The Umbrella Academy Season 2: Every Academy Member Ranked From Worst To Best
2. Ben
The loyalty Luther showed his father for a long time is one thing, but the kind of commitment Ben showed his brothers and sisters is something else. He died not once, but twice in the line of duty for the Umbrella Academy, and saved the world in the process.
Even after his death as a child, Ben stuck around on Earth thanks to his connection with Klaus. Though his impact on the team was limited over the next 17 years due to the inconvenient fact that he was dead, he still managed to help the team in an immeasurable way.
Aside from the battle he was able to fight when the Russians did invade the USA, thanks to Klaus being able to project him, he made possibly the biggest single impact of all. He stopped Vanya from blowing up the building in which she was being held in Dallas.
Without Ben, who was immune to the power Vanya was emitting, she would never have been stopped, Russia would have been blamed for the explosion, and the apocalypse would have come to the world in 1963. Ben truly gave his life to save his family and the rest of the world, but it looks like he may have more of an impact on the team as an antagonist in season three, with the Sparrow Academy.