At the age of 10, while watching American sitcoms with his family, a mortar shell hit their apartment building, killing Maximoff's parents while trapping him and his sister.
As Maximoff and Wanda grew up, Sokovia was marred by a civil war. Pietro Maximoff was born in 1989 to Oleg and Iryna Maximoff in Sokovia along with his twin sister, Wanda. " Stark." ―Pietro Maximoff and Wanda Maximoff And on the side of the shell is painted one word." sits there in the rubble, three feet from our faces. "I grab her, roll under the bed, and the second shell hits.
Pietro's sacrifice was not in vain, as the Avengers destroyed Ultron and stopped him from enacting his cataclysmic extinction-level plan. Pietro then joined the Avengers and fought in the Battle of Sokovia but sacrificed his own life to protect Hawkeye and Costel, much to his sister's grief. After being exposed to the Mind Stone within the Scepter, Pietro acquired the ability to move at superhuman speeds and was dubbed Quicksilver.įollowing the Avengers' attack on the HYDRA Research Base, the twins joined Ultron to continue their quest for revenge on Stark over his weapons killing their family, but eventually switched sides and helped the Avengers when they discovered Ultron's true intentions. Embroiled in constant war and strife, Sokovia became the base of operations for Baron Strucker's HYDRA cell, who recruited Pietro and Wanda as volunteers for experiments regarding the Scepter. After losing their parents to a bombing caused by the United States Air Force using Stark Industries weapons, Pietro and Wanda developed a hatred for the United States and Tony Stark. Pietro Maximoff was a native of Sokovia who grew up with his fraternal twin sister, Wanda. "You didn't see that coming?" ―Quicksilver to Hawkeye