This is the only character I’ve made a support thread for on this site so far, and I have good reasons. Educational and point-and-click adventure games don’t get a lot of representation in Smash as it is, but even more than that, we have a female villain, which are both categories this series is said to lack in comparison to all the males, protagonists, or male protagonists, such as it is. But even further than that, I’d also posit that Carmen Sandiego is one of the longest-running video game characters in terms of public consciousness and outside exposure, with video games released in just about every console generation since her debut, about an equal amount of TV shows based on her series as Sonic the Hedgehog, and a surprising amount of cosplay, fan art, parodies, and other references to her, even before the Netflix show’s debut.
As for how she could fight, she is an ex-secret-agent-turned-master-thief, meaning she has a variety of gadgets she has used over the years, ranging from the easily figured out (hang glider jetpacks, laser cutters, grappling hooks, smoke screens, etc.) to the more abstract/odd to figure out ones (the Babble-On Ray, which messes up all written language, her handheld time travel device, or pretty much any time she has stolen abstract concepts somehow). As well, she often places other criminals in her employ in the trail of those trying to catch her, so perhaps something can be done with her various henchpersons, as well.
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