Chase Devineaux (2019 Character)

Inspector Chase Devineaux (チェイス・ドヴィノー, Cheisu Dōvinō) is a fictional character and deuteragonist of the Carmen Sandiego series. He is a French brash, often bumbling Interpol Agent turned A.C.M.E. Detective assigned to find and apprehend Carmen Sandiego with his rookie partner Julia Argent. He is the only officer to get close enough to see Carmen's face.

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 * —Chase Devineaux.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice Actor: Rafael Petardi (English), Kensuke Ōta (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (German), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Poland), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

Appearance

 * Hair Color: Grayish Brown
 * Skin Color: Not Known
 * Eye Color: Grayish Blue
 * Age: Not Known
 * Birthday: Not Known
 * Height: Not Known
 * Weight: Not Known

Personality
He is a brash, patriotic, and vain Frenchman. He's also impulsive, headstrong, arrogant, sloppy, and reckless to the point of being a dumbbell who's a walking disaster zone. He tends to jump to conclusions without even trying to get the facts and then stubbornly stick with them even when there is clear contrary evidence. He's also shown to consider thorough detective work a waste of his time due to seeing it as obsessing over "dull facts about boring things". Because of this, he tends to miss clues those who do their research pick up.

Because he so full of himself, he misses clues that others catch, and when others catch them he insists they are boring details nobody cares about.

Chase is interested in authority for himself. Whatever power he can get to catch Carmen Sandiego is to him good, no matter what happens. Despite clear contradictory evidence, he often immediately blames Carmen for the latest crime he is investigating.

Because of his bumbling, V.I.L.E. later assumes that Chase is working with Carmen as a partner, even though he isn't. Despite these, she is quick to try and save him from Coach Brunt and Shadow-san after he is captured.

Friends/Allies

 * Interpol
 * A.C.M.E.

Neutral

 * Carmen's Team
 * Carmen Sandiego
 * Player
 * Ivy
 * Zack

Enemies

 * V.I.L.E.
 * Coach Brunt
 * Shadow-san

Early Life
Initially, Chase and Argent were Interpol agents with Argent working with him for roughly two weeks. They were working in Poritiers, France, Chase' hometown, where he worked as a police detective, only exacerbating his hubris.

Carmen Sandiego
Chase seems to like working alone, but is willing to take Argent under his wing to apprehend Carmen Sandiego. While explaining how his experience trumps Argent's smarts, Argent tries to tell Chase that Carmen is behind them. Argent suggest radioing for backup, but Chase tells her not to, despite Carmen's nimble agility. Chase gave chase toward the Crimson Shadow, when she escaped on a hang glider on a roof while he slip and fell on his car.

Eager to chase his quarry, Chase tells Argent to stay in Poritiers to investigate the crime scene while he drove to the train station suspecting Carmen was on her way to Paris via train with the Eye of Vishnu.

Chase misses the train so he decides to drive his car to Paris. Along the way, Argent is telling Chase nothing of value was taken from the crime scene. Shocked in disbelief right about the same time his car breaks down. Fortunately for him, there is a small airport near by to which he commandeers a small aircraft with his Interpol authority. This allows him to catch up to the train.

By the time he reaches Paris, Carmen is not on the train car, but Crackle wrapped in Carmen's signature coat and hat, while Carmen in her street cloths (which includes a red hoodie) walks down the street to catch a speedboat on the River Seine. While he didn't catch Carmen, he does take the mysterious V.I.L.E. villain back to Interpol Headquarters for interrogation, but he doesn't get the chance to as The Cleaners extricate Crackle from the police station.

Frustrated that a lead to catching Carmen Sandiego has disappeared before he could question him, Chase decides it's time to go home as he eats a roll of antacid mints. Argent walks Chase back to what's left of his car, then attempts returns back to the police station.

Just as Chase is about to go home, two unknown agents knock him out and drag him to an unknown location where he meets The Chief. The Chief debriefs Chase about V.I.L.E. and how clandestine they are, and to help him help her, she employs him to work for A.C.M.E.

By the time she enrolls Chase, Argent discovers that he is being held in a utility closet. Impressed by her sleuthing, the Chief enrolls Argent to as Chase partner.