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Speed

Universe
Marvel Universe

Real Name
Thomas Shepherd

Aliases
None

Identity
Secret

Occupation
Student

Citizenship
U.S.A.

Place of Birth
New York, New York

Known Relatives
Frank Shepherd (adoptive father), Mary Shepherd (adoptive mother), Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch, mother), Vision (father), William "Billy" Kaplan (twin brother), Erik Magnus Lehnsherr (Magneto, grandfather), Magda (grandmother, deceased) Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver, uncle), Lorna Dane (Polaris, aunt)

Group Affiliation
Secret Avengers, Young Avengers

Education
Still in high school, which school is unknown.

Height
Unrevealed

Weight
Unrevealed

Eyes
Blue

Hair
White

Powers
Thomas has the powers of super-speed and can use his speed to accelerate and destabilize atomic matter thereby causing it to explode.

Paraphernalia
None

First Appearance
Young Avengers #10 (2006)

Origin
Young Avengers #11 (2006)

Significant Issues
broken out of prison (Young Avengers #10, 2006)

When the Scarlet Witch became desperate to have children, she used her reality-altering powers to create twin boys from two lost souls. Scarlet Witch and Vision named their children William and Thomas and lived normal lives until Mephisto claimed the two souls as his own.

When the Scarlet Witch used her powers to recreate the world after the House of M event, she inadvertently recreated both William and Thomas as well. However instead of recreating them as her children, they ended up as the children of other parents. Thomas ended up as the son of the Shepard family while William ended up as the son of the Kaplans family. The two boys had no idea of their true past until Super-Skrull told them enough information to have Vision verify and research the information.

After the Young Avengers stopped the Kree and the Skrulls from declaring Earth their battleground for a second time, Thomas decided to join the Young Avengers.

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