Whether you’re watching the Netflix show or reading the comics, Umbrella Academy fans are dying to know the answer to one burning question, what happened to Ben Hargreeves AKA Number 6 AKA The Horror. We know he’s dead, but let’s see what we can dig up?
An Unhappy Child
In the comics, the flashback scenes we do see of Ben show some sort-of whipping tentacles emerging from his stomach and he’s insanely powerful, but we really get no insight into what kind of personality he had as a young child.
Sir Reginald Hargreeves does mention in a personal note in the comics that #6 is “easily manipulated due to enthusiastic if naive nature.” And in Vanya’s book she writes about The Horror, calling him “the kindest of my siblings, but he was so eager to please Father. He was easily manipulated, dragged into Father and Luther’s little games — and those two simply let him die.”
Source: IGN.com Umbrella Academy: What Happened to Ben?