Umbrella Academy Season 3's Grace Is A Massive Plot Hole
Warning: Contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 3.
In The Umbrella Academy season 3, Grace (Jordan Claire Robbins), AKA “mom” plays a major role, but she actually creates a massive plot hole. In a story where time travel is a part of the standard narrative arc, plot holes might be expected to be common. However, The Umbrella Academy has been remarkably consistent about how things work and when time travel paradoxes are created, they serve as major plot points and are not simply story errors that are forgotten.
In The Umbrella Academy TV show, Reginald Hargreeves built a robot and called it Grace to serve as the primary caregiver and adoptive mother to the seven children that he adopted. This idea is taken directly from the comics where The Umbrella Academy’s mother often makes reference to needing to put her limbs on before appearing in public. However, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy departed from the comics as season 1 killed the robot Grace when Viktor tore down The Umbrella Academy, and season 2 revealed that the robot was modeled after a woman that Reginald Hargreeves had known in the 1960s who was also called Grace.
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Grace’s presence in The Umbrella Academy season 3 creates a plot hole because the season is set in a new timeline where the original seven members of The Umbrella Academy were never born and Reginald created The Sparrow Academy instead. Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy revealed that the reason Hargreeves built Grace was that Viktor continually killed the human nannies with his powers whenever he was mildly inconvenienced. As none of the Sparrows appear to show this same sort of power and Viktor does not exist in The Umbrella
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