Perhaps the creativity of The Umbrella Academy is that its characters do not represent the perfect superheroes, such as Superman or Captain America, to provide just two notable examples. No, The Umbrella Academy’s personalities are amounts of trauma and unsolved conflicts.
The showrunner for the series is Steve Blackman (Fargo, Altered Carbon). He’s also an executive producer with Jeff F. King (Hand of God), Keith Goldberg, and Mike Richardson.
Synopsis
A vital fact is that it takes place in an alternate world. Here the American president John F. Kennedy wasn’t murdered in Dallas in 1963. In the first season, this group’s origin story was told.
In 1989, about precisely the same day, 43 children were born whose moms, unrelated to one another, had no symptoms of being pregnant before the afternoon before delivery. Billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves adopted about seven of these babies. They created The Umbrella Academy to prepare these kids when they had been to save the world.
What Hargreeves did not understand is that when these kids reached their teens, fights broke out, and the group will split up. That’s when this Umbrella Academy’s first chapter started. The second when the band’s six members meet on the occasion of their parent’s death. And they find that they need to work together to protect against the end of the planet.
Characters
The group consists of:
- Vanya/Number Seven, also called The White Violin, has the power to convert sound waves into a destructive force.
- Luther/Spaceboy/Number One, an astronaut with superhuman strength
- Diego/The Kraken/Number Two, with the skill to throw knives
- Alison/The Rumor/Number Three, with the ability to manipulate reality with lies
- Klaus/The Séance/Number Four, able to speak to the dead and with the power of telekinesis
- Number Five, who can travel back in time
- Ben/Number Six, who can extract tentacles from his body.
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The Cast In Season 2
Netflix confirmed that it would maintain the same main cast of the first season, consisting of:
- Ellen Page (Vanya)
- Tom Hopper (Luther/Spaceboy)
- David Castañeda (Diego/The Kraken)
- Emmy Raver-Lampman (Alison/The Rumor)
- Robert Sheehan (Klaus/The Séance)
- Aidan Gallagher (Number Five)
- Justin Min (Number Six)