Rainbow Kate (Kindi Kids)

## Rainbow Kate

**Rainbow Kate** is one of the strongest Starfleet harbor kids in the Welker Tug and Marine Salvage Co. fleet.

## Personality

Rainbow Kate can come across as a rude and stubborn kid, but she has a heart of gold, despite her tendencies to be gruff at times. She is very much willing to set aside her own safety for the sake of others, and usually remains level-headed when undergoing a strategy. Rainbow Kate works mainly with her sister Donatina, and the two kids have an extremely close friendship. Even though Donatina's clumsiness and thick head occasionally frustrate her, she still respects and cares for her. She also stands up for Donatina if anyone makes fun of her.

She is the second strongest kid of the fleet and despite her sometimes abrasive manners, she can be kind and gentle. She is always willing to help out someone in trouble, and uses her great strength to help whenever she can. She also has a strong protective streak for the Star switchers.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Like her Shopkins counterpart, Rainbow Kate is based on rainbows and cake. A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the Sun. Rainbows can be caused by many forms of airborne water. These include not only rain, but also mist, spray, and airborne dew.

Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

Rainbow Kate's first basisRainbow Kate's second basis
### Livery

Rainbow Kate has prominent buck teeth, which sport silver braces on her upper and lower teeth, and purple colored hair worn up in a large ponytail with a small swirl at the end by a rainbow colored scrunchie (presumably the hairtie), with two long protruding hairs sticking out from the center of her forehead. She dresses in a white sleeveless shirt, a rainbow skirt with a checkerboard pattern, and white shoes. She also wears three pink flowers, one on her shirt, and one on each shoe, that serve as gag squirt-flowers.

## Voice Actors

* Zephyr4501 (*US/UK/AU/CAN*)
* Kristina Habuš (*Croatia; Seasons 1-3*)
* Ozana Kosić (*Croatia; Season 4*)
* Tillie Emilia Bech (*Denmark; Seasons 1-3*)
* Thea Iven Ulstrup (*Denmark; Season 4*)
* Heljä Heikkinen (*Finland; Seasons 1-3*)
* Ia Koivisto (*Finland; Season 4*)
* Anaëlle Manquest (*Finland; Seasons 1-3*)
* Aaricia Dubois (*France; Season 4*)
* Julia Fölster (*Germany; Seasons 1-3*)
* Samina König (*Germany; Season 4*)
* Ilona Molnár (*Hungary; Seasons 1-3*)
* Regina Blazsó (*Hungary; Season 4*)
* Einat Azulay (*Israel; Seasons 1-3*)
* Mia Kadosh (*Israel; Season 4*)
* Leyla Rangel (*Latin America; Seasons 1-3*)
* Erika Ugalde (*Latin America; Season 4*)
* Agnes Fasting (*Norway; Seasons 1-3*)
* Benedicte Søreng (*Norway; Season 4*)
* Monika Kwiatkowska (*Poland; Seasons 1-3*)
* Antonina Żbikowska (*Poland; Season 4*)
* Inês Marques (*Portugal; Seasons 1-3*)
* Isabel Queirós (*Portugal; Season 4*)
* Marfa Litvinenko (*Russia; Seasons 1-3*)
* Anastasia Grigorieva (*Russia; Season 4*)
* Marijana Živanović Čubrilo (*Serbia; Seasons 1-3*)
* Ivana Rambosek (*Serbia; Season 4*)
* Natja Levec (*Slovenia; Season 4*)
* Jeong Hye-won (*South Korea*)
* Alexandra Alm Nylén (*Sweden; Seasons 1-3*)
* Josefine Götestam (*Sweden; Season 4*)

## Trivia

* Rainbow Kate appears and speaks in every episode excluding Quarantine. However she does not speak in the TV versions of Pirate and Munitions.
* After Kindi Kids' production ended, Rainbow Kate's model was purchased by The Star Kids Company, an organization which showcases the models.
* Her name is based on Big Mac, a food sold by McDonald's, an American fast food restaurant.
* Prior to her sale, Rainbow Kate's head, hair, and ears were severely cracked. She was so damaged that her head had split off the torso, which completely separated from the rest of her body. Thankfully, she was repaired shortly before the sale.
* She was only sold with her seething face, but she was later reunited with her other facial expressions when the owner attended one of The Star Kids Trust events at the Battlefield Line Railway in March 2014.
* She is renamed **Rainbow Nate** in Salty's Lighthouse, likely to avoid legal issues with McDonald's fast-food chain.
* She (along with Cindy Pops) were composer Mike O'Donnell's favorite characters.
* Rainbow Kate is also the name of characters Mixie & Maxie since the tenth series in the German dub of *Shopkins*, *Kindi Kids'* sister series.