This article obviously contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy.When The Umbrella Academy The third season ended with a major cliffhanger, leaving many questions unanswered until the fourth and final season. Based on the popular Dark Horse comic of the same name by My Chemical Romance co-founder Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá, the series focuses on a dysfunctional family of adopted siblings with superpowers and premiered on Netflix in February 2019, and became a huge hit for the streaming service.
Updated October 24, 2022: This article has been updated to reflect the news that Netflix has refreshed The Umbrella Academy for Season 4, which will also act as the final season.
Season two premiered the following year on July 31, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it a highly sought-after series for many. The second season focused on the team traveling back in time to the 1960s after the events of season one, and by the time season two ended, the Umbrellas returned to the current timeline, only to discover that their adopted father is still alive. and that there are seven new superpowers living in their house.
The Umbrella Academy during Season 3
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, season three production is off The Umbrella Academy was delayed and the season finally premiered on June 22, 2022, nearly two years after season two ended. The series focused on the team adapting to this new reality they find themselves in, faced with a new apocalypse, and the revelation that the young boy who saved the Umbrellas in the 1960s, Harlan Cooper, are using Viktor’s ( Elliot Page) has acquired and accidentally killed their parents, resulting in a grandfather paradox where they exist but were never born.
Much of the series took place in Hotel Obsidian (probably due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making it easier to keep the cast isolated in one location) with the Umbrella Academy and the new Sparrow Academy coming into conflict before they eventually converged to the universe, which is gradually wiped out. By the end, all that remains is the hotel and residence, and the team finds a way to reset the universe only to discover that their adopted father Reginald Hargreeves has manipulated them to achieve his goal.
He kills Luther to motivate the Umbrellas and Sloane of the Sparrow Academy who fell in love and married Luther. Like the previous two seasons, season three of The Umbrella Academy ended with a cliffhanger but also a new possible status quo. A lot happened in the last episode, so here’s an overview The Umbrella Academy season three finale and what it all means for the future.
What was Hargreeves’ plan?
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The new season started with the Umbrellas walking into the current timeline after their long journey back in 1963. However, they discover that they have been replaced by The Sparrow Academy, when Hargreeves decided to pick a different set of super-powered kids after meeting the Umbrellas in the 60s and was disappointed in them (he is still recruiting Ben, as he was not alive when they met). Hargreaves’ plan was eventually revealed, as he was an alien who needed the seven children to enter the Hotel Obsidian, which hid the key to reset the universe.
The machine in Hotel Obsidian appears to be an ancient alien console. It also needed seven individuals with powers that could be drained to help reset the universe. Probably when Ben died in the original timeline, Hargreeves realized his plan would never come true, which explained his further detachment and eventual death. Now, however, he had everything he needed and manipulated his children from both timelines even further to achieve his goal. But for what purpose?
The season ends with Hargreeves living in this universe, despite Alison killing him before. Now he’s in control of the city and maybe the world. He overlooks the city in a gigantic tower next to a woman: Abigail Hargreeves. Abigail was actually first introduced at the beginning of the season one finale on what many assumed to be a farm on an alien world. She’s the one who gave Reginald the power to give to someone special (who eventually went to Viktor). It seems Reginald’s plan from the start, from adopting the umbrellas to training them to transfer their power to reset the universe, was to bring someone he loves back to life. This ties in with an important theme of the series: the positive and negative power of love. Love acts as a powerful motivator to make people do both great and terrible things. This is especially evident in Allison.
Alison: friend or foe
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One of the biggest arcs for a character in The Umbrella Academy belonged to Allison, who in the final episode had manipulated her family and struck a deal with Hargreeves to get her family back. This was the final step on a dark path Allison had taken all season after discovering her daughter had been wiped off the timeline.
While she embraced her more violent impulses when Diego beat up a group of racists, the real darkness came out when he manipulated Luther against his will into kissing her, and when she killed Harlan when she discovered he was the one who killed their parents. . resulting in the grandfather paradox that prevented her daughter from being born. She turned on Viktor, the relative Allison was closest to when she discovered his lie. Now she was working with Harlan to manipulate her family.
While it seemed like Allison’s arc for the entire series was a play on the classic comic book trope of a hero going bad (Jean Gray in The Dark Phoenix Saga, Hal Jordan Green Lantern becoming Parallax), like many of those storylines, it seems it finds some sort of redemption arc for villains by turning against Harlan. She’s about to reset the universe, and while Five wants to stop her, Viktor decides not to when Allison tells him to trust her. Viktor puts his trust in Allison and Viktor is often the voice of reason in the family, so his decision means that Allison may still find redemption.
No more powers in Umbrella Academy
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The Umbrellas are located in a park with a bust of Hargreeves along with Lila and Sparrow Ben. Here are some key revelations revealed: the first is that Luther is alive and he no longer has his gorillatorso; the second is that none of them have his powers anymore. It’s unclear if their powers were exhausted in the device, or if their powers were taken from them by design when reality reset. Hargreeves could have removed them to stop being a threat, while Allison might have done it to give her siblings a chance at a normal life.
The team splits up and all go their separate ways. Luther searches for his wife Sloane, Diego and Lila set out to raise their future child and the rest split up. What will come of the Umbrella Academy next season remains to be seen. After three seasons of battling the apocalypse, they may be trying to rest in this new world where they have no responsibilities.
After credit reveal in Umbrella Academy
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Like any superhero show, it’s safe to assume there will be an after-credit moment. The Umbrella Academy ends in South Korea, where Ben is on the same train that started the season when his mother gave birth to him. However, it is not the Sparrow Ben seen in season three. It appears to be a new Ben, possibly the Umbrella version reborn in his new universe. Now that two Bens exist, it raises some interesting questions about what will happen in season four and whether these two can coexist, and how the Umbrellas will react to their brother’s version that is still alive.
Status of Umbrella Academy Season 4
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With such a big cliffhanger, season four seemed like a certainty. However, fans became anxious in anticipation of news of an extension; After all, Netflix has a spotty track record of keeping up with shows from the past three seasons, often canceling fan-favorite TV shows. This is due to a number of reasons, from the fact that they usually have to renegotiate with talent who are generally only stuck for three seasons. The other main reason is that Netflix typically prefers new series rather than keeping long-running series; as shows go on, they become more niche and less likely to attract new viewers while new shows can bring in new viewers. This made it seem like Umbrella Academy season four can’t happen.
Fortunately, that was not the case, and Netflix renewed The Umbrella Academy on August 25, 2022. This was two months after season three premiered on Netflix. Netflix confirmed that too The Umbrella Academy season four would be the last for the series. This matches comments from showrunner Steve Blackman, who revealed that he always had four seasons in mind.
There is currently no release date set for The Umbrella Academy season four, and filming hasn’t started yet, so it remains unclear when the series will return. The earliest premiere is likely to be in the fall of 2023 or even sometime in 2024. Closing The Umbrella Academy season four allows the creators to complete their story and give fans a satisfying ending. It’s hard but delightful to imagine that this Dark Horse Comic series from the frontman of My Chemical Romance, one that languished as a film in development hell for years, has finally become an acclaimed, long-running series going out on its own terms. .