Umbrella Academy: How Exactly Five's Time & Teleportation Powers Work
Five's special abilities are among the most significant in The Umbrella Academy, but what powers does Five have in The Umbrella Academy exactly, and how precise are they? Inspired by the popular comics by Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy stars a handful of super-powered heroes who were trained in the use of their powers by the alien Reginald Hargreeves. Unfortunately, Sir Reginald was far from an ideal father figure to the children he took on. As a result, his education left a lot to be desired.
Five is easily the most intriguing of all the Hargreeves siblings in The Umbrella Academy. His powers are still relatively undefined, in large part because he rebelled against Sir Reginald when he was just a child and took an unpredictable jump into the future, only to arrive in a post-apocalypse timeline. Five was stranded there, and only really began to understand his power to manipulate the spacetime continuum when he was picked up byThe Umbrella Academy's 1950s-themed Temps Commission. But, as The Umbrella Academy season 3 is sure to explore, he's still figuring out how to handle his superhuman abilities.
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To truly understand what Five's powers in The Umbrella Academy are, one has to understand the nature of the universe itself. In 1908, German mathematician Hermann Minkowski suggested that space and time should be viewed as inextricably linked. "Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality," he wrote. Albert Einstein built upon this in his Theory of Relativity, and modern science suggests they were right. Five, for his part, appears to
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