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->''"I was the fastest living creature on the planet. So fast I was a blur to human eyes. Bullets couldn't touch me. I could run up the sides of tall buildings. Snatch an arrow out of the air. I was a machine built for speed. Zero to sixty in seven seconds. A top speed of almost 220 miles per hour. Adapted to withstand the accelerated impact of my feet hitting the ground thirty times per second. My bones could absorb shocks that would shatter those of ordinary men. My tendons had the resilience of high tension steel. My body metabolized food so efficiently there was virtually no waste. I never carried an ounce of excess fat. My brain processed information at five times the speed of the average college graduate, data leaping from synapse to synapse, giving me split-second reactions, allowing me to out-think twenty opponents at once. I was more alive than ordinary mortals could ever imagine. I could run across the surface of water. I could outrun a hurricane. I was like the wind. Like a bolt of lightning. I was superb. I was perfection. I was... Quicksilver."''
-->-- '''Pietro Maximoff, ''Son of M'''''
Quicksilver is a Creator/MarvelComics superhero created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. He first appeared in ''ComicBook/XMen'' vol. 1 #4 (March, 1964). The son of a Romani woman named Magda and the supervillain ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, Pietro Maximoff and his twin sister Wanda were born on Wundergore Mountain in the fictional country of [[{{Uberwald}} Transia]]. Marvel's resident speedster, Quicksilver has been a prominent member of the BrotherhoodOfEvil Mutants, ComicBook/TheAvengers, and ComicBook/XFactor.
Making his debut in as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants along with his twin sister, [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda]], Pietro Maximoff quickly discovers that a life of crime is not for him. When Magneto, the Brotherhood's leader and father of the Maximoff twins, is abducted by the [[CosmicEntity Stranger]], Pietro and Wanda quit the Brotherhood and return home to Transia. Reformation on their mind, the pair learn that Comicbook/TheAvengers are looking for new members and are subsequently recruited by ComicBook/IronMan after Pietro talks Wanda into moving to the United States.
Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and former criminal ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} become the second generation of Avengers along with team leader ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. Dubbed "ComicBook/CapsKookyQuartet", the new Avengers have difficulty measuring up to the original heroes until battles against [[ConquerorFromTheFuture Kang the Conqueror]] and Doctor Doom give the team much-needed credibility. Unfortunately the team chemistry is shaken after the Scarlet Witch is wounded in battle with Magneto at a UN assembly, which, combined with Pietro's general distrust of humanity, prompts the twins to leave the Avengers and rejoin the Brotherhood.
It was revealed that this was a ploy by Magneto, using his powers to control the American soldier's gun's at the assembly and graze Wanda's temple, not only causing Quicksilver to rejoin Magneto, but for Wanda to have temporary memory loss, thus preventing her from talking her brother out of it. Eventually, one thing led to another, and soon, after a battle between the Brotherhood, and the X-Men & Avengers, Pietro and Wanda were forced to leave Magneto to his seeming death. Long story short, both Pietro and Wanda eventually rejoined the Avengers...
...And eventually, Pietro left the team ''again''. After he was saved from a Sentinel attack by Crystal of the ComicBook/TheInhumans, Comicbook/TheAvengers, and ComicBook/{{Fantastic Four}}, Crystal brought him back to the home of the Inhumans to rest and recuperate, and they eventually got married, and even had a baby. (Though the two eventually got divorced.) Since then, Pietro as Quicksilver has rejoined the Avengers on and off (along with a stint in X-Factor). Due to the generally derided Avengers Disassembled storyline, Wanda had caused mass chaos and and was seen as a threat. To sum up, it was decided by Xavier and the X-Men to kill her. Pietro, overhearing this, pleaded Wanda to take immediate action. And so... she ended up warping reality, causing the whole ComicBook/HouseOfM event.
After losing his powers, gaining a set of new ones, (time travel related) going crazy, losing his new powers, regaining his old ones, and becoming sane again, Quicksilver is now a hero once more. After serving with the now defunct Mighty Avengers team, Pietro was an instructor at the Avengers academy, teaching a new generation of heroes. He then led the Serval Industries X-Factor team for a while. Post-[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]], he joined the [[ComicBook/UncannyAvengers Avengers Unity Squad]].
His name derived from the archaic word "quicksilver," which meant mercury (in the sense of the metallic element Hg that's liquid at room temperature). This name, in turn, derives from the fact that mercury looks silvery but moves as though it's alive ("quick"). Mercury is also the name of the quick-footed Roman messenger god.
Quicksilver has appeared frequently in other media, most notably in two separate movie franchises as portrayed by different actors: Creator/EvanPeters in the ''Film/XMen'' series, and Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. This was due to a complication in the history of the character (i.e. Quicksilver was introduced as an X-Men antagonist but later became more associated as an Avenger) that made it so he could be featured in both universes, albeit with different backstories.
The MCU version, Pietro, is formally introduced in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. He and Wanda (Creator/ElizabethOlsen) are orphans from [[{{Ruritania}} Sokovia]] who become empowered by the Mind Stone in experiments done by ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}, later pit against the Avengers by ComicBook/{{Ultron}} (Creator/JamesSpader) before defecting to join them. This is ultimately Pietro's only major appearance in the series, as he is killed in the climactic battle and has not returned since.
The X-Men version, Peter, is introduced in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' an American slacker who is sought out to help bust Erik (Creator/MichaelFassbender) out of prison, and eventually becomes a member of the team in later installments. Unlike the MCU version, Peter ''is'' a mutant in this series and heavily implied to be Magneto's illegitimate son, but without Wanda as his twin sister as traditionally portrayed.
With Creator/{{Disney}}'s acquisition of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in 2019 and conclusion of their ''X-Men'' series, the fate of Quicksilver in movies moving forward became unclear. Complicating matters was Peters' apparent return as Quicksilver in the MCU series ''Series/WandaVision'', implying some degree of multiversal crossover with the retired franchise. This was ultimately a revealed as a [[TrollingCreator fake-out]], with Peters in fact portraying a completely unrelated character set up to masquerade as Pietro by Agatha Harkness (Creator/KathrynHahn). With the incoming of introduction of mutants and the X-Men in the MCU, however, it remains unseen how (and if) the different cinematic versions of Quicksilver will be reconciled now that both franchises are under one roof again.
[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not to be confused with]] the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] speedster hero named Quicksilver who mostly goes by [[Characters/TheFlashOtherSpeedsters Max Mercury]] now.
[[AC:{{Comics}}]]
* ''Quicksilver''
* ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''
* ''ComicBook/XFactor''
* ''ComicBook/AllNewXFactor''
* ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse''
* ''DC vs. Marvel''
* ''[[ComicBook/JLAAvengers JLA/Avengers]]''
* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies''
* ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''
* ''Son of M''
* ''ComicBook/SilentWar''
* ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers''
* ''Quicksilver: No Surrender''
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' (portrayed by Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson):
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' ([[TheStinger stinger]])
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''
** ''Series/WandaVision''[[note]]Portrayed by Creator/EvanPeters as "Pietro" / Ralph Bohner[[/note]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' (portrayed by Creator/EvanPeters):
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse''
** ''Film/DarkPhoenix''
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaAndTheAvengers'': An AssistCharacter, Quicksilver gives the player character health items when summoned.
* ''VideoGame/XMenLegends II: Rise of Apocalypse'': Non-playable, Quicksilver is one of four mutants kidnapped by Apocalypse in his attempt to gain ultimate power.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance 2'': Quicksilver is a boss character on the [=PS2=], PSP and Wii versions of the game.
* ''Marvel VideoGame/SuperHeroSquadOnline: The Infinity Gauntlet'': Quicksilver is a playable character in Episodes 6, 9, and 11.
* ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny''
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'': Quicksilver is one of the playable heroes.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'': appears as a World Boss boss battle and unlockable playable character.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes''
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen''
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''
* ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow''
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!!Tropes seen in this series include:
* ActionDad: he has a daughter named Luna from his ex-wife, Crystal.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's much more powerful and more prominent in the Film/XMenFilmSeries than his adaptational counterpart from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and arguably even his original comic incarnation.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Bordering on NeverLiveItDown, but if Pietro appears outside comics, he will almost undoubtedly be portrayed as an X-Men villain, sometimes an AntiVillain if he's lucky. Arguably the worst case of this is ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', where he's the most villainous member of the Brotherhood (who're a bunch of IneffectualSympatheticVillain types here), and his behaviour sometimes borders on making him TheSociopath. (Consider that in the comics, ''even in the 60s when the Brotherhood were proudly {{Card Carrying Villain}}s,'' Quicksilver was only with them to watch over Wanda, who in turn was only with them because she owed Magneto a debt, and they jumped ship to become Avengers after about four or five appearances. In other words, Pietro was the LEAST malicious of the brotherhood.) Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'', where your character has the option of asking about why he's following Magneto despite being a good guy.
** Averted in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. While he starts out as manipulated by the villains, Pietro and his sister quickly join the Avengers, with Pietro especially [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to save Hawkeye and a civilian boy from a hail of bullets]].
** Also averted in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. While in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' he was basically a super-powered slacker who briefly helped the heroes [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]], in the sequel, he's a straight-up hero, apparently inspired by the example of [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalHeroism Mystique]]. If not for his heroism, in fact, every single student at Xavier's would've died when the mansion exploded and Apocalypse would've been unopposed]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter
** Franchise/TheFlash fulfills this role in Marvel/DC crossovers. Head-to-head, Quicksilver is simply no match for any Speed Force user. To illustrate the point, at one point Franchise/TheFlash is outrunning Quicksilver ''while running backward''. Though Quicksilver is quite delighted when the Flash steps into the Marvelverse where there is no Speed Force, and thus, no SuperSpeed for him.
---> ''(while chasing the Flash, who had just snatched the Cosmic Cube from Ms. Marvel's hands)'' Hello. You're on ''my'' Earth now, and you're already starting to ''slow down''. So let me just say... [[BlatantLies It's nothing personal. Oh, no. Not at all.]]\\
''(shoves the Flash aside, snatching the Cosmic Cube from him)''\\
'''Hah!''' I'm faster! ''Faster!'' '''Speed Force be damned!'''
** In-universe, his own nephew (sort of) Thomas Shepherd aka Speed fulfills this role. He taunted Quicksilver while running backwards, just like the Flash before him. And then there's Northstar, one of the few Marvel-Speedsters who can go Lightspeed.
* AntiHero: Generally a Type II, but recently downgraded to type IV, and briefly even type V, since most American writers don't like stereotypical "Euro Trash" characters.
* ArchEnemy: Fabian Cortez and Exodus both serve this role to him, being both mutants who have embraced Magneto's legacy of [[SuperSupremacist Super Supremacy]]. Cortez was the first of them to hit the scene and tried to play the EvilMentor to Pietro for a little while (he wouldn't have any of it) but it was Exodus and his threatening of Luna during the ''ComicBook/BloodTies'' event that earned Pietro's hatred. Ironically, the two are friends and allies in the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse.
* ArrowCatch: He's more than capable of this, much to Hawkeye's chagrin.
* BadassFamily: Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and brother-in-law Vision as part of the Avengers. There's also Polaris, his half-sister and fellow member of ComicBook/XFactor. And of course there is his [[RetCanon on-again off-again]] father Magneto.
** Don't forget his nephews (kind of), Billy and Tommy (Wiccan and Speed).
* BigBrotherInstinct: Hurting Wanda, even accidentally, brings out the bad side of Pietro. He is insanely protective of his sister, despite her pointing out she is capable of looking after herself.
** He also starts developing the instinct for Lorna Dane (Polaris). Some time before the establishment of Serval Industries' ComicBook/XFactor, he found her [[DrowningMySorrows drinking in a bar]] due to some stress. He tried to snap her out of it, but she attacked him in a drunken rage. The fight between the siblings ensued in the bar. He eventually subdued her and intended to bring her into Avengers, but she's taken into custody by law enforcement for causing chaos in the bar. Later, after Polaris is freed by Harrison Snow and becomes leader of Harrison's X-Factor, Quicksilver joins the team to keep an eye on her.
* {{Blackmail}}: Quicksilver beat up and threatened a blackmailer who showed him pictures of Crystal with another man.
* BlessedWithSuck: Super speed isn't always a blessing, especially during dinner with the in-laws. Trying to pace himself to avoid embarrassment, Pietro still managed to eat his entire meal so fast that the entire Inhuman royal family could do nothing but stare in awe. It's also a big part of the reason why he's such a douche; when you perceive everything so much faster to the point where it feels as if the rest of the world is moving in slow-motion, your patience will run out ''very'' quick. At one point he compares it to being perpetually stuck in line at the bank behind someone who's trying to count $100 worth of pennies by hand.
* BlowYouAway: He can use his speed to create cyclonic wind gusts strong enough to knock people off their feet.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: He's been trained in martial arts by Captain America.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: During his limited issues series the Inhuman scientist Maximus used his hidden PsychicPowers to manipulate Quicksilver's mind, subtly encouraging him to turn against the Avengers.
* BrotherSisterIncest: In most versions there's subtext between him and his sis Wanda, but it's text-text in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
* BroughtDownToNormal: He thought he had it bad when life moved in slo-mo, but after losing his powers, everything seemed so... ''fast''. He went crazy, stole mutating mists from his in-laws, and used them to get time travel powers.
* CannotSpitItOut: In the third ''Uncanny Avengers'' volume, Pietro develops an attraction to his teammate Synapse, but is unable to tell her how he feels, one of many things the ComicBook/RedSkull mocks him for while [[MindControl controlling him]].
-->'''Red Skull''': Synapse makes your heart sing, and you can't even talk to her.
%%* CryCute
* CurbStompBattle: Has a few to his name, but his most spectacular one involved Mr. X, whose shtick was reading his opponent's mind to determine what they were going to do before they even did it. He tried this with Pietro and learned that Pietro was going to beat him half to death with a metal pipe. The only problem was that Pietro was moving far too fast for Mr. X to affect the outcome of this in the slightest, meaning that yes, he did get his ass thoroughly beat. Oh, and the kicker? X was in possession of the Spear of Odin at the time.
-->''You can read minds enough to be able to predict any attack your opponent will make. So you will be able to —[hits Mr. X] anticipate every move I make —[hits him again] and do absolutely —[and again...] '''nothing''' about it —[...and again...] because -[..again...] [[PunctuatedPounding I-am-the-fastest-man-on-Earth]].''
** Wolverine has beaten him several times simply by waiting for Pietro to accidentally run into his fist.
-->'''Wolverine''': That ''never'' gets old.
* DeadlyDodging: When fighting a BigBad and his {{Mooks}} most usually.
* DeadpanSnarker: Like his father before him.
* DePower: Quicksilver was one of the mutants who lost their powers after the events of ''House of M''.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While under the telepathic influence of Maximus the Mad, Quicksilver went- well, mad. Specifically in ways that made him seek DisproportionateRetribution on others. He betrayed the Avengers, framed them for treason and then tried to kill them due to a series of slights (both real and imagined). These supposed offenses included the way his teammates approved of Wanda's marriage to Vision despite Pietro's objections, as well as the time they accidentally left him behind in Australia after their battle with the Sentinels. Even his biggest gripe, Crystal's infidelity, hardly justified attempted murder, especially since the Avengers ''[[MisplacedRetribution had nothing to do with it]]''.
* DodgeTheBullet: He's done this too many times to count. One wonders why gunmen even bother trying.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Admits as much during ''Uncanny Avengers'' when Doctor Voodoo invokes mystical creatures to repair Avengers Mansion. When Wanda responds to this by pointing out that ''she'' uses magic, he is quick to remind her of how much pain it's brought her, ending his talk with a simple "magic sucks!"
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Already depressed after losing his powers, Pietro jumps off a roof in ''Son of M #1'' after a humiliating encounter with Spider-Man.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Quicksilver can create whirlwinds by running around his opponent at top speed. These whirlwinds are powerful enough to overpower the Human Torch while in flight.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Quicksilver's time in the Brotherhood of Mutants had the Maximoff twins performing crimes with their father, though they didn't know it at the time.
* FantasticRacism: Ironically, despite the anti-mutant racism he's experienced his entire life, he was vehemently opposed to Wanda's relationship with Comicbook/TheVision on account of the latter being a robot. Moondragon psychically "cured" Pietro of this prejudice, but he later returned to hating Vision during his brief FaceHeelTurn in the 80s.
* FastAsLightning: His lightning motif goes well with his speed.
* FlashStep: He often does this in scenes where he's using his powers for some MundaneUtility or another.
* FragileSpeedster: Mildly subverted, as his flesh and bones are endowed with the [[RequiredSecondaryPowers requisite durability]] for him to survive using his abilities, but he's by no means NighInvulnerable.
* FreudianExcuse: He's not exactly a bad guy, just an impulsive dick. Having a rocky relationship with his father and sister doesn't help, however, and he outright tells a shrink that his main reason for being an impetuous, self-centered prick is the fact that the speed of the world around him is agonizingly slow to him. Picture having to wait in a slow-moving line for hours for something mundane. That's what ''every single second'' is like for him.
* GreenEyedMonster: Pietro's jealousy is one of the reasons Crystal refuses to start their relationship anew. This revelation came just minutes after Pietro slugged Jolen of the Inhumans for placing a flower in Crystal's hair.
** It doesn't help that said jealousy isn't unfounded due to Crystal's adulterous behavior.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Pietro was originally against Wanda's marriage to the Vision, simply because his brother-in-law was a machine. It took fellow Avenger Moondragon ''erasing'' those prejudiced thoughts from his mind for Pietro to change his tune.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Quicksilver had a habit of this early in his career, bouncing between the Avengers and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He returned to villainy during the 80s, but this was later {{Retcon}}ned into having been the result of Maximus' brainwashing. And even without a thought-out decision to change sides, when you're as hotheaded as he is, you might find yourself up against your teammates as you pursue one rash course of action or another.
* HeroicSacrifice: During ''Avengers: No Surrender'', he runs himself into another dimension stopping the device freezing all the other heroes from working.
* HolierThanThou: On his worse days, Quicksilver is quick to cast scorn on others while completely ignoring his own mistakes and flaws. During his rock-bottom moment in ''X-Factor'' vol 3, he even actually described himself as being "holier than thou" without irony.
* HotBlooded: In most depictions, his temper is as quick as everything else about him.
* HumiliationConga: Time hasn't been kind to this speedster. From being a founding member of the Avengers and having his own limited series in the '90s, he commits a pivotal NiceJobBreakingItHero during the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' event, is accidentally depowered in the event's aftermath, was divorced by Crystal after breaking Inhuman law and insulting Inhuman culture in a ProfessorGuineaPig scheme, and ultimately lost his powers '''again''' and was reduced to homelessness and being jailed for vagrancy. He inexplicably regained his powers, but has pinballed aimlessly since, mostly being used as an UnwittingPawn for villains like Cthton and the High Evolutionary.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Quicksilver's metabolism is so efficient that he produces very little waste. Canonically, it's fifteen times more efficient than a normal human being's metabolism.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He greatly detested Vision for marrying his sister, simply because he was a machine. It doesn't speak well for Pietro, considering his long-held disgust for humanity over their persecution against mutants.
* IAmNotMyFather: Pietro purposely took on a teaching role at the Avengers Academy to distance himself from his father.
* InTheBlood: The bouts of insanity seem to be a familiar trait.
* IncestSubtext: His relationship with Wanda is sometimes a little too close. And in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version, it quite disturbingly goes beyond just subtext.
* InertiaIsACruelMistress:
** During his Heel periods he's often been defeated this way; indeed, his very first appearance had him defeated by Angel tricking him into running into a wall. Amusingly, he once used this to his advantage when fighting a Sentinel that had absorbed his powers.
** Likewise, Comicbook/SpiderMan once took Quicksilver out by clotheslining him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: During the third ''Uncanny Avengers'' volume, he attempted to claim superiority over the team, stating that he had been an Avenger longer than any of them. ComicBook/TheWasp (a ''founding'' member) is quick to call him out on this.
* {{Jerkass}}: Quicksilver has been a good guy, bad guy, and in-between, but never stops being an arrogant, self-centered dick. This extends to his other incarnations, such as his apperances on the different cartoons and Ultimate X-Men.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: DependingOnTheWriter, Pietro is usually, beneath his jerkassery, a good guy who does anything for his friends.
** For all his flaws, Pietro really does enjoy being a superhero and helping out others although this is something he will not admit openly. Aside from his sister, he also greatly cares about The New Men and sees them as an extended family.
** Even with both of them currently divorced, he still holds high regard for his ex-brother-in-law Vision to the point where he still sees him as family.
* KarmaHoudini: Made a statement on the news that his kidnapping of Luna was a work of a Skrull imposter after the Secret Invasion crossover. However, Luna knows the truth, and while [[SecretKeeper she'll keep his secret because she loves him]], she [[CallingTheOldManOut makes it very clear]] that she has lost ''all'' respect for him.
** And then [[spoiler:when Fatale calls him out on this on live TV, he admits the whole truth, which causes Luna to regain her respect for him, making him a slightly different type of karma Houdini.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Given Pietro was the one who pushed the mentally unstable Wanda into causing the whole ''House of M'' mess, his depowering was the least he deserved. Shame he's never shown any real repentance for that specific part of his life (just the consequences).
* LeeroyJenkins: His arrogance and impatience often lead him to rush into battle without thinking (which can backfire on him spectacularly).
* LightningBruiser: Of the "hard-hitting speedster" variety. His enhanced physiology makes him far more durable than he appears, and he can very easily beat someone half to death [[RapidFireFisticuffs before they can even react]].
** The X-Men film version has him deliver a CurbStompBattle to [[spoiler:''[[BigBad Apocalypse]] himself'']] until [[spoiler:Apocalypse gives up on futile attempts to fight directly and uses his sand control to trap one of Peter's feet.]]
* LoveTriangle: He was briefly in one with his estranged wife Crystal and their fellow Avenger Black Knight during the 90s. Black Knight eventually backed off after Pietro and Crystal tried to repair their marriage.
* LukeIAmYourFather: He's gone through this three times and counting. First he and Wanda learned that the elderly superhero [[HaveAGayOldTime The Whizzer]] was their father. Then they found out that a mysterious old wizard was their long-lost UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} adoptive father. Then they learned that their true father was not the Whizzer but their hated ex-boss Magneto. ''Then'' came ComicBook/{{AXIS}} with yet '''another''' RetCon that their true father wasn't Magneto after all, but that last one's been more or less [[FanDiscontinuity ignored]] since then.
* MadeOfIron: One of the RequiredSecondaryPowers that prevents Pietro from vibrating himself into jelly every time he uses his powers.
* MagicCompass: A living version, as his powers allow him to sense magnetic vibrational patterns and always tell which direction is north.
* MesACrowd: In ''Son of M'', Quicksilver could use his temporary time traveling powers to create multiple copies of himself by jumping into the future in 30 second intervals.
* MistakenForGay: When trying to explain to Crystal that he's seeing a psychiatrist.
* TheMole: Joined Serval Industries' X-Factor mainly to keep an eye on Polaris for Havok.
* MundaneUtility: Pietro uses his super speed to read books, solve jigsaw puzzles, go shopping, [[RapidFireTyping type]], and prep salads.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Quicksilver gained limited TimeTravel powers after exposing himself to the Terrigen Mists, which he only learned about after meeting his future self.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: To Scarlet Witch.
* NeverMyFault: Another of his major faults. After a poorly-thought out attempt of his to stop the Juggernaut results in Synapse being gravely injured, he ends up blaming everyone else for it. Wanda is quick to point out Synapse was injured because of him, angrily calling him out on letting his {{Pride}} blind him to the truth, and telling him that he will not be welcome on the team again until he admits to his mistake.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' and ''Son Of M''. First his attempt to help his sister results in mass depowering of the mutant population. Then his attempts to fix it cause a war to break out between ComicBook/TheInhumans and US military. Also, it turns out that re-powering of mutants with terrigen crystals has [[DeadlyUpgrade horrible side effects]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Magneto received one from half a dozen Quicksilvers in ''Son of M'', many of whom had words for "their" father after the fight.
-->'''Quicksilver #3:''' All I ever wanted to do was please him.\\
'''Quicksilver #2:''' He barely acknowledged my existence.\\
'''Quicksilver #1:''' Have you noticed me now?!
* ParentalSubstitute: Pietro often sees the High Evolutionary as more of a father figure to him than Magneto ever was, and depending on [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor how evil he is that day]] the Evolutionary either reciprocates those feelings or manipulates those feelings for his own ends. While it's easy to understand why he wouldn't want to sit down to a family dinner with the Master of Magnetism after their history, in practice, Mags (WellIntentionedExtremist who's been mostly playing nicely on the X-Men's side lately) tends to be more trustworthy than the High Evolutionary (a MadScientist who's ''still'' liable to come up with ideas like "Let's merge Earth and Counter-Earth into one!")
* PersonalityPowers: Well, except the most prominent part of Pietro's personality is how he's a total JerkAss because life moves in slow motion for him.
* PetTheDog: On occasion, which he'll usually balance out by being like a complete jerk again seconds later.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: He could originally run several hundred miles per hour - unimpressive by the standards of those who can cross interstellar distances in seconds, but about the speed that makes sense for your average battle with a character who looks like a blur but can still be zapped with EyeBeams or punched if you can predict him well enough to put your fist where his face is going to be a second from now. These days he can outrun radio signals, putting him in the above-light-speed category.
* PrettyBoy: Depending on the art, Quicksilver is usually not a pretty boy except for X-Men Evolution cartoon. However, in one X-Factor issue, he was called 'Pretty Boy' by his inmates when he was put in prison for vagrancy.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: He's not a professor, but he did play this trope otherwise to the hilt when he exposed himself to the Terrigen Mists in a desperate bid to regain his powers. In the classic spirit of the trope, it worked only to become a case of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
* PunchClockVillain: He and Wanda were only in Magneto's Brotherhood because he saved their lives; they refused to kill anyone, used their powers against Magneto to stop him from killing, and [[HeelFaceTurn joined the Avengers]] as soon as they were free of him.
* PutOnABus: Roy Thomas got rid of Quicksilver ''twice'' during the original ''Avengers'' run. The first time was when Pietro and his amnesiac sister temporarily rejoined Magneto's Brotherhood, and the second was when an injured Pietro was accidentally left behind in Australia after the team's battle against the Sentinels. The second exit proved to be much longer-lasting, as he was soon found by Crystal, who took him back to Attilan. He would not return to being an active Avenger until the 90s, not long before the ''Comicbook/{{Onslaught}}'' crossover.
* {{Repower}}: After losing his powers on M-Day, and later using the Terrigen Mist that empowers the Inhumans to achieve an altered version of them (he could vibrate his molecules faster than the speed of light and travel through time) he just got his old SuperSpeed back (without any real explanation) during the ''X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead'' one-shot. Apparently, EpiphanyTherapy trumps a RealityWarper depowering 98% of all mutants...
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As noted in the page quote, Pietro's mutation didn't simply grant him speed; it also strengthed his bones and tendons, and provided him with phenomenal reaction time.
* TheRival: The Black Knight became this to him during the period when they were in competition for the affections of Crystal.
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Pietro and Wanda's mother, Magda, was Romani, and they were adopted by a Romani family when she died.
** DependingOnTheWriter their father, Magneto, is either Romani as well or Jewish.
* RubiksCubeInternationalGeniusSymbol: Pietro can solve one in 0.0000034 seconds.
* [[WalkOnWater Run On Water]]: He's run across the Atlantic Ocean and back more than once.
* SanitySlippage: Went insane without his powers.
* TheSociopath: During 2016's ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' event his sister stated that he is a "textbook sociopath" who disrupts "through manipulation or force" all his relationships. Seeing as how Wanda [[ManipulativeBitch doesn't exactly]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity have room]] [[AGodAmI in her]] [[ComicBook/HouseOfM glass house]] to throw stones, take from that what you will.
* SmugSuper: Quicksilver is the "fastest man on Earth" and he'll never let you forget it.
* SpeedBlitz: He's fond of combining this with CrissCrossAttack to dismantle his foes.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Quicksilver can try, he can have all the hard-earned lessons and character development he likes, but come the next writer, he's going to be a jerkwad again.
* SuperReflexes: His reflexes are canonically stated to be better than those of the finest human athletes. Even in early appearances he was capable of feats such as dodging close range optic blasts courtesy of Cyclops, and he's only gotten faster on the ball since then.
* SuperIntelligence: Of the learning quickly variety. [[http://quicksilverfans.tumblr.com/post/33375796040 Pietro learned how to play]] Beethoveen's Moonlight Sonata from memory and by ear in ten seconds, never having played piano before and only knowing where the 'C' key is. As any musician knows, Moonlight Sonata isn't exactly a beginner's piece. He is also an accomplished sculptor.
** Ultimate Quicksilver isn't as smart as Reed Richards but can still work out his math by super speed rote.
* SuperSpeed: Up to Mach 4 but possibly higher.
** During the Mighty Avengers era, he was outrunning radio waves, putting him at translight speeds, vibrating so fast when he got angry that he was creating wind shear and his equivalent of a nervous twitch was zipping from Tibet to Indonesia and back in a second or two at most. While this was debunked by Marvel editor Tom Breevort, the statement Breevort gave [[EpicFail indicated that he had not actually read the comic.]] Whether he retains this level of speed is up for debate.
* SuperSpeedReading: Does this frequently to stave off boredom.
* SuperSupremacist: A mild version to be sure, but Pietro's natural arrogance and sense of superiority leads him to often view ordinary humans with disdain. He doesn't go full villain about it like his father or other mutant baddies, but sometimes he's toed the line (such as when he joined his father's cabinet during his stint as Genosha's dictator).
* SuperToughness: Pietro's body is immensely durable thanks to the RequiredSecondaryPowers needed to keep him from tearing himself apart, which has the side effect of making him incredibly difficult to seriously hurt.
* TimeStandsStill: Quicksilver once explained his angry personality by asking his psychologist to imagine living in a world consisting entirely of the slowest queue at the checkout.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the "Siege of Wundagore" storyline his Super Speed was amped up to pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] Franchise/{{Superman}} levels by the High Evolutionary's [[SuperSerum Isotope E]], allowing him to defeat Exodus (who ironically is a Superman-level mutant, and leagues more powerful than Quicksilver normally).
* TookALevelInJerkass: He was always arrogant and hard to get along with, but in UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks, writer Steve Englehart made him an out-and-out bigot who broke off his relationship with his sister over her relationship with the Vision. His ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' incarnation also took several levels following the ''Ultimatum'' event.
* TouchedByVorlons: After decades of being a mutant, the most recent (as of 2019) interpretation of Pietro is that he is in fact an ordinary human being who was empowered as a baby by the High Evolutionary.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: With his father being who he is, this is a concern for several characters. Despite their antipathy for each other, Pietro and his father share a mutual arrogance, and some villains such as Fabian Cortez have even attempted to exploit this by tempting him to take a more active role in mutant affairs.
* TheUnfavourite: Magneto's relationship with his kids is very screwed up, but he and Pietro cannot get along with each other.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His portrayal in various adaptations, such as ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}'', ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'', where he is usually aware about his parentage from the start. Eventually it leaked into the main continuity as well (see quote above), which was a 180 degree turn from [[YoureNotMyFather his original relationship with Magneto]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Zig-zagged, Quicksilver goes back and forth on the villain front, but even at his best he's still quite a jerk.
* WouldHurtAChild: During his Sanity Slippage days, he thought it was God's will he murder the then-teenaged Layla Miller.
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->''"I was the fastest living creature on the planet. So fast I was a blur to human eyes. Bullets couldn't touch me. I could run up the sides of tall buildings. Snatch an arrow out of the air. I was a machine built for speed. Zero to sixty in seven seconds. A top speed of almost 220 miles per hour. Adapted to withstand the accelerated impact of my feet hitting the ground thirty times per second. My bones could absorb shocks that would shatter those of ordinary men. My tendons had the resilience of high tension steel. My body metabolized food so efficiently there was virtually no waste. I never carried an ounce of excess fat. My brain processed information at five times the speed of the average college graduate, data leaping from synapse to synapse, giving me split-second reactions, allowing me to out-think twenty opponents at once. I was more alive than ordinary mortals could ever imagine. I could run across the surface of water. I could outrun a hurricane. I was like the wind. Like a bolt of lightning. I was superb. I was perfection. I was... Quicksilver."''
-->-- '''Pietro Maximoff, ''Son of M'''''
Quicksilver is a Creator/MarvelComics superhero created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. He first appeared in ''ComicBook/XMen'' vol. 1 #4 (March, 1964). The son of a Romani woman named Magda and the supervillain ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, Pietro Maximoff and his twin sister Wanda were born on Wundergore Mountain in the fictional country of [[{{Uberwald}} Transia]]. Marvel's resident speedster, Quicksilver has been a prominent member of the BrotherhoodOfEvil Mutants, ComicBook/TheAvengers, and ComicBook/XFactor.
Making his debut in as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants along with his twin sister, [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda]], Pietro Maximoff quickly discovers that a life of crime is not for him. When Magneto, the Brotherhood's leader and father of the Maximoff twins, is abducted by the [[CosmicEntity Stranger]], Pietro and Wanda quit the Brotherhood and return home to Transia. Reformation on their mind, the pair learn that Comicbook/TheAvengers are looking for new members and are subsequently recruited by ComicBook/IronMan after Pietro talks Wanda into moving to the United States.
Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and former criminal ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} become the second generation of Avengers along with team leader ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. Dubbed "ComicBook/CapsKookyQuartet", the new Avengers have difficulty measuring up to the original heroes until battles against [[ConquerorFromTheFuture Kang the Conqueror]] and Doctor Doom give the team much-needed credibility. Unfortunately the team chemistry is shaken after the Scarlet Witch is wounded in battle with Magneto at a UN assembly, which, combined with Pietro's general distrust of humanity, prompts the twins to leave the Avengers and rejoin the Brotherhood.
It was revealed that this was a ploy by Magneto, using his powers to control the American soldier's gun's at the assembly and graze Wanda's temple, not only causing Quicksilver to rejoin Magneto, but for Wanda to have temporary memory loss, thus preventing her from talking her brother out of it. Eventually, one thing led to another, and soon, after a battle between the Brotherhood, and the X-Men & Avengers, Pietro and Wanda were forced to leave Magneto to his seeming death. Long story short, both Pietro and Wanda eventually rejoined the Avengers...
...And eventually, Pietro left the team ''again''. After he was saved from a Sentinel attack by Crystal of the ComicBook/TheInhumans, Comicbook/TheAvengers, and ComicBook/{{Fantastic Four}}, Crystal brought him back to the home of the Inhumans to rest and recuperate, and they eventually got married, and even had a baby. (Though the two eventually got divorced.) Since then, Pietro as Quicksilver has rejoined the Avengers on and off (along with a stint in X-Factor). Due to the generally derided Avengers Disassembled storyline, Wanda had caused mass chaos and and was seen as a threat. To sum up, it was decided by Xavier and the X-Men to kill her. Pietro, overhearing this, pleaded Wanda to take immediate action. And so... she ended up warping reality, causing the whole ComicBook/HouseOfM event.
After losing his powers, gaining a set of new ones, (time travel related) going crazy, losing his new powers, regaining his old ones, and becoming sane again, Quicksilver is now a hero once more. After serving with the now defunct Mighty Avengers team, Pietro was an instructor at the Avengers academy, teaching a new generation of heroes. He then led the Serval Industries X-Factor team for a while. Post-[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]], he joined the [[ComicBook/UncannyAvengers Avengers Unity Squad]].
His name derived from the archaic word "quicksilver," which meant mercury (in the sense of the metallic element Hg that's liquid at room temperature). This name, in turn, derives from the fact that mercury looks silvery but moves as though it's alive ("quick"). Mercury is also the name of the quick-footed Roman messenger god.
Quicksilver has appeared frequently in other media, most notably in two separate movie franchises as portrayed by different actors: Creator/EvanPeters in the ''Film/XMen'' series, and Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. This was due to a complication in the history of the character (i.e. Quicksilver was introduced as an X-Men antagonist but later became more associated as an Avenger) that made it so he could be featured in both universes, albeit with different backstories.
The MCU version, Pietro, is formally introduced in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. He and Wanda (Creator/ElizabethOlsen) are orphans from [[{{Ruritania}} Sokovia]] who become empowered by the Mind Stone in experiments done by ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}, later pit against the Avengers by ComicBook/{{Ultron}} (Creator/JamesSpader) before defecting to join them. This is ultimately Pietro's only major appearance in the series, as he is killed in the climactic battle and has not returned since.
The X-Men version, Peter, is introduced in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' an American slacker who is sought out to help bust Erik (Creator/MichaelFassbender) out of prison, and eventually becomes a member of the team in later installments. Unlike the MCU version, Peter ''is'' a mutant in this series and heavily implied to be Magneto's illegitimate son, but without Wanda as his twin sister as traditionally portrayed.
With Creator/{{Disney}}'s acquisition of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in 2019 and conclusion of their ''X-Men'' series, the fate of Quicksilver in movies moving forward became unclear. Complicating matters was Peters' apparent return as Quicksilver in the MCU series ''Series/WandaVision'', implying some degree of multiversal crossover with the retired franchise. This was ultimately a revealed as a [[TrollingCreator fake-out]], with Peters in fact portraying a completely unrelated character set up to masquerade as Pietro by Agatha Harkness (Creator/KathrynHahn). With the incoming of introduction of mutants and the X-Men in the MCU, however, it remains unseen how (and if) the different cinematic versions of Quicksilver will be reconciled now that both franchises are under one roof again.
[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not to be confused with]] the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] speedster hero named Quicksilver who mostly goes by [[Characters/TheFlashOtherSpeedsters Max Mercury]] now.
[[AC:{{Comics}}]]
* ''Quicksilver''
* ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''
* ''ComicBook/XFactor''
* ''ComicBook/AllNewXFactor''
* ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse''
* ''DC vs. Marvel''
* ''[[ComicBook/JLAAvengers JLA/Avengers]]''
* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies''
* ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''
* ''Son of M''
* ''ComicBook/SilentWar''
* ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers''
* ''Quicksilver: No Surrender''
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' (portrayed by Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson):
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' ([[TheStinger stinger]])
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''
** ''Series/WandaVision''[[note]]Portrayed by Creator/EvanPeters as "Pietro" / Ralph Bohner[[/note]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' (portrayed by Creator/EvanPeters):
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse''
** ''Film/DarkPhoenix''
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaAndTheAvengers'': An AssistCharacter, Quicksilver gives the player character health items when summoned.
* ''VideoGame/XMenLegends II: Rise of Apocalypse'': Non-playable, Quicksilver is one of four mutants kidnapped by Apocalypse in his attempt to gain ultimate power.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance 2'': Quicksilver is a boss character on the [=PS2=], PSP and Wii versions of the game.
* ''Marvel VideoGame/SuperHeroSquadOnline: The Infinity Gauntlet'': Quicksilver is a playable character in Episodes 6, 9, and 11.
* ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny''
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'': Quicksilver is one of the playable heroes.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'': appears as a World Boss boss battle and unlockable playable character.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes''
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen''
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''
* ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow''
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!!Tropes seen in this series include:
* ActionDad: he has a daughter named Luna from his ex-wife, Crystal.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's much more powerful and more prominent in the Film/XMenFilmSeries than his adaptational counterpart from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and arguably even his original comic incarnation.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Bordering on NeverLiveItDown, but if Pietro appears outside comics, he will almost undoubtedly be portrayed as an X-Men villain, sometimes an AntiVillain if he's lucky. Arguably the worst case of this is ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', where he's the most villainous member of the Brotherhood (who're a bunch of IneffectualSympatheticVillain types here), and his behaviour sometimes borders on making him TheSociopath. (Consider that in the comics, ''even in the 60s when the Brotherhood were proudly {{Card Carrying Villain}}s,'' Quicksilver was only with them to watch over Wanda, who in turn was only with them because she owed Magneto a debt, and they jumped ship to become Avengers after about four or five appearances. In other words, Pietro was the LEAST malicious of the brotherhood.) Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'', where your character has the option of asking about why he's following Magneto despite being a good guy.
** Averted in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. While he starts out as manipulated by the villains, Pietro and his sister quickly join the Avengers, with Pietro especially [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to save Hawkeye and a civilian boy from a hail of bullets]].
** Also averted in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. While in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' he was basically a super-powered slacker who briefly helped the heroes [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]], in the sequel, he's a straight-up hero, apparently inspired by the example of [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalHeroism Mystique]]. If not for his heroism, in fact, every single student at Xavier's would've died when the mansion exploded and Apocalypse would've been unopposed]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter
** Franchise/TheFlash fulfills this role in Marvel/DC crossovers. Head-to-head, Quicksilver is simply no match for any Speed Force user. To illustrate the point, at one point Franchise/TheFlash is outrunning Quicksilver ''while running backward''. Though Quicksilver is quite delighted when the Flash steps into the Marvelverse where there is no Speed Force, and thus, no SuperSpeed for him.
---> ''(while chasing the Flash, who had just snatched the Cosmic Cube from Ms. Marvel's hands)'' Hello. You're on ''my'' Earth now, and you're already starting to ''slow down''. So let me just say... [[BlatantLies It's nothing personal. Oh, no. Not at all.]]\\
''(shoves the Flash aside, snatching the Cosmic Cube from him)''\\
'''Hah!''' I'm faster! ''Faster!'' '''Speed Force be damned!'''
** In-universe, his own nephew (sort of) Thomas Shepherd aka Speed fulfills this role. He taunted Quicksilver while running backwards, just like the Flash before him. And then there's Northstar, one of the few Marvel-Speedsters who can go Lightspeed.
* AntiHero: Generally a Type II, but recently downgraded to type IV, and briefly even type V, since most American writers don't like stereotypical "Euro Trash" characters.
* ArchEnemy: Fabian Cortez and Exodus both serve this role to him, being both mutants who have embraced Magneto's legacy of [[SuperSupremacist Super Supremacy]]. Cortez was the first of them to hit the scene and tried to play the EvilMentor to Pietro for a little while (he wouldn't have any of it) but it was Exodus and his threatening of Luna during the ''ComicBook/BloodTies'' event that earned Pietro's hatred. Ironically, the two are friends and allies in the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse.
* ArrowCatch: He's more than capable of this, much to Hawkeye's chagrin.
* BadassFamily: Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and brother-in-law Vision as part of the Avengers. There's also Polaris, his half-sister and fellow member of ComicBook/XFactor. And of course there is his [[RetCanon on-again off-again]] father Magneto.
** Don't forget his nephews (kind of), Billy and Tommy (Wiccan and Speed).
* BigBrotherInstinct: Hurting Wanda, even accidentally, brings out the bad side of Pietro. He is insanely protective of his sister, despite her pointing out she is capable of looking after herself.
** He also starts developing the instinct for Lorna Dane (Polaris). Some time before the establishment of Serval Industries' ComicBook/XFactor, he found her [[DrowningMySorrows drinking in a bar]] due to some stress. He tried to snap her out of it, but she attacked him in a drunken rage. The fight between the siblings ensued in the bar. He eventually subdued her and intended to bring her into Avengers, but she's taken into custody by law enforcement for causing chaos in the bar. Later, after Polaris is freed by Harrison Snow and becomes leader of Harrison's X-Factor, Quicksilver joins the team to keep an eye on her.
* {{Blackmail}}: Quicksilver beat up and threatened a blackmailer who showed him pictures of Crystal with another man.
* BlessedWithSuck: Super speed isn't always a blessing, especially during dinner with the in-laws. Trying to pace himself to avoid embarrassment, Pietro still managed to eat his entire meal so fast that the entire Inhuman royal family could do nothing but stare in awe. It's also a big part of the reason why he's such a douche; when you perceive everything so much faster to the point where it feels as if the rest of the world is moving in slow-motion, your patience will run out ''very'' quick. At one point he compares it to being perpetually stuck in line at the bank behind someone who's trying to count $100 worth of pennies by hand.
* BlowYouAway: He can use his speed to create cyclonic wind gusts strong enough to knock people off their feet.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: He's been trained in martial arts by Captain America.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: During his limited issues series the Inhuman scientist Maximus used his hidden PsychicPowers to manipulate Quicksilver's mind, subtly encouraging him to turn against the Avengers.
* BrotherSisterIncest: In most versions there's subtext between him and his sis Wanda, but it's text-text in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
* BroughtDownToNormal: He thought he had it bad when life moved in slo-mo, but after losing his powers, everything seemed so... ''fast''. He went crazy, stole mutating mists from his in-laws, and used them to get time travel powers.
* CannotSpitItOut: In the third ''Uncanny Avengers'' volume, Pietro develops an attraction to his teammate Synapse, but is unable to tell her how he feels, one of many things the ComicBook/RedSkull mocks him for while [[MindControl controlling him]].
-->'''Red Skull''': Synapse makes your heart sing, and you can't even talk to her.
%%* CryCute
* CurbStompBattle: Has a few to his name, but his most spectacular one involved Mr. X, whose shtick was reading his opponent's mind to determine what they were going to do before they even did it. He tried this with Pietro and learned that Pietro was going to beat him half to death with a metal pipe. The only problem was that Pietro was moving far too fast for Mr. X to affect the outcome of this in the slightest, meaning that yes, he did get his ass thoroughly beat. Oh, and the kicker? X was in possession of the Spear of Odin at the time.
-->''You can read minds enough to be able to predict any attack your opponent will make. So you will be able to —[hits Mr. X] anticipate every move I make —[hits him again] and do absolutely —[and again...] '''nothing''' about it —[...and again...] because -[..again...] [[PunctuatedPounding I-am-the-fastest-man-on-Earth]].''
** Wolverine has beaten him several times simply by waiting for Pietro to accidentally run into his fist.
-->'''Wolverine''': That ''never'' gets old.
* DeadlyDodging: When fighting a BigBad and his {{Mooks}} most usually.
* DeadpanSnarker: Like his father before him.
* DePower: Quicksilver was one of the mutants who lost their powers after the events of ''House of M''.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While under the telepathic influence of Maximus the Mad, Quicksilver went- well, mad. Specifically in ways that made him seek DisproportionateRetribution on others. He betrayed the Avengers, framed them for treason and then tried to kill them due to a series of slights (both real and imagined). These supposed offenses included the way his teammates approved of Wanda's marriage to Vision despite Pietro's objections, as well as the time they accidentally left him behind in Australia after their battle with the Sentinels. Even his biggest gripe, Crystal's infidelity, hardly justified attempted murder, especially since the Avengers ''[[MisplacedRetribution had nothing to do with it]]''.
* DodgeTheBullet: He's done this too many times to count. One wonders why gunmen even bother trying.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Admits as much during ''Uncanny Avengers'' when Doctor Voodoo invokes mystical creatures to repair Avengers Mansion. When Wanda responds to this by pointing out that ''she'' uses magic, he is quick to remind her of how much pain it's brought her, ending his talk with a simple "magic sucks!"
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Already depressed after losing his powers, Pietro jumps off a roof in ''Son of M #1'' after a humiliating encounter with Spider-Man.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Quicksilver can create whirlwinds by running around his opponent at top speed. These whirlwinds are powerful enough to overpower the Human Torch while in flight.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Quicksilver's time in the Brotherhood of Mutants had the Maximoff twins performing crimes with their father, though they didn't know it at the time.
* FantasticRacism: Ironically, despite the anti-mutant racism he's experienced his entire life, he was vehemently opposed to Wanda's relationship with Comicbook/TheVision on account of the latter being a robot. Moondragon psychically "cured" Pietro of this prejudice, but he later returned to hating Vision during his brief FaceHeelTurn in the 80s.
* FastAsLightning: His lightning motif goes well with his speed.
* FlashStep: He often does this in scenes where he's using his powers for some MundaneUtility or another.
* FragileSpeedster: Mildly subverted, as his flesh and bones are endowed with the [[RequiredSecondaryPowers requisite durability]] for him to survive using his abilities, but he's by no means NighInvulnerable.
* FreudianExcuse: He's not exactly a bad guy, just an impulsive dick. Having a rocky relationship with his father and sister doesn't help, however, and he outright tells a shrink that his main reason for being an impetuous, self-centered prick is the fact that the speed of the world around him is agonizingly slow to him. Picture having to wait in a slow-moving line for hours for something mundane. That's what ''every single second'' is like for him.
* GreenEyedMonster: Pietro's jealousy is one of the reasons Crystal refuses to start their relationship anew. This revelation came just minutes after Pietro slugged Jolen of the Inhumans for placing a flower in Crystal's hair.
** It doesn't help that said jealousy isn't unfounded due to Crystal's adulterous behavior.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Pietro was originally against Wanda's marriage to the Vision, simply because his brother-in-law was a machine. It took fellow Avenger Moondragon ''erasing'' those prejudiced thoughts from his mind for Pietro to change his tune.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Quicksilver had a habit of this early in his career, bouncing between the Avengers and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He returned to villainy during the 80s, but this was later {{Retcon}}ned into having been the result of Maximus' brainwashing. And even without a thought-out decision to change sides, when you're as hotheaded as he is, you might find yourself up against your teammates as you pursue one rash course of action or another.
* HeroicSacrifice: During ''Avengers: No Surrender'', he runs himself into another dimension stopping the device freezing all the other heroes from working.
* HolierThanThou: On his worse days, Quicksilver is quick to cast scorn on others while completely ignoring his own mistakes and flaws. During his rock-bottom moment in ''X-Factor'' vol 3, he even actually described himself as being "holier than thou" without irony.
* HotBlooded: In most depictions, his temper is as quick as everything else about him.
* HumiliationConga: Time hasn't been kind to this speedster. From being a founding member of the Avengers and having his own limited series in the '90s, he commits a pivotal NiceJobBreakingItHero during the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' event, is accidentally depowered in the event's aftermath, was divorced by Crystal after breaking Inhuman law and insulting Inhuman culture in a ProfessorGuineaPig scheme, and ultimately lost his powers '''again''' and was reduced to homelessness and being jailed for vagrancy. He inexplicably regained his powers, but has pinballed aimlessly since, mostly being used as an UnwittingPawn for villains like Cthton and the High Evolutionary.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Quicksilver's metabolism is so efficient that he produces very little waste. Canonically, it's fifteen times more efficient than a normal human being's metabolism.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He greatly detested Vision for marrying his sister, simply because he was a machine. It doesn't speak well for Pietro, considering his long-held disgust for humanity over their persecution against mutants.
* IAmNotMyFather: Pietro purposely took on a teaching role at the Avengers Academy to distance himself from his father.
* InTheBlood: The bouts of insanity seem to be a familiar trait.
* IncestSubtext: His relationship with Wanda is sometimes a little too close. And in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version, it quite disturbingly goes beyond just subtext.
* InertiaIsACruelMistress:
** During his Heel periods he's often been defeated this way; indeed, his very first appearance had him defeated by Angel tricking him into running into a wall. Amusingly, he once used this to his advantage when fighting a Sentinel that had absorbed his powers.
** Likewise, Comicbook/SpiderMan once took Quicksilver out by clotheslining him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: During the third ''Uncanny Avengers'' volume, he attempted to claim superiority over the team, stating that he had been an Avenger longer than any of them. ComicBook/TheWasp (a ''founding'' member) is quick to call him out on this.
* {{Jerkass}}: Quicksilver has been a good guy, bad guy, and in-between, but never stops being an arrogant, self-centered dick. This extends to his other incarnations, such as his apperances on the different cartoons and Ultimate X-Men.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: DependingOnTheWriter, Pietro is usually, beneath his jerkassery, a good guy who does anything for his friends.
** For all his flaws, Pietro really does enjoy being a superhero and helping out others although this is something he will not admit openly. Aside from his sister, he also greatly cares about The New Men and sees them as an extended family.
** Even with both of them currently divorced, he still holds high regard for his ex-brother-in-law Vision to the point where he still sees him as family.
* KarmaHoudini: Made a statement on the news that his kidnapping of Luna was a work of a Skrull imposter after the Secret Invasion crossover. However, Luna knows the truth, and while [[SecretKeeper she'll keep his secret because she loves him]], she [[CallingTheOldManOut makes it very clear]] that she has lost ''all'' respect for him.
** And then [[spoiler:when Fatale calls him out on this on live TV, he admits the whole truth, which causes Luna to regain her respect for him, making him a slightly different type of karma Houdini.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Given Pietro was the one who pushed the mentally unstable Wanda into causing the whole ''House of M'' mess, his depowering was the least he deserved. Shame he's never shown any real repentance for that specific part of his life (just the consequences).
* LeeroyJenkins: His arrogance and impatience often lead him to rush into battle without thinking (which can backfire on him spectacularly).
* LightningBruiser: Of the "hard-hitting speedster" variety. His enhanced physiology makes him far more durable than he appears, and he can very easily beat someone half to death [[RapidFireFisticuffs before they can even react]].
** The X-Men film version has him deliver a CurbStompBattle to [[spoiler:''[[BigBad Apocalypse]] himself'']] until [[spoiler:Apocalypse gives up on futile attempts to fight directly and uses his sand control to trap one of Peter's feet.]]
* LoveTriangle: He was briefly in one with his estranged wife Crystal and their fellow Avenger Black Knight during the 90s. Black Knight eventually backed off after Pietro and Crystal tried to repair their marriage.
* LukeIAmYourFather: He's gone through this three times and counting. First he and Wanda learned that the elderly superhero [[HaveAGayOldTime The Whizzer]] was their father. Then they found out that a mysterious old wizard was their long-lost UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} adoptive father. Then they learned that their true father was not the Whizzer but their hated ex-boss Magneto. ''Then'' came ComicBook/{{AXIS}} with yet '''another''' RetCon that their true father wasn't Magneto after all, but that last one's been more or less [[FanDiscontinuity ignored]] since then.
* MadeOfIron: One of the RequiredSecondaryPowers that prevents Pietro from vibrating himself into jelly every time he uses his powers.
* MagicCompass: A living version, as his powers allow him to sense magnetic vibrational patterns and always tell which direction is north.
* MesACrowd: In ''Son of M'', Quicksilver could use his temporary time traveling powers to create multiple copies of himself by jumping into the future in 30 second intervals.
* MistakenForGay: When trying to explain to Crystal that he's seeing a psychiatrist.
* TheMole: Joined Serval Industries' X-Factor mainly to keep an eye on Polaris for Havok.
* MundaneUtility: Pietro uses his super speed to read books, solve jigsaw puzzles, go shopping, [[RapidFireTyping type]], and prep salads.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Quicksilver gained limited TimeTravel powers after exposing himself to the Terrigen Mists, which he only learned about after meeting his future self.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: To Scarlet Witch.
* NeverMyFault: Another of his major faults. After a poorly-thought out attempt of his to stop the Juggernaut results in Synapse being gravely injured, he ends up blaming everyone else for it. Wanda is quick to point out Synapse was injured because of him, angrily calling him out on letting his {{Pride}} blind him to the truth, and telling him that he will not be welcome on the team again until he admits to his mistake.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' and ''Son Of M''. First his attempt to help his sister results in mass depowering of the mutant population. Then his attempts to fix it cause a war to break out between ComicBook/TheInhumans and US military. Also, it turns out that re-powering of mutants with terrigen crystals has [[DeadlyUpgrade horrible side effects]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Magneto received one from half a dozen Quicksilvers in ''Son of M'', many of whom had words for "their" father after the fight.
-->'''Quicksilver #3:''' All I ever wanted to do was please him.\\
'''Quicksilver #2:''' He barely acknowledged my existence.\\
'''Quicksilver #1:''' Have you noticed me now?!
* ParentalSubstitute: Pietro often sees the High Evolutionary as more of a father figure to him than Magneto ever was, and depending on [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor how evil he is that day]] the Evolutionary either reciprocates those feelings or manipulates those feelings for his own ends. While it's easy to understand why he wouldn't want to sit down to a family dinner with the Master of Magnetism after their history, in practice, Mags (WellIntentionedExtremist who's been mostly playing nicely on the X-Men's side lately) tends to be more trustworthy than the High Evolutionary (a MadScientist who's ''still'' liable to come up with ideas like "Let's merge Earth and Counter-Earth into one!")
* PersonalityPowers: Well, except the most prominent part of Pietro's personality is how he's a total JerkAss because life moves in slow motion for him.
* PetTheDog: On occasion, which he'll usually balance out by being like a complete jerk again seconds later.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: He could originally run several hundred miles per hour - unimpressive by the standards of those who can cross interstellar distances in seconds, but about the speed that makes sense for your average battle with a character who looks like a blur but can still be zapped with EyeBeams or punched if you can predict him well enough to put your fist where his face is going to be a second from now. These days he can outrun radio signals, putting him in the above-light-speed category.
* PrettyBoy: Depending on the art, Quicksilver is usually not a pretty boy except for X-Men Evolution cartoon. However, in one X-Factor issue, he was called 'Pretty Boy' by his inmates when he was put in prison for vagrancy.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: He's not a professor, but he did play this trope otherwise to the hilt when he exposed himself to the Terrigen Mists in a desperate bid to regain his powers. In the classic spirit of the trope, it worked only to become a case of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
* PunchClockVillain: He and Wanda were only in Magneto's Brotherhood because he saved their lives; they refused to kill anyone, used their powers against Magneto to stop him from killing, and [[HeelFaceTurn joined the Avengers]] as soon as they were free of him.
* PutOnABus: Roy Thomas got rid of Quicksilver ''twice'' during the original ''Avengers'' run. The first time was when Pietro and his amnesiac sister temporarily rejoined Magneto's Brotherhood, and the second was when an injured Pietro was accidentally left behind in Australia after the team's battle against the Sentinels. The second exit proved to be much longer-lasting, as he was soon found by Crystal, who took him back to Attilan. He would not return to being an active Avenger until the 90s, not long before the ''Comicbook/{{Onslaught}}'' crossover.
* {{Repower}}: After losing his powers on M-Day, and later using the Terrigen Mist that empowers the Inhumans to achieve an altered version of them (he could vibrate his molecules faster than the speed of light and travel through time) he just got his old SuperSpeed back (without any real explanation) during the ''X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead'' one-shot. Apparently, EpiphanyTherapy trumps a RealityWarper depowering 98% of all mutants...
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As noted in the page quote, Pietro's mutation didn't simply grant him speed; it also strengthed his bones and tendons, and provided him with phenomenal reaction time.
* TheRival: The Black Knight became this to him during the period when they were in competition for the affections of Crystal.
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Pietro and Wanda's mother, Magda, was Romani, and they were adopted by a Romani family when she died.
** DependingOnTheWriter their father, Magneto, is either Romani as well or Jewish.
* RubiksCubeInternationalGeniusSymbol: Pietro can solve one in 0.0000034 seconds.
* [[WalkOnWater Run On Water]]: He's run across the Atlantic Ocean and back more than once.
* SanitySlippage: Went insane without his powers.
* TheSociopath: During 2016's ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' event his sister stated that he is a "textbook sociopath" who disrupts "through manipulation or force" all his relationships. Seeing as how Wanda [[ManipulativeBitch doesn't exactly]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity have room]] [[AGodAmI in her]] [[ComicBook/HouseOfM glass house]] to throw stones, take from that what you will.
* SmugSuper: Quicksilver is the "fastest man on Earth" and he'll never let you forget it.
* SpeedBlitz: He's fond of combining this with CrissCrossAttack to dismantle his foes.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Quicksilver can try, he can have all the hard-earned lessons and character development he likes, but come the next writer, he's going to be a jerkwad again.
* SuperReflexes: His reflexes are canonically stated to be better than those of the finest human athletes. Even in early appearances he was capable of feats such as dodging close range optic blasts courtesy of Cyclops, and he's only gotten faster on the ball since then.
* SuperIntelligence: Of the learning quickly variety. [[http://quicksilverfans.tumblr.com/post/33375796040 Pietro learned how to play]] Beethoveen's Moonlight Sonata from memory and by ear in ten seconds, never having played piano before and only knowing where the 'C' key is. As any musician knows, Moonlight Sonata isn't exactly a beginner's piece. He is also an accomplished sculptor.
** Ultimate Quicksilver isn't as smart as Reed Richards but can still work out his math by super speed rote.
* SuperSpeed: Up to Mach 4 but possibly higher.
** During the Mighty Avengers era, he was outrunning radio waves, putting him at translight speeds, vibrating so fast when he got angry that he was creating wind shear and his equivalent of a nervous twitch was zipping from Tibet to Indonesia and back in a second or two at most. While this was debunked by Marvel editor Tom Breevort, the statement Breevort gave [[EpicFail indicated that he had not actually read the comic.]] Whether he retains this level of speed is up for debate.
* SuperSpeedReading: Does this frequently to stave off boredom.
* SuperSupremacist: A mild version to be sure, but Pietro's natural arrogance and sense of superiority leads him to often view ordinary humans with disdain. He doesn't go full villain about it like his father or other mutant baddies, but sometimes he's toed the line (such as when he joined his father's cabinet during his stint as Genosha's dictator).
* SuperToughness: Pietro's body is immensely durable thanks to the RequiredSecondaryPowers needed to keep him from tearing himself apart, which has the side effect of making him incredibly difficult to seriously hurt.
* TimeStandsStill: Quicksilver once explained his angry personality by asking his psychologist to imagine living in a world consisting entirely of the slowest queue at the checkout.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the "Siege of Wundagore" storyline his Super Speed was amped up to pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] Franchise/{{Superman}} levels by the High Evolutionary's [[SuperSerum Isotope E]], allowing him to defeat Exodus (who ironically is a Superman-level mutant, and leagues more powerful than Quicksilver normally).
* TookALevelInJerkass: He was always arrogant and hard to get along with, but in UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks, writer Steve Englehart made him an out-and-out bigot who broke off his relationship with his sister over her relationship with the Vision. His ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' incarnation also took several levels following the ''Ultimatum'' event.
* TouchedByVorlons: After decades of being a mutant, the most recent (as of 2019) interpretation of Pietro is that he is in fact an ordinary human being who was empowered as a baby by the High Evolutionary.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: With his father being who he is, this is a concern for several characters. Despite their antipathy for each other, Pietro and his father share a mutual arrogance, and some villains such as Fabian Cortez have even attempted to exploit this by tempting him to take a more active role in mutant affairs.
* TheUnfavourite: Magneto's relationship with his kids is very screwed up, but he and Pietro cannot get along with each other.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His portrayal in various adaptations, such as ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}'', ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'', where he is usually aware about his parentage from the start. Eventually it leaked into the main continuity as well (see quote above), which was a 180 degree turn from [[YoureNotMyFather his original relationship with Magneto]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Zig-zagged, Quicksilver goes back and forth on the villain front, but even at his best he's still quite a jerk.
* WouldHurtAChild: During his Sanity Slippage days, he thought it was God's will he murder the then-teenaged Layla Miller.
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to:
->''"I was the fastest living creature on the planet. So fast I was a blur to human eyes. Bullets couldn't touch me. I could run up the sides of tall buildings. Snatch an arrow out of the air. I was a machine built for speed. Zero to sixty in seven seconds. A top speed of almost 220 miles per hour. Adapted to withstand the accelerated impact of my feet hitting the ground thirty times per second. My bones could absorb shocks that would shatter those of ordinary men. My tendons had the resilience of high tension steel. My body metabolized food so efficiently there was virtually no waste. I never carried an ounce of excess fat. My brain processed information at five times the speed of the average college graduate, data leaping from synapse to synapse, giving me split-second reactions, allowing me to out-think twenty opponents at once. I was more alive than ordinary mortals could ever imagine. I could run across the surface of water. I could outrun a hurricane. I was like the wind. Like a bolt of lightning. I was superb. I was perfection. I was... Quicksilver."''
-->-- '''Pietro Maximoff, ''Son of M'''''
Quicksilver is a Creator/MarvelComics superhero created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. He first appeared in ''ComicBook/XMen'' vol. 1 #4 (March, 1964). The son of a Romani woman named Magda and the supervillain ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, Pietro Maximoff and his twin sister Wanda were born on Wundergore Mountain in the fictional country of [[{{Uberwald}} Transia]]. Marvel's resident speedster, Quicksilver has been a prominent member of the BrotherhoodOfEvil Mutants, ComicBook/TheAvengers, and ComicBook/XFactor.
Making his debut in as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants along with his twin sister, [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda]], Pietro Maximoff quickly discovers that a life of crime is not for him. When Magneto, the Brotherhood's leader and father of the Maximoff twins, is abducted by the [[CosmicEntity Stranger]], Pietro and Wanda quit the Brotherhood and return home to Transia. Reformation on their mind, the pair learn that Comicbook/TheAvengers are looking for new members and are subsequently recruited by ComicBook/IronMan after Pietro talks Wanda into moving to the United States.
Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and former criminal ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} become the second generation of Avengers along with team leader ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. Dubbed "ComicBook/CapsKookyQuartet", the new Avengers have difficulty measuring up to the original heroes until battles against [[ConquerorFromTheFuture Kang the Conqueror]] and Doctor Doom give the team much-needed credibility. Unfortunately the team chemistry is shaken after the Scarlet Witch is wounded in battle with Magneto at a UN assembly, which, combined with Pietro's general distrust of humanity, prompts the twins to leave the Avengers and rejoin the Brotherhood.
It was revealed that this was a ploy by Magneto, using his powers to control the American soldier's gun's at the assembly and graze Wanda's temple, not only causing Quicksilver to rejoin Magneto, but for Wanda to have temporary memory loss, thus preventing her from talking her brother out of it. Eventually, one thing led to another, and soon, after a battle between the Brotherhood, and the X-Men & Avengers, Pietro and Wanda were forced to leave Magneto to his seeming death. Long story short, both Pietro and Wanda eventually rejoined the Avengers...
...And eventually, Pietro left the team ''again''. After he was saved from a Sentinel attack by Crystal of the ComicBook/TheInhumans, Comicbook/TheAvengers, and ComicBook/{{Fantastic Four}}, Crystal brought him back to the home of the Inhumans to rest and recuperate, and they eventually got married, and even had a baby. (Though the two eventually got divorced.) Since then, Pietro as Quicksilver has rejoined the Avengers on and off (along with a stint in X-Factor). Due to the generally derided Avengers Disassembled storyline, Wanda had caused mass chaos and and was seen as a threat. To sum up, it was decided by Xavier and the X-Men to kill her. Pietro, overhearing this, pleaded Wanda to take immediate action. And so... she ended up warping reality, causing the whole ComicBook/HouseOfM event.
After losing his powers, gaining a set of new ones, (time travel related) going crazy, losing his new powers, regaining his old ones, and becoming sane again, Quicksilver is now a hero once more. After serving with the now defunct Mighty Avengers team, Pietro was an instructor at the Avengers academy, teaching a new generation of heroes. He then led the Serval Industries X-Factor team for a while. Post-[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]], he joined the [[ComicBook/UncannyAvengers Avengers Unity Squad]].
His name derived from the archaic word "quicksilver," which meant mercury (in the sense of the metallic element Hg that's liquid at room temperature). This name, in turn, derives from the fact that mercury looks silvery but moves as though it's alive ("quick"). Mercury is also the name of the quick-footed Roman messenger god.
Quicksilver has appeared frequently in other media, most notably in two separate movie franchises as portrayed by different actors: Creator/EvanPeters in the ''Film/XMen'' series, and Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. This was due to a complication in the history of the character (i.e. Quicksilver was introduced as an X-Men antagonist but later became more associated as an Avenger) that made it so he could be featured in both universes, albeit with different backstories.
The MCU version, Pietro, is formally introduced in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. He and Wanda (Creator/ElizabethOlsen) are orphans from [[{{Ruritania}} Sokovia]] who become empowered by the Mind Stone in experiments done by ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}, later pit against the Avengers by ComicBook/{{Ultron}} (Creator/JamesSpader) before defecting to join them. This is ultimately Pietro's only major appearance in the series, as he is killed in the climactic battle and has not returned since.
The X-Men version, Peter, is introduced in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' an American slacker who is sought out to help bust Erik (Creator/MichaelFassbender) out of prison, and eventually becomes a member of the team in later installments. Unlike the MCU version, Peter ''is'' a mutant in this series and heavily implied to be Magneto's illegitimate son, but without Wanda as his twin sister as traditionally portrayed.
With Creator/{{Disney}}'s acquisition of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in 2019 and conclusion of their ''X-Men'' series, the fate of Quicksilver in movies moving forward became unclear. Complicating matters was Peters' apparent return as Quicksilver in the MCU series ''Series/WandaVision'', implying some degree of multiversal crossover with the retired franchise. This was ultimately a revealed as a [[TrollingCreator fake-out]], with Peters in fact portraying a completely unrelated character set up to masquerade as Pietro by Agatha Harkness (Creator/KathrynHahn). With the incoming of introduction of mutants and the X-Men in the MCU, however, it remains unseen how (and if) the different cinematic versions of Quicksilver will be reconciled now that both franchises are under one roof again.
[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not to be confused with]] the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] speedster hero named Quicksilver who mostly goes by [[Characters/TheFlashOtherSpeedsters Max Mercury]] now.
[[AC:{{Comics}}]]
* ''Quicksilver''
* ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''
* ''ComicBook/XFactor''
* ''ComicBook/AllNewXFactor''
* ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse''
* ''DC vs. Marvel''
* ''[[ComicBook/JLAAvengers JLA/Avengers]]''
* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies''
* ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''
* ''Son of M''
* ''ComicBook/SilentWar''
* ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers''
* ''Quicksilver: No Surrender''
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' (portrayed by Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson):
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' ([[TheStinger stinger]])
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''
** ''Series/WandaVision''[[note]]Portrayed by Creator/EvanPeters as "Pietro" / Ralph Bohner[[/note]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' (portrayed by Creator/EvanPeters):
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse''
** ''Film/DarkPhoenix''
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaAndTheAvengers'': An AssistCharacter, Quicksilver gives the player character health items when summoned.
* ''VideoGame/XMenLegends II: Rise of Apocalypse'': Non-playable, Quicksilver is one of four mutants kidnapped by Apocalypse in his attempt to gain ultimate power.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance 2'': Quicksilver is a boss character on the [=PS2=], PSP and Wii versions of the game.
* ''Marvel VideoGame/SuperHeroSquadOnline: The Infinity Gauntlet'': Quicksilver is a playable character in Episodes 6, 9, and 11.
* ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny''
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'': Quicksilver is one of the playable heroes.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'': appears as a World Boss boss battle and unlockable playable character.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes''
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen''
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''
* ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow''
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!!Tropes seen in this series include:
* ActionDad: he has a daughter named Luna from his ex-wife, Crystal.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's much more powerful and more prominent in the Film/XMenFilmSeries than his adaptational counterpart from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and arguably even his original comic incarnation.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Bordering on NeverLiveItDown, but if Pietro appears outside comics, he will almost undoubtedly be portrayed as an X-Men villain, sometimes an AntiVillain if he's lucky. Arguably the worst case of this is ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', where he's the most villainous member of the Brotherhood (who're a bunch of IneffectualSympatheticVillain types here), and his behaviour sometimes borders on making him TheSociopath. (Consider that in the comics, ''even in the 60s when the Brotherhood were proudly {{Card Carrying Villain}}s,'' Quicksilver was only with them to watch over Wanda, who in turn was only with them because she owed Magneto a debt, and they jumped ship to become Avengers after about four or five appearances. In other words, Pietro was the LEAST malicious of the brotherhood.) Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'', where your character has the option of asking about why he's following Magneto despite being a good guy.
** Averted in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. While he starts out as manipulated by the villains, Pietro and his sister quickly join the Avengers, with Pietro especially [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to save Hawkeye and a civilian boy from a hail of bullets]].
** Also averted in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. While in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' he was basically a super-powered slacker who briefly helped the heroes [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]], in the sequel, he's a straight-up hero, apparently inspired by the example of [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalHeroism Mystique]]. If not for his heroism, in fact, every single student at Xavier's would've died when the mansion exploded and Apocalypse would've been unopposed]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter
** Franchise/TheFlash fulfills this role in Marvel/DC crossovers. Head-to-head, Quicksilver is simply no match for any Speed Force user. To illustrate the point, at one point Franchise/TheFlash is outrunning Quicksilver ''while running backward''. Though Quicksilver is quite delighted when the Flash steps into the Marvelverse where there is no Speed Force, and thus, no SuperSpeed for him.
---> ''(while chasing the Flash, who had just snatched the Cosmic Cube from Ms. Marvel's hands)'' Hello. You're on ''my'' Earth now, and you're already starting to ''slow down''. So let me just say... [[BlatantLies It's nothing personal. Oh, no. Not at all.]]\\
''(shoves the Flash aside, snatching the Cosmic Cube from him)''\\
'''Hah!''' I'm faster! ''Faster!'' '''Speed Force be damned!'''
** In-universe, his own nephew (sort of) Thomas Shepherd aka Speed fulfills this role. He taunted Quicksilver while running backwards, just like the Flash before him. And then there's Northstar, one of the few Marvel-Speedsters who can go Lightspeed.
* AntiHero: Generally a Type II, but recently downgraded to type IV, and briefly even type V, since most American writers don't like stereotypical "Euro Trash" characters.
* ArchEnemy: Fabian Cortez and Exodus both serve this role to him, being both mutants who have embraced Magneto's legacy of [[SuperSupremacist Super Supremacy]]. Cortez was the first of them to hit the scene and tried to play the EvilMentor to Pietro for a little while (he wouldn't have any of it) but it was Exodus and his threatening of Luna during the ''ComicBook/BloodTies'' event that earned Pietro's hatred. Ironically, the two are friends and allies in the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse.
* ArrowCatch: He's more than capable of this, much to Hawkeye's chagrin.
* BadassFamily: Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and brother-in-law Vision as part of the Avengers. There's also Polaris, his half-sister and fellow member of ComicBook/XFactor. And of course there is his [[RetCanon on-again off-again]] father Magneto.
** Don't forget his nephews (kind of), Billy and Tommy (Wiccan and Speed).
* BigBrotherInstinct: Hurting Wanda, even accidentally, brings out the bad side of Pietro. He is insanely protective of his sister, despite her pointing out she is capable of looking after herself.
** He also starts developing the instinct for Lorna Dane (Polaris). Some time before the establishment of Serval Industries' ComicBook/XFactor, he found her [[DrowningMySorrows drinking in a bar]] due to some stress. He tried to snap her out of it, but she attacked him in a drunken rage. The fight between the siblings ensued in the bar. He eventually subdued her and intended to bring her into Avengers, but she's taken into custody by law enforcement for causing chaos in the bar. Later, after Polaris is freed by Harrison Snow and becomes leader of Harrison's X-Factor, Quicksilver joins the team to keep an eye on her.
* {{Blackmail}}: Quicksilver beat up and threatened a blackmailer who showed him pictures of Crystal with another man.
* BlessedWithSuck: Super speed isn't always a blessing, especially during dinner with the in-laws. Trying to pace himself to avoid embarrassment, Pietro still managed to eat his entire meal so fast that the entire Inhuman royal family could do nothing but stare in awe. It's also a big part of the reason why he's such a douche; when you perceive everything so much faster to the point where it feels as if the rest of the world is moving in slow-motion, your patience will run out ''very'' quick. At one point he compares it to being perpetually stuck in line at the bank behind someone who's trying to count $100 worth of pennies by hand.
* BlowYouAway: He can use his speed to create cyclonic wind gusts strong enough to knock people off their feet.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: He's been trained in martial arts by Captain America.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: During his limited issues series the Inhuman scientist Maximus used his hidden PsychicPowers to manipulate Quicksilver's mind, subtly encouraging him to turn against the Avengers.
* BrotherSisterIncest: In most versions there's subtext between him and his sis Wanda, but it's text-text in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
* BroughtDownToNormal: He thought he had it bad when life moved in slo-mo, but after losing his powers, everything seemed so... ''fast''. He went crazy, stole mutating mists from his in-laws, and used them to get time travel powers.
* CannotSpitItOut: In the third ''Uncanny Avengers'' volume, Pietro develops an attraction to his teammate Synapse, but is unable to tell her how he feels, one of many things the ComicBook/RedSkull mocks him for while [[MindControl controlling him]].
-->'''Red Skull''': Synapse makes your heart sing, and you can't even talk to her.
%%* CryCute
* CurbStompBattle: Has a few to his name, but his most spectacular one involved Mr. X, whose shtick was reading his opponent's mind to determine what they were going to do before they even did it. He tried this with Pietro and learned that Pietro was going to beat him half to death with a metal pipe. The only problem was that Pietro was moving far too fast for Mr. X to affect the outcome of this in the slightest, meaning that yes, he did get his ass thoroughly beat. Oh, and the kicker? X was in possession of the Spear of Odin at the time.
-->''You can read minds enough to be able to predict any attack your opponent will make. So you will be able to —[hits Mr. X] anticipate every move I make —[hits him again] and do absolutely —[and again...] '''nothing''' about it —[...and again...] because -[..again...] [[PunctuatedPounding I-am-the-fastest-man-on-Earth]].''
** Wolverine has beaten him several times simply by waiting for Pietro to accidentally run into his fist.
-->'''Wolverine''': That ''never'' gets old.
* DeadlyDodging: When fighting a BigBad and his {{Mooks}} most usually.
* DeadpanSnarker: Like his father before him.
* DePower: Quicksilver was one of the mutants who lost their powers after the events of ''House of M''.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While under the telepathic influence of Maximus the Mad, Quicksilver went- well, mad. Specifically in ways that made him seek DisproportionateRetribution on others. He betrayed the Avengers, framed them for treason and then tried to kill them due to a series of slights (both real and imagined). These supposed offenses included the way his teammates approved of Wanda's marriage to Vision despite Pietro's objections, as well as the time they accidentally left him behind in Australia after their battle with the Sentinels. Even his biggest gripe, Crystal's infidelity, hardly justified attempted murder, especially since the Avengers ''[[MisplacedRetribution had nothing to do with it]]''.
* DodgeTheBullet: He's done this too many times to count. One wonders why gunmen even bother trying.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Admits as much during ''Uncanny Avengers'' when Doctor Voodoo invokes mystical creatures to repair Avengers Mansion. When Wanda responds to this by pointing out that ''she'' uses magic, he is quick to remind her of how much pain it's brought her, ending his talk with a simple "magic sucks!"
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Already depressed after losing his powers, Pietro jumps off a roof in ''Son of M #1'' after a humiliating encounter with Spider-Man.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Quicksilver can create whirlwinds by running around his opponent at top speed. These whirlwinds are powerful enough to overpower the Human Torch while in flight.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Quicksilver's time in the Brotherhood of Mutants had the Maximoff twins performing crimes with their father, though they didn't know it at the time.
* FantasticRacism: Ironically, despite the anti-mutant racism he's experienced his entire life, he was vehemently opposed to Wanda's relationship with Comicbook/TheVision on account of the latter being a robot. Moondragon psychically "cured" Pietro of this prejudice, but he later returned to hating Vision during his brief FaceHeelTurn in the 80s.
* FastAsLightning: His lightning motif goes well with his speed.
* FlashStep: He often does this in scenes where he's using his powers for some MundaneUtility or another.
* FragileSpeedster: Mildly subverted, as his flesh and bones are endowed with the [[RequiredSecondaryPowers requisite durability]] for him to survive using his abilities, but he's by no means NighInvulnerable.
* FreudianExcuse: He's not exactly a bad guy, just an impulsive dick. Having a rocky relationship with his father and sister doesn't help, however, and he outright tells a shrink that his main reason for being an impetuous, self-centered prick is the fact that the speed of the world around him is agonizingly slow to him. Picture having to wait in a slow-moving line for hours for something mundane. That's what ''every single second'' is like for him.
* GreenEyedMonster: Pietro's jealousy is one of the reasons Crystal refuses to start their relationship anew. This revelation came just minutes after Pietro slugged Jolen of the Inhumans for placing a flower in Crystal's hair.
** It doesn't help that said jealousy isn't unfounded due to Crystal's adulterous behavior.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Pietro was originally against Wanda's marriage to the Vision, simply because his brother-in-law was a machine. It took fellow Avenger Moondragon ''erasing'' those prejudiced thoughts from his mind for Pietro to change his tune.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Quicksilver had a habit of this early in his career, bouncing between the Avengers and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He returned to villainy during the 80s, but this was later {{Retcon}}ned into having been the result of Maximus' brainwashing. And even without a thought-out decision to change sides, when you're as hotheaded as he is, you might find yourself up against your teammates as you pursue one rash course of action or another.
* HeroicSacrifice: During ''Avengers: No Surrender'', he runs himself into another dimension stopping the device freezing all the other heroes from working.
* HolierThanThou: On his worse days, Quicksilver is quick to cast scorn on others while completely ignoring his own mistakes and flaws. During his rock-bottom moment in ''X-Factor'' vol 3, he even actually described himself as being "holier than thou" without irony.
* HotBlooded: In most depictions, his temper is as quick as everything else about him.
* HumiliationConga: Time hasn't been kind to this speedster. From being a founding member of the Avengers and having his own limited series in the '90s, he commits a pivotal NiceJobBreakingItHero during the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' event, is accidentally depowered in the event's aftermath, was divorced by Crystal after breaking Inhuman law and insulting Inhuman culture in a ProfessorGuineaPig scheme, and ultimately lost his powers '''again''' and was reduced to homelessness and being jailed for vagrancy. He inexplicably regained his powers, but has pinballed aimlessly since, mostly being used as an UnwittingPawn for villains like Cthton and the High Evolutionary.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Quicksilver's metabolism is so efficient that he produces very little waste. Canonically, it's fifteen times more efficient than a normal human being's metabolism.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He greatly detested Vision for marrying his sister, simply because he was a machine. It doesn't speak well for Pietro, considering his long-held disgust for humanity over their persecution against mutants.
* IAmNotMyFather: Pietro purposely took on a teaching role at the Avengers Academy to distance himself from his father.
* InTheBlood: The bouts of insanity seem to be a familiar trait.
* IncestSubtext: His relationship with Wanda is sometimes a little too close. And in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version, it quite disturbingly goes beyond just subtext.
* InertiaIsACruelMistress:
** During his Heel periods he's often been defeated this way; indeed, his very first appearance had him defeated by Angel tricking him into running into a wall. Amusingly, he once used this to his advantage when fighting a Sentinel that had absorbed his powers.
** Likewise, Comicbook/SpiderMan once took Quicksilver out by clotheslining him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: During the third ''Uncanny Avengers'' volume, he attempted to claim superiority over the team, stating that he had been an Avenger longer than any of them. ComicBook/TheWasp (a ''founding'' member) is quick to call him out on this.
* {{Jerkass}}: Quicksilver has been a good guy, bad guy, and in-between, but never stops being an arrogant, self-centered dick. This extends to his other incarnations, such as his apperances on the different cartoons and Ultimate X-Men.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: DependingOnTheWriter, Pietro is usually, beneath his jerkassery, a good guy who does anything for his friends.
** For all his flaws, Pietro really does enjoy being a superhero and helping out others although this is something he will not admit openly. Aside from his sister, he also greatly cares about The New Men and sees them as an extended family.
** Even with both of them currently divorced, he still holds high regard for his ex-brother-in-law Vision to the point where he still sees him as family.
* KarmaHoudini: Made a statement on the news that his kidnapping of Luna was a work of a Skrull imposter after the Secret Invasion crossover. However, Luna knows the truth, and while [[SecretKeeper she'll keep his secret because she loves him]], she [[CallingTheOldManOut makes it very clear]] that she has lost ''all'' respect for him.
** And then [[spoiler:when Fatale calls him out on this on live TV, he admits the whole truth, which causes Luna to regain her respect for him, making him a slightly different type of karma Houdini.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Given Pietro was the one who pushed the mentally unstable Wanda into causing the whole ''House of M'' mess, his depowering was the least he deserved. Shame he's never shown any real repentance for that specific part of his life (just the consequences).
* LeeroyJenkins: His arrogance and impatience often lead him to rush into battle without thinking (which can backfire on him spectacularly).
* LightningBruiser: Of the "hard-hitting speedster" variety. His enhanced physiology makes him far more durable than he appears, and he can very easily beat someone half to death [[RapidFireFisticuffs before they can even react]].
** The X-Men film version has him deliver a CurbStompBattle to [[spoiler:''[[BigBad Apocalypse]] himself'']] until [[spoiler:Apocalypse gives up on futile attempts to fight directly and uses his sand control to trap one of Peter's feet.]]
* LoveTriangle: He was briefly in one with his estranged wife Crystal and their fellow Avenger Black Knight during the 90s. Black Knight eventually backed off after Pietro and Crystal tried to repair their marriage.
* LukeIAmYourFather: He's gone through this three times and counting. First he and Wanda learned that the elderly superhero [[HaveAGayOldTime The Whizzer]] was their father. Then they found out that a mysterious old wizard was their long-lost UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} adoptive father. Then they learned that their true father was not the Whizzer but their hated ex-boss Magneto. ''Then'' came ComicBook/{{AXIS}} with yet '''another''' RetCon that their true father wasn't Magneto after all, but that last one's been more or less [[FanDiscontinuity ignored]] since then.
* MadeOfIron: One of the RequiredSecondaryPowers that prevents Pietro from vibrating himself into jelly every time he uses his powers.
* MagicCompass: A living version, as his powers allow him to sense magnetic vibrational patterns and always tell which direction is north.
* MesACrowd: In ''Son of M'', Quicksilver could use his temporary time traveling powers to create multiple copies of himself by jumping into the future in 30 second intervals.
* MistakenForGay: When trying to explain to Crystal that he's seeing a psychiatrist.
* TheMole: Joined Serval Industries' X-Factor mainly to keep an eye on Polaris for Havok.
* MundaneUtility: Pietro uses his super speed to read books, solve jigsaw puzzles, go shopping, [[RapidFireTyping type]], and prep salads.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Quicksilver gained limited TimeTravel powers after exposing himself to the Terrigen Mists, which he only learned about after meeting his future self.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: To Scarlet Witch.
* NeverMyFault: Another of his major faults. After a poorly-thought out attempt of his to stop the Juggernaut results in Synapse being gravely injured, he ends up blaming everyone else for it. Wanda is quick to point out Synapse was injured because of him, angrily calling him out on letting his {{Pride}} blind him to the truth, and telling him that he will not be welcome on the team again until he admits to his mistake.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' and ''Son Of M''. First his attempt to help his sister results in mass depowering of the mutant population. Then his attempts to fix it cause a war to break out between ComicBook/TheInhumans and US military. Also, it turns out that re-powering of mutants with terrigen crystals has [[DeadlyUpgrade horrible side effects]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Magneto received one from half a dozen Quicksilvers in ''Son of M'', many of whom had words for "their" father after the fight.
-->'''Quicksilver #3:''' All I ever wanted to do was please him.\\
'''Quicksilver #2:''' He barely acknowledged my existence.\\
'''Quicksilver #1:''' Have you noticed me now?!
* ParentalSubstitute: Pietro often sees the High Evolutionary as more of a father figure to him than Magneto ever was, and depending on [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor how evil he is that day]] the Evolutionary either reciprocates those feelings or manipulates those feelings for his own ends. While it's easy to understand why he wouldn't want to sit down to a family dinner with the Master of Magnetism after their history, in practice, Mags (WellIntentionedExtremist who's been mostly playing nicely on the X-Men's side lately) tends to be more trustworthy than the High Evolutionary (a MadScientist who's ''still'' liable to come up with ideas like "Let's merge Earth and Counter-Earth into one!")
* PersonalityPowers: Well, except the most prominent part of Pietro's personality is how he's a total JerkAss because life moves in slow motion for him.
* PetTheDog: On occasion, which he'll usually balance out by being like a complete jerk again seconds later.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: He could originally run several hundred miles per hour - unimpressive by the standards of those who can cross interstellar distances in seconds, but about the speed that makes sense for your average battle with a character who looks like a blur but can still be zapped with EyeBeams or punched if you can predict him well enough to put your fist where his face is going to be a second from now. These days he can outrun radio signals, putting him in the above-light-speed category.
* PrettyBoy: Depending on the art, Quicksilver is usually not a pretty boy except for X-Men Evolution cartoon. However, in one X-Factor issue, he was called 'Pretty Boy' by his inmates when he was put in prison for vagrancy.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: He's not a professor, but he did play this trope otherwise to the hilt when he exposed himself to the Terrigen Mists in a desperate bid to regain his powers. In the classic spirit of the trope, it worked only to become a case of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
* PunchClockVillain: He and Wanda were only in Magneto's Brotherhood because he saved their lives; they refused to kill anyone, used their powers against Magneto to stop him from killing, and [[HeelFaceTurn joined the Avengers]] as soon as they were free of him.
* PutOnABus: Roy Thomas got rid of Quicksilver ''twice'' during the original ''Avengers'' run. The first time was when Pietro and his amnesiac sister temporarily rejoined Magneto's Brotherhood, and the second was when an injured Pietro was accidentally left behind in Australia after the team's battle against the Sentinels. The second exit proved to be much longer-lasting, as he was soon found by Crystal, who took him back to Attilan. He would not return to being an active Avenger until the 90s, not long before the ''Comicbook/{{Onslaught}}'' crossover.
* {{Repower}}: After losing his powers on M-Day, and later using the Terrigen Mist that empowers the Inhumans to achieve an altered version of them (he could vibrate his molecules faster than the speed of light and travel through time) he just got his old SuperSpeed back (without any real explanation) during the ''X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead'' one-shot. Apparently, EpiphanyTherapy trumps a RealityWarper depowering 98% of all mutants...
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As noted in the page quote, Pietro's mutation didn't simply grant him speed; it also strengthed his bones and tendons, and provided him with phenomenal reaction time.
* TheRival: The Black Knight became this to him during the period when they were in competition for the affections of Crystal.
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Pietro and Wanda's mother, Magda, was Romani, and they were adopted by a Romani family when she died.
** DependingOnTheWriter their father, Magneto, is either Romani as well or Jewish.
* RubiksCubeInternationalGeniusSymbol: Pietro can solve one in 0.0000034 seconds.
* [[WalkOnWater Run On Water]]: He's run across the Atlantic Ocean and back more than once.
* SanitySlippage: Went insane without his powers.
* TheSociopath: During 2016's ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' event his sister stated that he is a "textbook sociopath" who disrupts "through manipulation or force" all his relationships. Seeing as how Wanda [[ManipulativeBitch doesn't exactly]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity have room]] [[AGodAmI in her]] [[ComicBook/HouseOfM glass house]] to throw stones, take from that what you will.
* SmugSuper: Quicksilver is the "fastest man on Earth" and he'll never let you forget it.
* SpeedBlitz: He's fond of combining this with CrissCrossAttack to dismantle his foes.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Quicksilver can try, he can have all the hard-earned lessons and character development he likes, but come the next writer, he's going to be a jerkwad again.
* SuperReflexes: His reflexes are canonically stated to be better than those of the finest human athletes. Even in early appearances he was capable of feats such as dodging close range optic blasts courtesy of Cyclops, and he's only gotten faster on the ball since then.
* SuperIntelligence: Of the learning quickly variety. [[http://quicksilverfans.tumblr.com/post/33375796040 Pietro learned how to play]] Beethoveen's Moonlight Sonata from memory and by ear in ten seconds, never having played piano before and only knowing where the 'C' key is. As any musician knows, Moonlight Sonata isn't exactly a beginner's piece. He is also an accomplished sculptor.
** Ultimate Quicksilver isn't as smart as Reed Richards but can still work out his math by super speed rote.
* SuperSpeed: Up to Mach 4 but possibly higher.
** During the Mighty Avengers era, he was outrunning radio waves, putting him at translight speeds, vibrating so fast when he got angry that he was creating wind shear and his equivalent of a nervous twitch was zipping from Tibet to Indonesia and back in a second or two at most. While this was debunked by Marvel editor Tom Breevort, the statement Breevort gave [[EpicFail indicated that he had not actually read the comic.]] Whether he retains this level of speed is up for debate.
* SuperSpeedReading: Does this frequently to stave off boredom.
* SuperSupremacist: A mild version to be sure, but Pietro's natural arrogance and sense of superiority leads him to often view ordinary humans with disdain. He doesn't go full villain about it like his father or other mutant baddies, but sometimes he's toed the line (such as when he joined his father's cabinet during his stint as Genosha's dictator).
* SuperToughness: Pietro's body is immensely durable thanks to the RequiredSecondaryPowers needed to keep him from tearing himself apart, which has the side effect of making him incredibly difficult to seriously hurt.
* TimeStandsStill: Quicksilver once explained his angry personality by asking his psychologist to imagine living in a world consisting entirely of the slowest queue at the checkout.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the "Siege of Wundagore" storyline his Super Speed was amped up to pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] Franchise/{{Superman}} levels by the High Evolutionary's [[SuperSerum Isotope E]], allowing him to defeat Exodus (who ironically is a Superman-level mutant, and leagues more powerful than Quicksilver normally).
* TookALevelInJerkass: He was always arrogant and hard to get along with, but in UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks, writer Steve Englehart made him an out-and-out bigot who broke off his relationship with his sister over her relationship with the Vision. His ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' incarnation also took several levels following the ''Ultimatum'' event.
* TouchedByVorlons: After decades of being a mutant, the most recent (as of 2019) interpretation of Pietro is that he is in fact an ordinary human being who was empowered as a baby by the High Evolutionary.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: With his father being who he is, this is a concern for several characters. Despite their antipathy for each other, Pietro and his father share a mutual arrogance, and some villains such as Fabian Cortez have even attempted to exploit this by tempting him to take a more active role in mutant affairs.
* TheUnfavourite: Magneto's relationship with his kids is very screwed up, but he and Pietro cannot get along with each other.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His portrayal in various adaptations, such as ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}'', ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'', where he is usually aware about his parentage from the start. Eventually it leaked into the main continuity as well (see quote above), which was a 180 degree turn from [[YoureNotMyFather his original relationship with Magneto]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Zig-zagged, Quicksilver goes back and forth on the villain front, but even at his best he's still quite a jerk.
* WouldHurtAChild: During his Sanity Slippage days, he thought it was God's will he murder the then-teenaged Layla Miller.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: While under the telepathic influence of Maximus the Mad, Quicksilver went, well, mad, specifically in ways that made him seek DisproportionateRetribution on others. He betrayed the Avengers, framed them for treason and then tried to kill them due to a series of slights (both real and imagined). These supposed offenses included the way his teammates approved of Wanda's marriage to Vision despite Pietro's objections, as well as the time they accidentally left him behind in Australia after their battle with the Sentinels. Even his biggest gripe, Crystal's infidelity, hardly justified attempted murder, especially since the Avengers ''[[MisplacedRetribution had nothing to do with it]]''.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: While under the telepathic influence of Maximus the Mad, Quicksilver went, went- well, mad, specifically mad. Specifically in ways that made him seek DisproportionateRetribution on others. He betrayed the Avengers, framed them for treason and then tried to kill them due to a series of slights (both real and imagined). These supposed offenses included the way his teammates approved of Wanda's marriage to Vision despite Pietro's objections, as well as the time they accidentally left him behind in Australia after their battle with the Sentinels. Even his biggest gripe, Crystal's infidelity, hardly justified attempted murder, especially since the Avengers ''[[MisplacedRetribution had nothing to do with it]]''.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: While under the telepathic influence of Maximus the Mad, Quicksilver went, well, mad, specifically in ways that made him seek DisproportionateRetribution on others. He once betrayed the Avengers, framed them for treason and then tried to kill them due to a series of slights (both real and imagined). These supposed offenses included the way his teammates approved of Wanda's marriage to Vision despite Pietro's objections, as well as the time they accidentally left him behind in Australia after their battle with the Sentinels. Even his biggest gripe, Crystal's infidelity, hardly justified attempted murder, especially since the Avengers ''[[MisplacedRetribution had nothing to do with it]]''.
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Two unrelated movie franchises see differing interpretations of Quicksilver. Creator/EvanPeters (of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' fame) appears as ''Peter'' Maximoff in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', debuting in Creator/BryanSinger's ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and reprising the role in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse saw Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson take on the role in Creator/JossWhedon's ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' after appearing in TheStinger of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. A complication in Creator/MarvelStudios' movie rights agreements means that Quicksilver cannot be referred to as a mutant in the MCU, while he cannot be an Avenger in the ''X-Men'' flicks, and AOU Quicksilver and the X-movies' Quicksilver are very much ''not'' the same character. With Disney's buyout of 20th Century Fox, it was unknown how this situation would be resolved... Until, inexplicably, the ''Fox version of the character'' (once again played by Creator/EvanPeters) ''shows up '' in ''Series/WandaVision'', presumably setting up the possibility of crossovers between different film portrayals of Marvel characters.
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The MCU version, Pietro, is formally introduced in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. He and Wanda (Creator/ElizabethOlsen) are orphans from [[{{Ruritania}} Sokovia]] who become empowered by the Mind Stone in experiments done by ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}, later pit against the Avengers by ComicBook/{{Ultron}} (Creator/JamesSpader) before defecting to join them. This is ultimately Pietro's only major appearance in the series, as he is killed in the climactic battle and has not returned since.
The X-Men version, Peter, is introduced in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' an American slacker who is sought out to help bust Erik (Creator/MichaelFassbender) out of prison, and
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Two unrelated movie franchises see differing interpretations of Quicksilver. Creator/EvanPeters (of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' fame) appears as ''Peter'' Maximoff in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', debuting in Creator/BryanSinger's ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and reprising the role in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse saw Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson take on the role in Creator/JossWhedon's ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' after appearing in TheStinger of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. A complication in Creator/MarvelStudios' movie rights agreements means that Quicksilver cannot be referred to as a mutant in the MCU, while he cannot be an Avenger in the ''X-Men'' flicks, and AOU Quicksilver and the X-movies' Quicksilver are very much ''not'' the same character. With Disney's impending buyout of 20th Century Fox, it's it was unknown how this situation will would be resolved.
resolved... Until, inexplicably, the ''Fox version of the character'' (once again played by Creator/EvanPeters) ''shows up '' in ''Series/WandaVision'', presumably setting up the possibility of crossovers between different film portrayals of Marvel characters.
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Two unrelated movie franchises see differing interpretations of Quicksilver. Creator/EvanPeters (of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' fame) appears as ''Peter'' Maximoff in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', debuting in Creator/BryanSinger's ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and reprising the role in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse saw Creator/AaronJohnson Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson take on the role in Creator/JossWhedon's ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' after appearing in TheStinger of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. A complication in Creator/MarvelStudios' movie rights agreements means that Quicksilver cannot be referred to as a mutant in the MCU, while he cannot be an Avenger in the ''X-Men'' flicks, and AOU Quicksilver and the X-movies' Quicksilver are very much ''not'' the same character. With Disney's impending buyout of 20th Century Fox, it's unknown how this situation will be resolved.
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Making his debut in as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants along with his twin sister, [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda]], Pietro Maximoff quickly discovers that a life of crime is not for him. When Magneto, the Brotherhood's leader and father of the Maximoff twins, is abducted by the [[CosmicEntity Stranger]], Pietro and Wanda quit the Brotherhood and return home to Transia. Reformation on their mind, the pair learn that Comicbook/TheAvengers are looking for new members and are subsequently recruited by IronMan ComicBook/IronMan after Pietro talks Wanda into moving to the United States.
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** It doesn't help that said jealousy isn't unfounded due to Crystal's adulterous behavior. See YourCheatingHeart below.
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** It doesn't help that said jealousy isn't unfounded due to Crystal's adulterous behavior. See YourCheatingHeart below.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Crystal, Pietro's ex-wife. She had an affair with Norman Webster, a real estate agent, and harbored feelings for the Avenger Black Knight. This issue became apparent after Crystal returned from her experience on Counter Earth after battling Onslaught.
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-->--'''Pietro Maximoff, ''Son of M'''''
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Two unrelated movie franchises see differing interpretations of Quicksilver. Creator/EvanPeters (of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' fame) appears as ''Peter'' Maximoff in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', debuting in Creator/BryanSinger's ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and reprising the role in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse saw Creator/AaronJohnson take on the role in Creator/JossWhedon's ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' after appearing in TheStinger of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. A complication in Creator/MarvelStudios' movie rights agreements means that Quicksilver cannot be referred to as a mutant in the MCU, while he cannot be an Avenger in the ''X-Men'' flicks. With Disney's impending buyout of 20th Century Fox, it's unknown how this situation will be resolved.
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Two unrelated movie franchises see differing interpretations of Quicksilver. Creator/EvanPeters (of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' fame) appears as ''Peter'' Maximoff in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', debuting in Creator/BryanSinger's ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and reprising the role in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse saw Creator/AaronJohnson take on the role in Creator/JossWhedon's ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' after appearing in TheStinger of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. A complication in Creator/MarvelStudios' movie rights agreements means that Quicksilver cannot be referred to as a mutant in the MCU, while he cannot be an Avenger in the ''X-Men'' flicks.flicks, and AOU Quicksilver and the X-movies' Quicksilver are very much ''not'' the same character. With Disney's impending buyout of 20th Century Fox, it's unknown how this situation will be resolved.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Bordering on NeverLiveItDown, but if Pietro appears outside comics, he will almost undoubtedly be portrayed as an X-Men villain, sometimes an AntiVillain if he's lucky. Arguably the worst case of this is ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', where he's the most villainous member of the Brotherhood (who're a bunch of IneffectualSympatheticVillain types here), and his behaviour sometimes borders on making him TheSociopath. Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'', where your character has the option of asking about why he's following Magneto despite being a good guy.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Bordering on NeverLiveItDown, but if Pietro appears outside comics, he will almost undoubtedly be portrayed as an X-Men villain, sometimes an AntiVillain if he's lucky. Arguably the worst case of this is ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', where he's the most villainous member of the Brotherhood (who're a bunch of IneffectualSympatheticVillain types here), and his behaviour sometimes borders on making him TheSociopath. (Consider that in the comics, ''even in the 60s when the Brotherhood were proudly {{Card Carrying Villain}}s,'' Quicksilver was only with them to watch over Wanda, who in turn was only with them because she owed Magneto a debt, and they jumped ship to become Avengers after about four or five appearances. In other words, Pietro was the LEAST malicious of the brotherhood.) Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'', where your character has the option of asking about why he's following Magneto despite being a good guy.
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** In-universe, his own nephew (sort of) Thomas Shepherd aka Speed fulfills this role. He taunted Quicksilver while ''running backwards''. And then there's Northstar, one of the few Marvel-Speedsters who can go Lightspeed.
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** In-universe, his own nephew (sort of) Thomas Shepherd aka Speed fulfills this role. He taunted Quicksilver while ''running backwards''.running backwards, just like the Flash before him. And then there's Northstar, one of the few Marvel-Speedsters who can go Lightspeed.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: He and his sister Wanda in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: He In most versions there's subtext between him and his sister Wanda sis Wanda, but it's text-text in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Quicksilver had a habit of this early in his career, bouncing between the Avengers and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He returned to villainy during the 80s, but this was later {{Retcon}}ned into having been the result of Maximus' brainwashing.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Quicksilver had a habit of this early in his career, bouncing between the Avengers and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He returned to villainy during the 80s, but this was later {{Retcon}}ned into having been the result of Maximus' brainwashing. And even without a thought-out decision to change sides, when you're as hotheaded as he is, you might find yourself up against your teammates as you pursue one rash course of action or another.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Pietro often sees the High Evolutionary as more of a father figure to him than Magneto ever was, and depending on [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor how evil he is that day]] the Evolutionary either reciprocates those feelings or manipulates those feelings for his own ends.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Pietro often sees the High Evolutionary as more of a father figure to him than Magneto ever was, and depending on [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor how evil he is that day]] the Evolutionary either reciprocates those feelings or manipulates those feelings for his own ends. While it's easy to understand why he wouldn't want to sit down to a family dinner with the Master of Magnetism after their history, in practice, Mags (WellIntentionedExtremist who's been mostly playing nicely on the X-Men's side lately) tends to be more trustworthy than the High Evolutionary (a MadScientist who's ''still'' liable to come up with ideas like "Let's merge Earth and Counter-Earth into one!")
*PowerCreepPowerSeep: He could originally run several hundred miles per hour - unimpressive by the standards of those who can cross interstellar distances in seconds, but about the speed that makes sense for your average battle with a character who looks like a blur but can still be zapped with EyeBeams or punched if you can predict him well enough to put your fist where his face is going to be a second from now. These days he can outrun radio signals, putting him in the above-light-speed category.
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* {{Repower}}: After losing his powers on M-Day, he just got them back (without any real explanation) during the ''X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead'' one-shot.
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* {{Repower}}: After losing his powers on M-Day, and later using the Terrigen Mist that empowers the Inhumans to achieve an altered version of them (he could vibrate his molecules faster than the speed of light and travel through time) he just got them his old SuperSpeed back (without any real explanation) during the ''X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead'' one-shot.one-shot. Apparently, EpiphanyTherapy trumps a RealityWarper depowering 98% of all mutants...
