Sir reginald is extremely cold hearted often mistreating and even experimenting on the children for. The umbrella academy the monocle sir reginald hargreeves a wealthy entrepreneur and world renowned scientist he was a recipient of the nobel prize for his work in the cerebral advancement of the chimpanzee and is the founder of the umbrella academy a group of adopted super powered children. It s a flashback in which a much younger sir reginald hargreeves the wealthy entrepreneur and inventor who heads up the umbrella academy is talking to his wife or lover it s not specified.
The story follows six adopted siblings who were raised to be superheroes by eccentric billionaire inventor sir reginald hargreeves. Early last year netflix released the umbrella academy based on the comics written by gerard way and illustrated by gabriel bá. He purchases contradictory 7 of the 43 babies born that day who become the members of the umbrella academy including spaceboy luther hargreeves the kraken diego hargreeves the rumor allison hargreeves the séance klaus hargreeves the boy number.
The academy is led by the monocle sir reginald hargreeves an alien disguised as a wealthy entrepreneur and world renowned scientist. 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.
Sir reginald hargreeves has always been a rather cold fellow treating his children with a brutal indifference that often lapses into abuse. The umbrella academy season two spoilers follow. More of reginald hargreeves mysterious backstory is revealed in the umbrella academy season 2 so we break down who he really is after that head scene.
There s quite a bit of mystery surrounding sir reginald hargreeves colm feore aka the monocle on netflix s the umbrella academy we know that he s the adoptive father of superpowered siblings. Inventor of the televator the levitator the mobile umbrella communicator and clever crisp cereal. He adopts the members of the umbrella academy at birth.
Sir reginald hargreeves also known as the monocle is an alien disguised as a wealthy entrepreneur and world renowned scientist. 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.
