coral to Marlin), resulting in their stubborn attitudes. They also have their goals that were influenced by their late lovers (Carl's trip to Paradise Falls; Marlin's protective needs for Nemo). They also encountered other characters whom they find annoying at first, but have since gotten used to (Russell, Dug, and Kevin to Carl; Dory to Marlin). In the end, they have since mellowed themselves down for others by letting go of their personal desires and accepting their losses.
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