“ | Time travel's a bitch. | „ |
~ Cha-Cha |
Cha-Cha is a major antagonist of the comic book limited series The Umbrella Academy: Dallas, the second series of the comic series The Umbrella Academy, and the secondary antagonist of Season 1 of its Netflix adaptation.
An assassin, she works with Hazel to stop the apocalypse.
In the Netflix adaptation, she is portrayed by Mary J. Blige who had played Evillene in the 2015 NBC live musical telecast The Wiz.
Biography[]
Comics[]
In the original comics, Cha-Cha is a male assassin who kills people who "mess with the timeline". With a love for sugary foods and being very strong and durable, he tinkers with the idea to leave the assassin life behind, and has an eye for Agnes, a waitress in the doughnut shop he likes to go to. These qualities are given to Hazel in the TV show. In the comics, they both meet their end when Klaus possesses one of them to shoot the other, before turning the gun on the possessed member.
TV Show[]
In the TV show, Cha-Cha is a female assassin who, with Hazel, kills people by traveling through time. She and Hazel were sent by the Commission to track down Number Five. Cha-cha and Hazel torture and kill a mechanic who at first they suspect to be Number Five. The pair find Five at an apartment store, where they attempt to kill him. When Detective Eudora Patch comes to their motel room investigating, Cha-Cha shoots her dead, leading to Diego to be framed for her murder.
Five sends Hazel and Cha-Cha a false order from the Commission, instructing them to kill each other. Cha-Cha ends up learning of Hazel's relationship with Agnes, which causes Hazel to depart from the Commission. Angered at Hazel for betraying the Commission, Cha-Cha kidnaps Agnes, leading Hazel to come to the motel and attempt to stop her. Cha-Cha comes close to murdering Agnes, but The Handler arrives and stops time, which saves Agnes' life. As Hazel drives off with Cha-Cha, she attempts to reconcile with Hazel, but Hazel launches her through the windshield and leaves her for dead. Cha-Cha survives and ends up at the theater where the members of the Umbrella Academy are. Cha-Cha and Diego engage in a fight where Diego nearly kills Cha-Cha, but he decides to spare her, allowing her to leave. When the apocalypse hits, Cha-Cha is seen trying to make a call on a payphone, before she is killed by a wave of explosion.
Trivia[]
- In the TV adaptation, Cha-Cha's gender is changed and her mask is switched with Hazel's. It it unknown why this change happened.
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