Kevin McCallister is the main protagonist of the first two and fourth films of the Home Alone film series. He is an eight-year-old boy who comes from a big family and usually gets into trouble with them.
Appearances in Christmas specials[]
Home Alone[]
In the original movie, Kevin is mistakenly left behind when his family travels to Paris for Christmas. When he learns that he is home alone, he makes the most of it with eating, watching movies, and unintentionally wrecking his oldest brother Buzz's room. At one point, he slaps his face with aftershave, but the stinging it causes results in his trademark screaming face the series was known for.
Upon learning that the Wet Bandits, Marv and Harry, intend to rob his house alongside several others in the neighborhood, Kevin initially tries to fool them into believing his family is still home, but they soon catch on to his ruse. Later on, he encounters his neighbor, Old Man Marley, at the church, attending his granddaughter's Christmas concert, but keeping his distance due to being on bad terms with his estranged son. After a talk with him and finding a kindred spirit in him, Kevin decides it is time to defend his house from the Wet Bandits and make them learn a valuable lesson not to underestimate him or ruin Christmas for others. He then gets to work defending his house by rigging it with several booby traps that cause some serious injuries to the Wet Bandits, even scaring Marv out of his wits with Buzz's pet tarantula, Axl. Afterwards, he flees to one of the houses they already hit, where they capture him and prepare to punish him for all the pain and suffering he put them through. Fortunately, they are knocked out by Old Man Marley and then arrested by the police, due to Marv stupidly leaving the water on in the houses they rob, flooding them as a result. Kate later returns home before the rest of the family to reunite with Kevin, and while he is happy to have them back, he soon has to deal with Buzz when the movie ends with Buzz shouting about him messing up his room.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York[]
In the first sequel, Kevin is upset that his family now intends to celebrate Christmas in Miami, as there are no Christmas trees down there. After Buzz humiliates him during his solo in the school Christmas choir, causing him to retaliate, leading to the concert being ruined, back home, Buzz offers an fake apology to gain his family's sympathy for what he did, before mocking Kevin over getting them to sympathize with him, calling him a "trout sniffer", leading to him erupting in anger and telling them off, refusing to apologize to Buzz, angrily criticizing his family's decision to spend Christmas down in Florida, and even insulting his Uncle Frank when he tries to intervene, before storming up to his bed on the third floor to sulk, muttering to himself that his family is nothing but a bunch of jerks. Kate tries to speak to him in private and calm him down, but he is still too livid to be reasoned with, so when Kate mentions that he got his wish to be away from his family the year before and might get it again this year, he replies, "I hope so!"
When it is discovered that the McCallisters overslept again, they rush to board the airport vans and catch their flight, but while Kevin does make it onto the vans this time, he is separated from his family at the airport while changing the batteries in his Talkboy, mistaking a man wearing the same color overcoat as Peter, and boards a flight to New York instead of Miami. When the McCallisters discover he is not with them in Miami, Peter is furious, while Kate faints when the truth sinks in that he was left behind again. Speaking with the Miami police, they learn that he does have Peter's bag with his credit card in it, so they can track him down when he uses it. Meanwhile, when he realizes he's in New York while his family is in Miami, he decides to use that to his advantage and enjoy there, visiting the World Trade Center and checking into the Plaza Hotel using Peter's credit card and a fake recording of Peter's voice to make a reservation, even having a run in with Donald Trump when he arrives at the hotel. However, the concierge, Mr. Hector, is suspicious of him, and while he is out exploring the city and visiting Duncan's Toy Chest, Mr. Hector discovers the stolen credit card, so when he returns to the hotel asking for help after having a run-in with his old enemies, Harry and Marv (now called the "Sticky Bandits"), Mr. Hector intends to turn him over to the NYPD for the stolen credit card, but he outwits him and his staff and escapes, only to be captured by the Sticky Bandits, who take him to Central Park as they reveal their plans to rob Duncan's Toy Chest, unaware of him recording their confession of their plan on his Talkboy, before causing a distraction that allows him to escape from them for the time being. When the McCallisters arrive in New York and check into the hotel, Mr. Hector and his staff try to apologize for their actions, but the McCallisters will have none of it. Mr. Hector offers them a complimentary suite as an apology, but Kate still shows how upset she is with him by slapping him in anger over trying to talk her out of going after Kevin alone, leaving him humbled and trying not to cry from the pain.
Meanwhile, Kevin befriends a pigeon lady he saw in Central Park previously when she frees his trapped foot after it got stuck between some rocks. Taking him back to her loft above Carnegie Hall, she explains how her life has fallen apart, and he offers to be her friend to help her rebuild it. Later, as he heads out, he passes the Beth Israel Children's Hospital, and after waving hello to one of the patients watching him from his window, remembering what Mr. Duncan said about the money he was collecting going to there and the Sticky Bandits' intent to steal it, he declares, "You can mess with a lot of things, but you don't mess with kids on Christmas," and decides to stop them himself. After rigging his Uncle Rob's house that was undergoing renovations with booby traps, he heads to Duncan's Toy Chest, catching the Sticky Bandits in the middle of their robbery and triggering the alarm by breaking the window with a brick with a note to Mr. Duncan attached to it, leading the Sticky Bandits to chase him back to Uncle Rob's house to suffer a ton of pain and humiliation from the booby traps before he flees to Central Park, stopping by a pay phone to call the NYPD. However, as he tries to enter the park, he slips on a patch of ice, allowing the Sticky Bandits to capture him. Taking him into the park, they confiscate the evidence against them, before Harry pulls out a revolver, intending to kill him in revenge for all the pain and suffering he has put them through. However, before he can pull the trigger, the Pigeon Lady appears and provides a distraction to give Kevin a chance to escape before she covers the Sticky Bandits with bird seed, leaving them at the mercy of the pigeons as they swarm and pin them to the ground, giving Kevin time to set off his signal to the NYPD, a set of fireworks he bought earlier, leading to the Sticky Bandits getting arrested once more, this time with enough evidence against them to put them away for good, and Marv again stupidly digging himself and Harry deeper with telling the truth as Harry angrily tells and attacks him to shut up.
Kevin later goes to Rockefeller Center to look at the large Christmas tree there, where he makes a request to God to be with his family again, even offering an apology for all the trouble he has put them through. That's when he is reunited with Kate, and they return to the hotel together to reunite with the rest of his family, waking up to find that Mr. Duncan, in gratitude for saving the donation money, has delivered a huge load of presents to the hotel to thank Kevin and ensure his family has a Merry Christmas. Buzz even offers a sincere apology this time to Kevin for before with the Christmas choir incident, and as a reconciliation, allows Kevin to open up the first present. While the McCallisters celebrate and open their presents, Kevin heads down to Central Park to give one of the ceramic turtle doves Mr. Duncan gave him earlier to the Pigeon Lady as a sign of friendship. However, his heartwarming moment with her is ruined when Buzz receives the hotel bill from his earlier stay and shows it to Peter, causing him to scream in fury, "KEVIN! You spent $967 on room service?!" Busted, he flees back to the hotel to face him.
Other Christmas productions[]
Kevin as an adult, once again played by Culkin, in the 2018 Google Assistant commercial.
In a 2018 commercial for Google Assistant, Macaulay Culkin reprised the role of Kevin.
Mentions in other Christmas specials[]
In Home Sweet Home Alone, Kevin's brother Buzz appears as a police officer. When he is told that the film's protagonist Max was left behind in the house, he thinks that it's a prank because Kevin keeps pulling this sort of prank on him every year.