!!!FridgeBrilliance

* Remove the letters S, O, U and L from the name "Elrod Purvis" and rearrange it a bit, and you get "Dr. Viper".
** Make that double, as those missing letters fit perfectly with him being soulless.
* The Pastmaster was called "Tidshärskaren" in Swedish, which roughly means "The time-ruler" or [[Series/DoctorWho "The timelord."]]
* Dr. Greenbox's sudden bout of madness and FaceHeelTurn and helping Zed isn't exactly out of nowhere, at least not to how this troper interpreted it even as a kid. The whole time, Greenbox's dialogue about Zed had this air of hidden awe at the lengths his creation was going. It just kept getting more obvious as they were climbing Zed's structure from within. Once the moment came to destroy the core, Greenbox's pride won over, having been too fascinated at the results of his own work. What made him REALLY crazy was his interfacing with Zed. Given the level of integration he had with Zed and the machinery around him, it's possible that Zed's influence, itself tainted because of the Metallikats' influence on his programming, corrupted Greenbox further.
* The SWAT-Kats arsenal makes a lot of sense when you realize:
** The Enforcers wouldn't be stupid enough to throw away live ammo.
** FamilyFriendlyFirearms are just abundant enough that bullets are likely very rare in general.
** The Enforcers' weapons generally [[FiveRoundsRapid do diddly squat against the monsters and technology the villains field]] and Razor's specialty missiles are more adaptable and effective because they can specifically target weakness conventional weaponry can't.
* The reason Feral is such a ByTheBookCop is possibly because he remembers that the one time (that we know of) he broke the rules by interfering with his subordinates in apprehending a suspect led to the Enforcer building being damaged and him having to kick two promising (if somewhat reckless) officers off the force. The Fridge kicks in even more in that said officers go on to become the SWAT Kats and act as [[{{Foil}} foils]] to his methodology.
** T-Bone and Razor's disdain for the Enforcers as a whole might stem from the rest of their squadron in "The Wrath of Dark Kat" flashback breaking off pursuit of Dark Kat's jet because it was "too dangerous" and not because of orders; had they stayed and backed up the future SWAT Kats, Feral might not have been in a position to try to steal the kill and let Dark Kat escape. If the flashback is accurate and not a case of UnreliableNarrator, that means Jake and Chance were punished for Feral's recklessness while their squad mates got away with dereliction of duty, which would explain a ''lot'' of their bitterness towards the military they were once part of and not just their former boss. Heck, the fact that someone like [[TheStarscream Lieutenant]] [[DirtyCoward Steele]] managed to climb the ranks to be Feral's second-in-command while they were literally sent to a junkyard would be reason enough.
* From "The Giant Bacteria": While the SWAT Kats dropping Morbulus into the bay backfired, and they blame Feral although it's their fault, they likely believed that the fall would leave Morbulus too injured to escape, and the life jacket in his suit would keep him above water. This is supported by T-Bone referring to Morbulus as "gift wrapped" when Feral says that Morbulus might have drowned after the fall. The SWAT Kats just didn't anticipate that Morbulus was that durable.
** It's also probably due to T-Bone and Razor being bitter against Feral having been once Enforcers who got kicked out by Feral intentionally preventing them from capturing Dark Kat, which led to Enforcer Headquarters getting trashed (as shown in "The Wrath of Dark Kat"). However, T-Bone heavily implies that this isn't the first time Feral had made these blunders and they've had to clean up for him. Deputy Mayor Briggs, who supervises all Enforcer activities, probably noticed these blunders, even after Feral became a ByTheBookCop.
* Dark Kat, Dr. Viper and the Metallikats have some genuine credibility to their survival after the explosion rigged by Dark Kat in "Katastrophe".
** Dr Viper, being part reptile, would probably regenerate from such incidents.
** The Metallikats are near invulnerable machines who only got really damaged when hitting from the upper atmosphere.
** If anything by his theme, Dark Kat's excuse is that he has supernatural abilities to escape.
* In "The Dark Side of the SWAT Kats", Callie Briggs' evil equivalent could have been informed that there are two sets of SWAT Kats, but since she's allied herself with Dark Kat, she might have surmised that he already planned on betraying her.
* The Metallikats may have survived Feral wiping out their programming in "Metal Urgency" and therefore were easily rebuilt in "Katastrophe" because Professor Hackle's lack of foresight in giving two notorious gangsters powerful robot bodies may have included equipping the bodies with a back-up system that would restore their personalities in the event that their operating systems were damaged, corrupted or otherwise failed to function. Considering that Mac and Molly made no attempt to barter with Dark Kat and Dr. Viper with the knowledge of the SWAT Kat's secret identities, it's even possible that the system restore didn't enable them to remember learning the SWAT Kat's secrets and only has them remembering the essential details of their lives as dead criminals revived in robot bodies who have a grudge against the SWAT Kats.
* It's pointed out in the main page that Jake and Chance are shown doing a fair amount of recreational activities instead of their ostensible jobs, but considering their high-stress vigilantism and the fact that their "radical squadron" is a NonIndicativeName it's likely they try to keep a good work-life balance going and we're just seeing them during their downtime. Burnout can be a real danger in any occupation and other than occasional allies like Felina and Professor Hackle the SWAT Kats really don't have the manpower (katpower?) the Enforcers do, so they relax hard to counter their working hard.

!!!FridgeHorror

* In "Chaos in Crystal", after Rex Shard is defeated and made normal again, everything he turned to crystal reverts to its normal state. Consider the warden he turned to crystal... and then shattered. That would've turned into one messy office.
* Every single kat skeleton we see (and we see plenty of them) has a skull complete with ears.
* The Enforcers' helicopters all seem to mount heavy gun turrets: for instance, the helicopter in "The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice" carried a minigun; [[{{Dystopia}} now, why would police helicopters have minigun turrets?]]
** Considering Monster and Supervillain Attacks seem a regular occurrence, the police having upgraded its arsenal might be Justified.
* The whole series becomes so much more horrific when one considers that if Feral ''hadn't'' tried to take down Dark Kat in the backstory and let Chance and Jake take the shot, it's very likely they would have stayed in the Enforcers without the freedom and resources their military salvage yard {{Unishment}} gives them to be the SWAT Kats in the present. Unless Jake and Chance ascended high enough in the Enforcer ranks to enact changes similar to their SWAT Kat technology and tactics (which is probably unlikely given the timeframe of the series), there would be little to stand in the way of the multiple villains except two talented Enforcers stuck in outdated planes under the command of a ByTheBookCop who is too rigid to consider doing the crazy but effective stunts T-Bone and Razor do on a daily basis. To put it simply, if Feral had been a ReasonableAuthorityFigure towards Jake and Chance, Megakat City would surely have been destroyed and most likely a bunch of SpacePirates would have stolen all the world's water and consigned the SWAT Kats' Earth to a slow death all because two mechanics managed to keep their jobs in the military proper.

!!!FridgeLogic

* Why did Professor Hackle, the brilliant cybernetics scientist, think that two random (dead) strangers would be psyched about being turned into a robotic Maid and a robotic Chauffeur? Sure, he had no way of knowing they were dangerous criminals when they were alive (except that his island home shares the bay with a maximum security prison), but he just assumed they would be leap at the chance to spend their new lives (with new, shiny, super-strong and durable bodies) as household servants.
** There's quite a bit of fridge logic at work when it comes to the Metallikats, because his plan to make them his maid and chauffeur came ''after'' he knew they were Mac and Molly Mange. He seemed to understand the second time that they couldn't be fixed, at least. And then there's the whole question of leaving your freshly-activated, highly experimental robots in the same room that you keep your experimental weaponry and heavily-armed hovercar. Hackle shows an incredible amount of GenreBlindness.
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