Scarlet Witch's OTHER Son Deserves to Lead the New Young Avengers Team
One of the members of the original Marvel Comics team the Young Avengers is often overlook and undervalued, but after a lot of maturing, the Scarlet Witch's other son, Speed, deserves to lead his own team of young superheroes. Not only is Tommy incredibly powerful, with the same power set as his uncle Quicksilver, but he has also grown a lot since his first introduction, and many of the other original Young Avengers are otherwise preoccupied.
Tommy Shepherd is the child of Wanda Maximoff and Vision, conveyed to life via Mephisto and then reincarnated with human parents. None of this is known in the original run of Young Avengers, when the newly formed team break Tommy out of super-powered juvenile detention, and it was not until the series Avengers: The Children's Crusade that the full truth of Tommy and Billy's parentage came out. Since his introduction as Speed, Tommy has been an impulsive, brash, and mischievous character, but he has recently matured and seemingly become more comfortable in his skin and with his powers, making him the perfect leader for the new generation of young heroes teased in Marvel's recent Timeless one-shot.
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Speed is a mutant with immense power and control over his abilities, once referring to his speed-abilities as «Quicksilver fast,» referencing the power of his uncle Pietro. He has been shown to run faster than the speed of sound, has incredibly enhanced strength while running, and can also use his kinetic powers to vibrate the molecules of objects he touches, causing them to explode. Besides his incredible power, Tommy has also «settled down» a bit after meeting his current boyfriend Prodigy after he left the Young
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