Walk with me here
TW: Rape mention
Since neither the show or the comics explain why Thaedus rebelled against the Viltrum empire beyond him being against their ‘evil’ and ‘tyrannical’ ways (and according to Thragg he came back from an unspecified planet and started to talk about ‘mercy’) then I propose my headcanon that Thaedus is the first ‘queer’ Viltrumite.
Queer as we know is an umbrella term that means not conforming to the heteronormative beliefs and attitudes of a society. So…
I mean queer as in, relative to Viltrumite society because…
Viltrumites pick their ‘mates’ based on a claiming system where a stronger one picks who they get to reproduce with, in other words they rape each other, and it’s purely for reproductive purposes because we know they don’t have intimate relationships and they’re ONLY form of connection with each other comes from respecting strength which translates to their violence and brutality so a Viltrumite not wanting to engage in that worship of strength and brutality is what then?
Their procedural and violent way of looking at reproduction is their equivalent of performing heteronormativity so a Viltrumite like Thaedus who is critical and repulsed by the overall violence perpetuated through Viltrumite occupation is arguable their equivalent of being queer.
Plus…
I just feel like the entire concept of a queer Viltrumite shatters their entire identity as a species because of how obviously patriarchal it is, (and as we know patriarchy exists to reinforce harmful heteronormative ideas) I mean yes their space fascists and Kirkman made them diverse so the story doesn’t have to tackle White Supremacy but their whole hyper masculine existence can’t be separated from patriarchal and heteronormative ideology because that’s literally what created these ideas in the first place.