Regardless, once Evan Peters debuted as Quicksilver, he instantly became one of the most popular characters in the X-Men movies, and Peter Maximoff was liked far more than Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Pietro. This meant Scarlet Witch was also part of the Easter egg, although the X-Men franchise never tried to create their own version of Wanda.
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The X-Men movies actually had a further leg up on Marvel and teased Quicksilver 11 years before he made his movie debut in Days of Future Past the name Maximoff followed by the number (2) was on a list of known mutants seen on a computer screen in 2003's X2: X-Men United. However, the rights issues between Marvel and Fox became moot after Disney, Marvel Studios' parent company, purchased Fox in 2019, which now allows Fox-owned characters like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to be integrated into the MCU. The MCU's Pietro Maximoff was given his powers by the Mind Stone but the X-Men's Quicksilver - named Peter Maximoff - was a mutant whose father was Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and he was decades older than the MCU's speedster in the X-Men movies' revised timeline. Yet the two Quicksilvers had no relation to each other besides their power - super speed - and the fact that they had white hair. This meant that while Marvel Studios could include Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fox beat Marvel to the punch by debuting their own version of Quicksilver a year earlier in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Related: The Complete X-Men Movie Timeline (From 2000 To Dark Phoenix) a few gray points even after many years of negotiations … and that only happens with a character like Quicksilver, who has been a part of the X-Men, the son of Magneto in those comics, but also a primary Avenger." As Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige explained in 2012: "There are only a handful of characters that occupy that middle ground. But Quicksilver was also a member of the Avengers in the comics, and Marvel Studios retained the rights to the Avengers' lineup of characters when they started to produce their own films, which began with 2008's Iron Man.
Marvel's X-Men and mutant characters, which included Quicksilver, who was a mutant and the son of Magneto in the comics, which were owned by Fox, not Disney, for years, and were thus outside of the MCU's stable of licenses to draw from. The fact that there was a Quicksilver in the X-Men movies and in the MCU is a result of the strange distribution of Marvel's character rights. The MCU's Quicksilver was played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and he died in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Evan Peters played Quicksilver in Fox's X-Men movie franchise and now he's officially part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in WandaVision! Peters was "recast" in the role of Pietro Maximoff, the late twin brother of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen).