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The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Ending Explained: What Happened to The Hargreeves Siblings At The End?
In The Umbrella Academy season 4, the Hargreeves made the ultimate sacrifice by letting themselves be erased to save the universe.
Netflix's adaptation of the comic book series, The Umbrella Academy, by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, ended its fourth season with several heartbreaking and hopeful futures. The show first debuted in 2019 to generally decent critiques from both critics and audiences alike. Season 4 deals with the Hargreeves in Reginald's timeline-six whole years since the ending of the third. Most of them remain connected despite their separation.
Viktor was kidnapped by Sy Grossman, who tries to use the Umbrellas to find his daughter, Jennifer. They regain their powers through a jar of marigolds that Sy has in his possession. They find out Jennifer is under the protection of Reginald, that the Keepers want to activate "the cleanse," and Jennifer and Ben are somehow involved with the apocalypse. A huge sacrifice is made to save the world by the Hargreeves, finally ending their story arcs.
Did the Hargreeves siblings die at the end of season 4?
The Keepers, lead by Gene and Jean, believed they lived in a broken timeline and used the Umbrella Academy as a prime example, believing in the theory of the Umbrella Effect. Convinced that a catastrophic event called The Cleanse would remove broken timelines and restore the main one, Jennifer was key to this event.
Lila tells Five that their love affair ended after seven years of being lost across the multiverse and after the Hargreeves could not prevent the cleanse. Five ends up in a subway station; it takes him to a diner, Max's Delicatessen, run by his variants. There, he learns that he, his siblings, and the rest of the marigold children are responsible for the world's end in a great many timelines.
With the arrival of marigolds on Earth and the birth of the Hargreeves and other children, so was the multiverse. The diner was plastered with artwork showing a variety of endings. Five believed that to save the universe, the cleanse should consume them and their marigolds; this would mean they die and be erased from history.
Once Lila had taken Allison's daughter Claire, her family, and children, and gotten them safely on the train to a safer timeline, she rejoined the Hargreeves to wait for the cleanse to catch up with them. The final scene of the show revealed that main timeline, previously only shown in a vision to Viktor, was one where the characters from throughout the prior seasons were living happily in it. Also there were Hazel, Agnes, the Swedes, and the Handler. It did confirm that the sacrifice of the Hargreeves fixed the multiverse, but they had been completely erased.
Is Reginald Hargreeves alive?
The Hargreeves visited their father, Reginald, and were interested in knowing how he protected Jennifer's town and promised to help them regain memories of Ben's death in their original timeline. He affirms that he set up a town, protected Jennifer, as part of the mission to keep them away from the Umbrellas and the marigold hosts. However, Viktor successfully convinced him not to kill Ben right after they had found him.
Through the course of season 4, Viktor and Reginald worked together in tandem, Viktor feeling underneath the value of such treatment. Reginald, still unaware of the role Abigail played in the cleanse, listens to her and her motives while welcoming the end of the world with his wife by his side.
Whether Reginald is alive within the main timeline or not is unknown, but assuming the Hargreeves' sacrifice and the cleanse undid their whole existence, then Reginald never released the marigolds and probably died with Abigail when their home planet got destroyed, although he might still have traveled to Earth sans releasing the marigolds.
What happened to Ben and Jennifer
It was shown in season 4 that in the original timeline, Ben died after he opened a container with a deadly weapon in it. He helped Jennifer escape and they touched hands. Reginald shot them, but then the event was erased from the team's memories. In the current timeline, Jen and Ben's hands touch when Gene and Jean hit the Umbrellas' van, initiating the cleanse.
In the process, Abigail had made marigolds and some kind of opposite particle called "durango" that caused the extinction of everything. Jennifer was a host for Durango, and every time she had touched Ben in both the original and current timeline, they caused the apocalypse. The Hargreeves, including Viktor, couldn't save Ben despite trying; Ben and Jennifer combined into some monstrous creature that ate up everything.
Season 4 mid-credits scene
The credits of The Umbrella Academy show behind-the-scenes photos from all seasons, but there is one final surprise in the mid-credits scene. The scene goes back to the tree shown before the show cut to the credits, and the camera goes down to its roots to show eight golden flowers blossoming. These flowers represent Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Five, Ben, Viktor, and Lila, so even though they are not alive anymore and neither remembered, they're still present, and the flowers are a way to honor them after their sacrifice.
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