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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: When the DVD set was ''finally'' announced.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Despite her competence (compared to Manx, anyway) Callie sometimes seems to exist just to be the SWAT Kats' cheerleader and remind everyone how awesome they are. She ignores all their (admittedly mostly unintentional) screwups and constantly obstructs (or tries to obstruct) Commander Feral,
* [[Animation Age Ghetto]]: The show suffered from this ''hard'', and it was ultimately killed by the attempts to break out of it. Some episodes make it clear the Brothers Tremblay had in mind something more complicated (and probably something that didn't involve anthropomorphic characters) when coming up with the show, and that the need to write for kids kept holding back what they could do. Ultimately, they pushed the line too far (such as {{spoiler|Feral in no uncertain terms ''killing'' the Metallikats directly and giving a rather irrefutable [[Kirk Summation|explanation]] as to why he did so}}) and Ted Turner pulled the plug on the show personally, despite its high ratings.
* [[Better on DVD]]: The Warner Archive began offering "made on demand" DVD sets in December 2010. While most of the episodes were not remastered or restored in any way, two episodes did receive a small boost: "The Giant Bacteria" had a deleted scene featuring {{spoiler|a farmer's death}} reinserted, and "The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice" finally got its [[Episode Title Card]] back after it was absent from practically every rerun.
* [[
** Just because T-Bone ''called'' him "a laughin' hyena" doesn't make it true. It's doubtful the writers would introduce a non-cat that wasn't an alien so late in the series, ''and'' have him be a nothing villain like Chopshop.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Most of the villains. [[Egregious]] examples would be Dr. Viper and Dark Kat.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: It cannot be stressed enough how awesome the music was. Almost on par with Edmondson's work in ''[[Firefly]]''. To this day, you'll probably find a split between which of the show's two opening themes is considered the better one (despite both themes being, as noted, ''awesome'').
* [[Fan Yay]]
* [[The Firefly Effect]]: An extremely rare case of ''inversion'' of this trope. The effect usually takes hold in three stages: the show suffers from [[Executive Meddling]], which results in low ratings, which results in getting [[Screwed by the Network]]. ''SWAT Kats''--'''in spite''' of the
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The SWAT Kats flying the Turbokat into a building to save Callie. Doesn't help that said building immediately after ''explodes''.
** Only because the villain threw explosive chemicals. A better example are the Megakat Trade Towers, which are featured prominently in "Metal Urgency" and are seen briefly in "SWAT Kats Unplugged". Both times, they're at least partially
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: "BINGO!" "AHOY!" "YEAH!"
** "This is Feral! Bring me chopper backup!"
** "The '''''Enforcers''''' can handle this!"
* [[Memetic Sex God]]: Callie Briggs, Felina Feral, and Ann Gora.
* [[Narm]]: One of Razor's [[Catch Phrase|Catchphrases]]--"(Name of missile), ''deploy!''"
** Also, the phrase "Radical" was used as slang a few times in the second season. Thank goodness it didn't really catch on.
* [[Too Good to Last]]: [[Executive Meddling|For reasons that are explained in detail on the main page]].
* [[Vindicated by History]]: Ted Turner personally cancelled the show because he thought it was too
** The show knew what it was (AWESOME) and never tried to be more than that.
* [[The Woobie]]: Cybertron, the SWAT Kats' brave {{spoiler|and ultimately doomed}} [[Robot Buddy]] from "The Deadly Pyramid".
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