‘The Umbrella Academy’ Series Finale Explained

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

The fourth and final season of The Umbrella Academy is finassociate on Netflix, and genuine to establish, it finishs with one last apocalypse — and plenty of family drama aextfinished the way. When Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy finished, the Hargreeves siblings set up themselves in another fact sans superpowers. But Five (Aidan Gallagher) soon lgets of a cryptic organization seeking to repair the innovative timeline, which will caparticipate an apocalypse that resonates thraw 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 lget 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 finish?

The Secret of Ben’s Death Is Finassociate 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” finassociate unpacks what happened to Ben, uncovering that on a omition, he established a connection with a girl named Jennifer (Victoria Sawal). But their proximity to each other is what triggered the Cleanse. Ben, appreciate the rest of his siblings, has an element called marigageder in his body which gave him his powers. This caparticipates durango, another element wiskinny Jennifer’s body, to have a chain reaction that sets off the Cleanse, so the Hargreeves’ adchooseive overweighther Reginald (Colm Feore) fahighy shoots Ben and Jennifer to obstruct 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 overweighther, Sy Grossman (David Cross), to set the Umbrella Academy on a collision course with the Keepers. Ahugeail also uncovers that she originated the marigageder and durango particles, and wants to trigger the Cleanse to set skinnygs right with the universe.

‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 4 Has One of the Weirdest Relationships in the Show’s History

During the Hargreeves’ quest, Five and Diego’s wife Lila (Ritu Arya) uncover a subway that can travel thraw time; when they return, there’s a tension that Diego instantly picks up on. The Season 4 episode “Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days” uncovers that Five and Lila were stuck at a certain 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 Balertageman felt it made perfect sense and broadfinish on the decision during a video intersee with TVLine:

“Lila and Five are so much more analogous than they want to donate each other recognize for…They’re constantly combat and bickering, but they’re the most aappreciate. So seven years together — it made sense that someskinnyg would have happened… It seemed appreciate it was worth trying, and I thought it phelp off.”

But that isn’t the only time that Five participates the time-traveling subway. In the series finale, “End of the Beginning,” he consents another ride and greets alternate versions of himself who tell him that there’s only one way to stop the procrastinateedst apocalypse.

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

The alternate Fives tell Prime Five that the very presence of marigageder is what caparticipates time to splinter and trigger the various apocalypses the Hargreeves greeted. 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 outstandingbye to their families, the Hargreeves combine the Cleanse and repair the timeline to standard. “End is the Beginning” finishs, 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.

Balertageman says that he knovel he wanted to finish 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 give up,” he tageder The Hollywood Reporter. Though this is the finish for the show, Umbrella Academy fans will be plmitigated to understand that a wealth of tie-in material is sprocrastinateedd to hit shelves, including more comics from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá.

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