Umbrella Academy Season 3's Viktor Transition Was Perfectly Balanced
Warning: Contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 3.
Elliot Page’s transition between The Umbrella Academy seasons 2 and 3 put the show in a rare position, but the series balanced Viktor Hargreeves’ transition perfectly. With The Umbrella Academy season 2 having released in July 2020, there has been plenty of time for the world to change in the intervening years before The Umbrella Academy season 3 released. One of those things was that Elliot Page came out as non-binary and now uses he/they pronouns, and for a while it was unclear how this would affect his character in The Umbrella Academy.
Elliot Page’s The Umbrella Academy character, Number Seven, was always ostracized by the family to some extent after Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), fearing their power, had them locked away in the basement until making Seven believe that he had no powers. After finding love in The Umbrella Academy season 2 with Sissy, Seven returned to the future and realized that he needed to accept himself for who he was. This led to Page’s character coming out to the rest of his family after getting a haircut, announcing that he now goes by Viktor and uses he/him pronouns.
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Theories abounded about how The Umbrella Academy season 3 would handle Elliot Page’s transition and it seemed that there were risks that the show might either ignore it entirely or might make it an unwieldy major plot point. The former of these might have been invalidating of Elliot Page’s gender, while the latter would have risked making trans identities seem all-consuming of a character's identity and narrative. However, The Umbrella Academy manages to walk a perfect line between these two. Viktor
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