Reevaluating the Mutants of ThunderCats

When most people remember ThunderCats, they remember a simple dynamic: the ThunderCats

were the noble heroes, and the Mutants were the snarling villains who attacked them for no real

reason. But when you rewatch the series as an adult — with a fully developed sense

of morality, politics, survival ethics, and territorial rights — things

get a lot more complicated. In fact, there’s a strong argument to be made that the Mutants

weren’t just generic bad guys… they might have actually been victims of circumstances, power structures,

and even the ThunderCats themselves. The moral lines in this show are way fuzzier than

any of us realized as kids. It starts with the destruction of Thundera. The ThunderCats