History Characters / WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego

* [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys Where Does She Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]: You can't help but wonder this when you see all of the different aircrafts, ground vehicles, and infiltration tools she uses in her thefts. A likely explanation is that most of them come from the mind of her scientific supervisor, [[EvilGenius Professor Sarah Bellum]]. Carmen herself thought this of Dr. Maelstrom ten years prior, and most likely picked up the crime style from him.

* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Crouching Morons, Hidden Badasses]]: They don't seem that much brighter than any of the rest of V.I.L.E., until you realize [[EstablishingCharacterMoment their introductory scene]] is them having already solved one of Carmen's three clues sent out to her entire organization. They are also among the few henchmen who make rather reasonable (if still way wrong) guesses on other clues Carmen is trying to solve.

* [[spoiler:ArcVillain]]: [[spoiler:Of the "Boyhood's End" and "Can You Ever Go Home Again?" two-parters.]]

* [[spoiler:EvilCostumeSwitch]]: [[spoiler:As a henchman under Carmen. Oddly enough, he ditches the evil outfit in "Can You Ever Go Home Again", wearing his normal clothes again.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]: [[spoiler:So far the only character in this franchise to pull one on-screen, betraying ACME to join Carmen, and later ditching her as well to work solo.]]

* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: His role in aiding Carmen Sandiego steal the Magna Carta by having Zack and Ivy lead Carmen and her henchmen (R.B. included) to steal it.]]

* [[spoiler: TrojanPrisoner: He played the role of Carmen Sandiego's captor in order for Carmen to use Zack and Ivy to lead her to the Magna Carta while they were under the guise of proving Carmen's innocence.]]

* CanonImmigrant: Relative to the video games as of ''Junior Detective Edition.''

* CanonImmigrant: Relative to the video games as of ''Junior Detective Edition.''

* CanonImmigrant: Relative to the video games as of ''Junior Detective Edition.''

* AscendedExtra: In the show, he only appears in one episode. In the ''Junior Detective Edition'' game, which draws several elements from ''Earth'', he is much more prominent, chasing [[RightHandCat Carmine]] in the opening credits and leading the final chase of every criminal you go after, regardless of whether or not they're successfully caught.
* CanonImmigrant: Relative to the video games; see AscendedExtra above.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Verges on this several times in the series, with her showing a much higher level of respect for Carmen than she really should, and even [[spoiler: beating her at her own game just to prove herself superior to Carmen]]. This may be why some fans have speculated that Carmen Sandiego was Ivy’s hero when Carmen worked for A.C.M.E. and felt betrayed when Carmen [[HeelFaceTurn turned to a life of crime]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Dixon is either a supporter of or at least a sympathizer to the Confederate side of the Civil War. Barring the stereotype of his accent and calling the Union soldiers "Yankees", his choice of outfits for his version of V.I.L.E. involves the same tone of gray and overcoat design used by Confederate soldiers. To make it worse, his entire plan hinges on changing the outcome of the Civil War to make the South win, and he point-blank declares "the South will rise" after his attempted attack with the H.L. Hunley fails.

* BrotherSisterTeam: With Zack.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Verges on this several times in the series, with her showing a much higher level of respect for Carmen than she really should, and even [[spoiler: beating her at her own game just to prove herself superior to Carmen.]]. This may be why some fans have speculated that Carmen Sandiego was Ivy’s hero when Carmen worked for A.C.M.E. and felt betrayed when Carmen [[HeelFaceTurn turned to a life of crime]].

* TheStarscream: One theft during the Civil War period was enough to replace Carmen as the head of V.I.L.E. and have her as his sidekick. Even before the time paradox occurs, he was already angry at Carmen for berating him over his failure to steal a sofa from a Civil War reenactment, declaring loudly that he should be in charge.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Verges on this several times in the series, with her showing a much higher level of respect for Carmen than she really should, and even [[spoiler: beating her at her own game just to prove herself superior to Carmen.]]

* AffablyEvil: Carmen is a thief, but she's not violent, and treats her escapades with Zack and Ivy more as a game than anything else. She's also always soft-spoken and full of witty retorts that make it hard to not be pulled in by her charisma.

* FanserviceExtra: She only appears in "A Date with Carmen," and she doesn't have a single line. What she does have, as pictured, is a gratuitous scene in which she climbs out of the water onto a ship wearing a skimpy bikini.

* TheVoiceless: The closest thing she has to a line is a gasp when Zack and Ivy arrive unexpectedly. Her cohort Al Loy does all the talking.

->'''Voiced by:''' Rita Moreno

* ExplosiveLeash: Uses one in the form of exploding handcuffs on Carmen while she accompanies Zack and Ivy, while they try to prove Carmen's innocence. [[spoiler: Subverted as R.B. was aiding Carmen with fooling Zack and Ivy from her actual plans to fake her capture as an excuse to locate and steal the Magna Carta.]]

%%!!Judge R.B. Traitor

!!Malcolm Avalon
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Carmen Sandiego is a thief. It would take a lot more than [[OrphansPlotTrinket this locket]] to prove she escaped from the fire that night, almost 30 years ago."'']]

A millionaire industrialist and widower living in Buenos Aires who lost his wife and daughter to a hotel fire in San Francisco close to three decades before the events of the show. Carmen hits up his home for a heist, but in the process spots a portrait of his late wife, who looks just like the woman she always believed to be her mother.

* RaceLift: Carmen Sandiego in the games is latino, but she was originally lighter skinned. Since the popularity of the cartoon, however, the games do sometimes use this design.

** The "Can You Ever Go Home Again" two-parter focuses entirely on her parenthood issues and how she grew up without a father, which she has supposedly just found.

* NotMeThisTime: "When It Rains" and "Can You Ever Go Home Again" are two good examples of what only ''seems'' to be Carmen performing increasingly reckless or destructive crimes and having the blame pinned on her, only so the detectives can figure out [[spoiler:she's being impersonated or blackmailed and never had these heists in mind to begin with]].

* AmericanAccents: Has a distinct Southern drawl to his voice.

** The "Can You Ever Go Home Again" two-parter focuses entirely on her parenthood issues and how she grew without a father, which she has supposedly just found.

** As Carmen herself put it, she's in it for the mind games, the thrill of the hunt and the globetrotting. It's all a game to her, and it only stays fun as long as no one is under actual danger, including the ACME detectives, which is why she will never try to hurt them, and will actively try to help them if no one else can.

* MotorMouth: He talks ''fast''.

* ArtificialIntelligence

* BerserkButton: Quite a few in this incarnation. She makes it abundantly clear, for starters, that she '''despises''' the use of brute force to perform heists, preferring to act more on stealth and finesse.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: She may steal everything that isn't nailed down (and more than a few things that ''are''), but she almost never intends to keep what she takes, and she doesn't engage in wanton violence or destruction like Maelstrom, [[spoiler:Sarah Bellum]], or [[spoiler:Lee Jordan]].

* MissingMissionControl: For a short time in "A Date with Carmen." After Carmen steals Creator/BenFranklin's key and causes electricity to vanish from the present day, the player loses contact with Zack and Ivy until they recover the key and Ben completes his experiment.

* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:Of the "Boyhood's End" and "Can You Ever Go Home Again?" two-parters.]]
* BrokenAce: The second-best detective in the history of ACME after Carmen, and for a long time the only one to have ever captured her even once, let alone twice, and yet he's a psychopath.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Some of his interactions with Ivy can come across as a bit too... touchy-feely, and she's clearly uncomfortable with it when he does it.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:As a henchman under Carmen.]]

* GuestStarPartyMember: Begins as this in "Boyhood's End Part 1", before [[spoiler:joining V.I.L.E.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: Even while he's working with Ivy, something always seems off about him, as he's very easy to anger and berates Ivy for his own mistakes. Not to mention he, at one point, openly starts overloading the Player with stuff to research out of frustration while tracking down Carmen. [[spoiler:And unlike Carmen, he plays for keeps and has no qualms about collateral damage to innocent bystanders, going as far as trying to ''kill'' Zack and Ivy not seconds after he turns coat to V.I.L.E., which Carmen is naturally not happy about .]]

* LargeHam: [[spoiler:While posing as Carmen. The disguise would be stronger had she not insisted in that EviLaugh]].

* OOCAlert: [[spoiler:Zack and Ivy do take notice in "When It Rains" that Carmen's recent string of thefts is increasingly sloppy and destructive, leaving a lot more collateral damage behind, and her sudden tendency to cackle evily]].

* AffablyEvil: Carmen is a thief, but she's not violent, and treats her escapades with Zack and Ivy more as a game than anything else.

* MamaBear: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but she has a great deal of care for the ACME Junior Detectives that chase after her, especially Zack and Ivy, and will go out of her way to make sure they're unhurt or help them in a crisis.

!!Dr. Al Loy
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A metal-obsessed criminal and member of V.I.L.E.