List of The Umbrella Academy characters
He received the Nobel Prize for his work in the cerebral advancement of the chimpanzee and founded the Umbrella Academy, a group of adopted super-powered children.
In the sixth episode, he meets with his children at a tropical bar as they ask them for help in stopping the apocalypse and, while taunting them, gives Five advice on controlling his powers (which he uses to reverse time in the season finale).
He is also significantly different from his original counterpart, having been sedated for years by his children, following a disagreement in 2014 with an alternate Pogo which led to his assistant leaving and bestowing the pills to the Sparrows.
Following the expansion of the Kugelblitz, Reginald proposes to the Umbrellas and Sparrows an idea to head to Hotel Oblivion, recounting a mythic tale that suggests seven bells and a sigil that will allow someone to rewrite the universe.
When the Umbrellas and Sparrows vote to remain in the original universe and await the apocalypse, Reginald kills Luther and uses the opportunity to take everyone to Oblivion to complete his mission.
It is also revealed that, despite seemingly having no reason to do so, he did in fact send Luther to the moon for a purpose: to guard Reginald’s deceased wife who has been conserved in a cryogenic chamber in space.
While Luther overeats in the second season, the television adaptation creators decided to avoid the obesity plot after a similar transformation occurred to Thor in Avengers: Endgame.
In his teenage years, he was the bassist in the punk rock band the Prime-8s alongside drummer Body (Inspector Lupo's assistant), and guitarist and lead vocalist Vanya Hargreeves / Number Seven (his adoptive sister), whom he has romantic feelings for.
After The Handler is gunned down by a Swedish assassin, he allows Lila to take the time-traveling briefcase and escape, leaving behind a bracelet the two made at the mental hospital.
This includes protecting him in a drugstore following a fight with The Sparrows, aiding him in hiding a dead Klaus' body (although the latter comes back to life shortly afterwards), and heading into Hotel Oblivion with Lila to find him, losing two fingers in the process.
The first season shows her returning from her career as an actress and struggling to connect with her daughter; she often tends to cope in unhealthy ways such as smoking and taking it out on her siblings such as Viktor.
In the second season, she lands in Dallas in the year 1961; after being chased and harassed by several white men, she seeks shelter in a black hair salon run by Odessa.
She is given a job there and spends two years in Texas; during that time, she becomes a civil rights activist, regains her voice, and marries a man named Raymond Chestnut.
When the threat of the apocalypse arises once more, she inquires of the possibility to reunite with her daughter and, after having to use her ability in front of Ray following a sit-in protest, discloses her powers to him.
After returning to the present in the comics, Klaus abandoned his family and began working with the Mothers of Agony, a local satanic biker gang who gave him a variety of drugs and utilized his power to speak with the dead to con wealthy buyers.
It is also implied the Hotel Oblivion was not just made to be a supervillain prison, but a trap designed by Hargreeves to contain the beast, with the villains inside meant to be used as bait.
CBR referred to Ben as a "Jiminy Cricket" type of character as he "reminds Klaus of his moral responsibilities even if the troubled Number Four refuses to listen".
[33] He is initially hesitant to team up with the Umbrella Academy, though he later warms up to the idea after making a deal with Reginald to regain his Number One spot following Marcus' disappearance.
Throughout the season, he is very closed off and hates the idea of the Sparrows not saving the world, even calling Sloane out when she decides to marry Luther and accept her fate in the apocalypse.
Vanya Hargreeves—later Viktor Hargreeves in the television adaptation[a]—is the seventh member of the Umbrella Academy; they are also known as Number Seven or by their superhero alter ego The White Violin.
She is capable of releasing destructive waves of force using her violin that can be strong enough to cut someone's throat or destroy an entire building with a single note.
During the Dallas comics storyline, Vanya is shown in the care of her siblings in the bunker beneath the mansion's ruins, partially amnesic and using a wheelchair.
[36][35] CBR highlighted that comics "Dallas didn't dive deep into Vanya apart from her and Mother trying to fix her memory after her attack as the White Violin" while the second season's "entire LGBT relationship and arc of xenophobia is new, as well as [Viktor] being a bomb the FBI triggers".
Eventually, Mother takes Vanya from the bunker in secret, revealing that there was more to the academy than Hargreeves realized, and introducing her to another team of superpowered siblings seemingly under her leadership.
[3] Alan Sepinwall, in a review for Rolling Stone, wrote that "there probably was an operatic and/or science-fiction route the series could have taken to this moment, but it would have required a far more delicate touch than Umbrella Academy typically possesses.
D'Addario commented that "at a time when an ongoing backlash against the rights of trans people simply to exist is rolling across this country, a show depicting the coming-out process as a declaration of self that is possible and that can be met with kindness feels like a worthy thing to put out into the world, if given the opportunity.
[40] The Conductor is a villain in The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite who relentlessly pursued Vanya Hargreeves in the hopes of recruiting her to his orchestra for the purpose of ending the world with a song he had written.
However, shortly after this, her brother Klaus managed to utilize his telekinesis to support the largest piece of the moon, preventing numerous deaths and averting the future visited by Number Five.
To that end, they managed to capture his brother, The Séance, torturing and eventually killing him, as well as acquiring Sir Hargreeves' secret stockpile of nuclear weapons.
He eventually manages to break in with the help of Hotel escapee Obscuro, only to find his father dead, with his talking atomic robot head, Medusa still active.
