As funny as that image is, no, animals can’t have powers. 
It’s… something about humanity specifically, and we don’t know what yet.
…That’s not to say animals don’t have more developed senses, though. They seem to know something that we don’t.
Most animals seem to detest Kratis, for example. They either run away from him, or they are uncharacteristically aggressive. There has to be a reason for that, I imagine.
As long as there are no damned superpowered hamsters, I’ll be just fine. That was horrifying enough to watch
Maybe they’re into Ignis, too. That seems to do it well enough for posters.
But not to the Blitz Queen.
This does not sound like the Blitz Queen at all. If this was in character for the Queen, the King (who has the best insight into what the Queen would want) would’ve done it on her behalf without hesitation, because “and now I’m going to turn this entire place into something that makes Chernobyl look like paradise” sounds EXACTLY like how he would react to something that would even have a chance of angering the Queen.
The King grew up in a nation that was probably already destroyed. Judging from the hints he’s been alive for a very long time. For someone like the Queen who died when the Roman Empire was in recovery, an Emperor who was crushing the land-lords and aristocracy, and ensuring the barbarians feared them again it’d be a shock to learn that it collapsed to a people she didn’t know.
Then the hits keep coming and coming and coming.
Imagine you were her and you saw modern Greece for one.
I mean, you seem to think the Queen cared about Rome, but we have no indication of this. Presumably, if she did then she wouldn’t have ruled Crete as an isolationist country, she’d have ruled it as an ally of Rome.
From everything we know, the only national allegiance the Blitz Queen had was to Crete.
She hated Phokas and Emperors like him but she respected Basil II. He hated the landlords and aristocrats even more than she did for one.
I mean, apparently the King actually liked Bolívar, but Spain is a country that still exists so it’s clear he wasn’t going out of his way to do anything for Bolívia, and HE is the trigger-happy one.
Maybe, but I’m pretty sure she doesn’t care, if for no other reason on account of, y’know, all the slavery and imperialism. And also because she left it instead of helping it conquer the world.
I think the implication here is that she’s going to hit him all the way to Istanbul for letting her birth-country die.
If she really super cared about slavery she would have ended it. Her objection was more focused on the fact that the Byzantine Army lost its head and started to massacre innocents. Don’t conflate her objection to massacring the innocents with being against Byzantine imperialism.
After all, Basil II blinded and de-limbed Bulgarian soldiers in her lifetime and conquered the Tsardom of Bulgaria in its entirety and she didn’t raise a hand.
Well, to be entirely fair, that part of the Bulgarian conflict happened after she was already dead.
That aside, there’s both Doylist and Watsonian reasons as to why the King didn’t flatten most of the known world for their ‘excesses’.
One could also argue that if the situations were reversed, and it was the Queen who had been broken, she might not have done much more to help the world at large than the King has (so, like, helping Bolivar march through the Eastern Ranges, helping the Incas set themselves up more favorably, etc).
Well, she DID bisect that dude that thought that going “we should implement slavery to boost the economy” was a good idea. That’s pretty anti-slavery to me. It’s certainly more anti-slavery than, well, pretty much anyone in the real world.
I don’t see how this follows, even if it is true. It’s not like that dude was going to enslave him NOW. The King is slavery-proof in the only way that truly makes somebody slavery-proof: the ability to turn living people into corpses at will. I’m not sure that dude would have survived long enough to be able to learn to speak if his survival instinct didn’t immediately nix the idea of “what if we put shackles on this dude who just nonchalantly killed 40,000 armed and trained soldiers?”
Perhaps her husband was enslaved before he found his powers.
This tidbit does not mean the King was enslaved, but:
The King’s very first kill as a child were slavers.
Well, knowing the child!King…
I’m not so sure.
You know, if I really wanted to be a vindictive dick, I’d make that Texas town that the King destroyed during the ACW be in Gillespie County. 
I’m afraid my general knowledge doesn’t extend this far, and therefore request enlightenment.
Ah, Gillespie County is where Lyndon B. Johnson was born.
Lyndon B. Johnson was also the, uh, American President that intervened in the Dominican Civil War, a conflict that kicked off after a military junta deposed our first democratically elected president.
…Of course, that president was a left-wing social democrat so, you know, three guesses on who got the American support. The Civil War ended up returning the second-in-command of our previous dictator to power.
The American intervention failed in the AToH universe, as I think I’ve mentioned before in this thread. It’s what Susanne references here:
“Well, depending on what’s in this floor, at least,” Susanne replies, before snapping her fingers and being covered in some sort of blue hue. “But she’s backed up by a pretty good one. Ballsy of you to bring her along, Garcia,” she continues, before tilting her head to the left. “How many of yours did her grandfather kill, Gloria?”
“1,576,” Gloria replies from somewhere that’s decidedly not behind you, before a ‘clack’ sound rings out. “But one, she’s on our side, and two, we have bigger worries.”
The Dominican heroine is descended from one of the leaders of the DCW.
Yay, learning. Thanks.