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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 [[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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* [[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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* [[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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** ''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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