What's the Story Behind Reginald's Home Planet?
Remember Reginald Hargreeves, that super-weird adoptive dad from The Umbrella Academy? In Season 4, they finally unveiled the crazy story of what happened to his home planet. It's even more intense than we could imagine! It was destroyed and he has to try to survive a total apocalypse, but there is a super big twist that ties in with what happened on his home planet!
What happened to Reginald's Planet?
Yep! It got blasted to smithereens! It turns out his wife, Abigail, accidentally destroyed their whole home planet. Abigail was pretty amazing: kind and sweet but hiding this big secret! Turns out, she created the "marigold" particle - the source of the superpowered siblings - and the "durango" particle. If the two get together, well, the result is a galaxy-ending, boom. Boom! It caused the "Cleanse"! This thing resets the entire multiverse to its original form.
So how did it destroy his planet?
- It wasn't on purpose. Abigail realized that this whole thing with the two particles had really messed things up - she made the fatal mistake of combining the particles which led to their home planet's destruction. Poor Abigail was feeling really bad about it, which leads to another super wild twist in Season 4! She was secretly planning to use this whole "Cleanse" thing to fix everything, because she felt bad that she messed everything up in the first place!
- You could say the events in The Umbrella Academy are connected in so many wild ways - those superpowers are all from her marigold particle - and she even dies while trying to save the Hargreeves family and to reset the timeline. That's right; Reginald even tries to save his wife!
Who Did Reginald Hargreeves Blame For the Destruction?
Well, that's the weird part! He seems to have put all the blame on his kids, but maybe that’s just because of his ego.
- Reginald was not so cool back in the day. When The Umbrella Academy was young, he put them through a super hard training to develop those abilities from his Marigold particle!
- This super smart guy also got himself some awesome technology. This whole thing was his big mission! He took the marigolds to earth with him after the big boom, hoping to set everything straight and save the multiverse.
The 'Cleanse' Is Still a Mystery!
Fans were super surprised when Abigail was brought back to life in The Umbrella Academy's new timeline, and in her super last appearance she gives a hint about that Cleanse!
- They find this super important girl, Jennifer, and that was how it all came together - the world reset itself!
- It makes you wonder how many more secrets they have buried. That makes Season 4, overall, a ton of fun because those details - with those little twists in every episode - make you keep wanting more and want to try to figure it all out.
- In all honesty, this makes a whole lot more sense for why Reginald, with those powers, might have taken such crazy risks to change the entire universe's timeline!
Now, you are ready to explore the fascinating story in The Umbrella Academy! It's totally a different kind of story than those traditional superhero movies, with these messed up siblings and a wicked crazy plot.
