Just as in "Apocalypse Suite," the emotional core, and eventual overriding threat, of Season 1 is Vanya Hargreeves, who spent her life believing she was ordinary, and therefore less than her extraordinary siblings, only to discover the truth about her unhappy childhood and unlock her own terrible powers. RELATED: The Umbrella Academy's Biggest Changes From Comics to TV The Netflix drama isn't merely a live-action translation of the source material, of course, but rather a remix that follows the overarching plot of the 2007 miniseries The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, while drawing in characters and threads from its 2008 sequel Dallas (time-traveling assassins Hazel and Cha-Cha, for starters).
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To be fair, the Dark Horse comic by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba on which the series is based wears its influences on its sleeve, blending two-parts X-Men and one-part Doom Patrol to create the tale of a dysfunctional family of superheroes reunited by the death of their adoptive father (Sir Reginald Hargreeves is a colder, and crueler, Professor X), and by the impending end of the world. But less than four months ahead of its premiere, the Fox film has been beaten to the punch by Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, which tells its own, thoroughly satisfying, version of "The Dark Phoenix Saga" in its first season. The upcoming X-Men sequel Dark Phoenix is viewed as a way to finally make amends for 2006's The Last Stand, which shoe-horned the seminal Marvel Comics storyline, about the rise, corruption and ultimate fall of Jean Grey, into a muddled subplot. WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy Season 1, streaming now on Netflix.
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