(Hey, maybe Luther’s moon base wasn’t so useless after all!) The splintered moon rocks start falling to Earth, causing a horrifying chain reaction of craters and explosions. The accumulated energy from Vanya’s concert launches a beam into space that crashes directly into the moon. But there’s one last nasty surprise in store. Instead, she fires a bullet next to Vanya’s ear, disrupting her flow and knocking her into unconsciousness.įor a brief moment, everybody celebrates saving the world. After Vanya manages to stop everybody else, the final blow comes down to Allison, who gets the chance to shoot her sister in the head but decides to spare her. Every Umbrella Academy alumnus plays some role in taking Vanya down - even Ben, who uses his tentacle powers to subdue gun-toting adversaries after Klaus manages to summon him from the afterlife. Everybody manages to escape, and the Umbrella Academy arrives at the Icarus Theater in time to catch the beginning of Vanya’s plan.Īnd so the last big fight scene begins (set, mercifully, to Vanya’s violin-playing, and not some over-the-top classic rock cut). But before the problem can be resolved, the gang is interrupted by timecops from the Commission, doing their best to ensure that the apocalypse still happens. Luther raises the possibility that they’ll need to kill her Allison firmly refuses that she’ll ever do it.
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Using her superpowers, she plans to harness the sound of the violin to launch a series of devastating energy blasts.īut how to stop her? That’s a subject of debate. Finding her turns out to be easy: A particularly convenient newspaper ad reminds them that Vanya is making her debut as the first chair violinist at the Icarus Theater. So the Umbrella Academy heads off to the Super Star Lanes bowling alley, where they form a strategy for finding and stopping Vanya before she ends the world. This, the show implicitly assures us, is a sign that - after using time travel to reset some big consequences in a previous episode - they’re actually playing for keeps this time.
Still, if you want to establish how high the stakes are, Umbrella Academy can’t do much better than killing off two major characters and destroying the Umbrella Academy building. (But again: robot! And a robot specifically designed to be repairable after Vanya’s attacks!) Grace also “dies” when the building collapses. It’s a tragic moment for viewers, and a huge relief to the Netflix accountants in charge of Umbrella Academy’s effects budget. But the conversation ends when Vanya - enraged at the role Pogo played in enabling her tragic childhood - lifts him up and impales him on a pair of mounted antlers, killing him. This attempt to rationalize Hargreeves’s decision is doomed to failure, which Pogo probably knows you get the sense that he’s mostly just buying time for the rest of the kids to get away. Each of her siblings manages to flee, but Pogo confronts her, saying that Hargreeves was only trying to protect her from herself. Every room conjures up another painful memory from her childhood, which she pushes away by pulling the ceiling down. It starts with Vanya, almost in a trance as she stalks through the Umbrella Academy building. So after an entire season of buildup, this is how the apocalypse happens. The biggest tragedy - and something Luther will someday have to reckon with - is that it might still have been prevented if he hadn’t locked Vanya in the soundproof chamber, which was likely the tipping point for her shift into full-on supervillainy. By the time the Umbrella Academy figured it out, Vanya was already too far gone. Stopping Leonard Peabody could have prevented the apocalypse.
Meet Vanya, the White Violin, who has channeled decades of pain and resentment into a single, horrifying plan: Play a concert that will culminate in the end of the world.įive was right. Photo: Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix/Christos Kalohoridis/NetflixĪt long last, The Umbrella Academy has unveiled its first supervillain - and it’s a member of the Umbrella Academy.
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