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| “ | Who I am is not a disease. | „ |
| ~ Viktor Hargreeves |
Viktor Hargreeves, formerly known as Number Seven, is one of the main protagonists 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 got adopted by Sir. Reginald Hargreeves alongside his adoptive siblings, Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Number Five, and Ben Hargreeves.
In the TV series, he is portrayed by Elliot Page, who portrays Shadowcat in X-Men: The Last Stand and voices and motion-captured Jodie Holmes in David Cage's Beyond Two Souls.
Biography[]
Comics[]
The child that would become Viktor Hargreeves was born at the same time as forty-two other extraordinary children. 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. Viktor lived at the special academy set up by Hargreeves to train the children. Designated as Number Seven by Hargreeves, Viktor seemingly displayed no special abilities, leading Sir Reginald to label him as "utterly useless." Viktor pursued a love of music, but was considered to have only a mediocre level of skill by his adopted father.
The Umbrella Academy[]
Ten years after their adoption, the Umbrella Academy made their public debut to counter the threat posed by the Zombie-Robot Gustave Eiffel and the rampaging Eiffel Tower in Paris. Because of her lack of powers, Viktor did not join in the mission and watched it unfold aboard The Minerva with her father. He asked about the whereabouts of Number Five and was told by Sir Reginald that he was probably in the future. Sir Reginald told him to go and practice the violin.
Viktor detailed her experiences in a tell-all autobiography entitled "Extra-Ordinary: My Life as Number Seven." The book contained a lot of negative things about his family.
In his teenage years, he went through a rebellious phase. During this time he seemed to be very connected to the Kraken and both of them were in a punk-rock band called the Prime-8's. Still, Kraken continued as a member of the Academy. After he left the band due to a mission with the Academy, Viktor realized it just wasn't his place, leaving home without telling anyone.
The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite[]
In his apartment, Viktor took a telephone call from a mysterious individual telling him that Sir Reginald was dead. Viktor did not react to the news, and the caller offered him the chance at revenge by offering him an audition for his Orchestra Verdammten. He told him to be at the Icarus Theatre at noon the following day. The following day, Viktor attended the theatre. Finding it dilapidated and in darkness, Viktor was asked to play anything by a hidden voice. Despite not playing the violin for twelve years, Viktor played until a string broke on his instrument. Applause from the darkness greeted him, and the lights went up to reveal a large group of people. Their leader introduced them as the Orchestra Verdammten, and himself as The Conductor. Telling Viktor that he had written a piece of music that could destroy the world known as The Apocalypse Suite, The Conductor needed Viktor to join him, believing that his father had been wrong about him and he had always had power inside him. Viktor walked out of the theatre and told The Conductor not to follow her.
Viktor went to help his siblings with Doctor Terminal's robot attack, trying to tell them of the Orchestra Verdammten's threat, but was harshly rejected by Diego, who told him to "get lost." Leaving in tears, he returned to the Orchestra Verdammten and was prepared to end the world, believing he now had no one else left to turn to.
The Conductor revealed that he had read Hargreeves's notes and discovered that he was the most dangerous Academy member of all, and that all this time his pills had really been killing his powers. Utilized to awake her inner powers and explained to him that he had read Hargreeves's notes and he discovered that she was in fact the most dangerous of his siblings. Hargreeves had experimented with him so that he could not use his powers to destroy the world. After that the director made him awake his powers. During a performance to show his abilities he killed the Conductor and went to the Academy. There he killed Pogo, destroyed Ben's statue, and burned the Academy.
Returning to the orchestra, the Apocalypse Suite began, with the Umbrella Academy appearing to stop him . During their confrontation he cut Rumor's neck before the Séance appeared pretending to be possessed by Hargreeves to stop her. He stopped playing and started arguing with him, saying that he was going to end the world and he called that a tantrum, which after he started crying. That's when Number Five shot him in the head and left him half-dead, but the apocalypse still continued, the final act being that of moon chunks hurtling right at them. Five responds to that by saying he never really liked him, but before they all perish, Séance proceeded to use his telekinesis to stop the meteorites. He was rushed to the hospital and saved just in time, but he developed amnesia and could not walk.
TV Series[]
Season 1[]
Assumed to have no powers, Viktor has a power so uncontrollable that he could put the world in danger. Even as a child, Sir Reginald Hargreeves noticed that he used his powers against every nanny he met, resulting in Reginald putting a closer eye in him and his powers. He tried to convince him that he was ordinary, but all of these were lies since he tested on his powers in order to help him to control.
Because of his unusual, uncontrollable and destructive powers that he became more distant and distant from the other members of the Academy. After being refused by all the heroic siblings and starting a romantic relationship with Leonard Peabody, he thinks to have found someone who understood his peculiarities. But in the end, Viktor realizes that Leonard didn't really love him and was using his powers in his own benefit, resulting on Viktor killing him in a fit of rage. Leonard went even far into convincing him to destroy the Hargreeves as he was rejected by the Umbrella Academy as well.
When his powers were a bit managed, he was confined in order not to put in danger the life of the Umbrella and avoid the apocalypse. His powers were powerful enough to break that prison which supposedly prevented him from his own powers. As he escaped, Viktor used his powers in order to finally plot his ultimate revenge against the other heroic siblings, resulting in the death of Pogo in the process and the almost succeeded cataclysm. Fortunately, Number Five was able to turn back in time before the worst of fears became a reality.
Season 2[]
After number five successfully avoids the apocalypse by turning on time, an incident takes place. Every single member of the Academy appear in different years.
Viktor has an accident and unable to remember anything he has a complete different life that from the academy. he finds herself in a farm with a married family with a child, Harlan. After being welcomed, he feels very pleased as he was pretty misunderstood in her life from the original timeline, even excluded.
Having this new life, Viktor finds no sense on stopping the apocalypse or helping the Academy as he almost doesn't remember that he is the cause of the apocalypse. As the series progresses, Viktor gets fond Harlan and even falls in love with his mother Sissy, as she doesn't have a good relationship with Carl because it is implied that he has been an absent father and husband. The fond for Harlan goes so far that even when he almost drowned he saves him with his superpowers, which he seems to have finally managed. This well-intentioned act, however, had a bad yet unexpected result: he transferred his powers to Harlan.
This series of unfortunate events get Viktor to be interrogated, after accidentally speaking Russian, he is brutally tortured under the belief that he is related to the KGB. To defense himself from the brutal torture and under the effects of hallucinations, he uses his uncontrollable powers and all the memory he lost, came back and understood every wrongdoing he did, feeling genuinely sorry. With the help of Ben, Viktor cannot cause the so feared apocalypse in the alternative time. After these events, Viktor and the other Umbrella members fight against The Handler, in which they are all shot dead. However, when everything seems in vain, Number Five turns back time and saves everyone.
Viktor Finally is convinced to join with the former members from the Academy and go back to the time they belong, but the unexpected takes place again, there is no Umbrella Academy and Reginald and Ben are alive, and founded the Sparrow Academy.
Trivia[]
- Following Elliot Page's coming out as a transgender man in December 2020, his character Vanya also came out as trans changing his name to Viktor.
- Viktor is somewhat a combination of Captain Atom from DC comics and Scarlet Witch from Marvel comics.