While Pietro has had a long and eventful life in the comics, his time in the MCU was much, much shorter. Pietro's superpowers include super speed, speed physiology (basically, having a body that doesn't wear out by going extremely fast), enhanced durability, flexibility, and strength, and all of the fun extras that come with being a superpowered human. (It's a good thing, too, because Magneto is an extremely terrible parent to his kids in the comics.) As the twins grew older, they eventually met Bova and learned the truth of their parentage. Eventually, Bova gave the twins to a different couple who had lost their own children, and Wanda and Pietro were raised as their own. Magda gave birth to the twins in secret with the help of a sentient cow named Bova on Wundagore Mountain and left the twins in Bova's care. The basic gist is this: Wanda and Pietro are the children of Magneto and his wife, Magda. In Marvel Comics, Wanda and Pietro's origins are oddly complex for superheroes, with the origins tweaked and refined over the years. So, the basics: Quicksilver is the superhero nickname of Pietro Maximoff, twin brother of Wanda Maximoff. But, before we get too far ahead of ourselves, it's probably best to pause and refresh our memories on who Quicksilver the character is and who Peters' version of Quicksilver has been established as in 20th Century Studios' X-Men franchise.īefore we get too deep into this, we should just do the speediest of overviews on Quicksilver, one of the fastest characters in the Marvel Comics canon. Peters' cameo (and possible recurring role) on WandaVision comes with a myriad of implications about what could happen in the MCU going forward.

But - and here's the big surprise - it's Evan Peters as Quicksilver, a completely different version of the character who has, until now, existed in a completely separate cinematic franchise. The camera cuts to reveal that it's her brother Pietro, a.k.a. Wanda, assuring Vision she has no idea who that is and that she's not responsible for making it happen, opens the door and stands there in shock. After Wanda and Vision fight about the sitcom reality Wanda has created, the doorbell rings. After WandaVision reminded viewers numerous times that Wanda's brother, Pietro, was dead and that on some level she was still deeply hurt by his death (as you might expect), Pietro seemed to magically return from the dead at the end of the episode. This week's episode, 'On a Very Special Episode.,' was perhaps the most jaw-dropping episode yet.

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