| “ | I can't change the past, but I can affect the present. | „ |
| ~ Carmen Sandiego |
Summary
Carmen Sandiego was born to Dexter Wolfe and Carlotta Valdez. Her father was an operative of V.I.L.E., an international criminal organization disguised as an exports company, however, he was convinced to turn away from his life of crime after discovering love and becoming a father. Before he could disappear from the grid, he was found by V.I.L.E. operative Shadowsan on a mission to execute him, though could not do it upon the sight of baby Carmen. A.C.M.E., a shadow detective agency, found him first and was killed by Tamara Frasier, who would go on to become the agency's chief.
Ridden with guilt, Shadowsan took Carmen back to the Isle of V.I.L.E. where she was raised by nannies who taught her an abundance of geographical knowledge and culture. Shadowsan and Coach Brunt of V.I.L.E. served as accompanying parental figures to Carmen. She would have a goal to enlist in V.I.L.E. Academy, an elite school to train the best thieves in the world, and eventually got in. She was given the codename Black Sheep and was trained by and among V.I.L.E.'s finest. Shadowsan, still feeling guilt, and wanting to protect her from a life of crime, failed her last exam, preventing her from graduating amongst her peers.
This would not stop the determined Carmen, however, and she successfully managed to escape V.I.L.E. and join her school peers on their first mission, only to discover their true villainous nature. After being taken back to V.I.L.E., she gained a new outlook on thievery and the pain it inflicts upon others. She would escape the Isle, disguised as V.I.LE.'s bookkeeper in her coat and hat, adopting the name Carmen Sandiego, and dedicating her life to stopping the crime organization alongside her newfound friends Zack, Ivy and eventually a defecting Shadowsan, all while attempting to discover the truth about her past.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B
Name: Carmen Sandiego, Black Sheep (Former V.I.L.E. Codename), La Femme Rouge, The Crimson Shadow (Both names for her created by Chase Devineaux)
Origin: Carmen Sandiego (2019)
Gender: Female
Age: Around 20 (She was said to have been taken as a baby around 20 years prior to Season 2)
Classification: Human, Super-Thief
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Martial Arts (She is proficient in hand-to-hand combat, and is capable of disarming armed opponents on her level[1]. She can match Tigress in hand-to-hand while moving on top of a moving vehicle[2]. Carmen regularly practices boxing[3] and fought Madame Goldlove[3], someone who was stated by a disguised Ivy to know 15 different lethal martial arts[3])
- Stealth Mastery (When she was only a child learning at V.I.L.E. Training Academy, she was already a master pickpocket and could steal someone's belt without them noticing or it even being visibly apparent that she did[4]. She managed to steal millions of euros from a Swiss bank, an art gallery in Cairo and a Shanghai amusement park before vanishing without a trace with the likes of Interpol agents being unable to track her down despite her making public appearances[4]. She managed to pickpocket an Interpol agent's ID without him noticing while hand-springing on him[4]. She can can appear inconspicuous and change clothes in the span of seconds mid-gliding[4]. She can pickpocket even thieves of her caliber that graduated from V.I.L.E. Academy and can evade her senses like Tigress[5], who is the wiliest thief the academy ever trained, but only second to Carmen[6] as well as Paper Star[7]. She can disappear the very second[1] her figure is obscured[8] or in mere seconds of darkness[9]. She managed to infiltrate a V.I.L.E. stronghold occupied by notorious operatives and stole all of their swords without them noticing[10]. She has sneaked up on V.I.L.E. operatives without even making a sound or being seen[11]. She is constantly able to give A.C.M.E. detective agency - which is noted to be like the CIA and Interpol all in one, skilled enough at shadow operation that even they do not know they exist[12], the only entity more invisible than V.I.L.E. itself[13] - the slip for up to even weeks[14]. Carmen has noted they are superior to Interpol, which she considers "sloppy"[2])
- Social Influencing (She made Tigress, a ruthless agent of V.I.L.E., sweat in fear of her[15])
- Weapon Mastery (During her self-defense training at V.I.L.E. Academy, she learned how to wield a bo staff[4]. She later used this training to fight Tigress[2]. She is skilled with a blade[16] and has used a cutlass against Tigress as well[6])
- Vehicular Mastery (She is able to operate a boat by herself with no prior knowledge[1]. She possesses mastery of driving a motorcycle[17])
- Acrobatics (She is capable of leaping and flipping across rooftops[4]. She can[9] perform[3] acrobatics[1] in combat[1]. She can backflip off a moving vehicle and still land on her feet[2])
- Marksmanship (Extremely early into her childhood training at V.I.L.E., she was able to perfectly hit a water balloon at a target from a far distance[4]. She can throw objects precisely enough to knock armed people out from a distance[1]. She can throw a metal lid precisely enough to a cut a rope from a distance while on the top of a moving train[9]. She performed a trick shot with a pair of bolas[11]. She used a ninja star to precisely make a banner fall on a car[12])
- Pressure Points (She utilized Shadowsan's pressure point technique against him[18])
- Enhanced Senses (She senses the exact moment she is being photographed, so that she can angle her head a different way[19]. She can feel people watching her[19])
- Instinctive Action (She is able to take combat action on instinct[6])
- Analytic Prediction (Simply by knowing the nature of her enemy, she was able to correctly guess what treasure they would be targeting despite there being no sources claiming anything of the sort[9]. Despite not knowing who exactly was assigned to target her, she immediately knew that it was Shadowsan[20])
- Resistance to Sleep Manipulation (She fought off the effects of chloroform while doing battle with V.I.L.E.'s best operatives, The Cleaners[21])
- Flight (She possesses a glider on her back[4] and has obtained a jetpack[22])
- Additional Enhanced Senses (Her compact mirror allows her to zoom in on distances to better observe who's following her[2]. She possesses opera glasses that can enhance her vision[23])
- Information Analysis (Carmen's opera glasses can identify people even under heavy makeup and disguises[12])
- Light Manipulation (Her lipstick can emit a flashlight which she can also use for blinding opponents[5])
- Electricity Manipulation (She possesses a taser that can short-circuit technology and be used offensively[20])
- Organic Manipulation (She can use oil to slip up her opponents[24])
- Hacking and Technology Manipulation (Her lipstick can be used to access computer systems and give entry to Player for him to hack and disable security[4]. She possesses a device that can do the same with safe systems[4]. She can ask Player to hack things that don't require her to insert anything physically, such as a drawbridge[25] or all local surveillance cameras across India with added facial recognition software and access to train ticket records[9]. He can bring up security camera footage in seconds[5] and hack into traffic networks[12]. Player can hack through 27 layers of encryption casually[4] and can counter another hacker[26])
- Explosion Manipulation (She possesses a time bomb[27])
- Resistance to Gas Manipulation (She possesses a gas mask which she uses to counter knockout gas[25])
Attack Potency: Wall level (She is capable of damaging Coach Brunt[14]. While brainwashed, she fought and stomped Shadowsan[18], who survived hits from an enraged Coach Brunt[28])
Speed: Subsonic (She is able to react to and block arrow-fire[4]. She is able to dodge Paper Star's projectiles[10] which can move this fast[10]), with Speed of Light reaction speed (She is able to redirect lasers with a compact mirror[19])
Lifting Strength: Class 5 (She can push open metal bars[4]. She can grapple with Tigress and push her off[2]. She was briefly able to match the strength of a Robo Robber[21], which was able to lift up and toss a van[21])
Striking Strength: Wall level
Durability: Wall level (She survived a clean hit from Coach Brunt and got back up to fight[20]. Coach Brunt is able to smash a stone table, crush a car[14] and bust through a viking ship)
Stamina: Superhuman (She is capable of fighting V.I.L.E.'s best[3] and superhuman[9] operatives[2] for prolonged periods of time, even while suffering under the effects of chloroform[21]. She was able to survive in a Swedish snowstorm for hours after crashing outside of the country and being injured[29]. She is superior in stamina to Chase Devineaux, who can go days without sleep and barely eating[19])
Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended Melee Range with a Bo-Staff or Sword, Tens of Meters with Ninja Stars and Time Bomb, Hundreds of Meters with Grappling Hook, Tens of Kilometers with Hacking and Technology Manipulation
Standard Equipment: Grappling Hook, Compact Mirror, Lipstick Flashdrive, Glider, Opera Glasses, Binoculars, Gas Mask, Taser, Red Drone, Comm-Link Earrings, Ninja Stars, Player
- Optional Equipment Bo Staff, Sword, Jetpack
Intelligence: Genius (Growing up on V.I.L.E. Isle, she learned to look out for stealth opportunities since birth[7]. At a young age she joined V.I.L.E. Training Academy, a school for elite thieves where only those with extraordinary potential attend.[4] V.I.L.E.'s agents are so good that the world has virtually no proof of their existence, with Interpol having no record of their criminal activity. V.I.L.E. has masterminded most of the criminal activity in the last two decades with only six of them ever being suspected or captured, then vanishing without a trace before they could be questioned[13]. During her training at V.I.L.E, she took classes to ensure that she would master skills such as pickpocketing[4], self-defense[4], telling the difference between real and fake artifacts that appear identical[4], how to properly execute a bait and switch[4], and infiltration[4]. Carmen was noted to be the best pickpocket in Stealth 101[5] and would have aced it and only failed because her teacher, Shadowsan, wanted to protect her[20]. During her training, she was able to effortlessly dodge the attempts of a robot drone programmed to capture her[19]. She was later able to escape V.I.L.E. Academy having successfully dispatched of one of V.I.L.E.'s elites in the process[1], something which, a master of stealth, and V.I.L.E. operative for much more than 20 years, thought unthinkable, gaining his respect and considering her a master and inspiration[8]. She is also capable of fighting with him in perfect sync[14], while he has boasted the feat of beating a dozen rivals with only a pair of chopsticks[10] and later showcased a similar feat against a set of trained V.I.L.E. operatives[10]. He was also noted to be a former yakuza[26] before joining V.I.L.E. Alongside Shadowsan, she was able to take down two V.I.L.E. operatives who were specifically trained in the academy for the purpose of beating her[14]. She is able to keep up in combat with one of V.I.L.E.'s best operatives[9] on[9] several[10] occasions[10], Paper Star, who is an expert duelist[30] and markswoman, able to hit targets perfectly without even looking at them[30]. She was able to fight Madame Goldlove who was stated by Ivy while "disguised" as her to know 15 lethal martial arts[3] and she struggled to land even a single blow on Carmen[3]. She was able to fight V.I.L.E.'s elites, the Cleaners, while also fighting off the effects of chloroform[21]. She was able to spot a single cat hair on Chief's clothes which she identified as a Persian and deduced that she had one, getting the information she needed to obtain her passcode[31]. She not only orchestrated a plan to steal the Crown Jewels, a task that no one has ever accomplished and was deemed impossible even by Shadowsan[26], but anticipated her capture which was orchestrated by V.I.L.E. and turned the situation around to expose the person involved instead[26]. When she was brainwashed to believe she was an operative of V.I.L.E., she became their best and most valuable asset, so much so that she was offered a position among the organization's elites[15])
Weaknesses: She is emotionally vulnerable when it comes to her family, though as she learns the truth about them in Season 4, this should no longer be an issue. She is stubborn at times and will continue the fight even if she is in no condition to do so.
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Carmen Sandiego S1E2: Becoming Carmen Sandiego: Part 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Carmen Sandiego S1E3: The Sticky Rice Caper
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Carmen Sandiego S4E2: The Big Bad Ivy Caper
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 Carmen Sandiego S1E1: Becoming Carmen Sandiego: Part 1
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Carmen Sandiego S1E8: The Lucky Cat Caper
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Carmen Sandiego: Clue By Clue
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Carmen Sandiego: Secrets of the Silver Lion
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Carmen Sandiego S2E2: The Hot Rocks of Rio Caper: Part 2
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Carmen Sandiego S1E7: The Chasing Paper Caper
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 Carmen Sandiego S2E3: The Daisho Caper
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Carmen Sandiego S3E2: The Day of the Dead Caper
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Carmen Sandiego S4E1: The Beijing Bullion Caper
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Carmen Sandiego S1E4: The Fishy Dubloon Caper
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Carmen Sandiego S3E1: The Luchadora Tango Caper
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Carmen Sandiego S4E7: The Viennese Waltz Caper
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego S4E6: The Egyptian Decryption Caper
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego S2E6: The Need for Speed Caper
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Carmen Sandiego S4E8: The Dark Red Caper
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Who in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 Carmen Sandiego S1E9: The French Connection Caper
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 Carmen Sandiego S3E3: The Robo Caper
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego: Jetpack Attack
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego S1E6: The Opera in the Outback Caper
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego S3E4: The Masks of Venice Caper
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Carmen Sandiego S1E5: The Duke of Vermeer Caper
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 Carmen Sandiego S3E5: The Jolly Good Show Caper
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego S4E4: The Himalayan Rescue Caper
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego S4E5: The V.I.L.E. History Caper
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego S2E8: The Stockholm Syndrome Caper
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Carmen Sandiego S3E3: The Haunted Bayou Caper
- ↑ Carmen Sandiego S2E10: The Deep Dive Caper
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