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Real name Pietro Django Maximoff
Affiliations
Previous affiliations The Avengers, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, X-Factor
Notable aliases
Notable relatives Magneto (father), Magda (mother, deceased), Anya (sister, deceased), Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch, sister), Lorna Dane (Polaris, half-sister), Django Maximoff (foster father), Marya Maximoff (foster mother), Crystal (wife), Luna (daughter)


Birth
The man who would become Magneto revealed his mutant powers by killing the villagers who had killed his first daughter, Anya. His wife Magda fled from him in fear; unbeknownst to Magneto, Magda was pregnant with twins at the time. She arrived at Mount Wundagore, the home of the High Evolutionary, and gave birth to twins, who were named Pietro and Wanda, only to die soon after. Madeline Joyce Frank, formerly the superhero Miss America, was also staying in the area at the time. Madeline had also recently given birth, but her child was stillborn due to the high levels of radiation in her body. At the time, Magda's midwife Bova (a cow transformed by the Evolutionary into a humanoid creature with human-level intelligence) did not know if Magda had any family, so she gave the twins to Madeline's husband, the Whizzer. Distraught, he believed that he could not raise the children himself and in turn gave the children to the gypsy Django Maximoff, who raised the twins as his own children.

The Brotherhood
When they reached adulthood, the twins discovered that they were mutants. Pietro (now called Quicksilver) discovered that he possessed the ability to act at superhuman levels of speed, while Wanda (now the Scarlet Witch) discovered that she could influence probability (at this point, causing "bad luck" by pointing her finger at someone or something). The pair were attacked by an angry mob when they displayed their powers, only to rescued by their father, who was now the supervillain Magneto. Although none of the three knew that Magneto was the twins' father, he nevertheless recruited them into the first incarnation of his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Pietro became intensely protective of his sister, often attacking those who threatened her, and displayed arrogant behavior towards anyone save for his sister and Magneto. The Brotherhood fought the X-Men several times, although the twins were somewhat reluctant and only remained because they felt that they owed a debt to Magneto for saving their lives. When Magneto and his lackey the Toad were abducted by the alien Stranger, the Brotherhood dissolved and the twins declared their debt to Magneto to have been paid.

Avengers
Not long after, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch were recruited by Captain America to join the Avengers. All of the team's founding members had departed, leaving the Captain to organize a new team, one which was organized of reformed supervillains: Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, and the archer Hawkeye. This group, sometimes dubbed "Cap's Kooky Quartet", was soon rejoined by other founding Avengers, but the three new recruits became longtime members of the organization in its many incarnations. The twins would eventually learn that the Whizzer had left them to be raised by Django, and believed the Whizzer to be their father for several years, even serving alongside him when he briefly joined the Avengers. Wanda became romantically involved with their teammate, the android Vision, which Pietro initially disapproved of, although he ultimately gave his blessing to their marriage. Quicksilver himself became romantically involved with Crystal, a member of the Royal Family of the hidden race called the Inhumans. The pair eventually married and had a daughter, Luna. Upon Luna's birth, Magneto revealed to Pietro and Wanda that he was their father, having learned of this himself only recently. When he tried reaching out to them they pushed him away, saying they couldnt forgive him for his past actions and being related wouldn't change that. Magneto would later try redeeming himself, and would later lead the X-Men when a dying Professor Xavier needed medical attention and asked him to lead the team in his absence. Seeing him try to reform, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch later tried accepting him as their father.

X-Factor
Quicksilver eventually learned that his wife had had an affair with another man, and the couple became estraged. Much later, he joined the U.S. government-sponsored superhero team X-Factor. During this period of their estrangement, Crystal was herself a member of the Avengers and was romantically involved with still another man: her teammate Dane Whitman, the Black Knight. When Luna was kidnapped by the mutant terrorist Fabian Cortez and his Magneto-worshipping Acolytes, the Avengers, X-Factor and the X-Men teamed up to stop him from killing her and to end the civil war that he had sparked in the island nation of Genosha. Although Pietro and Crystal were reunited after rescuing Luna, he learned of her relationship with Whitman and again left her, resigning from X-Factor as well.

Knights of Wundagore
When the Avengers, including Crystal, were presumed deceased following the battle with the psychic entity Onslaught, Quicksilver took Luna and joined the High Evolutionary's Knights of Wundagore. He assisted them in fighting off Exodus and the Acolytes. Crystal and the other "casualties" of Onslaught were eventually revealed to have survived, but once she was reunited with her husband, Crystal returned to live with the Inhumans with Luna. The High Evolutionary later used the experimental Isotope E to augment Quicksilver's powers to allow him to move at greater supersonic speeds. Following the defeat of the Acolytes by the Knights of Wundagore and the new Heroes for Hire team, Quicksilver rejoined the Avengers alongside his sister.

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