List of Carmen Sandiego Characters - Enemies of ACME and V.I.L.E.

Enemies of ACME and V.I.L.E.

The following have been enemies of ACME and V.I.L.E.:

• Dr. Gunnar Maelstrom — Exclusive to Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, Dr. Gunnar Maelstrom (pronounced "goonar") is a conniving and extremely violent master criminal whose hatred of Carmen Sandiego stems from her time working for ACME. He was to her what she became to Acme agents, only much more violent. Carmen and the robotic Chief are responsible for the captures, convictions, and disbandment of his criminal empire in Sept. of 1985. Maelstrom was sent to Folsom State Prison in northern California for life. In the "Retribution" trilogy, he escapes from prison by using a bomb attached to his watch to blow up the prison as a diversion so he could escape. Carmen Sandiego was forced to team up with Zack and Ivy to help return him to prison. Dr. Maelstrom has vowed to break out again and get revenge on Carmen Sandiego and to have her sent to prison for the crimes she has committed.

• Dr. Sarah Bellum — Carmen Sandiego's mad scientist from the cartoon Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? who makes all sorts of gadgets for Carmen Sandiego and her V.I.L.E. agents to use. Her status changed from friend to foe in the episode When it Rains. In that episode, she wenty on a massive and ultra-destructive crime spree while disguised as Carmen in an effort to take over V.I.L.E., including trying to flood the Atacama Desert in Chile. She was captured and it is assumed that she has been fired. Sarah Bellum is a name pun on cerebellum, a part of the brain. Thre are other characters who use this name-pun including a duck character on Darkwing Duck while a human Sarah Bellum is on The Powerpuff Girls.

• Lee Jordan — Exclusive to Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Lee Jordan is the only ACME agent to have "officially" captured Carmen Sandiego. He went on hiatus from ACME for an indeterminate amount of time, during which his outlook on his career took a drastic turn. Embittered by his fame and the lack of challenge the concept of fighting crime had become, he quit working for ACME & sought out Carmen Sandiego in order to train to be a V.I.L.E. agent. However, his impulsive and unscrupulous nature clashed greatly with Carmen Sandiego's more refined pessimistic approach and he was fired. Infuriated by this, he joined the ranks of former V.I.L.E. agents who sought to usurp Carmen Sandiego from her title as 'the world's greatest thief'. He was foiled twice in this endeavor, both by the combined efforts of ACME and Carmen Sandiego, but still remains hostile, violent and dangerous. Unlike Carmen Sandiego, he sees nothing against putting another person's life in danger to further his own gain, and has even kidnapped and used a hostage as blackmail to force Carmen Sandiego into working for him.

• Mason Dixon — Mason Dixon is Carmen Sandiego's now-former henchman who is featured in Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? After he was captured in 1989 and paroled 7 years later for the attempted theft of The Rembrandt, he was very bitter that Carmen left him to be captured while she fled from the police. He sought his revenge by stealing Carmen's time machine and using to change the outcome of that chase, therefore placing him in charge of V.I.L.E. His cruel side was shown when ACME discovered that he planned to use his new-found power to change the outcome of the American Civil War. ACME, with the reluctant help of an underconfident Carmen, restored history and sent Mason back to prison. His name is a play on the Mason-Dixon line.