He 1) turned everyone in their family into monsters, 2) killed probably everyone else she ever knew 3) destroyed their homeland 4) tormented her lover 5) became an evil dictator type of villain bend on world domination

... Why would she thank him? For killing and wrecking destruction in her name? If you did this to revive *me*, I might kill you as "thanks". The man she could recognise as her father died a long time ago.