Carmen Lopez
Carmen Consuela Lopez (Masiela Lusha) is the daughter of the Lopez family. Misunderstood and somewhat melodramatic, Carmen normally exhibits good intelligence and a love of writing laughably dramatic, dark, or melancholy poetry. However, her judgment of right and wrong is not always the best, and has performed daring acts of defiance against her parents' wishes if she feels the urge to protest against supposed injustices in her parents' orders or security in a certain environment. She usually has been misled through someone else's deception or by her own desires (such as when she ran away from home with the womanizing Zach Powers and later insisted upon re-decorating her bedroom symbolically in order to match with her supposed maturity). However, George frequently underestimates Carmen's intelligence and has little faith in her, sometimes apparently perceiving her as dim and airheaded. Aggravated by her parents' limits, Carmen often performs acts of rebellion against them as a means of proving her maturity and independence, albeit her father often fears for her virginity. Towards the conclusion of the series, Carmen left for college and the role filled by her character was replaced through the addition of her snobbish, overindulged, wealthy cousin Veronica, whose trust fund has been left in George's care after the death of her mother and who debuted shortly before Carmen's departure.
Throughout the course of the program, Carmen has dated a multitude of boys, most notably Zach Powers and a member of the high school baseball team, Jason, who came to live with the Lopez family for a short period of time while he tried to earn himself a baseball scholarship. He was known for his on-again-off-again romance with Carmen and, despite his usually good-natured personality, had been known to cheat on her and break up with her constantly in exchange for different and more experienced girls, and many episode plots were established through his stay in the Lopez household. However, Carmen's second most notable relationship was the one that she shared with Zach Powers, the vandalistic, lawless, womanizing teenage son of George's boss. Convinced that the pair genuinely was falling in love (when in reality Zach was only trying to lure her into having sexual intercourse before dumping her, which he bluntly said to George during a confrontation), Carmen boldly defended Zach against her mother and father's claims of his true intentions and rebelliously fled from home to San Francisco with him against George and Angie's wishes in one episode. Although she eventually admitted that they were right all along about Zach when confessing that he had dumped and ditched her in a nightclub shortly after she refused to sleep with him at a hotel he took her too.
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