Marvel's WandaVision Just Introduced the MCU's Strangest Ever Cameo - IGN - IGN

Marvel's WandaVision Episode 5 has introduced an extremely unexpected character into the mix - with potentially major implications for the MCU as a whole. The story beyond this point will contain full spoilers for Marvel's WandaVision Episode 5 - proceed at your own risk!As Episode 5 draws to a close, WandaVision makes perhaps its most bizarre introduction yet – Pietro Maximoff (aka Quicksilver, aka Wanda's dead brother) shows up at her front door. Except it's not the MCU's Aaron Taylor-Johnson playing the character, it's Evan Peters, who played the character in Fox's X-Men universe. Peters played Quicksilver in X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse, earning plaudits for his performance, even if the movies themselves weren't as well received.

And to make absolutely clear this isn't just some regular real-world recasting, Kat Dennings' Darcy confirms that this is some extremely weird in-universe recasting by saying: "She [Wanda] recast Pietro?"

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This marks the first time one of Fox's X-Men actors has played the same role within an MCU project, and opens some fascinating possibilities for where Marvel's movies and TV shows could go next. While it's been clear for some time that mutants would be coming to the MCU in some form, how that would happen has been the source of speculation. Some theorised that Thanos' blip could have caused mutations in those returned to life, while others have pointed to the upcoming introduction of the multiverse to the MCU as a way in.The latter now feels far more likely. With Wanda explicitly tied to the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it's possible this is our first clue as to her part in crossing the boundaries between realities – perhaps she's pulled a different reality's Quicksilver into her own, after 'her' Pietro was killed in Avengers: Age of Ultron. It must be said, however, that in a series built on illusion, transformation, and deceit, Peters' addition could be a simple nod to a superhero movie fan audience. We'll likely have to wait for next week's episode to get more answers on that.

If this is a formal crossing over of the established X-Men universe with the MCU, the implications are fairly huge – could we see Patrick Stewart's Professor X, Ian McKellan's Magneto, or Hugh Jackman's Wolverine enter the newer Marvel movies? It would explain how Deadpool 3 can safely be a canon MCU movie, at the very least.

We have even more WandaVision theories for you, if that's what you want – from why a major comic book villain may be behind it all, to the question of how (or if) Vision is even alive.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

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