Kalinka Cossack

Kalinka Cossack (カリンカ・コサック Karinka Kosakku, Russian: Калинка Казак) is a character from the original Mega Man series. She is the nine-year-old daughter of Dr. Cossack that dreams to become a princess. She is skilled at ballet dancing and playing the piano.
==Video game appearances==
*In Mega Man 4, Dr. Wily kidnapped Kalinka to force Dr. Cossack to fight Mega Man, but Mega Man and Dr. Cossack stopped their fight when Proto Mansaved Kalinka and reunited her with her father.
**In the version of Mega Man 4 that was featured in Mega Man: Anniversary Collection and Rockman Complete Works, Kalinka plays the role of Mega Man's navigator if Navi Mode is enabled in the options menu. Even after being rescued, she will still continue to support Mega Man throughout the rest of the game as an act of gratitude.
*Kalinka and her father first appear as player-controllable characters in Wily & Right's RockBoard: That's Paradise. In this game, she hopes to build a lot of castles in the world and realize her dream of becoming a princess.
*She also appears with Roll carrying a banner in the end of matches of Tournament Mode in Mega Man's Soccer.
*In Mega Man Legends 2, there are magazines in a place named Calinca with her on the cover of issue 3.
*In Rockman ×over, Kalinka is 14 years old, and serves as OVER-1's navigator.
==Trivia==
*She may be named after the popular Russian song "Kalinka", which is appropriate since many Classic characters' names are references to musical terms and it also fits her Russian heritage.
*Kalinka's hat is known as an ushanka (Russian for "ear hat"). These hats were once worn by cossack soldiers before the Soviet Union was formed, eventually becoming a popular winter hat outside of Russia. She is rarely seen without her hat, even in warm climates.
*Kalinka, alongside Roll, Splash Woman and Plum are the only female main characters in the classic series video games.
*When Yūji Ishihara heard that Dr. Cossack was going to have a counterpart in the Mega Man Battle Network series, he assumed that Kalinka would also appear and did some sketches of her while working on Dr. Cossak. However, she isn't even mentioned in the series, and it's unknown if Dr. Cossack's counterpart has a daughter.
*It's hinted that she may have romantic feelings for Mega Man as shown in an artwork of R20 Rockman & Rockman X Official Complete Works, although her limited apperances leave little focus on this.
*Kalinka's appearance in Rockman ×over is very similar to Caitlin's Elite Four appearance in Pokémon Black and White and Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
*Kolin, a character from the Street Fighter franchise, shares similarties with Kalinka, specifically, her overall appearence when she disguised her true identity as "Helen"
==Gallery==
BM753.png|She is 14 years old, but Snowflake is still an enemy of her.
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