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* StringTheory: He keeps a map of the world on his apartment wall that he uses to pin down and connect shipping manifests that he traced back to the "Valuable Imports, Lavish Exports" company during Season 2. It's what allows him to figure out [[spoiler:one of the manifests corresponds to a place that doesn't actually exist]].
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* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: [[spoiler:Shot Carmen's father dead when he was pulling car keys out of his pocket, clearly believing that he was drawing a weapon at the time.]]
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* ConnectedAllAlong: Thanks to her involvement with [[spoiler:the death of Dexter Wolfe, she's this to Carmen and Shadow-san]].
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: [[spoiler:Safeguards key A.C.M.E. databases with a password derived from her pet cat's name, which Carmen manages to phish out of her in person]].
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* AdaptationalOriginConnection: [[spoiler:She is tied to Carmen's origins as the reason her father died and thus the reason V.I.L.E. took in the baby Carmen, all this happening prior to the formation of A.C.M.E.]]
* ItsPersonal: After Carmen [[spoiler:hacks into A.C.M.E. through a backdoor planted by Player, the Chief vows that Carmen will be captured for double-crossing her, going so far as to reactivating Chase Devineaux to bring her down]].
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* RapidFireNo: Has a tendency to do this whenever things go wrong for him, [[ButtMonkey which is often]].
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* DaChief: Obviously.
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* KindHeartedCatLover: She has a pet cat, a Persian long-haired named "Commander". [[spoiler:This turns out to be the passcode for the ACME files]]
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* 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 become such a jerk to Julia.
* EurekaMoment: Finally figures out the location of [[spoiler:VILE]] after he dreams of Julia showcasing a Lucky Cat statue in a shelf of fedoras stating that "one of these things is not like the others".
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be cold and dismissive of his partner, but the season finale does have him realize that he's been a bit harsh on her lately and decides to buy her a gift as an apology.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be cold and dismissive of his partner, but the season 1 finale does have him realize that he's been a bit harsh on her lately and decides to buy her a gift as an apology.apology.
** In "The African Diamond Caper", he becomes much more humble about Julia's way of thinking and -- after having a dream of her giving him a hint about his investigations -- he calls her his "Lucky Cat:.
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* {{Adorkable}}: "The Fashionista Caper" has her practicing what type of One-liners she'd say to Carmen when they meet again.
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* AntiVillain: While she is dedicated to stopping V.I.L.E., she's also ruthless and [[spoiler:in the season 2 finale becomes Carmen's sworn enemy.]]
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* OhCrap: [[spoiler: In the season 2 finale, when Carmen is attempting to hack into the ACME database, and she realizes she ''gave Carmen her passcode by mistake.'']]
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** While suffering from AdaptationalDumbass in this incarnation, Season 2 goes to prove that [[spoiler:he does have actually have rather amazing deduction skills on his own, so much in fact that he singlehandedly 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]].]]
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* MissedHimByThatMuch: [[spoiler:In season two, he singlehandedly discovers the location of V.I.L.E. HQ on his own within a couple weeks where it took Chief decades to accomplish even proof of their existence... [[ShaggyDogStory only to arrive a week later]] [[FieryCoverup after their bombing their headquarters and going into hiding]].]]
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Though she's technically his partner and Chase isn't so much incompetent as just obsessively focused on capturing Carmen, Julia's generally level-headedness and acute observations make her much more useful in the investigation into Carmen and V.I.L.E. than Chase in Season One.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Though she's technically his partner and Chase isn't so much incompetent as just obsessively focused on capturing Carmen, Julia's generally level-headedness and acute observations make her much more useful in the investigation into Carmen and V.I.L.E. than Chase in Season One.1. [[spoiler: This eventually leads to her getting promoted and officially made into an ACME agent.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: She killed Carmen’s father during a raid.an Interpol raid on his villa.]]
* ThisMeansWar: [[spoiler: When Carmen has Player hack into ACME’s database,this causes the Chief to lose all of her trust in declares that Carmen has crossed a line and she immediately puts reauthorizes Chase back on Carmen’s case.to go after Carmen.]]
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* AMotherToHerMen: [[spoiler: Despite her dissatisfaction with Chase's performance in the pursuit of Carmen Sandiego she doesn't take Carmen's supposed kidnapping and torture of Chase well at all.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: She takes Julia locating Chase in stride and even sees it as a sign that the detective would work well within ACME. She does grow exasperated when Chase sinks two expensive ACME-issued cars and loses his ID card, but still shows concern after he is "kidnapped" by Carmen and vows to Julia that they will get Carmen.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Given that ACME wasn't even mentioned in promotional material, the fact that she's in the show ''at all'' makes her this.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: She takes Julia locating Chase in stride and even sees it as a sign that the detective would work well within ACME. She does grow exasperated when Chase sinks two expensive ACME-issued cars and loses his ID card, but still shows concern after he is "kidnapped" by Carmen and vows to Julia that they will get Carmen.]]
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* AdaptationalWimp: Chase Devineaux's first appearance showed him as Carmen's former partner, and the player's mysterious liaison in ''Word Detective''; he and Carmen share a begrudging WorthyOpponent respect, and he's the only other agent that she doesn't catch besides the player. In this show, he is an arrogant ButtMonkey that is more bluster than badass.
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!!Chase Devineaux
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->'''Voiced by:''' Rafael Petardi
An Interpol detective partnered with Julia. He's obsessed with capturing Carmen Sandiego.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: Unlike previous installments that portray Chase as Carmen's WorthyOpponent and an equal to her in intelligence, Chase shows little knowledge of history and geography, making him less capable of seeing the big picture of Carmen's plans and his obsession with capturing her makes him blind to the times where she is not the enemy. And when she is an enemy, she's still less of an enemy than VILE.
* AdaptationalNationality: He was originally an American in the games he appeared in; here, he's French.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In previous installments, Chase has red hair (Carmen’s dossier on him states that his hair is auburn). Here, Chase has brown hair.
* AdaptationalWimp: Chase Devineaux's first appearance showed him as Carmen's former partner, and the player's mysterious liaison in ''Word Detective''; he and Carmen share a begrudging WorthyOpponent respect, and he's the only other agent that she doesn't catch besides the player. In this show, he is an arrogant ButtMonkey that is more bluster than badass.
* BadassLongcoat: His detective longcoat is pretty fitting. With it torn in the second to last episode, he gets a Lucky Cat jacket instead.
* BerserkButton: Julia always having to be right.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Julie's Brains since he's the one willing to chase after Carmen by any means necessary.
* ButtMonkey: In just the first several minutes of the first episode he gets pick-pocketed by Carmen, falls off a room onto the car he and Julia were using and gets the airbag blowing up in his face when he misses the train Carmen is on.
* {{Determinator}}: He won't give up his chase against Carmen, something that Carmen respects.
* 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 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.
* FakeUltimateHero: Both ACME [[spoiler: and VILE]] mistake his endless pursuit of Carmen Sandiego as proof of competence he doesn’t quite possess.
* HeroAntagonist: Chase Devineaux, the Interpol agent actively searching for Carmen's whereabouts, attempting to arrest her.
* HeroicWillpower: Say what you will about Inspector Devineaux, but he is nothing if not determined. He continues to chase Carmen and her friends all over the globe through the first season, and is perfectly willing to sink cars to do so. In the season finale, [[spoiler: he manages to hold out against V.I.L.E’s truth extractor by screaming La Marsellaise (the French national anthem) at the top of his lungs, even at the risk of permanent brain damage.]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite his recklessness, he's far from incompetent as shown under the proper circumstances. [[spoiler: He's able to resist V.I.L.E.'s mind-reading machine initially and is smart enough to activate his A.C.M.E. pen after Carmen frees him so the Chief will see him in danger, ping his location and send a rescue party.]]
* HopelessWithTech: Chase has trouble with [[spoiler:A.C.M.E.]]'s touchscreen tech even when Julia is trying to talk him through it. This leads to him sinking ''another'' [[spoiler:A.C.M.E.]] car!
* InspectorJavert: He is convinced Carmen Sandiego is behind every crime, even without any evidence to confirm it.
* IronButtMonkey: Chase seems to get the short end of the stick a lot. Still, he shrugs off falling from a rooftop onto a car hood in favor of yelling at a retreating Carmen.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be cold and dismissive of his partner, but the season finale does have him realize that he's been a bit harsh on her lately and decides to buy her a gift as an apology.
* LeeroyJenkins: He's not incompetent but more of a "act first think later" kind of guy and prone to jumping to conclusions.
* MeaningfulName: His first name is "Chase", befitting a detective who actively hunts down Carmen Sandiego whenever she strikes a new location.
* PermaStubble: Chase a nine o' clock shadow.
* PsychicStatic: [[spoiler:He tries to resist a V.I.L.E. mind probe by continuously singing the French national anthem.]]
* RageAgainstTheReflection: At one point Devineaux chews himself out in the mirror, both for his frequent failures and for snapping at Julia earlier.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Him barging in on Countess Cleo's dinner in "The Duke of Vermeer Caper" is what gives Carmen and Ivy extra time to get the last of the stolen Vermeer capers. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: this is one of the reasons why VILE concludes (wrongly) that he is working with Carmen.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Often seeing popping mints.
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!!Julia Argent
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->'''Voiced by:''' Charlet Chung
A partner to Chase Devineaux. She loves history and is much more level headed than her partner.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She had black hair in ''Treasures of Knowledge'' whereas it's navy blue here.
* AdaptationalNationality: An ambiguous case here. While she appears Asian and was born in Hong Kong, she spoke with an American accent in ''[[VideoGame/CarmenSandiegoTreasuresOfKnowledge Treasures of Knowledge]]'' and it was never specified where she was brought up. The novelization makes her out to be half-British and half-Chinese.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Julia's main character trait in her games was that she believed that Carmen had the potential for good since they used to be co-agents and that Carmen had twisted benevolent intentions for her crimes. Here, since she and Carmen don't have that history, Julia takes a more objective approach to Carmen's ''modus operandi'', that Carmen treats stealing as a game but may have different intentions than what appears on the surface.
* BeleagueredAssistant: She's Chase's rookie partner whose sound observations into their investigations regarding Carmen's actions and motives are more than Chase is willing to consider.
* BoyishShortHair: Downplayed. Julia has short hair and dresses in a pants suit, but is quite feminine in personality.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to Chase's brawn, as she's the one who logically asks questions in regards to Carmen's motives and spouts out geography trivia.
* CloserToEarth: She tends to have more reasonable reactions to Carmen's supposed crime scenes, willing to consider that Carmen is not the main criminal.
* CompositeCharacter: She shares her background as a rookie detective with Shadow Hawkins from ''[[VideoGame/CarmenSandiegoTreasuresOfKnowledge Treasures of Knowledge]]''.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first scene has her (with Chase) questioning the motives behind the elusive thief, Carmen Sandiego. When Chase asks why she would be in Paris for a heist, Julia astutely guesses and lists a number of Paris' historical artifacts before being brushed off by Chase. And while the latter is spouting off his supposed competence, it's Julia's observation that catches Carmen about to pull of her heist. And before the Inspector runs off impulsively, she suggests calling for back-up.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Though she's technically his partner and Chase isn't so much incompetent as just obsessively focused on capturing Carmen, Julia's generally level-headedness and acute observations make her much more useful in the investigation into Carmen and V.I.L.E. than Chase in Season One.
* LadyInAPowerSuit: She wears a pantsuit.
* MixedAncestry: The novelization counterpart of the two-parter episodes state that Julia is half-British and half-Chinese.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Wears glasses and usually spews trivia about the stolen artifacts.
* WomenAreWiser: Compared to Chase's tunnel-vision, she's seen as the wise one of the two.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: In this adaptation, Julia has navy blue hair.
* YouthfulFreckles: Julia has freckles on her face to emphasize her youthfulness compared to her older partner.
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!!Chief
->'''Voiced by:''' Dawnn Lewis
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The head of the secret law enforcement agency ACME.
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* BlackBossLady: She is African-American and is the head of ACME.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:She's African like Lynne Thigpen from ''Where in the World'' and ''Where in Time'' but communicates via holograms like the ''Where on Earth'' version.]]
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: [[spoiler:Her blonde hair is likely a reference to the holographic Chief from ''Where on Earth'' as he was portrayed as having light-colored hair.]]
* LadyInAPowerSuit
* AMotherToHerMen: [[spoiler: Despite her dissatisfaction with Chase's performance in the pursuit of Carmen Sandiego she doesn't take Carmen's supposed kidnapping and torture of Chase well at all.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: She takes Julia locating Chase in stride and even sees it as a sign that the detective would work well within ACME. She does grow exasperated when Chase sinks two expensive ACME-issued cars and loses his ID card, but still shows concern after he is "kidnapped" by Carmen and vows to Julia that they will get Carmen.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Given that ACME wasn't even mentioned in promotional material, the fact that she's in the show ''at all'' makes her this.]]
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!!Chase Devineaux
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->'''Voiced by:''' Rafael Petardi
An Interpol detective partnered with Julia. He's obsessed with capturing Carmen Sandiego.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: Unlike previous installments that portray Chase as Carmen's WorthyOpponent and an equal to her in intelligence, Chase shows little knowledge of history and geography, making him less capable of seeing the big picture of Carmen's plans and his obsession with capturing her makes him blind to the times where she is not the enemy. And when she is an enemy, she's still less of an enemy than VILE.
* AdaptationalNationality: He was originally an American in the games he appeared in; here, he's French.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In previous installments, Chase has red hair (Carmen’s dossier on him states that his hair is auburn). Here, Chase has brown hair.
* AdaptationalWimp: Chase Devineaux's first appearance showed him as Carmen's former partner, and the player's mysterious liaison in ''Word Detective''; he and Carmen share a begrudging WorthyOpponent respect, and he's the only other agent that she doesn't catch besides the player. In this show, he is an arrogant ButtMonkey that is more bluster than badass.
* BadassLongcoat: His detective longcoat is pretty fitting. With it torn in the second to last episode, he gets a Lucky Cat jacket instead.
* BerserkButton: Julia always having to be right.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Julie's Brains since he's the one willing to chase after Carmen by any means necessary.
* ButtMonkey: In just the first several minutes of the first episode he gets pick-pocketed by Carmen, falls off a room onto the car he and Julia were using and gets the airbag blowing up in his face when he misses the train Carmen is on.
* {{Determinator}}: He won't give up his chase against Carmen, something that Carmen respects.
* 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 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.
* FakeUltimateHero: Both ACME [[spoiler: and VILE]] mistake his endless pursuit of Carmen Sandiego as proof of competence he doesn’t quite possess.
* HeroAntagonist: Chase Devineaux, the Interpol agent actively searching for Carmen's whereabouts, attempting to arrest her.
* HeroicWillpower: Say what you will about Inspector Devineaux, but he is nothing if not determined. He continues to chase Carmen and her friends all over the globe through the first season, and is perfectly willing to sink cars to do so. In the season finale, [[spoiler: he manages to hold out against V.I.L.E’s truth extractor by screaming La Marsellaise (the French national anthem) at the top of his lungs, even at the risk of permanent brain damage.]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite his recklessness, he's far from incompetent as shown under the proper circumstances. [[spoiler: He's able to resist V.I.L.E.'s mind-reading machine initially and is smart enough to activate his A.C.M.E. pen after Carmen frees him so the Chief will see him in danger, ping his location and send a rescue party.]]
* HopelessWithTech: Chase has trouble with [[spoiler:A.C.M.E.]]'s touchscreen tech even when Julia is trying to talk him through it. This leads to him sinking ''another'' [[spoiler:A.C.M.E.]] car!
* InspectorJavert: He is convinced Carmen Sandiego is behind every crime, even without any evidence to confirm it.
* IronButtMonkey: Chase seems to get the short end of the stick a lot. Still, he shrugs off falling from a rooftop onto a car hood in favor of yelling at a retreating Carmen.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be cold and dismissive of his partner, but the season finale does have him realize that he's been a bit harsh on her lately and decides to buy her a gift as an apology.
* LeeroyJenkins: He's not incompetent but more of a "act first think later" kind of guy and prone to jumping to conclusions.
* MeaningfulName: His first name is "Chase", befitting a detective who actively hunts down Carmen Sandiego whenever she strikes a new location.
* PermaStubble: Chase a nine o' clock shadow.
* PsychicStatic: [[spoiler:He tries to resist a V.I.L.E. mind probe by continuously singing the French national anthem.]]
* RageAgainstTheReflection: At one point Devineaux chews himself out in the mirror, both for his frequent failures and for snapping at Julia earlier.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Him barging in on Countess Cleo's dinner in "The Duke of Vermeer Caper" is what gives Carmen and Ivy extra time to get the last of the stolen Vermeer capers. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: this is one of the reasons why VILE concludes (wrongly) that he is working with Carmen.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Often seeing popping mints.
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!!Julia Argent
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->'''Voiced by:''' Charlet Chung
A partner to Chase Devineaux. She loves history and is much more level headed than her partner.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She had black hair in ''Treasures of Knowledge'' whereas it's navy blue here.
* AdaptationalNationality: An ambiguous case here. While she appears Asian and was born in Hong Kong, she spoke with an American accent in ''[[VideoGame/CarmenSandiegoTreasuresOfKnowledge Treasures of Knowledge]]'' and it was never specified where she was brought up. The novelization makes her out to be half-British and half-Chinese.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Julia's main character trait in her games was that she believed that Carmen had the potential for good since they used to be co-agents and that Carmen had twisted benevolent intentions for her crimes. Here, since she and Carmen don't have that history, Julia takes a more objective approach to Carmen's ''modus operandi'', that Carmen treats stealing as a game but may have different intentions than what appears on the surface.
* BeleagueredAssistant: She's Chase's rookie partner whose sound observations into their investigations regarding Carmen's actions and motives are more than Chase is willing to consider.
* BoyishShortHair: Downplayed. Julia has short hair and dresses in a pants suit, but is quite feminine in personality.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to Chase's brawn, as she's the one who logically asks questions in regards to Carmen's motives and spouts out geography trivia.
* CloserToEarth: She tends to have more reasonable reactions to Carmen's supposed crime scenes, willing to consider that Carmen is not the main criminal.
* CompositeCharacter: She shares her background as a rookie detective with Shadow Hawkins from ''[[VideoGame/CarmenSandiegoTreasuresOfKnowledge Treasures of Knowledge]]''.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first scene has her (with Chase) questioning the motives behind the elusive thief, Carmen Sandiego. When Chase asks why she would be in Paris for a heist, Julia astutely guesses and lists a number of Paris' historical artifacts before being brushed off by Chase. And while the latter is spouting off his supposed competence, it's Julia's observation that catches Carmen about to pull of her heist. And before the Inspector runs off impulsively, she suggests calling for back-up.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Though she's technically his partner and Chase isn't so much incompetent as just obsessively focused on capturing Carmen, Julia's generally level-headedness and acute observations make her much more useful in the investigation into Carmen and V.I.L.E. than Chase in Season One.
* LadyInAPowerSuit: She wears a pantsuit.
* MixedAncestry: The novelization counterpart of the two-parter episodes state that Julia is half-British and half-Chinese.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Wears glasses and usually spews trivia about the stolen artifacts.
* WomenAreWiser: Compared to Chase's tunnel-vision, she's seen as the wise one of the two.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: In this adaptation, Julia has navy blue hair.
* YouthfulFreckles: Julia has freckles on her face to emphasize her youthfulness compared to her older partner.
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!!Chief
->'''Voiced by:''' Dawnn Lewis
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The head of the secret law enforcement agency ACME.
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* BlackBossLady: She is African-American and is the head of ACME.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:She's African like Lynne Thigpen from ''Where in the World'' and ''Where in Time'' but communicates via holograms like the ''Where on Earth'' version.]]
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: [[spoiler:Her blonde hair is likely a reference to the holographic Chief from ''Where on Earth'' as he was portrayed as having light-colored hair.]]
* LadyInAPowerSuit
* AMotherToHerMen: [[spoiler: Despite her dissatisfaction with Chase's performance in the pursuit of Carmen Sandiego she doesn't take Carmen's supposed kidnapping and torture of Chase well at all.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: She takes Julia locating Chase in stride and even sees it as a sign that the detective would work well within ACME. She does grow exasperated when Chase sinks two expensive ACME-issued cars and loses his ID card, but still shows concern after he is "kidnapped" by Carmen and vows to Julia that they will get Carmen.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Given that ACME wasn't even mentioned in promotional material, the fact that she's in the show ''at all'' makes her this.]]
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