8 details Umbrella Academy reveals about the real mothers of Hargreaves siblings

The Umbrella Academy is heading into its fourth and final season, but the team and its origins remain largely a mystery, although the series has slowly revealed a few facts about the siblings’ mysterious birth mothers. For the time-traveling, superhero siblings, much about their powers and their parents, both real and assumed, are still unknown, despite their leap through multiple realities to get answers. It remains to be seen if the show will actually offer any explanation, especially considering it only has one more season to tie up any loose ends.

Despite the mysteries that shrouded the Umbrella Academy team, the series revealed small details about some of the mothers who brought the Umbrellas into the world. In the opening scenes of The Umbrella Academy Season 1, it is revealed that the extraordinary children were all born on the first day of October 1989 around twelve o’clock that day. And to make the situation even more unusual, none of the mothers had been pregnant before that day. Each of the 43 mothers has this in common, but there are also small glimpses of them, revealing other minor details.

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Anita Gill

Mother of Lila Pitts

Lila isn’t technically a member of the Umbrella Academy as she was raised by the handlers as a trained assassin for the Temps Commission, but she aligns herself with the Umbrellas after developing feelings for Diego and is one of the gifted children born on October. 1, 1989. The Umbrella Academy Season 2, Episode 9, “743” reveals that Lila’s biological mother and her husband were killed by five on the handler’s orders.

Anita and Ronnie Gill seem to have cared for their unexpected child to the point of being killed and taken by the handler. After Number Five murdered her parents, the dealer adopted her and raised her for a few years, before training her to become her own weapon. The dealer lied to Lila the whole time, claiming that her parents were killed in a home invasion and she took her in out of sympathy. There is no equivalent to purple in the comics, at least not in this form.

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Tatiana

Mother of Victor Hargreaves

The opening scene of The Umbrella Academy Season 1, Episode 1 shows the account of Viktor Hargreeves’ birth and children. A young teenage Russian girl who was cheerfully flirting with a boy in a public swimming pool, Tatiana is very clearly not pregnant before kissing her crush on the cheek and running off to jump into the pool. Suddenly, she is seen going into labor and delivering the baby right there in the swimming pool.

It is also revealed that Reginald Hargreeves approaches her shortly after the birth, offering to buy her child. Although this is one of the clearest accounts shown in the series, it is likely that the Other umbrellas are born in similarly sudden and unusual situations Before Reginald bought them from their parents. Victor grew up thinking that his mother gave him away because she wanted money more than a child. He later sought her out and was welcomed by her family, only to learn she had died.

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Unknown

Mother of Ben Hargreaves

Ben Hargreaves was the unfortunate victim of a horrific incident that led to his death early in the umbrella’s career. With him physically gone, it makes sense that his origin and his mother are among the least well-documented in the series. It turns out that Ben’s mother was a teenage girl in South Korea at the time of his birth in 1989. In the comics, a little more was revealed than she was said to be. Born Ben on a subway train in Seoul with her boyfriend. By her side.

It is also clear that in the Sparrow Academy timeline featured in season 3, Ben’s mother is the only survivor of Harlan Cooper’s attack who killed the other members of the umbrella academies’ mothers. The timeline revealed that she was a high school student, and it kept the subway in Seoul history from the comics intact. Despite this, her name is never revealed and almost nothing else is known about her or her eventual fate in any other timeline in the universe.

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Efa

Mother of number five

Number Five was born to a butcher in Dublin, Ireland. Her name was Efa and, like the other mothers, she suddenly gave birth to a child on October 1, 1989, and gave him to the billionaire Reginald Hargreaves. She also seems to have been quite young at the time she was due to give birth to number five. As a result, Five, like the others, grew up not knowing his mother, why she sold him to Hargreaves, or what happened to her after she gave him up.

In the alternate Sparrow timeline, she was working at the butcher shop when she complained about hearing loud bursts of static. No one else heard it, but then she died minutes later. She was a victim of the psychic massacre committed by Harlan Cooper in that timeline, which killed her and 26 other women who gave birth to the super-powered children in other timelines. As with most of the other mothers, nothing is shown about Five’s mother in the comic books.

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Rachel Hershberger

Mother of Klaus Hargreeves

Due to Klaus’ special Umbrella Academy abilities and his knack for snooping, he uncovered some information about his own mother while rifling through Reginald Hargreeves’ checkbook. He discovered that his mother, Rachel Hershberger of Pennsylvania, had sold him to Reginald for the sum of $3,000 on October 3, 1989, just two days after his birth.

Rachel was a member of an Amish community, and in the Sparrow’s timeline, she was also a victim of Harlan’s outbreak, meaning that in this timeline, she never gave birth to Klaus, and he was never born. In the original timeline, Not much else is known about her. In the series she was played by Laura Hopper, the wife of Tom Hopper, the actor who plays Luther Hargreaves. Much like most of the mothers of the Umbrella Academy members, nothing is ever mentioned about her in the comics.

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Victoria

Mother of Allison Hargreeves

Allison Hargreeves was born to a South African woman on the same day and time as the others. Her mother was a school teacher and after Alison’s birth, she decided to sell her daughter to Reginald Hargreeves. As for her whereabouts in the original timeline was unknown, although she died with the rest of the world when the apocalypse arrived in that timeline. In the same situation as all the other mothers of the kids, her story and fate are never dealt with in the comics.

As with the othersVictoria was an unfortunate victim in Harlan’s massacre in the Sparrow timeline, Before she could ever give birth to Allison. Her death in that Sparrow Academy timeline was very controversial, more so than others. Since she was a school teacher, many people in her community believed that she died of a food-borne illness, rather than the true cause of her death. As a result, people withdraw their children from the school after her death.

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Elena

Mother of Diego Hargreaves

Diego, or number two in the Umbrella Academy lineup, was born in a small town in northern Mexico. His mother, Elena, gave birth unexpectedly at home while preparing food and would go on to adopt her newborn son to Reginald Hargreeves. If Reginald Hargreeves’ decision to name the children as numbers followed the same order with which he procured them, it is entirely likely that Diego was the second child to be acquired by Hargreeves.

This means it would have happened between October 1, 1989 and October 3, 1989, when Klaus, aka Number Four, was adopted by Hargreaves. Like the other mothers, she died when Harlan Cooper sent out the telepathic shockwaves that killed 26 of the mothers who delivered the super-powered children before the pregnancies could occur. This means that Diego was never born in the Sparrow timeline and that his mother was dead when the story moved there.

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Monica

Mother of Luther Hargreeves

Luther Hargreeves, aka Number One, was born to a Swedish woman named Monica. It seems that Monica was a career woman and with the unexpected birth of a child that was not planned, conceived or really wanted, Monica chose to take the money from Reginald Hargreaves in exchange for her son. As with all the Umbrella mothers except Ben, Monica was also a victim of Harlan through a psychic connection that he lost control on the day his mother died due to a terminal illness.

Luther was Hargreaves’ most loyal follower, continuing to work for him after all his adoptive siblings had left. During his formative years, he was raised by the robot assistant, Grace, and trained by Reginald to use his powers on heroic missions. Luther was also among the most affected by his father’s death. When he returned to Earth from his mission to the moon, Luther discovered Reginald’s disregard for any of his reports.

Each of the sibling’s mothers doesn’t seem to have any obvious connections, but by the psychic connection that Harlan formed through which he killed 26 of the 43 mothers, it’s clear that there was some kind of psychic connection before the Children’s birth. The Umbrella Academy.