Why Viktor Hargreeves Was Always Right For Umbrella Academy
In the run-up to The Umbrella Academy season 3, Elliot Page confirmed their character will be called Viktor Hargreeves, and this change has always made perfect sense for the show. The Umbrella Academy follows the exploits of people born unexpectedly and at the same time, gifted with special supernatural powers. Reginald Hargreeves brought seven of these people together to create The Umbrella Academy with lofty goals, but ultimately the group splintered until being reunited by his death.
Elliot Page plays Number Seven in The Umbrella Academy, and in season 1 has been convinced that he has no special powers, unlike his siblings, as Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) has removed all memories of his powers. When Viktor Hargreeves unlocks access to their powers, it brings about the end of the world, and the family escape by time-traveling back to the 1960s. At the end of season 2, after another near-apocalypse, the family travel back to the future but end up in an alternate timeline in which Reginald and Ben Hargreeves are both still alive and Reginald Hargreeves now runs The Sparrow Academy instead.
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Elliot Page revealed that they were non-binary in December 2020 and updated their pronouns to he/they. While there has been speculation about how this would affect his character in The Umbrella Academy, a Twitter post in March 2021 saw them post a picture of Number Seven sitting next to his sister, Allison Hargreeves (Emmy Raver-Lampman), at a diner and captioned “Meet Viktor Hargreeves.” While the change will clearly support Elliot Page and was also shared by Gerard Way, the creator of the original The Umbrella Academy graphic novels, it is still unclear how
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