Wilbur (The Rescuers)

Wilbur is a character from Disney's 1990 feature film The Rescuers Down Under. He is the brother of Orville from the first film. He is voiced by the late actor and comedian John Candy.

The Rescuers Down Under
In the movie, when Bernard and Miss Bianca go to find Orville to get a flight to Australia to rescue the kidnapped boy Cody, they find out that Orville no longer runs the Albertross Airlines. However, his brother Wilbur does. Bernard and Bianca find Wilbur dancing to some music that Bernard has to stop in order to get Wilbur's attention. When Wilbur meets Miss Bianca he tells her that Orville told him all about her. Bernard asks Wilbur to give them a flight tonight but Wilbur refuses because of the snow storm outside but when they both tell him about the kidnapped boy Cody Wilbur suddenly feels bad for Cody and gives the mice a flight to Australia. On the way they make connections with an airliner plane also en route to Australia and fall asleep in the plane's cargo holder. When the plane gets to Australia Wilbur flies the mice out and into a little airport where a kangaroo mouse named Jake works. When Wilbur radios into Jake about landing Jake tells Wilbur to turn around because the runway isn't big enough for a bird his size but Wilbur refuses and lands on the runway anyways. When Wilbur lands Jake helps Bernard and Bianca off the bird but then Wilbur has back pain from landing on the runway and Jake helps get Wilbur get to the hospital. At the hospital Bernard, Bianca, and Jake tell Wilbur they'll come back for him as soon as they find Cody and leave. At the hospital Wilbur the doctor has Wilbur take several operations including shooting a gun at him. The next morning the nurse mice put Wilbur's head in a vice and are preparing to use a chainsaw which they refer to as the epidermal tissue disrupter on him causing Wilbur to panic and he trys to escape but the Nurse Mices pull him back inside and he lies flat on his back on top of the doctor and his back feels better and he exits flying off to find Bernard, Bianca, and Jake. While flying Wilbur notices some female birds and ask them if they've seen any mice wondering down there but the birds ignore him and fly off. Soon, Wilbur arrives where Bernard is hiding Marahute's eggs, and Bernard orders Wilbur to sit on Marahute's eggs to keep them warm while he goes and rescues Cody, Bianca, Jake, and Marahute from the evil poacher Percival C. McLeach. At the end, Wilbur is seen still sitting on the eggs and calling for Bernard and Bianca, but just as he's about to fly away, the eggs hatch and one of Marahute's babies bites Wilbur on the wing, causing Wilbur to scream as the credits to the movie role.

House of Mouse
Wilbur only appear in Dining Goofy.

Trivia

 * Since The Rescuers Down Under was the only sequel in the series, it's unknown what happens to Wilbur after the babies hatch. He might become the new mate of Marahute since she lost her first mate, but this is doubtful, since Wilbur and his brother Orville are both based on the Wright Brothers, and neither brother in real life ever got married or had kids. Hopefully, Bernard and Bianca, who were seen at the end of the movie riding Marahute, eventually remembered about Wilbur and returned to him so he could take them back to New York City, but the rest remains unknown.
 * Storyboards for an unused extension to the film's ending (seen in a book about Disney storyboards), in which Bernard and Bianca ride off on Wilbur after their wedding, suggest that they evidently did return to him.