Umbrella Academy Season 3

No spoilers here! Britne Oldford as Fei, Justin H. Min as Ben Hargreeves, Christopher, Genesis. Courtesy of Netflix. By Brad ...

“I wanted the opportunity to bring a whole new life to this character and throw our family off,” Blackman added. The Sparrows are superheroes who never knew how to be a family,” series creator and showrunner Steve Blackman told Entertainment Weekly in May. “That is the fundamental difference in how they go about being superheroes.” “The way I thought about Season 3 is, the Umbrellas are a family that didn’t know how to be superheroes.

The third season of Netflix's "The Umbrella Academy" may be the show's best outing yet, but it falls into the patterns of its predecessors.

Despite this, the third season of The Umbrella Academy is a winner, one that Brellies everywhere will enjoy. Don't get me wrong, those are still engaging tropes (and I love a good dance party), but after three seasons, it makes you wonder about the direction of the show — especially when we don't have closure on questions that were raised in Season 2 and even Season 1. This Ben is a far cry from the one we grew to know and love. Lucky for us, Season 3 avoids that pitfall (for the most part), keeping the Hargreeves' adventures feeling fresh with powerful new character developments and a fun set of villains to face off against. Among the season's biggest developments is Viktor's (Elliot Page) transition, which the show addresses early on and treats with an immense amount of care. The Umbrella Academy is back, reuniting us with the superpowered Hargreeves siblings and their super-sized daddy issues.

From Sloane, Fei and Christopher, to Jayme, Marcus, Alphonso and the new Ben, here's all the Sparrow Academy powers explained.

Alphonso’s powers are revealed when he challenges Allison to hit him during the fight at the Sparrow Academy in episode 1. Christopher's origins are still a mystery, but according to his character description, he can "turn the room freezing cold and induce paralysing fear." Fei is able to manifest the ravens from within her whenever she needs – for sight and to attack the enemy. Here are all seven members of the Sparrow Academy, and their powers, explained. He takes on a much more prominent role in the Sparrow Academy and is very self-assured (although, some would say 'arrogant'). The Umbrella Academy who!?

After his night with Sloane, Luther is seen dancing on his way home. The Umbrella's No. 1 is madly in love and wants everyone to know it.

Lila and Five manage to fix the briefcase and are transported to a wintery wonderland dystopia. The guests start to flee, and that strange man, Lester, strides into the mayhem. The Sparrows turn back on their promise and attack the Umbrellas instead, with Sloane trying to warn Luther by mouthing the word ‘run’. Diego’s son Stanley rushes into the fray with a Molotov cocktail and sets fire to the hotel. The Umbrellas want the suitcase in exchange for the Sparrow’s No. 1. The Umbrella siblings hunt for answers, and the Sparrows fight dirty. The Umbrella siblings hunt for answers, and the Sparrows fight dirty. The show seems to be successfully duplicating The Guardians of the Galaxy’s mantra of crazy characters, hilarious banter and the odd instances of sweetness. Klaus waits until the Sparrows have flown and then bonds with his father over old movies and ice cream. Time-hopping Five has also noticed the vanishing bodies and worries that the end is nigh. He stops off at a newsstand to buy some condoms, and one of those deadly shockwaves courses through the neighborhood again. In The Umbrella Academy’s universe, the paradox has already occurred, though, now in full swing with the angry, red vortex, a clear sign that all is not well in this timeline. Five mentioned the Grandfather Paradox at the end of episode two and chapter three, “Pocket Full of Lightning”, opens with an in-depth explanation of this complex notion, told in hilarious fashion.

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They argue, and Luther forces Klaus to return to the land of the living to warn the others about Reginald’s betrayal. That’s the full story recap of what happened in The Umbrella Academy season 3. Luther returns from the dead and wounds the last Guardian. Luther says a final goodbye to Sloane before he fades away, back to the afterlife. Klaus tries to convince the others to listen to Reginald’s plan to save the world. In the present, the Kugelblitz continues to grow, destroying everything except the hotel. The plan is to defeat a Guardian in the Hotel Oblivion, who is protecting the portal and seven bells. Five and Lila manage to jump-start the briefcases and travel to the future. In the future, Five and Lila head to The Commission headquarters and find Five’s future self. A flashback reveals that Reginald built The Hotel Obsidian in a very specific place, right below a portal to another dimension. Pogo gave the Sparrows the pills to drug Reginald. Reginald experiments on Klaus and his new powers. Both Academies decide to work together to end the apocalypse. Here’s a breakdown of what happened in each episode of The Umbrella Academy season 3:

Kate Walsh was a staple across the first two seasons of The Umbrella Academy as The Handler, but does she return in season 3?

Sound off in the comments! Sadly, it looks like we’ve seen the last of The Handler as Kate Walsh does not return for The Umbrella Academy season 3 and has gone on the record as stating she has no current plans to come back to the series. Are you disappointed Kate Walsh did not return as The Handler in season 3 of The Umbrella Academy? Would you like to see The Handler return down the line?

Spoiler Alert ; Elliot Page as Viktor Hargreeves, Justin Cornwell as Marcus. Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix © 2022 ; The Umbrella Academy. Justin H. Min as Ben ...

Anyway, it all culminates in the Sparrows showing up at Hotel Obsidian, ready to attack the Umbrella members for, they think, kidnapping Marcus. (They don’t know about the Kugelblitz.) All of a sudden, a mysterious man who’s been shown at random intervals throughout the episodes defends them, burning a few Sparrows to a crisp. Allison ( Emmy Raver-Lampman) has now suffered a major loss with every timeline jump—her daughter in the first, and her husband in the second. In Episode 3 they discover this is a “Kugelblitz,” a series of interconnected collapsing dark holes that materialized as a result of them being in a timeline where they were never meant to exist. (At least Five and Klaus got to go on a fun road trip in Episode 2 to try and find Klaus’ Amish mom, though!) And even though Viktor manages to make a deal with their Number One, Marcus ( Justin Cornwell), to retrieve the briefcase, he’s never able to hand it over…because Marcus is sucked into a mysterious glowing orb that’s materialized in the Sparrow Academy’s basement. They’re all set with a new base of operations, and everything’s fine enough on the surface that Five (Aidan Gallagher) is considering retiring. To be fair, this is a show known for going a little (or a lot) crazy—we’ve already had talking monkey butlers, a robot mom, a mannequin girlfriend, and a main character becoming a cult leader.

When Marcus Hargreeves (Justin Cornwell) goes missing, the Sparrows think the Umbrellas had something to do with it. But as it turns out, Grace (Jordan Claire ...

We hear a fictional antidote where a kid named Elmer decides to go back in time to kill his grandfather, only he went back way too far and changed the timeline so that he no longer existed. They say whatever it is is like the opposite of the Big Bang, with the universe somehow collapsing in on itself. The Kugelblitz has already started taking out the Commission with its “Kugel waves” as Five later dubs them. When Marcus Hargreeves (Justin Cornwell) goes missing, the Sparrows think the Umbrellas had something to do with it. This time around, the Umbrellas are faced with a threat they never imagined possible — another set of siblings. As you probably remember, the season 2 finale ended on a major cliffhanger with the Umbrellas defeating the Commission and time traveling back to their present-day world.

The Umbrella Academy returns to an alternate future where Hargreeves adopted a different gaggle of superpowered kids. A recap of 'Meet the Family,' the ...

As the episode ends, the blob sends a shockwave across the city, apparently obliterating both Marcus and one very cute dog at the Hotel Obsidian. After all, what would a new season of The Umbrella Academy be without another apocalyptic threat? For now, at least, open warfare doesn’t serve anybody, which is good news for anyone who wants to know more about the Sparrows than their superpowers (and good news for Netflix’s stunt budget because that opening fight looked expensive). It’s Vanya, with characteristic pragmatism, that negotiates a détente. When Marcus comes in with threats, Vanya offers a calm but firm reply: “I don’t think you’re better than me, Marcus. I ended the world twice. But as fun as it is to watch this family bicker, the Sparrows still pose a threat. This is an ideal location for characters like Five and Diego to argue about what they should do next and for Allison and Vanya to swap memories and sympathies about the lovers they left behind in 1963. And while the Umbrellas put up a decent fight, they’re no match for the Sparrows. When the dust settles, our heroes run away to lick their wounds, leaving their very useful time-travel briefcase behind.

Umbrella Academy's Season 3 finale was full of surprises. What happened to Allison, Luther, Diego, Viktor, Five, Sloane, Ben, and Klaus in the final ...

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.

Don't touch that dial after finishing The Umbrella Academy season 3. There is a mid-credits scene at the end that you won't want to miss!

The season begins and ends with Ben in Seoul since all signs point to the woman at the start being his mom. In the mid-credits scene, we see Ben Hargreeves on a subway train reading a book. Season 3 starts with a flashback to October 1, 1989 on a subway train in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. A young woman gives birth after becoming pregnant in a matter of seconds.

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.

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.

Adapted from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's comic book series of the same name, "The Umbrella Academy" follows a family of adopted superheroes who are brought back ...

Season three of "The Umbrella Academy" features 10 episodes. If you buy them, we may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our partners. Adapted from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's comic book series of the same name, "The Umbrella Academy" follows a family of adopted superheroes who are brought back together after their father's mysterious death. This plan costs $20 a month and offers support for 4K streaming and up to four screens at once. Season three picks up where the second season left off: After time traveling through the 1960s, the family ends up back in 2019, but in an alternate timeline. Season three began streaming on June 22.

Diego's romantic partner Lila Pitts (Ritu Arya) returns shortly in the new season toting a young teenager named Stanley (Javon “Wanna” Walton) with her. She ...

We find out that while Lila was in East Berlin, she joined a band and then “borrowed” Stan from one of her bandmates. No. Fans probably discerned rather quickly that something was amiss regarding Stan and his new presence in Diego’s life. She claims that Stan is Diego’s son and she’s been taking care of him for 12 years, now it’s Diego’s turn to play dad.

Yep, you read that right. Thanks to Harlan, his unlucky connection with Viktor, grief, and Reginald Hargreeves mucking with fate by adopting a new brood of kids ...

In front of a car. In front of a bus. Sloane and Luther’s love story is a sweet (and lowkey weird) part of this season. Reginal Hargreeves proves himself to truly only care about himself and those who can benefit him in every timeline. And, even though the show doesn’t focus on it a ton, it’s pretty cool that he came from 1989 Berlin yet didn’t miss a beat in a different timeline. Of course, we discover that her death leads to Harlan’s powers skewing out of control and killing a whole lot of innocent mothers. We know that the “new new Ben” made it into the new timeline but we didn’t get a glimpse of his siblings. There’s always some chance that a version of him exists in this new timeline but, considering the Umbrella collective no longer have powers, he probably doesn’t either. Yes, Grace is a robot but she’s very real for the Umbrella kids. He explodes out and sucks her in during the process. Thanks to Harlan, his unlucky connection with Viktor, grief, and Reginald Hargreeves mucking with fate by adopting a new brood of kids, he exploded the minds of Viktor and crew’s moms before they were born. It seems that red is the right color for the Sparrows. Why? Because all of these folks pretty much die, even the telekinetic cube.

The only way of stopping the Kugelblitz, Hargreeves told the remaining members of the Umbrella and Sparrow Academies, was by travelling to an alternate version ...

Though the Ben we know from the original timeline died once early in Season 1, and then his ghost dissipated in Season 2, the alternate timeline Ben from Season 3 is very much alive in the scene in the park we just detailed. And not only that, his wife, who we briefly saw was in stasis on the dark side of the moon earlier this season, is alive and standing with him. — he stored the particles in the children, and needed seven of them to power up the machine and reset the universe. The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Ending, Explained In fact, decades earlier Hargreeves had discovered the entryway to the Hotel Oblivion, which was in fact a machine built by the creators of the universe. After traveling back to their own time at the end of Season 2, The Umbrella Academy found themselves in a strange, alternate timeline.

The Umbrella Academy ended the world... again. But it's different this time! Here's what's going on with that Season 3 ending and a breakdown of all the ...

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.

Created by Steve Blackman and based on the comic book series of the same name by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, The Umbrella Academy chronicles the adventures of a ...

That’s a good formula for success when it comes to ongoing sagas like this, and every season of The Umbrella Academy so far has done a surprisingly good job of tying up increasingly wild storylines in satisfying ways while teasing intriguing developments in the characters’ future. At this point, canceling the apocalypse has become business as usual for The Umbrella Academy, and although another extinction event looms over season 3 of the series, the show still finds a way to make the stakes feel high. After making her debut in season 2 of The Umbrella Academy, Ritu Arya also gets more time to develop her character, Lila, in the third season. In one of his first performances since his transition, Elliot Page finally gets a chance for his character, Victor (formerly Vanya), to take on a more assertive role in the family in season 3. Each season of The Umbrella Academy has featured some standout performances, but Aidan Gallagher — who portrays the teleporting “Five” Hargreeves — continues to cement his status as one of the show’s best assets across all three seasons. Created by Steve Blackman and based on the comic book series of the same name by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, The Umbrella Academy chronicles the adventures of a dysfunctional family of adopted siblings with superhuman abilities.

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.