Thad

Thad is a supporting character in Murder Drones. He appears in most of the show’s episodes, including the trailer.
==Appearance==
Thad is a Worker Drone with lime green eyes, light grey hair, and an orange cap with white accents worn backwards. He sports a black vest depicting a white crossed-out square along with a dark yellow-green shirt underneath.
==Personality==
Much like his friend Uzi, Thad has a streak of bravery that most other Worker Drones lack. While this first showed itself in his willingness to talk to Uzi (while others wrote her off as a weirdo), he was also willing to stand up to Disassembly Drones despite how their combat ability outclassed his in every conceivable way.
It is perhaps this willingness to act that led him to be so disgusted with the Worker Defense Force after they froze up when confronted with a real problem - one that couldn't be solved with their doors. He also appeared to have believed the various posters tacked within their colony and was shocked when Uzi's own father left her to die instead of making any attempt to help her at all.
Thad is also quite the loyal friend, leaving the safety of the colony just to give Uzi back her railgun, which she had previously left behind after leaving on a self-imposed exile. He also accompanied her and N to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Worker Drone, and after being captured by the culprit and freed by the duo, he even speaks disparagingly to his former captor.
Generally, his behavior is similar to that of a high school jock, though is noticeably kinder than his friends.
==Biography==
==="PILOT"===
Thad is one of Uzi's classmates. He is first shown walking out of a hallway after talking to one of his friends, Chad. He then sees Uzi and sits down to talk to her. Uzi wonders how Thad knows her name, to which he responds that "everyone knows Khan's daughter." He also says that her bandages are "pretty badass". Thad then asks Uzi about her railgun, which she pridefully talks about using to fight the Disassembly Drones. However, he questions if it's really necessary, as Khan built doors so that the Worker Drones wouldn’t have to fight the Disassembly Drones. Uzi brushes him off and walks away, though she adds that she's not mad, just "generally hormonal".
Near the end of the pilot, after J and V break into the colony's base and evacuation spot, Thad gets thrown across the floor and starts bleeding out oil. However, he persists in fighting the Disassembly Drones and picks up a metal pipe. He is in disbelief at how the WDF talks about building a door instead of fighting to defend themselves, only to get stabbed by V, about to get killed when Uzi and N arrive. Thad gets thrown aside as V, J, N and Uzi fight, Uzi versus J, and N versus V. After a battle, Uzi kills J, and N ties up V. Thad then goes up to congratulate Uzi and N. Khan then approaches the two, only for Uzi to lash out at him for not believing her and leaving her for dead, shocking everyone around them, before she and N leave, dragging V behind them.
==="Heartbeat"===
In Heartbeat, Thad seemingly followed Uzi, N and V outside, returning Uzi's railgun to her. He thanks her and N for saving the colony, and tries to reason with her about the banishment. He then mentions the recent disappearances of their fellow Worker Drones and J's corpse. Thad also says that when he went to grab Uzi's railgun, it "crawled away". The three decide to return to the colony's base.
The three then walk back to the base along with N, who was allowed in after apologizing to Ron. The three investigate huge, strange oil splatters against container ships, and also notice strange prints that mention the AbsoluteSolver. Their investigation is cut short when N notices a human hand crawling near them, before grabbing Thad's leg. Uzi points her flashlight towards a long wire connected to the hand, as N fires a rocket launcher to where the wire is, revealing a huge, centipede-like creature crawling up the area. Thad suddenly gets dragged by the hand but is freed when N throws a ninja star at the wire, cutting it off. However, Uzi and N get slammed against the container ship behind them, as Thad gets grabbed by a claw and dragged to another room.
Eldritch J creates a hologram of Thad in an attempt to deceive N and Uzi, though it very poorly mimics his behavior and a rather bemused N throws a shuriken at it. Being nothing more than a projection, the shuriken passes through it, and flies up and slices through the wires that bound Thad. After falling to the ground and recovering his senses, he invites N and Uzi to his "shindig", expressly excluding his two times captor, and leaves the scene.
==="The Promening"===
In The Promening, Thad is seen dancing and doing one-handed push-ups in the prom, and would try to impress his teacher with his dance moves, albeit failing to do so. When V appeared at the prom, Thad is seen frightened (likely recognizing her as one of the Disassembly Drones who tried to kill him), but later applauded her after Lizzy told him and the other Worker Drones to, though in a significantly more reluctant manner than the others.
Uzi and N then appeared, and when Doll used AbsoluteSolver to trap V, Thad was thrown away alongside several other Worker Drones. After the doors were unlocked, Thad left the prom off-screen.
==="Cabin Fever"===
After the events of the prom, Thad's class goes on a "school trip" to Camp 98.7. When they get off the school bus, he helps Lizzy off before leaving himself. Once all the students are off the bus, N and V take charge of the class (the whole trip being a front for Uzi's investigation and their teacher not caring enough to stop them), and because of their previous encounters with both of them, Thad joins Lizzy at N and V's side, respectively. Only after they join the two Disassembly Drones and they are reminded of Uzi's presence, they follow N and V.
Thad is not seen for the rest of the "school trip", but he somehow manages to survive the carnage and is back on the school bus when what remains of the class rides back to the colony.
=== "Mass Destruction" ===
Thad and Lizzy leave the colony together, as Lizzy tells Thad she has something to show him. When Thad asks Lizzy if her "secret friend" would like to know about football, the area suddenly loses gravity before returning to normal. Then, a ship lands nearby, Lizzy claiming that this was the reason she brought him out here. Lizzy and Thad are prepared to attack, but the spire explodes and the ship ejects. 
When they approach the ship, Khan arrives and the area loses gravity once again. J exits the ship, and attempts to contact Tessa, but she gets hit by the bus from Cabin Fever, causing her to lose her keys to the ship. Angered, she points her gun at the bus, and demands to know who the drivers were. Instead, she sees Lizzy and Thad posing ominously in the fog, Thad holding a metal pipe and Lizzy the railgun, whilst Khan is lying smugly on the rooftop of the bus. When J notices the railgun light up, her visor displays a warning sign with the words "PRIOR HAZARD", a throwback to her first death by Uzi in the first episode.
== Gallery ==
==Trivia==
*Uzi once referred to him as a "conventionally attractive male", implying that despite his popularity, there isn't much to like about him.
*Thad is one of the few Worker Drones who has made friends with a Disassembly Drone, the other two being Uzi and Lizzy.
*He appears to be a stereotypical "jock" character at first. He also has a friend, whose name is Chad, referencing a “chad" stereotype, though he does state that Chad has so-called “toxic masculinity". Although he looks like a stereotypical jock, he seems to be the opposite most the time, as compared to his classmates, he is kind and trustful towards Uzi and even goes out of the safety of the bunker just to return Uzi's railgun.
*He is the only known male Worker Drone to have hair.
*Thad was originally planned to have a more prominent role in the series, but his importance decreased over time, likely due to a re-write.
*Thad appeared in every episode until Home, since the majority of the episode takes place inside a memory that he was not present for.
**He also wasn't featured in Dead End, which is the second episode he hasn't been in.
*During GlitchX, when asked where Thad went, Liam Vickers jokingly responded with "He was too powerful." He then went on to explain that Thad became too busy with school and sports to make a reappearance in future episodes.
**This was in fact, a lie, as Thad made a major appearance in Mass Destruction.
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