Spaceboy (originally Number One, legally Luther Hargreeves) is the sensitive and driven leader of the Umbrella Academy and one of the forty-three superpowered children. With his incredible strength and jetpack, he was instrumental in saving the world from the Eiffel Tower, the Orchestra Verdammten, and various other threats.
Biography[]
Early life and career[]
An infant Number One with his adoptive siblings[1]
00.01, often referred to as Number One, was one of forty-three superpowered children born simultaneously circa 1953, and was part of the only pair of twins, along with Number Five.[3] One, Five, and five other babies were adopted by the callous and manipulative scientist Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who gave them numerical designations instead of names and raised them from a special academy in the City with Mom, an android caregiver, and his chimpanzee associate Phinneus Pogo.
As the children displayed extraordinary abilities from birth, Hargreeves experimented on and trained them throughout their childhoods to become superheroes, intended to save Earth from an unspecified threat. Number One displayed immense strength and resilience as he grew older. His dedication to succeed led him to excel at anything he put his mind to, particularly flying and shooting. Possessed of a ruthless leadership style, Number One became Sir Reginald's favorite among the children and the leader of their team, dubbed the Umbrella Academy.[1]
Leading the Umbrella Academy against the Eiffel Tower[1]
Ten years after their adoption, the Umbrella Academy, led in the field by Number One, made their public debut fighting the rampaging Eiffel Tower in Paris.[1] Despite missing Number Five, who had jumped to the future with his time travel abilities,[4] the team quickly became celebrities, and accumulated a wide rogues gallery of adversaries over the years, including the Lincoln Memorial statue,[5] Doctor Terminal,[6] the Murder Magician,[7] and many more.
As the children grew older, Mom chose to give them proper names, and One became "Luther Hargreeves".[4] He and his sister, Allison, formed a close bond, and she later claimed that Luther had wanted to kiss her since they were children. However, since Allison's power is to manipulate reality by lying, it is unclear if the romantic love he showed her later in life was always there, or if it had been invented by Allison through her rumors.[8]
Becoming Spaceboy[]
Spaceboy is born[1]
Over the years, the Hargreeves siblings began to drift away from their father, particularly Vanya, who appeared to have no powers, but Luther remained loyal. He was the first boy to travel to space, earning him the nickname "Spaceboy". During a mission to Mars, Luther was critically injured, and to save his life, Hargreeves was forced to surgically transplant his head onto a Martian ape's body, which enhanced his already immense strength.
Eventually, one Umbrella Academy mission led to the mysterious death of Ben Hargreeves, and the team disbanded soon after. Still loyal to his father, Spaceboy accepted his mission to protect Earth from extraterrestrial threats by taking up residence on Earth's moon, along with his robot assistant Ben.[1]
Battling the White Violin[]
Meteor apocalypse timeline[]
In the original sequence of events, Luther was informed of Hargreeves' passing and returned to Earth around 1983,[1] where he reunited with the rest of the Umbrella Academy and presumably fought Vanya, whose suppressed sound manipulation powers had been unleashed by the Orchestra Verdammten, turning her into "The White Violin".[9] The battle resulted in the White Violin shattering the moon and its pieces falling in a meteor shower onto the planet's surface and wiping out all life, including Spaceboy.[4]
In his travels through time, Number Five ended up being trapped on the post-apocalyptic Earth for decades, before he figured out how to travel back to 1983 mere days before the apocalypse, but with no idea of the cause or how to stop it,[4] and being trapped in his ten-year-old body. This created a new timeline and altered how events played out from that point on.[1]
Nuclear Armageddon timeline[]
Family reunion and funeral[4]
In the new sequence of events in 1983, Spaceboy returned to discover Five having returned,[1] who warned him of the coming apocalyptic threat, and that the Umbrella Academy needed to reunite to stop it. Immediately after Hargreeves' funeral,[4] the Academy was drawn to a carnival in the City, to stop Doctor Terminal's Terminauts from killing everyone they could. They were successful, and continued to seek out the true apocalyptic threat.[6]
Spaceboy brings the Rumor to the hospital[9]
After spending some time arguing with his brother, the Kraken,[8] and reconnecting with Allison, now dubbed "The Rumor",[10] Spaceboy was informed by Five that Vanya was the threat they needed to stop.[10] The Umbrellas all went to stop the White Violin, but in the midst of the battle, she slashed Allison's throat and Spaceboy rushed her to the hospital as the others defeated the White Violin and saved the world.[9]
The Rumor's life was saved, but Luther was left so deeply traumatized over what had happened that he quit being a superhero, set up camp in the basement under the wreckage of the destroyed Umbrella Academy building itself, and gained a lot of weight as he sulked and watched TV for days on end.[5]
The Kennedy assassination[]
The Hotel Oblivion breakout[]
Personality[]
Powers and abilities[]
Powers[]
- Superhuman Strength: Spaceboy has super-strength, heightened by his gorilla body. His life-support system is also a jet-pack, and he is good with a laser-pistol.
Appearances[]
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Gallery[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1
- ↑ The Umbrella Academy: Dallas #5
- ↑ The Umbrella Academy: Dallas #6
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #2
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Umbrella Academy: Dallas #1
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #3
- ↑ ...But the Past Ain't Through With You
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #4
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #6
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #5
| The Umbrella Academy Characters from the Dark Horse comics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Umbrella Academy | Spaceboy • The Kraken • The Rumor • The Séance • Number Five • The Horror • The White Violin • Sir Reginald Hargreeves • Doctor Pogo • Abhijat | ||
| Sparrows | Mom • Number One • Carla | ||
| Temps Aeternalis | Carmichael • Hazel • Cha-Cha | ||
| Other villains | The Conductor • Murder Magician • Doctor Terminal • John Perseus X • Scientific Man • Vivian Clarke • The Shivers | ||