Umbrella Academy

We've got good news and bad news about season 4 of the popular Netflix sci-fi series. Here's everything we know about the next chapter.

Because Volume 4: The Sparrow Academy has yet to release in print, any speculation over how its contents might influence season 4 is moot. But it’s not unreasonable to suspect season 4 wouldn’t arrive until 2023, given the numerous cast members participating and the significant visual effects involved. well, a Netflix, and cancels the series before it’s had the chance to resolve its arc. Here’s everything we know about season 4 of The Umbrella Academy. But this new doomsday isn’t just the end of the world; it’s the collapse of the entire universe, courtesy of a “Kügelblitz” initiated by the Umbrella Academy’s impossible presence in an alternate dimension. After returning from 1960s Dallas to the present day only to find their erstwhile father championing a new troupe of super-heroic cadets, the Umbrella Academy team join forces—sort of—with this so-called Sparrow Academy in an attempt to prevent another doomsday.

Elliot Page's "Umbrella Academy" character Vanya transitioned to trans man Viktor in Season 3 parallel to the actor after he came out in 2020.

To me, it would be so special for us to all be able to connect and talk about how similar we all are." The actor added: "I feel like it's so unfortunate because we're all on the same team here, you know? I feel a way that I really never thought possible for a long, long time," Page said. The crew also brought trans author and journalist Thomas Page McBee on set where he "helped out" with bringing Viktor's story to fruition. "You don’t even notice the box that you’re in until someone comes along and lets you out," Sissy says. "But last time I checked, you don’t speak for this family."

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However reluctantly, Diego seems to be finding some purpose in being a dad to Stan (whose ability to throw knives so well probably doesn’t hurt). And Luther finds hope in his ongoing bond with Sloane, who — barring the possibility of a long-con honeypot scheme — seems to adore him and his stories about visiting the moon as much as she dislikes being a Sparrow. When they kiss at the end of the episode, it feels like the start of something they both desperately need. Is there a future for the Umbrellas in this specifically Umbrella-less world? But after following that arc for much of the first season, the TV show has gone on to suggest a vastly more hopeful path — one in which Viktor finally gets to define his life on his own terms. And as the rest of the world finds out who he is, too, it’s nice to see a pop-cultural trans story that is not characterized by prejudice, tragedy, or both. At a diner with Viktor, Allison flashes back to the racist diner owner from 1963. It’s interesting that this wasn’t the show’s original plan for the character — season three’s scripts were already finished when Page released his statement, which necessitated some rewrites — because, in many ways, it feels like Umbrella Academy has always been building up to this.

The Umbrella Academy returns to Netflix for season 3, and introduces the Sparrow Academy. But what super powers do all of the Hargreeves siblings have?

Much like Luther, Marcus is a literal force to be reckoned with, and his muscles do most of the talking. In terms of super powers, Sloane is able to control gravity, meaning that she's able to levitate and fly, and allow others to do so. Perhaps the most surprising member of the Sparrow Academy is Christopher, a telekinetic, psykronium cube that can induce paralysis, fear, existential dread, and freezing temperatures in any environment. Introduced in season 2, Lila Pitts is one of the 43 children born with superpowers in 1989. Also known as The Rumor, Allison Hargreeves can literally control people with the sound of her voice. Klaus is able to communicate with the dead as a medium, and he can also summon ghosts at his behest. In season 2, Viktor even resurrected Harlan, a drowned boy and the son of his girlfriend, by transferring some of his power to the boy. As a Sparrow, Ben's tentacle powers remain the same, but his changed personality means he's more competitive and negative, making him more of danger to those around him. Number Six played an important role in season 2, and maintained his ability to summon Eldritch Tentacles from a portal in his abdomen, albeit as a ghost. Also known as the White Violin in the originating comic book, Viktor is able to harness and manipulate sound and energy, redistributing it in a number of possible ways. And when it comes to Viktor's powers, it all starts with the manipulation of sound. The Sparrows appear to be much more organized than their Umbrella counterparts, and Reginald seems to believe that the group is far superior in every way.

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The sigil features seven stars, and Reginald instructs seven of the Hargreeves children to stand on the markers. After all, Klaus suggests earlier in the episode that heaven looks different for everyone, and Allison has made it clear that her life is nothing without Claire and Ray. Only time will tell what has really happened to Allison, though, as anything can happen in The Umbrella Academy. Then her husband from the 1960s, Ray, appears in the doorway and says, "It's where you were always meant to be." Justifying the fact that "he's killing them," Reginald tells Allison, "Everything in life has a price." A red button appears on the screen, and despite her family begging her not to, Allison presses it. Seeing his anatomy, it's revealed that Reginald isn't human (something viewers already knew), and he falls to the floor dead. Luther tries to convince Klaus to return to save the rest of their family. Ghost Luther berates his father for leaving him on the moon for so long, and then killing him. In this timeline, Reginald adopted a completely different group of children, with Ben being the only member of both groups. Here's what happened in The Umbrella Academy's season 3 finale. Much of the drama takes place inside Hotel Obsidian, where the original Hargreeves siblings stay after finding themselves in a timeline in which they don't exist. Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy includes a plethora of WTF moments, but the finale really takes the cake.

Season 3 of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy ends on a massive cliffhanger. Here's what happened—and what it means for the Hargreeves kids.

“I left you to guard the most precious thing in the universe.” But Reg never tells him what—or, rather, who—that was. As a boy, I heard the legend of the seven bells.” If the bells are rung, “all will be restored just as it was.” Basically, “whoever or whatever” made the universe left a safeguard in place—a literal reset button—should the universe become a threat to itself. But if you’d rather not spend the next several hours tapping the rewind button, here’s a quick rundown of what seems to have just happened. Allison presses her palm to the button, and the universe powers down like a 1970s-era television set. Allison is the only one left sitting on the bench, and she’s forced to watch as this power—whatever it is—seems to eat her siblings alive, sucking up their insides and turning their skin dull and grey. We don’t know much about these guardians except that the “creator of the universe” put them in place to protect the reset button from those with nefarious intentions. Their tormenter is dead, but the kids are still in agony, and a Big Red Button has popped up on Reg’s screen. Instead, he calls the remaining family together to hunt for a “sigil,” one that will unlock the mythical “seven bells” that can reset the universe. Reg himself built the Hotel Obsidian around a portal that transports visitors to “the other side,” where it would seem the aforementioned seven bells reside. After finally believing he’d developed a trusting relationship with his abusive father, Klaus is devastated by Reg’s betrayal and impales himself on the horn of a taxidermic white buffalo in the Hotel Obsidian, ostensibly so as to preserve his physical form and return to life, pronto. After all, why return to the family that’s repeatedly rebuffed him, or the father who called him “more trouble than you’re worth”? But Luther appeals to Klaus’s intense need for validation—“I believe in you, brother”—and Klaus agrees to try reincarnating them, despite Luther’s motivational skills lacking Braveheart-level finesse. Episode 10 opens shortly after Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) plunges his tentacle-sword-arm into Luther’s (Tom Hopper) chest, then whips around and abandons Klaus (Robert Sheehan) to the devouring Kügelblitz, a black hole-like entity created by the impossibility of the Umbrella Academy’s existence in a reality where their mothers were killed before they were born.

Elliot Page said the showrunner of 'Umbrella Academy' was 'excited' to make his character, Viktor Hargreeves, trans after he came out in real life.

“That’s obviously a big component and part of my life and a beautiful thing to experience now,” Page said. [Transitioning has] improved my life drastically, and I hope maybe people who do have an issue with me could maybe try and hear that or embrace that on some level.” Since issuing a powerful statement about their transition in December 2020, Page has been showered with love and support from friends and colleagues, as well as the larger trans community. "[McBee’s] book and his work in general are so much about masculinity and what it means and exploring that,” Page said. Additionally, the show tapped journalist and author Thomas Page McBee — the first trans man to box at New York City’s Madison Square Garden — to consult on Viktor’s character arc. “It’s so unfortunate because it’s like, we’re all on the same team here.

The Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page has credited his transition for "drastically" improving his life.

It's improved my life drastically, and I hope that people who do have an issue with me could try and hear that and embrace that on some level." "As a person, as a friend, and in relationships... The actor came out as transgender in December 2020, and in an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday (June 21), he discussed his coming out journey and the impact it's had on his life ever since.

Elliot Page Says 'Umbrella Academy' Showrunner Steve Blackman Was Excited About Incorporating The Actor's Transition Into The Show.

“What I want to focus on right now, and [it] has been so extraordinary,” Page told the Late Night host, “is the degree of joy that I feel. Thomas came on board and helped out and I feel proud of it and excited for people to see it.” Page told Meyers that they brought on “an incredible writer, journalist, author Thomas Page McBee, who I met doing a miniseries called Tales of the City. He wrote an extraordinary book called Amateur, which I highly recommend everybody to read.

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The third season of the superhero show showcases Vanya Hargreeves transitioning into Viktor in a touching way, with the character having to talk with his family about the transition. The actor also shared some thoughts on his life since making the transition. He said: "I feel like it’s one of those things where it’s so unfortunate, because it’s like, we’re all on the same team here, you know?

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"Steve Blackman, the showrunner of Umbrella, is just incredible and such a wonderful person. Page came out as transgender in December 2020. In March 2022, he announced his character in The Umbrella Academy would also transition in Season 3, changing his name to Viktor Hargreeves and going by he/him/his pronouns.

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If he’s to play a role in season 4—and we can expect he will—it will not be as the Ben we recognize from seasons 1 and 2. Our only clue that this could be OG Ben? When he glances up, he looks out the window and gives a slight, sweet smile, something we can safely assume Sparrow Ben would never do. (With Number One out of the way, Sparrow Ben can assume a position as leader. Sparrow Ben slowly embracing his capacity for human emotion did nothing to lessen the delight of what came next. After the Hargreeves kids teleported back from 1960s Dallas to the present day in the season 2 finale, they entered Umbrella Academy HQ only to discover another troupe of super-heroic youngsters living there: the Sparrow Academy. And, lo and behold, who’s amongst them? At the end of 2020’s season 2, audiences thought we’d said goodbye to the original, beloved version of Ben, who existed in much of TUA’s sophomore chapter as a ghost, given his brother Klaus’s (Robert Sheehan) limited capacity to commune with the dead.

Elliot Page is “proud” and “excited” that their real-life gender transition will be represented through their “Umbrella Academy” character.

Page said “Umbrella Academy” showrunner Steve Blackman was “really excited” to incorporate trans identity into the show. “That’s obviously a big component and part of my life and a beautiful thing to experience now,” they said. “So Thomas came on board and helped out, and I feel proud of it and excited for people to see.”

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Of all the superhero franchises Netflix has attempted to launch, “The Umbrella Academy” is easily its biggest hit. Viktor Hargreeves’ coming out is one of the best-handled storylines of the season, and provides a masterful “how to” guide in handling a transitioning family member. It may be an accident of fate that “The Umbrella Academy’s” best plotline came from something the universe threw at it. Since its first season, “The Umbrella Academy” has thrived on chaotic storylines, throwing around time traveling tales and multiverses like ping pong balls, and delighting in whichever way they landed. Most only lasted a season (“ Jupiter’s Legacy,” anyone?) or have flown under the radar, like “ Locke & Key.” It is also one of the few (if not the only) of Netflix’s superhero franchise legitimately able to challenge Marvel’s supremacy, at least more than certain DC films can claim. Three seasons in, the series is trying to do too much, and some of the show’s best moments are the ones it never saw coming.

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We meet Ben’s mother immediately before her immaculate conception on a similar subway in Korea. But we also probably shouldn’t sleep on the fact that the version of Ben we see on the train looks pretty different from the Sparrow version we spent Season 3 with. But, like all things in The Umbrella Academy, there’s a lot more to this moment than meets the eye. Why is Viktor so ready to forgive his sister for murdering a man who’s only crime was getting saved by the Umbrella Academy as a child? But why is everyone so willing to roll with the unforgivable things that she did in her grief? It’s just strange that Viktor and Luther are so willing to let bygones be bygones after two pretty unforgivable actions from their sister (and in one case, ex). Because of his connection to Viktor and the Umbrella Academy, it targeted all of their mothers before the Umbrellas could be born. Harlan (the young boy that Viktor saved in Season 2, accidentally giving him a piece of his powers, played by Callum Keith Rennie) returns this season much older and much more broken than we remember him. Most of the Sparrow Academy met pretty untimely ends (their Number One played by Justin Cornwell was done dirty, if you ask me) in Season 3. Season 3 put Allison and Viktor through the ringer. The Sparrow’s version of Ben, however, remains alive and well with the rest of his dysfunctional family. Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) snaps out of her loss-induced rage long enough to save her siblings, and Viktor (Elliot Page) decides not to wipe his sister out in favor of trusting her and hopefully repairing their incredibly damaged relationship. Giving the Hargreeves children the opportunity to explore and reflect on their own emotions and intentions rather than sniping at each other constantly gives the audience the opportunity to empathize more than they may have in the past.

Lester Pocket in Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy is Harlan, a young boy in Season 2. Vanya saved Harlan from drowning, and he then grew up to find Viktor ...

Viktor appears to remove Harlan’s powers at the end of Season 2, but as we find out in Season 3, that isn’t the case. When Viktor went back in time to the 1960’s, he met Sissy, a housewife and mother of Harlan. When Harlan drowns in a lake, Viktor saves him by transferring some of his power to Harlan. By the end of the season, though, it’s clear Harlan can’t contain his power the same way Viktor can. In fact, Hargreeves chose a whole new set of babies to raise instead of The Umbrella Academy since they bothered him so much when they met him in the 60s.

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But as all these interpersonal dramas play out, it’s hard not to revisit a question that the Umbrellas themselves periodically pose: Does any of this really matter in the face of the apocalypse? • On the strength of his performance as a “sexy dad,” Lila and Diego hook up again. After some back-and-forth, Viktor goes from threatening Harlan to understanding him, mixed in with a fair amount of guilt, and decides to renege on his promise to his family and smuggle Harlan away before the Sparrows can get their hands on him. After a brief fight, Viktor confronts Harlan over the deaths of their mothers — an intriguing paradox in itself — and learns that Harlan killed them accidentally, unleashing the powers he acquired from Viktor in a failed attempt to connect with others like him. This is a genuinely startling violation of consent, and while she ultimately orders him to stop after a lengthy kiss, it’s clear things could have gone much, much further if she had willed it. But this odd little subplot is a useful microcosm for one of my biggest recurring frustrations with this series: Far too often, it feels as though even matters of life and death have no actual stakes.

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Stan's around for the rest of the season, as Diego and some of the other Umbrellas look after him while trying to solve another apocalypse. He does get to help out Diego when the two run into some trouble. He also said that he's logged over 80 fights and hopes to go pro when he turns eighteen. He added that he got the role after only one audition, saying "I was the only kid pronouncing the drug names right." Javon "Wanna" Walton joined The Umbrella Academy in a secret role earlier this year, soon after his fan-favorite character Ashtray met a tragic fate in Euphoria's season 2 finale. Based on the comic book series by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, the show follows a dysfunctional family of heroes as they stop the end of the world (after usually bringing it about themselves) in a new setting every season.

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To depict time travel without showing a contradiction (and, therefore, an impossibility), most fictional accounts show that (1) is false; they prevent the time traveler from changing events. (1) is true because if he was facing his grandfather with a gun, he could (in that he has the physical ability to pull the trigger) kill him. It appears as if the time traveler can kill Grandfather, but perhaps the time traveler fails. How they’re able to do this without making time travel itself impossible ... well, that’s the paradox. If one of these events occurs, then the time traveler is prevented from doing the impossible: killing his Grandfather. If he’s prevented from doing the impossible, then there is no contradiction. Therefore: backwards time travel is impossible. Again, this book assumes that the time traveler can in fact kill his grandfather. The video shows a boy, Elmer, who invents a time machine in order to go back in time and kill his grandfather, ridding the family of his current wrath. And like both Russian Dolls and Loki, the series wants to change the timeline; it wants to go back in time to remake the future. Therefore: time travel must not allow this situation to be possible. (An actual paradox has no solution; that's why it is a paradox.) (See: Russian Doll and Loki). The Umbrella Academy, which spent Season 2 in the 1960s, returns with an even more ambitious use of time travel in Season 3.

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And I still suspect we’ll learn that Viktor is more powerful now that he has reabsorbed the energy he passed to Harlan back in 1963. • While in Ben’s room, Viktor spots a drawing labeled Jennifer — yet another reference to the mysterious Jennifer Incident that led to Ben’s death in the original timeline. This very painful break between Viktor and Allison — probably the Hargreeves siblings with the healthiest relationship, despite everything that has happened — is the kind of thing you can only earn after several seasons of character development, when it’s clear to the audience just how high the stakes are. But while it’s nice to have Umbrella Academy filling in these gaps in the plot, the scene that will stick with me is silent: a long take of Lila playing the drums, unleashing all her accumulated emotion after the events of season two. The episode begins with a Lila flashback, revealing that when the Commission offered to send her to any time and place, she chose West Berlin in 1989. Early on, the Umbrellas and Sparrows team up to take on the kugelblitz, winning what turns out to be a pyrrhic victory.

Prior to this, at the end of episode 9, Reginald kills Luther (Tom Hopper) in an attempt to bring the family together. Later, Reginald then stops Klaus (Robert ...

And for more on the Hargreeves, see our piece on The Umbrella Academy season 3 timeline explained. Marcus is killed by the Kugelblitz in episode 1 and Harlan kills Jayme and Alphonso at the Hotel Obsidian during the standoff in episode 3. Luther sets off to look for her at the end of episode 10. Check out our guide to the Umbrella Academy season 3 post-credits scene for more on the final moment of the series. Blaming his grandfather for all the wrongs in his life, the boy goes back in time to kill him. A mysterious ball of light and energy, it has the ability to suck people inside of it, killing them, and later sends out waves of power that kill anyone in their path. But what does this have to do with the Grandfather Paradox? Well, if the Hargreeves' mothers are dead, then they shouldn't exist in this timeline. Everyone is unsure of themselves and distrustful of each other in the wake of Luther and Klaus' deaths. Prior to this, at the end of episode 9, Reginald kills Luther (Tom Hopper) in an attempt to bring the family together. As she goes over to check on her daughter, Ray (Yusuf Gatewood), the man she was married to in 1963, appears in the doorway, dressed in present-day clothing. After confronting their father, Reginald Hargreeves, back in the '60s, he decides to adopt another set of superpowered children in 1989, so the siblings find they've got competition as they arrive back in 2019. The Umbrella Academy season 3 has arrived on Netflix, and the finale will have left many of us with more questions than answers.

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So that’s really what I’m focusing on and embracing the most.” Page describes transphobia as “unfortunate” because “whether you’re trans, gender nonconforming, cis, we all have these expectations and limits and constraints because of people’s obsession with the binary and how we’re all supposed to live our lives. The June 21 episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers welcomed Elliot Page to promote season three of The Umbrella Academy, out today on Netflix. The actor spoke about his character’s transition this season, which corresponds with his own. So to me it’d be so special for us to all be able to connect and talk about how similar we are in all of our journeys.”

The Hargreeves siblings faced the end of the world once again, but did they save it or just make things worse?

This time, to save the world, all it takes is for one of the siblings to hit a literal reset button. What a jam-packed season, with plenty of cliffhangers to propel us into the next. In a Tony Stark-like tower, marked by huge "H E" letters (or "H" and three horizontal lines floating parallel over one another), old Reg overlooks the city with the same ethereal woman revealed to be living on the moon at the same time Luther was. Luther desperately runs off to find his love Sloane, who could still potentially exist out in the reset world somewhere, just not as part of the Sparrow Academy. The rest of the siblings go their separate ways. Another Ben! This one looks super suave, wearing a trim suit and reading a book as he travels to Yeouido Station in Seoul. So in this reset universe, not one, but two Bens exist. She takes another step out of character by striking a deal with Reginald to do whatever it takes to bring Claire (and potentially Raymond) back. In the penultimate episode of season 3, we see that this alien possesses a sharp-as-a-blade arm, which he uses to stab Luther to death. This is part of a tactic he's used before to bring the siblings together. Only later does Lila reveal that Stanley isn't in fact his son, but her mate Trudy's (unfortunately, Stan ends up Kugelblitzed). She "borrowed" him to test Diego on whether he'd be up for the job of looking after his real son. This resulted in a Grandfather Paradox -- in this altered timeline, the siblings were never born. This black hole is the universe's response to a Grandfather Paradox created by Harlan, Sissy's superpowered son. Superhero life is always busy when it comes to the Hargreeves siblings.

Ben, Klaus, Allison, and Lila (Ritu Arya) want to try, while Viktor, Luther, Sloane, and Diego (David Castenada) are against. The vote comes down to Five (Aidan ...

The rest of the siblings and Ben wind up in the hotel’s garden, standing in front of a monument to Reginald. Five, who had lost his arm during the fight, has gotten it back. But even then, he could’ve just rung the bell and had everyone stand in the lobby, then had them all stand on the stars. He blames it on the monsters from the other side, called “Guardians,” since Luther dies in the White Buffalo Suite. And just like that, the rest of the group is ready to take on the end of the world. After that, Five realizes that the random star pattern on the tiles isn’t so random at all—it’s a sigil, which will trigger something that allows Reginald to restore the universe. Everything goes sideways fast when Reginald rings the bell to summon the Guardians. Suddenly, all the teams are fighting for their lives, and they’re winding up separated from each other as a result of mysterious portals. After the rest of the team has crossed over via the tunnel behind the picture, Reginald pushes Klaus out into the dissolving universe and slams the passage shut. Whatever happened, he’s back up and ready to go for the final push.) That deal only holds if everyone’s participating—as Reg says, “We need seven.” And seven they end up getting in the end, because Reginald kills Luther to motivate the team. There are also some “typical Umbrella Academy” moments, like when Allison ( Emmy Raver-Lampman) fights viciously with Viktor at the afterparty or when Reginald shows up and kind of wrecks the festive air. The vote comes down to Five (Aidan Gallagher), who, heeding the words of his past self, decides not to save the world. Aside from the wedding, it’s all about saving the world (again) in “Seven Bells” and “Oblivion.” Or…is it? There are a few moving moments, like when Luther asks Viktor ( Elliot Page) to be his best man, or when Klaus ( Robert Sheehan) starts to bond with the new Ben, having realized the guy is lonely and just wants Reginald to love him.

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So I was very much on Viktor’s side when he decides to be the bigger person and apologize for his role in everything that went wrong. Even Reginald Hargreeves shows up, albeit uninvited, and delivers a lovely toast to all his children: The ones he raised in this timeline and the ones he has accepted he raised in another one. Allison had every reason to be angry that Viktor lied to her — but in the end, she made an active and calculated choice to murder Harlan. The episode is structured around an event that promises a kind of defiant joy: the wedding of Luther and Sloane, who want to be formally bound together as they stare down the apocalypse. Or in other words: This is a hangout episode, designed mostly to give us a heavy dose of these characters before the plot inevitably overwhelms them in the one-two punch of the last two episodes. No one knows how to stop it (or, in Five’s case, if it should be stopped). Assuming we’re at the end of the line: How best to spend the time they have left?

An unusually conclusive Umbrella Academy season 3 finale delves into Reginald Hargreeves' motivations but does it get things back to "normal?"

In addition to that, this might be the show’s way of slowly turning the Sparrow Academy Ben into our Ben. This Ben smiles, meaning that either the Sparrow Academy Ben is learning to chill out or that this really is the Ben of old. And if that is true, that might mean that Five’s prophecy has finally come to pass and there might be extra versions of all the Umbrellas out there in the world. The real interesting angle to consider here is how much of the events of The Umbrella Academy did Reginald Hargreeves foresee? By killing himself prior to the beginning of the series, did Reginald know it would set forward a series of events that would find his children: blowing up the Earth, going to 1963 Dallas, returning to a Sparrow-ified universe, and finally accessing Oblivion? Or did the old alien just kill himself because he could no longer take the pain? Ultimately Klaus, Ben (Justin H. Min), Sloane, Viktor (Elliot Page), Lila (Ritu Arya), Diego (David Castañeda), and Five fulfill the role of the Seven Bells. Reginald tells Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) to hold back because he knows the experience will kill her and he promised that she could be reunited with her daughter. By standing on certain locations in Oblivion previously revealed by a map, the children’s powers will be accessed and consolidated to open up a sort of computer terminal that can “reset” reality. Part of the reason why Reggie believes in the concept of Oblivion is because of an ancient prophecy referring to “The Seven Bells.” In fact, there are all sorts of prophecies from around the world that refer to a need of seven something. Earlier this season, Klaus recently discovered that not only does he have the power to communicate with the dead but to return from the dead as well. Now the TV series seems to imply that he only ever needed seven in the first place. At the tail end of season 3’s penultimate episode, “Seven Bells,” Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) fatally stabs his “Number One” son Luther (Tom Hopper) in the chest with one of his sharp alien fingers. Reginald Hargreeves seemingly achieves one of his biggest goals and his “children” get the opportunity to start their lives over, albeit without the crutch of their powers. Season 2 then brought the Hargreeves children back to the “present” only to discovery that something had gone horribly wrong as “The Sparrow Academy” were unwelcome intruders in their own home.

Umbrella Academy, the Netflix series where imagination has no limits, is reminding viewers that identity is not a prison.

And I love that I am queer. “I love that I am trans. It's not just that there are LGBTQ+ characters like Klaus and Viktor – played by Elliott Page – but that the Umbrella Academy itself is a band of misfits who, for better or worse, have to seek family in one another as they grapple with issues ranging from their father's death to saving the world from impending apocalypse.

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"Just finished watching the entire season of [The] Umbrella Academy season 3 and I think I need time to process the ending... Another put, "Me trying to figure out what the ending of [The] Umbrella Academy season 3 means" and a third added, "LMAO WTF was that ending?? But there is one thing they're all a bit confused about: the ending.

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• Reginald’s holdings in the new future include real estate, a financial institution, and a really big tower. And I definitely don’t buy that she’d be anything but furious with Diego for patronizingly locking her up instead of letting her join the fight (even if she slaps him before she kisses him once she gets out). The idea of hallways and rooms that reconfigure themselves is unnerving, but Umbrella Academy doesn’t really take the idea of an infinite maze to its full potential, and it doesn’t turn out to be much of an obstacle. If you scan it and get a different result, let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. But the button is still there and active, and Viktor opts to stand down, trusting Allison that pushing it is the right move. The season two finale was a little confounding too, and the third season it teed up was probably the show’s strongest overall.

The Umbrella Academy season 3 ending opens up a new world and a lot of questions for Viktor Hargreeves and his siblings. Here's the questions we have for ...

But in the grand scheme of things, with the timeline once again reset? But in the park where they ended up in the new reality, Five’s arm is returned. “I originally just wrote the character to be dead, that was his function. The show may still answer it, especially since it’s never been particularly loyal to its source material and there’s already been a few clues strewn about the show, like Viktor noticing a Jennifer sketch in Ben’s room. It stands to reason (at least as much as anything else Umbrella Academy) that in this new world where Reginald commands much more capital, maybe he was able to save Alice in some way? whatever that machine was he had at the end of the season. He was, at least at one time, well-connected enough to run in the same circles as the shadowy group that ordered the hit on JFK. In the season 3 timeline, Pogo feared what he was capable of so much that he instructed the kids to dose him with some sort of pill every day. He was intensely interested in adopting the kids magically(?) born to 43 women on the 12th hour of October 1, 1989. As of the end of season 3, we also know it was vital to him to have seven children for… So what does all that mean in the grand scheme of the Umbrella Academy? That’s a complicated question, really. Even so, she at least has come out on the other side with not only Claire by her side but Ray, a choice that actress Emmy Raver-Lampman tells Polygon will probably haunt her: “I think there’s bound to be an immense amount of guilt that’s going to affect her at some point. In this new world Reginald is seemingly even more a captain of industry.

What is Reginald up to??? A recap of 'Seven Bells,' episode nine of season three of Netflix's 'The Umbrella Academy.'

It’s a heartwarming moment — until Reginald breaks their conciliatory hug by turning his hand into a spiked tentacle and killing Luther on the spot. (This “death” might have more impact if we hadn’t already seen Klaus die and come back like a dozen times a couple of episodes ago, but still: Pretty cold, Reginald.) By majority vote, the surviving children of Reginald Hargreeves (from two different timelines) have chosen the oblivion of an apocalyptic death over the mystery of Hotel Oblivion. “Centuries wasted, all because a different me was unkind to his children,” mourns Reginald. Everything we know about Reginald’s ruthlessness pays off in a devastating fashion when he goes to confront Luther. The episode opens with a flashback montage set during the years Luther spent exiled on the moon at his father’s behest. After any good night of drinking comes the hangover — and after the low-key fun of “ Wedding at the End of the World,” this episode is a particularly nasty comedown. At last, it’s Reginald who assembles everyone and makes one last-ditch pitch to save the world: Head through the special to the Hotel Oblivion, ring seven bells, and trigger a vaguely defined fail-safe that will put the whole universe back in order.

In the season's second episode, Page's character is reintroduced as Viktor, who tells his siblings: “It's who I've always been.”

“You couldn’t have known,” Viktor says, “because, I mean, I didn’t fully.” He says that Sissy “opened something in me. I guess that’s not true.” When asked what he sees in his reflection now, Viktor replies: “Me. Just me.” Instead, his becoming would need to happen within the first episodes, and without the hand-holding usually provided for cisgender audiences. But when Diego (David Castañeda) calls him “Vanya,” he corrects them: “It’s Viktor.” “Love the haircut,” Klaus (Robert Sheehan) says, as Five (Aidan Gallagher) offers a smile and nod. I’m not ready to give that up.” When Allison calls Viktor a “good sister,” he appears to grapple with that label.