While The Umbrella Academy, a batch of character posters reveals a big change from the comics regarding an important location in this new season. The rise of the superhero genre in film and TV has made way for darker and lesser-known stories to be adapted to other media, and among those is The Umbrella Academy. Created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, The Umbrella Academy made the jump from the comic book pages to TV/streaming thanks to Netflix in February 2019, becoming one of the platform’s most popular titles, and it’s now getting ready for its third season.
The Umbrella Academy follows the Hargreeves, seven adopted siblings with superpowers and a mysterious origin that they are still trying to decipher. Hotel Oblivion.
The Umbrella Academy season 3 episode titles were revealed in 2021, giving the audience an idea of what to expect, and the title that stood out the most was “Oblivion”. In the Umbrella Academy comics, there’s a Hotel Oblivion and it’s a key location as it’s not only linked to Reginald Hargreeves but to some of the most dangerous villains the team has encountered, and while season 3 has confirmed to include this nightmarish place, a batch of character posters reveals a big change from the source material, as the suitcases of each of the Hargreeves have a sticker for “Hotel Obsidian”.
Each season of the Umbrella Academy has been based on a volume of the comic book series: season 1 was based on Apocalypse Suite, season 2 on Dallas, and season 3 will be all about Hotel Oblivion. This place was built by Reginald Hargreeves, and it looks like a luxury hotel on the outside, but it’s actually a prison for all Reginald created the Sparrow Academy.
Netflix's The Umbrella Academy has already made a bunch of changes to the source material to fit its tone, so it wouldn’t be surprising if Hotel Oblivion also goes through major changes – still, it’s strange that the season finale is titled “Oblivion” while the hotel is being referred to as “Obsidian”. The whole theme for the marketing of The Umbrella Academy season 3 has been travel, with the characters holding suitcases and these having stickers from different places (which could be hinting at their birthplaces), so Hotel Obsidian could end up being more than a prison and could house a different way of traveling through space and time, similar to the Televator, which was hinted at in season 2. The Umbrella Academy season 3 has a lot of mysteries to solve, and one of the biggest questions around it is how it will add Hotel Oblivion to the mix, and it all points at it not being what the comic books showed.