Speed (character)

fictional character in Marvel Comics

Speed (real name Thomas "Tommy" Shephard) is a fictional character from Marvel Comics. The character was created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung and first appeared in Young Avengers #10 (February, 2006).

Fictional character biography

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He was born from the reincarnated soul of Tommy Maximoff, the son of Scarlet Witch and Vision and the twin brother of Billy Kaplan/Wiccan. He inherited super speed, a quality shared by his former reincarnated self's uncle, Quicksilver.

In his debut, Speed joined the Young Avengers to fighting against the Skrulls.

In other media

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The illusory Tommy appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021) played by Gavin Borders and Jett Klyne. Klyne returned as a human version of Tommy from an alternate reality in the movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).