

After Magneto resurfaced in Poland, murdered police officers who caused the death of his daughter, and joined forces with Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), Quicksilver ran to Poland to help but was too late, so he rocketed to the Xavier School to find the X-Men. But 10 years after meeting him, Peter was sure Magneto was his father. Quicksilver returned in X-Men: Apocalypse, which was set in 1983, where Peter Maximoff was still a self-described "loser" living in his mother's basement. However, the rights issues between Marvel and Fox became moot after Disney, Marvel Studios' parent company, purchased Fox in 2019, which now allows Fox-owned characters like the X-Men to be integrated into the MCU. The MCU's Pietro Maximoff was given his powers by the Mind Stone but the X-Men's Evan Peters Quicksilver - named Peter Maximoff - was a mutant whose father was Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and he was decades older than the MCU's speedster in the X-Men movies' revised timeline. Yet the two Quicksilvers had no relation to each other besides their power - super speed - and the fact that they had white hair. a few gray points even after many years of negotiations … and that only happens with a character like Quicksilver, who has been a part of the X-Men, the son of Magneto in those comics, but also a primary Avenger." This is why Marvel Studios were able to include Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, despite Fox beating Marvel to the punch by debuting their own version of Quicksilver a year earlier in X-Men: Days of Future Past. As Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige explained in 2012: "There are only a handful of characters that occupy that middle ground.
