X-Men actor Evan Peters has said he'd love to return as Pietro "Quicksilver" Maximoff, and now Marvel fans have taken up the call.
Peters played the character in four films during the classic Fox era of X-Men movies, beginning in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Years later, in a surprise twist, Peters then returned to the world of Marvel for WandaVision, playing a character that was initially introduced as a fresh incarnation of Pietro, Wanda's brother.
But Evans' return was ultimately revealed as a misdirect (albeit a pretty funny one), with his character's name subsequently revealed to actually be Ralph Bohner (yes, really) — a fakeout that remains a contentious issue among fans. Now, as some of his former X-Men co-stars return for Avengers: Doomsday, Evans has said he wants one more go at Quicksilver (for real) — and Marvel fans are on his side.
"I would love to come back and do Quicksilver again," Peters said, speaking to IMDb. "I think it was such a fun character and there's a lot more to explore, and I always sort of played it like a little guest spot.
"You know, he pops in and he pops out, is kind of what it was," he continued, "so I'm always curious to see what it would really be like to explore that character and the backstory."
After two appearances as Ralph Bohner (the character popped up again in WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along), fans now say that Evans should return as the real Pietro Maximoff — and in so doing, retcon Bohner at the same time.
"Will still never understand why he wasn’t brought back as Pietro for WandaVision," Marvel fan DerredFuture wrote on reddit. "It was such an easy concept to incorporate as well. All they had to do was make Agatha use the Darkhold to get him from the X-Men universe and then she could’ve controlled him afterwards, changing absolutely nothing yet still satisfying fans."
"I think a lot about how in interviews they said 'We don't see a reason why Quicksilver from a different timeline would be here, we never intended for anyone to think that would be a possibility' and then the very next year Professor X jumped out of the Fox movies in his big dumb hover chair," added Short_Condition_1079, referencing Patrick Stewart's reappearance as Charles Xavier in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.
Some have suggested a full Ralph Boener retcon could be easy to pull off, as the character could be revealed as being an alternate universe Quicksilver all along, albeit one still deeply under the spell of Agatha's magic.
Others have picked up Peters' suggestion that there is more to explore with the character, especially as Avengers: Doomsday is also set to feature Ian McKellan's Magneto — canonically, Pietro and Wanda's father.
"I'd love to have him in Doomsday/Secret Wars being a family with Magneto and Wanda (and maybe even Polaris)," teacup_tiger wrote, referencing the X-Men character Polaris who is yet another child of Magneto.
As yet, however, there's been no suggestion that Peters will return as Quicksilver for Avengers: Doomsday, which has already wrapped its principal filming. (There's also been no word of Ralph Bohner returning in next year's VisionQuest, the third and final Disney+ series that's now being billed as completing the WandaVision "trilogy".) But perhaps there's still a chance for Avengers: Secret Wars?
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