Umbrella Academy is thrilling. It brings comic book to screen. In an alternate universe, seven kids born on same day get adopted by quirky billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves. Each has unique powers. They fight crime and solve mysteries like a wacky superhero family. After years apart, Hargreeves siblings reunite to untangle secrets and face past. They must stop an apocalypse. Full of suspense, dark humor and complex characters, Umbrella Academy mixes superhero action with family drama. You will be glued to your seat!

Meet the characters from The Umbrella Academy

Luther Hargreeves

Luther is the hulking, earnest heart of the Umbrella Academy — a gentle giant who could crush you with a hug and then apologize afterward. He’s the reluctant leader, all broad shoulders and earnest orders, forever trying to hold the family together even when he’s wobbling on the inside. He’s fiercely protective and a little awkward about feelings, loves old-fashioned hero stuff (space mission scars, giant shirt) but also weirdly fond of plants and very bad at remembering names sometimes. There’s massive insecurity under the muscles — he wants to be useful so badly it hurts — and sometimes he’s warm and goofy, sometimes he’s gruff and distant, depends on the day, to be honest. Oh, and he makes terrible puns? I think? — details fuzzy.

Diego Hargreeves

Diego is the fierce, knife-throwing rebel with a cause, all swagger and righteous anger. He plays vigilante, constantly dramatic, eyes narrowed, ready to stab something (or someone) — and yes he looks cooler than he has any right to. Underneath the theatrics he’s wildly loyal and actually kind of a soft romantic (don’t tell him I said that), forever tangled up in family grudges and heroic posturing. He hates being told what to do but is suspiciously good at rules and has like a binder of plans? (Okay maybe not a binder, but he definitely thinks tactics through.) Either way he’s the spark who makes fights feel like performances and loyalty feel dangerous.

Allison Hargreeves

Allison is the glamorous, velvet-voiced wildcard — part movie-star, part emotional grenade, famous for making words do violent things. Her power (“I heard a rumor…”) turns gossip into control and she uses it with that perfect blend of charm and guilt, glamorous on the outside and haunted underneath. She desperately wants normal life (weddings! babies!) but her talent is messy and morally sketchy and she oscillates between using it to protect her family and hiding from what she’s done. Also she swears by lipstick and terrible throwback songs, which is maybe contradictory but also somehow fits her — dramatic, complicated, heartbreaking.

Klaus Hargreeves

Klaus is a walking chaos theory wrapped in vintage clothes — medium, party-starter, absolute mess, and I love him. He flirts with death every other episode, talks to ghosts, cries into cocktails, and will adopt every stray animal that crosses his path (and then lose them for an hour). There’s this heartbreaking core where the jokes are armor and he’s simultaneously the most selfish and most self-sacrificing sibling — super contradictory, but that’s Klaus. He swings between terrifyingly powerful spiritual presence and toddler-level attention span, then somehow nails it like a spiritual dad for the group. Also he’s got weird fashion choices and will absolutely read you poetry and then steal your dessert.

Five Hargreeves

Five is the grumpy time-travelling assassin stuck in a kid’s body and the best bit is that he’s both tiny and insanely ancient in temperament. He’s surgical, efficient, and sarcastic, basically the team’s human alarm clock and moral compass with a grenade launcher. He hates small talk (but has weirdly specific routines like making tea at precisely 3:07?) and has trauma piled up like unread emails, which makes him sharp and kind of adorable in a catastrophic way. Mostly he’s pure, painfully competent chaos — serious, furious, and secretly nostalgic, with the emotional range of a broken VCR.

Vanya Hargreeves

Vanya is the quiet, pale violinist who looks harmless until you realize she’s cosmic-level devastating and also deeply, deeply human. She’s been pushed into the background for years, so there’s a simmering rage and a longing for belonging that explodes into something beautiful and terrifying. She wants ordinary things—long walks, tea, maybe an actual day job—but she’s also capable of cataclysmic destruction, which is wild and tragic and kind of heartbreaking. She’s meticulous about her music and messy about emotions, hates drama but causes the biggest drama (classic), and sometimes she’ll bake cookies and accidentally burn them into little black statements. Basically she’s the tragic wild card: fragile, fierce, and impossible to ignore.