AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON - Origin of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch Revealed
Marvel recently released a digital comic called Avengers: Age of Ultron Prelude - This Scepter'd Isle. In it, we learn the origin of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch and how they ended up being held captive by Hydra scientist Baron Von Strucker.
Even though this is an official prequel comic to Avengers: Age of Ultron, I’m still going to throw out a SPOILER warning so I don’t get yelled at later.
The comic shows us how Loki’s scepter went from being in the possession of Earth's Mightiest Heroes in The Avengers to Baron Von Strucker in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
It also reveals that Von Strucker uses the scepter on test subjects in the fictional European city of Sokovia to "unlock" any powers those people might have.
Two of those test subjects are Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. It makes me wonder how this all ties together the Infinity Stones to the Inhumans and the Terrigen Mists, which is a natural mutagen in the form of a vapor that comes from the Terrigen Crystals. It is able to alter Inhuman biology.
There is also a little twist that there are willing test subjects involved with the experiments who were not captured Hydra, who want to be a part of the program. Check out one of the comic panels below.
Via: Newsarama