
What the twins did not know was that the riots were orchestrated by HYDRA, who had taken up residence in the country and were using its conflict as a cover for their illegal experiments. Pietro and Wanda participated in frequent riots to drive the American forces out of their streets. It won't be long before we have the power we need to fight." ―Pietro Maximoff to Wanda Maximoff īy the time the twins reached adulthood, the political unrest in Sokovia had boiled over into a civil war, prompting even more intervention led by the United States of America and pushing the country into a state of turmoil.

Pietro and Wanda were left trapped under the rubble for two days, terrified for their lives, as they waited to be rescued while staring at the unexploded missile, which bore the name Stark Industries. Ī second shell then hit the structure and landed three feet in front of them but did not go off. Pietro led Wanda under their bed to take shelter from the collapsing building. At the age of 10, while watching American sitcoms with his family, a mortar shell hit their apartment building, killing Pietro's parents while trapping him and his sister. As Pietro 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 prevailed against Ultron and stopped him from enacting his cataclysmic extinction-level plan. Pietro then fought in the Battle of Sokovia alongside all of the other Avengers, but sacrificed his own life to protect Hawkeye and Costel, much to his sister's grief. While his sister gained psionic abilities, Pietro acquired the ability to move at superhuman speeds.įollowing the Avengers' attack on the HYDRA Research Base, the twins joined Ultron to continue their quest for revenge on Tony Stark over his weapons killing their family, but eventually switched sides and helped the Avengers when they discovered Ultron's true intentions.
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Embroiled in constant war and strife, Sokovia became the base of operations for a HYDRA cell operated by Wolfgang von Strucker, who recruited Pietro and Wanda to take part in a series of tests involving the Mind Stone inside the Scepter, giving the twins superpowers. 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
