Carmen Ibanez (Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian Captain in the United Citizen Federation Fleet. She was a crewmember on the Corvette Transport Rodger Young' and the John A. Warden.
She is voiced by Eri Kitamura, Rie Ishizuka, Kaori Yamagata and Sanae Kobayashi in the Japanese animated version, and by Luci Christian in the English version. She is portrayed by Denise Richards in the first movie.
History[]
Before the Bug-War[]
Carmen is the daughter of a Fleet veteran. After they graduate from high school, Carmen and Rico's best friend Carl Jenkins join the Federal Service. Johnny Rico decides to join up as well out of his love for Carmen. She excels at mathematics and is easily accepted into the Fleet Academy, where she becomes the pilot of the Rodger Young. However, she decides to go career and breaks up with Johnny.
Invasion of Planet P[]
In the Invasion of Planet P, the Rodger Young is hit by Bug plasma. Carmen and Zander Barcalow escape the ship, landing in the Bug colony. Zander's brain is eaten by the brain bug, but Carmen is saved when Rico and the Roughnecks arrive in time. At the end of the film, Carmen is shown to have been promoted to captain and assigned to Athena. Her fate afterward is unknown.
Appearances[]
Books[]
- Starship Troopers (1959)
Movies[]
- Starship Troopers (1997)
Animated[]
- Starship Troopers (OVA) (6 episodes, 1988)
- Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (9 episodes, 1999-2000)
- Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
- Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)
Comics[]
- Starship Troopers (1997, 2 appearances)
- Starship Troopers (1998, 1 appearances)
- Starship Troopers (2007, 1 appearances)
TV[]
- Welcome to the Basement (2013, 1 episode)
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