Quicksilver (Marvel Comics)

Quicksilver is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee, the character first appeared in The X-Men #4 (cover dated March 1964). Introduced as an antagonist in Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants alongside his twin sister, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver later reformed and joined the Avengers beginning with The Avengers #16 (May 1965), becoming part of the team's second generation. Quicksilver is the superhero persona of Pietro Maximoff, a Romani speedster capable of moving and thinking at extreme speeds. Long portrayed as the mutant son of Magneto, he was formerly married to Crystal of the Inhuman Royal Family, with whom he has a daughter, Luna. A 2015 retcon established that he and his sister were not Magneto's children or mutants, but ordinary children artificially empowered by the High Evolutionary. Pietro and Wanda have been listed as among the most visible Romani characters in mainstream superhero comics. Major Quicksilver stories include writer Peter David's run on X-Factor vol. 1 (1991–1993), which interpreted Pietro's irritability as a psychological consequence of living at superspeed, and the eponymous ongoing series (1997–1998), which placed him as the reluctant leader of the Knights of Wundagore. He instigated the "House of M" event (2005), and the subsequent Son of M miniseries (2006) followed his attempt to reclaim his abilities through exposure to Terrigen Mist. Writer Saladin Ahmed's Quicksilver: No Surrender (2018) reframed the character's abrasiveness as anxiety rather than arrogance. The character has appeared in a range of movie, television, and video game adaptations. Two separate live-action versions of Quicksilver were adapted by two different film studios, as a result of a rights dispute between Marvel and 20th Century Fox: Aaron Taylor-Johnson portrayed the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)— a cameo appearance in Captain...