Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?: Difference between revisions

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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''.

* [[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.

* [[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!

* [[Criminal Mind Games]]

* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Carmen and ACME.

* [[Eccentric Mentor]]: Suhara.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: A good chunk of the ''Retribution'' episodes. A minor example also happens in ''When It Rains''.

** Also Carmen's non-violent brand of thievery as contrasted with Maelstrom's and {{spoiler|Sara Bellum's}}.

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Carmen {{spoiler|and Lee Jordan}}.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Carmen's [[Backstory]], same as in the game canon. Ditto for {{spoiler|Lee Jordan}} not long after he was introduced. Maelstrom was mentioned to have been a brilliant marine archaeologist before turning to a life of crime.

* [[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.}}

* [[For the Evulz]]: Carmen.

* [[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.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Carmen's pretty fond of saying "blast" or "blasted."

* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Non-video game example ([[Fanon Discontinuity]] notwithstanding). In some episodes Ivy and Zack will request the assistance of other Acme detectives when they need help, other times the Chief will tell them who they'll be working with.

* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Zack and Ivy went their separate ways in ''Split Up'' when Ivy wanted to handle the case [[Good Old Ways|via old-fashioned detective work]], Zack felt [[Plot Technology|his security system]] was more than enough to handle Carmen's thefts, and the two simply could not cooperate together with their constant bickering.

* [[Spot the Imposter]]: The climax of "When It Rains".

* [[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.

* [[Tech Marches On]] and/or [[Magic Floppy Disk]]: The Acme Detective Agency's entire database, Chief AI and all, can supposedly fit on a single standard CD. Granted, it was one of Carmen's own pieces of tech that pulled it off but still, she effectively stole [[The Other Wiki]] and put it on a ''CD''.