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The Umbrella Academy's first season slowly revealed the extent of Vanya's (Ellen Page) powers. After making us believe that she had no super-abilities at all, it was revealed (spoilers ahead) that she was actually the most powerful of all the Hargreeves, but had had her powers repressed because she was unable to control them. Then, when she finally regains access to those powers, she nearly brings about the apocalypse on the Netflix show.
In Season 2, meanwhile, we discover that her powers are so extensive that she can even transfer her powers to others. In the second season of the Netflix show, she transfers powers to Harlan (Justin Paul Kelly), which maybe changes the entire timeline of the world as The Umbrella Academy knows it.
Though the extent of Vanya's abilities is a secret at the start of the show, a Reddit user has realized that her powers may have been hidden in plain sight the whole time.
Writing on the show's official Reddit, an Umbrella Academy fan shared the Wikipedia page for the so-called 'Tsar Bomba,' the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. However, that bomb, which was detonated in a test in October 1961, had another name.
The Reddit user wrote: "Just found out that the code name for the most powerful bomb ever created was 'Vanya'."
This may be a coincidence, but some of the dialogue in Umbrella Academy Seasons 1 and 2 seems to suggest that the writers are aware of this bit of nuclear history. In the first season, Number Five (played by Aidan Gallagher) says: "Vanya is the bomb. Vanya causes the apocalypse." In Season 2, meanwhile, Diego (David Castañeda) says: "Vanya is the bomb. She will always be the bomb."
Vanya's name is far from the only Easter egg that is in the Netflix show. The show's Instagram, for example, recently revealed that there are 43 sparrows hidden in Season 2. In the finale, for example, Harlan is seen levitating a wooden toy shaped like a sparrow.
This is a double Easter eggs—sparrows are a reference to The Sparrow Academy, who have replaced the Hargreeves in the alternate timeline at the end of Season 2, while 43 is the number of superpowered babies born on October 1, 1989.
The show is also full of references to 1960s history apart from the Vanya Easter egg. Season 2, for example, shows a man holding an open umbrella in Dallas on the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
This 'Umbrella Man' was a real person seen with an open umbrella on the day, who has been the subject of many conspiracy theories. The second season also includes the Majestic 12, the organization that conspiracy theorists say were responsible for covering up the Roswell UFO sighting.
The Umbrella Academy Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming now on Netflix.
