Can someone help me understand Pietro/Peter Maximoff?
Hi guys! I’m SUPER new to marvel (think like within the past 2 months) and I’m still trying to make sense of everything. I’ve read a few comics, plus seen most of the older movies/shows (I just finished Wandavision) and I’ve fallen in love I think
One thing I don’t understand is Pietro Maximoff. I didn’t think much of his character or his reappearance / “recasting” in Wandavision until I realized that it’s the same guy who plays him in the X-men movies, and then I realized that Peter/Pietro Maximoff is quicksilver — in both the MCU and the X-Men movies.
My only question is, how did this happen? I know they follow different timelines and are on different earths, but are their realities really that different? In the X-men movies, Wanda isn’t his twin and his mom is still alive. In the MCU, I can’t think of a single gap in his timeline where he could’ve run off to join the X-men before his death.
But if the only explanation is different timelines like that, then why is it the same guy? It’s still Pietro Maximoff no matter what. Am I missing something from the comics? Is there a gap that I’m unaware of?
But if that really is the case then WHY ARE THEY USING THE SAME ACTOR? As far as I was aware, the foxverse was entirely separate from the mcu. Is it implied that Wanda (or Agatha?) is powerful enough to draw characters from entirely separate universes just because she wants them there? I feel like it goes deeper than just happening to use the same guy or a little easter egg for fans.
I may be way overthinking things, but I love Pietro and I really want to understand his character. What am I missing?
One thing I don’t understand is Pietro Maximoff. I didn’t think much of his character or his reappearance / “recasting” in Wandavision until I realized that it’s the same guy who plays him in the X-men movies, and then I realized that Peter/Pietro Maximoff is quicksilver — in both the MCU and the X-Men movies.
My only question is, how did this happen? I know they follow different timelines and are on different earths, but are their realities really that different? In the X-men movies, Wanda isn’t his twin and his mom is still alive. In the MCU, I can’t think of a single gap in his timeline where he could’ve run off to join the X-men before his death.
But if the only explanation is different timelines like that, then why is it the same guy? It’s still Pietro Maximoff no matter what. Am I missing something from the comics? Is there a gap that I’m unaware of?
But if that really is the case then WHY ARE THEY USING THE SAME ACTOR? As far as I was aware, the foxverse was entirely separate from the mcu. Is it implied that Wanda (or Agatha?) is powerful enough to draw characters from entirely separate universes just because she wants them there? I feel like it goes deeper than just happening to use the same guy or a little easter egg for fans.
I may be way overthinking things, but I love Pietro and I really want to understand his character. What am I missing?
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For example, Ray Romano (Raymond from *Everybody Loves Raymond*) made a guest appearance in one episode of *The Middle*, which primarily starred Patricia Heaton. Heaton played Raymond's wife in the former show, but in the latter, Raymond is introduced as an old friend of her husband's as he crashes their honeymoon. There's a wink-nudge moment for the audience where he asks her if he knew her from somewhere.
Then, bc Wanda is grieving she just goes along with it. Initially she acknowledges it kind of. And then she outright acknowledges to her sons.
Great writing and acting, simply Wanda is grieving and creating her own reality whilst grieving. She’s grieving from Inifinity War til now. Technically from her first appearance when Pietro
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All three actors playing quicksilver have weiner based names.
If I remember right, the way things were all divided between studios etc, it put Wanda and Pietro in a funny zone. Both are mutants, but both also have Avengers ties. So I believe both the Fox X-Men stuff had a claim to them as well as the MCU.
Sfar as I could tell, it seemed like this to me:
- Fox and MStudios both had a reason to include one or both Wanda and Pietro.
- They didn't really want overlap.
- They must've come to an agreement that Fox was free to use Quicksilver like they wanted, while the MCU was gonna introduce both, but only Wanda would be important moving forward, Pietro was gonna be ganked within his intro.
Also of note, "mutant" isn't used within the MCU until a lot later. Any scene where Wanda or Pietro are spoken about, initially they were described as "miracles". Very deliberately skirting the overlap it would otherwise have.
And along with that, the MCU versions never had X-Men or the X Mansion on their radar. Mutants and Prof X etc as we know them aren't a thing in that world. Which is also tied up in their parentage not including Magneto.
Casting Evan Peters was an intentional meta/easter egg joke on the fact he played a version of Quicksilver in a different Marvel franchise and now Agatha is forcing Ralph to play the role of Quicksilver in Wanda's own sitcom world
It serves the purpose of tricking us the audience into thinking that Wanda likely revived Pietro but is now played by the actor who played the version that most people loved or either some Multiverse stuff was involved, only to have the twist that his is some regular dude that was placed as a mole. and also pokes fun at the trope of characters getting recast in movies/shows, considering we are stuck in a hex that plays like a TV show
He was not meant to be the Quicksilver from the Fox movies. This was not the multiverse at play.
And ignore the casting. It’s just a fun littlr reference to the audience. Wanda just pulled some homeless guy off the streets whi happened to be played by Evan Peters and brainwashed him into thinking he was Pietro.