What a surprise ‘The Umbrella Academy’ has just given us, since the series of Netflix has confirmed that fiction will imitate reality and the character of Elliot Page will be transgender in the third season. Thus, will be renamed Viktor instead of Vanya.
Change of plans
The news has been accompanied by a first image of how Page will look like Viktor in the new episodes of ‘The Umbrella Academy’. What those responsible for the series still have not clarified is how the transition will take place of the character in the third season.
Page announced that he is transgender at the end of 2020 and at the time it was not expected that this would affect his character in ‘The Umbrella Academy’ at all. Ultimately this will not be the case, leaving the question of how fans of the series will react to this unexpected turn of events.
Both Page and Gerard Way, creator of the comic that adapts the Netflix series, wanted to welcome Viktor through social networks. An important first step before the promotional campaign for the third season hits the accelerator pedal, as we remind you that the new episodes of ‘The Umbrella Academy’ will be released on June 22nd of this same year.
We will have to see what other changes the series has prepared for us, since the end of the second season was a cliffhanger with many possibilities. Soon we will have more clues, which I suspect this announcement is motivated in part by the imminent arrival of the trailer.