#umbrella academy

[laurrelise]

i truly can’t describe with words how badly i want to see this scene redone with sean sullivan as old five again. i want old apocalypse five and young apocalypse five and a tiny little baby five blinking around while older fives chase him there was SO much potential and while i think this is one of the cooler scenes in this season (really not saying much) it could’ve been so much better if the creators simply cared even a little bit!! :(

all the people saying stuff abt the deli being fives name

i dont think its his name, but i also think its a missed opportunity to do something fun

like. fives name has been a tua mystery since day 1, why doesnt he have a name, was it his choice, if so why stick to five, how were the others given names and is that why five didnt get one etc etc

and none of those questions have been answered within the show (they have been answered outside of it but the statements of the creators often conflict with whats actually seen in the show.. so not reliable info basically). so there is an opportunity here to do what we did with ben in s3 - show how much five changes across timelines.

and in one sense, they could be making a statement here. five, unlike ben, is commanded more by nature than nurture. he always ends up the same regardless of his circumstances.

but given the general lack of care seen this season i generally think that the deli and the fives are more so a display of a lack of attention. the reason they all wear the same suit and have the same hairstyle, and are all the same age with the same appearance, its the same reason five doesnt change outfits after 7 years in the subway. the creators didnt care.

so i think that this would have been a really interesting opportunity to explore who five could have been. bring back old five, show us apocalypse five, toddler five with older fives looking after them, fives who got to have a family of their own and fives who were never a part of reginald's adopted children at all. irish fives and american fives, maybe even jewish fives if we follow aidan's faith/ethnicity (?).

we could have seen fives at different stages, fives from s1 and s2 and s3. we could have seen how five from the phoenix academy could butt heads with five from the umbrella academy over whose siblings deserve to live more. we could have seen founder five, missing arm and all, before he founds the commission. five from the comics could have made a cameo.

we could have had fives with different names. fives who grew up in the academy and did choose names. fives who were named by their birth mother. max could have been a five name, along with a thousand other names, and it could have shown that fives name isnt about him needing a name but instead how his family has affected him and how he sees himself.

instead we got.. basically nothing

this post is not about brisket five hes perfectly wonderful as is

[t4tjevon]

NEW UMBRELLA ACADEMY COMIC IN JUNE HOW WE FEELING

[laurrelise]

i am seeing SO MUCH about this artemis fella and i’ve got zero clue who he is but i feel like i now need to know because of my overwhelming adoration for five

artemis fowl walked so five could run

[uacomic]

"UMBRELLA ACADEMY: PLAN B" arrives in comic shops June 2025

"After the mass release of The City’s greatest foes and the chaos that followed in Hotel Oblivion, the Umbrella Academy faces their most fearsome challenge to date–their other brothers and sisters. Known only as The Sparrows, they share a different connection to Sir Reginald Hargreeves and Mom. No one knows how to hurt each other more than family, and this powerful, ruthless brood will spare no brutality in favor of their sole objective—control and the obedient glare that comes with it.”

[hidelias]

🐦‍⬛☂️New ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Comic Focused on The Sparrows Launching in June!

[feralnumberfive]

Sooooo they ended up deciding that vapes exist in TUA but still decided on no cellphones?

[laurrelise]

the cgi on pogo in the first three seasons of the umbrella academy were way too phenomenal for season four’s blob monster to look like … that

[65thgames]

i miss five hargreeves...send hit post

[smeagles]

via Variety

[badkitty3000]

This is probably the shittiest thing that happened out of all of it. S4 essentially ruined an entire beloved series for a lot of people. Many people left the fandom entirely, which is really sad but I get it. And I admit, I am sometimes a part of the negativity toward it. But I love chatting about the characters and headcanons and interesting little observations that maybe no one has ever thought of before. So bring on the positivity! We need more! ☂️❤️

The annoying thing is that I really want Umbrella Academy fan content. I want to watch video essays and cast talks and all that. But S4 has made so many of these videos depressing, and I don’t want that.

I think that’s the biggest issue for me. I feel like the fan space has changed a lot for the worse because of S4. I need more positivity.

[sunsickjune]

“i felt that five had to have a love story” okay steve !! fine. i’ll humour you. picture this : lila and five in the subway. they’re travelling to different timelines, loosing hope, trying to find a way home. then they get to a timeline and five sees dolores. but she’s a human, not a mannequin. he falls for her. loves her. wants to stay with her in her timeline. and that’s why lila has to force him to come home. she has kids, a husband, a life. five wants to stay with dolores more than anything. but he goes home, back to his timeline, because he knows he has to save his family. because he loves them more.

[firstpersonnarrator]

@salvador-daley sending so much love.

a fandom culture poll

[uacomic]

The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 covers by David Aja & Jill Thompson (June 11, 2025) via Nerdist

[stevenrogered]

#siblings

[feralnumberfive]