Quicksilver: Pietro Maximoff Appreciation 2021

[teapartyofthedead]

Welcome to the 2021 Appreciation thread for Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver. Here, we hold fast against the Axis heresy and await the return of the Son of M to mutantkind.

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A suggested reading list

X-Men #4 (1964) - His first appearance as a member of his father’s brotherhood alongside his twin Wanda, the Scarlet Witch. Their familial relationship with Magneto was not known at this time. They leave by issue 11, after Magneto is abducted by the Stranger and deciding to reject the X-Men’s invitation to join.

Avengers #16 (1965) - The story of the twins joining the Avengers after the original team leaves. They return to Magneto’s side in issue #47 when Magneto tricks Pietro into believing human security at the UN shoot Wanda in the head, grazing her temple. Magneto was actually controlling the security guard’s guns, so as to convince the twins to return after escaping the Stranger. They rejoin the Avengers after this was revealed.

Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #131 (1973) - After being attacked and injured by Sentinels, Pietro is found by the Inhuman princess Crystal and nursed back to health in Attilan. By issue #150, they were getting married. Luna is born #240.

Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1983) - Crystal begins having an affair with the human real estate agent that sold Wanda and Vision their house in New Jersey, Magneto reveals his parentage of the twins and their longest standing origin, and everyone has a very awkward Thanksgiving. Pietro had learned Crystal cheated on him with Wanda’s real estate agent because Crystal sleep talked about it while sick from Earth’s pollution. This had been discovered by Wanda’s friend Holly in issue seven, and to my grim amusement, is more sad for Wanda and not at all for Pietro. Crystal’s explanation for the affair is that Pietro isn’t paying enough attention to her due to working long hours to prove himself worthy to her royal family, and would divorce him if only there wouldn’t be a scandal over it. Pietro leaves Crystal (going on to assaulting random strangers while raving about it) and Wanda condemns him for leaving Crystal.

Steve Englehart hated Pietro so much he assumed that depicting Crystal and Wanda like this would make them sympathetic and reasonable. While this thankfully didn’t hurt Wanda’s image, Crystal would have adultery becoming one of her most recognizable character traits from then on.

Avengers Annual #15/West Coast Annual #1 by Steve Englehart - The Avengers are being framed for treason against the American government, and they soon suspect that it’s one of their own that has betrayed them. They narrow it down to Pym and Pietro, and surprise, it’s Pietro. He rants that he has been betrayed by everyone for supporting Wanda and Vision’s relationship and for Wanda siding with Crystal having an affair. He leads a team of Zodiac-themed synethezoids against them on behalf of America’s government. It takes Vision lshowing Pietro a hologram of newborns Tommy and Billy (before they were re-absorbed as baby hands by Master Pandemonium) to snap him out of it and run away.

Fantastic Four #304-305 by Steve Englehart - Johnny Storm and Alicia Storm née Masters (who is actually Lyja the Skrull in disguise at this time!?) are visiting with the Fantastic Four when Quicksilver kidnaps Alicia. He blames Johnny for not fighting harder to get Crystal back, and thus dooming him to marrying Crystal instead while Johnny gets to be married to Alicia/Lyja. To get back at Johnny for this, Pietro planned to leave Alicia in the middle of the South Bronx to be exposed to the elements. The Fantastic Four comes to rescue Alicia, and Pietro is defeated. The FF place Pietro in the same holding area that holds. Kristoff, an orphan boy that Doctor Doom adopted and placed a copy of his consciousness in. Crystal comes to see Quicksilver to tell him how’s he no longer loves him because she believes the long hours he spent working with the Royal family to earn a place among them meant he was a bad person and husband. This provokes Pietro into assaulting Crystal. After telling him that she’s going to live her life no matter their marriage status, she hires a nanny to watch Luna on the moon and joins the Fantastic Four.

X-Factor Annual # 2 (1986) by Jo Duffy - Young Franklin Richards has a dream about Quicksilver, and the mental influences Maximus placed him under.

West Coast Avengers (1986) - Steve Englehart’s long crusade to turn Quicksilver into a full out villain continues in #33-36, while flat out ignoring the previous stories not written by him. The story begins with the sudden reappearance of Maria Pym (Hank’s first wife and mother of Nadia Pym/Van Dyne), and literally ends with him being unable to run due to Maria creating a device to inhibit his powers, and thus allow him to be defeated by the Avengers. But it is later resolved in Fantastic Four Annual #21 by Edward Norton with the explanation given that the device also broke Maximus’ hold on Pietro once again.

X-Factor # 71 - 94 (1991) - Quicksilver joins the government-sponsored X-team, and issue 87 is the famous Peter David story that explains how Pietro experiences reality through the lens of his powers.

X-Men: Fatal Attractions (1993), X-Factor #92/X-Men #25 - Quicksilver is approached by Magneto’s Acolytes and offered leadership of their group as well as accepting his place as the ‘Magnusson’, Magneto’s heir. It’s what QS was called by the Acolytes before Marvel came up with the Son of M title. Quicksilver refuses, and in fact takes part in the X-Men operation to take Magneto down after he unleashes an electromagnetic attack on the earth after the UN tries to keep Magneto from coming back down from Asteroid M.

Avengers/X-Men: Blood Ties (1993) - A direct sequel to Fatal Attraction. Fabian Cortez doesn’t know about Magneto’s fate at the hands of Charles Xavier, and fearing for his life because of the treacherous bastard he is, kidnaps Luna as a shield against Magneto’s rage. Quicksilver and Crystal lead a team of Avengers and X-Mem to retrieve her in Cortez’s hideout on Genosha, while Exodus’ arrival further complicates matters. This and the previous story was part of Marvel celebrating both franchises’ 30th anniversary, and fittingly Pietro was seen as the tie between them.

Quicksilver (1997) - His first solo, which covered his marriage to Crystal degrading further, his first hint that his powers are actually time manipulation in meeting his future self Nestor, and being followed by the High Evolutionary and his animal men, his father’s Acolytes, and his own personal issues.

Magneto Rex (1999) - How Pietro was convinced by Magneto into staying in Genosha as a cabinet minister on his father’s government.

House of M (2005) - The infamous storyline following Disassembled which resulted in M-Day. This is where the idea of Magneto ruling with his family, the eponymous House of M, comes from. It also did terrible damage to the twins’s standing in comics as heroes, which are still felt today.

Son of M (2006) - The messy follow up that established terrigen as harmful to mutants, Pietro developing time travel abilities, forcing Luna to undergo terrigenesis after all, and starting a war all in the name of restoring mutantkind.

X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead (2008) - Peter David followed up with Pietro’s story from Son of M, which ultimately resulted in Pietro coming down from terrigen, coming to his senses, and regaining his original power set.

Avengers Academy (2010) - Quicksilver is an instructor at Hank Pym’s School for Wayward Youth as part of his rehabilitation and rejoining the Avengers.

X-Factor (2014) - Peter David has Pietro join X-Factor where he confessed to everything he did from Son of M and X-Factor at a press conference, and reconnected with Polaris and Luna.

Uncanny Avengers (2015) - Where the retcon that claims Magneto isn’t the Maximoff twin’s father because copyright reasons comes from. Ignore it. Just skip straight to the Gerry Duggan issues.

Quicksilver: No Surrender (2018) : A mini series following Avengers: No Surrender. In which Pietro gets stuck outside time by running too fast, gets a pet turtle he calls Mister Dibbles, and fights some kind of time duplicates of himself.

Empyre: Avengers (2020): Pietro briefly shows up and punches out a bunch of Skrull and Kree that were threatening to break the alliance. That’s it.


As we go into the new year, let’s hope Pietro is given a better showing.

[Lucyinthesky]

Happy New year 2021 for Pietro

[Frontier]

Happy New Year to Quicksilver and his fans .

[teapartyofthedead]

Happy New year 2021 for Pietro

Happy New Year to Quicksilver and his fans .

Happy New Years, everyone!

[Phoenixx9]

I Hope 2021 is a good year for Pietro!

[juan678]

art by ??? in 1983

[Dcnewb]

Welcome to the 2021 Appreciation thread for Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver. Here, we hold fast against the Axis heresy and await the return of the Son of M to mutantkind.

66BBF0C4-E737-478D-B78B-DAE3050A07FF.jpg

A suggested reading list

X-Men #4 (1964) - His first appearance as a member of his father’s brotherhood alongside his twin Wanda, the Scarlet Witch. Their familial relationship with Magneto was not known at this time. They leave by issue 11, after Magneto is abducted by the Stranger and deciding to reject the X-Men’s invitation to join.

Avengers #16 (1965) - The story of the twins joining the Avengers after the original team leaves. They return to Magneto’s side in issue #47 when Magneto tricks Pietro into believing human security at the UN shoot Wanda in the head, grazing her temple. Magneto was actually controlling the security guard’s guns, so as to convince the twins to return after escaping the Stranger. They rejoin the Avengers after this was revealed.

Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #131 (1973) - After being attacked and injured by Sentinels, Pietro is found by the Inhuman princess Crystal and nursed back to health in Attilan. By issue #150, they were getting married. Luna is born #240.

Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1983) - Crystal begins having an affair with the human real estate agent that sold Wanda and Vision their house in New Jersey, Magneto reveals his parentage of the twins and their longest standing origin, and everyone has a very awkward Thanksgiving.

West Coast Avengers (1986) - Thus begins Steve Englehart’s long crusade to turn Quicksilver into a full out villain complete with trying to frame the Avengers for espionage, running a Zodiac themed crime ring of duplicates, trying to kill Alicia Masters, trying to force Luna to undergo terrigenesis, and just being a pathetic and unpleasant man. Editors at Marvel had to step in to stop him by revealing Pietro was being mind controlled as part of a plot by Maximus the Mad to take control of the Inhuman throne.

X-Factor # 71 - 94 (1991) - Quicksilver joins the government-sponsored X-team, and issue 87 is the famous Peter David story that explains how Pietro experiences reality through the lens of his powers.

X-Men: Fatal Attractions (1993), X-Factor #92/X-Men #25 - Quicksilver is approached by Magneto’s Acolytes and offered leadership of their group as well as accepting his place as the ‘Magnusson’, Magneto’s heir. It’s what QS was called by the Acolytes before Marvel came up with the Son of M title. Quicksilver refuses, and in fact takes part in the X-Men operation to take Magneto down after he unleashes an electromagnetic attack on the earth after the UN tries to keep Magneto from coming back down from Asteroid M.

Avengers/X-Men: Blood Ties (1993) - A direct sequel to Fatal Attraction. Fabian Cortez doesn’t know about Magneto’s fate at the hands of Charles Xavier, and fearing for his life because of the treacherous bastard he is, kidnaps Luna as a shield against Magneto’s rage. Quicksilver and Crystal lead a team of Avengers and X-Mem to retrieve her in Cortez’s hideout on Genosha, while Exodus’ arrival further complicates matters. This and the previous story was part of Marvel celebrating both franchises’ 30th anniversary, and fittingly Pietro was seen as the tie between them.

Quicksilver (1997) - His first solo, which covered his marriage to Crystal degrading further, his first hint that his powers are actually time manipulation in meeting his future self Nestor, and being followed by the High Evolutionary and his animal men, his father’s Acolytes, and his own personal issues.

Magneto Rex (1999) - How Pietro was convinced by Magneto into staying in Genosha as a cabinet minister on his father’s government.

House of M (2005) - The infamous storyline following Disassembled which resulted in M-Day. This is where the idea of Magneto ruling with his family, the eponymous House of M, comes from. It also did terrible damage to the twins’s standing in comics as heroes, which are still felt today.

Son of M (2006) - The messy follow up that established terrigen as harmful to mutants, Pietro developing time travel abilities, forcing Luna to undergo terrigenesis after all, and starting a war all in the name of restoring mutantkind.

X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead (2008) - Peter David followed up with Pietro’s story from Son of M, which ultimately resulted in Pietro coming down from terrigen, coming to his senses, and regaining his original power set.

Avengers Academy (2010) - Quicksilver is an instructor at Hank Pym’s School for Wayward Youth as part of his rehabilitation and rejoining the Avengers.

X-Factor (2014) - Peter David has Pietro join X-Factor where he confessed to everything he did from Son of M and X-Factor at a press conference, and reconnected with Polaris and Luna.

Uncanny Avengers (2015) - Where the retcon that claims Magneto isn’t the Maximoff twin’s father because copyright reasons comes from. Ignore it. Just skip straight to the Gerry Duggan issues.

Quicksilver: No Surrender (2018) : A mini series following Avengers: No Surrender. In which Pietro gets stuck outside time by running too fast, gets a pet turtle he calls Mister Dibbles, and fights some kind of time duplicates of himself.

Empyre: Avengers (2020): Pietro briefly shows up and punches out a bunch of Skrull and Kree that were threatening to break the alliance. That’s it.


As we go into the new year, let’s hope Pietro is given a better showing.

Hey guys, it’s me again lol.
Wondering which 1986 West Coast Avengers issues cover the story mentioned up here?

Thank y’all

[teapartyofthedead]

Hey guys, it’s me again lol.
Wondering which 1986 West Coast Avengers issues cover the story mentioned up here?

Thank y’all

Hi there Dcnewb, in asking this question it has made me realize how much I need to edit the rec list. Not only to make the timeline more clear, but add context.

The issues you mentioned are West Coast Avengers #33-36 by Steve Englehart. The story begins with the sudden reappearance of Maria Pym (Hank’s first wife and mother of Nadia Pym/Van Dyne), and literally ends with him being unable to run due to Maria creating a device to inhibit his powers, and thus allow him to be defeated by the Avengers. But it is later resolved in Fantastic Four Annual #21 by Edward Norton with the explanation given that the device also broke Maximus’ hold on Pietro once again. I say once again due to this being one of a chain of stories Englehart wrote to prove that Quicksilver was evil no matter what anyone else wrote.

I’m now in the middle of adding more info to the rec list about the Englehart stories, so thank you for bringing this to my attention.

[Dcnewb]

Hi there Dcnewb, in asking this question it has made me realize how much I need to edit the rec list. Not only to make the timeline more clear, but add context.

The issues you mentioned are West Coast Avengers #33-36 by Steve Englehart. The story begins with the sudden reappearance of Maria Pym (Hank’s first wife and mother of Nadia Pym/Van Dyne), and literally ends with him being unable to run due to Maria creating a device to inhibit his powers, and thus allow him to be defeated by the Avengers. But it is later resolved in Fantastic Four Annual #21 by Edward Norton with the explanation given that the device also broke Maximus’ hold on Pietro once again. I say once again due to this being one of a chain of stories Englehart wrote to prove that Quicksilver was evil no matter what anyone else wrote.

I’m now in the middle of adding more info to the rec list about the Englehart stories, so thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Haha thanks for that. That story seems interesting so I thought I’d try to see if I can chase it up.

The entire plot seems to be scattered which makes it hard to find a graphic novel with all the collected issues. Would you recommend the quicksilver story in Vision and Scarlett witch titles? Or would it make not much of a difference if I just skipped it to the F4 issues and then to the WCA issues?

[teapartyofthedead]

Haha thanks for that. That story seems interesting so I thought I’d try to see if I can chase it up.

The entire plot seems to be scattered which makes it hard to find a graphic novel with all the collected issues. Would you recommend the quicksilver story in Vision and Scarlett witch titles? Or would it make not much of a difference if I just skipped it to the F4 issues and then to the WCA issues?

The way everything is scattered is why I got a Marvel unlimited subscription. So I could read the classics to my heart’s content without having to hunt all over the internet.

You can definitely skip the V&SW story and skip straight to the FF and WCA issues, where most of the conflict is. If you’re determined to follow the thread of Pietro being controlled by Maximus to the bitter end, I would recommend X-Factor Annual #2 followed by Son of M and Silent War. Finally, to get to the end of Pietro being a villain in the modern era, you would need to read the PAD X-Factor issues from the Madrox Investigations and Serval Industries era.

But these stories are where Pietro gets the image of being a cruel and weak man comes from. Often when they’re recounted, the fact that he was under mind control by Maximus is almost never brought up. It’s just assumed he did that of his own volition, and I find it quite sad. In many ways, Englehart ultimately won in making Pietro appear to be a villain to the public eye.

[Dcnewb]

The way everything is scattered is why I got a Marvel unlimited subscription. So I could read the classics to my heart’s content without having to hunt all over the internet.

You can definitely skip the V&SW story and skip straight to the FF and WCA issues, where most of the conflict is. If you’re determined to follow the thread of Pietro being controlled by Maximus to the bitter end, I would recommend X-Factor Annual #2 followed by Son of M and Silent War. Finally, to get to the end of Pietro being a villain in the modern era, you would need to read the PAD X-Factor issues from the Madrox Investigations and Serval Industries era.

But these stories are where Pietro gets the image of being a cruel and weak man comes from. Often when they’re recounted, the fact that he was under mind control by Maximus is almost never brought up. It’s just assumed he did that of his own volition, and I find it quite sad. In many ways, Englehart ultimately won in making Pietro appear to be a villain to the public eye.

Sweet, I might start with the F4 Family Matters epic collection then! I’m just not a fan of reading them digitally. I love the satisfaction of having a physical book with beautiful big pages of art and of course, the nostalgia from the scent of the old school comic paper (I know it’s kinda weird, haha)

So you’ve mentioned also reading Son of M & 2000s X Factor, are you saying that Pietro was still controlled by Maximus way after he returned to being a good guy in the 90s?