History ComicBook / TheUmbrellaAcademy

%% * MadArtist: The Orchestra Verdammten. Particularly The Conductor.
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* InfallibleBabble: This is the Rumor's power, anything she says, preceded with "I heard a rumor that" or something to the same degree, [[RealityWarper automatically becomes true]].

* CatPeople: Two of the Hotel's escaped inmates are anthropomorphic cat people.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The Seance, but in an odd forgettable comment in the ''Dallas'' arc, it's because ''he can't use his powers when wearing them.'' Granted, this does come from a psychotic assassin in a dog head, but in that time, Seance doesn't really try to fight back, so his powers are probably at least inhibited.

* ''ComicBook/YouLookLikeDeathTalesFromTheUmbrellaAcademy'' (2020-2021)

* ILoveNuclearPower: In an [[spoiler:alternate timeline where Number Five prevented the Kennedy Assassination]], Hargreeves coerced JFK to hand over a stockpile of nuclear weaponry in exchange for the Umbrella Academy putting a stop to the rampaging Lincoln Memorial.

[[Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019 A live-action series]] has been released by Creator/{{Netflix}}, with Creator/ElliotPage cast as Vanya.

* PrisonDimension: The ''Hotel Oblivion'' arc is focused the titular hotel, a prison residing in the mysterious Afterspace built by Reginald that he threw any rogue or criminal in, notably without any apparent external jurisdiction and very little governmental oversight. While Reginald intended it as a GildedCage by providing fine cuisine and other kinds of entertainment, it was regarded as a stagnant HellholePrison by most of its inmates because they had no chance of ever being let out and his death has resulted in even less oversight and it's become incredibly run-down by the present.

* AlternateLandmarkHistory: The series reveals that the Eiffel Tower is a deadly robot built by...[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy zombie Gustave Eiffel]].

* BizarreBabyBoom: The premise. The same year "Tusslin' Tom" Gurney knocked out the space-squid from Rigel X-9 with a flying atomic elbow "...forty three extraordinary children were born to mostly single women, who had shown no signs of pregnancy, in seemingly random locations around the world." A wealthy entrepreneur tracked down and adopted seven of these children to raised them as a superhero team.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Klaus is able to negate White Violin's powers by playing ''Rite of Spring'' at the right tempo. This weaknesses was never alluded to prior.]]

* AlternateHistory: Aside from the superheroes, villains and Hargreeves' technology, John F. Kennedy originally lived in this universe until he got assassinated by time travellers.

* WildCard: Scientific Man's motivations are unclear. At first he's implied to be some kind of superhero who checks that no one escapes the Hotel Oblivion but when they all break out to Earth, he starts fighting the academy.

* BrownNote: In ''The Apocalypse Suite'' arc, the antagonist has constructed an orchestra of the sadistic and suicidal to play a symphony that will end the world. Similarly, The White Violin is capable of making heads explode and bodies tear themselves apart by just barely scraping her strings.

** At the start of volume 2 the Academy are fighting an animated UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln statue. They defeat it by having The Rumor animate a John Wilkes Booth statue to shoot. The gang lampshade the trope by complaining that their fighting another weaponized landmark.

* TentacleRope: Benjamin Hargreeves AKA The Horror, who possesses [[BodyHorror tentacles coming out from his stomach]]. His generally sweet demeanor meant that there were no Naughty Tentacles, and not even any proper CombatTentacles, instead he settled for grabbing and constricting his foes. Or more often than not, just using his tentacles as handy rope for pulling and holding onto things.