Reginald Hargreeves Origin - Manipulative Interdimensional Father Of Umbrella Academy's Gifted Kids

there's an old saying the best way to bring a family together is at a wedding or a funeral the father of the umbrellas sir reginald hargreaves hi everyone welcome back i'm terry cooper and this is marvelous videos all of you who watch the umbrella academy must be aware by now that season 3 has hit netflix and everyone is busy binge watching it such children i give you the inaugural class of the umbrella academy the umbrellas are back and there is a new group of heroes called the sparrows there is a lot going on in this time travel science fiction fantasy series this isn't your home what are you talking about this is the umbrella academy this is the sparrow academy everyone is clamoring to know all about the new heroes and their powers and how the old gang is doing but there is another extremely important character in this show one without whom neither of these superhero groups would ever exist you guessed it sir reginald hargreaves five i have a question knowledge is an admirable goal but you know the rules ever wondered where he came from why he adopted those children and what his role is in the show well this video is all about him the father of the umbrellas caution spoilers ahead how will the umbrella academy ever become an effective time deterrent if we can't even before we go into our explanation we have a very small request if you like our content please support us by subscribing to our channel this is a small click for you but for us it means a lot thank you now let's begin you have no power you never will have power now go home who is sir reginald hargreaves and why did he create the umbrella academy column fiore's character reginald hargreaves is an extraterrestrial who fled his destroyed home planet and settled on earth so reginald spent decades as a significant player in earth's history establishing himself as an umbrella businessman and collaborating with powerful underground groups like majestic 12. how did he manage to do all this you ask well when sir reginald arrived long ago from his nuclear war devastated alternate realm he went to the united states in 1928 and bought the ds umbrella manufacturing company from jay king with all the resources he had he expanded his reach and influence from there as he scaled his company and made significant contributions to the development of space technology during the ussr versus usa space competition in the 1950s and 60s although he had ties to majestic 12 as well he severed them after learning about their involvement in the assassination of president john f kennedy you're going to keep giving us that fancy technology of yours we'll tell the world who are you one thing clearly stands out here and that's the fact that sir reginald hargreaves is not from our dimension nor is he from our timeline this is actually revealed in season two quite early in the second season diego and five learn that hargreaves is collaborating with majestic 12 a mysterious group that appears to be planning to assassinate president kennedy on november 22 1963 kennedy was assassinated despite diego's best efforts to stop it nevertheless hargreaves participation proved to be more nuanced he is enraged when he meets with majestic 12 since he was promised that kennedy wouldn't be hurt the leader of the organization dismisses his worry saying that kennedy had to be assassinated because he had quote he had to go one way or the other pissed off too many people interestingly it is said that jfk was assassinated because he was too near to learning the truth about alien life on earth according to one of the many conspiracy theories surrounding his death in real life thus the alien theory is cleverly woven into the plot things start to become heated at this point however the ceo of majestic 12 claims that the agreement hargreaves signed with their company has remained unchanged he claimed that humans will be able to travel to the moon before the russians in five or six years because of the rocket technology that reginald gave them and that when they do their interests on the dark side of the moon won't be impacted the leader threatens to quote inform the world who he really is when hargreaves declares he'll stop sharing his technology we'll tell the world who you really are and exactly what is that we may never know for sure but what we do know is that when hargreaves perceives a threat he nonchalantly opens the zipper on the back of his head and peels off his entire face which is covered in some sort of grotesque human skin mask although we are not shown what's happening the closed subtitles for this moment provide the sound effect flesh tearing off camera in his actual form he slaughters the entire room full of majestic 12 agents confirming that he is definitely not human [Music] he's not shown as having any blood relatives in the present time and neither does he have a wife however sir reginald is shown in a flashback with a woman who is either his wife or his lover this woman is later identified as abigail hargreaves his wife and she is shown to be ill in the flashback she addresses him as reg and requests that he allow her to die since the world needs him so reginald complies with the request but never mentions her again after he leaves his home planet stroke dimension and comes to earth he is also shown to be in a relationship with a woman named grace in the 1960s and the two of them collaborate to care for pogo their chimpanzee and launch him into orbit when grace discovers evidence of sir reginald's involvement with majestic 12 and he refuses to discuss it she ends the relationship later he used grace as the inspiration for the robot named mom who looked after the umbrella academy kids as they grew up now you have to take your medicine like a good girl as far as the umbrella academy is concerned he adopted seven of the children that were born to 43 women who showed no signs of pregnancy before delivering them on october the 1st 1989 the kids were born with extraordinary talents and abilities he founded the umbrella academy with these kids in the hopes of creating a team of superheroes to stop an apocalyptic scenario that would one day destroy the earth just like the one that had befallen his world and forced him to flee he predicted that this apocalyptic scenario would happen sometime after the umbrella academy broke up thus it can be said that his intentions while creating the academy were noble we can accomplish anything when we accept responsibility however hargreaves was not only a remarkably complex person but also a terrible father he treated his quote children like guinea pigs that he could experiment on rather than real people he was frigid aloof and emotionally abusive to them they were only ever referred to by the numbers he allocated to them in order of how useful he thought they were and never by their real names number five you haven't been excused in order to test their abilities he openly displayed favoritism labeled victor as useless and imprisoned klaus in a mausoleum in fact the dysfunctional relationships numerous neuroses and destructive behavior of the members of the umbrella academy are a result of how he treated them yes you don't need to call me by my number anymore why not he wasn't always bad though and had his soft moments as well he handed victor his violin despite it being a keepsake of immense importance while also displaying fleeting flashes of intense worry for his kids while speaking with klaus in the afterlife he also admitted to sincere regret and voice concern for luther's well-being definitely not mi5 so who are you we're your children we're from the future thus while he really wanted to save the world by raising disciplined and powerful heroes who one day would have the ability to help avoid a major disaster he definitely didn't go about it the right way because he preferred to manipulate his children and keep them in the dark about things rather than being up front case in point his mysterious death which was literally a ploy to bring all the umbrellas back together many years after they had split apart i'm your son no you're not his mysterious death and why it happened you'd think that an extraterrestrial being with such power and influence would go on living forever but that was not the case as sir reginald hargreaves died under mysterious circumstances in the beginning of the first season but we soon learned that even this was a calculated step that he took to reunite his children the best way to bring a family together is at a wedding or a funeral the passing of reginald hargreaves was a little more complicated than you would recall season one of the tv series opens with all of his children learning of his passing despite their extended separation they must reunite for his funeral at least to number one aka luther reginald hargreaves death seems suspicious from the start still some important things that we need to discuss all right like what like the way he died the family butler pogo merely informs the umbrella academy that the father had a heart attack but something doesn't seem right luther claims that his father once advised him to quote be careful who you trust and that their father quote must have known something was about to happen this is what luther tells his adopted brothers and sisters in addition to this new task of figuring out how their father died number five informs his brothers that the world is about to end as he has just returned from the future they realize that they are sort of obligated to find a solution to that as superhumans when klaus follows luther into a rave and has a brief breakdown over hargreaves not reading his reports from the moon the true story behind reginald's demise is finally exposed in episode 7 of season 1. in an unforeseen incident klaus is struck over the head and briefly passes away while attempting to convince an intoxicated luther to go out this results in him slipping away into the afterlife klaus enters a barber shop while in the afterlife and encounters none other than his father sir reginald hargreaves there dead i expected my son who can conquer the dead to have brought me forth days ago klaus and reginald argue over how hargreaves forced them to be superheroes who could save the world which caused psychological harm to them the important thing we learned from this exchange is that hargreaves committed suicide because he realized it was the only way his children could all come together to do so do things the easy way could you you couldn't have picked up a phone would you have answered he says he was aware that he had to find a method to reunite all of the children as that would determine how the world would turn out some may object saying that klaus was merely hallucinating however pogo later verifies the information by acknowledging that he and mom assisted reginald this information raises an intriguing thought after discovering that her father had drugged her vania unleashed her rage which led to the destruction of the moon thus they all failed to prevent the apocalypse which is brought on by the moon exploding and spewing fragments of itself onto the earth to attempt to halt the apocalypse earlier in history five brings everyone together to go back in time many would contend that reginald suicide was ultimately what led the kids to the point when vanya wiped out the world maybe things might have turned out differently if he hadn't passed away was reginald incorrect and he didn't have to kill himself to save them had he misread the circumstances or did reginald merely alter how the world ended with something else ultimately bringing it to an end irrespective it's thus confirmed that he did in fact sacrifice himself for what he considered to be the greater good i would move if i were you what are you threatening me powers and abilities just because sir reginald hargreaves is not the focus of the show does not mean that he does not have his own set of powers and abilities he was a majorly influential figure in the history of the world and one simply does not get to this position by sheer luck first and foremost because he's not a human and is some sort of alien from another planet or dimension he's clearly extremely strong as was demonstrated when he completely decimated the room full of majestic 12 agents as a result of him being this extraterrestrial creature he ages very slowly as far as known history goes he's at least been alive in our world since 1928 and the entire time he practically didn't age at all in the third season we get a glimpse of his alien physiology a blue tentacle-like limb with jagged barbs along the length of it makes up his right arm majestic 12 were likely killed by reginald in the umbrella academy season 2 with this dangerous appendage which is powerful enough to cleave right through luther you plan old man we don't have time for this you killed luther i had no choice when alison kills the monocle in hotel oblivion viewers are given a brief second opportunity to see his otherworldly appearance green blood and what appears to be p coloured skin are visible in her fatal head slice despite the short duration of the shot reginald's real appearance resembles an emerald version of his human face he is an expert fighter because he is a talented athlete and martial artist sir reginald has significant physical and combative skills using an initial opening that he was able to take advantage of he was able to compete against diego on an equal footing remember he is extremely old in comparison to diego so reginald is a skilled acrobat as well and during their confrontation he was able to avoid some of diego's blows including a dagger that diego had thrown so original is also an accomplished assassin he is also a scientific genius who made the serum that would have subsequently healed pogo of his accident and raised his iq to the point where he could speak like a human he also gave majestic 12 the technology in exchange for their investigation of the moon's dark side last but not least sir reginald is a tactical genius having planned the umbrella academy's actions during the mission and even his uncalculated death that resulted in him getting what he wanted in the end are the weirdos on the balcony they are the sparrows return in season three all his dark secrets revealed we just spent a good amount of time learning about sir reginald's death and the mysterious circumstances surrounding it but voila he's back for the third season and here's how it happened you're cut what the hell did you just say come on stop with all the hostilities after saving the world from yet another disaster in the umbrella academy season 2 finale the hargreaves siblings discover they have been replaced by an entirely new team of heroes known as the sparrow academy with the exception of ben however what's even stranger about this timeline that they end up in is that sir reginald hargreaves is still alive and well he and his sparrow children are still residing in the hargreaves home why doesn't arguably the world's worst adoptive father perish in the sparrow timeline of the umbrella academy season 3 what happened differently [Music] the sparrows are fundamentally different from their umbrella counterparts which is what makes a reginald survive the hargreave siblings were torn apart in the original timeline of the umbrella academy by number five's disappearance and ben's tragic demise only luther remained to carry out his father's instructions when alison departed and became famous victor published a confessional book diego became a vigilante and klaus got into drugs knowing that the umbrella academy must come together to rescue the world reginald planned his own death with pogo and grace in the hopes that his passing would reunite his children the umbrella academy's first episode is a burial and the plan works since even five comes back the sparrow academy however never disbanded they were not only seen together in the season two finale of the umbrella academy but all signs point to them being the ideal superhero combination as a result sir reginald was spared from having to give his life in order to bring the sparrows back together and is thus very much alive as we move into the third season of the much loved series [Music] a lot happened in the third season with sir reginald hargreaves being responsible for most of it the very first thing we see in the third season is that it was he who created these miraculous babies from mothers who were never pregnant he did so using a jar of glowing firefly like creatures the future ben hargreaves is delivered as a result of a group of these lights floating through a korean subway train and into the belly of a young woman without a doubt these extraterrestrial particles that he blasted into the atmosphere are what gave birth to the hargreaves children the children born as a result of the lights drifting into the wombs of 43 women all had amazing and extraterrestrial talents the biggest twist of all however was that he didn't create these children to help save the world he had instead created them so that he could bring back his wife abigail hargreaves to life he manipulated all his kids solely for this purpose prior to 1918 reginald had an obsession with sigils and folklore and started to believe in an alternate realm he termed oblivion according to his research oblivion featured a device that could reset reality and was intended as a fail-safe by whoever created the universe resurrecting abigail hargreaves wouldn't be too difficult with access to such power the monocle discovered a tunnel connecting worlds floating above a field of crops and ordered the building of hotel oblivion to serve as a portal for reaching it placing his own white buffalo room close to the entrance there is a portal in the universe i built this hotel around it regrettably for reginald strong guardians shield a device from miscreants as soon as the project was finished he dispatched six mercenaries to deal with oblivion's guardians they failed miserably reginald must have recognized at this point that fighting oblivion would require more than just soldiers it would require superheroes to be specific activating the machine in oblivion would require seven superheroes one corresponding to each bell i left you to guard the most precious thing in the universe and what was it this was the real motivation behind sir reginald hargreaves lifelong commitment to building an elite superhero team he thus manipulates the cosmos to make himself the most powerful man in it by using his adopted offspring as puppets and at the end of season three it's abundantly clear that he's successful in his mission when we see him and his wife very much alive there's a guardian lurking in the corridors of this hotel we have to defeat it for this mission to succeed what benefit would i gain killing so reginald hargreaves in the comics when talking about the characters from the netflix series it's important to talk about the comic version of them because all the characters are based on the comic book written by gerard way sir reginald hargreaves better known as the monocle is depicted in the comics as an alien who poses as a successful businessman and well-known scientist he is credited as the creator of the mobile umbrella communicator levitator televator and clever crisp cereal among other inventions he is also said to be a fencing olympic gold champion who also won the nobel prize for his contributions to chimpanzee cognitive development how crazy is that clearly this man can do everything abhijat hargreaves bodyguard travel with him on the minerva his private airship that is said to be propelled by the remains of king amin haraj iv the umbrella academy's members are adopted by him at birth under mysterious circumstances there was a time when 43 infants were born worldwide to mothers who showed no signs of being pregnant and hargreaves set out to locate and adopt as many of them as he could he located seven of them and to reveal his fascinating discovery to the world he held a press conference in stockholm when asked why he had taken the kids in hargreaves had responded that his reason behind adopting them was to save the world for the following 10 years after their adoption hargreaves kept the kids in isolation while instructing and training them to be disciplined and skilled heroes at his academy he also ranked the kids from one to seven assigning them numbers based on how useful and prospective they were he was very cold in the way he raised the kids refusing to allow them to call him dad and choosing to go by the monocle instead he also used the children's numbers to address them when he spoke to them she's just not ready for this you're all wrong number seven all of this matches up to the netflix version of the character he further supervised the kids and all the missions they were sent on with a keen eye always expecting nothing but perfection out of them twenty years after the umbrella academy's initial public premiere sir reginald hargreaves passed away in 1980 a heart attack claimed his life at 702 pm in the comics the heart attack actually took place the academy's ground served as the site of sir reginald's funeral he asked that the members of the umbrella academy come to the burial in full costume thus his death in the comics is not anywhere near as calculated and mysterious as it is in the netflix series however it still leads to a chain of events that trigger a nuclear war which the umbrella academy is successful in reverting saving the world as hargreaves had always envisioned them doing that's all for today if you liked our content don't forget to leave a like and subscribe to us if you haven't already have a good one and be safe thanks for watching and see you next time almost done and when i am you and i will get what we came here 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