Flint Lockwood

Flint Lockwood is an eccentric inventor from the town of Swallow Falls and the main protagonist in the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

Taken by inventing from a young age, Flint developed many inventions with the intent to help, but ultimately ended up causing more harm than good in most cases.

Despite this, his mother supported him fully until the time of her death, which had little explanation or mention in the movie.

His father was often sceptical of his inventions and tried to dissuade him from his hobby in favor of working at the family Bait and Tackle shop.

Early in the movie, Flint developed the FLDSMDFR (Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator) in hopes of turning water into food as a means of providing new foods for his town, since their primary food source at the time was sardines, much to the dismay of the townspeople.

When the FLDSMDFR initially fails, he determines it requires more power to function fully and decides to connect it to the city power grid.

Sneaking away from his work at the Bait and Tackle shop, Flint is briefly stopped by the officer Earl Deveraux (Voiced by Mr. T) before distracting him with a jaywalker and activating his machine, now connected to the power grid of the town.

The machine reacts with unexpected propulsion, causing Flint and the FLDSMDFR to rocket through the town haphazardly, destroying the new Sardine Land attraction the mayor set up to attract tourism.

Ultimately the machine escapes into the sky, and Flint declares the invention a failure as the entire town blames him for the distruction of Sardine Land, and their tourism.

Within minutes, however, the machine begins to take in water from the clouds in the atmosphere and generate food, which falls from the sky onto the town below.

This makes Flint widely popular as he can now deliver massive quantities of whatever food the townspeople desire.

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Sony Pictures Animation
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