Number Five from The Umbrella Academy is not the usual hero on a mission to save the world from approaching disaster. The unpredictability of time travel places the brain of an old man who has lived a lifetime in an apocalyptic wasteland back into the body of his teenage self. He is desperate to return to his adopted family so they can team-up and stop the end of everything (or the end of something).
Five makes a name for himself working as a marksman, but what he wants most is to rewrite the timeline and stop the apocalypse. Here are five times fans sympathized with him and five times he wasn’t the most likable.
10 Hated: Denying His Addiction To The Apocalypse
Klaus asks Five how he knew how to time travel, and Five condescendingly tells Klaus that he would know how too if he were sober.
Klaus says that Five is an addict whose high is the apocalypse. Five denies this, though the apocalypse is the only thing that has given his life meaning over the years and he doesn’t know who he is without it. Five is vain and won’t admit how his attachment to finding the owner of the fake eye negatively affects him.
9 Felt Bad: When He Couldn’t Get A Decent Cup Of Coffee
After spending over half his life surviving on canned food, cockroaches, and expired Twinkies, Five takes a job at the Commission and then returns to the present timeline, craving a cup of coffee. He searches the Academy but has no luck, so he drives to Griddy’s Doughnuts. His coffee visit is interrupted by Temps Commission soldiers.
Later in the season, Five once again struggles to get a decent coffee. Klaus prepares a cup for him but he isn’t satisfied.
8 Hated: Getting Drunk In The Library
In episode 3, “Extra Ordinary,” Hazel and Cha-Cha break into The Umbrella Academy with the intention of killing Five. Diego, Allison, and Luther battle the assassins. Vanya is injured before Hazel and Cha-Cha escape with Klaus. Luther and Diego later find Five passed out drunk in the library.
If Five had been at the Academy instead of the library, the family would have had a better chance of stopping the assassins. His knowledge of Commission protocols, as well as his spatial jumps, agility, and work as a hitman, would have come in handy.
7 Felt Bad: Dolores Getting Shot
Dolores might be a mannequin, but she is the only company Five had while he was trapped in the desolate post-apocalypse. She was a source of emotional support for Five during his years of separation from any human being.
When Five returns to 2019, he finds her again in a department store. Hazel and Cha-Cha follow Five’s tracks to the store and start shooting. Five yells as a bullet hits Dolores, removing her torso from her legs, and he pulls her aside to keep what’s left of her safe.
6 Hated: Being Dismissive Of His Siblings
Five is often dismissive of his siblings' personal struggles and life experiences. Luther accuses Five of having thought he was better than the rest of the family since they were kids, and Five corrects him, saying “I don’t think I’m better … I know I am.” Five has lived decades longer than the others, giving him a sense of superiority.
Five frequently calls his siblings idiots and says they’re useless and naive for not understanding his bodily transformation and the complex rules of time travel. Five seems to forget that he and his siblings had very different life experiences after leaving the Academy.
5 Felt Bad: The Shrapnel Wound
Five ventures off on a risky mission to change the timeline. After intercepting the Commission’s message to Hazel and Cha-Cha, he steals a time-traveling briefcase and destroys the remaining supply of cases.
The storage room explodes and he is hit in the stomach with a piece of shrapnel. In an effort to save time, he hides the wound from his siblings but passes out in Harold Jenkins’s attic.
4 Hated: Withholding Information From His Siblings
Five’s habit of withholding information from his siblings isn’t the best of his traits. He tells Vanya about the apocalypse the day he jumps back to 2019, Luther finds out days later in episode 5, and the whole group gets an explanation from Five in episode 7.
Five’s search for the owner of the fake eye hints at his mission to stop the end of the world, but he thinks that explaining his motives to the group sooner won’t make a difference. If Five had been more proactive and explained the apocalypse situation to his siblings sooner, there may have been a different chain of events.
3 Felt Bad: Meritech Prosthetics Explosion
Five is on a mission to find the owner of a prosthetic eyeball he found in Luther’s grasp after the Academy was killed in a future timeline. The answer will lead him to the person responsible for the apocalypse. When he returns to the present, he convinces Klaus to pose as his parental guardian so he can get information on the eye.
Klaus and Five’s attempt is unsuccessful, so Five goes off on his own and threatens the executive of Meritech Prosthetics to show him the file. Just as they arrive, the building goes up in flames, destroying Five’s best chance of finding the person he’s been searching for, for decades.
2 Hated: The Time Rewind
Though his intention was to jump through time and help his family stop the apocalypse, the time rewind Five ensues at the end of “The Day That Wasn’t” undoes multiple significant events in the timeline that would do the Hargreeves some good.
Before Five rewinds time, Vanya discovers her father’s journal detailing her powers at Leonard’s house. She could have left her manipulative relationship with Leonard, and Allison’s near-death experience could have been avoided. Diego might have learned about Vanya’s powers from Grace before it was too late. Klaus successfully conjures Dave, but his sober feat is undone by the rewind.
1 Felt Bad: Being Alone In The Apocalypse
Five is 13 when his first attempt at time travel backfires and he is unable to return to his family. His confidence in his unpredictable powers led to a situation he could not reverse, and after desperately trying to undo his mistake, he accepts that he’s stuck in the apocalypse for good (until the Commission offers him a job).
When Five finally reunites with his family, he is frustrated with the way his miscalculations transformed his body back to how he looked at 13. Five’s years of loneliness have impacted his ability to communicate and empathize with most people. He believes that there’s nothing anyone can do to help him because he’s been through so much to get to where he is.
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