im seeing a lot of goyim talking about the umbrella academy s2 uncritically. if you watch it PLEASE be aware of how much antisemitism is in it. just listen to jewish people for once I'm begging you

In its own special way, The Umbrella Academy subverts the secret identity trope in that Sir Reginald literally raises the protagonists as their superhero identities, assigning them exclusively superhero-esque aliases from birth and stripping them of the opportunity to develop their own “civilian”/true identity. As a result of this suppression, their struggles as young “superheroes” differ from the crises of their traditional counterparts, in that they don’t struggle to hide a secret identity, but rather, they don’t have an identity outside of the one their father uses to fulfill his own agenda — or at best, their individuality is stunted and tied to an unhealthy coping mechanism and sibling dynamics. The subversion of the secret identity trope thus leads to the subversion of another trope: that of the superhero origin story. Unlike Spider-Man or Batman, the Umbrella Academy kids are not civilians that decided to become heroes due to a personal tragedy; instead, their childhood career as forced superheroes is the tragedy, causing most of them to pursue a civilian life as soon as they are able to. Only after the death of their father do they come back together, and even then, their past causes the conflict that they must solve as adults. In this essay I will

when klaus said “i’m the one person in that house nobody will even notice is gone” like… that shit hurted because it was true and he knew it and like how many other times do you think he waited around for someone to notice there was something wrong with him or waited around to be saved and no one ever came?