How do you feel about Joss Whedon getting one over on you? Because that's what he did with Quicksilver's death scene. The whole song-and-dance of meeting Hawkeye's family earmarked him for death, as he was the most expendable/weakest player on the team, with the most to lose. As soon as he saw that little boy separated from his mother during Ultron's devastation of Sokovia, that was it. It couldn't have been more obvious. Even Clint knows it, as he sighs in resignation and runs off to help the boy, regardless. Sure enough, Ultron comes swooping down in a Quinjet, opening up his mini-gun on Hawkeye and the little boy in his arms. Quicksilver notices at the last possible second - a lifetime, for the super speedster - swooping his new teammate out from under Ultron's hail of bullets at the same time that Whedon pulls the rug out from under the audience. It's a terrific fake-out yet still an emotional moment. You get the now-classic final line from Pietro ("You didn't see that coming", as much to the audience as it was to Hawkeye), and the very raw, tangible reaction from Scarlet Witch, who falls to her knees and disintegrates all the robots around her like a badass. A well-executed scene in a film that comes under fire for having a lack of well-executed scenes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORCKfVZ6ekw
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