Five Hargreeves has been a fan-favorite since The Umbrella Academy, season 1, but why exactly does he look so young? At birth, Five (along with six other children) was adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire with plans to create a team of young superheroes: The Umbrella Academy. Trained from youth to hone their individual gifts (ranging from super strength to control of interdimensional monster tentacles), the children grew up to be powerful individuals. However, conflicts within the family meant they failed to stop (and inadvertently caused) the apocalypse at the end of The Umbrella Academy season 1. It's only thanks to Five's time travel abilities that they were able to escape by traveling back to the 1960s, but Five's shaky grasp of time travel scattered them across a period of several years. His struggles with time travel are also the reason why he still looks like a kid.
Known as one of the greatest assassins in the universe, Five doesn’t seem to act his age. He is a curmudgeonly character who likes his coffee black, which catches most people off guard, considering that he only appears to be about thirteen years old and sports a child’s school uniform. In actuality, Five is 58 years old, having accidentally time travelled to a point after the apocalypse wipes out civilization. After 45 years on his own, he is rescued when a woman called The Handler offers him a job with The Commission, an agency that controls time. After an illustrious career as a time-traveling assassin, Five abandons his post to travel to 2019 just before the apocalypse he knows is coming. There, he rallies his siblings and tries to stop it; the only problem is that when he returns, it is in his teenage body.
Five explains that a miscalculation caused him to accidentally return to his teenage body while attempting to reach 2019, but it is only in season 2 of The Umbrella Academy that he elaborates on what went wrong. When working as a hitman with The Commission, Five used the agency’s briefcases to travel in time. The briefcases are essentially disposable travel devices that allow anyone to make one specific jump in time, often to a date designated by The Commission. Five is hesitant to use his own time travel powers, which are much harder to control. As Reginald Hargreeves puts it, time travel is like “descending blindly into the depths of the freezing water[s of time] and reappearing as an acorn.” It requires intense planning, and Five spends much of his time trapped in the apocalypse working on an equation to return home. Unfortunately for him, he made a typo.
When arguing with his adult (but actually younger) self, Five explains that he miswrote part of the equation, leading to his change in appearance. He describes the error as follows:
“We put the decimal in the wrong spot in our proof of the existence of a bound for the number of limit cycles of planar polynomial vector fields of fixed degree. We wrote down 5.7. It should be 0.57.”
While this quote contains a lot of mathematical jargon, it can essentially be boiled down to this: the typo allowed for too much variation - 10 times as much as there should have been. Somewhere in all of that mathematical possibility, Five accidentally projected through time into his younger body. It’s likely that he was overcorrecting and wound up younger in an attempt to survive the jump. Since time-traveling clearly can have an impact on age, Five was likely trying to ensure he didn’t age at all. However, because he miscalculated, he was expecting time to age him more than it really did, and in an effort to maintain his correct age, wound up de-aging himself. Though it’s clearly annoying for Five to be perceived as a young boy, it only contributes to his charm, making him one of The Umbrella Academy’s most beloved characters.
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