Raksha
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Raksha[1] 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 Decepticons in the original cartoon (namely, that they were an oppressed minority driven to acts of terrorism by their Autobot oppressors and were, in fact, the actual "good guys") and intense dislike for later media, such as Beast Wars."Untransformable", an essay by Raksha.</ref>}}
She organized BotCon 1995, and created the character Nightracer.
Fiction
3H comics
The time-traveling Antagony described herself as Megatron's doom, his destruction, and his worst enemy.
Megatron naturally assumed this meant she was Raksha, his worst enemy. Antagony corrected this misunderstanding. Visitations
Notes
- In an interview on Kid Rhino's Beast Machines DVD set, David Kaye mentioned an encounter with Raksha at a BotCon convention:
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.
- 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 "Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)", in which the Cybertronian word for a blank protoform would have been given as a "Roc-shaan". The term didn't make it into the episode.
References
- ↑ Yes, that is her legal name. Her birth name is Jovanka Kink.
