Carly Shay

### Goodness Zone

Starting a web-show, caring for Spencer, her friends, and exposing her main arch-nemesis Nevel many times.

### Type of Hero

TV Show Hero
Internet Heroine
Comical Heroine

**Carly Shay** (born July 24, 1993) is the titular main protagonist of the TV series *iCarly*, and her own webshow, *iCarly*. She is the younger sister of Spencer Shay and the daughter of Steven Shay and Mrs. Shay. She lived with her older brother in Apartment 8-C at Bushwell Plaza, while their father is stationed on a Navy submarine; her mother abandoned the family and because of this, she is never mentioned. She is the best friend of Sam Puckett and former best friend of Missy Robinson whom she hung out with during her childhood. She is also the best friend and ex-girlfriend of Freddie Benson who lives across the hallway (Apt. 8-D) and has had a crush on her since the day they met. She is portrayed by Miranda Cosgrove as a teenager, and Jadin Gould as an eight-year-old in a flashback ("iDon't Wanna Fight"). In the final episode of *iCarly*, "iGoodbye", Carly took the difficult decision to move to Italy to be with her father for a period of time. ("taking a break for a while.")

After a while, Carly resumed her iCarly videos alongside Freddie and Spencer's help.

Carly was played by Miranda Cosgrove, who also played Megan Parker from *Drake and Josh*, and voiced Margo Gru from the *Despicable Me* movies.

## Her Good Ranking

### Her Heroic Deeds

* She decided to do a web-show along with her best friend Sam Puckett, and Freddie Benson.
* She went through a whole lot of fun topics for their webcasts on the web-show iCarly.
* She tries her best to be the peacekeeper between Sam and Freddie fighting with each other.
* After she got shoved by Jocelyn, she gave her bestie Sam the permission to rip her head off, leading Sam to save everybody from her.
* She cares about her brother Spencer Shay, even though she's the younger sibling, and sometimes she's the one to look after him.
* She stood up to Ms. Ackerman when she was being mean to Freddie just because she got dumped by her boyfriend, despite getting sent to the principal's office afterwards.
* She learned a valuable lesson from her Christmas wish on Spencer being born normal, that her life is better with everybody around her not being normal, because nobody's normal.
* She made up with Sam after they fought, temporarily no longer being best friends, and from Sam saving her from falling off a raft.
* She figured out that Sam was telling the truth on Missy trying to get rid of her, and dumped Missy.
* In "iGet Pranky", she told Spencer to knock it off with the pranking before it goes too far.
* She exposed her arch-nemesis Nevel for him trying to ruin her web-show iCarly multiple times, and even was willing to help his reputation when he yelled at a little girl.
* She was very happy that Spencer, and her friends made her a new room after it got burnt down from the gummy bear lamp Spencer made for her birthday.
* She encouraged Sam that she needs to make up with her mother, and got trapped in the therapy box in the process of them making up.
* She cares about her friends, especially Sam Puckett, Freddie Benson, and Gibby.
* She apologized to Spencer and Gibby after she yelled at them taking her frustration out from Sam, and Freddie dating each other when they clearly are better as friends than being in a relationship.
* She gave the iCarly fans a celebration halfway to Halloween called Half-oween, and celebrated it with her friends.
* She was very happy that her dad Colonel Steven Shay returned home to go to a father-daughter dance with her.
* She said goodbye to her iCarly fans, but told them it's not temporary, and is just taking a break.
* In "iGoodbye", she gave Spencer, and her friends a good farewell to them when she was leaving to go to Italy with her dad.

### Why She Doesn't Stand Out?

* She fails the admirable standards of *iCarly* to her best friend Sam Puckett, who's committed many heroic acts in the show, and spin-off, especially having to save her life on a couple occasions.
* Even though she's not a mean as Sam, she can still have a few jerk moments here, and there, such as yelling at a girl with speech issues to get out of her studio in "iHire An Idiot".
* After the two boys named Fleck and Dave stopped being best friends, she went on to accuse Sam of not giving her enough appreciation for the effort she puts into iCarly, which led to them breaking up before being saved from falling off a raft in the first place, making her a bad friend sometimes.

## Trivia

* She's the first *iCarly* character to be HB.

## Navigation

Feature Films
*Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank*
Emiko

TV Shows
*SpongeBob SquarePants*
Barnacle Boy
*The Fairly Oddparents*
*Drake & Josh*
Helen Dubois
*Danny Phantom*
Dani Phantom
*iCarly*
Gibby Gibson
*Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness*
Crane
*Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir*
Ryuko
*The Loud House*
Lisa Loud
*Fanon*
The Bikini Bottom Horror
Patrick Star