- That would explain why Manx is so eager to attract foreign business and never seems to have to answer to anyone higher than himself.
- I thought that was outright said on the show? They mention a "Mega War" in the past and how Megakat City ITSELF won this war, so it's kind of obvious that Megakat City (and its foreign equivalents) are liken to Greek city states. Also the city is freakin' enormous—it stretched across the horizon in every direction. It's easily Mega City One-sized at the very least, so being a nation onto itself is hardly outlandish.
- Actually, they're on another planet entirely. The original plan for "When Strikes Mutilor" had the aliens who originally owned the ship wearing spacesuits all the time, because Mutilor altered the atmosphere within the ship to be toxic to them. After the SWAT Kats left, they would've re-stabilized the air supply and removed their helmets to reveal themselves to be humans.
- He used her as a human sacrifice to gain powers from an evil god or demon.
- I guess Belka finally gets its revenge in this WMG. They wipe out the world and start anew... only with kats instead of humans.
- I just pictured that. Imagine Feral staring at the Monster of the Week and saying, under his breath that "We need Chopper backup." Goosebumps, I say, goosebumps.
- Confirmed! The Tremblay brothers themselves are trying to revive the show as the Kickstarter-funded SWAT Kats: Revolution.
- Feral will still be disgusted at Steele's cowardice even after both are exposed as villains.
- Feral's Face–Heel Turn will be merely hinted as a Sequel Hook.
Now, of course, this is just a narrative device to let Callie be present when the Pastmaster shows up so she can call our boys. But realistically speaking... why is she there in-story? I'm pretty sure if Manx wanted a press release from a museum for whatever reason, he'd have media staff for that.
The answer: Manx has no media people because he fired them. In fact, City Hall's entire press and public relations divisions have been laid off. It's just Manx and Callie in that big, empty building. Everybody else got fired to pay for the Megakat Tower's billion dollar construction, leaving Callie to juggle God knows how many different jobs at once in addition to being deputy mayor, explaining her crankiness towards Feral, who she already disliked anyway.
- No matter how good you are, there is no freaking way a single competent person can run a government by herself. A single, relatively small school is already a bureaucratic nightmare in itself. A government for an entire mega-city would need to have an even more complex bureaucracy to run the place. The only way this theory could possibly work is if there is extremely intensive automation actually running the city, with a mayor and deputy-mayor only needed to keep the ultimate decision in the hands of non-machines.note
- I wasn't serious. I'm well aware that it takes a lot of people to run a city, and that the real reason the only people we see are Callie and Manx is because the animators couldn't be bothered drawing extraneous background civil servants. But I just thought the above Wild Mass Guess was an amusing idea. It was only a joke, and I never anticipated someone would actually take it at face value. However, having given it some thought, I'd like to revise my original theory and suggest that while more than just two people to run Megakat City, the government is still understaffed. I need only reiterate that Callie is depicted performing a lot of menial tasks you wouldn't normally find a deputy mayor doing. This, to me, implies a lack of underlings and gofers due to a shortage of staff (but not an outright lack of it like I originally suggested), forcing Callie to tackle multiple jobs for Manx.note
- Or it could be a Sequel Series where the SWAT Kats have taken over the Enforcers after Feral has left (or got kicked out). Felina is the new commander with T-Bone and Razor in charge of a squadron that handles the same stuff they did back in the day, but with better equipment and a full array of support vehicles all done in the Turbo Kat's colors, of course. Merchandise-Driven isn't necessarily a bad thing.
- Okay, this is just BEGGING to be made into a fan fic. Especially since all this could actually work in-universe if Callie were to become Mayor (not to hard a stretch, considering she's already the mayor in everything but name).
- As noted above, the Tremblays are trying to bring the show back.
- Feral won't be mentioned for several episodes until it's revealed he became a taboo subject after defecting to Turmoil's side. He got away with it by claiming to be a Fake Defector like T-Bone but, while the courts weren't certain enough of his guilt to send him to prison, the Mayor wasn't certain enough of his innocence to let him return to the Enforcers. Steel(e) briefly became the Commander but was deposed because even Mayor Manx was disgusted at his cowardice.
- Okay, this is just BEGGING to be made into a fan fic. Especially since all this could actually work in-universe if Callie were to become Mayor (not to hard a stretch, considering she's already the mayor in everything but name).
- Or perhaps they already worked for Dark Kat by then.
- Or he already was competent and Dark Callie was upset for having too little power in contrast to real-life Callie having to do too much work.
Let's go back to the beginning when Jake and Chance were in the Enforcers. They were the best pilot/gunner team Feral had. However, Feral runs the enforcers in a very by-the-book manner, and it's probably held them back on more than one occasion. Then Dark Kat shows up, and in a totally uncharacteristic moment of glory-hogging (he usually denies to admit the SWAT Kats helped with the villain of the week, but I never saw him act that way in combat), he bumps their jet (despite Feral himself being an excellent pilot) and knocks them into the Enforcers' Headquarters.
Now he probably didn't intend that much damage, but it accomplished his goal. Now you've got two people who owe several million dollars to fix the building. Why would you send them to a scrap yard, completely unsupervised, to work off their debt? Because Feral knew they wouldn't be able to just stand by and do nothing, and he also knows just what kind of scrap ends up in that yard.
Fast forward to the present. Feral always complains about their vigilantism, but he has never once fired on the Turbokat while the SWAT Kats were at the helm (alternate universe excepted). He also didn't seem too convinced when Hard Drive as T-Bone threatened the city in exchange for money. It's as if his pursuit of them to "uncover their identities" is just an act - a means of keeping them on their toes, perhaps?
Not only that, but the technology in Megakat City is absurdly advanced. I find it hard to believe that Feral is never able to track them back to the junkyard hangar. Even if there was a jamming system in place, the junkyard is the only thing out that far in that direction. Just watching which way the Turbokat flies a few times would clue him in.
Then comes Felina, the niece that he's super protective of. He's pretty much always with her except for when she sneaks off, but he doesn't put up too much of a fuss when she goes with the SWAT Kats.
Finally, let's not forget when the Metallikats learned the secret identities and offered them to Feral. He could've gotten the info from them and still arrested them, or have Dr. Hackle get the info from their computerized brains manually. But no, he neuralyzed them, making sure no one would know their identities.
So why did he do it? He knows that as the law there's only so much he can do, so he put the best team he had in a position to work on their own. He also arranges for a bunch of high tech goodies to wind up at the junkyard without being decommissioned (missiles, etc.) to keep them in business.
- There are two fic out there who agree with your theory (though the second one is more of a plan between the 3 of them, but whatever): "Paying a Debt
" by Bookworm Dragon and "All You Think You Know" by turbomangus.
