In the mid 20th century 43 women around the world gave birth simultaneously and all but 8 survived. A Sir Reginald Hargreeves adopted the remaining 8 children and formed the crime solving super hero team with 7 of the children, introduced to the world as The Umbrella Academy. The team includes, Number One (Luther) who has super strength, Number Two (Diego) who is skilled with knives, Number Three (Allison) who can manipulate reality by lying, Number Four (Klaus) who can communicate with the dead, Number Five who can jump through space and time, Number 6 (Ben) who before his death could possess monsters from other dimensions and Number 7 (Violet) the twin sister of Klaus with the ability to learn things about the past or future of something/someone by touching it. Violet ran after Number Five the day he explored the depth of his powers and jumped into the future and both were never seen again for 16 years, 4 months and 14 days.