Carlos Lopez

2007-10-30T15:52:03Z

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:''Carlos is a [[human]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Carlos.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Holy [[frijole]]s!]]

'''Carlos Lopez''' is a typical kid. He goes to school, he likes to [[Grindor (Armada)|skateboard]], he hangs around giant transforming alien robots, fantasizes about holographic dead girls, and happily propagates ethnic stereotypes.

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====''Armada''====
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Matt Hill]] (US), [[Yukie Maeda]] (Japan)

One day, Carlos and his best friend [[Rad White|Rad]] went exploring into the caverns deep beneath the local [[Cosmoscope Research Center|observatory]]. Inside, they found the curious remains of a clearly artificial construction, seemingly far in advance of human technology. Rad discovered a [[Mini-Con storage panel|glowing green pentagonal artifact]] half buried in the rubble, and against Carlos' advice, his friend was drawn towards the strange object. Touching it, the entire structure began to shake, suddenly springing to life as thousands of computers lit up the walls.

At home, [[Alexis]] felt the tremors and used her computer to pinpoint the epicenter of the apparent earthquake as the mountain caverns that Rad and Carlos were exploring. Similarly, the scientists and researchers at the observatory were baffled by the sudden movement of the Earth. As Rad and Carlos made their escape with the artifact, a bright light engulfed the chamber they were in, simultaneously shutting down all electronic equipment in Licoln, as well as emitting three distinctly coloured distress signals beams into the sky.

One beam, green, reached an [[Exodus|ancient starship wreck]] on the dark side of the moon, causing it to fire hundreds of smaller beams of green light at the [[Earth]]. The two remaining signal beams, coloured red and purple, continued deep into space until it reached [[Cybertron (planet)|a cold, distant metal world]].

Emerging from the cave with Rad, Carlos turned to see a huge glowing purple sphere of pulsating energy floating in mid-air, which soon solidified into a huge robot. This being was [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], supreme leader of the evil [[Decepticon]]s. As he tried to take the object Rad had found, which had now revealed itself to be [[High Wire]], a sought-after [[Mini-Con]], suddenly another massive robot ordered Megatron to stand down. He was [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the heroic [[Autobots]]. As the pair grappled, Rad mused that somehow this was all his fault. {{Storylink|First Encounter}}

Carlos just happens to sound just like [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] and [[Beachhead]] in [[G.I. Joe]]: Spy Troops. He is also easily the most annoyingly petulant of the human children that befriend the Autobots.

====''Energon''====
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Matt Hill]] (US), [[Yukie Maeda]] (Japan)
In 2020, Carlos was posted on the Earth Federation's space station orbiting [[Mars]]. During a surprise attack by [[Alpha Q|Alpha Quintesson's]] [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]], he uttered the immortal phrase '''"[[Frijole|Holy frijoles]]"''', thus proving he isn't a horrible ethnic stereotype.

Later, [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] enquired about the attack, but Carlos was unable to provide any additional information. {{Storylink|Cybertron City}}

====''Cybertron''====
[[Image:CybertronArmadaKids.jpg|thumb|right|Apparently Carlos wants to be the next Ricardo Montoban.]]

He's still alive.

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===Dreamwave comics continuity===
====''Armada''====
====''Energon''====

==Trivia==
* According to the now-defunct TV Tokyo ''Micron Legend'' website, Carlos was 12 years old at the start of Armada. The page also stated that he is good at sports, loves rap and skateboarding, and has been friends with Rad since kindergarten.

* According to the '''[[Reader's Digest Transformers Armada Official Guidebook]]''', Carlos was ten years old at the start of Armada. It also specified that he enjoyed hip-hop, and that while he was not a great student, he was an excellent mechanic. Although this particular bit of his character didn't make it into the animated series, it ''was'' an important part of his role in the Dreamwave comics.

*When startled, Carlos invokes the holy [[Frijole|Frijoles]].
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