![]() ![]() His high-speed crimes would come off as more of a myth that nobody with authority would logically believe. Not only does his power give him a feeling of casual superiority over others, but the unbelievability of it all makes him feel almost untouchable. ![]() Referred to as Peter Maximoff in this continuity, the speedster is a little more laid back than other characters in the X-Men series. Overall, Evan Peters’ Quicksilver didn’t get too much screen time, but he was definitely considered a highlight by fans. LAP 2 – X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PASTįox got their chance later that year with X-Men: Days of Future Past. And while they were indeed showing off their powers in those brief moments, it wasn’t because they were mutants, but rather had been altered by Baron Strucker and HYDRA using Loki’s scepter from Avengers. Weeks before the release of Days of Future Past, Captain America: The Winter Soldier hit theaters with a post-credits scene that revealed Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Quicksilver and Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff to the world. At least Days of Future Past was going to be released nearly a full year before Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. It was really Fox’s race to lose, considering X-Men: Days of Future Past was the seventh X-Men movie and the most the character has ever gotten beforehand was an Easter egg namedrop on a computer monitor in X-Men 2. Subscribe LAP 1 – CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIERįittingly, with each studio having their own speedster, there was a race to be the first to get their Quicksilver on the big screen. Scarlet Witch was even the centerpiece in one of the most important Avengers storylines of the early 21st century. They were Avengers longer than the likes of Hulk and Black Widow. On the other hand, the two were also huge staples of the Avengers. Quicksilver himself was a major member of X-Factor. Which corner of Marvel did they truly belong to? They were technically under the X-Men umbrella as the mutant children of Magneto. One major complication was what to do with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. But it wasn’t as simple for other characters. Doom gets around as a villain in the comics and fights just about everyone, but at the end of the day, he’s grouped in with the Fantastic Four and could only be handled by Fox. Doc Ock? He was clearly part of Spider-Man’s corner and could only be used in Spider-Man movies. Fox was able to make the X-Men a successful franchise, but had less success with two attempts at the Fantastic Four franchise.Įssentially, the entire Marvel Universe had to be categorized into different properties. Universal had a complicated hold on the Hulk that lent itself to a unique partnership with Marvel. Sony had the Spider-Man franchise and had just finished Sam Raimi’s initial trilogy, preparing for a fourth movie that didn’t work out and would ultimately be replaced by a reboot. By the time Marvel decided to get into the movie making business themselves and kick off the MCU concept, the field had settled. Studios would only have so much time to make a movie before the rights would revert to Marvel. Such an idea was worth a laugh in the ‘90s, but Sony actually pulled it off 20 years later, so go figure. For instance, New Line Cinema had the rights to make a Venom movie, albeit one where they couldn’t reference Spider-Man directly in any way. There were instances of studios sitting on rights and not doing anything for so long that they had to give them up. After all, shared cinematic universes weren’t really a thing back then. One way to get some money together was to sell the movie rights of its various characters to whatever studio was willing to pay. ![]() As hard as it may be to believe now, b ack in the ‘90s, Marvel Comics was on the verge of bankruptcy. It’s those complications that make his appearance in the fifth episode of WandaVision such a huge deal.īut let’s get to where this all started. He’s never been the most popular character in the Marvel Universe, but due to some legal complications, he became the focal point between two rival movie studios. Over the decades, he’s married into the Inhumans, joined various X-teams, been a mentor to the Avengers Academy, and had his parentage retconned several times over. The mutant speedster started as a member of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, then became one of the earliest members of the Avengers. ![]() Since his creation by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in the mid-60s, Quicksilver has been a fairly important part of the Marvel Universe. This article contains WandaVision spoilers. ![]()
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