Characters / The Umbrella Academy (2019) - Supporting Cast

Supporting characters in The Umbrella Academy (2019). For their counterparts in the source material, see here.

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The Umbrella Academy

Sir Reginald Hargreeves

Sir Reginald Hargreeves

Portrayed By: Colm Feore

"You were never just kids. You were meant to save the world."

The Hargreeves siblings' adopted father and founder of the Umbrella Academy. He was an adventurer billionaire who adopted them with the belief that they would eventually save the world. Unfortunately, he was a terrible father figure and his upbringing scarred them well into adulthood.

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• Abusive Parents: He was far from any good at parenting his adoptive children. At the best of times he was "only" neglectful, refusing to look up or even stop working when they wanted to say good night to him as children. Other incidents include locking Klaus in a mausoleum for hours at a time, killing/or letting Klaus die in the mausoleum for experiments to time how fast it takes him to get back to life, and locking Viktor in a sound-proof chamber and then brainwashing him to forget he ever had powers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The depths of his abuse become more and more apparent as the show continues, as in season 3 the alternate timeline version of him suggests that he intentionally left their powers underdeveloped so that they would be dependant on him. Taken even further when it turns out they were always simply his means to fight the guardian of the White Buffalo Suite so he could reboot the world and revive his dead wife, with no real concern of the outcome of this action for them or really anyone else. Diego had no idea how right he was about Reginald at his funeral.
  Diego: He was a bad person and a worse father. The world is better off without him.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the comics his face is just a mask and his true face is an alien one that we never see. This seems to be his actual appearance in the show. Season 2 goes further with showing a younger Reginald in the 1960s. It's also revealed in Season 2 that he indeed is wearing a mask to disguise his non-humanness, albeit one that requires some effort to remove.
• Adaptational Personality Change: He is shown to have been both more affectionate^*  For example, when Klaus finds him in the afterlife, he makes a genuine attempt to connect and communicate with him. In the comics, he merely glares at Klaus in contempt and refuses to utter a word.and more callous^*  In the comics, he sends Luther to space to satisfy Luther's own ambitions - in fact, its the only time Hargreeves attempts to be a good father. In the show he does it to have someone protect his wife's body. in his treatment of the children than in the comics. In general, the discovery that he was an even bigger Jerkass than previously thought is a reoccurring plot element in the show, compared to the comics where everyone has generally stopped getting surprised.
  • The change is possibly best exemplified when Hargreeves profusingly begs Luther to forgive him for murdering him whilst doing so - while in the comics, Hargreeves would never do either.
• Adults Are Useless: In Season 2, he refuses to help the time-traveling Hargreeves stop the apocalypse. Reginald callously tells them that the world ends on a regular basis, so they'd be better off accepting it.
• Affectionate Nickname: To emphasize how much he loved his late wife, she's the only one who ever called him by a nickname of endearment as "Reggie".
• Alien Blood: When Allison slices off a part of his head, it's revealed he has green blood.
• An Alien Named "Bob": Reginald Hargreeves for all intents and purposes appears to be his sole name used even before he arrived on Earth and had to maintain his human disguise, this is further supported by how his wife from the season 1 flashback on an alien planet is later revealed to have the similarly mundane name of Abigail.
• Ambiguously Human: We see a flashback of him in a place where several rockets are being launched. It's not clear if he's an alien like in the comics or if this is somewhere on Earth. Season 2 drops the ambiguity entirely and reveals that he's an alien.
• Ambiguously Evil: His unnecessary (and in fact, counter-productive) cruelty, shadowy intentions, association with morally corrupt people like the Majestic 12 means he's either a Well-Intentioned Extremist who genuinely wants to save the world, or a Hidden Agenda Villain who needs the world undestroyed until he can achieve his goals.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: A flashback shows him disembarking a ship in New York in the 1920s, looking very out of place with his "Victorian Dandy"-esque clothes, complete with a top hat. He maintains this look throughout his life, adding a monocle in his older years.
• Back from the Dead: It's revealed at the end of Season 2 that because of the main characters' creation of a divergent timeline, Reginald had no reason to commit suicide and is well and alive to greet them.
  • Again in Season 3, Allison kills him as he's about to reset the universe, but he's shown alive and well when she decides to reset it anyway, now the head of a massive corporation, instead of a superhero academy.
• Bait the Dog: Throughout Season 3, the alternate Reginald seems to be a bit of a better man than his original counterpart, engaging in some father-son bonding with Klaus and giving a speech to the Umbrella Academy where he acknowledges his many flaws as a parent. It all turns out to him being a bit more subtle in his manipulations, as he is working entirely in his self-interest and doesn't hesitate to kill off Klaus when he deems him a liability.
• Big Bad: Becomes the main villain of Season 3, taking advantage of the kugelblitz destroying the world to maipulate the Umbrellas and Sparrows into becoming sacrifices for his plan to reset the universe.
• Broken Pedestal: Mostly for Luther and Five who by the end of season 3 are completely fed up with him and actively work against him.
• British Stuffiness: Stuffy, by-the-book, and strictly no-nonsense, his style of parenting left little room for emotion.
• Celebrities Hang Out in Heaven: When Klaus is asked to contact Hargreeves, he says he can't just interrupt his dad's tennis match with Hitler, though he's clearly joking.
• Chatty Hairdresser: Reappears as a barber in the afterlife and gives Klaus a shave; true to the trope, he uses this as an opportunity to rant at length about his visitor's shortcomings while Klaus is having his face lathered up. Funnily enough, as frustrating as the discussion was, Klaus later admits that the shave itself was "fantastic."
• Child Hater: While it's not explicitly stated in Season 1, in Season 2, the Reginald in the 1960s mentions that he intensely dislikes children and finds the idea of ever adopting one, let alone seven, to be utterly ludicrous because of their unbearable behavior. It's rather telling that the closest he comes to acting like a good father figure is when he was raising Pogo, and the only time he starts treating any of the children with some semblance of respect is when he learns Five is technically older than he is.
• Combat Tentacles: His true alien form has a tentacle with sharp blades that he uses to kill Luther.
• Create Your Own Villain:
  • His abuse and neglect of Viktor ends up causing the apocalypse he was trying to prevent.
  • He also played a pivotal role in Harold Jenkins's Start of Darkness by rejecting and publicly ridiculing him when he showed up claiming to have special powers, too.
• Deadpan Snarker: In the 1960s he displays this more, especially towards Diego, who always tries to pick a fight with him.
  Diego: (after throwing his knife at him) What are you writing?
  Reginald: You are zero for two, young man.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Sink or Swim Mentor. Not only do his abusive tactics fail to register with his children, but they end up making the Academy so maladjusted in their interactions with each other that they fail to stop The End of the World as We Know It twice. In fact, his abuse is the primary cause of it all.
• Defrosting Ice King: Subverted. After being drugged and exploited by the Sparrows and spending time with Klaus, Reginald (very) slowly comes to the realization that it was his own fault that his children betrayed him and begins to make an effort to be a "dad, not a boss" to them, but in the end, this was just another way to manipulate them into doing what he wanted: sacrifice themselves so he could get his wife back.
• Didn't Think This Through: He killed himself with the idea that the team would band together after all these years to solve his murder. This would have happened... if he were a loving father figure. However, he was such a terrible parent to the children that all except Luther were pretty fine with just writing off his death and moving on with their lives.
• Dramatic Unmask: Doffs his human face to reveal his true form before the members of Majestic 12.
• Eccentric Millionaire: Called as such by the opening exposition; indeed, adopting seven superpowered infants seemingly on a whim certainly made him come off as this.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His deceased wife, Abigail Hargreeves, seems to be the one person he genuinely loves with no agendas or manipulations at work in his relationship with her.
  • Arguably, Grace too. Aside from modelling the robot nanny after her, the Patrick Nagel-style paintings in the White Buffalo Suite beside the Pachinko machine (which were a later addition, as shown in the 1920s flashback) look like her.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He's a real piece of work and an Abusive Parent, but he is shocked and angered when the Majestic 12 assassinates President Kennedy. He immediately attempts to cut off all contact with them and, when they try to blackmail him, he shows them why that's foolish.
  • He also doesn't seem to have prejudices about race, gender, and sexuality. He favored Allison a fair bit, was impressed by the human Grace's intelligence, and when he was listing Klaus's failures he didn't bring up his pansexuality as one of them. This is probably due to the fact he's an alien who didn't grow up on Earth and thus doesn't have human prejudices, plus he probably thinks it's a primitive species thing anyway.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: He often speaks a deep and rough voice.
• Fatal Flaw: Hargreeves’ inability to treat people with any amount of basic compassion or empathy ends up creating the two people responsible for the apocalypse.
• Faux Affably Evil:
  • Played with. He generally doesn't appear as truly evil or nice at all, but there was one occasion when he acted like a good presence in any of the siblings' lives: when he was leading Viktor to the sound proof room to contain him and eventually brainwash him using Allison's Rumour.
  • By comparison, his Sparrow timeline counterpart seems downright grandfatherly, offering Klaus biscuits and ice-cream when he visits, even bonding with him during his renewed training sessions. He even manages to make a good impression with the rest of the family, though it's clear that he's just hoping to get them to agree to his plan to save the universe. Alas, he's even more evil than his Umbrella counterpart; when push comes to shove, he murders Luther with a sadly apologetic air, and abandons Klaus to the Kugelblitz with a polite farewell.
• Gratuitous French: When he finally returns to the Hotel Obsidian with Klaus, he greets Chet the concierge by referring to him as "Mon frère"^Translation French for "My brother".
• Greater-Scope Villain: Other than the actions of the Commission, everything bad that happens in the series can be traced back to Reginald: his cruelty triggered the Start of Darkness of both of the people responsible for the apocalypse, his bad decisions and awful parenting are ultimately responsible for all of the heroes' harmful quirks and dysfunctions, and his deceptions — both in life and death — lead to the family arguing and breaking up on more than one occasion. All this because he wanted to sacrifice them to reset the universe in order to resurrect his dead wife.
• The Heart: A very notable inversion, as The Heart is usually the moral center and the glue that holds The Team together. Instead, Reginald's highly abusive and heartless behavior drove the siblings apart, scattering them. There's something to be said for the fact that the longer he's dead, the closer the siblings become, whereas a narrative would normally have the absence of the heart be a case of Breaking the Fellowship.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: In Season 2, Diego accuses him of being this in the past. He sarcastically confesses to this over a formal dinner. When Five begs him for help to stop doomsday, Reginald only tells him apocalypses happen all the time and gives Five advice on time traveling. We don't know Reginald's endgame in either the past or the future. It's finally revealed in Season 3 that his endgame was to take control of a universe-rewriting machine that would allow him to resurrect his wife.
• Hidden Depths: He's apparently a big T.J. Hooker fan.
• High-Class Glass: Is almost never seen without his monocle (befitting a wealthy man), which briefly becomes a plot point when it goes missing following his death. It's a red herring, courtesy of Diego.
• I Did What I Had to Do: He justifies his treatment of his children as necessary to prevent The End of the World as We Know It. This ends up causing it in the first place. Three times over.
• Ignored Epiphany:
  • Season 2 involves his past self seeing the Umbrella Academy as broken adults confronting him for his jerkassery and trying to warn him about the future. What is his response? To adopt seven children anyway, forming the Sparrows.
  • In Season 3, Reginald is drugged and bullied by the Sparrow Academy after he kicks out Pogo, leaving him a prisoner in his own house and all of his plans put on indefinite hold. After Klaus helps him detox, it seems like he had realized that it was his own terrible behavior that put him there in the first place and he takes steps to be a better person... except that it was all one big ruse used to manipulate the Umbrellas and the Sparrows. He kills Luther to get them to fight the guardians in the pocket dimension, tries to have Klaus erased due to how unpredictable he can be and tries to have them sacrificed to power the Reset Device.
• Jerkass Has a Point: For all his abusive tactics, his cold-hearted demeanor, and his open dismissal of all invitations to bond with his adopted children, Reginald will occasionally have some semblance of a point. For one thing, he was exactly right when he told Five he wasn't ready to start time-travelling; he's also correct in his estimates of Klaus and the true potential of his powers. Five admits this when he finally returns, and Klaus is motivated to try and live up to that potential.
  • Despite royally screwing up his children's lives well into their adulthood he was right that his children are all adults now, and whatever he were responsible for doing to them as kids they are responsible for their own lives in the present.
  • Despite how insensitive Reginald's "The Reason You Suck" Speech is against kid Harold, he was eerily correct in his summation that trying to be something that you're not will only breed a lifetime of pain and resentment.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Sparrow Reginald seems to have much more pronounced sympathetic qualities and Klaus spends the second half of the season teaching him to be a better father to both families, which he seemingly slowly but surely succeeds in. Then Reginald kills Luther to manipulate the others into going into Hotel Oblivion, leaves Klaus behind to be erased by the Kugelblitz, and later starts draining the life force from everyone except Allison.
• Karma Houdini: While he's killed in several timelines along the way, in the third season finale's rebooted universe, he's not only richer and more influential than ever, he got his wife back, meaning he got what he wanted in the end despite all the horrible things he did to his children and implicitly causing the destruction of multiple worlds prior to Earth.
• Lack of Empathy: From the moment he's introduced, Sir Reginald shows little regard for the emotions of others — his first scene features him storming into the home of a woman who has just given birth after an extremely painful accelerated pregnancy, and asking her how much she wants for the child. Not to mention, he calls the child an it to the mother's face.
• Laser-Guided Karma: For a while in the "Sparrow" timeline; without Ben's death to drive the Academy to splinter, Reginald's abusive pressure gets too much by the time they're adults and Pogo eventually quits, but as a goodbye present he gifts the children pills to drug their father with to turn him into an obedient servant. After years of abusing his children in two different timelines, he spends years being verbally and financially abuse Reggie, including regular threats of violence. Notably, this isn't portrayed as good thing; the Sparrows are presented as just as bad as Reggie was and their indulgence in this mistreatment made them all far worse people for it.
• Latex Perfection: See that picture of him up there? It's a mask — not only does it hide his real face, but his real species as well.
• Lies to Children: He sent adolescent Luther to the moon for four years on false pretenses. Before that, when he locked Viktor up, he told the other children that he was sick and needed to be isolated.
• The Lost Lenore: He had a wife whom he clearly cared for at some point in the past, but she passed away. It's later revealed to be the woman from the season 1 flashback, which he spends season 3 trying to revive from the dead.
• Manipulative Bastard: The whole Thanatos Gambit should already give a clue to this, but the full extent of his manipulative behavior only becomes clear on Season 3. Just ask Klaus or Luther.
• Mugging the Monster: When the Majestic 12 tries to blackmail him into doing their bidding after he denounces them, he proceeds to reveal his true alien form and rip them to shreds.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: His death is the first step in his plan to reunite the family in order to prevent the apocalypse.
• Mysterious Past: Or, perhaps, mysterious future. A flashback depicts a younger Reginald comforting his dying wife in a strangely modern-looking bedroom... while outside the window, multiple rockets/missiles are blasting off in the distance. He is next seen disembarking a ship in America in the 1920s, looking to be at least in his late 30s, if not his 40s, meaning that he had to be quite old upon his death in 2019...The fact that he's revealed to be an alien wearing a human disguise either clears this up or makes this even more confusing, depending on how you interpret things. In season 3, he mentions that he's seen numerous worlds end, with Earth just being the latest in a long line.
• Never My Fault: When Klaus is able to communicate with him, he calls Reginald out on the fact that he is at fault if they are a bunch of messed up adults, but Reginald says he was just training them and that they keep blaming him for their dysfunction, despite him being a greatly abusive parent. The nearest he comes to any kind of acknowledgement of his failure is admitting that his method of dealing with Luther was a mistake — not sending him to the moon on a fool's errand, but keeping the unread research.
  • When Ben dies, he blames the children instead of acknowledging that it was flat out wrong to send children on such missions in the first place.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Because of the abuse Hargreeves inflicted on his children, they were simply too damaged and/or self-absorbed to succeed in preventing the Apocalypse. In fact, that very abuse is what causes the Apocalypse in the first place.
  • When Klaus briefly dies and speaks to him in the afterlife, Reginald spends most of their conversation verbally abusing him and refusing to take responsibility for the abuse he inflicted on Klaus and his siblings. When he finally gets around to explaining what can actually stop the apocalypse, Klaus has already begun returning to life and misses what Reginald was about to say. Perhaps the apocalypse could have been averted if he'd skipped the verbal abuse.
• Nominal Hero: He was opposed to the end of the world, but his methods are cruel and unempathetic, and Season 2 reveals he was part of a secret evil organisation. Not only that, but his reveal as an alien who has an interest in the dark side of the Moon might mean that he doesn't even care about the end of the world.
• Not So Above It All: He not only listens to rap music in the car, but he happily sings along.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: His apparent cruelty towards his adopted family is supposedly justified due to his need to create a functioning superhero team that can protect and ultimately save the world... but in season 3, his method of saving the world involves defeating the guardians of the Hotel Oblivion and sacrificing the lives his children to reboot the universe to his design — a world where he's in control of everything, his wife is alive, and the Academies are literally powerless to stop him. And it's indicated that this was the plan for the Academy all along. For good measure, while discussing the matter with Allison, he speaks of this objective as "a prize," indicating further selfish motives.
• Offing the Offspring: As his endgame in Season 3 draws near, he kills Luther with a tentacle through the chest to have the rest of the Academy band together around his death to enter the alternate Oblivion, and then he leaves Klaus behind in the collapsing reality.
• Other Me Annoys Me: Sparrow Hargreeves ends up looking down on his main universe counterpart for both inadvertently causing The End of the World as We Know It, but also for purposefully dulling Klaus and the Umbrella children's powers, so much so that he insists on helping Klaus hone his abilities to where his alternate self could have gotten them if he had preferred honey to vinegar.
• Parental Favoritism: Subverted in regards to Luther. Luther certainly thought this was the case in Season 1, but it turns out that Reginald cares just as little about him as all of his other children.
  • Interestingly, there are some hints that he saw Five as his favorite. In a flashback, Five uses his powers to get ahead of his siblings in a race, and Reginald brushes it off, saying that Five simply adapted. Additionally, Five was the only one whose powers impressed his past self, and he proceeds to give him genuinely helpful advice on his powers. When talking about their training, Five is surprised that the others were held in such low regard, as Reginald always gave him full marks.
• Pet the Dog: He was a stubborn, strict and callous man who expected way too much from the children, but he had his moments:
  • Though he was always distant, especially with Viktor, Reginald gives him the same violin his late wife told him to give to someone special. He even gives a small smile when Viktor gushes about how beautiful it is.
  • While berating Klaus in the afterlife, he gives his son a decent shave after callously pointing out a cut wouldn't matter since they're both dead. When all is said and done, he also asks if Luther is alright.
  • His office in Season 2 reveals that he genuinely cares about Pogo to some extent, having prominently framed Pogo's simple crayon picture of him holding hands with Reginald and Grace on the wall.
  • When they meet in the 1960s, Reginald seems to actually respect Five, offering him some genuinely helpful advice and assuring him that he isn't offended by Five's failure to listen to his future self.
  • In meetings with the Majestic 12, he argues against trying to assassinate President Kennedy and is angered and horrified when they do so anyway.
  • As selfish, manipulative, and callous as he is, there is one act of kindness that carries through to the end of season 3. He arranges things so that Alison gets to be with both her daughter and Ray in the new universe.
• Plot-Triggering Death: His death is the catalyst for the siblings returning home, kicking off the rest of the series.
• Politically Correct Villain: Played with. He doesn't seem to have prejudices about race, gender, and sexuality as he favored Allison a fair bit, was impressed by the human Grace's intelligence, and when he was listing Klaus's failures he didn't bring up his pansexuality as one of them; however, he clearly does not like children (ageism) and most likely doesn’t think highly of most other humans in general (xenophobia) due to the fact he's an alien.
• Properly Paranoid: After it's apparently been established that sending Luther to the Moon was just Sir Reginald's way of sending him into exile, it turns out the apocalypse Sir Reginald feared so much did come from the Moon, specifically from Viktor blowing it up and bringing the chunks tumbling down to the Earth. Whether Sir Reginald actually knew this, and whether Luther actually could've stopped it had he been there, remains unknown. Season 2 adds more fuel to the question of whether he knew, as he specifically made his deal with the Majestic 12 to give the United States a boost in the space race as a means to get dedicated information on the dark side of the Moon. Season 3 then reveals that he was keeping tabs the dark side of the Moon to make sure his wife's body was safe, and so he sent Luther on a mission to have someone ready to protect her.
• Quintessential British Gentleman: He looked and sounded the part. He wore a monocle and formalwear, had dignified facial hair, was titled Sir, spoke in a posh British accent, and had a Stiff Upper Lip that extended to emotional distance from his children. He was also noted as very accomplished.
• Snub by Omission: Frequently emphasized that he had adopted six superpowered children to the public, and repeatedly left out Viktor in the family portraits.
• Stiff Upper Lip: Very little in life troubled Sir Reginald, and if it did, he didn't express it in any way other than stern disapproval. He treated Viktor's impulsive murder of his nannies with mild frustration at the most, as if he'd just broken a plate. Not to mention how he barely paid any attention to the fact that the children killed several of the robbers in their first mission, showing his little regard for human life.
• Stronger Than They Look: To Diego's shock, Reginald proves to be more than a match for him when the two of them come to blows in the 1960s — despite looking to be somewhere in the vicinity of fifty or sixty. It's later revealed that Reginald isn't human.
• Tentacled Terror: His true alien has tentacles and he is most certainly not a good person.
• Thanatos Gambit: He killed himself and set up everything so it was odd enough to look like a bizarre murder. His plan was for the academy to become a team again by investigating the supposed murder. This one failed as Luther and Allison were the only ones actually thinking about the possibility of murder and did not involve their siblings.
• Took a Level in Badass: It seems quite the opposite at first, because he's being forcefully drugged by his children, but the Sparrow-timeline Reginald is much more capable than his Umbrella-timeline counterpart, who died achieving absolutely nothing. Sparrow Reggie not only recruited and trained a stronger and more competent team, but after Klaus gets him off his meds, he manages to train Klaus' newfound powers to perfection within hours, uses his good heart to emotionally manipulate his children, stages a successful False Flag Operation to get the team to go through with his Project Oblivion, and orchestrates the events as such that, even with Five and Klaus revealing his true colors, his plans would have gone without as much as a scratch if not for Allison's timely Heel–Face Turn. Even then, when she resets the universe, he got all he wanted anyway.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Subverted the kinder demeanor he puts on and tender moments he has with his kids and Lila are just a tactic to gaslight them into letting their guard down so they’ll help him with his ultimate goal of fighting the guardian of the White Buffalo Suite which will allow him to reboot the universe and get his wife back. He has no real concern about the outcome for them at all.
• Tough Love: His parenting was cruel with the intention to steel his children for the challenges ahead of them. It led to them leading miserable lives as adults.
• Vague Age: It's hard to say old he really is, given that he arrived in America in the 1920s, appears to be somewhere in his fifties around the time of the Kennedy assassination and can outfight much younger men, and still has dark hair in the 1990s. His showdown with Majestic 12 reveals that he's actually an alien, bringing his age even further into question.
• Villains Love Entertainment: At first the Sparrow timeline version only watches T.J. Hooker because it's one of the few things he's allowed to do in his drug-fuelled compliance with the Sparrow Academy, but he's later shown watching it for amusement after he stops taking the drugs.
• Who Shot JFK?: In Season 2, a photograph of him holding an umbrella by the grassy knoll is discovered by Diego. For much of the season, his adoptive children (besides Five) assume he had something to do with the Kennedy assassination. While he is affiliated with the Majestic 12 group that killed Kennedy, Reginald is not actually responsible — in fact, he is rather upset by the decision to kill the president.
• Willfully Weak: Reginald never uses his alien abilities unless he can take out all potential witnesses to unveiling himself like with his murder of the Majestic 12 in season 2 and Luther in season 3. Even when his life is potentially threatened by a Hotel Oblivion guardian, he refuses to use them to defend himself.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Sparrow Hargreeves manages to successfully tell this to Klaus after taking him to a graveyard, telling him that he's always had the power within himself to make the ghosts he fears afraid of him.

Pogo

Dr. Phinneus Pogo

Portrayed By: Adam Godley (Voice and Facial Performance Capture), Ken Hall (Motion Capture)

"In all regards, Sir Reginald Hargreeves made me what I am today. For that alone, I shall forever be in his debt."

A chimpanzee who was experimented on and rescued by Sir Reginald. He acts as his assistant and a second father figure to the children.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: Deconstructed. While he didn't approve of what Sir Reginald was doing to his adoptive children, his belief that he owes complete loyalty to Reginald for uplifting him kept him from interfering with the abusive treatment. This includes helping with Viktor's imprisonment, brainwashing and suppression, sending Luther to the moon for four years on a Snipe Hunt to help him find purpose in life after his Ape Man transmutation, and helping Hargreeves with his suicide in an attempt to reunite the Umbrella academy. Not only does his complicity in Hargreeves' abuse cause the siblings to lose all trust in Pogo, it becomes the main reason why Viktor murders him at the end of the first season.
• Apes in Space: Season 2 revealed that he was originally a test pilot for one of the early space shuttles; after being badly-wounded during a crash-landed, Sir Reginald gave him an experimental serum to save his life, apparently kickstarting his development into a fully-sapient being.
• Broken Pedestal: Triple dose.
  • Luther is not happy when he learns that the most trustworthy figure at the academy collaborated in Reginald's attempts to pull the wool over his eyes.
  • Similarly, he's even more upset when he discovers that Pogo knew that Sir Reginald committed suicide all along and remained silent in order to motivate the team.
  • Judging by their first scene together, Pogo was the one member of the Academy that Viktor felt he could trust wholeheartedly. Viktor confronts Pogo about knowing about his powers being repressed, which Pogo sadly confirms. Cue Viktor impaling him.
  • In season 3, Pogo finds himself expressing these sentiments towards Sir Reginald; after realizing that his adoptive father and master planned to sacrifice the lives of the Sparrow Academy in Project Oblivion, he abandoned his faith in Reggie and left the academy - but not before giving the kids a means of keeping Sir Reginald under their collective thumb.
• Civilized Animal: He's the most well-spoken character in the show, is never seen out of a snappy suit, and walks with a cane.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Viktor kills him by telekinetically throwing him onto a deer head mounted on the wall, impaling him arms-spread on the antlers.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Accomplice by Inaction. While he was more caring towards the siblings and didn't approve of Sir Reginald's psychological abuse at all, he felt he owed Reginald complete loyalty for uplifting him into sapience. This led to him participating in Reginald's more heinous actions such as suppressing Viktor's powers/emotions and generally treating him like a ticking timebomb, and sending Luther to the moon for four years on a Snipe Hunt to help him find purpose in life after his Ape Man transmutation, making just as responsible in creating the extreme dysfunction that haunted the siblings for years. It results in both the siblings losing all respect and love they once had for him and him being murdered by an enraged Viktor in the first season's end.
• Demoted to Extra: In season 1, Pogo plays a significant role in revealing just how much of Reginald's actions were used to manipulate and traumatize the siblings by being privy to everything that went on behind their backs. He consistently has a presence throughout this season right up until Viktor murders him in the finale. In season 2, since they time travel back to when Pogo was a baby, he only shows up in a few scenes like attacking Five on impulse and revealing how Reginald made him sapient. In season 3, it's revealed that as part of the Sparrow Academy's differing messed up dynamics from the Umbrella Academy, Pogo was the one to leave and self-actualize instead of the children he took care of in 2014 when Reginald dismisses him for objecting to Project Oblivion and joins the Mothers of Agony biker gang. He only shows up in three scenes to establish this divergence, give Five an inkling of Reginald's plans, and complete Five's personal Stable Time Loop with a Mothers of Agony tattoo.
• Everyone Has Standards: For all of Pogo's willingness to go along with whatever Reginald asked of both Academies, he felt Project Oblivion in the Sparrow timeline was a step too far and gave Marcus drugs to dope Reginald into compliance so it would never be enacted.
• Happily Adopted: Implied. Unlike the seven Hargreeveses, Pogo genuinely thinks well of Sir Reginald. Flashbacks show that Reginald was very fatherly to baby Pogo, unlike the lack of affection he showed to the seven.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Pogo stays behind to attempt to talk down a rampaging Viktor, giving the others a chance to escape the collapsing mansion.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Viktor telekinetically impales him on decorative antlers, which kills him.
• Intelligent Primate: An intelligent, uplifted chimpanzee.
• Karmic Death: While he isn't evil and he does love the Hargreeves children, he was complicit in their abuse and in lying to them about Reginald's death. Also, he was okay with Viktor and Klaus being locked up for hours on end when they were children. When Viktor asks him if he knew about his powers, he takes a moment to confess. Given the despondent expression in his eyes, he knew he was going to kill him.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: His belief that he owes complete loyalty to Hargreeves for uplifting him is what kept him from interfering in the man's abusive treatment of the siblings and is why he helped fake the murder mystery. Averted in the Sparrow timeline, where Project Oblivion is a bridge too far for even him.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Despite being a dignified, almost Alfred Pennyworth-esque figure, he's not above nodding his head to I Think We're Alone Now as the rest of the family dances along to it.
  • In season 3, his Sparrow timeline has quit his job at the Academy and is now working as a tough-as-nails tattooist for a biker gang - though he still has the distinguished English accent.
• Old Retainer: Pogo remains a loyal manservant to Sir Reginald even after the latter's death, and continues to look after the house and the now-adult children, presumably unpaid, throughout the series.
• Resign in Protest: In season 3, his Sparrow timeline counterpart is revealed to have taken issue with Sir Reginald's plan to send the Academy to their deaths in the Hotel Oblivion, and resigned his post in disgust. For good measure, he also gave Marcus the pills he needed to keep Reggie under control, ensuring that the Academy would remain safe from Project Oblivion indefinitely.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: His baby self in Season 2 is arguably this. Especially when Grace dresses him up in pajamas.
• Sacrificial Lion: The siblings' trusted caretaker is offed by Viktor, showing that he's careened into villainy.
• Secret-Keeper: After the group finds out many of their father's plans, he has no choice but to admit that he was complicit in all of them, including sending Luther to the moon for no reason, assisting in his master's suicide, or keeping Viktor's powers under lock and key.
• The Speechless: In Season 2, implying that he developed the capability to talk later on.
• Talking Animal: A talking chimpanzee, Season 2 reveals that it was one of Reginald's serums that would give him certain human-like attributes.
• Team Dad: Given that Sir Reginald couldn't be bothered to treat his children as anything other than pawns, Pogo had to take up the strain of actually interacting with them over the course of their time at the Academy. Following Reginald's death, he does his best to keep the peace, maintain day-to-day operations around the Academy, and keep the team focused on a goal. Rather tellingly, when Pogo sternly reprimands Luther and Diego for arguing, their response is humorously similar to children who have just been caught sneaking sweets out of the cookie jar.
• Tranquil Fury: It takes a lot to anger Pogo and even then he very rarely raises his voice, but his anger and disappointment is audible in every single word he speaks.
• Uplifted Animal: His human-like abilities seem to be a result of experiments done on him. Season 2 reveals that in a parallel to Luther, it was done as a life-saving procedure after Pogo's spacecraft crashed with the side-effect of giving him human traits.
• Undying Loyalty:
  • To Sir Reginald. Even when the old man is dead, Pogo still keeps his secrets and obeys his orders, no matter the harm it may cause.
  • Season 3 reveals that there was one limit to Pogo's loyalty: setting up the members of the Academy to be killed in Hotel Oblivion was enough to get Pogo to resign from Sir Reginald's service.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Lays into Luther and Diego in the wake of their latest argument in Episode 4.
  Pogo: This house was attacked! We barely got out with our lives. [...] Your brother is missing, and this is how you rise to the occasion? Take your nonsense elsewhere—now.
  Luther: (meekly) Sorry, Pogo.
  Diego: Yeah, sorry, Pogo.
  (the two of them shuffle out of the room awkwardly)

Grace

Grace Hargreeves

Portrayed By: Jordan Claire Robbins

"Now, now. Mr. Hargreeves was a great man. Industrialist, inventor, Olympic gold medalist. He made the world a better place."

A robot built by Hargreeves to take care of the children.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: In the source material, Grace was a mannequin who had difficulty moving properly; this one is an android and was programmed with the ability to move.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: The original was a mannequin turned human in behavior; this version is far more attractive than the source material's original, who didn't even have any arms or legs!.
• Adaptation Personality Change: The source material had her as a convert to Christianity, but in this continuity she isn't religious at all. The Sparrow version of Grace, on the other hand, fully converts to religion after beholding the Kugelblitz.
• Affectionate Nickname: She tends to call Diego 'silly' a lot, though her tone is nothing but fond.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Unlike her sweet Umbrella counterpart, the Sparrow timeline's Grace is way less stable, possibly as a result of neglect by the Sparrow Academy. She worships the Kugelblitz as a deity, and when both Academies join forces to try to eliminate it, she goes rogue and attacks all of them with a flamethrower for trying to "build a prison for God".
• Androids Are People, Too: Sometimes it seems as if she's more than a perfect 50s-style mom robot, and sometimes not. The siblings are split — Luther is more willing to treat her like an appliance, while the others, particularly Diego, see her as their mother.
• Badly Battered Babysitter: Grace was built because Viktor had a nasty habit of killing his human nannies when they tried to make him eat his oatmeal. Grace being able to get back up after Viktor twisted her neck around 180 degrees is what convinced the boy to eat.
• Chekhov's Skill:
  • After Reginald dies, Luther mentions that Grace is programmed to provide emergency medical care and wonders why she didn't help. Multiple siblings end up needing her help before the season is through.
  • It's also mentioned that she can serve as "a protector." This comes back in season 3 with a dark twist, when she becomes a protector to the Kugelblitz and takes a flamethrower to the Academies when they try to imprison it.
• Deceptively Human Robots: She looks human, but many of her mannerisms and speech patterns are a bit off, giving her a decidedly inhuman air.
• Eye Scream: Sparrow Grace has her right eye partially disconnected and dangled into the Kugelblitz so Ben and Fei can get some idea of what's going on inside it - resulting in the whole thing being snapped off. From then on, Grace is left with an empty eye socket that nobody bothers to fix.
• Going Down with the Ship: She stays in the mansion when Viktor brings it down and sadly waves to Diego from a window.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: Diego believes that the affection she shows the kids, like helping him with his stutter, could only come from Grace developing it herself, as Reginald is much too callous and narcissistic to program it in. "The Day That Wasn't" implies that this is true when Grace chooses to tell Diego the truth about Reginald's death despite Reginald and Pogo instructing her not to. It's confirmed when flashbacks reveal that Grace was made to be an indestructible nanny, not a mother. The mother part was not part of her programming.
• The Heart: Her function. She was always loving and caring towards the children, and even now they're all very attached to her.
• Head Turned Backwards: She survive impacts that leave her head twisted around 180 degrees due to being a robot, and just as easily twist her skull in the right direction with no lasting damage. However, this is presumably a feature required for dealing with Viktor; Sparrow Grace doesn't have it, of course, resulting in Five successfully shutting her down once and for all by snapping her neck.
• House Wife: Invoked. While he obviously wasn't married to her, Reginald modeled her after the classic loving 1950s homemaker, and her job was to do chores and provide maternal care towards the children.
• In Spite of a Nail: In season 3. The main reason Sir Reginald brought Grace in in the original timeline was that Viktor kept killing his nannies. In the new timeline, Sir Reginald never adopted Viktor, and the Sparrows are much better trained than the Umbrellas ever were, leaving it a mystery why Sir Reginald obtained her in the new timeline.
• Interfaith Smoothie: Upon seeing the Kugelblitz, Sparrow Grace starts worshipping it and incorporates concepts from multiple religions in her veneration. She draws the symbols of every religion in front of it, and brings up Jesus, Buddha, and Brahma as possible forms of it.
• Just a Machine: In sharp contrast to her counterpart in the Umbrella Academy, Sparrow Grace was never treated as a parental figure and consequently, none of the Sparrows regard her as anything other than a machine - to the point that they consider Diego weird for calling her "mom." Indeed, they're so dismissive of her that they clearly haven't been bothering to maintain or repair her, as she audibly suffers an Electronic Speech Impediment in her first scene and continues to deteriorate over the course of the season. This may explain why she goes mad and starts worshipping the Kugelblitz.
• Madness Makeover: Sparrow Grace deteriorates in mind and body over the course of the season, thanks to the Kugelblitz. By the end, she's missing an eye, she's wearing a makeshift wimple in an expression of her religious mania, and her voice is beginning to sound intermittently robotic as she descends into the lowest nadir of her sanity.
• Nice Girl: In spite of her programming as a simple nanny, her compassion outgrew her coded behavior and became a much-needed positive parental figure to the Umbrella siblings, such as helping Diego overcome his stuttering.
• Parental Substitute: She was designed to be a nanny for the children. However, she eventually took on a motherly role and it was effective enough that even in adulthood the Hargreeves siblings consider her their mom.
• Religious Robot: Sparrow Grace starts worshipping the Kugelblitz as God after discovering it in the Academy basement. She writes down glyphs in worship, tries to decipher its noise as its teachings, and violently attacks anyone she sees as getting in its way. It's unknown if Umbrella Grace would have had the same religious inclinations or not.
• Replacement Goldfish: Season 2 shows that Grace was built to resemble the scientist of the same name whom Reginald was dating in the 1960s.
• Robot Maid: A robot who kept the house tidy and looked after the children.
• Stepford Smiler: Seems to be programmed to only be able to say positive things about Reginald. However, when Luther and Allison are trying to surreptitiously investigate her and ask if she was ever angry at Reginald as she cooks, she goes silent and aggressively scrapes at the frying pan, then snaps abruptly back to smiling as she serves up breakfast. Bonus points for visually evoking a Stepford wife in her appearance.
• Superpowered Robot Meter Maid: She was built to function as a nurturer, and if necessary a defender.
• Team Chef: She frequently asks the siblings if they want anything to eat, and is shown cooking Allison and Luther breakfast in one scene. When yet another team meeting ends on a bad note, Grace immediately decides to bake cookies to cheer all of them up.
• Team Mom: Specifically designed for this very purpose; in one montage, she repairs Allison's mask, asks Luther if he's all ready to go, helps Ben with the zipper on his jumpsuit, gently scolds Klaus for setting things on fire, compliments Viktor on his progress with the violin, and coaches Diego through his nervous stutter.
• Textile Work Is Feminine: She's modeled after the classic House Wife and seen doing embroidery in one episode.

The Commission

General

• Adaptation Name Change: They were called "The Temps Aeternalis" in the comics.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: The Commission's field hitmen go about their business in tailored suits, as seen with Cha-Cha, Hazel, and Five.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: They're not an evil entity so much as they're dedicated to preserving the timeline, and this means protecting everything, good or bad, even the apocalypse; as their POV of the world is more dejected, they don't even see the apocalypse as a bad thing since it's supposed to happen, and according to the Handler, while its the end of the world as the Hargreeves know it its not the end, and something will come along to replace it. Muddying their morality, they decided Murder Is the Best Solution, so no matter the infraction they resort by killing anyone who might interfere with the proper flow of time, even complete innocents, and to especially ensure their activities aren't noticed they don't leave witnesses.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: By sheer dint of having no more leaders available at the end of Season 2, the Commission elects the analyst Herb into an interim director position until they can properly sort out a new leadership. It's unclear if the Commission is still dedicated to ensuring an apocalypse happens at a point in the timeline, but Herb agrees to turn a blind eye to the Hargreeves siblings as thanks for taking out the Handler and lets them go back to 2019 without any strings attached.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: While we know they want to keep history from changing its course, it's really unclear why they do it, since Five's temporal modifications have not done any harm to the world on a greater scale, in fact saving it; however the Handler does note that the Apocalypse he's trying to prevent is just the end of "something", implying there is something else destined to replace society after the fall. It's muddied further when the Handler mentions to Five that the course they want to keep can be changed by people in their own time period with no knowledge of the future. Season 3 throws a curveball by revealing that the Commission was actually founded by Five in the future at some unknown point.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The Commission's hitmen aren't known for their accuracy. Hazel and Cha-Cha miss most of their shots, the supposedly elite soldiers seen in the Season 1 finale prove more adept at hitting the scenery than anything they're actually aiming at, the Swedes only manage to hit targets that are standing perfectly still, and an entire army of hitmen fail to hit any of the fleeing members of the Academy, despite them having no cover for several minutes. On the other hand, hitmen like Hazel and Cha-Cha prove much more adept in melee combat.
• Time Police: The Commission is comprised of individuals out of time, performing missions to preserve the timeline.
• White Collar Worker: Unlike the field agents, who wear tailored suits, the management-level employees are structured like and dress like office workers.

The Handler

The Handler

Portrayed By: Kate Walsh

"I must admit, Number Five, in all the time that I've been here, I've never met anyone quite like you."

A management-level member of The Commission and Five's former employer. She is cool, intelligent and dangerous.

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• Abusive Parents: She only sees her adopted daughter Lila as a tool to do her bidding. When Lila turns on her mother and accepts the Hargreeves as her family, the Handler doesn't hesitate to shoot her.
• Adaptational Villainy: Worked to prevent the end of the world in Dallas, but is fine with the apocalypse occurring here.
• Arachnid Appearance and Attire: After taking over the Commission in Season 2, her victory gown has a distinct spider motif, befitting her devious habit of weaving her allies and enemies alike into webs of her own design. Also, some spiders are known to even eat their children, which is what she does to Lila when she rebels against her.
• Arch-Enemy: She serves as this to Five being the most personal enemy that Five has ever faced, and out of all the Hargreeves children, The Handler despises Five the most.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: She wears her hair and frequently dresses in a vintage, 1950s style.
• Ax-Crazy: She's a psychotic and creepy murderer and child kidnapper who is so unhinged that she even ate a live, talking fish because he nearly got her busted.
• Bad Boss: By the final episode of Season 1, she's intending to have Hazel and Cha-Cha bumped off for being tricked by Five. When she takes over the Commission in Season 2, she apparently has a habit of "vanishing" anyone who disappoints her; plus, after finding out about Harlan's new powers, she murders the switchboard operator who told her about it.
• Big Bad: She fully comes into this position by Season 2, having used Five to leverage control over the Commission and then throwing its full might and Lila to destroy the Hargreeves and nab another powered child for her use.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Along with Harold Jenkins in Season 1. She is Hazel and Cha-Cha's boss and sent them to cause mayhem against the Umbrella Academy members in order to ensure the apocalypse.
• Boom, Headshot!: Hazel shoots her in the head at the end of Season 1. She survives.
• Decomposite Character: She represents the personal employer of Five who has a close connection with him from the Commission as he tries to stop the apocalypse aspect of Carmichael.
• Dub Personality Change: A minor one, but while she retains her Faux Affably Evil quality in the French dub, it's differently showed whether she's talking to an enemy or an ally she wants to manipulate. She addresses her foes with formal reverence and occasionally dips into Sophisticated as Hell territory when she throws insults, while she speaks in a more friendly, informal manner to those she tries to manipulate.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: After being demoted, she switches to a short brunette hairstyle. She switches back to platinum blonde after fully taking over the Commission.
• Evil Counterpart: To Five, both are formal, charismatic, ruthless and middle-aged (although Five get rejuvenated) assassins. They are both willingly to do anything and manipulate and kill anyone to succeed in their own goals, but while Five has a Hidden Heart of Gold and actually cares about his siblings, The Handler is a complete sociopath who only cares about power and feigns love for her adoptive daughter Lila. Their goals are directly the opposite too, with Five determined to prevent the apocalypse at all cost even if it means changing history whilst The Handler wants the apocalypse to happen without a hitch and history to stay the same. The Handler even says they’re alike and repeatedly tries to persuade Five over to her side, he blows her off each time.
• Evil Is Petty: One of the first things she gloats about to AJ after taking control of the Commission is getting back her parking spot after she was assigned a different one from being demoted.
• Faux Affably Evil: She's cheerful, friendly and a complete sociopath.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Unlike Klaus and Allison, who smoke cigarettes, the Handler uses a cigarette holder to complete her "vintage" look. Fitting for a major villain.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard:
  • In direct contravention of Commission protocol, the Handler has a habit of collecting a wide variety of weapons from across history — including M26 grenades from the Vietnam War. Five eventually goes on to steal some of those grenades for himself, badly wounding the Handler and destroying a sizable chunk of the Commission's headquarters.
  • In Season 2, framing Diego for the youngest Swede's death comes back to bite her in the ass when the remaining member of the assassin trio figures out it was the Handler who arranged it all; he ends up shooting her in the back during the climax — twice thanks to Five's time-travelling abilities.
• Humiliation Conga: In Season 2, she's demoted by the Commission, her old job is taken by Herb, her parking space is revoked... and she ends up working at Five's old desk. Unfortunately, this quickly becomes the foundation of a brutal quest for revenge.
• Hypocrite: She is opposed to changing the course of history, but she still faked the kill order on Lila's parents, which could have great effects on history, as shown by the Commission offing distantly related people to the event they're cancelling.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After everything she did and got away with, the last Swede (Axel) did not hesitate to kill her once he finds out they were played.
• Kick the Dog: Almost literally; she kicks (or stabs with her heel) one of the cats outside the Swedes' house in Season 2 when it tries to nuzzle her.
• Lust: Her desire to gain and later, keep, as much power as she can get her hands on drives most of her actions.
• Manipulative Bastard: Gleefully steps into this role in order to seize control of the Commission in Season 2, playing Five against the Board of Directors, Lila against Diego and Five, and her own employees against AJ.
• No Sense of Personal Space: As a part of her Faux Affably Evil act, the Handler loves to get way too close with her foes, a tactic used to make them feel vulnerable. She usually acts like that with Five, caressing his face and being very touchy and flirtatious with him in general, as well as blabbering about her burnt rugae and constant urination while she's in a stall right next to him, and then peeking into his stall. She also acts that way with The Swedes, when she gets naked, invades their sauna, and grabs Otto's penis and pours water on Axel while talking to them in Swedish.
• Not Quite Dead:
  • Despite initially appearing to have been blown up by Number Five, she turns up alive with some facial burns.
  • It's later revealed in Season 2 that she had a metal plate implanted in her skull after an undisclosed incident, preventing Hazel's gunshot from causing fatal brain damage and giving her a second chance to get back at Five.
• Not So Above It All: She shows this side more in Season 2 where she gleefully slams her fist on the table and loudly declares, "Bingo, you old shitbags!" when she realizes she's won the patio in — of all things — a game of bingo.
• Not So Stoic: She normally comes across as perfectly serene, even when confronting Five over his betrayal or raking Hazel and Cha-Cha over the coals. However, after discovering that she's been demoted to a lowly White Collar Worker and that Herb has taken over her old position, she's clearly furious... and finding herself working at Five's old desk causes her to suffer a screaming fit.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Is dressed in black and wears red lipstick and red shoes.
• Scars Are Forever: In Season 2, she sports a particularly distinctive scar on her forehead from where Hazel shot her.
• Signature Scent: She's noted to have a very distinct lavender perfume. The oldest Swede realizes that the Handler duped him when he reexamines the supposed capsule sent by the Commission and sniffs a trace of lavender on it.
• The Sociopath: She is sadistic and manipulative, taking obvious glee in killing people in horrifically personal ways, and easily controlling people through lies and deals she does not intend to keep. She needs constant stimulation, usually having some sort of activity to do at any given time, and never displays any form of empathy, as it is all but stated that she does not really love her adopted daughter, Lila, and immediately shoots her when the latter allies with the academy. She also does not show any remorse for her actions, only seeming remotely nervous when she fears her lies might fall apart.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted. She likes to go off on grandiose tangents, but Five doesn't have the patience for them, Hazel shoots her in the head while she's in the middle of one, and the final Swede kills her when she's busy talking to Lila.
• Too Much Information: As Five tries to hide in a bathroom stall to read the Commission's book on the Apocalypse, the Handler enters the stall right next to him and begins to talk about her burnt rugae, her liquid diet and her "marathon of urination", which leaves Five visibly uncomfortable.
• Time Master: For the degree that others are shown to have, she has access to much more developed technology on time travel. She also has a habit of freezing everything around her when she arrives, which makes for more memorable entrances.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Seizes control of the entire Commission in Season 2, making the group even harsher and more ruthless than ever before; new Putting on the Reich uniforms are instituted, Canned Orders over Loudspeaker becomes common across headquarters, and employees who don't make the cut "vanish."
• Villainous Face Hold: She has the habit of caressing Five's face while talking to/taunting him in a faux-flirtatious way. She has similar habits with Lila: one second she's gently cradling her face, the next she's violently pressing her cheeks as a form of intimidation.
• Villain Respect: She respects Five's courage, determination, and ingeniosity, which is why she is willing to give him a promotion instead of killing him. She even hints at the fact that she wants him to succeed her.
• Villains Out Shopping: Plays Bingo in Season 2, hoping to win a patio set.
• Waking Up at the Morgue: Left paralyzed after getting shot in the head by Hazel, she regains consciousness just before two morgue attendants are about to toss her body into a cremation oven — and would have been burnt alive if one of them hadn't noticed her twitching.
• Wall of Weapons: She keeps a collection of weapons from various different historical eras in her office. Her proudest acquisition is the pistol Adolf Hitler used to kill himself; she eventually arms herself with it when Five turns traitor. Unfortunately for her, Five isn't above borrowing parts of her collection for his own ends.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Easily one of the more flat-out evil characters on the show. Her platinum blonde hair is a visual trait linked with when she can abuse her authority in the Commission for her own goals of accruing power in both seasons.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Plays this as naturally as she breathes. By Season 2, she incorporates unforeseen actions that should hurt her plans, such as Lila offering Diego to work at the Commission or finding out who killed her parents, and turns them around in a way she benefits.
• Yiddish as a Second Language: The Handler drops a few Yiddish words, including telling Five that he's got a lot of chutzpah. She also translates the expression "The eggs think that they're smarter than the chicken" from Yiddish for the benefit of Hazel and Cha-Cha.
• You Can't Fight Fate: She deeply believes this, just like everyone in her organization. She considers Five's plan to fight against the apocalypse a mere fantasy.
• You Remind Me of X: She tells Five that he reminds her of herself when she was younger.

Cha-Cha

Cha-Cha

Portrayed By: Mary J. Blige

"You know what happens to people who step out of line. We'd be hunted down like dogs. What's the matter with you?"-

A professional killer and Hazel's partner. She is the more level-headed and professional one of the duo.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: She and Hazel don't appear until the Dallas storyline in the comics that Season 2 was based on.
• Adaptational Name Change: The pink dog-headed assassin was called Hazel in the book.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics, she was psychotic to the point where she and Hazel cut off a man's arms and legs just because the guy jokingly said they'd have to do so for him to give up his secret pie recipe. While she has still killed a lot of people and tortures the tow-truck driver to death, she comes across as a Consummate Professional instead of a deranged lunatic. However, when Hazel attempts to go legit later on, Cha-Cha becomes more deranged and Ax-Crazy.
• Ambiguously Human: While there's nothing directly suggesting they aren't human, both she and Hazel seem capable of feats of strength and endurance far beyond what you could expect from a mere Badass Normal. Among other things, Cha-Cha survives being launched through the windshield of a car in a high-speed collision onto pavement, and while certainly injured is still in fighting shape after.
• Badass Normal: Has no superpowers, but is able to take on most of the Umbrella Academy head-on and survive.
• Brains and Brawn: Oddly enough, she's the Brawn to Hazel's Brains. She is more ruthless and dangerous in close combat than him, and is the only one of them who actually kills someone on screen, while Hazel is more insightful and clever, being able to read the between the lines of the Commission's orders, successfully deducing that the Commission (actually Five) had sent orders to him and Cha-Cha to kill each other, and almost kills her by catching her off guard twice, with the first being "almost" purely due to his Hitman with a Heart nature.
• Butt-Monkey: As the series progresses, she suffers an increasing number of embarrassing beatdowns.
• Consummate Professional: While she questions the necessity of some of her assignments, she never intentionally fails to complete them.
• Cop Killer: Kills Detective Patch in "Man on the Moon".
• Dark Action Girl: She's a highly skilled assassin, dueling both Allison and Diego to a standstill, and even managing a rematch with Diego after being launched headlong through a car windshield.
• Death by Genre Savviness: After she tries and fails to kill Agnes, the Handler reveals she never sent them the call to assassinate each other and assigns them to protect Viktor. Cha-Cha attempts to apologize to a visibly seething Hazel by saying that they didn't kill each other when they could... only for Hazel to catch her by surprise and very nearly kill her for real.
• Emergency Temporal Shift: Tried and failed; in her final moments, she's seen frantically calling the Handler in a desperate attempt to escape the oncoming apocalypse, but with the Handler having been freshly shot by Hazel, nobody's around to stop time and save her. As a result, Cha-Cha is annihilated by the blast wave from the apocalyptic meteor impact.
• Evil Counterpart: Allison and Cha-Cha are attractive and confident dark skinned women who are quite fierce. Like Allison and Luther, Cha-Cha values Hazel, though unlike Allison and Luther, it's a result of believing she's Entitled To Have Him.
• Gender Flip: Hazel and Cha-Cha are both male in the comics.
• Made of Iron: While not to quite the same extent as Hazel, like him she's able to take a lot of punishment, including surviving being launched through the windshield of a car in a high-speed collision onto pavement, and then being able to get up and fight afterward.
• Malevolent Masked Men: She and Hazel wear cartoon masks when going to kill targets.
• Married to the Job: Hazel accuses her of this in one episode, saying that their job is all she ever thinks about anymore. Considering she doesn't even deny it and gets mad about his slipping priorities instead, it's probably true.
• More Deadly Than the Male: While Cha-Cha and Hazel are both dangerous, even when apart, it's Cha-Cha who is more ruthless about killing and torturing. She's even furious when she finds out Hazel has let at least two kills go — even if they were an old woman and a young boy, respectively. Furthermore, it's Cha-Cha who spearheads the tow-truck driver's torture and shoots Eudora Patch in the back.
  • However, on the side of intelligence, it's inverted. Cha-Cha is the better fighter of the two, as she came out on top after their fight, despite having hurt her arm to escape, but Hazel makes up for it by being more insightful and cunning than she is, which she finds the hard way when he realises she has orders to kill him and uses this to get her by surprise and knock her out. The only reason she got out with her life was because Hazel wanted to quit the Commission and his life of killing.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Her and Hazel's masks.
• Pink Means Feminine: Wears a pink dog mask while on the job.
• Punch-Clock Villains: Treats her assassinations as a day job but one that she clearly enjoys.
• Sanity Slippage: After Hazel tries to kill her by launching her through the windshield, she really starts to lose it, ignoring her injuries and continuing to the theatre in a frenzied attempt to stop the Umbrella Academy despite being completely superfluous and practically on death's doorstep.
• Tom the Dark Lord: She's a ruthless, lethally skilled hitwoman... named "Cha-Cha."
• True Companions: With Hazel at first. They later turn on each other after Hazel tries to go legit.
• Yandere: Heavily implied to be this for Hazel, with her increasingly emotional and obsessive behaviour after Hazel leaves the Commission and runs off with Agnes.

Hazel

Hazel

Portrayed By: Cameron Britton

"I guess I'm just tired of all this being told what to do, where to go."

One of the hitmen of the Commission and Cha-Cha's partner. He often wonders about their job and how exploited the working class is.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: He and Cha Cha don't appear until the Dallas storyline in the comics that Season 2 was based on.
• Adaptational Heroism: Was purely a villain in the comics.
• Adaptational Name Change: The blue bear-headed assassin was called Cha-Cha in the book.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics. He was psychotic to the point where he and Cha-Cha cut off a man's arms and legs just because the guy jokingly said they'd have to do so for him to give up his secret pie recipe. While he has still killed a lot of people and helps Cha-Cha torture the tow-truck driver to death, he starts to regret his life choices and reconsiders his position as a hitman. He also falls in love with Agnes the waitress, spurring his decision to quit. In the comic he simply beats her senseless.
• Affectionate Nickname: He has a habit of referring to Five as "Old-Timer."
• Ambiguously Human: While there's nothing directly suggesting they aren't human, both he and Cha-Cha seem capable of feats of strength and endurance far beyond what you could expect from a mere Badass Normal. Hazel especially is Made of Iron, able to take hits from Luther without serious injury.
• Badass Normal: Hazel has no superpowers, but he's able to take on most of the Umbrella Academy head-on and survive. He even outfights the super-strong Luther in single combat and manages to flip him over his shoulder like a sack of flour. To be fair, though, Luther was distracted with checking up on an injured Viktor.
• Bears Are Bad News: Wears a cartoon bear mask as a disguise.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Of the villains, Hazel is easily the silliest one to confront the heroes directly. He's an overweight man who whines constantly about his wrist aches and the struggles of lower-class workers like him, finds any excuse to go to Griddy's both to chow down on donuts and flirt with the elderly proprietor of the shop, and is easily the least motivated of the villains, but he's shown to be able to go toe-to-toe with Luther and come out none the worse for wear, is utterly ruthless when torturing or killing people most of the time, and when he finally puts his mind to it, is more than a match for Cha-Cha and The Handler, neither of whom get a chance to fight back against him in the final episode, thanks to him being smarter and more pragmatic.
• Brains and Brawn: Oddly enough, he's the Brains to Cha-Cha's Brawn. While she is more ruthless and dangerous in close combat than him, and is the only one of them who actually kills someone on screen, Hazel is more insightful and clever, being able to read the between the lines of the Commission's orders, successfully deducing that the Commission (actually Five) had sent orders to him and Cha-Cha to kill each other, and almost kills her by catching her off guard twice, with the first being "almost" purely due to his Hitman with a Heart nature.
• Catchphrase: "Elaborate."
• Demoted to Extra: In Season 2, his role is relegated to a few scenes at the beginning of the premiere, and that's it. While still serving as a Small Role, Big Impact character in that time, the character has a smaller role than the Season 1 finale suggested that he would.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Abruptly killed by the Swedes at the beginning of the second season premiere.
• Evil Counterpart: Luther and Hazel are large men with Super-Strength who are also a Bruiser with a Soft Center that doubt themselves and just want to find love due to working in jobs that they resent. But whereas Luther has his siblings to rely on for support, Hazel only has Cha-Cha, who enables his bad behavior and constantly reinforces the idea that they are bad guys (at least until he meets Agnes).
• Fanboy: Of Five. He's practically squeeing when they get the chance to sit down and talk over margaritas.
• Gender-Blender Name: Hazel is a man.
• Hand Cannon: Carries a Desert Eagle as his sidearm of choice, in contrast to Cha-Cha's more sensibly proportioned pistol, until he turns both guns over to Five when he decides to retire.
• Heel–Face Turn: He finally reforms himself to save Agnes from the Handler. To prove this wasn't just for love, he later saves Five from being killed in a new timeline.
• Hidden Depths: Hazel is very perceptive about human nature and the world. He can see that he's being played by the Commission at the end of the season even though Cha-Cha believes they'll be forgiven. He also has a deep appreciation for the smaller things in life, such as birds and being able to grow old normally.
• Hitman with a Heart: Of the pair, Hazel is the more compassionate, expressing remorse at some of their executions. When he gets the fake order to eliminate Cha-Cha, he can't bring himself to terminate his partner, opting to handcuff her to the radiator, despite Cha-Cha outright telling him that she wouldn't do the same for him. Furthermore, he's visibly saddened at how much life will be lost when the apocalypse comes, remarking that the poor people around them don't even know what's coming while Cha-Cha could hardly care less.
• Love Redeems: His love for Agnes ultimately causes him to give up the life of a time-traveling hitman to start a donut shop with her. In Season 2, he even reappears (albeit briefly) as a key ally to Five in his mission to stop the apocalypse.
• Made of Iron: Can go head to head with Luther, and after a bad fight with Diego, doesn't even acknowledge his wounds when he gets stabbed.
• Malevolent Masked Men: He and Cha-Cha wear cartoon masks when going to kill targets.
• May–December Romance: A rare older woman/younger man variation, there's a 30-year age gap between Cameron Britton and and Sheila McCarthy.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: It's seemingly averted when he's cornered by Cha-Cha about the two people he let get away, saying he did it for fun. However, befitting his job as an assassin with a softer side, he's anything but, having let those people go out of kindness. He proves this when he shoots the Handler in the head as soon as he sees her.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: His and Cha-Cha's masks.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Treat his assassinations as a day job. However, in contrast to Cha-Cha, he's clearly just trying to get to retirement.
• Redemption Equals Death: After meeting Five in 1963 as an ally, he gets gunned down by the Swedes.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Hazel decides to just kill The Handler and skedaddles with Agnes to some other time period in the first season finale. Season 2 implies they went to the 40's if his comment about how they spent 20 years together is an indicator.
• Small Role, Big Impact: None of Season 2 would have happened if he failed to slip Five the film before getting gunned down by the Swedes in Episode 1.
• Stout Strength: He's got a paunch on him and generally lacks muscle definition, but is strong enough to take on Luther.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: He gets shot a few minutes into the first episode of Season 2, though he has had 20 happy years since the last season.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He grows attached to the jelly-filled doughnuts in Agnes's shop.
• True Companions: With Cha-Cha at first. They later turn on each other after Hazel tries to go legit.

AJ

AJ Carmichael

Portrayed By: Robin Atkin Downes

Head of the Commission's board of directors. Introduced in Season 2, he assumes control of the Handler's position after her temporary absence from office.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He rather pitifully begs for his life when Five comes for him.
• Character Death: The Handler eats him for nearly leaking the truth of her involvement with the murder of Lila's parents.
• Decomposite Character: He represents the talking goldfish aspect of Carmichael and shares his name, but doesn't have much of a personal connection with Five like the character does in the comics.
• Dirty Coward: He really doesn't have much in the way of guts and poses no physical threat.
• Meet the New Boss: Instituted in the same position as the Handler in the Commission for Season 2 and maintaining the same goal of eliminating the Academy's interference in history and ensuring the apocalypse's arrival in the timeline.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In a desperate attempt to undermine the Handler's takeover of the Commission, he spells out a file number in gravel to Herb, trusting that he'll take it to Lila — revealing that the Handler was responsible for the murder of Lila's parents. Unfortunately, it turns out that the Handler covered her tracks by forging AJ's authorization, so the only thing the file reveals is that Five carried out the assassination. As a result, not only does the Handler's crime go undiscovered, but Lila now wants Five and the rest of the Umbrella Academy dead.
• Non-Human Head: A human with a fishbowl as a head.
• Talking Animal: He is a talking goldfish who indulges in human habits like smoking cigarettes via his robotic walking tank. Unlike Pogo, where his sapience is implied to be a result of Reginald's experimentations, it's never explained how he developed this ability, and without the 'human suit' he is essentially reduced to a sentient goldfish.

Herb

Herb

Portrayed By: Ken Hall

A management-level employee at the Commission.

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• Affably Evil: He's one of the friendliest Commission employees (Especially compared to the Handler.) and eventually becomes an ally of the heroes, but ultimately he's still a member of (and later, the leader of) an organization of Knight Templars dedicated to murdering people in cold blood to maintain what they believe to be the correct timeline.
• Affectionate Nickname: Herbie, if you're Diego.
• Ascended Extra: He appears a few times as a background character during the first season.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: No one expects Herb to be anything more than a pencil-pusher. He not only helps Diego find out what happened on Doomsday but leads a resistance. Though Lila scares him about letting Diego leave, Herb seems to consider that it was worth it.
• Happy Ending Override: Things seems to be going well for him at the end of season 2, leading the Commission as an ally to the Umbrella Academy. Then season 3 reveals the Commission was almost immediately destroyed by the effects of the Kugelblitz, killing him as well.
• Hero of Another Story: Although this subplot is only alluded to, he and Dot are leading a resistance against the Handler and eventually, he is tasked with rebuilding the Commission as acting chairman after its agents are annihilated and its board murdered.
• Lovable Nerd: A timid, awkward and friendly nerd who's incredibly sweet-natured, polite and loves the Hargreeves siblings.
• Nice Guy: Unlike the Handler, Herb is lovable, sweet and friendly, albeit a little awkward and nerdy.
• Odd Friendship: With Diego. The knife-weilding superhero with daddy issues and a bad attitude paired with a kind and short leader of a company of time assassins. Not the friendship most would have expected.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's a member of the Commission, but he's a Nice Guy who treats his job of contributing to the murder of innocent people like a normal job.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's much more affable and moral than the Handler, and is quick to help out the Hargreeves — he befriends Diego when he lands at the Commission, and offers the siblings a trip home, no strings attached.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He knows a lot about the Commission, and by Season 2 he's elected as chairperson.
• You Are in Command Now: He becomes acting chairperson of the Commission at the end of the second season.

The Swedes

Axel, Otto & Oscar

Portrayed By: Kris Holden-Ried (Axel), Jason Bryden (Otto) & Tom Sinclair (Oscar)

Three Swedish brothers working as the Commission hitmen dispatched to Dallas, 1963 with the aim of taking out the Academy.

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• All There in the Script: Their names are never stated out loud in the show and are only referred to in general as "the Swedes" by Commission personnel. Their names are given proper in the end credits.
• I Choose to Stay: The last Swede (Axel) doesn't use one of the many briefcases from the knocked-out Commission agents lying around Sissy's farm to leave 1960s USA, instead leaving the farm on foot and eventually being picked up by Destiny's Children to leave for parts unknown.
• Cycle of Revenge: They kill Elliot as a means to spite the Hargreeves siblings, leaving the message of "an eye for an eye" in Swedish for them to find. Axel also considers killing Five as another bit of revenge after killing the Handler, but Five successfully makes the plea for them to both stop.
• The Dog Bites Back: After being treated as disposable pawns by the Handler, Axel is the one who ultimately kills her as revenge for causing their first brother's death.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They're genuinely heartbroken when one of their own dies.
• Eye Scream: Allison shoves a piece of plastic into one the Swedes' eyes in a fight.
• Genre Refugee: Seem to have stepped right out of a gritty Nordic Noir story into the bizarre world of the Umbrella Academy.
• Hero Killer: They kill Hazel in the first episode of the second season and Elliot in the 6th.
• Misplaced Accent: It's doubtful that most Swedes actually would understand what they are saying without the subtitles, when they speak at all.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When the two remaining Swedes attack Allison, she Rumours Axel into strangling Otto. After completing this task, the survivor is left utterly horrified at what he's just done.
• No-Sell: Otto shrugs off Five's Neck Snap, which worked on other Commission assassins.
• Not So Stoic: Normally completely stonefaced, but after Oscar is killed by a landmine set up by the Handler, they are seen crying and openly wailing in grief.
• Pet the Dog: Surprisingly affectionate around cats; after murdering their landlady, they continue to care for her many cats — even while keeping her severed head in the freezer.
• Phenotype Stereotype: All three Swedes have platinum blonde hair.
• Precious Photo: They sometimes take out a monochrome photo of their younger selves with a woman who is presumably their mother for reminiscing.
• The Quiet One: Unlike Hazel and Cha-Cha, they remain silent throughout most of their appearances, even when interacting with other people. After Oscar is killed by a landmine, they begin to talk and openly display emotion in their despair.
• These Hands Have Killed: After Axel is made to murder his brother, he looks at his hand in anguish and prepares to chop it off with an axe before he's interrupted.
• Viking Funeral: After Oscar is killed by a landmine, the two remaining Swedes put his remains in a boat, push it out onto a lake and set it on fire with arrows.
• Villains Out Shopping: Can be seen ironing their clothes and playing with cats.

2019

Leonard Peabody

Harold Jenkins

Portrayed By: John Magaro

"You spend your whole life trying to forget about the crap you went through as a kid, y’know? And then the second you step back in, you feel just as insignificant."

A man with a crush on Viktor. He turns out to have more to do with the Umbrella Academy than is initially apparent.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, his only roles were to draw out Viktor's immense power and provide him with an orchestra with which he could perform the Apocalypse Suite; he even gets killed by her immediately after giving him both. In the show, he's a much more creepy, manipulative, and dangerous Evil Genius who manages to drive Viktor to cause the apocalypse all on his own, with less than half the resources he had in the comic.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, The Conductor never directly manipulated Vanya into dumping the Umbrella Academy; she chose to do so of her own will when she believed she had no place there. In the show, he takes on a much more hands-on approach, despite lacking much of the resources he had in the comics.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Viktor is about to give him what he deserves, he stutters, "Not him!"
• Ax-Crazy: He's a sadistic murderer willing to kill anyone in his way of getting even with The Umbrella Academy for simply rejecting him. He even killed his own father though to be fair, his father was an abusive and cruel person.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Shares the role as main villain with the Handler.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Ultimately, his lack of any actual powers and temperament made him a threat only while he could keep himself hidden. After his secrets come to light, Viktor murders him and becomes the Final Boss shortly before snapping and causing the apocalypse. As Five puts it, he is the fuse, but Viktor is the bomb.
• Birds of a Feather: He bonds with Viktor over their perceived ordinariness and troubled relationship with their fathers.
• Bullying the Dragon: After Viktor figures out what's going on, he tells him he's going to go back to his family, only for him to begin taunting and verbally abusing him while thumping Sir Reginald’s book. Viktor asks Harold to stop, but after he calls him ordinary, Viktor becomes enraged and kills him.
• Didn't See That Coming: In at least two timelines, he doesn't predict that Viktor would find Reginald's notebook in his apartment. We didn't see how it played out the first time, but the second time he tries to control the situation by pointing out how the notebook is proof that Viktor’s family was using him and lying to him. Viktor stops him cold by asking one question: "Who is Harold Jenkins?" While his response is sincere, Viktor takes it as a sign to return to his family. Cue his death when he starts verbally abusing him.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Viktor kills him halfway through the ninth episode, allowing him to become the Final Boss.
• Endearingly Dorky: Exploited. He acts all awkward, quirky, and self-deprecating so he can make Viktor fall in love with him and turn him against his family, with none of them any the wiser.
• Evil Counterpart: Like Viktor, Leonard was rejected and abused by the Umbrella Academy for supposedly being normal. This humiliation and rejection caused a Sanity Slippage at which Viktor/Leonard killed a parental figure (Leonard murdered his abusive dad, Viktor murdered his Parental Substitute Pogo) and both helped caused the events that triggered the apocalypse. The contrast between them is that Viktor has good qualities and turns out not to be so normal after all, while Leonard is a Manipulative Bastard and the Hate Sink with no special powers.
• Evil Genius: Carefully exploits Viktor's insecurities, his desire to be special, and his distrust of his family members all in an attempt to exact revenge upon the Umbrella Academy.
• Eye Scream: Accidentally loses an eye in a confrontation. In the original timeline Five was stranded in, this actually happened twice, as during the destruction of the Academy he apparently came with Viktor and Luther pulled his glass eye out, which is how Five gets a hold of it.
• Faux Affably Evil: While at first he might seem like a polite and friendly person, it becomes obvious that he's a cruel and sociopathic murderer who manipulates people in order to get what he wants.
• False Friend: He pretends to love Viktor and get close to him in order to manipulate him into turning on his own family and exploitating his abilities.
• Freudian Excuse: His mother died in childbirth and his father was physically abusive when Leonard was a child. It's one of the biggest reasons why he and Viktor bond so easily. Unfortunately, he left out the part where he murdered him in cold blood as a teenager. His only source of comfort was the hope that he somehow had powers just like the Academy kids (having been born on the same day they were), but after being brutally humiliated by Hargreeves, he decides to seek revenge against them instead.
• Gone Horribly Right: At least twice.
  • He tries to provoke Viktor in order to make him manifest his powers again. It works ... only he uses them on him.
  • The beating he gets towards the end of the season? It wasn't some random act of aggression by a few strangers, but actually engineered by himself in order to force Viktor's hand and to help him tap into his powers. The problem is that his assailants were a bit too drunk and too into the whole thing, so they beat him within an inch of his life and also smashed one of his eyes.
• Green-Eyed Monster: As a child he was envious of the Hargreeves siblings' superhero life, and dreamed of being like them. This fact is actually a precursor to the apocalypse.
• The Heavy: He manipulates Viktor into acting on his deep-seated resentment of and disdain for his family. This leads to Viktor causing the apocalypse in at least two timelines, including the Bad Future Five was trapped in and sought to prevent in the first place. The Commission is aware of this and actively tries to protect him to further it.
• Human Pincushion: How he meets his end.
• I Just Want to Be Special: He was born on the same day as the Hargreeves siblings, but through natural circumstances. He desperately hoped that he had powers too, but when this turned out to not be, he decided to take revenge on the Hargreeves because they were special.
• Lack of Empathy: When he discovers that Viktor cut Allison's throat and almost killed her, he smiles and calmly tells him that he did what he had to.
• Manipulative Bastard: He subtly but effectively reminds Viktor of how much he resents his siblings, which leads him to lash out violently at Allison in the main timeline. In the timeline where Five got stuck, it's implied Harold successfully provoked Viktor into ambushing his family at the Academy.
• Not an Act: His crush on Viktor seems to have been an act, but his understanding of what it’s like to be painfully reminded of your own inadequacies was very real.
• Revenge Before Reason: Even before he interfered, the Academy were already a messed-up and dysfunctional bunch. In fact, Viktor — who is so riddled with insecurities, emotional scars and self-doubt that he can barely function from day-to-day without his medication —is considered the only one who has been been able to lead something of a normal life. But for Harold, seeing them live in misery is not enough. He wants to destroy them.
• Revenge by Proxy: Hargreeves's death prompts Harold to dole out vengeance upon the "special" children he raised.
• Sadist: He smiles when he finds Viktor completely horrified and panicking as Allison bleeds out.
• Self-Made Orphan: He murdered his abusive father as a child.
• Serial Killer: He's a ruthless and calculating murderer, starting with when he killed his abusive father as a child. When he is released from prison, he kills two more people in order to hide his identity from Viktor and "support" his career.
• Significant Birth Date: He shares the same birthday as the Hargreeves, but unlike them, it wasn't because of the Bizarre Baby Boom. This is part of his vendetta against the Academy.
• The Sociopath: Harold shows all the traits of one. He expresses no remorse in murdering numerous people to further his goals, and manipulates Viktor into harming his siblings, yet expresses no actual care or concern for Viktor or anyone but himself.
• Too Dumb to Live: He knew the nature of Viktor’s abilities. It doesn’t stop him from depriving him of his mood-altering medication (making him more prone to emotional outbursts) or provoking him while giving him an easily accessible source of sound to draw power from.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Acts like this towards Viktor, always supporting and reassuring him and then helping him develop his powers. In reality, he's a sociopath who's just using Viktor to further his vendetta against the Academy. When he decides to return to his siblings to make peace with them, his mask finally slips and he starts abusing him verbally.
• The Unfought: The Academy never had to fight him because by the time they find him, he's already Impaled with Extreme Prejudice, courtesy of his ex-boyfriend.
• Walking Spoiler: Due to his actual role in the plot, it's hard to talk about him without revealing that he's actually Harold Jenkins, a lying, sociopathic, Manipulative Bastard who wants to get his revenge on Hargreeves by pushing his children to destroy each other.
• Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He pretends to be a sympathetic gentleman in order to use Viktor to destroy the Hargreeves, in revenge for Reginald rejecting him as a child.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: He pays a group of men to beat him up to try and force Viktor to use his powers against them. This almost backfires due to the men being drunk and beating him much more severely than planned, which causes him to lose an eye.
• Yandere: Besides stalking Viktor and dumping his meds, he kills the violinist in first chair so Viktor could audition for it.

Agnes

Agnes

Portrayed By: Sheila McCarthy

"I just I like how free they are, just completely in the moment."

A doughnut shop waitress.

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• Age Lift: She looked a lot younger in the comics.
• Died Happily Ever After: She spends twenty years with Hazel, which is longer than the single day they would have had. Hazel didn't regret the time they had, and neither did she.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Downplayed. Hazel reveals that she died of cancer in the interim between Season 1 and 2, although she got to live twenty happy years with Hazel before she passed away.
• Endearingly Dorky: She's a bird-watching enthusiast, so seeing rare species of birds is enough to get her excited. She also becomes a lot shyer whenever her Love Interest Hazel is around, and she has stated that one of her goals in life is to go on a road trip and visit a ton of bird sanctuaries along the way. Hazel, a professional killer, warms to this softness very quickly.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Well, graying gold, but the point still stands. In a cast full of dysfunctional people, some of whom have no qualms about using others to achieve their own goals, Agnes' cheery and soft-spoken disposition stands out even more.
• Nice Girl: She's a very sweet and understanding lady, and is the catalyst for Hazel finally deciding to quit the Commission.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her uniform is pink, and she's nothing but polite and helpful to all the customers who enter Griddy's.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome:Dies of cancer between the two seasons but has had twenty happy years since Season 1.
• Sweet Baker: Works as a baker at Griddy's Doughnuts and plans to own her own bakery with vegan donuts.
• The Topic of Cancer: She dies from cancer between Seasons 1 and 2. Justified as it was twenty years later.
• Understanding Girlfriend: She understands something odd is going on with Hazel when she falls for him, but doesn't question it too much, especially when the opportunity to run away with him shows up. Even when she does learn how messed up his background is, she shrugs it off because "everyone's got a past."

Eudora

Det. Eudora Patch

Portrayed By: Ashley Madekwe

"You show up and act like you can be a part of this, and you can't, not anymore."

A detective and former friend of Diego's with whom he has a strange relationship.

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• Big Damn Heroes: One of the last things she does before her death is to untie Klaus and ensure that he gets out safely.
• Casual Kink: On two separate occasions, she ridicules Diego's mask and vigilante outfit. When he teases her about the fact that she used to love them, she doesn't deny it, only clarifying that she used to or asking him to simply "un-remember" that it ever happened.
• Disposable Woman: She's killed in Season 1 to motivate Diego's character arc and the promptly forgotten by Season 2.
• Fair Cop: An attractive policewoman. When questioned about why he likes her, Diego's first answer is her butt and legs (he's deflecting).
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: While her death was a major motivation for Diego in the latter half of Season 1, by Season 2 she is not mentioned, with Diego getting a new love interest and moving on from her. What’s really jarring is that only a couple month passed since her death from his perspective, especially considering how much she meant to him.
• Friend on the Force: Downplayed. Diego often treats her as such (dropping by her office to discuss investigations and the like), but she's reluctant to let him use police resources and intel. Justified as to let him do so could possibly get her in trouble and jeopardize her job.
• Gender Flip: Her closest counterpart in the comics is Inspector Lupo, Diego's male Friend on the Force.
• In the Back: While she's busy getting Hazel to surrender, Cha-Cha escapes through the bathroom window and shoots her from behind.
• It's Personal: Her death is the main reason why Diego has such a large vendetta against Cha-Cha and Hazel.
• Stealth Pun: A cop named Eudora has an on-and-off again relationship with a Vigilante Man named Diego.Of all the things to make reference to ...
• Tomboyish Ponytail: In all her on-screen appearances, Patch's hair is pulled back in a ponytail to ensure that it doesn't get in the way while she's doing her job.
• Uptight Loves Wild: Downplayed. While they have an on-again off-again relationship, the (mostly) by-the-book cop Eudora is in love with the vigilante Diego.

Patrick

Patrick

Portrayed By: Braden Hendrickson

Allison's ex-husband who divorced her and has custody of Claire.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's unknown if Allison Rumored him into loving her, or if he got married of his own volition. If it was the former, his love for Claire helped him overcome the Rumoring.
• Heroic Willpower: Allison probably could have Rumored Patrick into forgetting him witnessing her Rumoring Claire. Whatever happened between them, he succeeded in divorcing her and telling the courts the truth about what happened. No small feat!
• Made Out to Be a Jerkass: Initially, all the Hargreeves side with Allison when she rants about how unfair it is that Patrick won't even let her talk to their daughter. Even Vanya, who tends to get locked out of the loop a lot, comments that he "sounds like an asshole". His overprotectiveness becomes more understandable, however, when we learn that Allison Rumored Claire for having tantrums, and Patrick is worried about his ex doing the same while they are divorced.
• Papa Wolf: Hurt Claire on his watch, and he will do everything to protect his little girl. Unfortunately, that includes Allison.
• Properly Paranoid: His concern about Allison rumoring Claire again seems more legitimate when a frightened Allison nearly rumors Vanya mid-breakdown.
• Replacement Goldfish: It's implied Allison married him because she couldn't have Luther. Patrick refused to play along, however.
• Small Role, Big Impact: His divorcing Allison made her get a Heel Realization about how she was abusing her powers, which led to her being Willfully Weak in the present.

Dolores

Dolores

Portrayed By: Rachel Delduca (Five's hallucination)

A mannequin who Five is in a long-term relationship with

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• Companion Cube: Is a literal mannequin who Five latched onto in order to stay sane in the post-apocalypse.
• Consulting Mister Puppet: Five frequently has one-sided conversations with her, even arguing with her on occasion.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: According to Five, she likes sequins.
• Fake Arm Disarm: Lost a plastic arm during the shootout in Gimbel's.
• Happily Married: Five is anthropomorphizing a mannequin to stave off Go Mad from the Isolation in an apocalypse. But he cares for Dolores dearly and their relationship is surprisingly engaging.
  Klaus: Face it, the healthiest long-term relationship in this family was when Five was banging that mannequin.
• Limited Wardrobe: Ironically subverted. We see her wearing different clothes during the Time-Passes Montage of Five during the post-apocalypse, even though Five is famous for wearing nothing but his uniform for two whole seasons.
• Meaningful Name: Dolores means "pains" or "sorrows", and she was named by someone who was abused as a child and got stuck in the post-apocalypse for decades.
• Morality Pet: Seems to be one for Five, as he is shown to genuinely care for her.
• Wine Is Classy: Apparently likes Bordeaux wine.

1963

The Cooper Family

Sissy

Sissy Cooper

Portrayed By: Marin Ireland

A woman who takes Viktor into her care out of guilt for giving him amnesia when she accidentally hit him with her car.

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• Anchored Ship: She loves Viktor, but can't bring herself to come to the future out of fear of the consequences of skipping ahead in time, needing to raise Harlan properly, and not wanting Harlan to get put into any more superpower-related danger. The two promise to eventually meet up again someday when they can guarantee that nothing momentous will happen in their lives.
• Closet Key: Her relationship with Viktor is what makes Viktor realize that he is not a heterosexual cis woman.
• Housewife: She minds the house, farm, and Harlan while Carl works.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Inverted; Sissy refuses to follow Viktor back to 2019 because she realizes that his powers make him a target for a lot of dangerous people, and she doesn't want Harlan to get put in any more superpower-related danger than he already has.
• Love Interest: She's Viktor's love interest in Season 2; they fall in love while Viktor is taking care of Harlan.
• Mama Bear: Will not tolerate any threats to her son. When Carl tries to take Harlan away to a mental institute, she actually goes so far as to hold him at gunpoint. Later, Harlan's sudden display of uncontrollable power is enough to push Sissy to threaten Viktor in the same way if it means protecting her son, even though she and Viktor are undeniably in love by this stage.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Makes the mistake of leaving a note for Carl when she finally runs off with Harlan and Viktor. Unfortunately, the explanation results in Carl calling in a favour from his State Trooper brother, and the cops are waiting for them not too far away. Worse still, Viktor ends up revealing his powers in the standoff, getting captured, and finally being transferred to the custody of the FBI; believing that he's a Russian spy, they interrogate his with LSD, accidentally awakening his repressed memories in the process, and — in the projected timeline witnessed by Herb and Diego — causing him to accidentally unleash his powers on Dallas in the middle of JFK's visit, triggering a political meltdown that ends in World War III. This simple note would have caused the apocalypse if Ben hadn't been able to calm Viktor down!
• Sympathetic Adulterer: The narrative is sympathetic towards her for having an affair with Viktor because her husband Carl is a terrible person.

Carl

Carl Cooper

Portrayed By: Stephen Bogaert

Sissy's husband.

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• Alcoholic Parent: He has a serious drinking problem which he isn't dealing with at all.
• Asshole Victim: The narrative makes no effort trying to make him look sympathetic when Sissy cheats on him with Viktor, or when he was hit by the bullet he accidentally shot, which was reflected back to him by Harlan.
• Entitled to Have You: A rather sad example. He feels that because he works hard to provide financially for his family, doesn't physically or verbally abuse Sissy, and doesn't cheat on her, he's doing all that's required of him as a husband. The fact that he is constantly away from and emotionally neglects his wife while she's isolated on a farm with a non-verbal son doesn't even register with him as being relevant.
• Gun Struggle: Attempts to wrestle the gun out of Sissy's hands during their final standoff; it goes off — and would have ended up killing Harlan if his powers hadn't ended up deflecting the bullet right back at Carl.
• Incompatible Orientation: His wife is a lesbian.
• Jerkass: He's smug, homophobic, and is possessive of his family due to his own egotism and stubbornness.
• Obliviously Evil: Carl has the values of the quintessential 1960's breadwinner, so from his perspective, all the immoral things he does are what should be done.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: As might be expected from a middle-aged man in the 60s, he's a bigot who thinks Viktor's bisexuality is a "disease" that his wife has somehow caught.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Has a brother in the State Troopers, which he uses as threat in order to enforce his will when things start going south.
• Smug Snake: Thinks he's the greatest seller to ever grace America, but the speech he makes to Jack Ruby is bad enough to piss off the latter so badly that Luther needs to intervene. On a more serious note, he thinks that he's one of the best husbands Sissy could ask for, since he doesn't abuse her verbally, physically, or financially, and that he stayed with her even after having Harlan, despite the fact that he's emotionally neglectful, doesn't respect her wishes, especially when it comes to sex, and that he thinks she is diseased for being a lesbian.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Using his connection to his brother to apprehend Viktor, Sissy and Harlan when they run away from him causes the FBI to torture Viktor. This in turn causes Viktor’s memories to return and makes him cause an explosion that is blamed on the Soviets, all of which sets off a nuclear war.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • While he has the standard prejudices that one could expect of a conservative man in the 60s, his response of "you can take the car but you do need to leave my house and my family" is pretty reasonable for a man who just found out someone else is screwing his wife.
  • He's pretty forgiving about the fact that his wife tried to run away with their kid. He just tells her to forget about it, go spend some time getting counseling from the pastor, and then they'll take a vacation together.
  • His plans to put Harlan in a special home so he can "get the help he needs" might be misguided, but he does seem to be motivated by a genuine wish for his son's wellbeing.
• Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: One of the things he says to Sissy when demanding that she stay is that he "stuck with her" after she gave birth to Harlan, as though Harlan's problems are her fault and he had no responsibility towards the boy at all.

Harlan

Harlan Cooper

Portrayed By: Justin Paul Kelly, Callum Keith Rennie

Sissy's son who noticeably never talks, and seems to suffer from some form of mental illness.

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• Accidental Murder: Harlan has even less control of his power than Viktor, which causes Harlan to accidentally kill his father. As they get older, he accidentally kills family pets, injures bullies at school, and eventually, when emotionally overloaded by the passing of his mother, accidentally kills the mothers of the Umbrella Academy the day they were supposed to be born. This is a particularly noteworthy case because this results in accidentally starting oblivion.
• Back from the Dead: He drowns in a lake, with Viktor using his powers to revive him. Unfortunately Viktor didn't know that he'd create a telepathic bond with him in the process, which kickstarts the climax of the second season when his abilities manifest in Harlan.
• Big Damn Heroes: He shows up at the Hotel Oblivion while the Sparrows are attacking the Umbrella Academy and attacks them with his powers, outright killing Alphonso and Jayme and scaring the others off. Unfortunately, this just leads to the circumstances that get him killed.
• Disease by Any Other Name: He's pretty clearly what we'd now call a nonverbal autistic child, but it's 1963.
• Iconic Item: He's frequently seen holding or playing with a red bird toy whenever he appears. Viktor realizes that he must be in the lake when he finds the toy floating on its surface, and his final scene in Season 2 reveals he's still superpowered when he uses telekinesis on the toy.
• Killed Offscreen: After some debate on whether to give him up to the Sparrows, he accidentally reveals to Allison that he killed her birth mother in the new universe. She's furious, but the scene cuts away as he asks her what she's going to do, and the next time he's seen, he's a corpse in the trunk of her car being delivered to Ben.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: Thanks to the power Viktor accidentally gave him, he quickly becomes a target of the Handler once she realizes just how strong he's become: she's so eager to get her hands on him that she happily sacrifices the lives of hundreds of Commission hitmen and outright murders Lila and the Umbrella Academy just for the chance to recruit Harlan.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • It's implied losing control of his powers is due to accidentally killing his father. Viktor is able to calm him down because he knows how it feels to accidentally hurt someone you love.
  • When his mother dies right before what would be Viktor's birth (and the birth of every other superpowered child), Harlan accidentally kills their mothers when he senses Viktor's presence, something he clearly regrets after and is filled with a lot of shame over.
• Not Quite Back to Normal: Even though Viktor removes the power he accidentally bestowed on Harlan, it either didn't completely stick or awakened a latent power of his own: in the epilogue of the Season 2 finale, he makes his beloved bird toy float and spin around with telekinesis.
• Patricide: He ends up accidentally using his newfound powers to murder his father during Carl's attempts to wrestle a gun out of Sissy's hands.
• Power Incontinence: Thanks to his youth and apparent autism, Harlan has even less control over his borrowed powers than Viktor, which ends up accidentally killing his father and triggering a snowstorm powerful enough to get the attention of the Commission.
• Touched by Vorlons: Harlan drowns and is revived by Viktor, which somehow bestows him with some of his power. Viktor eventually takes his power back, but it later appears Harlan has been permanently altered by the incident when he displays telekinesis.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: "Kugelblitz" reveals that his psychic Accidental Murder of the Umbrellas' mothers triggers a Grandfather Paradox that causes the breakdown of all of reality.
• The Voiceless: He doesn't speak at all, no matter how hard his parents try, with his father even noting he'd buy him a car if he said something. The first thing he says is Viktor's name (back when Viktor still went by Vanya), and he's able to briefly talk to him through their connection. When he's older, he becomes more vocal, though still seems to have trouble with it.
• Weak, but Skilled: While Viktor still seems to have more raw energy, by the time they meet in the alternate 2019, he's had decades to practice his powers and is able to match Viktor in their brief fight and even teach him how to harness it more efficiently afterward.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In the alternate 2019, he calls Viktor out for leaving his mother, noting that she never really got over Viktor and died still hoping he'd come back for her and Harlan.

Other 60s Characters

Dave

David "Dave" Katz

Portrayed By: Cody Ray Thompson (Season 1), Calem MacDonald (Season 2)

"Yeah! You'll adjust."

A soldier whom Klaus falls in love with during his time in the Vietnam War.

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• Agent Scully: Has shades of this when he goes to Klaus's compound in 1963 and questions how he knew so much about him while dismissing the possibility of Klaus being an actual prophet, afirming that this stuff isn't real. Even after Klaus states a bunch of personal stuff about him and shows his own dogtags, Dave believes it was all just a scam to recruit him to his cult.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • It's unknown how much Dave knew about Klaus's abilities and Fish out of Temporal Water status. He seemed not to be very surprised of seeing Klaus tied up in an attic after dying but he could very well just be overjoyed of seeing Klaus again to care.
  • Season 2 has him join the Marines rather than the army in a Freeze-Frame Bonus. It provides hope that he maybe did survive the war, only to die of old age or be a retiree in 2019.
• Armoured Closet Gay: In 1963 he was in denial of his sexuality and thought that joining the army would make him "a real man". He seems to have moved past this by the time he met Klaus in the Vietnam War.
• Ascended Extra: In Season 1, he is a bit character who appears mainly in Klaus's flashbacks. In Season 2, he gets significantly more screentime and characterization as Klaus gets a subplot about trying to save him.
• Battle Couple: He fought alongside Klaus in the frontlines for ten months.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Season 2 reveals that in 1963 he joinned the army to make his family proud and to prove that he was a real man. It results in him dying in February 21, 1968 while defending hill 689.
• Blood from the Mouth: After getting shot.
• Black Sheep: He is implied to be this, if Klaus's statement that he feels like an outsider in his own family is anything to go by.
• Character Development: A case where we see it out of order. Dave is a Nice Guy when Klaus met him. It turns out before he enlisted, he was a bit homophobic and punched out a time-traveling Klaus for trying to warn him about his impending death. Serving in Vietnam led him to develop empathy for his fellow soldiers.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Ten months after they met, Dave was shot in the war and died bleeding out while Klaus screamed for a medic to come and help.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Technically Klaus is a scammer and has started a cult on lies. Even so, Dave incorrectly concludes that Klaus is trying to recruit him for his cult with trinkets showing proof of time travel. Given his face when he examines the dogtags with his own name, however, Dave either has Implausible Deniability or is shocked that he's about to walk to his death.
• Extreme Doormat: He was this to his Uncle Brian, as seen when he punches Klaus in the face by his urging.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Due to his grandfather, his father and his uncle all being war vets, Dave feels like he has an obligation to enlist and fight in the Vietnam War.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has dark blond hair, and is nothing but nice to Klaus when they first meet.
• Informed Judaism: Confirmed by his actor.
  • Also confirmed in Episode 6 of the second season in a close-up of the dog tags that Klaus tries returning to him.
• In Spite of a Nail: In spite of Klaus's best efforts to dissuade him from signing up for Vietnam, he enlists earlier than he did in the previous timeline.
• I Want to Be a Real Man: Thanks to his uncle's influence, he believes that enlisting will make him a man.
• The Lost Lenore: Klaus's already flimsy mental state worsens when Dave, whom he describes as the only person he ever loved, dies. When Klaus comes back he tries everything to either ignore the pain, or communicate with him again.
• Military Brat: His dad fought in World War II.
• Morality Chain: His kindness and affection is what motivates Klaus to clean up his act.
• Nice Guy: When Klaus first drops in Vietnam, Dave is the first to introduce himself to him and tells Klaus that he'll adjust and 1963, he goes out of his way to find Klaus to apologize for punching him a few days ago.
• Nice Jewish Boy: Confirmed to be Jewish by his actor, and if Klaus is to be believed, a naturally kind person.
• Patriotic Fervor: Even with Klaus telling him that he will die in the Vietnam War, Dave doesn't care, saying that's a honor to die for his country.
• Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Subverted. He ends up punching Klaus in the face after being egged by his uncle and immediately regrets it. In the next day, he tracks down Klaus to apologize to him and even says that he doesn't do this type of stuff.
• Real Men Wear Pink: When Klaus attempts to buy paint to cover up the reason he went to the hardware store, Dave suggests Mamie Pink.
• Satellite Love Interest: Doesn't receive much characterization beyond being in a relationship with Klaus.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only has two or three lines in the first season but Dave serves as the catalyst for Klaus's character development.
• Straight Gay: He's a soldier serving in the Vietnam War, and he falls in love with Klaus for the majority of his stay.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Was this to Klaus if this exchange is to be believed:
  Diego: ... Well, Dave must have been a very special person to put up with all your weird-ass shit.
  Klaus: Yeah. Yeah, he was.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: In Season 2, it's revealed that when was younger he desperately sought the approval of his family and thought that enlisting would be a way to prove himself to them.

Brian

Brian Katz

Dave's uncle and owner of a hardware store in the 1960s.

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• Armoured Closet Gay: Klaus attributes his homophobic behavior as Brian being deeply in the closet.
• Cool Uncle: Dave admires his Uncle Brian a lot.
• Heteronormative Crusader: Is homophobic and obsessed with manliness, to the point of pressuring his nephew into hitting a total stranger just because he's a "queer".
• Pink Is for Sissies: Has this reaction when he learns that Klaus was the one who bought "Mamie Pink" paint in his hardware store.

Ray

Raymond Chestnut

Portrayed By: Yusuf Gatewood

Allison's new husband in 1963 who works as a civil rights organizer alongside her.

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• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Played with. While the last concern he lists during his meltdown in Episode 8 is comprehensible, it is still the least shocking thing he's had to deal with today, and the way he phrases it gives it a tinge of Skewed Priorities.
  No, I'm not okay. First of all, this son of a bitch beams into our living room with yet another one of your brothers, and he's talking about stopping one your sisters from blowing up some building, and I got a dead man wrapped up in my best rug, babe !
• Badass Pacifist: Fights racism with the mandate "Dignity and Honor", taking the approach of turning the other cheek no matter the violence or indignities put upon him. Which, being an African-American civil rights organizer in 1960s Dallas, is a lot. However when his wife is in physical danger he is more than willing to pit himself against professional killers the Swedes in order to protect her.
• Butt-Monkey: In three episodes, he's been beaten up so many times. The first two times were because of police brutality and the third was because of the Swedes beating him up when he was trying to stop them from attacking Allison.
• Gone to the Future. Discussed and Defied. Allison and Ray talk about how he could come with her to the future and meet her daughter. Ray looks very tempted to see a world where fighting for civil rights shows results. Then he points out And Then What? What would the movement do without their leader? Maybe that would make the future worse.
• Happily Married: To Allison. Notably in contrast to Allison's marriage with Patrick, Allison never used any Rumors around Ray until the riots at Stattler's and thus Ray is a lot more accepting of the truth because he doesn't have to fear the possibility he was Rumored into loving her.
• Ignorance Is Bliss: Defied, when Allison has to return home she offers to do this for him by Rumoring herself from his memory and spare him the pain of her leaving. Ray points out he would easily take the one wonderful year he had been married to her even if it means facing a lifetime without her.
• Logical Latecomer: A lot of humor is derived from how he, a relatively normal man in the 1960s, is forced to interact with the ridiculousness that is the Hargreeves siblings.
• Nice Guy: He's rarely anything less than polite, loyal and considerate. He's also fiercely protective of Allison.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He has a penchant for snazzy suits, which make him look like the refined and dignified community leader he is.
• Unfazed Everyman: Adapts rather quickly to the fact that his loving wife is a time-traveler from the 21st century with super human abilities. Albeit with some adjustment. The only future fact he questions is that Obama became President of the United States. He quickly adjusts and remains her loving husband despite being introduced to Klaus, Diego and Luther. As well as witnessing her rumor one Swede to kill another and assisting in rolling up said dead Swede in the living room rug.
• What the Hell Are You?: He's extremely freaked out the first time Allison uses her Rumor to get the cop to stop beating him and was scared when Allison attacked the coffee shop guy and tried to get her to stop.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: After he sees Allison stop a cop about to beat him with just a word, his first conclusion is that she is a fed inserted undercover to civil rights activists. Under normal circumstances would be a very reasonable conclusion, especially how he links this to her just showing up out of nowhere and how she barely talks about her personal history.

Elliott

Elliott

Portrayed By: Kevin Rankin

A reclusive conspiracy theorist who witnesses the Hargreeves siblings landing into the 60s. His home becomes something of a base of operations for them.

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• Agent Mulder: After witnessing the portal dump Klaus in 1960, he apparently completely converts over to believing pretty much any kind of theory and concludes that Five is an alien when he meets him.
• Butt-Monkey: Elliott doesn't have a good time of it. He loses his normal life after becoming obsessed with the seemingly alien appearances in the alleyway, his wife runs away with his best friend, he's used by Five as a go-fer, gets tied up by the family when he becomes uncooperative and is finally tortured to death by the Swedes. Even Diego's attempt to give him a proper burial is interrupted by Lila drugging him and taking him to the Commission.
• Conspiracy Theorist: He starts to become this after each sibling falls into the 1960s. He believes in aliens and also theorized that the Majestic 12 would be the most likely group of people to want Kennedy dead for meddling in their affairs, and he was right on both counts.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: His first instinct upon seeing what appears to be a stray cat in his home is to give it some food.
• Nice Guy: He's more than a little odd, but he's generally a helpful guy with good intentions.
• Properly Paranoid: For all of his odd tendencies and sometimes incorrect conclusions, he knows about a conspiracy that actually is true, namely that the Majestic 12 are deliberately pulling the strings of the US government and are planning something involving President Kennedy.

Grace

Portrayed By: Jordan Claire Robbins

A scientist and associate of Reginald Hargreeves who bears an eerie resemblance to the robotic nanny that was the siblings' substitute mom.

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• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Even though he knows Grace isn't the robotic mother who raised him and his siblings, Diego finds himself worried about her. He warns Grace about Reginald's more underhanded means, so that she knows exactly the kind of person he is.
• Foil: To the Grace we know. Reginald programmed robot Grace to follow all of his orders, even when she disagreed with them, and to never leave the mansion. Scientist Grace is no robot; when she finds out from Diego what kind of man Reginald is, she leaves him and takes Pogo with her.
• Motherly Scientist: She served as one for Pogo, essentially raising and teaching him from a very young age, while still using his lessons as a means for gathering data. She approves of Reginald's serum as a last resort to save Pogo. Pogo reciprocates in kind, having drawn a crayon picture of him holding hands with Reginald and Grace.
• Walking Spoiler: She's only revealed in Season 2, and her mere existence casts large implications on Reginald's creation of the robot known as Grace Hargreeves.

Jill

Jill

One of Klaus's devout followers.

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• Black and Nerdy: Gave up her spot in a prestigious college to join Klaus's cult.
• Bespectacled Cutie: Wears large glasses and is really cute and nerdy
• Cute Bookworm: In Ben's opinion, at least. During the first time we see her, she's reading a book while Ben shyly glances towards her from his own book.
• Satellite Love Interest: Not much is known about her other than she's a member of Destiny's Children and is Ben's crush.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Has "almond eyes that you could get lost in".

Majestic 12

A cabal of officials within the US government affiliated with Reginald Hargreeves.

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• Asshole Victim: The Majestic 12 killed President Kennedy in Dallas and tried to blackmail Sir Reginald into doing their bidding when he gets mad about it and threatens to cut off contact. When Reginald proceeds to massacre them, they're not exactly sympathetic.
• The Conspiracy: One of the more famous ones, as based on the one of the same name from real life, though unlike the show where they're presented as focused on JFK for the moment, their conspiracy in real world history was about whether or not the US government found UFOs. This foreshadows why they've made a connection with Reginald specifically as he's an alien.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: A couple of their members like smoking cigars.
• Smug Snake: The main figure who speaks for the group displays considerable shades of this at least until Reginald unveils his true alien form and proceeds to attack them.
• Who Shot JFK?: Kennedy was killed on their orders for asking too many questions about Roswell and more generally opposing their interests.

Alternate 2019

Chet

Chet Rodo

Portrayed By: Julian Richings

"How will we be paying today?"

The concierge of the Hotel Obsidian.

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• Canine Companion: He owns an adorable little pug named Mr. Pennycrumb who accompanies him behind the Obsidian's counter. Unfortunately, it's one of the first things absorbed into the Kugelblitz.
• Consummate Professional: Continues to faithfully attend to his job and duties around the hotel as reality collapses outside. Downplayed, as he does allow himself a bit of fun with serving as an impromptu DJ for Luther and Sloane's wedding.
• Face Death with Dignity: He decides to stay in the hotel and wait for his death instead of fleeing to the safe alternate dimension. He serenely maintains his post at the front desk and says a final goodbye to his beloved dog.
• Mauve Shirt: He's never important to the narrative, but he is around in the background for just about all of Season 3, surviving wave after wave of the Kugelblitz nonplussed.
• Meaningful Name: His first name "Chet" translates to fortress. His place of employment serves as a safe "fortress" for the Umbrella Academy, as well as "defending" the portal to the alternate dimension.
• Not Enough to Bury: Like everything else in his reality, when he is finally absorbed into the Kugelblitz, he is completely ripped apart to nothing by its energy.
• Oddly Small Organization: While we do (rarely) see other staff members, Chet seems to do pretty much everything at the hotel, even photograph and DJ the wedding party, though this is at least partly due to the Kugelblitz gradually eliminating the rest of the staff.
• One Degree of Separation: The concierge of a seemingly random hotel (albeit one known for its odd clientele) turns out to be under the employ of Sir Reginald Hargreeves.
• Sacred Hospitality: Viktor finds a book on the shelves of the hotel giving the full history of the "Kennedy Six" (the Umbrella Academy). Chet approaches him and assures him that he has no intention of selling out the Hargreaves to any kind of authority.
  Chet: We take all kinds here.
• Seen It All: Completely blasé to Diego and Stanley working together to move a Carpet-Rolled Corpse into the elevator he was exiting.
• Servile Snarker: While always professional, he can be a bit snarky around the Hargreaves, who are his patrons. He rolls his eyes as they consolidate their meager "funds" (condoms, mints, a knife...) He also responds to Klaus asking him to hold his nonexistent calls with a Blunt "No".
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Always seen dressed in the hotel's uniform, a sharp green suit.

Stanley

Stanley

Portrayed by: Javon Walton

Diego and Lila’s son.

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• Becoming the Mask: He turns out to be purposely tricking Diego into thinking they’re father and son, but several interactions imply that he actually grows to see Diego as a father figure.
• Bratty Half-Pint: He's not known for staying on his best behavior, to put it mildly. Among other things, he gets caught stealing from the hotel buffet, frequently breaks things while looking for amusement, and when he's told to tidy some of the rooms as a disciplinary measure, the kid ends up stealing from the guests as well.
• Free-Range Children: Stan is not given a lot of supervision unless he gets in trouble, and even then he ends up wandering into parts of the Hotel Obsidian that he shouldn't be in. Of course, Diego is an inexperienced father who occasionally dabbles in Hands-Off Parenting and Lila is too busy time-travelling to be a mother to him, so it's not too surprising that Stan tends to roam. Turns out that he isn't their son after all, but "borrowed" from Trudy, one of Lila's friends... and Trudy was in the habit of leaving Stan alone for weeks at a time.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: He accidentally fires a harpoon gun he was fiddling around with, which ends up killing Klaus... briefly.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Lila says Stan is her son by Diego, despite Diego having good reason to doubt her claim. It's eventually revealed that Stan isn't related to either of them, but is the son of one of Lila's friends. Lila brought him along, first just to screw with Diego and then test to see if Diego is father material.
• Panty Thief: Steals a pair of panties from a hotel room he was supposed to be cleaning, along with a lot of other belongings left behind by the guests. In the end, it's the only thing Klaus allows him to keep.
• Sticky Fingers: Prone to stealing things, whether its food from the buffet or belongs from guests; in one scene, he's seen pocketing almost anything he can get his hands on while Klaus is apparently distracted by drinking mouthwash - only for Klaus to get him to put most of it back.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Steals panties from one of the suites he's been tasked with cleaning. Later, after accidentally killing Klaus, he immediately tries to dissolve the body before it can be found.

Lester Pocket (Spoilers)

Lester Pocket

A mysterious man who seems to be tracking the Umbrella Academy.

In truth, he is none other than Harlan grown up. For tropes pertaining to Harlan, refer to his folder.

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• Headphones Equal Isolation: Almost always has a headset on listening to isolated sound effects to drown out the noise.
• Walking Spoiler: You really cannot discuss him without covering the fact that he is Harlan years later.

Other Characters

God(?)

God (?)

Portrayed By: Birva Pandya

"To be blunt, I don't really like you all that much."

A little girl that Klaus meets in a post-mortem dream, who may or may not be God.

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• Age Lift: In the comics, when Klaus met God, he was an old cowboy; here she is a little girl.
• Ambiguous Situation: In Season 3, Reginald Hargreeves claims the Hotel Oblivion and the machine hidden within it were created by "whoever created the universe". Whether that's the same person as the God Klaus encounters in the afterlife is anyone's guess.
• Brutal Honesty: When Klaus meets her, she bluntly says she doesn't like him. To be fair, she says she doesn't like most people, so there's that.
• Gender Flip: The God that appeared in the comics was an old man that was dressed as a cowboy riding a horse, here they are a preteen girl riding a bicycle.
• Jerkass God: She is quite rude to Klaus and gives only partial information to whatever he asks. She in fact appears to send him back to earth partially because she doesn't want to see him again.
• Little Miss Almighty: As previously stated, she's a young girl.

Abigail Hargreeves

Abigail Hargreeves

Portrayed by: Liisa Repo-Martell

An enigmatic woman who appears in flashback later revealed to be Sir Reginald's wife.

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• Ambiguously Human: Like Reginald, as her only appearance prior to season 3 was a mysterious and ambiguously set and located house with rockets launching in distant fields. Reginald is later unambiguously revealed to be an alien who came from a different world but the show currently hasn't directly confirmed the same for Abigail.
• Ethereal White Dress: Both major appearances show her in white dress, with her season 1 appearance in a white nightdress as she lays on the verge of death and her season 3 appearance in a white dress with veil to emphasize the fact she was just brought back to life in the reset universe.
• Last Request: Her final request to Reginald in season 1 is to give her violin to someone who will love it as much as she does. This is eventually fulfilled when Reginald gives it to Viktor and sparks his passion for violin.
• The Lost Lenore: For Reginald, as he spends season 3 invested in his plan to eventually revive her from her death by rewriting the universe to remove the event and is willing to sacrifice even his adopted children for the sake of that goal.
• Posthumous Character: Her first appearance is in flashback to Reginald's personal past where she declares she will die and Season 3 later confirms that she did when it's revealed that he brought her body with him to Earth and stored her on the dark side of the Moon.
• Satellite Love Interest: All of her appearances are to establish Reginald's deep fondness for his late wife and their mutual love. The closest the audience gets to an actual character trait for herself is she played and loved the violin.

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