One of the more frustrating aspects of Avengers: Age Of Ultron was the sudden and needless death of Aaron Taylor Johnson's Quicksilver. It may be disappointing for some fans to not have the X-Men under the Marvel Studios banner, but it certainly was interesting to see two different takes on the characters in Age Of Ultron and X-Men: Days Of Future Past. As it turns out, X-Men Apocalypse star Evan Peters (who plays Quicksilver in the Fox universe) was also disappointed by the decision to kill off the character. “I was devastated by it,” he said in an interview with Yahoo! Movies. “I really wanted that to keep going. I thought it was cool. I don’t really know why they killed him off. I liked what they did with it, it was different. It was a completely different take on it. He had the Russian accent. I mean, they had this swoopy thing with the lines behind, which I thought was really cool, and I don’t know. I thought it was a cool character.”
Peters elaborated that he had been looking forward to the two characters trying to "one-up" each other in their respective universes as a friendly competition. “I thought it could have been a cool competition,” he said. “Like, ‘Oh, they did that with him and that was awesome. Now we’ve got to try to top that with this.’ It could have been a nice little, I don’t know, motivation.”
While it was only hinted at in Days Of Future Past, Apocalypse outright confirms that Magneto is Quicksilver's father. Peters also talked briefly on his relationship with Michael Fassbender's Magneto in the upcoming X-Men film, and how Quicksilver's discovery leads to motivating the character. "That's a big motivation behind Quicksilver getting out of his Mom's basement, trying to find his father and help him out. It's a hard thing, to meet with an estranged father, it's a real thing, so it was interesting to play that side of Quicksilver."
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