The Umbrella Academy Has To Stop Blaming Viktor For Every Apocalypse
Warning: Contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 3.
One thing that’s been made clear by The Umbrella Academy season 3 is that the show needs to stop blaming Viktor for every apocalypse the characters deal with. While every season of The Umbrella Academy has had a story wildly different than the one before it, each one has revolved around an apocalypse that somehow circles back to Viktor. The show’s managed to get a lot of mileage out of it, but at the same time, it’s begun to set a bad precedent.
In The Umbrella Academy season 3 it’s revealed that, once again, Viktor is responsible for the apocalypse. After Viktor accidentally gave Harlan powers in season 2, he grew up having little to no control over his powers, and when Sissy died, he was so distraught that he completely lost control and accidentally killed the mothers of all of the members of the Umbrella Academy before they could give birth to them. This created the grandfather paradox that birthed the kugelblitz that started slowly destroying the entire universe, and while the show focuses on Harlan killing everyone's mothers, since Viktor was the one who gave him his powers it’s technically Viktor’s fault, which makes it the third time in a row that Viktor has been at fault for an apocalypse.
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This, of course, is the biggest problem The Umbrella Academy is currently facing: its inability to have anyone other than Elliot Page's Viktor cause the apocalypse. With Viktor being responsible for the apocalypse in every season so far, there’s an inherent sense of repetitiveness that drags the show down further than need be. Even if the stories surrounding the apocalypses have all been different, it
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