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Professor Gunnar Maelstrom, also known as simply Professor Maelstrom, is the one of the four main antagonists (alongside Coach Brunt, Countess Cleo, and Dr. Sarah Bellum) of the Netflix 2019 series Carmen Sandiego. He is the de facto leader of the organization V.I.L.E. and the instructor of psychiatry. He is also the former teacher and one of the arch-nemeses of Carmen Sandiego.
He is voiced by Liam O'Brien.
Appearance[]
Professor Maelstrom is a middle-aged man with pale skin and white hair with a receding hairline. He has broad shoulders and wears a black blazer over a dark grayish purple turtleneck, white pants, and black shoes.
Biography[]
Past[]
Professor Maelstrom is the leader of V.I.L.E. He is the one who taught Carmen, El Topo, Le Chevre, Crackle and Tigress the arts of psychology and how to make the perfect diversion (as shown in the example, where Maelstrom changed his suitcase full of worms and bugs with the one with money in which Tigress swapped it), and in the aforementioned example, he told the four students that in order to make the perfect diversion you need to have a different object, that weights the same as the one of their targets'.
Season 1[]
He is first seen in a flashback when Carmen recounts her story about how she escaped V.I.L.E. island. He was one of Carmen's surrogate parents and the teacher of psychology and thievery. He taught Carmen and her ex-friends how to pull of a bait-and-switch tactic, which is used multiple times throughout the rest of the series.
He is later seen hiring Paper Star to steal the Magna Carta from a museum. He explains its value to the other leaders of V.I.L.E. and they give him the OK to go on with the heist.
Season 2[]
In season 2 Maelstrom plots with other villains to take down Carmen Sandiego.
Season 3[]
In Season 3 he and the other faculty members of V.I.L.E. move to a castle in Scotland after the island is destroyed.
Season 4[]
Maelstrom along with the other faculty members along with Tigress and Mime Bomb are arrested and put in jail for their crimes.
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Trivia[]
- He is based on Dr. Gunnar Maelstrom from the Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? cartoon. Concept art reveals that the professor was originally going to look more like Dr. Maelstrom'a younger self.
- Maelstrom is from a country in Scandinavia, but it is not revealed which one.
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