History Series / TheUmbrellaAcademy2019

Three seasons are available, with the latest being released on June 22nd, 2022. On August 25th, 2022, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a fourth and final season, later confirmed on [[PopCultureHoliday October 1st]], 2023 to come out sometime in 2024.

* ColourCodedTimeStop: The Handler's arrival is visually indicated by everything freezing and washed in a saturated vintage filter.

* FamilyDisunion: The series is kicked off when the siblings gather for their father's funeral, and find out they have to help stop the apocalypse. But their various traumas, addictions, neuroses and resentments combine very badly [[spoiler: to the point where they end up being the ones who ''cause'' the Apocalypse in the first place.]]

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: In Season 2, Klaus attempts to console Allison by reminding her of the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog. After he completes a fairly decent retelling of the story, Allison asks Klaus what his point is, he replies "the point is, frogs are bitches, and we do not negotiate with terrorists."

* RetroUniverse: Despite the show being set in 2019, cellphones seem nonexistent. Many plot points revolve around not being able to find or contact someone in a timely manner (a non-issue if cell phones were available). [=CD=]s and [=DVD=]s also seem non-existent as we see characters using record players, Walkman tape players, [=VCR=]s, and old-fashioned computers. The fashion is also all over the place; some characters like Grace and the Handler dress in vintage fashion, others like Allison and Klaus have more modern outfits.

* ShrineToTheFallen: There's a statue of the deceased Ben in the Hargreeves mansion's courtyard. Sir Reginald also kept a portrait of Five above the mantel, and it's implied [[EmptyBedroomGrieving his room was kept up in the seventeen years following his disappearance]]. Reginald believed him to [[ChekhovMIA simply be missing in action]].
* SinisterSweetTooth: The assassins Hazel and Cha-Cha love unwinding from assassinating and torturing people in the name of the Commission via regular visits to the local donut shop. [[spoiler: Ironically, this ends up forming the basis of Hazel's redemption when he falls in love with the owner/chef.]]
* SlobsVersusSnobs: The contrast between the Umbrellas and the Sparrows in the third season. The Sparrows are put together, operate out of a pristine headquarters, and are beloved by the public, but have unsaid tensions simmering between them. In contrast, the Umbrellas are ragged, undisciplined, and are forced to operate out of a podunk hotel, but have grown to genuinely love each other and work as a team. Lampshaded when the Sparrows make several comments about the Umbrellas' lack of hygiene.

* UnspecifiedApocalypse: Whatever disaster Sir Reginald adopted the Hargreeves siblings in order to prevent remains unspecified for the first two seasons.

* WhileRomeBurns: [[spoiler: After the failed attempt to seal the Kugelblitz inside Christopher, the team gives up on stopping the apocalypse. Luther and Sloane get engaged and throw a wedding party, in which most of the cast decides to spend what's presumably their last moments getting drunk and partying. Even Five, who has invested most of his time in the story doing everything to prevent the apocalypse, accepts the fate of the universe and parties with them. Reginald specifically references this trope when he and Klaus arrive at the hotel, berating them for metaphorically fiddling while the world is destroyed.]]

* WrongTimeTravelSavvy:
** As a thirteen-year-old, Five believes he's ready to time travel. Hargreeves forbids it. When Five does it anyway, he becomes trapped in the future.
** When Five returns to the present, he [[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect messes up the calculations]] and ends up in a much younger body.
** [[spoiler: He does manage to get better after receiving some advice from 60s Hargreeves. Instead of jumping himself by years and decades, his father recommends trying seconds first and points out even a couple of extra seconds can be the difference between life and death.]]

The Hargreeves siblings are played by Creator/TomHopper (Luther), [[Creator/DavidCastaneda David Castañeda]] (Diego), [[Creator/EmmyRaverLampman Emmy Raver-Lampman]] (Allison), Creator/RobertSheehan (Klaus), Creator/AidanGallagher (Five), [[Creator/JustinHMin Justin H. Min]] (Ben), and Creator/ElliotPage [[note]]initially credited as Ellen Page in the first two seasons; following his transition, the credits of Seasons 1 and 2 now credit them as Elliot Page[[/note]](Viktor, formerly Vanya). Creator/ColmFeore plays their adoptive father Reginald, who raised them along with their robot-mother Grace (Creator/JordanClaireRobbins) and chimpanzee-

The Hargreeves siblings are played by Creator/TomHopper (Luther), [[Creator/DavidCastaneda David Castañeda]] (Diego), [[Creator/EmmyRaverLampman Emmy Raver-Lampman]] (Allison), Creator/RobertSheehan (Klaus), Creator/AidanGallagher (Five), [[Creator/JustinHMin Justin H. Min]] (Ben), and Creator/ElliotPage [[note]]credited as Ellen Page in the first two seasons[[/note]] (Viktor, formerly Vanya). Creator/ColmFeore plays their adoptive father Reginald, who raised them along with their robot-mother Grace (Creator/JordanClaireRobbins) and chimpanzee-

* FakeGuestStar: In the first season, Justin H. Min (Ben), Jordan Robbins (Grace), and Sheila [=McCarthy=] (Agnes) are credited under "Guest Starring" in the end credits, though they appear in every episode. In contrast, Mary J. Blige (Cha-Cha) and Cameron Britton (Hazel) are credited with the top cast for every episode, including the episode in which they don't appear. Min was upgraded to a lead for the second season.

** When Sissy scolds Carl for using foul language around Harlan, Carl jokes that if Harlan says "son-of-a-bitch" he gets a BB gun, and everyone will get a Cadillac if he says anything at all. [[spoiler:By the penultimate episode of the second season, they both hear Harlan say, "Vanya," during Viktor’s out-of-control power in the FBI building. When he accidentally kills the 27 women who were originally part of the BizarreBabyBoom, he is able to speak from at least that time forward.]]

In 1989, 43 extraordinary children were [[BizarreBabyBoom all spontaneously born on the same day]]. Of these children, seven are adopted by the wealthy inventor Reginald Hargreeves and groomed into superheroes. However, Hargreeves does not prove to be a good father figure and his inability to give emotional warmth to the children, along with his unwavering ambition to push them past their limits, inevitably scars them all in ways that last into adulthood.

Three seasons are available, with the latest being released on June 22, 2022. On August 25, 2022, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a fourth and final season.

* SuperpowerLottery: The seven members/siblings of the Umbrella Academy possess powers, but they're not equal winners of the lottery:
** Viktor [[TheTeamNormal has no power at all]] until late in Season 1, where [[spoiler:it turns out that he actually possesses near-godlike energy-based powers guided by sound. He was made to forget he had powers by Allison via their adoptive father/mentor, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, because Viktor was so powerful that he felt Viktor proved a threat to his brothers and sister and the world at large. This inadvertently ends up [[SelfFulfillingProphecy creating the apocalypse Hargreeves was trying to prevent in the first place]] because the constant neglect and abuse he suffered ends up [[ThenLetMeBeEvil turning Viktor into the supervillain The White Violin]].]]
** Klaus has ISeeDeadPeople, [[spoiler:and once he's sober/trained enough, is able to physically interact with them up to letting one possess him. Since that person is ''also'' superpowered, this effectively gives Klaus PowerCopying as well]]. Season 3 reveals [[spoiler:Klaus also has the power to resurrect himself and heal from whatever killed him with seemingly no limit to this ability, meaning he effectively has immortality. This means he can even come back from being erased by the kugelblitz if he tries.]]
** Luther has SuperStrength and Diego ImprobableAimingSkills [[spoiler:later revealed to be actually telekinesis]], but they seem somewhat limited in their abilities (Luther can move a truck singlehandely, but can't, say, lift a building, and Diego only used his powers on small objects [[spoiler:and a hail of gunfire aimed at the group in Season 2]]).
** Allison has a CompellingVoice up to the level of [[MindControl brainwashing]], but she needs to be able to speak for it to function, and she never uses it on more than one person at once [[spoiler:save for the brief scene in Dallas where she Rumors three Soviet soldiers into exploding their heads]]. Whether she even ''could'' use it on an entire crowd is never explored.
** Ben, who died before the series began, had some kind of LovecraftianSuperpower, being able to manifest tentacles to fight. The Sparrow timeline's Ben reveals that if properly trained, they're essentially just CombatTentacles and he never displays a struggle to control himself like his Umbrella counterpart.
** Five gets [[TeleportSpam space]]-[[TimeTravel time]] manipulation, up to [[spoiler:[[TimeMaster rewinding time a couple of seconds]] at the end of Season 2]].
** Season 2 introduces [[spoiler:Lila, another one of the special children who wasn't raised by Hargreeves. She's a PowerParasite who can copy the abilities of the Umbrella Academy, but she cannot [[AllYourPowersCombined copy all of them at once]].]]
** Season 3 introduces the Sparrow Academy, all of whom [[spoiler:unlike the Umbrella Academy, were properly trained by Reginald instead of being left in the dark on what they could do]] and can fully utilize their powers with much more flexibility and training than the original set.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The city where the bulk of the first and third seasons takes place is not named, nor are there any overt clues as to where it is besides Allison taking a plane from Los Angeles to get there. Seasons 2 and 3 show it is within or somewhere near Pennsylvania; Luther's bus trip for an attempted meeting with Reginald takes him up from Dallas to Pennsylvania before fading out, and the city is close enough to a Pennsylvanian Amish community that Five and Klaus can make a trip there and back within a day. But when Reginald Hargreeves is shown visiting the area in 1918, it is nothing but farmland at the time, even though all major cities in the northeastern United States were well-established by then. Most likely this ''would'' have just been a rural farm town, but Reginald's machinations led to its urban growth.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The city where the bulk of the first and third seasons takes place is not named, nor are there any overt clues as to where it is besides Allison taking a plane from Los Angeles to get there. Seasons 2 and 3 show it is within or somewhere near Pennsylvania [[note]]Luther's bus trip for an attempted meeting with Reginald takes him up from Dallas to Pennsylvania before fading out, and the city is close enough to a Pennsylvanian Amish community that Five and Klaus can make a trip there and back within a day[[/note]]. It's clearly not any real world city, with Reginald Hargreeves shown visiting the area in 1918, which was nothing but farmland at the time, but has grown into a giant metropolis by 2019.

The Hargreeves siblings are played by Creator/TomHopper (Luther), [[Creator/DavidCastaneda David Castañeda]] (Diego), [[Creator/EmmyRaverLampman Emmy Raver-Lampman]] (Allison), Creator/RobertSheehan (Klaus), Creator/AidanGallagher (Five), [[Creator/JustinHMin Justin H. Min]] (Ben), and Creator/ElliotPage [[note]]credited as Ellen Page in the first two seasons[[/note]] (Viktor, formerly Vanya). Creator/ColmFeore plays their adoptive father Reginald, while Creator/KateWalsh, Music/MaryJBlige, and Creator/CameronBritton feature as employees of the Commission.%%NOTE: RED LINKS ARE ENCOURAGED FOR WORKS/CREATORS WITH NO PAGES