Editing Raksha

:''Raksha is a [[human]] in the real-world and [[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]] [[Continuity family|continuity families]].''
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'''Raksha'''<ref>Yes, that is her legal name.</ref> was a prominent figure in ''Transformers'' [[fandom]], circa the mid-1990s. She was controversial due to her opinions and actions supporting (her view of) the [[Decepticon]]s in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]] and intense dislike for later media, such as ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.

She organized [[BotCon 1995]], and created the character [[Nightracer]].

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars: Visitations'' script reading===
[[Image:Antagony megatron.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Megatron mistook the Predacon Antagony for Raksha on their first meeting. Neither Raksha nor Antagony would comment when later asked about the incident.]]
The time-traveling [[Antagony]] described herself as [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s doom, his destruction, and his worst enemy.

Megatron naturally assumed this meant she was Raksha <small>(his worst enemy)</small>. Antagony corrected this misunderstanding. {{storylink|Visitations}}





{{note|It is currently believed, based on various meta-textual elements from the "Visitations" script, that the Raksha Megatron refers to is the well-known Transformers fan, and not a heretofore-unseen [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] rival of Megatron. This is one of several examples of fourth-wall breaking in "Visitations". A similar homage was written for the Beast Wars episode, "[[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)|Coming of the Fuzors]]", but she declined the honor.}}
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==Trivia==
* 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:

{{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.}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.plumed-serpent.com/ The Serpent's Lair, Raksha's homepage] (currently offline)
*[http://botcon.com/archive/story/1998/98script.html ''Visitations'' script at botcon.com]

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