The Sparrow Academy Is Here to Ruin The Umbrella Academy's Day

We've all been there: traveling back in time to stop the apocalypse only to return to our rightful place in time to find out we've been replaced. Classic! In all seriousness, after two seasons of superpowered, time-traveling shenanigans, this is where we've found the heroes of The Umbrella Academy. Based on the comic series of the same name by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, Netflix's hit show dives into Season 3 with Five, Klaus, Viktor, Luther, Allison, and Diego in a real conundrum after Season 2 ended with one hell of a cliffhanger.

It's no surprise that for whatever reason, The Umbrella Academy have now been replaced by some alternate version of themselves, now with six new members (the late Ben, no longer late, is part of both groups). But who are these people? The Season 2 finale only showed us the alternate version of Ben, with his team members/siblings behind him in silhouette.

We know that the moment has been reshot because as Season 3 opens, Ben's hair is not quite the same as we left it (more modern and less like someone who would have been aggressively listening to Way's band's The Black Parade upon release in 2006). But that also means that Season 3 picks up right where Season 2 left off, and that means introducing us right away to these new foils to The Umbrella Academy.

As the story goes, after Reginald met the Umbrella Academy members in 1963 (sans Ben, because, you know, he was dead), he disliked them so much that when the time came, he decided to adopt an entirely new bunch of superheroic children. And that leads us here. Here's what else you'll need to know about the new alternate-timeline bunch, The Sparrow Academy.