He adopted seven of the forty three children who were all born on the same day in 1989 to mothers without any previous signs of pregnancy. Sir reginald reggie hargreeves is an alien who assumed a human identity and gained a reputation as an explorer and eccentric billionaire as the head of the umbrella company. Sir reginald hargreeves is an alien.
In the final episode of the umbrella academy season one something strange happens. Contains spoilers for the umbrella academy. In the series as in gerard way and gabriel bá s comics sir reginald hargreeves a k a.
Netflix s wildly successful the umbrella academy introduces the hargreeves siblings as the adopted children of mysterious billionaire reginald hargreeves but the show indicated in the season 1 finale that he might be more closely related to them after all. Imdb while in the graphic novel it ouotright says that sir reginald is an alien in the netflix series we see a beaten down sir reginald planning his flight from his homeworld leaving behind his home and his sick wife behind due to some unexplained catastrophe. Sir reginald hargreeves giving the children tattoos of the family s insignia in the umbrella academy.
Umbrella academy season 2 revealed that reginald hargreeves is an alien and this twist explains how vanya gave harlan her powers using balls of orange energy. But many fans are confused by the end of episode 4 when five aidan gallagher says something to his father in a language no viewer seems to understand. The hargreeves are back on netflix thanks to season 2 of the umbrella academy which now sees the protagonist siblings living in 1963.
As we see throughout umbrella academy season 1 reginald s literally alien parenting techniques caused a dark ripple to spread through the hargreeves home an obvious issue is the bitter rivalry. Image via netflix we don t know much more than that but. In the umbrella academy comics created by gerard way and gabriel bá reggie is revealed to be an alien masquerading as a human on earth.
But it s likely however that reginald remains an alien just like in the comics. The umbrella academy s dad reginald hargreeves explained finale photos share. 40 snaps of the umbrella academy cast hanging out acting silly and being so darn lovable season two which takes place in 1963 has a more direct approach when revealing reginald s.
