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Alright, now Swat Kats is a verse that has absolutely zero supporters on the wiki beside myself, so I've taken it upon myself to do some revisions for it. I'll start by tackling the cosmology (even though it technically isn't very relevant to the show in terms of scaling). Before I do that, I'd like to ask a few questions:
In Swat Kats season 2, episode 2 named "A bright and shiny future", we have the Pastmaster sending Razor and T-bone in the future (he has messed with time on multiple occasions). Now this time travel is important because it doesn't just send them into the future but into an alternate timeline. This is proven when Callie Briggs recalls that the Swat Kats of this timeline are dead, implying that this is an alternate reality not the original timeline.
Another instance of time travel by the Pastmaster himself is the very first episode of the first season named "The Pastmaster always rings twice" where Razor and T-bone are sent to the past this time into what appears to be some era of dinosaurs. Now it isn't clear whether this is just time travel or also an alternate timeline, but given the evidence above I'd say the latter is more consistent.
Another instance is Swat Kats season 1 episode 6 named "Bride of the Pastmaster" where once again the Swat Kats are sent to the past into what appear to be the Medieval era where they meet Queen Callista who is heavily implied to be the ancestor of Callie Briggs herself. Once again, while not specified whether it's just time travel or an alternate reality, I think the latter makes more sense via sheer consistency.
Now the last instance is very simple. In season 2 episode 11 named "The dark side of the Swat Kats", Razor and T-bone while testing a new "dimensional radar" on their jet get hit by lightning and are sent to an entirely different reality where the Swat Kats have become evil instead of hero vigilantes as there is a pair of "Dark Swat Kats" there who are allies with the Dark Kat and enemies of the Enforcers. What makes this even more blatant is Razor himself stating this in the episode:
"You're right T-bone, the lightning must've hit the dimensional radar, and somehow thrown us into a quirky, alternate dimension!"
Keep in mind, this is before they learned of the existence of a couple of evil Swat Kats as proven by what T-bone replies in the very next dialogue:
"Hold it, hold it. Are you telling me that somewhere in this world, there are a couple of evil Swat Kats?"
Now here's the issue with all this, normally this would be 2-C for sure since these are alternate dimensions/space-times with no connection to one another and the only way to travel between them is either through Pastmaster's magic that can occasionally connect them or via a literal "dimensional radar" that somehow transports them there when hit by lighting (twice actually). However, the issue is, the original timeline is never really stated to be Low 2-C in size, so what I'm trying to see here is if it'll be an issue here. It is implied however that the planet they're on is basically exactly the same as ours, in the episode name "When Strikes Mutilor", the planet is directly stated to be earth itself. In fact, the Aquaians and Mutilor himself are implied to come from some really distant part of outer space. Normally, given all of this, we usually assume a verse is at least Low 2-C unless specified otherwise so I'd say it should be Low 2-C at least but I wanted to know what others think.
Let me know your thoughts here. If everyone agrees that the original timeline is at least Low 2-C, then combining all of this we get 5 Low 2-C timelines in total (including the original) or a 5U 2-C cosmology.... damn Swat Kats have a larger cosmology than Bleach
In Swat Kats season 2, episode 2 named "A bright and shiny future", we have the Pastmaster sending Razor and T-bone in the future (he has messed with time on multiple occasions). Now this time travel is important because it doesn't just send them into the future but into an alternate timeline. This is proven when Callie Briggs recalls that the Swat Kats of this timeline are dead, implying that this is an alternate reality not the original timeline.
Another instance of time travel by the Pastmaster himself is the very first episode of the first season named "The Pastmaster always rings twice" where Razor and T-bone are sent to the past this time into what appears to be some era of dinosaurs. Now it isn't clear whether this is just time travel or also an alternate timeline, but given the evidence above I'd say the latter is more consistent.
Another instance is Swat Kats season 1 episode 6 named "Bride of the Pastmaster" where once again the Swat Kats are sent to the past into what appear to be the Medieval era where they meet Queen Callista who is heavily implied to be the ancestor of Callie Briggs herself. Once again, while not specified whether it's just time travel or an alternate reality, I think the latter makes more sense via sheer consistency.
Now the last instance is very simple. In season 2 episode 11 named "The dark side of the Swat Kats", Razor and T-bone while testing a new "dimensional radar" on their jet get hit by lightning and are sent to an entirely different reality where the Swat Kats have become evil instead of hero vigilantes as there is a pair of "Dark Swat Kats" there who are allies with the Dark Kat and enemies of the Enforcers. What makes this even more blatant is Razor himself stating this in the episode:
"You're right T-bone, the lightning must've hit the dimensional radar, and somehow thrown us into a quirky, alternate dimension!"
Keep in mind, this is before they learned of the existence of a couple of evil Swat Kats as proven by what T-bone replies in the very next dialogue:
"Hold it, hold it. Are you telling me that somewhere in this world, there are a couple of evil Swat Kats?"
Now here's the issue with all this, normally this would be 2-C for sure since these are alternate dimensions/space-times with no connection to one another and the only way to travel between them is either through Pastmaster's magic that can occasionally connect them or via a literal "dimensional radar" that somehow transports them there when hit by lighting (twice actually). However, the issue is, the original timeline is never really stated to be Low 2-C in size, so what I'm trying to see here is if it'll be an issue here. It is implied however that the planet they're on is basically exactly the same as ours, in the episode name "When Strikes Mutilor", the planet is directly stated to be earth itself. In fact, the Aquaians and Mutilor himself are implied to come from some really distant part of outer space. Normally, given all of this, we usually assume a verse is at least Low 2-C unless specified otherwise so I'd say it should be Low 2-C at least but I wanted to know what others think.
Let me know your thoughts here. If everyone agrees that the original timeline is at least Low 2-C, then combining all of this we get 5 Low 2-C timelines in total (including the original) or a 5U 2-C cosmology.... damn Swat Kats have a larger cosmology than Bleach
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