King Claudus



Claudus is the previous Lord of the ThunderCats and Lion-O's father. Claudus ruled Thundera before its destruction. He lost sight during a war he fought against the Mutants of Plun-Darr. Lion-O is transported back in time to Thundera the day before it was devastated. He later rescued his father from past versions of Slithe and Vultureman (who were attempting to recover plans for a War-Bot that had fallen into the hands of Claudus' spies). He then proceeded to give these plans to Lion-O, who used them in the present to destroy the Mutants' War-Bot. Believed to have died on Thundera while assisting the royal flagship in taking off, he was later found to have been captured by the Shadowmaster. Through a sequence of nightmares, Lion-O eventually learns from Jaga of his father's imprisonment in the Shadow Realm and is capable of rescuing him. Claudus is currently with Jaga in the afterlife.

In the 2011 Animated Series, Claudus is a stern father to Lion-O and the adoptive father of Tygra. He had a wife who died giving birth to Lion-O. When Grune and Panthro had fought bravely to get promoted to general, Claudus told them that he has given the job to Lynx-O. He was the one who sent Panthro and Grune to find the Book of Omens. When Lion-O was fighting off some Thunderians who were beating up two imprisoned Lizards (where Lion-O was assisted by Tygra and Cheetara), Claudus came to break up the fight. He was confident by Lion-O to let the Lizards go free and back to their homeland. When Thundera was being attacked by the Lizards, Claudus was murdered by Mumm-Ra (who had assumed Panthro's form). Lion-O, Cheetara, and Tygra later hold a funeral pyre for him after escaping with the Sword of Omens.