History of The Umbrella Academy

[Music] what's up everyone the live-action adaptation of Dark Horse Comics the Umbrella Academy has been on Netflix for a few weeks now and we originally planned on posting this episode when the show first released but unfortunately I got the flu during which time I was quarantined on a remote island and there I was experimented on by a group of Google scientists injected with an AI and launched into an asteroid to test my new hybrid body against the most extreme conditions but hey I made it back and today we're breaking down the history of the Umbrella Academy so better late than never am i right anyway before we dive in let's announce the three winners of our Miss Marvel issue one giveaway with comic Tom's and mystery mail call our first winner is Alexander Knox whose Instagram handle is Alexander underscore the great our second winner is diana vargas whose Twitter handles Diana V a seven six four zero one six four two and there better be a good reason for that and our third and final winner of Miss Marvel issue one is Kevin Wright whose Instagram is IB the difference congratulations to our three winners Alexander Diana and Kevin and thanks to everyone who participated we'll have another awesome giveaway coming up maybe even this weekend you never know also don't forget to check out comic Tom's YouTube channel and mr. e mail call subscription box both are great and we'll have links for those in the description below but with that covered let's talk about the Umbrella Academy [Applause] now since this history of episode is focused on a team I'm gonna be doing things a little different as talking about a team is more elaborate than just talking about a single character so we're gonna give you a brief rundown of how the team came together and then go over each of the members of the team and what they're all about so not drastically different from the way we do things but rather modified so let's roll that origins card the Umbrella Academy was created by Gerard Way and drawn by Gabriel ball and debuted September of 2007 now before I get into the team itself and its characters one thing to know about the Umbrella Academy is the comic is broken up into three different six issue series you have the first series titled the Umbrella Academy apocalypse sweet the second the Umbrella Academy Dallas and the third the Umbrella Academy Hotel oblivion I kind of think of it like the Lord of the Rings trilogy each series is just parts of a massive story anyway I just wanted to get that out of the way for anyone wondering why the Umbrella Academy technically has three different series but now let's move on to how this team came together and what they're all about the premise of the Umbrella Academy is as follows and be warned it's about to get trippy up in here one day a wrestler was wrestling an octopus looking space alien as wrestlers obviously tend to do and defeated the alien with an atomic flying elbow I personally would have used the phenomenal form but hey that's just me anyway on the same day the alien was defeated 47 extraordinary children were randomly born I say randomly born because all the babies were born to mostly single women who had no signs prior of being pregnant and I'm talking about they just started popping out babies wherever they were at the time most of the children were abandoned or put up for adoption as the women were extremely freaked out and or traumatized not knowing how the heck this even happened in the first place after this Sir Reginald Hargreaves boarded his ship with his bodyguard and set out to find as many of these children as he could unfortunately he only found seven of them remember how I said they were extraordinary children earlier but didn't say why well they're extraordinary because they have superpowers and when Sir Reginald adopted these seven kids he trained them to use their powers that save the world once adopted Sir Reginald wiped the kids identities and hid the children from the world however he did hold a press conference and Stockholm about it where journalists asked why have you adopted these seven kids to which he replied to save the world of course they then asked from what and they'd get their answer ten years later it's during this tenure jump the super-powered kids would make their debut when a sentient eiffel tower started killing people left and right by throwing its visitors off of it trust me guys things are gonna get even weirder but who doesn't like a little bit of weird with that said number three aka rumor got rid of the civilians then after punching their way through a part of the tower it's revealed that number one aka space boy suspicions was right it was the robot zombie Gustave Eiffel who was behind the attacks at controlling the Eiffel Tower so naturally number two aka the Kraken threw a knife into Gustav's head which had him fall onto the launch button and blast the Eiffel Tower into space at this point Sir Reginald shows up who the kids called dad which he hates by the way and tells them that the Eiffel Tower isn't a monument but rather a spaceship he continues to say you lost the Eiffel Tower but you saved Paris which means the key to the city and ice cream spaceboy then tells mr. monocle which is Sir Reginald alias that when he grows up he wants to go to space to which monocle says and you shall number one so you shall the comic then jumps 20 years in the future and boom space boy is on the moon looks like monocle didn't lie we also learned that at some point during this time jump the team had disbanded by the end of the first issue space boy returns to earth and goes back to the Umbrella Academy where he learns from mr. monocles assistant who was a genetically modified chimp named mr. Pogo by the way that's original has died and number 5 aka the boy says and something worse is coming as you would assume this forces that it's gruntled siblings to get the band back together so to speak to save the world once again now that's how the Umbrella Academy came together and what the premise of the book is all about so now let's talk about the individual characters there are seven members to the team and each of them was assigned a number and a code name so I'm gonna run through them in order starting with Luther Hargreaves aka number one codenamed space boy face boy is the leader of the team and he is also the twin brother of number five aka the boy he was given the codename space boy because he was the youngest person to ever become an astronaut now some of you may be asking what the heck is up with his massive ape-like body and the answer is when he was involved in a mission to Mars that went terribly wrong Hargreaves in order to save his life attached his head to the body of a Martian ape because it was either that or put his head inside of a jar like in Futurama anyway this gave him all the abilities of a Martian ape which I'll get into later next Diego Hargreaves aka number two codenamed the Kraken he's the Raphael or Jason Todd of the group he's reckless and rebellious the monocle has even been quoted calling him an insolent brat and much like rash relationship with Leo in the Ninja Turtles the Kraken has a rivalry with the team's leader space boy and hates taking orders from him he's also kind of like a Batman Green Arrow vigilante type where he's seen going on patrols in the city taking down muggers and drug dealers he's also missing his right eye which is why the right eye is blacked out when he's wearing his mask moving on we have Alison Hargreaves aka number three codename the rumor I don't want to get into her powers just yet as that's a big part of who she is she was also married and had a daughter but they got a divorce and her husband got full custody of their daughter which is also mentioned in the show her and spaceboy would also end up having feelings for one another there's a romance in the group and she has a pretty awesome power but again we're gonna get into that with powers and abilities but we still have a bunch of other characters to talk about so let's move on to Klaus Hargreaves aka number four codenamed seance he's an alcoholic and uses a bunch of drugs and before rejoining the Umbrella Academy after Hargreaves death he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital called SHINee view and if you haven't noticed he's a goth almost always wearing black clothing don't know how relevant that is but it's a thing so I figured I'd mention it moving on yet again we have number five codenamed the boy that's right he just goes by the name of the boy no real name he disappeared at ten years old and reappeared as his 10 year old self twenty years in the future the boy says that he has read accounts of the Academy's immediate future and their connection to the apocalypse and as I mentioned earlier he's the twin brother of space boy another cool thing to know is that he revealed to the rumor that he was captured and modified by the surgeons of the Tempe's a thorn Alice they then proceeded to mix his strands of DNA with that of serial killers making him the perfect killer who always kills his target so that's kind of terrifying also he's technically now a 60 year old in a 10 year old body so we often see him drinking coffee and getting drunk but on to the next member which is Ben Hargreaves aka number 6 codename the horror he's dead but no information regarding his death is given to us although they all blamed spaceboy for his death they even put a memorial statue of him in front of the Academy as a child whoever he was the nicest of the siblings and always wanted to please his debt his power is also pretty epic but I'll get into that and powers of but that brings us to the last member of the team and that's Vanya Hargreaves aka number seven codenamed the white violin she's the youngest of the group and her story is kind of tragic as she has no powers unlike the rest of her siblings because of this her father can be a bit cold to her telling her she has no powers like her siblings and that she could barely play the violin however that's really just the beginning of her story as we later learn there's a much bigger reason that mr. monocle isolates her but I'll get into that and powers and abilities as well anyway those are the seven members of the Umbrella Academy but I'm sure some of you are wondering a little bit about Sir Reginald aka mr. monocle and the talking chimp dr. Pogo well to put it simply dr. Reginald Hargreaves was a genius mentor and guardians to the Umbrella Academy he's basically their Professor X as for Pogo or dr. pogo pogo was once a normal chimp until he was experimented on and his intelligence was boosted all Planet of the Apes style as I mentioned before he was the assistant to mr. monocle and he's a friend of the Umbrella Academy and that leads us to powers and abilities but first let's thank our beautiful sponsor people's today's episode is sponsored by our friends over at verb we're always happy when the verb sponsors an episode because it's one of our favorite streaming platforms for a geeky content from anime to retro shows to awesome exclusive content they've got it all including rooster teeth's amazing new series genlock which we are watching together weekly discussing every Monday on variant live if you haven't been watching along with us I'm telling you you want to jump on because this show is so so good and right now you can do just that by going to verb 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geeky goodness let's go in the same order as we did with characters first up we have space boy his head was put on the body of a Martian ape giving him all the abilities of one mainly super strength and durability he also has a life support system that doubles as a jetpack and he's a great shot with his laser pistol next we have the Kraken he's capable of holding his breath for an unlimited amount of time he's also an expert martial artist and knife thrower then we have rumor as I said earlier she has one of the coolest powers on the team if not the coolest and most powerful whatever rumor says becomes true meaning she could alter reality just by saying something so again anything she says reality will adjust to make it true that's a pretty epic yet dangerous power moving along we have the seance he could talk to and channel the dead he has advanced telekinesis and can lift up to 40 thousand tons with it he could also project his spirit into other things so all in all he has some pretty cool powers then we have the boy he's able to travel to the future it could also simulate SuperSpeed by doing micro jumps and like I said earlier he's an extremely dangerous killer as his DNA was fused with several of the world's most dangerous serial killers next up we have horror horror was able to channel interdimensional monsters through his body they appeared as green tentacles of various lengths that emerged from his chest and lastly we have the white violin now originally like I said earlier she had no powers but eventually her powers were unlocked her power is through her music which is highly destructive with one note she could rip someone in half if she was to play a symphony she could destroy the world in the end this once thought to be normal girl ended up being the most powerful of them all but now that you know their powers it's time for some reading recommendations the reading recommendations for the Umbrella Academy are pretty simple read all three of their six issue series which include the Umbrella Academy apocalypse sweet the Umbrella Academy Dallas and the Umbrella Academy Hotel oblivion [Music] first up for Wednesday March 13th we have Red Hood outlaw issue 32 after months on the road Jason Todd has returned to Gotham City unfortunately for the penguin his first order of business is a hostile takeover of the iceberg lounge and Casino now we have Star Wars age of Republic General Grievous issue one in his hunt to kill the Jedi Grievous stumbles across a Power greater than he imagined next we have spider-gwen ghost spider issue 6 after the life-changing events of spider get and Gwen Stacy of Earth 65 has resolved to stay on her home turf and resume her normally scheduled super heroics as ghost spider and finally we have the Batman who laughs the grim Knight issue 1 in this one-shot we learned more about the grim Knight the world's most dangerous vigilante Batman with guns I'm all-in and that's gonna bring another episode of bands to a 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Channel: Variant Comics

Views: 814,819

Keywords: Umbrella Academy, Hargreeves, Mr Monocle, The Kraken, Spaceboy, The Rumor, The Seance, The Horror, Number 5, The Boy, Netflix, Variant Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse, Comic Books, variant, variant comics

Id: bpHVsa73PzA

Length: 13min 18sec (798 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 14 2019