What Was The Jennifer Incident In Umbrella Academy Season 3?
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Umbrella Academy season 3
The Umbrella Academy season 3 throws a massive wrench into the mystery of Ben's death — what on earth is the Jennifer incident? Since The Umbrella Academy began in 2019, the circumstances surrounding Ben Hargreeves' death have sparked intense fan conversation. Ben is already deceased when the story starts, but no character ever mentions how and why his life was lost. For two entire seasons, The Umbrella Academy offered only the most rudimentary details, leading to rampant speculation and wacky theories galore as viewers desperately attempted to piece together Ben's final moments.
The Umbrella Academy season 2's funeral flashback revealed Ben died in 2006 at the age of 17, and Sir Reginald's eulogy confirmed the tragedy happened on a mission gone awry. The inscription on Ben's statue prompted theories claiming Number Six took his own life, and the young superhero certainly seemed troubled by his tentacles in The Umbrella Academy's bank heist sequence. On the other hand, Ben never hints at depression or mental health struggles while attached to Klaus as a ghost, and not once offers any other worthwhile details to explain how he wound up in the afterlife. Unfortunately for viewers, The Umbrella Academy season 3 continues in that same enigmatic vein… but does at least add one important piece to the Benerino puzzle.
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For the very first time, The Umbrella Academy refers to Ben Hargreeves' death as the «Jennifer incident» in season 3. The phrase is debuted by Luther in «Marigold,» who tells Sparrow Ben, "You died too soon. The Jennifer incident..." Klaus later makes a similarly vague «Jennifer incident» comment of
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