Carlos De Vil

## Carlos

### Likes

Fashion (especially in black-white and red), chocolate, technology, video games, dogs, his friends, science, Jane, dogs (currently), music (currently)

### Dislikes

Dogs (formerly), being his mother's personal groomer or servant, torn clothes, people who lie about sweet furry creatures, bunions, music (formerly), tight spaces, getting teased for being short, Chad breaking into his room

### Powers and abilities

Communication with dogs, mechanics, technology genius

## Family information

### Parents

Cruella De Vil (Descendants) (mother)
Unknown father

### Other relatives

Diego De Vil (cousin)
Ivy De Vil (cousin)
Cecil B. De Vil (uncle)
Malevola De Vil (grandmother)
Judge Dimsdale De Vil (ancestor)

### Pets

Dude (dog; Auradon Prep's campus mutt)
Beelzebub (cat; formerly)

**Carlos Oscar De Vil** is a major character in the *Descendants* franchise and films. He is known as the son of Cruella De Vil and an unknown father. Carlos was one of the kids sent to Auradon Prep by Prince Ben in the beginning of the first film as Ben believed that Carlos was one of the VKs that needed most help.

Being raised to have a fear for all dogs and mutts by his mother, Carlos grew up fearing all dogs believing that it would kill all bad boys. That is, until he meets the Auradon campus mutt, Dude the dog.

## Background

### Personality

Carlos De Vil is a jumpy and anxious teenage boy, with the skills of a true technology prodigy. He has been working hard on a project to connect the Isle of the Lost to the outside world: mainly the internet.

Instilled by his mother to fear dogs, Carlos joins the other villain kids as they take on prep school at Auradon to capture Fairy Godmother's magic wand and set their parents free. His tech-savviness comes in handy when he and the other villain teens get stuck in a bind.

Cruella raised Carlos into thinking that dogs are killers, as well as vicious, rabid pack animals. As a result, Carlos has an extreme fear of canines, practically allowing them to chase him up a tree.

But Ben, the son to Belle and the Beast, has him look after Dude, the school mutt, to help Carlos overcome his misconception of canines, and grows to care about Dude. He then found his love for Dogs but unlike his mother, he does not want to harm them.

### Physical Appearances

Carlos is a boy with white hair, which he had supposedly inherited from his mother. He usually wears clothes that are in the fashion of leather in the colours of red, black, and white.

## Appearances

In the film *Descendants*, Cruella forces Carlos to help touch up her roots, fluff up her fur, and scrape the bunions from her feet. This makes Carlos consider that heading to Auradon would not be so bad, but Cruella uses his fear of canines as a way to control him. While in the limo headed to Auradon, Carlos takes a liking to chocolate. When they first meet Doug, he seems to have trouble remembering the names of the Seven Dwarfs, though Carlos seems to know the names of each and reminds Doug of Sneezy. He is the most tech-savvy, as he seems to take a liking to video games and is able to use a computer to locate the museum where the Fairy Godmother's wand is. When Jay causes the alarm to sound, Carlos hears the phone and picks it up. He manages to disable the alarm and make them think it was a system error.

The Fairy Godmother assigns Carlos and Jay to sports. While Carlos does not seem to do well, Ben offers to help him with this. As he practices sprinting, Carlos gets chased by the campus mutt, Dude. Seeing that Dude is not vicious, Carlos starts to take a liking to canines, and takes Dude everywhere he goes in the film. During the big game between Sherwood, Jay insists that Carlos play with him, and with his help, the team wins the game.

When Cruella sees Dude and calls him an "earmuff," Carlos defends Dude; this is most likely the first time that Carlos has stood up to his mother. He then "burns" her by telling her to "give it a rest" with talking to a toy dog head. In one plan, it is Carlos' job to get into the limo and find the remote that activates the barrier around the Isle of the Lost. At the coronation, when Mal makes a speech on choosing to be good, Carlos is cautious at first, as he is nervous about the anger of their parents. But after being assured, he chooses to be good too. He is last seen dancing with Jay and Jane during the coronation party.

### *Descendants 2*

Now instilled with a burgeoning sense of self-confidence from his new life on Auradon, Carlos has left his wicked ways behind him along with his fear of dogs. With his fellow villain kids and his buddy Dude the dog by his side, he is ready to step up and take on another epic adventure. When Ben hears that Mal has returned to the Isle of the Lost after the pressure of royally perfect becomes too much for her. Carlos along with Evie and Jay attempt to teach Ben their wicked ways so he can sneak around the island to find her without being recognized (Chillin' Like a Villain) and soon come face to face with Uma, Harry Hook, and Gil.

### *Descendants 3*

Carlos appears in the film which is dedicated to Cameron Boyce, as it premiered after his death.

### *Descendants: The Royal Wedding*

Carlos does not appear in the television special due to his actor Cameron Boyce's death, but he was briefly mentioned by Mal, who laments that she wishes he could be there for her wedding. In response, Jay and Evie express sorrow at his absence without specifying what has happened to him. However, during Mal and Ben's wedding, Mal wore a charm bracelet with her and her friends's symbols, and Carlos's shined brighter, symbolizing his presence. The special was also dedicated to Boyce.

## Printed Media

### *The Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel*

In the book, Carlos is treated badly by his mother and sleeps in her dressing room on the floor, which is filled with bear traps. He is forced to look after and clean her furs, and it is also revealed that she loves her furs more than him, and refers to her car as "her baby." He has a treehouse, and a cat named Beelzebub and recites the periodic table to himself when he is nervous.

On the Isle of the Lost, Carlos is incredibly smart and enjoys science and creating inventions, and refers to himself as a nerd. He also has an intellectual rival named Reza in science class and Jace and Harry, the sons of Jasper and Horace, as his "minions", though they are not truly his friends since Cruella forces them to hang out together. He gets beaten up and pushed around in school, and Mal bullies him into holding her party at his house before they became friends. Evie was also the first real friend he ever had and helps her escape his mother's dressing room when she was trapped in there as part of Mal's prank. Carlos was also the one responsible for making a hole in the dome briefly when he was testing his invention, which would cause Maleficent's staff to gain its magic back as a result. After Mal and Jay force Evie to help them retrieve it, she also convinces Carlos to reluctantly join the quest. Though the group fails when the staff is unable to retain any magic, Carlos is finally accepted by Mal and Jay, beginning the four's friendship.

### *Return to the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel*

According to the story *Return to the Isle of the Lost*, Carlos' middle name is revealed to be "Oscar" and that he knows how to drive. The book also explains how much he likes Jane, daughter to the Fairy Godmother.

## Trivia

* Carlos' tourney number is 101, an allusion to *One Hundred and One Dalmatians*, the film his mother is from.
* Carlos De Vil was Cameron Boyce's first role in a Disney Channel film.
* Carlos De Vil was originally going to have two Dalmatian henchmen named "Laurie" and "Frieda"; this was scrapped because of the latter henchman name.
* Like Jafar, he appears to find his mother's talking to a stuffed dog head to be irritating.
* Evie was his first real friend.
* He had a sidekick cat named Beelzebub (one of Lucifer's kittens). It was a gift in his baddie bag at Evie's 6th birthday party and shows him affection his mother does not. Given there is no reference in the first film, this is likely a continuity error, or the cat had simply be adopted by someone else due to Cruella.
* He is extremely smart, as he managed to temporarily break through the barrier.
* He is 2 years younger than Mal, Evie, and Jay.
* He has a cousin named Diego, son of Cecil B. De Vil from the "101 Dalmatians: The Series". This would also make Carlos and Ivy De Vil cousins.
	+ His grandmother: Malevola De Vil, his ancestor: Judge Dimsdale De Vil.
* Cruella forced him to sleep on a lumpy mattress in her dressing room, which is accessible through her fur coat closet. There is another door which Carlos use to bypass the bear traps security system.
* He considers Harry and Jace (sons of Horace and Jasper), his "fake" friends (henchmen).
* He re-purposes the various things in the basement (mostly dog stuff from her failed plan) for his science experiments, despite his mother's hysterical reactions to losing momentos of her past.
* While on the island, Carlos's mother used him as a slave, forcing him to do several things, even the humiliating act of doing her laundry because she was too lazy to do it herself.
	+ Likely because of this, he will usually hum the tune of Roger's infamous song about her, just for the joy of seeing her go into hysterics because of how much she hates that song. Though Carlos himself does admit that it is catchy.
* Whenever Carlos is annoyed, he usually yells, "Dalmatians!" as Cruella would often use that as a curse word.
* He attended Dragon Hall (an evil school), before Auradon Prep.
* The only colors that Carlos can be seen wearing (red, black and white) are also his mother's signature colors. Evie's first thought about what it made her think of was a bloody skunk.
* Evie gave Carlos his first pillow. He also considers her to be the sweetest girl he knows.
* In *Disney Descendants Yearbook*, his "secret wish" is to run a rescue shelter for abused and abandoned animals (and children), while his "not-so-secret wish" is to never see a fur coat or a bunion ever again.
	+ It is revealed that Carlos wants to be a dog walker or an app designer when he grows up.
	+ His favorite class is "History of Woodsmen and Pirates", stating that there are very few dogs in those subjects (and not too many parents either).
	+ His "Go-To" Object at the museum is D'Artagnan's sword, hat, and boots, stating that D'Artagnan was one brave guy and that he really looks up to him.
* His mother loves her furs more than she loves him; this is something he knows, but when he is asked it as an answer to cross the bridge in the first novel, it makes him upset.
* As said by Cameron Boyce in an interview, he is more "I'm evil, don't hurt me!" and unlike the others does not actually do anything remotely mean-spirited throughout the whole movie and film, except helping with the plan, and perhaps kicking the apples in the first song. Despite this, he is the last to choose good, but this is because of his fear of what their parents may do.
* In *Return to the Isle of the Lost*, it is revealed that Carlos knows how to drive.
	+ In the same novel, he says that while Maleficent can turn into a dragon, he considers his mother Cruella De Vil to actually being one.
* Carlos's middle name is Oscar.
* By the end of *Descendants 2*, Carlos is dating Jane.
* Carlos was Cameron Boyce's last *Disney* role before his pre-mature death.
* A character can be seen dressed as Carlos for Halloween, in the *Once Upon a Time* episode, "Beauty".

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