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* {{Determinator}}: The Kraken. Despite having the near-useless power to breathe underwater, he's one tough mother, and probably the most formidable and successful crime-fighter on the team.
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* {{Determinator}}: The Kraken. Despite having the near-useless power to breathe underwater, he's one tough mother, and probably the most formidable and successful crime-fighter on the team.
%% * DoesNotLikeShoes: The Seance, but in an odd forgettable comment in ''Dallas'', 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.
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* GenderBlenderName: Er, isn't Vanya the Russian version of "John"?
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* GenderBlenderName: Er, isn't Vanya the Russian version Hargreeves. Vanya is a diminutive of "John"?Ivan in Russia: a male name, although in Brazil it's became a girl's name.
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* AbusiveParents: 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.
** "Dad.. ? I mean, Mr. Monocle, sir? Why can't I play with the others?" "Well number seven... there's just nothing special about you." "Oh."
* AlienBlood: Gray blood, in the case of one transformed human.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Klaus. Even his creator has no clue as to his sexuality.
** "Dad.. ? I mean, Mr. Monocle, sir? Why can't I play with the others?" "Well number seven... there's just nothing special about you." "Oh."
* AlienBlood: Gray blood, in the case of one transformed human.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Klaus. Even his creator has no clue as to his sexuality.
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* AbusiveParents: Reginald 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.
** --> '''Vanya:''' "Dad.. ? I mean, Mr. Monocle, sir? Why can't I play with the others?" others?"\\
'''Reginald:''' "Well number seven... there's just nothing special about you." "\\
'''Vanya:''' "Oh."
* AlienBlood:Gray blood, in [[spoiler:Following Vanya's transformation into the case of one transformed human.
White Violin]], she has grey blood.
* AlternateLandmarkHistory: The series reveals that the Eiffel Tower is a deadly robot built by...[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy zombie Gustave Eiffel]].
%% * AmbiguouslyGay: Klaus. Even his creator has no clue as to hissexuality.sexuality.
* AsianBabymama: The Seance makes a baby with an Asian Babymama. You don't see said Asian Babymama, just the baby, and the Asian Babygrandmama with whom he leaves the baby.
'''Reginald:''' "Well number seven... there's just nothing special about you.
'''Vanya:''' "Oh."
* AlienBlood:
* AlternateLandmarkHistory: The series reveals that the Eiffel Tower is a deadly robot built by...[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy zombie Gustave Eiffel]].
%% * AmbiguouslyGay: Klaus. Even his creator has no clue as to his
* AsianBabymama: The Seance makes a baby with an Asian Babymama. You don't see said Asian Babymama, just the baby, and the Asian Babygrandmama with whom he leaves the baby.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Klaus. Technically twice]].
* BadassFamily
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: "And just as I expected -- [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel]]!"
* BizarreBabyBoom: The 43 babies, all born to random women showing no signs of pregnancy at all.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The Eiffel Tower destroys the Umbrella Academy at the end of Apocalypse Suite]].
* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: [[spoiler: The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, arguably. (None of the children are blood siblings, other than Number Five and Spaceboy]]).
* BadassFamily
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: "And just as I expected -- [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel]]!"
* BizarreBabyBoom: The 43 babies, all born to random women showing no signs of pregnancy at all.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The Eiffel Tower destroys the Umbrella Academy at the end of Apocalypse Suite]].
* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: [[spoiler: The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, arguably. (None of the children are blood siblings, other than Number Five and Spaceboy]]).
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%% * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Klaus.[[spoiler:Klaus. Technically twice]].
%% * BadassFamily
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:"And just as I expected -- Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel Tower) was apparently a MadScientist [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie-Robot]].
-->'''Luther:''' And just as I expected? Zombie Robot GustaveEiffel]]!"
Eiffel!\\
'''Ben:''' Alive! After all these years--!!
* BizarreBabyBoom: The43 babies, all 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 random women showing mostly single women, who had shown no signs of pregnancy at all.
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.
* 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.
%% * BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The Eiffel Tower destroys the Umbrella Academy at the end of Apocalypse Suite]].
%% *[[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, arguably. (None of the children are blood siblings, other than Number Five and Spaceboy]]).
%% * BadassFamily
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
-->'''Luther:''' And just as I expected? Zombie Robot Gustave
'''Ben:''' Alive! After all these years--!!
* BizarreBabyBoom: The
* 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.
%% * BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The Eiffel Tower destroys the Umbrella Academy at the end of Apocalypse Suite]].
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* Cloudcuckoolander: The Séance. Although admitably it's his constant use of drugs that cause him to be as crazy as he is, he still qualifies.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Séance. Although admitably it's his constant use of drugs that cause him to be as crazy as he is, he still qualifies.
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* TheCape: The Horror, considered to be one of the most grotesque and useless of the group by Hargreeves, not only dressed the most like a traditional superhero, but acted the part as well.
* CaptainErsatz: Kraken is arguably {{Wolverine}} without claws.
** His power makes him a parody of Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and his popular criticism of having a rather pointless power.
** Officer Lupo is basically Commissioner Gordon.
* CloudCuckooLander: Klaus. Oh, Klaus.
* CodeName
* CombatPragmatist: Number 5 is very direct.
* CaptainErsatz: Kraken is arguably {{Wolverine}} without claws.
** His power makes him a parody of Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and his popular criticism of having a rather pointless power.
** Officer Lupo is basically Commissioner Gordon.
* CloudCuckooLander: Klaus. Oh, Klaus.
* CodeName
* CombatPragmatist: Number 5 is very direct.
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%% * TheCape: The Horror, considered to be one of the most grotesque and useless of the group by Hargreeves, not only dressed the most like a traditional superhero, but acted the part as well.
*CaptainErsatz: CaptainErsatz:
** The Kraken isarguably {{Wolverine}} ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} without claws.
** Hisclaws, although his power makes him a parody of Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and his popular criticism of having a rather pointless power.
** Officer Lupo is basically [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} CommissionerGordon.
Gordon]].
*CloudCuckooLander: Klaus. Oh, Klaus.
Cloudcuckoolander: The Séance. Although admitably it's his constant use of drugs that cause him to be as crazy as he is, he still qualifies.
-->"Ever wonder what a vegetable thinks about? Firecrackers... bee stings... happy face eggs."
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** The Kraken is
** His
** Officer Lupo is basically [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Commissioner
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-->"Ever wonder what a vegetable thinks about? Firecrackers... bee stings... happy face eggs."
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* Determinator: The Kraken. Despite having the near-useless power to breathe underwater, he's one tough mother, and probably the most formidable and successful crime-fighter on the team.
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* Determinator: {{Determinator}}: The Kraken. Despite having the near-useless power to breathe underwater, he's one tough mother, and probably the most formidable and successful crime-fighter on the team.
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* TheDogBitesBack: In ''Dallas'', [[spoiler:No. 5 bites Carmichael back rather more literally than ususal]].
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* Determinator: The Kraken. Despite having the near-useless power to breathe underwater, he's one tough mother, and probably the most formidable and successful crime-fighter on the team.
%% * TheDogBitesBack: In ''Dallas'', [[spoiler:No. 5 bites Carmichael back rather more literally than ususal]].
%% * TheDogBitesBack: In ''Dallas'', [[spoiler:No. 5 bites Carmichael back rather more literally than ususal]].
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* DysfunctionalFamily: To put it mildly.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: 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... [[CoversAlwaysLie but it doesn't really happen in the comic.]] The funeral happens, but [[spoiler: she's]] not present.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Technically happens twice throughout the series.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One of Hargreeves' inventions was a way to give chimpanzees sentience. They show up everywhere as detectives, soliders, hobos and even one hooker. One of these intellegient chimps is Hargreeves' assistant, Pogo.
** No, really, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnt__lyGIQ4 EVERYTHING'S]] Better With Monkeys in Gerard Way's mind.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Technically happens twice throughout the series.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One of Hargreeves' inventions was a way to give chimpanzees sentience. They show up everywhere as detectives, soliders, hobos and even one hooker. One of these intellegient chimps is Hargreeves' assistant, Pogo.
** No, really, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnt__lyGIQ4 EVERYTHING'S]] Better With Monkeys in Gerard Way's mind.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Well, you couldn't known who is that character by the moment, but you would remember seeing [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The White Violin, aka Vanya]] near Hargreeves's rushed up funeral in the second issue cover... [[CoversAlwaysLie but it doesn't really happen in the comic.]] comic]]. The funeral happens, but [[spoiler: she's]] [[spoiler:she's]] not present.
%% * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Technically happens twice throughout the series.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One of Reginald Hargreeves' inventions was a way to give chimpanzees sentience. They show up everywhere as detectives, soliders, hobos and even one hooker. One of these intellegient chimps is Hargreeves' assistant,Pogo.
** No,Pogo. [[note]]No, really, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnt__lyGIQ4 EVERYTHING'S]] Better With Monkeys in Gerard Way's mind.mind[[/note]]
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods:
** Opens up the first issue with a man wrestling a giant space squid. For no real reason.
** And then there's the character Horror, who's actually pretty squidish himself, [[TentacleRope for obvious reasons]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The Rumor's hair gets longer and shaggier between the end of ''The Apocalypse Suite'' and where ''Dallas'' picks up.
%% * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Technically happens twice throughout the series.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One of Reginald Hargreeves' inventions was a way to give chimpanzees sentience. They show up everywhere as detectives, soliders, hobos and even one hooker. One of these intellegient chimps is Hargreeves' assistant,
** No,
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods:
** Opens up the first issue with a man wrestling a giant space squid. For no real reason.
** And then there's the character Horror, who's actually pretty squidish himself, [[TentacleRope for obvious reasons]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The Rumor's hair gets longer and shaggier between the end of ''The Apocalypse Suite'' and where ''Dallas'' picks up.
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* FetishFuel: [[spoiler:Vanya, when she becomes the White Violin]]. It helps that she's [[FullFrontalAssault completely nude]].
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* FetishFuel: [[spoiler:Vanya, when she becomes FamouslyMundaneFictionallyMagical: The series shows the Eiffel Tower being a spacecraft/weapon piloted by [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Robot Gustav Eiffel]].
* FreudianExcuse: Arguably every member of The Umbrella Academy, and definitely Vanya. Hargreeves is a dick and terrible parent, for instance his habit of sorting his children by their apparent worth.
* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler:Vanya is transformed into a nude WhiteViolin]]. It helps that she's [[FullFrontalAssault completely nude]].Violin]].
* FreudianExcuse: Arguably every member of The Umbrella Academy, and definitely Vanya. Hargreeves is a dick and terrible parent, for instance his habit of sorting his children by their apparent worth.
* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler:Vanya is transformed into a nude White
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* HitlersTimeTravelExemption: This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored in the ''Dallas'' arc, when it is learned that saving JFK from being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
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* HitlersTimeTravelExemption: HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored in the ''Dallas'' arc, when it is learned that saving JFK from being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
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* HighClassGlass: Sir Reginald Hargreeves aka The Monocle. He actually gets pissed off if the children refer to him as anything else.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct
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%% * HighClassGlass: Sir Reginald Hargreeves aka The Monocle. He actually gets pissed off if the children refer to him as anything else.
*HitlersTimeTravelExemptionActHistoricalVillainUpgrade: In the first story, they fight against a weaponized Eiffel tower controlled by... [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel]].
* HitlersTimeTravelExemption: This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored in the ''Dallas'' arc, when it is learned that saving JFK from being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt: Issue 1 of the ''Dallas'' arc features the Lincoln memorial statue come to life and terrorize the District of Columbia. To stop it Rumor says "Mr. President. I heard a rumor you were assassinated." This conjures up a statue of John Wilkes Booth who shoots the rampaging Lincoln. Hargreeves arrives on the scene and ask how she knew that would work. She replied "I didn't."
*
* HitlersTimeTravelExemption: This trope is inverted but nonetheless explored in the ''Dallas'' arc, when it is learned that saving JFK from being assassinated would result in [[spoiler:world-wide destruction via nuclear war]].
* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt: Issue 1 of the ''Dallas'' arc features the Lincoln memorial statue come to life and terrorize the District of Columbia. To stop it Rumor says "Mr. President. I heard a rumor you were assassinated." This conjures up a statue of John Wilkes Booth who shoots the rampaging Lincoln. Hargreeves arrives on the scene and ask how she knew that would work. She replied "I didn't."
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The Rumor's excuse [[spoiler:for killing JFK]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Vanya. [[spoiler:This is subverted as she's actually the most powerful of them all, but The Monocle suppressed her powers because he felt they were too dangerous and the fact they drove her mad when they were released.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: The Seance heads to a bar at the end of ''Dallas''.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Vanya. [[spoiler:This is subverted as she's actually the most powerful of them all, but The Monocle suppressed her powers because he felt they were too dangerous and the fact they drove her mad when they were released.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: The Seance heads to a bar at the end of ''Dallas''.
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%% * IDidWhatIHadToDo: The Rumor's excuse [[spoiler:for killing JFK]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial:Vanya. [[spoiler:This is subverted as she's actually Vanya, who really wishes that she superpowers beyond [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway playing the most powerful of them all, but The Monocle suppressed her powers violin really well.]] This is largely because he felt they were too dangerous her father figure and some of her adoptive siblings at the titular academy frequently put her down for it. [[spoiler: It turns out that the abuse was her father figure's attempt to hide the fact they drove that Vanya had enourmous potential as a MusicalAssassin, potential so great she could destroy the world if she tried. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds She does try.]]]]
* 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]].
* InformedFlaw: Alison, The Rumor, is described as being narcissistic. Now, we have never seen hermad when they were released.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: The Seance heads to a bar at the end of ''Dallas''.being narcissistic on her adult ages, nor on her younger years. That she lost her narcissism growing up, could be acceptable.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial:
* 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]].
* InformedFlaw: Alison, The Rumor, is described as being narcissistic. Now, we have never seen her
* INeedAFreakingDrink: The Seance heads to a bar at the end of ''Dallas''.
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* JustEatHim: [[spoiler:How Number Five kills Carmichael, an intelligent fish]].
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%% * JustEatHim: [[spoiler:How Number Five kills Carmichael, an intelligent fish]].
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* MadArtist: The Orchestra Verdammten. Particularly The Conductor.
* MagicMusic: Used by the Orchestra Verdammten.
* MagicMusic: Used by the Orchestra Verdammten.
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* KilledOffForReal: As of the start of the series, The Horror is dead, and will stay dead for the time being. While it hasn't be stated how he died, the only thing that reminds us he's dead is the statue that is (or was, as of the end of '' The Apocalypse Suite'') on the garden outside the mansion. The preview story, however, shows him alive and well, fighting alongside his siblings.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: The Horror is pretty much the embodiment of this. He's said to have several monsters hidden under his skin. Whether or not they're from space or another dimension or something else has yet to be stated. However, according to some people in universe, they're horrible and disgusting.
* LukeIAmYourFather: In Issue 6 of the ''Dallas'' arc, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Number 1 and Number 5 are biological siblings (they were adopted siblings before this point)]].
%% * MadArtist: The Orchestra Verdammten. Particularly The Conductor.
%% * MagicMusic: Used by the Orchestra Verdammten.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: The Horror is pretty much the embodiment of this. He's said to have several monsters hidden under his skin. Whether or not they're from space or another dimension or something else has yet to be stated. However, according to some people in universe, they're horrible and disgusting.
* LukeIAmYourFather: In Issue 6 of the ''Dallas'' arc, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Number 1 and Number 5 are biological siblings (they were adopted siblings before this point)]].
%% * MadArtist: The Orchestra Verdammten. Particularly The Conductor.
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* MusicalAssassin: [[spoiler:The White Violin]].
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* MonumentalBattle:
** In ''The Apocalypse Suite'', the Eiffel Tower is actually a space-faring warship built by [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot zombie]] [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Gustave Eiffel]].
** The Lincoln Memorial becomes a giant monster in opening to the ''Dallas'' storyline, [[spoiler:only to be shot in the head by a giant, stone John Wilkes Booth]].
* MoodDissonance: The series uses the bright, clean style of Gabriel Ba, while the plot is a mix of dramatic confrontations, violence, and absurdist humor.
* MusicalAssassin:[[spoiler:The The antagonist seemingly destined to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in ''The Apocalypse Suite'' arc is the appropriately-named White Violin]].Violin.
** In ''The Apocalypse Suite'', the Eiffel Tower is actually a space-faring warship built by [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot zombie]] [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Gustave Eiffel]].
** The Lincoln Memorial becomes a giant monster in opening to the ''Dallas'' storyline, [[spoiler:only to be shot in the head by a giant, stone John Wilkes Booth]].
* MoodDissonance: The series uses the bright, clean style of Gabriel Ba, while the plot is a mix of dramatic confrontations, violence, and absurdist humor.
* MusicalAssassin:
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* NotBloodSiblings: Luther and Allison, most noticeably, and Diego and Vanya. Which leaves Klaus as the third wheel, or Klaus and Ben as ThoseTwoGuys, variably.
* OneManArmy: Number 5.
** "I AM A GAZELLE AND THE JUNGLE IS MY HOME."
** "I am a revolution packed into a suitcase bomb!"
** "Brothers and Sisters, I am an atomic bomb"
* OneManArmy: Number 5.
** "I AM A GAZELLE AND THE JUNGLE IS MY HOME."
** "I am a revolution packed into a suitcase bomb!"
** "Brothers and Sisters, I am an atomic bomb"
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel.
* NotBloodSiblings:Luther Happens not once but ''twice''; first between the Rumor and Allison, most noticeably, Spaceboy, and Diego and Vanya. Which leaves Klaus as then the third wheel, or Klaus and Ben Kracken's obvious unrequited feelings for Vanya, as ThoseTwoGuys, variably.
well.
%% * OneManArmy: Number 5.
%% ** "I AM A GAZELLE AND THE JUNGLE IS MY HOME."
%% ** "I am a revolution packed into a suitcase bomb!"
%% ** "Brothers and Sisters, I am an atomic bomb"
* NotBloodSiblings:
%% * OneManArmy: Number 5.
%% ** "I AM A GAZELLE AND THE JUNGLE IS MY HOME."
%% ** "I am a revolution packed into a suitcase bomb!"
%% ** "Brothers and Sisters, I am an atomic bomb"
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:The White Violin]], No. 5.
* PsychoForHire: Hazel and Cha Cha.
* PsychopathicManchild: Hazel and Cha Cha again.
* PsychoForHire: Hazel and Cha Cha.
* PsychopathicManchild: Hazel and Cha Cha again.
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%% * PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:The White Violin]], No. 5.
* PsychoForHire: Hazel andCha Cha.
Cha-Cha. [[spoiler:A diner chef makes the mistake of saying they'd have to chop off his arms and legs to get his secret pie recipe. They do just that]]. All while wearing adorable furry masks!
%% * PsychopathicManchild: Hazel and Cha Cha again.
* PsychoForHire: Hazel and
%% * PsychopathicManchild: Hazel and Cha Cha again.
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* RealityWarper: The Rumor.
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* RealityWarper: The Rumor.Rumor has the ability to tell lies that come true, which she usually does by saying "I heard a rumor that...". As her power is speech-based, it can be disabled if anything happens to her voice.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: 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]].
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* RentAZilla: The giant rampaging Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of the ''Dallas''.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots:Subverted 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]].
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots:
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Spaceboy at the end of ''Dallas''.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Hargreeves assembled the children so that they'd someday "save the world". He probably didn't intend for them to put the planet in danger themselves.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: What Number Five travelled back in time to accomplish. Namely, preventing the Apocalypse.
* SlashedThroat: A rare case where the victim doesn't die.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Hargreeves assembled the children so that they'd someday "save the world". He probably didn't intend for them to put the planet in danger themselves.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: What Number Five travelled back in time to accomplish. Namely, preventing the Apocalypse.
* SlashedThroat: A rare case where the victim doesn't die.
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%% * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Spaceboy at the end of ''Dallas''.
%% * SelfFulfillingProphecy: Hargreeves assembled the children so that they'd someday "save the world". He probably didn't intend for them to put the planet in danger themselves.
%% * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: What Number Five travelled back in time to accomplish. Namely, preventing the Apocalypse.
* SlashedThroat:A The Rumor's throat is slashed with a note from a MusicalAssassin. It's a rare case where when the victim doesn't die.end up dead, though she was immediately rushed to a hospital and [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished bears an ugly scar afterwards]].
%% * SelfFulfillingProphecy: Hargreeves assembled the children so that they'd someday "save the world". He probably didn't intend for them to put the planet in danger themselves.
%% * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: What Number Five travelled back in time to accomplish. Namely, preventing the Apocalypse.
* SlashedThroat:
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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: In ''The Apocalypse Suite'' with [[spoiler:Vanya]] and ''Dallas'' with [[spoiler:Number 5]].
* SurprisePregnancy: Taken to 11 when 43 women who hadn't been pregnant to begin with suddenly all give birth all the same time with no warning, right in the middle of whatever it was they had been doing at the time.
* SurprisePregnancy: Taken to 11 when 43 women who hadn't been pregnant to begin with suddenly all give birth all the same time with no warning, right in the middle of whatever it was they had been doing at the time.
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%% * StrappedToAnOperatingTable: In ''The Apocalypse Suite'' with [[spoiler:Vanya]] and ''Dallas'' with [[spoiler:Number 5]].
* SummonBiggerFish: The Rumor's solution to a giant berserker UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln statue: A giant John Wilkes Booths statue, complete with a stone derringer. Afterwards, the Booths statue is seen escaping, with the police chasing after him.
* SuperheroSchool: The titular institute, though its seven students are never shown in a classroom or studying.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: The Kraken can only, as creator Gerard Way said, "hold his breath and throw knives." He also said he was "fucking useless" and compared him to [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman Aquaman]]. Ouch.
* SurprisePregnancy:Taken to 11 {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', when 43 women who hadn't been pregnant to begin with suddenly all give birth all the same time with no warning, right in the middle of whatever it was they had been doing at the time.
* SummonBiggerFish: The Rumor's solution to a giant berserker UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln statue: A giant John Wilkes Booths statue, complete with a stone derringer. Afterwards, the Booths statue is seen escaping, with the police chasing after him.
* SuperheroSchool: The titular institute, though its seven students are never shown in a classroom or studying.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: The Kraken can only, as creator Gerard Way said, "hold his breath and throw knives." He also said he was "fucking useless" and compared him to [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman Aquaman]]. Ouch.
* SurprisePregnancy:
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Hazel and Cha-Cha.
* TimePolice: The Temps Aertenalis.
* TimeTravel: All over ''Dallas.''
** It's specifically Number Five's power.
* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler:Seance, Spaceboy, and Kraken]] in ''Dallas''.
* TheUnfavorite: Vanya.
* TheVietnamWar: See TimeTravel above.
* TimePolice: The Temps Aertenalis.
* TimeTravel: All over ''Dallas.''
** It's specifically Number Five's power.
* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler:Seance, Spaceboy, and Kraken]] in ''Dallas''.
* TheUnfavorite: Vanya.
* TheVietnamWar: See TimeTravel above.
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* TalkingWithSigns: The Rumor, for most of the ''Dallas'' arc, communicates on a notepad, mostly with scathing sarcasm. [[spoiler:She gets better just in time to use her power to resolve the plot, assassinate JFK, and save the world]].
* 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.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Hazel andCha-Cha.
Cha-Cha. They like the simple things in life. Candy, cookies, pie. And dismembering innocent people with hack saws while plotting nuclear Armageddon.
* TimePolice: The TempsAertenalis.
Aeternalis. It seems like their main function is to carry out assassinations, or as they call them, "corrections". Their purpose is to maintain the status quo.
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%% ** All over ''Dallas.''
%% ** It's specifically Number Five's power.
%% * TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler:Seance, Spaceboy, and Kraken]] in ''Dallas''.
%% * TheUnfavorite: Vanya.
%% * TheVietnamWar: See TimeTravel above.
* 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.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Hazel and
* TimePolice: The Temps
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%% ** All over ''Dallas.''
%% ** It's specifically Number Five's power.
%% * TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler:Seance, Spaceboy, and Kraken]] in ''Dallas''.
%% * TheUnfavorite: Vanya.
%% * TheVietnamWar: See TimeTravel above.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Luther.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being an awful father and husband, Hargreeves' motivation was to save the world.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: 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. [[WordOfGod 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.
** Hargreeves, for all his intense dislike of the boy, ranked the Kraken as #2 among the children, placing him right under his favorite pupil and above the RealityWarper, the psychic, the time traveler, the boy with a LovecraftianSuperpower, and the [[spoiler:White Violin]] in that order.
* WhoShotJFK: The main focus of the second story line, ''Dallas''. Turns out it was [[spoiler:the Rumor, being blackmailed by the Temps Aeternalis]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being an awful father and husband, Hargreeves' motivation was to save the world.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: 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. [[WordOfGod 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.
** Hargreeves, for all his intense dislike of the boy, ranked the Kraken as #2 among the children, placing him right under his favorite pupil and above the RealityWarper, the psychic, the time traveler, the boy with a LovecraftianSuperpower, and the [[spoiler:White Violin]] in that order.
* WhoShotJFK: 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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* WeightWoe: Luther Hargreeves had gotten out-of-shape between the first and second volumes of the series from doing nothing but eating cookies and watching infomercials all day out of depression.
%% * WellDoneSonGuy: Luther.
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being an awful father and husband, Hargreeves' motivation was to save the world.
*WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway:
** 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. [[WordOfGod 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 bigdeal.
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Hargreeves, for all his intense dislike of the boy, ranked the Kraken as #2 among the children, placing him right under his favorite pupil and above the RealityWarper, the psychic, the time traveler, the boy with a LovecraftianSuperpower, and the [[spoiler:White Violin]] in that order.
* WhoShotJFK: The main focus of ** Vanya has the second story line, ''Dallas''. Turns out it was [[spoiler:the Rumor, power to… play the violin really well. She ends up [[IJustWantToBeSpecial being blackmailed so upset over this]] (plus a good amount of ostracization and emotional abuse from her peers and father figure) that she eventually [[spoiler:becomes the main villain and, using a deadly violin, becomes a MusicalAssassin powerful enough to destroy the world]].
* WhoShotJFK:
** ''The Apocalypse Suite'' alludes to Number Five being involved in the Kennedy assassination, but the point is never elaborated on.
** ''Dallas'' reveals that [[spoiler:Number Five was sent by the [[TimePolice TempsAeternalis]].Aeternalis]] to kill Kennedy, but he changed his mind and instead killed the other assassins. Later (in his personal timeline), he goes back to that day to stop his past self from stopping the assassination. He does so by having his teammate The Rumor pose as Mrs. Kennedy and use her reality-warping powers to kill JFK]].
%% * WellDoneSonGuy: Luther.
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being an awful father and husband, Hargreeves' motivation was to save the world.
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** 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. [[WordOfGod 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
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Hargreeves, for all his intense dislike of the boy, ranked the Kraken as #2 among the children, placing him right under his favorite pupil and above the RealityWarper, the psychic, the time traveler, the boy with a LovecraftianSuperpower, and the [[spoiler:White Violin]] in that order.
* WhoShotJFK:
** ''The Apocalypse Suite'' alludes to Number Five being involved in the Kennedy assassination, but the point is never elaborated on.
** ''Dallas'' reveals that [[spoiler:Number Five was sent by the [[TimePolice Temps
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* YouCannotThwartStageOneYouAreNumberSix: The seven adopted children who form The Umbrella Academy respond to their respective numbers up until they receive real names and proper superhero codes name, respectively. Number Six himself dies very, very early on in the series.
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* SurprisePregnency: SurprisePregnancy: Taken to 11 when 43 women who hadnt hadn't been pregent pregnant to begin with suddenly all give birth all the same time with no warning, right in the middle of whatever it was they had been doing at the time.
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* TheCape: The Horror, considered to be one of the most grotesque and useless of the group by Hargreeves, not only dressed the most like a traditional superhero, but acted the part as well.
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* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: [[spoiler: ]]The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, arguably. None of the children are blood siblings. (Except for umber Five and Spaceboy]]).
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* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: [[spoiler: ]]The The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, arguably. None (None of the children are blood siblings. (Except for umber siblings, other than Number Five and Spaceboy]]).
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* BrotherSisterIncest: The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, although admittedly none of the children are blood siblings [[spoiler: except Number Five and Spaceboy]].
* CaptainErsatz: Kraken is basically {{Wolverine}} without claws.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: The [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: [[spoiler: ]]The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, although admittedly none arguably. None of the children are blood siblings [[spoiler: except Number siblings. (Except for umber Five and Spaceboy]].
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A comic book series written by Gerard Way of Music/MyChemicalRomance and drawn by Gabriel Bá from Creator/DarkHorseComics.
One day, 43 extraordinary children were [[BizarreBabyBoom all spontaneously born on the same day]]. Of these children, seven are adopted by the inventor (and space alien) 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 his unwavering ambition to push them to their limits, inevitably scars them all as adults. In many ways ''The Umbrella Academy'' is both a {{deconstruction}} and AffectionateParody of Gold and Silver Age comics, joyfully embracing absurd and wonderful classics like talking monkeys and space squids while exploring the real psychological effects of being groomed from birth to be a hero in the care of a wealthy man of intrigue.
The main series takes place after Hargreeves's death where the team reunite at his funeral. There are currently two complete story lines ''The Apocalypse Suite'' and ''Dallas'' as well as a handful of one shot stories, all of which are now available on the internet.
Has nothing to do with [[Franchise/ResidentEvil The Umbrella Corporation]].
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!!Tropes:
* AbusiveParents: 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.
** "Dad.. ? I mean, Mr. Monocle, sir? Why can't I play with the others?" "Well number seven... there's just nothing special about you." "Oh."
* AlienBlood: Gray blood, in the case of one transformed human.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Klaus. Even his creator has no clue what his sexuality is.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Klaus. Technically twice]].
* BadassFamily
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: "And just as I expected -- [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel]]!"
* BizarreBabyBoom: The 43 babies, all born to random women showing no signs of pregnancy at all.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The Eiffel Tower destroys the Umbrella Academy at the end of Apocalypse Suite]].
* BrotherSisterIncest: The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, although admittedly none of the children are blood siblings [[spoiler: except Number Five and Spaceboy]].
* CaptainErsatz: Kraken is basically {{Wolverine}} without claws.
** His power makes him a parody of Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and his popular criticism of having a rather pointless power.
** Officer Lupo is basically Commissioner Gordon.
* CloudCuckooLander: Klaus. Oh, Klaus.
* CodeName
* CombatPragmatist: Number 5 is very direct.
* TheDogBitesBack: In ''Dallas'', [[spoiler:No. 5 bites Carmichael back rather more literally than ususal]].
* DominoMask: The whole family, until they disband, even though they don't have secret identities. The Rumor puts on the mask during the first story to help her get in the groove of being a superhero again.
* DysfunctionalFamily: To put it mildly.
* EarlyBirdCameo: 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... [[CoversAlwaysLie but it doesn't really happen in the comic.]] The funeral happens, but [[spoiler: she's]] not present.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Technically happens twice throughout the series.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One of Hargreeves' inventions was a way to give chimpanzees sentience. They show up everywhere as detectives, soliders, hobos and even one hooker. One of these intellegient chimps is Hargreeves' assistant, Pogo.
** No, really, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnt__lyGIQ4 EVERYTHING'S]] Better With Monkeys in Gerard Way's mind.
* FetishFuel: [[spoiler:Vanya, when she becomes the White Violin]]. It helps that she's [[FullFrontalAssault completely nude]].
* GenderBlenderName: Er, isn't Vanya the Russian version of "John"?
* HighClassGlass: Sir Reginald Hargreeves aka The Monocle. He actually gets pissed off if the children refer to him as anything else.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The Rumor's excuse [[spoiler:for killing JFK]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Vanya. [[spoiler:This is subverted as she's actually the most powerful of them all, but The Monocle suppressed her powers because he felt they were too dangerous and the fact they drove her mad when they were released.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: The Seance heads to a bar at the end of ''Dallas''.
* JustEatHim: [[spoiler:How Number Five kills Carmichael, an intelligent fish]].
* MadArtist: The Orchestra Verdammten. Particularly The Conductor.
* MagicMusic: Used by the Orchestra Verdammten.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: [[spoiler:Cowboy God]].
* MusicalAssassin: [[spoiler:The White Violin]].
* NotBloodSiblings: Luther and Allison, most noticeably, and Diego and Vanya. Which leaves Klaus as the third wheel, or Klaus and Ben as ThoseTwoGuys, variably.
* OneManArmy: Number 5.
** "I AM A GAZELLE AND THE JUNGLE IS MY HOME."
** "I am a revolution packed into a suitcase bomb!"
** "Brothers and Sisters, I am an atomic bomb"
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:The White Violin]], No. 5.
* PsychoForHire: Hazel and Cha Cha.
* PsychopathicManchild: Hazel and Cha Cha again.
* RealityWarper: The Rumor.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Number Five is an eighty-year-old man trapped in a ten-year-old's body. There's no telling how old he really is, however, as [[spoiler:his aging was halted by The Temps Aertanalis]].
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: 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]].
* RunningGag: "Televator's broken."
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Spaceboy at the end of ''Dallas''.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: What Number Five travelled back in time to accomplish. Namely, preventing the Apocalypse.
* SlashedThroat: A rare case where the victim doesn't die.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, Number Five's "disposal" of [[spoiler:his superior, Carmichael]].
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: In ''The Apocalypse Suite'' with [[spoiler:Vanya]] and ''Dallas'' with [[spoiler:Number 5]].
* SurprisePregnency: Taken to 11 when 43 women who hadnt been pregent to begin with suddenly all give birth all the same time with no warning, right in the middle of whatever it was they had been doing at the time.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Hazel and Cha-Cha.
* TimePolice: The Temps Aertenalis.
* TimeTravel: All over ''Dallas.''
** It's specifically Number Five's power.
* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler:Seance, Spaceboy, and Kraken]] in ''Dallas''.
* TheUnfavorite: Vanya.
* TheVietnamWar: See TimeTravel above.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Seance's powers only work when he's barefoot. [[FridgeBrilliance He apparently collects shoes]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: Luther.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being an awful father and husband, Hargreeves' motivation was to save the world.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: 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. [[WordOfGod 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.
* WhoShotJFK: 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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A comic book series written by Gerard Way of Music/MyChemicalRomance and drawn by Gabriel Bá from Creator/DarkHorseComics.
One day, 43 extraordinary children were [[BizarreBabyBoom all spontaneously born on the same day]]. Of these children, seven are adopted by the inventor (and space alien) 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 his unwavering ambition to push them to their limits, inevitably scars them all as adults. In many ways ''The Umbrella Academy'' is both a {{deconstruction}} and AffectionateParody of Gold and Silver Age comics, joyfully embracing absurd and wonderful classics like talking monkeys and space squids while exploring the real psychological effects of being groomed from birth to be a hero in the care of a wealthy man of intrigue.
The main series takes place after Hargreeves's death where the team reunite at his funeral. There are currently two complete story lines ''The Apocalypse Suite'' and ''Dallas'' as well as a handful of one shot stories, all of which are now available on the internet.
Has nothing to do with [[Franchise/ResidentEvil The Umbrella Corporation]].
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!!Tropes:
* AbusiveParents: 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.
** "Dad.. ? I mean, Mr. Monocle, sir? Why can't I play with the others?" "Well number seven... there's just nothing special about you." "Oh."
* AlienBlood: Gray blood, in the case of one transformed human.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Klaus. Even his creator has no clue what his sexuality is.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Klaus. Technically twice]].
* BadassFamily
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: "And just as I expected -- [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel]]!"
* BizarreBabyBoom: The 43 babies, all born to random women showing no signs of pregnancy at all.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The Eiffel Tower destroys the Umbrella Academy at the end of Apocalypse Suite]].
* BrotherSisterIncest: The Rumor/Spaceboy and The Kraken/Vanya, although admittedly none of the children are blood siblings [[spoiler: except Number Five and Spaceboy]].
* CaptainErsatz: Kraken is basically {{Wolverine}} without claws.
** His power makes him a parody of Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and his popular criticism of having a rather pointless power.
** Officer Lupo is basically Commissioner Gordon.
* CloudCuckooLander: Klaus. Oh, Klaus.
* CodeName
* CombatPragmatist: Number 5 is very direct.
* TheDogBitesBack: In ''Dallas'', [[spoiler:No. 5 bites Carmichael back rather more literally than ususal]].
* DominoMask: The whole family, until they disband, even though they don't have secret identities. The Rumor puts on the mask during the first story to help her get in the groove of being a superhero again.
* DysfunctionalFamily: To put it mildly.
* EarlyBirdCameo: 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... [[CoversAlwaysLie but it doesn't really happen in the comic.]] The funeral happens, but [[spoiler: she's]] not present.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Technically happens twice throughout the series.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One of Hargreeves' inventions was a way to give chimpanzees sentience. They show up everywhere as detectives, soliders, hobos and even one hooker. One of these intellegient chimps is Hargreeves' assistant, Pogo.
** No, really, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnt__lyGIQ4 EVERYTHING'S]] Better With Monkeys in Gerard Way's mind.
* FetishFuel: [[spoiler:Vanya, when she becomes the White Violin]]. It helps that she's [[FullFrontalAssault completely nude]].
* GenderBlenderName: Er, isn't Vanya the Russian version of "John"?
* HighClassGlass: Sir Reginald Hargreeves aka The Monocle. He actually gets pissed off if the children refer to him as anything else.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The Rumor's excuse [[spoiler:for killing JFK]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Vanya. [[spoiler:This is subverted as she's actually the most powerful of them all, but The Monocle suppressed her powers because he felt they were too dangerous and the fact they drove her mad when they were released.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: The Seance heads to a bar at the end of ''Dallas''.
* JustEatHim: [[spoiler:How Number Five kills Carmichael, an intelligent fish]].
* MadArtist: The Orchestra Verdammten. Particularly The Conductor.
* MagicMusic: Used by the Orchestra Verdammten.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: [[spoiler:Cowboy God]].
* MusicalAssassin: [[spoiler:The White Violin]].
* NotBloodSiblings: Luther and Allison, most noticeably, and Diego and Vanya. Which leaves Klaus as the third wheel, or Klaus and Ben as ThoseTwoGuys, variably.
* OneManArmy: Number 5.
** "I AM A GAZELLE AND THE JUNGLE IS MY HOME."
** "I am a revolution packed into a suitcase bomb!"
** "Brothers and Sisters, I am an atomic bomb"
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:The White Violin]], No. 5.
* PsychoForHire: Hazel and Cha Cha.
* PsychopathicManchild: Hazel and Cha Cha again.
* RealityWarper: The Rumor.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Number Five is an eighty-year-old man trapped in a ten-year-old's body. There's no telling how old he really is, however, as [[spoiler:his aging was halted by The Temps Aertanalis]].
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: 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]].
* RunningGag: "Televator's broken."
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Spaceboy at the end of ''Dallas''.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: What Number Five travelled back in time to accomplish. Namely, preventing the Apocalypse.
* SlashedThroat: A rare case where the victim doesn't die.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, Number Five's "disposal" of [[spoiler:his superior, Carmichael]].
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: In ''The Apocalypse Suite'' with [[spoiler:Vanya]] and ''Dallas'' with [[spoiler:Number 5]].
* SurprisePregnency: Taken to 11 when 43 women who hadnt been pregent to begin with suddenly all give birth all the same time with no warning, right in the middle of whatever it was they had been doing at the time.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Hazel and Cha-Cha.
* TimePolice: The Temps Aertenalis.
* TimeTravel: All over ''Dallas.''
** It's specifically Number Five's power.
* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler:Seance, Spaceboy, and Kraken]] in ''Dallas''.
* TheUnfavorite: Vanya.
* TheVietnamWar: See TimeTravel above.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Seance's powers only work when he's barefoot. [[FridgeBrilliance He apparently collects shoes]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: Luther.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being an awful father and husband, Hargreeves' motivation was to save the world.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: 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. [[WordOfGod 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.
* WhoShotJFK: 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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