The Umbrella Academy: The 10 Best Characters, Ranked | ScreenRant
Netflix's superhero series, The Umbrella Academy, is by far one of the most popular additions to the streaming service in the past year or so. Based on a comic book, The Umbrella Academy is thrilling, funny, and an emotional ride into a group of people who are special.
The show's second season released quite recently and to be fair, it was far better from the first outing, although the stakes were pretty much similar. While The Hargreeves are the most important characters in the series, the fans cannot oversee the impact of the side characters. Here are some of the best of them, ranked.
10 Ben Hargreeves
Throughout the series, Ben only interacts with Klaus and because the fans never really get to know him as a person, he is one of the least important parts of the story, although that narrative changes drastically in the second season.
Ben is someone, who has the power to generate tentacles from his body. And these are no normal tentacles, they can easily split a body into two. In season three, Ben is going to play a huge role as part of the Sparrow Academy.
9 Sir Reginald Hargreeves
The mastermind behind the emergence of The Umbrella Academy, Sir Reginald Hargreeves is one of those characters who the fans know nothing about, but are integral to the story.
He is the "pretend dad" of the seven special children and the only thing he wants from them is that they reach their potential. In the second season, some more things are revealed about and there's one shocking moment that the fans didn't see coming.
8 Lila
A brilliant addition to the show in season two, Lila is The Handler's daughter, although she doesn't know that The Handler murdered her parents to adopt her special abilities.
Lila was being played all along, but she couldn't know because she thought there is good in this world. Lila is one of those people who think they are too tough to fall in love or care for someone when in reality, they are the ones who are more scared than anyone else.
7 The Handler
The Handler is the biggest antagonist of the story, although one can argue that Vanya has played the villain as well. Being from The Commission, she has lived all her life trying to find ways out of a problematic situation and that has led to her having no emotions.
She literally doesn't care about anyone but herself and it's so easy to get manipulated by her. She tries to play everyone for a fool and in the end, she paid the ultimate price.
6 Diego Hargreeves
The man who can bend anything, Diego is number two in The Umbrella Academy and he is the only person in the team who cannot let go of the "hero" complexion.
He wants to be a hero so bad and one can tell by the way he loves to be a vigilante. Even in the second season, all he wanted to do was save John. F. Kennedy, even when he heard about the apocalypse. Diego is also pretty disrespectful but he absolutely loves his siblings and can give his life for them.
5 Luther Hargreeves
The Umbrella Academy's number one, Luther is the opposite of a leader because he is way too sensitive. In reality, no one in the team is fit enough to be a leader, although Five will be a pretty good shout. Luther is a giant man, who has a lot of feelings and he literally wears his heart on his sleeve.
One can easily tell what he is thinking just by one glance on his face. He is one of the funniest people in the series and a total fan favorite.
4 Allison Hargreeves
Allison has one of the best powers among her siblings. Even though she isn't the strongest, she can talk anyone into doing her bidding. While her power is pretty addictive, all it has brought in her life is sadness.
She cannot seem to have a personal life because when people get to know about her powers, they usually end up hating her. In the second season, she married Ray, only to lose him by using her powers in front of him.
3 Klaus Hargreeves
Klaus is, undoubtedly, the most entertaining character in the series and he is an absolute delight to watch. He has incredible powers like he can conjure up the dead, let them possess his body, and also use them as human shields, sometimes.
But, because he usually hears people scream with pain, he gets used to drugs, so that he can't stay sober enough to use his powers. Eventually, though, thanks to Ben, Klaus becomes a better human being.
2 Vanya Hargreeves
Ellen Page's portrayal of Vanya Hargreeves is absolutely spot on. She hides her feelings deep inside her heart and only allows them to come out once in a while.
At first, she doesn't know if she has any powers but when she understands what her father tried to hide from her, she goes absolutely berserk and who can blame her? After all, she has been kept apart from the family for way too long. Vanya is by far the strongest member of The Umbrella Academy.
1 Number Five
Five is basically the man, who drives the storylines in the two seasons and he is the oldest member of The Umbrella Academy in a kid's body. After mistakenly finding himself in an apocalyptic future, Five is recruited by The Commission to act as their personal assassin.
And through his brilliant brain, he finds a way to travel back to the past, so that he can save his family and stop the apocalypse. Of course, he finds a lot of difficulties but his homicidal nature helps him, to be honest.