The Umbrella Academy

With only one hero left to paint, I have of course decided to paint the villains for the first scenario instead.

Here we have Hazel & Cha Cha, a pair of psychotic time travelling assassins. In the TV show they were depicted with blue suits and I decided to go with that because there is a lot of black and white schemes in this already.

I am getting very close to playing the first scenario fully painted now!

Finally completing the heroes, I left Number One, Space Boy, until last as he is the biggest and I was trying to figure out his colours

Dad himself. Sir Hargreaves enters play either as an ally or as a marker in the more challenging ‘Hargreaves mode’, where the heroes must not only save the world, but save it in the way Dad expects of them!

Mom, a robotic surrogate built by Hargreaves so that he could delegate the annoying inconvenience of parenting his adopted children.

Unlike most of the characters Mantic have sculpted, I couldn’t quite find the scene that this sculpt is based on. None of the art quite lines up with this outfit!

Every family needs the intelligent Chimpanzee…butler? Assistant? Stand-in father figure for seven adopted super kids? Pogo has a strange roll in the family!

Number Five gets around a bit chronologically. After disappearing as a child into the post-apocalyptic future, and spending decades there, he travels back only to be intercepted by the time ‘police’ and turned into an assassin. Because murder is always more effective than incarceration! Well, the re-offending rate is lower….

And with that, the allies are complete and we are down to all villains from here on out.

The White Violin, also known as Vanya, Number 7. Fed up with being the black sheep of the family, Vanya is recruited by a doomsday cult seeking to unleash her repressed powers and destroy the world! She undergoes surgical alteration and goes quite, quite mad.

Yes, it is the Lincoln Memorial statue. And yes he is rather irate and shooting death rays from his eyes!

There is a little tradition of the Umbrella Academy battling animated monuments, sadly the Eiffel tower did not make it into the game