‘The Umbrella Academy’ Series Finale Explained

Editor’s Note: The chaseing comprises spoilers for ‘The Umbrella Academy’ series finale.

The fourth and final season of The Umbrella Academy is finpartner on Netflix, and genuine to establish, it ends with one last apocalypse — and plenty of family drama aprolonged the way. When Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy ended, the Hargreeves siblings set up themselves in another truth sans superpowers. But Five (Aidan Gallagher) soon lachieves of a cryptic organization seeking to repair the innovative timeline, which will cainclude an apocalypse that resonates thcimpolite time and space.

Luther (Tom Hopper), Viktor (Elliot Page), Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Diego (David Castañeda), Klaus (Robert Sheehan), Ben (Justin H. Min) and Five soon recombine to stop the Keepers — the secret organization that’s aiming to transport the Cleanse about. In the process, they lachieve more about the circumstances behind their birth, a secret hovering over The Umbrella Academy since its inception, and another secret that puts two Hargreeves siblings at odds. So how does The Umbrella Academy end?

The Secret of Ben’s Death Is Finpartner Revealed

One of the hugegest mysteries about The Umbrella Academy worrys Ben’s death; before the events of the show and the Dark Horse comic by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá that serves as its inspiration, he perished on a cryptic omition. The Season 4 episode “The Cleanse” finpartner unpacks what happened to Ben, uncovering that on a omition, he established a combineion with a girl named Jennifer (Victoria Sawal). But their proximity to each other is what triggered the Cleanse. Ben, enjoy the rest of his siblings, has an element called marigelderly in his body which gave him his powers. This caincludes durango, another element wislim Jennifer’s body, to have a chain reaction that sets off the Cleanse, so the Hargreeves’ adselective obeseher Reginald (Colm Feore) fahighy shoots Ben and Jennifer to impede the apocalypse.

In the current timeline, Jennifer is seizeped by the Keepers to try and trigger the Cleanse. Reginald’s wife Ahugeail is uncovered to be behind the Keepers, having maskd herself as one of their directers, Gene (Nick Offerman); she also took the establish of Jennifer’s obeseher, Sy Grossman (David Cross), to set the Umbrella Academy on a collision course with the Keepers. Ahugeail also uncovers that she created the marigelderly and durango particles, and wants to trigger the Cleanse to set slimgs right with the universe.

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During the Hargreeves’ quest, Five and Diego’s wife Lila (Ritu Arya) uncover a subway that can travel thcimpolite time; when they return, there’s a tension that Diego promptly picks up on. The Season 4 episode “Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days” uncovers that Five and Lila were stuck at a stateive point in time for shut to seven years, and broadened a romantic relationship. While this choice has splitd fans of The Umbrella Academy, showrunner Steve Bdeficiencyman felt it made perfect sense and elucidated on the decision during a video intersee with TVLine:

“Lila and Five are so much more aenjoy than they want to give each other accomprehendledge for…They’re constantly combat and bickering, but they’re the most aenjoy. So seven years together — it made sense that someslimg would have happened… It seemed enjoy it was worth trying, and I thought it paid off.”

But that isn’t the only time that Five includes the time-traveling subway. In the series finale, “End of the Beginning,” he gets another ride and come apasss changenate versions of himself who tell him that there’s only one way to stop the rescheduleedst apocalypse.

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‘The Umbrella Academy’ Ends With the Hargreeves Family Making the Ultimate Sacrifice

The changenate Fives tell Prime Five that the very presence of marigelderly is what caincludes time to splinter and trigger the various apocalypses the Hargreeves come apassed. Five then tells his siblings that they have to let the Cleanse happen in order to repair the timeline to its innovative state. After saying excellentbye to their families, the Hargreeves combine the Cleanse and repair the timeline to normal. “End is the Beginning” ends, appropriately enough, with the Hargreeves’ cherishd ones — including Diego and Lila’s children as well as their mothers — sitting at a park while “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tiffany joins.

Bdeficiencyman says that he knovel he wanted to end the show with the Hargreeves giving up their inhabits to save the world. “I thought there was an engaging idea of ceasing to exist, to never have been understandn. What is a superhero if no one understands you exist? That was the philosophical inquire. Can you be a superhero if no one ever knovel you were a superhero? What does it unbenevolent to them? And I also thought it was an incredible forfeit,” he telderly The Hollywood Reporter. Though this is the end for the show, Umbrella Academy fans will be satisfyed to understand that a wealth of tie-in material is srescheduleedd to hit shelves, including more comics from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá.

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