Early life Maximoff and his two sisters were raised by his mother, with Maximoff never having met his father. As a teenager, he uses his
super speed to steal things.
Meeting the X-Men In 1973, he is visited at his mother's home by a young
Charles Xavier and
Hank McCoy, along with a time-travelling
Wolverine, who knows Maximoff from another point in time. They convince Maximoff to help them break
Erik Lehnsherr out of his prison beneath
the Pentagon. Maximoff does so by vibrating the glass roof of Lehnsherr's cell fast enough to shatter it, and when security guards confront them in a kitchen, Maximoff uses his super speed to disarm and disorient them before Lehnsherr can use his powers to harm the guards. Maximoff then parts with the other four before they board a plane for Paris.
Fighting Apocalypse In 1983, Maximoff sees news reports of Lehnsherr, now wanted as an international criminal, surfacing in Germany. Maximoff goes to Xavier's school, arriving just after the powerful mutant
En Sabah Nur and his
Four Horsemen kidnap Xavier, and after
Alex Summers's attempt to stop them triggers an explosion that could destroy the mansion. Sensing the danger, Maximoff uses his super-speed to evacuate the building but fails to save Alex, who disappears in the explosion. During a conversation with
Mystique, Maximoff reveals that he has learned the Lehnsherr is his father, and had left his mother before Maximoff was born. In the climactic battle, Maximoff fights and briefly appears to have the upper hand against En Sabah Nur, until the villain is able to trap one of Maximoff's legs in the sand and break the other. En Sabah Nur summons Psylocke to kill Maximoff, but it turns out to be Mystique in disguise, who attacks En Sabah Nur, prompting the rest of the Four Horsemen to turn against him. Later, as the X-Men watch Lehnsherr and
Jean Grey rebuild the mansion, a cast-wearing Maximoff tells
Ororo Munroe that he has decided not to tell Lehnsherr yet that he is his son, but that he will remain at Xavier's school. Later still, a recovered Maximoff is shown preparing to train with other X-Men to take on future threats.
Dark Phoenix In 1992, Maximoff accompanies several other X-Men on a mission to aid a damaged space shuttle, teleporting to the out-of-control vessel with
Nightcrawler and using his super speed to rescue the astronauts on board. During the mission, however, Jean Grey is struck by an energy which amplifies her psychic powers but disturbs her emotional equilibrium. Later, when the X-Men confront a confused and distraught Grey, Maximoff almost reaches her before she is able to knock him away with her powers, seriously injuring him. He recovers shortly afterwards.
Presumed death Quicksilver is at some point pruned by the
Time Variance Authority, as he is named as one of the heroes in the Void who have been killed attempting to go against
Cassandra Nova. == Behind the scenes ==