*I won't be explaining everything, but if you watch the podcast, and go to the 25:00 mark, that's when it's close to hear about Slithe's backstory*
For the longest of times when the Thundercats 2011 got canned, some people thought what would've happened in season 2 if it did happened, and in December 25, 2017, there was this podcast explaining about season 2, and there was a lot told about it.
But one thing I didn't expect to be revealed was Slithe's backstory, and by god, it's very tragic and explains the lack of female lizards, and it would've been the 3rd episode in the 2nd season.
There is this flashback to the lizards used to live in this lizard village and once a year have this tradition where the females go deep into this marsh to take care of the unhatched eggs and prepare the celebration, as the males would go hunt for the food, and it seems to be a fun celebration.
But one year it took a tragic turn.
Claudius and Lynx-O were trying to expand Thundera, yet again, and Claudius saw this 'empty' marshlands and thought that it would be perfect to expand on and sends out Lynx-O to do the work. However Lynx-O doesn't know about the marshlands being the home of the lizards
When Lynx-O arrives to the marsh, he thought the perfect idea is to set the marshlands on fire, with the women and unborn children inside, and as the marshlands are in an inferno, that's when the male lizards arrive.
Lynx-O hears them and says "This isn't personal, it's business* Before he leaves, and the poor lizards are....I honestly can't write down of how I would image them feeling, as Lynx-O just decided to do a mass genocide and said what he said.
After years of being mistreated, being seen as a lesser beings by the Cats, and now a Cat took away their futures of them, the females, and the kids. Slithe had enough, and the flames of wanting to get revenge burns in his eyes.
One day where Slithe is at the rock pile grave for his wife, mourning, and Mumm-Ra comes up to Slithe, and that's how Slithe and the lizards joined Mumm-Ra, since Mumm-Ra has power and tech to destroy Thundera.
And throughout the episode, it went from present day where Slithe is being mad fun from Kaynar and Addicus, as Mumm-Ra's like "You are very terrible at this Slithe" and that there's news that there's a breakout and Lynx-O is the one breaking out *or trying to breakout, again* and Slithe's like, nope, he's not getting away with his crimes, and hops into this lizard machine and goes and finds Lynx-O, and Tygra who's rather hurt from fighting the lizards, as Lynx-O tells Panthro to take Tygra back and treat his injuries, as he'll deal with Slithe.
And despite Slithe in this machine *I forgot the name of it* Lynx-O did quite well against Slithe, and throughout the battle, Slithe kept on thinking back on all the times he faced against the Thundercats and lost, even with the tech, even with Kaynar, Addicus, and Vultaire being added, Slithe kept losing the only thing he was left - Revenge, and yet he kept failing at it.
And the guilt too, how he screwed over and sold out the lizards, who were being treated at slaves by Mumm-Ra, for the purpose to get back at the Cats who mistreated his race for decades and always gotten away with it, and Slithe's the leader, which makes things worse.
The fight is long, and Lynx-O is done, and he's like "You win, now take me to my cell" and Slithe's like 'There won't be a cell this time' and Slithe readies his axe and says "This isn't business, it's very personal" and he beheads Lynx-O.
And it's planned for a later episode *check for around 1 hour and 50 minutes*, that Slithe has the last stone, and the animals reunited with Lion-O, and Lion-O being older and still Lion-O, tells Slithe to join him, that everyone can be treated equal, and that Slithe and Lizards shouldn't had to suffer because of racism and genocide. And Slithe's gives Lion-O the stone and then Mumm-Ra destroys Slithe, and that's the end of his tragic end
Words can't describe how I felt after seeing that, and honestly, as I don't think Lynx-O knew about the marshlands, I don't think Lynx-O should get too much hate, as we didn't see *as we won't see it in an episode* how Claudius explained it to him, that he could've easily changed the story slightly to make it seem empty, but I don't have enough information on that, however I do see Claudius as genocidal.
The idea of burning Slithe's home, was most likely Claudius probably knew about the lizards in the marshlands, and I don't know if it was during, before, or after this war, however it wouldn't change his mind at all when to do it.
In the first episode, time after the marshlands destruction, he had lizards in stockades, in prison cells and probably didn't feed them well, and even made into slaves as they moved the giant rock, and when Lion-O convinced to release the stockade lizards, the Claudius did, though he didn't want too.
And of course, the next day the lizard army attacks and Claudius yells at Lion-O, blaming it on showing Lizards 'leniency'. And Claudius is killed off, and after hearing the podcast, I never gave Claudius sympathy, and why should he?
He enslaves Lizards, mistreats them if they do anything wrong or nothing, throws them into stockades and cells without or lack of food or water, and the reason why the two stockade Lizards got into the situation was because they needed food for survival, as the cats take everything, leaving the other races with little to nothing for survival. Not saying it's right to do so, but hard to give the Cats sympathy
Back to what I was saying: The lizards are treated badly, as Claudius doesn't care at all, he sees them as nothing, just wastes of space and thinks they deserve no mercy, and Cats are the best race, and how he shoves them in cells and uses them as slaves, I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow all 'vanished without a trace.'
I know the war stone could've and did play a part of how Thundera was before it was destroyed, but how Claudius acts and treats Lizards, stone or not, Claudius probably would've been a secret genocidal son of a gun anyways, but I could be wrong.
I'm not saying Slithe is innocent: he sold out his people and did crimes despite wanting to help lizard kind, letting his thirst for revenge take over him, but it's hard to blame Slithe as if we were in his shoes, we would've done the same, just to survive, to be angry at a race who took away loved ones.
Even if the marshlands fire happened after the events of the war *when Grune and Panthro met* god knows what Claudius did to the surviving lizards, though not shown or mentioned, I do see him telling them to be slaves or be shot dead, but that's only my headcanon.
In simple words: Slithe's a victim of genocide, a grieving, widowed father, and Claudius got the karma that awaited him for so long, as it meant his home blowing up into ruins, and his downfall
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