#vile operatives
I just finished rewatching Carmen Sandiego for like the sixth time lol, so I wanted to do a sort of scene redraw of the vile team chilling!
I had a lot of fun with it and I hope you all like it!
Here it is! Dash Haber is such a fun character to draw and his and Zacks dynamic was super fun in their episode! I had a blast animating Carmen Sandiego character again after such a long time!
The audio is from Community :)
I hope you all like it!
After many months I’m finally working on another Carmen Sandiego animation! It isn’t done yet (though it should be in the next couple days) but I thought I’d share one of the finished frames because I put far too much effort into the lighting lol!
“mm, papers”
VILE FOUND FAMILY AU TEA PARTY
Bellum: Maelstrom, pass me the sugar
Maelstrom: Cream as well? Cleo pass me the sugar bowl
Cleo: this is ridiculous, the sugar bowl’s full of plastic cubes and Saira, your cup’s empty.
Coach Brunt: Now, now, you heard the professor, pass him the sugar bowl. We all want Lambkins’ tea part going smoothly.
Black Sheep: You want more tea Shadowsan?
Shadowsan: As long as I’m the one who’s brewing it
[plastic clinking]
BLACK SHEEP- the only kid in VILE
- receives gifts from operatives
- all around little sister
- “I heard *insert operative* likes you!”
- Operative matchmaker
- helps said operative couples find alone spaces
- asks the operatives of their travels and what the world is like
- graduates sending her post cards!!!
- black sheep having a postcard wall with all operative signatures!!!
- gives them codename ideas
- gives them drawings of what she thinks their stealth suit would look like
- “thewoosher? please don’t”
- operatives visit her room to talk to her about stuff and she gives advice!
- helps the operatives in pranking the faculty (there’s only been one accident)
- older operatives hyping her up once she was allowed to enroll
- the older operatives throwing her birthdays
- older operatives throwing a surprise party in her enrolment!!!
The Carmen-Sheena Relationship we deserved could’ve had
The Lucky Cat Caper:
[Carmen Rolls window down during high speed chase]
“Hey there, seen any stamps lately pretty kitty?”
“Can you PLEASE return my hairclips?”
- They have prank wars and Carmen makes the effort to literally steal and send her stuff back to VILE
- Sheena sent her a framed photo of herself
- Carmen sends VILE headquarters a video of her crying over a “Sheena shrine”
- Them wearing something from each other every time they meet
- Carmen sends her Hello Kitty themed accessories
- Sheena shows up in the next capers in them
- Sheena sends Carmen anything red
- she sent her a fire extinguisher, a pencil topper, and a way too small kid bracelet
- Carmen put the pencil topper on her laser
- She put the bracelet around a string and made it a necklace
[Sheena only wearing one claw]
“I TOLD YOU THAT WAS MY LAST PAIR”
“You dropped in in Java, finders keepers”
Basically little sister big sister type of thing
orflirty enemies
“Have you seen El Topo’s new hair?”
“I mean it definitely looks like he does ground work”
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[Fighting]
“Why does Gray’s hair look like that?”
“Maelstrom gave him hair gel, probably training him to have the same hairline”
Confrontation where Sheena admits to Carmen how great of a thief she truly is and how she’s jealous of it, how wanted to be just as good basically the himalayan rescue caper but jealousy
HOLD ON… when chief asks gray if she should contact carmen.. did chief mean she was going to tell her he was ALIVE??? DOES CARMEN THINK GRAY IS DEAD-
“I’ll be sure to send your regards” WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
Graham Crackle Head canons (after getting his memory back)
- frequently spaces out, stares
- wonders which operatives have been memory wiped
- less trusting and more snappy at VILE faculty, rarely makes conversation with them on missions, doesn’t take the convos seriously
- maelstrom is one of the faculty that frequently talks to him, he tries to be as guarded as he can around him (see himalayan rescue caper on why)
- Jean opens up to him how scared they were for him and for themselves
- tried to act the same when carm got wiped, fails and constantly masks
- only there for the jobs, not for the people who give them
Red is a smart color for you.
VILE OPERATIVES HALLOWEEN
Costumes:
- Gray/Crackle- Phantom of the Opera
- Sheena/Tigress- Slutty mouse
- Jean / Le Chevre- Oven
- Antonio/El Topo- Baker
- Mime Bomb- a lemon dressed as a mime
- Dark! Carmen- Queen of Hearts
- Paper Star- Michael Myers but neon
- Neal the Eel- Court Jester with a LOT of tiny bells
- “I’m a mouse, duh” (is wearing a mouse headband with a random dress)
- Gray treats halloween as a formal event
- Sheena’s just there for the booze, naturally, secretly loves halloween
- Theres footage of Mime bomb putting makeup on his lemon suit
- Paper star acts like she isn’t wearing a costume
- Everyone is SICK of Neal jingling every time he breathes
- Jean pulling out tacos out of his costume even though he’s an oven
- Antonio constantly smacking someone with a wooden spoon
- Tigress and Paper Star having a “what the hell are you wearing?” moment with each other
- Dark!Carmen asking Paper Star to help her with the cards and Paper Star being intimidated
- Dark! Carmen being super dramatic
- Gray having a dramatic entrance which mime bomb and neal the eel helped with
- Gray stepping into the room with fog drama effect being immediately thrown out with neal’s bells jingling as he carries the fog machine
- Sheena ending the night very drunk and everyone groaning at her 14th round of karaoke
- Emergency heist where they dispatch them and theyre all wearing their costumes haphazardly
- Le Chevre managing to be stealthy as a boxy pastel green oven
- Paper Star jumpscaring everyone, every moment
- Mime Bomb not even attempting stealth, being a 4 feet wide 6 foot tall foam neon yellow lemon with mime makeup on
- NEAL JINGLING AGAIN AND AGAIN
- Tigress slowly clawing out neal’s bells
- Crackle bringing his fog machine
- Dark!Carmen being her usual sexy mysterious gala esque self.
- El topo with an apron and huge drills and a wooden spoon smacking security
- Neal the eel ending up being the most useful
- Crackle singing “the phantom of the opera” as a distraction
Carmen and Gray mind wipe parallels
Both had their morals misaligned; Gray accepted VILE’s misdeeds, Carmen didn’t.
Graham didn’t know about VILE, Evil Carmen didn’t have the care about the harm they caused
It was mentioned that they removed the part of Carmen that made her have the empathy and the need to help people, same must’ve been done to repress Gray’s evil urges.
Both let the other remain wiped for an amount of time for the same reason
they both wanted to be friends again, no moral dilemmas in the way. ultimately, it led to both being conflicted
you know how le chevre and paperstar have phones?
VILE operatives started complaining that black sheep had a phone for a year and still went undetected so bellum made a literal phone company for the sole purpose of everyone not getting pissed. the only catch is that they assign operatives to market the phones and somewhere in the world is a commercial of paperstar creepily voicing over the sleekest phone ever. a poster of crackle holding up the phone as if it was his pride and joy
neal the eel is lactose intolerant, eats everything with dairy, and lets it rip in VILE academy
Paper star(looking up and down at the operatives’ stealth suits): wooooww, and they say I’M psychotic, at least I’m not BLAND.
[2 am]
Neal The Eel: Why are any of us here, really?
Museum Security: I’m asking about you, specifically
you know how in the first episode gray’s the one to ask for closure? and in the last episode, he’s the one to ask chief to not contact carm so there’s no closure? yeah. that hurts.
Maelstrom:I want you to take this man down but make it seem like an accident
Mime Bomb:✅
[Later]
Zari: looks like the killer beat him
to death with a crowbar and then
placed a banana peel by his feet
What VILE Operatives probably have for breakfast:
Crackle- avocado toast (more of a brunch guy)
Le Chevre - poached eggs and a toasted bagel
El Topo- blueberry waffles
Tigress- yogurt and granola
Dark! Carmen- black coffee and an apple
Mime Bomb- lucky charms
Paper Star- dinosaur nuggets and brown rice tea
Neal The Eel- egg mayo sandwich
Dash Haber- chia and granola pudding or anything with asparagus/ spinach
The Troll- monster energy drink
Gray: Don’t weep for the stupid. You’ll be crying all day.
Le Chevre: Thats why we didn’t even bother after you were gone.
Gray:
Le Chevre: Good to have you back.
Gray making a journal filled with not only his memories and opinions, but for everyone in his team if ever the time comes they’ve been wiped clean.
The time Carmen gets wiped, the journal is in scribbles and furious writing. Him being unsure of his writing and if what he puts down is what he wants Carmen to be, or is what he remembers of her.
Hi everyone! I made a playlist inspired by Gray! (hes one my fave characters) its mostly revolved around his relationship with Carm (its mostly platonic) i added the soundtrack as well to plot where it would be in the story! i hope you guys like it
Carmen: Alright team, how are we looking?
Player: I haven’t slept for 72 hours red, my eyes might look like a void if you stare at em long enough, but i’d say i look dapper as ever.
Ivy: The red really brings out the sexiness, and the coat still adds that mystery. Sexy AND mysterious, looking great carm.
Zack: I’d say that the maroon in my shirt really brings out my eyes. Like, a piercing blue gaze amidst the sea of red.
Shadowsan: The guards are all knocked out. We may enter now.
