The Umbrella Academy premiered on Netflix in 2019, adapted from the comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá. Number Five, played by Aidan Gallagher, is a time traveller whose main power is spatial jumping, often shown with blue energy flares as he blinks between places. Fans isolated the short teleport cue from those scenes and began reusing it in edits, memes and fan videos. Because the effect is under half a second and instantly recognisable to viewers of the show, it remains a popular shorthand for any sudden jump cut.