The Umbrella Academy official trailer has finally dropped and it’s everything you could want and more as we get psyched up for our new favourite superheroes.

Metro.co.uk have been given an exclusive first look at the action-packed two minute teaser, crammed with world-saving, misbehaving and a whole lot of slaying as the team fight to save the world from bad guys.

In the clip, we see Reginald Hargreaves court around buying six babies out of 43 children born to mothers that weren’t pregnant, and turn them into his own pet project.


Praised as geniuses, The Umbrella Academy is formed and the kids look set for life – but it doesn’t last for long and there’s dark twists at every turn.

Klaus smokes his way through to the funeral (Picture: Netflix)

Ellen Page is not too happy to be reunited with her brothers and sister (Picture: Netflix)

The Umbrella Academy soon fall far from grace, and jumping forward from their glory days, we see their father’s ashes scattered in the school with only his kids in attendance.



And of the ones that have turned up, they don’t look particularly bothered to be there either.

There’s Klaus (played by Misfits’ Robert Sheehan) who comes dressed to the ceremony with a cigarette in his mouth and a bright pink-rimmed umbrella, adding colour to proceedings as the rest of the family come decked out in black.

After seeing the future, The Boy teases the end of the world is in only 8 days (Picture: Netflix)

Ellen Page’s Vanya is the only one that looks slightly upset, as the rest of them stare on as his ashes are scattered in the Academy garden.

As smart-alec Pogo (an actual chimpanzee) asks for any last words, Luther (Tom Hopper) just utters: ‘He was a monster.’

Adopted as children, the ragtag team are far from well-behaved (Picture: Netflix)

As they fight to save the world, a mysterious organization are trying to get in their way (Picture: Netflix)

However, things go from bad to worse for the gang when their sibling The Boy warns that the apocalypse is on its way, and now the gang have to figure out how to stop it.

But first they have to figure out how to get along with each other as the dysfunctional team haven’t actually seen each other in years. Queue next level sibling squabbles.

My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, who created the comic books the series is based on, also makes a surprise comeback in the trailer in the lead track.

His rock cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s Hazy Shade of Winter is the perfect antidote to fill our emo hearts with glee as the team fight, unite, and dance their way through their sudden change of lifestyle.

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Meanwhile, Mary J Blige is leading the team trying to stop the Academy in its tracks and allow the end of the world to happen.

But why?

We don’t have that much longer to wait, and if this trailer is anything to go by, then Netflix have definitely done it again and we’re about to lose a weekend to another binging session.

The Umbrella Academy launches globally on Netflix February 15, 2019.

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