[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers through the Season 2 finale of The Umbrella Academy, "The End of Something."]

The Umbrella Academy ain't your average superhero story, and the Hargreaves family aren't your average superheroes. Created by Steven Blackman, based on the comic series of the same name by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, Netflix's series adaptation is 0% afraid to get weird with it. In fact, that's kind of the show's whole thing.

That definitely applies to the wild, weird, and wonderful powers the family of whacky superheroes has to deal with. From a recovering addict who can speak to the dead to a giant ape-man with a soft heart, to the girl who gets anything she wants by speaking it, only to discover that it makes everything worse; we're breaking down everything we know about The Umbrella Academy's powers, and some of the biggest evolutions we saw in Season 2.

One thing to know about how The Umbrella Academy's powers seem to work, they get stronger when they're working together. We see that very clearly in the apocalyptic alternate timeline teased in Season 2's opening sequence, which sees all of the Hargreaves siblings firing on a caliber we haven't seen before, and once again in the big finale fight on Sissy's (Marin Ireland) farm.

In fact, series creator Steven Blackman pretty much confirmed it to Uproxx. "Something I’m trying to do, which is slightly different than the novels is having the powers in the TV universe always evolving," the showrunner said. "Because remember, they broke apart when they were teenagers. They didn’t finish their training with their dad, and they’re still sort of discovering stuff. One of the other things we’re going to find out going forward is they’re stronger together, their powers work better when they’re together as a team than when they're apart. But I see all their powers changing a lot, going into future seasons."

Now that we know we've barely scratched the surface, let's take a look at everything we know about all of The Umbrella Academy's superpowers so far below.

Luther/Number One

The designated Number One of The Umbrella Academy, Luther (Tom Hopper) was born with the power of super-strength and durability. But that didn’t quite make him invulnerable. In Season 1, we saw in a flashback that Reginald sent him on a one-man mission to stop a chemical threat, and it ended in disaster. Luther was on the brink of death when Reginald injected him with a mysterious red serum that transformed him into an ape-man hybrid with even greater super-strength.

Season 2 offered a bit more insight into Luther’s renewed powers, both how they came to be and just how extraordinary they are. Set in the 1960s, Season 2 offered a glimpse into what Reginald was up to before The Umbrella Academy was born and introduced us to Baby Pogo. After a disastrous launch into space, Baby Pogo was injected with a similar red serum, seemingly transforming him into the walking, talking, oh-so-dapper ape we knew in Season 1. While they might not be the exact serum, it’s clear that Reginald’s experiments on Pogo helped develop the science that saved Luther’s life.

The alternate timeline glimpsed in Season 2’s opening sequence also showed Luther taking a full-on missile to the back to protect Klaus. Now, because this is an alternate timeline we only caught the end of, we don’t know if something happened along the way to increase his strength that didn’t happen in the current timeline, but it’s a tremendous display of his durability beyond anything we've seen from Luther before.

Diego/Number Two

I’m tempted to say Diego’s (David Castañeda) powers have shown the most growth over the first two seasons, but then you remember Vanya, and you realize, in classic Diego fashion, he comes in second. But it’s impressive all the same! The Umbrella Academy's Number Two, Diego started off as the most traditional vigilante-style comic bookish character (or as Five said, “Imagine Batman, then aim lower”), but it turns out that he’s got a lot more than knife-throwing and a billionaire dad going for him. Diego is extremely skilled in hand-to-hand combat, a learned skill enhanced by an ability to manipulate objects in motion around him. Usually, knives.

However, in Season 2, we got two glimpses at a much more powerful and impressive side of his abilities. In the opening sequence, we see him leap through a barrage of bullets, twisting his body and the projectiles away from each other with impeccable precision, sailing through to the other side unscathed. In the big finale fight at Sissy’s ranch, Diego has another flashy moment that demonstrates his untapped potential. Trapped behind a tractor with Five, an army of Commission employees firing on them, Diego steps out and created a telekinetic shield, stopping countless bullets mid-air before redirecting them all at once. Even Reginald might have been impressed. The more we learn about Diego's abilities, it seems likely that's he's also manipulating his body in space when he's zipping around kicking everybody's ass, but what's very clear is that he's a lot more powerful than his early training ever led him to realize.

Allison/Number Three

Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) has one of the most impressive, and dangerous, powers in the bunch – she can make anything do anything she wants, but it comes at a price. The Umbrella Academy’s Number Three earned the nickname “The Rumor” because she can whisper her desires in anyone’s ear and they’ll immediately do what she said. All she has to say is “I heard a rumor you…” and whatever she speaks becomes reality. However, it’s pretty clear that using her power has only ever brought her grief and regret. In Season 1, she lost custody of her daughter because she used her powers on her, she lost her relationship with Vanya after she rumored her sister to believe she was normal (and helped create the apocalypse, though there’s plenty of blame to share there,) and she almost died when she tried to Rumor Vanya as an adult.

Allison lost her voice for a year after Vanya slit her throat, forcing her to get by without her powers for the first time in her life, and showing her the gratification of earning everything you have. And when she does finally use them again, the pattern of negative repercussions starts again. After she uses her powers in front of her husband, he loses his trust in her. When she takes him around town to prove her powers, she becomes crueler and more greedy the longer it goes, culminating in her forcing the racist diner owner to burn himself. She rumors Diego to punch himself in the face after she’s been drinking, and when the Swedish hitmen attack her home, she doesn’t Rumor them to walk away or forget their mission, she gives the incredibly cruel command to kill his own brother.

In both seasons, we see that Allison’s ability to get whatever she wants only ever creates more conflict, even within herself. It’s also clear that we’ve barely scratched the surface of how she can use those powers, as revealed in the opening scene when she tells the Russian soldiers “I heard a rumor I blew your mind,” causing their heads to explode/dissolve into blue light. That means Allison doesn’t just control what people do, she can control reality itself with her words, an exciting and perhaps terrifying ability considering what her powers can bring out of her.

Klaus/Number Four

Klaus (Robert Sheehan) has the ability to see and communicate with the dead; a fairly horrifying and emotionally damaging gift that drives him towards substance abuse in order to dull the voices of the dead. Until the end of Season 2, the exception was his deceased brother Ben (Justin H. Min), who caught up with Klaus at his own funeral and never left his side again until he finally went to the light. In order to train Klaus to use his powers, Reginald would regularly lock Klaus in a mausoleum when he was young, where he was tormented by the dead. Pretty much every entry here has a dreadful Reginald story to go with it, but Klaus had one of the grimmest, most traumatic training processes of them all.

Like the rest of the siblings, Klaus has shown some pretty significant growth in his powers since The Umbrella Academy's first episode. Towards the end of Season 1, Klaus and Ben discovered that Klaus could channel his brother’s spirit to engage with the real world, culminating in the moment Ben emerged in his monstrous form during the big finale battle, allowing him to bring down The Commission’s assassins and for his family to see him for the first time since his death.

That ability carries over and expands in Season 2. Stuck in the 60s without a penny to his name, Klaus gets along by starting a cult -- Destiny's Children. In order to help convince his followers, Klaus would "levitate", floating around in the air with his ghost brother holding him up from below. (Not just a clever gag, but a fun easter egg to the comics, in which Klaus regularly levitates). Klaus also commands a ghost army in the Season 2 premiere alt timeline, and while he doesn’t quite exhibit that strength again this season, he does rely on two ghosts to catch him from falling to his death after Lila’s finale attack. Like the rest of the team, Klaus is still discovering the full extent of his abilities, but Season 2 confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that they include a lot more than talking with the dead.

Five/Number Five

Five (Aidan Gallagher) isn’t just the oldest and the smartest member of The Umbrella Academy, he’s also one of the most powerful. Five has the ability to jump through space and time, though it’s incredibly draining and he often gets it wrong. Five learned that the (extremely) hard way when he went on a bit of a time-hopping rampage as a kid after a fight with Reginald, jumping further and further forward in time until he wound up trapped in the apocalypse; arriving too late to save his family and unable to jump back to warn them. He spent decades alone there in the wasteland until he was rescued by The Handler (Kate Walsh), who offered him a way out and an opportunity to retire to any time period of his choosing after a five-year stint as a time-traveling assassin.

Five broke his deal with the Commission and jumped back to 2019 before his contract was up, but he messed up the calculations and got trapped back in his 13-year-old body. Likewise, when he tries to time-travel his family out of the apocalypse in the Season 1 finale, he messes up again, accidentally scattering them across the early 1960s, which was definitely not the plan.

In contrast to his siblings, Five’s powers don’t expand in Season 2, they get more refined. After a conversation with the younger version of his father, Five realizes he needs to take it down a notch, and after The Handler guns down his family in the finale, he uses his powers to travel back just a few seconds, just in time to save the day. And Gallagher told us that's something he's excited about looking forward. "Five gets a new ability at the end of Season 2 with the ability to jump back a few seconds," Gallagher said, "To see how that’s going to work with fight scenes, in the third season, is going be cool. If we come back for a third season, that’s definitely something I’m looking forward to."

Ben/Number Six

Ben’s pretty much a big ol’ mystery, even after Season 2 allowed us to get to know him a little better. What we do know is that he was born with the ability to transform into a tentacled monster creature (by conjuring them from another dimension via a portal inside his body, per the comics). Which generally seems like a nightmare as far as superpowers go. Despite his tremendous ability, Ben was mysteriously killed during a mission when The Umbrella Academy were children. Appearing as a ghost at his own funeral, Ben decided not to go into the light, staying by Klaus’ side instead. For many, many years.

Over the course of the first Season, Klaus began to channel Ben so that he could interact with the physical world, culminating in Ben's big moment in the battle against The Commission at the opera house. That bond between Ben and Klaus deepened in Season 2, where Ben realized that he could possess Klaus' body. That power, along with his kind heart, saved the day in Season 2, when he was able to possess Vanya and help her regain control of her powers after being tortured by the FBI. In the process, he averted an apocalyptic timeline, but he also finally went into the light, asking Vanya to hold him as he went.

But that's not the last of Ben! When the family time travels back to 2019, they arrive to a very different world; a world in which there is no Umbrella Academy, but a Sparrow Academy instead. And who should be standing front and center but an emo-haired alt-timeline version of Ben. It remains to be seen if Ben still has the same powers, and if so, why he survived in this timeline. So again, just a big ol' question mark.

Vanya/Number Seven

Vanya’s (Ellen Page) powers are a bit nebulous and vaguely defined, but there’s no denying they are powerful. Powerful enough to end the world… several times. So how do they work? Well, let's let series creator Steve Blackman take that: "Vanya's powers are evolving... like all the other siblings. But her real power is to bring in sound waves, amplify them inside her body, then explode that energy outwards," Blackman explained in a recent Reddit AMA. "If you watch and listen carefully, there is always a sound cue when Vanya powers up -- the sound of a running engine, the wind blowing in the leaves etc... But she is also learning how to use that same power to lift herself off the ground and levitate. We saw this in Battle Dallas and in Dallas, 1963."

The short version of how she got there? Vanya displayed terrifying abilities as an untrained child, leading Reginald to lock her up in a power-limiting cell until he could find a way to tame her abilities. When he did, he drugged up Vanya on pharmaceuticals and compelled Allison to Rumor Vanya. Allison commanded her sister to believe there was nothing extraordinary about her, which Reginald further brainwashed Vanya to believe her entire life, driving a wedge between Vanya and the rest of The Umbrella Academy that culminated in the explosive, apocalyptic return of her memories and her powers all at once. In that moment, she became the villainous White Violin, but Vanya is not a villain. No matter how many times she ends the world.

Stripped of her memory and surrounded by a supportive family, Vanya showed tremendous progress with her powers in the second season. She wasn't just able to control her powers (and in the opening sequence we see her dismantle a damn bomb!), she was somehow able to pass them on. Saving Harlan's life, she seemingly transferred some of her abilities (or perhaps awoke something latent in him.) The how and why of that exchange is still very mysterious, but despite her torture-fuelled outburst at the Dallas FBI, Vanya's control during the final battle at Sissy's farm seems to prove that she's not only capable of controlling her powers, she excels at it when she's fueled by love instead of fear and anger.

Lila

Lila’s (Ritu Arya) powers are one of the best surprises and biggest payoffs in Season 2. First introduced as Diego’s fellow patient at the mental hospital (and boy, wasn't it suspicious how she just magically got out of her cell in time for Diego's escape,) Lila is actually The Handler’s adopted daughter, trained by the Commission boss to be a first-class fighter. But what we don’t know until the finale, is that she was one of the children born with a gift in October 1989 – she can mimic the powers of those around her. In other words, extreme Peter Petrelli vibes. We first glimpse this power when she squares off against Five and somehow keeps evading him; something no normal human should be capable of doing considering his ability to leap through space.

But in the finale, we see her fully unleashed. After Vanya subdues The Commission’s attacking army with a giant blast, Lila unloads a matching blast on The Umbrella Academy. She takes a punch from Luther without flinching and uses his super strength against him, sending him through a brick wall. When Allison tries to Rumor her, Lila turns it back around and Rumors Allison to stop breathing. And when she squares off against Five for the second time, we see how she pulled it off before, mimicking his abilities and space-hopping around the room just as fast as he can. We don’t get much of an explainer on the details of how her powers work, just the pithy line “Anything you can do I can do better.” Fair enough.

What we do learn is that Lila was another of the 43 babies born on October 1, 1989, which means in theory she could have been another member of The Umbrella Academy. However, The Commissioner faked a kill order on her parents, which Five executed, and The Handler raised her as her own to have a super-powered right-hand soldier. Lila disappears with one of the Commission's time-hopping briefcases, so Netflix better renew Season 3 asap, because I just need to know what kind of hell she's been raising.

Harlan

The refrain of this article may as well be “their powers are still pretty mysterious,” but Harlan is the reigning king of WTF at the moment. Vanya bonded with the young boy while living with Sissy on the farm, and when Vanya resuscitated him after drowning, she somehow gave him some of her abilities. Those abilities started to express themselves in strange ways, including a kinetic outburst when his parents were fighting, but they got dangerous when his bond with Vanya was triggered while she was being questioned and tortured by the FBI. While Vanya’s powers were surging in Dallas, his powers were surging on the farm. Ultimately, Vanya helped him control those abilities and for a minute, it looked like she was able to take them back. But in the final moments of the Season 2 finale, we saw Harlan making his favorite toy levitate --  a toy that looks suspiciously like a sparrow. Knowing this show -- there were 43 dang hidden sparrows in Season 2. 43! -- that's absolutely not a coincidence, so either Harlan's powers have something to do with the Sparrow Academy, or that's one hell of a red herring.

For more of our theories on Season 3, be sure to check out our break down of the biggest questions we still have after that epic Season 2 finale.