The Quicksilver Wars: X-Men Days of Future Past vs. Avengers Age of Ultron

How can the character of Quicksilver be the same in both X-Men and Avengers? New contributor MF Davis, who has previously posted on an Agents of SHIELD website, shows us how!

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By MFDavis - Feb 15, 2014 08:02 AM EST
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So unless you’ve been living under a geek-rock, you know about the so-called Quicksilver Wars between Bryan Singer and Joss Whedon. It comes down to this: Both Whedon and Singer are going to be using the mutant hero Quicksilver in their movies X-Men: Days of Future Past and Avengers: Age of Ultron. For those who don’t know, Quicksilver has the mutant ability of super speed, and is the son of the super-villain Magneto and the sister of the Scarlet Witch. He has been both a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and the Avengers. He’s not a very well-known character in the Marvel Universe and this is probably the most attention the poor guy has ever received. So how can the character of Quicksilver be the same in both X-Men and Avengers?

This article is 100% speculation, based on various articles and news items from the past several months.


•1944: The mutant known as Eric Lensherr (and his family) is sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland when he was approximately 18 years old. Due to his emerging mutant powers of magnetism, Lensherr is experimented on by Klaus Schmidt (AKA Sebastian Shaw), a fellow mutant and Nazi.

•After being liberated from the Concentration Camp, Lensherr meets a gypsy girl named Magda and they have two children together, Pietro and Wanda. Pietro is born several years before Wanda. Because of his need for revenge on Schmidt and the other Nazis that experimented on him, Lensherr’s new family is quickly abandoned shortly after the birth of Wanda.

•1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis is later revealed to be an attack against mutants fighting on opposite sides of the battle. Lensherr’s best friend, the mutant telepath Charles Xavier, is shot and paralyzed as a direct result of Lensherr’s powers. Lensherr adapts the name Magneto and begins his fight for mutant superiority. He begins to recruit mutants to his Brotherhood of Mutants.

•1963: Magneto assassinates President John F. Kennedy by magnetically “bending” Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullet fired from the Texas School Book Depository. He is tried for the crime and is incarcerated in a plastic prison, the only type of cell that can hold a mutant with his abilities.

•1973: The mutant known as Wolverine is sent back in time to prevent an apocalyptic future from happening. In order for this to happen, former best friends Magneto and Professor X must work together. Around the same time, Pietro’s mutant powers begin to develop – he has the ability to move at super-fast speeds. Since Wanda has not yet hit puberty, her mutant powers remain inactive. The two are extremely close and Wanda is frequently photographed wearing a princess costume. He becomes violently protective of Wanda, a trait that will continue well into the future.

•Pietro is recruited by Wolverine and Professor X to break Magneto out of his plastic prison. He wears “a 70’s-type costume” with a silver lamé jacket and is considered an arrogant hot head. His powers do not allow him the gift of patience. He is given his new mutant name, Quicksilver. He now considers Pietro to be his “slave name” and no longer goes by it.

•1973-2014: After the events of Magneto’s escape, Quicksilver goes back home to be with his little sister. Eventually, Wanda’s mutant powers of probability manipulation emerge. Quicksilver and Wanda, eventually known as the Scarlet Witch, go around Europe and Britain for the next 30 + years, but Quicksilver doesn’t appear to age due to his accelerated metabolism. Wanda grows up but remains similarly young due to her mutant powers. They are referred to as being “euro and edgy.” The two end up working for HYDRA (the former scientific arm of the Nazi party, defeated by Captain America in WWII) and its new leader, Baron Von Strucker. They quickly become experienced warriors/terrorists and refer to themselves as twins.

•2015: By this time, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch do not wish to be referred to as mutants, nor is their previous association with their father, Magneto, brought up. In the parlance of Agents of SHIELD, they are “Gifted” individuals and are on SHIELD’s Index of super-powered individuals. Due to their actions in HYDRA, they end up on the radar of SHIELD, and are pressed into service with the Avengers. The team, headed by Captain America, is at odds with the two reluctant heroes.

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MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 2/15/2014, 8:45 AM
Nice speculation but... No.
ruadh
ruadh - 2/15/2014, 8:51 AM
Cool, but I don't really want them to be the same.

I'm also guessing the AOU version will have them be the children of Baron Strucker, keeping with the "father is a villain" thing.

And I'll be a little surprised if the X-Men film even reference Quicksilver being Magneto's son. They haven't seemed too concerned with familial relations in previous films.
GizmoEl
GizmoEl - 2/15/2014, 8:51 AM
he's also the brother of Scarlet Witch, not the Sister
GizmoEl
GizmoEl - 2/15/2014, 8:52 AM
also, its nice fanfic but not plausible at all.
Odin
Odin - 2/15/2014, 9:09 AM
Lol, really nice fan-fic.
inkslinger616
inkslinger616 - 2/15/2014, 11:02 AM
This is dumb as hell. " How can Quicksilver be the same in the X-Men and Avengers?" Simple. He can't be and will not be.
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 2/15/2014, 11:17 AM
Quicksilver not well know in the Marvel Universe? Cause your not that familiar with him? I beg to differ...

Was a member of the first Brotherhood
Was a longtime member of the second incarnation of the Avengers
Was a longtime member of X Factor
Was involved with the Inhumans and had a baby with Crystal
Was partly responsible for Scarlet Witch wiping out 99% of the Mutants and deaths of several Avengers

Even outside the 616 comics he has shown up as a member of X Factor in the nineties X Men cartoon, and as a member of the Brotherhood in both recent cartoons X Men Evolution and Wolverine and the X Men. Now hes getting cast in two of the biggest CBMs in the next two years.

So yeah...your right. Hes not well known at all.
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 2/15/2014, 11:18 AM
And lets not forget how much he showed up in the Ultimate books too!
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 2/15/2014, 11:36 AM
I think they are gonna be twins in Age of Ultron, so if that is Wanda in that DOFP photo and not Luna, then this doesn't tally. How about this theory:

Age of Ultron's Quicksilver is played by Aaron Taylor Johnson who was Kick-Ass. Days of Future Past's Quicksilver is played by Evan Peters who was also in Kick-Ass. His character becomes Ass-Kicker in the Kick-Ass sequel. Ass-Kicker's costumeis the exact reverse of Kick-Ass's costume. He is the Reverse Kick-Ass. This is a nod and a wink to the DC Superhero, The Flash, who's nemesis, the Reverse Flash, wears a costume that is the exact opposite of the Flash's. The Flash is the quintessential superhero speedster archetype that the character of Quicksilver built off of. The original Flash's helmet was based on the Roman god Mercury (their version of the Greek Hermes) who was also a speedster archetype and the messenger of the gods. The wings on the head and feet was a motif that carried through to the Silver Age Flash costume and even carried through to Quicksilvers trademark hairstyle. Mercury is a liquid metal substance that used to be called Quicksilver (and if you ever read the Metal Men, you'll know that it's the only metal that is liquid at room temperature). Quicksilver even tapped into the speed force in JLA/Avengers.
Ergo, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is Quicksilver and Evan Peters is the Reverse Quicksilver.

Another theory:

If there is indeed a hypertime-current running through a unified cinematic universe of the Dionysian Silver Screen, then perhaps the events of Days of Future Past change the timestream, allowing for Evan Peters' Quicksilver to be erased from the timestream and be replaced by Aaron Taylor Johnson's Quicksilver. This would mean that when Taylor-Johnson makes his big-screen debut as Quicksilver at the end of Captain America - The Winter Soldier, it is the same character as the Quicksilver we will see played by Evan Peters in Days of Future Past. But, after Days of Future Past hits, the timestream wil be irrevocably changed and the Quicksilver of Age of Ultron will be the definitive article. This theory, however does hinge upon DOFP ending with Ancient Egypt (or at least some moment before the Pietro Maximoff was born) and also on him making no future appearances in a Fox movie.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 2/15/2014, 12:01 PM
Having thought about the "Unified Cinematic Universe" theory from my previous post, it seems there are a lot of things that don't tally. Lots of different universes. So for this to work we would have to also assume that:
At the end of the Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, a version of the events of One More Day happened. This is why there is the bittersweet ending with MJ. She sings about being "Through with love" and they share a last dance before forgetting each other. This is also backed up by the lack of MJ in Marc Webb's franchise. Even to the degree that Shailene Woodley was cut out of the film entirely. Was it the childish backlash from the fans that did this... or was it Mephisto? Or, y'know, was it whatever bullshit Hollywood excuse they fed us?
We would also have to assume that Frank Castle eventually stops being a vigilante, becomes a fed, falls in love, starts a new family, they all get killed, he becomes The Punisher again, falls in love again, stops being The Punisher again, has a picnic, who brought the bullets, oh shit, here we go again.
Hulk and The Incredible Hulk are consistent to a degree. There are tenous connections. And the Security guards at the facility are the same (one of them being Ferrigno himself).
Ghost Rider's sequel tries to reboot, but doesn't really.
There you go. I don't think there are many more inconsistancies for a unified cinematic universe amongst the previous Marvel theatrical releases. Unless you count the many, many inconsistencies and continuity errors in ALL THE FOX-MEN MOVIES, but apart from that, it does kinda tally.
GoldSlayer1
GoldSlayer1 - 2/15/2014, 4:20 PM
this is ridiculous.
its no wonder continuity is F***ed up in the movie series.
If Magneto is 18 years old in 1944, he'd be 89 in 2015.
Is magneto really 89 years old in the comics when all of this happens?

this issue will only get worse as time goes on because magneto's origins are based in the holocaust. as real time goes by, it'll be impossible to have him in a "Present time" movies as he'll reach to be a hundred or so years old.

When this xmen universe is done and they reboot, good luck to whoever directs.
GoldSlayer1
GoldSlayer1 - 2/15/2014, 8:23 PM
@Dethpillow

yeah Cap is saved by the whole "frozen in the iceberg" thing.
you could easily just say he was frozen there for a longer period of time and get away with it.

but what excuse do you use for magneto? i mean he's supposed to live through all of this. so its just odd.

i know you wont get away with saying Magneto is still alive and well 30 years from now when he was 18 during the holocaust in 1944.
he'll be 120 in the year 2044, assuming "present day" is the same year
the movie is being released.

in the comics though magneto is mostly depicted as a guy in his mid 50s to early 60s.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 2/16/2014, 6:23 AM
This whole real-time issue is why 616 is becoming less and less respectable as time goes on. It really is akin to a cartoon universe, now.
I mean, Captain America is a perfect example that, back in the '60s, the universe took itself seriously enough to have to create an in-story reason for Captain America to be the same age as the rest of the Avengers. But, these days they do not use those devices, because they feel we will just accept the lack of aging of everyone in 616. And it's not just that they do not noticably age, biologically, it is that they do not count their ages properly. Peter Parker was a teenager in the '60s. That is an in-continuity fact. So it would stand to reason that, as present day 616 Spidey stories are set in the year 2014, Peter Parker -the same Peter Parker- would be in his late 50s or early 60s. But he is not.
This is one thing that I like about movie adaptations. I would love it if the MCU would just go on and on and not have to reboot these characters, at all. I mean Cap and Thor are probably ageless and immortal in the cinematic universe, so they don't have to worry about them. But Tony Stark, for instance, will have to one day die. And that should be okay. They don't have to keep everyone's franchise going in the same way as the comics do. In fact, they couldn't possibly afford to keep making movies of all of the Marvel properties, over and over again on a regular basis.
Hank Pym is a good example of this. Edgar Wright's movie is gonna show us Hank Pym as a '60s hero and then age him into Michael Douglas for the present day. This makes the universe richer, IMO. It's not like Disney are ever gonna run out of Marvel characters to make franchises out of. Also, the MCU is a franchise in and of itself, which is why the Guardians of the Galaxy will prove to be just as succesful as Iron-Man or Captain America, despite being a lesser known franchise full of D-Listers. Marvel is creating characters and stories faster than Disney could ever keep up with, so they're fine. That well will never run dry. No need to reboot.
It's good for us fans who like to respect the universes that we get into. It's okay for these characters to never age and keep coming back from the dead like cartoon characters in the 616 universe, but it's good that the MCU can do things properly and respectably, like the comics used to be, until around about the mid-'90s. Also this would mean that the Avengers would be a team that a normal human mind could get to grips with as something that they might invest some emotional stock in as protaganists. Instead of a team consisting of literally hundreds of well-known superheroes that are still living and are affiliated with the team. Like in the comics. This will give the MCU franchise a rich history, instead of a confusing mess of a present.
As for the Fox universe, I don't see any reason for their post-DOFP rebooted universe to discard the WWII history of Magneto. They can just have period settings for the stories involving him.
Not everything has to happen in a recognisable present.
If Watchmen had not kept the 1985 setting, it would not have been Watchmen. And whilst I enjoy Cumberbatch's modern-day Sherlock series, I don't think that all future adaptations will completely disregard Sherlock Holmes' period setting. My guess is that the BBC Sherlock series will be the exception and not the rule. Robin Hood, The Shadow, Zorro, Peter Pan, Scrooge, Star Trek, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, King Arthur, Hercules, etc... all of these are period pieces. We don't feel the need to constantly have them be full of heroes in their 20s and set in the present year. It's ridiculous.
The Marvel universe and characters deserve respect. It's good to see a corporation like Disney treating Marvel as if it were more than just a cartoon.
ALF9001
ALF9001 - 2/17/2014, 8:04 PM
One thing I like about the Ultimates is that when someone dies, he remains dead
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