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Time Travel

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Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person.

• 1.1 Triggering The Power
• 2.1 Number Five
• 3 References

Overview [ ]

Some users may be limited to remaining on the same spatial spot of a differing timeline, others may be able to move to a different spatial position. When fully mastering this ability, you can even move back/forward seconds or minutes in time. The full potential of this power is unknown, but possibly limited by the user's health, endurance, and stamina. [1]

Triggering The Power [ ]

Time travel is a very hard concept to grasp. When Five first time-travelled he got stuck in the apocalyptic future. Just like Energy Projection , you must have a firm grasp over the power to control it. Time travel can be used in a variety of ways, but it must be mastered in order to be used properly. Some time travel occasions require lots of complex math, as it took over 40 years for Five to calculate a proper equation and even then he only got it partially correct. [2]

Known Users [ ]

Number five [ ].

Five can travel through time. Five, however, had not mastered this ability, and the first time he used it, he accidentally traveled to the end of the world and was unsuccessful for a long time in traveling back. Despite being less adept at time travel, Five is a quick study and he was able to travel through time and take his siblings with him on his first attempt. [3] Five is able to reverse time by a couple of minutes, undoing events during that time so that only he remembers them and can alter events. [1] It is unknown if Five has fully mastered this ability.

References [ ]

• ↑ 1.0 1.1 " The End of Something "
• ↑ " We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals "
• ↑ " The White Violin "
• Umbrella Academy
• 1 Number Five (Netflix)
• 2 Viktor Hargreeves
• 3 Klaus Hargreeves (Netflix)

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The umbrella academy's complete timeline (& alternates) explained.

Time-travel plays a huge part in The Umbrella Academy, resulting in a messy web of different timelines. Here's a handy breakdown of each of them.

Netflix's The Umbrella Academy has heavily used time travel across its seasons, producing multiple branches from The Umbrella Academy timeline. Here's a breakdown of them and the pivotal events that comprise each. Written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, The Umbrella Academy began life as a series of graphic novels. The first installment — The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite — was told across six issues, and the story continued in The Umbrella Academy: Dallas and The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion . A planned fourth installment — The Umbrella Academy: The Sparrow Academy — is also on the way.

The Umbrella Academy became one Netflix's most popular shows and was soon renewed (it's now renewed through season 4). The show follows a group of people who were born with superpowers under mysterious circumstances. Adopted and weaponized by Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), the childhood superhero team reunite as wayward adults in order to mourn his death and prevent an oncoming apocalypse. Despite failing to achieve the latter, the siblings escaped their fates by time-traveling together into the past, and time travel has had a huge effect on the last 3 seasons. Here's a breakdown of the tangled web that is The Umbrella Academy timeline.

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Long Ago...

Though The Umbrella Academy timeline and the various events of them remain in flux, Reginald Hargreeves looms as the ever-present constant. Apart from unexplored periods of Five's tenure as a Commission assassin , no forays have been made anywhere close to Reginald's distant past. As such, his flashback revealed in The Umbrella Academy 's season 1 finale has remained unchanged.

• Pre-1898 - Reginald Hargreeves Leaves His Homeworld: A glimpse at a much younger Reginald Hargreeves seen in a previously-unfamiliar environment. Speaking with a bedridden woman that was either his wife or otherwise close to him, he learns that some kind of imminent doom is coming. Soon after, it was revealed that Reginald Hargreeves is from an alien planet, from which a mass exodus is already in progress. After being encouraged to join such efforts, he opened a mysterious jar to release an even more mysterious entity into the air.
• Post-1898 - Reginald Hargreeves Arrives in America: The alien Reginald Hargreeves was next seen in The Umbrella Academy timeline preparing to board a boat likely traveling from England to America. How long exactly he had been in England or on Earth itself is unclear. However, his arrival in the United States was sometime after 1898. This was made clear by the sign for the D.S. Umbrella Manufacturing Company, which marked it as having been established in 1898. Reginald promptly purchased the company that he would go on to serve as part of a billion-dollar empire.

The Prime Timeline: 1962 - 2015

• 1962 - Pogo's Training Begins: Reginald Hargreeves worked with Grace (Jordan Claire Robbins) in The Umbrella Academy timeline to raise, educate, and train Pogo for space travel and more. The pair frequently treated and cared for Pogo more like a son than a scientific experiment.
• November 22, 1963 - Older Five Arrives For JFK's Assassination: Firmly a part of the Temps Commission, a 58 year-old version of Five was tasked with ensuring the assassination of John F. Kennedy. However, he opted instead to leave his post and traveled forward to 2019.
• March/April 1967 - Klaus Arrives From The Future: Having accidentally acquired and activated a Temps Commission briefcase in The Umbrella Academy timeline, Klaus was dropped right in the middle of the Vietnam War. Forced to blend in with the military, he ultimately meets and falls in love with a fellow soldier named Dave.
• February 1, 1968 - Dave Is Killed In Action: During a mission in the A Shau Valley, Klaus and Dave were caught in a battle and pinned down by heavy gunfire. Though Klaus survived, Dave wasn't so lucky and succumbed to a fatal gunshot wound in Klaus' arms. A grief-stricken Klaus took Dave's dog-tags and used the briefcase again in order to return to 2019.

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• October 1, 1989 - The Children Are Mysteriously Born: A group of women around the world gave birth to children despite not having been pregnant when the day began in The Umbrella Academy timeline. The birth resulted in forty-three children, each with different special abilities. Lila Pitts (Ritu Arya) is later revealed to be one of the special 43 children. Harold Jenkins was also born on the same day, albeit conceived in an unconnected and rather more normal fashion.
• Later in October 1989 - Multiple Children Are Adopted: In the weeks that followed, Hargreeves sought out many of the children. It ultimately transpired that Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of them. He soon after designated them by number: One (Luther), Two (Diego), Three (Allison), Four (Klaus), Five, Six (Ben), and Seven (Viktor).
• Sometime in 1993 - Lila's Parents Are Murdered By Five: During a bogus mission generated by The Handler (Kate Walsh) in The Umbrella Academy timeline, Five assassinated Lila's parents. The Handler subsequently took Lila in as her own daughter and ultimately trained her as her own personal assassin.
• Also in 1993 - Viktor Rebels Against His Training: Noted in Reginald Hargreeves' journal, Viktor began demonstrating a refusal to adhere to his commands. He also began lashing out in violent ways, resulting in the deaths and/or serious injuries of several nannies. As a result, Hargreeves built a robot version of his partner, Grace, in order to serve as Viktor and the other children's mom.

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• Later in 1993 - Reginald Has Viktor Brainwashed: Though The Umbrella Academy 's Mom worked in several areas where Viktor was concerned (namely in eating oatmeal), Reginald remained fearful of Viktor's powers in The Umbrella Academy timeline. As a result, he produced special pills that would dampen Viktor's destructive abilities. He also had Allison use her own mind-altering powers to convince Viktor that he was, in fact, powerless.
• June 1, 2001 - Reginald Cruelly Trains Klaus: During a flashback in The Umbrella Academy timeline, it's revealed that part of Klaus' childhood training was to be locked in a mausoleum. The measure was ostensibly designed to help Klaus move past his fear of the dark and the ghosts he could conjure. However, it only served to further traumatize him. Soon after he began turning to drugs in order to suppress his abilities.
• 2002 - The Umbrella Academy Are Introduced To The World: Minus Viktor, the adopted Umbrella Academy siblings embarked on their first mission and foiled a robbery at the Capital West Bank. Immediately afterward, Reginald held a press conference, officially unveiling the superhero team.
• Later in 2002 - Harold Is Rejected By Reginald Hargreeves: Running away from his abusive home, Harold attempted to join the Academy since he was born on the same day in The Umbrella Academy timeline. Unfortunately, Reginald deemed him average and without powers. Subsequently kicked off the property, Harold was bitterly humiliated. Returning home, he channeled that rage into murdering his father and was sentenced to twelve years in prison as a result.

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• November 10, 2002 - Number Five Jumps Forward In Time: Eager to attempt time travel, the ageless Five ended up in an argument with his adoptive father. Believing it too dangerous, Reginald insisted he should simply keep working on his spatial jumps. Five's response was to run away and attempt to jump through time anyway. Unfortunately, he ended up jumping too far into the future and found himself stranded in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
• 2006 - Ben Dies While On A Mission: The exact nature and cause of Ben's death in The Umbrella Academy timeline remain a mystery. However, The Umbrella Academy season 2 finale revealed that it occurred while the group was out on a mission. After the funeral, Klaus was able to summon the ghost of Ben, as he had been too afraid to go into the light at the time.
• 2007 - The Umbrella Academy Start To Leave Home: Diego (David Castañeda) was the first to leave shortly after he turned 18. It's unknown in which order the others inevitably left to pursue their own interests and live their own lives.
• 2012 - Luther Is Injured While On A Mission: Now the only member of the Umbrella Academy left, Luther was sent on a mission solo. Unfortunately, things went awry, and Luther (Tom Hopper) was brought back in critical condition. In order to save him, Reginald used the same serum he once used on Pogo. Though it succeeded at saving Luther's life, it left his body permanently transformed to resemble a gorilla.

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• 2014 - Harold Jenkins Is Released From Prison: Despite The Umbrella Academy 's Harold Jenkins (John Magaro) being locked away for over a decade, his obsession with The Umbrella Academy remained firmly intact.
• 2015 - Viktor Writes His Memoir: Titled Extra Ordinary , Viktor penned an autobiography in The Umbrella Academy timeline about his childhood and growing up amid The Umbrella Academy. In the process, he revealed several of the group's secrets. As a result of the book, he briefly enjoyed the traditional fifteen minutes of fame.
• Later in 2015 - Reginald Sends Luther To The Moon: Though the specifics are never made clear to Luther, he lived on the moon for four years. During that time, he frequently sent back samples and extensive reports .

The Original Apocalypse

Upon his arrival in the apocalyptic future in The Umbrella Academy timeline, Five discovered the bodies of his siblings amid the rubble of the Umbrella Academy headquarters. Given that the location is a far cry from the Icarus Theatre, it implied that a different final battle with Viktor once occurred to constitute The Umbrella Academy 's apocalypse. Also different is that he found Harold Jenkins' prosthetic eye tightly in Luther's grip, meaning that Harold must have been still alive and present for that particular clash.

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Equally, each of the siblings' bodies is more or less intact, rather than destroyed in a global firestorm caused by an asteroid impact. Therefore, the exact nature of Viktor's original apocalypse in The Umbrella Academy timeline was also likely different. Whatever occurred in this version of the timeline, however, will probably remain both unknown (and irrelevant) - since Five's eventual return to 2019 would serve to generate a new branch and establish what would become the show's prime timeline.

The Prime Timeline: 2019

• March 21, 2019 - Reginald Hargreeves Commits Suicide: Though not revealed until midway through The Umbrella Academy season 1, Reginald took his own life to draw the siblings back for his funeral in The Umbrella Academy timeline.
• March 24, 2019 - Reginald's Funeral & Five's Return: The siblings returned to the Academy, and the ensuing tensions led to Ben's memorial statue getting damaged. That same day, a 60-year-old version of Five time-traveled from 1963, but ended up reverting to his 13-year-old state.
• March 25, 2019 - Viktor Meets Harold Jenkins: Posing as Leonard Peabody, Harold approached Viktor under the guise of wanting violin lessons. Allison moved closer to discovering the truth behind her father's death while Five tried to track down Harold via the prosthetic eye from the future. Five was later attacked by Hazel and Cha-Cha while visiting the mannequin Dolores at a department store. With more siblings learning of the apocalypse, The Umbrella Academy timeline was moved even further away from its original course.

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• March 26, 2019 - Hazel and Cha-Cha Attack The Academy: Breaking into the facility, the duo clashed with Diego, Allison, and Luther while Viktor witnessed from the sidelines. Though the assassins were eventually driven out, they succeeded in abducting Klaus. They tortured him for information, before burning down the prosthetics lab that Five was trying to get information from. Klaus escaped with the help of Detective Patch, but she died in the process. Diego shut down the malfunctioning robot he knew as Mom. He later found Patch's body and, in his grief, swore vengeance. Newly escaped and armed with a Commission briefcase, Klaus accidentally traveled back to 1967 Vietnam.
• March 27, 2019 - Five Is Offered A New Job: As a result of Harold's murderous intervention in The Umbrella Academy timeline, Viktor successfully auditioned for the first chair in his orchestra. Similarly, courtesy of his manipulations, Viktor stopped taking what he believed to be anti-anxiety medication. Having orchestrated a meeting with The Handler, Five was offered a new job with The Umbrella Academy 's Temps Commission . To protect his family from the oncoming apocalypse, he accepted.

The First Aborted Timeline

As a result of accepting The Handler's offer, Five ventured with The Handler to the Temp Commission's headquarters. While there, a whole day played out for the rest of the siblings back in the present. The events of that day in The Umbrella Academy timeline - March 28, 2019 - unfold throughout The Umbrella Academy season 1, episode 6, "The Day That Wasn't".

Klaus got sober enough to summon the ghost of Dave, Allison and Luther admitted their feelings and prepared to leave town, and Viktor learned early about Harold having Reginald's journal. Unfortunately, each of those developments was erased when Five once again returned to 2019. Appearing at the start of the day, he essentially cut short what would have become of that The Umbrella Academy timeline and set things once again on a different path along the prime Umbrella Academy timeline .

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The Prime Timeline: 2019 Continued

• March 28, 2019 - Viktor's Powers Are Awakened: Though several elements of the day were erased, others remained firmly intact. Luther discovered his time on The Moon was for nothing. Devastated, he turned to drugs and went to a rave. There, Klaus got into a fight trying to protect him, leading to him suffering a head injury. While unconscious, Klaus had an encounter with his father, learning more about his death. Viktor's latent powers awakened fully after Harold hired a group of thugs to attack him. Viktor used his powers to defend him, killing two of the thugs and costing Harold his right eye.
• March 29, 2019 - Viktor Almost Kills Allison: Harold tried to help Viktor get more control of his powers in The Umbrella Academy timeline. After being tracked down by Allison, however, Viktor learned the truth of her part in having his memories altered. Once again losing control, Viktor lashed out with his powers and slit Allison's throat. Diego, Klaus, Five, and Luther found Allison barely clinging to life.
• March 30, 2019 - Luther Imprisons Viktor: Allison was saved by Pogo and Grace back at the Academy. Elsewhere, Viktor found his father's journal and discovered the extent of Harold's machinations. Provoked, Viktor once again snapped and brutally killed him. Afterward, he returned to the Academy, only to be knocked unconscious and locked away by Luther. Because of this, Viktor fully gave in to his dark side and used his powers to escape her confinement.
• April 1, 2019 - The Apocalypse: Now unleashed, Viktor destroyed the Academy in The Umbrella Academy timeline, killing Pogo in one of the most shocking deaths and destroying Grace/Mom in the process. Pursued by Temps Commission soldiers, the siblings went to the Icarus Theatre to confront Viktor, but were unable to stop him from firing a beam of his energy, which damaged the moon Umbrella Academy's Luther spent so much time on and sent an asteroid hurtling toward the Earth. With only moments to spare, Five succeeded at time-traveling all of them away to safety.

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• Some Time Later - The Handler Recovered: After being shot in the head by Hazel, but shortly before the apocalypse, The Handler's body was pulled from the timeline. Moments before being incinerated, it was revealed that she survived the attempt on her life. After going through recovery, The Handler (who was almost played by Jon Hamm) was summarily demoted at the Temps Commission by A.J. Carmichael.
• Post-Apocalypse - Five's Journey: With the Earth still wiped out in The Umbrella Academy timeline, Five's time in the desolate wasteland remained intact. However, the version that this timeline's Five traveled to would be slightly different. His sibling's bodies would be nowhere to be found and there'd be no eye to retrieve. Equally, Five's mannequin Dolores would likely have been burned to a cinder. He would spend forty-five years stuck alone in the future, until being recruited for the Temps Commission sometime around 2060.

The Alternate Timeline: 1960 - 1963

Things were shaken off course almost immediately after the Hargreeves siblings touched down in their new decade. Though each arrived separately and at different points, each of them settled quickly into their new environments. As a result, throughout The Umbrella Academy season 2 , they all had a direct influence on the new world around them, and some of their decisions and actions would ultimately have wide-reaching consequences for the once steadfastly established The Umbrella Academy timeline.

• February 11, 1960 - Klaus and Ben Arrive in Dallas: As the first to arrive of The Umbrella Academy's members, Klaus and Ben stumbled around trying to get their bearings, and learned the date and year from a magazine. Later that same day, Klaus was taken in and cleaned up by a wealthy older benefactor. He dazzled socialites by using Ben's help to perform parlor tricks.
• April 1961 - Allison Arrives in Dallas: Allison had a rougher introduction to the 1960s in The Umbrella Academy timeline . Having ventured into the same diner as Klaus, she also turned away due to it being a "Whites Only" establishment. Upon her exit, she was chased by a group of racist thugs. Seeking sanctuary in a salon, Allison was protected by its owners and began working there.

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• September 1961 - Allison Meets Raymond: After Raymond Chestnut (played by Yusuf Gatewood) came into the salon for a meeting of his group, he and Allison first noticed each other.
• Christmas 1961 - Allison and Raymond's First Date: Despite having had her vocal cords damaged when her throat was cut, they were revealed to have healed throughout the year. After some months of exchanging silent looks, Ray eventually asked her on a date. At that point, she vocally offered up her name. She also began to immerse herself in his civil rights campaigns, even offering him notes on his pamphlets.
• Also in 1961 - Klaus Establishes His Cult : A brief glimpse during a montage of flashbacks revealed Klaus traveling with his followers on a bus through Mexico in The Umbrella Academy timeline.
• 1962 - Luther Arrives in Dallas: Emerging in the pouring rain, Luther immediately called out for his siblings. When that yielded no success, he accumulated enough money for a bus back home. Arriving at what would one day become Hargreeves' Umbrella Academy, however, Luther was cruelly snubbed by Reginald. Luther returned to Dallas and eventually began working as a bodyguard and professional fighter for Jack Ruby.

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• Late 1962 - Allison and Raymond Get Married: Given that they were only married for a year before Allison had to return to 2019, Allison and Raymond's ( one of the best Umbrella Academy relationships ) wedding likely took place in the later months of The Umbrella Academy timeline.
• September 1, 1963 - Diego Arrives in Dallas: Landing in a more traditional superhero fashion, Diego immediately reverted to old habits. Hearing a woman's scream, he rapidly foiled a mugging. He also got to grips with his new surroundings after seeing a speech from JFK on an old-fashioned TV in a store window. Suddenly passionately resolved to single-handedly stop the JFK assassination, Diego began stalking Lee Harvey Oswald. Unfortunately, he was apprehended outside of Oswald's house and institutionalized.
• October 12, 1963 - Viktor Arrives in Dallas: Though he had been unconscious in Luther's arms when they began time-traveling, Viktor arrived alone and awake. Disorientated, he stumbled from the alley and out into the middle of the road. There, he was hit by a car driven by Sissy ( Marin Ireland, The Dark and the Wicked ). Alongside her son, Harlan (Justin Paul Kelly), Sissy checked on Viktor and eventually took him in to live with them.
• Also in 1963 - Klaus Abandons His Cult: Seen surrounded by countless followers now, an overwhelmed Klaus took the opportunity to disappear into the crowd in The Umbrella Academy timeline. Driving away from San Francisco, he revealed to Ben his goal to return to Dallas. The two clashed over the plan. Klaus was later arrested when he stole another man's car en - route.

The 1963 Apocalypse

The opening of The Umbrella Academy season 2 marked a much more dramatic change to November 25, 1963 in The Umbrella Academy timeline. Though JFK hadn't been assassinated, a devastating war soon followed. Therefore, once again, the siblings were forced to face down another apocalypse without Five . Having arrived later than them, he was dropped into the final moments of it. Though they offered a thrilling united front, they were doomed in the face of several nuclear weapons. Fortunately, Hazel made a brief appearance to save Five and transport him back ten days earlier.

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As such, Five was able to reunite the team early in The Umbrella Academy timeline and use the foreknowledge to their advantage. Unlike the culmination to The Umbrella Academy season 1, they (though mostly Ben) were subsequently able to once again branch the timeline in a less fatal direction and more successfully avert a global disaster the second time around. The timeline with the apocalypse must still exist somewhere in a now-distant and defunct part the show's multiverse, however. Like the Umbrella Academy 2019 apocalypse , it paradoxically needed to have happened and Five to have experienced it in order for it to be prevented.

The Alternate Timeline: 1963 Continued (and 1982)

• November 15, 1963 - Five Arrives From The Alternate Future : After rescuing Number Five and secretly giving him video footage, Hazel is killed by a trio of Swedish assassins. Five managed to track down Elliot (Kevin Rankin), a man who had been monitoring the alleyway the siblings had arrived in, and used his research to find the other Hargreeves siblings of The Umbrella Academy .
• November 16, 1963 - Luther and Viktor Are Reunited: After picking up a drunk Carl from a local Dallas club in The Umbrella Academy timeline, Viktor is spotted by Luther. Visiting him at Sissy's farm, he apologized for failing to help him after he learned of his powers and his part in causing the apocalypse.
• November 17, 1963 - Allison Leads A Civil Rights Sit-In: In one of Allison's best moments , organized across the earlier episodes, Allison and Raymond's group went through with their peaceful protest. Ray was able to attend after Klaus and Ben orchestrated his release from jail. The event descended into chaos, however, after violent backlash and brutal police intervention.

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• November 18, 1963 - Viktor Learns The Truth: Luther revealed to Viktor that he caused the 2019 apocalypse in The Umbrella Academy timeline. In response, Viktor resolved to leave everything behind. After Harlan nearly drowned, however, he changed his mind. After giving him CPR, some of Viktor's energy is transferred to him.
• November 20, 1963 - "Team Zero" Meets Young Reginald: The entire group reconvened to meet with their father. Unfortunately, The Umbrella Academy's alien founder Reginald proved unimpressed with the group and rudely snubbed them again - though not before learning their names, powers, and how such as Allison and Viktor focused them. Even seen writing them down, the Umbrella Academy gave him everything needed to knock the timeline in a new direction.
• November 22, 1963 - JFK's Assassination: Under the belief that he's a Russian spy, Viktor is brutally tortured at the FBI building. That coupled with his returning memories sent his powers once again out of control. Having been taken to the Commission in The Umbrella Academy timeline, Diego used the facilities to learn that Viktor's destruction of the building is what led to The Umbrella Academy 's apocalyptic war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Klaus, Allison, and Diego infiltrated the facility to rescue him. Though they failed, Ben sacrificed himself to calm Viktor down, and JFK's assassination went ahead as history had recorded last time.
• November 23, 1963 - The Umbrella Academy Go To War: With Viktor aware of his psychic connection with Harlan, he returned to the farm just as the powers he acquired from Viktor started to go out of control. At the same time, the entire force of the Temps arrived, with The Handler eager to claim Harlan for her own. After Viktor wiped out the countless assassins, Lila is revealed to be able to mirror The Umbrella Academy's powers . After The Handler and most of the Commission were killed, the siblings took a briefcase from a fallen Commission agent, said their goodbyes, and time-traveled back toward 2019.

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• 1982 - Five Kills The Temps Commission Board: Five jumped forward in The Umbrella Academy timeline as part of a deal with The Handler. Interrupting a meeting of those in charge of the Commission, he killed them all without mercy. He immediately went back to November 21, 1963.

The First Alternate 2019 Timeline

Five was forced to resort to drastic measures to get his family back to 2019 in The Umbrella Academy timeline. Knowing that his older self had arrived in Dallas, Five and Luther attempted to make a deal with him to acquire his Temps Commission briefcase . Though the older Five agreed, the paradoxical effect of being close to each other made both versions paranoid and homicidal. With both of them conspiring against the other, they ended up brawling after the younger version opened the same kind of portal to 2019 he'd once used. Before that, Five had given his older self the equation to ensure he wasn't reverted into a teenager.

It is unclear, however, whether he was lying about it since he believed he needed his past self to venture through in the same manner in order to preserve his existence in The Umbrella Academy timeline. Equally, the elderly Five ended up being forcibly kicked into the vortex rather than coordinating his own path through it. Whatever the case, Luther inadvertently ensured that the version of 2019 the older Five went to would ultimately turn out different than in the highly rated The Umbrella Academy season 1 — since he armed him with the specific details of who and what caused the apocalypse.

As such, he was likely in a better position to prevent what the original versions had previously failed. Thus, a new The Umbrella Academy timeline would have been created. The moment also seemed to confirm that what viewers were witnessing were branches of a multiverse. After all, Five remained in existence despite the older Five going into the vortex being different from him as a result of being armed with such additional knowledge.

The Second Aborted Timeline

Following the epic confrontation with the forces of the Temps Commission, the members of the Umbrella Academy managed to reason with Lila. They even came close to bringing her around to their side of the conflict. Unfortunately, The Handler stepped in and gunned the entire Hargreeves family down in a hail of bullets. After being confronted by Lila, The Umbrella Academy 's The Handler (Kate Walsh) even callously killed her adopted daughter.

Clinging to life, however, Five was able to finally master a new facet of his abilities and reversed time, causing further confusion in in The Umbrella Academy timeline. However, the process resulted in bringing the team and Lila back to life. Simultaneously, he put himself into a position to intercept The Handler before she could strike. As a result, Five successfully curtailed another tragic branch of the timeline before it truly manifested.

The New 2019 Timeline

As a result of their paradoxical interactions in the 1963 The Umbrella Academy timeline, namely meeting with and disappointing their father even before their birth, the Umbrella Academy returned to a very different 2019. Not only were they greeted by a very-much-alive Reginald Hargreeves, but also a brand new team that had usurped their home and position. Revealed to be the Sparrow Academy , the majority of their identities were shrouded in mystery as part of The Umbrella Academy season 2 cliffhanger.

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Shockingly, however, the Number One of the new team was revealed to be an equally still-alive Ben Hargreeves. Now sporting a scar and a more vicious demeanor in The Umbrella Academy timeline, he rudely inquired about the new arrivals. Things were left hanging at that moment. As such, more time-travel shenanigans than ever were required to set things back to their familiar order in The Umbrella Academy season 3.

The Sparrow Timeline: 1918 - 2019

• 1918 - Reginald Hargreeves Builds Hotel Obsidian: The Umbrella Academy finds themselves hiding out in Hotel Obsidian , and it's revealed in The Umbrella Academy season 3, episode 8, through a flashback that Reginald Hargreeves built it. In an effort to find the portal to the alternate dimension Oblivion, Hargreeves surveys the land that the hotel is eventually built on and even sends a team of soldiers through the portal to Oblivion. However, things don't go according to plan, and none of them make it out of the portal alive.
• 1953 - Lila Visits The Commission's Headquarters: The Commission, an organization that oversees and manages the space-time continuum, finds its headquarters in the 1950s. In 1953, Lila makes a visit in The Umbrella Academy season 3 , episode 7, because of her adoptive mother's (The Handler) unexplained death at the end of season 2. After this, she ends up going back to West Berlin in 1989.
• 1963 - The Umbrella Academy Meets Again: After the Umbrella Academy is separately transported back to Dallas in the '60s in season 2, the five are finally able to reunite in 1963. Consequently, this is the year that the world is supposed to end. However, the team is able to stop the apocalyptic event in time and then travel back to the present day.

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• 1989 - The Super-powered Children Are Born: In The Umbrella Academy season 3, the Umbrella Academy timeline jumps back to the infamous day when the super children are born to reintroduce the children of the Sparrow Academy , Hargreeves' proteges in an alternate timeline. Now that season 3 has come to pass, audiences know 14 of the children's identities, including the Sparrow Academy and Lila. However, the remaining 29 children are still unknown and could be introduced in the fourth and final season.
• 2014 - Pogo Becomes A Tattoo Artist: In The Umbrella Academy season 3, episode 6, it's revealed in a flashback that Pogo tries to control a fight between Sparrow Academy's Ben and Jayme, which ends up going way too far. Hargreeves insists that the two continue their brawl, and Pogo vehemently disagrees with him. After an argument between talking chimp Pogo and Hargreeves, the leader of the Academy kicks the former out for good, explaining how Pogo goes on to be a tattoo artist when he's found by Five in 2019.
• 2019 - The Umbrella Academy Vs The Sparrow Academy: The bulk of The Umbrella Academy season 3 storyline occurs in the present day, with the alternate timeline seeing Hargreeves' Sparrow Academy and the Umbrella Academy go head to head. All in all, Five and Lila are the only two characters that travel through time in season 3, making The Umbrella Academy timeline much easier to follow in the third installment. The last bit of time travel sees Five as an elder in an unspecified post-apocalyptic time.

The Reset Universe Timeline After Season 3

In The Umbrella Academy season 3 ending , the Umbrella Academy and Sparrow Academy team up to prevent another apocalypse due to the time paradox which threatened to destroy the world as a whole. While season 2 saw the gang have to give up their Dallas lives, season 3's consequences were dire. What resulted was a total universe reboot with overwhelming changes for all of the characters, and a couple of the after-effects of the new Umbrella Academy timeline are revealed. Hargreeves plans to sacrifice them all to reset the timeline. However, Allison goes into action and chops about a third of his head off, forcing his plan into motion regardless.

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The new Umbrella Academy season 4 timeline will see Hargreeves more powerful than ever before, as his insignia is seen on buildings all across the area. Hargreeves' wife, Abigail, is alive in the new Umbrella Academy timeline, meaning season 4 should reveal a lot more about her life. Hotel Obsidian no longer exists in the rebooted universe, but the mysterious Obsidian Memorial Park does. While the Umbrella Academy siblings' injuries are reversed from the Hotel Oblivion incident, they have all inexplicably lost their powers. Luther is revealed to be alive, but Sloane is missing. In addition, a heartwarming moment sees Allison reunite with her daughter, Claire.

It's completely unknown if the Umbrella and Sparrow Academies were born in the new Umbrella Academy timeline, and audiences will have to wait for season 4 to find out. It's wholly possible, as the Umbrella Academy siblings weren't born in the Sparrow timeline, and it's unclear what this could mean for the space-time continuum. It's possible that the Diego/Lila pregnancy storyline will continue in The Umbrella Academy season 4, but it hasn't been revealed how the rebooted universe affects that. Finally, with the knowledge that Five founded the Temps Commission, his exit at the end of season 3 could see him returning there to restore The Umbrella Academy timeline.

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The Time Travel Rules That Five Has To Follow On Umbrella Academy

From Doctor Who to Back to the Future , every time travel-centric show or movie follows a certain set of rules, and Netflix's The Umbrella Academy is no different. The show's resident time traveler, Five, has a set of time travel rules he has to follow , although he's often of the mind that rules are made to be broken. Unfortunately for the brilliant time traveler, his actions always have consequences.

The Umbrella Academy writers have been candid about the difficulties of creating a time travel rulebook for the series. In Netflix's Behind the Scenes podcast, showrunner Steve Blackman and several other writers shared how they sat down to hammer out the rules for Five, as well as for The Commission. And while they initially planned to model Five's time-traveling guide after Back to the Future 's set-up (essentially, if you change something in the past, it causes a ripple effect that changes your timeline as well, leading to Marty McFly almost erasing himself from existence), they ultimately decided time is too complicated for every change in the past to directly affect the futures of the main characters.

"For a long time, we've just been laboring under the Back to the Future rules," The Umbrella Academy writer Rob Askins explained. "The notion that every change in the past is gonna change your future. A sort of basic cause and effect notion. Time is messier than that, matter is messier than that. So you can go back and change things and you won't necessarily be changed ... the picture in Marty McFly's hand is not necessarily going to erase slowly."

Five's primary time travel rule on The Umbrella Academy is expect the unexpected

What's tricky about Five's powers is he doesn't have complete control over them. The first time he time travels, he ends up in a post-apocalyptic future with no way of returning home. Because he hasn't fully grasped how to move back and forth through time, he has to be careful about the jumps he makes to avoid ending up in another time he doesn't want to be in, or inadvertently changing the past so significantly he ends up triggering another apocalyptic event.

Additionally, he needs to at least try to play nice with The Commission. Even though Five doesn't have any qualms about meddling in the past or the future , The Commission's goal is to preserve major historical moments — like the Kennedy assassination — in order to keep the timeline in order. Five and his friends are far less concerned about the timeline as a whole than they should be, which leads to them averting Kennedy's assassination in season 2 and causing an apocalypse that could only be undone by allowing the president to die.

Because of this experience, Five seems to realize meddling with major world events is trickier than going back in time a few minutes to save his siblings' lives. As such, he's time-traveled enough now to know his actions in the past can cause major repercussions in the future — which means he should limit the amount of historical changes he attempts to make.

Five knows paradoxes should be avoided at all costs

One hard and fast rule Five seems to accept is paradoxes should be avoided where possible. In the world of The Umbrella Academy , paradoxes occur when you meet a version of yourself from the past or the future, which results in both parties suffering from paradox psychosis. Paradox psychosis is a seven step process which begins with denial and ends with homicidal rage — a situation Five experiences first hand when he has to work with an older version of himself in season 2.

Generally speaking, it's never a good idea for two versions of the same person to hang out with another. It goes against the natural order of time, and the universe reacts accordingly. Still, Five is willing to risk murdering himself (or being murdered by himself) if it means correcting other time travel mishaps and putting the world back on track.

Respecting the Butterfly Effect is Five's latest time travel rule

Because not every change Five and his siblings make to the past affects them in the future, they were fairly lax about living their lives in the '60s. Since none of the superpowered kids would be born until the '80s, it seemed like they were safe to do as they pleased after Five accidentally scattered them across the decade at the end of season 1.

However, since then, Five and his family have learned the hard way that the Butterfly Effect is real. While it's true that traveling back in time won't automatically mess with the characters' timelines that doesn't mean they're immune from unexpected consequences. Case in point: When they return to the present day at the end of season 2, they find an entirely different group of people at The Umbrella Academy, which is now known as The Sparrow Academy.

It's unclear how this massive shift in their own timelines will play out in season 3, but it seems safe to assume Five will have a greater respect for the Butterfly Effect moving forward.

Time travel is always complicated, but for Five, the concept is even trickier than usual, because even when he tries to follow his own rules, he just can't seem to escape the unforeseen consequences of his trips.

‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 2: Activist Allison, Cult Leader Klaus and Time Travel

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SPOILER ALERT:  Do not read if you have not yet watched the second season of “ The Umbrella Academy ,” streaming now on Netflix.

Traveling through time certainly takes its toll — not only on characters’ emotions and on their relationships, but also on their larger world.

In the second season of Steve Blackman ‘s streaming adaptation of “The Umbrella Academy,” the seven Hargreeves children get sent back to the 1960s after stopping the apocalypse in present-day. They end up scattered across the first few years of the decade, but all in the same place: Dallas, Texas. While there, they have mere days to stop yet another world-ending event, which has ties to JFK’s assassination.

Diego (David Castañeda) is convinced he has to stop that assassination, while Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) works to change history through the rights that Black Americans have, leading a sit-in at a local diner. Klaus (Robert Sheehan) gathers followers and is treated as a messiah (or cult leader, depending on your point of view) after he is witnessed floating thanks to an assist from Ben (Justin Lin), while Luther (Tom Hopper) gets involved in underground fighting and amnesiac Vanya (Ellen Page), after being hit by a car, is taken in by the woman who hit her, and the two fall in love .

It is up to Five (Aidan Gallagher) to figure out how to get them all back together to stop the next cataclysmic event and return home. And while eventually they do both, the home they return to is not the Umbrella Academy of their youth but one where their father and Ben are still very much alive.

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“We all have such serious opinions about how [time travel] works,” Blackman tells Variety . “Vanya asks why she can’t just bring Sissy and [her son] Harlan back; they’re inconsequential, and Five says nothing is inconsequential when you’re dealing with time travel. Their time in 1963 has had major repercussions.”

Here, Blackman talks with Variety about some of the second season’s major character developments, including Vanya and Sissy’s relationship, Allison’s activism and Klaus’ cult, as well as revealing there are more people in the world like the Hargreeves children and what other changes may be in store if and when the show is renewed for a third season.

Aside from the Ben of it all, there’s also this large looming piece of Sissy’s son Harlan left behind in the 1960s with new abilities and no one to help him come to terms with them, let alone control them. How important is that going to be in the show going forward?

The biggest change is there is this flesh and blood Ben standing there, saying “Who the hell are you?” Justin’s excited, if we get a Season 3, to finally work with more of the actors. I do know what Season 3 is — I’ve already planned it out — but there were a lot of open-ended questions and loose ends, and one of them is Harlan. We are left with happens to Harlan, what happens to Dave, and a few other things. But I think that’s the fun of the show: I like television shows that don’t answer all of the questions for me, so I don’t plan to tie up all of those loose ends. Especially on a time travel show, we have the luxury of answering these questions in future seasons or not.

Similarly, revealing that Lila could adapt to and mirror everyone else’s ability certainly makes her a threat like no other.

I think it’s fair to say there are others out there like them. Some of them might be good and some of them might be evil — and some of them might be in the middle. With Lila the limitation is, she can harness the power but only to a certain degree — she gets tired and can’t do it, and ultimately they’re able to take her down.

What were the challenges in finding something that would be a credible threat against the Hargreeves who, when they are all together, complement each other with their abilities?

Each of them has a limitation: They’re not a Superman-type character where things are just endlessly possible. Five runs out of blinks; Vanya needs to recharge. The goal for me is to challenge them with the internal challenges and the family, but also to find unexpected challenges to what it is to be a superhero. Like, Allison’s reluctance to use her power because it often corrupts her. We’re trying to see, “What would a real superhero’s life be like?” and not feel like we’re in the DC or Marvel universes — I have great respect for them, but this is different. We want you to feel like, “I could be this character.” They’re also not equal in their abilities; they’re all evolving and I think as we go forward their powers will get stronger and they’ll learn new things about them, but it’s OK in this universe that one of them has a stronger power than the other. And that’s where the emotional stories come in — one looking at [another] like, “I wish I could do that” or “It’s not fair they’re stronger than me.”

Why were the 1960s the perfect backdrop for this season?

In the graphic novels, JFK was a very small part of it. I wanted to set the whole show in this time period because I love the conspiracy theories around JFK, but also it was a very tumultuous time when you talk about civil rights and the Cold War, and we weren’t that far away from the missile crisis. There was a heightened sense of paranoia about Communism and what Yugoslavia was going to do, so there was this amazing upheaval, and I thought, “Why not complicate their lives by putting them in a 10-day period, mostly before the assassination of this famous president?” It was hard for production to do it, but it was a great place to start the story. The majority of production shot in Toronto but we did go to the Grassy Knoll to shoot those scenes there.

That had to be extra emotional, especially given how so many love to speculate on what could have been, but typically in pop culture if JFK lives, the world ends in another way.

It was [emotional] for the crew, and I talked the cast through a lot of it, too. I think we all just felt a sense of awe and respect being there on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas. In some ways that we talked about, things were not so far from where they are now in terms of racism, but in other ways, like being the height of the Cold War, it was tough in other ways to live through as well.

With an ensemble this large, there are a lot of individual journeys to manage whether they’re split apart, as they are at the start of the season, or working alongside each other, as they are later. Which character or journey was your starting point for breaking the season?

I knew I couldn’t start the season where all of them arrive together. At one point I started that way on paper, but I thought it was too easy, so I came to the conceit that they would all arrive at the same place but in different time periods because spreading them out by a few years meant they got to have real-life stories. They all think the others are dead, and how do they deal with that and move on? But the extra complications [are things like] Allison is married to a husband she really loves and has a cause, Klaus has started a cult, Luther is miserable but still has a life. It made it harder for them to leave [those things], but I hoped the audience was striving to see them come back together. And when they do come back together, they come back stronger and better for it. The dysfunctions and foibles are still there, as you see in the scene in the tiki bar, but you’re cheering for this family to get it right.

Given that you wrote this season months ago, you couldn’t have known how some of the scenes with 1960s police brutality against Allison and her husband (Yusuf Gatewood) would mimic things we’re seeing on the streets today, but racial injustice has not disappeared in between the 1960s and today. So what were some of your references for the activism and protests in this storyline?

Just to be upfront, we wrote this a year ago so no, we did not know how our lives would be affected by George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. But from the beginning I spent a lot of time with the writers doing a ton of research. Even though our show exists in the fantasy world, we couldn’t glaze over the racial issues in the ’60s. It was so important that we grounded them in a real way. So Allison lands and she sees a “Whites only” sign as her first welcome to 1963. We’re playing a woman of color who really has no voice in the segregated South — and she actually lost her voice, which makes it more challenging. Then the sit-in idea was an amalgamation of many sit-ins of the time period from our research. We wanted to make it authentic, and when we shot it it took two days and nights and it was very emotional on set and it was a very moving scene because you forgot where you were when the lights were down and we rolled the camera. We were in awe that these brave people of color would walk into a place that said “No whites” or “Whites only,” sit down and be publicly humiliated. We didn’t realize when we were telling the story, but we’re reminded now that things really haven’t improved as much as they should have.

What were the challenges of shaping Vanya and Sissy’s story so that there were all of the good feelings that came with watching two people fall in love but still staying true to the time period where they wouldn’t be accepted?

I definitely wanted to tell an authentic love story, and having Marin Ireland and Ellen Page, you can’t do better as actors. But I wanted to be honest for what it would be like for Allison to be a woman of color in the South in 1963 and also to have a woman like Sissy — a queer woman in the ’60s could go to jail, could lose custody of her child; she had no rights. So it was important that we complicate that story. She says to Vanya, a woman of 2019, “You may understand what it’s like to be different, but my life could be completely destroyed in a way that you would not understand.” And I think that’s what’s so interesting about Sissy. And there’s a moment — and Ellen plays it beautifully — where it just sits with [Vanya] where she realizes that there’s more at stake than just the love story. There’s also a child in this relationship, and it could seriously screw things up for him. I talked a lot with Ellen about this storyline and how we could make it feel beautiful and have hope but still be honest. I honestly believe if Sissy and Vanya didn’t have to separate it could have been a love story for the ages.

Going back to Klaus, a cult is not typically a humorous thing, yet with his personality, it provided some of the lighter moments of the season. And still, he’s also humbled at times and seems to genuinely learn from the experience and hopefully that will stick.

Klaus wants to be loved, adored and taken care of, but having the knowledge of the future and being able to recite a lot of famous lyrics of songs would be a powerful thing for Klaus. He uses it deceitfully to have a following because he has no money and he’s a master manipulator and he just can’t stop himself. He’s not a mean guy — he’s not drawn to do bad things — but then it overtakes him and he does have all of these people who have expectations of him. And in my mind, the following long lives after Klaus is gone. So probably in 2019, there is still this Klaus cult with thousands of new members in India and America that are following his teachings, even though he stole most of his lyrics from Destiny’s Child and the Backstreet Boys.

When we first met these characters last season they all had so much trauma from their childhoods manifesting in different ways and they have had to face down so many physical, large threats, so how important is it, as time goes on in the show, to show some of these events or the simple camaraderie they are finding with each other helping them heal from that trauma?

Do we ever get over our childhood traumas? I say this as the son of two psychologists, and this is just my opinion, but I think that we’re always struggling to overcome our childhood trauma. I remind people that in terms of the storytelling time period, they’ve only been back together for three weeks — each season is 10 days. So they’ve been pretty good for three weeks together after years apart and having an abusive father. But I think they are starting to come into their own and starting to have a better understanding, but they’re always going to struggle.

Their father being alive will undoubtedly add to the struggle. And what about Pogo?

I love Pogo, don’t get me wrong, but I had to say to myself, “There’s only a little bit of Pogo I’m going to do this year because it’s right for the story.” But we have a Season 3, it would be a good be to think that Pogo is back — and not hanging on antlers.

By the same logic, is there a future for the Handler? And if so, how do you work through concerns that the showdown between the Hargreeves and their opposers might feel less satisfying if they have to keep going after each other?

I think the Handler might actually be really dead this time around. As much as I adore Kate Walsh — and this is my third show with her, so clearly I like her a lot — we spent so much time in the writers’ room trying to create the logic for the time travel, so for the uber-uber fan they don’t feel like we hit a complete reset button. They’ve clearly done something to cause the change, but I think it will be unexpected.

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'The Umbrella Academy' Timeline: Every Apocalypse, Explained

The Umbrella Academy sure has to deal with a lot of apocalypses.

While Season 1 of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy featured its share of timey-wimey shenanigans, Season 2 took things up a notch, adding several more layers of complexity to the time-hopping tale. By the end of Season 2, viewers have seen multiple alternate timelines spin up and collapse, and by the time the final scene plays, it's hard to know for certain what did or did not happen anymore. So if you've watched every episode of The Umbrella Academy and are still a little unsure how it's all supposed to fit together, we've put together a detailed timeline to try to help it all make sense.

Of course, it is impossible to fill in all the gaps in The Umbrella Academy 's multifaceted timelines, especially considering that there are some parts of the series — such as many of the scenes set at the Temps Commission, which exists both in 1955 and also outside of the timeline — which defy a chronological order. Additionally, there are multiple versions of some dates, each occurring in a different timeline. So rather than cataloging the events of The Umbrella Academy in steadfast chronological order here, we're going to be organizing them by timeline. Each time a new one spins off, we'll note the precise moment where it splits from the previous one. Unless otherwise noted, you can assume all of the events prior to the split still occurred in subsequent timelines.

[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers through the Season 2 finale of The Umbrella Academy , "The End of Something."]

Apocalypse Timeline 1

• Reginald Hargreeves ( Colm Feore ) is asked by his dying wife to take her violin to someone who will love it as much as she has. He releases a jar of glowing, floating sparkles over a field on an alien planet where rockets are shooting up into the sky.

At various points in the timeline:

• Hazel and Cha-Cha kill a woman named Zoya Popova.
• Cha-Cha chops a man's hands off and lets him bleed to death in the bathtub.
• Hazel takes a woman to a temple and slits her throat.
• Cha-Cha smothers a woman in her sleep.
• In the Swiss Alps, Hazel pretended to have car trouble, and when Jan Mueller stopped to help, he ran him over, forwards and reverse, but let his wife escape down an alleyway. Hazel gave her a head start to make the chase more fun.
• The Handler ( Kate Walsh ) has a metal plate put in her head as the result of a job in Shanghai.
• D.S. Umbrella Manufacturing Co. is established.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha do a job for the Commission in Manila.
• Reginald Hargreeves clears customs in the United States.
• Reginald Hargreeves purchases D.S. Umbrella from its owner, J. King.
• Five ( Aidan Gallagher ) commits a crime while working for the Commission and leaves fingerprints behind.
• Glen Oaks Hardware is established.
• W. Arnold Pet Store is established as a family-owned company.
• Harlan Cooper ( Justin Paul Kelly ) is born.
• Baby Pogo is brought into a lab in Cape Canaveral from the Congo. Grace ( Jordan Claire Robbins ) is the scientist who works with him. Pogo is trained to perform a series of complex actions on a control board in preparation to send him into space. During Pogo's space mission, there's a malfunction, and Pogo is badly injured. Hargreeves revives him using a red serum. As Pogo gains intelligence, Hargreeves reads him The Odyssey by Homer , in the original Greek.
• November 22 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
• David J. Katz enlists in the army.
• Dune by Frank Herbert is published. It becomes Dave's ( Cody Ray Thompson ) favorite novel of all time.
• Five carries out a Commission job in London that Cha-Cha calls "beautiful work."
• Helen Cho ( Emily Piggford ) is born.
• 7:00 a.m. - Harold Jenkins ( John Magaro ) is born, and his mother dies in childbirth.
• 12:00 p.m. 43 babies are born from spontaneous pregnancies around the world, including Luther ( Tom Hopper ), Diego ( David Castañeda ), Allison ( Emmy Raver-Lampman ), Klaus ( Robert Sheehan ), Five, Ben ( Justin H. Min ), Vanya ( Ellen Page ), and Lila ( Ritu Arya ).
• Reginald Hargreeves adopts the first seven of those babies.

OUTSIDE OF TIME  

• The Handler forges A.J. Carmichael's name on an order to kill Lila's parents. This order is then categorized by the Commission as file 743.
• Lila's parents are killed by Five.
• Lila is adopted by The Handler and trained as an assassin.
• Vanya throws a series of nannies across the kitchen, down stairs, and out windows.
• Reginald Hargreeves creates the robotic nanny Grace to deal with Vanya.
• June 12: Reginald Hargreeves journals about trying to train Vanya to use her powers.
• A few weeks later, Hargreeves stops Vanya's training after he sees how destructive her powers can be.
• Hargreeves locks Vanya in a bunker in the basement and tells her siblings that she is sick.
• Vanya begins taking medication for "anxiety," which is really to suppress her powers.
• Allison rumors Vanya to believe she's ordinary.
• Agnes ( Sheila McCarthy ) and Griddy's Doughnuts win a Donut Choice Award.
• Klaus runs down the stairs wearing Grace's heels, trips, and breaks his jaw. It is wired shut for 8 weeks.
• Klaus is locked in a mausoleum to help him overcome his fear of the dead.
• The Umbrella Academy foils a bank robbery in their first public appearance.
• Reginald Hargreeves and Vanya train the other 6 siblings.
• Numbers One through Six all get Umbrella Academy tattoos; Vanya draws hers with a magic marker.
• Reginald Hargreeves monitors the children's brain waves while they sleep.
• Grace helps Diego with his stutter.
• Vanya begins playing the violin.
• Umbrella Academy comics and action figures are produced and sold widely. Umbrella Academy members become celebrities, appearing on many magazine covers and amassing legions of fans.
• The Umbrella Academy foils a robbery at a museum, and the city throws them a parade.
• November 10 - After an argument with his father over wanting to use his abilities to time travel, Five uses his abilities to jump into the future, and never returns within his father's lifetime.
• Harold Jenkins pretends to be a member of Umbrella Academy. He makes his own mask and uniform after being beaten by his father.
• Harold Jenkins approaches Reginald Hargreeves asking to be a member of the Umbrella Academy. Hargreeves publicly rejects him.
• Harold Jenkins kills his father, and goes to prison for 12 years.

Sometime between 2002 and 2006

• Klaus starts using drugs to silence the voices of the dead.
• Luther gives Allison a locket engraved with their initials, Allison brings them sodas to drink in their fort. They are stopped from dancing by Reginald.
• The first of the Hargreeves siblings move out of the mansion.
• March 31 - Kenny is born.
• Luther is the last one living at home. He goes to deal with a biochemical threat and is horribly burned. Reginald Hargreeves gives him a mysterious "serum" that heals him, but gives him the body of a gorilla.
• Vanya purchases a typewriter at The Top Shelf Pawn Shop and begins writing her memoir, Extra Ordinary . Once it is published, she sends a copy to her father.
• Luther is sent to live on the moon, to give him purpose after his accident.
• Harold Jenkins gets out of prison, begins going by the name Leonard Peabody.

Sometime between 2006 and 2016

• Allison gets married to a man named Patrick ( Braden Hendrickson ), and they have a daughter named Claire ( Coco Assad ).
• ~ March - Allison uses her powers to get Claire to stop asking for stories and go to sleep; Patrick overhears.
• July - Patrick files for divorce from Allison.

At some point prior to March 24, 2019

• Diego and Eudora Patch ( Ashley Madekwe ) date and break up.
• Diego gets a job at a gym mopping floor in exchange for use of their back room.
• Diego boxes as "The Kraken."
• Allison stars in a movie with Sandra Bullock about underpaid teachers who rob a bank.
• Allison stars in several romantic comedies, including the "Love on Loan" trilogy.
• Reginald Hargreeves alters Grace's programming so she can't administer first aid.
• Reginald Hargreeves commits suicide.
• Pogo reports Hargreeves' death.
• Grace takes Hargreeves' monocle.
• Luther is on the moon and hears of Hargreeves' death.
• Diego foils a home invasion and hears of Hargreeves' death.
• Allison walks a red carpet and hears of Hargreeves' death.
• Klaus gets out of rehab and hears of Hargreeves' death.
• Vanya finishes practicing violin and hears of Hargreeves' death.
• The Hargreeves siblings return home.
• Diego breaks into the coroner's office and steals the autopsy report on Reginald Hargreeves.
• March 31 - Leonard Peabody is fitted for a prosthetic eye.
• Luther somehow takes possession of Leonard Peabody's prosthetic eye.
• Vanya causes the apocalypse.
• Five arrives in the post-apocalyptic future. He finds the bodies of his dead siblings, and sees that Luther is holding a prosthetic eye. Five takes the eye with him.
• Five takes a department store mannequin as his companion, and names it Dolores.
• The Handler shows up and offers Five a chance to go home in exchange for five years working for the Temps Commission.

OUTSIDE OF TIME

• Five works as an agent for the Temps Commission and becomes a celebrated assassin. His contract is for five years, but he breaks it early. 

Apocalypse Timeline 2

[Timeline 2 is the same as Timeline 1 up until March 24, 2019, but with the following changes:

• November 22 - Five is sent to kill JFK, but jumps back to 2019 before carrying out the job. Due to a calculation error, the 58-year-old Five reverts back to his 13-year-old body.  
• Early spring - Klaus is transported via Commission briefcase to the A Shau Valley, Vietnam. He lands by David J. Katz's bunk.
• The next day, Klaus meets Dave on the army bus.
• Klaus and Dave grow closer, go dancing in a nightclub, and fall in love.
• February 21 - Dave and Klaus' squad is given an order to hold Hill 689 in the A Shau Valley. Dave is shot and dies. Klaus takes his dog tags and uses the briefcase to return to 2019.] 
• Luther tells Diego he suspects foul play in their father's death.
• A portal opens in the courtyard outside the mansion, Klaus throws in a fire extinguisher. Five arrives from 1963.
• Klaus pawns Hargreeves' box and throws out the contents, including the journal.
• Leonard steals the journal out of the dumpster.
• Reginald Hargreeves' funeral.
• Diego takes Hargreeves' monocle from Grace.
• Vanya, Diego, and Klaus leave the Umbrella Academy.
• Five goes for coffee at Griddy's Doughnuts, where he meets Agnes.
• Six Commission agents are sent after Five. He kills them all in Griddy's Doughnuts, then removes his tracker.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha check into the Luna Motor Lodge Motel.
• Diego impersonates a cop to interrogate Agnes.
• Detective Eudora Patch investigates the Griddy's Doughnuts murders.
• Five goes to Meritech Prosthetics to investigate the false eye he found in the apocalypse.
• Detective Patch gets the ballistics report on the Griddy's Doughnuts murders, which says that all the bullets were from the agents' weapons.
• Detective Patch gets a fingerprint match on the knife from Griddy's Doughnuts, matching an unsolved cold case from 1938.
• Luther finds Diego's room at the gym.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha abduct, torture, and kill a tow truck driver at Ishmael's Towing, thinking he's Number Five.
• Klaus threatens a Meritch Prosthetics employee to give them the records of their prosthetic eyes.
• 4:00 pm - Vanya gives Leonard Peabody his first violin lesson.
• Allison watches surveillance video of Grace and Hargreeves on the day he died.
• Five goes to Gimbel Brothers department store to get Dolores.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha attack Five in Gimbel Brothers department store.
• Patch investigates the carnage at Gimbel Brothers department store.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha get notified of a 7% reduction in payment due to job delay.
• Vanya goes to Imperial Woodwares to run into Leonard.
• Leonard asks Vanya to dinner, she accepts.
• Allison meets Leonard.
• Klaus robs Queens Mini Mart.
• The Hargreeves siblings decide to deactivate Grace, based on the footage Allison found, but not right away.
• Hazel meets Agnes at Griddy's Doughnuts.
• Five follows the Meritech employee.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha break into Umbrella Academy and fight Diego, Luther, and Allison, then kidnap Klaus.
• Diego deactivates Grace.
• Vanya goes to Leonard's house.
• (Likely on this date) Leonard kills Helen Cho.
• Allison and Luther find Grace, and assume Hazel and Cha-Cha deactivated her.
• Klaus is tortured by Hazel and Cha-Cha.
• Diego goes to see Detective Patch.
• Leonard breaks into Vanya's apartment, leaves flowers, and steals her medication. He is caught by Allison, although she doesn't realize what he is doing there.
• Five threatens the Meritech employee and demands his black market list.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha burn down Meritech's lab.
• Detective Patch investigates fire at Meritech.
• Diego and Luther find Five passed out drunk in the library.
• Klaus sobers up enough to start seeing ghosts again.
• Detective Patch arrives at Luna Motor Lodge Motel and frees Klaus, but is killed by Cha-Cha.
• Klaus steals Hazel and Cha-Cha's briefcase and jumps to 1968.
• Diego finds Detective Patch's body, but leaves before the police arrive. He takes Hazel's Griddy's Doughnuts receipt.
• Klaus arrives back from Vietnam.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha kill a maid at the motor lodge.
• Allison researches Leonard at the library and can find no history.
• Hazel and Agnes have their first "date" during her lunch break.
• Klaus visits a Veterans of Foreign Wars bar to see a photo of Dave.
• Five works out a probability equation and narrows down a list of 4 people to kill in order to prevent the apocalypse.
• Vanya successfully auditions for first chair of the St. Pluvium Chamber Orchestra, and subconsciously uses her powers for the first time since she was four years old.
• Allison breaks into Leonard's house.
• During the meeting, the Handler arrives, freezes time, and offers Five a management job.
• Diego and Klaus crash an ice cream truck into Hazel and Cha-Cha's car.
• Luther gives Hazel and Cha-Cha a fake briefcase.
• Vanya and Leonard sleep together.
• Pogo repairs Grace.
• Klaus flushes his drugs down the toilet.
• 8:15 a.m. - The Hargreeves family, minus Number Five, have a meeting about the apocalypse. The siblings all refuse to take action.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha check into Fortune Smiles Motel, and receive notice that the contract to kill Number Five has been terminated.
• Cha-Cha receives an assignment to terminate Hazel; Hazel receives an assignment to terminate Cha-Cha.
• Vanya brings Leonard to the Umbrella Academy.
• Vanya uses her powers to bend streetlights.
• Cha-Cha takes Hazel into the woods to kill him, but has second thoughts.
• Luther finds his moon research in Reginald Hargreeves' floorboards, and realizes that Hargreeves never looked at it.
• Allison and Luther find their old sodas, drink them, and discover they've gone bad.
• Diego helps Klaus detox.
• Hazel asks Agnes to run away with him.
• Alison and Luther dance, and have their first kiss.
• Cha-Cha tries to kill Hazel, but is knocked out by Hazel.
• Vanya finds Reginald Hargreeves' journal in Leonard's house.
• Grace tells Diego that she and Pogo have been lying.

Apocalypse Timeline 3

[Timeline 3 is the same as Timeline 2 up until 8:15 a.m. on March 29, 2019, but with the following changes:

• On the orders of Number Five, Commission agents kill Karl Weber, the butcher at the shop where Hindenburg Captain Ernst Lehmann acquires his weekly roast. When Karl dies, his shop is passed to his son Otto, who never washes his hands. Otto gives Lehmann his roast and Lehmann gets food poisoning, which makes him late for work, delaying the takeoff. To make up for lost time, the Hindenburg flies through a weather front of high electrical charge and humidity. An engine sparks, and the Hindenberg explodes. 
• The Handler gives Five a tour of the Commission, and tasks him with ensuring the Hindenberg explodes. Five decides to issue an order to kill Karl Weber.
• The Handler plants a tracker on Five.
• Five intercepts assignment to protect Harold Jenkins
• Five sends Hazel and Cha-Cha assignments to kill each other.
• The Handler attempts to kill Five.
• Five blows up The Handler and the briefcase room, steals a briefcase, and returns to 2019. In the course of his escape, Five is injured by shrapnel to the stomach.]
• 8:15 a.m. - Hargreeves family meeting about the apocalypse. Five arrives with a stolen Commission briefcase, and tells his siblings they have to stop Harold Jenkins. Leonard/Harold overhears.
• Hazel and Cha-Cha check into Fortune Smiles Motel.
• Diego gets Harold Jenkins' file from Detective Chuck Beamen. Allison realizes Harold Jenkins is Leonard Peabody.
• Diego, Five, and Allison go to Leonard's house.
• Leonard takes Vanya to his father's cabin to train her to use her powers.
• Luther goes to a rave to get high and forget about what his father did to him. Klaus goes to find him. Klaus tries to protect Luther, hits his head, briefly dies, and talks to Reginald Hargreeves in the afterlife, where he learns that Hargreeves killed himself in order to bring them all back together to save the world
• Five collapses from his shrapnel wound; Allison and Diego take him back to the mansion for treatment.
• Diego is arrested for the murder of Eudora Patch.
• Cha-Cha tries to kill Hazel, but is knocked out by him instead.
• Leonard pays a group of men to attack him and Vanya in the Bear Skin Tavern parking lot to provoke Vanya's powers. Vanya kills two of the attackers, and injures the third, Mr. Luntz. Leonard is taken to the hospital, and loses an eye.
• Hazel tells Cha-Cha he's leaving, and leaves her chained to the motel radiator.
• Allison drives through the night to Leonard's father's cabin, from the address in his police file.
• Luther sleeps with a woman from the club.
• Allison arrives at the Jenkins family cabin but finds it empty.
• Leonard leaves the hospital against doctor's orders.
• Hazel and Agnes depart on their road trip.
• Allison uses her fame to convince Sergeant Chedder to allow her to ride along with him while he investigates the Bear Skin Tavern killings.
• Detective Beamen lets Diego out of jail.
• Leonard trains Vanya to use her powers.
• Cha-Cha blows up Griddy's Doughnuts.
• Mr. Luntz tells Sergeant Cheddar and Allison that Leonard paid them to harass him and Vanya in the parking lot.
• Hazel and Agnes arrive at Rain Quail Bed and Breakfast; Hazel leaves Agnes there.
• Leonard abducts Mr. Luntz from the hospital and kills him.
• Allison confronts Vanya about Leonard, and tells her the truth about her childhood.
• Vanya slits Allison's throat.
• Leonard makes Vanya leave; they return to Leonard's house.
• Luther, Five, Klaus, and Diego find Allison. They bring her back to the mansion to save her. Diego donates blood for Allison.
• Vanya finds Reginald Hargreeves' journal in Leonard's bag.
• Vanya kills Leonard.
• Hazel shows up at the Umbrella Academy, fights Diego, and gives Five the gun that will clear Diego's name.
• Five sends the gun to Detective Beamen.
• Allison wakes up, and tells Luther that Vanya has powers.
• Klaus and Ben realize that Klaus' powers can make Ben corporeal.
• Pogo tells Luther the truth about what Hargreeves did to Vanya
• Luther knocks Vanya unconscious and locks her in the same basement bunker their father used.
• Cha-Cha arrives at Rain Quail Bed and Breakfast to kill Agnes.
• Handler arrives at the Rain Quail Bed and Breakfast, pauses time, and gives Hazel and Cha-Cha a new assignment to protect Vanya at all costs.
• Five returns Dolores to Gimbel Brothers.
• Vanya breaks out of the bunker and destroys Umbrella Academy, with Grace inside.
• Ben saves Diego and Klaus from falling debris.
• Pogo tells Vanya the truth about her past, and Vanya kills Pogo.
• Kenny has his 10th birthday party at a bowling alley, and invites Five to join. Five declines.
• Handler sends a message to Five telling him to come to the Rain Quail Bed and Breakfast, room 12.
• Five finds the Handler's tracker and destroys it.
• Luther calls Claire for Allison, so that Allison can tell her she loves her before the apocalypse.
• Commission agents show up at the bowling alley to kill the Hargreeves siblings.
• Vanya debuts as first chair at chamber music concert.
• Five realizes the Handler only asked to meet with him as a distraction so that he won't be with his siblings.
• Hazel throws Cha-Cha through the windshield of a car.
• Hazel shoots the Handler in the head and rescues Agnes.
• Vanya and Commission agents attack the concert hall.
• Klaus conjures Ben to kill all of the Commission agents.
• Cha-Cha arrives at the concert hall, but her life is spared by Diego.

[At some point during this series of events, we pass midnight, making it officially...]

• Allison interrupts Vanya's attack by shooting a gun by her ear.
• Vanya blows up the moon, triggering the apocalypse.
• Five uses his powers to transport him and his siblings back through time.
• Hazel and Agnes use a briefcase to escape the apocalypse.
• The Handler is retrieved by The Commission from March 31, 2019, and presumed dead. However, before being cremated, the technicians realize she's still alive, and get her medical care. Three months later, the Handler has made a full recovery. 
• The Handler is demoted and replaced by A.J. Carmichael.
• Hazel and Agnes are together for 20 years, before Agnes dies of cancer.

Dallas Timeline 1

[Dallas Timeline 1 is the same as Apocalypse Timeline 3 up until February, 1960.] 

• February - Klaus and Ben arrive in Dallas, and are witnessed by Elliot.
• Elliot begins watching the alley outside Morty's electronics store and documenting what happens there from the roof.
• Klaus meets a wealthy, elderly woman and convinces her he is a prophet. A cult forms around him called "Destiny's Children."
• Klaus' cult travels in Baja, Mexico
• Allison goes into Stadtler's Restaurant, and sees "Whites Only" sign.
• Allison is harassed by men on the street and runs into Odessa's beauty parlor for protection.
• September - Allison has a job working in Odessa's beauty parlor.
• Fall - Allison first sees Raymond Chestnut.
• December - Ray and Allison go on their first date.
• Luther arrives in Dallas and is photographed by Elliot.
• Klaus' cult visits Varanasi, India.
• Baby Pogo is brought into a lab in Cape Canaveral from the Congo. Grace is the scientist who works with him. Pogo is trained to perform a series of complex actions on a control board in preparation to send him into space. During Pogo's space mission, there's a malfunction, and Pogo is badly injured. Hargreeves revives him using a red serum. As Pogo gains intelligence, Hargreeves reads him The Odyssey by Homer, in the original Greek.
• Luther seeks out Reginald Hargreeves and tells him he's his son from the future. Hargreeves refuses to believe him and thinks that Luther has been sent by the CIA or KGB to spy on him.
• Luther begins working for Jack Ruby at the Carousel Club, and competing as a bare-knuckle boxer.
• Luther gets a room at The Plano Street Rooming House for Solitary Men.
• Allison and Raymond Chestnut get married.
• Allison changes her name to Allison Chestnut.

At some point prior to November 22, 1963 

• The wealthy woman who befriended Klaus presumably dies, leaving him everything.
• September 1 - Diego arrives in Dallas, and is photographed by Elliot.
• Diego is apprehended lurking outside Lee Harvey Oswald's house, and is committed to the Holbrook Sanitarium.
• Vanya arrives in Dallas, and is photographed by Elliot.
• Vanya is hit by a car driven by Sissy Cooper.
• Vanya loses her memories.
• Vanya goes to live with Sissy, her husband, Carl, and their son, Harlan.
• Vanya begins placing classified ads in the newspaper, looking for who she is.
• Klaus' cult is in San Francisco, CA. He abandons them and heads to Dallas.
• Vanya causes an explosion at the FBI building in Dallas.
• John F. Kennedy is not assassinated.
• Dan Frankel films the event.
• Hazel acquires Frankel's video footage.
• Kennedy blames the explosion at the FBI building on the Soviet Union.
• The United States attacks Soviet-backed Cuba in retaliation.
• The Soviet Union bombs Anchorage, Alaska.
• War is declared.
• Soviet troops invade the United States.
• Five arrives in Dallas.
• The Hargreeves siblings battle against Soviet soldiers.
• Hazel appears and tells Five to come with him, and they use a briefcase to disappear.
• The rest of the Hargreeves siblings (and the world) are wiped out in a nuclear attack.

Dallas Timeline 2

[Dallas Timeline 2 is the same as Dallas Timeline 1 up until November 15, 1963, but with the following change:

• Sometime between October 1 and November 15 - Lila is admitted to the Holbrook Sanitarium.]
• Hazel and Five arrive in Dallas.
• The Swedes arrive in 1963, sent by the Commission.
• Hazel is killed by the Swedes, but gives Five the Frankel footage before he dies.
• Five meets Elliot, who gives him a newspaper clipping about Diego.
• Five visits Diego at the Holbrook Sanitarium.
• Klaus' car breaks down, so he steals a truck, then gets arrested.
• Ray gives Allison a copy of From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne as an early anniversary present.
• Ray and Allison plan a sit-in with a local Black civil rights group at Odessa's beauty parlor. Allison punches a white man in the face who threatens their meeting.
• The Swedes arrive at Holbrook Sanitarium to kill Diego, but he escapes with Lila's help.
• Five meets Luther at the Carousel Club.
• Carl Cooper tries to persuade Jack Ruby to go into business with him. Luther throws Carl out, but Carl leaves his wallet behind.
• Vanya goes to pick Carl up, and Luther sees her.
• The police show up at Allison and Ray's house, and arrest Ray for assaulting the man at Odessa's.
• The Swedes arrive at Allison and Ray's house, and see Ray get arrested.
• Five asks Elliot to develop the Frankel footage.
• Diego tells Lila he wants to cut off Lee Harvey Oswald's trigger finger, but she rejects his plan.
• Five appears, and Diego and Lila go with him to Morty's.
• Klaus and Ray meet in jail. Governor of Texas arranges Klaus' release from jail.
• Diego, Five, and Lila watch the Frankel footage, which shows that Reginald Hargreeves is present on November 22, 1963. Diego assumes that this means Hargreeves is part of the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy.
• Allison visits Ray in jail and learns that Klaus is a cult leader.
• The Swedes kill a cat lady and move into her house.
• Luther finds Vanya and apologizes for what happened in 2019, returns Carl's wallet, then leaves.
• The Swedes get orders to kill Vanya.
• Klaus returns to his mansion.
• Diego and Five break into D.S. Umbrella Manufacturing Co.
• Five finds an invitation to a gala hosted by Hoyt Hillenkoetter and the Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas.
• Five sees Baby Pogo, who scratches him and runs away.
• Diego fights Reginald Hargreeves and is stabbed.
• Lila finds Diego and treats his injury.
• The Swedes chase Vanya in a corn field. Vanya instinctively uses her powers to escape.
• Five finds Vanya in a corn field.
• Luther asks Jack Ruby to find Allison's address, which Jack gives him later that afternoon.
• Allison goes to Klaus' house and the two are reunited.
• The Handler drops a room key into a fish tank at W. Arnold Pet Store.
• Ben gets Ray out of jail by scaring a police officer.
• Ray learns Klaus is his brother-in-law.
• Lila and Diego sleep together.
• Luther meets Ray and tells him that he's Allison's brother.
• Protests begin outside.
• The police are called.
• Ray is dragged into the street and beaten.
• Allison uses her powers to save Ray.
• Klaus goes to Glen Oaks Hardware to see Dave. He buys two gallons of Mamie Pink paint.
• Luther throws a fight due to being upset about Allison's marriage.
• Lila goes to see The Handler at her hotel. Handler instructs her to protect Number Five.
• Five shares the gala invitation from D.S. Umbrella with Diego and Lila.
• Elliot tells Five, Diego, and Lila about the Majestic 12.
• Vanya returns to the Cooper farm.
• Carl closes the biggest deal ever for Waterton Shower and Shower Accessories, LTD.
• Luther gets fired by Jack Ruby, and evicted from the Plano Street Rooming House for Solitary Men.
• Luther goes to Morty's and meets Elliot.
• Klaus tries to stop Dave from enlisting by telling him about his future, but Dave is pressured by his Uncle Brian to punch Klaus in the face.
• Uncle Brian takes Dave to enlist in the army.
• Klaus breaks his sobriety.
• Klaus' cult arrives at his house.
• Allison finds Luther at Minnie's Bar-B-Q.
• Harlan runs away when he overhears Vanya talking about leaving, then falls into a lake. Vanya saves Harlan using her powers, and accidentally gives him powers.
• Sissy and Vanya sleep together.
• Diego meets Grace.
• Majestic 12 plan Kennedy assassination.
• Swedes find Five and Diego and attack them.
• Lila saves Five.
• Lila steals one of Diego's knives.
• Five quotes The Odyssey by Homer to Reginald Hargreeves, in the original Greek.
• Harlan breaks a window with his powers when his parents argue.
• Lila gives The Handler one of Diego's knives.
• All of the Hargreeves siblings are reunited.
• The Handler gives The Swedes a forged Commission message claiming to know Diego's location.
• A courier begins to deliver invitations for a light supper the following evening to the Hargreeves siblings.
• The Swedes go to the location given to them as Diego's, but it's a trap. Oscar gets blown up.
• Lila arrives at Morty's, and gets Five to follow her to Nu-Shol Paints Mfg. Co. They fight, but it was really a ploy to set up a meeting with the Handler. The Handler offers to strike a deal with Five to get him and his family back to 2019 in exchange for him killing the Commission's board of directors.
• The remaining Swedes, Axel and Otto, hold a viking funeral for Oscar's remains.
• Klaus returns to his mansion and his cult.
• Allison tells Ray the truth about her past.
• Klaus tells his cult he's a fraud.
• Allison gives Ray a demonstration of her powers at G. Schmidt Menswear, then uses them to get herself a dress. Allison then goes into Stadtler's Restaurant and rumors the manager into burning himself with hot coffee.
• Ben briefly possesses Klaus.
• Dave comes to visit Klaus after finding a cult pamphlet. He tells Klaus he already enlisted in the army.
• The Handler contacts Axel and Otto and offers to give them Diego's location as long as they leave Five unharmed.
• 7:30 - The Hargreeves siblings arrive for dinner with Reginald Hargreeves at the Tiki Lounge of the Southland Life building. They tell him about the future, and accuse him of participating in the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Five asks him to help prevent the end of the world. Hargreeves rejects all of their arguments, but offers Five the advice to only try to time travel by seconds, not decades.
• Diego sees Grace in Hargreeves' car, and tells her that Reginald is planning to kill the president.
• The Swedes arrive at Morty's, and torture and kill Elliot to send a message to Diego. They write "Öga for Öga" in Elliot's blood on the floor of Morty's.
• Carl sees Sissy and Vanya kissing in the car.
• Luther and Diego find Elliot's body and the Swedes' message.
• Five agrees to the Handler's deal.
• The Commission's board of directors has their quarterly meeting in 1982 at the Lonely Lodger Inn in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 
• Five assassinates the board of directors and abducts A.J. Carmichael.
• The Handler announces the deaths of the board to the Commission, and assumes control. The Handler makes Lila the Commission's new chief of security.
• Sissy takes Harlan to his doctor's appointment.
• Robert Kennedy's people reach out to Ray's civil rights group to arrange a meeting.
• Five gives A.J. Carmichael to Handler; she gives him a briefcase to return him and his siblings to 2019 that must be used within 90 minutes.
• The Handler keeps A.J. in a fish bowl on her desk at the Commission.
• Five tells Diego that Lila is working for the Commission.
• Klaus agrees to let Ben possess him temporarily.
• Carl threatens to send Harlan away to an institution unless Vanya leaves.
• Luther tells Allison, then leaves to allow her to say goodbye to Ray.
• Five tells Vanya, but she wants to say goodbye to Sissy and Harlan first.
• Diego tells Ben-as-Klaus, but agrees to give them 10 minutes to wrap things up with the cult.
• Diego digs a grave for Elliot before heading off to meet his siblings.
• Lila drugs Diego and brings him to the Commission.
• Allison asks Ray to come with her to 2019, but he decides to stay behind with his memories intact.
• Allison and Ray are attacked by the Swedes. Allison rumors Axel to kill Otto. Distraught, Axel leaves.
• Sissy leaves Carl a note.
• Carl finds the note.
• Carl alerts his brother Jerry, who is a police officer, that Vanya has kidnapped his son.
• Highway Patrol sets up a blockade for Sissy and Vanya.
• Vanya uses her powers against the police.
• Vanya is knocked unconscious and taken into FBI custody.
• Vanya is presumed to be a Russian spy, and is interrogated by Special Agent Willy Gibbs at the FBI building in downtown Dallas.
• Five, Luther, and Klaus meet in the alley, but miss their time travel window.
• Axel prepares to chop off the hand that killed his brother, but then realizes he was set up by the Handler.
• Grace investigates Reginald Hargreeves and finds evidence of the assassination plot. Hargreeves asks her to trust him, but Grace refuses and leaves.
• Klaus goes to check on Allison, and offers to help her and Ray dispose of Otto's body.
• Lila brings Diego to The Handler and proposes that the Commission hires him. The Handler agrees. 
• Diego begins watching orientation video, but leaves when he learns about the infinite switchboard.
• Diego finds the infinite switchboard and convinces Herb to show him what happens to John F. Kennedy.
• Diego learns that Vanya triggers doomsday.
• Herb introduces Diego to the Commission resistance, who give him a briefcase that will get him back to 1963 before the assassination.
• Old Five arrives in Dallas on assignment from the Commission to kill John F. Kennedy.
• Vanya is interrogated using electric shocks, which begin to trigger her repressed memories and her powers.
• Diego tells Allison and Klaus about Vanya, and the three of them head to the FBI building to save her.
• Herb offers to remove Otto's body.
• Five offers to give Old Five the correct calculation to return to 2019 in the correct body, in exchange for Old Five's briefcase.
• Old Five proposes to Luther that instead of Five's plan, they kill Five and jump together to 2019 to prevent the apocalypse.
• The two Fives and Luther go to parking lot to carry out the assassination.
• The Fives incapacitate Luther and proceed to fight each other. However, Luther manages to knock out Old Five long enough for Five to open the portal back to 2019.
• Luther is hit in the head with the fire extinguisher Klaus threw in 2019 (Apocalypse Timeline 2), enabling Old Five to grab the briefcase.
• Luther kicks Old Five through the portal, but the briefcase is cut in half.
• Reginald Hargreeves sends a decoy to Kennedy's motorcade, with a note for Diego that reads, "Told you so..."
• Diego, Allison, and Klaus attempt to reach her, but they all fail.
• Klaus uses his power to allow Ben to reach her.
• Ben convinces Vanya to face her past and wake up.
• The effort of reaching Vanya pushes Ben to finally cross over into the afterlife. Vanya hugs him while he goes. Ben asks her to tell Klaus that it wasn't his fault that Ben had stayed around all these years; the truth was that Ben had been afraid to move on.
• Carl decides to take Harlan to an institution.
• Sissy tries to stop him using a shotgun.
• As they argue, Carl grabs for the gun, and it goes off toward Harlan.
• Harlan instinctively uses his powers to deflect the bullet, which then kills Carl.
• Distraught, Harlan loses control of his powers, freezing the farm and creating an energy vortex in the barn.
• Diego attempts to stop Reginald Hargreeves from killing Kennedy, but only attacks the decoy, who delivers Hargreeves' note.
• John F. Kennedy is shot and killed.
• The Majestic 12 meets in Tiki Lounge following Kennedy's death, and imply that they were responsible for the assassination. Hargreeves attempts to resign from the Majestic 12, but when they refuse to let him, he removes his human face and presumably kills them all in his alien form.
• Axel heads to Morty's and waits for the Hargreeves family.
• A.J. Carmichael rearranges the stones in his fishbowl to spell out "743" as a message to Herb. 
• Herb looks up file 743.
• Herb gives the file to Lila.
• Lila reads in the file that Five killed her parents.
• The Handler eats A.J.
• The Infinite Switchboard operator alerts the Handler to Harlan's activities on the Cooper farm.
• The Handler kills the operator.
• The Handler recalls all Commission personnel from the field.
• Kennedy's assassination is blamed on the Hargreeves siblings, who the media says was working with Lee Harvey Oswald.
• Vanya realizes Harlan is in trouble and convinces her family to accompany her to the Cooper farm.
• Axel follows the Hargreeves siblings to the Cooper farm.
• The Handler and Lila arrive on the Cooper farm. The Handler calls in every Commission field agent to kill the Hargreeves siblings.
• Vanya uses her power to kill all of the Commission agents.
• Lila mirrors Vanya's power to protect herself and The Handler.
• Lila fights the Hargreeves siblings while The Handler goes to Harlan.
• The Handler tries to convince Harlan to come live with her.
• Diego tells Lila she's "one of us" — one of the 43 babies with superpowers born at the same time on October 1, 1989.
• The Handler shoots all of the Hargreeves siblings and Lila, killing everyone but Five.
• Axel shoots The Handler.
• Five uses his power to time travel back a few seconds, to just before The Handler arrived.

Sparrow Timeline

[Sparrow Timeline is the same as Dallas Timeline 2 up until the Handler arrives in the barn on November 22, 1963.]

• Five stops The Handler from shooting everyone.
• Lila steals The Handler's briefcase and disappears.
• Five and Axel agree to a truce. Axel leaves the farm.
• Vanya pulls her powers back from Harlan (or so she thinks).

OUTSIDE OF TIME 

• Herb is voted in as acting Chairperson of the Commission. 
• Herb arrives at the Cooper farm and offers Five and Diego any briefcase they want.
• Sissy and Harlan begin driving to California to stay with a friend.
• In the backseat of the car, Harlan levitates a toy bird.
• Allison returns to her house one last time to leave Ray a note, which she puts into the copy of From the Earth to the Moon that Ray gave her for their anniversary. Ray finds it and reads it later that day.
• Dave Katz boards an army bus.
• The Destiny's Children bus offers Axel a ride, which he accepts.
• Jack Ruby watches footage of the Kennedy assassination and picks up his gun, presumably to go kill Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24.
• The Hargreeves siblings use a Commission briefcase to return to 2019.
• The Hargreeves siblings arrive back at the Umbrella Academy, but it is no longer the Umbrella Academy. It is the Sparrow Academy.
• Reginald Hargreeves is still alive, and recognizes the six Hargreeves siblings from their time in the '60s.
• Ben is still alive and doesn't recognize the Hargreeves siblings.
• Five new "siblings" assemble on the balcony of the Sparrow Academy.

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"LONG AGO": We get a glimpse into the distant past of the man who later takes the on the identity of Reginald Hargreeves. He bids an emotional farewell to his dying partner, before leaving for good and purchasing an umbrella store - the humble beginnings of his eventual fortune.

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22nd November 1963: Number Five, now working for The Commission (see 2047), travels to the day that President John F Kennedy was assassinated. Rather than follow his orders, he finally works out the correct equation to get back to the present day - teleporting to 24th March 2019, but in doing so regressing to the form a 13-year-old boy.

1968: Klaus is transported to the frontlines of the Vietnam War, after accidentally using a time machine disguised as a briefcase, belonging to his kidnappers Hazel and Cha-Cha. He is drafted into the conflict alongside a soldier named Dave, who he quickly falls in love with. Tragically, Dave is killed in action, leaving Klaus heartbroken and traumatised when he eventually makes it back to his own time.

1st October 1989: 43 women give birth around the world, despite not showing any signs of pregnancy beforehand. Eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves strives to adopt as many as he can, ultimately acquiring seven of them.

Harold Jenkins is born on the same day, but from a normal pregnancy. He will later develop an obsession with The Umbrella Academy, in a desperate attempt to get some escape his abusive home life.

1993: Sir Reginald Hargreeves begins training his adoptive children in their unique special abilities. Each of them make significant progress, including Vanya - the most powerful of them all.

After some unsettling displays of strength, including scaring off so many nannies that she necessitates the creation of android carer Grace, Sir Hargreeves decides that Vanya is too dangerous to be left unchecked.

He tells a four-year-old Allison to use her mind control powers to make Vanya forget that she has abilities. He then keeps Vanya (or Number Seven) on strong medication that prevents them from re-emerging.

2002: The Umbrella Academy makes their public debut, stopping a robbery of Capital West Bank in Maine. Sir Hargreeves watches from a nearby rooftop with Vanya, who now believes herself to be completely "ordinary." After successfully thwarting the criminals, Sir Hargreeves goes down to greet the press and introduce his team as the inaugural class of The Umbrella Academy.

The team quickly amasses legions of fans, including the aforementioned Harold Jenkins, who collects comic books and action figures based on the group. One day, not long after they're debut, he approaches them dressed in a homemade costume asking to join them, but Sir Hargreeves humiliates him in front of a large crowd. Later that day, he returns home and murders his abusive father, a crime for which he is sentenced to 12 years in prison.

10th November 2002: Number Five becomes frustrated as his adoptive father forbids him to travel through time. He feels he is ready for the challenge, storming out of the family mansion and making several time jumps, until he finds himself trapped in a post-apocalyptic 2019. His family are shaken by Five's disappearance, with both Vanya and Sir Hargreeves hoping he will one day return.

At an unspecified time in the years that followed, The Umbrella Academy loses another member as Ben (Number Six) is killed on a mission. Years later, in her book, Vanya would reveal to the world that there was "nothing connecting" the siblings after his death, resulting in them gradually going their separate ways.

2012: Luther is the last remaining member of the Umbrella Academy, working with his father Sir Reginald Hargreeves. He is sent on a mission to obtain a dangerous biochemical substance, but is badly wounded and almost dies. His father saves his life by injecting him with a serum that transforms his upper body into that of an ape. He is then sent to the moon under the pretence of an important mission, which he later discovers was anything but.

2014: Vanya begins writing her book Extra Ordinary, which reveals the personal lives of the Umbrella Academy for all to see, effectively alienating all of her siblings. Meanwhile, Harold comes to the end of his 12-year prison sentence and begins plotting revenge.

2018: Allison's husband walks in on her using her powers to make their daughter go to sleep. He is furious and this leads to the breakdown of their relationship.

24th March 2019: The academy reunites for the first time for the funeral of their adoptive father. Number Five teleports back to the mansion from the date of the JFK assassination.

27th March 2019: After being held hostage by Hazel and Cha-Cha, Klaus is freed by Detective Patch and makes off with a briefcase. What he doesn't realise is that the case is a time machine, accidentally transporting himself to 1968.

28th March 2019: Klaus returns from the past the following day, but for him it has been a lot longer. During his absence, he fought in the Vietnam War and fell in love with a soldier called Dave, who was killed in action. Devastated by what he has been through, he destroys the time machine.

Number Five is approached by The Handler and offered another job with The Commission, which he accepts in exchange for his sibling's safety. However, he quickly betrays them again as he remains committed to stopping the apocalypse that they are trying to cause.

29th March 2019: The Day That Wasn't (episode six of season one). This day begins on an alternate timeline, which sees Luther fail to keep his siblings from walking out on their responsibilities. However, Number Five escapes from The Commission to the beginning of the day, with crucial information that helps to keep them from drifting apart.

For more details on the present day plot, read our Umbrella Academy season one recap .

1st April 2019: The world ends, as a beam of energy that bursts out of Vanya destroys the moon, turning it into a cluster of devastating meteors hurtling to Earth.

Number Five arrives in the future later that day and finds himself unable to jump back to his own time, discovering the dead bodies of his adoptive siblings soon after.

approx. 2047: We can gather that this was around the date that Five was first approached by The Handler, as he claims to be 28 years older than his siblings. He agrees to work for The Commission for five years, but discards his duties much earlier to get back to the present day.

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How The Umbrella Academy uses the JFK time travel trope as a Trojan Horse

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Considering how many conspiracy theories have been generated by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it is hardly surprising that this historical event has been a consistent source of movie, television, and book inspiration — particularly for genre. Traveling back in time to stop this death from coming to pass is one such avenue tackled by Stephen King, Quantum Leap , and The Twilight Zone . Other presidents have been murdered while in office, but no one more than Kennedy has prompted this kind of reimagining.

In 2008 and 2009, The Umbrella Academy graphic novel portrayed a version of this time-travel trope in the six-issue "Dallas" series that provides the foundation for the second season of the Netflix TV adaptation. However, there are major changes to the setup and resolution, which see the Hargeeves siblings caught up in one of the 20th century's most explosive moments. Rather than using this timeline jump to save Kennedy as the audience might expect, it is a Trojan horse that allows an exploration of other important historical events and personal entanglements.

Spoilers for The Umbrella Academy Season 2 finale ahead.

As soon as you see the words "Dallas, Texas 1963," it is virtually impossible not to conjure an image of Dealey Plaza on that fateful sunny November day. Even though there are seemingly limitless theories and quibbles about what went down, the result is still the same — Kennedy was killed. Thrust from an apocalyptic situation in 2019, Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) saves the day but is immediately thrown into another Doomsday scenario.

Instead of Vanya (Ellen Page) as the bomb, the Soviet nukes "vaporize the world," or as Five puts it in Episode 3, "it's a different disease, but ... same result." Arriving in Dallas just before detonation, Five is saved by Hazel (Cameron Britton), who pulls him back 10 days before the end of the world, which also puts him in Dallas before Kennedy's tragic motorcade.

All the early pieces point to saving Kennedy; however, every Umbrella Academy squad member — except for Diego (David Castañeda) — has alternative pressing concerns, including other significant historical moments that link to personal entanglements. This isn't to say JFK doesn't factor throughout the season — after all, Doomsday is prompted by whatever goes down on November 22.

Nevertheless, it isn't a group mission to stop Oswald or the so-called second shooter. Furthermore, the narrative deviation from the comic book series gives characters like Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) a richer ( and timely ) storyline.

Instead of landing in Dallas by mistake, the comic book sees the team purposefully travel back to this period. Ultimately, Five and Allison are blackmailed by the Commission into making sure Kennedy dies — Allison poses as Jackie Kennedy and Rumors him to death — and the shadowy Majestic 12 has nothing to do with this nefarious plot. A lot of the "Dallas" comic threads (particular Hazel and Cha-Cha) have already been depicted in Season 1; however, the deviations also reduce the amount of time leaning into this popular sci-fi historical hook.

"In some ways, this is such a new beginning for Allison. It was undeniable that she would either be confronted with, or dealing with, or in the middle of the civil rights movement, because Allison is a Black woman," said Raver-Lampman to SYFY WIRE regarding the timeline shift. The tangential link to Kennedy doesn't overwhelm Allison's storyline of using her actual voice rather than her superpower that she believes has caused so much pain in the past. Her agency is restricted in the segregated South, but she exerts what little influence she has to make a difference within the civil rights movement. Rather than saving Kennedy, she is using activism to change the world for the better. As Diego tells Luther (Tom Hopper) in Episode 5, "everyone changes the world." Powers or not, we all have the potential and ability to make an impact — even if it isn't saving the president.

Love is a contributing factor to the choices these siblings make. Vanya has amnesia, so she is unaware of the events that are about to unfold until the pieces are filled in for her. Her priority is with Sissy (Marin Ireland) and her son Harlan (Justin Paul Kelly). It is only when reflexes kick in that she is even made aware of her unique abilities.

Unfortunately, Vanya is the root cause of this apocalypse when she inadvertently saves Kennedy after the FBI has used hallucinogenic drugs as a method of interrogation. Under these circumstances, her body goes into defense mode and this chain reaction prevents the shooting, which causes the Soviet-led attack Five witnesses. A suspicion that Vanya is a KGB agent results in her arrest and subsequent invasive questioning. Diego discovers her involvement before it's too late — and his dream of saving Kennedy is thwarted by this very action that saves his sister (and the world).

"Why can't you leave JFK alone?" Luther asks Diego in "Valhalla." Diego's response is to default to his hero status, but the subsequent light supper reunion with their father reveals the root of his desire is tied to his daddy issues — how very Freudian. "The last good man who will save us from our descent into corruption and conspiracy? This is a fantastic delusion," Reginald (Colm Feore) observes. "The sad reality is that you're a desperate man, tragically unaware of his own insignificance, desperately clinging to his own ineffectual reasoning."

An eviscerating speech that reduces Diego to a stuttering and teary mess, which only makes him want to save Kennedy even more. He ends up in the psych ward because he tried to kill Oswald and he is still risking it all to play the hero he thinks he should be.

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Conspiracy theories regarding their adopted father Reginald Hargreeves' involvement are brought to light thanks to Hazel slipping the Frankel video footage into Five's blazer pocket. A twist on the Zapruder 8mm film that caught the moment Kennedy was shot, which shows a man on the grassy knoll with an umbrella watching the events unfold. There actually was such a man with an open black umbrella on Dealey Plaza that day who has fueled certain theories — The X-Files depicted this person as an active figure in the conspiracy — however, the rainy day accessory was, in reality, a protest against Joe Kennedy . One reason Kennedy's death and the surrounding theories are depicted more than other U.S. presidents who were assassinated — other than having occurred in living memory — is that it was caught on camera. These photographs and videos add to weight to weird factors like men with umbrellas open on a sunny day.

It is a striking image and one that perfectly fits with the sinister world of this show, but also its title. Incorporating their dad's work into the overall Kennedy plot is an organic way for his adopted children to do what they could not when he was alive. In 1963 they can confront him about his mistreatment and mistakes, which might not lead to a happy ending but will afford some kind of closure. Unfortunately for them, their actions in Dallas drastically alter the present day; when they return to 2019, the Umbrella Academy is now the Sparrow Academy.

Five's insistence that it could be something other than Kennedy is in part fueled by his more rational thought process than his brother, but he has also been in this exact spot before when he was sent by the Commission to make sure the assassination went ahead as scheduled. This was the one job Five failed to complete, which goes some way to explain why he is so concerned with messing up the timeline even more than it already is. His concern is the end of the world, not the president.

Some of the siblings have a tangential relationship to the Dallas main event, which sees Luther working for the soon-to-be killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby (John Kapelos). Meanwhile, Klaus' (Robert Sheehan) great love Dave (Calem MacDonald) enlists on November 23, 1963, and will die on the battlefield. Klaus uses his intimate knowledge of Dave's family history (including a long military tradition) to prevent the death he has already witnessed. Klaus intervenes when Dave's uncle is selling this vision, but all this does is cause his boyfriend of the future — and past — to sign up a few days earlier than he did. Some things cannot be prevented from coming to pass, no matter how hard a person wills it. It might be the president of the United States or a guy from Dallas, Texas, serving his country in the way he has been taught. Neither Diego nor Klaus saves the man they were desperately trying to.

Alternate histories continue to be on-trend because the allure of "What if?" on a large scale is a fruitful source of inspiration that also helps work through current global anxieties. The Cold War has become relevant again with recent political shifts, which is reflected in how TV shows and movies — including Stranger Things — are drawing from this multi-decade period. Science fiction has long reflected ruptures in society, with the threat of nuclear power leaving its mark from the 1950s with Godzilla to the apocalypse scenario of the recent German Netflix series Dark . There is a reason why Susan Sontag's essay "The Imagination of Disaster" is just as relevant now as it was in 1964, when she wrote it. The Umbrella Academy joins the ranks of contemporary television utilizing a pivotal 20th-century event to explore themes that reflect the current landscape.

Ultimately, The Umbrella Academy is about a dysfunctional family that has to prevent the apocalypse (that they probably caused) while working through relationship issues that led them down this path. Season 2 was never about stopping the assassination; rather, confronting their father under the guise of his involvement is more pertinent to the narrative. Each sibling has an old demon to confront, whether it is lost love, how they use their power, or even the daddy issues that shape their actions. By using this historical-based time-travel trope as a leaping-off point, this season subverts expectations and demonstrates that while the conspiracy theories still rage, the end result on November 22, 1963, is still the same. Kennedy can't be saved, but the Hargreeves siblings can still stop Doomsday — even if they have now accidentally written themselves out of their own narrative.

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Everything you need to know about Umbrella Academy season 4

M ore than a year ago, Netflix announced that its superhero series  The Umbrella Academy  would be returning for a fourth and final season. It’s one of the best shows on Netflix , and has been consistently inventive throughout its run on the streaming service. The show first premiered in 2019, and is adapted from a comic book series of the same name. Season 3 ended on a pretty suspenseful cliffhanger, so fans of the show were undoubtedly pleased with the news that the show would be back for one more rodeo.

If you’re looking forward to the show’s fourth and final season, you’re not alone. Here’s everything we know about the upcoming season, including who will be returning, how many episodes i will have and when it’s coming out.

Who is in the cast of Umbrella Academy season 4?

The main cast that has been with the show throughout its run will all be returning for the final season, including Elliot Page, Emmy Raver-Lampman , Tom Hopper, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, David Castañeda and Ritu Arya. Given the nature of the show’s season 3 cliffhanger, fans also expect that Colm Feore and Liisa Repo-Martell will be returning to play Reginald Hargreeves and Abigail Hargreeves, respectively.

Since the show was renewed for a final season, news has also broke that Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and David Cross have all joined the cast, according to reporting in Deadline . Offerman and Mullally, who are a couple in real life, will apparently play “a married pair of community college professors from New Mexico who wear sensible footwear and suffer from the most extreme case of deja vu this timeline has ever seen.” Cross, meanwhile, is set to play Sy Grossman, “an upstanding, shy business owner and family man desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, who will stop at nothing to get her back.”

What is the release date for Umbrella Academy season 4?

The show’s final season will debut on August 8, 2024 , so fans of the show will have to eagerly wait until the end of the summer for the show to return.

What is the plot of Umbrella Academy season 4?

Netflix hasn’t released any sort of official synopsis for the fourth season, but most fans expect that the series will pick up following the explosive events of the season 3 finale, which is where the team learns that they no longer have the superpowers that defined so much of who they were.

The show’s central characters are also now stuck in an alternate timeline, but the ramifications of that massive change have yet to become totally apparent. The show is also expected to spend some time focused on Reginal Hargreeves, the founder of the Umbrella Academy, and may also explain why he founded the academy to begin with.

Although we don’t know many of the details yet, showrunner and creator Steve Blackman has suggested that fans will be happy with the way the final season handles things.

“I’m so excited that the incredibly loyal fans of The Umbrella Academy will be able to experience the fitting end to the Hargreeves siblings’ journey we began five years ago,” Blackman said in statement announcing that the show had been renewed. “But before we get to that conclusion, we’ve got an amazing story ahead for season4, one that will have fans on the edge of their seats until the final minutes.”

Is there a trailer for Umbrella Academy season 4?

The show released its first teaser for season 4 in November 2023, but that teaser didn’t provide a ton of concrete hints about where the season would be headed. The core cast seems excited about what the season has in store, but it seems we’ll have to wait until the show is actually released on Netflix to find out exactly what that is.

How many episodes will be in Umbrella Academy season 4?

While previous seasons of the show have been 10 episodes each, this season will be shorter at just six episodes. It isn’t uncommon for companies like Netflix to compress the final season into a shorter run. It gives both fans and creators a chance to say goodbye, but also ensures that the final season is as tight and compact as possible.

In teasing the final season, Blackman revealed that the first episode of season 4 will be titled The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want . That seems like the perfect title for an episode about a group of superheroes who hate their powers, and are now realizing exactly what their lives would be like without them.

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EPIC MOSCOW Itinerary! (2024)

Moscow is the heart of Mother Russia. Just the mention of this city conjures images of colorful bulbous pointed domes, crisp temperatures, and a uniquely original spirit!

Moscow has an incredibly turbulent history, a seemingly resilient culture, and a unique enchantment that pulls countless tourists to the city each year! Although the warmer months make exploring Moscow’s attractions more favorable, there’s just something about a fresh snowfall that only enhances the appearance of the city’s iconic sites!

If you’re a first-time visitor to Moscow, or simply wanting to see as much of the city as possible, this Moscow itinerary will help you do just that!

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Here is a quick look at the seasons so you can decide when to visit Moscow!

The summer months (June-August) are a great time to travel to Moscow to take advantage of the enjoyable mild temperatures. This is considered peak travel season. Bear in mind that hotel prices rise along with the temperatures!

If you’re planning a trip to Moscow during fall (September-November) try to plan for early fall. This way the temperatures will still be pleasant and winter won’t be threatening.

Russian winters (December-February) are not for the faint of heart as Napoleon learned to his peril. Some days the sun will be out for less than an hour, and snow is guaranteed. Although winters are exceptionally cold, this is when you’ll get a true glimpse of the Moscow experience!

The best time to visit Moscow is during spring  (March-May). The temperatures will begin to creep up and the sun begins to shine for significant portions of the day. Hotel rates will also have yet to skyrocket into peak ranges!

With a Moscow City Pass , you can experience the best of Moscow at the CHEAPEST prices. Discounts, attractions, tickets, and even public transport are all standards in any good city pass – be sure invest now and save them $$$ when you arrive!

Moscow is a large city with many accommodation options to choose from. Staying in a location that fits with your travel plans will only enhance your Moscow itinerary. Here is a brief introduction to a few great areas of the city we recommend checking out!

The best place to stay in Moscow to be close to all the action is Kitay-Gorod. This charming neighborhood will put you within walking distance to Moscow’s famous Red Square, thus cutting down on travel time. This will allow you to see more of the city in a shorter amount of time!

It’s surrounded by restaurants, cafes, bars, and shops. If you’re a first-time visitor to Moscow, or just planning a quick weekend in Moscow, then this area is perfect for you!

Another great area to consider is the Zamoskvorechye district. This area of the city offers a blend of new and old Moscow. It has an artsy vibe and there are plenty of fun sites you can explore outside of the main touristy areas of Moscow.

Of course, as in all areas of Moscow, it’s close to public transportation that will quickly connect you with the rest of the city and make your Moscow itinerary super accessible!

Best Airbnb in Moscow – Exclusive Apartment in Old Moscow

Modern and cozy, this apartment is in the heart of Old Moscow. Bordering the Basmanny and Kitay-Gorod districts, this two-bedroom flat is walking distance to the Kremlin and Red Square. Safe, quiet, and comfortable, this is the best Airbnb in Moscow, no question!

Best Budget Hotel in Moscow – Izmailovo Alfa Hotel

The Izmailovo Alfa Hotel is a very highly rated accommodation that provides all the components necessary for a comfortable trip to Moscow. There is an on-site restaurant, bar, fitness center, and an airport shuttle service. The rooms are modern and spacious and are equipped with a TV, heating/air conditioning, minibar, and more!

Best Luxury Hotel in Moscow – Crowne Plaza Moscow World Trade Centre

If you’re touring Moscow in luxury, the Crowne Plaza Moscow World Trade Centre is the hotel for you! Elegantly furnished rooms are equipped with a minibar, flat-screen TV,  in-room safes, as well as tea and coffee making facilities! Bathrooms come with bathrobes, slippers, and free toiletries. There is also an onsite restaurant, bar, and fitness center.

Best Hostel in Moscow – Godzillas Hostel

Godzillas Hostel is located in the center of Moscow, just a short walk from all the major tourist attractions and the metro station. Guests will enjoy all the usual hostel perks such as self-catering facilities, 24-hour reception, Free Wi-Fi, and security lockers. This is one of the best hostels in Moscow and its wonderful social atmosphere and will make your vacation in Moscow extra special!

Godzillas Hostel is one of our favourites in Moscow but they’re not taking guests right now. We’re not sure if they’re closed for good but we hope they’ll come back soon.

An important aspect of planning any trip is figuring out the transportation situation. You’re probably wondering how you’re going to get to all of your Moscow points of interest right? Luckily, this sprawling city has an excellent network of public transportation that will make traveling a breeze!

The underground metro system is the quickest and most efficient way to travel around Moscow. Most visitors rely exclusively on this super-efficient transportation system, which allows you to get to pretty much anywhere in the city! It’s also a great option if you’re planning a Moscow itinerary during the colder months, as you’ll be sheltered from the snow and freezing temperatures!

If you prefer above-ground transportation, buses, trams, and trolleybuses, run throughout the city and provide a rather comfortable alternative to the metro.

Moscow’s metro, buses, trams, and trolleybuses are all accessible with a ‘Troika’ card. This card can be topped up with any sum of money at a metro cash desk. The ticket is simple, convenient, and even refundable upon return to a cashier!

No matter which method you choose, you’ll never find yourself without an easy means of getting from point A to point B!

Red Square | Moscow Kremlin | Lenin’s Mausoleum | St. Basil’s Cathedral  | GUM Department Store

Spend the first day of your itinerary taking your own self guided Moscow walking tour around the historic Red Square! This is Moscow’s compact city center and every stop on this list is within easy walking distance to the next! Get ready to see all of the top Moscow landmarks!

Day 1 / Stop 1 – The Red Square

• Why it’s awesome: The Red Square is the most recognizable area in Moscow, it has mesmerizing architecture and centuries worth of history attached to its name.
• Cost: Free to walk around, individual attractions in the square have separate fees. 
• Food nearby: Check out Bar BQ Cafe for friendly service and good food in a great location! The atmosphere is upbeat and they’re open 24/7!

The Red Square is Moscow’s historic fortress and the center of the Russian government. The origins of the square date back to the late 15th century, when Ivan the Great decided to expand the Kremlin to reflect Moscow’s growing power and prestige!

During the 20th century, the square became famous as the site for demonstrations designed to showcase Soviet strength. Visiting the Red Square today, you’ll find it teeming with tourists, who come to witness its magical architecture up close!

The square is the picture postcard of Russian tourism, so make sure to bring your camera when you visit! No matter the season, or the time of day, it’s delightfully photogenic! 

It’s also home to some of Russia’s most distinguishing and important landmarks, which we’ve made sure to include further down in this itinerary. It’s an important center of Russia’s cultural life and one of the top places to visit in Moscow!

In 1990, UNESCO designated Russia’s Red Square as a World Heritage site. Visiting this historic site is a true bucket-list event and essential addition to your itinerary for Moscow!

Day 1 / Stop 2 – The Moscow Kremlin

• Why it’s awesome: The Moscow Kremlin complex includes several palaces and cathedrals and is surrounded by the Kremlin wall. It also houses the principal museum of Russia (the Kremlin Armory).
• Cost: USD $15.00
• Food nearby: Bosco Cafe is a charming place to grat a casual bite to eat. They have excellent coffee and wonderful views of the Red Square and the Moscow Kremlin!

The iconic Moscow Kremlin , also known as the Kremlin museum complex, sits on Borovitsky Hill, rising above the Moscow River. It is a fortified complex in the center of the city, overlooking several iconic buildings in the Red Square!

It’s the best known of the Russian Kremlins – citadels or fortress’ protecting and dominating a city. During the early decades of the Soviet era, the Kremlin was a private enclave where the state’s governing elite lived and worked.

The Kremlin is outlined by an irregularly shaped triangular wall that encloses an area of 68 acres! The existing walls and towers were built from 1485 to 1495. Inside the Kremlin museum complex, there are five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers.

The Armoury Chamber is a part of the Grand Kremlin Palace’s complex and is one of the oldest museums of Moscow, established in 1851. It showcases Russian history and displays many cherished relics. Definitely make sure to check out this museum while you’re here!

The churches inside the Moscow Kremlin are the Cathedral of the Dormition, Church of the Archangel, Church of the Annunciation, and the bell tower of Ivan Veliki (a church tower).

The five-domed Cathedral of the Dormition is considered the most famous. It was built from 1475–1479 by an Italian architect and has served as a wedding and coronation place for great princes, tsars, and emperors of Russia. Church services are given in the Kremlin’s numerous cathedrals on a regular basis.

The Grand Kremlin Palace was the former Tsar’s Moscow residence and today it serves as the official workplace of the President of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin seems to have bagged that title for life) .

Insider Tip: The Kremlin is closed every Thursday! Make sure to plan this stop on your Moscow itinerary for any other day of the week!

Day 1 / Stop 3 – Lenin’s Mausoleum

• Why it’s awesome: The mausoleum displays the preserved body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin .
• Cost: Free!
• Food nearby: Khinkal’naya is a charming Georgian restaurant with vaulted ceilings and exposed brick. It’s a popular place with locals and right next to the Red Square!

Lenin’s Mausoleum, also known as Lenin’s Tomb, is the modernist mausoleum for the revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. It’s located within the Red Square and serves as the resting place for the Soviet leader! His preserved body has been on public display since shortly after his death in 1924.

It’s located just a few steps away from the Kremlin Wall and is one of the most controversial yet popular Moscow attractions!

Admission is free for everyone, you’ll only need to pay if you need to check a bag. Before visitors are allowed to enter the mausoleum, they have to go through a metal detector first. No metal objects, liquids, or large bags are allowed in the mausoleum!

Expect a line to enter the building, and while you’re inside the building, you’ll be constantly moving in line with other visitors. This means you won’t be able to spend as long as you’d like viewing the mausoleum, but you’ll still be able to get a good look. Pictures and filming while inside the building are strictly prohibited, and security guards will stop you if they see you breaking this rule.

The mausoleum is only open on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday – unless it’s a public holiday or a day scheduled for maintenance. The hours it’s open for each day are limited, make sure to check online before you visit to make sure you can fit this into your Moscow itinerary for that day!

Insider Tip: The Lenin’s Museum is there for people to pay their respect; remember to keep silent and move along quickly, it’s not intended for people to congregate around. Also, men are not allowed to wear hats and everyone must take their hands out of their pockets when inside the building.

Day 1 / Stop 4 – St. Basil’s Cathedral

• Why it’s awesome: A dazzling designed cathedral that showcases Russia’s unique architecture. This cathedral is one of the most recognizable symbols of the country!
• Cost: USD $8.00
• Food nearby: Moskovskiy Chaynyy Klub is a cozy cafe serving food items and pipping hot tea; it’s the perfect place to go if you’re visiting Moscow during the winter months!

Located in the Red Square, the ornate 16th-century St. Basil’s Cathedral is probably the building you picture when you think of Moscow’s unique architecture. Its colorful onion-shaped domes tower over the Moscow skyline!

The cathedral was built from 1555-1561 by order of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It was designed with an iconic onion dome facade and enchanting colors that captivate all who see it. Fun fact: If you’re wondering why Russian churches have onion domes, they are popularly believed to symbolize burning candles!

This iconic cathedral has become a symbol of Russia due to its distinguishing architecture and prominent position inside the Red Square. It’s one of the most beautiful, wonderful, and mesmerizing historical cathedrals in the world!

The interior of the church surprises most people when they visit. In contrast to the large exterior, the inside is not so much one large area, but rather a collection of smaller areas, with many corridors and small rooms. There are 9 small chapels and one mausoleum grouped around a central tower.

Visiting the inside is like walking through a maze, there are even small signs all around the cathedral tracing where to walk, and pointing you in the right direction! The walls are meticulously decorated and painted with intricate floral designs and religious themes.

The church rarely holds service and is instead a museum open for the public to visit.

Insider Tip: During the summer months the line to go inside the cathedral can get quite long! Make sure to arrive early or reserve your tickets online to guarantee quick access into the cathedral!

Day 1 / Stop 5 – GUM Department Store

• Why it’s awesome: This is Russia’s most famous shopping mall! It’s designed with elegant and opulent architecture and provides a real sense of nostalgia!
• Cost: Free to enter
• Food nearby: Stolovaya 57 is a cafeteria-style restaurant with a variety of inexpensive Russian cuisine menu items including soups, salads, meat dishes, and desserts. It’s also located inside the GUM department store, making it very easily accessible when you’re shopping!

The enormous GUM Department Store is located within the historic Red Square. It has a whimsical enchantment to it that sets it apart from your typical department store.

A massive domed glass ceiling lines the top of the building and fills the interior with natural sunlight. There are live plants and flowers placed throughout the mall that give the shopping complex a lively and cheerful feel! A playful fountain sits in the center, further adding to the malls inviting a sense of wonder and amusement!

The GUM department store opened on December 2, 1893. Today, it includes local and luxury stores, including Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Prada, and many more! There are numerous cafes, restaurants, and even a movie theater inside!

For a special treat, head into Gastronom 1. This 1950s-style shop sells gourmet food items, like wine, freshly-baked pastries, cheese, Russian chocolate, and of course, vodka! Also, be on the lookout for a bicycle pedaling ice cream truck with an employing selling ice cream!

The ambiance is simply amazing, a trip to this idyllic shopping mall is an absolute must on any Moscow itinerary!

Insider Tip: Make sure to carry some small change on you in case you need to use the restroom, you’ll need to pay 50 rubles – or about USD $0.80 to use the bathroom in GUM.

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Novodevichy Convent | Gorky Park | State Tretyakov Gallery | All-Russian Exhibition Center | Bolshoi Theater

On your 2 day itinerary in Moscow, you’ll have a chance to use the city’s excellent public transportation service! You’ll explore a few more of Moscow’s historic highlight as well as some modern attractions. These sites are a little more spread out, but still very easily accessible thanks to the metro!

Day 2 / Stop 1 – Novodevichy Convent

• Why it’s awesome: The Novodevichy Convent is rich in imperial Russian history and contains some of Russia’s best examples of classical architecture!
• Cost: USD $5.00
• Food nearby: Culinary Shop Karavaevs Brothers is a cozy and simple place to have a quick bite, they also have vegetarian options!

The Novodevichy Convent is the best-known and most popular cloister of Moscow. The convent complex is contained within high walls, and there are many attractions this site is known for! 

The six-pillared five-domed Smolensk Cathedral is the main attraction. It was built to resemble the Kremlin’s Assumption Cathedral and its facade boasts beautiful snowy white walls and a pristine golden onion dome as its centerpiece. It’s the oldest structure in the convent, built from 1524 -1525, and is situated in the center of the complex between the two entrance gates.

There are other churches inside the convent as well, all dating back from many centuries past. The convent is filled with an abundance of 16th and 17th-century religious artworks, including numerous large and extravagant frescos!

Just outside the convent’s grounds lies the Novodevichy Cemetery. Here, you can visit the graves of famous Russians, including esteemed authors, composers, and politicians. Probably the most intriguing gravestone belongs to Russian politician Nikita Khruschev!

The Novodevichy Convent is located near the Moscow River and offers a peaceful retreat from the busy city. In 2004, it was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The convent remains remarkably well-preserved and is an outstanding example of Moscow Baroque architecture! 

Insider Tip: To enter the cathedrals inside the complex, women are advised to cover their heads and shoulders, while men should wear long pants.

Day 2 / Stop 2 – Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure

• Why it’s awesome: A large amusement area in the heart of the city offering many attractions!
• Cost: Free! 
• Food nearby: Check out Mepkato, located inside Gorky Central Park for a casual meal in a cozy setting. There are indoor and outdoor seating options and the restaurant is child-friendly!

Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure is a large green space in the heart of Moscow. The park opened in 1928, and it stretches along the scenic embankment of the Moskva River. It covers an area of 300-acres and offers a lovely contrast from the compact city center.

You’ll find all sorts of wonderful attractions, from boat rides to bike rentals to tennis courts and ping-pong tables, and much more! there are an open-air cinema and festive events and concerts scheduled in the summer months.  A wide selection of free fitness classes is also offered on a regular basis, including jogging, roller skating, and dancing!

Although many of the options you’ll find here are more suited for outdoor leisure during the summer, you’ll also a selection of winter attractions, including one of Europe’s largest ice rinks for ice-skating!

If you’re trying to decide what to do in Moscow with kids, the park also offers several venues designed specifically for kids. Check out the year-round Green School which offers hands-on classes in gardening and art! You can also feed the squirrels and birds at the Golitsinsky Ponds!

The park is very well maintained and kept clean and the entrance is free of charge, although most individual attractions cost money. There is also Wi-Fi available throughout the park.

With so many attractions, you could easily spend all day here! If you’re only planning a 2 day itinerary in Moscow, make sure to plan your time accordingly and map out all the areas you want to see beforehand!

Day 2 / Stop 3 – The State Tretyakov Gallery

• Why it’s awesome: The gallery’s collection consists entirely of Russian art made by Russian artists!
• Food nearby : Brothers Tretyakovs is located right across the street from the gallery. It’s a wonderfully atmospheric restaurant serving top quality food and drinks!

The State Tretyakov Gallery was founded in 1856 by influential merchant and collector Pavel Tretyakov.  The gallery is a national treasury of Russian fine art and one of the most important museums in Russia!

It houses the world’s best collection of Russian art and contains more than 130, 000 paintings, sculptures, and graphics! These works have been created throughout the centuries by generations of Russia’s most talented artists!

The exhibits range from mysterious 12th-century images to politically charged canvases. The collection is rich and revealing and offers great insight into the history and attitudes of this long-suffering yet inspired people!

All pictures are also labeled in English. If you plan to take your time and see everything inside the museum it will take a good 3-4 hours, so make sure to plan your Moscow trip itinerary accordingly! This gallery is a must-see stop for art lovers, or anyone wanting to explore the local culture and history of Russia in a creative and insightful manner! 

Insider Tip: When planning your 2 days in Moscow itinerary, keep in mind that most museums in Moscow are closed on Mondays, this includes The State Tretyakov Gallery!

Day 2 / Stop 4 – All-Russian Exhibition Center

• Why it’s awesome: This large exhibition center showcases the achievements of the Soviet Union in several different spheres. 
• Food nearby: Varenichnaya No. 1 serves authentic and homestyle Russian cuisine in an intimate and casual setting.

The All-Russian Exhibition Center is a massive park that presents the glory of the Soviet era! It pays homage to the achievements of Soviet Russia with its many different sites found on the property.

The center was officially opened in 1939 to exhibit the achievements of the Soviet Union. It’s a huge complex of buildings and the largest exhibition center in Moscow. There are several exhibition halls dedicated to different achievements and every year there are more than one hundred and fifty specialized exhibitions!

The Peoples Friendship Fountain was constructed in 1954 and is a highlight of the park. The stunning gold fountain features 16 gilded statues of girls, each representing the former Soviet Union republics. 

The Stone Flower Fountain was also built in 1954 and is worth checking out. The centerpiece of this large fountain is a flower carved from stones from the Ural Mountains! Along the side of the fountain are various bronze sculptures.

You will find many people zipping around on rollerblades and bicycles across the large area that the venue covers. It’s also home to amusement rides and carousels, making it the perfect place to stop with kids on your Moscow itinerary! Make sure to wear comfortable shoes and allow a few hours to explore all the areas that interest you!

Day 2 / Stop 5 – Bolshoi Theater

• Why it’s awesome: The Bolshoi Theater is a historic venue that hosts world-class ballet and opera performances!
• Cost: Prices vary largely between USD $2.00 –  USD $228.00 based on seat location.
• Food nearby: Head to the Russian restaurant, Bolshoi for high-quality food and drinks and excellent service!

The Bolshoi Theater is among the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world! It also boasts the world’s biggest ballet company, with more than 200 dancers!

The theater has been rebuilt and renovated several times during its long history. In 2011 it finished its most recent renovation after an extensive six-year restoration that started in 2005. The renovation included an improvement in acoustics and the restoration of the original Imperial decor.

The Bolshoi Theater has put on many of the world’s most famous ballet acts! Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake premiered at the theater in 1877 and other notable performances of the Bolshoi repertoire include Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker!

Today, when you visit the theater, you can expect a magical performance from skilled singers, dancers, and musicians with the highest level of technique!

If you don’t have time to see a show, the theater also provides guided tours on select days of the week. Tours are given in both Russian and English and will provide visitors with a more intimate look at the different areas of the theater!

The stage of this iconic Russian theater has seen many outstanding performances. If you’re a fan of the performing arts, the Bolshoi Theater is one of the greatest and oldest ballet and opera companies in the world, making it a must-see attraction on your Moscow itinerary!

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Cosmonautics Museum | Alexander Garden | Ostankino Tower | Izmaylovo District | Soviet Arcade Museum

Now that we’ve covered what to do in Moscow in 2 days, if you’re able to spend more time in the city you’re going to need more attractions to fill your time. Here are a few more really cool things to do in Moscow we recommend!

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

• Hear the timeline of the ‘space race’ from the Russian perspective
• This museum is fun for both adults and children!
• Admission is USD $4.00

The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is a museum dedicated to space exploration! The museum explores the history of flight, astronomy, space exploration, space technology, and space in the arts. It houses a large assortment of Soviet and Russian space-related exhibits, and the museum’s collection holds approximately 85,000 different items!

The museum does an excellent job of telling the full story of the exciting space race between the USSR and the US! It highlights the brightest moments in Russian history and humanity and is very interesting and fun for all ages!

If you’re a fan of space or just curious about gaining insight into Russia’s fascinating history of space exploration, make sure to add this to your 3 day itinerary in Moscow!

The Alexander Garden

• A tranquil place to relax near the Red Square
• Green lawns dotted with sculptures and lovely water features
• The park is open every day and has no entrance fee

The Alexander Garden was one of the first urban public parks in Moscow! The garden premiered in 1821 and was built to celebrate Russia’s victory over Napoleon’s forces in 1812!

The park is beautiful and well maintained with paths to walk on and benches to rest on. The park contains three separate gardens: the upper garden, middle garden, and lower garden.

Located in the upper garden, towards the main entrance to the park is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with its eternal flame. This monument was created in 1967 and contains the body of a soldier who fell during the Great Patriotic War!

The park stretches along all the length of the western Kremlin wall for about half a mile. Due to its central location in the city, it’ll be easily accessible when you’re out exploring The Red Square.

It provides a bit of relief from the city’s high-energy city streets. Bring a picnic lunch, go for a walk, or just sit and people watch, this is one of the best Moscow sites to wind-down and relax!

Ostankino Television Tower

• Television and radio tower in Moscow
• Currently the tallest free-standing structure in Europe
• Make sure you bring your passport when you visit, you can’t go up without it!

For spectacular views of the city, make sure to add the Ostankino Television Tower to your itinerary for Moscow! This impressive free-standing structure provides stunning views of the city in every direction. The glass floor at the top also provides great alternative views of the city!

It takes just 58 seconds for visitors to reach the Tower’s observation deck by super fast elevator. The tower is open every day for long hours and is a great site in Moscow to check out! There is even a restaurant at the top where you can enjoy rotating views of the city while you dine on traditional Russian cuisine or European cuisine!

The tower is somewhat of an architectural surprise in a city that is not known for skyscrapers! To see the city from a new perspective, make sure to add this stop to your Moscow itinerary!

Izmaylovo District

• The most popular attractions in this district are the kremlin and the flea market
• Outside of the city center and easy to reach via metro
• Most popular during the summer and on weekends

Travel outside the city center and discover a unique area of the city! The Izmaylovo District is a popular destination for locals and tourists alike, and one of the coolest places to see in Moscow! The two main attractions we recommend checking out are the Kremlin and the flea market.

The Izmailovo Kremlin was established as a cultural center and molded after traditional Russian architecture. This colorful complex is home to several single-subject museums, including a Russian folk art museum and a vodka museum!

Next to the Kremlin is the Izmailovo open-air market, which dates back to the 17th century! The market is connected to the Izmailovo Kremlin by a wooden bridge. Pick up all your Russian souvenirs here, including traditional handicrafts, paintings, books, retro toys, and Soviet memorabilia!

You will find many hand-made and hand-painted options available at higher prices, as well as mass-produced souvenir options at lower prices!

Museum of Soviet Arcade Games

• Closed on Mondays
• Filled with old arcade games that visitors get to try out!
• The museum also includes a small cafe and burger shop

For something a little different, check out the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games! The museum features roughly 60 machines from the Soviet era, including video games, pinball machines, and collaborative hockey foosball! The machines inside the museum were produced in the USSR in the mid-1970s.

The best part is, most of the games are still playable! Purchase tickets and try the games out for yourself! The museum also has a neat little screening room that plays old Soviet cartoons and an area with Soviet magazines! This unique attraction is a fun addition to a 3 day itinerary in Moscow, and an attraction that all ages will enjoy! 

Whether you’re spending one day in Moscow, or more, safety is an important thing to keep in mind when traveling to a big city! Overall, Moscow is a very safe place to visit. However, it is always recommended that tourists take certain precautions when traveling to a new destination!

The police in Moscow is extremely effective at making the city a safe place to visit and do their best to patrol all of the top Moscow, Russia tourist attractions. However, tourists can still be a target for pickpockets and scammers.

Moscow has a huge flow of tourists, therefore there is a risk for pickpocketing. Simple precautions will help eliminate your chances of being robbed. Stay vigilant, keep your items close to you at all times, and don’t flash your valuables!

If you’re planning a solo Moscow itinerary, you should have no need to worry, as the city is also considered safe for solo travelers, even women. Stay in the populated areas, try and not travel alone late at night, and never accept rides from strangers or taxis without a meter and correct signage.

The threat of natural disasters in Moscow is low, with the exception of severe winters when the temperature can dip below freezing! Bring a good, warm jacket if you visit in Winter.

However, please note that Russian views on homsexuality are far less accepting than those in Western Europe. Likewise, Non-Caucasian travellers may sadly encounter racism in Russia .

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Now that we’ve covered all the top things to see in Moscow, we thought we’d include some exciting day trips to other areas of the country!

Sergiev Posad (Golden Ring)

On this 7-hour guided tour, you’ll visit several scenic and historic areas of Russia. Start your day with hotel pick-up as you’re transferred by a comfortable car or minivan to Sergiev Posad. Admire the charming Russian countryside on your drive and enjoy a quick stop to visit the Russian village, Rudonezh!

You’ll see the majestic Saint Spring and the Church of Sergiev Radonezh. You’ll also visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, one of the most famous Orthodox sites in Russia!

Lastly, you’ll swing by the local Matreshka market and enjoy a break in a nice Russian restaurant before returning to Moscow!

Day Trip to Vladimir and Suzdal

On this 13-hour trip, you’ll discover old Russia, with its picturesque landscapes and white-stoned beautiful churches! You’ll visit the main towns of the famous Golden Ring of Russia – the name for several cities and smaller towns north-east of Moscow.

Your first stop will be in the town of Vladimir, the ancient capital of all Russian principalities. The city dates back to the 11th century and is one of the oldest and the most important towns along the Ring! Next, you’ll visit Suzdal, a calm ancient Russian town north of Vladimir with only 13,000 inhabitants!

The old-style architecture and buildings of Suzdal are kept wonderfully intact. If you’re spending three days in Moscow, or more, this is a great option for exploring the charming areas outside the city!

Zvenigorod Day Trip and Russian Countryside

On this 9-hour private tour, you’ll explore the ancient town of Zvenigorod, one of the oldest towns in the Moscow region! As you leave Moscow you’ll enjoy the stunning scenery along the Moscow River, and make a few stops at old churches along the way to Zvenigorod.

Upon arrival, you’ll explore the medieval center, including the 14th-century Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery. Next, you’ll take a break for lunch (own expense) where you’ll have the chance to try out the Russian cuisine! Next, you’ll visit the Museum of Russian Dessert and sip on tea at a Russian tea ceremony.

The final stop of the day is at the Ershovo Estate, a gorgeous place to walk around and enjoy nature!

Day Trip to St Petersburg by Train visiting Hermitage & Faberge

On this full-day tour, you’ll enjoy a a full round trip to St Petersburg where you’ll spend an exciting day exploring another popular Russian city! You’ll be picked up from your hotel in Moscow and be transferred to the train station where you’ll ride the high-speed train ‘Sapsan’ to St Petersburg.

Upon arrival, you’ll start the day by touring the Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace. Next, you’ll visit the Faberge Museum, where you’ll explore the impressive collection of rare Faberge Eggs! In the afternoon, enjoy a sightseeing boat ride and a traditional 3-course Russian lunch.

If you’re spending 3 days in Moscow, or more, this is an excellent trip to take!

Trip to Kolomna – Authentic Cultural Experience from Moscow

On this 10-hour tour, you’ll escape the city and travel to the historic town of Kolomna! First, you’ll visit the 14th-century Kolomna Kremlin, home to the Assumption Cathedral and an abundance of museums!

Next, enjoy lunch at a local cafe (own expense) before embarking on a tour of the Marshmallow Museum – of course, a marshmallow tasting is provided!  Your final stop is the Museum of Forging Settlements, where displays include armor and accessories for fishing and hunting.

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Find out what people want to know when planning their Moscow itinerary.

How many days you need in Moscow?

We recommend that you spend at least two or three days in Moscow to take it all in.

What’s the best month to visit Moscow?

The best time to visit Moscow is over the spring, from March to May as temperatures are mild, crowds are thin and prices are reasonable.

What are some unusual things to do in Moscow?

I mean, queuing up to see an almost 100 year old corpse is pretty unsual! Check out Lenin’s Mausoleum if you fancy it!

What are some fun things to do in Moscow?

The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is a fun place to explore the famous space race from the perspective of the ‘other side’!

We hope you enjoyed our Moscow itinerary! We’ve made sure to cover all the Moscow must-sees as well as some unique attractions in the city! Our addition of insider tips, favorite food stops, and day trips from Moscow is an added bonus and will guarantee you make the most out of your exciting Russian vacation!

Immerse yourself in the modern and traditional Russian lifestyle! Get lost in museums, witness awe-inspiring architecture, and indulge in Russian cuisine! Spend the day strolling through all of the charming sites of Moscow, admiring the beautiful scenery and discovering the city’s fairytale-like enchantment!

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When is the best time to visit Moscow? | Weather, budget, events by month

• July 14, 2023

Discover when is the best time to visit Moscow. In this blog post, I will talk about weather, budget and other things to know to choose the best time when to go to Moscow for you. I cannot account the times when we went in Moscow. Here are the pros and the cons of each month taking all main criteria into account!

I will first describe the main criteria that will help you choose when to go to Moscow:

• Climate in Moscow: temperatures and weather

Special events in Moscow

• Budget and visa

Then I will talk about each season (go directly to this party if you already have an idea of ​​the desired departure date):

• Advantages and disadvantages month by month

The weather cannot be the only criterion to decide when is the best time to visit Moscow for you. Even if the temperatures drop low, Moscow in December is just magical! This is why I advise to take into account several criteria at the same time. Also remember that it takes at least a month to get the Russian visa.

When to go to Moscow: climate and weather

The seasons are well marked. The mid-season months are not necessarily the best for the weather. However, they are not necessarily to be avoided, because, as we will see later, Moscow is a city that changes all the time and the prices can be more attractive. For example, for a lot of people winter is the best time to visit Moscow.

Weather in Moscow. Moscow is inland, making the city “more protected” from changing weather. For example, the weather is much more changeable in St. Petersburg. On the other hand, the weather in Moscow is more and more scorching in summer, we can then easily reach 30 degrees (for the Russians, it’s already the heat wave).

Moscow temperatures

As soon as you think of Russia, you want to do “Brrrr”. Let’s prepare our down jackets! Indeed, the Russian climate is not the mildest on the planet. However, it all depends on the region, because the country is very large. Moscow is almost at the same latitude as Copenhagen. As Moscow is relatively far from the coast, there is a pronounced continental climate. It is hot in summer and cold in winter.

In addition, global warming is there. For several decades, annual average temperatures have always been recorded above the past. I suggest you look at the averages over the past five years to be as close as possible to reality:

Sunshine and precipitation

Sunshine. This is surprising, but there is more sunshine in Moscow than in Paris or even in Berlin: 1,731 hours in Moscow, compared to 1661 in Paris and 1626 in Berlin.

Duration of the day in winter. We had questions about the length of the day in winter. So, here are a few things. As in Europe, the shortest days are in December. In Moscow, at the end of December, the sun rises around 9 a.m. and sets around 4 p.m. Then the day gets bigger until the end of June, when the day is the longest.

Precipitation. There is more precipitation in Moscow than in Paris (705mm against 637mm).

When is the best time to visit Moscow: interesting events

Moscow is a city that moves a lot. It is even said that this city never sleeps. So there are a lot of events, forums, exhibitions, conferences. Here I’m going to talk about the main recurring events that punctuate the year and that may help you decide when to go to Moscow.

End of year celebrations in Moscow

December 31 rather than Christmas. The Russians are eagerly awaiting the holiday season. Here on December 31 is like Christmas with us. Religion, “opium of the people” according to Marx, and, above all, its official absence marked the country during the Soviet years. This then reinforced the celebration of December 31, while Orthodox Christmas is January 7.

Russian calendar. In addition, it should be known that the first week of January is a bank holiday. Many Russians therefore do not work during this period. Europe also greatly influences the habits of Muscovites. Consequently, the Christmas markets start in early December and, for some, continue until early February!

Fairytale atmosphere. If you are wondering when to go to Moscow and you love the holiday mood, then the end of December – early January, and even February, is for you! There are many things to do during this time: for example, Christmas markets, decorations, winter games, skating rinks. In 2016, Moscow opened the largest ice rink in Europe. In short, the city is doing a lot of entertainment during this period and the general atmosphere is at the top! However, everything comes at a cost. You can see more detail below in the article, month by month.

Find our more in this blog post: Christmas and New Year in Moscow .

Visit Moscow in May

May 1 and 9 are two big festivals in Russia. Both dates are known worldwide. May 9 in Russia is May 8 with us in France. The signature that marks the end of the Second World War. The shift day is explained by … the difference in time zone.

The May 9 holiday is a very important holiday for the Russians. The Soviet human losses amounted to millions. So there are many families who have been directly affected by the war. The first big parade was organized by Stalin on June 24, 1945 in Red Square in Moscow. Later each year the USSR and then Russia organized a parade on May 9. Here is the video of the first parade dating from 1945 in color, then the last – that of 2016.

A disadvantage of the beginning of May. For the planned events, Red Square will not be completely empty. There are always installations for May 9, but also rehearsals. So, to the question “when is the best time to visit Moscow”, I would not say that May is the best one. You can find out more in the article “Moscow in autumn” below.

Throughout the year, the Moscow City Hall organizes free events (festivals, small markets, concerts, etc.) in the Red Square and in the streets of the city center. For example, there are two major interesting events:

• Festival of Lights “Around the World”: in 2019, it was from September 28 to October 4.
• Anniversary of the city of Moscow always celebrated the first weekend of September.

When is the best time to visit Moscow: budget, price seasonality, visa

Most touristy periods. Many travelers come to Moscow from May to October. This is the period when we see the most tourists in Moscow. In addition, many are also those who come at the end of December and at the beginning of January for the New Year. The beginning of May and the first week of January are also strongly requested, in particular by the Russians (school holidays, public holidays).

Accommodation. Hotel rates therefore necessarily increase during these periods of the year. But they do not go so far as to triple. To give an idea, count at least 80 euros in the city center for a double room with breakfast. You can read more about the districts of Moscow in my article: Where to stay in Moscow?

Guides and tours. Also take into account that during these periods it will be more difficult to find a guide at the last moment. It’s best to do it 2-3 months in advance. There will be more waiting or difficulty obtaining tickets during the months of high tourist influx: late December, early January, May, June, July, August.

Visa for Russia. The cost of the visa does not change depending on the month of the year. On the other hand, the deadlines can be longer if you make the request for the high tourist season (from May to October). Allow about a month. Getting the Russian visa is not complicated, there is a procedure to follow.

In Russia, the seasons are divided as follows:

• Fall: September, October, November.
• Winter: December, January, February.
• Spring: March, April, May.
• Summer: June, July, August.

Discover Moscow in autumn: when is the best time to visit Moscow in autumn?

From the beginning of September, we feel that the temperatures begin to drop gradually, especially at night.

Moscow in September

More and more travelers are choosing the month of September to go to Moscow. Because it is not cold yet and there are fewer tourists than in summer. Prices drop slightly, but remain higher than in the lean months of the year. There is also the city’s birthday on the first weekend in September, but also the “Around the World” festival towards the end of the month.

Moscow in October

You are likely to come across the colors of autumn from the beginning of October. The accommodation prices are starting to drop gradually. There is less waiting in the places to visit. Temperatures are not very low: during the day they are generally around +6 degrees. On the other hand, the only negative point can be the cost of plane tickets, if you leave during the French school holidays.

Moscow in November

It’s one of the least calm! Temperatures drop and can approach zero during the day in mid-November. Hotel rates are low, there are few tourists, and therefore less waiting in museums. It’s easier to get tickets for the Kremlin Palace of Armor, which can be very difficult in the summer. Guides also have more availability. So why not go to Moscow in November?

Discover Moscow in winter: when is the best time to visit Moscow in winter?

Winter is a very nice time to go to Moscow, because the Christmas and New Year decorations are installed from the beginning of December and are not removed until the end of February. To learn more about the different activities in winter, read this article: What to do in Moscow in winter? If winter temperatures scare you, check out Moscow in the spring (see below).

Moscow in december

Normally, negative daytime temperatures set in, although the weather can vary significantly from year to year. In general, from mid-December the snow is durable. It is from December 20 that more and more travelers come to Moscow. December 31st is celebrated like Christmas in France. Accommodation rates are higher from mid-December. It’s also more complicated to find a guide at the last moment. Furthermore, as in Europe, the days of December are the shortest of the year. But if you want to mark New Years Day, you will have lots of memories!

Moscow in january

January is also a very festive month. The first week of January is a public holiday in Russia. Besides, it’s also a week of Russian school holidays. There are more people in the streets, museums and everywhere in the city. To find out more about this time of year (Christmas markets, itineraries, etc.), read: Christmas and New Years in Moscow . Prices remain high during this week, but drop from mid-January.

Moscow in February

It’s the second quietest month of the year. In February, winter clearly takes its ease. The temperatures are the lowest, it’s a real winter! The days are longer in February than in December. So we’re enjoying the day more, and with the snow it’s really nice, because the weather in Moscow in February is pretty sunny. Accommodation rates are at their lowest, and the decorations are still there. So, if you are looking for when to go to Moscow, if the cold does not scare you and you appreciate the snowy landscapes, why not consider the month of February?

Discover Moscow in spring: when is the best time to visit Moscow in spring?

Spring is a contrasting period between March, which is still quite cold, and May, when we really feel the arrival of summer.

Moscow in March

The ice and snow begin to melt around mid-March. Winter is coming in March, but spring is not quite there yet. It’s the third quietest month of the year. It is therefore possible to visit the city more quietly. Accommodation prices are low, guides are available. The weather in Moscow in March is milder than in February. In addition, the days are longer, so you can take many walks.

Moscow in April

It is only from mid-April that we begin to feel the beginnings of sunny days. The weather in Moscow in spring and April in particular is getting milder and colder: we can expect +7 during the day. In addition, there are not many travelers yet and we fear to enjoy the places more quietly, but we feel that the start of the tourist season is approaching. Accommodation rates are lower than in May.

Moscow in May

The early May holidays attract many travelers to Moscow. There are also many Russians who come to the capital on public holidays. It is therefore advisable to plan visits in advance to avoid queuing once there. Red Square can be closed or partially closed for rehearsals for the May 9 parade, the same day and one or two days after. More info in: Moscow in May: events, budget, what to do?

Discover Moscow in summer: when is the best time to visit Moscow in summer?

All summer months are great, if you take temperatures into account. The weather in Moscow in summer is quite pleasant. However, in recent years, there have been great heat peaks or heat waves in July (30 degrees during the day).

Moscow in June

From June, you can take long walks in the city’s parks, very numerous and much appreciated by the locals. Boat trips are more enjoyable from June. On the other hand, the prices of accommodation in Moscow are higher than in the lean months. There are also more tourists. Book your hotel, tours and activities in advance.

Moscow in july

July is the hottest month, but we’re not on +40. Moscow is a city inland and therefore there is little fresh air, if it is very hot. We can do lots of walks to discover the city. We have written several complete itineraries so as not to miss anything of Moscow in our special Moscow travel guide. It also contains tips to save time and enjoy the city off the beaten track, as there are so many tourists during this time of year.

Moscow in August

Temperatures are starting to drop gradually, but there are still so many people. In order to be sure of the choice of accommodation, I advise you to book in advance. The same goes for guided tours or entrance tickets to the Kremlin. It’s also a good time to discover the city differently by going to places that are less touristy and more frequented by locals.

When is the best time to go to Moscow? In summary!

The best time to discover Moscow depends on the criteria you want to favor: the weather, the budget, the tranquility of the visits, the special events to be experienced on site.

In summary:

• The peak tourist season in Moscow begins in early May and ends in late September.
• Late December and early January is the best time to experience the holiday mood, but it comes at a cost.
• End of January, February, March, beginning of April, November are the quietest months of the year, when you can visit the city more calmly and on a reduced budget.

So, have you decided when to go to Moscow? 🙂 Do you plan to visit Moscow in spring, summer, autumn or winter?

Travel idea! As in all cases you will get a visa and there is only 4 hours by train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, why not visit both cities? Read an example of a route here: Moscow to Saint Petersburg in one week.

If you still have doubts, take a look at what you can visit in Moscow in order to choose the best period: Things to do in Moscow in 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 days.

For a great trip to Moscow:

• Visit Moscow and St Petersburg in one week: itinerary
• Where to stay in Moscow?
• Tourist voucher for Russian visa

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