Season One
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We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals
- The flashback to the foiled bank robbery, where Allison, Luther, Diego, Klaus, Five and Ben take turns effortlessly defeating grown men with guns. While the Umbrella Academy is a dysfunctional mess these days, at one point they really were a lean, mean, crime-fighting machine.
- Diego fighting a bunch of thugs inside of a house to intense violin accompaniment.
- Luther's first scene, and his view of the moon from Earth.
- Five's take down of the first set of armed mooks. He appears after the funeral, as a skinny 13 year old who makes himself a peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich then storms off, ranting about very confusing science. He doesn't come across as, you know...a badass. He seems like a troubled kid who might have gone nuts while he was missing for two decades. Then the goons appear in the diner and Five goes off. He zips about, combining his powers with martial arts and weapons skills to show himself to be absolutely DEADLY. It may not be awesome seeing a 'child' do such violence, but a pass can be given as he's chronologically 58 years old when he commits the acts. As establishing character moments go, it's a winner.
- Diego's "The Reason You Suck" Speech about the late Reginald at the funeral, before it turns into a fight.
Run Boy Run
- Five asks Klaus to come along and pretend to be his father to help get information from the prosthetics company regarding the fake eye. Klaus immediately starts thinking up a deeper backstory than Five ever considered, and at the company office he is the one who gets the employee to help them by punching Five and hurting himself, and then threatening to tell he attacked them. Years as a petty criminal has helped Klaus develop pretty good conning skills, and he would probably make for a good Guile Hero if he applied himself.
I Heard A Rumor
- Patrick divorcing Allison to protect their daughter. Keep in mind he's an ordinary human and she's a Reality Warper with a Compelling Voice.
- Allison using old-fashioned detective work to find her sister.
Changes
- In a dark sense, some may find it extremely satisfying to see Viktor murder Leonard.
The White Violin
- Klaus summoning Ben's spirit and taking down a dozen Commission mooks at once, effectively going from being the guy with the useless power to showing himself to be the most powerful sibling other than Viktor.
- Although it's a rather dark moment, Viktor suiting up for his concert and sending a rude driver's car flying to the tune of "Barracuda" counts as well.
- Viktor's powers are something truly to behold as well, once he goes One-Winged Angel and uses Reginald's violin to bring on the Apocalypse. In addition to holding most of his siblings at bay effortlessly despite their attempt to Zerg Rush him, he also somehow transforms his black tuxedo into a bright-white outfit.
- Allison gets the drop on Viktor, sneaking up behind him as he is attacking the other siblings, and is able to knock him out by firing a pistol next to his ear, deafening him and cutting off his access to his powers...
- ... which still results in Viktor unleashing his charged up attack into the moon, shattering it and dropping the pieces on the Earth and causing the Apocalypse anyway.
- Diego beating the crap out of Cha-Cha for Patch. When he finally has the opportunity to deal the killing blow, he stops, choosing to honor Patch's memory by sparing her instead.
- Five manages to transport his siblings and himself back in time to save them from the Apocalypse so they have another attempt to Save the World. He also brings the unconscious Viktor along because he believes that him learning how to control his powers will finally be what saves the world from the apocalypse.
- The awesome doubles down when you remember that Five is in a very adolescent, skinny, frail 13 year old body, using a power that is physically and mentally exhausting, he's teleporting more people than he EVER has before, he's doing this while the world ends around them, and he's still recovering from a major injury that only a day before saw him bedridden after nearly bleeding out. Bonus points for the fact that he gives a clearly agonized scream of effort, and then recovers to warn the others to hang on.
- Hazel finally has enough of the Commission,doing his level best to dispatch Cha Cha at the first opportunity before returning to the hotel where he marches into The Handler's hotel room and shoots her in the head before escaping with Agnes and The Handler's briefcase.
- Also, Hazel in general. Is his final fight with Cha Cha a drawn-out brawl where he uses his superior brawn to overpower her? No. He waits until she unbuckles her seatbelt before suddenly flooring the gas pedal and crashing the car, sending her flying through the windshield. He similarly wastes no time in executing The Handler, showing just how dangerous he is to have that job.
Season Two
Right Back Where We Started
- Five's introduction to the future Umbrella Academy during a Soviet invasion of the United States. Everyone has taken a level in badass, and everyone gets their chance to shine; best of all it's set to Frank Sinatra's My Way:
- Viktor levitates above the battlefield and casually blasts a tank shell out of the air.
- Klaus conjures up an army of ghosts to overwhelm a squad of Soviets - sending them fleeing in terror.
- Luther jumps into the fray and tanks a rocket propelled grenade aimed at Klaus.
- Ben unleashes his tentacles once again, mowing down another squad that was taking aim at Klaus and Luther.
- Alison literally blows the minds of three Soviet troopers with a single Rumor.
- Diego is now able to alter the trajectory of bullets in flight, cutting down every single man who made the mistake of shooting at him. Also doubles as a bit of a foreshadow of the final episode when he holds off the bullets of the army of Time Commission's Army to give Five enough time to get to the house.
- Towards the end of the first episode, Diego manages to get out of a straitjacket and padded cell in a matter of minutes while still shaking off the effects of a heavy tranquilizer and dislocated shoulder.
- Allison becoming a civil rights advocate now that she's in a time of segregation.
The Frankel Footage
- Reginald shows in the past was no slouch. He not only beats Diego, but constantly outmaneuvers him, even managing to dodge one of his knives.Reginald: (after stabbing Diego) Amateur.
A Light Supper
- When Allison first arrives back in the 1960's, she is set upon by a group of white men. With her throat damaged and unable to use her powers, she flees into a black ladies' hairdressers. When the men burst in after Allison, the ladies form a wall between them and her, brandishing scissors and razor blades. The men quickly back down and leave.You gentleman appear to be lost...
- Viktor demonstrating his powers during the supper against everyone's objections. Compared to Season 1, Viktor is way more confident and is able to control his powers better.
Öga for Öga
- Viktor gets one when he tells Five that Sissy and Harlan are coming with him to 2019. Even powering up and going into White Violin mode to intimidate him. It nicely shows how far he's come and how much he's grown without his childhood trauma, along with how important Sissy and Harlan by showing her connection to them.Five: Vanya do not test me right now.Viktor: (Smiles) That's funny. Cause I was just about to say the same thing. (Viktor's eyes start to glow)
- Of course, Five being Five and despite knowing how powerful Viktor is, he doesn't give in and conjures his own powers fully ready to throw down.
- Viktor using his powers to fight off the police that has come to wrongfully arrest both him and Sissy. He is successful and turns to see if Sissy is safe but is knocked out shortly afterwards by a police officer.
- A minor one; Klaus (as Ben), the Butt-Monkey of the team and the one who gets the least respect, is the only one to show up on time. Even Five and Luther are shocked.
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- When the two Fives turn against one another they do not fight in normal fashion. Instead, they both fight in true Five fashion by teleporting around the area so fast everything needs to be in slow-mo for us to make out what they are really doing during it.
- It took Diego only a few minutes into his Commission orientation video to realize he could use the Infinite Switchboard to look up what caused the apocalypse, something Five never thought to do, and is able to actually stop it on his first attempt compared to Five's fourth.
The End of Something
- Viktor single-handedly saves the entire Umbrella Academy by emitting a sound wave that completely takes out the entire Time Commission Army.
- Diego manipulating the trajectory of thousands of bullets heading his way to give Five an opening.
- Lila absolutely destroys the entire team by mimicking their powers and would have slaughtered all of them if she didn't find out the truth about the Handler.
- Luther overcoming the otherwise omnipotent 'I Heard A Rumour' power by giving Allison mouth to mouth after Lila told Allison she couldn't breathe.
- Five gets two in one scene:
- He remembers the advice that Reginald gave him and learns how to rewind time, and uses it to save his siblings and Lila. Keep in mind that not only is this power completely new to him, but he managed to do it while bleeding out on the floor from multiple gunshot wounds.
- After that, he convinces the remaining Swede to back down with a single word.”Enough.”
Season 3
Meet the Family
- The Sparrows are planning to preemptively strike at the Umbrellas to establish themselves as the superior team. Viktor meets with Marcus (Number 1) and tries to reason nicely with him. When that doesn't work, he threatens to call him out for a one-on-one fight in front of his adoring fans and kick his ass, ruining his credibility. Realizing that, while he might have the advantage in a team fight, he's powerful enough to follow through on this threat, Marcus agrees to his terms.
