Umbrella Academy’s ending left us with some questions (and some answers)
polygon.comNetflix’s series The Umbrella Academyhas ended with season 4, and it all came together climatically, to put it mildly. Pretty much every superhero these days is dealing with the end of the world, and the Hargreeves children are no different.
[Ed. note: As you might expect from a post answering questions about the end of Umbrella Academy season 4, we are about to discuss the end of Umbrella Academy season 4. Spoilers ahead.]
Normally, superheroes rarely die while saving the multiverse. Even fewer lose their whole team by being swallowed up by the weird sibling monster that’s engulfing the whole world. So what exactly went down at the end of the world at the end of The Umbrella Academy? Here are the questions we had, and our best attempts to answer them.
In the final episode, Abigail (Reginald’s wife in this timeline and others) sits down with Reginald and explains that the giant hulking apocalypse enveloping them was her doing. As she appears to lay it out, this chain reaction caused by Ben and Jennifer’s molecules meeting was similar to something on their own home planet (presumably) that led to both her death and the end of their world.
“Dying was my penance for creating something so deadly,” she says, sounding melancholy. “This cleanse… wasn’t it enough to see our world destroyed? Why would you loose it on this one?”
It appears that this confession on the bench is an explanation for a grand design of sorts: Abigail speaks to Reginald’s actions having “consequences far greater than anything” he could imagine, that she felt it was her “duty to set it right.”
Considering how much of the show’s timelines and Time Commission was a means to ensure a correct timeline, it’s possible that Abigail is laying claim as the grand mastermind behind all the events of the series. Read this way, it’s her efforts that kept causing apocalypses to get the right ingredients together to end the world, and stop Reginald from constantly recreating her and the universe. (Indeed, it
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