The age gap isn't the oddest thing about that romance in The Umbrella Academy

The Umbrella Academy Season 4 picked up six years after the Season 3 finale. The Hargreeves siblings were figuring things out without their powers. However, just as the story got started, the siblings got their powers back.

Of course, there were still some personal storylines in the midst of the bigger threat. One of those was a relationship we didn’t see coming. Yes, it’s all about Five and Lila.

Despite being with Deigo, Lila ends up bored of her normal life. She spends time at “book club,” which is actually a group of people looking to understand timelines that didn’t happen. Meanwhile, Five is working with the CIA. The two end up joining forces, which leads to them hooking up.

There isn’t actually an age gap between Five and Lila in The Umbrella Academy

Many fans are focused on the age gap between Five and Lila, but that age gap isn’t actually there. At least, not the way that fans suspect. People are focused on the fact that Five is still much younger looking than the rest of his siblings.

He came back in Season 1 as a 13-year-old boy. He’s now 19, which is the age of the actor, while Lila is in her 30s. The actors also have that age gap, which is where there is some ickiness in the filming.

However, Five points out that he’s no as young as he looks. Remember he spent decades in an apocalypse world and working with the time authority. He’s actually a 58-year-old man, making the age gap still questionable but the other way around.

Five and Lila have a long, disturbing history in The Umbrella Academy

There are many other reasons their relationship is just wrong. The first is that Five killed Lila’s parents when she was younger. Lila was then raised by The Handler, who actually sexually harassed Five. Lila never once stood up for Five, always siding with her adoptive mother.

The two have long acted like siblings though because of the way they were raised and brought into The Handler’s world. On top of that, Five is Lila’s brother-in-law. Five hasn’t just betrayed some man, but his own brother in this relationship. Five would never betray his own brother in the way that he did, so the character development is completely off. It’s not like Ben where he is an alternate version of the character we’ve come to know.

Let’s then talk about how Five has never shown an interest in any real woman in the series. He was committed to Delores, the mannequin who he had to give up in the end.

Everything was wrong with that relationship, but the age gap isn’t actually the main reason. It was just wrong for the characters as a whole.