Quicksilver

"The twins. Sooner or later, they will meet the twins."

- Wolfgang von Strucker referring to Quicksilver and his sister

Pietro Maximoff, better known as Quicksilver, is a man with superhuman speed.

Biography
Pietro was born in Eastern Europe with his sister, Wanda, and possesses the power of superhuman speed. He and his sister were two of the few surviving volunteers for a secret HYDRA operation, with Wolfgang von Strucker, the operation's leader, seeing great potential in them.

Powers and Abilities

 * Super Speed: Quicksilver has the ability to run at extreme high speed. When imprisoned by Baron Strucker, he is shown moving from one end of his cell to another in less than a second.

Relationships

 * Scarlet Witch - Twin sister
 * Avengers - Teammates
 * Captain America - Leader
 * Iron Man
 * Hulk
 * Thor
 * Black Widow
 * Hawkeye
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Nick Fury
 * Maria Hill
 * Ultron - Enemy
 * Wolfgang von Strucker - Enemy

Trivia

 * In the comics, Quicksilver is a mutant, a member of the Brotherhood of Mutants and the son of Magneto.
 * While Pietro and his sister are Magneto's children in the comics, it wasn't established until Vision and the Scarlet Witch #4, in 1983, 19 years after Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver's first appearance, that they were his children. For their first 10 years, Wanda and Pietro had been regular mutants, with no ties to Magneto or anyone else. In Giant-Size Avengers #1 (1974), they were revealed to be the children of Golden Age superheroes The Whizzer and Miss America (which was then retconned, by the 1983 revised origin).

Behind the Scenes

 * Another version of Quicksilver appeared in 's production X-Men: Days of Future Past and will return in X-Men: Apocalypse. He is portrayed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Kick-Ass co-star Evan Peters. That version is known as "Peter Maximoff", instead of "Pietro".
 * Aaron Taylor-Johnson was uncredited for his appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.