Quicksilver

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|films = ''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]'' (mid-credits ~~scene~~)<br>''[[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]''

|films = ''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]'' (mid-credits)<br>''[[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]''

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|shows = ''[[WandaVision~~]]<br>[[Hawkeye (series)|Hawkeye~~]]'' ~~(archive footage)~~

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|games = ''[[Marvel: Avengers Alliance]]''

|actor = [[Aaron Taylor-Johnson]]<br>Gabriel Gurevich (young)

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This article is about the real Quicksilver. For the character who assumed his identity, see Ralph Bohner.

“You didn't see that coming?”

―Quicksilver^[src]

Quicksilver (real name Pietro Maximoff) is a character from Marvel Comics who is the twin brother of fellow Avenger, Wanda Maximoff, alias Scarlet Witch. He is a recurring character of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, debuting as a cameo in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Quicksilver was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Pietro and twin sister Wanda were born in the country of Sokovia. Their family used to reunite and watch american sitcoms together while trying to momentarily forget that they were living in a warzone. One night, when the family was gathered before the TV, a mortar shell hit their house, killing Wanda and Pietro's parents. Pietro and Wanda survived and hid under the bed just as a second shell hit, but it did not explode, leaving twins where trapped for two days before being rescued.

Years later, Pietro and Wanda started to participate in riots in a attempt drive the foreign forces out of their country. However, they twins did not know that these riots were actually planned by HYDRA, as the organization used them to cover in their illegal experiments after they secretly established in the country. Sometime later, a HYDRA scientist approached the twins to offer the opportunity to get enough power to drive war out of Sokovia. His sister Wanda was skeptical about the offer, but Pietro was not since he was determined to free Sokovia, so he convinced his sister to accept it. As results of these experiments, Pietro achieved superhuman speed while Wanda won numerous mental powers as telekinesis, hypnosis, and energy projection.

Quicksilver is fun-loving, kind, caring, serious, moral, honorable, selfless, and intelligent. However, he is also shown to be slightly overconfident, arrogant, impatient, tenacious, and short-tempered. Compared to his twin sister, Wanda, Pietro was far less quiet and far more aggressive. As Wanda is the only family he has left after the death of their parents, he is very protective over her and also a caring sibling. Ultimately, Pietro shows to be very reckless yet heroic. He uses his own body to shield Hawkeye and a civilian boy from the Quinjet's bullets, proving himself a true hero and a true Avenger, before dying from his wounds.

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Pietro and his twin sister Wanda participated in a series of experiments conducted by HYDRA in hopes of saving their country, Sokovia, from war. As results of these experiments, Pietro achieved superhuman speed; while Wanda won numerous mental powers like telekinesis, hypnosis, and energy projection. In the mid-credits scene, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch appear with Baron Strucker at a facility in Sokovia. Strucker also revealed he intended to use them for an unspecified purpose.

Soon after, the Avengers arrived in Sokovia and raided Strucker's facility, stealing the scepter and arresting Strucker. In the confusion, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver escaped from their holding cells and, though inexperienced, were able to use their powers to evade the Avengers and escape. Quicksilver himself used his powers to distract Hawkeye and Captain America, using his speed to try to stop their advance and to protect a bunker, which is destroyed by the Hulk soon after. When Tony Stark took the scepter, he tried to stop him but was stopped by his sister. He asked why, but she just smiled.

Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were soon called by Ultron to join him in his plans to destroy the Avengers, knowing that with their powers, they can tear the opposition apart. He told Ultron why not just kill the Avengers, Ultron replied that he did not want them to be martyrs. Soon after, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver accompany Ultron in acquiring Ulysses Klaue's supply of vibranium. When the Avengers arrived, Quicksilver attacked Captain America, then Thor trying unsuccessfully to use Mjølnir against him. When Scarlet Witch attempted to "hex" Hawkeye - but was subdued by him because he learned from his past experience of being mind-controlled by Loki. Quicksilver saved her in the nick of time. He took her outside Klaue's base, where she caught sight of the Hulk and manages to "hex" him as well.

When the twins arrived in Seoul, Wanda learned of Ultron's plans upon touching the Cradle and they left the facility, much to Ultron's rage. The twins then assisted Captain America in fighting off Ultron on a moving passenger train. Scarlet Witch managed to stop it when it went off the rails, while Quicksilver saved people on the road of the train. The twins then accompanied Captain America back to Avengers Tower and tried to stop Stark and Banner from bringing Vision to life. Quicksilver succeeded to cut off the electricity from Vision's cradle, but he is soon attacked by Hawkeye, only to witness Thor bringing Vision to life. He and Scarlet Witch then joined the Avengers in stopping Ultron and saving Sokovia.

He along with his sister, Vision, and the Avengers traveled to Sokovia to stop Ultron and prevent his plan was a success. Before the battle, Quicksilver went to a police station and asked them to help evacuate the city. Quicksilver bravely uses his powers to save countless lives. When his sister volunteered to guard the key against Ultron, he asked her if she was sure of it, she replied to go and come back for her when the battle ended. He uses his own body to shield Hawkeye and a civilian boy from the Quinjet's bullets, proving he was a true hero and a true Avenger. Unfortunately, Quicksilver dies from his wounds, much to his sister's sorrow. His sister avenged his death by ripping out Ultron's metal heart. After the battle, his fellow Avenger Hawkeye named his newborn son Nathaniel Pietro, in honor of him.

In the third episode of the series, Pietro is referenced by Wanda, when she discloses to Geraldine that she is a twin, after giving birth to twins of her own. Geraldine then recalls his demise at the hands of Ultron.

Agatha Harkness later controls Ralph Bohner to portray Pietro, so she can manipulate Wanda. She has him pose as her deceased brother, and he briefly integrates himself into her family, acting as uncle to her sons, before Wanda rejects him, after coming to realize he's an impostor.

WandaVision - Ep 8 - Wanda and Pietro — Pietro and Wanda as children.

In the eighth episode, Agatha reveals that the "fake Pietro" is the result of a "crystalline possession" because she would not be able to manipulate the real Pietro with necromancy and bring him to Westview, because he is on another continent, "full of holes" and her magic has limits. Later, when Wanda and Agatha are watching Wanda's memories to find out how the Hex was created, they see Wanda and Pietro as kids along with their parents in Sokovia. The family watches sitcoms together when a Stark missile hits their house, killing Wanda and Pietro's parents. Wanda and Pietro hide under the bed when a second missile hits the house, but it does not explode, leaving the twins trapped for two days. During another memory, Wanda and Vision are seen talking about Pietro at the Avengers compound, sometime after his death. Vision tries to comfort Wanda for her loss, but Wanda replies that the only thing that would give her comfort would be seeing Pietro again.