Umbrella Academy Why Diego Is Obsessed With Stopping The JFK Assassination

Umbrella Academy: Why Diego Is Obsessed With Stopping The JFK Assassination

The Hargreeves siblings have very different priorities in The Umbrella Academy season 2, but why does Diego obsess over stopping JFK’s assassination?

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Umbrella Academy Why Diego Is Obsessed With Stopping The JFK Assassination

Diego Hargreeves is resolute in his desire to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy in The Umbrella Academy season 2, but why? The second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy takes the Hargreeves siblings back to the 1960s, and as each of them adjusts to a world of counterculture, Vietnam and rampant racism, their lives begin to take on vastly different priorities. Vanya’s is protecting Sissy and Harlan, Allison is deeply involved in the civil rights movement, and Klaus is desperately trying to stop Dave from dying on the battlefield. Diego begins the season institutionalized for plotting Lee Harvey Oswald’s death, but even after breaking out and reuniting with the others, his focus remains fixed on a single goal – stop the assassination of JFK.

Since the apocalypse followed the Hargreeves family back in time, Number Five must lead his notoriously unreliable brothers and sisters on a mission to stop the end of the world (again) and return home without messing up the timeline. Five soon realizes that the Academy’s fate and the apocalypse are intertwined with the assassination of JFK, but by the season finale, the web is untangled. Vanya will be caught and experimented on by the FBI, triggering an outburst similar to the one that caused the original apocalypse in 2019. This blast will send JFK off-course and protect him from harm, but the world will be plunged into war. The time travelling Hargreeves siblings are the only ones who can stop JFK’s death, but they have to save the world instead. Nevertheless, Diego still launches a foolish, futile attempt to rescue the President.

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As is often pointed out to him in The Umbrella Academy season 2, Diego’s obsession with JFK is unhealthy. The Academy should be protecting the natural course of time, but Diego is trying to change one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. Diego’s self-appointed mission is the result of a long-standing, unresolved emotional issue that was first introduced in The Umbrella Academy season 1 and explored further in season 2 – a symbiotic mixture of Daddy issues and a hero complex.

Out of all the Hargreeves siblings, Diego bears the biggest grudge against their adopted father, throwing his monocle into the river and always being the first to make a disparaging remark. While this is partly borne from Reginald’s terrible parenting, Diego was made to feel unworthy by his father, resulting in a subconscious desire to prove Reginald wrong at every turn. Diego resented the fact that he wasn’t the Umbrella Academy’s Number 1, and was clearly deprived of fatherly praise. To compensate, Diego spends season 1 trying to prove himself a worthy hero – becoming a vigilante, competing with police, and challenging Luther’s every decision.

The landscape has shifted when The Umbrella Academy season 2 begins. Luther no longer cares about being a hero or a leader, effectively vacating his position as Number 1. In order to fill this role, Diego must prove his worth as a hero now more than ever, and this process begins as soon as he arrives in the 1960s. The knife-throwing Number 2 does a classic superhero landing (the others just get dumped out of the portal) and almost immediately halts a street thief in true, cliched superhero fashion. Given the era, it’s no surprise that Diego then sets his sights on what would be the biggest act of heroism in American history – saving the President. Diego believes that successfully preventing the assassination of JFK will show he was always a worthy hero, despite never receiving encouragement as a child, and can prove Sir Reginald’s lack of faith wrong. It’s no coincidence that when Diego meets his father in the past, he desperately blames the Kennedy assassination on the source of his trauma and tries to physically best him in a fight.

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Diego’s mindset becomes even clearer in “A Light Supper,” when Reginald reduces Diego to a quivering wreck by calling him out as a “desperate man, tragically unaware of his own significance.” Diego’s emotional reaction shows just how much worth he still puts in Reginald’s judgement. If he stopped craving his father’s approval, Number 2 perhaps wouldn’t be so determined to commit the ultimate act of heroism by saving JFK in The Umbrella Academy season 2.

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