Umbrella Academy Season 2: If it follows the comics
By Rachel Roth
Dallas
“Dallas” and “Apocolypse Suite” feel like Part 1 and 2 of a single story. Published as a six-issue follow-up to “Apocolypse Suite”, “Dallas” picks up where the first left off and centers primarily around Number Five.
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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the driving force of the story as Number Five faces the consequences of not following through with a job. We saw a bit of this in Season 1, where Five is recruited by the Commission and is given the task of killing JFK but leaves before completing the mission. In the comics, Five is told by his former handlers to go back in time and fix his past mistake that is preventing Kennedy’s assassination, which he does.
There’s always a possibility that the show will follow through with this storyline, but I also find it hard to believe that Netflix will show the Hargreeves killing one of history’s most beloved presidents, so maybe not.
A lot of the things that happened in “Dallas” were already incorporated into Season 1 of the show such as Klaus’s trip to Vietnam and the introduction of Hazel and Cha-Cha, but there are plenty of other things they can borrow from.
Reginald Hargreeves is an alien
This isn’t actually part of “Dallas” but occurs during the initial introduction of Sir Reginald Hargreeves. The patriarch of the Hargreeves family isn’t a man at all but an alien wearing a human mask that came to Earth to invent several oddball things such as the Televator, the Levitator, the Mobile Umbrella Communicator, and Clever Crisp Cereal (things that sound like make-believe science gadgets).
Before adopting the Hargreeves children, he traveled around in The Minerva, an airship powered by the remains of King Amen-Kharej IV, accompanied by his bodyguard, Abhijat. The show gave reference to his backstory in the final episode of Season 1 when it showed Reginald living in a strange place with an unnamed woman. I highly doubt the show will explore this in greater detail, but there’s always a chance it might come up.
Additional abilities
In Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, the Hargreeves kids only have one power each, but originally some, such as Klaus and Diego, have multiple powers. In addition to seeing and controlling the dead, Klaus a.k.a. The Seance can summon the dead at will, is capable of telekinesis and bodily possession, and can levitate as long as he’s barefoot.
Klaus’s additional powers were hinted at in Episode 7 “The Day that Was” by Reginald when he declares that Klaus has barely scratched the surface of what he’s capable of. Klaus unlocks some of this said potential when he conjures Ben in the finale, but hopefully, there’s more to come.
Another character who has additional abilities not shown in the adaptation is Diego. People who watched the show without reading the comics were probably confused as to why Diego’s codename was “Kraken” but that’s because, in the graphic novel, he has the ability to hold his breath for an infinite amount of time.
Twin revelation and Mr. Pennycrumb
In the very beginning, it’s said that the Hargreeves were all born to different mothers (without fathers), however, in “Dallas” that turns out not to be completely true because two of them are revealed to be twins. Number 1, Luther, and Number 5 are fraternal twins and their difference in numbers was because Reginald named them in their order of potential usage.
Another Five centered detail in “Dallas” is the appearance of Mr. Pennycrumb, a dog that Five miraculously adopts out of nowhere. I can’t remember exactly how the dog entered the story so he might not have appeared so randomly the way I think he had, but yeah, Five gets a dog and a twin and I think that’s perfect.
Return to Vietnam
During Season 1 of The Umbrella Academy, Klaus traveled back in time to the Vietnam War where he met and fell in love with a soldier named Dave. This is a half-borrowed storyline that happened in Issue 5 of “Dallas”. Originally Klaus goes to Vietnam with Diego and Luther as a group to save JFK.
Netflix drastically changed the Vietnam story, making it apart of Klaus’s character arc that none of the other characters shared in, but there’s a chance that the Hargreeves, or at least Klaus, will return. In an interview with Collider, Robert Sheehan revealed that when the showrunners created Dave they had plans to bring him back for future seasons. If this is true, then it’s likely that Klaus will return to the 60s or to Vietnam and there’s recently been a rumor floating around the internet that Season 2 will be set in the 60s.