The first trailer for The Umbrella Academy season 3 i finally here. The brand-new look was released by Netflix on May 19, a little over a month before the release of the highly-anticipated third season of the series, which debuts on the streaming platform in late June.
In case you don't remember, season 2 ended with the Umbrella Academy — played by Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, and Aidan Gallagher— returning home after preventing the end of the world in 1963 by using Number Five's (Gallagher) time-hopping power. However, the gang soon realizes that they've landed in an alternate timeline where the Umbrella Academy never existed and are greeted by other crime fighters: The Sparrow Academy.
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Unsurprisingly, the trailer shows the Umbrella Academy clashing with the Sparrow Academy, who are led by a living yet less-than-friendly alternate version of their own Number Six, Ben Hargreeves (Justin H. Min). Not only that but hopping through timelines has created, in the words of Five, «a time paradox» that could potentially destroy all existence in a matter of five days. Added to the Umbrella Academy's grievances is an unidentified entity wreaking havoc into reality, which may —or may not— have been caused by the original Hargreeves' interdimensional travel.
In addition to forcing the group to team up with the Sparrow Academy to fix the time paradox that their arrival caused, season 3 will showcase the transition of Page's character. The actor came out as transgender in December 2020, and Netflix immediately updated his credits to reflect Page's proper pronouns. The Umbrella Academy team also voiced their support and
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