Who is Number Five in The Umbrella Academy?

The boy who is fifty-eight · The Umbrella Academy

Number Five (The boy who is fifty-eight) is a character in The Umbrella Academy, part of The Umbrella Academy. Number Five jumped through time at thirteen against Dad's explicit instructions, and walked out of a portal at the funeral — still thirteen, now with fifty-eight years of apocalypse wasteland and professional assassination behind his eyes. The family's best brain in its youngest body, Five has seen the end of the world (it's in eight days; he checked), survived it alone with a mannequin named Dolores, and worked for the agency that maintains the timeline. He drinks black coffee, suffers no fools, and is related to six of them.

When does Number Five first appear?

Number Five first appears in Season 1, Episode 1 (“We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”) of The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024, Netflix).

Who is Number Five connected to?

Relationships already established when Number Five first appears — nothing from later episodes.

• Vanya Hargreeves — The two outsiders, oldest alliance

Which group does Number Five belong to?

By the time Number Five appears, The Umbrella Academy also includes Luther Hargreeves, Diego Hargreeves, Allison Hargreeves, Klaus Hargreeves, Ben Hargreeves, Vanya Hargreeves.

Who else is introduced in this episode?

• Luther Hargreeves — Number One, last to leave
• Diego Hargreeves — Number Two, throwing knives at the title
• Allison Hargreeves — Number Three — I heard a rumor…
• Klaus Hargreeves — Number Four, haunted and self-medicating
• Ben Hargreeves — Number Six, deceased, still attending
• Vanya Hargreeves — Number Seven, ordinary by design
• Reginald Hargreeves — The monocle, the experiment, the father
• Grace Hargreeves — Mom, batteries included
• Pogo — The chimpanzee with the family's secrets

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