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<p>76.10.138.59: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image: Raksha.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Apparently there is at least '''one''' beast she likes...]]<br /> '''Raksha'''&lt;ref&gt;Yes, that is her legal name. Her birth name is '''Jovanka Kink'''.&lt;/ref&gt; was a prominent figure in ''Transformers'' [[fandom]], circa the mid-1990s. She was rather controversial due to her opinions and actions supporting her view of the [[Decepticon]]s in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]] (namely, that they were an oppressed minority driven to acts of terrorism by their Autobot oppressors and were, in fact, the actual &quot;good guys&quot;) and intense dislike for later media, such as ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.<br /> <br /> She organized [[BotCon 1995]], and created the character [[Nightracer]].<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===3H comics===<br /> The time-traveling [[Antagony (BW)|Antagony]] described herself as [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s doom, his destruction, and his worst enemy.<br /> <br /> Megatron naturally assumed this meant she was Raksha, his worst enemy. Antagony corrected this misunderstanding. {{storylink|Visitations}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> * In an interview on [[Kid Rhino]]'s ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' DVD set, [[David Kaye]] mentioned an encounter with Raksha at a [[BotCon]] convention:<br /> <br /> {{quote|I didn't know it was such a huge deal. And there was one fan, she had a snake around her, I found out she was a big G1 fan and she didn't like the new series, and that's fine. But then I found out that, wow, some people ''really'' don't like what we do... ''huh''. It kinda deflates you but then you realize it's the fan thing, some people like it, some people don't, whatever.}}<br /> <br /> *In similar fashion to the numerous other references to the fandom included in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, an homage to Raksha was planned for the episode &quot;[[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)]]&quot;, in which the Cybertronian word for a [[blank]] [[protoform]]s would have been given as a &quot;Roc-shaan&quot;. The term didn't make it into the episode. &lt;!--Raksha declined the honor.--&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.theplumedserpent.com/ The Serpent's Lair, Raksha's homepage]<br /> *[http://botcon.com/archive/story/1998/98script.html ''Visitations'' script at botcon.com]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Beast Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Designers]]<br /> [[Category:Fandom]]<br /> [[Category:Real people]]</div>

76.10.138.59 https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Raksha&diff=638809 2011-09-16T07:17:06Z

<p>76.10.138.59: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image: Raksha.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Apparently there is at least '''one''' beast she likes...]]<br /> '''Raksha'''&lt;ref&gt;Yes, that is her legal name. Her birth name is '''Jovanka Kink'''.&lt;/ref&gt; was a prominent figure in ''Transformers'' [[fandom]], circa the mid-1990s. She was rather controversial due to her opinions and actions supporting her view of the [[Decepticon]]s in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]] (namely, that they were an oppressed minority driven to acts of terrorism by their Autobot oppressors and were, in fact, the actual &quot;good guys&quot;) and intense dislike for later media, such as ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.<br /> <br /> She organized [[BotCon 1995]], and created the character [[Nightracer]].<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===3H comics===<br /> The time-traveling [[Antagony (BW)|Antagony]] described herself as [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s doom, his destruction, and his worst enemy.<br /> <br /> Megatron naturally assumed this meant she was Raksha, his worst enemy. Antagony corrected this misunderstanding. {{storylink|Visitations}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> * In an interview on [[Kid Rhino]]'s ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' DVD set, [[David Kaye]] mentioned an encounter with Raksha at a [[BotCon]] convention:<br /> <br /> {{quote|I didn't know it was such a huge deal. And there was one fan, she had a snake around her, I found out she was a big G1 fan and she didn't like the new series, and that's fine. But then I found out that, wow, some people ''really'' don't like what we do... ''huh''. It kinda deflates you but then you realize it's the fan thing, some people like it, some people don't, whatever.}}<br /> <br /> *In similar fashion to the numerous other references to the fandom included in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, an homage to Raksha was planned for the episode &quot;[[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)]]&quot;, in which the Cybertronian word for a [[blank]] [[protoform]]s would have been given as a &quot;Roc-shaan&quot;. The term didn't make it into the episode. &lt;!--Raksha declined the honor.--&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.theplumedserpent.com/ The Serpent's Lair, Raksha's homepage]<br /> *[http://botcon.com/archive/story/1998/98script.html ''Visitations'' script at botcon.com]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Beast Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Designers]]<br /> [[Category:Fandom]]<br /> [[Category:Real people]]</div>

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