Look away now if you haven\u2019t seen how the series ends, as we\u2019re about to delve into some key plot details.<\/p>\n
The story ends with \u2013 spoiler alert \u2013 the universe saved once more, the Kugelblitz undone and the world rewritten so the Umbrella Academy are all alive, powerless, in a society where their father Sir Reginald (Colm Feore) appears to be ruling everything Lex Luthor-style.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) reunites with her daughter Claire and<\/em> her 1960s husband Ray, both living in 2019. Sir Reginald\u2019s partner Abigail is also alive and well (instead of ill or frozen on the Moon, as we\u2019ve seen her before), while Sloane (Genesis Rodriguez) is mysteriously missing.<\/p>\n The newly normal Hargreeves siblings (and Lila) head out into the world to work out how to live without their superpowers, and that might have been that. Until\u2026<\/p>\n Shortly after the credits begin, we cut to a train on the Seoul Subway system in South Korea. Sitting on the train reading a book is Justin H. Min\u2019s Ben Hargreeves, who wears a smart suit (and glasses) and smiles to himself as the train announcer calls out that \u201cthis train is bound for Yeouido Station\u201d.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not immediately clear what this scene means, though there are a few clues. In many ways, the scene acts as a mirror to the opening scene of season 3, where we saw a young Korean woman flirting with her young boyfriend on a Seoul subway train before becoming heavily pregnant when a strange energy infects her.<\/p>\n Given the date \u2013 1st October 1989 \u2013 and the fact that Reginald Hargreeves tries to buy the baby, we can assume that this is the story of how Min\u2019s Ben came to be born. While he died aged 15 in the original Umbrella Academy timeline, the separate \u2018Sparrow Academy\u2019 timeline of season 3 had him live to adulthood, and develop a more conniving, aggressive personality.<\/p>\n This Sparrow version of Ben plays a large role in season 3, eventually teaming up with his alternate siblings and ultimately surviving until the end of the season to enter the strange, Hargreeves-centric world (at which point he flounces off on his own).<\/p>\n So this scene could be as simple as suggesting that this version of Ben takes the opportunity to track down his birth mother, just as Klaus did during season 3. Naturally, this would take him to Seoul, and this could be a storyline in season 4 going forwards.<\/p>\n However, there may be a few details counting against this theory. For one thing, this version of Ben seems different, even in a short, dialogue-free appearance. The way he dresses, sits and reads seems a far cry from the brash, flashy version of Ben we\u2019ve seen this season. And how would Ben even know where to look for his mother?<\/p>\n It has us wondering whether this is an alternate version of Ben who was never adopted by Sir Reginald, and who stayed in Seoul his whole life. After all, Sir Reginald created a new world when he got the Hotel Oblivion machine working in the season 3 finale \u2013 maybe he wrote his children into it, assuming the original versions wouldn\u2019t survive his draining of their life force.<\/p>\n Remember, he told Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) to stay away from the sigil that drained her siblings (as payback for the deal she\u2019d struck with him), and created a new life for her in this parallel world. Allison ended up stepping in and killing Sir Reginald to stop him hurting the others, but maybe in his original plans the process would have finished them off. Maybe in this new world there\u2019s alternate versions of Luther, Five, Viktor, Diego and everyone else who they\u2019ll run into over the course of any future seasons.<\/p>\n Season 3 may have even teed this idea up at one point, when Five (Aidan Gallagher) warns them about running into their alternate selves or doppelgangers. As it turns out, that wasn\u2019t necessary in the Sparrow world \u2013 but it may have been a hint at what was to come in a future season.<\/p>\n It could even explain the power loss. After all, if there\u2019s a Ben that already exists in this world, maybe the alien energy (and abilities) went straight to him, cutting out the Sparrow-Ben entirely.<\/p>\n Or maybe there\u2019s another reason (which we go into in more detail in our Umbrella Academy season 3 ending explained<\/a> feature). Either way, we\u2019re pretty confident that Justin H Min \u2013 who has already played two different versions of Ben \u2013 will add a third incarnation to his repertoire when The Umbrella Academy returns.<\/p>\n Unless, you know, Ben just fancied a visit to Korea. In which case, disregard the above.<\/p>\n The Umbrella Academy season 3 is streaming now on Netflix<\/a>. <\/strong>Check out more of our Sci-Fi<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/b><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Huw Fullerton Published: Wednesday, 22 June 2022 at 12:00 am Given that The Umbrella Academy is technically a superhero story, it should probably be no surprise that season 3 ends with a post-credits scene \u2013 but it\u2019s definitely one of the more opaque we\u2019ve seen in a while, showing off a genuinely puzzling scene […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17311,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/06\/the-umbrella-academy-season-3-post-credits-scene-explained-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/06\/the-umbrella-academy-season-3-post-credits-scene-explained-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/06\/the-umbrella-academy-season-3-post-credits-scene-explained-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/06\/the-umbrella-academy-season-3-post-credits-scene-explained-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/06\/the-umbrella-academy-season-3-post-credits-scene-explained-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/06\/the-umbrella-academy-season-3-post-credits-scene-explained-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/06\/the-umbrella-academy-season-3-post-credits-scene-explained-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Huw Fullerton Published: Wednesday, 22 June 2022 at 12:00 am Given that The Umbrella Academy is technically a superhero story, it should probably be no surprise that season 3 ends with a post-credits scene \u2013 but it\u2019s definitely one of the more opaque we\u2019ve seen in a while, showing off a genuinely puzzling scene…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/17310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Umbrella Academy post-credits scene<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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