- “What do you mean 'Don't go to the family?' How can we not go to the family in this time of family crisis? By leaving the garage door open, you let the time machine get stolen, and now the entire time stream could be altered. That, and someone took my bike.”
- ―Carl
Carl is the tritagonist of Disney's 2007 animated feature film, Meet the Robinsons. He is a robot who works for the Robinson Family. Built with a golden body and stretching parts, Carl's general assignment is to keep an eye on Wilbur and keep him out of trouble.
Appearances[]
Meet the Robinsons[]
When Wilbur and Lewis managed to push the ruined time machine back to the Robinson house, Carl was in the garage and opened a porthole, demanding in an ominous voice who dared to violate his sanctum. Wilbur ordered him to open the door, but Carl refused unless he speaks the secret password which he made-up while Wilbur was gone. Wilbur pointed that he couldn't speak the password if he was already gone. Seeing his logic used against him, Carl let them in. But upon learning that Wilbur brought his father's younger self, Lewis, Carl's inventor, from the past, Carl panicked and rushed up the travel tube.
"That and someone took my bike"
Wilbur followed the hysteric robot and argued against informing the family that he had allowed the Bowler Hat Guy to steal one of the time machines and risking the disruption of the time-space continuum. Wilbur assured Carl that he had a plan to restore the timeline, involving keeping Lewis in the garage away from everybody, give him the "pep talk of the century", fixes the time machine (Carl criticizes why the model of the time machine had be an acorn in Wilbur's diorama of his plan), goes back to the Science Fair to fix his memory scanner, thus setting everything right. Carl asked about his promise to take Lewis back to see his mother, to which Wilbur admits that he lied to buy some time but he was certain his plan would work. However, on the off chance he was wrong, Carl calculated that he would cease to exist. Though despaired a bit, Wilbur put on a cheery attitude as Carl handed him the time machine blueprints.
Later, as Wilbur and Lewis were summoned to dinner with the Robinsons, Carl unleashed a series of mini-Carls to serve the family spaghetti and meatballs. He then got ready to serve PB and J but the machine failed to work, so Wilbur volunteered Lewis to fix it. He fails, causing the invention to spray PB and J all over, but the Robinsons don't fault him, as they quote Cornelius Robinson's motto, "Keep Moving Forward", which Carl displays with fireworks and a fortune cookie.
After the Robinsons discover Lewis' identity and Wilbur's lie is exposed, Lewis takes an offer from the Bowler Hat Guy to repair his memory scanner. However, Wilbur and Carl rescue both him and his memory scanner. As they made their way back to the Robinson house, Lewis reveals that he knows he's Wilbur's father. Then suddenly, DOR-15 fatally impaled Carl in the chest with her claw before retaking the memory scanner to rejoin the Bowler Hat Guy and changed the future.
When Lewis managed to set everything right, Carl was restored back to life. As the Robinsons said their goodbyes, Carl suggests to his inventor that when he invents him, that he alter the design so that he would have muscles, but most importantly that he doesn't forget to invent him, which Lewis promises.
Once Upon a Studio[]
In the short, Carl is waiting impatiently with Donald Duck, Humphrey the Bear, J. Audubon Woodlore, Terk, and Mother Gothel as Flash takes his sweet time heading for the elevator. After he makes it, Baymax squeezes in, to Donald's annoyance. He joins in the picture along with the rest of Disney characters.
Video games[]
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]
Carl in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode
Carl the Robot is a playable character in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode. Introduced in Update 7.1., Carl the Robot is a Back-Line Damage role hero. He is the third Meet the Robinsons playable character in this game. This is the first time Carl is a playable character in a Disney crossover game. Carl's skills are: "Turbo Bots", "Muscle Memory", "Snack Attack", "Blueprint Transfer", and "Carl's Emblem". These skills allow Carl to (in the order):
- "Turbo Bots":
- Passive: Every few Basic Attacks, Carl targets the enemy with the lowest HP and deals a percentage of the enemy’s Max HP as True Damage.
- Active: Carl’s chest opens, releasing some mini Carl robots that sprint through the enemy line, each dealing Normal Damage and Removing buffs to each enemy they pass through.
- "Muscle Memory": Carl’s chest opens, summoning a hand that holds a photo of a buffed-up Carl, dealing Normal Damage to all enemies. For the next few seconds, Carl is untargetable by attacks that target only one Hero and he takes less Damage from attacks that target multiple Heroes.
- "Snack Attack": Carl’s head opens, revealing a toaster gun that launches some toast slices at the enemy with the lowest HP dealing Normal Damage and stunning them for a few seconds for each toast slice.
- "Blueprint Transfer": Carl the Robot copies all buffs applied by enemies in the first few seconds of combat and applies them to all his Allies. Carl the Robot can copy up to a certain number of buffs for every few seconds. Additionally, for each few buffs copied, Carl grants more Basic Damage and Skill Power to all Allies.
- "Carl's Emblem": If an enemy Hero is KO’d by one of “Snack Attack”’s toast slices. The next ones will target the now enemy Hero with the lowest HP. If that second enemy Hero is KO’d, Carl will recast “Snack Attack”. Every time Carl or a Mini Carl removes a buff, Carl will shoot one extra toast slice the next time he uses “SnackAttack”. Every time a Mini Carl passes through an enemy it refreshes all their debuffs duration for timed buffs and adds more stacks to every stackable debuff on them.
Carl the Robot has friendship campaigns with Baymax and Franny Robinson.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- His voice actor is Harland Williams who also plays Bob from Puppy Dog Pals and Captain Frost and Cecilia from Jake and the Never Land Pirates. He also voiced another robot named Lug from the 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky 2005 film, Robots, which also featured art design from William Joyce.
- The inspiration for Carl’s design came from the observatory Lewis' adoptive parents purchased.
- In a deleted scene where Carl locks himself in a closet after Lewis' arrival, Carl writes a note to communicate with Wilbur at one point. The note is written on Winnie the Pooh stationary.
- Him brandishing a PB&J gun is a clear sign that Cornelius Robinson is an adult Lewis.
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