The Umbrella Academy, Season 3

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• Release: 22 June 2022
• Format: TV Episode
• Genre: Superhero
• Audience: YA and Up
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Well, someone killed our mothers, so we shouldn’t exist, but clearly we do exist, and the universe can’t handle it, which is a problem.

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1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1900 to 1929: Briefly, as part of Elmer’s Grandfather Paradox
• Circa AD 1950 to 1959: Briefly, as part of Elmer’s Grandfather Paradox
• Circa AD 1970 to 1999: Berlin, during and after the fall of the wall
• Circa AD 2000 to 2099: 2019 in the “Sparrow” timeline

Timeline Models

• Hypertime: Despite the fact that the Commission’s headquarters is sometimes labeled as being in the 1950s, we’re convinced that it exists in a hypertime from which it can see and manipulate a single “real-world” timeline.

Time Travel Methods

• Innate Time Travelers: Number Five
• Luggable Time Machine

Themes

• Caution! Do Not Destroy Spacetime Continuum!: The Grandfather Paradox film in (s03e03)] contains the required warnings.
• Fix Your Time Travel Screw-Up!: This time, the impending apocalypse is caused by the paradox of Vanya bringing Harlan back to life in 1963, which eventually resulted in Vanya and many of her siblings never being born.
• Grandfather Paradox: The beginning of (s03e03) has a fun, educational film on the dangers of the Grandfather Paradox. However, the actual paradox in Season 3 is only an indirect Grandfather Paradox, in that Vanya’s actions in Season 2 eventually led to herself and others never being born She never planned to kill her ancestor (in this case, her mother)! We count this as a Self-Defeating Act, but not a Grandfather Paradox.
• Long Life: Hargreeves and Five
• Robots or Androids: Grace
• Self-Defeating Acts: By bringing Harlan back to life in Season 2, Vanya indirectly caused herself and others to have never been born.
• Self-Visitation: Five meets his old, dying self, although because they are at the Commission’s headquarters, they are shielded from the usual consquences of meeting yourself.
• Stop the Apocalypse!: The kugelblitzes portend the end of the entire universe
• Time Cabal: The Commission and their cast of thousands.

Real-World Tags

• Berlin Wall: Lila finds her mother’s stash at the Wall.

Fictional Tags

• Deities: (s03e05 and e10): God is a young girl on a bicycle in heaven.
• Heaven: This needs to be double-checked, but I don’t recall seeing Heaven or God in Smart Simians: Pogo

Groupings

• The Umbrella Academy (TV series): Season 3
• The Umbrella Academy (franchise)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From the field at Sissy’s farm outside of Dallas, Texas, after things have quieted down at the end of Season 2, [d]25 November 1963[/d] ⋙ to the family compound, 2019 in the “Sparrow” timeline. Note: [s03e01, recap]: “I knew you’d show up eventually,” says Dad when the siblings arrive, so they appear to be in the timeline that they themselves created via their interactions with Dad during 1963. Apparently, there’s a green Infinity Stone in the mix, too. Stay tuned.
2. From the utilities room the Obsidian Hotel, 2019 ⋙ to the Commission’s headquarters (probably), outside of time. Round trip. Note: [s03e03–04]: Five and Lila land at the Commission headquarters after almost everyone is dead.
3. From the Commission’s headquarters (probably), outside of time ⋙ to Berlin, 9 November 1989. Note: [s03e07]: Although this episode places the Commission headquarters as being in 1953, we still believe that it is always outside of time. In this case, Lila is at the headquarters watching and rewatching the events of 1963, and in the end, she escapes to Berlin at the fall of the wall in 1989.
4. From Berlin, sometime after the fall of the wall ⋙ to an unspecified location, 2019 in the “Sparrow” timeline. Note: [s03e07]: Lila brings young Stanley to America in 2019 to terrorize an old friend of Lila’s. Could be fun.
5. From the Hotel Oblivion in the last remnants of the universe, 2019 ⋙ to a reset timeline, possibly stillin 2019. Note: [s03e10]: Among other things, in the reset timeline, Diego still has all his fingers, Alison still has her daughter, and Hargreeves still has his wife..