Mayor Manx

Although not an evil individual, he is greedy, cowardly and stupid, which ultimately makes him the worst possible candidate to run a major metropolis like Megakat City.

He is also lazy, preferring to spend his free time playing golf – and if he hasn’t got any free time, he’ll make free time, often at the expense of more pressing matters that require his attention.

The only time that the Mayor ever takes the time to actually perform his civic duties is when there’s something in it for him, such as pestering Mr. Young to invest in the city or throwing money at research that could conceivably lead to a big payoff, like Dr. Zyme’s Viper Mutagen 368 (which the Mayor originally wanted Zyme to call the “Manx Formula”).

Or, when it has something to do with his family a name, a name that, thanks to his great-grandfather, brings with it much fame and respect. Fame and respect which the Mayor lives off of like a leech.

As of the incident in which Dr. Viper tried to loot Megakat Biochemical Labs with his giant bacteria monsters, Manx had been the mayor for ten terms.

Unlike Commander Feral, Manx doesn’t specifically have a problem with the SWAT Kats. At least when they’re saving his beloved city from massive property damage by villains (although he tends to overlook the fact that the SWAT Kats often unintentionally cause more damage stopping said villains than the villains could ever accomplish by themselves).

He turns a deaf ear to Feral’s pleas that the Swat Kats be arrested, while at the same time refusing to actually publicly acknowledge them out of fear of looking bad for endorsing vigilantism. But, at the drop of a hat, the Mayor will turn against them if it suits him.

Being the mayor of course means Manx is a primary target for the many evildoers who plague Megakat City like a disease.

More than once his capture or elimination has been sought by the likes of Dark Kat, Dr. Viper, Madkat and the Pastmaster.

Most famously, he was unintentionally the target of the Metallikats at one point, when they believed he had denied their parole while they were imprisoned in Alkatraz, despite receiving a “fat bribe,” but they soon turned their anger instead to Callie Briggs after it was revealed that she had intercepted the bribe before Manx got it and turned down the parole (leaving one to wonder whether Manx would’ve actually taken the bribe).