What Umbrella Academy's Cast Look Like In The Comics

In The Comics

In the comics, Luther Hargreeves is an absolute hulk. He towers over the other members of the Academy and looks the least human of them, on account of his head having been grafted onto the hardy body of a Martian gorilla after a disastrous mission to Mars. Other than that, he looks totally normal...

On the moon, he has a robot butler called Ben, who didn't make it to the show.

In The Show

The comics version of Luther could never really hope to hide his appearance from his siblings, but Netflix's show toned down his size. His initial spaceman look seems to be more of a nod to how he looked in the comics, but for the majority of the show's run he just looks like a beefcake in heavy knitwear.

The prosthetics work that went into making Ben Hopper look like a man-head grafted onto a gorilla is pretty stunning, though, even if he's a little small compared to his comics version. There's no real; explanation of how he looks in the show other than the fact that Sir Reginald saved him with experimental surgery.

Presumably, the gorilla used was just a normal Earth one.