I don't get why people are complaining. Seriously when did everyone become a Quicksilver fan? How many of you knew this character even existed? I didn't know him until I watched Wolverine & The X-Men when that was on TV.

Lets be honest, how big can he be? He will have one scene in X-Men and have a role as big as Hawkeye in Avengers 2. It's not like he's the main character. Hell he isn't even going to have his own movie. Why would he? He had one solo series that lasted 13 issues.

I'm starting to hate the character because everyone is making a big deal over him. I do believe Joss could do well with the character but then again, did Joss really do anything special with Hawkeye? Not a diss, I trust him more than Stinker.

Let him be in both films and before Avengers 2, Marvel should have a sign that says "The Quicksilver in DOFP isn't the same as the one in the film."

Hmm, that image makes me think that they probably referred to the twins as "Maximoff (2)" in X2 because Fox doesn't have the rights to the names Pietro and Wanda.

We probably shouldn't look too much into that screenshot though we can't be sure if Singer had oversight over that list or if he just said have the computer reference some x-men characters and the prop team just picked the names at random or the name of their favorite characters, not Singers.

Also I agree too many people are putting too much emphasis on such a minor character but I've always like Quicksilver as a character. It's an interesting quirk, he's not necessarily evil everyone else is just slow and it frustrates the sh-t out of him.

There's a great scene in the first volume of ultimate x-men where the Brotherhood warned everyone to evacuate a building that they were going to blow up and quicksilver gets impatient and pulls the trigger causing a ton of casualties. Which makes half the team furious. That personality quirk makes this character work so well in a group dynamic. He's more than just a Flash rip-off.

I despise Synger, Fox and what they have done to the X-Men.

The way I understand it is that MCU Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch can still be mutants, but they can't be referred to as such by name. Maybe they'll just say that their powers are the next stage of human evolution? If not, they can go with the Ultimate universe explanation and refer to them as off-shoots of the Super Soldier program.

I really don't think Fox and Singer included Quicksilver to spite Marvel, and I'm indifferent to his inclusion in DoFP.

@PeterBenjaminParker.

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch cant be called Mutant's in the MCU, there also cant be any mention of Magneto being their father. They can only be reffered to as Avengers. Whilst in the X-men universe they can be referred to as mutants and can only be known as "Quciksilver" and "Scarlet Witch", whilst in The Avengers movie they can only be called "Pietro" and "Wanda"

@Ruadh

How or when Fox Studios chooses to exercise their usage rights to use the character of Quicksilver has no bearing whatsoever on when Marvel Studios chooses to exercise their rights to the character.

Days of Future past started filming last month, the filming for the movie ends in October. So they're not in the middle of filming it.

Additionally this is a character that will require CGI it's not the same as just implenting a character into a movie who will just have 4 or 5 lines. They've got to know what type of sequence it is, how it will work in the movie, what type of effect will they, how much it will cost, what the character will look like etc.

Singer has already stated that George Nixon is in the film in some capacity, yet the actor for that role hasn't been cast yet, additionally filming for another movie, The Amazing Spiderman started in February and Chris Cooper was cast as Norman Osborn in late February. But you know I guess these were late additions. Also if you had read the editorial, you would have seen that Singer wanted to use the character two years ago in X-Men: First Class.

Also let's say that Fox have suddenly done this out of the blue to "sabotage" or to "spite" Marvel studios, please tell me what the beneficial gain is? I mean I didn't know that Quicksilver was as popular as Spider-Man or Batman, I didn't know that Quicksilver sell tons or merchandise, I didn't know that people will flock to this film just for that character like with Iron Man.

At the end of the day, the only who are making a damn fuss about this are comic book fans. I mean if Fox were putting their own Iron man into the film who looked exactly like RDj, then there would at least be a credible basis for the hysteria that I've seen over this. However they aren't, they're inserting a character that most people dont know about into a film that can provide a very good visual action sequence, something that they've done in almost every X-Men film so far.

@Ocelot

Was that whole post directed to me? You're making arguments against things I never stood for, so I'm assuming not.

I guess I should have said not-literal-middle? Is that really an issue? They're in the middle of filming. Not the EXACT middle second of the production schedule. Semantics. But jeez, they're really filming until October? Better be good.

Also, I know you guys are really hung up on "quicksilver was supposed to be in First Class", but it's really neither here nor there. Did they take his scenes out, and are plugging them, unchanged, into this script? Or was it something that just didn't work out, and now they're putting him in this movie? Because...I sincerely don't think it has any bearing that they wanted to before, but didn't. I doubt I'm conveying my point that well, but it just doesn't matter, as it's just not going to be the same portrayal in this film as it woudl have been in First Class. For all intents and purposes, it will be a different character than it would have been a few years ago. It's like Wasp almost being in Avengers....she wasn't though. Her almost being included in the film doesn't mean anything to me as far as her chances of being in the next Avengers, and even if she is...her role will be completely different from what it would have been in the first movie. So that doesn't make it some kinda interchangable character you just plug into the script...didn't work, so you plug into the next one instead.

I agree it's only comic fans who are making a fuss. Non-comic fans will most likely not even notice he's in both movies because it won't be recognizable as the same character, or based on at least. My only real reason for joining in is to essentially say "don't worry about it". I never said Singer or FOx is trying to bite their thumb at Marvel/Whedon. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, I don't even care. I doubt it though. People, especially on the internet, ESPECIALLY teenage nerds just like to get in an uproar about dumb stuff. It'll die down eventually, and when the movies come out, they'll realize it was nothing...but have a whole new meaningless war to fight.

Right on.