Carl Fredricksen

Carl Fredricksen is the main protagonist from the Up animated movie.

Carl is a cranky and widowed 78-year-old retired balloon salesman.

In the AWA fics, Carl is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
Carl is an old man and two girls are seen inside. The old man is short with a rectangular-like head and has a big nose. He has a messy white hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark-brown jacket over a white long-sleeve shirt with a dark-brown bowtie, brown trousers, brown leather shoes and wears a black rectangular glass and holds a quad cane with tennis ball as rubber ends.

Personality
After Ellie's death, Carl has become lonely, cranky, and bitter and misses his wife terribly. Though with Russell's help he became nicer.

Carl has the typical stubborn character of a man his age but deep down he's a kind person, but has his limits in patience and temper. He found Russell, Dug, and Kevin to be annoyances and obstructions in his goal to fulfill Ellie's dream of moving their home to Paradise Falls, but after he read her last message to him, he did what was right and saved Russell and Kevin, and accepted Dug as his dog.

When he lost his and Ellie's house, he was saddened but realized Ellie would have done the same, stating "It's just a house".

Carl vouched for Russell at his ceremony and gave the young scout the very same soda bottle cap that Ellie gave him the day they met, having come to love Russell as the son, or perhaps grandson he never had.

Trivia

 * If Carl is 78 years old in 2009, and if he was 9 in 1939, he was either born in 1930 or 1929.
 * Carl wore the same style of glasses at every age.
 * Carl's personality may be a reference to Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree.
 * To lift a house such as Carl's (and rip it loose from the utility pipes/cables anchoring it) would in reality require vastly more balloons than are shown.
 * An unpowered airship (such as Carl's house) would not be steerable; it would go wherever the wind goes.
 * Both these last two points were Pixar deciding to go for believable rather than realistic.
 * Although Carl doesn't have his own musical theme, Ellie's theme plays whenever he thinks about her, and also plays against Muntz's theme during the climax.
 * Carl is the second oldest protagonist of a Pixar film, the oldest being WALL•E, as he has been "alive" for more than 700 years (the movie WALL•E takes place in 2805, and Up takes place in 2009 the year it was released).
 * Carl is also the second Pixar protagonist to lose his love interest after Marlin from Finding Nemo.
 * It is believed that Carl is inspired by American actor Spencer Tracy.