May 2, 2024

XMF / the SUPER

Celebrating X-Men Films And Beyond

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision in Marvel Studios' WANDAVISION exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.

SPOILERS: WandaVision Episode 5 brings surprise character (and actor) into the MCU.

Marvel Studios’ first series WandaVision sent shockwaves around the world with….

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…the “surprise return” of Scarlet Witch’s (Elizabeth Olsen) brother Pietro aka Quicksilver in Episode 5. It wasn’t Aaron Taylor-Johnson returning to the role he portrayed in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron though; , it was *bleeping* Evan Peters from 20th Century Fox’s beloved X-MEN film franchise onscreen!!!

“She recast Pietro???” says a shooketh Darcy (Kat Dennings) after observing the speedster arriving at “Wanda’s house” to grand applause.

Fans are now wondering what this means moving forward. Is this simply Marvel’s Pietro recast, Fox’s Peter actually yanked from his universe, or someone/ something else entirely? The scene played a little creepy as Wanda looked a pretty confused. Will Peters play a larger role as Quicksilver in the Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward? Are other ideas at play? Find out as the Disney+ series has four episodes to go (season one has 9 total) before leading into Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

Check out media critic and genre scooper Grace Randolph’s SPOILER breakdown of the episode.