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therobotmonster:whirlibirb:therobotmonster: whirlibirb:therobotmonster: virovac:therobotmonster:virovac:therobotmonster:SWATKats was cool, but one part always bugged me. I dunno, I mean is it different than “-man” for human superheroes? No, I mean this literally. All the “people” in SWATKats were cats.There’s no non-cats to compare them to. They don’t seem to ever use cat-powers, and even if they did, everyone would have the same abilities. The Kat-ness of their situation is the least extraordinary thing about their lives. Yeah I know that.I mean there was a TERRIBLE anthro spinoff of Superman where everyone was dogs (except Jimmy Olsen being a mouse puppet) and Superman was replaced with “Superpup”It doesn’t seem unprecedented to me. It’s not a matter of precedent. It’s more that it is a waste of battle-animal potential. Okay I’m definitely like fifteen years late on my swatkats lore but my fractured memories are telling me that they originally WERE humans and were all turned into cats? Am I misremembering If that’s explained anyplace, it’s hidden in the deep lore. All the background I can find shows them as just being from MegaKat City, and everybody’s just cats. Which, even if explained, still has the same end result. No contrasting groups makes cat/kat the standard, nullifying most of the action-power potential and the alien culture worldbuilding potential and basically just makes it a source for cat-puns. The Thundercats used more cat-powers than the SWATKats did, and they were more cats in the “stage musical” sense than the “animal” sense. Yeah wow nevermind I rescind my statement I can’t find anything about that. I have no idea where I pulled that from. In my mind I have a very clear image of the two main characters as humans and everything lol I genuinely thought they had one of those intros that quickly summarized the lore and showed that shot but I’m just crazyI mean they’re cats but like humans are humans. We have a word for it. It’s not uncommon to say stuff like mankind or fellow man or humans are crazy. I mean we don’t make a lot of puns about it. But also are overwhelming puns not the mark of a good 90s show?What really stands out to me is that they gave them tails. A lot of anthropomorphic cartoon characters like, if they wear clothes, no tails. Only naked Anthros are allowed tails. Those are funny talking animals. These are just like straight up furries. Tails! Even the male characters! I think it’s wild You may be mixing up aspects of different shows from the time. The Street Sharks were formerly human with their transformations shown in the intro, and there’s probably a TVTropes page of cartoons were people get turned into cats.Fun fact, the TMNT designs started off with tails, but they were dropped when adapting out of the B&W comics for fear they looked like dicks. -- source link