#Umbrella Academy Fan Theories That Could Change The Game In Season 3

Following the disastrous dinner in “A Light Supper,” it’s clear that Reginald Hargreeves went out of his way to ensure that his team of superpowered infants would grow up to be nothing like the Umbrella Academy (he even forsakes his DS Umbrella Manufacturing Company name, eschewing anything that would connect the two teams).

The Sparrows may have been adopted by the same man and live in the same sprawling mansion, but they were raised in opposition to everything that is the Umbrella Academy. They are the saviors Hargreeves meant to create, achieved by raising them as a team rather than a family (a mistake Hargreeves discovered when Luther, Diego, and others called him “Dad”). Being trained and raised first and foremost as a tactical unit, the Sparrows may not have the same connections to (or hang-ups about) their super-teammates, allowing them to function more as a whole, creating a more technical and strategic challenge for the Umbrella Academy.

This competent set of superpowered foes, living the life the Umbrella Academy had always been told would be theirs, may be the game-changing competition needed to pull the Umbrella Academy together, making them the team we glimpsed in the opening of Season 2, when they combined their powers to fend off a Soviet attack on American soil. We know the Umbrella Academy can function as that unit. We’re just waiting for a threat big enough (and personal enough) to make it happen.