#pietro maximoff hit his stride at 37 and immediately tripped over everything else in his life

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Mid-forties Pietro Maximoff really was top tier though. I'm as much of a fan of teenage quicksilver as anyone else, but burnt-out ex-terrorist divorcee Pietro who's both actively ruining his life and doing his best is so funny.

He's got a kid. Everyone he knows eventually became a teacher. He's on every watch list on the planet. His nephews are superheroes. There's nothing in his fridge except for a bundle of carrots and some expired whipped cream. He insists that his combat days are over and immediately gets into a fist fight with a teenager (Layla) in the middle of the street. Sometimes he and Crystal get into screaming matches in the Avengers' backyard for fun. He's assassinated multiple world leaders. His kiddo is doing his taxes because she seriously thinks they're fun, and he's letting her. He sends his nephews scathing hand-written critiques of their latest battles on funky 1980s postcards that he mails from the office of whatever prison he's supposed to be serving time in. There's more warrants for his arrest than you could imagine. He goes to PTA meetings in last week's clothes while his ex-wife shows up in designer suits. One time he actually dove into a bush to avoid Logan.

Luna thinks he's the greatest person on Earth. He threatens to drop her off a building all the time. Everyone else hates this, and she thinks it's the funniest thing he could do.

He brought about the apocalypse. He saved the world.

He doesn't actually pay rent, he just walked into an empty apartment and called it his. He's such a fucking mess, and his daughter adores him, and he fought his wars as a teenager and he's trying to get on with his life except he literally cannot. Everyone who meets him kind of despises him and he couldn't care less.

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