History Headscratchers / SwatKats

** Then what are all the extra ships for? Why have more ships than guys to fly them?

** Because being a fighter pilot is a completely different job from being an infantryman, and you can't assume that those trained for one of those roles are also trained for the other? Just because the Swat Kats are so badass that they can do both doesn't mean that everybody can.

* Dr. Zyme apparently getting eaten in is [[DethroningMomentOfSuck one of the worst excuses for a monster attack]] in the series. For starters, the attack shouldn't have even happened. When shot and momentarily "petrified," the bacteria monster was facing away from the lab, so having it just arbitrarily turn and smash the glass for no reason was really dumb. Then of course there's the issue with the glass breaking so easily, when the monster's hand barely even pokes it ("practically indestructible," my left foot!), and finally there's the way Zyme and Callie behave. Callie doesn't shout a warning of any kind even though she notices it first, and Zyme just standing there and screaming instead of joining her in running away is the stupidest part of all. And did the thing even get him? Most sources tend to write him off as dead, and in an episode that's already racked up quite a body count I wouldn't put it past them, but why else would we be shown the otherwise pointless shot of the monster getting distracted by Feral's chopper if we weren't meant to infer that Zyme escaped? It's one huge WallBanger.

* Callie's double standards and hypocrisy when it comes to the SWAT Kats are on full display in this episode. She won't let Feral fire on Dark Kat's ship for fear of breaching the reactor, but she totally condones the ''SWAT Kats'' attacking him. This becomes a WallBanger for me when one realizes the Enforcers' tanks were aimed ''away'' from the power plant, with little to zero change of them hitting it, while the SWAT Kats are in a jet that attacks from multiple directions, with the plant in possible danger at every turn. As a result, ''they'' stood a better chance of accidentally breaching the reactor than the Enforcers, and it honestly comes off like Callie is just being a reckless, hypocritical fool due to her worship of the SWAT Kats. The fact the reactor was [[FridgeHorror already breached]] well before this doesn't make Callie's reasoning any stupider, since she apparently didn't know (although the escaping technicians should've mentioned the reactor breach to the Enforcers).

* Callie's double standards and hypocrisy when it comes to the SWAT Kats are on full display in this episode. She won't let Feral fire on Dark Kat's ship for fear of breaching the reactor (we'll ignore that it was [[FridgeHorror already breached]] because Callie didn't know this, but she totally condones the ''SWAT Kats'' attacking him. This becomes a WallBanger for me when one realizes the Enforcers' tanks were aimed ''away'' from the power plant, with little to zero change of them hitting it, while the SWAT Kats are in a jet that attacks from multiple directions, with the plant in possible danger at every turn. As a result, ''they'' stood a better chance of accidentally breaching the (already breached) reactor than the Enforcers, and it honestly comes off like Callie is just being a reckless, hypocritical fool due to her worship of the SWAT Kats.

* The entire sequence with the Thunder Truck is ultimately points and affects the plot in no way whatsoever. Mutilor destroys it very quickly and it doesn't even damage his ship. The in-story excuse for it is flimsy, too: supposedly it is because the Turbokat isn't finished being repaired, but in the time it took to strip down and convert a three-axle tow truck into a ''two''-axle monster truck ''and'' arm it, they could've, I dunno, finished repairing the Turbokat. When they finally head back and finish with the jet, they rush the job and it makes no real difference ultimately.

* Where did the other two jets that arrived with Steele's go? They just sort of disappear. You'd think Feral would want wingmen going up against Dark Kat, ''especially'' with the unreliable, cowardly Steele as his gunner. In fact, let's talk about Steele (besides the confusion over how his name is spelled). Feral ''knows'' Steele abandoned him to die aboard Dark Kat's ship, or, at least, he strongly suspects, so what is Steele still doing in the Enforcers, much less ''free'', in "Enter the Madkat?"

* Dr. Zyme apparently getting eaten in "The Giant Bacteria" is [[DethroningMomentOfSuck one of the worst excuses for a monster attack]] in the series. For starters, the attack shouldn't have even happened. When shot and momentarily "petrified," the bacteria monster was facing away from the lab, so having it just arbitrarily turn and smash the glass for no reason was really dumb. Then of course there's the issue with the glass breaking so easily, when the monster's hand barely even pokes it ("practically indestructible," my left foot!), and finally there's the way Zyme and Callie behave. Callie doesn't shout a warning of any kind even though she notices it first, and Zyme just standing there and screaming instead of joining her in running away is the stupidest part of all. And did the thing even get him? Most sources tend to write him off as dead, and in an episode that's already racked up quite a body count I wouldn't put it past them, but why else would we be shown the otherwise pointless shot of the monster getting distracted by Feral's chopper if we weren't meant to infer that Zyme escaped? It's one huge WallBanger.
* On a similar note, if the bacteria is immune to antibiotics, why did the stuff start to work? Shouldn't it have done nothing at all? It seems more resistant than actually immune, since "immune" implies the antibiotics wouldn't have started working, which they did. Can someone better at biology explain this here? I know it's strange to call out the show's scientific accuracy when the bacteria in question is ''fifty feet tall'' but still. Did they just [[YouKeepUsingThatWord use the wrong word]]?
* Heck that entire episode is filled with problems. I can understand Dr. Zyme, a scientist, identifying the bacteria monsters as being bacteria, but how did Razor and T-Bone both know? Neither were present when Zyme made his identification (in fact, Razor called it bacteria ''before'' that scene), and the things don't exactly ''look'' like bacteria. Just purple, humanoid globs of slime [[SlasherSmile grinning creepily]].
* More from "The Giant Bacteria." The fun never stops with ''that'' episode! After the monsters are done dividing, there are three: two with one eye, and one with two eyes. The animators couldn't seem to make up their mind which of the three has which number of eyes. When T-Bone notices one missing, we're shown the two single-eyed bacteria, without the two-eyed one. Then the missing bacteria that dies in the subway has one eye. Then, when we cut to the other two arriving at Megakat Biochemical, one of them suddenly has two eyes. Of those two, the SWAT Kats kill one with one eye, and then the final remaining bacteria monster goes from having one eye, to two eyes, then back to only one again when it gets killed. All of this is made absolutely, unforgivably sloppy when the model sheets for the episode clearly indicates which creature is supposed to have which number of eyes.

* In "The Wrath of Dark Kat," what made Steele change his mind and come and get Feral? Or did he arrive when he planned all along, and was just surprised to see Feral alive?
* In the same episode where did the other two jets that arrived with Steele's go? They just sort of disappear. You'd think Feral would want wingmen going up against Dark Kat, ''especially'' with the unreliable, cowardly Steele as his gunner. In fact, let's talk about Steele (besides the confusion over how his name is spelled). Feral ''knows'' Steele abandoned him to die aboard Dark Kat's ship, or, at least, he strongly suspects, so what is Steele still doing in the Enforcers, much less ''free'', in "Enter the Madkat?"

* What happens to the alien-possessed characters in "The Ci-Kat-A?" The Enforcer pilots can probably be written off as dead, what with their helicopters crashing and/or exploding (although in fairness this never seemed to do much to Feral) and Dr. Street, we know, survived his fall since he was slated to reappear in the really lame-sounding "Doctors of Doom" (more on this in a moment). But what about all those M.A.S.A. guys? ''They'' were all only knocked out. What did Megakat City ''do'' with them? ''To'' them? Will they continue slowly turning more buglike the way Street did? This is some real FridgeHorror stuff right here. "Doctors of Doom" would've been a perfect way for the show to address the fate of the infected cats, but the plot summary just sounds like a routine (and inexplicable) villain teamup, and likely wouldn't have touched on the issue.
* Ann Gora and her cameraman, Jonny, have some kind of [[MauveShirt super minor character immunity]]. During "The Ci-Kat-A" while they're running from the alien bugs, they come across a couple of guards and ask for their help, only for the bugs that were chasing them to jump on, bite and convert the guards. The problem here is Ann and Jonny were ''between'' their pursuers and the aliens, meaning the aliens jump ''over'' their original intended targets to get the new ones. So why didn't the aliens get ''them'' first, ''then'' the further away guards?

* In "Mutation City" Viper's katalyst transforms plants and animals into homicidal mutants just by touching them. However, the SWAT Kats go ''swimming'' in the stuff for a while and - at least in T-Bone's case - swallow it. It isn't until T-Bone actually gets bitten by a mutant that it has any effect on them.

* It's established early in "Mutation City" that Chance can't swim. Yet by the end of the episode, without anything remotely resembling practice or training, he dives down at least 25 feet and rescues a drowning Razor. As cute as the rescue was, the HandWave ("Yeah, well I didn't know how to be a [[MakesSenseInContext mutated frog]] either until today.") was rather lame.

* FridgeLogic: In "The Giant Bacteria", Dr. Viper mentions that the titular bacteria will keep splitting if you try to blow them up. But here's the thing: when Morbulus turned into the ''first'' bacteria, it had four eyes. When it was split by Feral's car, it became two Giant Bacterias with ''two eyes'' each. Good so far. When one of ''those'' was split later, it became two bacterias with ''one eye'' each. What would've happened in the next split? ''Half'' an eye? Razor immediately makes the assumption that they can split even further, and warns the Enforcers against using missiles on them. You could argue that Viper was lying, but that leads to some ''Fridge'' Fridge Logic when you realize he wasn't actually talking to anybody when he said it; just self-monologuing.

* In "Mutation City" Viper's katalyst transforms plants and animals into homicidal mutants just by touching them. However, the SWAT Kats go ''swimming'' in the stuff for a while and - at least in T-Bone's case - swallow it. It isn't until T-Bone actually gets bitten by a mutant that it has any effect on them.
** Might be it doesn't work on kats; No one else that just goes swimming in the stuff (like Feral, Felina, and ''Razor'') transforms either. Viper has to directly pour the stuff on his head to get any effect on himself. It probably took being bitten (perhaps in addition to swallowing it?) for T-Bone to get exposed to enough of the katalyst to mutate.
** Assuming the kat people do have a resistance to the katalyst, it leads to a bit of FridgeBrilliance when you realize that Dr. Viper isn't even a kat anymore; that's why all he had to do was pour the katalyst on himself for it to work.
** That's all easily explained, really. They were swimming in the stuff, sure -- diluted in a massive quantity of swampy water. A tub of pure sulfuric acid will do quite an number to nearly anything. The same tub of sulfuric acid dumped into enough water to fill a few streets and buildings isn't that harmful. Recall in that episode that the place was implied to have been flooded later to turn it into a nightmare swamp. That wasn't pure katalyst they were swimming in.
*** It was still powerful enough to mutate any stray animals or plants it came in contact with, though. Callie almost got killed by a tree.
*** That was earlier in the episode where the flooding wasn't as extreme yet, so the katalyst wasn't that diluted.
* It's established early in "Mutation City" that Chance can't swim. Yet by the end of the episode, without anything remotely resembling practice or training, he dives down at least 25 feet and rescues a drowning Razor. As cute as the rescue was, the HandWave ("Yeah, well I didn't know how to be a [[MakesSenseInContext mutated frog]] either until today.") was rather lame.
** This is, however, an example of TruthInTelevision. Near this troper's home is a lake, and a boat capsized with a family in it. A girl who had never been in the water before and had never been taught to swim nevertheless swam to shore. In Chance's case, it was most likely an instinctual thing, a rush of adrenaline because a family member was in danger.
** Also, he ''had'' just been a mutated frog. Maybe he picked up some swimming instincts from his amphibious time?

* More from "The Giant Bacteria." The fun never stops with ''that'' episode! After the monsters are done dividing, there are three: two with one eye, and one with two eyes. The animators couldn't seem to make up their mind which of the three has which number of eyes. When T-Bone notices one missing, we're shown the two single-eyed bacteria, without the two-eyed one. Then the missing bacteria that dies in the subway has one eye. Then, when we cut to the other two arriving at Megakat Biochemical, one of them suddenly has two eyes. Of those two, the SWAT Kats kill one with one eye, and then the final remaining bacteria monster goes from having one eye, to two eyes, then back to only one again when it gets killed. All of this is made absolutely, unforgivably sloppy when the model sheets for the episode clearly indicates which creature is supposed to have which number of eyes.

* More from "The Giant Bacteria." The fun never stops with ''that'' episode! After the monsters are done dividing, there are three: two with one eye, and one with two eyes. The animators couldn't seem to make up their mind which of the three has which number of eyes. When T-Bone notices one missing, we're shown the two single-eyed bacteria, without the two-eyed one. Then the missing bacteria that attacks and eats the train has one eye. Then, when we cut to the other two arriving at Megakat Biochemical, one of them suddenly has two eyes. Then the SWAT Kats kill a one-eyed bacteria, and then the final remaining bacteria monster goes from having one eye, to two eyes, then back to only one again when it gets killed. All of this is made absolutely, unforgivably sloppy when the model sheets for the episode clearly indicates which creature is supposed to have which number of eyes.

* What happens to the surviving alien-possessed characters in "The Ci-Kat-A?" The Enforcer pilots can probably be written off as dead, what with their helicopters crashing and/or exploding (although in fairness this never seemed to do much to Feral) and Dr. Street, we know, survived his fall since he was slated to reappear in the really lame-sounding "Doctors of Doom" (more on this in a moment). But what about all those M.A.S.A. guys? ''They'' were all only knocked out. What did Megakat City ''do'' with them? ''To'' them? Will they continue slowly turning more buglike the way Street did? This is some real FridgeHorror stuff right here. "Doctors of Doom" would've been a perfect way for the show to address the fate of the infected cats, but the plot summary just sounds like a routine (and inexplicable) villain teamup, and likely wouldn't have touched on the issue.
* Ann Gora and her cameraman, Jonny, have some kind of [[MauveShirt super minor character immunity]]. During "The Ci-Kat-A" while they're running from the alien bugs, they come across a couple of guards and ask for their help, only for the bugs that were chasing them to jump on, bite and convert the guards. The problem here is Ann and Jonny were ''between'' their pursuers and the aliens. So why didn't the aliens get ''them'' first, ''then'' the further away guards?

* Heck that entire episode is filled with problems. I can understand Dr. Zyme, a scientist, identifying the bacteria monsters as being bacteria, but how did Razor and T-Bone both know? Neither were present when Zyme made his identification (in fact, Razor called it bacteria ''before'' that scene), and the things don't exactly ''look'' like bacteria. Just purple, humanoid globs of slime [[SlasherSmile grinning creepily]].

* Dr. Zyme apparently getting eaten in "The Giant Bacteria" is one of the worst excuses for a monster attack in the series. For starters, the attack shouldn't have even happened. When shot and momentarily "petrified," the bacteria monster was facing away from the lab, so having it just arbitrarily turn and smash the glass for no reason was really dumb. Then of course there's the issue with the glass breaking so easily, when the monster's hand barely even pokes it ("practically indestructible," my left foot!), and finally there's the way Zyme and Callie behave. Callie doesn't shout a warning of any kind even though she notices it first, and Zyme just standing there and screaming instead of joining her in running away is the stupidest part of all. And did the thing even get him? Most sources tend to write him off as dead, and in an episode that's already racked up quite a body count I wouldn't put it past them, but why else would we be shown the otherwise pointless shot of the monster getting distracted by Feral's chopper if we weren't meant to infer that Zyme escaped? It's one huge WallBanger.
* On a similar note, if the bacteria is immune to antibiotics, why did the stuff start to work? Shouldn't it have done nothing at all? It seems more resistant than actually immune, since "immune" implies the antibiotics wouldn't have started working, which they did. Can someone better at biology explain this here? I know it's strange to call out the show's scientific accuracy when the bacteria in question is ''fifty feet tall'' but still.

* Dr. Zyme apparently getting eaten in "The Giant Bacteria" is one of the worst excuses for a monster attack in the series. For starters, the attack shouldn't have even happened. When shot and momentarily "petrified," the bacteria monster was facing away from the lab, so having it just arbitrarily turn and smash the glass for no reason was really dumb. Then of course there's the issue with the glass breaking so easily, when the monster's hand barely even pokes it ("practically indestructible," my left foot!), and finally there's the way Zyme and Callie behave. Callie doesn't shout a warning of any kind even though she notices it first, and Zyme just standing there and screaming instead of joining her in running away is the stupidest part of all. And did the thing even get him? Most sources tend to write him off as dead, and in an episode that's already racked up quite a body count I wouldn't put it past them, but why else would we be shown the otherwise pointless shot of the monster getting distracted by Feral's chopper if we weren't meant to infer that Zyme escaped?

* Dr. Zyme apparently getting eaten in "The Giant Bacteria" is one of the worst excuses for a monster attack in the series. For starters, the attack shouldn't have even happened. When shot and momentarily "petrified," the bacteria monster was facing away from the lab, so having it just arbitrarily turn and smash the glass for no reason was really dumb. Then of course there's the issue with the glass breaking so easily, when the monster's hand barely even pokes it ("practically indestructible," my left foot!), and finally there's the way Zyme and Callie behave. Callie doesn't shout a warning of any kind, and Zyme just standing there and screaming instead of joining her in running away is the stupidest part of all. And was he even eaten? Most sources tend to write him off as dead, and in an episode that's already racked up quite a body count I wouldn't put it past them, but why else would we be shown the otherwise pointless shot of the monster getting distracted by Feral's chopper if we weren't meant to infer that Zyme escaped? Regardless, [[ForgottenFallenFriend he's never seen again in the episode after this and just completely disappears]].

** Dr. Zyme apparently getting eaten in "The Giant Bacteria" is one of the worst excuses for a monster attack in the series. For starters, the attack shouldn't have even happened. When shot and momentarily "petrified," the bacteria monster was facing away from the lab, so having it just arbitrarily turn and smash the glass for no reason was really dumb. Then of course there's the issue with the glass breaking so easily, when the monster's hand barely even pokes it ("practically indestructible," my left foot!), and finally there's the way Zyme and Callie behave. Callie doesn't shout a warning of any kind, and Zyme just standing there and screaming instead of joining her in running away is the stupidest part of all. And was he even eaten? Most sources tend to write him off as dead, and in an episode that's already racked up quite a body count I wouldn't put it past them, but why else would we be shown the otherwise pointless shot of the monster getting distracted by Feral's chopper if we weren't meant to infer that Zyme escaped? Regardless, he's never seen again in the episode after this and just completely disappears.

** Also, he ''had'' just been a mutated frog. Maybe he picked up some swimming instincts from his amphibious time?

** Viper never stated any such thing. Viper's only claim was that the creatures were immune to antibiotics. That they could divide (a finite number of times admittedly) seemed a (pleasant) surprise to him. And when Razor warned Feral not to fire on one of bacteria monsters, it was one with two eyes, so nobody ever claimed the things could keep splitting indefinitely. Also it was Manx's limo that split the first monster, driven by Callie, not Feral's car, bit I'm just nitpicking now.

** It was still powerful enough to mutate any stray animals or plants it came in contact with, though. Callie almost got killed by a tree.

** That's all easily explained, really. They were swimming in the stuff, sure -- diluted in a massive quantity of swampy water. A tub of pure sulfuric acid will do quite an number to nearly anything. The same tub of sulfuric acid dumped into enough water to fill a few streets and buildings isn't that harmful. Recall in that episode that the place was implied to have been flooded later to turn it into a nightmare swamp. That wasn't pure katalyst they were swimming in.

** Assuming the kat people do have a resistance to the katalyst, it leads to a bit of FridgeBrilliance when you realize that Dr. Viper isn't even a kat anymore; that's why all he had to do was pour the katalyst on himself for it to work.

** In "Mutation City" Viper's katalyst transforms plants and animals into homicidal mutants just by touching them. However, the SWAT Kats go ''swimming'' in the stuff for a while and - at least in T-Bone's case - swallow it. It isn't until T-Bone actually gets bitten by a mutant that it has any effect on them.
*** Might be it doesn't work on kats; No one else that just goes swimming in the stuff (like Feral, Felina, and ''Razor'') transforms either. Viper has to directly pour the stuff on his head to get any effect on himself. It probably took being bitten (perhaps in addition to swallowing it?) for T-Bone to get exposed to enough of the katalyst to mutate.
*** Assuming the kat people do have a resistance to the katalyst, it leads to a bit of FridgeBrilliance when you realize that Dr. Viper isn't even a kat anymore; that's why all he had to do was pour the katalyst on himself for it to work.

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