He was first introduced in The Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel and appeared as the bully target of Jay and Mal. Raised to believe that dogs are vicious animals, Carlos used to have an irrational fear of canines. Everything changed when Carlos arrived in Auradon and met a real dog, Dude, and the two soon became inseparable.
Carlos was portrayed and voiced by the late Cameron Boyce.
Carlos was one of the nicer VKs and was rarely seen doing anything bad. Having been treated as a slave for a long time, he was obedient and disliked the idea of going against authority. He tended to follow what his mother told him to and what his friends did. His mother claimed he was a follower rather than a leader, and Carlos longed to prove her wrong.
Being younger and physically weaker than the rest of his class, Carlos was often a target of bullies. Despite being looked down by the majority, Carlos had shown to be a lot smarter than them. He was a true tech prodigy, having had worked feverishly on a project that would connect the Isle of the Lost to the outside world.
Although he inherited his mother's love of fashion (especially if it's in black-and-white), he didn't inherit Cruella's love of dogs ― on the contrary, Carlos was deathly afraid of dogs. Cruella raised Carlos into thinking that dogs are killers, as well as vicious, rabid pack animals. As a result, Carlos had an extreme fear of canines, practically allowing them to chase him up a tree. Carlos realized that dogs can be gentle and lovable when Ben introduced him to Dude the campus mutt; the two then developed an unbreakable bond.
Carlos cared about his friends deeply and saw them as his older siblings. Evie was the first person that he ever considered as a friend. The two grew closer after Carlos rescued Evie from the trap that Mal set up. In Descendants 2, Carlos noticed that something was troubling Mal and requested the rest of his friends to sit down and have a talk, even though he didn't know how to start a "girl talk." He was extremely supportive of all his friends, and even called them his family.
One of Carlos's greatest attributes is his character. He was extremely loyal, willing to follow his friends (family) wherever they go. He was honest, admitted when he felt down, very clever, witty, and asked for advice when he needed it. He kept the team together, and tried his best to be helpful to the others. Carlos was fun-loving, and held good clothing styles. And as most would say, very good-looking.
Physical Appearance
Carlos is a male teen of a pale complexion with freckles all over his skin. Following his mother's black and white pattern, Carlos had white hair with black roots. His style mainly consisted of colors black, white and red. Like the majority of the inhabitants of the Isle of the Lost, the fabric of his clothes were, or at least resembled leather. He often wore shorts accompanied with a pair of dark red boots.
In Descendants and Descendants: Wicked World, Carlos had a black shirt with streaks of white. Outside, he wore jacket of long red sleeves, the right side was white while the left side was black, the collar was made of fake fur and on the back it had his own crest of crossed bones. His shorts repeated the same black and white pattern as his jacket. For accessories, Carlos had on his right hip a fake fur that resembled a black tail with white tip. He also wore a pair of red fingerless gloves.
In Descendants 2, Carlos had changed his appearance since the last time we saw him. His hair was grown out longer on the right side, and had been parted on the left. His clothes had changed to different patterns: his jacket had different shades of red, black, and white; his emblem was on the back of his jacket. He wore a small leather bag that laid against his right hip with his emblem on it. His undershirt was red, with a white, torn T-shirt over it, with the jacket on top. He wore black studded fingerless gloves. He wore his usual shorts with a red sash that tied around his waist. His shoes were the usual dark red, with fake furs around the ankles.
Powers and Abilities
Carlos didn't seem to show any form of power in magic. It also seemed that he did not hold any ability to turn into any form of animal. If anything, he had some major advantages over the other VK's:
He is extremely intelligent. Unlike the other VK's, Carlos was very smart, a mathematician, a scientist, an inventor, and an athlete. After all, he was the one who "punched" a hole in the dome.
He had the ability to drive. Unlike a few, Carlos knew how to drive the limo, and was able to travel from Auradon to the Isle. Carlos himself told the others that he learned how to drive so he could drive his mother around. Unfortunately, he didn’t have a license.
He knew how to "speak" dog. In Wicked World, Carlos hinted he was able to speak dog.
Carlos had the potential to create spells, as well as cast them, like Evie and Mal. However, it seemed like Carlos avoided using any form of magic, except for the truth gummy. He didn’t seem to like using power, and tended to stick to the internet and online world.
He was a true tech prodigy. Carlos held the ability to use many forms of technology, like in finding the museum and his 3D printer. He even impressed Chad with his intelligence and technology, which might be the only reason why Chad was always using his 3D printer without his permission.
He could swim. Unlike Jay and other people of the Isle, Carlos knew how to swim, or at least dog-paddle, as he said, "I can dog-paddle! I'll go!"
Carlos was sometimes a step ahead of the others. Literally, as Evie said, "How did you know... Never mind." He was often able to find out certain information that allowed his friends to figure out different plans. His ability to investigate and obtain information made him very special to the group.
Weaknesses
Carlos holds many strengths, but that doesn't mean that he has no weakness. There are few weaknesses Carlos has, and some of them are just mental:
Carlos tends to become very nervous quickly, which sometimes makes him falter in certain areas. As shown in the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel, Carlos recites the periodic table when he gets nervous. Another time he becomes nervous is when he tries several times to ask Jane to go with him to Cotillion.
He doesn't always stand up for himself. As in the movie Descendants, Carlos seems to have trouble standing up for himself. When his mother video chats him, he stands up for Dude and surprises his mother in the process. In The Isle of the Lost novel, Carlos has trouble standing up to Jay and Mal, and is bullied into holding Mal's party, and joining the quest to find the Dragon Eye. He allows the other students to beat him up in a game.
He is physically weaker and younger than the rest. In the book, Carlos is shown to be almost 2 years younger than the rest in school age and age. Due to this, he is not able to fight back against the bullies.
His self-confidence is very low, due to his mother. Cruella constantly tells him that he is useless in everything except chores. She constantly works him like a dog. Because of this, Carlos always kicks himself, and Mal noticed his behavior as well in Isle of the Lost.
He can sometimes be a little naive. Carlos doesn't always take a hint in some situations. He doesn't always understand some things, but because of his friends and family, he is eventually able to catch up with the others. Sometimes he is able to understand the situation in a deeper way, making him even more valuable to Mal, Evie, and Jay.
He is one of the twelve characters (Mal, Evie, Jay, Ben, Jane, Doug, Chad, Belle, Beast, Fairy Godmother and Dude) to appear in all three Descendants films from the trilogy focused on Mal.
He is the first Descendant in all the franchise to have a first name, middle name and surname. There are only two other characters with a middle name: Mal (Bertha) and Ben (Florian).
Cameron Boyce dyed his hair blond for the films.
Carlos' Tourney number is 101, a reference to 101 Dalmatians, the film his mother is from.
Carlos De Vil is Cameron Boyce's first role in a Disney Channel movie.
Carlos De Vil was originally going to have two Dalmatian henchmen named "Laurie" and "Frieda"; this was scrapped because of the latter henchman name.
At the time of the film, he is fourteen years old. The novel The Isle of the Lost reveals him to be two years younger than everyone in his level at school, including Mal, Evie, and Jay.
Like Jafar, he finds his mother's talking to her stuffed dog head to be extremely irritating.
Evie was his first real friend, as she gave Carlos his first pillow. He also considers her to be the sweetest girl he knows.
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 doesn't. Given there's no reference in the the 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.
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 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 mementos 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 would 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 said song. Though Carlos himself does admit that it is catchy.
He attended Dragon Hall (an evil school), before Auradon Prep.
Evie thinks of Carlos as her little brother, saying "it would be tolerable to have a little brother like Carlos".
The only colors that Carlos can be seen wearing (red, black and white) are also his mother's signature color's. Evie's first thought about what it made her think of was a bloody skunk.
In Disney Descendants Yearbook, his "secret wish" is to run a rescue shelter for abused and abandoned animals and become a vet(and children), while his "not-so-secret wish" is to never see a fur coat or a bunion ever again.
It's revealed that Carlos wants to be a dog walker or an app designer and become a vet 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).
He likes to see D'Artagnan's sword, hat, and boots at the museum. 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 book, it makes him upset, to the point of almost letting himself and the others fall into darkness.
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 "Trapped", it's revealed Carlos is claustrophobic.
He didn't inherit his mother's hatred of dogs, as he ended up getting to be close friends with Dude.
Carlos's last name "De Vil" is a play on the word "Devil".
Carlos was Cameron Boyce's last Disney role (in Descendants 3) before his death.
Although it has not been mentioned directly, it is implied that Carlos,much like his actor, Cameron Boyce, had died as hinted at in Descendants: The Royal Wedding when Mal says "I really wish Carlos was here" and Evie reply "We all do". Later, in The Rise of Red, Uma emotionally glimpses at his picture as she honors him by convincing Fairy Godmother to send an invite to Red to enroll to Auradon Prep.
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