Anti-Villain: Carmen, especially later in the series.
Androids and Detectives: Carmen and The Chief back in the 1980s, before she turned to crime and he discarded the (very glitchy) robot body for his desk job as Head of ACME.
Scott Fitzgerald, once said: "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."Ĭarmen: The tragedy here is Lee 's lack of maturity kept him from being a great detective or a great thief.
An Aesop: Carmen delivers one during her closing conversation with the Player in "Boyhood's End, Part 2":Ĭarmen: A famous writer, F.
America Is Still a Colony: One episode had Carmen going back in time and altering key points in the The American Revolution, which resulted in America losing the war and the Chief speaking with a bloody British accent.
The Facebook game may possibly be the closest version to match Carmen's characterization from the cartoon, not only in described appearance (black hair, light-colored eyes), but also her Backstory as an orphan and aversion to violence. The black-haired Carmen in this cartoon has not appeared in any other story even in the Junior Detective computer game, her canon foes Zack and Ivy were chasing the original, brunette Carmen.
Alternate Continuity: The Where on Earth arc is separate from the rest of the Carmen Sandiego series.
The first episode suggests they intentionally worked as far away from each other as possible within Acme.
Alas, Poor Villain: "Follow My Footprints".
He's very-much patterned after the ACME chief, though he has dark hair and a handlebar moustache. Is a Crapshoot: There's an "evil" twin of the Chief in one of V.I.L.E.'s training facilities.
Adaptation Dye-Job: Carmen went from brown hair to black hair.
Action Survivor: Zack is nowhere near the fighter his sister or Carmen are, but he's still quite athletic, good at thinking on his feet and capable of at least holding his own against most opponents.
Carmen could also kick a fair amount of ass back in her detective days as well.
Similarly, Carmen herself, who was so good at her job that she pulled a FaceHeel Turn because she wanted to be challenged.
Despite having solved over a hundred cases in four years, capturing Carmen at one point in his career, and having saved Ivy's life in the most dramatic way possible, though, his poor treatment and disrespect towards Ivy (along with sabotaging the Pentagon's computer systems, forcing Zack to pull out of the case temporarily) and Carmen (when he starts working for her after defecting from Acme) deconstructs him into the Jerkass and much worse.
Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Carmen leaves a clue in the Paris Sewers Museum for Zack and Ivy.
WHERE ON EARTH IS CARMEN SANDIEGO GAME WINDOWS 8.1 SERIES
The '90s: The show's internal chronology places the events of the series in the 1990s, when it was produced.
13 Is Unlucky: Pretty much the plot of "Curses, Foiled Again" - everything in the episode takes place on Friday the 13th.
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? provides examples of the following tropes:
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