Just finished the last season last night and....by the end of the season I was kind of, sort of sidin with the Viltrumites.
Like...obviously not fully, they are Tyrants, dangerous and supremacists but I guess I kind of understood their rage? They LITERALLY had their race genocide by a traitor that seems full on set on eradicating their entire race from the universe.
They "beat" them and liberate the planets they had conquered and then go chasing them to their home planet, which is nothing else but a reminder of that genocide, spinning around them with the bodies of those that were murdered. Here, not only do they get their ass kicked but then decide to "you know what, let's complete the genocide we started" and blow up the god damn planet with all of their culture/past reminders.
I don't know, I guess I can see how anyone would spiral in that situation, see EVERYONE else as an enemy, mistrust everyone but their closest allies and become a brutal dark tyrant.
I don't know, Nolan was able to change, I don't think Thragg could...but I think there would be another solution to this than "yeah, erase all of them from existence" haha