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''Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?'' was a Saturday morning cartoon based on the ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'' [[Edutainment Game]] series. ''Where on Earth...'' ran on [[
In the ''Earth'' series, a [[Brother-Sister Team]] tracks Carmen, who gradually became more and more of [[Friendly Enemy]] than she ever was in the computer games. ''Earth'' seems to be set in an [[Alternate Continuity]] in relation to the rest of the series, although Broderbund did include some characters from it in ''Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition''.
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* [[The Ace]]: Lee Jordan, initially. 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 {{spoiler|(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)}} [[Deconstruction|deconstructs]] him into the [[Jerkass]] and [[Complete Monster|''much'']] [[The Sociopath|worse.]]
* [[Action Girl]]: Ivy, with her multiple black belts. Carmen could also kick a fair amount of ass back in her detective days as well.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Carmen went from brown hair to black hair.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Carmen.
* [[
* [[AFGNCAAP]]: The Player. We can see their skin, and it ''looks'' white, but that's about it.▼
** Some episodes had a dark-skinned girl as The Player.▼
▲* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: There's an "evil" twin of the Chief in one of VILE's training facilities.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The ''Where on Earth...?'' arc is separate from the rest of the [[Carmen Sandiego]] series. 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.
** 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.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Carmen's got a sexy red one.
* [[Beyond the Impossible]] [[Impossible Thief]]: She manages to swipe Mona Lisa's smile and even tries to make off with the Statue of Liberty in the opening. And that's leaving out the things she swiped in her first time travel heist that changed history, or technology to steal musical talent!
** Lampshaded in "The Stolen Smile," where the Chief, after saying Carmen has [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|stolen all the world's TV signals]], adds quietly, "Don't ask me how she did it."
** And yet she tops herself in "By a Whisker" when she steals a beach (forgot which one){{spoiler|which she planned to use as a huge litter box for two white lion cubs}}. Ivy's response? "The entire beach?!"
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* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Carmen {{spoiler|and Lee Jordan}}.
* [[Expy]]: Russian ACME agent Tatiana bears an unmistakable resemblance to Russian [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|Planeteer]] Linka. They also share the same voice actor: [[Kath Soucie]].
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Carmen's [[Backstory]], same as in the game canon. Ditto for
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Any generic VILE henchman.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: In ''Follow My Footprints'', {{spoiler|Carmen faked her own death and left a set of clues for her henchmen and Acme to solve. It was all to figure out who was worthy to be her successor . . . ironic that Zack and Ivy were the only ones to actually solve all three clues.}}
▲* [[
▲** Some episodes had a dark-skinned girl as The Player.
* [[For Halloween I Am Going as Myself]]: Zack initially assumes this is how Ivy decided on her costume in the [[Halloween Episode]], complete with a [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Paper Thin Mask]]. {{spoiler|It turns out [[Dressing as the Enemy|Ivy was really dressed as Carmen]], and [[Master of Disguise|Carmen had disguised herself as Ivy]].}}
* [[For the Evulz]]: What motivates Carmen. {{spoiler|Lee Jordan}} is a darker example.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Carmen.
* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Mild version, since Zack and Ivy don't seem to have last names - Zack is rarely called by his given name (Zachary) unless he's done something to royally piss off Ivy.
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* [[Hologram]]: How the Chief is usually displayed while the detectives are out in the field, via their communicators.
* [[Inside a Computer System]]: The C5 malfunctions due to Carmen's interference, dumping Zack and Ivy inside the Acme Mainframe.
* [[Jerkass]]: Lee Jordan, {{spoiler|who later evolves into a [[The Sociopath|sociopathic]] [[Complete Monster]].}}
* [[Latex Perfection]]: How Carmen pulls off her disguise as Marcus Aurelius in ''Labyrinth Part III.''
** {{spoiler|Frank M. Poster}} also engages in this trope as well. See [[The Real Remington Steele]] below.
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* [[Not Himself|Not Herself]]: Zack and Ivy wonder if Carmen has [[Sanity Slippage|lost her mind]] when some of her crimes border on pure destruction, especially with the theft of the Spruce Goose and torching the Amazon rainforest. They become even more suspicious with some of the clues they receive, saying it wasn't like Carmen to leave extremely easy clues. {{spoiler|It was actually Sarah Bellum [[Wig, Dress, Accent|impersonating]] Carmen, during the midst of a [[Villainous Breakdown]]}}.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: The only time that Ivy and Zack actually catch Carmen is when she didn't do what they caught her for.
* [[Not So Different]]: Both Lee Jordan and Maelstrom tell Carmen that she is no better than them, despite her "lofty moral superiority."
** Subverted in that Carmen never says this to Zack and Ivy, even though she considers them her successors.
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: Conversed with between Zack and an archaeologist detective.
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* [[Old Shame]]: The Chief would like to forget he once had a body.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Subverted. There are three characters who share the name Lee, the first one is [[Jerkass|Lee Jordan]], the second is Lee Galease, and the last one a [[Guest Star Party Member|Guest Star Acme Detective]] who works in Macao. Granted, the Guest Star Detective's name could be spelled a variety of ways and might even be his [[wikipedia:Li (surname)|surname]], not his first name, but short of closed captioning, his name spelling remains unknown.
* [[Orient Express]]: In "The Gold Old Bad Days", Carmen Sandiego and her V.I.L.E. gang [[Self-Imposed Challenge|set out to prove they don't need all their high-tech toys and gadgetry]] to pull off several western-themed heists. Carmen's goal is the train.
* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Carmen's locket, unseen until the series finale.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Zack and Ivy's parents are never seen, also Carmen is apparently an orphan.
** The latter was [[Foreshadowing|foreshadowed]] in a Season 1 episode. It also provides a [[Red Herring Twist]] subplot near the end of the series, where Carmen learns she ''might'' be the long-lost daughter of the wealthy industrialist she's stealing from.
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* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: The episode "All for One" makes it clear that Carmen is not only VILE's CEO, she's also its [[Only Sane Employee|Only Sane Employer]].
* [[Team Pet]]: Stretch, a K-9 basset hound. [[Guest Star Party Member|Only appears in one episode]], ''Where in America's Past'', and the Junior Detective game, though.
* [[
* [[Teen Genius]]: Zack, and according to her backstory, Carmen.
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: The C5 Corridor, highly prone to [[Phlebotinum Breakdown|dumping you in the last place you want to be.]]
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** ''Timing Is Everything'': Mason Dixon steals a ride in Carmen's time machine, and screws up the past to the point where Carmen's just a low ranking member of VILE with poor self-esteem.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Happens every now and then. Zack is generally the instigator when it looks like things can't get any worse.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: This would explain why Carmen is talking to a hypnotist after the traumatic events of the series finale, instead of...you know...a shrink.
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Pretty much the plot of ''Curses, Foiled Again'' - everything in the episode takes place on Friday the 13th.
* [[Time Machine]]: Two of them: the Chronoskimmer, which looks like a PDA or remote control and is used along with the C5, and Carmen's timepod, which looks like a more traditional time machine.
* [[Title Drop]]: The Player drops the title of "Music to My Ears" in his end talking with Carmen Sandiego.
* [[Translation Convention]]: Averted. Instead of everybody around the world speaking English, people in non-English-speaking countries actually speak their native language (often with subtitles). Fortunately, Zack knows a large-but-never-specified number of languages and can almost always translate.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: It's really, '''REALLY''' Nineties.
* [[Universal Driver's License]]: Played with in Zack's case, interestingly enough. He can barely drive the C-5 car, but seems to have no problems operating single (or double, at most) passenger hovercrafts and vehicles, even if it belongs to VILE.
* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: Zack and Ivy always get to Carmen just in time to ''watch her escape'', after which one of them says something like, "Maybe next time!" Yeah, right.
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