15 Sci-fi Movie Characters Who Deserve Their Own Spin-Off

3. Quicksilver - X-Men Prequels (2014 - 2019)

After Brett Ratner (yes, that Brett Ratner) tanked the main X-Men franchise, and Gavin Hood did his best to bury the rest of the IP with the disastrous X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it seemed like there weren’t many places the franchise could go. And so, it went back.

Matthew Vaughn gave us X-Men: First Class in 2010, a new film for a new decade that looks at the origins of Charles Xavier’s (James McAvoy) School for Gifted Youngsters, giving a fresh appearance and start to many of the X-Men we were already familiar with, and a few we weren’t. Director of the first two X-films, Bryan Singer signed on for the sequel Days of Future Past, and with it came one of the best Marvel characters translated from comic to screen: Quicksilver.

Forget Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Eastern Bloc-accented, Adidas-wearing power-twin; Evan Peters’ quirky interpretation of the character is where it’s at. Primarily acting alone in his best scenes (you know the ones: super slow-mo, catchy song, plenty of gags), imbuing them with a physical humour that has made his character so memorable, Peters brought the speedster to life and was the breakout success for Days and its sequel Apocalypse, before Quicksilver was given a dull, half-assed part in Dark Phoenix, the dull, half-assed film that brought the prequels (and new timeline established in Days) to a grinding halt.

Sod The Flash – where’s our Quicksilver: The Movie?