Speed (Marvel)
Speed is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd
Young Avengers
After Hulkling had been captured by the Kree Sentries, Wiccan and the other Young Avengers were desperate to rescue him. To locate reinforcements the Vision recommended using the Avengers Fail-Safe Program, the same program Iron Lad used to locate the original Young Avengers. The team was able to locate him in a high security detention facility for superpowered juvenile offenders. They release him from his cell, and Stature almost immediately noted that Tommy and Billy could be twins. The breakout did not go unnoticed, and as the team ran into the armed officers of the facility. Tommy cynically and cruelly began attacking the officers and fleeing doctors, but was stopped by Kate Bishop and Patriot. (Young Avengers v1 #10) Speed helped the team in battling both Kree and Skrulls soldiers to rescue Hulkling. After the battle, Tommy officially joined the team and adopted the codename Speed. Speed was anxious to be a hero, and was the first to alert the Young Avengers that the villainous team, the Zodiac, was attacking the United Nations. (Young Avengers v1 #12)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Upon becoming a superhero, he decided to take the codename Speed. (Young Avengers v1 #12)
Powers and abilities
According to himself, his top running speed was 761 miles per hour. (X-Factor v4 #7)
He also can use molecular destabilization to walk through solid objects. (Avengers: Children's Crusade v1 #1)
Notes
- Speed was created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung where he made his first appearance in Young Avengers v1 #10 (February, 2006).
Alternate Versions
- In The Last Avengers Story v1 #2 (1995), an alternate version of Thomas Maximoff appeared in a reality that was designated as Earth-9511 in the Multiverse. Billy and Tommy grew up as the children of the Vision and the Scarlet Witch. As a child, Tommy witnessed the accidental murder of his mother by his uncle, Quicksilver, which caused their father, the Vision to become emotionless and withdrawn. Tommy (known as "Tommy Maximoff") chose to become a student of Doctor Strange and learn the mystic arts. He and his brother Billy who became a villain known as "the Grim Reaper" and sought revenge against him and their father communicated via holograms where Tommy implored his brother to give up his villainy, stating that he was apprehensive to fight him. Eventually the Reaper joined forces with Kang the Conqueror and Ultron-59 and their "final battle" with the Avengers. Tommy sought advice from Doctor Strange about what to do concerning his brother, stating that he was not ready to fight him. Tommy decided to assist the Avengers and tried to reach and recruit the Vision, who had become near-catatonic and enormous having apathetically allowed his molecules to diffuse, but to no avail. Angered and frustrated, Tommy left to fight his brother. Tommy and Billy were locked in battle until their father the Vision saw this and came to his senses and destroyed Ultron, ending the fight. Unlike his Earth-616 counterpart, Tommy Maximoff inherited his mystical abilities from his mother the Scarlet Witch rather than his uncle's super speed. As a student of Doctor Strange, Tommy was able to perform various magical feats, including concussive mystical bolts and creating force fields.
- In Avengers: The Children's Crusade - Young Avengers v1 #1 (2011), an alternate version of Speed appeared in a reality that was designated as Earth-11051 in the Multiverse. Quicksilver was a member of a team of Avengers who teamed up with Kang the Conqueror and were being hunted through the Timestream by the original Avengers after their attempted rescue of the Scarlet Witch led to war with the Avengers. Some time in the future on the planet Moord, Iron Lad was battling Kang but was stopped by the arrival of Quicksilver and the Avengers
In other media
Television
- In WandaVision, Thomas Maximoff appeared in the setting of the live-action television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where he was initially portrayed by actor Gavin Borders and then by actor Jett Klyne. He and his brother were illusions created by Wanda Maximoff via chaos magic when she placed Westview, New Jersey within a 'Hex' and displays the ability to willingly age himself. In the episode "Now in Color", Wanda became pregnant by unknown means. As it progresses in a short span of time, she and her husband Vision argued over what to name the baby if it is a boy, with the latter pushing for Billy and Wanda wanting an "all-American" name like Tommy. While Vision assented to Wanda's choice, she gave birth to twins, allowing them to use both names. In the episode "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!", Tommy developed superhuman speed whilst trick-or-treating. In the episodes "Breaking the Fourth Wall" and "Previously On", Wanda and Vision's neighbor 'Agnes' was revealed to be the witch Agatha Harkness who had been babysitting Tommy and Billy. However, she took them captive in order to force Wanda to reveal how she changed Westview. In "The Series Finale", Wanda undid the hex, ending Tommy and Billy's existence but in the post-credits scene she came to hear them crying for help.
Films
- In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, an alternate reality version of Thomas Maximoff appeared in the setting of the 2022 live-action film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where he was once again portrayed by actor Jett Klyne. This version was a native of Earth-838 where he and his brother Billy were children of Wanda Maximoff who was raising them alone. The mainstream Wanda Maximoff came to learn of their existence after discovering the magical ability of dreamwalking that allowed one to experience the Multiverse through their variants bodies. Seeing the Earth-838 versions of her children, Wanda sought a means of taking over her counterparts life and live on that world.
Video games
Appearances
- Young Avengers v1: (2006)
External Links
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