10 Things The MCU Wishes It Could've Done Differently

5. Brought Quicksilver In Sooner (Or Not At All)

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The MCU is the biggest movie franchise on the planet, but it's still been beaten to the punch on several occasions, with the most notable instance being when DC launched their own major female-led superhero movie two years before Marvel Studios did.

But the first time the MCU got outplayed came several years earlier, when both Fox and Marvel Studios announced plans to introduce Quicksilver into their respective superhero franchises. Not only did the MCU version come out last, but Aaron Taylor-Johnson's take on the speedster was received much less favourably than his Fox counterpart, played by Evan Peters.

Taylor-Johnson's version was fine, but his dodgy accent, uninspired speed effects, and cheap death (which felt like it only existed so the MCU could say "hey look! We do kill people off!"), made him pale in comparison to Peters' take, and the latter is now the definitive Quicksilver in the eyes of the movie-going public.

That's partly because he came out first, but the brilliance of Fox's Quicksilver made the MCU version feel almost redundant, and a waste of a great character.

Kevin Feige will never admit it, but he will surely be a little salty that Fox not only beat him to the punch, but did it better. It would've been more beneficial for the MCU to get ahead of the game here, or never introduce Quicksilver in the first place, and wait several years until they could do the character justice.

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