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marvel - How fast can Quicksilver run?


In the movie X-Men: Days of Future Past, it looks like Quicksilver runs so fast that everything is almost at a standstill. Just how fast can he run? Speed of light?


There is a scene where he takes care of the security at the Pentagon. He threw a plate at the security officer and the plate flies a bit then stops (or he speeds up even more). At whatever speed he runs and throwing an object at that speed, I would imagine that plate will go right through the security officer. This also ties into how fast he is going IF he sped up after throwing the plate, then he must have increased his speed by a lot since the plate he threw should be traveling at a high velocity to begin with.



Also I read in the wiki that he is the son of Magneto... I guess that's not the case in the movie?



Answer



In the comics


Marvel's site states:



Quicksilver possessed superhuman speed, and could travel on foot at speeds exceeding the speed of sound for hundreds of miles before tiring; he could "fly" for short distances by flapping his arms or "vibrating" his legs; he could also use his speed to create cyclones, dodge machine gun and laser fire, and run up walls and across water.



However, his powers are amplified later on.



Following the loss of his mutant nature, Quicksilver exposed himself to the Terrigen Mists, resulting in him now possessing the power to vibrate his atoms so quickly he travels forward in time. His molecular speed that he generates displaces him out of the mainstream time/space so that he is able to propel himself into the future. He can leap from thirty seconds to up to twelve days, and remain for several minutes to several hours before being recalled to his present time once his body tires, or he can return at will before his time is up. As he returns from his trip, he returns the exact moment he left so as to appear that he has been gone for half a nano-second. He is able to bring inorganic objects from the future back to his correct time, although it has yet been shown what would happen if he attempted to bring organic objects with him.





In the X-Men movies by Fox


The movie's official website simply lists his maximum speed as "faster than the speed of sound".


x-men movie site screencap



In the Marvel Cinematic Universe


Unfortunately, no concrete information regarding Quicksilver's maximum speed has been made public as of yet. During the course of the movie, we see Quicksilver outrunning Mjolnir and arrows, as well as altering the trajectory of arrow in mid-flight. This is not necessarily indicative of the limits of his abilities. Even the junior novelization only describes his speed as "faster than a bullet train" and "faster than a jet".


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