![]() Pietro appeared in one MCU movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and was played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson in that movie. While Pietro has had a long and eventful life in the comics, his time in the MCU was much, much shorter. Pietro's superpowers include super speed, speed physiology (basically, having a body that doesn't wear out by going extremely fast), enhanced durability, flexibility, and strength, and all of the fun extras that come with being a superpowered human. (It's a good thing, too, because Magneto is an extremely terrible parent to his kids in the comics.) As the twins grew older, they eventually met Bova and learned the truth of their parentage. Eventually, Bova gave the twins to a different couple who had lost their own children, and Wanda and Pietro were raised as their own. Magda gave birth to the twins in secret with the help of a sentient cow named Bova on Wundagore Mountain and left the twins in Bova's care. The basic gist is this: Wanda and Pietro are the children of Magneto and his wife, Magda. In Marvel Comics, Wanda and Pietro's origins are oddly complex for superheroes, with the origins tweaked and refined over the years. So, the basics: Quicksilver is the superhero nickname of Pietro Maximoff, twin brother of Wanda Maximoff. But, before we get too far ahead of ourselves, it's probably best to pause and refresh our memories on who Quicksilver the character is and who Peters' version of Quicksilver has been established as in 20th Century Studios' X-Men franchise.īefore we get too deep into this, we should just do the speediest of overviews on Quicksilver, one of the fastest characters in the Marvel Comics canon. ![]() Peters' cameo (and possible recurring role) on WandaVision comes with a myriad of implications about what could happen in the MCU going forward. But - and here's the big surprise - it's Evan Peters as Quicksilver, a completely different version of the character who has, until now, existed in a completely separate cinematic franchise. The camera cuts to reveal that it's her brother Pietro, a.k.a. Wanda, assuring Vision she has no idea who that is and that she's not responsible for making it happen, opens the door and stands there in shock. After Wanda and Vision fight about the sitcom reality Wanda has created, the doorbell rings. After WandaVision reminded viewers numerous times that Wanda's brother, Pietro, was dead and that on some level she was still deeply hurt by his death (as you might expect), Pietro seemed to magically return from the dead at the end of the episode. Luckily, Peters was extremely game for the recasting, as was MCU honcho Kevin Feige, who Schaffer says, “wanted to make sure that there was a reason for it, that it made sense.” Of course, we’ll see where they go with this kooky idea in Episode 6.This week's episode, "On a Very Special Episode.," was perhaps the most jaw-dropping episode yet. (It also ribs the TV cliché of recasting roles with no explanation - although at least on WandaVision, one of the SWORD characters, upon seeing Peters’ Pietro, wonders aloud if Wanda, who seems to be in control of this sitcom netherworld, “recast” him.) The solution? Because WandaVision is in part a parody of sitcoms across the decades, they could poke fun at an old sitcom trope: the sudden arrival of a relative who suddenly appears, creating trouble. “And then we were like, how in the world are we going to make this make logical sense? Like, how do we justify this? Because that’s the thing, you can hatch a million great ideas, but to make them land, to make them be grounded, to make them feel organic to the larger story.” “We loved the idea of ,” head writer Jac Schaeffer explained to. But getting Peters to do WandaVision wasn’t as easy as it sounds. After all, that controversial Fox merger does mean Marvel characters previously cordoned off in that studio’s pen, like Peters’ Quicksilver, are now free to hobnob with the ones in the Disney wing. It’s a cool idea, one that brings back a dead character in not just a playful way but in a meta way, too. ![]() It was Evan Peters, who took the equivalent role - which is to say speedy Quicksilver - in Fox’s X-Men movies. Only catch? He wasn’t played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. ![]() But surely the most astounding - and meme-able - moment came at the end: Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda opened the front door of her ‘80s suburban home only to find her dead brother Pietro. The fifth episode of WandaVision was widely hailed as the best yet in a very unusual and ambitious piece of Marvel product. ![]()
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