Suspects · The series

• Carmen SandiegoThe red-coated master thief who leads V.I.L.E. and serves as the final quarry of every game in the series.
• The V.I.L.E. henchmenThe rotating roster of crooks you chase city by city before a case ever points to Carmen herself.
• Reading a suspect's traitsHow scattered remarks about hair, hobbies, and habits add up to a single named V.I.L.E. crook.
• Fast Eddie B.The gentleman thief and society cat burglar who once stole a state-dinner tablecloth without anyone noticing until dessert.
• Nick BrunchThe hard-boiled ex-private eye chasing Sam Spade's shadow across two Carmen Sandiego games.
• How suspect traits changed from game to gameThe warrant categories a detective filled in shifted with every sequel, from hair and hobbies to number of eyes.
• Presenting the dossier: suspect files on screen and in printFrom a paper crime file bound into the back of the manual to an alien rap sheet on the VAL 9000, how the series showed you who you were chasing.
• Pun names: how V.I.L.E. crooks get their namesCarmen's gang trades heavily in names that are jokes if you say them out loud.