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The Umbrella Academy: 8 Things To Remember Before The Season 4 Premiere
The Umbrella Academy is ending with its fourth season, and there are key things to remember from season 3 before watching the show’s final episodes.
Netflix's dark superhero series, The Umbrella Academy, enters its fourth and final season. Through three apocalypses and many more surprising revelations, with a unique blend of action, drama, and humor, it has compiled a good fanbase. Season 3 had left a mark on the audience, while Season 4 hopes to answer all questions that were left when it ended so suddenly and darkly.
In Season 3, the Umbrella Academy had to face yet another apocalypse due to their father, Reginald, who manipulated them into resetting the timeline for his own good and without regard for the strong bond forged among his adopted children. Season 4 will follow Hargreeves and Lila as they try to make their ways through a new timeline run by Reginald. Now that the series is starting to near its ending, there are a few key moments to remember.
1. Sloane is missing
Luther has really come a long way into his development since Season 1. In Season 3, he finds a healthy romance with Sloane, which unites both teams. But Reginald exploits this romance when he kills Luther in order to bring Sloane and the rest into Hotel Oblivion.
Poor Luther and Sloane, married pre-apocalypse, were doomed twice when Reginald killed Luther and then Sloane disappeared in the new timeline. So, the question remains: whether Allison erased Sloane or if she still exists in some other part of the new timeline. It's a mystery that everyone seems confused about.
2. Allison killed Reginald
Allison becomes a villain for Season 3, in part because, since Season 1, she tried to be more present for Claire, but the apocalypse and the '60s just kept her away. Her sadness and anger-mostly, I should add, as she comes to the realization that Claire is not her daughter in the Sparrow timeline-drive her to do these bad things that are quite extreme, but what she's doing really stems from this emotional pain.
Although her deal with Reginald was never well-defined, Allison continued her side of the bargain up until Reginald turned on the device. Quite clearly not knowing the device would eliminate her brothers and their marigolds, she managed to kill Reginald before the reset of the timeline was complete. She begged her brothers to follow her once more, but only she was able to achieve her outcome.
3. Five forms the Commission
In Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy, it came to light that Five actually founded The Commission, which is assigned the task of watching over the space-time continuum and seeing that things unfold as they should. In his stead, following a coup at the end of Season 2, an interim chair had been cast: Herb. He would keep the post until a new board could be elected. Briefly, though, did the commission exist.
In Season 3, Five and Lila try to resolve a time paradox and head to the Commission's headquarters, finding it destroyed. Among the ruins, they find an elderly man who has a strange tattoo, is missing one arm, and is kept in some kind of breathing chamber. This is revealed to be the founder of The Commission and a future, older version of Five. The Umbrella Academy does not delve any deeper into the origins of The Commission.
4. The Hargreeves are power-less
In this new timeline of The Umbrella Academy, Reginald and Abigail are alive and powerful, while the Hargreeves siblings and Lila lost their powers. Luther returns to a human body where his earlier ape-like torso has been replaced by a normal human torso. Whether it was caused by Allison in her attempt or it was part of Reginald's plan is anyone's guess. As Season 4 trailers have shown, they've moved on with their lives, experiencing for the first time what it is like to live a "normal" life.
5. In the new timeline Reginald and his wife are not dead
In The Umbrella Academy, Reginald Hargreeves manipulates the timeline for his benefit. During Season 1, he manages to rescue his wife Abigail from death as their planet was getting destroyed and used marigolds to give birth to 43 children; he also gave Abigail's violin to Viktor. Season 3 shows that Reginald maintains Abigail's body in a chamber on the dark moon, but the reason for this is particular and still remains vague.
In the new timeline that Reginald creates, he grants his own wishes by making himself the wealthiest and most powerful man; he is no longer hiding his eccentricities. Even Allison gets to restore her family-to be reunited with her daughter and her husband from the 1960s-part of their agreement. Abigail is alive and well in this new reality; Reginald gets his desired results, while Allison also gets what she wanted.
6. The Sparrow Academy
The siblings get back in time for Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy, only to find that Reginald has adopted seven new superpowered children in their place to make the Sparrow Academy, and he is alive and well. Things only went downhill, growing increasingly tense until the Sparrows kidnapped Luther, mistaking his identity for Marcus, who had disintegrated upon contact with the Kugelblitz. The typical cliffhangers follow in the season finale.
Season 3 welcomes the Kugelblitz, a time anomaly kicked off by the Umbrellas' return, which of course means an apocalypse that consumes objects and people alike, taking several members of the Sparrow Academy. Harlan joins in on the fun, too. Only Ben and Sloane of the Sparrow Academy are able to outrun the apocalypse into Hotel Oblivion.
7. Reginald killed Luther
Reginald reveals that he needs seven people ringing seven bells at Hotel Oblivion, which is tended by a Guardian. The other five persons, which include Allison and Lila, Klaus, and Ben, outvoted the rest on staying for the end of the world. He kills Luther and blames the Guardian, leaving only four people ringing the bells. He makes the rest of the people cross over through the tunnel into Hotel Oblivion to continue his plan. But he has one last betrayal to give to the world before he gets it destroyed. Luther later comes back in the new timeline at the end of The Umbrella Academy season 3.
8. Reginald also tried to kill Klaus
During season 3, Klaus and Reginald bonded over finding out that the Sparrows kept Reginald medicated. Klaus, after being killed by Stan accidentally, discovered he had resurrection power, making him immortal. Reginald became fascinated with that and trained Klaus, such that he kills Klaus repetitively so he may resurrect quicker, which was useful in the apocalypse.
Reginald stopped Klaus, naming him a liability. He left him to his death in the apocalypse, but he threw himself on the white buffalo horn and killed himself to return to life. In the afterlife, Klaus found Luther and conversed on the betrayal of Reginald before returning to life to expose him to his siblings.
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