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'The Umbrella Academy': How Elliot Page's Viktor Comes Out as Transgender in Season 3
Elliot Page's real-life transition was reflected in an early season 3 episode of Netflix's when his character reintroduced himself as Viktor Hargreeves. Page publicly shared in December 2020 that he was transgender and would use he/him pronouns. In March of this year, Netflix confirmed with a photo that Page's character, who had been known as Vanya and used she/her pronouns for the first two seasons, would now be Viktor and use he/him pronouns.Even with another world-ending apocalypse looming large within the world of, the series dealt a sensitive hand in crafting Viktor's onscreen transition story.