Melvin is an alien who is Kirby's father and Tina's husband and also the reformed main antagonist of Disney's2005 animated feature film Chicken Little. He only caused the invasion on Oakey Oaks because his son was missing from him and his wife.
At first, Melvin is shown to be loud and bad-tempered using his big voice to yell at anyone who takes away Kirby. He even threatened to kill Chicken Little and his father for child theft to which the two did not intentionally harm him or kidnap him. However, when his wife (Tina) arrives, along with a reunited Kirby, she tells him that Chicken Little and his father (Buck Cluck) are not harming him. Thus, resolving the misunderstanding.
Role in the film
When his son goes missing, he and his wife start looking for him, causing a massive invasion on Oakey Oaks and creating chaos. When Chicken Little and his father, Buck Cluck are abducted, Melvin prepares to obliterate them in which his wife, Tina with her being reunited with Kirby tells her husband to cancel his obliteration plan as well as turning off his big voice. Later, when Oakey Oaks is being restored, he apologizes to the inhabitants of Oakey Oaks for the invasion. It is also revealed that the hexagonal panel Chicken Little found earlier came from his family's ship, which keeps falling from said ship, further explaining Chicken Little's originally scapegoated status in the town.
Trivia
At one point, Melvin wears a Mickey Mouse watch; with the detail that Mickey shown on his watch has three eyes.
He is the first main antagonist in the Disney Animated Canon to come from a CGI film (Kron doesn't count because Dinosaur is more of a CGI/live-action hybrid film).
Despite being previously cataclysmic, ironically, he was far more sympathetic than Foxy Loxy in terms of motives (as Foxy herself is simply a bully towards Chicken Little).
Fred Willard, Melvin's voice actor, would later go on to play as Shelby Forthright in Pixar's WALL-E, another sci-fi film. Interestingly, both characters share the same role of being responsible for the plots of their respective films of origin (though, Fortright was not the main antagonist of WALL-E).
