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Shows that feel likeThe Umbrella Academy (2019–2024)

Reunited by their father's death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.

If you loved The Umbrella Academy, the closest series we have are The Gifted (2017), Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and DC's Stargirl (2020). All three share The Umbrella Academy's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Timeless (2016).

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If The Umbrella Academy hit the spot, these will too

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The Gifted
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaHulu

Powered siblings and the family damage that shaped them

The difference: Earnest network drama, with no comedy

A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013–2020 · 7 seasons · ABC
★ 7.5drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

Super-powered ensembles tangled in conspiracies

The difference: Procedural MCU tie-in

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

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DC's Stargirl
2020–2022 · 3 seasons · The CW
★ 7.1sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaMax

Inheriting a hero's legacy along with everything wrong with it

The difference: Wholesome and small-town, with none of the rancour

Courtney Whitmore, a smart, athletic and above all else kind girl, discovers her step-father has a secret: he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. "Borrowing" the long-lost hero’s cosmic staff, she becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.

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Timeless
2016–2018 · 2 seasons · NBC
★ 7.6drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

A mismatched team dropping into history and breaking it

The difference: Network adventure, earnest and much tidier

A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?

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Marvel's Runaways
2017–2019 · 3 seasons · Hulu
★ 6.8action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Super-powered kids reckoning with their parents' sins

The difference: Teen-conspiracy angle

Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.

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Titans
2018–2023 · 4 seasons · DC Universe
🍅 50%★ 7.4drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyMax

The same preoccupation in both: superhero

A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016–2022 · 7 seasons · The CW
★ 6.7action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

A dysfunctional team blundering through time and making it worse

The difference: Sillier still, and much less interested in the family

When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

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Marvel's Iron Fist
2017–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

A returned heir upending the family legacy

The difference: Corporate kung-fu drama

Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.

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Marvel's Inhumans
2017 · 1 season · ABC
★ 4.9drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

A royal super-family torn by betrayal

The difference: Stiffer, campier misfire

After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where their surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them may prove to not only save them, but Earth itself.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
2021 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

Successors arguing over what the previous generation left them

The difference: Grounded Marvel action, and only two of them

Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame”, the Falcon, Sam Wilson and the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities, and their patience.

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The Sandman
2022–2025 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.6sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: superhero

After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.

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Black Lightning
2018–2021 · 4 seasons · The CW
★ 6.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · drama

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.

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