SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron is an American animated television series that aired as part of the syndication block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera & the TBS Superstation from 1993 to 1995. It was developed by brothers Christian & Yvon Tremblay and produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Entertainment.

All the episodes were directed by Robert Alvarez.

Why It Kicks Some Tail

 * 1) To start off with: the theme song. Both seasons had their own themes, which really boosts the pleasing aesthetic of the series. In addition to that, the extra guitar riffs kick off extremely great.
 * 2) *Season 1's Theme Song is very charming and catchy, even for the 80's and the early 90's standards.
 * 3) *and to say this for the best, the Season 2's Theme Song is by far, extremely radical, badass and memorable, and can be more improvement over the first one for best.
 * 4) Amazing and colorful art style calling a mind to many of the Silver Age of comic books.
 * 5) The animation is very smooth and fluid even for a H-B cartoon, since they were notable for their stiff and limited animation techniques. And it gets even better in Season 2 with its iconic anime style aesthetic that was done by Mook Animation.
 * 6) An interesting concept. Razor and T-Bone work as mechanics in a salvage yard, but are secretly military allies.
 * 7) Razor and T-Bone themselves are cool and awesome badass heroes, as well as fully likable to say the least.
 * 8) *Callie Briggs is also a very loveable & adorable Deputy Mayor by far.
 * 9) *Other characters like Dr. Abby Sinian, Mayor Max and Felina Feral are also likable.
 * 10) Unique and even terrifying villains like Dr. Viper, Dark Kat, The Pastmaster, Hard Drive, The Metallikats: Mac and Molly, Madkat, Morbulus/Bacteria Monster and Turmoil.
 * 11) Magnificent voice acting, such as Barry Gordon, Charlie Adler, Tress MacNeille, Jim Cummings and Gary Owens.
 * 12) Lots of great/decent episodes, such as:
 * 13) *The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice
 * 14) * The Giant Bacteria
 * 15) *The Wrath of Dark Kat
 * 16) * Destructive Nature
 * 17) *The Metallikats
 * 18) *Bride of the Pastmaster
 * 19) *Night of the Dark Kat
 * 20) *Chaos in Crystal
 * 21) *The Ghost Pilot
 * 22) * Metal Urgency
 * 23) * Mutation City
 * 24) *A Bright and Shiny Future
 * 25) *When Strikes Mutilor
 * 26) *SWAT Kats Unplugged
 * 27) * The Deadly Pyramid
 * 28) *The Origin of Dr. Viper
 * 29) * The Dark Side of the SWAT Kats
 * 30) The sound effects are very authentic and accurately depict the noises of real-life vehicles, which is something not most H-B shows do at the time.
 * 31) Memorable quotes: "Let's Kick Some Tail!", "Bingo!", "One of the, um, 'perks' of being Deputy Mayor" and "Bring me chopper back-up!".
 * 1) Memorable quotes: "Let's Kick Some Tail!", "Bingo!", "One of the, um, 'perks' of being Deputy Mayor" and "Bring me chopper back-up!".

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The only 4 characters can be unlikeble sometimes.
 * 2) *Mayor Max while likeable sometimes can be a horrible coward lazy mayor and likes to play golf all day.
 * 3) *Commander Ulysses Feral while not too bad can be a unlikeable mean jerk to Razor, T-Bone and Callie sometimes.
 * 4) *Ann Gora is just bland, dull, and forgettable.
 * 5) *The Dark Side Callie Briggs counterpart from the episode "The Dark Side of the SWAT Kats" is by far TERRIBLE and VERY HATEABLE compared to her original counterpart and Felina Feral, but thankfully she was arrested after the Dark SWAT Kats defeated.
 * 6) The only character Felina Feral wasn't really the best compared to Callie Briggs but still decent and likeable.
 * 7) Sometimes the animation can be quite stilted, even betwixt the fluid movements.
 * 8) *Season 2 while the animation is beautiful and unique, some key frames are not the best sometimes.
 * 9) "Unlikely Alloys" (while still good and watchable) is not really a true way to end the series.
 * 10) CEO Ted Turner, who produced the series via Turner Entertainment then, strongly opposed against the level of violence in the series, which enticed the merchandise to be reportedly delayed and the series to promptly end after 2 seasons, and left 3 unproduced episodes, along with a pointless clip show episode "The SWAT Kats: A Special Report", nothing but FILLER.

Trivia

 * Christian & Yvon Tremblay the creators of the show would later develop the infamous atrocious/bad shows like Mega Babies and Loonatics Unleashed, the latter of which were universally panned.
 * They had projects centered around 2 characters of Activision's video game franchise, Spyro, but they never edged past production. Concept art can be found on their website here.
 * They collaborated with the infamous Kids WB's show Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island co-creator Don Oriolo to develop an attempted reboot of Felix the Cat, but the project failed.
 * A reboot called SWAT Kats: Revolution is in pre-production.

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