History Characters / SWATKats

* EvilClown[=/=]MonsterClown

-->Voiced by TressMacNeille

This fearless air ace is the best--and toughest--pilot in the sky. T-Bone's flying and fighting skills make him "a criminal's worst nightmare" in the air or on the ground.

The SWAT Kats' "High Tech Edge", Razor is an inventor who creates the team's vehicles and weapons. An effective fighter, Razor is also a "sure shot" who can nail the most elusive criminal with the Turbo Kat's missiles, which contain such gimmicks as circular saws, drill bits and capture nets.

The InNameOnly leader of Megakat City, an old-fashioned pol who sounds like W.C. Fields with an Irish accent. He's cowardly and slightly corrupt, he wears an unconvincing toupee, and he puts at least as much effort into his golf game as running the city, but he's basically a likable comic relief character.

* LovableCoward: When danger gets too close, you can always find him... running and hiding.

The leader of the Enforcers, Feral is courageous and honest, but he's also arrogant, ill-tempered, narrow-minded, stubborn and rude. Worst of all, he regards the SWAT Kats as reckless vigilantes who are as dangerous as the villains they fight. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], he's also indirectly responsible for the formation of the SWAT Kats in the first place; see OnlyICanKillHim for more details.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Lance Falk had big plans for Feral in his initial pitch for "Cry Turmoil". It was originally Feral, not T-Bone, who joined Turmoil's forces. Unlike T-Bone's FakeDefector act in the finished episode, Feral's FaceHeelTurn would have been real--until he realized that the SWAT Kats were going to win, which prompted him to betray Turmoil, then claim he was planning to do so all along. In the end, only Feral and the audience would have known about his trip through the FaceHeelRevolvingDoor.

Mayor Manx may have the title, but Callie, his attractive young troubleshooter, is the only who really runs Megakat City. (Which is a good thing, considering how incompetent Manx is.) She's also the SWAT Kats' most powerful ally, although the TV series never revealed how their friendship started. Callie has a secret communications link with the SWAT Kats that allows her to call them into action, and she defends the heroic pilots whenever Commander Feral criticizes them. Callie copes with danger better than Manx or Feral, because she's braver than Manx and smarter than either of them.

* ImprovisedWeaponUser: She becomes one during her AwesomeMoments as a temporary ActionGirl. In "The Wrath of Dark Kat", she saves the SWAT Kats by hitting the titular villain with one of the money bags he'd stolen. In "The Ci-Kat-A", when alien-possessed scientist Dr. Harley Street is trying to "recruit" her, Callie says "I don't think so!" and smashes him on the head with her briefcase.

Introduced in the second season, Felina is a gung-ho Enforcer who happens to be Commander Feral's niece. Her uncle tries to keep her out of danger, but this ''macha'' warrior woman insists on storming into the thick of each battle. Like Callie, Felina realizes that Megakat City needs the SWAT Kats and is willing to work with them.

This ''Kat's Eye News'' correspondent often risks her life to cover the SWAT Kats' adventures.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Ann gets more important roles than usual in "The Ci-Kat-A" and "Caverns of Horror".

A historian and archaeologist who works as the curator of the Megakat City Museum of History. She occasionally helps the SWAT Kats and Callie Briggs gather information on supernatural villians.

An elderly inventor who used to work at the Pumadyne weapons lab. He came to feel guilty about his role in creating superweapons, so he quit to concentrate on peaceful projects, such as bringing back dead people by transferring their memories into robot bodies. When two drowning victims washed up near his home, he used them as test subjects--only to realize that he'd created the Metallikats. Hackle hopes to correct this error by recapturing the robot gangsters so he can "program out all [their] criminal tendencies". Hackle's other inventions include Cybertron, the RobotBuddy who assists the SWAT Kats in "The Deadly Pyramid".

Burke and Murray are two annoying delivery men who bring salvage to Jake & Chance's Garage, always taking a moment to pester Clawson & Furlong about their status as officially disgraced ex-Enforcers.

* ThoseTwoGuys

This slimy scientist started out as Elrod Purvis, a greedy, unscrupulous biochemist. When he tried to steal Viper Mutagen 368 from the idealistic colleague who had co-created it with him, the formula killed him, then revived him as a half-kat/half-reptile monstrosity--and he likes it that way. To make his twisted dream of Megaswamp City a reality, Viper mutates ordinary plants, reptiles and insects into hideous, kat-eating monsters under his control.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: BonnieAndClyde as wisecracking FunnyAnimal {{Killer Robot}}s.

An ancient sorcerer whose magical pocket watch functions as both a TimeTravel device and a weapon that shoots energy beams. This medieval miscreant wants to return present day Megakat City to its MiddleAges incarnation of Megalith City, but he's also known for creating "time vortexes" to bring monsters from the past (like [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]] and [[{{Mummy}} mummies)]] into the present to do his bidding. And when he's not doing ''that'', he's sending the SWAT Kats into the past or future in his latest effort to get rid of them.

-->'''Red Lynx''': ''"Manx is mine!"''
-->'''T-Bone''': ''"Over my dead body!"''
-->'''Red Lynx''': ''"Mine’s already dead!"''

During "[[WorldWarTwo Megawar II]]", enemy air ace The Red Lynx was the most dangerous pilot in the sky--until he met his match in the heroic Blue Manx, who finally shot him down. Decades later, The Red Lynx's plane is recovered and displayed in the Megakat Museum of History, an event which somehow revives his vengeful spirit. The so-called "ghost pilot" goes after the closest living relative of The Blue Manx--Mayor Manx, the flier's great-grandson, who happens to be in the middle of a re-election campaign.

-->'''Traag''': ''"The desert planet Sahabi will pay handsomely for the water we steal this day."''
-->'''Mutilor''': ''"And if this world perishes in the process, it’s just business."''

Mutilor is an four-armed, vaguely lobster-like alien SpacePirate. Traag is his sycophantic aide-de-camp. Together, they and their {{mooks}} attempt to drain all the water from the SWAT Kats' world and sell it to a desert planet.

Turmoil is a harshly beautiful villainness in a Nazi-like uniform. She attempts to conquer the skies of Megakat City with an AirborneAircraftCarrier, an AmazonBrigade of female fighter pilots, and a disorienting "vertigo beam". When T-Bone withstands these obstacles, she's so impressed (and smitten) that she offers him a job as her flight commander--but first he must prove his loyalty by killing Razor.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Turmoil was planned to return in one of the unfinished MissingEpisodes, "Turmoil II: The Revenge". She escapes from a women's prison, taking all the inmates with her, and gains control of a KillSat. The SWAT Kats go after her--but first they have to infiltrate her fortress, "a castle on top of a snowbound mountain". Also see Commander Feral's entry.

Shard is a brutal thug who winds up at Megakat Maximum Prison, whose greedy warden enriches himself by using the convicts to mine precious gems from the nearby mountains. When Shard has an accident with an experimental diamond mining machine, it somehow transforms him into a crystalline giant whose touch turns people and objects into crystal... and that's only the beginning of his new powers.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Lance Falk had two unrealized ideas for future Shard appearances. Each time he returned, he would get a different power to use against the SWAT Kats. And each time the pilots defeated him, he'd show the effects of the previous encounter. For example: "He’d lose an eye, so from then on when you saw the guy he had an eyepatch. And each time he comes back, he’s a little more beat up."

Tropes associated with Dr. Hackle:

* ReverseTrap - Some fans think she was originally intended to be a male character, but was changed to female at the last minute because GirlsNeedRoleModels.

* RedOniBlueOni: Chance/T-Bone is the Red, Jake/Razor is Blue.

* CantCatchUp: He's a fairly good officer, if [[{{Understatement}} a bit pigheaded at times]], but he's out of his league when dealing with the villains the SWAT Kats face.

Tropes that apply to both SWAT Kats:

* InspectorAntagonist: The series [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] one aspect of this trope, since the SWAT Kats aren't criminals, but otherwise plays it straight.

* {{Nerd}}: No, really. T-Bone is shown enjoying ''Scaredykat'' cartoons (in "The Metallikats" and "Enter the Madkat") and reading the comic book ''Kat Kommandoes'' (in "A Bright and Shiny Future").

* OnlyICanKillHim