ok I'm not being sarcastic, but what were the clues that makes you think it's Carlie. Everyone is puting her as one potential candidate and I have to say I don't understand why
A while back I posted why I think Menace is actually Carlie over on CBR, so along with the "creepiness" factor that Farren added, here's my rationale:
People cite that Menace is female due to his build. Menace utilizes Goblin equipment, so there's either a connection between Norman or Harry Osborn, closest bet being Harry. Also, Menace has a vested interest in the mayoral campaign, and it appears that almost all the attacks (his kidnapping the female mayoral candidate, his attacking the debate where Crowne looked like a coward while Hollister held his own, his "accidental" blowing up the sweatshop when targeting a truck with a Hollister campaign ad, etc.) benefit Bill Hollister, as he himself suggested to the unconscious Hollister. This makes folks believe that Lily is actually Menace because she's female, she's Harry Osborn's girlfriend, and her father is running for mayor at own her urging. However, those qualities apply to Carlie as well. She too is female, is associated with Harry via her friend Lily, and she's said that she regards the Hollister's like family, so wouldn't she like to see Mr. Hollister win as mayor, too?
Also, considering how Menace's gear is modified Green Goblin equipment, someone would have to have some scientific knowledge with how it works and operates. Carlie happens to have a scientific background. She could very well know enough to modify the equipment if Harry Osborn did not do so himself.
Likewise, Menace is not shy of killing others, as he did with the warehouse thugs, which would imply this is someone who is quite familiar with death. Since Carlie has been trained as a police officer, which she had to be in order to work for the NYPD, she would know how to use lethal force when necessary, and, being that she's a forensic pathologist who has a morbid fascination with dead bodies, she would not be repulsed by death, much less taking a life when necessary.
I also get the sense that Menace does not regard himself/herself as being evil. Notice the people he/she intentionally killed were criminals. The female mayoral candidate's death was entirely accidental, with her original intend probably more designed to intimidate her, as was Menace's other attack on Bill Hollister. Someone, like Carlie, who works for the police, would believe her actions are justifiable. What's more, because her father was a cop, she likely feels that she's not doing enough merely pouring over the victims of crime when she could be doing something to active for the cause of justice--such as making sure the right person becomes mayor, for instance.
Also, we've been told that Carlie has a secret about her. Her being Menace would certainly qualify.
Also, think of it in terms of dramatic storytelling. It's obvious that Carlie is being set-up to be Peter's new potential romance, someone he can date in an effort to try and get over Mary Jane when he finds out she's Robert Carr's "mystery girl," especially if we get something like in Spider-Man 2 in which MJ is asked by Carr to marry him. In typical "Parker Luck" fashion, the new girlfriend turns out to be a supervillain, and someone who was characterized as being "sweet and wholesome" not unlike Gwen Stacy. And it wouldn't just impact Peter. Carlie being exposed as Menace would also affect Vin Gonzales and Lily emotionally, not to mention bring possible scandals to the Hollister campaign, Oscorp, AND the NYPD. You have your "shock" quota along with an impact that can affect almost everyone involved with BND. Not to mention reinforce the old notion that shy and attractive women who wear glasses are really wild and crazy bad girls deep down.
Plus, how ironic would it be if the Gwen Stacy stand-in was the same person as the Green Goblin stand-in?
