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* [[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]]--and, because of the show's large [[Fanfic]] base, [[Rule
* [[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 meddling--went on to get ''high'' ratings, then got screwed mostly because of Ted Turner's [[Idiot Ball]].
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** 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 violent--a fair point, even if it's an immensely irritating one)--and he didn't want it linked to ''his'' shows. Today, ''his'' shows (i.e. ''[[Captain Planet]]'') are remembered (at best) as [[So Bad
** 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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