Up: Return to Paradise Falls

Emma Fredricksen is the female protagonist in Up. She is Carl and Ellie's daughter who dreams of becoming a pop singer.

History
After Carl and Ellie got married, Emma was born and raised by her parents. After a miscarriage, they repeatedly pooled their savings for a trip to Paradise Falls, but always ended up spending it on more pressing needs.

Just as Emma, who is a young citizen (while her parents were both senior citizens), finally seemed able to take their trip, Ellie contracted an illness and died of old age, leaving Emma and her father by themselves, with her father becoming bitter and cranky and missing his wife terribly, and Emma becoming devastated, sadly missing her mother and started singing. As the years passed, the city grew around Carl's old house with construction as he and her daughter refused to move.

When she grew up, after confronting a construction worker over her father's broken mailbox, the court orders them to move into the Shady Oaks Retirement Home. Emma and her father come up with a scheme to keep their promise to Ellie: Carl uses his old professional supplies to create a makeshift airship, using 10,000 helium balloons, which lifts his house off its foundations. Russell, a young Wilderness Explorer (a fictional scouting organization), becomes an accidental passenger in an effort to earn his final merit badge for assisting the elderly.

After surviving a thunderstorm, the house lands near a ravine facing Paradise Falls. Carl, Emma and Russell harness themselves to the still-buoyant house and begin to walk it around the ravine, hoping to reach the falls before the balloons deflate. They later befriend a tall, colorful flightless bird whom Russell names "Kevin" who is trying to reach her chicks and a dog named Dug, who wears a special collar that allows him to speak.

Appearance
Emma is a young, pale-skinned, adult girl with golden brown hair and green eyes. When she's not singing in the concert, she's usually seen in what appears to be a school uniform attire, consisting of a white dress, yellow tie and a pink overcoat. If she has to sing in a concert, Emma will wear a white popstar dress and a pink overcoat with a pink tie on it.

Personality
Emma is quiet, lonely, innocent, friendly, clumsy, smart, kind, loving, brave and caring just like her father. She gets sad whenever her mother dies.

George and A.J.
Emma, along with Carl, first appears telling nurses George and A.J. that her father is ready to leave for his retirement at Shady Oaks. However, the two nurses notice there are lots of balloons on his house which floats over them as Carl bids them a farewell. The next day during morning news, a journalist tells Emma and the nurses to tell the public what they saw after mentioning that Carl was accused for harming a construction worker and now takes off with his house filled with balloons and indeed escaped.

Later during the events when Emma, Carl and Russell return with the Spirit of Adventure dirigible, they leave the dirigible while Russell tells them he would like to steer the dirigible's helm the next time they arrive.

Dug's Special Mission
Emma, Carl and Russell only appear at the end of the short film where Dug is looking at a rock shaped like a turtle during the events where he and Russell arrive in the rocky area of Paradise Falls. After hearing the voice, Dug reunites with the two to find a new master for him after Alpha, Beta and Gamma scold Dug for not capturing Kevin, the rare bird Muntz was to capture, as he finds two new masters to assist him. During the image where Dug speaks to Emma, Carl and Russell, the three are suddenly surprised that he is able to talk before the image cuts to black.

Emma's Pop Star Extravaganza
After the death of Ellie, Emma dreams of becoming a pop singer.

Disney Parks
Emma appears at the Walt Disney Studios Park as a singing character. She also appears on the Up float in the Pixar Play Parade singing.

Trivia

 * Emma is the only female character in the film. However, she is also the second female character, the first being Ellie.
 * Emma has her own musical theme unlike her father.
 * Emma is the first female protagonist in a Pixar feature film. She will be followed by Merida from Brave.