History Characters / CarmenSandiegoLawEnforcement

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first scene has him (with Julia) question the motives behind the elusive thief Carmen Sandiego, before cockily assuming he will catch and arrest her. And when Julia attempts to find a reason behind Sandiego's motives, Chase brushes her statements off to the point that he gets distracted when the Carmen Sandiego appears for real. And when Julia suggest calling for back-up, Chase hastily refuses before running off after Carmen.

!!Chief [[spoiler:Tamara Fraiser]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Given that ACME wasn't even mentioned in promotional material, the fact that she's in the show ''at all'' makes her this. Beyond that, season 2's finale reveals [[spoiler:she is the linchpin that ties Carmen's past to V.I.L.E., having shot her father as an Interpol agent years before and prompting Shadow-san to take back the infant Carmen to V.I.L.E. island before destroying the home she lived in with her father]].

[[caption-width-right:240:''"A harsh reminder that we live in a world where villains may not always look like villains. Nor heroes like heroes. All that we can be assured of is that VILE will continue to operate from the shadows. So, it is imperative that ACME view the world in shades of gray."'']]

[[caption-width-right:300:''"LA FEMME ROUGE!"'']]

[[caption-width-right:250:''"Well, what if, for whatever reason, Carmen Sandiego were a thief who only steals from other thieves?"'']]

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[[caption-width-right:215:''"We're a covert surveillance agency, Devineaux. Details matter."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:270:''"Good evening, sir. I understand you wished to be informed of any unsual activity in Botswana. Well, I just moments ago receive word of an impending police action against an illegal diamond mining operation."'']]
A member of [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]]. He briefly appears in Season 2 Episode 9.

* BadassLongcoat: His detective longcoat is pretty fitting. With it torn in the second to last episode, he gets a Lucky Cat jacket instead.

* CharacterDevelopment: At first, he's always about jumping into action without thinking. Season 2 shows off that he's capable of investigative work that could put ACME to shame and he does realize that he has been such a jerk to Julia. [[spoiler: After Carmen leaves a bunch of stolen masks for him and finding out the authorities have captured Neal the Eel with a bunch of cheap knockoffs he wonders if Julia was right all along. He is also willing to share credit with Zari, showing that he doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes he made with Julia]]. In Season 4, he turns to Julia for help acknowledging her as an excellent detective and not disregarding her as his subordinate. He learns to appreciate Julia's interest of history and geography and is willing to listen calling her a "wise woman, expert in fascinating facts and interesting things" in stark constrast to his statement of "dull facts about boring things".

* DumbButDiligent: Devineaux may be reckless and not the brightest guy in ACME, but he is by far the most committed and dedicated man on the job to catch Carmen Sandiego.

** While suffering from AdaptationalDumbass in this incarnation, Season 2 goes to prove that he does have actually have rather amazing deduction skills on his own, so much in fact that he singlehandedly [[spoiler:uncovers the location of V.I.L.E.'s headquarters in the span of a ''couple weeks'' with only loosely tied reports and records from Interpol's archive and goes out to apprehend them. More impressive when remembering the fact that Chief and A.C.M.E. spent some decades searching for the same base, not to mention proof of their existence beforehand and were unsuccessful. [[MissedHimByThatMuch It's a shame that he missed them by that much with them going into hiding not too long after]].]]

* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Treasures of Knowledge'', she was an experienced ACME agent who was also partners with Carmen. In here, she shows know signs of badassery and is mostly there as the voice of reason and her knowledge of geography and artifacts.