Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Linka's Tomboy.Rousseau Was Right: Her philosophy of life.If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him: See Beware the Nice Ones, this is the reason why she didn't drown him.Friend to All Living Things: Especially dolphins.Beware the Nice Ones: She almost drowned a gangster for shooting her friend.Threatening her friends is a surefire way to make her Unstoppable Rage come out. Berserk Button: Crosses over with Does Not Like Guns.As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Gi occasionally uses bits of Japanese, has no discernible accent, and has a name that is actually Vietnamese (and a boy's at that).Asian Airhead: Averted, she's no rocket scientist but is quite knowledgeable.Achilles' Heel: She can't make water with her ring, so if there is no water nearby, her power is useless.Linka is a pretty cool gal, but her "not boyfriend" sets her off. Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Gi's Girly Girl.She's Got Legs: See the OP and you'll know why.Malaproper: Linka's grasp on English isn't that good.The episodes before then weren't changed, and the first episode has her saying to Wheeler, when he calls her Russian (can't remember exactly what he said) "SO-VI-YET!" as close to his face as possible to make it clear.
Before the Soviet Union fell, the opening would say "Linka from the Soviet Union", and then after it fell the writers changed it to say "Eastern Europe".The evidence suggests she's not actually Russian, or at least her family isn't she was a Soviet citizen, though.The Great Politics Mess-Up: Created during the brief rapprochement between Russia and the United States, Linka is one of the precious few unambiguously heroic Russian characters in American media.Friend to All Living Things: Especially birds.Belligerent Sexual Tension: Wheeler's the Jerk With a Heart of Gold.Tropes exhibited by this character include: