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Villain Overview

In less than one hour, I will destroy Megakat City. From its ashes I will create a new city, where lawlessness is the law of the land: Dark Kat City!
~ Dark Kat plotting to destroy Megakat City.
Dark Kat: Viper, wait! Our little altercation has given me an idea. Instead of fighting each other, we should fight together against our hated enemies.

Dr. Viper: You mean the SWAT Katsssss?
Dark Kat: Yes. With them gone, Megakat City will be ours for the taking, and more than enough to go around. Yes, think of it, Viper, an invincible alliance of evil.

~ Dark Kat plotting an alliance with Dr. Viper.
Hmm… if it wasn't you… those impostors must be stopped before they get my detonator!
~ Dark Kat's parallel counterpart, who is the boss of the Dark SWAT Kats.
If I lose, everyone loses!
~ Dark Kat's most famous quote.

Dark Kat is the main antagonist of the 1993-1995 Hanna-Barbera animated series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.

He is a large, purple kat who seeks to destroy the Enforcers and Megakat City to make way for his anarchic "Dark Kat City". He is the SWAT Kats' archenemy, most dangerous foe and ironically the main reason for the SWAT Kats' birth; back when Chance and Jake were Enforcers, Dark Kat once attempted to blow up the headquarters, the duo were stopped from defeating him when Commander Feral, insisting he be the one to take down Dark Kat, ended up crashing their jet into the building, resulting in their termination as he blamed them for the incident. A desire to take fighting crime into their own hands and get back at Dark Kat lead to them becoming the SWAT Kats.

He was voiced by the late Brock Peters, who also voiced Darth Vader in the original Star Wars radio adaptations, Tormack in Galtar and the Golden Lance and Bloth in The Pirates of Dark Water.

Biography[]

Dark Kat is a wanted mastermind and his goal is to destroy Megakat City to create a new lawless town called "Dark Kat City". Being highly intelligent and calculating, Dark Kat often anticipated his foes' actions with great accuracy and it was a recurring theme throughout the series that all of his hideouts were rigged with explosives. His attempt to bomb the Enforcer headquarters indirectly led to Chance and Jake's fallout with the Enforcers and the birth of the SWAT Kats.

Personality and Abilities[]

Imposing both physically and mentally, Dark Kat is a calculating schemer, a villain whose greatest strengths lie in his creativity and ability to come up with myriad plans. Even when he has to take the possibility of loss into account, he tries to rig conflicts in his favor by setting traps. While prideful, he is not above making alliances to further his ends, such as teaming up with other villains like Dr. Viper and the Metallikats. He is a ruthless and sadistic mastermind who would stop at nothing to make certain that his plans are successful, with no moral scruples. Dark Kat is also exceptionally crafty, as when Razor searched to cut the bomb's red wire, he cursed when he found that every wire in Dark Kat's explosive was colored red.

Minions[]

Creeplings[]

The Creeplings are small, pink Gremlin-like creatures and Dark Kat's principal henchmen. While not as strong as their master, and nowhere near as intelligent, they are unerringly loyal and obedient to Dark Kat, extremely vicious, and tend to overwhelm opponents with a sheer force of numbers.

Hard Drive[]

Originally a petty thief who robbed ATMs, when Hard Drive acquired a piece of equipment called the Surge Coat, he became capable of turning himself into electricity and manipulating electronic devices and became a mercenary criminal. While he originally planned to steal and sell military secrets, his plan went sour thanks to the SWAT Kats, and he was imprisoned inside a missile. After this failure, Dark Kat broke him out, and under the mastermind's instruction, he hijacked the Turbokat and caused destruction to ruin the SWAT Kats' reputation. After this plan was thwarted, Hard Drive and Dark Kat went their separate ways, and Hard Drive no longer operates under Dark Kat's command.

Trivia[]

  • Dark Kat is the second villain to wear a cloak hood in the series, the first is the Pastmaster.
  • Dark Kat is one of the only characters not based on a Marvel and DC Comic villain.
  • It's unknown who will voice him in SWAT Kats: Revolution, considering the death of Brook Peters.
  • While Dark Kat's identity was never revealed in the cartoon, several pieces of promotional material stated that he was a judge of MegaKat Courts who used his position to better cover his tracks and plan accordingly.

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Dark Kat | Dr. Viper | Pastmaster | Metallikats | Creeplings | Kommando-Kats | Plantimals | Mushroom Monster | Madkat | Lenny Ringtail | Morbulus | Hard Drive | Lieutenant Steel | Rex Shard | Red Lynx | Mutilor | Lt. Traag | Mutilor's Guards | Turmoil | Turmoil's Crew | Dr. Harley Street | Ci-Kat-A | Katchu Picchu | Mummy Commandos | Chop Shop | Volcanus | Tiger Conklin | Katscratch | Fango | Cyrus Meece | Dark SWAT Kats | Dark Callie Briggs | Lieter Greenbox | ZED

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