History Recap / SWATKatsS1E3TheWrathOfDarkKat

* WireDillemma: Parodied. When attempting to disarm the Doomsday Device, Razor reminds himself, "Always cut the red wire!" only to then pry off the side panel and discover [[CrazyPrepared ''all'' the wires are red]]!

** Dark Kat's first act is too cut a bridge in half, apparently ForTheEvulz. When he actually appears, he threatens to make ''all'' of Megakat City suffer for the actions of the guards who refuse to bow down to him (and intends to do that whether they do or don't).

** Steel is introduced yelling at bystanders through a megaphone and trying to prevent Deputy Mayor Briggs from entering the scene. This cements him as an arrogant blowhard who likes lording his superiosity over others.

* AllThereInTheScript: Although Dark Kat calls his ship "The Doomsday Express," its actual name as revealed in behind the scenes material is the Fear Ship.

** TanksButNoTanks: Unfortunately, they're rather poorly designed. In particularly, their main guns only seem capable of pivoting up and down, but not moving side to side.

* TooDumbToLive: The two guards at the nuclear power plant's main gate are either this or just [[SuicidalOverconfidence suicidally overconfident]].. Their response to the sight of the Fear Ship? Pull their sidearms (standard-issue laser pistols) and demand Dark Kat's immediate surrender. They're just lucky that he shoots their guard shack and not ''them'' (see LighterAndSofter).

* TooDumbToLive: The two guards at the nuclear power plant's main gate. Their response to the sight of the Fear Ship? Pull their sidearms (standard-issue laser pistols) and demand Dark Kat's immediate surrender. They're just lucky that he shoots their guard shack and not ''them'' (see LighterAndSofter). They're this or [[SuicidalOverconfidence suicidally overconfident]].

* TooDumbToLive: The two guards at the nuclear power plant's main gate. Their response to the sight of the Fear Ship? Pull their sidearms (standard-issue laser pistols) and demand Dark Kat's immediate surrender. They're just lucky that he shoots their guard shack and not ''them'' (see LighterAndSofter). They're this or [[SuicidalOverconfident suicidally overconfident]].

* TooDumbToLive: The two guards at the main power plant's main gate. Their response to the sight of the Fear Ship? Pull their sidearms (standard-issue laser pistols) and demand Dark Kat's immediate surrender. They're just lucky that he shoots their guard shack and not ''them'' (see LighterAndSofter). Likewise, the other guards approach the aircraft with nothing but Jeeps and laser rifles. They only survive when Dark Kat shoots the Jeeps because they manage to bail out in time.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Steel arrives in a jet at Dark Kat's lair with two other jets. They disappear after this scene and do not accompany him and Feral to pursue Dark Kat.

* JerkassHasAPoint: As is usual for Commander Feral, if Chance and Jake had obeyed his orders and let him shoot Dark Kat down, then not only would Enforcer Headquarters not have gotten destroyed, Dark Kat be dead and the main events of the episode wouldn't have happened. Or maybe not the second thing, considering Big D's penchant for surviving.

** Steel. The most that happens to him despite betraying Feral and trying to get him killed is that Feral takes him for a [[ScaryEmStraight scary ride in the jet]].

* TooDumbToLive: The two guards at the main power plant's main gate. Their response to the sight of the Fear Ship? Pull their sidearms (standard-issue laser pistols) and demand Dark Kat's immediate surrender. They're just lucky that he shoots their guard shack and not ''them'' (see LighterAndSofter). Likewise, the other guards approach the aircraft with nothing but Jeeps and laser rifles. They only survive when Dark Kat shoots the Jeeps because they manage to bail out in time.

* LightAndSofter: Compared to [[Recap/SWATKatsS1E2TheGiantBacteria the previous episode]], "The Wrath of Dark Kat" contains no deaths except Creeplings. Dark Kat targets the guard shack at the beginning rather than the guards themselves, and even when he targets vehicles, such as the guards' Jeeps and the Enforcers' tanks and jets, their occupants always manage to leap free before their vehicles blow up. It's possible this was a direct result of complaints about the previous episode's more gruesome elements.

* LightAndSofter: Compared to the previous episode, "The Wrath of Dark Kat" contains no deaths except Creeplings. Dark Kat targets the guard shack at the beginning rather than the guards themselves, and even when he targets vehicles, such as the guards' Jeeps and the Enforcers' tanks and jets, their occupants always manage to leap free before their vehicles blow up.

* TooDumbToLive: The two guards at the main power plant's main gate. Their response to the sight of the Fear Ship? Pull their sidearms (standard-issue laser pistols) and demand Dark Kat's immediate surrender. They're just lucky that he shoots their guard shack and not ''them'' (see LightAndSofter). Likewise, the other guards approach the aircraft with nothing but Jeeps and laser rifles. They only survive when Dark Kat shoots the Jeeps because they manage to bail out in time.

T-Bone initially fears Razor dead, but his friend soon contacts him over the radio to assure him that he disarmed the Doomsday Device, saving the city, as a joyous T-Bone heads to Enforcer Headquarters to pick him up.

Using a Spider Missile, Razor grabs the falling news chopper out of the air, preventing it from landing on Callie, Feral and the others. Dark Kat takes advantage of their vulnerability to shoot the Turbokat, damaging it, preventing Razor from firing the Scrambler Missiles. Setting the news chopper down, they escape before Dark Kat can finish them off. Commander Feral's ambitious second-in-command Lieutenant Commander Steel (Hal Rayle) makes fun of them, and is told by Feral that he plans to sneak aboard Dark Kat's airship with a signal device so that the Enforcers can follow him to Dark Kat's currently unknown secret base. Feral manages to get aboard after the Creeplings finish gathering the nuclear fuel rods and bring them aboard the vessel in a carrying case.

The SWAT Kats and Commander Feral go outside as three Enforcer jets arrive. Steel, flying the lead jet, is surprised to find Feral still alive. Feral intimates that he thinks Steel doublecrossed him, and punishes his treacherous second-in-command by forcing him to serve was his weapons officer as they fly off after Dark Kat. Steel, a coward, is terrified. As Dark Kat flies over Megakat City and prepares to drop the Doomsday Device, the Turbokat flies underneath the Fear Ship and Razor gains entry through the aircraft's open bomb bay doors using his Glovatrix's grappling hook. He ties the bomb in place, so that when Dark Kat tries to drop it, it won't release. Creeplings enter the bomb bay and fight Razor, and he uses the pepper he had stuffed down his pants to squirt juices in one's eyes, blinding it, but another unties the bomb, dropping it, with Razor clinging to it, from several thousand feet up.

Despite the fact Dark Kat made all the wiring inside the bomb the same color (red), Razor manages to figure out which wire to cut to disarm the weapon, and it lands harmlessly on the runway of Enforcer Headquarters. Meanwhile, T-Bone pursues Dark Kat who is attempting to escape. He uses Scrambler Missiles to short out the forcefield, leaving the villain vulnerable. Feral and Steel catch up. When Dark Kat shoots at them, Feral orders Steel to return fire, but the cowardly Lieutenant Commander becomes too afraid and hides down in his seat, almost throwing up, disgusting Feral and allowing T-Bone to finally get the finishing blow against his and Razor's old foe. The Fear Ship explodes and crashes. T-Bone initially fears Razor dead, but his friend soon contacts him over the radio to assure him that he disarmed the Doomsday Device, saving the city, as a joyous T-Bone heads to Enforcer Headquarters to pick him up.

Using a Spider Missile, Razor grabs the falling news chopper out of the air, preventing it from landing on Callie, Feral and the others. Dark Kat takes advantage of their vulnerability to shoot the Turbokat, damaging it, preventing Razor from firing the Scrambler Missiles. Setting the news chopper down, they escape before Dark Kat can finish them off. Commander Feral's ambitious second-in-command Lieutenant Commander Steel (Creator/HalRayle) makes fun of them, and is told by Feral that he plans to sneak aboard Dark Kat's airship with a signal device so that the Enforcers can follow him to Dark Kat's currently unknown secret base. Feral manages to get aboard after the Creeplings finish gathering the nuclear fuel rods and bring them aboard the vessel in a carrying case.

The SWAT Kats' arch-enemy Dark Kat (Creator/BrockPeters) lands outside of the Megakat Nuclear Plant in his massive aircraft, the Fear Ship. Using a holographic projection of himself, he warns the guards not to interfere, using the Fear Ship's heat beam to destroy their Jeeps when they refuse to listen. His minions, pink, gargoyle-like creatures called Creeplings (Creator/CharlieAdler), break into the power plant and breach the reactor despite the radiation-suited technicians' attempt to stop them and begin collecting the nuclear fuel rods inside. The Enforcers soon arrive on the scene, along with Callie Briggs. Covering the story from the air are reporter Ann Gora and her cameraman Jonny K., in the news chopper flown by Al (Creator/FrankWelker).