Robin Scherbatsky (full name Robin Charles Scherbatsky, Jr., a.k.a. Robin Sparkles) is a fictional character created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Canadian actress Cobie Smulders. Her last name is a reference to one of the main female characters of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya (Kitty) is pursued by Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin (Kostya) through the early stages of the novel, before she finally accepts his proposal of marriage.

Born to Robin Charles Scherbatsky, Sr., who was intent on having a son, Robin was raised as if she were a boy. This ended when she was fourteen and Robin Sr. caught her kissing a boy from her hockey team and realized he had a daughter after all.

Robin then moved in with her mother; during that time she became a teen model and recorded a minor Canadian bubblegum pop hit called "Let's Go To The Mall" under the name "Robin Sparkles." After an accompanying music video and the ensuing year-long mall tour, she developed a serious aversion to shopping malls. Robin followed "Let's Go To the Mall" with the "artistic follow-up" "Sandcastles in the Sand." As an adult, Robin is embarrassed by her teenage stardom, and though she admits resenting her father's methods of raising her, Robin still enjoys cigars, hockey, scotch, and guns.

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