Charles Muntz

Charles Muntz is a famous explorer admired by Carl Frederickson and his wife Ellie as children, through the events of the movie he tried to prove the existence of a rare giant tropical bird whose bones he found but others claimed they were fake, he travels in a zepplin with his many pet dogs of whom he equips with special collars he invented that enables them to speak they are lead by Alpha and his assistants Beta and Gamma, in his later years he became extremely paranoid and dangerous he is hinted to have murdered other people he thought came after the bird, later in the film he meets up with Carl and Russel and invites them over to his zepplin for dinner and he tells them of his search for the rare valuable bird whom Kevin is a perfect match for his description after Russel blurts out that Kevin is his pet and the bird he's looking for he becomes convinced that they are out to take credit for the bird's existence so he sends his dogs after them and they manage to escape from them by getting Kevin to fly over a cliff with Kevin's leg becoming injured by Alpha, the next day their location is given away by Dug's (one of his dogs) collar and he captures Kevin using a net, later Russel goes off to rescue Kevin thinking Carl doesn't care about him he ends up finding Kevin but is captured Muntz ties him to a chair and dangles him over the ramp as bait for Carl who comes to rescue him and frees him and Muntz confronts Carl and they fight while Russel goes to rescue Kevin, Dug saves Carl from Muntz no longer trusting him as his master and Dug, Russel, and Kevin make their way to Carl's floating house with Muntz in pursuit trying to bring down the house with a shotgun he makes his way into the house and tries to kill them, thinking quickly Carl shows Kevin a piece of chocolate which she is addicted to she leaps out of the house with Russel and Dug on her back while Muntz tries to grab a hold, he leaps out of the house and grabs Kevin's tail feathers but he gets tangled in the balloons which detach from the house and he falls to his death thousands of feet below. He was voiced by Christopher Plummer.