General Theories
"I heard a rumor" is a safety measure, not a requirement, and Allison will figure out other ways to use her powers.
It would be immensely dangerous if Allison's powers just went off whenever she used an imperative (think of how often English speakers casually say things that sound like commands but aren't—something as simple as "shut up!" could be really literal from an Allison with less control) or really wanted something, especially as we already know she hasn't always been the most responsible about using her powers. Having to say the catch phrase means she has to be intentional about using her Reality Warper powers, which probably makes it easier for her to control it. Now that her vocal chords are out of commission she'll make like Klaus and discover new dimensions to her abilities.- Semi-confirmed. She uses her powers multiple times throughout Season 3 without saying "I heard a rumor" after being caught in Harlan and Viktor's power transfer.
Allison used her powers on Luther when they were younger.
Sibling incest is rare. There's an entire theory with evidence backing it up (Westermarck Effect) about humans not being attracted to people they were raised with, regardless of them being biological family. So it's pretty unlikely that Allison and Luther would be mutually attracted to someone they grew up with, especially with said mutual attraction starting when they were still kids. It isn't unlikely, though, that an emotionally neglected kid with no real concept of romantic attraction would mistake the deeper affection she feels towards one of her brothers and assume it must be romantic love. And what affection-starved pre-teen with Allison’s power wouldn’t use them to get their 'crush' to like them back? So she does, Luther falls in love with her and starts treating her with a care she'd never experienced, which leads to her becoming actually infatuated and possibly even forgetting she used her powers to begin with. Flash-forward to them as adults, Allison's idea of love is still very much connected to Luther, and Luther is still being influenced by her powers, resulting in them still wanting to bang. And with their relationship being received by the fandom as a Romantic Plot Tumor, it would make sense for the creators to try and retcon them.- Allison and Luther actually do fit the findings of Westermarck Effect studies. The pop-culture understanding of the Westermark Effect listed above is patchy. The key study cited for the Westermark Effect is about kids raised on kibbutzim (communal farms in Israel). The kibbutz kids are a very good comparison for the Umbrella Academy kids: (1) biologically unrelated (2) kids of the same age (3) are raised together (4) in a semi-familial semi-institutional setting (5) with no social taboo against attraction to their peers. The question then: With no externally imposed taboo, does a sexual aversion to one's peers arise naturally from this upbringing? The initial study said yes, and cited as evidence the very low rates of marriage among kibbutz kids. However, this is based on a pretty big logical leap: assuming that childhood attraction consistently translates into marriage in adulthood. A later follow-up study found that kibbutz kids did have crushes on each other, even though they didn't marry. Thus, as co-reared kids who had a crush on each other that did not translate into marriage, Allison and Luther fit the model to the T.
The world is still doomed.
Even if they're able to help Vanya control her emotions, they're only preventing the apocalypse that Five found himself in, which is a result of Reginald's own messing with time, which only created a worse apocalypse than the one he's from, which probably would have happened if Vanya hadn't destroyed things first. So the team will still find themselves facing an apocalypse one way or another.- Additionally, the original apocalypse was caused by one of the other 43 spontaneously born children, and they'll come into play in season 2.
- Confirmed: In the first episode the gang ends up in the 60's which indirectly causes the Cold War to break out into WWIII.
Reginald knew everything in advance.
It may even be that Reginald works for the Commission and set Vanya up to cause the apocalypse. He knew when to bring the others together, which would let them all be killed at once. Vanya's lack of medicine exposed her full emotions and her power during a week that played havoc with even her toughest and most stable siblings. Klaus serves as a "gateway" of sorts to ghosts.
Ben being able to physically manipulate the living world when Klaus is stone-cold sober could mean that Klaus can literally allow ghosts to come back to the world of the living.- Semi-confirmed: It's revealed that Ben can possess people while Klaus is channeling him.
One of the jobs of the Hotel Obsidian is to be a refuge for interdimentional travelers.
When the Umbrellas arrive, Chet looks at Luther's watch and immediately gives them two rooms for an unspecified period of time, and even lets them borrow two (or more?) of the Hotel's cars. Could a single watch pay for all that? It's more likely that Chet's jeweler's glass is designed to identify other-worldly material, and he's instructed to let people stay indefinitely if they're from "elsewhere". This explains why there's so many weird-looking people hanging out in the lobby: They're all from other dimentions as well. The Hargreeves are actually ranked least to most powerful
Luther is simply just strong, Diego can arc things he throws and yet the two of them are ranked 1 and 2 while Vanya is a one woman apocalypse and ranked dead last. If Reginald is capable of seeing into the future, he might have been able to get the gist of how powerful each of his children would be, hence why they have had the same numbers since birth and not get reordered. Once Reginald decided Vanya was too dangerous and had memory of her powers erased he could have easily just lied and said it was about who was the most to least useful to cover his tracks.- Confirmed in the tie-in book about the making of the show.
- This has pretty terrifying implications for what Ben's power would have been capable of, having been ranked higher than Allison.
Drugs could block all the siblings powers
Klaus is just the only one who wants to use that to his advantage. The type of drug may vary. It’s how Vanya’s anxiety dulling pills stopped her powers. The Black Parade and/or the Killjoys will appear.
The show is based on a comic book made by Gerard Way, the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade seems to be some sort of afterlife in the music video, so Klaus my end up meeting them, maybe as some sort of ally or maybe as harbingers of the apocalypse, The killjoys (also made into a comic book) seem to come from a post apocalyptic time, so Five may accidentally travel to that timeline (also helps to give a crossover) and meet them, also the apocalypse does look kind of like it does in the Welcome to the Black Parade video.
Sending Luther to the Moon wasn't completely pointless
Sir Reginald knew that there was a chance the Apocalypse would involve the Moon in some way, but wasn't sure how. He figured that Luther would mention anything especially strange in their regular communications ("Hey dad, the Sea of Tranquility seems to be a bit more explodey than usual") so the routine reports and samples were indeed just busywork to keep Luther occupied and out of everyday harm, but the Moon mission wasn't entirely a fool's errand.- While it is otherwise mentioned in passing, Reginald's last meeting with the Magnificent 12 confirms there was actually something on the moon he was concerned with. Luther might have offset Reginald's need to work with the group (and by proxy their desire to have JFK assassinated) had he confirmed what, if anything, he found during his time in space.
- Confirmed. Reginald confirms in Season 3 that Luther was sent to the moon to (unknowingly) watch over his dead wife, Abigail.
Hazel and Cha-Cha had superpowers
Hazel and Cha-Cha, respectively exhibited greater strength and higher tolerance to pain than what is considered normal. Hazel could match Luther blow for blow, while Cha-Cha held a hot curling iron to an open wound and looked more annoyed by it than in pain. This isn’t common for Commission agents as the Swedes don’t show any extra-normal attributes, so the duo may have been outliers. Perhaps the Commission recruited "miracle children" where they could without hurting the timeline, such as what happened with Five.- It seems more likely that the Commission's training regime is just that intense for assassins. Keep in mind that the largest Swede was so tough that Five couldn't do his usual neck snap to him. Were Hazel and Cha Cha one of the forty three the Handler or someone similar would have probably raised them more like Lila.
The siblings share a biological father.
The cause of the spontaneous births is not known, but if it was caused the same supernatural force impregnating all 43 women, they are actually biological siblings. This show will never see 2020.
Due to all the time jumps and shenanigans, the story will be stuck perpetually in 2019. Hargreeves is the devil.
If there is a god, there must be a devil. Hargreeves is not human. And he likes to tinkle with humanity. Hargreeves is god.
The girl on a bike is just pulling Klaus' leg. Hargreeves is actually god and ascendant to make a better world, one in which everybody knows him again. Post-Season 1 Theories
Leonard actually has some sort of super power
Luther holding Leonard's glass eye in the alternate apocalypse doesn't make any sense. That is, unless in that universe he survived longer and then, instead of accidentally causing Vanya to bring about the apocalypse, he was an active participant in what caused it. Add in the fact that he was born in the same day as the others, and maybe he's got a power that regular universe Leonardo just hadn't realized or shown on screen.- Not necessarily. Five eventually puts together the fact that the house came down before the actual apocalypse and in the main timeline Leonard encourages Vanya to invite them to the recital. The Hargreeves could have realized what Leonard was doing when the two came to invite the others, due to Vanya's powers manifesting, and attack him, leading to Vanya bringing the house down to protect him and continue to the concert.
- There’s also a brief shot of a charred body lying in the rubble of the Academy. Chances are very good that this is Vanya who, after becoming enraged at something her siblings said or did, brought the Academy down around her siblings and then generated enough sonic energy to burn herself alive.
Leonard doesn't have a superpower ... but his twin would have.
Even though Leonard was born on the same day as the Hargreeveses, it's established that his mom was pregnant beforehand. However, just because he wasn't one of the spontaneous pregnancies, that doesn't mean his mom wasn't spontaneously pregnant. After Leonard was born, his mom died soon after. This could have been because she went into labor again immediately after, and the stress killed her, and her second baby. The Temps Commission is responsible for Dave's death.
In traveling back to the Vietnam War, Klaus placed himself at a point in time twenty-one years prior to his birth. The fact he stayed in an active war zone for ten months simply because Dave was there suggests he could have been planning to live out the rest of his natural life with Dave from 1968 onward. This would be all well and good up until October 1, 1989, because if Klaus Hargreeves was already in his fifties at the point when he was born, it would create a paradox, having an unknown (possibly negative) effect on the timeline. Taking Dave out of the picture was the easiest way to get Klaus to return to his own time, and no one would question a shrapnel wound in the middle of the Vietnam War. Furthermore, in killing Dave, the Commission would have given Klaus another reason to want to remain numb, keeping him from developing his powers and possibly preventing the apocalypse. For season 2 ...
- Number Five and his siblings travel back to after the moment he tried to teleport in time in the first place. The other siblings retain their adult minds while back to their younger/past bodies. This time, they won't take anymore crap from Reginald, who will notice something different about them. They may trust Pogo with the truth.
- Leonard's life will change for the better if the siblings travel back to some point before he tried to join them.
Vanya caused an Apocalypse but the first ultimate one
In the comics, Vanya and the Orchestra Vedammten's attempt to destroy the world is thwarted but it turns out that the second attempt (either it was a consequence of the change in the timeline or it was the ultimate one is inconsequential) was indirectly by Reginald Hargreeves himself and the Temps Aeternalis. To stop the second Apocalypse, Temps Aeternalis recruited Five and Allison to have President Kennedy assassinated. This would prevent Reginald from obtaining the nuclear bombs used by the more psychotic Hazel and Cha-Cha from detonating them and ending the world.So in the show, it was discovered that Vanya was not in fact responsible for first Apocalypse (she did destroy the Academy, killing everyone inside, herself included), but was the nuclear warheads Reginald had and were detonated. Five and Allison will travel through time to stop Reginald from buying Vanya
Since they have the advantage of time travel, Five and Allison will come to the conclusion that the best thing they can do for Vanya is to have her stay with her mother and not Reginald. The sad part is that while some things have changed, and Vanya even has a family and much happier life, the world still ends.Now that all the Hargreeves have gone back in time in their younger bodies, a lot of characters could be set to reappear...
...because their deaths have been retconned:- The obvious ones are Reginald Hargreeves, Grace and Pogo.
- Others include Detective Patch, Leonard and Cha-Cha.
- While it wasn't because they went straight into their younger selves, Reginald's return has been confirmed as a result of meddling in time travel with the season 2 finale.
Since it was announced that season 2 will have the siblings lost in the 1960's
Klaus will be on a mission to find Dave, make him fall in love with him again, and convince him to leave the country before he can be drafted.- Likewise, since Klaus has already lived in the 60's, him integrating into the time period will be much more seamless than any of his siblings.
- Semi-confirmed. While Klaus does find Dave and attempt to save him from his eventual fate, his efforts wind up accelerating when Dave wound up joining the armed forces. It is unknown whether any part of his warning took root.
- As it turns out, Dave's uncle made him enlist in the Marines, whereas in the original timeline Dave voluntarily enlisted in the Army. This is an indicator that Dave likely survived while in service.
There was an In Universe reason why Klaus had the bathroom door open during the home invasion scene
Having the door open wasn't just for comedic and cinematic effect; Klaus has been a heavy drug user since he was a teen, certain drugs can be very sedative in nature and cause people to fall asleep in the middle of conversation. It's entirely possible that Klaus keeps the bathroom door open in the event that he passes out or overdoses while in the tub, someone passing by can see him under the water and pull him out. If that is true, the fact that Klaus would anticipate that would imply that it's happened before. Post-Season 2 Theories
Despite their disastrous meeting, due to the efforts of Team Zero, Reginald never made a robot in Grace's likeness and focused more on the children he would eventually raise
Because they confronted him about the goals of his group, the events that followed weighed more heavily on him than they originally did. Furthermore, because Grace discovered plans that confirmed her fears and he refused to clarify what involvement he had in the plot, he lost one of the two positive relationships he was established to have in the 60's.- Robot Grace still exists in the Sparrow timeline, albeit with no explanation.
Harlan is responsible in some part for the alternate timeline at the end of the second season
He's frequently shown playing with a toy of a red bird, which is the logo for the Sparrow Academy in the comics and possibly the show.- Because of Team Zero's meeting with Reginald, he may have gained an increased interest in children with unusual abilities and doubled his efforts for more recruits, possibly using Harlan as his first test case.
- In this new timeline Harlan will perform a similar role to the The Sparrow Academy as Pogo to the Umbrella Academy.
- It's never actually shown on the Infinite Switchboard what would happen in the timeline after Harlan gets superpowers.
- In addition, it would be consistent with how Vanya is the primary instigator in all seasons thus far for status quo changing events, with the discovery of her powers and emotional manipulation by Leonard leading to a piece of the moon's crash on Earth in season 1 and her being mistaken for a Soviet agent and subsequent destruction of the FBI's local office is what leads Kennedy to declare nuclear war in season 2. Vanya giving Harlan superpowers would serve as the possible new hook for a changed timeline.
- Confirmed. Harlan accidentally kills the Umbrella Hargreeves' mothers and creates the Grandfather Paradox that threatens everything.
Ben has his portrait hanging in the Sparrow Academy because he is their #1
Reginald was only able to find seven the first go around, so if he actively avoided the Umbrella Academy in the new timeline, Ben was likely the only baby he was able to find/get easily. As a result, the rest of the Sparrow Academy may have been adopted when slightly older with all of Reginald's attention being on Ben until then. Ben could be the golden child in this timeline and therefore have his portrait hung up as the standard the rest of the academy must live up to.- Jossed, Ben is confirmed as Number Two
- Season 3 later reveals that Sparrow Ben was seen as a possible Number One before Reginald decided Marcus would be a better leader, so this portrait may have been from before he solidified the Sparrow Academy's numbers.
The Sparrow Academy will be even more of Child Soldiers than the original team was
The Umbrella Academy shows up and quickly show themselves to be dysfunctional and responsible for two apocalypses, the entire time they were there, Reginald took studious notes. Most likely he considered them to be complete failures but, instead of learning from his future mistakes, doubled down on his original plans, and raised the Sparrow Academy to have even less of a childhood. Despite being thirty, all of them continue to live with Reginald, continue to wear their childhood school uniforms, and stand in perfect unity and silence with the exception of Ben who seems to be their front man. This all suggests that Reginald took ensuring their obedience much more seriously. Season 3 will show what each of the siblings' (sans Ben) lives would have been like if they were never adopted
Even if it's only as the montage that plays at the beginning of each episode. Might as well speculate while we wait for season 3- Season 3 will reveal that Luther and Five are twins and show what Five would have looked like when he was thirty.
- Klaus would have been misdiagnosed as having some kind of mental illness and given a prescription, and since any mind altering substance, including anti-psychotics, disrupts their powers it would seemingly support the misdiagnosis.
- Diego might live a relatively normal life and assume his power is just a cool party trick he can do.
- Allison could probably still have a career in Hollywood just with more effort to get there, though whether she still abused her Rumors or not would be in the air.
- Vanya, on the other hand, might have a more destructive childhood based on how many nannies she originally went through, though it might be mitigated by Harlan having had similar offshoot powers much earlier (whether via him openly having powers or any sort of published memoirs).
Lila's power is defensive in nature.
- When we see Lila use her power. It’s usually after one of the others use theirs first, for example during the final episode she copied and used against Vanya, Luther and Allison their powers. Only after they used theirs first against her. Vanya shot first, Luther punched first and Allison began to use her voice when Lila then used it against them. Also while it is possible that she can defensively copy another person melee skills she does not copy their experience. Which is why Five beat her the first time they fought, and fought her to a standstill the second time. Because he had more experience in combat then she had. While she could copy his move set, she could not copy his decade’s worth of experience regarding melee combat.
- The Handler taught Lila to fight, she was already quite good at it while helping Diego escape before fighting anyone with powers. It's possible that Reginald simply taught the kids a fighting style that specifically counters the one used by the Commission, knowing they'd have to be dealt with in order to prevent the apocalypse.
Team Zero will have to track down Lila in season 3 for her help
They still have a Commission briefcase, Diego's offer of being her family still stands, they might want to connect with someone else born to one of the unexpected pregnancies, and if nothing else, they could use her powers to give them a boost in a possible fight against the Sparrow Academy.- Lila actually comes after them for help after discovering that neither her nor the team's briefcase works.
Reginald's journal will become important again in season 3
He details everything he does and all of his observations in that thing, it'll definitely have some explanations to what happened in the timeline or his perception of the Sparrow Academy's powers.- If it still has his notes from the 60s and his dinner with Team Zero, the Umbrella Academy might have some validation to the claim that Ben was one of them, even if it's a very minor mention.
Reginald treated the Sparrow Academy better than he did the Umbrella Academy
Seeing as the Umbrella Academy turned out to be failures in his eyes holding some kind of grudge against him, Reginald would have decided to avoid raising a group of disappointments and at least acted superficially nicer to the Sparrow Academy, such as praising their efforts and rewarding them. However, due to the fact that they appear to be wearing uniforms as adults, Reginald would have likely been even more strict with them than the original seven, allowing them less freedom, but overall making them loyal to him and his cause.- This would also make the Umbrella Academy resentful since Reginald would be proving he is capable of being a nicer father figure, but also unhappy to see what he's done to the Sparrow Academy to prevent them from becoming 'failures'.
- Jossed. He didn't treat them nicer, they drug him to take advantage of his money.
The briefcase The Handler gave Five would have returned them back to 2019, but...
Considering that she isn't really as trustworthy as we've learned, the briefcase not only had a 90 minute countdown for all of Team Zero to return home, but it was set to return them to 2019 at the exact moment they left at the end of Season 1 right as the shockwave from the moon's impact reached them, thereby leading to their deaths. Just because The Handler promised that there would be no apocalypse doesn't mean she'd honor her word. By Diego being kidnapped by Lila, Allison being attacked by the Swedes and Vanya being picked up by the State Troopers, this forced Five to throw the case and them not being there inadvertently ended up saving the entire group's lives as a result. Eudora is still alive in Season 3.
Since The Umbrella Academy doesn't exist in this timeline, Hazel and Chacha never were sent out to kill 5, wherefore, Eudora was never shot by them. She and Diego will meet again, probably because she has to arrest him. All siblings exist twice in Season 3.
They came from another timeline, so the other versions of them have to walk around somewhere on earth.- Jossed. None of the siblings exist in the new timeline, since their mothers died before giving birth.
One or more of the siblings will not exist in the new timeline
Its just possible that while some Umbrella Academy members run into alternate selves who led very different lives, others will discovery that they simply...do not exist! Think about it - The family had a massive impact on the timeline due to their activities in the 1960's. Klaus started a nationwide cult which radically altered the destinies of hundreds of thousands of people, who now led very different lives from the ones they would have - possibly not meeting their partners and having the kids they should have had. Also, Vanya kills a whole bunch of FBI agents and staffers. And those are just the really big shakeups to people's lives. Its possible that any of the sibling's mothers would not have been born due to these or other changes - which means that the sibling in question would not be born. Vanya likely would not be impacted since she was born to a Russian mother. Allison and Diego may or may not be impacted depending on whether they were born in the US or not. We know Ben was born. So Luther, Klaus and Five are prime candidates for having their existence possibly wiped out by the butterfly effect. ^- Confirmed. None of the siblings were born in the new timeline.
We meet 30-year-old Five in Season 3.
Since he didn't had a reason to rebel, he never went too far to the future and aged in his own time.- Jossed. He was not born due to his mothers death.
Reginald killed baby Viktor in Season 3.
He saw what happened in Season 2 and decided to stop the apocalypse by killing Vanya before she became too strong.- Jossed. Viktor was never born because Harlan killed his mother.
A huge plot point in Season 3 will be Allison coming to terms with Claire not existing anymore.
Allison was never adopted by Reginald, so most likely never married Patrick or had a child with him. The phone call in Season 1 was the last conversation they had.- Confirmed. Claire does not exist in the new timeline, Patrick married a different woman and had a child with this woman instead.
Vanya will come out as transgender
Elliot Page might not want to play a woman anymore, especially if they decide to start presenting as more masculine. This could fit in with Vanya's themes of identity discovery, and would probably net the show some brownie points for inclusion.- Confirmed: Elliot Page announced on his twitter
that he'd instead be playing Viktor Hargreeves in Season 3.
Vanya won't be at fault for the apocalypse in season 3.
In a twist of fate, The Sparrow Academy will be triggering the apocalypse.- Partially true. According to the Season 3 trailer, by creating a time paradox where the Umbrella Academy's other selves exist, the original siblings are each responsible for the impending doom this time.
- Also partially true. As it turns out, Harlan accidentally killed the Umbrellas' (sans Ben's) mothers, because Viktor couldn't successfully remove Harlan's power that Viktor unintentionally gave him in the first place.
Harold Jenkins has a very different life in Season 3
Obviously, Vanya will no longer be his target, and if he was humiliated in the same way by Sir Reginald, he may not even have a similar target if none of Reginald's current offspring are excluded. Additionally, the mission from which the Umbrella Academy had returned that day might not have happened, depending on the siblings' time in the 60s affecting the existence of any criminals they had fought as children in the original timeline. If Harold didn't have the opportunity to run away only to be humiliated (and especially if Harold's father caught him trying to leave), Harold obviously wouldn't have hated the Sparrow Academy and even might not have killed his father nor spent time in prison. In that case, Harold would not nearly be as sick of a person as he was in the first season. He would also be known by his real name instead of Leonard Peabody.- Jossed. We don't see Harold/Leonard in Season Three, and aside from Ben being demoted to Number Two, none of the Sparrow siblings are excluded.
Post-Season 3 Theories
Ben at the end of Season 3
The Ben we see in The Stinger right at the end of Season 3 on the train in Korea is the Ben of the new rebooted timeline who presumably grew up in Korea with his birth mother and has a totally different name, life and family. This foreshadows the possibility that the other members of the family could potentially run into their counterparts as well.- An indicator that supports this theory is Ben in The Stinger is reading a book, just like the original Ben did.
There's going to be a Time Skip between Season 3 and 4
Among other things, the deck is stacked too heavily against the heroes for them to jump right back into the action: their powers are gone, Sir Reginald is basically running everything, Alison is happy with the results of her betrayal, and Sloane is MIA or worse. Plus, Diego and Lila are already considering starting a family, and season three ends with everyone running off in all directions, so there's probably going to be an Avengers: Endgame-style time skip.The story will kick off months or even years after the previous season finale: everyone will be doing their own thing, not expecting much hope for the future, up until some unexpected incident breaks the status quo - either another apocalypse, or the chance for the Academy to regain their powers and undo Sir Reginald's dystopia. So, there'll be a Putting the Band Back Together plot at the start of the season, during which we'll get to see what everyone's been up too in the meantime.
- Luther will be at his most depressed ( with good reason - he lost his wife barely a day after their wedding) and will have spent a huge chunk of time trying to confront Reggie - to no avail. He may have become an alcoholic or even become a full-blown drug addict, much to Klaus's bemusement.
- Diego will have settled down with Lila and neither of them will be interested in heroics at first, unless there's some horrific consequence to not teaming up.
- Allison will be very happy with the way things are and will have no desire to leave her paradise or listen to any of her siblings. The only things that might get her back are residual guilt, an unexpected condemnation from Claire and Ray, or maybe the unexpected discovery of sinister deeds being committed by Sir Reginald.
- The fact that Ray goes from smiling to frowning as Allison turns back to Claire seems to indicate that Ray is indeed disappointed in Allison.
- Klaus will have either fallen back into his old drug habit or will be eking out a life of crime - either as a thief or (ironically) a Phony Psychic. If Sparrow!Ben can put up with him, they may be partners.
- Five will be packed off to school by the authorities and forced to live a normal life for a while - though his intelligence, combat skills, and bad temper will probably result in trouble. On the upside, the Time Skip will allow Aidan Gallagher to stop playing a thirteen-year-old and skip to the late teens.
- Viktor may have no option but to become a musician again, playing in the orchestra and teaching much as he did in season 1. On the upside, he won't be hampered by a chronic lack of confidence this time around.
The Sparrow Academy will be the comic's Sparrows' counterparts.
The Sparrows seen in the show and the comics do have some glaring differences, but there're clear similarities between the two groups. In fact, one could probably infer which members are each other's counterparts from the small bits of info we have:- The Number One seen in the comics has super strength and is the team's leader, much like Marcus.
- The Sparrow with shades can transform into a murder of crows, an ability that's very similar to Fei's crow summoning. This means that she's probably their Number Three.
- The Sparrow blob's "melty" appearance makes me think he'd be Alphonso's counterpart (his face is VERY scarred), making him the comic Sparrow's Number Four.
- The cube in the comics is Christopher (Sparrow Number Seven), for obvious reasons (Though it's interesting that the Sparrow cube seems to be metallic while Christopher is more fleshy).
- The blonde Sparrow is probably Sloane (Sparrow Number Five); the former is always seen floating alongside Number One, while the later is shown floating in her character poster, so maybe they have some kind of gravity power.
- Out of the two Sparrows left, one of them already has a name. Therefore, the Sparrow with the sweatshirt has to be Jayme (Sparrow Number Six). This means that Carla actually has no direct counterpart in the show, since her spot as a possible Number Two is instead taken by Ben.
Allison will get some Laser-Guided Karma in the near future.
It seems like the reset has resulted in everything being okay with the exception of the remnants of the Hargreeves Siblings losing their powers and Luther losing Sloane. The only one who seemed to had anything positive happen to them from the events is Allison, getting back both her daughter and her husband and having become a Karma Houdini in spite of her actions in the last few episodes of Season 3. However, this could be a prelude to the universe sending Allison Laser-Guided Karma due to the fact she no longer has her powers, which will result in a History Repeats, with her losing both her husband and daughter yet again (and in a horrific way that the only option to have been able to stop it was with her superpowers). When she tries to see her siblings again, they will not want to have anything to do with her due to them hating her for betraying them. Luther himself will be the one to hate her the most due to not only her using her powers on him at the Hotel Obsidian, but the fact that she pushed the button that ended up changing reality and wiping Sloane out of his life (which he'll suspect she purposefully had Hargreeves do when he was programming the machine out of spite of him being happy with someone else).Allison did not lose her power.
Because Reginald was in the process of draining the others' energies to power up the machine, and Allison wasn't standing on a star herself, and due to her deal with Reginald, Allison still has her power. The draining of the other's energies is what caused them to lose theirs.- There's one flaw with this hypothesis: Luther lost his ape body. His ape body was not originally a part of his powers that lead to Hargreeves purchasing him from his parents. In addition to that, he was dead. Yet, he's alive and doesn't have his ape body or his strength. If the machine was responsible for draining those who stood on the stars, then Luther wouldn't have been affected in any way.
- This troper stands corrected! However, another supporting factor to this prediction is the fact that Allison's arm is still bandaged from the one Guardian's attack while everyone else has been healed of their respective injuries.
- I think it's still possible that Allison kept her powers, since she seems to be completely unchanged in the new timeline while everyone else had their injuries healed, their tattoos removed, and Luther's body was restored. Additionally, I don't think they lost their powers due to being drained, because Viktor was able to (slightly) use his powers before Allison reset everything. Maybe Reginald specifically programmed the machine to "reset" the others (hence why they lost their powers) but didn't program anything for Allison, so she managed to keep her powers.
"Really Old Five" is the same "Old Five" from Season Two.
Old!Five learned from both Luther and Five in Season Two that his initial return to 2019 in attempt to stop the apocalypse had failed to prevent it again; additionally, Luther had informed him that Viktor (then known as Vanya) had caused it and that the glass eye was seemingly useless. That, plus the Umbrellas' involvement in the 1960s was already somewhat altering the course of history despite JFK's assassination being implemented. Old!Five discovered when he was kicked back into 2019, not only he learned about the kugelblitz, but that through better sharpening of his time-travel capabilities, he used them to become the founder of the Commission. Viktor and Klaus will respectively receive martial arts training from Five and Diego
Because the Umbrella siblings lost their powers (except for presumably Allison), and Viktor was never trained to fight, and Klaus never seems to (other than headbutting an angry veteran and throwing a cake at a Commission assasin, both in Season One), the two of them will be trained to fight, in case either of them needs to defend themselves. Luther will be too distracted trying to find Sloane, and Sparrow Ben doesn't give a shit about the Umbrellas. Diego is Klaus's closest brother, as is Five to Viktor. Each set of brothers are relatively the same height as the ones whom they would train.