Comic Vine users. There they recovered and eventually married and had a daughter, Anya. She is played by actress Carolina Bartczak. Stealing numerous things. She has not been seen since and it is assumed, given her weakened condition, that she perished. Despite the fact that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver’s origin story has already been told in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a retcon in WandaVision could make Magneto their real father. However, more recently, it was hinted that Magda was not truly the twins' mother. Real Name: Magda (last name possibly Lehnsherr). The Scarlet Witch and the Vision get married. Magneto attempted to reach her, but was detained and attacked by police. In fact, they were born on Wundergore Mountain to a woman only known as Magda, a woman on the run from her husband who had “become a monster”. Magda Eisenhardt appears in 130 issues. Character » Beast holds Mystique as she dies. When the Russian Front advanced, the Nazis attempted to eradicate all the traces of Auschwitz. Enemies: Nazis. When Scarlet Witch's inbox is shown, it's apparent he's sent Wanda an email with the header: "Quality Time" hoping to reconnect with the twins regardless of his lack of biological ties to Wanda and her brother. Heavily pregnant, she found her way to Wundergore Mountain and to the hut of Bova the Midwife. Magda leaves Erik while pregnant and takes sanctuary at Mount Wundagore in Transia, the home of the High Evolutionary, where she gives birth and later dies. It was also revealed that she is the birth mother to Wolverine's son Jimmy Hudson. "For some reason she sees something beautiful in him, like Charles does, and sees past everything that’s been written about him," said Bartczak. "Originally I think they were going to have Quicksilver tell Erik that he was his son but it felt a little forced in a situation," Peters said during an appearance on the "TalkFilm" podcast . When Django began to steal food to feed his starving family, enraged villagers attacked the Roma camp. Magneto, returning from a day-labor job, went in after them. His powers appeared as he saved his wife and brought her outside. Due to his mutant powers of enhanced speed Peter found himself constantly getting in trouble. However, like his father, Quicksilver became resentful of humans. He is the twin brother of the Scarlet Witch. Magda Eisenhardt, Quicksilver's mother, isn't immune from this and has been shown in a few different depictions. 2021 Bustle Digital Group. MAGDA. It is revealed in the mini-series Ultimate Comics Wolverine, that she didn't die and was now living as Magda in fear of Magneto. Quicksilver’s only major appearance in the MCU comes in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Most of the X-Men movies treat Quicksilver's home life so subtly that it's essentially an Easter egg for hardcore comics fans. Unlike the family trees of some superhero characters, there don't seem to be any clean endings when it comes to the familial relationships between X-Men's Quicksilver and his parents. But, Quicksilver does no such thing, despite the fact that he still lives with his mother. Quicksilver was shocked to find out that the Avengers and X-Men were deliberating over whether to kill his sister. When Quicksilver hears Magneto say that he can control metal, he says that his mother used to know somebody who could do that. "They fall in love and start this beautiful family hidden away, because he still has to hide, in the countryside in Poland.". When Magneto reveals to his son that he can bend metal, Quicksilver says that his mother used to know someone who could do that. After a short time staying with Bova, Madga gave birth to a boy and a girl, whom she named Wanda and Pietro. Magneto was growing restless in the trade of a carpenter in the small mountain village and so moved the family to the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa to attend college to become an engineer. At the time she left, Magda was pregnant with twins. Pietro and his twin sister, Wanda, were raised by Django and Marya Maximoff, a Roma couple. Like most of the enduring comics series out there, the X-Men movies have several different reboots, reimagined universes, and re-dos. While there's not a ton of information out there, we do know that in the original comics she was born to a Romani family before Hitler's rise to power. When Quicksilver hears of Magneto's abilities in controlling metal, for example, he mentions that his mother used to know someone with the same skills. She was portrayed as being the mother of Anya and the twins Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. Identity/Class: Human (World War II and Post-World War II eras). Quicksilver won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was nominated for the Locus Award in 2004. Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.The character first appeared in the comic book X-Men #4 (March 1964) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.The character has since starred in two self-titled limited series, and has historically been depicted as a regular team member in superhero title The Avengers. Rather than being called Pietro, Evan Peters’ Quicksilver is named Peter Maximoff, and he hails from the U.S. As the remaining women prisoners were being shot, Magneto managed to rescue Magda and they fled East into the Carpathian Mountains. (They would grow up to become the superheroes Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.). © 2021 GAMESPOT, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. They told me you control metal. In the Ultimate universe, the mother of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch is Isabelle, who died in childbirth. 1. Quicksilver was presumably silver to white in color - much like Meraxes, the dragon of Aenys's mother Rhaenys, but it isn't stated if Meraxes was also Quicksilver's mother. Magda, terrified of what she just saw, fled. Agatha does not reveal she knew Wanda's mother Natalya or that Wanda and Pietro are mistaken in thinking they're mutants. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige explains why they chose to use Evan Peters in WandaVision as Quicksilver instead of Aaron Taylor-Johnson. He was the result of an affair between Ms. Maximoff and the mutant Erik Lehnsherr. She told the website that her character meets Magneto while he's on the run after the White House meltdown; at the time, he's the most wanted man in the world. Bio - Quicksilver:: Full Name: Pietro Maximoff ... Their mother, Magda Maximoff, was traveling with her husband Erik and his friend Charles through the war-torn Balkan when she was seven months pregnant. While the team approves, Quicksilver still objects and some members of the public are angered by the event, believing neither a mutant nor an android can legally be married. Peter was born in the mid 1950s to the powerful mutant Erik Lehnsherrand Ms. Maximoff. For a guy who moves as fast as me, I always seem to be too late.Peter in X-Men: Apocalypse. If you were really paying attention in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, you might've noticed that Quicksilver's house has a mailbox that reads "Maximoff" in the front yard. Wanda Maximoff was kidnapped from Serbia and brought to Wundagore Mountain, base of the High Evolutionary. her character meets Magneto while he's on the run. As the Marvel comics and movies show, the mutant's family relationships aren't exactly cut and dry. His original origin story described his mother Magda fleeing to Wundagore Mountain and hiding the twins from their father Magneto after witnessing him kill an angry mob. Magda must have been one of these. For most of his life, Quicksilver knew nothing of his father, because his mother, Magda, fled from Magneto after he killed a mob of people with his powers. She met Magneto early on and fell in love with him, but was eventually taken to a Nazi concentration camp. Group Membership: None. Whether she knew it at the time or not is unknown, but she never told Magneto of it. She told him she once knew a mutant who could control metal, but apparently didn't tell Peter that mutant was his father. It's unknown how they met, but they had fallen in love within the difficult confines of the sexually segregated camp. Alas, the situation isn't a clear as the comics and in Apocalypse, Quicksilver's mom is shown just briefly, while at their house. Magda Eisenhardt appears in the movie X-Men Apocalypse. Not much is known about Ms. Maximoff's early life, other than she met Magneto and they conceived a child together. Almost all of them were gassed, but some managed to hide within the Jewish population. Growing up Peter knew little about father other than the fact that he could manipulate metal. All rights reserved. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll X-Men come to bring her home, but Jean's pissed and inadvertently murders some police officers. Magda Lehnsherr (or Eisenhardt) was created by David Michelinie and John Byrne and first appeared in The Avengers Vol.1 issue 186 (1979). Magda tried to reach Anya, but could not. any Comic Vine content. Jean finds her dad, who blames her for killing her mother and hates that she's a mutant. This is most likely because of Magda's ties to World War Two, and it would no longer be believable for her to have two kids whom are in their early 30's in 2016. Quicksilver, whose real name is Peter or Pietro Maximoff, is the twin brother of Scarlet Witch and, as X-Men: Apocalypse explores more thoroughly, the son of Magneto. You can search for What is known was that she was one of the 20,000 Gypsies sent to Auschwitz by the Nazi regime during World War II. Whether she fled because her husband had become something non-human or whether she fled because she watched him become a mass murder with delusions of conquest is up to some debate. During the early part of the 20th Century, in Germany, a Jewish family called the Eisenhardts was blessed with a boy named Max. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other His mother's name was Edie. However, for unknown reasons, Magneto left her before Quicksilver was born. In this specific introduction, Wanda realizes that the curse destroying Ireland was due to a witch that fell years before, and the only place to find this was on the Witches Road. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister. Caroline Bartczak, who plays Magda in the new movie, recently sat down with Comix Asylum and discussed her role. Like most of the enduring comics series out there, the X-Men movies have several different reboots, reimagined universes, and re-dos. (Writers have slightly tweaked the scene both ways depending on their opinion of Magneto's character, but the initial telling of the story it is clear that it is his power which terrified her). The High Evolutionary supposedly abducted the twins when they were babies, experimented on them, and after becoming disgusted with the results, he returned them to Wundagore, disguised as regu… Wanda learned that her mother was a woman named Natalya Maxomoff, at one time as Scarlet Witch, meaning Wanda's superhero name was actually passed down through her family. While these scenes confirmed that the film franchise would follow the comics' suit and make Quicksilver Magneto's son, it also deviated from the original series by placing the invisible mom-figure out in the suburbs, something that Apocalypse viewers see in a brief scene. Anya was still trapped in their room, crying for help from the window. We also see … In the comics, Magda was the only family member who survived. More recently, it was hinted that Magda was not really the twins' mother. Peter Maximoff was born in the mid 1950s. Yet while Magneto and his son get plenty of airtime in the Marvel universe (although the adult mutant doesn't know that they're related), the question of who Quicksilver's mom is reigns large, as that character doesn't get nearly as much characterization. The official Marvel page for Quicksilver (Ultimate). Max was destined to become the mutant Magneto and father of the Scarlet Witch. Magneto set up a grave marker for her on Wundergore, near Bova's house, that he sometimes visits.