Five Hargreeves?

He is an attentive, sarcastic, narcissistic, serious, reserved, mysterious, poker-faced, jealous, possessive, intelligent man with a heavy dose of dark humor, egocentric, selfish, hot-tempered, boastful, arrogant, understanding, fond of double entendres, abusive, sharp-tongued, and a joker.

Number Five was an obsessive, irritable, and intelligent member of the Umbrella Academy, and one of the superpowered children conceived from the Marigolds. Possessing the ability to teleport through space and time at will, he was trapped in a post-apocalyptic future for forty-five years, and his journey home deformed his fifty-eight-year-old body into that of a thirteen-year-old. However, he retained his much older consciousness. Recruited by the Temps Commission in the apocalyptic wasteland, Five became one of its most revered agents, a skilled assassin who maintains order across timelines. But when he left to reunite with his family, he became their primary target as he and the Academy traveled through time to prevent various apocalyptic threats. Five was born on October 1, 1989, in Dublin, Ireland, to a butcher named Efa, who showed no signs of pregnancy at dawn. Like the rest of the Umbrella Academy members, the newborn was adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who, along with Grace, raised Number Five and the rest of the Hargreeves siblings.

He was seen in a flashback during a crime scene. Sir Reginald had him and the others put on their professional attire (black suits with white masks) and head to the active crime scene. From there, they entered the bank, likely through a back entrance or via Five's teleportation. The rest of his siblings had subdued most of the criminals. One robber told them to stay back. Five teleported behind him and asked what the robber would do if they didn't. The robber, surprised, tried to shoot Five, but Five teleported behind him again. The robber turned to use his weapon, but was surprised to see he now had a stapler in his hand. Five took the stapler and stapled the robber in the head. After most of the robbers were subdued, Five and his siblings watched as Ben used his power to kill the remaining robbers. The Umbrella Academy was showcased outside the crime scene, surrounded by reporters and journalists. One day, Five is having lunch when he suddenly thinks about time travel. He approaches his father and announces that he wishes to travel through time. Reginald, surprised by his sudden outburst, explains that Five has not yet mastered his ability. Reginald's comment disturbs him, causing him to underestimate it. With that, he leaves home. With his ability to travel through space and time still incomplete, Five found himself transported to a near future where the world had been destroyed. Five tries to return to the present, but fails.

Five finds the Hargreeves mansion reduced to rubble, with all his siblings dead except Vanya. Luther's corpse contains an ocular prosthesis, which Five acquires. He accepts his fate of doom and isolation and strives to survive the Apocalypse for as long as possible. He obtains a newspaper with the date of the Apocalypse. While searching through the rubble of a local store, caused after the apocalypse, Five sees a tattered mannequin, whose lower body was torn off by means still unknown. Five, alone and yearning for companionship, drags the mannequin with him, calling her "Delores". Together, they venture into the shattered and ruined earth. For over 40 years, Five remains alone in the ruined place, no longer yearning for plastic or inanimate companionship. He continues to investigate the cause of the Apocalypse, always with the ocular prosthesis and Delores. Soon, he is greeted by a peculiar woman who calls herself "The Caretaker." Five takes his shotgun and points it at the Caretaker, asking why she would be so rude as to invade his territory. The Caretaker assures him that she doesn't intend to interfere with him or his time, but that she comes with an offer, or, in a way, an ultimatum. She informs him that she is a member of the Temporal Commission, an organization created to maintain the flow of time and eliminate threats that terrorize the timeline. She declares that she will provide him with a safe home away from the apocalypse if he accepts her offer. Five, with nowhere else to go, accepts.

Five transforms into an expert assassin, at the service of the Temporal Commission. He secretly uses this opportunity to further investigate the cause of the apocalypse. While investigating, he calculates how to travel to the present and return from where he came. Soon, The Handler hires Five as a sniper on the day of JFK's death. Sitting behind a desk, Five seizes the opportunity to time travel. He creates a wormhole, from which he escapes and returns to his teenage body. Having managed to travel back to the present, Five explains the events but finds that Vanya doesn't believe him, citing that time travel has altered his mind, just as their father had warned him. Five also has trouble convincing his siblings of the events, but is finally able to convince them when they are confronted by Hazel and Cha-Cha, who attack them. With the rest of his siblings on board, Five is forced to reveal their future deaths, who question why he didn't tell them sooner. Later, in a flashback to the future—where all of Five's siblings are dead—Five is recruited by the Temporal Commission, which allows him to retire to a time of his choosing after five years of service. He accepts, but secretly uses this time to travel to the present, eight days before the apocalypse. After the revelation that Vanya is responsible for the destruction of the Academy, not the apocalypse, Five disagrees with his siblings on the best way to handle the situation. Finally, they decide they shouldn't abandon Vanya. A fight breaks out between Vanya, Five, and the members of the Umbrella Academy, and all hope seems lost. Five reveals he has a plan: to take his entire family with him through time to prevent the apocalypse. Despite being unsure of his abilities, Five manages to travel through time with his family.

After his attempts to avert the apocalypse, Five finds himself transported to Dallas on November 25, 1963, in the midst of another apocalypse. He witnesses his siblings, the Umbrella Academy, fighting the Russians before a nuclear explosion wipes out the world. However, moments before the end of the world, Hazel arrives and tells him to come with him if he wants to live; Five agrees, and Hazel takes him back to the past, before the apocalypse, and explains that he caused the apocalypse by bringing his siblings back to the timeline. Hazel tells him to save the world again, but cannot elaborate further before being killed by the Swedes. Five tries to convince his siblings to join his attempt to save the world a second time, but is immediately rebuffed by both Luther, who has forged a life for himself, and Diego, who is trying to prevent the assassination of President JFK. Five then manages to convince Diego to help him save the world, and the two try to talk to the 1963 version of their father about his involvement in JFK's assassination. Five is able to convince Viktor to side with him shortly after Viktor offers him information about his past, which Viktor is happy to receive due to his amnesia. After Five manages to gather his entire family and get them on his side, he realizes that his only option is to collaborate with the Handler in exchange for a Temporal Commission briefcase that will allow him to travel with the Umbrella Academy to their rightful place in the timeline. Five surprisingly discovers that Lila Pitts is the Handler's adopted daughter. The Handler offers Five a proposition: she will give him a briefcase if he agrees to assassinate the members of the Commission's board; he accepts.

However, Five's attempts to return his family to their timeline fail, and he is forced to abandon the briefcase before it activates. Five explains to Luther that the only option is to confront an earlier version of himself in the same timeline and beg him to hand over the briefcase. The older, previous Five is initially reluctant to give it up, but Five manages to convince him in exchange for the correct calculations that would return him to 2019 in his original body; however, Five is upset to discover that the briefcase is destroyed in the process. After the Umbrella Academy members manage to save Viktor from destroying the world a second time, Five and the other Academy members confront the Handler and the Commission. They manage to kill the agents, but all the Academy members except Five are shot and killed by the Handler. Scared, Five remembers the advice Reginald gave him about time traveling minutes instead of decades. He is able to time travel, prevent the Handler from killing his siblings, and make a deal with Herb to allow him to take a briefcase and return his family to their rightful place in the timeline.

Personality At 13, Five was trapped in a post-apocalyptic future for over 40 years. When he found a way back, his body reverted to its 13-year-old form, while his mind remained the same. As a result, he has the personality of a 60-year-old man and is frustrated by being trapped in a child's body. He displays a brilliant intellect, often dismissing others, including his family, as stupid or inferior and expressing disinterest in their personal affairs. He is also sarcastic, pragmatic, and incredibly proud. He also exhibits impulsive behavior due to his proud nature. This is seen when he blatantly uses his time-traveling powers as a child, despite Reginald Hargreeves' warnings that he wasn't fully prepared to wield them. Five also proves to be a ruthless and incredibly efficient killer. While he doesn't enjoy killing, he seems to have no qualms about the people he has killed. He is more than willing to eliminate anyone, even innocents, whose death might stop the apocalypse. He even shows indifference when planning their murder. He gained notoriety during his time as an agent for the Temporal Commission for his success in killing countless people on missions, which he did as part of his contract to return to the present. Overall, Number Five has proven to be perfectly willing to eliminate anyone who stands in his way of achieving his goals.

Despite his antisocial behavior, he feels compassion and cares deeply for his family. He works tirelessly, both in the past and future, to prevent the apocalypse and appears to be the most dedicated member of the family to stopping it. He even refuses to involve his family most of the time for fear of their deaths. When he "renegotiates" his contract with the Temporal Commission, he demands that his family also be saved. Furthermore, as the series progresses, he becomes disillusioned with murder. When he agrees to assassinate the Commission's board of directors, he only does so believing it is to save his brothers. After this massacre, he swears never to kill again, and he keeps his promise, only retaliating when it is to defend himself or his family.

The Umbrella siblings find themselves in an altered timeline. After their encounter with Reginald in 1963, he changed the timeline by adopting Ben along with six other children, whom he trained to form a superhero team called "The Sparrow Academy". The two groups of siblings fight, and the Umbrella siblings, defeated, flee, but unknowingly leave the time-travel briefcase at the Academy. They take refuge at the Hotel Obsidian. While planning their next move, Vanya tries to make a deal with Sparrow Number One, Marcus, who agrees to return the briefcase if the Umbrella Academy siblings leave. Ben and Sparrow Number Three, Fei, observe the meeting. Diego discovers that he and Lila have a young son, Stan, and Lila leaves him with him. Meanwhile, an older man named Lester Pocket packs a suitcase and sets off for an unknown destination. When Marcus goes to retrieve the briefcase, he discovers the Kugelblitz, a temporal anomaly caused by the crossing of timelines, and disintegrates. After witnessing this act of power, Grace, who now works as a maid for the Sparrows, begins to worship the Kugelblitz.

When Luther goes for a run, the Sparrows kidnap him, believing he and his siblings have Marcus. Lila tries to leave the city, but discovers her briefcase is no longer functional. After learning that Sissy died in 1989, Vanya embarks on a journey of self-discovery, coming out as a transgender man and changing his name to Viktor. The rest of the family accepts him with open arms. Allison discovers that her daughter, Claire, doesn't exist in this timeline, leading to grief and anger. Five and Klaus go to find Klaus's biological mother and discover that all their mothers died before they were born in this timeline, creating a grandfather paradox. Diego and Stan team up after fighting Sparrow Number Four, Alphonso, and Number Six, Jayme. Allison and Viktor head to the exchange where Marcus was supposed to give them the briefcase, but he doesn't show up. Unbeknownst to them, they are stalked by Lester. Luther connects with Sloane (the fifth Sparrow) and, after being released, returns to reunite with her and they have sex. Lila mimics Fei's powers and steals the briefcase. New shockwaves from the growing Kugelblitz cause more waves of objects, humans, and animals to disappear.

Five explains the grandfather paradox, and a lovestruck Luther reunites with the Umbrella siblings. Five and Lila reluctantly team up to solve the temporal paradox, realizing neither of their briefcases work. Allison and Viktor negotiate with the Sparrows, with Allison falsely claiming they have Marcus and the Sparrows falsely claiming they have the briefcase. Allison's reckless behavior worries Viktor. Klaus confronts Reginald about their mothers, whom Reginald confirms he didn't kill, and the two bond. Klaus also discovers the Sparrows are keeping Reginald medicated to keep him docile, and teaches Reginald how to hide the pills without swallowing them. The Sparrows discover the Kugelblitz in the basement. The Sparrow and Umbrella siblings clash at the Hotel Obsidian. The Umbrella siblings are nearly defeated when Lester arrives and unleashes a burst of energy to save them, killing Alphonso and Jayme. Viktor recognizes Lester as Harlan Cooper, Sissy's son.

Because Harlan couldn't control the powers he obtained from Viktor in 1963, he and his mother lived a difficult life, constantly needing to move. When Sissy died, he had a violent outburst of power. In the present, he reunites with Viktor. Allison uses her powers on Sloane and discovers she doesn't know where the briefcase is. Frustrated, she and Diego pick a fight in a bar known for its racist clientele. Luther and Viktor return Sloane to the Sparrows as a peace offering, but Ben demands they also hand over Harlan. In the ruins of the Commission, Five and Lila find their Founder, a future version of Five, elderly, with an amputated arm and a cryptic tattoo. Before dying, she warns Five not to save the world. While playing at the Hotel, Klaus and Stan find a luxury suite called the White Buffalo, and Stan accidentally kills Klaus with a harpoon. Harlan finds the files of the deceased mothers of the Umbrella Academy. He reveals to Viktor that when Sissy died, his outburst killed their mothers and caused the grandfather paradox.

Klaus awakens in the afterlife, where the Bicycle Person reveals that he has died over 50 times, but always resurrects because he is immortal. He reunites with his deceased mother, who tells him not to mourn her and to find a purpose. Five and Lila return, but the briefcase is destroyed in the process. They reveal that the grandfather paradox has created a Kugelblitz that will soon collapse all of existence. Diego discovers that Stan accidentally killed Klaus and comforts him, but upon moving his body, Klaus resurrects. Lila and Diego resume their relationship. Desperate to escape her pain, Allison begins using her powers to force Luther, but then stops. Horrified, Luther flees in search of Sloane. The rest of the family agrees to hand Harlan over to the Sparrows so they can all focus on the Kugelblitz. Viktor feels guilty about the trauma his powers have caused Harlan and recruits Allison to sneak him out of the hotel. Klaus recognizes that Five's future tattoo belongs to a motorcycle gang, the Mothers of Agony, who used to sell him drugs. Five goes to the gang's club and finds Pogo tattooing a biker.

In 2014, Pogo is fired after a disagreement with Reginald over the Sparrows' training. He gives the Sparrows pills to sedate Reginald. In the present, Lila and Diego find a secret tunnel in the White Buffalo Suite leading to an abandoned alternate version of the Hotel Obsidian, called the Hotel Oblivion. Ben asks Luther to join the Sparrows. Pogo tells Five that the tattoo symbols connect to Project Oblivion, a Reginald obsession. Lila admits to Diego that Stan is not her son, but the son of her friend Trudy, and that she is only looking after him. Harlan and Viktor manage to transfer Harlan's powers to Viktor. Klaus tries to bond with his father and asks why the Reginald from the original timeline repeatedly killed him. To find out, Reginald experiments by electrocuting Klaus to death. A Guardian attacks Lila and Diego in the alternate hotel. They escape in time to see Stan consumed by the Kugelblitz. Harlan tells Allison that he killed the Umbrella mothers, believing she already knew. Blaming him for Claire's elimination, Allison kills him and delivers his body to the Sparrows.

In a flashback, Lila sees images of the Handler's betrayal and travels to 1989 to retrieve a hidden briefcase. There she meets Trudy and recruits her son, Stan, to participate in her plan to deceive Diego. In the present, Reginald repeatedly kills Klaus, training him to revive faster. He takes Klaus to a cemetery to confront his fears, and Klaus successfully exorcises the ghosts. Allison shows no remorse for murdering Harlan and blames Viktor for her losses. Lila, Sloane, Christopher, and Viktor combine their powers to trap the Kugelblitz in Christopher. Grace attacks them in return, and Five kills her. At the Academy, the group celebrates saving the world, and Luther proposes to Sloane, who accepts. Lila reveals to Diego that she is pregnant with his child; she pretended Stan was her son to test Diego's parenting skills. Five assures a grieving Viktor that saving Harlan wouldn't have solved his past failures. Fei and Ben clash over the future of the Sparrow Academy, and Christopher suddenly explodes, reopening the Kugelblitz, which kills Fei and forces everyone to escape.

In 1918, Reginald Hargreeves begins construction of the Obsidian Hotel. During its grand opening, he sends several soldiers through the secret tunnel, and they are all massacred. In the present, the siblings take refuge in the hotel while Luther and Sloane announce their wedding. Reginald and Klaus arrive at the hotel, but none of the siblings are interested in what Reginald has to say. Luther asks Viktor to be his best man and leaves a bitter Ben out of his bachelor party. Sloane criticizes Ben for his surly attitude, telling him to stop relying on being in charge. With Klaus's advice, Reginald gives a moving speech at the wedding reception. Viktor tries to reconcile with Allison, who refuses to forgive him. Klaus and a drunk Ben connect. The group (minus Allison) sits drunk in the courtyard as the Kugelblitz consumes the city above them. Luther comments that he finally has the family he always dreamed of. Five, drunk, overhear Reginald making a deal with someone in the White Buffalo Suite.

Five, hungover, tries to remember who made the deal with Reginald the previous night. Allison apologizes to Luther and Viktor, but both suspect she's manipulating them. Reginald calls a meeting and explains that he built the Hotel Obsidian around a portal to the universe's "reset button," built as a mirror of the Hotel Oblivion; the button requires seven people to traverse the secret tunnel and ring seven bells guarded by a Guardian. Allison, Lila, Klaus, and Ben agree to the plan, but Diego, Viktor, Luther, Sloane, and Five outvote them and decide to stay. Reginald murders Luther and blames the Guardian to motivate the group. Five remembers that Reginald made the deal with Allison. The group flees through the tunnel to the Hotel Oblivion as the Kugelblitz consumes it. Klaus tries to follow, but Reginald rejects him, telling him he's too much of a liability. To ensure he goes to the afterlife, Klaus throws himself onto the horn of the white buffalo, killing himself.

At the Oblivion Hotel, Five warns Viktor of Allison's actions. Reginald summons the Guardians to attack the others while they search for a seven-fold symbol. The group defeats the Guardians, but Five's arm is severed. In the afterlife, Luther convinces Klaus to return to life, where he exposes Reginald's betrayal. Allison confesses to Viktor that she made a deal with Reginald, but had no idea her siblings would die. Five sees a seven-star symbol on the lobby floor. Reginald forces everyone except Allison to step on the stars, activating the reset button. Realizing the process is killing them, Allison kills Reginald with an axe and presses the reset button. In the rebuilt universe, Allison reunites with Claire and Ray. Luther is alive and no longer a monkey-man, and Five's arm has regenerated, but Sloane has disappeared and everyone has lost their powers. The group then goes their separate ways. A new version of Reginald and his wife Abigail, now resurrected, observe the city, now under their control. Later, Ben travels on the Seoul subway to an unknown destination.

Six years after rebooting the universe, the Umbrella siblings live normal lives without their powers or the existence of the Academy. Ben has recently been released from prison for a cryptocurrency scam, Luther is now a stripper, Allison acts in commercials, Klaus is a sober but overly cautious germophobe, and Viktor runs his own bar, far from everyone else. Diego is an out-of-shape delivery driver, married to Lila and with children, but believes he could join the CIA. Five is a CIA operative working undercover to investigate a group known as the Guardians, who remember previous timelines and are collecting evidence of their existence, led by Jean and Gene Thibedeau. On their way to Diego and Lila's daughter's birthday party, Viktor is kidnapped by a man named Sy Grossman, whose daughter, Jennifer, disappeared after joining the Guardians. Five agrees to help after finding marigold in Sy's box. Despite knowing that the marigold will restore their powers, the siblings decide not to consume it. Ben steals the marigold and gets the Umbrella siblings to have a round of sake. Once everyone has left, Ben adds marigold to his sake and drinks it.

The next day, feeling sick and hungover, the Umbrella siblings regain their powers, and Lila can now shoot laser beams from her eyes. Ben reveals that he spiked the group's sake with calendula, thus giving everyone powers except Klaus, who threw his sake away. The group returns to Sy, but discovers he's gone, leaving only a map leading to a small town in Maine. The group drives to Maine to find Jennifer. On the way, Diego tells Five that he believes Lila is deceiving him. Five, knowing Lila was with him at a Guardian meeting, dissuades him of his suspicions. While in Maine, the townspeople, later revealed to be Hargreeves employees, attempt to kill the Umbrella siblings. Ben finds Jennifer and convinces her to join them. Klaus is mortally wounded, but revives after receiving calendula. When Ben promises to reunite Jennifer with her father, she is confused. Before she can respond, her car is attacked by Jean and Gene, who kidnap Jennifer.

In October 2006 (around the time of the original Ben's death), a giant squid was captured with Jennifer inside. When asked what happened, Jennifer replied "The Cleaning." Shortly after, Reginald built a town in Maine so Jennifer could live a normal, but protected life. In the present, Ben's body has changed after colliding with Jennifer during the kidnapping. Klaus is kidnapped by his drug dealer, Quinn, after discovering his immortality. Five, Diego, and Lila go to the Guardians' headquarters. Five reveals to Lila that his powers now allow him to navigate between timelines through a subway station, at the same time and place. Allison, Viktor, and Luther go to the Hargreeves mansion, where they encounter Abigail and Reginald. Five, Diego, and Lila find files from the original timeline, indicating the cause of Ben's death as "The Jennifer Incident." Realizing that the original Reginald erased their memories of how Ben died, they attempt to recover them. Meanwhile, Jean and Gene show Jennifer memories from the original timeline, as well as the giant squid. While Ben searches for Jennifer, Sy tells him to listen to his body. Ben rescues Jennifer from the Thibedeaus, unaware that they intentionally let her escape.

On October 14, 2006, in the original timeline, the Umbrella Academy (except Five and Vanya) is sent to destroy a container in Moldova. Ben hears Jennifer inside and lets her out. Reginald arrives and kills Ben and Jennifer in front of the others. After recovering the memory of the incident, Abigail reveals that she was responsible for Reginald killing them. Years ago, she created a new element, calendula. However, unknowingly, a second element, durango, was created, which is currently inside Jennifer. If both interact, it would cause "The Cleansing," which would destroy the world. To prevent it, Reginald wants to kill Ben, but Viktor, instead, wants to remove the calendula. Five and Lila try to find the original timeline to prevent the death of the original Ben, but they get lost. Meanwhile, Klaus is forced to become Quinn's medium and prostitute to pay off his debts. Klaus manages to escape Quinn's building and finds a bag of money in a grave. Quinn finds Klaus, steals the money, and begins to bury him. On the other hand, Ben and Jennifer have sex in a motel, releasing a surge of energy that damages the environment and kills the employee.

Five and Lila are lost for over six years while traveling through the temporal subway. Viktor and Reginald contact Ben and try to warn him about interacting with Jennifer, but he ignores their warnings. However, Jennifer begins to feel unwell. Sy informs the Guardians about Ben's role with Jennifer and recommends keeping Ben's siblings away from him. The Guardians set a trap that kills Reginald's men and injures Viktor. At CIA headquarters, Luther realizes that Five's boss, Ribbons, is a member of the Guardians, leading Luther and Diego to fight to escape the CIA. Gene distrusts Sy and tells him to leave. Sy, who reveals herself as Abigail in disguise, kills Gene and disguises herself as him, just as the Guardians learn of Ben and Jennifer's current whereabouts. Five and Lila decide to take a break from traveling and stay in one of the timelines, where they fall in love. While searching, Five finds notes written by himself, which will lead them back to their original timeline, but he hides them from Lila for a few months. Five hesitates to return, but Lila wants to return immediately. Meanwhile, Allison and Claire find and rescue Klaus from the grave.

The Guardians block Ben and Jennifer's building, whose bodies have undergone severe mutations due to their interaction. Viktor attempts to purge the durango now inhabiting Ben, but fails. Ben and Jennifer merge to become the Purification. Abigail tells Reginald that he caused the Purification because he shouldn't have returned to life, thus restarting the timeline. Five, dejected at not being able to stop the Purification, travels alone on the temporal subway until he encounters Fives from other timelines. They explain that only one timeline exists, and that the division and merging of timelines, as well as the constant threat of apocalypse, is due to the existence of the calendula and its families. When Reginald first released the calendula in 1989, a side effect of pregnancy in women was the creation of multiple timelines. Five returns to his siblings and tells them they must let the Purification absorb them and their calendula. By doing so, they will cease to exist, but they will also create a single timeline without an apocalypse. Lila saves her family and Claire, and then joins the siblings as they are all absorbed, destroying all timelines but one.

A cluster of calendula flowers blooms at the base of a giant sycamore tree. In doing so, they generate pollen reminiscent of the same substance that would have created the calendula elixir in all timelines where the Umbrella Academy students still existed... Six flowers grew... Five, on the other hand, due to his abilities... a strange energy brought him to life... Falling into LA (Los Angeles, California) Disoriented and lost... He didn't know how he got there or where his siblings were... He felt worried not seeing Laila and knowing nothing... He didn't know it had been fictional and was now real... He didn't know that his whole life was a Netflix series with a sentimental ending.