Carly Shay

Carly Shay, also known as Carlotta, is the titular main protagonist from the iCarly series.
== Charactah Account ==
Being the straight man to the constant shenanigans surrounding her, Carly is a relatively normal highschooler. At least, as normal as you can be when you're an Internet celebrity.
Carly is a nice, easy-going, beautiful, smart, and caring person who would do anything for her friends, although she can be a little capricious and hot-headed at times when she doesn't get things her way, such as in iLook Alike when Spencer refuses to let her go to a wrestling match.
Occasionally, Carly has to get between her best friends Sam and Freddie when the two argue too much. She gets good grades and usually stays out of trouble, except for when she takes the blame for Sam's wrongdoing.
== Appearance ==
=== Movies ===
* iParty with Victorious
=== TV Series ===
* iCarly
* iCarly (2021)
* iCarly (2021) Season 2
* iCarly (2021) Season 3
* iCarly Season 2
* iCarly Season 3
* iCarly Season 4
* iCarly Season 5
=== Video Games ===
* iCarly
* iCarly 2: iJoin the Click!
* iCarly: iDream in Toons
== Trivia ==
* Carly Shay is one of the two characters to appear in every episode of the entire iCarly franchise, the other being Spencer Shay.
* "Carlotta" is Carly's nickname and is used several times in the series, leading some fans to believe it was her real name. This theory was proven false in iStill Psycho when the police send a text to Carly which has the characters' full names.
* Carly claimed to be a Capricorn in iScream On Halloween and on iCarly.com, her birthday originally was said to be January 14, but it was changed to July 24 shortly before the finale of Season 3, which would make her a Leo.
** Carly is the youngest of the original iCarly trio, as her birthday is in July and Freddie and Sam's birthdays are in February and April, respectively. Her original birthday before season 4 would have made her the oldest of the trio, so her age as opposed to that of her friends is debatable. Carly is still the youngest out of the new iCarly trio - Freddie, herself and Harper - Freddie being older than Carly and Harper being one year older than both of them.
* A younger version of Carly has been shown twice. - Once in iDon't Want to Fight when Carly met Sam for the first time - and once in the revival show, in iDragged Him, when she is seen playing games with Spencer and Freddie.
* In iOwe You, Spencer revealed Carly used to be a Sunshine Girl.
* Carly's best friend is Sam Puckett in the original show and Harper Bettencourt in the revival show.
** Carly and Sam had been friends five years before the episode iDon't Want to Fight. By the end of the original series, Carly and Sam have been best friends for ten years.
** Carly and Sam have broken up as best friends twice in the series. Once in iDon't Want to Fight, and again in iQuit iCarly.
** Carly met Harper when she was working at Skybucks Coffee Bar and they bonded over a show. Although its not fully confirmed, it is highly believed that they became friends in 2020, one year before the events of the first season of the revival took place.
* Carly's boyfriend and best friend is Freddie Benson.
* Carly had only 4 boyfriends over the course of both shows: Griffin in iDate a Bad Boy, her best friend Freddie in iSaved Your Life, Steven Carson in iParty With Victorious and Wes in season 1 of the revival. Other love interests are rarely seen to go past one date.
** However, Carly eventually gets back together and ends up with Freddie in iMake New Memories, an episode of the revival.
** By the time of iHave A Proposal, Carly has been with Freddie for seven episodes, making it her longest relationship ever. Freddie is also the only one Carly has ever wanted to marry.
* In iDate Sam & Freddie, it is revealed that Carly uses a CPAP to keep herself from snoring. This is shown again in the revival.
* Carly's head has nearly been hit three times: in iWanna Stay with Spencer, iStart a Fanwar and from in iLove Your Shoes.
* Carly has had three near-death experiences: in iWanna Stay with Spencer; in iQuit iCarly; and in iSaved Your Life.
* Carly loved the band Cuttlefish as a kid.
* Carly enjoys drinking coffee. Spencer always gave her decaffeinated coffee without telling her, as a child.
* Carly was fond of Build-A-Bra and Glitter Gloss which are both stores at the Crown Ridge Mall, when she was a kid.
* It is mentioned various times that Carly watches and possibly likes the show Full House.
* Carly is an avid believer in Bigfoot.
* Carly sometimes pokes people when she wants to get them to focus.
* Carly has shown her midsection the most out of any female on the show, due to her wearing a bikini, a red bandanna top in her recurring cowgirl costume, a hula skirt with a coconut bikini top, a two-piece mixed martial arts outfit, a purple and black plaid blouse, an 80s costume, a little bit of her belly in a plaid pink - black cami, and her belly button in a crop top.
* Carly has a bikini with a floral design, skirt bikini bottom, and a g-string in the back.
* Carly's great-grandmother gave her a heavily insured diamond-encrusted watch when she died, although it seems Spencer and Carly did not go to her funeral. It came in handy when her room was destroyed in a fire and the watch was destroyed in the fire. It was insured for $82,000.
* In iLost My Mind, Carly grabs a set of keys on the way out of the door on the way to Troubled Waters. This poses the possibility that Carly can drive, which is shown to be true in the revival series.
* Carly is shown to have her own Debit card, a necklace that says "Love & Giggles", and enjoy Gummy Hearts in iRescue Carly.
* Carly is the first person to last a full round against Shelby Marx.
* Carly has had one job in the original series, in iGot a Hot Room at the Groovy Smoothie.
* Caleb predicted that Carly would be the future Vice President of the United States.
* Carly's hair was styled differently in the first season.
* Although Carly is the main character in the series, she stopped appearing in new iCarly.com segments at some point due to Miranda Cosgrove's busy schedule. The gang only said she was on camera.
* While Carly has partied with Tori Vega in the crossover iParty with Victorious, this is not the first time actress Victoria Justice has been on iCarly. She also played the CFC champion Shelby Marx in iFight Shelby Marx.
* Carly has commented on Miranda Cosgrove's previous role of Megan Parker in Drake & Josh twice; in iGet Pranky, she complained about Megan being better at pranking than her and in iToe Fat Cakes, she said "Seen it." when seeing a scene from the episode "Peruvian Puff Peppers" on TV.
* Carly, until the episode iRescue Carly was made known, was the only one of the main characters not to have her name featured in an episode title. Instead, iCarly was used.
* In the first season of the revival, Carly is 26, which is the same age Spencer was in IPilot, the original series premiere.
* Carly once got a flamingo lawn decoration from Spencer for Christmas, which was a rather poor gift, since Carly has a fear of birds.
* Carly can't do impressions as shown in iObject, Lewbert!
* Carly still suffers from a fear of small spaces as an adult.
* Miranda Cosgrove confirmed that Carly and Freddie are going to end up together and be endgame.
** It is again confirmed they are endgame when it is said outright in iHave A Proposal.
* Carly still sleeps with a device that stops her from snoring.
* Carly appears to be quite strong as she is able to easily tackle Paul in iBuckled and can climb a rope quite easily in iReunited and It Felt OK, although she was originally shown to be weak in that episode as she said she pulled a muscle while sneezing.
* Carly doesn't trust the cloud backup system on cell phones and doesn't understand how it works.
* Carly had a purple hard drive that she called "Carly's bitchin' purple hard drive", until it was destroyed.
* Carly is shown to be a talented knitter.
* Carly is one year younger than her portrayer, Miranda Cosgrove.
* One of Carly's favourite drinks is Capri Sun.
* Carly has cried 6 times overall. The first time is in IDon't Want to Fight when she and Sam made up after their fight. Then in IQuit iCarly, with Sam when they cried after being saved after almost losing their lives and making up with her. Carly then cried twice in IGoodbye, when she was leaving for Italy and said goodbye to both Sam and Spencer. Carly then cries twice in IMake New Memories - after she and Freddie fight about their past in Italy and when they confess their feelings in the iCarly studio - and then again in IGo Public, when Freddie tells Carly he is in love with her.
* Carly's first celebrity crush was Foghorn Leghorn.
* According to Harper, Carly loves a bedtime story.
* Carly actually never graduated from Ridgeway Junior High School, revealed in iReunited and It Felt OK, but did at the end of the episode.
* Carly's favourite number is 69 because it looks like a ying and yang.
* Carly faced and seemingly overcame her fear of claustrophobia in iGo to Toledo, when she crawled into a wall a crawlspace to rescue Freddie's mother, Marissa Benson.
* Carly almost marries Freddie in iHave A Proposal, until they get interrupted by her mother's unexpected arrival.
* Carly originally never wanted to get married until she and Freddie started dating.
* Carly and Spencer both have abandonment issues due to their mother leaving them when they were kids.
* Carly seems to have a habit of changing things last minute or interfering with certain things, which is called "classic Carly".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Carly Shay at iCarly Wiki
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