Age of Ultron: 8 Ways The Avengers' Quicksilver Beats X-Men's
7. His Darker Side
Despite only about twenty minutes of screen time to each of their names, both Quicksilvers were written deftly enough for viewers to get a sense of his personality. Age of Ultron opts for a Pietro Maximoff that is more recognizable: a hothead, alternately brooding and sullen or protective and angry.
Though often funny (the “get off your asses” moment was golden), the moody seriousness that skirts the edges of his presence on screen is a welcome change from the typical jaunty, wise-cracking hero we’ve come to expect from Marvel’s films.
While the fast-talking, impatient Peter from Days of Future Past both amused and showed an interesting intersection between powers and personality, Whedon takes a similar but different step with Pietro’s disposition in Age of Ultron. In Taylor-Johnson’s Quicksilver, you can see another manifestation of always being faster than the rest of the world in the undercurrent of frustration and near anxiousness (as well as the cockiness also prevalent in Peters’ take) that pervades his character, that is reminiscent of the original Marvel Comics character.
A final touch that adds dimension to Whedon’s Quicksilver is the circumstances surrounding his powers and his vendetta against the Avengers, which not only anchors him to the storyline but gives him a depth and dark side that is an appreciated, though short-lived, addition to the Avengers roster. Speaking of which…