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 and sadly missing her mother. 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 with a pink overcoat.

Personality
Emma is quiet, lonely, innocent, friendly, clumsy, smart, kind, loving, brave and caring just like her father.

Trivia

 * 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.