History YMMV / SwatKats

*** "Suck a dick, Commander!"

* SeldomSeenSpecies - Chopshop [[YMMV may]] be a [[TheHyena laughing hyena]]. And yes, hyenas are ''related'' to the cat genus, but not ''that'' closely.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: At least once an episode, sometimes more. In fact, there are so many examples, they have [[Awesome/SWATKats their own page.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Has [[Funny/SWATKats its own page.]]
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Has [[Heartwarming/SWATKats its own page.]]

* [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped Alligator Villain]]: Chopshop. In a world populated by nothing but anthropomorphic felines, Chopshop is a . . . [[TheHyena laughing hyena]]? In true BLAM fashion, he shows up for about five minutes at the start of the episode "Swat Kats Unplugged" until captured, and is never heard from or spoken of again in the run of the series.

* [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped Alligator Villain]]: Chopshop. In a world populated by nothing but anthropomorphic felines, Chopshop is a . . . [[TheHyena laughing hyena]]? In true BLAM fashion, he shows up for about five minutes at the start of the episode "Swat Kats Unplugged", is captured, and is never heard from or spoken of again in the run of the series.

* [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped Alligator Villain]]: Chopshop. In a world populated by nothing but anthropomorphic felines, Chopshop is a . . . [[TheHyena laughing hyena]]? In true BLAM fashion, he shows up for about five minutes at the start of the episode "SWAT Kats Unplugged", is captured, and is never heard from or spoken of again in the run of the series.

* FetishFuel: It's a show about anthropomorphized ''cats'', [[CatGirl and many attractive female ones are in it.]] The furry community has had a field day with it.

** Turmoil is an attractive female, a sky pirate, a busty chick, and surrounded by an army of female soldiers ''who will do anything she wants''. She's practically a FetishFuelStationAttendant.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Despite her competence (compared to Manx, anyway) Callie Briggs sometimes seems to exist just to be the SWAT Kats' cheerleader and remind everyone how awesome they are every episode. She ignores all their (admittedly mostly unintentional) screwups and constantly obstructs (or tries to obstruct) Commander Feral, who, for all his bluster, really does have the city's best interests at heart.
* BetterOnDVD: The Warner Archive began offering "made on demand" DVD sets in December 2010. Unfortunately, most of the episodes were not remastered or restored in any way. Two episodes did, however, 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 title card back after it was absent from practically every rerun.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: It cannot be stressed enough how awesome the music was. Almost on par with Edmondson's work in ''{{Firefly}}''.
* FanYay: And, because of the show's large FanFic base, RuleThirtyFour.
* FetishFuel: It's a show about anthropomorphized CATS, [[CatGirl and many attractive female ones are in it.]] The furry community has had a field day with it.

** Turmoil is an attractive female, a sky pirate, a busty chick, and surrounded by an army of female soldiers ''who will do anything she wants''.
** Believe it or not, Dr. Viper, for some.
* TheFireflyEffect: An extremely rare case of ''inversion'' of this trope - The effect usually takes hold in three stages: ExecutiveMeddling - results in low ratings - results in getting ScrewedByTheNetwork. ''SWAT Kats'', ''in spite'' of exec meddling, went on to get ''high'' ratings, then got screwed mostly because of one man's IdiotBall.

** Only because the villain threw explosive chemicals. A better example is the "Megakat Trade Towers" which feature prominently in "Metal Urgency" and are seen briefly in "SWAT Kats Unplugged." Both times they're at least partially damaged, and in the latter case would appear to be the deliberate target of the evil helicopter pilot the SWAT Kats were chasing at the beginning.

** Bring Feral chopper backup!
** "The ENFORCERS can handle this!"

* VindicatedByHistory: 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 because he didn't want it linked to ''his'' shows. Today, ''his'' shows (i.e, ''CaptainPlanet'') are remembered - at best - as [=~So Bad It's Good~=], and far more often mocked if not outright torn apart for their {{Anvilicious}} messages and [[CluelessAesop Clueless Aesops]], hence demonstrating that ANY effect he wanted to have with them never happened. ''SWATKats'', while hardly a bastion of positive messages, is instead remembered with immense fondness and fervor.

* BetterOnDVD: The Warner Archive began offering "made on demand" DVD sets in December 2010. Unfortunately, said episodes are not remastered or restored in any way. Hopefully they have good masters.
** That last bit is only partially true. The [[spoiler: farmer's death]], cut from virtually every airing of "The Giant Bacteria," was put back in for the DVD release, and "The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice" finally has its title card back; it was absent from practically every rerun.

** Only because the villain threw explosive chemicals. A better example is the "Megakat Trade Towers" which feature prominently in "Metal Urgency" and are seen briefly in "SWAT Kats Unplugged." Both times they're at least partially damaged, and in the latter case would appear to be the deliberate target of the evil helicopter pilot the SWAT Kays were chasing at the beginning.

* TheWoobie: Cybertron, the SWAT Kats' brave [[spoiler:adn ultimately doomed]] RobotBuddy from "The Deadly Pyramid".

* VindicatedByHistory: 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 because he didn't want it linked to ''his'' shows . Today, ''his'' shows (i.e, ''CaptainPlanet'') are remembered - at best - as SoBadItsGood, and far more often mocked if not outright torn apart for their {{Anvilicious}} messages and [[CluelessAesop Clueless Aesops]], hence demonstrating that ANY effect he wanted to have with them never happened. ''SWAT Kats'', while hardly a bastion of positive messages, is instead remembered with immense fondness and fervor.

* TooGoodToLast: [[ExecutiveMeddling For reasons that have are been explained in detail on the main page]].

* FetishFuel: It's a show about anthropomorphized CATS, [[CatGirl and many attractive female ones are in it.]] The furry community [[strike:would have]] ''has had'' a field day with it.

** Turmoil is an attractive female, a sky pirate, a busty chick, and surrounded by an army of female soldiers ''that will do anything she wants''.