Why The Sparrows Think The Umbrella Academy Are Villains

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Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy has the Hargreeves Family facing a new threat: Reginald and his newly-introduced Sparrow Academy who see the Umbrellas as villains. Set to The Sweet's song «Ballroom Blitz,» The Umbrella Academy season 3 trailer highlights the stakes of the new season and reveals some potential twists the new installment may introduce. Though the specifics are unclear, the Hargreeves once again find themselves at the center of a potentially world-shattering problem and have to find a way to save themselves without dooming the rest of existence.

Season 2 ended with the Umbrellas returning to a very different timeline than the one they'd left behind at the end of Season 1. The first clue that things have changed in this new continuity is that Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) is alive and living in the family mansion. Shocked to see him, Luther (Tom Hopper) says that he's just glad to be home. Reginald tells the Umbrellas that this is not their home and introduces his Sparrow Academy, a new group of superheroes that include Ben (Justin H. Min) among their ranks. The season ends with the Umbrellas staring at Ben, looking shocked to see their brother alive again.

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The Umbrella Academy trailer suggests that the Umbrellas' very presence in this new timeline threatens the existence of the entire world, if not all of reality. In traveling to this new timeline, they've created a paradox because, in this new timeline, these versions of themselves never existed. As a result, the Umbrellas are being cast as the primary problem to be solved in this season — and positions them as the Sparrows' natural villains for season 3. In fact, their