The Umbrella Academy: Difference between revisions

 

Has nothing to do with [[Resident Evil|The Umbrella Corporation]].

 

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Hargreeves. He would chide his adopted sons and daughters if they called him 'Dad'. In one story, he sicced a murderous supervillain on The Rumor when she lied about sneaking out for the night to see a boy. [[Jerkass]] doesn't begin to cover it.

* [[Bizarre Baby Boom]]: The 43 babies, all born to random women showing no signs of pregnancy at all.

* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|The Eiffel Tower destroys the Umbrella Academy at the end of Apocalypse Suite}}.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Kraken is basically [[Wolverine]] without claws.

** His power makes him a parody of [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]] and his popular criticism of having a rather pointless power.

* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: To put it mildly.

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: Well, you couldn't known who is that character by the moment, but you would remember seeing {{spoiler|The White Violin, aka Vanya}} near Hargreeves's rushed up funeral in the second issue cover... [[Covers Always Lie|but it doesn't really happen in the comic.]] The funeral happens, but {{spoiler|she's}} not present.

** No, really, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnt__lyGIQ4 EVERYTHING'S] Better With Monkeys in Gerard Way's mind.

* [[Fetish Fuel]]: {{spoiler|Vanya, when she becomes the White Violin}}. It helps that she's [[Full Frontal Assault|completely nude]].

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Er, isn't Vanya the Russian version of "John"?

* [[High Class Glass]]: Sir Reginald Hargreeves aka The Monocle. He actually gets pissed off if the children refer to him as anything else.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: The Rumor's excuse {{spoiler|for killing JFK}}.

* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: The Seance heads to a bar at the end of ''Dallas''.

* [[Musical Assassin]]: {{spoiler|The White Violin}}.

* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Luther and Allison, most noticeably, and Diego and Vanya. Which leaves Klaus as the third wheel, or Klaus and Ben as [[Those Two Guys]], variably.

** "I AM A GAZELLE AND THE JUNGLE IS MY HOME."

** "I am a revolution packed into a suitcase bomb!"

* [[Ridiculously Human Robots]]: Subverted Mrs. Hargreeves has a human face but a transparent body and obviously artificial limbs. However it appears she also has a full system of working organs, [[Squick|which can be seen through her transparent body]].

* [[Running Gag]]: "Televator's broken."

* [[Squick]]: In-universe, Number Five's "disposal" of {{spoiler|his superior, Carmichael}}.

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: What Number Five travelled back in time to accomplish. Namely, preventing the Apocalypse.

* [[The Vietnam War]]: See [[Time Travel]] above.

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Seance's powers only work when he's barefoot. [[Fridge Brilliance|He apparently collects shoes]].

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: The Kraken's power is apparently the ability to hold his breath forever. It probably makes him the world's best swimmer and a top athlete, but it doesn't quite compare to, say, re-shaping reality at will. He compensates with excellent knife-fighting skills, to the point where he takes down a pack of Vietnamese vampires with a pair of knives. [[Word of God|Gerard Way]] actually said in a lecture at SVA that he made him "fucking useless" on purpose, but at the same time also said that, in a world where no one else had super powers, something as simple as that is a big deal.

* [[Who Shot JFK]]: The main focus of the second story line, ''Dallas''. Turns out it was {{spoiler|the Rumor, being blackmailed by the Temps Aeternalis}}.

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