Carl Fredricksen is the protagonist in Up: Highly . He also appeared in Dug's Special Mission as a supporting character and in George and AJ as a minor character.
Up: Highly[]
In 1939, 9-year-old Carl Fredricksen was a shy, quiet boy and the grandfather of Russell who idolized renowned explorer Charles Muntz F .. One day, Carl befriended an adventurous girl named Ellie, who is also a Muntz fan. She confided to Carl her desire to move her "club" - an abandoned house in the neighborhood - to a cliff overlooking the paradise of caicheiras , and promises to help her. Carl and Ellie eventually married and aged together in the restored home, working at a zoo as a balloon seller and a zookeeper, respectively. Unable to have children, they repeatedly pool their savings for a trip to Paradise Falls, but end up spending it on the most pressing needs.
Just as Carl and Ellie (who are now senior citizens) finally seem to be able to take their trip, Ellie contracts an illness and dies of old age, leaving Carl to live on his own, becoming bitter and cranky and losing his wife terribly. As the years passed, the city grew around Carl's old house with construction, as he refused to move.
After a fight with a construction worker named Steve over his broken inbox, the court marked Carl as a public threat and ordered him to enter Shady Oaks Retirement Home. Carl came up with a scheme to keep his promise to Ellie, and he used his old professional supplies to create a makeshift airship, using 10,000 helium balloons (although in real life, it would take more than 1 million), which raised Carl's house out of your foundations. Russell, a young explorer of nature (the fictional scouting organization), becomes an accidental passenger in his effort to win the final merit medal for helping the elderly.
After surviving a storm, the house falls close to a ravine facing Paradise Falls. Carl and Russell take advantage of the still floating house and start walking around the ravine, hoping to reach the falls before the balloons deflate. Later, they befriended a tall, colorful flying bird (whom Russell names "Kevin") trying to reach their chicks, and a dog named Dug, who wears a special necklace that allows him to speak.
Carl and Russell find a pack of dogs led by Alpha , and are taken to Master Dug, who turns out to be an elderly Charles Muntz. Muntz invites Carl and Russell on board his airship, where he explains that he has spent the years since his disgrace in search of Paradise Falls for the giant bird. When Russell innocuously observes the bird's resemblance to Kevin, Muntz becomes hostile, which led the pair to flee with Kevin and Dug. Muntz eventually catches up with them and starts a fire under Carl's house, forcing Carl to choose between saving or Kevin. Carl runs to put out the fire, allowing Muntz to take out the bird. Carl and Russell eventually hit the falls, but Russell is angry with Carl about his decision to save his home instead of Kevin.
Settling into his home, Carl looks through Ellie's childhood errands and finds a note from Ellie that says "Thanks for the adventure, now go get a new one". Invigorated, he will find Russell, only to see him sailing off on some balloons to save Kevin. Carl empties the house of furniture and goods, and chases him.
Russell is captured by Muntz, but Carl manages to board the airship in flight and free both Russell and Kevin. Muntz chases them around the airship, finally cornering Dug, Kevin, and Russell inside Carl's tethered house. Carl lures Kevin out through a window and back into the airship with Dug and Russell clinging to her back, just as Muntz is about to close in; Muntz jumps after them, only to trap his foot in some balloon lines and fall to his death. Snapped from his strength, the house descends out of sight through the clouds, which Carl accepts as the best.
Carl and Russell meet Kevin with their puppies, then make the airship back to town. When Russell's father loses his son's Senior Explorer ceremony, Carl presents Russell with the final badge: the grape soda cap that Ellie gave Carl when they first met. The two then enjoy some ice cream together, sitting on the curb outside the store like Russell and his father used to do, with the airship parked nearby. Meanwhile, Carl's house is shown to have landed on the cliff next to Paradise Falls, as promised to Ellie. He is Russell's grandpa Russell's mum's adopted father