Editing Nightracer (G2)

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{{disambig2|the Decepticon clone from ''Generation 2''|the Decepticon she was cloned from|Nightracer (G1)}}

:''Nightracer is a [[Decepticon]] clone from the [[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:NightracerG2-profile.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|You'd be anti-social if you were the clone of a legend too!]]

Female Decepticons were thought to have become extinct sometime during [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s long history of war, among them, the [[Nightracer (G1)|original Nightracer]]. Her skill with a gun and especially as a sniper became legendary, and as the war grew and bled on into history, a myth. However, [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] had remembered the myth of Nightracer, and chose to clone her and re-create one of Cybertron's deadliest warriors. In particular, he chose to include her acerbic personality to see how his other clones, his 'Second Generation' of Cybertronians, would react, in order to overcome arising divisions. The cloned Nightracer firmly believes in Jhiaxus' goals of recreating the Cybertronian Empire. At least, that's what she tells herself, since the original Nightracer's aversion to social interaction and bonds still shows through. 

Her knowledge that she is a clone of the original Nightracer gives her serious doubts, often  causing her to wonder whether the original Nightracer was faster, a better shot, or stronger. Poor self-doubting clone. 

==Fiction==
===''The Allspark Almanac''===
Readers of ''[[Venus (magazine)|Venus]]'', a trans-dimensional magazine for [[female Transformer|Decepti-femmes]], were invited to decide who was deadlier, Nightracer or [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The Allspark Almanac}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Wings Universe''====
{{Wingsnote}}
[[File:FlashForward3-Nightracer.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Yay! Another retool for the Animated Arcee mold!]]

Nightracer was created as one of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]' "Second Generation" warriors. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 3}} After [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] and his team of Autobots were captured, Jhiaxus showed him Nightracer and five other clones as an example of his work. Realizing that one Autobot was unaccounted for, Jhiaxus instructed Nightracer to go look for him. As she did so, [[Side Burn (G1)|Side Burn]] offered to watch her rear, to which she responded that he was a little young for her and raced off. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 5}}

[[File:FlashForward6-prosecution.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]]

Side Burn caught up with Nightracer on a cliff overlooking the rest of her clone brethren clashing with Pyro's Autobots.  When sight of the battle below restored Side Burn's memories of the war, Nightracer pleaded for him to stay with her and the other Decepticons.  Side Burn reminded her that she and the other clones were intended by Jhiaxus to rise up above their factions, and noted that by coming with him to join the Autobots, she could fulfill that mission.  Apparently persuaded, she returned to Earth with the Autobots, where she helped Side Burn debrief [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] on what had happened and advocated pardoning the [[Battlecharger]]s for their kidnapping charges.  {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 6}}

Nightracer later acquired a new body, and was present for the signing of the [[Pax Cybertronia]] at [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. {{storylink|A Common Foe}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 2===
[[File:G2toy-Nightracer.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|She's still waiting for her insignia to finish downloading.]]
*'''Nightracer''' (BotCon 1995)
**''Accessories'': Rifle
:Nightracer was a [[BotCon 1995]] [[exclusive]] toy, with a confirmed at-convention run of only 298 pieces. A redeco of the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' [[Go-Bot (G2)|Go-Bot]] [[High Beam]], Nightracer uses the same base plastic colors and mold as the Go-Bots version of [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]], but lacks the gold overcoat paint layer, and has silver paint on her face and engine as opposed to Bumblebee's black. She also uses a different wheel mold than Bumblebee. Each toy given at the convention was further modified with hand-painted blue stripes on the sides of the hood, and a [[customizing|custom]]-made Decepticon sigil sticker on the center of the hood.

[[File:FX95Nightracer.jpg|right|100px|thumb|She feels positively naked without her stripes. (FX version shown).]]

:Several years later, a large batch of Nightracer figures were sold through WhizBang Toys, both on eBay and through WhizBang's toy shows, presumably [[Hasbro]] overstock. This version of the toy lacks the hand-painted details and Decepticon sigil sticker, obviously.

:Aside from being the first toy specifically [[redeco]]ed for use as a convention exclusive, Nightracer was also thought to be the first female ''Transformers'' toy to see North American release, however limited, until [[Freezon]] (released in 1985) was [[retcon]]ned to be female. 

: This mold was also used to make [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] [[Crosswise (RID)|Crosswise]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1995/Decepticon/Nightracer/nightracer.htm More information on Nightracer at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
* The original Nightracer's name, character, and biography never went through the [[Hasbro]] approval process—they were created by [[Raksha]], host of the 1995 BotCon convention, who maintains that Hasbro has no legal claim on the character. The claim is shaky at best, due to the nature of derivative works, but Hasbro has yet to pursue the issue.
* Nightracer's colors weren't quite what Raksha had asked for: The lime-ish yellow plastic parts were supposed to be ''blue'', but Hasbro had presumably told Raksha that the colors couldn't be changed.<ref name="bc1995">[http://web.archive.org/web/20070611081535/http://www.electric-escape.net/tf/conventions/BotCon-95/Raksha Archived version of Raksha's BotCon 1995 notes]</ref> A possible reason for this is that, due to the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Go-Bot (G2)|Go-Bots']] [[gang-molding|gang-molded]] nature, Nightracer was actually made from spare parts that were left over from the production run of the Japanese releases of Go-Bots [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#GobotOptimusPrime|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Go-Bot|Megatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Soundwave]]: Nightracer's "godawful yellow" is also the color of Soundwave's car shell. This would also explain the different wheels, which originally belonged to the [[Double Clutch (G2)|Double Clutch]]/[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] mold.
*Nightracer's profile in the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 46]] explains that the Nightracer making her pictorial debut in the accompanying storyline (and thus Transformers canon) is a ''clone'' of an unseen "original Nightracer."  The cloned Nightracer in this story is depicted as having Raksha's intended blues instead of the toy's bright yellow.
*As of the end of "[[A Flash Forward]]," Nightracer is pretty friendly, apparently okay with Side Burn hitting on her, and also now aligned with the Autobots.  We'll be... uh... in our bunker...

==References==
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