Robert gave us his verdict on the pair’s similarities (Picture: Netflix/E4)

The Umbrella Academy’s Robert Sheehan doesn’t think his new character Klaus is anything like his old Misfits character Nathan.

In fact, if the pair should ever meet in some alternate universe, Robert’s pretty sure one could kill off the other pretty quickly.

As The Umbrella Academy launches on Netflix, fans have been quick to compare the two superhero characters online, with drug-addicted, smart-mouthed Klaus and party-loving, smart-mouthed Nathan Young from the early ’00s E4 show having numerous parallels.

But speaking to Metro.co.uk ahead of the series launch, Robert said he couldn’t see the similarity, and declared: ‘No! No, I think they’re different enough.’


Nathan was an ASBO teen with superpowers in the early 00s (Picture: Channel 4)

‘I think what’s good, Klaus gets to the essence of the journey, the change starts pretty much you know…episode four,’ he then explained. ‘I think, even late [episode] three, he’s kidnapped. You start to see the pain that he’s going through, you know?’



As for ASBO teen Nathan?

Robert laughed: ‘I think Nathan is a character who sort’ve…he wasn’t sociopathic, but he didn’t feel great emotional pain to any depth! He just kind of was what he was, but Klaus is completely the opposite I think.

‘He’s completely burdened by pain, so that’s what the dead are, that’s what drugs are trying to temporarily salve. He’s a very, very fragile creature.’

‘I think if him and Nathan ever met, Nathan would probably have him dead within the week!’ he added.

Robert doesn’t think Klaus would last a week with the carefree Nathan in tow (Picture: Netflix)

Misfits sent Robert and his co-stars straight into the public eye thanks to the cult success of the series, which saw a group of anti-social teens wake up with superpowers after being caught in a freak storm.

Nathan, who spent each day as if it was his last, smoking, drinking and sleeping his way across London, had the enviable power of never being able to die.

On the other side, Klaus is desperate to run away from his power, being able to talk to the dead, to the point of trying every drug he can to try and drown them out.

But when his adoptive father is mysteriously killed, he’s forced to reunite his family – and confront the demons he’s been running away from.

Despite the new Netflix show following Klaus’s similarities from birth, fans who remember Misfits have quickly fallen into fan theory territory – thinking that they could be the same person.

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One series suggests Nathan, who was last seen gambling away his powers in Las Vegas on the series, infiltrates the Umbrella Academy after getting the power of the Seance – and also to live with an eccentric billionaire rent free.

Not going to lie, that’s a total Nathan thing to do.

The Umbrella Academy is available now on Netflix.

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