Precisely how two opposing superhero franchises came khổng lồ feature two very different versions of the same boring character—that’s a tale for the historians. What’s more interesting is seeing how the films treated hyên ổn — although the X-Men series và the Avengers saga cốt truyện Marvel DNA, the two franchises have sầu radically disparate visual aesthetics and storytelling styles. The X-Men films are more lively in their depiction of superpowers và tend lớn play fast và loose with narrative foundations. The Avengers films spover considerable real estate on the characters—their background, their motivations, their Origin Stories—but have a flatter visual sense. Quicksilver helpfully microcosms those different styles. He’s a well-known character in comic book lore—but at his core, Quicksilver only REALLY needs to be The Guy Who Moves Fast. So he’s a nice control group for exploring the superhero-movie tactics underpinning Future Past and Ultron. Bạn đang xem: X
In Future Past, the character is introduced as “Peter,” a rascal kid living in the suburbs. This has no basis whatsoever in the comic books, which doesn’t especially matter, since Quicksilver’s role in the movie doesn’t really have sầu a basis in anything. There’s no real motivation for hyên ổn to get involved with the X-Men; he decides khổng lồ break inkhổng lồ the Pentagon mainly because it sounds like fun. Compare that lớn Quicksilver in Avengers, who’s given a surplus of motivation.
In a long soliloquy, the siblings Maximoff reveal that their house was destroyed by Stark missiles, which makes their role in the movie—at least initially—a mission of vengeance against Iron Man. And whereas Future Past Quicksilver is a mutant who just happened khổng lồ be born with powers, Ultron Quicksilver volunteered khổng lồ be transformed by HYDRA—a demonstration of how Marvel Studios always likes to lớn bake pre-existing continuity into nrongmotorbike.com characters’ origin stories. Ultron Quicksilver’s background has slightly more in common with his comic book namesake: The vague Eastern European origins, the package-giảm giá simultaneous arrival of twin sister Wandomain authority. Of course, Ultron Quicksilver is never even referred khổng lồ as Quicksilver; he’s “Pietro.” (The Avengers movies generally downplay superanh hùng names, not khổng lồ mention the whole idea of secret identities. The X-Men movies made a sport out of picking codenames.)
But if Avengers spends more time actually building Quicksilver as a character—his backstory, his relationship with his sister, his bad-to-good arc—it spends considerably less time exploring all the visual opportunities of his superpower. The superheroes at the center of the Marvel Studtiện ích ios movies have sầu become incredibly popular, so it’s easy lớn forget that they have sầu the most straightforward, even banal superpowers. Captain America và Thor both have cool weapons, but at heart they’re just brawlers. Blachồng Widow và Hawkeye don’t even have cool weapons—Ultron throws out Hawkeye’s triông xã arrows—và the Hulk just punches people with a bigger fist than anyone else.
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So there’s nothing in Age of Ultron that comes even cthảm bại to Future Past‘s big Quicksilver scene. It’s almost unfair khổng lồ compare the two, since the “Time in a Bottle” super slo-mo action scene is one of the great setpieces of the supernhân vật era. You could argue that “Time in a Bottle” only barely fits in with Future Past: It’s a showcase scene for a character who basically disappears for the rest of the movie. Quicksilver gets more lớn bởi vì in maybe ten minutes of Future Past then Storm got lớn bởi in an entire X-Men trilogy.
Bryan Singer hasn’t directed every X-Men movie, but he’s the defining creative voice of the series. And the way he uses Quicksilver is typical of the X-franchise. In the X-Men-verse, characters are completely defined by their superpowers, to the extent that plenty of characters seem khổng lồ only exist because their superpowers are interesting. (See also: Nightcrawler in X2, who has another great showcase scene before disappearing for half the movie.) In the Avengers movies, characters have sầu superpowers, but those powers are kind of beside the point. (Thor hardly ever uses his hammer khổng lồ control the weather; the hammer’s for hitting people.)
So the Future Past Quicksilver feels lượt thích a goof on a narrative level—complete with a throwaway gag about how maybe Magneto lớn is his father—but completely works as a visual creation. Conversely, the Ultron Quicksilver cleanly fits inkhổng lồ the movie on a narrative level—và ultimately becomes just another face in the rapidly expanding Avengers crowd, hitting Ultron robots in a slightly more specialized manner than how other Avengers hit Ultron robots.
Of course, only one Quicksilver has a silver jacket. Which Quicksilver was your favorite Quicksilver? Respond in the comments, or tin nhắn me at darren_franich