Okay, actually, he's a robot controlled by Manx, who, when this was revealed, would don a Dark Kat-like cloak and scuttle around all Emperor Palpatine-like cackling evilly and frying the SWAT Kats with his finger-lightning!

"Only now, at the end, do you understand! You have paid the price for your lack of vision! And now, SWAT Kats... you will die."
"Feral, please, I know there's good in you!"
*Feral picks Emperor Manx up and tosses him down the elevator shaft.*
"Hey, no, what're you, AAAHHHHHHH GODDDDFREEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY....." *Distant boom.*
Just imagine that in Manx's accent.