Calvin Devereaux

Calvin Devereaux
Appearances	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Aliases	Cal
Physical Description
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Brown
Biographical Information
Home	Swallow Falls
Age	8
Birthday	~November 23-27, 2001
Relations
Father	Earl Devereaux
Mother	Regina Devereaux

Calvin "Cal" Devereaux is the son of Earl Devereaux and his relationship with his father acts as a foil for Flint's relationship with his dad. He is a supporting protagonist.

Appearance

Cal is an 8-year old boy who wears a black parka and red shoes. His diminuitive size contrasts with his desire to be treated like a "big kid."

Personality

Cal is a kid who wants to be seen as older than he really is, spraying chocolate frosting to look like chest hair in an attempt to appear more mature. Like most kids his age, he wants the freedom of a "grown-up," but has not yet developed the self-restraint or responsibility of one, indulging himself on sweets until he enters a food coma.

He is cool-minded, kind, laid-back and sometimes lazy and tricky.

History

Cal is the young son of Swallow Falls’s town cop Earl and his wife, Regina. Earl and Regina love Cal so much they don’t want to put any restrictions on him, especially when it comes to how much of Flint Lockwood’s delicious food-weather Cal should eat.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

In a show of affection, Earl requests an ice cream snow day for Cal's birthday. Earl openly expresses his love for Cal, which Cal nonchalantly brushes off with a cheerful "I know, Dad. You tell me every day." He invites Flint to join him in a snowball fight.

At the grand reopening of Chewandswallow, Cal engorges on jellybeans with other kids, getting a sugar high that resulted in a bellyache and sugar crash by the time the spaghetti twister blew through the square. His indulgences in junk food left him in a food coma, which is subsequently broken by Sam's cameraman Manny via celery. As his father hugs him in relief, Cal vomits over his shoulder.

He later welcomes back Flint when he is carried back to Swallow Falls by his Ratbirds.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cal appears briefly in the cupcake shop where Earl works in San Franjose, insisting he come along to Swallow Falls. When Earl tells Cal he can't come until he's gotten his first chest hair, Cal shows him a swirl of chocolate frosting on his chest, briefly fooling his dad. When Earl leaves, Cal casually reapplies the chocolate "chest hair" and zips up his hoodie.

Behind the Scenes

Cal originally had a much larger role in early drafts of the film. In a deleted scene, Cal created a decoy so he could sneak out to play: a basketball with a Kaiser helmet dubbed "German Basketball-faced Kid." Both directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were short growing up, so they empathized with Cal's desire to be treated like an adult, down to being voiced by an adult.

Video Game

In the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs video game, Cal contacts Flint about rescuing himself and his friends from ice cream blizzards. All three levels take place in the Ice Cream Tundra and require the use of the Hot Enougher. He is also seen in Flint's yard at the beginning of Act VII.

Trivia

• In a deleted scene, Cal is sucked into the spaghetti twister with Earl

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