The Umbrella Academy, in better times (???).
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Towards the end of The umbrella academyIn the first season, he’s our 58-year-old favorite time traveler trapped in the body of a 13-year-old boy, Five, who tells his superpowers brothers, who, at the time, are trying to understand the impending apocalypse. – “everything about us is crazy”. Man (boy … man-boy?) Is not wrong. The Netflix comic adaptation begins by informing us that the Hargreeves boys represent seven of the 43 babies, all born at the exact same time in October 1989, to 43 women who were definitely not pregnant before. And it gets wilder from there. The umbrella academy you are playing with a completely different threshold for normality.
This, of course, means a lot of the hype is happening within its first ten episodes, all leading to the aforementioned apocalypse and a cliffhanger that left us asking all the questions. So if you’re a little confused about where (and when) we dropped the seven Hargreeves brothers, don’t worry. Below, find a quick review of what happened in the first season, before diving into whatever craziness the second season will surely have to offer when the new episodes premiere on July 31.
Five may try to act like the angry grumpy old man because he spent 45 years into the future only to return to his present in his 13-year-old body, but this guy is a soft-hearted. Okay, so maybe he isn’t a soft but he definitely cares about his family even though he would tell you otherwise. Come back to save them from dying in the apocalypse! Although he tries as hard as he does the hardest, Five can’t stop the apocalypse from happening. (More on that shit below!) However, you can make one last effort to keep your family alive. Just as humanity is about to be erased from existence, he realizes that he could use his powers to travel back in time to all the Hargreeves there. You’ve never done it before and you have no idea what’s going to happen, but I hope it takes you back in time and you can solve this whole apocalypse situation. The final scene of the season is that of the brothers holding hands (¡¡¡¡¡¡¡!!!) and they go together into the unknown. And then the Earth is swallowed. Alone – ahem – hour will say if Five saved his family in the end.
Yes, it was the shy, often rejected number seven who blew up the moon and completely annihilated the earth. In the end, Vanya was anything but ordinary. Who could have guessed such a thing? Well, probably Reginald Hargreeves, for example. As a result, Reggie knew that Vanya could convert sound waves into deadly energy ALL THE TIME, but thought that his powers were too uncontrollable and too dangerous, so he repressed them through the double hit of medications and used Allison to ” rumored “Vanya believing that she was ordinary as a child. The other person who could have guessed that Vanya could harness enough power to destroy the world is Leonard Peabody, also known as Harold Jenkins, who found Reginald’s journal with all the details about his most powerful son and manipulated Vanya into rediscovering it. their powers and unleash them. Vanya ends up killing Leonard / Harold and honestly goodbye sir.
When the rest of the Hargreeves find out that Vanya has powers, they lock her up in the UA’s padded room, but find out if our fully functioning white violin doesn’t destroy that place. And then she heads to her orchestral performance, as one does. When she starts using her powers at the concert, her siblings try to take her down, but she uses her energy to start sucking their life out. Sibling rivalries, right? Allison, who wants to show mercy to her sister, distracts her and saves the men from Hargreeves. Unfortunately, all that energy sends a violent explosion directly to the moon, destroying it, and its fragments rush to earth. There is no way to stop it. Then Vanya will have to give many explanations when he regains consciousness!
That explanation will have to include why Vanya used her powers to cut Allison’s throat. Did I mention that she opened Allison’s throat? Allison goes to warn her sister that Leonard Peabody is not who she says she is, finds her using her powers and finally explains why her father asked her to “ruminate” on Vanya when they were children. When Vanya realizes that Allison played a role in the cover-up, she really gets mad and, before Allison can use her powers to stop her, she silences her sister with a cut to the throat. Fortunately, Allison’s brothers find her before she bleeds to death, and save her, but she cannot speak. Obviously, this is bad, because she cannot use her powers. It is also bad because she knows the end of the world is coming and all she wants to do is talk to her daughter Claire. Although it ends up being a good thing for us, the audience, because it means we have that emotionally devastating scene where Allison has Luther call Claire to tell her how much he loves and misses her, and we know that everything Luther says is actually her Profession of love for Allison, and she is crying, and they are pushed together in this little phone booth where there is no escape from their feelings, no matter how complex they are. Anyway, I’m not crying just thinking about that scene or anything.
Speaking of some changes regarding powers, we should talk about Klaus. Precious Klaus! He has faced a devastating arc in which, after being kidnapped by Cha Cha and Hazel, he inadvertently goes back in time to the Vietnam War, where he serves for almost a year, falls in love with fellow soldier Dave, and then has to watch Dave die on the battlefield He returns to find his family in disarray (what’s new?) and has to stop Luther from following the path of alcohol, drugs and delusions. This giant man Bush in raves. In this delusion, Klaus hits his head and ends up in the afterlife, where he meets God, a brave young woman who hates him, and shaves off his father. Reginald informs his son of two main elements: first, that he committed suicide, knowing that he would rejoin the UA and, second, that Klaus has not yet reached the full potential of his powers. That “full potential” ends up being that he can manifest Ghost Ben (honestly, Ghost Ben for everything) in the physical world. This is useful when the AU is fighting the Commission in the theater because the Commission wants to prevent them from arresting Vanya from causing the apocalypse (what happens, happens and timeline antics, etc.). Klaus makes Ben appear in the real world and use his monster tentacles to stop the Commission. Finally, Ben returns to help his family. It is extremely amazing.
Yes, that Luther I mentioned earlier as the one entering the delusional scene is Luther himself, who has always been bound by his father and the Umbrella Academy mission. Luther was already feeling depressed about himself since his father turned him into an ape to save his life after a solo mission went wrong and because he is perpetually in love with his adoptive sister Allison, but things really start to fall apart once that Luther learns that The “mission” that his father sent him to investigate on the moon for four years was completely invented and all for nothing. With his trust in his father and his shattered worldview, he becomes a true bender: the big guy even loses his virginity! – but finally he joins his brothers to try to stop the apocalypse. He may have found his new mission, but the guy still seems a bit aimless. One is the loneliest number and all that.
Sure, all the kids at Hargreeves are emotionally stunted, but Diego, our knife-wielding number two, is surely the most emotionally closed. After all, he’s a haunting vigilante who says, “I don’t play by the rules and I don’t need anyone’s help.” And then there is Detective Eudora Patch. They are formerly from the police academy, and Patch tolerates Diego interfering in his investigations, but it is obvious that the two are very excited. One of the most heartbreaking scenes of the season is that Diego finds Patch murdered on the floor of Hazel and Cha Cha’s motel room. He should have been there with her. This is your fault. A person will never hear David Gray’s songs again, and that’s just a fact. The rest of the season finds Diego seeking revenge for the two assassins who traveled in the time they did this to their great love, but it is Five who remind Diego that Patch would not want him to murder for her, she had a good heart . And so, when Diego finally meets Cha Cha face to face in the theater, he walks away. This is how you can truly honor Patch’s memory. And then he joins his family. a teamWho would have imagined it! – To try to save the planet. He is no longer alone, and he is seeking much more than he. Aren’t you so proud of him?
From the get-go, we’ve known that Reginald was an eccentric billionaire genius who emotionally abused his seven foster children, but at the end of the season we get a few more details on the guy, which really only creates more questions. Thanks to Klaus and his time in the afterlife, we know that Reginald knew that the apocalypse was imminent. How? We also have a weird scene with him and a dying woman where he seems to leave his own planet only to get to Earth in the 19th century and start his Umbrella company. “The world needs you,” the dying woman says to Reginald before leaving. Everything is very mysterious!
Could it be true? Donut lover, emo, time travel killer Hazel has a happy ending? Sure, he betrays his partner Cha Cha and leaves her for dead, but he wanted a simple but happy life with the owner of the Agnes donut shop, and getting rid of Cha Cha was the only way to do it. Oh, too, she had to shoot The Handler in the head and grab a briefcase so that she and Agnes could escape to a different moment, which it seems they do, moments before the apocalypse. Cha Cha survives Hazel’s betrayal and, always the company woman, continues to chase Five and the rest of the UA, but ultimately fails her mission and apparently dies in all that fire and brimstone.
Pogo is dead and yes he kept a lot of secrets for Reginald Hargreeves that caused a lot of pain but I don’t care I’m abandoned. Killed by Vanya in his blaze of “Barracuda” glory outside the Umbrella Academy house, Pogo protected the Hargreeves children to the end, distracting Vanya to give them enough time to escape. Say it’s not like that, Pogo! Okay, I’ll see you outside.
