Quicksilver may not have been fast enough to evade death in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but he's still one of Marvel's premier speedsters and a cracking character in his own right.
Able to break the sound barrier on a whim, the character - a mutant in the comics, and the son of Magneto - can move up to speeds of Mach 11, easily outpacing all manned aircraft and allowing the character to create his own whether affects too, having used cyclones to disrupt his enemies in the comics while operating on either side of the X-Men-Brotherhood conflict.
Interesting to note is that Quicksilver actually had his power levels increased by the High Evolutionary, who exposed him to a compound known as Isotope E. That's what originally allowed him to reach those higher-tier Mach levels, and though the comics have always done a fantastic job of showing this on the page, it was X-Men: Days of Future Past and its follow up Apocalypse that best clued us all in on how the character sees the world at those kinds of speeds.
He might not be the fastest man alive, but Pietro Maximoff is still one of the quickest out there.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
