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Carmen Sandiego is a fictional character featured in a long-running edutainment series of the same name. As a criminal mastermind and the elusive nemesis of the ACME Detective Agency, Sandiego is the principal villain of the series and head of ACME's rival organization V.I.L.E. She is an important part of the series, which originally focused on teaching geography and history (although the series later extended to mathematics and English). The character later appeared in a series of books and many other licensed products. Most of her crimes involve spectacular and often impossible cases of theft. Her full name, according to ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge'', is Carmen Isabella Sandiego. Carmen Sandiego writer David Siefkin first thought to base his game’s titular character on Carmen Miranda, a Portuguese-Brazilian singer and actress who found mainstream success in America in the mid-20th century. Miranda was known for being one of the first artists to bring the sound of Brazilian (and, by extension, Latin American) music to the U.S., a distinction that both made the artist famous and sometimes resentful of her place in the pop cultural canon. Even though Siefkin left the Carmen Sandiego project before it was released, the character’s identity as a Latina woman has been a consistent and integral part of her all throughout the three decades that she’s been around.〔(''Carmen Sandiego, the world’s most iconic Latina super villain, is back'' )〕 ==Character overview== There are numerous discrepancies in the various media depicting Carmen Sandiego and there are no official rules establishing a correct canon. However, the following seems to have remained consistent throughout all ''Carmen Sandiego'' media created since around the mid-1990s: *In most ''Carmen Sandiego'' media, it is stated or implied that Carmen is a gentleman thief; in that she steals only for the challenge of it, although some of her V.I.L.E. minions seem to be more traditionally motivated. She often describes her schemes and the user/protagonists attempts to stop them as being a game, which they ironically are, regularly gloating that she is impossible to capture or that her plans are infallible and acting as though any efforts made against her are extremely trivial. Sometimes, she asserts that it is impossible for anyone to understand her or her motives and seems to revel at how difficult she can make it for anyone trying to figure her out. *In the original ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?'' game from 1985, it is stated that Carmen is a former spy for the Intelligence Service of Monaco and that she is "an agent, double agent, triple agent, and quadruple agent for so many countries that even she has forgotten which one she is working for," but this background seems to have since been abandoned. *Starting with ''Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time'' (formerly ''Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?''), it is explained that she was an ace detective for the ACME Detective Agency who found catching criminals too easy and decided that outsmarting ACME itself would make for greater challenges. This origin story was consistently maintained for over a decade, with one of the protagonists of ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge'' being Carmen's former partner. *In both the animated TV series ''Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?'' and in the video game ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge'', it is heavily hinted that, despite her thieving ways, she may still have some goodness left in her. The character has, however, never been depicted turning back to the "good" side outright, although she has often been encouraged to do so. Nevertheless, Carmen tries to maintain a reputation as a "thief with a conscience" in the ''Earth'' series and ACME agents who used to work closely with her are often shown to have mixed feelings about imprisoning her. *In other media, however, the character seems more than willing to bring chaos and destruction upon the world. For example, many of the thefts committed in the ''Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?'' game show, such as stealing the history of medicine for example, would quite clearly cause millions to die, although this is never specifically stated. In ''Word Detective'' and ''Math Detective'', she appears to be particularly fiendish, plotting to steal the concept of natural language in the former and to make herself invincible in the latter. This inconsistency in her portrayal is never explained, but it seems reasonable to assume that not all ''Carmen'' media is set in the same fictional universe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carmen Sandiego (character)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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