Re: Dead-Head missile?

From: chance <chance_at_unix.infoserve.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 21:53:07 -0700

>I just saw of the scans that Matt uploaded to the site, and the Dead-Head
>missile is listed as one of the SWAT Kats gadgets, but that missile was
>used by the Dark SWAT Kats. Is it just me, or the Dark SWAT Kats could be
>the original SWAT Kat?

'Round and 'round we go....

"Dead-head Missile" shows up in the "Style Guide" stuff (where Matt got it, natch),
but was originally intended to form part of the "Good Kats" arsenal. That tape
of the H-B tour shows someone leafing through the "Style Guide" and coming
across the "DeadHead Missile":

Leafer: "Coooool! Is that for the Bad Kats??"
Christian Tremblay: "No...that is for the SwatKats..."

I gather someone in the upper echelons was a bit appalled at the "mixed messages"
such a weapon would send out in a bomb-bay full of things like the "Cookie
Cutter" and "Groundhog" missile, and they just assigned it to Dark Side
TB&R instead. Sorta works for me I suppose. Still, one of my favourite
scenes in the Kats is Razor launching that Plain Old Missile labelled
"From Razor with Love" - which is really very much in the same league
as "Dead-head" if you stop to think about it.

("We've got this cool idea for another missile - 'The Dead-Head Missile' - with
   this cool 'Death's Head' logo and stuff...it'll make a really huge crater and...")

 ("Um...Christian? Let's not go there...") <sorry. overactive imagination...>
_____________________________________________________
"Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed
 antitoxin six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters,
 through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in
 the winter of 1925. Endurance, Fidelity, Intelligence." -- "Balto"
_____________________________________________________

Received on Tue Jun 18 1996 - 01:28:40 PDT