Peter Maximoff (Earth-10005 Revised)

Peter Maximoff
Name	Peter Maximoff
Aliases	Editorial Names: Quicksilver
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	X-Men
Relatives	Parents: Erik Lehnsherr (father) Unnamed mother Siblings: Unnamed sister Nina Górska (paternal half-sister, deceased) Wanda Maximoff (sister)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Silver
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Mutant
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-10005 Revised
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Adventurer, Kleptomaniac
Base of Operations	Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters Formerly Maximoff Residence
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Simon Kinberg
First	X-Men: Days of Future Past (May 20, 2014)
First	X-Men: Days of Future Past (May 20, 2014)

 You know, for a guy who moves as fast as me, I always seem to be too late. 

—Peter Maximoff

History

Peter Maximoff is a mutant who by 1973 had expressed a power to move at incredibly high speed. Turning to a life of thievery, Peter soon became a person of interest to the authorities as he stockpiled numerous stolen goods in his mother's basement.

Pentagon Breakout

He was met at his home one day by Charles Xavier, Logan, and Henry McCoy, who approached him with a proposition to break another mutant out of maximum security detention below the Pentagon. Accompanying the trio, Peter's part in the mission was to penetrate deep into the facility unseen and undertake the physical act of extricating Magneto from a subterranean cell while the others followed to aid with the extraction. Peter's speed came in handy when the alarm was raised and a group of guards opened fire on the escaping group. He simply donned his goggles and raced around the room, spoiling the aim of the shooters, moving their arms to strike themselves or each other, and then casually adjusting the trajectories of any bullets with a flesh target in their path.

When his mission was done, he said his goodbyes to the others as they left him at his home. He watched them again later on television as they foiled incidents that would have ramifications on a global scale.

Apocalypse

Ten years later, Peter was still living in his mother's basement. But when he sees news that Magneto - who Peter has learned is his father - had broken loose, Peter decides to go after him. Using Xavier's business card he took a decade prior, Peter goes to the X-Mansion, arriving just as an explosion is ignited in the basement; using his powers, Peter runs inside the crumbling house and saves everyone bar the one that caused the incident, Havok, because he was too close to the blast. Afterwards Col. William Stryker arrives in a helicopter, and takes Peter as one of his mutant hostages to the Weapon X facility in Canada.

Three of Xavier's students, Scott Summers, Jean Grey, and Kurt Wagner, helped break Peter out of Stryker's captivity. Peter was then among the X-Men who went to Egypt to save Xavier from Apocalypse. He used this opportunity to talk to Magneto, who had become a Horseman of Apocalypse, to convince him to abandon Apocalypse's civilization-destroying plans. Afterward, Peter took on Apocalypse himself with his superspeed, but it resulted in Apocalypse trapping him and breaking his foot. In the end, however, the X-Men were victorious in defeating Apocalypse.

Sometime later, Peter witnessed his father and Jean rebuild the X-Mansion. After Egypt, Peter officially joined the X-Men and was seen training in the Danger Room.

The Phoenix

Nearly a decade later, in 1992, Peter and his fellow X-Men rescued a crew of astronauts about to be hit by a solar flare. While Peter and Kurt were able to rescue most of the astronauts, Jean stayed behind and absorbed most of the solar flare's impact. She miraculously survived and the X-Men returned to Earth as American heroes.

Later, Jean and her powers began spiraling out of control due to the solar flare she absorbed, so the X-Men confronted at her childhood home. The X-Men proved to be no match for Jean's new-found strength, as she critically injured Peter and accidentally killed Mystique. Peter was confined to the X-Mansion to recuperate, as the rest of the X-Men attempted to save Jean from herself.

Attributes

Powers

Superhuman Speed: Peter's body operates at extreme high speed. His running speed is considerably faster than the projectile velocity of a bullet fired from a 9mm pistol. Because he moves faster than the human eye can normally register, he often gives others the impression that he can teleport. Aside from being fast enough to casually shift the trajectory of bullets in flight with the touch of a finger, he has also demonstrated the ability to shatter a thick sheet of glass by vibrating his hands at its simple harmonic frequency. His brain also works at a high-speed, making everything seem to be in slow-motion to him.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Peter uses various common items to aid him in his escapades, which can be adapted to a variety of purposes beyond their intended design due to the speed at which he can use them. Among his tools are a pair of goggles, a stereobelt and a roll of duct tape.

Notes

• Evan Peters portrayed Peter Maximoff in X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix.
• Prior to Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox, while Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's film rights were shared between Marvel Studios and Fox, there were some limitations as to how they could be used, based on what each studio had the film rights to at the time. Respectively, Fox couldn't reference their involvement with the Avengers, while Marvel Studios couldn't reference them being mutants, the children of Magneto, or their association with the X-Men.

Trivia

• Unlike his Earth-616 counterpart, this iteration of Quicksilver is more laid back and easy going. However, when it showed him watching Magneto on TV, he was protective of his sister, like he is in the comics.
• His stereobelt and Pong game - and later, walkman and Ms. Pac-Man arcade - both work extremely fast to match his speed. It's unknown if he made those adjustments himself or if he got someone to do it for him.
• Earlier versions of the scripts for X-Men: Days of Future Past, had a young Juggernaut help break Magneto out of the Pentagon. Juggernaut was written out of the script and replaced with Quicksilver not long after the film's producers learned Quicksilver would appear in the Marvel Studios film Avengers: Age of Ultron.
• Evan Peters had previously portrayed the character Todd Haynes in the film Kick-Ass, which was based on the comic of the same name originally published by Marvel Comics. Coincidentally, that film had him co-starring with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who went on to portray another version of Quicksilver in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Evan Peters would later go on to portray the character Ralph Bohner in the Disney+ series WandaVision, who as a meta-reference to the actor previously portraying this version of Quicksilver, impersonated being Wanda Maximoff's deceased brother Pietro.

See Also

• 3 appearance(s) of Peter Maximoff (Earth-10005 Revised)
• 13 image(s) of Peter Maximoff (Earth-10005 Revised)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Peter Maximoff (Earth-10005 Revised)

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