History
Origin[]
Tommy and his brother Billy Maximoff were the twin children of Wanda Maximoff and Vision, born inside the Hex anomaly, created by Wanda's Chaos Magic in Westview. Their existence was highly unnatural, as Wanda's pregnancy progressed from early signs to full birth in less than a full day. Originally Wanda and Vision expected one kid and argued over his name. Wanda wanted to name their kid Tommy, because "it is a nice, classic, all-American name", but Vision wanted to name him Billy, after William Shakespeare. They argued during the entire pregnancy, but when the child was born Vision gave in and named him Tommy. Ironically, they had twins, so when the second child was born Wanda named him Billy.[5]
Westview Anomaly[]
The twins were toddlers for only few days, and then aged themselves directly to 5-year-old kids, with appropriate intelligence, speech and personalities. They found a dog crying alone outside of their house, so they brought it in and wanted to make it their pet, but Wanda and Vision disagreed, telling them what taking care of a living being is a big responsibility and they can't have a pet until they are at least 10 years old. Hearing this, the twins gleefully aged themselves again into 10-year olds and named the dog Sparky. Unfortunately, the dog hadn't lived for long and died later that day. The twins were heartbroken by Sparky's death and wanted to age themselves again to avoid the grief and pain, but Wanda convinced them to stop, because it was a wrong solution to deal with their emotions. Tommy then begged Wanda to resurrect Sparky, because she "can fix everything". Wanda was shocked and tried to convince them what there are some things that couldn't be changed and the death is forever, but Billy argued back that earlier she said that "family is forever" and Sparky is their family, so she should bring it back. To Wanda's further shock later that day her deceased brother Pietro seemingly returned to life and came to her house.[6]
Next day the twins went to celebrate the Halloween with their mother and uncle. "Pietro" used his superhuman speed to gather all the candies and soon Tommy displayed the same power. In meanwhile, Vision, who started to suspect that something was wrong in Westview, went outside the town. He accidently crossed the border of the Hex anomaly and his body started to dissolve. Billy telepathically felt his father's pain and heard the thoughts of the S.W.O.R.D.'s agents who believed that Vision was dying. Billy run back to Wanda and she expanded the borders of the Hex to save Vision.[1] This greatly overexerted Wanda's powers and caused them to glitch the next day, so she asked the neighbor "Agnes" to take care of the twins for a while. The twins went to Agnes' house, and soon Billy noticed what he can't hear her thoughts. Agnes then revealed her true identity as an ancient witch Agatha Harkness and captured the twins to use them as hostages to force Wanda to reveal how exactly she managed to cast such a powerful magic that created the Hex.[7][8]
Death[]
During the confrontation with Agatha, Wanda finally realized how much her actions harmed the citizens of the Westview and decided to disperse the Hex, but then discovered that bodies of Vision, Billy and Tommy also started to vanish, because their existence was tied to the Hex and they couldn't exist without it. Wanda nevertheless decided to disperse the Hex. She and Vision went back to their home with the kids, where after tucking them in bed she tearfully said goodnight to Billy and Tommy shortly before the Hex receded entirely and Billy and Tommy's bodies disappeared with it.[3]
Reincarnation[]
Billy's soul survived by taking over the body of William Kaplan who died near Westview the same moment when the Hex was dissolved. Three years later under the guidance of Agatha Harkness Billy managed to use his magic to find Tommy's soul and transfer it into the body of a boy who was just drowned.[4] Billy and Agatha then went out to find Tommy in his new body.[9]Attributes
Powers
- Superhuman Speed: Tommy was able to run superhumanly fast. He was able to run few blocks and back in less than a second,[1] and later was able to disarm dozens of soldiers in just few moments.[3]
- Age Manipulation: Tommy was able to control his own age. He grew up from toddler directly to 5-years old and then again to 10-years old.[6]
Weaknesses
- Hex Dependence: Existence of his original body was tied to the Hex and couldn't survive outside of it for long, quickly starting to disperse. It eventually vanished when the Hex was destroyed.[3]
Notes
- Tommy Maximoff has been portrayed by multiple actors at different ages and in different forms of media including:
- unnamed actor portrayed newborn Tommy in WandaVision S1E03.
- Gavin Borders portrayed a 5-year-old Tommy in WandaVision S1E05.
- Jett Klyne portrayed a 10-year-old Tommy in WandaVision S1E05–9. He also played a variant of Tommy from the Earth-838 in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
- In WandaVision S1E03, WandaVision S1E05–9 and these episodes' credits, and in the in-universe "WandaVision" show's opening credits shown in WandaVision S1E05 his name was just "Tommy". Only in the in-universe "WandaVision" show's opening credits in WandaVision S1E06 was his name listed as "Tommy Maximoff". In the credits of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness his variant was listed as "Tommy Maximoff" as well. Full name "Thomas" was never used by anyone and hadn't been shown in any credits.
Trivia
- Tommy was born first, few minutes before his twin brother Billy.[5]
See Also
- 7 appearance(s) of Thomas Maximoff (Earth-199999)
- 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Thomas Maximoff (Earth-199999)
- 2 minor appearance(s) of Thomas Maximoff (Earth-199999)
- 3 mention(s) of Thomas Maximoff (Earth-199999)
- 6 image(s) of Thomas Maximoff (Earth-199999)