The Umbrella Academy Season 2: Every Academy Member Ranked From Worst To Best

3. Vanya

The Umbrella Academy Season 2
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Vanya has always been the wild card of the Hargreeves family. Singled out by her father, she was allowed to grow into adulthood believing she was normal, knowing that her six siblings all had incredible gifts and powers. It's easy to see why she became as unstable as she did.

It's incredibly hard to judge Vanya's impact on the Umbrella Academy as a team. On the one hand, she was the cause of the team having to reunite to stop the apocalypse in the first place. She destroyed the Moon, and by consequence the Earth, at the end of season one, and was the cause of the explosion that ultimately led to the Russian invasion of America in season two.

Yet, despite having two apocalypses under her belt, she is easily, without question, the team's greatest weapon. She never really got to use her powers to help the team in season one, but in season two she was able to protect her family and take out an entire army of Commission agents in a single moment.

Yes, she may have been the cause of one or two potential world ending calamities, but without her, her brothers, her sister, Sissy, and Harlan would have all died at the hands of the Commission.

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