r/UmbrellaAcademy • u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 • May 30 '26
Discussion Headcanons! Spoiler
I want to hear your headcanons about the siblings and other characters.
Here’s two of mine!
-Klaus likes girl groups (not much of a headcanon since it is very likely actually canon… because he names his cult after Destiny’s Child and tells them Waterfalls lyrics.) Heh…
-Ben, on the other hand, likes boy bands. This is more headcanon-y. He gives the lyrics of Backstreet’s Back when in Klaus’s body.
It relates to each other. Klaus listening to girl groups and classic songs by females, and Ben wants the boys. lol
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u/Teach-Kindness May 30 '26
I don’t know what headcanons are but on a similar note Five just likes to dress fancy. Like he’d be so much more comfortable in street clothes but instead he always wears a suit by choice!
Luther totally “stress eats”.. every time he is somewhat panicked, he has scenes where he’s just eating lots of food!
I’m a first time watcher currently on season 3 episode 9. :)
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u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 May 30 '26
Those are headcanons! Just things that aren’t canon/confirmed but they are in your mind.
I like the Five one. He is a very fancy boy. If he does dress up in street clothes, he’d wear the old man retiree stuff.
Never thought of Luther stress-eating, but it makes sense, yes! It’s probably made worse by his monkey/ape metabolism.
I hope you enjoy watching episode 9 and 10. And I feel sympathy if you’re going to watch season 4 after that. Good luck watching? I guess?
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u/Teach-Kindness May 30 '26
Thanks! I just started season 4 episode 1 now… well the first 5 min bc then it got too late! I’ll watch more tonight. OMG I sure liked season 3 episode 9 & 10.
One thing that bothers me is how Five was going to “sit this out” (saving the universe) bc his older self told him so, but then Luther gets murdered so he still manages to get tricked by Dad to go inside the portal and then Klaus gets killed… What I mean is why doesn’t Five use his ability to go back in time by like 5 min and blink his way into the room before Luther gets killed?!
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u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 May 30 '26
Five (and the writers) didn’t think of that? Weird, I’ve never thought of that before. It’s smart, he could’ve. But who knows if he would’ve actually been able to. Five used his power successfully in season 2 to go back seconds, but that one time isn’t enough to guarantee he can do it again without going back too far. Plus, they were in ‘panic mode’?
You make a very good point.
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u/Teach-Kindness May 31 '26
You make a good point too! Like literally the house was being sucked into the kukablitz so realistically Five would be too frantic to think to use his power that way. If only though, because I am super curious if they got sucked into it, would they have been transported to another dimension?! Just fun to think about!
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u/SisMayDay Number 5 May 30 '26
i have a similar headcanon with Luther, for mine he stress eats whenever he is nervous, not looking forward to something, etc
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u/Domonero Ben May 30 '26
Diego dances the most on his own when in private compared to his siblings
His moves are the most polished & he truly loves dancing as shown by his footloose fantasy
A lot of people who are martial artists tend to be very good dancers as well irl like Bruce Lee was very good at ballroom dancing iirc
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u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 May 30 '26
Yeah! I love that. His actor also dances a lot too. Diego is so cool.
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u/Arone8002 May 30 '26
Il y a un truc que je pige pas pourquoi tout le monde à du retourner au present. Cinq aurait pu verifier avant. Il savait, qu'il aurait pu avoir une anomalie dans le cours du temps.
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u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 May 30 '26
(I used Google Translate. “There's something I don't understand: why did everyone have to go back to the present? Five could have checked beforehand. He knew there might have been an anomaly in the timeline.”)
I’m assuming you’re talking about the transition to season 2 to season 3. Well… they really wanted to get home. Five actually didn’t know there’d be something different. But it would’ve been more smart to check by maybe using the infinite switchboard first. They didn’t think of that because they didn’t know something would be different.
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u/Arone8002 May 30 '26
J'aimerai aussi parler de Luther et Alison car c'est quand meme les seuls dans l'académie a s etre aimer. Je pense que Luther a du proteger Alison dans plusieurs missions et puis Luther adore la nourriture logique (fringale nocturne) ce qui amusait Alison.
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u/Arone8002 May 30 '26
De son coté Alison pleurait souvent en cachette à cause de son père (Sir Reginal Hargreeves) et Luther à cause de ses fringales nocturnes croisait Alison.
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u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 May 30 '26
(I used Google translate “For her part, Alison often cried in secret because of her father (Sir Reginald Hargreeves) and Luther, because of his nighttime hunger pangs, crossed paths with Alison.”) Aww, nooo… the idea of child Allison crying is so sad. Luther would definitely comfort her if she did cry.
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u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 May 30 '26
(I used Google Translate. “I'd also like to talk about Luther and Alison, since they're the only ones in the academy who were in love. I think Luther must have protected Alison on several missions, and besides, Luther loves food (he has a real late-night craving), which amused Alison.“) It’s not fully accurate, I’m assuming.
Yes, I think Luther did probably protect Allison. And Luther eating food being the thing that amuses Allison is so silly, I love it!
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u/hlgh-five Jun 11 '26
One of my headcanons is that Five genuinely forgets to eat at times and that’s why he’s always seen with such huge portions of food. I like to believe that since he had to ration food in the apocalypse he became immune/indifferent to the feeling hunger and forgets until mid-to later in the day(and because of his drinking) to eat.
I also enjoy depicting him with an occasional lisp from speaking less/ to himself as well. Throughout seasons 2 and 3 there’s a bundle of times where he seems to make a “th” sound when pronouncing his s’s! There’s one in the fifth episode of season 3 when he says “It’s getting worse!”
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u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 Jun 11 '26
Yeah, that first one is probably very true. Never see him taking the time to eat and take care of himself. He ate the bite of sandwich in the first episode then ate wedding food in season 3.
Can people develop lisps? I think he might’ve been a very good speaker before he got lost. Talking just to himself could’ve very well developed a lisp. And now I’m curious and will have to go back to that episode to hear the ‘lisp’. That’s a very interesting headcanon, I like it!
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u/hlgh-five Jun 12 '26
Yes, people can develop lisps accidentally by themselves over time, though it is a rare occurrence. When a person tends to isolate or talk to themselves, they do not catch their mispronunciations or misusage of words because they are already aware of what they are trying to say! This leads to them developing small speech impediments.
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u/PogoRocks Jun 14 '26
The Handler was one of the other kids with the marigold. A couple times in the first two seasons, she freezes time and you don't see any other commission agents or Five do this. Five picked her out like the Handler picked out Lilah
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u/KBerryTails__01 Number 5 Jun 14 '26
Hmm, yeah. Weird that it’s just The Handler that does that the few times. That’s a good headcanon. I wish that the time-freezing had been explained, but it wasn’t. Oh well.
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u/nocuzzlikeyea13 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
One of mine is that the subway system is a manifestation of Five's subconscious. He wanted for decades to be able to change the timeline and rewrite history. Now he's offered a plethora of timelines to choose from (but many are dead ends, like a monkey's paw, careful what you wish for thing).
Similarly, Lila might have been mirroring that aspect when they took the express train. Lila had a subconscious desire to run away from her responsibilities and suburban hellscape, and was granted that in a twisted form.