Real Name: Pietro Maximoff Affiliation: None Previous Affiliations:Magneto's cabinet, Knights of Wundagore, Avengers, X-Factor, Inhuman Royal Militia, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (I) Status: Married (Crystal) Relatives:Magneto (father), Magda
(mother, deceased), Crystal (wife), Luna (daughter), Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch, twin sister), Django
Maximoff (adoptive father), Marya Maximoff (adoptive mother), Anya (sister, deceased), Inhuman Royal Family (in-laws) Powers: Speed, speed, and more speed. Nuff said! Quicksilver
is possibly the fastest human in the Marvel Universe. His powers,
however, have caused him to have a very condescending attitude
towards the rest of the world, which drags his life along at what
is to him, a snail's pace. Pietro also carries with him a great and
dark legacy as the son of Magneto, a fact which constantly haunts
him. Pietro and his sister Wanda were born in the High Evolutionary's
citadel at Mount Wundagore after their mother Magda fled from her husband Magneto, whose powers had recently manifested.
Magda left the twins with the Evolutionary's servant Bova, who tried to
substitute them for the child of WWII hero Robert Frank (AKA the Whizzer), who had died in childbirth, along with their mother Madeline (AKA Miss America), only minutes before elsewhere in the citadel. However, upon learning of his wife's death, Frank was so distraught that he ran out of the citadel, leaving Bova with two babies to house. (Years later, however, the twins would come to believe that Frank was their true father.) She brought the situation before her master, and the Evolutionary chose the gypsy couple Django and Marya Maximoff, who had lost their children in the War, and presented them with the children of Magneto. Upon reaching adolescence, Pietro discovered his gift of speed, and used it to escape his town with his sister when Django began to steal food for his family. When Wanda's powers first flared up and destroyed a house, Pietro tried to save her from the ensuing mob, who believed she was a witch. Just then, Magneto, with no idea that he was their father, appeared and saved the twins, bringing them to Asteroid M and recruiting them into his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants under the names of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. Pietro and his sister followed Magnus for some time, but then left for their home in Transia, where they were soon recruited by the Avengers. Later, Pietro joined Magneto once more, coercing Wanda to come with him, but then changed his mind and the two became Avengers again. In a battle with the Sentinels, Pietro was severely injured, and was whisked away for medical attention by Crystal, a member of the Inhuman Royal Family. During his convalescence, Pietro fell in love with Crystal, and the two were soon married. Pietro joined the Inhumans' militia, but saw no action, and shortly thereafter, Luna Maximoff was born. At the same time, Magneto discovered that Pietro and Wanda were his true children, but when he tried to convince Pietro to rejoin himm, he was refused. As stated above, Pietro can be difficult to live with, and his neglect of Crystal drove her to another man. Pietro freaked, and refused to forgive her. He then embarked on a campaign of terrorism against the world, starting with the framing of the Avengers. Later, it was discovered that Crystal's cousin Maximus had been using mind-control to intensify Pietro's aggression, and when it wore off, Pietro and Crystal attempted a reconciliation, which failed miserably. Quicksilver joined the West Coast Avengers, and after Crystal came to Earth with Luna and became an Avenger herself, joined the new government-sponsored version of X-Factor. At the time, Pietro was under attack from an unknown enemy who was turning his power against him, and causing him to age a bit more quickly. X-Factor eventually defeated this enemy, Sen. Stephen Shaffran (Ricochet), and Pietro returned to normal. After their daughter Luna was abducted by Cortez, and after her subsequent rescue, Pietro and Crystal got back together. However, Crystal apparently died in the battle against Onslaught, and Pietro, overcome with grief, returned home to Transia, where he became the leader of the Knights of Wundagore, a group of animals who had been "evolved" to sentience and humanoid form by the High Evolutionary. When the heroes returned, Pietro and Crystal were reunited, and Quicksilver accepted the status of reserve member of the Avengers. However, when Magneto was given the island of Genosha to rule, Pietro journeyed there. He was captured by resistance forces and would have been killed if not for the intervention of Rogue and Voght. After Magnus crushed the resistance, Pietro was ready to storm off when Voght teleported him to a mutate camp for Legacy Virus infectees. Seeing the horrors occuring there, Pietro decided to stay in Genosha and act as his father's conscience, to remind him that both mutants and humans have to right not to be persecuted. This was all according to Magneto's plan, as he hopes to bring Pietro around to being a loyal and subservient son.
Recently, Magneto succeeded in restoring Genosha to its former glory, but with the mutants in charge. Only the town of Carrion Cove still resisted his leadership. Pietro investigated the rebellion and found that the town possessed technology that could bring Magneto back to full power. He opposed letting his father get a hold of the machines, but in the end he (and the Avengers) failed to stop Magneto. Pietro appears to have left Genosha.
Real Name: Pietro Maximoff