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| “ | Jesus, who do I gotta kill to get a decent cup of coffee? | „ |
| ~ Number Five |
Number Five is the tritagonist of the comic book series The Umbrella Academy and its television series adaptation . He is one of 43 Children who were born of unnatural pregnancy. He was adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves alongside his adoptive siblings, Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Ben, and Viktor Hargreeves.
In the TV series, he was portrayed by Aiden Gallagher.
Biography[]
Comics[]
The child that would become known simply as Number Five was born at the same time as forty-two other extraordinary children around 1950. As a baby, he was adopted by the world-famous scientist and entrepreneur Sir Reginald Hargreeves with the express intention of training them to save the world. Number Five lived at the special academy set up by Hargreeves to train the children. Designated as Number Five by Hargreeves, he had the ability to time travel. Using his abilities, Number Five traveled forward in time, disappearing several days before the Umbrella Academy's first mission in Paris to stop the rampaging Eiffel Tower. Sir Reginald indicated that his absence was no great loss.
In 1980 of the original timeline, Number Five arrived to find a barren wasteland of death and destruction, with dead corpses all around. After a few days, he realized he was the only human left alive on the planet, so he played around, decapitating stuffed animals and statues with a sword. Soon, however, he realized how bad this was, and began calculating how to go home.
After a particular amount of research, he found Vanya's book Extra Ordinary: My Life as Number Seven. Sometime after, he began hallucinating that a statue of a woman could talk. He fell in love with her and named her Dolores. After fifty years in the apocalyptic wasteland, growing old and trying to calculate how to get himself back home, a realization, expressed through Dolores, came to him, that twelve years ago in his calculations, he forgot to subtract a two from a one. Giving Dolores one last huge hug, Five finally took his journey back through time and was finally going home to 1960, the day the Eiffel Tower went berserk all over Paris.
While skimming the timeline to return to when he left, Number Five was extracted from the timestream by the Temps Aeternalis. They agreed to return him home if he took up employment with them for five years, to which he agreed. Eager to utilize Five's time-travel abilities, the Temps performed extensive surgery on Number Five, enhancing his reflexes, strength, and agility, as well as, without Five's knowledge or consent, binding his DNA to that of some of history's most famous killers. They taught him to perform microjumps through time, making the old man incredibly fast and the greatest assassin in the history of the organization. For a few years, Five did what they ordered, and got into doing heavy narcotics and drugs, numbly soaking in his victories. However, when it came time for him to assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1963, he uncovered the truth of the Temps' tampering with his DNA. Furious, Five traveled to 1963 as planned, but shot all the backup Temps killers sent to kill Kennedy from the future when they discovered Five had disobeyed their orders. Five then left 1963 and finally made his journey to 1960, the time he was trying to get to in the first place.
Shortly after the death of the Monocle in 1980, Number Five returned to the Academy, seemingly having not aged a day since his disappearance. He revealed himself first to Phinneus Pogo, then to Spaceboy after his brother had returned from the Moon in the wake of their father's death.
TV Series[]
Season 1[]
As the rest of the Umbrella Academy members, "Number Five" was born on October 1st, 1989, and was adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who, along with Grace, raised Number Five and the rest of the Hargreeves siblings.
He was seen in a flashback, during a crime scene. Sir Reginald had him and the others wear their professional attire (black suits with white masks) and head to the scene of the active crime. From there they entered the bank, most likely through a back door entrance or through Five's teleportation. The remainder of his siblings had subdued most of the criminals. One robber told them to stay back. Five teleported behind him and questioned what the Robber would do if they didn't. The robber, shocked, attempted to shoot Five but Five teleported behind him again. The robber spun round to use his gun but was surprised to see he now held a stapler in his hand. Five took the stapler and pushed it into the robber's head. After most of the robbers were subdued, Five and his siblings watched as Ben used his power to kill the rest of the robbers. The Umbrella Academy was showcased outside of the crime scene surrounded by news reporters and journalists.
Later throughout the week, Five exited a limousine outside of his home. He and his siblings were intruded on by Harold Jenkins, cosplaying their outfits. Leonard attempted to console with Reginald, divulging that he was born on the same day as Five, and would like to ally with the Umbrella Academy. Five watched as Reginald mortified and dragged out Harold in front of a crowd. But he and the others brushed the occurrence away and returned to their normal lives.
One day, Five is eating lunch when he has the sudden thought of time traveling. He approaches his father and announces that he wishes to travel in time. Reginald is shocked by his sudden exaggeration and explains that Five has not yet tamed his own ability. Five is agitated by Reginald's comment, provoked that Reginald underestimates him. With that, he leaves his home. With his ability to jump through space and time not yet perfected, Five found himself transported to a near future in which the world had been destroyed. Five attempts to travel back to the present but finds himself unable to do so.
Five finds the Hargreeves manor turned to rubble, with all of his siblings, except Viktor, dead. Luther's corpse holds a prosthetic eyeball, which Five acquires. He accepts his fate of doom and seclusion and strives to survive in the Apocalypse as long as he can. He procures a newspaper with the date of the Apocalypse. Whilst searching through the wreckage of a local convenience store, caused in the wake of the apocalypse, Five lays his eyes upon a tattered mannequin, whose lower body was removed by means that still remain unknown. Five, alone and yearning for company, drags the mannequin along with him, naming her "Dolores." Together, they venture the wrecked and ruined earth. For over 40 years, Five remains alone in the ruined place, longing for company that is not plastic or inanimate. He still investigates the cause of the apocalypse, always bearing the prosthetic eyeball and Dolores. Soon, he is greeted by a peculiar woman who calls herself "The Handler." Five acquires his shotgun and positions it towards the handler, demanding why she would be so rude as to trespass into his territory. The Handler assures him that she means not to Hinder him or his time, but comes with an offer, or Ultimatum in a sense. She informs him that she is a member of the Temps Commission, an organization created to maintain the proper flow of time, and remove threats that terrorize the timeline. She declares that if he accepts her offer, he will maintain a safe home, away from the apocalypse/ Five, with nowhere else to go, accepts.
Five is transformed into an expert hitman, working to serve Temps Commission. He secretly uses this opportunity to further probe the cause of the apocalypse. Whilst investigating, he calculates how he will be able to travel back into the present time, and return from whence he came. Soon, The Handler hires Five to be a marksman on the day of J.F.K's death. Positioned behind a desk, Five takes this opportunity to travel back in time. He forms a wormhole, from which he escapes into, being transferred back into his teenage body.
Having managed to travel back to the present, Five explains the events but finds that Viktor does not believe him, citing that time travel has messed with his mind, just as their father had warned. Five has trouble convincing his siblings of the events too, but is eventually able to convince them when they're confronted by Hazel and Cha-Cha, who attack them.
With the rest of his siblings on board, Five is eventually forced to reveal their future deaths to his siblings, who question why he did not tell them sooner. Later, a flashback to the future — in which all of the Five's siblings are dead — Five is recruited by the Temps Commission who agree to allow him to retire to a time of his choosing after five years of service; he agrees, but secretly uses this time to travel to the present, eight days before the apocalypse.
With the revelation that Viktor is responsible for destroying the Academy — not the apocalypse — Five is conflicted with his siblings on how best to handle the situation. Eventually, they decide that they shouldn't abandon Viktor. A fight breaks out between Viktor, Five, and the Umbrella Academy members, and all hope seems lost. Five reveals that he has a plan: he will take all of his family with him through time in an effort to avoid the apocalypse. Despite not being sure of his abilities, Five is successful in traveling through time with his family.
Season 2[]
Following his attempts to avert the apocalypse, Five finds himself transported to Dallas, November 25, 1963, in the midst of another apocalypse. He witnesses as his siblings, the Umbrella Academy fight the Russians prior to a nuclear explosion that ends the world. Moments before the world ends, however, Hazel arrives and tells him to come with him if he wants to live; Five obliges and Hazel takes him back in time to before the apocalypse and explains that he caused the apocalypse by bringing his siblings back in the timeline. Hazel tells him to save the world one more time but is unable to explore more before he is assassinated by the Swedes.
Five tries to get his siblings on board with his attempt to save the world for the second time, but is instantly rebuked by both Luther — who has built a life for himself — and Diego, who is attempting to prevent the assassination of President JFK. Five is later able to convince Diego to help him save the world, and the two try and talk with the 1963 version of their father about his involvement in the assassination of JFK. Five is able to convince Viktor to his side shortly after he offers insight into their past, which Viktor is happy to receive due to their amnesia.
After Five is able to get all of his family back together, and on his side, he realizes that his only option is to work with the Handler in exchange for a briefcase from the Temps Commission that will allow him to travel back with the Umbrella Academy back to their rightful place within the timeline. Five makes a shocking discovery along the way that Lila Pitts is actually the Handler's adoptive daughter. The Handler offers Five a proposition: she will give him a briefcase if he agrees to assassinate the members of the Commission board; he agrees.
Five's attempts to get his family back to their timeline fail, however, and he is forced to abandon the briefcase before it is activated. Five explains to Luther that the only option is to go face a previous version of himself in the same timeline and plead with him to hand over the briefcase. Older, previous Five is initially reluctant to give Five the briefcase, but Five is able to convince him in exchange for the correct math that would return him to 2019 in his original body; Five is annoyed to find that the briefcase is destroyed in the process, however.
After the members of the Umbrella Academy are able to save Viktor from destroying the world for a second time, Five and the other members of the Academy face off against the Handler and the Commission. They are successful in killing the agents, but all of the members of the Academy — except for Five — are shot to death by the Handler. Scared, Five remembers advice given to him from Regionals about traveling back in time minutes, rather than decades. He is able to travel back in time and prevent the Handler from killing his siblings and makes a deal with Herb to allow him to take a briefcase and return his family to their rightful place within the timeline.
Season 3[]
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Season 4[]
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Personality[]
At age 13, Number Five became trapped in the apocalyptic future for more than 40 years. When he found a way back, his body regressed to that of his 13-year-old self, while his mind stayed the same. As a result, he has the personality of a 60-year-old and is frustrated at being trapped in the body of a child. He is shown to have a genius intellect, often dismissing others, including his family, as stupid or inferior, and expressing disinterest in their personal affairs. He is also shown to be sarcastic, pragmatic, and incredibly prideful. He also exhibits impulsive behavior due to his prideful nature, which is seen when he brazenly uses his time-traveling powers as a boy despite Reginald Hargreeves' warnings that he was not fully prepared to wield them.
Number Five is also shown to be a ruthless and incredibly efficient killer. While he does not enjoy killing, he seems to have no qualms about the people he has killed and is more than willing to eliminate anyone, even innocent people, whose deaths may stop the apocalypse from happening and even displays nonchalance when making plans to murder them. He gained fame in his times as an agent of the Temps Commission for his success in killing countless individuals on missions, which he did as part of his contract in order to get back home to the present. Overall, Number Five has shown to be perfectly willing to eliminate anyone who stands in the way of his goals.
Despite his antisocial behavior, he does have compassion and cares for his family deeply. He works tirelessly both in the past and future to prevent the apocalypse and is seemingly the most devoted member of the family in stopping it. He even refuses to involve his family most of the time out of fear they would die. When he "renegotiates" his contract with the Temps Commission, he demands that his family be saved as well.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Five is somewhat a combination of Flash from DC Comics and Nightcrawler from Marvel Comics.
External Links[]
- Number Five on the The Umbrella Academy Wiki
- Number Five on the Villains Wiki