For my eleventh anniversary on DA I decided to redo some of my earlier pictures. Hopefully with my improved skills and such. This year I chose pieces that I wanted to redo. This is Cheetara of the classic Raskin-Bass Thundercats in a redraw Evil Spirits Pleased.
For the Western Civilization Board it is Cheetara captured and bound in Mum Ra's liar. The Ancient Spirits of Evil are pleased by this.
I think that the original transformation was the best. When the mummified decayed form dressed in red hood cloak and mummy wrappings raises his arms and a wind blows there moving the cloak and loose bandages. He intones in that great voice. "Ancient Spirits of Evil change this decayed form to Mum Ra the Ever Living."
We see the four statues eyes glow and the monstorous forms appears [link] It was one of the best transformations of a villain. Rankin Bass had all of their villains have some form of transfromation. But this was the best
Cheetara was a female Thundercat noble who was also a member of the Thundercats.
Cheetara had left the doomed planet of Thundera with her fellow ThunderCats. Leaving behind the planet, Cheetara was instructed by Jaga to wake Lion-O from sleep, which she did, despite the objections of Snarf. When the Mutants boarded their ship, Cheetara joined the other ThunderCats and bravely fought them off. She was given a new outfit and her Staff to help defend herself on their new home by Jaga, along with her fellow ThunderCats. Cheetara helped defend the ship from the attacking Mutants, going into suspension to make the journey to the new planet chosen as the ThunderCats' new home. She was then revived with the others when they reached their new home on Third Earth, and after defeating the Mutants, prepared with the others to build a new home.
Cheetara's amazing speed has often saved the other ThunderCats from deadly situations. Once when Tygra ventured into a mysterious cave, he found himself beginning to age rapidly, Cheetara was the only one who could get in and out of the cave fast enough to save Tygra from death.
Cheetara is a female warrior, based on the cheetah, who is the only adult female ThunderCat (until the later appearance of Pumyra). Her most notable physical ability is her incredible speed, which she uses in combat to evade and dodge attacks with ease. During the episode "Pumm-Ra," Tygra clocked her jogging speed as "thirty seconds for the mile" (120 mph) implying her top speed to be significantly higher than that. At her peak, Cheetara can sustain her top speed for about 2 miles before succumbing to exhaustion. She also has an ability call ed her "Sixth Sense", which gave her the ability to see into past and future events, although this was also very taxing, such that she sometimes considered it a curse; these visions could come at random and when she forced them to appear, it could take days or weeks for her to recover. She could also sense danger to others which she attributed to "woman's intuition". Cheetara had a fondness for the "useless" metal gold. In "The Telepathy Team," her powers no longer harm her. Her weapon was the baton or bo staff, which could extend to any length and shoot out energy beams. It was attached to a cuff on her left arm when not in use.
