'The Umbrella Academy' Season 1: Sir Reginald Hargreeves may just be the Academy's real biological father
Netflix's has scored another success with its new superhero misfit series, 'The Umbrella Academy,' where we are introduced to seven special children who get immediately adopted by billionaire industrialist, Sir Reginald Hargreeves.
With the season now having aired in full, the ending sequence may just give away the origins of this super-powered lot.
In the graphic novel by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba, Sir Reginald Hargreeves a.k.a. The Monocle (Colm Feore) adopts seven, supernaturally powered children after they're born to mothers who shockingly showed zero signs of pregnancy before giving birth.
There were 43 such children, out of which only 7 survived. Sir Reginald proceeds to raise them with a strict disciplinarian air, in order to develop them into a team of superheroes. But his authoritarian air, along with his lack of paternal concern, results in the family splitting and the siblings leaving the academy before they reach adulthood.
