Publication Information
- Title : Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver
- Publisher : Marvel Comics
- First appearance : The X-Men #4 (March 1964)
- Created by : Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
- Alter ego : Pietro Maximoff, Species, Human Mutant
- Team affiliations : Avengers Unity Division, X-Factor (Serval Industries), Avengers Academy, Mighty Avengers, Avengers, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Inhumans, X-Factor
- Notable aliases : Pietro Frank
- Host : Pietro Maximoff
- Potrayer : Aaron Taylor-Johnson
- Appeareance(s) : Avengers : Age of Ultron
Quicksilver is a mutant capable of moving and thinking at superhuman speeds. Originally capable of running at the speed of sound; exposure to the High Evolutionary's Isotope E made it possible for the character to run at supersonic speeds of up to Mach 10 and resist the effects of friction, reduced oxygen, and kinetic impact while moving at super-speeds. The character's speed allows him to perform feats such as create cyclone-strength winds; run up walls and cross bodies of water.
It has been revealed that one of the reasons for his abrasive and impatient personality is that it seems to him that the rest of the world is moving in slow motion and that he is constantly waiting for it to catch up. As he once explained, "Have you ever had a day where you are at the ATM and you are in a hurry because you're running late but the person in front of you doesn't know how to use the ATM and they're taking forever? Now imagine what it must be like to spend every day surrounded by people who don't know how to use the ATM."
Quicksilver loses his powers of speed when his sister removes most of his mutant powers, but gains new powers courtesy of the Inhumans' Terrigen Mist. The mist gives Quicksilver the ability to displace himself out of mainstream time and space and "jump" into the future. The character can summon several time-displaced duplicates of himself and appear to teleport by "jumping" into the future and then returning to the present at a new location.
By voluntarily embedding fragments of the Terrigen Crystals into his own body, the character could empower former mutants with extreme versions of their superhuman abilities. However, the effect was usually fatal. The crystals are subsequently forced from the character's body by the mutant Rictor, leaving him without these abilities. After having a series of hallucinations, Quicksilver saw a woman in mortal danger and felt a desire to be a hero then regains his mutant powers in order to save the woman's life. Abilities:
- Superhuman speed
- Pietro Maximoff The Quicksilver - Character
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