The Umbrella Academy season 4 is introducing a new way for the Hargreeves to travel in time, and thanks to it, the show is solving a big comic book issue. The Umbrella Academy has been full of twists and turns as the Hargreeves have done their best to stop the end of the world more than once, and they’re about to face their biggest mission in the show’s fourth and final season. The Umbrella Academy season 4 has many questions to answer and mysteries to solve, while also introducing new characters, weapons, and more.

Although plot details about The Umbrella Academy season 4 continue to be a mystery, the first teaser trailer gave viewers an idea of what to expect in the show’s final season. The Umbrella Academy season 3 ended with the Hargreeves landing on Reginald’s custom-made timeline, where he and his wife are alive, Allison has her daughter and her 1960s husband, Sloane is missing, and Lila and the Hargreeves are powerless. The Umbrella Academy season 4 has teased more time travel for the team as they try to fix this mess, and their new time travel transport solves a huge comic book problem.

The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Introduces Time Travel Through The Subway

The Subway Will Take The Hargreeves To Different Points In Time

It’s likely Five spent the years between seasons 3 and 4 investigating ways to return to their correct timeline and ended up discovering that the subway could take them back in time.

Up until now, the only ways for the Hargreeves to travel in time were through Five’s powers or with one of The Commission’s briefcases – but Five will start season 4 without his powers and The Commission is no longer around. However, The Umbrella Academy season 4 teaser trailer has now revealed how the Hargreeves will time travel from now on, solving the mystery of why the promotional posters used subway maps. The trailer shows Five alone at a subway station, with Lila as they look at the map, and them coming out of a subway station and into a post-apocalyptic world.

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It’s likely Five spent the years between seasons 3 and 4 investigating ways to return to their correct timeline and ended up discovering that the subway could take them back in time. The subway as a time travel machine in The Umbrella Academy season 4 is the perfect replacement for the Televator, which was teased in an Easter egg in season 2, where it was seen among Reginald’s plans back in 1963.

The Subway Will Do The Televator’s Work In Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy

The Televator is an elevator lift through which the users can travel through time and space and even different dimensions.

In the Umbrella Academy comic books, the Televator is an invention by Reginald. The Televator is an elevator lift through which the users can travel through time and space and even different dimensions, and is used multiple times in the comics. The Televator might already exist in the world of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy as, at the end of season 3, the Hargreeves and Lila exited an elevator and stepped into Reginald’s new timeline, though this could have also simply been added to bring the Hargreeves into the new timeline in a visually pleasant and coherent way.

The structure of the subway lines makes it easier for the audience (and characters) to understand the multiverse of The Umbrella Academy and how the many timelines connect and even overlap.

Despite being a fantasy series, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy has been more grounded and realistic than its source material, and as such, the subway is a much better time travel alternative than the Televator. The structure of the subway lines makes it easier for the audience (and characters) to understand the multiverse of The Umbrella Academy and how the many timelines connect and even overlap, whereas the Televator would be a more square way of explaining these upcoming multiversal travels.

While it could still be possible that the Televator exists in The Umbrella Academy and could have a place in season 4, the subway as a time-travel transport will make the Hargreeves’ new mission a lot easier to follow and understand.