*Carmen Sandiego is the titular primary protagonist of the 2019 Netflix animated series Carmen Sandiego. She was orphaned during her infancy and taught how to be a professional thief at V.I.L.E. Academy but later defected as she wanted to see the world for herself and right V.I.L.E.'s wrongs. She is the leader of Team Red and friend of Player, Zack, Ivy and Shadowsan.

Carmen is seen as intelligent and knowledgeable due to the education she was given when she was young. She is swift from the physical training under Coach Brunt and playing pranks growing up, and her own innate athletic skill combined with her training to handle high-pressure situations. She isn't fazed by difficult situations as her education in V.I.L.E. Academy prepared her for similar, if not, exact scenarios. But due to her inexperience and eagerness, she can still be prone to missteps, as when she was in Ecuador, she forgot to acclimate to the altitude change and fainted; or in Mumbai when fighting Paper Star, she didn't notice the A.C.M.E. card she swiped off Chase Devineaux was missing until after she returned the Magna Carta.

Carmen is also empathetic of others, as seen when she fought off her graduate classmates to save a dig-site crew after developing an appreciation of art. Or when she learned of the cultural value of Uluru to the native peoples of the Outback, and how a V.I.L.E. plan would be devastating to them. As well as the time when Doctor Pilar Marquez explained the 1830 Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon's historical value, Carmen did not want to deprive the Ecuadorian people of a cultural treasure; something resonant to her, as she herself knows nothing of her past. Carmen raced to retrieve it and directly gave the coin to Marquez out of trust that she'd keep the coin safe in a museum.

She is also a humanitarian, donating the money she steals from V.I.L.E. to children's hospitals, orphanages, museums, and various other charities. Carmen is sympathetic to these causes as she knows nothing of herself, and wants to ensure others have opportunities and knowledge of the world which she believes is their right to know and have a chance to appreciate.

Carmen is also shown to be selfless, as when Devineaux is kidnapped by V.I.L.E. believing him to be her secret partner, Carmen risked her own safety to rescue him, even though she knew it was a trap as Coach Brunt and Shadowsan were in the area hunting for her.

Carmen is a tall, beautiful young woman of Argentinean descent, with rakuda skin and a slender-yet-athletic physique, which forms into rather shapely and curvy hips. She sports wavy, thick, voluminous and hip-length maroon-red hair with bangs, blue-gray eyes with small-yet-prominent eyelashes, thick black brows and is always seen wearing red lipstick.

In terms of attire, Carmen is always seen dressed in clothing with red and black as its color schemes. For her thief wear, she wears her signature large red fedora hat and trench coat - her hat having a black band around it, while her coat is worn over a short-sleeved, black stealth-suit (presumably from V.I.L.E.) with a triangular gold zipper hanging from the high-collar. Along with this, she also wore a pair of black low-heeled shoes, black gloves and small, black round earrings.

When out of her thief wear, Carmen usually kept her hair in a messy bun, and her clothing remains being colored with red, followed by additional colors. While she owns many different casual outfits, her preferred outfit is that of a black choker with a pendant that resembles her stealth-suit's zipper, a two-toned red jacket with small black buttons on each side of the front of the hood, a V-neck black T-shirt with two red stripes around the short sleeves worn underneath, dark navy-gray rolled-up jeans and red high-top sneakers, with white shoelaces, soles and toes.*