History YMMV / WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego

* MagnificentBitch: Carmen Sandiego is a rogue ACME agent who became the world's most successful master thief just for the sake of the thrills. To this end, Carmen stole famous landmarks and objects across the world, leaving difficult-to-follow clues and patterns to challenge herself with cunning pursuers. Having a strict moral code, Carmen only steals her items for the thrill, later returning them, and despises violent measures. Treating her thievery hobby and escapades more like a mental game than anything else and remaining affable to her companions and her enemies alike, Carmen is one of the most worthy adversaries for the ACME agents and the players in the show.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Yep- the Chief is [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Squidward Tentacles]] and [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Professor Membrane]]. But mostly Squidward.

* EvilIsSexy: Well, this ''is'' Carmen Sandiego we're talking about.

** At the end of the GrandFinale, Carmen's possible father, Malcolm Avalon, is badly injured to the point of losing his short-term memory...including his memory of Carmen herself. Afterwards, Carmen sadly decides to not re-enter his life and find out for sure whether or not he's her father, conceding it wouldn't make a difference since even if he was she's too far gone in her life of crime to change for his sake.

* TearJerker: "Follow My Footprints", in which Carmen is believed to have perished in an avalanche in the Himalayas. It hits most everyone at ACME and V.I.L.E. pretty hard, ''especially'' the Chief who falls into a HeroicBSOD.

* TearJerker: "Follow My Footprints", in which Carmen is believed to have perished in an avalanche in the Himalayas. It hits most everyone at ACME and V.I.L.E. pretty hard.

* CantUnhearIt: For many kids who grew up with this show, Creator/RitaMoreno is ''the'' voice of Carmen Sandiego.

* CantUnhearIt: For many kids who grew up with this show, Creator/RinaMoreno is ''the'' voice of Carmen Sandiego.

** "Just Like Old Times" features a minor key DarkReprise of Handel's "Messiah," which is just as awesome as it sounds.

** In the episode "The Remnants," Carmen steals a pair of [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Judy Garland's ruby slippers]]. In 2005, one of the original pairs of ruby slippers was actually stolen while on loan to the Judy Garland Museum. While they were finally found 13 years later thanks to a tip to the FBI, the identity of the thief was either never discovered or kept secret...

** The "Retribution" story arc involves Dr. Maelstrom attempting to steal the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic and later, Noah's Ark. At the end of the first arc, The Chief mentions that RealLife underwater explorer Robert Ballard discovered the ''Titanic'' shortly after Maelstrom's capture. A few years after the episode aired, Ballard would go on [[http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/search.html several expeditions inspired by the story of Noah's Ark]], and would later be very vocal in his opposition to removing artifacts from the ''Titanic''. If the episode had aired ten years later, it might have seemed as though Maelstrom was intended to literally be Ballard's EvilCounterpart!

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Anytime the Chief lists three things and then says "Oh my!" becomes this when we learn that ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' was Carmen's favorite childhood story. Just think about it a little.

** In episode 1, The Chief calls Zack "The Boy Wonder". Fast forward a couple of years, and along comes another series Creator/ScottMenville stars in; a little project called WesternAnimation/TeenTitans...

** Ivy's Tigress alter ego is created as part of a ploy to dupe a villain. In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' season 2, the hero Artemis Crock uses an alias also named Tigress to go undercover in the villain organization.

** For that matter, Zack is [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin]].

* WhatAnIdiot:
** At the end of "The Tigress", Ivy reveals the whole thing was a set up to make Carmen jealous and cause her to let down her guard so that they could catch her. When they do, Zack explains how he made super-powered rocket boots enabling Ivy to fly, ''right in front of Carmen who is handcuffed next to him'', enabling her to take the boots and fly right out of the police van! Did he suddenly forget who he was talking to? Although perhaps this was the result of his hormones doing horrible things to his brain.
** Mason Dixon's whole plan is to change history so that the Confederacy wins the Civil War and remains its own independent nation. As is pointed out in-episode, this will cause ''devastating'' changes to multiple other aspects of history that Dixon just isn't thinking ahead about.

* MagnificentBitch: Carmen Sandiego is a rogue ACME agent who became the world’s most successful master thief just for the sake of the thrills. To this end, Carmen stole famous landmarks and objects across the world, leaving difficult to follow clues and patterns to challenge herself with cunning pursuers. Having a strict moral code, Carmen only steals her items for the thrill, later returning them and despises violent measures. Treating her thievery hobby and escapades more like a mental game than anything else and remains affable to her companions and her enemies alike. Carmen is one of the most worthy adversaries for the ACME agents and the players in the show.