#the monocle
I assume this has probably been pointed out before, but I hadn’t seen it personally, so here we go.
Just some quick caps while doing a rewatch. This is when Vanya’s reading an excerpt from her book, and these are the bits of the voice over on each sibling, Reginald, and how her book gets cut to 50% off. Just thought it was interesting and potentially a bit telling about each character slash how Vanya, at least at the time, might have viewed her family.
EDIT: SO APPARENTLY TUMBLR DID THIS OUT OF ANY SENSIBLE ORDER I PUT IT IN and excluded one pic. No it’s fine, Tumblr. I didn’t want it to make sense.
EDIT TWO: I got rid of one and added the last one. Meh. Tumblr. Why you gotta have such low limits?
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In the Umbrella Academy comics, Pogo is far from the only chimp to appear. Chimpanzees are regular citizens and live amounts the human population, working jobs like Body the police officer/drummer. This is because Reginald Hargreeves (The Monocle) pioneered the advancement of chimpanzees, earning him a Nobel peace prize. This is amoung his many inventions, and reasons why he is a billionare.
Some of his other inventions include the televator, an invention that makes teleportation between any elevators possible, the mobile umbrella communicator, and the levitator, which the academy uses to fly during missions.
(Spoilers!) In an eight page one-shot Umbrella Academy comic that takes place thirteen years before the first issue when the Hargreeves were teens, Vanya and Diego start a punk rock band called “The Prime 8’s” with a chimpanzee drummer. Then, after getting in a physical fight, they are shut down by their father, Reginald Hargreeves, who makes arrangements to send Vanya away to Paris to study her violin. They agree to perform one last time to make enough money to run away from the academy together, but Diego bails on Vanya that night to go on a mission, leaving her alone at the gig as the group disbands for the last time.
As an interesting little Easter egg, their first song is titled “I Don’t Wanna Kill the President”, which the academy does in Volume Two: Dallas.
