What are Luther, Diego, Five, and the other Hargreeves capable of?
Here are the powers of The Umbrella Academy.
What follows is a breakdown of every member of The Umbrella Academys (and Lilas) power.
If that is indeed the case then Mr. Hargreeves was suffering from a severe lack of imagination.
Luthers super power is basically the most generic, entry-level ability imaginable: super strength.
This helps explain his superhero callsign The Kraken.
Allison Hargreeves (Emmy Raver-Lampman) is quite clearly this character forThe Umbrella Academy.
Allison has the power of prevarication.
Or to put it more simply: her lies become real.
Sometimes the show can struggle a bit with the rules and applications of Allisons ability.
But there are other times in which Allison is able to manipulate reality itself.
Regardless, Allison is often intimated by the scope of her own powers.
And thats how the show frequently justifies her sparse deployment of them.
He is quite literally a human Ouija board.
Yes, Klauss main power is his ability to communicate with the dead.
This has extremely useful applications as seen in season 1 when he uses it to intimidate Hazel and Cha-Cha.
In season 2, however, this power gains more physical implications.
Klaus is also able to let the dead inhabit his body.
Like Diego, however, Klaus is missing one of his powers from the comic book series.
Number Four in the comic possesses the power of telekinesis and can move stuff around with his mind.
This proves to be so powerful that hes able to stop the moon from crashing into Earth.
The weird drawback is that his power only works when hes barefoot.
Klaus in the show is frequently shoeless as well but that just seems to be a personal preference.
As it turned, out Reginald was probably right as he usually, annoyingly was.
In season 2, Five discovers some easier uses for his power.
For starters, there are his blinks.
Five blinks through time and space to essentially teleport.
This is tremendously helpful during the many fist fights he finds himself in.
Number Six Ben
For much of the series, Bens superpower is simply being dead.
Yes, Number Six tragically died (of an eventually-revealed cause in season 4) in his teens.
Since then hes been mostly hanging out with his spooky brother Klaus, give or take some sideways universes.
Prior to Bens death, however, his real superpower was quite imposing.
Thats why hes known as The Horror.
In the comic and on the show Ben exclusively uses this power to procure enormous tentacles through his stomach.
Hes like a forward-facing Doc Ock.
Lila
The Umbrella Academyseason 2 finale made explicit what was pretty apparent early on.
Lila (Ritu Arya) is indeed a Hargreeves sibling.
Well…sort of.
And just like the other 42 extraordinary children, Lila has an extraordinary power.
She is able to mimic the power of any other super-powered individual she comes into contact with.
All four seasons of The Umbrella Academy are available to stream on Netflix.
