List of The Umbrella Academy characters
The following entry is a list of characters from The Umbrella Academy, a comic book series created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá.
The Umbrella Academy
The Monocle (Sir Reginald Hargreeves)
A wealthy entrepreneur and world-renowned scientist. He was a recipient of the Nobel Prize for his work in the cerebral advancement of the chimpanzee and is the founder of the Umbrella Academy, a group of adopted super-powered children. Sir Reginald is extremely cold-hearted, often mistreating and even experimenting on the children for his personal interests. He refuses to let the children call him father, demanding that they address him by his codename The Monocle instead. When speaking to the children, he refers to them by number, which was assigned to the children in terms of "usefulness", and has nothing to do with their actual destructive capabilities.Number One / Spaceboy (Luther Hargreeves)
Luther's principal powers are super-strength and durability. After a disastrous mission, Sir Reginald Hargreeves performed an experimental surgery where Luther was injected with a serum to make his body similar to an ape's with enlarged muscles and thick fur covering his body. His body can withstand the vacuum and cold of space as long as he has a helmet on. In the Netflix adaption, his ape-like body is the result of a mutagenic serum rather than a surgery. He often uses a jetpack and his weapon of choice is a ray-gun. He nearly always fights using his super strength. After his career with The Umbrella Academy, he moved to the moon and lived at the Annihilation Control outpost. On the moon, Luther is attended to by a robotic butler named Ben. As revealed on the Dallas storyline, Luther and Number Five are twin brothers. He has been shown to have somewhat of a love interest in #3, The Rumor.Number Two / The Kraken (Diego Hargreeves)
The reckless and rebellious member of the group; described by Reginald Hargreeves as “an insolent brat.” He can hold his breath indefinitely and control the air around him, hence his codename The Kraken. He has also demonstrated a strong talent for knife-throwing and close-quarter combat. He and Luther have a very clear rivalry, and Diego is often unwilling to take orders from Luther. In his teenage years, he was the bassist in the punk rock band the Prime-8s alongside drummer Body, and guitarist and lead vocalist Vanya Hargreeves / Number Seven. He is depicted as left-handed in the short story "Anywhere But Here," as he is playing the bass left-handed. In the Netflix adaptation, he harbors a secret love for his ex-girlfriend Detective Eudora Patch.Number Three / The Rumor (Allison Hargreeves)
Described as narcissistic, she has the ability to instantly alter other people's actions by simply telling them to do so. After her career with The Umbrella Academy, she married her boyfriend, Patrick, and had a daughter named Claire. The couple has since divorced, and Patrick has full custody of their daughter, due to using her special ability on Claire. In the Netflix adaptation she uses her powers to become an extremely successful actress after leaving The Umbrella Academy. She is romantically linked to her adopted brother, Luther Hargreeves. Their love for each other is unconsummated as Spaceboy sees himself as a monstrosity due to his gorilla body. She has a cybernetic left hand as Dr. Terminal devoured her original hand when she was a child. In "Dallas", when she goes to get vocal surgery, her arm is no longer drawn as if it were mechanical, suggesting that it too had been fixed.During the events of “Apocalypse Suite”, Allison had her throat slit by her sister Vanya to prevent her from utilizing her power. Saved by Luther, she was able to survive but was told she could never speak again. As a result, she was forced to communicate via a note pad. While she and her family were forced to live in the bunker beneath the Academy’s ruins, Allison tortured the slightly amnesiac and disabled Vanya by forcing her to remember and relive her rampage. After her surgery, however, Allison had felt remorse and empathetic towards her sister, and began to support her with her physical therapy.
Number Four / The Séance (Klaus Hargreeves)
The Séance's powers are speaking with the dead, channeling the dead so they’re speaking through him, possessing people, broadcasting his consciousness through airwaves, and telekinesis. In the Netflix adaptation, he also has the power of evocation; making spirits corporeal and capable of being seen by others and interacting with objects around them. Of his comic powers, he retains only the ability to speak to the dead in the Netflix adaptation, although he does not require a Ouija board to do so. He has the words "Hello" and "Goodbye" tattooed on his right and left palms, respectively. It has been theorized by Mr Pogo that he's been doing drugs since he was a teenager. In "Dallas", Klaus is seen holding a Vietnamese baby, which he later reveals to be his, to the surprise of Luther. Handing it to an elderly woman before leaving in the elevator, he thanks her for taking care of the baby, to which she responds: "Where you are going is no place for kids. The baby is safer here." Before leaving in the elevator, Klaus apologizes to the woman, saying: "Really sorry about what happened to its mother." The conversation was in Vietnamese, implying that he learned it during the three years he ran a strip club named "Spookies".After returning to the present, Klaus abandoned his family and began working with the Mothers of Agony, a local satanic biker gang who, in return fed him a variety of drugs, utilized his power to speak with the dead to con wealthy buyers. He would later betray this group, however, leading them into a shootout with a rich widow desperate to find her husband’s buried fortune. After locating both the hidden money as well as the biker’s stash of heroin, Klaus returned to the city, only to overdose in an abandoned house. He was saved by the manifested spirit of his long-dead brother, Ben, who delivered him to a nearby hospital, and warned him of a new threat looming.
Number Five / The Boy (Five Hargreeves)
Number Five had a name but it wasn't spoken for so long that all of his siblings forgot what it was, as did he. At the age of 10, Five disappeared by using his power of time travel to escape into the future. Sir Reginald always warned him that he "could never go back"; it took him 45 years to figure out how to go back in time. He aged normally during his time in the apocalypse, but upon returning to the past he regained the appearance he had the day he traveled forwards. His body is stuck in time and cannot age, as medical examinations prove that there are no signs of cell growth or death. In the Netflix adaptation, his body continues to age normally after reverting to its 13-year-old form, and Five bemoans "going through puberty twice."Five claims to have read accounts of the Academy's immediate future and their connection to an apocalypse. While trying to go back in time to warn his adoptive brothers and sisters about the apocalypse, he worked with the Temps Aeternalis. He was taught to perform "micro jumps" in time, allowing him to move faster than the eye can see. In the Netflix adaptation Five has the secondary power of teleportation in addition to time travel and does not have to be taught "micro-jumps". He is considered to be "the perfect assassin," as he has had the DNA of the best killers in history infused into him. He has a 100% chance of killing if he decides to kill.
It is revealed in the "Dallas" storyline that Five and Space boy are twin brothers.
He has a puppy named Mr. Penny crumb.
Number Five / The Boy first appeared in The Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite #2, following a brief appearance on the final page of the previous issue.
Number Six / The Horror (Ben Hargreeves)
Possesses monsters from other dimensions under his skin. He is deceased, but no information about his death is given. Many fans believe that the monsters inside had killed him, or think it happened while on a mission. There is a memorial statue of him located in front of the Academy. Even though he's been dead since before the start of the series, he's been portrayed as a member of The Umbrella Academy, appearing as his statue counterpart, in visions, or with Klaus since he has the ability to talk to the deceased. Since octopi eat themselves under stress, there’s a theory that Ben could’ve died that way, or by suicide. He can connect with Klaus physically, lending him his ability for a moment.Ben’s spirit manifests during the “Hotel Oblivion” storyline, appearing before his brother Klaus in the hospital after saving him from an overdose. It’s shown that the portion of his chest that held the monster’s tentacles is now an empty cavity, and is hinted by Ben and a scene later in the issue that the monster had escaped from its dimension. It’s also implied the Hotel Oblivion wasn’t just made to be a super villain prison, but was actually a trap designed by Hargreeves to contain the beast, with the villains inside meant to be used as bait.
Number Seven / The White Violin (Vanya Hargreeves)
The most estranged member of the group, Vanya originally showcases no particular powers other than an interest in music. Vanya is known to have written a book detailing her life with the Academy and her decision to leave. According to The Conductor, leader of the Orchestra Verdammten, she's the most powerful of The Umbrella Academy. In her early childhood, The Monocle suppressed her powers and kept her on medication to keep them so, but they were eventually released by The Conductor which ended up driving her mad. 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. After unlocking her powers, she proceeds to murder the Conductor, and travelled to Hargreeves' mansion to destroy it, killing Pogo in the process. During her fight with her siblings, while distracted by Klaus pretending to channel Hargreeves, she’s shot in the back of the head by Number 5 with Hargreeves' revolver. However in the Netflix show Number 3 shoots to the side of her head missing on purpose which makes Vanya lose focus on the sound of her violin and she then passes out. Doctors noted she would eventually recover from her injuries, but would never play the violin again.During “Dallas”, Vanya is shown in the care of her siblings in the bunker beneath the mansion’s ruins, partially amnesic and wheelchair-bound. She was subject to partial abuse by Allison in retaliation for slicing her throat, left bound in front of screens depicting the aftermath of her rampage. At the end of the storyline, Allison is shown a change of heart, and has taken to helping her sister rather than punishing her.
By “Hotel Oblivion”, Vanya has undertaken physical therapy with Allison coaching her. She feels doubtful about her recovery, though, and brushes off Allison’s attempts to support her, possibly out of guilt. 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.
Others
Pogo
A talking chimp associated with The Monocle. When growing up at the Academy, Spaceboy considered Mr Pogo to be his best friend. He watched most of the academy grow up and knew all of the children very well. He was also a sympathizer of Vanya's plight when she is repeatedly told by Sir Reginald that she is not special, as she has no special powers. Despite this, he’s murdered by Vanya after her transformation into the White Violin as a test of her power against the Academy.Eudora Patch
A police officer, detective, friend and ex-girlfriend of Diego.This character is exclusive to the Netflix series. In the comics, the police friend of Diego is Inspector Lupo.